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[Eagaholic]

shtein, I never head of this one

The Chemist's War - The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
By Deborah BlumPosted Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, at 10:00 AM ET

It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat.

Before hospital staff realized how sick he was—the alcohol-induced hallucination was just a symptom—the man died. So did another holiday partygoer. And another. As dusk fell on Christmas, the hospital staff tallied up more than 60 people made desperately ill by alcohol and eight dead from it. Within the next two days, yet another 23 people died in the city from celebrating the season.

Doctors were accustomed to alcohol poisoning by then, the routine of life in the Prohibition era. The bootlegged whiskies and so-called gins often made people sick. The liquor produced in hidden stills frequently came tainted with metals and other impurities. But this outbreak was bizarrely different. The deaths, as investigators would shortly realize, came courtesy of the U.S. government.

Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.

Although mostly forgotten today, the "chemist's war of Prohibition" remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history

long article, rest of it here
http://www.slate.com/id/2245188/?GT1=38001

[phattymatty]

[Father Demon]

Hillary Duff Teaches All Girls How To Handle Getting Engaged

Step 1:  Cry


Step 2: Text a picture to your friends


Step 3:
Suck dick like a mad dick sucker




That's farging-A HOT...

[Munson]

That's like half of my 14 year old fantasies come true. why couldn't they just farg instead

[rjs246]

God bless you, Demon.

On the absurd side, did that clown really pay $1mil for that ring? farging christ. Hillary had better have her rectum glued to that dick for the next 12 months.

[Diomedes]

who the hell is hillary duff?  I mean, I know she's some pop tart media darling, but that's it.  American Idol?  Disney Channel?  Where did she come from and what does she supposedly do?  Other than suck dick on a banquet in broad daylight.

[Rome]

That might be the best sequence of photos since the hindenburg blew up.

[BigEd76]

who the hell is hillary duff?  I mean, I know she's some pop tart media darling, but that's it.  American Idol?  Disney Channel?  Where did she come from and what does she supposedly do?  Other than suck dick on a banquet in broad daylight.

Disney Channel chick...played Lizzie McGuire.  She also did Oscarworthy films like Agent Cody Banks and Cheaper By The Dozen.  She also thinks she can sing...

[Seabiscuit36]

Does she like anal?

[BigEd76]

Probably.  She was another of those good girls growing up where everyone stopped caring when she turned 18...

[Eagaholic]

the one millionth and first reason why espn totally sucks. what a bunch of timid Hoydas

ESPN suspends PTI's Kornheiser
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Updated Feb 23, 2010 7:18 PM ET
ESPN has suspended host Tony Kornheiser from his television talk show "Pardon the Interruption" for two weeks for comments he made on the radio last week about SportsCenter anchor Hannah Storm's clothing.

"Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today," Kornheiser said. "She's got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt ... way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now.

"She's got on her typically very, very tight shirt. She looks like she has sausage casing wrapping around her upper body ... I know she's very good, and I'm not supposed to be critical of ESPN people, so I won't ... but Hannah Storm ... come on now! Stop! What are you doing?"

[Rome]

that might be the first time i've ever agreed with that whiny long island cockbag.

hannah storm is revolting.

[shorebird]

Sad thing is the guy who took those pics probably made more than we see in a year, or nowadays two or three. All because there are people who have no life that care.

[Yeti]

Outfit in question. 

[Eagaholic]

that's a very red outfit. she could be in the senate.

espn creates a show for korny to be abrasive and controversial and throw barbs, and if he does it to someone else on espn he's all but fired. Douchebags.