Why the gossip shows?

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Because -according to The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2011- those who want a license to apply shampoo in Texas need 150 hours of training, with 100 hours in "theory and practice of shampooing," including a study of "neck anatomy." 

Also, in California you will need a year-long training to be a barber, in Alabama a 750-hour schooling standard for a manicurist license and in  Michigan you need 500 practice hours for performing massages.

With regulations like those, you can explain yourself why TMZ.

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Sniffers dogs usually fail

According to a 2010 Chicago Tribune public-records examination of suburban Chicago traffic-stop drug searches, they found a funny fact: that sniffer dogs are usually wrong; a 56 percent of all positive signals by dogs yielded no contraband and also the 73 percent failure if the driver was Hispanic.

What would intails this? Have dogs a biased and/or opinated way to do their job or it's just that hispanics tend to smell like drugs because of some enviromental reasons?

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Butthurt in Mexico

During the BBC’s show Top Gears,  their hosts make some fun on Mexicans:

Some should told them about how popular they are were in Mexico.

Anyway, my troll nature prevails over this issue because I really know that most of Mexicans (like the rest of the mankind) don’t worth a half penny. In fact troll community in Mexico saluted this event.

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Nothing to add

Why should I?

(New York, NY)  --  The founder of WikiLeaks says he enjoys seeing banks on edge, thinking they may be the next targets of his website.
  
In an interview on CBS TV's "60 Minutes," Julian Assange says, quote, "I think its great. We have all these banks squirming, thinking maybe it's them."  CBS released a partial transcipt ahead of Sunday's broadcast of the interview.
 
Assange has published U.S. diplomatic and military secrets. He told "60 Minutes" that he expects U.S. retaliation but that the American government is incapable of taking down his website.
  
Assange talked with "60 Minutes" reporter Steve Kroft who spent two days with him on the grounds of the private residence in England where he is under house arrest.
  
Assange is trying to block attempts to extradite him to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual assault.
  
(Copyright 2011 by VERTEXNews/Newsroom Solutions)

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Super Mobile City Åndalsnes

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This project didn’t win the contest about what to do with Åndalsnes, but amazed its people (population: around 2 200 inhabitants). The plan consist in houses being moved on railways to a less vulnerable place, nice for them.

The idea in a nutshell.

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Rednecks issues

Hurr Hurr Hurr Image by Getty Images via @daylifeThat's right, pals.

According BayNews9.com at St. Petersburg, Joe Capes and Ronald Richards, denizen of the fancy trailer-park named Safety Harbor, Florida, were fighting each other when the sheriff's deputies arrived to the place and removed Capes for assaulting Richards.

Why this righteous pair were bitterly feuded? Because they're arguing over whether the late country singer Conway Twitty was gay. [

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Fail through the win

No caption needed

As you probably know it, Australia suffers the worst floods in XX years, yeah? Well a couple –both 19 years old- was in trouble when the Yarra River (this is Victoria, close to Melbourne) rolls on them. In their hazardous situation they used a blow-up doll that, how great is God, they had on hand as a flotation device.
They were rescued.

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