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			<title><![CDATA[Dogs and church just seem to go together]]></title>
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			<author>(Nick Assendelft)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Well, it's back to the grind today and many of us have quickly lost the spiritual feeling we have on Sunday mornings after church. (Most of us probably lose it after watching the first offensive series by the Lions, no doubt.)

But religion is in the news today with two stories out of]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:40 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Missing in Mexico: One condom-mobile]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press:

MEXICO CITY -- Missing in Mexico: One truck carrying 5,000 condoms, 800 HIV tests and a 23-foot (7 meter) inflatable prophylactic.

The coordinator of an HIV/AIDS awareness tour, Polo Gomez, said Wednesday the "Condomovil" was parked in front of a friend's house in]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:05 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dollars stolen from eatery's wall used to pay fine]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Another entry for the dumb criminal of the week award:

From the Associated Press:

INYOKERN, Calif. -- Thousands of dollar bills stolen from a restaurant in California's high desert could not have been more clearly marked: The Homestead had a tradition of customers writing messages on the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:41 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[N.J. turnpike needs angels to watch over signs with some see as satanic]]></title>
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			<author>(Nick Assendelft)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Someone -- or something? -- is stealing road signs with the number 666 on it along some roads in New Jersey. I'll give you a second to come up with your own theories and jokes.

Now, read about the devilish pranks and how the New Jersey Turnpike Authority is handling it.

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			<pubDate>Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:07 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[News anchor who looks like Palin makes some news herself]]></title>
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			<author>(Nick Assendelft)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[In this political season, the Weird News Tattler is inundated with all the campaign news out there. Sometimes, we have to just mute the TV, turn off the radio and put down the paper to get away from it all.

So, we were happy when there was some news that wasn't your run-of-the-mill "he-said,]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:11 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Farting may be offensive, but it's certainly no crime]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A battery charge for a guy who farts in the police station? Really? That's battery?

It might be offensive, but to charge a guy for it really stinks.

That's exactly what happened, according to the Associated Press, in Charleston, W.Va.:

A West Virginia man accused of passing gas and fanning]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:37 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[College town declining to allow reclining on porches]]></title>
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			<author>(Nick Assendelft)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[It's good to see Michigan at the forefront of something. Even if it's a ban on ratty old furniture on porches.

East Lansing is one of the cities across the country that bans it. Well, you wouldn't want a ripped up old La-Z-Boy ruining the well-manicured, painted, clean student housing, would you?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:26 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lawyers don't always get away with everything]]></title>
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			<author>(Nick Assendelft)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was hoping that a legal technicality could cover his butt in the text message scandal when he told his lover "Busted is what you see."

Didn't work for him, just like it didn't work of an Illinois lawyer who bartered with a stripper for private nude dances]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:18 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Doggie DNA will ID doo-doo and the owners who won't pick it up]]></title>
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			<author>(Nick Assendelft)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[The Weird News Tattler knows it has readers, we can tell by how much people are clicking on our virtual newspaper. But that's about it. Very little interaction, which is what they say cyberspace is supposed to foster. Hmmm.

But I have one intrepid reader who has supplied me with interesting]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:15 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Here's the long and the short of it when it comes to legs]]></title>
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			<author>(Nick Assendelft)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[There are world records for everyting, apparently. Like one for world's leggiest woman and one for world's shortest man.


Tuesday, the two came together for a photo op to promote the Guinness World Records 2009 book. He's 2-foot-5. Her legs alone are nearly twice his height.


How freaky.

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			<pubDate>Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:01 PM</pubDate>
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