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MSM: "NJ Airport: Security Supervisor Used Dead Man's ID" [05/16/12] "Authorities say a Newark, N.J., airport security supervisor arrested on a charge he pretended to be someone else to hide his status as an illegal immigrant used the identity of the victim in an unsolved murder case. Nigerian Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole was known by his co-workers as Jerry Thomas. He was arrested Monday at his home in Elizabeth. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says he had worked at Newark's Liberty International Airport for about 20 years and had passed background checks. It says he used the name Jerry Thomas since 1992, the year Thomas was killed in New York City. New York police aren't saying whether he's a suspect in the unsolved murder case [...]"  

Commentary: "Two Men Rob Internet Cafe, Forget To Log Out Of Facebook Prior To Robbery" [05/16/12] "As social networks have become more intertwined in our daily routines, some criminals just can't resist logging into Facebook at the worst times. [...] As reported by the Colombian-based El Tiempo (Spanish publication), two armed men visited an Internet cafe in an area north of Cali, Colombia and started using two computers. After spending some time browsing the Web, both men went up to the cashier to pay for their usage time and assaulted the man before demanding all the money in the register. Both men escaped with all the money on a stolen motorcycle, but the Internet cafe administrator noticed that one man neglected to log out of his Facebook account prior to making the escape. When Colombian investigators arrived at the cafe, they used the information on his Facebook account to figure out his home address and subsequently made an arrest. This isn’t the first time that a person committing a robbery has neglected to log out of Facebook before leaving their victim’s home or business. During August 2009, a teenager named Jonathan Parker broke into a Martinsburg, West Virginia home and stole two diamond rings from the homeowner. Prior to making his escape, he sat down at the homeowner’s computer and checked up on his Facebook account. When he left the home, Parker’s Facebook account was still open in the laptop’s Web browser. Police quickly arrested Parker after reading information included on the Facebook page and charged him with one count of felony daytime burglary.[...]"  

MSM: "58 Percent Of Americans Believe Economic Conditions In The U.S. Will Be Good A Year From Now" [05/16/12] " According to a brand new USA Today/Gallup Poll, 71 percent of all Americans consider economic conditions in the United States to be poor right now, but an astounding 58 percent of them believe that economic conditions in the United States will be good a year from now. [...]"  Note: They be surprised, and not here. This is a temporary playing field for gathering experiences.

Date With Destiny:  "Newlywed, Still In Wedding Dress, Found Stabbed In Tub" [05/15/12] "Officers arriving at Carrera's apartment in Burbank found her dead of stab wounds in a dry bath tub. She was still wearing her wedding dress. Authorities said they believe the slaying was domestic, but would not elaborate. No one is currently in custody, police said. [...]"  Note: Shortest marriage I've heard of.  

Buffoonery: "Gov't Issues Study of a Study About Studies" [05/12/12] "The Pentagon was inundated with so many studies in 2010 that it commissioned a study to determined how much it cost to produce all those studies. Now the Government Accountability Office has reviewed the Pentagon’s study and concluded in a report this week that it’s a flop. The study of a study of studies began in 2010 when Defense Secretary Robert Gates complained that his department was “awash in taskings for reports and studies.” He wanted to know how much they cost. Two years later, the Pentagon review is still continuing, which prompted Congress to ask the GAO to look over the Pentagon’s shoulder. What they found lacked military precision. The GAO found only nine studies that had been scrutinized by the Pentagon review, but the military was unable to “readily retrieve documentation” for six of the reports. The Department of Defense’s “approach is not fully consistent with relevant cost estimating best practices and cost accounting standards,” the GAO concluded. In fact, they often did not include items like manpower, the report found. The Pentagon “partially concurs” with the GAO’s report. The cost of the study of the study of the studies was not available from the GAO.  [...]"  

Legal Case: "Faulty Email No Excuse Not to Use Scientific Data" [05/12/12] "The Bureau of Land Management "may not simply remain studiously ignorant of material scientific evidence" just because an email error delayed its receipt of the evidence, a federal judge has ruled. [...]"  Note: Stupid retreads ....

Commentary: "Pair Charged In Stevie Wonder "Extortion Plot" [05/12/12] "Two people have been arrested in the United States and charged with trying to extort money from the singer Stevie Wonder. Alpha Lorenzo Walker and his girlfriend Tamara Eileen Diaz threatened to reveal "embarrassing information" about the star, officials in Los Angeles said. Both deny the accusations and are in custody awaiting a preliminary hearing on 16 May. A judge will decide if there is enough evidence for the two to stand trial. LA district attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison said that Mr Walker contacted Stevie Wonder's representatives and claimed to have embarrassing information about the musician. Detectives organised a sting operation and the pair were arrested, she said. Officials said Mr Walker had identified himself as a relative of Stevie Wonder. [...]" Note: Sounds like the blind leading the blind ...

MSM: "Woman Offers Graphic Homophobic Rant During Lincoln's Anti-Discrimination Law Hearings" [05/12/12] "Video footage of a surprisingly graphic, homophobic rant has gone viral in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) blogosphere in the wake of this week's non-discrimination ordinance proposal hearings in Lincoln, Neb. Originally featured on Towleroad, the clip features a woman identified as Jane Skrovota, who offers a series of bizarre observations on gay sex, HIV/AIDS, Hillary Clinton and even Judas Iscariot as she denounces the "Fairness Ordinance," a measure that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the city’s non-discrimination law, in her testimony.  After stating that "a huge percent of gay men in school grounds molest boys, partly because they don't have AIDS yet," she adds, "Hillary Clinton's roommate four years in college was a gay woman. To avoid going gay like Clinton did, college students need single rooms and single gender dorms...A college woman is seduced with illegal Rohypnol to go gay." [...]"  Note: Another wacko.

Commentary: "Teen Tries To Rob Officer At Gunpoint -- Inside Police Station" [05/09/12] "If you had to pick a place to rob — a police station would probably be at the bottom of the list. That would be you. But one would-be North Texas robber apparently thought PD was a good place to ‘knock off.’ Police say Keithan Manuel walked into the Wilmer Police Department Saturday evening. The 18-year-old had a white towel covering his hands. Police Chief Victor Kemp described the incident saying, “Yeah well, a young man walked into the lobby and approached the dispatch window there and told our Communications Officer ‘give me all your money.’” After pointing a towel-covered hand at the officer and making the statement, Manuel soon changed his tune and claimed he was there to get some information. [...]"

Legal Case: "Definitely Do Not Try This at Home" [05/09/12] " A 76-year-old man says he passed out while trying to insert a catheter in his penis, as instructed by an indifferent nurse, and woke up to find that he had broken his neck, paralyzing him from the chest down.  Mr. Shreve had no experience with self-catheterization, had never self-catheterized himself before and was not informed by Dr. Newport or any other person attending him that he would be required to do self-catheterization before being instructed to do so by nurse Cate," the complaint states. While Mr. Shreve was attempting to perform this self-catheterization, Cate did not assist, instruct or in any way supervise Mr. Shreve's efforts . After inserting the catheter approximately three (3) inches into his penis, Mr. Shreve was unable to continue the insertion and experienced intense pain. At that time, he noted that black-looking blood discharged from his penis. Before he could alert Cate regarding his intense pain, Mr. Shreve passed out striking his mouth as he fell, knocking out three (3) of his teeth and breaking his neck. [...] Shreve said he was paralyzed when he regained consciousness. He and his wife seek $10 million in damages [...]"  Note: What a sequence ...

Date With Destiny:  "Would-Be Copper Thief Shocked, Catches On Fire" [05/07/12] "A would-be copper thief was gravely injured early Saturday morning when he attempted to steal copper wiring from a live Edison vault, according to authorities. Witnesses told CBS2 and KCAL9 reporter Melissa Maynarich that the man could be heard screaming in agony. Jeff Grammatico was across the street from the substation when he said, “I heard a boom.” He added, “It made me jump from one side of the room to the other.” He ran to the fence and saw a man burning alive. “It was scary. I was trying to cut the gate to get in. It was horrifying to watch him burn.” Officials say the suspect is “extremely grave” and that it’s likely he was burned by 33,000 volts of electricity. The incident occurred on the corner of Rialto and Stoddard about 2 a.m. Southern California Edison said about 14,000 customers lost power. Service was fully restored by Saturday afternoon. The man is described as a man in his 20s. [...]"  Note: What was he thinking?

MSM: "Wall Built To Hide Slum From Anti-Poverty Conference" [05/04/12] "Delegates attending an international anti-poverty conference in Manila this week were shielded from unsightly poverty by a wall hastily erected by the Philippine government, reports the AP. The makeshift wall put up before the Asian Development Bank conference hid the view of a sprawling slum along a creek from visitors traveling from the airport to downtown Manila. Critics called the move reminiscent of the Marcos regime but a spokesman for President Benigno Aquino defended it, saying "any country will do a little fixing up before a guest comes."  [...]"  Note: Yeah ... right.

MSM: "Man Exposes Himself At Association For The Blind" [05/03/12] "A man exposed himself to a woman (apparently the only one who could see) inside the Bucks County Association for the Blind. Newtown Township police said the incident occurred about 2 p.m. Friday inside the bookstore at the offices at 400 Freedom Drive. The woman told police the suspect is a skinny, black male, between 35 and 45 years old, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and was wearing a black track suit. Officers checked the area along with Newtown Borough police and could not find the suspect. [...]"  Note: Ironically, no one has seen him since. 

MSM: "Missing Parakeet Returned Home After Telling Police His Address" [05/03/12] "A pet parakeet was returned to its Japanese owner Wednesday after the brainy bird told police its home address near Tokyo. The male bird, called Piko-chan, escaped early Sunday morning from his home in the city of Sagamihara and remained at large before being coaxed into perching on the shoulder of a guest at a nearby hotel. He was handed over to local police, but Piko-chan did not speak until Tuesday evening, when he blurted out the names of the city and district where his owner's home is located, a police spokesman said. The stunned cops then listened as the parakeet produced the home's block and street number. His owner, a 64-year-old woman, once lost another parakeet after it flew away and was determined not to make the same mistake. "So the owner decided to teach the address to this parakeet after she bought it at a pet store two years ago," a police spokesman said. "The bird's name was found to be Piko-chan as it said, 'You're pretty, Piko-chan."  [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "2 Dozing Teens Sunbathing on Road Hit by Car" [05/01/12] "Two teenage girls who fell asleep while sunbathing on a quiet rural road in Pennsylvania were struck by a car yesterday. The 13-year-old pals were airlifted to a nearby hospital, and are expected to survive. They were hit by a car driven by a cousin of one of the girls. He had just stopped at a stop sign, and struck the girls as he turned the corner. He was questioned by police and released, reports WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh.  [...]"  

Quirks: "Childbearing National Policy Fallout: Inside China’s Sex Doll Factories" [05/01/12] "Taken at the Jiamei plastic toy company in Zhejiang province, China, these shots show the production process these plastic fantastic companions go through before winging their way to the seedier corners of the world.More than 50,000 sex dolls are sold in the domestic market in Japan and Korea each year, and no wonder, they’re a snip at just £10 each.  [...]"  Note: Vinyl allergies not included.

MSM: "Man In A Cow Suit Shoplifts 26 Gallons Of Milk From A Busy Walmart" [04/30/12] "A guy dressed in a cow suit somehow stole 26 gallons of milk at around 10:30 PM from a busy Walmart in Virginia, reports David Pierce at Inside Nova. It gets better. Police say the 18-year-old crawled out of the store on all-fours, though there's no word yet on whether he mooed or not. Afterwards, the man began handing out the stolen milk jugs to passersby. Police caught the mischievous cow at a nearby McDonald's — without his suit, which they later found in his car. It was probably a prank, but the biggest question remains unsolved.  How the hell he did manage to crawl out the front door of a Walmart — past the gauntlet of loss-prevention workers, cashiers and greeters — with such a massive amount of milk? The sheriffs office says that it doesn't have surveillance video of the incident. [...]"  

MSM: "Blind Chinese Dissident Makes 'Miracle' Escape From House Arrest" [04/29/12] [15:10]  "One of China's most well-known human-rights activist, Chen Guangcheng, has escaped from house arrest and released a video demanding the premier investigate government corruption and the brutal beating up of his family. His breakout has been described as a "miracle" by his supporters, a "real Chinese version of the Shawshank Redemption" especially as Chen is also suffering from ill-health, which many have attributed to beatings by his captors. He is now thought to be hiding in the US embassy in Beijing. Chen, who is blind, managed to evade 90 wardens guarding his house, reportedly using cover of darkness to give him an advantage over his captors.  [...]" 

Commentary: "World Needs To Stabilize Population And Cut Consumption, Says British Royal Society" [04/29/12] " World population needs to be stabilized quickly and high consumption in rich countries rapidly reduced to avoid “a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills,” warns a major report from the Royal Society.  [...]"  Note: Pompous reincarnated retreads who are spiritually disconnected from actual life and living.

Study: "Thinking, Religion Don't Mix" [04/28/12] "People prone to analytical thinking are less prone to religious faith, a new study has concluded. Scientists have long believed that analytical thinking can override one's intuitive responses, and studies have shown that religion is rooted in intuitive thought. So Canadian researcher Will Gervais set out to see if analytical thought could override religion, the LA Times reports. First he gave a group of students a test whose questions were designed to have an intuitive-but-wrong answer and a correct one requiring more thought to arrive at.  [...]" 

Buffoonery: "Oregon Seeks Okay To Kill Federally-Protected Bird In Order To Protect Endangered Fish" [04/28/12]   "Oregon officials were successful in getting permission to kill sea lions that feed on protected salmon trying to swim upriver to spawn. Now they want federal approval to shoot a sea bird that eats millions of baby salmon trying to reach the ocean. In an April 5 letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service obtained by The Associated Press, Oregon Wildlife Chief Ron Anglin says harassment has “proved insufficient” in controlling double-crested cormorants, and officials want the option of killing some of the birds. [...]"  Note: Why not let nature take care of itself.

MSM: "Cops Use Grenades & Shoot Out All Windows Of Empty Apartment Over Stolen Cell Phone " [04/27/12] [1:43] More over-reaction to justify jobs.

Concepts and Practices: "Egypt: Islamist Patriarchy Soon To Allow Intercourse With Dead Partners" [04/27/12] "Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives - for up to six hours after their death. The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament. It will also see the minimum age of marriage lowered to 14 and the ridding of women's rights of getting education and employment. Egyptian journalist Amro Abdul Samea reported in the al-Ahram newspaper that Talawi complained about the legislations which are being introduced under 'alleged religious interpretations'. The subject of a husband having sex with his dead wife arose in May 2011 when Moroccan cleric Zamzami Abdul Bari said marriage remains valid even after death. He also said that women have the right to have sex with her dead husband. It seems the topic, which has sparked outrage, has now been picked up on by Egypt's politicians. TV anchor Jaber al-Qarmouty slammed the notion of letting a husband have sex with his wife after her death under the so-called 'Farewell Intercourse' draft law.[...]"  Related: "Egypt’s Women Urge MPs Not To Pass Early Marriage, Sex-After-Death Laws" Note: I had a sequential wife once, who died a number of years ago, who 'didn't move' even when she was alive, and that was creepy, so I can imagine how disgusting and useless this would be ... perhaps there would be a killer market for vinyl dolls over there in Egypt ... no ... too 'high tech'. Pretty twisted and skewed perspective.

Date With Destiny: "Swiss Woman Dies After Attempting To Live On Sunlight" [04/27/12] "Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reports that a woman starved to death after "embarking on a spiritual diet" that required her to stop eating or drinking and live off sunlight alone. The Zurich newspaper reported Wednesday that the unnamed Swiss woman in her fifties decided to follow the radical fast in 2010 after viewing an Austrian documentary about an Indian guru who claims to have lived this way for 70 years. Tages-Anzeiger says there have been similar cases of self-starvation in Germany, Britain and Australia. [...]"  Note: Death. Gee, it's also what happens in sunny prison camps with no food ... historically people die with no food, no matter what the light level may be .... lower end of the spectrum here, mentally, with this woman. Maybe she'll 'come back' as a fichus plant. That would be fine.

Date With Destiny:  "Man Electrocuted While Urinating On Chicago Transit Train Tracks" [04/24/12] "An Indiana man died overnight, after coming into contact with the electrified third rail as he urinated on the Purple Line ‘L’ tracks in Evanston. The man was at the South Boulevard Purple Line stop around 11 p.m. Sunday with two other people when he came into contact with the third rail, according to CTA spokeswoman Lambrini Lukidis. [...]"  

Date With Destiny:  "Brazilian Actor Playing Judas Dies From Accidental Hanging" [04/24/12] "A Brazilian actor has died after accidentally hanging himself while playing Judas in an Easter Passion play. Tiago Klimeck, 27, was enacting the suicide of Judas during the performance on Good Friday in the city of Itarare. The actor was hanging for four minutes before fellow performers realised something was wrong. Klimeck was taken to hospital suffering from cerebral hypoxia but died on Sunday. The Passion play was being performed in Itarare, 345km (214 miles) west of Sao Paulo. Klimeck was re-enacting the scene in which Judas commits suicide in repentance for " his betrayal of Jesus Christ". Police are investigating the apparatus that was meant to support Klimeck. It appears the knot may have been erroneously tied. When the actors realised something was wrong, Klimeck was taken down and found to be unconscious.  The Santa Casa de Itapeva hospital has confirmed the death and an autopsy will take place on Monday. [...]"  

Date With Destiny:  "Suspected Thief Electrocutes Self, Causes Power Outage " [04/21/12] "A suspected Southern California copper thief has been electrocuted after climbing a power pole and using bolt cutters on a live wire, which also caused a power outage. The San Bernardino County Sun says the body of 26-year-old Robert Buchanan and bolt cutters were found early Monday at the base of a utility pole in an unincorporated area near Fontana. Nearly 3,100 Southern California Edison customers were without power for about 90 minutes. San Bernardino County sheriff's investigators say Buchanan apparently used the bolt cutters to cut live wires from the pole. A sheriff's spokeswoman says Edison wires are a frequent target of metal recyclers. [...]"  

MSM: "Ohio Amish Plead Not Guilty In Beard-Cutting Case" [04/21/12] "Sixteen members of a US Amish community accused of carrying out a string of beard and hair-cuttings against religious rivals have pleaded not guilty and are set to go on trial in August. The defendants — 10 men and six women — refused to speak to media after their afternoon hearing on Thursday over what prosecutors have called “religiously-motivated assaults” between September and November of last year. Their lawyers have urged their release, saying the seven who remain incarcerated — including alleged ringleader Samuel Mullet – need to get back to their families to help with the spring planting season....They are accused of breaking into homes and forcibly cutting off men’s beards and women’s hair — both symbols of piety for the Amish. The defendants allegedly used scissors, battery-powered clippers and eight-inch (20-centimeter) horse mane shears “sharp enough to cut through leather,” according to the indictment. Some of them are also accused of concealing and destroying evidence, including a disposable camera, shears and a bag of hair from the victims. [...]"  

MSM: "Maryland Man Facing Illegal Dumping Charge" [04/21/12] "A man suspected of a years-long public defecation spree in his Maryland neighborhood is facing a criminal rap after he was caught on videotape relieving himself in the driveway of a former police officer. When confronted by cops, Kelly Ervin, 48, offered a bizarre explanation, according to police. Ervin reported that he goes running almost every day around 4 AM, and when he hits the two-mile mark, “he has to have a bowel movement.” As such, Ervin said he carries toilet paper with him and “defecates wherever his 2 mile mark is,” according to a court filing. Ervin, who was questioned by police at his residence on March 23, said that he was “embarrassed about the fact that detectives were there for this reason,” adding that he “had been doing this for over 20 years.” Before departing, cops “told Kelly to stop defecating in people’s yards.” They also told him that, at the time, “there was not a criminal investigation.” Ervin was charged with littering or dumping under 100 pounds, a misdemeanor. Ervin, who works in medical sales, has also coached a girl’s team at the Salisbury Lacrosse Club. The squad is known as the “Scoopers.” [...]"  

MSM: "Austrian Town Seeks Name Change" [04/18/12] "After suffering years of ridicule, the good people of the tiny hamlet of Fucking are to vote on whether or not to ditch the name and thereby hopefully bring an end to repeated vandalism and most recently, prank phone calls. "People are now willing to discuss changes to the spelling of the name,” Franz Meindl, the village’s mayor, said, adding: “But first all Fuckingers have to agree on whether they want to change it or not”, reported The Telegraph. The village, which is located just a few miles from the German border, earned its notoriety at the end of World War II when American soldiers discovered it. Since then, it has become something of a tourist attraction but also a target for thieves. Road signs have been a popular target even though they are fixed to steel posts set in concrete. Other regular exploits for those not strong enough or just unwilling to take the signs, have included photo shoots of half-naked women in front of the signs, couples filming themselves in flagrante and recently, the phone calls. [...]"  Note: Fucking ridiculous. 

