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good morning, here’s some evil news.

The Poke-Bandits
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Three children — ages 2, 4 and 6 — were briefly detained by
police after a neighbor saw them throw a bottle through a store’s glass door,
then dart away with packs of Pokemon trading cards, police say.

Being A Transexual Is A Legal Handicap
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A New Jersey appeals court ruling that transsexualism can be considered a
handicap under state law has raised questions — and hackles — over the legal rights
of people who change genders.
“I’m going to start wearing a hula skirt to work because now I know I’m
protected,”

First A Special Haircut, Now A Special Dental Treatment
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The Scottish Prison Service has admitted flying a dentist to the Netherlands to
treat the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. The disclosure came days
after it was revealed that the SPS had dispatched a female officer to Camp Zeist to
provide Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi with a haircut.

The UK Has Run Out Of Elastic!!!!
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A church verger in the West Midlands is appealing for women to donate their
knicker elastic to keep the church clock going.
The clock, in the tower of All Saints Church, West Bromwich, stopped last week.
The verger, David Lord, said the clock’s workings relied on a piece of string
and a piece of elastic.

Man Arrested For Overdue Library Book
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His affection for “Green Eggs and Ham” cost an Ann Arbor man $200 and a trip to
the city police department Friday.
The 25-year-old was arrested about 2 p.m. on a warrant from Westland, because
he failed to appear in court July 6 to explain why in three years he hadn’t
returned two children’s books to the William P. Foust Public Library.

I’m Not Drunk, I’m Deaf… and drunk
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When police pulled over Steven Bircoll one night in April, officers thought he
was drunk: He slurred his words, he smelled of booze and he refused to take a
Breathalyzer test, according to reports.
Bircoll has a different explanation: He’s deaf. He didn’t understand what the
Miami-Dade County officers were telling him. He says he thought he agreed to
take the breath test — and the whole thing was a big misunderstanding.

more news…

DEATH PARAGRAPH

According to Amnesty International, China has gone on an “execution frenzy.” In the last three months, China has executed about 1,780 people (with a bullet to the back of the head). That number is greater than the total number of executions in the rest of the world over the last three years.

— YOUR MONEY’S NO GOOD HERE

It took nearly a month for the folks at H & R Block to convince a New Jersey man the million bucks he won was not a joke or a scam.

and…

Robert Hanssen officially pleads guilty to spying.
He avoids the death penalty and the FBI avoids a courtroom airing of national security secrets.

The American airman accused of rape in Japan is turned over to Japanese authorities.

U.S. unemployment levels rise to 4.5%.

The Peace Corps is recruiting former dot commers.
{I wonder what kind of equity packages they offer?}

A dog successfully crosses six lanes of Arizona highway. Story includes the incredible video.

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Go Get Your 12 Yr Old Bride In NC Quick!
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It sounds like fodder for “Ripley’s Believe It or Not”: Did you know that in
North Carolina, a 12-year-old girl can get married with permission from one of
her parents? The antiquated law – a vestige of the state’s agrarian past – will
finally go the way of the horse-drawn plow Oct. 1, when the state raises its
minimum marriage age from 12 to 14 and tightens other restrictions on under-16
weddings.

Pop Rocks Rumor Finally True?
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It’s a flavor combination only a kid could love — grape and sour-apple
sherbet, with popping candies sprinkled throughout. But a kiddie-size scoop of the
stuff landed an Alamo girl in the hospital in May after that candy popped in her
tummy, not on her tongue. Now, Chris Janze is suing Baskin-Robbins on behalf of
her 5-year-old daughter, who had to be hospitalized to relieve the internal
pressure her lawyer says was caused by Pop Rocks candy.

