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Damon Dash's ongoing custody battle
2008-04-30 22:38:00
Music Mogul Damon Dash has been having an ongoing custody battle with his ex Linda Williams over their 16-year-old son Boogie a.k.a Damon Dash jr. since 2003: In all Damon Dash has three Children:one daughter named Ava (with designer Rachel Roy) and two sons Damon Jr. or “Boogie,”and a toddler named Lucky (from previous relationships). Music mogul DAMON DASH has been accused of taking his teenage son to visit a relative’s dead body in a morgue. Linda Williams - the mother of Dash’s 16-year-old son Damon Dash II - has added the claim to her ongoing custody battle with the star. He insists the star took their son to a mortuary to identify his uncle, who had committed suicide by a gunshot to the head. In documents filed at the Family Court of the State of New York, Williams further claims her son - who is currently residing with Dash - is “living with not hot water (sic) or electricity for two months in his bedroom”. Williams demands Dash pay $3,6...
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Spitzer call girl sues 'Girls Gone Wild' for $10 million
2008-04-29 22:48:00
The call girl linked to the downfall of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer sued the founder of the "Girl s Gone Wild " series on Monday for $10 million, claiming he exploited her image and name to advertise the racy videos. Ashley Alexandra Dupre, 22, contended in the lawsuit that she was only 17 — too young to sign legally binding contracts — and drunk on spring break in 2003 when she agreed to be filmed for "Girls Gone Wild" in Miami Beach. Dupre "did not understand the magnitude of her actions, nor that her image and likeness would be displayed in videos and DVDs," says the lawsuit filed by Miami attorney Richard C. Wolfe. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Miami names as defendants "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis, two of his companies and a man purportedly involved in creation of two Internet sites that the lawsuit contends improperly use Dupre's image to sell DVDs and other products. Francis, 35, has built a soft p...
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Obama Disavows Wright; McCain Still Silent on Hagee, Armageddon and Iran
2008-04-29 17:09:00
Barack Obama in no uncertain terms today made a clear break with his incendiary former minister, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright . But despite Obama's disavowal of his one-time pastor's outrageous statements, the media spotlight continues to shine on Wright. Meanwhile, John McCain has maintained his silence on the dangerous vision of Armageddon and Iran held by his own pastoral supporter, John Hagee. In the wake of Wright's erratic grandstanding at events on Sunday and Monday, Senator Obama made it clear he had enough of the minister's continuing affronts: "I gave him the benefit of the doubt in my speech in Philadelphia explaining that he's done enormous good...But when he states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions as the U.S. government somehow being involved in AIDS...There are no excuses. They offended me. They rightly offend all Americans and they should be denounced." But 62 days after he declared himself "very proud" and "honored&...
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Front Page: Not Guilty in Bell Case, al-Sadr Calls Truce, Syria Secret Nucl
2008-04-25 19:04:00
Not Guilty in Bell Case : Three New York City police officers have just been found innocent of all charges in the shooting death of an unarmed black man, Sean Bell, who was killed by 50 bullets on his wedding day. Bell, 23, was shot along with two friends, after a bachelor party at a strip club in November 2006. The case has generated outrage in New York's black community. A New York State Supreme Court judge cleared two officers of manslaughter and other charges and a third of reckless endangerment in the death. Syria Secret Nuclear Program: The United States has accused North Korea of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor that "was not intended for peaceful purposes." The US released photographs it said linked North Korea to a plutonium-producing reactor under construction in Syria. The accusation was an effort to put pressure on Pyongyang to come clean about proliferating nuclear technology. Though the accusations are not expected to derail international talks aim...
