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  1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2012/12/18/postal-workers-stage-second-hunger-strike-as-house-senate-talks-on-legislation-continue/
  2. http://www.nytimes.c...dies-at-88.html Inouye was at the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 as a medical volunteer. In 1943, when the U.S. Army dropped its enlistment ban on Japanese Americans, Inouye curtailed his premedical studies at the University of Hawaii and enlisted in the Army. He volunteered to be part of the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. This army unit was mostly made up of second-generation Japanese Americans from Hawaii and the mainland. Inouye was promoted to the rank of sergeant within his first year, and he was given the role of platoon leader. He served in Italy in 1944 during the Rome-Arno Campaign before his regiment was transferred to the Vosges Mountains region of France, where he spent two weeks in the battle to relieve the Lost Battalion, a battalion of the 141st Infantry Regiment that was surrounded by German forces. He was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant for his actions there. At one point while he was leading an attack, a shot struck him in the chest directly above his heart, but the bullet was stopped by the two silver dollars he happened to have stacked in his shirt pocket. He continued to carry the coins throughout the war in his shirt pocket as good luck charms until he lost them shortly before the battle in which he lost his arm. On April 21, 1945, Inouye was grievously wounded while leading an assault on a heavily-defended ridge near San Terenzo in Tuscany, Italy called Colle Musatello. The ridge served as a strongpoint along the strip of German fortifications known as the Gothic Line, which represented the last and most unyielding line of German defensive works in Italy. As he led his platoon in a flanking maneuver, three German machine guns opened fire from covered positions just 40 yards away, pinning his men to the ground. Inouye stood up to attack and was shot in the stomach; ignoring his wound, he proceeded to attack and destroy the first machine gun nest with hand grenades and fire from his Thompson submachine gun. After being informed of the severity of his wound by his platoon sergeant, he refused treatment and rallied his men for an attack on the second machine gun position, which he also successfully destroyed before collapsing from blood loss. As his squad distracted the third machine gunner, Inouye crawled toward the final bunker, eventually drawing within 10 yards. As he raised himself up and cocked his arm to throw his last grenade into the fighting position, a German inside the bunker fired a rifle grenade that struck him on the right elbow, severing most of his arm and leaving his own primed grenade reflexively "clenched in a fist that suddenly didn't belong to me anymore". Inouye's horrified soldiers moved to his aid, but he shouted for them to keep back out of fear his severed fist would involuntarily relax and drop the grenade. As the German inside the bunker reloaded his rifle, Inouye pried the live grenade from his useless right hand and transferred it to his left. As the German aimed his rifle to finish him off, Inouye tossed the grenade off-hand into the bunker and destroyed it. He stumbled to his feet and continued forward, silencing the last German resistance with a one-handed burst from his Thompson before being wounded in the leg and tumbling unconscious to the bottom of the ridge. When he awoke to see the concerned men of his platoon hovering over him, his only comment before being carried away was to gruffly order them to return to their positions, since, as he pointed out, "nobody called off the war!" The remainder of Inouye's mutilated right arm was later amputated at a field hospital without proper anesthesia, as he had been given too much morphine at an aid station and it was feared any more would lower his blood pressure enough to kill him.
  3. Speaking of not being black enough: http://www.nytimes.c...enate-seat.html
  4. Hey, it's 2012, going into 2013! Time for some updates: People still buy and read paper print versions of newspapers, and newspaper jobs are well-paying and exciting and many hot women work there People still buy and read paper print versions of books, and bookstores are thriving businesses where hot women work People still have home answering machines People still have home phones
  5. http://cmsimg.democr...0&Maxh=465&q=60
  6. Miss Universe contestants: Who to vote for? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/4698226/Vote-for-your-favourite-in-Miss-Universe-2012.html
  7. Suspect in massacre tried to buy rifle days before, sources say http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sandy-hook-gunman-tried-to-buy-rifile-days-before-20121215,0,5913090.story
  8. http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/oh_erie/huron-county-man-robert-oates-charged-with-assault-for-allegedly-biting-face-of-neighbor-scott-hall
  9. You get to rub suntan lotion on Candice Swanepoel: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/4697469/candice-swanepool-beach-shoot.html
  10. I just heard a report on the radio that the weapons may have legally registered to his mom (the teacher).
  11. The same bank was robbed by Hillary Clinton two years ago: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-in-Apparent-Mitt-Romney-Mask-Robs-Sterling-Bank-183446481.html
  12. http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Students-brought-to-hospital-from-shooting-4118505.php
  13. Update: The Long Island mother of Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher told investigators her son argued with his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins over their baby’s paternity before he shot her dead and killed himself, The Post has learned. Cheryl Shepherd — who was in her son’s suburban Missouri home the morning he shot Perkins nine times — told investigators after the shootings that there were questions about whether the West Babylon, LI-raised linebacker was the father of the couple’s 3-month-old daughter, Zoey, said sources familiar with the situation. “The mother believed that there was an issue over whether [belcher] was the father,” said a source close to the Chiefs with knowledge of the situation. “She said he [believed he] wasn’t necessarily the father of the child.” http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/baby_talk_triggered_nfl_slays_iMxUWTwfaiKszh4wGgLjPJ
  14. Inventor of the bar code: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/business/n-joseph-woodland-inventor-of-the-bar-code-dies-at-91.html
  15. http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121213/CITYANDREGION/121219633 "Gordon is a 31-year-old single mother of six" "The fathers of her children have not been much help financially. The father of the three oldest works and pays some child support, but he doesn’t earn a lot of money. The father of the three youngest has as many as 10 children, Gordon said, and provides virtually no support either financially or emotionally." "To get by, Gordon relies on public assistance and Supplemental Security Income. Nevaeh also receives SSI for speech and behavior issues."
  16. Plot to castrate and kill Justin Bieber at Madison Square Garden is foiled
  17. I see that you're also gettin' some on the side: http://www.celebrityredcarpet.co.uk/article/katy-perry-ditches-john-mayer-for-santa-at-a-christmas-story-the-musical_a2074/1
  18. The best place to put it in Buffalo would be halfway between the new Peace Bridge and the Bass Pro shop.
  19. http://www.indystar.com/article/20121212/NEWS08/121212022
  20. http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/eagles/20121213_Eagles__Trent_Edwards_serves_as_mentor_to_Nick_Foles.html
  21. http://www.seahawks.com/news/press/article-1/Seahawks-to-Wear-Alternate-Wolf-Grey-Uniforms-in-Toronto-Matchup-vs-Buffalo/4206d42c-757a-4a47-9e1c-675821902b69
  22. I do not mind having a game there, they just need to market it better. For example, I would work with the NHL such that the football game would be played either Saturday or Sunday afternoon at 1:00, with a Sabres-Leafs game scheduled for Saturday in Toronto at 7:00.
  23. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/hathaway-devastating-article-1.1218200
  24. http://www.kmph-kfre.com/story/20320972/teen-sex-with-a-teacher-clovis-teacher-accused-of-sex-crimes
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