3 Parked Cars and Your Out!
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A 27-year-old Australian woman was sentenced to 90 days in jail Monday for
failing to stop her car and call for help after a drunken passenger stuck her head
out a window, hit at least three parked cars and died.
Shaw, who was in the United States to study tourism, pleaded guilty to a
misdemeanor count of driving under the influence and no contest to a felony count of
leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.
Stoltz blamed Shaw’s drinking for “a lack of urgency” after the Feb. 28
accident that killed Karla Barton, 20, of Australia, Shaw’s roommate.
Instead of stopping, Shaw drove home after the accident. After going into her
apartment to call authorities, Shaw did not return to her dead friend’s side.
Instead, she introduced another passenger in the car to a neighbor so he could
borrow clean clothes to replace his shirt and pants, which had become soaked with
Barton’s blood.

You Will Not Write 100 Times, I Love Little Boys
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An Ohio man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after writing fictitious
stories about torturing and sexually abusing young children.Brian Dalton, 22, of
Columbus, was charged with pandering obscenity involving a minor after his
probation officer found a journal with the stories during a routine search of his
home.

Tough Love And Mud Pies
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An investigation has been launched into a boot camp for unruly teenagers after
the death of a boy who was allegedly deprived of water and forced to eat mud.

Barney Fights Back
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Barney may be a dinosaur who chants about hugs and love, but his lawyers aren’t
afraid to get nasty when protecting their plump, purple trademark.
In the last few weeks, a law firm representing Lyons Partnership — which owns
the rights to Barney — has stepped up its efforts to yank hundreds of humor
sites poking fun at the children’s cartoon character that so many Internet users
love to hate.
A typical nastygram from Gibney, Anthony and Flaherty goes something like this:
“We have reviewed your website and have concluded that it incorporates the use
and threat of violence towards the children’s character Barney without
permission from Lyons Partnership.”

Evil News

Creep Creates Super Hero
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A man was sentenced to 120 years in prison Monday -the maximum -for a sex
attack that left a 9 -year-old child known as Girl X blind, mute and crippled.
“I do not believe that even this sentence is enough for the acts of this
defendant, but the law limits the sentence that I can impose,” Judge Joseph Urso told
Patrick Sykes, a 29 -year-old convicted sex offender.
Prosecutors said that in 1997, Sykes lured a girl into an apartment at the
crime-ridden Cabrini-Green housing project, sexually assaulted her, poured roach
spray down her throat, beat her and left her for dead in a dirty stairwell. The
girl became known in the Chicago media as Girl X.

Firework Explodes in Boy’s Mouth.
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A 12-year-old boy was injured Saturday night when a firework exploded in his
mouth.

Zeus Hates Man Playing Football
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A bolt of lightning came out of a blue sky Saturday, striking two beachgoers
who were tossing around a football. One of the young men was killed in what
meteorologists said was a rare but not unprecedented weather event.

Genuis Thief
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A Doylestown man claims a thief — wearing medical scrubs with a stethoscope in
his pocket — made off with his motorcycle valued at $13,000 yesterday morning
after posing as a doctor at Akron General Medical Center.
Seeling told the Beacon Journal he had gone to the hospital after a man
answered his newspaper advertisement, claimed he was a doctor and asked Seeling to
meet him yesterday morning in the hospital parking lot to look at the motorcycle.
“We made agreements, and he started the bike, and said he would take it around
the block and test drive it. Well, he didn’t come back,” Seeling said
yesterday afternoon.

I’m glad we didn’t. :)

It’s amazing how close we got to nuclear war in the 1940s and 50s…probably a lot closer than most people even realize. Both this article and Dark Sun : The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (excellent book, BTW) state that the United States was planning a preemptive nuclear strike on the Soviet Union.
The basic idea, as presented in particular by Rhodes in Dark Sun, is that the only way a nuclear war could be “won” (i.e. one of the sides left mostly intact) is through a preemptive and total nuclear attack on the enemy before they could attack you; a knockout punch delivered before the bell rings, so to speak. And since, in the late 40s and early 50s, we had that “knockout” capability and the Soviet Union did not, many people in very key military positions argued for the use of that capability at our earliest opportunity. Scary stuff.

Thankfully, more merciful heads prevailed.