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Rush Limbaugh Sings: "I'm Dreaming Of Riots In Denver"
2008-04-25 13:28:00
 Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh downplayed his "dreaming of riots in Denver " statement, saying that he wasn't calling for riots and was referring to warnings of trouble if super delegates decide the nomination at the Democratic National Convention. Limbaugh's comments on his syndicated show Wednesday prompted Mayor John Hickenlooper to say: "Anyone who would call for riots in an American city has clearly lost their bearings." Hear him sing: Limbaugh made his comment Wednesday to the tune of the holiday song, "White Christmas," and said riots during the convention would ensure Democrats don't get elected. Glenn Spagnuolo, an organizer with the protest group Re-create 68, mimicked a comment by state Rep. Douglas Bruce, R-Colorado Springs, by saying: "We don't need another 5,000 illiterate Limbaugh listeners coming to Colorado."
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Young Muslim Makes Video to Show All Religions Can be "Evil"
2008-04-22 18:45:00
Remember the anti-Islam video "Fitna" put out by a Dutch politician last month? Well a young Saudi businessman has decided to give Christianity the same treatment. Raed al-Saeed's increasingly popular video "Schism," mashes images of aggressive behavior by Christians with aggressive Bible-verses.  Unlike the Dutch video of violence by Muslim s played to verses of the Koran, the Biblical version is not motivated by a desire to stop the spread of a religion. Instead, al-Saeed wanted to show that any religion, including Christianity, can easily be cast in an "evil" light. He told NPR that "It's not the right way to judge a religion by a video made by a guy who hated that religion." To find out what images made the Christian version, read more. Images of western soldiers in Iraq beating up alleged insurgents, a CNN broadcast of 2003's "Shock and Awe" bombing of Baghdad, terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland, fill the...
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Clinton turns up ?kitchen? heat with new ad
2008-04-22 02:35:00
  On the eve of the all-important Pennsylvania primary, Hillary Clinton has launched a new ad once again touting herself as the most able candidate to become president. “You need to be ready for anything — especially now, with two wars, oil prices skyrocketing and an economy in crisis, ” reads the script. “Harry Truman said it best – if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” And now, for the rebuttal, please welcome President William Jefferson Clinton: Obama's response to Hillary's ad follows the campaign's usual parry to the the experience jab by highlighting his judgement and unifying quality. The reply seeks to shift the terms of debate from which candidate would be best in a crisis to which candidate can best bring about change. And a quick side note, some in the media have disparagingly described Hillary's recent attacks as a "kitchen...
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Teacher Shannon Lynn Best Admits "Kissing and Fondling" Female Student.
2008-04-21 22:20:00
This story started as a "teacher may have kissed a student" tale, to one where it's now allegedly a female teacher, Shannon Lynn Best, at Sanderson High School in North Carolina, getting involved with possibly more than one female student. According to cops, Best admitted to that that she kissed and fondled an 18-year-old female student who she invited over to her house for a sleep over and also sent the student nude photos of herself on her cell phone. At right, Shannon Lynn Best's mug shot picture. Here's more from NBC 17:According to the warrant, Shannon Lynn Best, 29, admitted to having a relationship with the girl lasting three to four weeks. Best resigned Monday after being accused of having sex with the 18-year-old girl over the weekend. Under North Carolina law, the student-teacher relationship is off-limits for intimate behavior, even if the student is a legal adult. The state statute makes it a felony to take “indecent liberties with a victim who is a st...
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Military Operatives Working In The News Media To Brainwash You?
2008-04-20 22:50:00
The NY Times has a lengthy, yet informative, article on the psyops perpetrated by the Bush administration. Anti-war folks figured this out a long time ago, but we’ll give the NYTimes kudos for printing history. Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found. The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air. Those business relationships are hardly ever disclosed to the viewers, and sometimes not even to the networks themselves. But collectively, the men on the plane and several dozen other military analysts repre...
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Pope: America Owes Debt To Blacks, Indians
2008-04-20 21:39:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/20/pope-america-owes-debt-to-bla cks-indians.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new'; The pontiff’s six-day visit to the United States was his first At a time when the United States is engaged in a series of candid, and sometimes explosive, discussions about race, Pope Benedict XVI reminded America that it has a ways to go before honoring its promise to Blacks and Native Americans. “Americans have always been a people of hope,” Benedict said during the celebration of Mass Thursday at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. “Your ancestors came to this country with the experience of finding new freedom and opportunity. To be sure, this promise was not experienced by all the inhabitants of this land; one thinks of the injustices endured by the Do you think the pope’s visit to the United States was important?
