{"id":138,"date":"2006-08-29T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T04:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2006\/08\/29\/state-of-confusion\/"},"modified":"2010-11-21T23:16:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T04:16:44","slug":"state-of-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2006\/08\/29\/state-of-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>(1) Researchers at the Russian Plant Institute in St. Petersburg told Russia&#8217;s Interfax news agency in June that they had invented a strain of cannabis free of mind-altering properties.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b1291d92551e5c93995fce7897ccfc30\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* square 250x Oddplanet_inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7033143591\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>(2) And 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams,<br \/>\nspeaking in Australia in July, said she &#8220;would love to kill George Bush&#8221; because of the invasion of Iraq.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<!--CusAds--><p>(3) Officials in Springfield, Vt., denied the liquor-license application of Paul Murphy in July for a paperwork problem without specifying any other disqualifying reason. 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