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Yikes! In the Madonna theme that posted earlier this week, here – http://www.livejournal.com/talkpost.bml?itemid=6213218

words, evil news and stuff.

Just downloaded 2 years in the forbidden city to my palmtop… it’ll be easier to tate than the printed out version.

words of the day – (I seek to be neither)

timorous TIM-ur-us, adjective:
1. Full of apprehensiveness; timid; fearful.
2. Indicating, or caused by, fear.

The source of timorous is Latin timor, “fear.”

choleric (KOHL-uhr-ik) adjective

Easily irritated or angered: hot-tempered.

[Middle English colerik, from Latin cholericus, from Greek cholerikos.]

And now, the evil news.

The Most Jaded Man In America
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A New Jersey man may be a million dollars richer — but he doesn’t believe it, and apparently doesn’t want to be bothered.
Officials at H&R Block, the company that prepares people’s income tax returns, says the man has until Friday to claim his prize or they will give it to
somebody else.
“It is certainly an odd occurrence, but we are hoping that, by making every attempt to contact him, as well as going to the media and pleading with him to
claim this prize, is that we will indeed have a happy ending to this promotion,” said Janine Smiley, a company spokeswoman.

Life for Addict Who Buried Father Alive
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A heroin addict who bludgeoned his father with a hammer and then buried him alive has been jailed for life.
Kenny Wilkins, 22, attacked his 47-year-old father Kenneth Wilkins and dumped his body in a rubbish tip where they both worked.
Wilkins, of Shard End, Birmingham, used cash taken from his father’s body to buy drugs and pay off a £200 debt.
Birmingham Crown Court was packed with members of Mr Wilkins family who sat in silence as the prosecution detailed the brutal attack by his son.
The court heard Mr Wilkins had received seven hammer blows to his body and had fractures on his hands and arms where he had tried to fend off the blows.
When the prosecutor gave details of the bruises on Mr Wilkins’ body, which showed he had been alive when he was buried, members of his family broke down in tears and some left the court.

Kids Curse On Old Lady Works!
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An elderley woman has died following a confrontation with a group of children at her home in Lancashire.
Sheila Bridge, 62, collapsed within minutes of contacting the police about youngsters causing a disturbance near her sheltered accommodation in Nelson.

Kill and Cull
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China has denied allegations of harvesting and selling the body parts of executed prisoners, sometimes before the donors were clinically dead.
The allegations were made by a Chinese doctor, Wang Guoqi, during testimony to U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, where he described coordinated procedures between surgeons and Chinese government officials to extract convicts’ organs immediately after executions.

New Japanese Fetish
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“My undies? It’s a pain changing them sometimes. You know, like after you’ve stayed at a friend’s place, you don’t change ’em much,” 16-year-old Yumi says.
“But … I do make sure I use a protective sheet for secretions so my panties don’t get dirty.”
Kyoko, a 17-year-old Tokyo teen, tells a similar story.
“It costs a lot to buy underwear if you’re away from home for two or three days, right? That’s why I always used the protective sheets,” Kyoko says. “But I’ve stopped using them now. I used to leak a real lot of fluids. My panties would get all crunchy and the hairs would stick to them. It really hurt when I changed my undies.”

Mom Of Ugly Kid Goes On Rampage
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A lingering argument about the attractiveness of a baby ended Thursday night with a New Orleans woman being booked with attempted murder in connection with dousing 10 people — including two infants and a pregnant woman — with gasoline and then attempting to set them afire.
Cynthia Brown Brady, 32, of 8616 Colapissa St. was booked with 10 counts of attempted first-degree murder, 10 counts of attempted aggravated arson, criminal damage in the amount of $70 and trespassing, said Lt. Marlon Defillo, a New Orleans Police Department spokesman.