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50 Doesn't Like Alicia Anymore
2008-04-20 19:57:00
50 Cent decided he needed to respond to Alicia Keys' comments in Blender Magazine about Gangsta rap being "a ploy to convince black people to kill each other." Alicia released a statement saying her comments were "misrepresented" and that she isn't a "conspiracy theorist" or "a racist." 50 still isn't buying it. He told The Showbuzz: "I don't like Alicia Keys no more though … the same reason why I said that I don't like Oprah Winfrey. I'm prejudice(d). I don't like people who don't like me. If you don't like the content that I write because of my experiences; I am being who I am when I am writing it. I fall into that 'label' as far as you considering artists creating 'Gangsta music,' we fall into that. If she don't like that, (then) I don't like that classical music shit she be doing. At some point she's playing some shit that don't relate to me. We listen to it and try to figure out why people actually enjo...

Church Sign Causes Controversy
2008-04-19 19:34:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/19/church-sign-causes-controvers y.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new';   A sign is causing heated arguments outside of a church in Jonesville SC. Pastor Roger Byrd of Jonesville Church of God put the sign up which reads "Obama Osama humm are they brothers?" Pastor Byrd says the sign is not meant to be racial or political but rather to make people think.  "His name is so close to Osama I have a feeling he might be Islamic therefore he doesn't recognize Christ," Pastor Byrd said. Barack attends Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Eugunia Foster is offended by the church sign.  "I'm embarrassed and hurt.  I'm surprised a small town like Jonesville still has this separation.  It is racial and hatred," Foster said. Pastor Byrd told the media he would ask his congregation to vote on whether to keep the s...
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"If you wear a flag lapel pin, you're not a true patriot".
2008-04-17 23:21:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/17/if-you-wear-a-flag-lapel-pin- youre-not-a-true-patriot.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new'; During the April 16 debate, Gibson introduced a question to Obama by asserting, "I want to do one more question, which goes to the basic issue of electability. And it is a question raised by a voter in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a woman by the name of Nash McCabe." McCabe asked, via videotape, "Senator Obama, I have a question, and I want to know if you believe in the American flag. I am not questioning your patriotism, but all our servicemen, policemen and EMS wear the flag. I want to know why you don't." Before Obama answered, Gibson explained, "Just to add to that, I noticed you put one on yesterday. But -- you've talked about this before, but it comes up again and again when we talk to voters. And as you may know, it is all over the Internet." ...
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Hillary Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995: "Screw 'Em"
2008-04-17 01:58:00
 During the past week, Sen. Hillary Clinton has presented herself as a working class populist, the politician in touch with small town sentiments, compared to the elitism of her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama. But a telling anecdote from her husband's administration shows Hillary Clinton's attitudes about the "lunch-bucket Democrats" are not exactly pristine. In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach. "Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them." The statement -- which author Benjamin Barber witnessed and wrote about in his book, "The Truth of Power: Intellectual Aff...
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Husband Keeps Wife Inside A Dog Cage
2008-04-15 08:57:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/15/husband-keeps-wife-inside-a-d og-cage.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new';   A Canton, Ohio man faces abduction, felonious assault, domestic violence, and child endangering charges after police say he handcuffed his wife inside a dog cage for days after their Las Vegas wedding. Canton Police came to Matthew George's home after a 911 call from Mary Swihart's father telling police shots were fired in the home. "There's a baby there," Patrick Swihart told the dispatcher. "She just got married to this clown." "There were in excess of about 16 shell casings that were inside the house," Lt. Jim Cole of the Canton Police Department said about the shots fired and the .45 recovered. Police kicked down the door and found a dog cage with handcuffs in the dining room. Then, they heard Mary's story. "It's very bizarre," Cole, a ...
