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Israel group about Pot on Passover: JUST SAY NO...
2007-03-28 00:04:00
JERUSALEM - In bad news for its religious Jewish supporters, an Israel i pro-marijuana party announced Tuesday that pot is forbidden on Passover . Cannabis is among the substances Jews are forbidden to consume during the week-long festival, which begins Monday, said Michelle Levine, a spokeswoman for the Green Leaf party. Biblical laws prohibit eating leavened foods during Passover, replacing bread with flat crackers called matza. Later injunctions by European rabbis extended those rules to forbid other foods like beans and corn, and more recent rulings have further expanded the ban to include hemp seeds, which today are found in some health oils - and in marijuana. Green Leaf is a small political party that supports the legalization of marijuana. Although it is by no means a Jewish religious authority, the group decided to warn its observant supporters away from the drug on Passover. "You shouldn't smoke marijuana on the holiday, and if you have it in your house you should g...
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"All I want is to be able to sit on my front porch and not smell sheep
2007-03-28 00:00:00
Authorities seized a flock of sheep that had wandered away from a downtown home to graze on floral arrangements in the town cemetery.Animal neglect charges were pending Tuesday against the animals' owner, David Watts, who kept about 80 of the animals in his crumbling house in this Raleigh suburb, police said."He lives upstairs and the sheep were living downstairs," police Sgt. Robert Towell said. "He considered them pets." Watts even walked some of the sheep around the neighborhood on a leash. About 30 sheep were euthanized because of ailing health, said Michael Williams, director of the Wake County Animal Care, Control and Adoption Center. Police were waiting to see if additional animals would be euthanized before determining the extent of the charges.Up to 30 healthy sheep could be available for adoption, officials said.Neighbors have long complained about the sheep."All I want is to be able to sit on my front porch and not smell sheep poop," said Angie Fowler, who lives across...
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Dog "All Hopped up on the V" hospitalized
2007-03-27 14:26:00
A male dog in Chengdu, Sichuan, had to receive an intravenous drip in hospital after being given Viagra and made to mate with three female dogs on a single day. Wang, the dog's owner, has been very busy since mating season arrived. Her dog is considered handsome, and many owners of female dogs want her dog to sire puppies with their pets. Wang can earn more than 1,000 yuan ($128) per breeding session, so in order to boost her earnings she fed her dog Viagra and made it mate with three female dogs last Sunday. The effort was apparently strenuous enough that the dog had to be taken to hospital. Goosey's Gabbings... Lesson to all of you out there...ok, we know how dogs like to do the humpty dance on our legs, and this one was forced to do it 3 times in one day and it caused hospitalization, so if you want to get into the zone, that whole "erections longer than 4 hours should seek medical care" funny warning isn't so funny, now is it? If the dog is in the hospital, wher...
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Woman drops 40 cigarette a day habit, now addicted to inhalers
2007-03-27 14:18:00
A SMOKER beat a 40-a-day habit ? only to get hooked on plastic substitute ciggies instead. Linda Nutt, 58, conquered her 40-year habit by using nicotine replacement inhalers. The Nicorette Inhalators contain a cartridge impregnated with a tiny dose of nicotine. The gadgets are designed to give smokers the sensation of having a puff while holding something cigarette-shaped in their fingers. But three years on, mum Linda is now addicted to chewing the Inhalators? plastic cases and gets through at least one a day. Nicorette manufacturer Pfizer has sent her hundreds free in an attempt to help her. But now the firm has refused to give her any more, saying she must beat the addiction once and for all. And Linda?s GP cannot prescribe any more Inhalators, which cost £6 for six, on the NHS. Now retired Linda, of Sheldon, Birmingham, is scared she will start smoking again. She said: ?I don?t understand why Pfizer had a change of heart. It?s the plastic I?m addicted to, not the...
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Man Caught with 93 pounds of underwear-and it wasn't Nicole Richie!
2007-03-27 14:08:00
PULLMAN, Wash. - A man was charged with theft and burglary after police said they found 93 pounds of women?s panties, brassieres and other underwear at his home.Investigators believe Garth M. Flaherty, 24, took as many as 1,500 undergarments from apartment complex laundry rooms before he was caught, police Cmdr. Chris Tennant said. A man was seen taking underwear from two laundry rooms Saturday, a witness recorded his license number, and Flaherty was identified from photographs, Tennant said. Police found enough underwear in his bedroom to fill five garbage bags, Tennant said. ?He said he had a problem,? Tennant said. Flaherty has been jailed on 12 counts of second-degree burglary and one of first-degree theft. Police had previously received 12 reports of underwear thefts in the northeast part of town, where Washington State University is located. ?We were kind of concerned about how to match up bras and panties with victims,? Tennant said. ?Based on the unique descriptions fr...