MSM: "Explosives Could Be Used To Shift Frozen Cows" [04/18/12] "The US Forest Service is considering explosives to move a bunch of frozen cows that died after getting stuck inside a cabin at 11,000 feet in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. The Aspen Daily News reported that agency officials are worried about the high fire danger and are looking at other solutions such as using helicopters or trucks. The carcasses were discovered by two Air Force Academy cadets when they snow-shoed up to the cabin in late March. Officials believe the animals sought shelter during a snowstorm and got stuck. The cabin is located near the Conundrum Hot Springs, a hiking area near Aspen in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness area. [...]"  

MSM: "Prankster Quits Jobs at Places He Never Worked" [04/17/12] [3:33] "Butterman tenders his resignation to random people in various stores and most react with confusion since they don’t recognize him. “Are you saying you work at this store now?,” asks one bewildered employee. “See, this is a prime example,” says Butterman. “This is how people treat me every time I come in!” The prankster then ups the ante by tearfully sobbing while he quits one job. “I think if you really believe you work here maybe you should go to the hospital,” says one woman. Another man laughs and accuses Butterman of being mentally ill. But one woman at a fast food joint appears to completely buy into the prank. She even convinces the jokester to reconsider his decision and give at least two week’s notice. Hey, it beats getting fired from an imaginary job [...]" 

Date With Destiny: "Man Drowns In Pond During Swan Attack" [04/17/12] "A man who neighbors say was devoted to caring for the swans of a Des Plaines area apartment complex might have paid for that devotion with his life. Early Saturday, Anthony Hensley, 37, was in a kayak on a pond at an apartment complex in the 9300 block of Bay Colony Drive in an unincorporated area of Cook County near Des Plaines, checking on swans that were kept at the pond to keep geese away. Officials said he either got too close to the swans, or their nest, when one of the birds swam towards his kayak, and the kayak flipped over. It was Hensley’ job to care for the swans at the Bay Colony Drive apartment complex near Des Plaines, but Saturday morning something went wrong, and there was an altercation with at least one of the large birds. The family now must come to grips with the fact that they have to say goodbye to a 37-year-old father known for his sense of humor, and his devotion to his family. “He’s going to be remembered as one of the most wonderful fathers in the world. A very good father, a very good husband; there wasn’t a mean bone in his body,” his father said. [...]"  Note: It was his swan song ...

MSM: "Newt Gingrich Bitten By Penguin At St. Louis Zoo" [04/17/12] "At least one penguin at the St. Louis Zoo appears to be a feisty opponent of Newt Gingrich. The Republican presidential candidate is sporting a small bandage on his finger after getting nipped by a small penguin during his tour of the zoo on Friday. Gingrich was in St. Louis to speak during the National Rifle Association's annual meeting. During his visit to the popular zoo in Forest Park, he was treated to a behind-the-scenes visit with two Magellanic penguins. One of them nipped Gingrich on the finger. [...]"  

MSM: "Texan, 21, Caught Urinating On The Alamo, Is Arrested At Stream Of The Crime" [04/17/12] "In a move out of Ozzy Osbourne’s playbook, a 21-year-old Texas man was nabbed Saturday night for urinating on the Alamo. San Antonio cops say Daniel Athens was intoxicated when he allegedly relieved himself Saturday night on the limestone wall of the landmarked Shrine of Texas Liberty. [...]"  Note: Ironically, Texan's have worked on removing liberty since 1836.

Date With Destiny: "Hollywood Publicist Claimed To Be Undercover CIA Operative; Dies Eating Deli Meat Sample" [04/16/12] "Michael Sands, an effusive Hollywood publicist, has died after a bizarre accident in the deli section of an upscale supermarket in Century City, where he choked to death on a sample of meat. Best known as the brains behind Mr. Blackwell’s annual Worst Dressed List, Sands also was an inveterate self-promoter who claimed to be an undercover CIA operative who may have helped in the capture of Abu Abbas, the terrorist behind the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in 1985. He was 66. “He was eating a beef sample, and since he has narrow airways due to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, it got stuck,” his son Nick told TheWrap. [...]"  Related: "Family Can Sue for Costco Choking Death" "The family of a man who died after choking on a free steak sample at a San Francisco Costco can proceed with negligence claims after a federal judge denied the retailer's motion for summary judgment. Robert Jean Harris died after choking on a piece of tri-tip steak handed out as a free sample at a Costco food table in 2010. [...] A witness testified that "the piece of tri-tip that he had sampled was larger than usual and that the meat extracted from Harris was approximately one inch by three inches." Costco and WDS also argued that they could not be held responsible for Harris' choking death because he should have chewed the meat. Judge Wilken rejected this argument, ruling that the companies cannot use contributory negligence as a complete defense."  

Date With Destiny: "Indonesian Man Eaten by Starving Pet Dogs" [04/14/12] "A man in Indonesia left his nine dogs without any food or water for two weeks while he vacationed for the Eid al Fitr holidays. When he returned, his dogs were extremely happy to see him. Not because they loved their owner, Andre Lumboga, but because they were starving. Lumboga was attacked and eaten by his pet dogs shortly after returning home. According to the Jakarta Globe, Lumboga was attacked by 7 dogs when he returned home after the holidays. The dogs, who had not had food or water in two weeks, also ate two of the weaker dogs. Lumboga’s body was discovered after a neighborhood guard noticed luggage outside the man’s house, days after he had returned home. The guard approached the house and noticed a funny smell. When police arrived they discovered Lumboga’s mutilated body inside. [...] The Vancouver Sun reports that Lumboga was from Sulawesi island, a place where dog is commonly eaten."  Note: What goes around, comes around ....

MSM: "Naked Vermont Governor Almost Eaten By Bears " [04/14/12] "Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin said Friday that he was chased by one of four large bears in his back yard the night prior… absent his pajamas. Speaking to the editorial board of Valley News in Vermont, the first-term Democrat said he noticed the bears in the back yard late at night, outside his rental home near Monteplier, where they were nosing at his bird feeders just feet from his windows. After shouting at them from relative safety, for some reason Shumlin said he decided to fetch the bird feeders, explaining that he didn’t want the bears to become a frequent feature on his property. “The (bear) charges me on the porch — I’m tearing through the door,” he reportedly said. “You almost lost the governor. Security was not there. I was within three feet of getting ‘arrrh.’” Shumlin is also quoted as saying: “I sleep like many Vermont boys, without too much clothing at night. I’m not a big pajama person. The bottom line is: The bears were dressed better than I and they could have done some real damage.” He also showed a brief video of the encounter to the Valley News, though it’s not clear what exactly the footage revealed. Shumlin concluded that leaving bird feeders in Vermont yards during the spring time is inadvisable because it may attract bears. “I had a tough night,” he reportedly said. [...]"  

MSM: "Window Washer Survives 13-Story Plunge" [04/14/12] "Alabama authorities say a window washer survived a 13-story plunge down the side of an Alabama hospital tower yesterday. The worker was getting onto a platform outside the building when his safety equipment malfunctioned, says the Birmingham Fire Battalion Chief, adding that the gear slowed his descent some and he was fortunate to land in an area with newly planted bushes and mulch to help break his fall. He was conscious when he was taken to UAB Hospital, where he's recovering.  [...]"  

MSM: "Child Molester, Laughs At Judge During Sentencing, Gets Nearly 600 Years" [04/14/12] "On Thursday, Richard Carl Heeringa, a 57-year-old Douglas County, Colo. serial child-sex offender, was sentenced to 576 years in prison on 17 counts of sexually assaulting a child, 9news reports. Heeringa declined to speak during his hearing, but he apparently found the proceedings humorous. According to 7News, Heeringa laughed at Judge Paul King during the sentencing who responded, "If you're laughing now, stay tuned. You deserve every century that I'm going to give you." [...] The prosecutor had strong closing remarks for Heeringa and for the several-hundred year sentence, saying, "There is no upper limit that the court can impose. Asking for the minimum would be farcical in comparison to what the defendant did. If this defendant is given the possibility to breathe free air, then I believe we have failed [...]"

UK: "Weightlifter Shoots Himself In The Shoulder After Dropping Dumbbell On A Bullet" [04/14/12] "A weightlifter shot himself in the shoulder after accidentally dropping his dumbbell on a bullet, in an incident Modesto police described as "suspicious, but not impossible." The Californian muscle man told officers he was working out at home on Wednesday when he dropped one of his weights on a .22 caliber bullet. The impact on the rim of the bullet could have caused the explosion, a police officer told the Modesto Bee. There was no gun found on the property, however police did locate the shell's casing. The veracity of the 56-year-old weightlifters' story seems to be confirmed by witnesses, who say they saw nobody leave the man's home following the shot around 9pm on Wednesday. [...]"  

Buffoonery: "Arizona Passes Abortion Law That Says Pregnancy Begins Two Weeks Before A Child Has Been Conceived" [04/14/12]   "Arizona has passed a law which says pregnancy can begin two weeks before a child has been conceived, in another blow to reproductive rights in the US. The law was signed in by Republican Governor Jan Brewer on Thursday, who said it would "safeguard our most vulnerable population–the unborn." [...]"  Note: Brewer, a died-in-the-wool reincarnated retread and power freak, seemingly has no innate intelligence. Brewer has taken the lead in signing a lot of totally unnecessary domination and control based laws. There is NOTHING going on at all before a child is conceived ... if there is no conception, there is no creation of a body, never mind a pregnancy, so the law is insane and makes no sense ... but that's Brewer for you.

UK: "Boy Finds Live Grenade On Easter Egg Hunt" [04/12/12] "An army bomb squad rushed to an Easter egg hunt in England on Sunday after a 3-year-old boy found a live hand grenade. Eagle-eyed Stuart Moffatt, 34, -- who was there with his wife and three kids -- saw the child standing over the World War II-era explosive at the Holford, Somerset event. He began moving several pre-school-aged children away from the looming danger, the Daily Mail reported. "We were beginning to count up the eggs at the end of the hunt and I saw a boy of three standing on an object," Moffatt told the paper. "It was brown and about 4 inches high. It looked like an Easter egg, but it was a hand grenade -- I was shocked. The boy who was standing on it thought it was a rock." Moffatt immediately alerted organizers, prompting the bomb squad to descend on the field, cordon off the area and close a local highway, the New York Daily News reported. Soldiers safely detonated the grenade after everyone was clear. [...]"  

MSM: "NC Police Chief Fails Gun Test, Loses Badge" [04/12/12] " The police chief of a North Carolina town has been prohibited from carrying a badge and gun because he can't shoot straight. Thomas Bennett was suspended as a law enforcement officer after failing his recent annual firearms qualification exam. He has been police chief in Richlands, near the Atlantic coast, since 1999 and plans to retire in July. Bennett's suspended certification also means he cannot turn on the blue lights on a police cruiser or make a traffic stop. Bennett, who has apparently asked to take the test again, seems to have a glass-half-full attitude: He says he is still able to perform job duties related to managing the police department. [...]"

MSM: "Woman Outdoes TSA, Strips In Airport" [04/12/12] "TSA agents are itching for strip searches? They got a strip search. When a feisty traveler at Denver International was told to put out her cigarette in a nonsmoking area of the airport, she suddenly stripped off every stitch of clothing. TSA agents responded—and transported her to a local hospital for evaluation, notes  [...]"  

MSM: "New Law in Tennessee Allows Teachers to Challenge Scientific Consensus" [04/11/12] "The measure allows teachers to “help students understand, analyze, critique and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught.” It also says the legislation “shall not be construed to promote any religious or non-religious doctrine.” In recent days the governor had received a petition signed by more than 3,000 people urging him to block the bill, but its conservative backers had enough support to override a veto with a simple majority. “Good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion. My concern is that this bill has not met this objective,” Haslam said. “For that reason, I will not sign the bill but will allow it to become law without my signature.” [...]"  Note: Note that the title of the article on the page says the law 'opens the door to religious creationism' which is another narrow and immature perspective just like kowtowing to science and technology is. So, to them, it's now a choice between bad science and bad reality perception in general. With a self-imposed binary choice and a slim view of reality, no wonder everything they do always fails ... they have no ability to change or to see their limitations, and they take eons to realize anything of significance to their own development as individuals.

Commentary: "Study Ties Conservative Beliefs To 'Low-Effort Thinking'" [04/10/12] "As The Huffington Post reported in February, a study published in the journal "Psychological Science" showed that children who score low on intelligence tests gravitate toward socially conservative political views in adulthood--perhaps because conservative ideologies stress "structure and order" that make it easier to understand a complicated world. [...] When the researchers conducted similar interviews in the lab, they found that people who were asked to evaluate political ideas quickly or while distracted were more likely to express conservative viewpoints. "Keeping people from thinking too much...or just asking them to deliberate or consider information in a cursory manner can impact people's political attitudes, and in a way that consistently promotes political conservatism," Dr. Eidelman said in the email."  Note: Yeah ... 'low-thinkers' .... reincarnated retreads ...

Buffoonery: "Pope Warns of "Technology Without Deity" [04/08/12] "Pope Benedict XVI, carrying a tall, lit candle, ushered in christianity's most joyous celebration with an Easter vigil service tonight, but voiced fears that mankind is groping in darkness, unable to distinguish good from evil. "Life is stronger than death," he said. "Good is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate." However, he added, "The darkness enshrouding god and obscuring values is the real threat to our existence and to the world in general."  [...]"  Related: "Devotees Nailed To Crosses In Good Friday Rites"   Note: He's an unbalanced wizened ignorant little man. The technology he refers to exists only on 3rd density, and it is inimical to spirit, which can do anything without it, once mature, and that isn't here. Consider this, from the Matrix 5 series: "The 3rd density is polarity driven. This is one of the main features of the Game. Many Matrix V segments deal with polarities, aspects and purposes of them. The Dark polarity urges (in public) that you cannot win the Game. The Light polarity stresses that they are the only polarity that will win the Game. Matrix V readers should be able to deduce that both perspectives are wrong, but both contain elements of the truth. Polarities want us to beLIEve that they are the sole icons of victory. Dark does hold fast that they are the ultimate Game victors, but they keep that secret, as is the nature of Dark. The Light has the bullshit phrase: ‘good always conquers evil’.  But, in this sector of the galaxy, it is the opposite: Dark conquers Light. As per a previous segment: ‘Light may win a battle’ but Dark ‘wins the wars’ in this galaxy sector. Dark is adaptive because it is constantly changing to a new façade to advance its agenda. Dark doesn’t hesitate to appear Light, especially in such organizations as religions, government, etc. “We are here to help you” is one of their disarming phrases. The Game has many agents. Polarities are control freaks fearing Balance (most of all) and yin/yang balance (reachable by Very Advanced, simultaneous path incarnations). Consider balance to be ‘polarity bane’. Refer to the Star Wars III segment where I mention how this film series depicts that ‘only by embracing both polarities can you defeat either one’. Game agents are looking to have weaknesses in the system pointed out. If a weakness in the Game system is discovered, those in control will move to neutralize this weakness. Yet the polarities can only operate within Game rules, and there are those who make sure that this Galaxy Game’s rules are adhered to. Simultaneous path Higher Selves are particularly sensitive to the rules, since Graduation is the next step for this group. Sequential path Higher Selves who are meddling in Earther affairs (more than 50 different alien groups at this time), would have us beLIEve that we can’t win the Game. Keeping the balance concept in mind, and the Star Wars examples, you can see that we cannot ‘win’ (Graduate) the Game by clinging to one polarity over the other. We must become both Light AND Dark to win (Graduate).[...]" 

Buffoonery: "Loophole Could Allow Private Land Claims on Other Worlds" [04/06/12] "Who owns the moon? What about Mars? For now, the answer is no one, but as more private companies, billionaire entrepreneurs and national governments start casting their eyes on space, the question could change from a futuristic problem into a real issue. Under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which governs international space law, no one nation can claim sovereignty over a body in space. But there could be a loophole. Full blown colonization and settlement of other planets, moons and even asteroids might actually happen, says space policy consultant Rand Simberg, if a government could provide one thing: property rights. [...]"  Note: Stupid buffoons.   

MSM: "Ex-Girlfriend Busted For Brutal Scrotum Attack" [04/06/12] "An Indiana man had his scrotum severely torn when his “on-again, off-again” girlfriend entered his home and pummeled him in an attack that resulted in the woman’s arrest on several criminal charges, including two felonies. Christina Reber, 43, was freed from jail yesterday after posting $10,000 bond in connection with her bust for the alleged attack last Friday at the Muncie house of her ex-beau (who told cops he had ended the couple’s eight-month relationship days before the assault). The victim, 57, told police that he was working at his computer when Reber, pictured in the adjacent mug shot, “walked into his house uninvited,” according to a Muncie Police Department report that will make every guy wince. The man said Reber screamed at him to “call the fucking police” before launching her assault. Reber, the victim told cops, first struck him repeatedly in the head before latching onto his scrotum and “squeezing as hard as she could.” The man, interviewed by police at a hospital emergency room, said that he “was in incredible pain when Reber grabbed his scrotum and began digging in her fingers.” he victim recalled that Reber “refused to let go of his scrotum,” but that he was “finally able to pry his scrotum from Reber’s hand” after they fell to the ground during the scuffle. The man then called an ambulance, which transported him to Ball Memorial Hospital.[...]"  Note: Another 'high talker' comes into being.

Legal Case: "PETA Sues Merck for Animal Rights" [04/05/12] "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claims in court that Merck & Co. abuse dogs, cats and primates in its labs, and as a Merck stockholder, wants Merck enjoined from soliciting proxy votes for its annual shareholder meeting unless it discloses how it plans to "improve the living conditions of all animals used in-house and at contract laboratories."  PETA claims that it owns more than $2,000 worth of Merck common stock, "of 1 percent of Merck." It seeks a federal injunction ordering Merck to stop soliciting proxies for its 2012 meeting without informing stockholders of PETA's shareholder resolution and supporting statement. [...]"  Note: Buying Merck stock as an 'in' in order to sue a company is pretty simplistic. If they didn't like the company, why buy stock? ... never mind that PETA people are minionesque (nature spirit in human bodies) championing for other nature spirit in animal bodies. PETA advertising is totally body-id oriented, using 'dripping' sexuality to push their propaganda. Life is 'sacred' to these people ... perhaps an understandable perspective, since they're all tied into one spirit expression.

Legal Case: "Strange Doings in South Texas" [04/05/12] "An assistant deputy constable claims his boss got him fired for cooperating with a federal investigation, then threatened to have him arrested if he ran against his former boss in an election. [...]" 

MSM: "Man, 19, Explains To Cops That He Was Naked In Street Because It Was "Opposite Day"" [04/05/12] "After being spotted last night wandering naked around an Indiana neighborhood, a 19-year-old man explained to cops that he was sans clothes because it was “opposite day,” according to a police report. After Leonard Fodera provided an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer with that explanation (along with the claim that he “just wanted to be free”), the cop delivered his own “opposite day” retort. “Fine, in that case, you are not going to jail for public indecency,” replied Officer Michael O’Connor [...]"  Note: Like the character George in "Seinfeld' .. he decides to 'do the opposite'  ... it didn't work for George, either, really. Many times when people get caught doing something, or get caught up in an event, they say the first thing that comes to mind, which doesn't quite fit what's going on .... like when George gets 'caught' in his bathroom by his mother ... Interestingly enough, as an aside, many things are presented to us by the people 'managing' society have a nature that is many times opposite of what they pretend it is. George Carlin said it well ... it's a freak show, and in the US we have a front row seat.

MSM: "Britain's Strangest Laws: Cromwell Bans Christmas, Dead Whale Ownership And More" [04/05/12] "The Law Commission for England and Wales released its 19th report on Wednesday, compiling a list of defunct or out-dated laws that no longer apply to modern society. Among them are age-old finance laws, exile rulings and pieces of legislation on railway funding, which have all become redundant. Within the report, the commission's chairman, Sir James Mundy, called for the repealing of hundreds more laws, which clog up the rule book and need to go. "Getting rid of statutory dead wood helps to simplify and modernise our law, making it more intelligible," Munday said. "It saves time and costs for lawyers and others who need to know what the law actually is, and makes it easier for citizens to access justice." As a region with a long, and nuanced, history, including plenty of religious toing-and-froing in the Tudor, Stuart and Cromwell era, a number of bizarre laws have cropped up that have never been repealed.  Although it is incredibly, vastly unlikely that anyone has been accused, let alone charged, with treason for sticking the monarch's head upside down on an envelope, it was nonetheless considered an affront to the monarch, bordering on treason. [...]" Related: "'Dead Laws', Calls For Legislation Dating Back To 14th Century To Be Repealed"   

MSM: "Man Charged After Jumping On Cop Car In Sombrero, Boxing Glove" [04/05/12] "As a Sacramento cop sat in his patrol car, a drunk man walked up and leaped onto the hood of the officer's vehicle, according to a police report obtained by the Sacramento Bee. But this was no ordinary drunk man. This was Jesse James Thomas wearing a sombrero and a boxing glove, and he was here to make his name known, police said. Thomas, 55, allegedly did just that and screamed his own name repeatedly from atop the cop car before fleeing, KCRA reported. Soon after, cops found him lying in the street nearby and Thomas was arrested on suspicion of public drunkenness, the Examiner reported. [...]"  