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41 year old teacher charged with Improper Relationship with student
2008-04-15 07:43:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/15/41-year-old-teacher-charged-w ith-improper-relationship-with.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new'; What a great way to start off the week with--surprise--another female teacher sex scandal! This time it's allegedly a 41-year-old teacher from Huntington, Texas. Melissa Beth Williams, a  teacher at PRIDE alternative school in Huntington, Texas, has been accused of having sexual contact with a 17 year old student. According to police, Williams has been charged with 'improper relationship between an educator and student,' a 2nd degree felony offense. According to a police affidavit, Williams had sexual contact with a 17 year old student at her home in Huntington. Police became aware of William's alleged behavior when the victim's mother contacted Child Protective Services. According to the Huntington school district police department, Williams has resigned her teach...
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Teen arrested for hitting chair on girl's head
2008-04-15 07:26:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/15/teen-arrested-for-hitting-cha ir-on-girls-head.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new';   Well, it didn't take long for some other stupid high school girl to top the Mulberry Eight cheerleader beating video! Less than a week after that horror, Arizona cops have arrested one 14-year-old girl for hitting another 14-year-old girl, Taylor Hedlund in the head with a folding chair, just like in professional wrestling! And it was all caught on a cell phone camera in the cafeteria at Achieve Academy in little Prescott Valley, Arizona. What would cause such an angry outburst? Cops say the two had some kind of verbal exchange (another report said they were throwing sunflower seeds at each other) but either way, it doesn't seem to warrant a metal chair to head from behind, does it? This all took place last Thursday, and like other recent teen shock videos, this one also ...
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NY Man Tries Using Counterfeit Money for Bail
2008-04-14 23:56:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/14/ny-man-tries-using-counterfei t-money-for-bail.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new'; It was bad enough when Cyheam Forney made an illegal left turn in front of a Suffolk County police sergeant. That was just the start. After being pulled over by Sgt. Daniel Lynch, Forney, 31, couldn't produce a license. Nor did he have any other identification. Forney gave Lynch his name, and Lynch ran his name. Turns out that Forney's license had been suspended 35 times. Taken to the Second Precinct in Huntington, Forney was issued summonses for the illegal turn, too-dark tinted windows, unlicensed operation, and sub-standard tires. Whoa. The good thing was, he was offered $500 bail. The bad thing was, when he tried to pay with cash, one of the officers noticed one of the bills looked - well, fake. "He said some guy gave it to him when he was playing dice the night before,"...
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Maher: "The Catholic Church is the Bear Stearns of Organized Pedophilia"
2008-04-14 12:00:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/14/maher-the-catholic-church-is- the-bear-stearns-of-organized-p.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new'; On the April 11th episode of Real Time, Bill Maher gave politicians a week off while targeting the Catholic Church . Appropriate, of course, with the Pope about to visit the U.S. Of course, he didn't leave Warren Jeffs totally unscathed. And of course, it's true that the U.S. is basically bailing out Bear Stearns and Wall Street while Main Street has to go it alone. Here's what he had to say in the final mini-segment of New Rules this week: Whenever you combine a secretive compound, religion and weirdos in pioneer outfits, there’s going to be some child-f*cking going on. In fact, whenever a cult leader sets himself up as "God’s infallible wing man" here on earth, lock away the kids. Which is why I’d like to tip off law...
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Rev. Wright: Fox's Hannity & O'Reilly 'Stuck on Stupid'
2008-04-14 06:30:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/14/rev-wright-foxs-hannity-oreil ly-stuck-on-stupid.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new'; The embattled former minister of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama fired back at the news media during a Chicago funeral service. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright 's remarks were reported Sunday in the Chicago Sun-Times. Wright didn't mention church member Obama, who has denounced Wright's inflammatory comments circulated in video excerpts of his past sermons. But in his eulogy at Saturday's funeral for the late R. Eugene Pincham, a retired judge, Wright did pillory some of his critics, including Fox News commentators Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity . Wright said Pincham befriended "Jews, Muslims, rabbis, imams, fathers in the Catholic church and (Louis) Farrakhan in the Islamic faith." He said: "Fox New...