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Strippers must pay taxes on lap dances
2007-03-27 04:48:00
LONDON (Reuters) - Lap-dancers at one of Britain's biggest strip clubs must pay their own value added tax (VAT) bills, a senior judge ruled on Friday. In a High Court ruling that could affect dancers at other venues, Mr Justice Mann said it was the women and not their club, Spearmint Rhino, who should foot the bill. He backed the chain's argument that the self-employed dancers provide the entertainment on offer, rather than the club. "The women are not employed by the club. They are all self-employed," Mann said. "They pay a sum to the club which allows them to ply their trade for a session of eight hours." Mann said an earlier decision by the VAT and Duties Tribunal that Spearmint Rhino should pay the bill was wrong. Describing the services provided, the judge said: "A member of the public pays 8 pounds ($15.73) for admission and on entering goes into an area in which he, or she, may drink, socialize, eat and watch partially clad women dancing on a podium. "At any one ...
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Diaper wearing teens get video game tournament shut down: That stinks!
2007-03-27 04:29:00
Fort Collins C.O.(FP)-Saturday a large underground video game tournament featuring the popular Xbox 360 game Gears of War came to a surprising end. Among the sixty plus competitors was a very determined team of young adults and one teenager who were equipped with disposable adult diapers. Security for the rented warehouse was forced to remove one of the players after others complained of the ?septic tank like smell? coming from a nearby 16 year old gamer. The team had the intention of only using the diapers for ?an emergency trip? but after the 16 year old had consumed five cans of a caffeine loaded drink called a Spike Shooter he claimed he just couldn?t hold ?it?. And ?it? being the worst kind of it. Being the dedicated gamer he was he just tried to ignore his accident. Nearby competitors felt it hard to overlook his slip up and asked him to be removed. After being removed from the tournament her proceeded to call local law enforcement and complain about his ejection not rea...
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Does Size Matter? Longest address on web says YES
2007-03-27 02:37:00
A website devoted to part of a Welsh village features in a list of the longest internet addresses in Europe. A Birmingham man registered the 63-character address named after Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllll antysiliogogogoch in Anglesey. The address - www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobw llllantysiliogogogochuchaf.eu - actually refers to the upper part of the Welsh-speaking village. It is the maximum number of characters allowed and is recognised as the longest valid internet name in the world. Keith Wood registered the domain name with EURid, the group managing the new European .eu domain. He also registered an alternative to its full name - www.llanfair.wales.com - to spare internet users the hassle of using the village's full title. Eryl Roberts, who maintains the village website, said: "We registered the village as a domain name to prove a point that home pages don't have to be short and they don't have to be made up names either." Six other p...
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MySpace now featuring bank robbers
2007-03-27 02:30:00
CHARLOTTE, N.C. ? A man suspected of robbing several Arkansas banks has been featured in a video for about a month on the popular social networking Web site MySpace . Now Arkansas police could add his mug shot to the Web page. Ernest Gail Lail, 67, appeared in a Van Buren, Ark., court Thursday, on a charge of aggravated robbery. Police said they believe Lail, who has given his address as Concord, N.C., committed six bank robberies in Arkansas cities. The robberies got national attention after a police sergeant in Fort Smith, Ark., put photos and video from a January robbery on MySpace in early March. He titled the page "Do You Know Me???" Over 1,800 people signed up to be "friends" of the robber. Fort Smith police Sgt. Jarrad Copeland said the robberies got local media coverage, but police weren't getting tips. That made Copeland think the robber was from elsewhere. "I was just trying to think of a way to get the pictures to a broader audience," he said. The Web page seems to pay ho...
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102-year old man gets 25 year mortgage; And we wonder why there is a record
2007-03-26 22:22:00
A man of 102 has been given a 25-year mortgage for £200,000. If he survived to pay off the debt at age 127, he would be the oldest person who has ever lived. The pensioner, from East Sussex, has agreed to make repayments of £958 a month, on an interest-only basis. He will use rent from the property to pay them and is understood to be hoping to profit from rises in the property's value. It is thought the pensioner sees the buy-to-let market as a way to easy money, despite growing warnings that high property prices make it difficult to profit from renting out homes. Most banks and building societies have an age limit of 75. But a number of lenders, including the Mortgage Trust, Bristol and West, Woolwich, and Preferred, impose no age restriction. He secured his loan through Mortgages for Business, a Kent firm that has helped hundreds of elderly people buy homes. The firm's spokesman Jonathan Moore said yesterday: "Even five years ago, anybody over 65 wo...