MSM: "World's Worst-Dressed Dictators" [04/05/12] "Kim Jong Il: The recently deceased Supreme Leader knew how to offset his neutrals: a pair of designer shades, a dash of crazy, and, according to North Korean lore, the occasional rainbow unicorn, which he created by hitting a golf ball to the moon.  [...]"  Note: 17 dictators on parade.

MSM: "Teller to Bank Robber: We're Closed, Come Back" [04/05/12]   " Hate the short hours at your local bank? Think how Olga L. Perdomo feels. Last week, she tried to rob Albany Bank and Trust in Chicago, but was thwarted when a wily teller told her the bank was closed, and to come back tomorrow. The full story: Perdomo walked into the bank around 5pm last Thursday, clad in plaid pajama pants and a dark hooded jacket, the Chicago Tribune reports. She handed the teller a note reading, "all of your money, no cops, no dye pack." But the teller didn't hand over the cash. Instead, she said that the bank was closed, and that Perdomo should come back the next day. Perdomo politely agreed, leaving the bank. On Monday, a bank employee recognized her outside the bank and called the police. She was nabbed along with another man whom police say robbed the same bank for $2,589 a week earlier. [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "Wife, 80, Lands Plane When Husband Dies at Controls" [04/05/12] " An elderly woman took control of a small plane from her unconscious husband and landed it on a runway at a small northeastern Wisconsin airport yesterday—and the plane was dangerously low on fuel at the time. Helen Collins, 80, had some flight training years ago but was not familiar with the controls of the Cessna twin-engine plane she took over when her husband passed out, says Keith Kasbohm, director of Cherryland Airport near Sturgeon Bay. Her husband was later pronounced dead. Another pilot took to the skies to guide Collins to the ground after she called 911 from the Cessna, but she had to land the aircraft herself. "She was on her last attempt to get lined up with the runway," Kasbohm said. "She reported one engine was sputtering on that last attempt to land. We were all watching and knew she had to do it." Kasbohm described Collins as "cool, calm, and collected on the radio" as the aircraft made a hard landing and skidded about 1,000 feet before coming to rest. [...]"  

MSM: "Tokyo Chefs Swell With Anger Over New Blowfish Laws" [04/04/12] "With a scoop of a net Tokyo chef Naohito Hashimoto selects a poisonous blowfish, considered a delicacy in Japan, and with a few deft strokes of his gleaming knife starts the delicate process of preparing it for a customer. In moments, Hashimoto has separated the edible parts of the fish from organs filled with a poison more deadly than cyanide. For more than six decades, dicing blowfish in Tokyo has been the preserve of a small band of strictly regulated and licensed chefs, usually in exclusive restaurants. But new laws coming into effect from October are opening the lucrative trade to restaurants without a license, making chefs like Hashimoto see red. "We have spent time and money in order to obtain and use the blowfish license, but with these new rules anybody can handle blowfish even without a license," said Hashimoto, a blowfish chef for some 30 years. "They're saying it's now okay to serve blowfish. We licensed chefs feel this way of thinking is a bit strange." The poison known as tetrododoxin is found in parts of the blowfish, including the liver, heart, intestines and eyes, and is so intense that a tiny amount will kill. Every year there are reports of people dying after preparing blowfish at home. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says city laws covering the serving of blowfish should be changed to reflect changing times and hope that relaxing the rules will cut prices and bring Tokyo in line with the rest of the nation. [...]" 

MSM: "Ohio Funeral Homes Blocked From Liquefying Bodies" [04/03/12] "An Ohio funeral home that was blocked from dissolving bodies using lye and heat has joined a funeral directors’ group in pushing for the state to legalize the process. Under a bill in the Ohio House, the state would recognize alkaline hydrolysis as a separate legal, regulated form of disposition, rather than lumping it in with traditional cremation, as some states have done. The bill was introduced in March after a judge’s ruling blocked Edwards Funeral Service in Columbus from using the process, which involves the corrosive chemical lye, heat and sometimes extra pressure in a large metal cylinder. The method turn remains into a liquid that could be poured down a drain and a dry bone residue that can be given to relatives or buried. Edwards was the first U.S. funeral business known to publicly offer alkaline hydrolysis and used the method in 19 cases before the state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors and the Ohio Department of Health stepped in with permit restrictions. They didn’t believe the method was legal under state law. [...]"  

MSM: "Happiness Tops In Denmark, Lowest In Togo, Study Says" [04/03/12] "According to polls taken from 2005 to 2011, these were the happiest countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland [...]"  Note: Societal 'happiness' as we see it in Denmark, for example, is directly proportional to the degree of group conformity... only sequentials would like it the way is was. If you like society and its tendency to suppress individuality, on Earth, now, there's something fundamentally immature with your perspective, because it involves control and manipulation of others ... this is part of the growth process, here, to experience this stuff .. but, it is not an end in itself, as sequentialized societies and planets like to have it.

MSM: "Man Struck By Lightning After Buying Mega Millions Tickets" [04/02/12] "As the adage goes: you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than winning the Mega Millions jackpot. For Bill Isles, a 48-year-old Wichita, Kan. man, that saying became painfully true on Thursday, according to KCTV-5 News. After buying three tickets for Friday's Mega Millions lottery jackpot, Reuters reports, Isles was walking to his car when he said to a friend that he had "a better chance of getting struck by lightning" than winning the $640 million. [...]"  

MSM: "Man Cuts Off Foot, Throws It In Furnace To Avoid Job Assignment" [04/02/12] "Hours before unemployment officials were to determine whether he was physically fit for work, an Austrian man sawed off his left foot with an electric saw, Austrian broadcaster ORF reported. The 56-year-old man had just learned that his benefits could be slashed if he did not accept work found for him, the Daily Mail reported. He reportedly placed the severed foot in a wood stove to make sure doctors could not reattach it to his leg. On Monday, after his wife and son had left the house, Hans Url, positioned his left leg against an electric saw in the boiler room and severed his foot above the ankle. Images from the scene show an electric table saw – apparently wiped clean – surrounded by shallow pools of blood. On the stove were a lighter and ashtray filled with cigarette butts.  [...]" 

Date With Destiny: "Man Sentenced For Shooting Woman Whose Red Mohawk He Mistook For Bird" [04/01/12] "A Colorado man was sentenced to five years' probation after accidentally shooting a woman whose red mohawk he mistook for a fowl that had been harassing his cats. Derrill Rockwell, 49, told police that he grabbed his .22-caliber rifle and set out from his home Oct. 5 to fire at the bird after spotting it at the top of a hill about 90 feet away, the Daily Sentinel reported Friday. "His intent was to spook it away," Deputy District Attorney Jason Conley told District Judge Richard Gurley on Friday, according to the newspaper. But after shooting at the bird, the man said he noticed it didn't fly away and he reported hearing a woman moaning in pain. Rockwell soon discovered that he had shot a 23-year-old woman in the head, mistaking her red mohawk for the menacing bird. Conley reportedly told the judge that the woman may have passed out from alcohol before being shot. Police officers also found a bag of suspected methamphetamine near where she was shot. The woman survived the shooting, but has since moved from Colorado and could not be reached by the newspaper Friday.  [...]" 

Date With Destiny: "Police Kill 68-Year-Old Man in His Home After He Accidentally Triggers His Medical Alert System" [03/31/12] "The niece stood in the darkened stairwell of the Winbrook Houses, listening, as 20 feet away five police officers yelled at her uncle, who had locked himself in his apartment. It was 5:25 on a chill November morning. The officers banged loud and hard, demanding that her 68-year-old uncle open his door. “He was begging them to leave him alone,” she recalls. “He sounded scared.” She pulls her shawl about her shoulders and her voice cracks; she is speaking for the first time about what she saw. “I heard my uncle yelling, ‘Officers, officers, why do you have your guns out?’ ” The string of events that night sounds prosaic, a who-cares accumulation of little mistakes and misapprehensions. Cumulatively, though, it is like tumbling down the stairs. Somehow the uncle, Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a former Marine who had heart problems and wheezed if he walked more than 40 feet, triggered his medical alert system pendant. The system operator came on the loudspeaker in his one-bedroom apartment, asking: “Mr. Chamberlain, are you O.K.?” All of this is recorded. Mr. Chamberlain didn’t respond. So the operator signaled for an ambulance. Police patrol cars fell in behind — standard operating procedure in towns across America. Except an hour later, even as Mr. Chamberlain insisted he was in good health, the police had snapped the locks on the apartment door. They fired electric charges from Tasers, and beanbags from shotguns. Then they said they saw Mr. Chamberlain grab a knife, and an officer fired his handgun. Boom! Boom! Mr. Chamberlain’s niece Tonyia Greenhill, who lives upstairs, recalls the echoes ricocheting about the hall. She pushed out a back door and ran into the darkness beneath overarching oaks. He lay on the floor near his kitchen, two bullet holes in his chest, blood pooling thick, dying. [...]"  

MSM: "Hoodie-Wearing Gunmen Kill 1, Wound 5 in District of Hoodie-Wearing Congressman Kicked Out Of Senate Chamber for Wearing Hoodie" [03/31/12] "Former Black Panther Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) made quite a fuss when he donned a "hoodie" during a speech in the U.S. House of Representatives until he was escorted out. At the time, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) "applauded his courage" for doing so. Meanwhile, back home in Rush's district, two men wearing hooded sweatshirts, or "hoodies," were the shooters in an incident that left one dead and five injured.  In fact, during a span of six-hours Thursday night, 13 people were shot, leaving two dead in Chicago. It would seem it takes more courage to simply walk down the street in Rush's district than it does to wear a hooded sweatshirt in the House of Representatives by way of a stunt in a bizarre tribute to a hoodie-wearing young man shot and killed in Florida during a shooting incident still under investigation.  [...]" Note: Wow .. a three-layer irony. 

UK: "Internet Craze Sees Teenagers Turn Themselves Into Freakish Living Dolls" [03/30/12] "Young girls are fast becoming internet sensations not because of their vocal skills or dance moves, but because they resemble living dolls. Staring doe-eyed at the camera, with cupids bow lips and a porcelain complexion Dakota Rose has been hailed a real-life Barbie. Known to her fans as Kota Koti, she has amassed a global audience with her YouTube fashion and beauty tutorials. [...]"  

MSM: "Michelle Obama to Appear on Biggest Loser" [03/30/12] "Michelle Obama will appear on NBC's The Biggest Loser the next two Tuesdays, reports the Washington Post. In the first episode, Obama will appear via video on the weight-loss show, inviting Loser contestants to the White House. In the second, she meets them in person and even joins in a workout at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It's all part of her push for the Let's Move initiative.  [...]"  Note: Loser, indeed. Now if that's not the pot calling the kettle black.

MSM: "Man Claims Attack By Lion, Saved By A Bear" [03/29/12] "A Paradise, California man says he is lucky to be alive after an attack by a mountain lion Monday morning. Robert Biggs, 69, often hikes in the Bean Soup Flat area, which is about a mile and a half above Whisky Flats. He came across a mother bear, a yearling and a newborn, which were about 40 feet from where he was standing. After watching the bear family for a few minutes he decided to leave them be and turned to walk back up the trail. As he turned, a mountain lion pounced on him grabbing hold of his backpack with all four paws. "They usually grab hold of your head with all four paws, but my backpack was up above my head and (the mountain lion) grabbed it instead," Biggs said. "It must have been stalking the little bear, but it was on me in seconds." He wrestled with the cat, striking it in the head with a rock pick. The cat screamed when it was hit with the pick, but didn't let go, Biggs said. Before he knew it, the mother bear came from behind and pounced on the cat, tearing its grip from the backpack. The bear and the cat battled for about 15 seconds, Biggs said, until the cat finally ran away. The bear went on its way as well. Biggs ended up with bite marks, scratches and bruises to his arm, but was otherwise uninjured ... Though his arm was pretty cut up, he chose not to go to the doctor, a move that concerned his wife Suzanne. As for lessons learned, Suzanne quipped, "He doesn't learn." Biggs just chuckled at the comment. The incident isn't going to stop him from enjoying the Ridge's wildlife. [...]"  Note: Or, the wildlife from apparently enjoying him, from time to time. Related: "Officials Believe Man's Bear Rescue Claim May Be A Hoax, Backpack Sent For DNA Testing" "Sixty-nine-year-old Bob Biggs’ claims of a lion attack made national news. It was an astonishing attack, followed by an amazing rescue: by a bear. “It was defending its cub, I think, and trying to save me,” said Biggs. However, it seems Biggs failed to convince the Fish and Game Commission that a bear would rip a lion off his back. “The evidence right now says inconclusive, but he lives in mountain lion country,” said Andrew Hughan, a spokesperson for the agency. [...]"  Note: Why does it matter to the Fish and Game 'Commission'? 

Society and Culture: "8 Truly Bizarre Sleep Disorders" [03/29/12] Note: I like "Sleep Paralysis: people who become immobile even after they are awake" - sounds like some people we know.

MSM: "JetBlue Suspends Captain in Meltdown" [03/29/12] " A JetBlue captain who yelled about a bomb and urged passengers to pray on a Las Vegas-bound flight has been suspended, the airline said today. Clayton Osbon has been taken off active duty pending a review of the incident, a JetBlue spokeswoman said. There is nothing in the captain's record to indicate he would be a risk on a flight, CEO and president Dave Barger said today. The customers and crew "just did a great job," he said. "That was a true team effort at 35,000 feet." It was not clear if Osbon would face any criminal or civil charges for disrupting the flight. "Clearly, he had an emotional or mental type of breakdown," said Tony Antolino, a security executive who tackled the pilot when he tried to re-enter the cockpit. The FAA is likely to review Osbon's medical certificate— essentially a seal of approval that the pilot is healthy. All pilots working for scheduled airlines must have a first-class medical certificate. Charlie Restivo, who sat in the plane's fourth row, said he thought it was clear that the pilot had suffered a medical episode. "I don't think when he got up this morning that that's what he was intending to do," he said. "Unfortunately, I just think it happened to him. [...]"   Related: "JetBlue Co-Pilot Is Having A Hard Time Dealing With Instant Fame"  

MSM: "Israeli Man Bites Police Dog" [03/29/12] "Officials in Kfar Saba, Israel, have a bone to pick with an an unruly suspect after the man bit the police dog sent into a cell to subdue him. The man was initially detained by authorities for breaching a restraining order issued by his spouse. After the police showed up at the woman's home, the suspect reportedly threatened to jump out of a window and attempted to assault an officer with a screwdriver, according to Ynetnews.com. After the officers took the suspect to the station, he again became unruly, which prompted them to send in the dog. While the canine cop managed to bring down the man, the suspect still managed to chomp down on the animal's ear. The suspect kept biting the dog's ear until cops finally pried his jaws away and shepherded the German Shepherd away from its attacker, according to the Jerusalem Post. Police said the dog suffered very minor injuries to its ear, and has already received treatment. However, the suspect now faces an additional charge of assaulting a police dog and remains in custody pending further court proceedings, UPI reported. [...]" 

MSM: "Four Women Charged In Amish Beard-Cutting Attacks" [03/29/12] "A federal grand jury has indicted four more women over a rash of bizarre beard-cutting incidents against fellow Amish in Ohio, the US Justice Department said Wednesday. A total of 16 people -- 10 men and six women -- have now been accused in what prosecutors called five "religiously-motivated assaults" between September and November. The four new defendants named were Lovina Miller, Kathryn Miller, Emma Miller and Elizabeth Miller, who had not previously been charged. They are all married to nephews of Samuel Mullet, the accused ringleader of the attacks. The 10-count superseding indictment also adds charges against some of the defendants for concealing and destroying evidence, including a disposable camera, shears and a bag of hair from victims of the attacks. Mullet, the bishop of the Amish community in the village of Bergholz, Ohio, was also additionally charged of making false statements to federal agents during the investigation. Many of the other accused are members of Mullet's own family. In each assault, the defendants assaulted and harmed their victims by "forcibly cutting off their beards and head hair and causing them other physical injuries because of previous and ongoing religious disagreements," the indictment said. [...]"  Note: More reincarnated retreads stuck in the Amish belief system loop in the game, seemingly also raised by wolves.

MSM: "Naked Drunk Driver Flips SUV On Drive For Cigarettes" [03/29/12] "A naked Australian man allegedly drank heavily and rolled his SUV as he sped to his goal: a pack of smokes. Cops said that the 41-year-old unidentified drunk man was driving yesterday with his wife to get his nicotine fix at about 1:20 a.m. when he got lost, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. He careened through the back streets of Wallsend, and at one point allegedly backed up quickly while turning, causing his vehicle to flip onto its roof. A nearby off-duty cop heard the wreck and found the allegedly boozed-up couple uninjured. Police reported that he was naked for unknown reasons. [...]"  

Legal Case: "Bizarre Cellphone Mix-Up Rattles Family" [03/29/12] "A woman claims in court that she is beleaguered at home by "infuriated" people who believe she stole their cellphones, because Sprint Communications equipped the phones with an errant tracking device that directs people to her house. [...] Pierre-Louis seeks damages for harassment, invasion of privacy, damage to her professional reputation and loss of pursuit of happiness.  [...]"  

MSM: "New York City Schools Ban Words, Topics From Tests" [03/28/12] "If anyone needed a single case to point to in order to show that political correctness has gone completely insane here in the United States, this is it. With the rise of such practices, we also see the growth of the “nanny state” which seeks to control every aspect of our lives. The New York City Department of Education has banned several words in an attempt to be as politically correct as possible, although I see it as pure imbecilic nonsense. There are some 50 words which are officially banned from being used on tests given to students by the city. Some of the more insane choices are: dinosaur, birthdays, wealth, poverty, Halloween, dancing, terrorism, divorce, references to disease, slavery, creatures from outer space, and many more. In fact, it is not just these words that are banned, but indeed the entire topic cannot be included on any tests administered by the city. This is supposedly because such references “could evoke unpleasant emotions in the students,” according to the New York Post. These subjects were outlined in a request for proposals which was given to companies who compete to create standardized tests for English, math, science and other subjects which are administered multiple times per year. [...]"  

Date With Destiny:  "Home Of Roswell ‘Chicken Man' Explodes" [03/27/12] "The battle between one man and the city of Roswell that started over his keeping of chickens ended Monday afternoon in a fiery explosion. Investigators believe that rather than be evicted from his home, Andrew Wordes poured gasoline throughout the house and set it on fire. In an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution last month, Wordes blamed the city for all of his woes that helped land him in foreclosure. Wordes apparently had fallen behind on his mortgage payments while in jail for violating various property codes. "I'm still trying to get this resolved, but it doesn't look like it's going to be happy," Wordes had said. [...]" 

MSM: "5-Year-Old Girl Jumping On Bed Shot After Gun Under Mattress Discharges" [03/27/12] "A 5-year-old girl jumping on a bed was injured by a bullet early Saturday when a gun beneath the mattress went off, police said. The incident occurred at about 12:22 a.m. Saturday at a Marquette Park residence in the 6400 block of South Artesian, police news affairs told CBS 2. The child was jumping on a bed when a weapon discharged, apparently from underneath the mattress.  The girl sustained a wound to the ankle, police said. She was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, the Chicago Fire Department said. [...]" 

MSM: "Medical Marijuana Deliveryman Robbed By Baton-Wielding Ninjas In West Covina" [03/27/12] "A medical marijuana deliveryman was still shaken up on Monday after what he described as a robbery by two men allegedly dressed as ninja warriors. KNX 1070′s John Brook reports the robbers used the martial arts getup to conceal their identity as they got away with a big bag of marijuana.  The assailants were reported dressed in all black with masks over their faces and wielded martial arts batons — known as tong fa — to intimidate the deliveryman around 10 p.m. last Friday at an apartment house along the 800 block of South Sunset Avenue in West Covina, police said. “After he made his delivery, he was walking back to his vehicle and was approached by two males in their 20s wearing ninja costumes and holding white batons,” said Sgt. Travis Tibbets. [...]"  

MSM: "Woman, 83, Sues Apple After Walking Into Glass Door" [03/27/12] "Apple wants to be cool and modern" with its nifty glass front doors, says the indignant lawyer for an 83-year-old woman who was foiled by those very doors, "but they have to realize that the elderly generation are their customers, too." Evelyn Paswall, the octogenarian in question, broke her nose after failing to see the door at a Long Island Apple Store and walking right into it. Now she's suing for $1 million, the New York Post reports.  [...]"  

