Archive for the 'Scams' Category

News: In an Odd Twist of Karma, American Churches are Now Being Scammed by Nigerian Scammers.

December 6th, 2006

  
  American Scammer       Nigerian Scammer
Sometimes that whole Anti-Intellectual, Anti-”Book Learning”,  Anti-Living in Reality… ”trust the word of Jesus” thing really comes back to bite you in the ass.
From CNEWS.COM: 
Churches, Ministers Targeted By Nigerian E-mail Scammers
Nigerian e-mail scammers are successfully targeting American churches and ministers, cheating them out of millions of dollars under the guise of spreading […]

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News: Teeth Bleaching May Lead to Unexpected Results

October 18th, 2006

From MSNBC.COM: 
Blindingly white: Teeth bleaching gone too far
Celeb-inspired obsession with bright smiles can lead to dental damage
By Diane Mapes
Oh, those gleaming white teeth. Whiter than a picket fence. A Tic Tac. A porcelain toilet. They blind us from billboards, bedazzle us from screens and make us squint at magazines. How can we ever compete? With […]

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News: Dorky Guys Impersonate Police and Pull People Over

October 12th, 2006

From YahooNews:
Mo. chief’s son charged with playing cop
ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. - A suburban St. Louis police chief’s son was charged with impersonating an officer, more than a week after being arrested for sporting police clothes and pulling motorists over in his dad’s unmarked police car.
Ballwin Police Chief James Biederman’s son, Paul Biederman, 23, […]

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Cool Stuff: How to Steal an Election

September 15th, 2006

Over at Princeton University they’ve made a demonstration on how easy it is to streal an election with one of the new Electronic Diebold voting machines. Right now electronic voting machines are in roughly 40% of election districts nationwide, another 60% and stealing an entire election will become a snap!
And the best part? […]

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News: 1,752 Days After Bush Said he Would Get Osama Bin Laden “Dead or Alive” CIA Throws in the Towel.

July 5th, 2006

From USA TODAY: 
Report: CIA closes bin Laden search unit
WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA says efforts to hunt down Osama bin Laden are as strong as ever, despite a report that the agency has shut down a unit that hunted for the al-Qaeda leader and his top lieutenants.
The New York Times reports two dozen analysts in […]

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John Stewart and The So Called “Terror Cell” in Miami

June 30th, 2006

One of the best John Stewarts ever…

The video pretty much sums up how out incredibly stupid last weeks terror raid was. Stewart is right, they were a bunch of idiots living in a warehouse who had no connection to Al Qaida, No “Army” to take over the country, no funding, no real plan, […]

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Goofyblog Editor Soon to be $19.5 Million Richer!!!

June 30th, 2006

I’m sure everyone gets Nigerian 419 scams (or advanced fee scams) in email all the time; I get them almost every day.  If I’m in the right mood I’ll even string them along for a few weeks, telling them the check is in the mail blah blah blah.  
Well today I received an email that was a bit […]

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