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Luckily for President Obama, the safeguards in place to detect people sending awful chemicals to him in the mail work pretty damn well!

Apparently letters meant for Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi. contained traces of ricin — a highly toxic, naturally occurring protein which can kill an adult with just a few grains as small as table salt — and this message:

"To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance."

The letters were contained at off-site White House and Senate mail rooms, and all of them were signed:

"I am KC and I approve this message."

SUPER scary, especially with what's been going on in Boston! Luckily, it's looking like there's no link between the two. A confirmation of the level of ricin is expected sometime today. There is no specific test for exposure and no antidote once exposed.

The good news from this is that the protection that they have in place worked!

Wow, the world really needs to stop it with this whole trying to harm others stuff. We're getting pretty tired of hearing that people think it's okay to hurt their fellow man for any reason!

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: mail, poison, president obama, ricin, scare, white house

Earlier today we found out that Shain Gandee, one of the featured personalities on MTV's reality show Buckwild, had sadly died at the age of 21, but details surrounding the tragic incident were limited.

New reports claim that Shain, his uncle David Gandee, and an unidentified third person had decided to leave a bar in Sissonville around 3am Sunday because they wanted to go off-roading.

The bodies of all three people were found Monday in Shain's wrecked 1984 Bronco, which was stuck in a swampy area a few miles away from Shain's home.

Details seem to suggest that all three may have died after being exposed to carbon monoxide, especially since the car's tailpipe

Tags: buckwild, carbon monoxide, dead, death, mtv, poison, sad, shain gandee, tv show

This is just absolutely terrible! (Though don't cry, the dog in the above pic is only sleeping, we promise.)

In Mokattam, Eqypt government vets are literally poisoning stray dogs!!

After two children were violently attacked by strays, their families pressured vets to kill off the dogs.

What's crazy is they've been using strychnine, a deadly pesticide.

That means that there's just poison in the streets, so anyone and other animal life can get really sick and die as well.

Tags: dog, egypt, kill, killed, murder, poison, poisoned, sad, strychnine, vet, vets

Urooj Khan, a 46-year-old Chicago resident, won a $1 million lottery on a scratch-off ticket!!

After taxes and taking the lump sum and everything, he was cut a fat check for almost $425,000 on July 19th.

The hard-working Indian immigrant was an entrepreneur who had three dry cleaner businesses and said he planned to reinvest the money in his businesses, pay off his debts and donate a chunk to St. Jude's Children's Research hospital!

Sadly, he died the very next day.

He ate dinner with

Tags: business, chicago, children, cyanide, dinner, donate, family, heart disease, hospital, lottery, million, money, pain, poison, poisoned, research, sad, win

Who would do such a despicable thing!

Five pit bull puppies were poisoned during an education event in Pennsylvania.

A Darrah Bull Bully Rescue held the event in hopes of inform dog lovers about the misconceptions behind pit bulls.

Sadly, the showcase was marred when two of the puppies died

Tags: a darrah bull bully rescue, death, dog, education, event, pets, pit bull, poison, puppies, rescue, sad sad

In Texas, almost an entire heard of cattle died for an unknown reason.

It was just found out that the die-off was linked to genetically modified grass.

Apparently 15 of 18 animals on an 80-acre ranch began making all kinds of noise

Tags: animal, animals, cattle, crazy, died, grass, kill, killing, poison, research, researchers, science, texas, unknown

He’s back! And he’s still talking dirty to us!

Bret Michaels sold 30 million records with Poison in the ‘80s, started the sex tape trend with Pam Anderson in the ‘90s, and sought a soulmate on Rock of Love in the 2000s.

It’s a new decade and Bret is back pumping out jams with his new single, Get Your Rock On.

It kind of sounds like the music for a beer commercial. Yikes!

Maybe he should stick to awesome Christmas cards!?

Not even Kid Rock sings about Jager-bombs and panty dropping any more!

That said, every thorn is attached to a rose and — in the spirit of saying something nice or not saying anything at all — the guitar work off of Bret’s new track is surprisingly catchy.

But don’t take our word for it, ch-ch-check out Get Your Rock On (above)!

[Image via BretMichaels.com.]

Tags: 80s, bret michaels, christmas, get your rock on, jagermeister, kid rock, pamela anderson, poison