Buffoonery: "School Bans Girl With Cerebral Palsy From Using Walking Aid" [03/27/12] "A Texas mother is planning to file a lawsuit against New Caney Independent School District after her daughter's special education director said the 5-year-old could no longer use her walker at school, according to KRIV-TV. Lakay Roberts has cerebral palsy and needs the walker to move around -- she's also used the device at the school for the last two years. Kristi Roberts, the girl's mother, recorded the conversation with Kings Manor Elementary School special education director Gary Lemley and posted it to YouTube. "Basically she can't use the walker because we don't think it's safe," Lemley says in the recording. When Roberts asks why it isn't safe, Lemley responds, "I just told you. We don't feel it's safe any longer." [...]" 

MSM: "Restaurant Worker Fends Off Burglar With Sword, Beer Bottle" [03/27/12] "A Daytona Beach restaurant worker fought off a burglar early Monday morning with a sword and a beer bottle, authorities say. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports Anthony Brisbane was working at Captain Steamer's Oyster Bar at 5:20 a.m. when he found a masked man in the kitchen area of the eatery at 1500 S. Atlantic Avenue. Brisbane armed himself with a sword with a broken handle and pressed the sword into the suspect's stomach, police said. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Trevor Pufall said, "Don't kill me. Don't kill me," as Brisbane called authorities, police said. Pufall, armed with a tire iron, then struck Brisbane three times on the head. Pufall then dropped his tire iron and he and Brisbane fought over the sword. Brisbane then shoved Pufall to the floor and slammed a beer bottle into his head, police said. Brisbane then grabbed a screwdriver, pointed it at Pufall's neck and walked him outside to the front of the restaurant. By then, police had arrived on scene, the News-Journal reports. [...]"  

MSM: "Borat Anthem Played By Mistake At Medals Ceremony" [03/25/12] "Kazakhstan's shooting team demanded an apology after a spoof national anthem from the comedy film Borat was played instead of the real one at a medal ceremony in Kuwait, the BBC reported on Friday. The team's coach told Kazakh media the organizers of the Kuwait tournament had downloaded the parody from the internet by mistake and had also got the Serbian national anthem wrong. Footage of Thursday's original ceremony shows gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko listening solemnly to the anthem before smiling. The ceremony was later rerun. The spoof anthem, from the movie featuring British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan", praises Kazakhstan for its superior potassium exports and for having the cleanest prostitutes in the region. [...]" Video clip  [1:29] "The Actual Kazakhstan Anthem" [0:00]   Related: Kazakhstan National Anthem Fail  [0:33] "The organizers of the regional ski festival in Kostanay played Ricky Martin's song "Livin' la Vida Loca" instead of national anthem of the Republic of Kazakhstan." 

MSM: "Danish Lottery Winners Go From Riches To Rags " [03/25/12] "Three hundred Danes who thought they'd won enough money on the lottery to last them several lifetimes were brought down to earth with a bump minutes later when they learnt their actual prizes wouldn't even pay for a weekend break. State lottery company Danske Spil blamed "human error" for a glitch that held out the promise for part of Tuesday of jackpots ranging from an astronomical 1 billion Danish crowns to a mind-blowing 280 billion ($49.7 billion). The shamefaced lottery firm shattered the 302 winners' dreams by email an hour and a half later. "All won prizes but not billions of crowns," Thomas Rorsig, spokesman for Danske Spil, said. "The correct winnings .. were typically 200, 300 or 400 crowns (around $35 to $70)". [...]"  

MSM: "City Manager Says He's Not Needed, Lays Self Off" [03/25/12] "The administrator of a North Texas city believes he's not needed and has laid himself off. Keller City Manager Dan O'Leary announced his decision Wednesday. O'Leary says the Fort Worth-area city of nearly 40,000 has two assistant managers and really does not need a third... [...]" 

MSM: "Prostitution Ring In Madrid Tattooed 19-Year-Old Woman With Bar Code" [03/25/12] "A Spanish National Police investigation into two Madrid prostitution rings led to the rescue of a captive 19-year-old woman who was tattooed with a barcode on her wrist after she tried to escape the ring, authorities said Saturday. The bar code served as a form of identity for the woman and as certificate of "ownership" by one prostitution ring, and beneath the bar code was also tattooed the amount of money she owed the ring, police said. Held hostage by a pimp, the woman had multiple lesions from being beaten and whipped, and her head and eyebrows were shaven because she tried to flee, police said. [...]"  

Buffoonery: "Hillary Clinton Warns Of 'Terror Warning' On Water Wars .... 10-30 Years From Now" [03/24/12] "Hillary Clinton has warned of the risk of terrorism, political instability and conflict over competition for scarce water supplies worldwide over the next few decades. Mrs Clinton highlighted risks outlined in the unclassified version of a report on global water security - which she had requested - that was released by the National Intelligence Council. "I think it's fair to say the intelligence community's findings are sobering," she said about the report that focused on the potential water problems between now and 2040. [...]"  

UK: "Groom Gets 6 Years for Starting Fire at Own Wedding" [03/23/12] " A British groom will be enjoying a six-year honeymoon by himself, in prison. Real estate developer Max Kay, 37, started a fire at his own wedding party after hotel staff refused to let him extend a bar tab, reports SkyNews. Kay waited until the early morning hours after the squabble before setting hotel curtains ablaze. The fire spread wildly, and nearly 200 guests were evacuated, though none were injured. The damage cost around $20 million, and Kay was sentenced to six years behind bars for arson.  [...]"  

MSM: "Woman's Crazy Jury Duty Scheme Goes Bust" [03/23/12] "Susan Cole, 57, is now behind bars after calling a Denver radio program to brag about how she got out of serving. Sadly, the judge was a fan of the show. [...]"  

MSM: "Indian Child Born with Baby in His Belly" [03/23/12] "It’s often confused for a cyst, and one can only wonder the horror that befalls a new mother when she finds out that her newborn was born with a giant cyst in its belly. Imagine how terrified and shocked she must be when she finds out it’s “foetus in fetu,” or “fetus within a fetus,” [...] 

Legal Case: "Cops' Lies Cost Him Three Years, Man Says" [03/22/12] "St. Louis, Mo. A man claims in Federal Court that he spent more than three years in jail because two city police officers lied about seeing him "run from a stolen car". Douglas Hervey Jr. sued St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officers Drew Werninger and Sheresa Absher. Hervey claims he spent 39 months prison until "a recently disclosed dispatch tape" showed that the officers lied. "Late one night Douglas Hervey Jr. saw vehicles in the alley behind his house," the complaint states. "Moments later defendant officers arrested him for stealing a car. Plaintiff spent 39 months in jail. The city attorney then dropped the charges. "A recently disclosed dispatch tape reveals that defendant officers made up that they saw plaintiff run from a stolen car and dash into his house. In fact, the tape shows that the officers first lost sight of the car and then when they regained sight of the car its doors were open and it appeared abandoned. No officer saw plaintiff run from the car." [...] Werninger and Absher are sued in their individual capacities. The St. Louis Police Department is not named as a defendant. Hervey seeks punitive damages for false arrest, false testimony and due process violations. " 

Date With Destiny: "Grand Canyon Bride Dies in 300-Foot Fall" [03/21/12] "A young woman married at the Grand Canyon fell 300 feet to her death at the giant chasm. Experienced hiker Ioana Hociota, 24, likely plunged as a rock gave way beneath her as she was attempting to become the youngest person ever to hike across the entire canyon. "It's tempting for people to think that a beautiful young woman might have been there out of her element and out of her head. She absolutely was not," said husband Andrew Holycross. Hociota, an Arizonan born in Romania, was married last summer at the canyon's Marble Point, then took the wedding party on a 25-mile hike, reports the Daily Mail. She had covered some 850 miles of the canyon at the time of her death, and was 80 miles from completing her dream. She slipped while hiking with a partner who heard a "short cry," he recalled. "Then the blood froze in my veins. I heard a dull thump. I ran back to the saddle calling for her. There was incredible silence." The coroner believes Hociota died instantly. [...]"  

UK: "Teachers Tell Children Not To Have 'Best Friends' In Primary Schools... To Prevent Pain Of Falling Out " [03/20/12] Note: Sequential incarnations are afraid of experiences and the learning process embraced by simultaneous incarnations, who have a multi-faceted vibration and depth. They're immature and inexperienced ... and give stupid advice. They're lucky to remember which life they're actually living ... and they always want to know who you are ... typical of the immaturity inherent in group mind sets .

Date With Destiny: "German Celeb Bunny Meets Untimely Demise" [03/19/12] "An earless baby bunny that was a rising star on Germany's celebrity animal scene had his 15 minutes of fame brought to an abrupt end when he was accidentally stepped on by a television cameraman. The fate of 17-day-old Til, a bunny with a genetic defect, was plastered across German newspapers on Thursday, the same day a small zoo in Saxony was to have presented him to the world at a press conference. The cameraman told Bild newspaper he hadn't seen Til, who had buried himself in hay, when he took the fateful step backward Wednesday. Zoo director Uwe Dempewolf tells Spiegel magazine Til didn't suffer: "It was a direct hit." Germany has been home to several global animal celebrities in recent years, including polar bear Knut and Paul the prognosticating octopus. [...]"  

MSM: "Colo. Man Ticketed After Cat Refuses To Go For Jog" [03/19/12] "Police in Lafayette, Colo., have ticketed a man who is accused of tying his cat to a rock after the feline refused to go jogging. Sgt. Fred Palmer says 19-year-old Seth Franco brought his cat on a leash to the path around Waneka Lake Park on Wednesday, but the cat was unable to keep up. According to the Boulder Daily Camera ( ), witnesses told police that Franco secured the cat's leash to a rock while he finished his run. A passer-by called police. Franco was ticketed on suspicion of "domestic animal cruel treatment," a municipal offense. Palmer says an ordinance in the city, about 20 miles north of Denver, "prohibits that kind of tethering." [...]"  Note: The concept of taking a cat for a jog on a leash is rather poorly thought out. Dogs, yes .. but cats ... no. Too bad the guy doesn't have a clue about cats. It would have saved him a ticket. The other matter involves those troublesome people who can't mind their own business and love to make themselves feel better by making someone else feel worse, using authority figures as a proxy ...

MSM: "Family Chanted, Disrobed At Pennsylvania School" [03/17/12] "Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood says investigators don't know why 44-year-old Sarah Butler and three of her children — 23-year-old Joanne Butler, 22-year-old Bessie Butler and a 14-year-old son — decided to disrobe. He says the mother had gone there around 10 a.m., demanding to see a student. After she was denied admission, Chitwood says the family lay on the ground and began chanting, eventually shedding their clothing. Chitwood says the adults will be charged with defiant trespass, disorderly conduct and open lewdness. A telephone listing for them could not be found. [...]"  Note: More people raised by wolves.

Date With Destiny: "Man Killed Buried Under 20-Foot Mound Of Pinto Beans" [03/17/12] "Segura was a longtime resident of the area and had worked at the warehouse for between 12 and 15 years, Martin said. The cause of the accident, how the victim became trapped and the exact cause of death are under investigation [...]" Note: I think the exact cause of death is obvious, folks.  

MSM: "Base Jumpers Ditch Bar Tab By Parachuting 55 Stories" [03/17/12] "The Herald Sun reports that four men jumped from the 55 floor of the Rialto Towers in Melbourne after consuming pricey cocktails at the Vue de monde restaurant. "Basically, four guys came upstairs with parachutes hidden underneath their jackets," restaurant owner Shannon Bennett told the Herald Sun. After a quick change in the bathroom, 7News in Australia reports that the daredevils climbed a tall plastic barrier outside the restaurant before taking the plunge toward the street where a getaway car waiting for them. [...]" 

Date With Destiny: "Woman Uses Chainsaw To Commit Suicide" [03/17/12] "A Westside woman was found dead on Thursday after she apparently killed herself by using a chainsaw, police said. Nash was discovered with a chainsaw wound on her neck, Parks said. Authorities will try to determine whether she had a history of depression and whether she was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. [...]"  Note: Gee, do you think?

MSM: "Kony 2012 Filmmaker Arrested For Public Masturbation" [03/17/12] "The co-founder of the charity group behind the fastest-spreading Internet viral video ever was arrested Thursday for allegedly being drunk in public, vandalizing cars and masturbating, NBC San Diego reported Friday afternoon. Jason Russell, 33, a filmmaker, was reportedly acting strangely when police picked him up off Ingraham Street in San Diego around noon on Thursday. Officers claim he was seen undressing as he ran through traffic, screaming all the way. Russell did not try to resist officers, the report notes, and was sent to a medical facility for treatment. It is not yet clear what substance he was on, if any. Russell’s charitable organization, called Invisible Children, attributes him as “our grand storyteller and dreamer.” Invisible Children CEO Ben Keesey said Friday that Russell was suffering from “exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition.” [...]"  Note: What goes around ...

MSM: "Surveillance Cameras Capture Thieves Stealing Surveillance Cameras" [03/16/12] "Thieves got away with 12 surveillance cameras from a Yuba County health clinic over the weekend, but in the process they gave investigators a look back in time. The hard drives associated with those cameras stored footage of the criminals in the act outside the Harmony Health Medical Clinic in Linda. Rachel Farrell, who runs the clinic that serves a lot of uninsured or under-insured patients, says the crooks didn’t just do it once, or twice, but three times in two days. Thieves got away with all 12 cameras outside but what these guys somehow didn’t realize was the cameras were recording what and who was in front of them [...]"  

MSM: "Romney Family Misspells Own Name In The World's Most Epic Freudian Slip" [03/16/12] Note: Amazing ...

Date With Destiny: "Woman Strangled To Death By Clothes Stuck In Escalator" [03/16/12] " A preliminary investigation into the death of a woman who fell on an escalator at a Long Island Rail Road station reveals that she died after her clothes got entangled in the escalator's treads and she was asphyxiated. The LIRR released a statement Wednesday saying the escalator, which remains out of service, was last inspected in February. LIRR says the escalator is inspected monthly and is maintained in good operating condition. The woman, 88-year-old Irene Bernatzky, of Lindenhurst, died on Tuesday after falling on the escalator at the rail station in Lindenhurst.  [...]"  

MSM: "Transit Worker Accused Of Punching, Lifting Woman By The Throat In Dispute Over Dime" [03/16/12] "A New York City woman says she was attacked by a subway station attendant for taking too long to find cash. She spoke exclusively to CBS 2’s Pablo Guzman on Thursday. Janet Ojeda admitted she exchanged words with the woman in the token booth, but when the clerk allegedly came out and picked her up by the neck, choking her, well, even a few hours later, Ojeda got emotional talking about it. Police and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the station agent inside the booth at the 138th Street station in the Bronx was Phylathia Monroe, 45. The MTA said she has nearly 20 years on the job. Ojeda said she eventually got free and then went from the station to a local NYPD precinct and filed a report. Four officers went into the station and arrested Monroe on a misdemeanor assault charge. The MTA suspended Monroe pending an investigation. If convicted on the assault charge, Monroe could face a year behind bars. [...]"  

Commentary: "Morocco Rape Victim, Commits Suicide After Forced Marriage To Rapist" [03/15/12] "The case of a 16-year-old girl who killed herself after she was forced to marry her rapist has spurred outrage among Morocco's internet activists and calls for changes to the country's laws. An online petition, a Facebook page and countless tweets expressed horror over the suicide of Amina Filali, who swallowed rat poison on Saturday to protest her marriage to the man who raped her a year earlier. Article 475 of the Moroccan penal code allows for the "kidnapper" of a minor to marry his victim to escape prosecution, and it has been used to justify a traditional practice of making a rapist marry his victim to preserve the honor of the woman's family. [...]"  Note: Another society run by minionesque losers (nature spirit in human bodies, as opposed to higher self spirit), who would have been better off as iguanas or fichus plants. 

MSM: "Weather Reporter Flips Out On Air" [03/15/12] [0:15] "A local news weather reporter for ABC's KRDO Colorado got visibly frustrated during a live broadcast on Wednesday and had a rather surprising outburst. Everything seemed to be going fine as KRDO's weather reporter took viewers through a storm heading north and east across the Centennial State. The graphic on the screen changed rapidly and she suddenly announced, "Son of a bitch—why is this happening?!" She proceeded to walk off set and speak to someone off camera. While it's unclear what exactly went wrong during her report, it is safe to say that it did not go as planned. This KRDO weather reporter is not the first to make such an on air gaffe. [...]"  

MSM: "Man Jumps Off Bridge To Escape DUI Test: Survives, Is Arrested In New Orleans" [03/14/12] "We're going to go ahead and call this the worst way to try and get out of a ticket. A New Orleans-area man jumped off the Causeway Bridge over Lake Pontchartrain Sunday after being pulled over by police and asked to take a sobriety test, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. Police stopped Thomas Robert Harter, 44, halfway across the bridge about 5:40pm, after another motorist reported his car swerving and speeding. Harter got out of the car without being asked, waving his arms in the air. Police say he was swaying and smelled of alcohol, so they asked him to perform a field sobriety test. He agreed, but then "bolted" and leapt into the water 20 feet below. The water was rough and the winds high, but Harter managed to grab a utility building at the base of the bridge. He was hauled out of the 60-degree water intact, and arrested for what will be his eighth drunk-driving charge. [...]" 

MSM: "New Charges For 'Surgeon' Accused Of Injecting Concrete And Glue" [03/14/12] "A Florida woman accused by authorities of illegally injecting toxic substances such as flat-tire sealant and glue into women's buttocks as an enhancement procedure is facing new charges. Broward Sheriff's Office deputies say 32-year-old Oneal Ron Morris faces unlicensed practice of medicine and related charges after three new victims were identified. Morris, who police say was born a man and identifies as a woman, was arrested in November on similar charges in Miami-Dade County. The victims told authorities that Morris wore a nurse's uniform, gloves and an ID tag during the procedures. Authorities said Morris also injected victims with caulk and cement. All three victims suffered medical complications and infections. [...]"  

MSM: "4 Amish Arrested On Alcohol Charges - After Buggy Hits Cop Car" [03/13/12] "Authorities in western New York say they've charged four young Amish adults with illegal possession of alcohol after their buggy collided with a police car responding to a report of a drinking party under way. Officials say deputies were responding to reports that people were drinking in several Amish buggies on a country road. As a patrol car arrived on the scene, one of the Amish buggies changed lanes, colliding with the police vehicle. The buggy flipped onto its side, causing minor injuries to one of the people on board. Police say several other buggies fled the scene. [...]"  Note: I suppose the kids aren't into having a future filled with furniture assembly and beard-pulling by village elders.

MSM: "Homeless People Used as Wi-Fi Hotspots" [03/13/12] "At SXSW, the annual tech startup conference in Austin, 13 homeless men are hanging around the conference center wearing white shirts that say “I’m _____, a 4G hotspot.” Each is carrying a wireless internet device, and for a PayPal donation, will provide conference-goers with internet access for as long as they want. . The men are part of a campaign called “Homeless Hotspots,” devised by a marketing firm called BBH. It effectively debuted today, and started backfiring immediately. The first person to flag the stunt as a little off was the New York Times’s David Gallagher, who called the plan it “a little dystopian.” [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "PayPal Exec Killed on Train Tracks" [03/13/12] "Eric Salvatierra, a 39-year-old PayPal executive, was killed on Caltrain tracks in California Friday morning. The married father of three was struck on the northbound tracks, and his death remains under investigation. "All I know is he had his bike," Salvatierra's uncle tells the San Jose Mercury News. "For me and to all of us, this is just an incredible, unexpected loss," the uncle adds. Salvatierra, the vice president of customer advocacy and operational excellence at PayPal, had formerly been the CFO of Skype.  [...]" 

MSM: "Trenton City Council Faces Toilet Paper Crisis" [03/13/12] "Trenton's city council has refused to approve a $42,000 (£26,855) contract for paper products after balking at its $4,000 charge for paper cups. The toilet paper, along with other supplies, is to be used in government buildings such as city hall. Removing the cups from the contract has not allayed the council's suspicions over the bidding process. One council member told Bloomberg News that "we're not going to send out any blank cheques". George Muschal said the council did not want to approve Mayor Tony Mack's decision to include $4,000 of paper cups designed for hot drinks, citing unreasonably high costs for the items. It voted down the contract three separate times, most recently in January. [...]"  Note: A bunch of incompetent idiots ... stupid sequentials ...

Trends: "It’s A Dirty Job: Police Nationwide Take On Soaring Tide Detergent Theft" [03/13/12] "Law enforcement officials across the country are puzzled over a crime wave targeting an unlikely item: Tide laundry detergent. Theft of Tide detergent has become so rampant that authorities from New York to Oregon are keeping tabs on the soap spree, and some cities are setting up special task forces to stop it. And retailers like CVS are taking special security precautions to lock down the liquid. One Tide taker in West St. Paul, Minn., made off with $25,000 in the product over 15 months before he was busted last year. “That was unique that he stole so much soap,” said West St. Paul Police Chief Bud Shaver. “The name brand is [all] Tide. Amazing, huh?” Tide has become a form of currency on the streets. The retail price is steadily high — roughly $10 to $20 a bottle — and it’s a staple in households across socioeconomic classes. Tide can go for $5 to $10 a bottle on the black market, authorities say. Enterprising laundry soap peddlers even resell bottles to stores. “There’s no serial numbers and it’s impossible to track,” said Detective Larry Patterson of the Somerset, Ky., Police Department, where authorities have seen a huge spike in Tide theft. “It’s the item to steal.” [...]"  

