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151 A waterpark burnt to the ground
152 the news revolves around bad news?
153 Colorado Sheriff (Patrick Sullivan) is arrested and thrown into jail named after him: Patrick J Sullivan Detention Center http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/30/9124926-ex-sheriff-accused-of-offering-meth-for-sex-ends-up-in-jail-named-after-him...
154 Some Republicans are against government legislative intervention in market economics, which obviously affects society, but for government legislative intervention that limits social choice (e.g. abortion, gay issue)....
155 Is it ironic that the Occupy Oakland folks deposited their money at Wells Fargo? http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_19296946?source=rss...
156 Astronaut Mark Kelly was honored at the White House for 25 years of Service with NASA, including 4 space shuttle missions? A program killed by the current administration....
157 Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, the self styled "eternal revolutionary", who took power in a coup 42 years ago, is himself being deposed in a revolution?...
158 a terrorist sends a bomb to the us president via mail but he gets it back because of the wrong postage and opens it :)...
159 Burning Man, a self-described radically inclusive and open artistic community in the desert, has had to cap its own attendance and is now seeing scalpers sell tickets for over $200,000 on StubHub?...
160 a Harvard University fellow who was studying ethics was charged with hacking into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer network to steal nearly 5 million academic articles....
161 A billionaire can't pay for his electric bill.
162 reducing funding for student aid programs in the name of future debt reduction would either increase the burden of debt early in one\'s career (when they are least able to afford it) or force potential graduates to opt out of education entirely and thereby lower the nation\'s collective ability to pay future obligations....
163 these supposed 'tolerance' marches have in fact fuelled further racist incidents in the community....
164 A seminar on Global Warming was cancelled due to snow
165 a news article rported that a woman who was protesting at an anti duck shooting rally was shot in the face....
166 I discovered information regarding Nissan Motor Corp's disgusting bullying through litigation against Nissan Computer Corp (the rightful owner of nissan.com) by trying to access Nissan Motor Corp's website using the address www.nissan.com?...
167 there is an option for people that do not understand any english in a british census, written in english?...
168 "The kids were scared of their parents."
169 The mortgage broken went into foreclosure.
170 The Western countries (mostly the U.S) show/say that they have Human Rights for other people, but yet they killed and kill so many innocent people in other countries (mostly Islamic countries)?...
171 In an effort to restrict viewership of a morally offensive movie, the city council bans exhibition of the movie in theatres. By banning the movie, the city council creates such a heightened awareness of the movie, that more people download and view pirated copies of the movie over the internet - specifically because it was banned - than would have viewed it in the theatres to begin with....
172 Amiable and always ready with a listening ear, she's popular with adults and children alike. How ironic then that she struggled to get pregnant, eventually giving birth to Abbie in 2007. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-archers/whos-who/characters/hayley-tucker...
173 Salma Hayek is ophidiophobic yet she danced with a python around her in ''From Dusk Till Dawn''...
174 a millionare winning the lottery
175 I was sent this joke SAN FRANCISCO MAN BECOMES FIRST AMERICAN TO GRASP SIGNIFICANCE OF IRONY - Jay Fullmer, 38, yesterday became the first American to get to grips with the concept of irony. "It was weird," Fullmer said. "I was in London and, like, talking to this guy and it was raining and he pulled a face and said, "Great weather, eh?" and I thought "Wait a minute, no way is it great weather." Fullmer then realised that the other man's 'mistake' was in fact deliberate. Fullmer, who is 39 next month and married with two children, aged 8 and 3, plans to use irony himself in future. "I'm, like, using it all the time," he said. "Last weekend I was grilling steaks and I burned them to shit and I said "Hey, great weather!". Is saying "hey, great weather" ironic, or is it sarcasm?...