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Koreans to block porn sites on web; (Good luck with that)
2007-03-26 22:11:00
The government plans to block foreign pornographic Internet sites to protect teenagers from obscene video files. The Ministry of Information and Communication called on the country's major fixed-line operators Friday to check the technical viability of the scheme. ``We are set to deny access to porn sites based overseas, with details being unveiled early next week,'' said Suh Byung-jo, director general at the ministry. ``We feel obliged to come up with measures to counter the recent woes caused by adult video clips available on the internet,'' said Suh, who chaired the meeting.? Suh's remarks came in the wake of a set of mishaps early this week involving major portal sites such as Yahoo Korea , Daum Communication and Naver. On March 18, two porn videos were posted on Yahoo Korea, the nation's second-string Web portal. More than 20,000 users downloaded the files. Unaware of this, Yahoo Korea left the clips on their site for roughly six hours and a number of min...
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Mile High Club to get 2 more members via contest
2007-03-26 22:02:00
LONDON (Reuters) - Love will literally be in the air for one lucky couple as a local English radio station offers a chance to join the mile high club over America. Big L radio in the sleepy English coastal town of Frinton, some 60 miles northeast of London, is inviting couples for the next week to go on air and describe how they are growing old in a suitably disgraceful manner. The winning couple, who will be selected by a panel of judges appointed by the radio station, will be flown to Atlanta, Georgia and put onboard a private plane equipped with champagne and a double bed to take to the air in amorous style. Goosey's Gabbings... Ahh, the power of love. How great it is. Now, what happens when they get sucked in by the blue monster in the toilet, one of them throws up, and the other screams in pain? Ahh, the power of love. How great it is.... technorati tags:news, london, england, funny, mile-high-club, bizarre, odd, offbeat, humor, offbeat-news, air-travel, quirkyBlogged wit...
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Man Angry at Ex-Girlfriend Kills, BBQs her
2007-03-26 05:04:00
(AP) HOUSTON Investigators say Timothy Wayne Shepherd, 27, confessed Wednesday to strangling Tynesha Stewart because he was angry she had begun a new relationship. Shepherd, who is charged with murder, isbeing held on $250,000 bond."We have determined through this investigation that the defendant dismembered Tynesha Stewart and . . . he burned the body parts," HarrisCounty Sheriff Tommy Thomas said. "There are no remaining body parts."The announcement Saturday ended a debate in the Houston area about whether law-enforcement officials should launch a massive and expensive search of the area's overflowing landfills in hopes of finding Stewart's remains.Officials first thought that the body had been disposed in a large commercial trash bin that had since been emptied.Sheriff'sinvestigators had decided against launching a costly and time-consuming search for Stewart's remains, angering her family and friends. Complaints from activists and lawmakers prompted Thomas to get emergency ...
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Supposed pedophile beaten, stabbed, humiliated, drowned--Oopsie, they got t
2007-03-26 03:30:00
A man with learning disabilities was humiliated, tortured, and then thrown into a river to drown by four neighbours who suspected that he was a paedophile, a murder trial has heard.The two men and two women, who are sisters, lured "trusting and vulnerable" Sean Miles, 37, to a house where he was beaten and stuck with knives. He was then taken to a different address where he was made to strip and hit with a golf club.Finally Mr Miles, who has in IQ of just 50, was taken to the Thames in Oxford where he was thrown into the river. He could not swim and his injuries were so severe that he had no chance of saving himself, Oxford Crown Court was told.Each time he surfaced he was pushed back under with a stick. His body was discovered by a lock keeper 10 days later in May last year.Edward Doyle, 34; Terry McMasters, 24; Tracey Fathers, 36, and her sister Karen, who all live on the same road in Oxford, deny his murder.Adrian Redgrave, prosecuting, told the jury it would hear how, when arres...