MSM: "Flight Attendant On Plane Rants About Crashing" [03/12/12] " A female flight attendant who started ranting about a possible crash over the public address system of an American Airlines plane on Friday was subdued by passengers and crew as the plane returned to the gate, passengers said. The incident at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport led the pilot to taxi back to the gate, where police and FBI agents took the unidentified flight attendant for a psychiatric evaluation, airport spokesman David Magana said. Passengers who arrived later at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport said the attendant had begun babbling about technical problems with the plane, saying "Captain, I can't be responsible for crashing this plane." "No one was responding, and then when she said 'crash' twice, we knew something was wrong," said an unidentified passenger, whose comments were broadcast on WBBM radio in Chicago. "She said she was bipolar, so we continued to hold her until police arrived. When they showed up they put the cuffs on and got her off the plane," another unidentified passenger said. [...]"  

MSM: "Pair Sentenced for Taking Dead Pal on Bar Crawl" [03/11/12] "Denver's Weekend at Bernie's duo are going to be spending a lot of weekends doing community service for taking a dead friend on a night out—and letting him pick up the tab. Robert Young and Mark Rubinson put their pal, 43, in the back of a car after finding him dead at home, visited bars and restaurants, and used his credit card to pay for drinks at a strip club. They pleaded guilty to abusing a corpse and identity theft, Reuters reports. Young said he believed the friend, who died from a lethal mix of drugs and alcohol, was drunk, not dead. The court sentenced the pair to two years probation, and they will also have to perform community service, submit to drug and alcohol tests, and pay restitution. The prosecutor said the pair's plea bargains were largely due to the dead friend's family members, who leaned toward leniency. [...]"  

MSM: "Try Dating Me; I'm Narcoleptic" [03/11/12] "I have 30 seconds to make it to my couch or I will lose consciousness and crash onto the floor. “Get up, you have to get up,” I tell Nathan, who is currently in my way. He looks at me. “Huh?” “It’s this thing I have. It happens all the time. Please get up.” Nathan stands and I charge through the front door, lumbering through the hallway like Godzilla. I nearly trample my beagle, who squeals like an unsuspecting villager does when the killer lizard comes to town. I consider crawling to my couch, but I am also trying to impress Nathan. If I fall unconscious, I could be out for up to 10 minutes. From my experience, men don’t take it well when you collapse without explanation. [...]"  

Commentary: "The Great Schmoo Army of Mindless Zombie Christians" [03/09/12] "There's crack cocaine and then there's crack cocaine. The most deadly, destructive and addictive crack is Christian fundamentalism. You've heard that bullshit anti-drug, pro alcohol, advertising line; "a mind is a terrible thing to waste"? It's arguable how much it might apply here because in order to be a Christian fundamentalist, you can't have a mind; certainly not a mind with independent function. Of course, you don't have to be a no fun fundie to lack cognitive abilities. Most people do not have an independently functioning mind. It's a signature of the times. This is some inexplicable reverse engineered evolution. This is premeditated with calculation for the result. A specific percentage of people not having a mind is job one for the vampire elite. The bankers are at the top of the food chain. [...] The vast Christian Army of spastic somnambulists is marching somewhere. No doubt there is a cliff in the vicinity; a sinkhole, a swamp or some kind of opposite to expectations. It is highly doubtful that the cosmos, being conscious, would have anything but contempt or antipathy for these cretins. The only rapture one can confidently expect, is the rapture that comes with their absence and that would be experienced by others. There is no heaven set up by an impossible and non existent deity of anthropomorphic construction, where those who systematically torment, maim and murder their fellows, will go in their imaginary afterlife. It is far more likely they will return as food animals on large factory farms. They can huddle together in their pens that permit of little movement, with their equally deluded fellows, just as they huddle together now, praying for the destruction of everyone who is unlike them or defined as an enemy by their real enemy, who continues to deceive them with transparent lies. Quo vadis? Absolutely nowhere, or worse."  

MSM: "Dwarf Bullfighting Obsession Sends A Red Flag To Little People" [03/09/12] "The little-known sport of dwarf bullfighting has raised a red flag for America's little people. The sport, which has dwarf toreadors battling baby calves, is a popular attraction in Mexico and other countries where bullfighting is popular. There are as many as 20 different troupes, according to NBC Sports, but some little people such as Clinton Brown III fear dwarf bullfighting is blurring the line between entertainment and exploitation, especially because the bullish battles are carried out for laughs. "These guys are really taking their life in their hands doing this," Brown told The Huffington Post. "Frankly, it's a shame that these folks do have to resort to it." Brown, who is a 3-foot, 3-inch tall financial analyst on New York's Long Island, isn't against little people engaging in athletic contests. In fact, he is also manager of the New York Towers, an all-dwarf basketball team that has won two national championships in the Dwarf Athletic League's annual tournament. Still, Brown thinks that the troupes -- and the media -- would be better off if they promoted the athleticism of the bullfighters and not their "wackiness." [...]"  

MSM: "Drunk Passenger Drops Anchor, Stops Cruise" [03/09/12] "After knocking back martinis all night and stealing a bottle of vodka when the bar closed, a passenger on a Mexico cruise to Florida decided it was time to drop anchor. He snuck into an off-limits area and released the ship's 18-ton anchor, forcing the vessel to a three-hour halt. Now California passenger Rick Ehlert, 45, has been sentenced to two months in prison for what the judge called a "bothersome crime," reports the Tampa Tribune. He will also have to attend substance abuse counseling. "Many people have asked me why I dropped the anchor," Ehlert wrote in an apology letter to the ship's captain. "I believe that I was intrigued by the machinery, and curious to see if I could operate it. I do remember trying to stop the anchor once it started moving, but it just kept going faster." Ehlert also tossed a life preserver overboard, and didn't respond to the captain's plea for the person who had thrown it to come forward, requiring all 1,600 cruise passengers to rise before dawn to muster at their emergency stations to be counted. [...]"  

MSM: "Steven Seagal Sued For Killing Puppy, 'Overkill' Arrest On Reality Show "Lawman" [03/09/12] "Steven Seagal is now under siege for allegedly acting above the law -- and we're not just throwing around his movie titles. The 59-year-old action movie star was slapped with a lawsuit this week after using a tank to knock down an Arizona man's wall and arrest him, while starring as a deputy for a reality TV show. When the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office suspected that Jesus Llovera was raising roosters for cockfighting, deputies sent in a SWAT team, a bomb robot and a tank. [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "Atlanta Man Dies During Videotaped Sleep Study" [03/08/12] "The last hours of Brandon Harris' life were captured on film after the Atlanta man unexpectedly died during a routine sleep study. MyFox Atlanta reports that Harris' family has filed a lawsuit against Emory Healthcare claiming that the hospital could have done more to prevent their loved one's death. The family told MyFox Atlanta that Harris, who was mentally handicapped, was "very overweight, and suffered from congestive heart failure, cardiomyopathy, diabetes and high blood pressure" and that those conditions made it risky for Harris to sleep on his back for long periods of time. "We never knew he'd be dead," Renee "Sunshine" Lewis, Harris' mother told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Brandon did not receive the appropriate care from [the sleep center]. Actually, in my opinion, he received no care at all." The hospital has declined to comment, citing the pending litigation. [...]"  Note: The problem was unique to Harris, but these people are not used to aspects of individual uniqueness ... they generalize, misconstrue and can't think rationally. It has nothing to do with the existence and use of sleep centers. All it means is that sleep centers need to have people sign a release to account for unusual physiological events, and up-front standards for patients could include material related to this specific kind of event.

Date With Destiny: "Man Dies Trying To Set Record For Being Buried Alive" [03/08/12] "A Sri Lankan man has died while trying to set a record for the longest time spent buried alive, police said Monday. Police said Janaka Basnayake, 24, buried himself over the weekend with the help of family and friends in a trench sealed with wood and soil in the town of Kantale, about 137 miles (220 kilometers) north of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo. A local newspaper reported that the trench was 10 feet (3 meters) deep. Basnayake was buried at around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Police said that when he was brought to the surface at 4 p.m., he was unconscious and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Basnayake's mother, L.D. Leelawathi, said her son had enjoyed performing unusual acts since his childhood – a liking that grew after watching movies, the Lankadeepa newspaper reported. It quoted her as saying that her son had been buried alive on two previous occasions – for two and a half hours and six hours respectively. It was unclear whether there is an official world record for the longest time buried alive.[...]"    Note: I can't decide whether this is more about irony or redundancy, but it's similar to the contest in Scandinavia a year or so ago, when a Russian become a lobster bisque by trying to beat the record for staying in a sauna.

MSM: "Couple Attacks Mom For Using Their Taco Sauce" [03/08/12] "Cops jailed a Florida man and his girlfriend on Monday after the two allegedly attacked his mother because she used his salsa and taco sauce without permission, according to police reports obtained by the Smoking Gun. Christopher Phillips, 23, started arguing with his mom, 55-year-old Rebecca, "because Rebecca used Christopher's salsa and taco sauce on her dinner," an officer wrote. The saucy swindle apparently enraged the man -- he allegedly put his mother in such a crushing headlock that her glasses broke. Christopher Phillips then went into another room to relay the horrific news to his girlfriend, Lisa Tyre, who then also began yelling at the mother. That argument escalated, leaving Rebecca Phillips with two smacks to the face and a cut lip. [...]"  Note: More people raised by wolves.

MSM: "World's Luckiest Track Inspector" [03/08/12] [0:32] Note:  And they say 'white men can't jump'. He needs to retire.

MSM: "Man Cuts Patio Wall In Attempt To Escape Bar Tab" [03/08/12] "Patrons of Centro Latin Kitchen in Boulder, Colorado, wouldn't readily describe the place as a "hole in the wall." It's clean, trendy, and befitting a handful of other adjectives attributed to a decent place. Robert Engles disagrees, at least if we're to judge him by his actions. Engles was busted Saturday after he cut a hole in the restaurant's plastic patio wall and crawled through it in an attempt to leave without paying. Engles' escape, however, was cut short by a metal fence that surrounds the patio. With no place to go, employees at the restaurant restrained him until police arrived. A police report on the incident points out the metal fence Engles struggled to overcome was 4 1/2 feet tall. And the tab Engles was fleeing? $33.  [...]"  

MSM: "Parents Realize Daughter Is Lost When She's On News" [03/08/12] "Parents learned their 3-year-old daughter was missing when they saw a news broadcast reporting she'd been found in a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. Employees of the Bel Air, Md. pizzeria discovered the girl, Harmony, was by herself when she told a worker that she was thirsty at 8 p.m on Sunday. The manager called police after searching the premises for a parent or guardian. Harford County Sheriff's deputies waited with Harmony in the restaurant until 9:30 p.m., but no one showed up to get her, according to a press release from the department. Harmony arrived at the restaurant with a large group of four adults and 10 children. The pizza party broke up around 8 p.m., but apparently none of the relatives noticed that Harmony slipped back inside after she found a token.  The girl's mother and father split custody of her and assumed that she was with other family members until they saw an 11 p.m. newscast reporting that she'd been left behind hours before at the restaurant.[...] Harmony was inadvertently abandoned, and police officials said they won't file charges. " Note: Shit happens.

MSM: "The Most Lucky Person Ever" [03/08/12]   [1:00] Note: Amusing ... although I can't see how anyone would survive this and keep walking.

Date With Destiny: "Woman Killed When Husband Accidentally Shoots Cannon Into Home" [03/07/12] "A woman was killed early Tuesday when her husband, who had allegedly been drinking, accidentally shot a homemade cannon into the couple’s home. Homicide detectives with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department are investigating the 33-year-old woman’s death, which took place in the 25000 block of Potrero Valley Road. Authorities say she was found dead at 12:15 a.m. after a cannonball fired by her husband and another man slammed into a residence at the Twin Lakes Resort mobile home park. It appears the accident happened while the two men were tinkering with the cannon. [...]" 

MSM: "German 'Robin Hood'; Town Has Mystery Benefactor " [03/06/12] "There is an unsolved mystery in Braunschweig, Germany that gets more puzzling by the day; unmarked packages with tons of cash are being left at various organizations such as hospices and churches. The packages are not only unmarked, they have been hidden somewhere on the grounds of the chosen charity; under a mat, behind doors and in the kitchen of a homeless shelter, among other places. The day after the local newspaper ran a story about a robbery victim, the unknown benefactor struck again- leaving almost $14,000 dollars at the crime victims’ aid group in Braunschweig. While the donor seems to wish to remain anonymous - the residents of the town are grateful and full of excited speculation as to who the Robin Hood might be. Are they a lottery winner, did they receive an inheritance or were they just struck by need in their community and decided to act? We may never know... [...]"  

MSM: "Gored Bullfighter Making Heroic Comeback" [03/05/12] "On Oct. 8, a bull's horn ripped into Juan Jose Padilla's lower jaw and caused his left eyeball to protrude as spectators screamed in horror. Padilla was seen getting up shouting, "I can't see, I can't see anything," his face gushing blood as assistants distracted the bull. Now, wearing an eye patch and speaking with a lisp, Padilla fulfilled what he describes as an unquenchable desire to once again face massive 1,100-pound (500-kilogram) fighting bulls with the aid of only a cape and sword. [...]"  Note: One of the former natives Planet Moronica, no doubt. What a stupid individual ...  

Date With Destiny: "Jumper Accidentally Packs His Parachute Backwards, Slams Into A Cliff Face, And Miraculously Survives" [03/04/12] "Sam Baker, an experienced hiker and BASE jumper, attempted a jump off a 600-foot cliff at Arizona's Superstition Mountains, but things went terribly wrong, reports Steve Kuzj at ABC 15. Apparently, he packed his parachute backwards. When he deployed his chute it slammed him straight into the face of the cliff, instead of away from it. Rescuers said that he would've certainly plummeted to his death, but miraculously, the wind took him into a crevasse, where he landed on a ledge about 150 feet above the ground, according to Kuzj's report. It took rescuers four hours to reach Baker, who didn't even need much medical attention. He is now recovering from a minor ankle injury, reports Kevin Dolak at ABC News. [...]"  

MSM: "Principal Resigns After Telling Gay Students They Were "Going To Hell' " [03/03/12] "A Tennessee high school principal has resigned amidst a flurry of reports that she had made blatantly homophobic remarks to gay students during a meeting. The Jackson Sun is reporting that Haywood County High School Principal Dorothy Bond tendered her resignation yesterday, after the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Tennessee sent a letter “on behalf of several students and families at the school” to the school's superintendent asking the district to take action. "The Haywood County Board of Education acknowledges its student body’s right to free speech," the Haywood County School Board’s law firm wrote in a statement confirming Bond's resignation. "Further, the Haywood County Board of Education strives to provide an atmosphere of tolerance and diversity while maintaining high academic standards." Bond had come under fire from area parents and national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) advocates after ABC 24 reported the principal had made insensitive remarks about both homosexuality and teen pregnancy during a Feb. 9 assembly. "At first she was talking about [public displays of affection] and she turned around and she directly pointed to the gay people and said if you're gay, you're going to hell and if you're pregnant, your life is over," student Amber Whittiemore is quoted as saying. According to Nashville Scene, the ACLU officials praised Bond's resignation, saying in a statement, "Haywood County School District's swift action makes it clear that they do not condone the type of harassment and targeted discrimination that was taking place at the high school. We applaud the Haywood County School District for affirming students' right to be who they are and to be free from bullying by school leadership."[...]"  Note: A stupid, ignorant sequential control freak. They don't like individuals, only groups and group demands and rules, and this represents individualism to them. There are only two possibilities for like-attracts-like on Earth. Minions, nature spirit in human bodies, are largely bi-sexual, as is much of nature. Secondly, simultaneous incarnations, whom the sequentials don't comprehend, are the second group. Sequentials fear this because they have long entrenched belief systems through all their lives which enforce that perspective. If you were to look on any planet that has a civilization, out there, and you will see this.

MSM: "Wisconsin Senator, Proposes Law That Declares Single Parenthood To Be "Child Abuse" [03/03/12] "A controversial bill targeting single parents came to the table at the Senate Committee on Public Health, Human Services and Revenue public hearing in Wisconsin this week. State senator Glenn Grothman, an admitted opponent of the social welfare establishment that he believes encourages women to have children out of wedlock, introduced Senate Bill 507, which would formally consider single parenthood a contributing factor to child abuse, if passed into law. SB507 would require the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize that non-marital parenthood is a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect. [...] Single parents make up a third of Wisconsin parents, The Annie E. Casey Foundation reports. And according to a 2009 report from the US Census Bureau, there are approximately 13.7 million single parents across the U.S., with single mothers outpacing single fathers five to one. Grothman's previous attack on the left wing contended that because social programs are available to the poor, liberals want people to be poor and use them, financial benefits he says are driving the rise in single motherhood among low-income moms."  Note: Another stupid, ignorant reincarnated retread.  

MSM: "Armored Truck Guard Kills Partner - Makes Off With $2 Million" [03/02/12] "A Dravosburg man killed his fellow security guard, stole more than $2 million from their armored vehicle after picking up money at a casino, visited his parents' home, then took off, authorities said on Wednesday. "Our belief is that he planned to rob the company, and if he had to kill a guard, he planned to do that," said Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. "He shot the guy from close range in the back of the head. That's pretty cold-blooded." As the manhunt continued, Pittsburgh police charged Kenneth J. Konias Jr., 22, with homicide, robbery and theft in the heist and killing of armored truck guard Michael Haines, 31, of East McKeesport. [...]"  

UK: "Hospital Patient Set Alight During Surgery" [03/02/12] "A patient undergoing surgery was set on fire when the solution used to clean their skin ignited, an NHS Trust confirmed today. The incident happened at Scarborough Hospital in North Yorkshire yesterday afternoon, officials said. The patient was treated for the injuries and transferred to Castle Hill Hospital in East Yorkshire "as a precaution". They were later returned to Scarborough Hospital and then discharged. Liz Booth, director of operations at Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust, said they were "extremely sorry". She said: "I can confirm that during a surgical procedure a solution used to clean the skin ignited, causing skin burns to the patient. [...]"  Note: ... having a flammable skin cleaning solution isn't a good idea.

MSM: "Judge Pulls Gun In Courtroom" [03/01/12] "Some judges pack a gavel -- this judge was packing heat. A Georgia judge is under fire after he allegedly pulled his pistol in a courtroom in an apparent attempt to drive a point home to a sexual assault victim. Lumpkin County Superior Court Judge David Barrett wasn't angry, but making "a poor rhetorical point" when he flashed the piece this week, District Attorney Jeff Langley told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Georgia law allows judges to carry concealed handguns in the courtroom, but it's a crime to point a gun at another person if there's no reason to do so. [...]"  

Report: "Physicist Stephen Hawking Frequents CA Sex Club" [02/29/12] "He may spend his working days contemplating the deepest mysteries of the universe, despite having been robbed of almost all physical movement by the cruelties of motor neurone disease. But it seems the world-famous British physicist Stephen Hawking also has an interest in more earthier matters. Cambridge university today admitted the 70-year-old has visited a swingers’ sex club in California. However, they denied claims that he was a regular. The story emerged last week when a U.S. website reported that Professor Hawking dropped in at the Freedom Acres club in Devore, where he is said to have arrived with an entourage of nurses and assistants before paying for young, naked dancers to perform privately for him. Radaronline claimed that Professor Hawking had visited the club in the past five years. A source told the website: ‘I have seen Steven Hawking at the club more than a handful of times.’ But today a Cambridge University spokesman said (HAD to say): ‘It is not true that Professor Hawking is a “regular” visitor to the club in question. ‘This report is greatly exaggerated. He visited once a few years ago with friends while on a visit to California.’ However, it is not the first time the professor has been linked to a risque establishment. He has previously been photographed enjoying the attentions of young ladies in London’s Stringfellows club. I remember asking him if he’d like to have a conversation with me about the universe or if he’d just like to watch the girls. The answer was quite simply, ‘The girls.’ Professor Hawking married Jane Wilde in 1965 and they went on to have two sons and a daughter. That marriage was dissolved in 1995, when he married Elaine Mason, his former long-term carer. They divorced in 2007. [...]"  Note: Wow, just imagine the different sayings that could go on tee shirts for those who have ... dealt with Steven.  Use your imagination. "I Blew A Great Mind" ... "White Holes Suck" .... you get the idea. The other sequentials make him out to be a genius ... but he's still severely hobbled and not aware of much of the nature of reality. He's a theoretician.