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Obama on small-town Pa.: Clinging to religion, guns, xenophobia
2008-04-12 08:49:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/12/obama-on-small-town-pa-clingi ng-to-religion-guns-xenophobia.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new';  Obama 's remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser Sunday, they include an attempt to explain the resentment in small-town Pennsylvania that won't be appreciated by some of the people whose votes Obama's seeking: You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to exp...
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Bill Clinton defends wife's Bosnia remarks
2008-04-11 08:21:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/11/bill-clinton-defends-wifes-bo snia-remarks.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new';   Former President Bill Clinton  said his wife asked him to stop talking about her trip to Bosnia . Clinton told reporters in Indiana Friday, "Hillary called me and said 'You don't remember this. You weren't there, let me handle it.' I said, 'Yes ma'am.'" On Thursday, the former president gave a passionate defense of his wife’s claim about “landing under sniper fire” — just as the damaging controversy was dying down. Bill Clinton said the news media treated her like she had “robbed a bank” and claimed she was experiencing end-of-day fatigue, even though she had made the claim in morning speeches. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) acknowledged two weeks ago that she “misspoke&rdqu...

Teacher Assaulted in Classroom Then Video Posted on MySpace
2008-04-10 07:29:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/10/teacher-assaulted-in-classroo m-then-video-posted-on-myspace.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new'; In Baltimore, Reginald F. Lewis High School teacher Jolita Berry (pictured) told a student to sit down after which the student attacked her, repeatedly hitting her while the student's friends cheered her on. In the cell phone camera video, Berry is on the bottom. Other teachers broke up the fight, but when Berry went to the principal about the incident, she was shocked by the response. "On one hand, she told me that she is sorry that this happened to me. But then she turned right around and told me that telling a student that I was going to defend myself was a trigger word. I triggered them." The principal did not report the incident to the police either, and Mayor Sheila Dixon commented on that fact. "I think that principal might need to b...
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s last undelivered sermon: "Why America May Go to He
2008-04-09 21:15:00
On Thursday, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. had retreated to room 306 of the Lorraine Motel, worrying about a sanitation strike in Memphis and working on his sermon for Sunday. Its title: "Why America May Go to Hell." For King, whose focus had shifted from civil rights to antiwar agitation and populist economics, the Dream was turning dark. He had been depressed, sleeping little and suffering from migraines. In Washington, his plans for a massive Poor People's Campaign were in disarray. In Memphis, King's first march with striking garbage men had degenerated into riot when young black radicals--not, as in the glory days, angry state troopers--broke King's nonviolent ranks. By 5 p.m. he was hungry and looked forward to a soul-food supper. Always fastidious-a prince of the church--King shaved, splashed on cologne and stepped onto the balcony. He paused; a .30-06 rifle shot slammed King back against the wall, his arms stretched out to his sides as if he were bein...
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Stewart, The Daily Show Unveil "The Dick Move of the Week"
2008-04-09 07:39:00
digg_url = 'http://phrequency.squarespace.com/networ k/2008/4/9/stewart-the-daily-show-unveil- the-dick-move-of-the-week.html'; digg_bgcolor = '#FFFFFF'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new'; On Tuesday night, The Daily Show unveiled a new segment, "The Dick Move of the Week " and its first winner: Barack Obama. As Jon Stewart said: "As the race wears on, you're going to start to see the campaigns behaving a little bit more aggressively, trying to score points on the other guy. But there is a very fine line between an aggressive move and what Beltway insiders refer to as - a bit of a dick move. Which brings us to our new segment: 'Dick Move of the Week.'" Winner of the first "award?" Barack Obama. Now, why did Obama win? A campaign office gave away Dave Matthews tickets. Why would that be a "Dick Move?" The timing. Do you think it was: a) A String Cheese Incident fans for McCa...