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"Saw" prank by 13-yr old girls leads to stroke
2007-03-26 03:22:00
ALGOOD, Tenn. -- Two Franklin County girls are facing charges of allegedly making a prank call that led to a woman suffering a stroke.Both 13-year old girls live in Winchester.The girls are accused of leaving a frightening message on the cell phone owned by Algood, Tenn., resident Beverly Dickson."Hello, Beverly. I want to play a game. You need to decide if life is worth living for. We have one of your friends hidden in your house. You must find them within 10 minutes and get the key out of their heart. Get out of your house because there are vents and there is toxic gas that will be fogged out in 10 minutes. It will kill you in half a minute, so you decide, it's your game. Do you want to live or die?" the message said.Police said they were able to trace the cell phone call to Winchester. Police said the two teens made several other calls to friends but that is was the one to Dickson that caused trouble.Police said Dickson was in a funeral procession when she checked the voice mess...
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Man sends sexual tapes to jailed loved one--his monkey
2007-03-26 03:13:00
A Plano resident allegedly sent his male monkey a sexually explicit audio tape while the animal was in custody at the Living Materials Center (LMC), according to LMC staff.Darwin, a Rhesus Macaque Monk ey, was confiscated by animal services on Feb. 21 after police found illegal animals in owner Bobby Denton Crawford Jr.?s home.Darwin was released back to Crawford Friday afternoon after being transported from the LMC, where the monkey stayed the past month.Sherry Smith, a spokesperson for Plano Animal Services, said Darwin was given back to Crawford because he agreed to move out of the city.?Where he is going to be moving, they don?t prohibit them there,? Smith said. ?He is complying with city ordinances by removing Darwin from the city.?Smith declined to comment on where Crawford had moved to. Crawford made at least three visits to the LMC and a handful of tear-filled phone calls requesting Darwin be returned to his custody, according to Jim Dunlap, curator at the LMC.On one such vis...
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Man's illuminated nude body not a bright idea
2007-03-25 20:12:00
SENDAI, Japan, March 24 (UPI) -- A Japanese court has sentenced a 41-year-old man to a suspended sentence for using a lamp to enhance his indecent exposure at his apartment. The court found the unemployed man guilty of indecent exposure in the incident, in which he used the bright light to allow onlookers to see his nude body from afar, and sentenced him to a suspended four-month prison term, the Kyodo news agency said. The man allegedly illuminated himself in the dark of his second-floor apartment in the city of Sendai on Sept. 5, 2006 in order to allow female workers at a nearby restaurant to see of his naked body.Goosey's Gabbings...No word yet on whether the illuminated nakedness of Britney Spears will bring any charges to her....Oh wait...I guess that whole Natalie Portman shaving of the head thing may have been enough...At least the drapes match the carpet now, as we all know.
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Deadbeat parents now adorning Pizza Boxes
2007-03-25 20:07:00
CINCINNATI -- Customers at some suburban Cincinnati pizza parlors are getting something extra with their pepperoni and mushrooms. The Butler County Child Enforcement Agency is working with three pizzerias to add wanted posters of parents accused of skipping out on child support on pizza boxes. The idea came to the agency's director while she was ordering a pizza. She said it suddenly dawned on her that most people running from the law don't eat out, they order pizza. It's just one of the innovative ways agencies are trying to get past-due parents to pay up. In California's Kern County, officials can auction parents' vehicles and give the proceeds to the children. Virginia subpoenas cell-phone records from service providers. Other Ohio counties include similar fliers in water and sewer bills. An attorney who specializes in fathers' rights has criticized the fliers, saying it could hurt children to see their parent on a "wanted-style" poster.Goosey's Gabbings...I'm scratching ...
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Michigan man sentenced for sex pact with girlfriend and 12-year old daughte
2007-03-25 17:37:00
MUSKEGON, Mich. -- A man who pleaded no contest to entering into a sex pact with his girlfriend and her 15-year-old daughter and to having had sex with a 12-year-old relative was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison.Michael J. Fitzgibbon, 37, was sentenced Friday to up to 15 years for each of four counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct after prosecutors said he, his girlfriend and her daughter signed a contract allowing the teen to be his sex partner for two months.He was also sentenced to 12 to 25 years for each of two charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for having sex with the 12-year-old girl. All six sentences are to be served concurrently.Fitzgibbon pleaded no contest to the charges last month. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated the same way for sentencing purposes.The case arose after Fitzgibbon's girlfriend, afraid of losing him while she was recuperating from surgery, allegedly arranged for the Fitzgibbon, herself and her daug...