MSM: "Brazilian Man Uses Jack Nicholson's Face On Fake ID" [02/29/12] "Brazilian news channel Globo (equivalent to the BBC or CBS, according to our esteemed Portuguese- speaking colleagues) has reported that a 41-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for using a fake ID with actor Jack Nicholson's picture on it. According to the report, the suspect attempted to use the fake ID (along with other falsified documents) to open up a bank account in the Boa Viagem neighborhood in the south of Recife. The ID bore the name Joao Pedro dos Santos, while the aforementioned Nicholson picture bore no resemblance to the man who presented the card. He was arrested and taken to the police station, where he proceeded to deny everything to authorities, according to Erivaldo Guerro, the officer in charge of the case. The suspect, meanwhile, was sent off for a mental evaluation at a nearby hospital. [...]" 

Society and Culture:  "People Of Walmart Are Sexy And They Know It" [02/29/12] [3:09] "This is how the people of Walmart roll: animal print, pants out control, and a host of other fashion faux pas, including cutoffs, mesh shirts and way too many wardrobe malfunctions. This isn't the first time the fashion police have busted Walmart shoppers. This video is in the vein of the People of Walmart website that gained traction back in 2009. And just like past People of Walmart highlights, this video has YouTube commenters posting in disbelief over what some people will wear in public. [...]" Plenty of related videos to the right of this one, on the page.

Concepts and Practices: "‘Euthanasia Rollercoaster’ Hailed by Anti-Human Scientists" [02/28/12] "With the designated purpose of 'euthanasia and execution,' the “Euthanasia Coaster” is a concept for a real steel roller coaster that has been created to “show the future of humans and technology.”  The creator of the coaster, Julijonas Urbonas, says the machine is engineered to take the life of a human being with “elegance and euphoria.” The idea of the coaster is to send out 24 people, all of who come back dead. A number of anti-human scientists are now hailing the concept as a method of execution that "highlights the issues that come with life extension." The coaster design begins with a steep-angled lift to the 1,670 foot top, which would take 2 minutes for the 24 passengers to reach. Afterwards, there would be a 1,600 foot drop that would bring the coaster up to 220 mph. Flattening out, the coaster would then begin the process of cerebral hypoxia, or lack of oxygen to the brain. The ride’s seven total inversions would last for 60 seconds, starting with tunnel vision, black out, and loss of consciousness. After first or second inversion, the coaster would cause cerebral anoxia, leaving the passengers brain dead. [...] Transhumanism science organization “HUMAN+” displayed the concept of the Euthanasia Coaster at the Science Gallery in Dublin from April through June, 2011. Presented as the flagship exhibition, HUMAN+ said that the ride “highlights the issue inherent in life-extension.” Praising the ride, the stated application of which on the designer’s official site is euthanasia and execution, the director of the Science Gallery, Michael John Gorman, said it allowed people to leave their lives in a 'euphoric state.'[...]"  Note: A purely sequential 'final solution' proposed by reincarnational retreads incarnations 'stuck' in an immature state of higher self progress.

Date With Destiny: "Couple Wants Answers After Lavatory Leak From Overhead Plane" [02/28/12] "One Malverne couple was enjoying the mild night Thursday when they became covered by sludge as a plane taking off from Kennedy Airport flew overhead. “A plane was coming over. Next thing you know she says ‘Oh my God it’s raining.’ I said ‘No it’s not’,” Artie Hughes told 1010 WINS’ Sonia Rincon. “Some black liquid, black oil came off on her face, and I walked around and I looked and said ‘Oh my God.’ There was quarter-sized, nickel-sized, dime-sized drops all over my deck, my barbecue, my table,” he said. Thinking something was wrong with the plane, they called police. “It was oily in substance, blackish-greenish oil. I thought it was hydraulic fluid and then the policeman came down and said ‘No I don’t think so. Looks like something nastier than that’,” Hughes said. [...]"    Note: Shit happens. 

MSM: "Man Gets 18 Years In Prison After Prancing Around Naked At Work Because "He Was Hot" [02/28/12] "You knew the story wouldn’t end well when it began with a 57-year-old man wandering around his Fort Worth workplace — naked. A judge in Fort Worth recently sentenced Kenneth Clyde Jackson to a total of 18 years in prison. Officers were not only interested in why Jackson was at the warehouse, but why it was he didn’t have on any clothes. When questioned, Jackson said he was at the warehouse catching up on work and was naked because he was hot. When officers took Jackson back to his workstation, presumably to get his clothes, they saw child pornography pulled up on his computer. [...]"  

MSM: "Elementary Kids Expelled for Trying to Poison Teacher" [02/28/12] "Three students who admitted putting rat poison in their teacher's coffee are being punished ... by being sent to other schools. The 10- and 11-year-old kids are accused of putting poison in the coffee as well as in the icing of a cupcake in December at California's Balderas Elementary School, but one of the boys "knocked the cup of coffee out of the teacher's hand when she was going to drink it," says the Fresno Teachers Association president. The students were expelled when the district learned of the incident two weeks ago, but teachers and parents are not happy with the punishment and the police are now investigating, KFSN reports. "They should not be placed at another campus where now other staff and other students have to worry," says a teacher at the Phoenix Academy, where two of the boys will be sent. "These kids are going to be elevated to gods to many of our kids, they're going to say this is great, 'maybe I can do something similar to a teacher or an adult. [...]" 

Nuts and Boltz: "Woman Swallows Sword Just For $50 Discount On Rat Skeleton" [02/27/12] "Some folks will do any for a discount, even swallow their pride. Sideshow performer Heather Holliday prefers to swallow a sword and eat some fire. Holliday, who is believed to be the youngest sword swallower in the world, is willing to show her talents to shopkeepers if it will help her get a few dollars off something she really wants. In this case, it was a prized rat skeleton put together by Ryan Matthew, one of the staff workers at Obscura Oddities and Antiques, a New York store that caters to people wanting bizarre artifacts. Luckily, the bizarre bargaining ritual is immortalized on Oddities, a Science Channel series airing Saturdays, so couch potatoes can see how far someone will go to get a rat skeleton. In this case, the swallowing worked because Matthew dropped the price of the rat bones from $225 to $175, a bargain at any price.  [...]"  

MSM: "Great Moments In Dumb Crime" [02/27/12] [4:00]  "Most dumb criminals are just desperate people screwing up royally on the single worst day of their life. In one way or another, they're all shooting themselves in the foot. Nevertheless, we found one would-be bank robber from Brazil who literally shot himself in the foot. Other highlights in HuffPost's Dumb Crime Review: A smirking thief caught on security camera trying to steal that security camera; a woman who allegedly punched her son during an anger management class; and a guy who told police that a ghost punched his wife. It's all here in our dumb crime roundup video, hosted by Weird News Editors Andy Campbell and Michael McLaughlin. [...]"  

MSM: "Documents: PETA Kills More Than 95 Percent Of Pets In Its Care" [02/27/12] "Documents published online this month show that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an organization known for its "uncompromising animal-rights positions", killed more than 95 percent of the pets in its care in 2011. The documents, obtained from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, were published online by the Center for Consumer Freedom, a non-profit organization that runs online campaigns targeting groups that antagonize food producers. Fifteen years’ worth of similar records show that since 1998 PETA has killed more than 27,000 animals at its headquarters in Norfolk, VA. In a February 16 statement, the Center said PETA killed 1,911 cats and dogs last year, finding homes for only 24 pets. “PETA hasn’t slowed down its slaughterhouse operation,” said Rick Berman, CCF’s executive director. “It appears PETA is more concerned with funding its media and advertising antics than finding suitable homes for these dogs and cats.” In a statement, Berman added that PETA has a $37 million dollar annual budget. His organization runs PETAkillsAnimals.com, which reports that in 2010 a resident of Virginia called PETA and asked if there was an animal shelter at the group’s headquarters. PETA responded that there was not. [...]"  Note: PETA is well known for their immature pin-up girl/sexual innuendo approach to trying to lure equally immature people (mostly nature spirit in human bodies - minions) into supporting their existence, thereby implying that they have actual relevance, when in fact they are fraudulent social parasites who play on the feelings of others for profit.

Canada: "Man Shocked By Arrest After Daughter Draws Picture Of Gun At School" [02/25/12] "A Kitchener father is upset that police arrested him at his children’s’ school Wednesday, hauled him down to the station and strip-searched him, all because his four-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun at school. “I’m picking up my kids and then, next thing you know, I’m locked up,” Jessie Sansone, 26, said Thursday. “I was in shock. This is completely insane. My daughter drew a gun on a piece of paper at school.” The school principal, police and child welfare officials, however, all stand by their actions. They said they had to investigate to determine whether there was a gun in Sansone’s house that children had access to. [...] Several hours later, a detective apologized and said he was being released with no charges, Sansone said. The detective told him that his four- year-old daughter had drawn a picture of a man holding a gun. When a teacher asked her who the man was, the girl replied, “That’s my daddy’s. He uses it to shoot bad guys and monsters.” [...] “At the point in the investigation when it was determined it was not a real firearm, the individual was released unconditionally[...]"  Note: These stupid reincarnated retreads can't comprehend normal children and their imagination. She did say .... monsters, after all.

Commentary: "Russian Authorities Ban Toy Protest Because Toys "Are Not Even People" [02/25/12] "Officials in the Siberian city of Barnaul recently banned an anti-government protest using toys on the specious justification that “toys, especially imported toys, are not only not citizens of Russia but they are not even people” There hadn’t been many – indeed any – rallies like it before in Russia. Last month saw dozens of toys, from teddy bears to Lego figurines, standing out in the snow of a Siberian city with banners complaining about corruption and electoral malpractice. As you understand, toys, especially imported toys, are not only not citizens of Russia but they are not even people,” Andrei Lyapunov, a spokesman for Barnaul, told local media. [...] It’s easy to see the flaw in Lyapunov’s reasoning. Yes, toys are not people. But owners of toys are. The toy protest is an exercise of the owners’ rights to freedom of expression, not the rights of the toys themselves. Banning a toy protest because toys are not people is much like banning the publication of antigovernment articles in a newspaper on the grounds that newspapers are not people. Unfortunately, such dubious justifications for restricting political speech are not limited to Russia. Right here in the United States, many claim that the government should have a free hand in restricting political speech by corporations because corporations aren’t people. As I explained here, they are making exactly the same mistake as Lyapunov.[...]"  

UK: "Minister Praises Plan To Heat Swimming Pool From Fires Of Crematorium" [02/25/12] "Sir George Young, leader of the House of Commons, said the proposal to warm a Worcestershire leisure centre with heat from a nearby crematorium was a “groundbreaking scheme”. He said the Government is considering whether the plan could be duplicated elsewhere in Britain. “The Government is aware of this particular scheme,” he said. “The Department for Energy and Climate Change will shortly be publishing its heat strategy and this will explore the potential for better recovery and reuse of wasted heat in schemes such as this one.” He added that he would “die a happier man” if he knew heat from his cremation was warming the waters of a local pool. Redditch Borough Council will be the first authority in the country to use a crematorium to heat a swimming pool. Work has already begun on the project, which is expected to be completed this spring. Since the plans were approved in February last year, they have won an award from the Green Organisation. Currently, heat from the incinerators at crematoria - which reach 800 degrees C (1,472F) - is lost into the atmosphere. Karen Lumley, the Conservative MP for Redditch, had raised the plan as an example of an “innovative scheme which could save £14,500 a year to the taxpayer by heat not being put out into the atmosphere”. Unison, the trade union, has previously described the cost-saving proposals as "sick and an insult to local residents". However, the scheme is pushing ahead to will link the crematorium with the Abbey Stadium Leisure Centre. When the plan was announced, Carole Gandy, leader of Redditch Council, said it would save money and energy.  [...]"  

MSM: "Man Charged With Chopping Off Friend’s Hand For Insurance Money" [02/25/12] "South Carolina - A Cayce man has been charged with insurance fraud after another man’s hand was chopped off. Thirty-four-year-old Gerald B. Hardin faces six charges, including mail fraud for a 2008 incident in Sumter County where a man’s had was cut off with a pole saw. Federal indictments state that Hardin and another person used a saw to intentionally cut off the hand of a third person in an insurance fraud scheme. The indictment says the men submitted claims under a homeowner’s insurance policy and three accidental death and dismemberment polices. It says the men received more than $670,000. Hardin faces up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines if he is convicted. It was not clear if he has an attorney. [...]" 

Concepts and Practices: "Sentenced To Death For Refusing To Revert To Previous Belief System" [02/24/12] "Youcef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor who in 2010 was found guilty of apostasy and sentenced to death for refusing to recant christianity, may have received a final execution order, according to the American Center for Law and Justice and Fox News. [...]" 

Date With Destiny: "Man Drowns In 3 Foot Lake - Firemen Refuse To Wade In " [02/23/12] "A charity worker drowned in a 3ft deep lake when a policeman and a paramedic were ordered not to try to rescue him. Simon Burgess, 41, was left to float face down as emergency crews watched. Health and safety rules stopped them going more than ankle deep into the lake, an inquest was told yesterday. [...]"  

MSM: "Danish Navy Finds Drunk Captain Asleep On Drifting Ship" [02/22/12] "The Danish navy rushed a helicopter to intercept an 82-meter cargo ship after it was spotted zigzagging strangely in the Baltic Sea, maritime authorities said on Friday. The Danica Hav was heading to Luebeck, Germany from Sweden overnight Thursday to Friday when it was spotted adrift in the Great Belt strait that separates Denmark's two main islands, navy spokesman Kenneth Nielsen told AFP. "We couldn't get contact with the ship," he said. A helicopter was flown to the vessel and navymen found the Russian captain sleeping deeply at the helm of the ship with a strong smell of alcohol wafting around him, the spokesman said. The captain was flown to the Roskilde police station where a blood test, taken eight hours after the arrest, showed 2.18 grammes of alcohol per litre. A judge in Holbaek ordered the captain be kept in custody for breaking maritime security law until a hearing on March 13. [...]" 

Date With Destiny: "Swedish Man Survives For Months In Snowed-In Car" [02/19/12] "A Swedish man was dug out alive after being snowed in to his car on a forest track for two months with no food, police and local media reported on Saturday. The 45-year-old from southern Sweden was found on Friday, emaciated and too weak to utter more than a few words. He was found not far from the city of Umea in the north of Sweden by snowmobilers who thought they had come across a car wreck until they dug their way to a window and saw movement inside. The man, who was laying in the back seat in a sleeping bag, said he had been in the car since December 19. "Just incredible that he's alive considering that he had no food, but also since it's been really cold for some time after Christmas," a rescue team member told regional daily Vasterbottens-Kuriren, which broke the news. [...]" 

MSM: "Animal Rights Group Says Drone Shot Down" [02/18/12] "A remote-controlled aircraft owned by an animal rights group was reportedly shot down near Broxton Bridge Plantation Sunday. Steve Hindi his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter drone to video what he called a live pigeon shoot on Sunday when law enforcement officers and an attorney claiming to represent the privately-owned plantation near Ehrhardt tried to stop the aircraft from flying. [...]"  

MSM: "San Diego Cops Find Nothing In 2-Hour Standoff With Empty Car" [02/16/12] [1:20] "A tense, two-hour standoff between armed San Diego Police and an empty car on the freeway ended with no injuries -- just questions. The red-faced cops can be seen on Fox 5's helicopter footage pointing guns at a dark-colored sedan on Interstate 8 -- apparently for more than two hours before they moved in to take down their target. But there was nobody in the vehicle. Police officials said that the suspect they were looking for -- an unidentified man who was on parole -- was a suspect in a home invasion on Tuesday. He called his parole officer, saying that he'd broken down on the interstate and would be late for his mandatory meeting, the station reported. Cops found the vehicle on the highway and surrounded it, thinking that their home invasion suspect was hiding inside. They even sent a canine to check the vehicle, but the pup found nothing. The suspect, whose name police haven't yet released, is considered armed and dangerous. [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "Man Miraculously Survives Being Flattened By 20-Ton Boulder" [02/15/12] "Thirty-six-year-old Ludovic Masciave was driving through the French Alps when a giant 20-ton boulder fell upon his car. Despite being rendered instantly unconscious after being trapped between the rock and the car's dashboard, Masciave is miraculously alive today, the UK's Daily Mail reports. "I'd been driving slowly...when suddenly there was a terrible shock which brought the vehicle to a sudden halt. I immediately lost consciousness," Masciave told French newspaper Le Parisien. When he came to, Masciave realized he was "stuck between the rock and the bottom of the door but also against the dashboard." According to the UK's Metro newspaper, Masciave told Le Parisen that "the space was very restricted. It could be measured in centimetres." The car was so badly damaged that rescuers fully expected to find Masciave dead, according to the Metro. He was taken to the hospital with flattened lungs, broken ribs and damaged tendons and nerves. He is expected to make a full recovery. "It's a miracle I'm alive. Although I'm not a believer I do think this was a miracle...Now I will see life differently," he told Le Parisien. [...]"  

Legal Case: "Circuit Rejects Demand For Fewer Benefits" [02/15/12] "Senior citizens who receive Social Security benefits cannot refuse Medicare benefits, the D.C. Circuit ruled in a strange case where citizens sued the government seeking fewer benefits. [...] In a 2-1 decision, the District of Columbia Circuit disagreed with the senior citizen plaintiffs, who would rather get better coverage from their private insurers. They said their private insurers limit their coverage because they are eligible for Medicare. In a majority opinion, joined by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, Judge Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the "plaintiffs' lawsuit faces an insurmountable problem: citizens who receive Social Security benefits and are 65 or older are automatically entitled under federal law to Medicare Part A benefits. To be sure, no one has to take the Medicare Part A benefits. But the benefits are available if you want them. There is no statutory avenue for those who are 65 or older and receiving Social Security benefits to disclaim their legal entitlement to Medicare Part A benefits." Part A covers inpatient care in hospitals, nursing facilities, hospices and home health care." 

Legal Case: "Chicago Cops' Online Fight Lands in Court" [02/15/12] "A Chicago police captain claims another police officer defamed him on Facebook, accusing him of having sworn an "oath to street gangs and narcotics dealers," and using his position to protect "his family of dope dealing gangbangers." [...]"  

MSM: "English Expression "Shitstorm" Fills Gap In German Vocabulary" [02/14/12] "Yep, the "Anglicism of the Year" is a word that the experts say "fills a gap in the German vocabulary that has become apparent through changes in the culture of public debate." After all, Germans would previously have had to turn to more toothless terms like kritik (criticism) to express their emotions. So what, exactly, is shitstorm trying to get across? According to the experts, it's a public outcry, in particular one occurring on the Internet, that blends threats and insults until the arguments reach a tipping point, and force some kind of reaction. The Local indicates that it can be appropriately used in connection with the mess in Greece and Germany's plagiarism scandal.  [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "Pastor's Daughter Accidentally Shot in Head at Church" [02/14/12] " A Florida pastor's daughter is in critical condition after being accidentally shot in the head after church services yesterday. Church member Moises Zambrana was showing a 9mm handgun to two other men in a closet (ostensibly for safety?) at Grace Connection Church. But it accidentally went off as Zambrana attempted to demonstrate ... the safety features. The bullet went through a wall and hit Hannah Kelley, 20, in the head, WTSP reports. One of the men looking at the gun was Kelley's boyfriend; detectives say he was interested in getting his own gun. No charges have been filed against Zambrana, who has a gun carrying permit; authorities say he did not do anything illegal. Zambrana had apparently removed the gun's clip, but a bullet remained in the chamber. [...]"  Note: Never demonstrate safety features of anything in a dark closet. 

Legal Case: "Welder Who Saw His Friend Die Has No Case" [02/14/12] "A federal judge has thrown out the emotional distress claims of a welder who saw his best friend and co-worker of 20 years plunge to his death from a drilling rig. [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "Jet Forced To Land After Passenger Assaults Pilot During 'Psychotic Attack'" [02/13/12] "A Brazilian airliner safely made a forced landing after a passenger had a "psychotic attack," entered the cockpit and assaulted a pilot, crew members and passengers who tried to subdue him, witnesses said. The TAM Airlines jet was en route from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Sao Paulo when a man who some passengers said was wearing a TAM identification badge got into the cockpit because the door was open. Shortly after, the plane dove to the right, causing passengers to scream and the pilot to yell for help over the speaker system. "All of a sudden shouts were heard from inside the cabin, and two stewardesses came out asking for help and grabbing a young man by his feet," one unidentified passenger told Uruguay's El Pais newspaper. "The people quickly jumped on top of him, the guy fought back furiously, biting and hurting a half dozen people. "In a kind of collective action they were able to immobilize him, tying him to a seat." Uruguay's Industry Minister Roberto Kreimerman was on board the Saturday afternoon flight, leading a trade delegation that was on its way to China. He told Uruguayan newspaper El Observador that when the plane veered sharply, passengers started screaming and fearing for their lives. [...]" 

