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Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charlie Shrem Arrested

Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charlie Shrem Arrested:  Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charlie Shrem has been arrested at JFK Airport and charged with money laundering for his company’s involvement with Silk Road, an online black market that would then use the currency to purchase illegal drugs and other items.  So now the big question is, will they let him use Bitcoins for bail? 

Utah School Seizes 40 Students School Lunches:  As many as 40 children were left in tears at an elementary school in Salt Lake City after having their lunches - which they'd already received from the cafeteria - seized and thrown away right in front of everyone by school authorities because their parents were behind on payments.  On a positive note, this first-hand experience should provide students with a much better understanding when it comes time for them to study the Dickens classics.

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Surgery Causes Opera Singer to Fart While Singing:  A soprano for the Nashville Opera Company has filed suit against a local hospital, claiming that the surgery she received during child birth that cut the tissue between the anus and vagina to help the delivery of a baby caused her to lose control of her flatulence and occasionally bowel movements whenever she sings.  Wow, that really stinks!  Even so, fans say she can still sing the crap out of those songs.

Woman Who Donated Kidney To Husband Wants It Back:  A U.K. woman wants the kidney she donated to her dying husband back after he left her just a few years after recovering from the operation.  The hospital said they’d consider her request for taking the kidney back, but only if she still has her original receipt.  Guess the moral of the story is if you love someone - give them your heart, but not your kidneys!

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Study Links All Men To Ancestor Who Lived 209,000 Years Ago:  A new study label     ed “Genetic Adam,” genetically links all men to a single ancestor who lived 209,000-years-ago.  Scientists are hopeful that this finding may once and for all answer the age-old question “who's your daddy.”

Hundreds Sickened On Royal Caribbean Cruise:  U.S. health officials will board a Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked in the U.S. Virgin Islands to investigate an illness outbreak that has stricken at least 300 people with gastrointestinal symptoms including vomiting and diarrhea.  My only advice would be do everything within your power to avoid walking underneath the “poop deck.”

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