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Wife's menu includes Kentucky Fried Husband
2007-03-25 17:03:00
And what part would this be again? SAO PAULO, Brazil (Map, News) - A Brazilian housewife was convicted and sentenced to 19 years in prison Friday for killing her husband, chopping his body into small pieces and frying it. Rosanita Nery dos Santos, 52, drugged her husband in his sleep, then stabbed him to death two years ago in Salvador, about 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo, said police spokesman Idmar Bonfim.She then hacked Jose Raimundo Soares dos Santos' body into more than 100 pieces, which she boiled and fried before hiding in plastic bags beneath a staircase in her house, Bonfim said. He said police discovered the body parts after receiving an anonymous phone call.Bonfim said the killing was either part of a black magic ritual or an attempt by the wife to collect life insurance worth about $34,000.Citing testimony from the woman's relatives, he said she may also have committed the crime "to avenge many years of humiliation from her husband." He did not provide further det...
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Serbia erecting Samantha Fox--no pun intended
2007-03-25 03:46:00
Sarajevo-A LIFE-SIZE marble statue of the former glamour model Samantha Fox is to be erected in Serbia after she agreed to sing at a pop festival. Locals in the southern Serb town of Cacak raised the money to show the 1980s model turned pop star how delighted they are about her visit. Obrad Banovic, a fan, said: "We love her. She is an authentic sex symbol of the 1980s, so why shouldn't we have a monument to her. Other towns have their heroes in parks, so why can't we? "We are also aware that her most famous attributes may require special treatment, so we are planning on using the best quality marble only." The idea for the statue came after Fox agreed to take part in a music festival in Cacak next month. It won't be the only celebrity statue in the area. The northern Serbian village of Zitiste is putting up a statue of the Hollywood film character Rocky, as played by Sylvester Stallone. The Bosnian town of Mostar, which is divided along ethnic lines, erected a statue of the...
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Tigger gets teen detention; What would Pooh get you?
2007-03-25 03:24:00
NAPA - Mar. 22, 2007 - The Napa Valley Unified School District has a strict dress code for students. No jeans allowed. No pictures, words, symbols or patterns.And apparently no Tigger, of Winnie the Pooh fame. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court on behalf of 14-year-old Toni Kay Scott, five other students at Redwood Middle School and their parents, challenging a dress code imposed by the school and the school district. According to the suit, Scott's parents asked the school to exempt her from the dress code, and she came to class on the first day of the 2005-06 school year wearing a denim skirt, a brown shirt with a pink border, and long socks with pictures of Tigger. She was escorted to the principal's office by a uniformed police officer and, along with two of her schoolmates, was sent to an in-school suspension program called Students With Attitude Problems. The ACLU says the school and the district are overstepping t...
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Holy Handcuffs! Batman arrested in LA
2007-03-25 03:17:00
HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 22, 2007 - Joining a list of Hollywood street performers including Elmo, Mr. Incredible and Chewbacca, Batman was arrested Thursday at the corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Highland Ave.Batman reportedly insisted on using a portable toilet that was rented by local union workers who were picketing a local business on the boulevard. An argument between the performer and some of the picketers escalated, whereupon Batman proceeded to remove his cape and assume an aggressive posture, taunting the picketers and appearing to pick a fight. Another street performer dressed as Chewbacca came along and Batman apprised him of the situation. Chewbacca then removed his head-mask and confronted the picketers as well. Soon thereafter, the LAPD arrived on the scene and arrested Batman. According to Michael Neiter, a local artist who happened to be on the scene: "I think a lot of the characters and people out here get treated unfairly by the police. They [the police] tend to be a little ...
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Toys that should NOT exist (or at least if so put them in Adult stores)
2007-03-24 21:53:00
Russian Roulette for Kids, the Twister Bedspread and the Harry Potter VIBRATING Broomstick are just a few of the distasteful toys being (or having been) marketed and mostly to children. It?s amazing how blatantly sexual toys make it onto the shelves and into the homes of parents of poor and unsuspecting kids. (Or are they fully aware and just laughing at the stupidity of the rest of the world?)Goosey's Gabbings...Not much I can say here...I am sure this is just scratching the surface with inappropriate things out there...
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Man facing 32 charges decides to run for office
2007-03-24 21:05:00
LUCKNOW, India (Map, News) - Babloo Srivastava has spent the last 10 years in a northern Indian prison facing 32 charges, including murder and kidnapping. But that won't stop him from running in state elections. Srivastava will run his campaign from prison as Uttar Pradesh, a northern Indian state infamous for crime and political violence, heads to the polls next month."Necessary permission has been taken from the election commission," Srivastava's lawyer Ram Ugrah Shukla said in the state capital Lucknow on Friday.Indian law only bars a person from running for office once they are convicted of a crime by a court, which often happens years, even decades, after an arrest.Srivastava was charged with murder and running a kidnapping and extortion racket before his arrest in Singapore in 1997. He has never been convicted of any wrongdoing.He will run as an independent candidate without the backing of any major political group, Shukla said.Politics in this Indian state and many others...