Media and Culture:  "Nazis In Space Pack In The Crowds At Berlin Film Fest" [02/13/12] "A sci-fi black comedy about Nazis from the moon invading Planet Earth is one of the hottest tickets at the Berlin film festival, which is better known for its gritty political fare. "Iron Sky", a B-movie spoof drawing the crowds at the 11-day event in the German capital, imagines that Hitler's surviving henchmen set up a lunar colony after the fall of the regime in 1945, biding their time to strike back. The opportunity comes in 2018 when a US astronaut exploring the dark side of the moon comes face to face with a Nazi soldier clad in a black uniform and a breathing mask. Behind him, a secret military base shaped like a swastika looms into view, prompting giggles from the packed audience. The intergalactic farce, produced mainly in Finland , pits the would-be Fourth Reich against an America led by a Sarah Palin double, who is seen incessantly jogging in the Oval Office. "This basically came from a stupid joke dreamed up after a trip to the sauna," said director Timo Vuorensola, who generated much of the financing for the film among fans online. "But we couldn't get the idea out of our heads and we got more and more ambitious as we worked on the story." [...] The film-makers see themselves as part of a long line of eccentric cinematic dreamers such as Ed Wood, the 1950s cross-dressing kitsch impresario immortalised by Johnny Depp in a 1994 movie of the same name by Tim Burton. Just over 90 minutes long, the film screening in the festival's Panorama sidebar section shows the black astronaut's skin being bleached white by a Nazi mad scientist, SS officer Klaus Adler, who dreams of becoming the next Fuehrer. The space Nazis use airships shaped like Zeppelin dirigibles and a giant craft called "Twilight of the Gods" to launch a batty Blitzkrieg, while an Earth-based coalition of the willing deploys a navy cruiser called the USS George W. Bush. The cast includes a host of camp regulars including Germany's go-to psychopath, Udo Kier. The special effects are little to speak of compared to the film's Hollywood antecedents but the 7.5-million-euro ($9.9-million) movie is long on imagination. [...]"  Related: "Iron Sky Trailers 1, 2 & 3" [5:27] Iron Sky, a dark scifi comedy, premieres February 11th at the Berlin International Film Festival. In theaters on 4th of April. Blind Spot Pictures. Teaser Clips: "The First Footage" [1:46] | "We Come In Peace" Teaser [1:01] The third teaser for Iron Sky - Film is in post- production and the premiere will be in 2012. | "Music: Iron Sky" with lyrics [5:24]   Note: All I can say is that if this is what they dream up in a Finnish sauna, I can't imagine what they'll come up with if they jump in the ocean. Interesting, that this concept would surface from sequential Finland at this time. I would have thought they'd had enough of the Nazi thing back in the '40's. Apparently not.  

Concepts and Practices: "Pope Benedict 'Murder Plot' Shakes Italy" [02/13/12] " A bizarre plot to assassinate the Pope made headlines in Italy yesterday and may signal a new turn in a Vatican power struggle, the Guardian reports. A cardinal from Colombia notified Pope Benedict XVI's inner circle about the plan by delivering a letter from Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the archbishop of Palermo. In the letter, Romeo claims to have heard about the murder plot during several conversations with Italian businessmen in Beijing last November. The businessmen predicted that Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan, would replace Benedict after the Pope's death during the next 12 months. A Vatican spokesman publicly dismissed the letter, calling it "so far from reality and not serious that I don't want to even comment." But the cardinal who delivered the letter suggested that the Vatican investigate. The newspaper that broke the story linked it to an ugly Vatican power dispute that involves a whistleblower who accused Vatican officials of corruption [...] Italy is reeling from news last night that a high-ranking official of Vatican City who tried to blow the whistle on corruption was ignored and was forced to transfer positions, reports Reuters. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who was the No. 2 man at Vatican City in charge of maintaining the city-state's infrastructure from 2009 to 2011, sent letters to Church leaders, including Pope Benedict, warning about fraud and millions of dollars in waste. Vigano cited a single financial transaction that lost the Church $2.5 million, a $773,000 Nativity scene whose cost he reduced to $263,000 the following year, as well as "so many situations of corruption and abuse of power that have been rooted in the management of so many departments." Because of Vigano's anti-corruption activities, he was criticized heavily and commanded to become ambassador to Washington three years before his post as deputy-governor was to expire. The Vatican confirmed the contents of Vigano's letters, although it expressed "sadness over the publication of reserved documents," calling the reports "partial and banal.""  Note: More than a thousand years of deception on multiple levels ... there is no time left for these buffoons.

Date With Destiny: "Car Crashes Through Home For The Fifth Time" [02/11/12] "If lightning doesn’t strike twice, Haverhill homeowner Jim Curtis has a hard time believing it. He was sitting at the computer in his Amesbury Street home when an SUV plowed through the front wall landing in the living room. “When I heard the squealing tires, I got up and the car came through right in front of me,” said Curtis. But since his family first owned the house in 1954, it’s happened at least five times. Another car came through the same wall fifteen years ago, and nearly every side of the house has been hit. In this case, police say a teenage driver was making a left turn at a busy intersection in front of the house when he lost control. [...]"  

UK: " Undercover Police Officer Chased Himself Round the Streets for 20 Minutes After a CCTV Operator Mistook Him for Suspect" [02/09/12] "The junior officer, who has not been named, was monitoring an area hit by a series of burglaries in an unnamed market town in the country’s south. As the probationary officer from Sussex Police searched for suspects, the camera operator radioed that he had seen someone “acting suspiciously” in the area. But he failed to realise that it was actually the plain-clothed officer he was watching on the screen, according to details leaked to an industry magazine. The operator directed the officer, who was on foot patrol, as he followed the “suspect” on camera last month, telling his colleague on the ground that he was “hot on his heels”. The officer spent around 20 minutes giving chase before a sergeant came into the CCTV control room, recognised the “suspect” and laughed hysterically at the mistake. [...]"

MSM: "Montana Man Fined $1K For Instigating Police Chase" [02/07/12] "A Butte man who told officers he instigated a police chase because he always wanted to try it, found out it'll cost him a $1,000 fine to go with his tire damage. The Montana Standard in Butte reports 55-year-old John C. Hughes pleaded guilty Thursday in City Court to reckless driving while eluding a peace officer. The chase began in the pre-dawn hours Thursday when officers reported a man followed a patrol car for seven blocks before pulling his SUV around and taking off at speeds of up to 70 mph. Officers say Hughes was traveling faster than 100 mph on the interstate before officers laid out a spike strip to flatten his tires. When asked why he started the chase, Hughes said, "I just always wanted to do that," according to the police report.  [...]" 

MSM: "Cops Bust Naked Burglar Covered In Chocolate, Peanut Butter" [02/07/12] "A naked burglar covered in chocolate and peanut butter was arrested early Tuesday after workers found him inside a Kentucky supermarket. Andrew Toothman, 22, was collared by State Police troopers who responded to a 911 call from the Food World IGA market in the city of Neon (pop. 770). Pictured in the above mug shot, Toothman was charged with burglary, criminal mischief, and indecent exposure. A court citation filed yesterday notes that Toothman--who was only wearing a pair of black boots--had “peanut butter and chocolate smeared all over person.” Troopers noted that the store’s front door was “busted out,” and that several fire extinguishers had been discharged. Peanut butter and chocolate were also spread on the market's floor and in the manager’s office. But the most bizarre bit of vandalism, investigators reported, involved NyQuil, the popular cold and flu remedy. “There was nyquil on the floor that spelled out sorry,” according to the February 2 citation. [...]"  

MSM: "Cynical Brits Refuse Free Money Offer" [02/07/12] "The majority of Brits were so cynical they turned down free money offered by researchers. Women with a sign saying “Ask me to pay your fare and I will” were positioned at bus stations in Perth, Newcastle and Manchester but just 38 people across the UK accepted the offer.  [...]" 

MSM: "Defendant Ordered to Decrypt Laptop May Have Forgotten Password" [02/07/12] "A Colorado woman ordered to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case might have forgotten the password, the defendant’s attorney said Monday. The authorities seized the Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with a court warrant while investigating alleged mortgage fraud. Ruling that the woman’s Fifth Amendment rights against compelled self-incrimination would not be breached, U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ordered the woman in January to decrypt the laptop. “It’s very possible to forget passwords,” the woman’s attorney, Philip Dubois, said in a telephone interview. “It’s not clear to me she was the one who set up the encryption on this drive. I don’t know if she will be able to decrypt it.” The decryption case is a complicated one, even if solely analyzed on the underlying Fifth Amendment issue. Such decryption orders are rare, and they have never squarely been addressed by the Supreme Court. [...]"  

MSM: "Loving A Sex Robot: Insanity Or Reality?" [02/05/12]   [3:51] "A perfect partner who's always happy and never complains, is apparently now a reality. But there's a catch - he or she is likely be made of plastic. From simple dolls to sophisticated robots, they seem to be winning the hearts and minds of people who've given up on finding true love. Gayane Chichakyan has more from the world of the synthetic spouse. [...]"  

Commentary:  "What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?" [02/04/12] "Children today reach puberty earlier and adulthood later. The result: A lot of teenage weirdness.  Adolescence has always been troubled, but for reasons that are somewhat mysterious, puberty is now kicking in at an earlier and earlier age. A leading theory points to changes in energy balance as children eat more and move less."  Related: Satire: "Brain-Dead Teen, Only Capable Of Rolling Eyes And Texting, To Be Euthanized" The Onion [3:09] "The parents of 13-year old Caitlin Teagart have decided to end her life, saying she can now do nothing but lay on the couch and whine about things being "gay." [...]"  Note: "Once the dumb are wished into existence, they serve valuable functions: as a danger to themselves and others they have to be watched, classified, disciplined, trained, medicated, sterilized, ghettoized, cajoled, coerced, jailed. To idealists they represent a challenge, reprobates to be made socially useful. Either way you want it, hundreds of millions of perpetual children require paid attention from millions of adult custodians. An ignorant horde to be schooled one way or another.” —John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education [...]

MSM: "Army Vet Declared Dead Four Times" [02/03/12] "Jerry Miller has received four letters from the VA mourning his death and cutting off his benefits. ...]"  

MSM: "McDonald's Drops Use Of Gooey Ammonia-Based 'Pink Slime' In Hamburger Meat" [02/01/12] "McDonald's confirmed that it has eliminated the use of ammonium hydroxide — an ingredient in fertilizers, household cleaners and some roll-your-own explosives — in its hamburger meat. The company denied that its decision was influenced by a months-long campaign by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to get ammonium-hydroxide-treated meats like chicken and beef out of the U.S. food supply. But it acknowledged this week that it had stopped using the unappetizing pink goo — made from treating otherwise inedible scrap meat with the chemical — several months ago. Besides being used as a household cleaner and in fertilizers, the compound releases flammable vapors, and with the addition of certain acids, it can be turned into ammonium nitrate, a common component in homemade bombs. It's also widely used in the food industry as an anti-microbial agent in meats and as a leavener in bread and cake products. It's regulated by the U.S. Agriculture Department, which classifies it as "generally recognized as safe." McDonald's decision was first reported this week by the Daily Mail, a blaring British tabloid, which trumpeted it as a victory for fellow Brit Oliver against the monolithic U.S. food industry.  [...]"  

MSM: "Seattle Woman 'Marries' Abandoned Building" [02/01/12] "An Occupy Seattle protester "married" an abandoned warehouse on Sunday, not because of a weird fetish, but in order to protest gentrification, the Los Angeles Times reports. "I'm doing this to show the building how much I love it, how much I love community space, and how much I love this neighborhood. And I want to stop it from gentrification," Baylonia Aivaz tells KOMO-TV. The building, which protesters had occupied recently, is scheduled to be torn down and the space turned into apartments. "If corporations can have the [same] rights as people, so can buildings," continues Aivaz, who did wear a wedding dress for the festivities and described the event as a "gay marriage" ("presumably because the building had the female vibe," quips the Times). She and other Occupy Seattle protesters wanted the 107 year old warehouse to be turned into a community space to showcase artwork or provide services, but the planned demolition will move forward. (Click for five more people who married inanimate objects.) [...]"  Note: Lends a whole new delusional meaning to "building a solid future".

MSM: "Afghan Man Strangles Wife for Having Girl" [02/01/12] " An Afghan militiaman strangled his wife for giving birth to a third daughter instead of a son, according to law enforcement authorities. The 28-year-old victim was killed in her home in the northern province of Kunduz by her husband and his mother just three months after the woman had the baby, reports the Guardian. The victim's mother-in-law has been arrested, but the husband has fled. It's uncertain who will care for the couple's daughters. Two months ago, attackers in the same province poured acid over parents and three children after the parents refused to hand over their young daughter in marriage. The rejected suitor has been arrested.  [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "Car Crashes Into Home During Chase and Lands on Sleeping Man" [02/01/12] [1:18]  

Sequential Circus: "The Problem with Toddler Preachers Speaking in Tongues" [01/30/12]   "... is that you can't understand a goddamn word they say! Take this toddler preacher , for example, who took the mike from his pastor father to..." [...]"  Note: Are these the same people who jam box stores on black Friday? Dumb as a stone. Related: "Kanon Tipton, 4-Year-Old Preacher, Gains YouTube Fame"  [1:04] Kanon Tipton, 4, first took the microphone at his family's church when he was just 21 months old. Two years and a few million YouTube hits later, the young preacher has developed quite a reputation. His emotional delivery, dramatic cadence and back-and-forth pacing behind the pulpit are faithful replications of the mannerisms he's seen demonstrated by other preachers. |  "Child Preachers To Be Featured On National Geographic ..."   "10 Craziest Child Preachers" [2:47]  Adult minds in childs' bodies ... More  Note: Yah Ya!  They're reincarnating and picking it up where they left off  ... they're in a loop which lasts for many lifetimes ... now, that's what I call a revival. A unique psychopathy.

UK: "Nonbelievers To Get Place To 'Worship' No One" [01/29/12] "Atheists have long criticised devout followers of faith. But now it seems Atheism is stealing from that very religious tradition by erecting a temple of worship. Author Alain de Botton announced plans to build an Atheist temple in the U.K., reports DeZeen magazine. A collaboration with Tom Greenall Architects, the structure will be built in the City of London. Dedicated to the idea of perspective, the black tower will scale 46 meters (150 ft), with each centimeter honoring earth's age of 4.6 billion years, notes Wired.  [...]" 

Satire: "Stewart: Newt Wants to Divorce Earth, Head to Moon" [01/28/12] [3:37] "Sometimes politicians make it too easy for Jon Stewart. Take Newt Gingrich. In response to accusations that he was too "grandiose" (Stewart: "Can't a guy doodle his head on Mount Rushmore without taking heat from the lamestream everyone?") Gingrich promised to ... build a moon base. "Did you start with Death Star and you got kind of reined in?" Stewart asked on last night's Daily Show. Stewart was especially flabbergasted by Gingrich's plan to make the moon a state once it had 13,000 people on it—especially since Gingrich once called the idea of statehood for Washington, DC, (pop. 600,000) "crazy." Obviously, Stewart agreed: "No one's going to take an idea like that seriously—unless you move it to the moon." So what's Gingrich up to here? Stewart thinks he knows. "Newt Gingrich did that global warming ad with Nancy Pelosi, realized the Earth is very sick, and now he wants to leave it for a younger planet." [...]"    Related: "Gingrich Promises Moon Colony by 2020"  

MSM: "Time Traveling" French Presidential Candidate Ridiculed For Normandy Claims" [01/27/12] "Hervé Morin, a French presidential candidate and former defence minister, has become a national laughing stock after he claimed he witnessed the Allied landings at Normandy in 1944, which took place 17 years before he was born. [...]"  Note: The truth is that this guy is a sequential, a reincarnated retread, who no doubt DID witness the 1944 landings .... but in the previous incarnation. Sequentials remember past lives, and they get them confused. I observe this all the time. Amusingly, he may have received votes from other sequentials if he ran for office ... but the more advanced Simultaneous incarnations view the man as nuts, not knowing either what's going on, or that they themselves were once like that, before they matured on a Higher Self level, and all the memories of the experiences already under their belt while their Higher Self was in that immature mode are 'put aside', as they would interfere with the Higher Self focus on multiple 'virgin' lives multiplexed simultaneously in the time stream, before graduating from the 3rd density galaxy game altogether .... something that will happen very soon, here, for many simultaneous mode Higher Selves, while the minions are absorbed back into the Nature Spirit path, and the intractable sequentials move on to other worlds and continue the long, slow journey toward maturation. At the local game level on Earth ... it happens during this period of time.

Satire: "The Sex-Act Morality Flow Chart" [01/27/12]  Excellent illustration of the body ID condition combined with taboos and curbs to experience.

MSM: "Man Vanquishes Robot Cop In Hand-To-Hand Combat" [01/25/12] "The ongoing Rise of the Machines to their inevitable dominance over humanity faltered last week, when a police robot tangled with a human being in hand to hand combat - and was handed a severe beating. The mechanical law officer in question had been sent into a home in Connecticut to deal with an unnamed man, reportedly a former boyfriend of a woman living there, who had arrived and refused to leave. The obstreperous ex-boyfriend - who police say had gone to sleep and was rudely awakened by the droid's entrance - dealt with the tin cop harshly, "throwing the robot out the front door", according to the local Republican-American. Fleshy colleagues of the defeated law-bot, evidently unwilling to tangle mano-a-mano with an opponent who could overpower a cutting-edge enforcement mechanoid, were compelled to use "beanbag" riot projectiles to bring him down. (In fairness to the human cops one should note that the man was reportedly armed with a shotgun.) Having been successfully beanbagged into submission, the man was subsequently cuffed and conveyed to the local cooler. The tin cop is expected to return to duty after repairs. [...]" 

Absurdities: "High School to Teams: No, You Can't Be 'Cougars'" [01/24/12] "Students at a high school near Salt Lake City will be cheering on their Chargers next season, even though they picked "Cougars" as the school mascot. It seems some well-meaning school board members overruled the results of the student vote because they thought Cougars "would be offensive to women of a certain age", reports Yahoo Sports. The school doesn't open until next fall, so there's still time for a change of heart, notes Yahoo's Cameron Smith. Nearby BYU uses  [...]"  Note: This makes absolutely no sense. Stupid retreads ....

MSM: "Violinist Interrupted By Ringtone, Gives Best Response Ever" [01/24/12] [4:35] "This video of Slovakian violinist Lukas Kmit improvising around Nokia's signature ringtone is so good, many have thought it was a sly piece of advertising for the Finnish telecommunications giant. But, as it turns out, it's 100% the real deal, with the classical fiddler - our term - interrupted mid-performance by an inconsiderant mobile phone owner before taking the tune and playing it on the violin himself. Classy, clever and ever-so-witty, it's probably the most popular YouTube video involving classical music for years. Unless you count dogs barking Star Wars' The Imperial March as classical music, in which case, since last week. It should be remembered that the Nokia ringtone - also known as Gran Vals - is actually a piece of classical music itself, originally written by Spanish classical guitarist Francisco Tarrega in 1902. As any die-hard QI viewer already knows, of course... But it's not the first time someone's taken the ubiquitous and highly-irritating ringtone and turned it into something far more beautiful - as this, the Cell Phone Waltz by harmonica virtuoso Jacob Venndt, emphatically proves.  [...]" 

Date With Destiny: "John Kerry Breaks Nose Playing Hockey" [01/24/12] "Senator John Kerry surprised a few people at the Boston Bruins Stanley Cup ceremony at the White House Monday afternoon. The 68-year-old senator had two black eyes and a swollen nose. His spokeswoman Whitney Smith told WBZ-TV Kerry broke his nose playing ice hockey recently. [...]"  Related: "Senator Mark Kirk Suffers A Stroke" "Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk has suffered a serious stroke that may lead to permanent physical damage to the left side of his body, but doctors believe that Kirk will be able to return to his full Senate duties. Kirk’s office said he had checked into the hospital on Saturday and underwent surgery early Monday morning. [...]" 

Date With Destiny: "Top British TV Magician Saws Off Finger" [01/24/12] "One of the UK's most famous TV magicians was thanking the magic of modern medicine Sunday after sawing his finger off in a gruesome accident. Paul Daniels sliced off the top of his ring finger and mauled other digits when his left hand was caught in a circular saw at his home in Wargrave, southeast England. "I decided to make a 'sled' for my table saw to make it safer. I already had most of the pieces cut and started to cut a fiddly bit. Very quickly and without any warning, a piece of timber seemed to leap and pulled my left hand fingers into the teeth of the circular saw," the 73-year-old told the Henley Standard . With his radio presenter wife at work, he staggered to his car and drove in a panic to a hospital. "I must have looked a weird sight, doubled over with my face all screwed up from the pain," he said. "I had no idea what had been damaged or lost, or where I was, or anything. My head was full of the pain and the possible end of the magic." [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "Missing Teen 'Froze To Death' On Way Home From Party" [01/24/12] "A teenager who went missing after a Friday night party was found "frozen to death" in a garden less than 100 yards from his home, it has been reported. Although police are treating the death as unexplained, sources quoted by the Daily Record suggested that Scott Campbell, 16, perished from the freezing temperatures in the Highland city of Inverness. A huge search was mounted for the missing teen, from Culduthel Mains, Inverness, after he failed to return home on Saturday morning. His family notified police that it was ‘out of character’ for the 16-year-old not to let them know where he was.  [...]" 