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8 Teens Charged in Videotaped Attack
2008-04-08 14:51:00
 The video below shows 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay curled up on a living room couch, shielding her head from the repeated punches of a teenage girl while other girls scream in the background. It was March 30, shortly after 8 p.m. Six girls had gathered in a Lakeland house to confront Lindsay about trash-talking about them online, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said. But they didn’t stop with words. Lindsay told investigators in a sheriff’s office report that April Cooper, 14, had slammed her head into a bedroom wall, knocking her unconscious.  The blows resumed, primarily from 17-year-old Brittni Hardcastle, after Lindsay awoke in the living room, according to the sheriff’s office. The incident was recorded on video the teens planned to post on MySpace and YouTube as retaliation, the sheriff’s office said. “Ooh, yeah, baby. Ooh, yeah!” a girl says in the background. The sheriff’...
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Increase of Japan Robot Workers
2008-04-08 13:50:00
Robots could fill the jobs of 3.5 million people in graying Japan by 2025, a thinktank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country's population shrinks. Japan faces a 16 percent slide in the size of its workforce by 2030 while the number of elderly will mushroom, the government estimates, raising worries about who will do the work in a country unused to, and unwilling to contemplate, large-scale immigration. The thinktank, the Machine Industry Memorial Foundation, says robots could help fill the gaps, ranging from microsized capsules that detect lesions to high-tech vacuum cleaners. Rather than each robot replacing one person, the foundation said in a report that robots could make time for people to focus on more important things. Japan says it could save 2.1 trillion yen ($21 billion) of elderly insurance payments in 2025 by using robots that monitor the health of older people, so they don't have to rely on human nursing care, the foundation said in its report. Ca...
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A yard poster was spray-painted with a swastika
2008-04-08 13:31:00
Police in western Pennsylvania are investigating a Nazi symbol that was spray-painted on a campaign sign for Sen. Barack Obama, The Media reported Monday. The swastika was discovered on a placard for Obama in the yard of a couple in Indiana County, Pa., police said. Kamal Youssef and his wife, Maria, told officers that when they went outside Saturday they found the defaced poster. Youssef, 86, moved to the United States from Egypt, and he became a citizen in 1958. His wife, an immigrant from Czechoslovakia, is also a U.S. citizen, AP reports. Police say this is an isolated incident. Obama and Sen. Hillary are campaigning in Pennsylvania, where the next large primary will be held on April 22. Clinton is leading in the Keystone State by a significant margin, according to some polls. Political pundits have often described Pennsylvania, which is 86 percent White, as “Philadelphia to the East, Pittsburgh to the West, and Alabama in between.” How do you think Obama ...
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Incest couple John and Jenny Deaves
2008-04-07 07:32:00
On March 20, John Deaves and his daughter Jenny were sentenced to a three-year good behaviour bond after pleading guilty to two counts of performing an act of incest.  The couple now have a nine-month-old daughter. Mr Deaves' ex-wife Dorothy, 69, who he married long after splitting with Jenny's mother, told ninemsn that when she married John Deaves in 1984, the then 15-year-old Jenny stayed with them for a week. Jenny stayed with them four times before their marriage broke down in 2000 after the father and daughter took a trip to Dubbo together, she said. "It was hard to face for a long time," Mrs Deaves said. "It's one of those things everyone's so upset about." The first child of the father and daughter died from congenital heart disease days after birth, court documents have shown. Their second child, nine-month-old daughter Celeste, appeared fit and healthy on television last night.  Mrs Deaves said soon after reuniting with her father she...
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Man Admits Breaking Window At Obama's Office
2008-04-06 21:12:00
  INDIANAPOLIS -- A man was arrested Friday after he admitted shattering a glass window at presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama's campaign office.Police arrested Robert Bailey shortly after the incident. Investigators said he told them he smashed a barricade into the window. Authorities said Bailey told them he would also break a window at the campaign office of Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, if he had the chance. Watch Indiana supporters of Barack Obama  when they first opened Obama's Indiana campaign office with Actor Kal Penn:
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