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Texas Legislator offers would-be moms cash to stop abortions
2007-03-24 20:57:00
Republican State Sen. Dan Patrick, who also is a conservative radio talk show host, said on Friday the money might convince the women to go ahead and have babies, then give them up for adoption. He said during a legislative conference in New Braunfels, 45 miles south of Austin, there were 75,000 abortions in Texas last year. "If this incentive would give pause and change the mind of 5 percent of those woman, that's 3,000 lives. That's almost as many people as we've lost in Iraq," Patrick said. Patrick has filed legislation to make the payment state law, but the legislature has not yet voted on it. His proposal calls for giving any woman going to an abortion clinic the $500 option, to be paid no more than 30 days after the baby is born and given up for adoption. Critics say the proposal would violate Texas and federal laws against buying babies, which Patrick rejected as "the typical ridiculous criticism."Goosey's Gabbings...Now, let's REALLY think about this a bit; if a mother,...
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"Pimp of the Year" may soon be turning tricks in prison
2007-03-24 17:06:00
(AP) TRENTON, N.J. A man who touted himself as "Pimp of the Year" was sentenced Friday to more than 23 years in federal prison.Matthew "Knowledge" Thompkins pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to transport minors to engage in prostitution and conspiracy to engage in money laundering.Authorities said that the Bronx, N.Y., man had prostitutes working for him in New York; Atlantic City; Las Vegas; Philadelphia; Youngstown, Ohio, and other cities.When he was arrested in December 2005, authorities found two huge trophies in his home proclaiming him "Pimp of the Year."In a letter to U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson asking for leniency, Thompkins, 37, wrote that at times he and the prostitutes who worked for him -- some of them as young as 14 -- "bonded as a family."Wolfson was unmoved. She gave him nearly the maximum sentence."You wouldn't send your sister or your daughter out to do that," she said. "That's no family."One former prostitute, Melissa Smith, spoke at the sentencing, ...
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Bus Driver fired over Duct taping six year old girl
2007-03-24 17:00:00
MONMOUTH - No charges will be filed against a bus driver accused of putting duct tape over the mouth of a 6-year-old girl last week on a bus trip between United High School near Monmouth and the elementary school in Alexis. Warren County State's Attorney Chip Algren said he spoke Wednesday with the girl and her mother, identified as Deanna Trout. He said Deanna Trout called him early Thursday afternoon and said she would not pursue charges. "I'm not intending on filing (charges), but that's based on the wishes of the family," Algren said in a telephone interview. Had he pursued a charge against bus driver Sara Taylor, he said, it would have been one of battery, which probably would have resulted in a fine. "The odds of seeing any jail time are about zero," he said. Taylor has been fired from her job at Cavanaugh Bus Service in Monmouth, Algren said. He said he might have decided differently about charges if she remained on the job and working near children. He also said the li...
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Heavy Metal a "comfort" for bright children; Stephen Hawking seen wearing A
2007-03-23 16:13:00
Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research.The results of a study of more than 1,000 of the brightest five per cent of young people will come as relief to parents whose offspring, usually long-haired, are devotees of Iron Maiden, AC/DC and their musical descendants.Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.Stuart Cadwallader, a psychologist at the University of Warwick, will present the findings at the British Psychological Society conference in York today.He said: "There is a perception of gifted and talented students as being into classical music and spending a lot of time reading. I think that is an inaccurate stereotype. There is literature that links heavy metal to poor academic performan...
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RIAA demands IP records; University of Nebraska demands payment
2007-03-23 16:05:00
Lately, the RIAA has been on a high-profile campaign to get college students that the RIAA believes have been involved in illegal file trading to settle lawsuits against them at a "discount". As part of this strategy, the company has tried to enlist universities to help them identify and turn over the names of offending students. But it's heartening to see that some universities aren't spinelessly acquiescing to the RIAA's demands. The University of Wisconsin has told the RIAA that it has no obligation to rat its students out unless it's compelled to do so by a subpoena. Meanwhile, the University of Nebraska has told the RIAA that it can't help them identify many of the students accused of file trading. The school's system changes a computer's IP address each time its turned on, and it only keeps this information for month. After that month, the school has no way of associating an IP address with a computer or its user. The RIAA is angry about this, and a spokesman for the g...
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