Date With Destiny:  "Indonesian Girl Eaten By Crocodile" [01/24/12] "Officials say a crocodile swallowed a girl in Indonesia as her father looked on helplessly. District official Victor Mado Waton says the 10-year-old girl was searching for turtles with her father and brother in East Nusatenggara province when a giant saltwater crocodile sprang from a river and pulled her in. Waton said Saturday that villagers found pieces of her clothing several hours later but there was no sign of her body. Waton said the girl's father was a few yards (meters) away when the crocodile attacked Thursday but there was nothing he could do. [...]"  Note: And I thought my day was rough ...

Date With Destiny: "Utah Teen Fatally Shoots 'Self' With Miniature Toy Cannon" [01/24/12] "A 14-year-old boy from Tremonton is dead after police say he accidentally shot himself with a miniature toy cannon. Tremonton Police Chief David Nance says the boy was playing with the toy in his living room about 7:30 a.m. Monday when the cannon somehow went off. The boy was struck in the face and was pronounced dead at the scene. The boy’s older brother was in the room at the time, and the boy’s father also was in the house. [...]" 

Date With Destiny: "Palestinian Woman Locked In Bathroom For 10 Years By Father" [01/24/12] "A 21-year-old Palestinian woman has told authorities she was locked in a bathroom for the past decade by her father, who let her out only in the dead of night so she could clean their house. "People are monsters," Baraa Melhem said her father would tell her, according to a social worker dealing with the case. Palestinian police said on Monday they freed Melhem from the small bathroom of a home in the West Bank city of Qalqilya on Saturday after an anonymous tip. Her father, who holds Israeli citizenship, was arrested and handed over to Israeli authorities. He is due to appear in an Israeli court on Wednesday, an Israeli police spokesman said. [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "Student Dies In Class On 21st Birthday After 'Giving Thanks' For "Another Year Of Life" [01/19/12] "A student at Gardner-Webb University collapsed in class and died on her 21st birthday after thanking "god" on Twitter for living another year. She was a senior majoring in religious studies.[...]"  

UK: "Liverpool Cinema-Goers Demand Refunds After Much Touted Silent Film, 'The Artist' Turns Out To Be... Silent" [01/19/12] "In something that sounds straight out of a Laurel & Hardy script, cinema-goers in Liverpool have proved to be one of the few contingents on either side of the Atlantic immune to the charms of the film The Artist. The black and white French film scooped several of the top gongs at Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles, has been nominated for BAFTAs in the UK, and is hotly tipped to take home some of the shiniest Oscars this year, too, but none of that impressed this particular crowd. The Telegraph reports that viewers demanded their money back, because they didn't realise the film was... without dialogue.  [...] The tribute to 1920s Hollywood, the black and white movie has already won three Golden Globe awards for its dazzling portrayal of the pre-talkie era. But audiences at some Odeon Cinemas are unimpressed by the homage to the "Golden Age" of silent films and a smaller-than-usual screen. Film-fan Nicola Shearer, 25, attended a screening at Odeon Liverpool One after a wave of complaints. She was asked by cinema staff if she knew "it is a silent film". English graduate Nicola, from Liverpool, said: "Of course I knew it was and I asked the usher why she wanted to know.  She then told me some people complained and asked for refunds because there is no sound and the screen is smaller. "I thought it was really funny and laughed." The film was purposely reduced to a smaller screen size to give it an authentic look of original silent films which were hugely popular from the late 19th century to the early 30s. "  

MSM: "Plane Mistakenly Warns Passengers of Crash" [01/18/12] "It's 3am and you're snoozing on an overnight flight to London when a message plays over the PA: This plane may be about to crash. That's what happened to passengers on a British Airways flight from Miami last week, before the cabin crew told everyone it had just been a mistake, the Telegraph reports. "An alarm sounded and we were told we were about to land in the sea. I thought we were going to die," said a passenger. "My wife was crying and passengers were screaming." "When we landed they were handing out letters apologizing, but it was the worst experience of my life. I don't think BA should get away with this," said another passenger. BA apologized "for causing undue concern." It's not the first time such a message has been mistakenly played on the airline. Last year, an announcement on a flight from London to Hong Kong told passengers the plane might have to "make an emergency landing on water," apparently because a pilot hit the wrong button. [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "Ethiopian Girl Reportedly Guarded by Lions" [01/18/12] "A 12-year-old girl who was abducted and beaten by men trying to force her into a marriage was found being guarded by three lions who apparently had chased off her captors, a policeman said Tuesday. The girl, missing for a week, had been taken by seven men who wanted to force her to marry one of them, said Sgt. Wondimu Wedajo, speaking by telephone from the provincial capital of Bita Genet, about 350 miles southwest of Addis Ababa. She was beaten repeatedly before she was found June 9 by police and relatives on the outskirts of Bita Genet, Wondimu said. She had been guarded by the lions for about half a day, he said. “They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest,” Wondimu said. “If the lions had not come to her rescue, then it could have been much worse. Often these young girls are raped and severely beaten to force them to accept the marriage,” he said. [...]"  

MSM: "Aberrant TSA 'Air Marshal' Arrested in Mugging of Boston Occupier" [01/17/12] "What was a TSA air marshal doing at an Occupy camp at 3:40 on a Saturday morning, just an hour before protestors were evicted by Boston police? Stealing the iPhone of one of the camp’s prominent voices, then slapping her, apparently. TSA air marshal Adam Marshall was arrested by the Boston police department at 3:50 a.m. on Dec. 10 after he allegedly argued with members of Occupy, called some of them prostitutes, struck one of Occupy’s organizers and main tweeters in the face, grabbed her iPhone and then fled. [...]"  Related: "TSA Agents Steal $40,000 From Passenger Luggage; Sentenced To Only Five Months In Prison" "Any normal person found guilty of stealing $40,000 from, say, a bank or an employer, would likely be sentenced to at least five years of prison. But when you work for the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), you can expect to be given special legal treatment and sent on your way. The Associated Press reports that two former TSA screeners, 44-year-old Coumar Persad and 31-year-old Davon Webb, both of which worked at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, have pleaded guilty to grand larceny, obstructing governmental administration, and official misconduct, for stealing nearly $40,000 from an airport traveler's luggage. But rather than receive a normal prison sentence for such crimes, the two were sentenced to just six months in prison with five years of probation. [...]"| "TSA Official Nailed On Corruption Charges" [01/14/12]   Note:  There are 50,000 low-life losers out there, it would seem, by their behavior, who are employed by the TSA ... shills for domination and arbitrary forced compliance.

Absurdities: "North Korea To Punish Insincere Mourners" [01/14/12] "You'd better watch out, you'd better cry. You'd better pout, I'm telling you why: North Korea's punishing insincere mourners, according to the Daily NK. An anonymous source tells the Daily NK, a South Korea-based publication in opposition of the North Korean regime, that "authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didn't participate in the organized gatherings" to mourn the death of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il, and to those "who did participate but didn't cry and didn't seem genuine." Newser reports that mourners who came off as insincere have already been sent to join the 200,000 other North Koreans already in labor camps. An Amnesty International report published in May 2011 paints a dark picture of what's in store at those camps -- estimates suggest that 40 percent of inmates die of malnutrition. The exact number of those to be sent to camps is unclear, reports the Daily Mail, but the paper estimates it could be in the thousands. The punishment news comes shortly after an announcement Thursday that Kim Jong Il's embalmed remains would go on permanent display in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, the Associated Press reports, just as his father and previous North Korean leader, Kim Il Sung, was enshrined. AP notes that along with the enshrinement, a new statue and "towers to his immortality" will be erected to salute the late Supreme Leader. [...]" 

UK: "4-Foot-2 Man Paralyzed In Dwarf-Tossing Incident" Link Fixed [01/14/12] "A dwarf claims he was partially paralyzed on his birthday when a stranger lifted and heaved him onto the hard ground outside an English pub, according to The Telegraph. Gerald Henderson, the victim, blames English rugby players who attended a dwarf-tossing contest at a New Zealand bar during the World Cup for inspiring the hooligan, The Daily Mail says. While smoking a cigarette outside The White Horse in Wincanton on his 37th birthday in October, Henderson says a drunken stranger picked him up and threw him, causing him to land hard on his back, Metro says. Henderson rejoined his friends, who were shooting pool, but soon began to lose feeling in his back and legs. The 4-foot-2-inch man was dropped from three feet off the ground, according to the BBC. An exam at a nearby hospital revealed that he'd suffered nerve damage, and he was released the next day. Multiple sources report that Henderson's condition has since worsened, due in part to an existing spinal condition. Henderson claims to feel numbness in his lower back and legs. He struggles to maintain his balance, and walks with the aid of braces. For longer distances, he uses a wheelchair. The injuries derailed what he described as a promising acting career. Police have launched an investigation to find the hooded man who attacked Henderson. In the meantime, Henderson is asking for an apology from the English soccer team.  [...]"  

MSM: "Cops Bust Dad Over Burnt Biscuit Rage" [01/13/12] "Harry Woods, 43, was arrested for felony aggravated battery after attacking his 24-year-old son over a batch of baked goods left in the oven too long. [...]"  Note: Another one raised by wolves.

Absurdities: "Companies Face Fines For Not Using Non-Existent Biofuel" [01/11/12] "When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law. But there was none to be had. Outside a handful of laboratories and workshops, the ingredient, cellulosic biofuel, does not exist. In 2012, the oil companies expect to pay even higher penalties for failing to blend in the fuel, which is made from wood chips or the inedible parts of plants like corncobs. Refiners were required to blend 6.6 million gallons into gasoline and diesel in 2011 and face a quota of 8.65 million gallons this year. “It belies logic,” Charles T. Drevna, the president of the National Petrochemicals and Refiners Association, said of the 2011 quota. And raising the quota for 2012 when there is no production makes even less sense, he said. Penalizing the fuel suppliers demonstrates what happens when the federal government really, really wants something that technology is not ready to provide. In fact, while it may seem harsh that the Environmental Protection Agency is penalizing them for failing to do the impossible, the agency is being lenient by the standards of the law, the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.  [...]" 

MSM: "Dysfunctional Mayor: "Homosexuality Is Dangerous to Mental Heath" [01/11/12] "Troy Mayor Janice Daniels, while discussing mental health and suicide among members of the LGBT community, at one point suggested putting together a panel of psychologists to show that homosexuality is dangerous to your mental health. [...] "And she said, 'well, I can get a panel to testify,'" Curtis said. "Which is really horrifying, because if we're trying to prevent suicide, telling a room full of gay kids that they have a mental disease probably isn't a way to prevent suicide. Curtis said they hope to press on with plans to put on an anti-bullying and suicide prevention program some time in January or February. "We're moving on without her," Kilgore said."   Note: Another ignorant, reincarnated retread. 

MSM: "Aussie Police: 'Stolen Car' Proves To Be A Runaway" [01/10/12] "Police say a car reported stolen from an Australian shopping center parking lot has been found more than two weeks later in the closed garage of a nearby home where it had apparently rolled unaided. Police said in a statement Friday that the owner of the station wagon had reported it stolen from outside a shop in a suburb of Adelaide city on Dec. 18. The car was found parked in the home's garage Wednesday when the residents returned from vacation. Police concluded that the car's owner had failed to leave its gear in park. The car then rolled across the parking lot, across a street and then down a driveway. It then bumped under the garage door by knocking it off its tracks. The door then closed behind it. [...]"  

MSM: "Women Are A Mystery To British Physicist Hawking" [01/10/12] "When New Scientist magazine asked "Brief History of Time" author Stephen Hawking what he thinks about most, the Cambridge University professor renowned for unraveling some of the most complex questions in modern physics answered: "Women. They are a complete mystery." [...]"  Note: To him, so is the rest of the universe. He doesn't have a clue about the larger context of reality. The guy is a reincarnated retread who just sits around and speculates ... the cultural 'Einstein replacement' is just not that intelligent, listening to all his pronouncements and suppositions over the years.

Date With Destiny: "Woman Killed High-Rise Fire: Unknowingly Took Elevator To Her Death" [01/10/12] "A woman returning to her North Side apartment was killed Sunday morning when she took the elevator to her floor -- not knowing that a fire was raging in the hallway outside her unit. Shanel McCoy, 32, was "hit with a superheated blast" when elevator doors opened on the 12th floor of 3130 N. Lake Shore Dr. about 2 a.m. Sunday, Fox Chicago reports. McCoy, a marketing executive who moved to Chicago less than a year ago, was found dead in the elevator by firefighters responding to the scene.  The door to the apartment where the fire started was not closed, and the super-heated toxic gasses all got into the hallway there. The heat in there is probably 1,500 to 2,000 degrees at the ceiling. And if she was standing in the elevator, she probably got it full, right on." If the door had been closed, McCoy likely would have survived. [...] The Chicago Tribune reports that older Chicago buildings are not required to have sprinkler systems in their hallways, and the city council recently passed an extension allowing building owners to implement safety upgrades later this month. " 

MSM: "Dad Tried To Sell Son On Facebook For $20 Million" [01/10/12] "If your dad were called Saud bin Nasser Al Shahry he would sell you on Facebook for $20 million. That's what happened to a young kid from Saudi Arabia, who found himself for sale for exactly that amount in this social network. Apparently, Saud is a failed businessmen who wanted authorities to help him when a local court ruled his debt-collecting firm illegal. He asked the administration officials for financial help, but it was denied because he was older than 35. Saudi Arabia considers child trafficking an offense, so some believe this is just a publicity stunt by the father. On the other hand, the country has been repeatedly blacklisted for human trafficking covering all ages and both sexes. [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "British Backpacker Electrocuted By Fridge In Thailand" [01/10/12] "Grant Harrison, 36, died on 6 January, while staying on the island of Koh Phangan, Thailand, a spokeswoman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said. Friends of Harrison said he suffered a fatal shock as he reached for the drink while relaxing by the side of a pool. A friend posting under the pseudonym Lisbonlegend said Harrison had told him he was going travelling over New Year after being made redundant for the third time. He said: "He was relaxing by the pool, decided to go for a bottle of water and it cost him his life. He was a brilliant character, a fantastic friend. [...]"  

Date With Destiny: "Navy SEAL Shoots Himself In Head With ‘Unloaded’ Gun" [01/07/12] "A 22-year-old Navy SEAL accidentally shot himself in the head Thursday with a gun that he thought was unloaded. San Diego Police Department Officer Frank Cali said that the SEAL had been drinking with a woman at a bar. After returning to his Pacific Beach home, he had tried to convince the woman that his 9 mm pistol was safe to handle by putting it to his head and pulling the trigger. The man was later identified as Geno Clayton, the son of a local businessman. While authorities initially reported that Clayton had died in the accident, he is now on life support.  Just in the past week, Clayton had been assigned to a SEAL team after completing the SEAL training course. [...]" 

MSM: "China Claims It Has Successfully Curbed 'Excessive Entertainment' On TV" [01/06/12] "A campaign to curb "excessive entertainment" by cutting the number of racy programmes on Chinese satellite television channels has been successful, state media reported, after President Hu Jintao warned that western culture was out to attack China. The broadcast regulator ordered the cutback in entertainment programmes in October, taking particular aim at dating and talent shows, programmes featuring "emotional stories" and those of "low taste". Channels are now showing programmes that "promote traditional virtues and socialist core values", Xinhua news agency said. The regulator added it "believes that the move to cut entertainment programming is crucial in improving cultural services for the public by offering high quality programming". [...]" 

MSM: "Doomsday Rumors” Create ‘Panic’ (In Nature Spirit Minions) Across Districts In India" [01/05/12] " This is straight from Ripley’s Believe it or not. The panic gripped denizens in UP with rumors of mild tremors and ‘people turning into stone statues’ floated on Tuesday night. Hundreds of people in several districts spilled on roads with fear palpable on their face. The rumor started at around 1 am on Tuesday night. Some SMS were exchanged that sleeping people have turned into stone statues and an earthquake was expected. Soon the SMS took the shape of a rumor with constant forwarding among friends and relatives. People panicked and spilled came out on the road. The numbers swelled every moment. They started calling frantically to their relatives enquiring about their well being. With every passing moment the rumor gained ground. Similar scenes were reported in several other districts as Kanpur, Unnao, Fatehpur, Gorakhpur and others. Calls were made to police control room and the staff tried to discourage the rumor but there were no takers. Amidst this in Muslim localities some of them stated that Qayamat (Doomsday) has arrived and people thronged the mosques. Muezzins also started making announcement urging everyone to come out and pray. Soon the mosques were also fully occupied. Amidst this some enterprising tea stall owners also opened their shop and their whole stock vanished in few hours. Somehow the night passed by amidst fear and apprehension. In the morning everyone was seen discussing the same thing at office. Rumors are still doing round with people worried about the night.  [...]"  Note: It will be great to eventually say goodbye to Planet Stupid, where the more astute constitute a very small segment of the population.

Date With Destiny: "CO Driver Killed By Branch Steered Car To Safety" [01/03/12] "A Colorado man who was killed when a 3-foot tree branch flew through his windshield and impaled him in the chest was able to steer the car to safety before losing consciousness. The wife of 61-year-old James Baker-Jarvis told the Daily Camera  that her husband was able to pull the Subaru Outback over to the roadside, saving her from any injury. Baker-Jarvis died later at a hospital. [...] In Wyoming, two people were injured Saturday when debris blew off the roof of a Cheyenne Sam's Club store. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports that at least five other people were treated at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center for wind-related injuries.[...]"  

Nuts and Bolts: "Israel Ultra-Orthodox Protests: Nazi Garb Sparks Outrage " [01/02/12] "Images of ultra-Orthodox Jews dressing up as Nazi concentration camp inmates during a protest drew widespread condemnation Sunday and added a new twist to a simmering battle over growing extremism inside Israel's insular ultra-Orthodox community. [...] Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered Saturday night in Jerusalem to protest what they say is a nationwide campaign directed against their lifestyle. [...]"  Note: Lifestyle? I observe that non-orthodox Jews say that 'orthodoxy' is a rigid, monolithic social structure left over from the 16th century that is transparently socially parasitic, and the non-orthodox don't like it. The rest of the article has the usual propagandistic schlock ...

UK:  "Clean-Up Father Dumped Xmas" [01/01/12] "A father-of-three asked by his wife to tidy up before Christmas managed to throw out the family’s presents by mistake. Mike James, 50, put a black bin-bag containing wrapping paper as well as gifts of Olympics’ tickets, jewellery and cash into a skip at his local recycling centre. When his shocked wife Beverly realised his mistake, James, of St Fagans, Cardiff, South Wales, rushed back to the Waungron Road centre in Cardiff, only to find it had closed for the holidays. “I felt physically sick when I realised what I’d done and my wife was in tears,” said James, a furniture store manager. He said he had returned to the centre with a friend and then telephoned the police to tell them he intended to scale its barrier to get inside. “The policeman was very sympathetic but he told me I couldn’t do that,” he added. Realizing he needed permission from Cardiff City Council to get inside, he phoned around and eventually tracked down an out-of-hours number. An on-call security guard was dispatched to the centre to open up but when he arrived the key he had turned out to be the wrong one. “I ended up climbing the barrier anyway but at least I had permission to go inside,” James said yesterday. He quickly found the skip in which he had dumped his rubbish and clambered into a sea of bin bags. He said: “I recognised the bag I had thrown away, but I wasn’t sure if I had separated the presents so I looked inside some others.” James tore open a bag containing soiled nappies and waded around the skip a little longer to ensure he had recovered everything. He then returned to the thunderous applause of his family and visitors who had arrived for a Christmas Eve meal. Among the presents recovered were irreplaceable tickets for an Olympics football fixture at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium. The total value of the presents would have amounted to around £300. [...]" 

MSM: "Woman Allegedly Accuses Man With Arabic Surname Of Terrorist Plane Threat After He Ends 4-Day Fling" [01/01/12] "A 45-year-old Temple City woman is accused of providing false information to an airline in order to take revenge on a male passenger with whom she had a four-day fling. Lizet Sariol is expected to plead guilty Tuesday in a federal court. She is charged with a single felony count of conveying false and misleading information, specifically, implying that a United Airlines flight was endangered, according to a signed plea agreement filed Thursday in Los Angeles federal court. [...]"  

MSM: "Cops: Man Tried To Use $1M Bill At NC Walmart" [01/01/12] "Police say a North Carolina man insisted his million-dollar note was real when he was buying $476 worth of items at a Walmart. Investigators told the Winston-Salem Journal ( http://bit.ly/u7ZrEN ) that 53-year-old Michael Fuller tried to buy a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other items. Store employees called police after his insistence that the bill was legit, and Fuller was arrested. The largest bill in circulation is $100. The government stopped making bills of up to $10,000 in 1969. Fuller was charged with attempting to obtain property by false pretense and uttering a forged instrument. He is in jail on a $17,500 bond, and it isn't clear if he has an attorney. He is scheduled to be in court Tuesday. [...]" 

 

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