From a loyal reader in Topeka

Hey Geeding,

This is [name withheld].  I have a favor to ask you, and if you decide against it please do not worry about losing a reader/fan.  My hometown is Topeka, Kansas.  I love my hometown.  Topeka has struggled over the years with a multitude of problems from state budget issues to an unusually high crime rate.  We have gotten a bad reputation and it is very unfair.  A couple of my friends have started a movement to attract the attention of Google and their Google Fiber Experiment to Topeka.  We feel that this will be the shot in the arm that Topeka desperately needs.  We have gotten so many people in the area on board that our Mayor just proclaimed that for the month of March we will be known as Google, Kansas.  We could use all the help we can get.  If you could please feature this story on your blog I think it would not only entertain your readers but they may also help to spread the word.  Thank you for your consideration, here are some links for you to read about all of this….

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/01/google-kansas/

http://thinkbigtopeka.com/

http://cjonline.com/news/local/2010-02-25/big_thinkers_flash_for_topeka

http://cjonline.com/news/local/2010-03-01/topeka_to_be_google_kansas

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Pet Pooch Power System

When cleaning up after your pet, skip the bending and scooping with our ingenious Pet Pooch Power System. This cordless yard vacuum gathers pet waste and deposits it directly into a specially designed plastic bag for easy disposal.

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Religious leaflet claims ‘ungodly’ dressed women provoke rape

BRISTOL, Va. – Nineteen-year-old Keshia Canter handed three burgers, fries and milkshakes to a car-load of Tuesday afternoon customers at the Hi-Lo Burger’s drive-though window. A lady sitting in the backseat leaned forward, between the two men in front, and handed her a leaflet: “Women & Girls” it said across the top.

“Even though nothing is showing, you’re being ungodly,” Canter recalled the woman telling her. “You make men want to be sinful.”

Canter was wearing boots pulled up over jeans, a pink zebra-print shirt with a black jacket zipped up over it. She has blond hair, dark eye make-up and a little red lip ring. “I just asked if she needed any salt, pepper or ketchup,” Canter said. “I mean, how do I respond to that?”

Minutes later, Canter’s mother, Pam Yates, who owns the restaurant, returned from the bank. Canter handed her “Women & Girls” and Yates started reading.

“You may have been given this leaflet because of the way you are dressed,” it begins. “Have you thought about standing before the true and living God to be judged?”

It continues with one essential theme: The sins of men are, in part, the fault of women, specifically women in tight-fitting clothing. Yates was annoyed. Then she got to a section on page two:

“Scripture tells us that when a man looks on a woman to lust for her he has already committed adultery in his heart. If you are dressed in a way that tempts a men to do this secret (or not so secret) sin, you are a participant in the sin,” the leaflet states. “By the way, some rape victims would not have been raped if they had dressed properly. So can we really say they were innocent victims?”

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