Pete Sampras Makes Move On Young Boy
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In front of a suddenly uneasy audience inside Court One, Pete Sampras revealed questionable judgment and taste Friday during his interaction with a ball boy during his third-round victory. Serving in the second set, Sampras began to charge toward the net when he slipped a few feet inside the baseline. As he fell down, the service return by Sargis Sargsian bounced and darted up into the left leg of Sampras’ shorts. Lying on the grass court laughing for several seconds, Sampras sat up with the ball lodged between his legs inside his shorts and looked over toward a ball boy. He smiled, crooked his finger and motioned for the school-aged boy to come toward him. The boy, visibly nervous, approached Sampras, who then touched the ball inside his shorts and asked the boy if he wanted to retrieve it.
“He can pick up the ball if he wants. He declined. I guess he didn’t want to go up my shorts.”

Fatties Are Funny and Its Okay To Point It Out.
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Clearly, studios have concluded that grossly overweight people make audiences laugh. They howl when Fat Bastard grunts, “Get in my belly,” or when a lean Eddie Murphy morphs into a plump Klump.
Yet some people aren’t laughing.
“Unfortunately, it’s funny to people,” said Dr. Lisa Berzins, director of women’s behavior medicine and the eating-disorder program at Manchester Memorial Hospital in Hartford, Conn. “For people who struggle with their weight, it’s not funny at all. The sad thing is people will pay more attention to a person dressed up in a fat suit than a fat person.”
Berzins says that fat suits send the message to society that it’s OK to make fun of overweight people.

It seems “they” are turning Adolph Coors — I mean Hitler’s lair into a ski resort.

My favorite part:

“The Eagle’s Nest tea room < ..snip..> was built by the Nazi party as a present to Hitler on his 50th birthday in 1939. It was one of the few buildings to survive the Allied bombing and has long been a state-run cafe.”

Management for the cafe surely has been recruited from the ever-growing force of Starbucks managers. They are the only ones already in on the secrets, and by combining forces that way Starbucks puts itself in a much more powerful position when they finally decide to strike.

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Uplifting Story of A Disabled Man Overcoming His Disability
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A jury has recommended a 93-year prison term for a paraplegic who stabbed, robbed and sexually assaulted a woman he tricked into giving him a ride.
Bobby M. Patterson, 37, of Orange County got the 44-year-old woman to pick him up at the Wawa store in Central Park in Fredericksburg on Feb. 17 after telling her he was stranded there, according to court records.
He got the woman to take him to the Locust Grove area, where he pulled a gun and ordered her to pull to the side of the road.
Orange Commonwealth’s Attorney Tim Sanner said the handgun looked like a 9 mm,
but turned out to be a BB gun. He said that had the victim not fought back so fiercely, she might have been killed.
“She was just a good Samaritan who was trying to help somebody out,” Sanner said. “She then had the misfortunate of finding herself in this situation.”

Sheriff Had Man By The Balls
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Castrated Arkansas rapist Wayne DuMond has been linked to a Kansas City murder investigation, authorities say.
While awaiting trial, DuMond was castrated at his home, he said, by masked men.
No one was ever arrested in the attack, but DuMond won a $110,000 court judgment against then-Sheriff Coolidge Conlee of St. Francis County, who kept DuMond’s testicles in a jar on his office desk.

Space Man To Reach For The Stars
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He intends to become the first private astronaut to go into space with his own rocket. Within two years, he hopes to take two passengers into space with him.
Critics are already calling it the “bye, bye, Bennett mission”.
…other rocket experts are worried, not least because the Thunderbird capsule is actually a converted cement mixer, containing sheets of hardboard and a few computer joysticks…

John Bonsor, of Starr, a Scottish rocketry group is puzzled. “I don’t understand what is happening. He has been using cheap rockets, has a mixed bag of success and disaster and has achieved less than many others have working from their garage. It is ridiculous to claim that he leads the field, except in the number of crashes.”
“I’ve come from nothing to being the leading contender in the X-Prize,” counters Bennett.
“Only if he reinvents the laws of physics,” replies Bonsor. “He has absolutely no chance of the X-Prize. Please don’t launch.”

The Beer Defense Fails
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The defendant blamed his crime on his need for beer – but the judge didn’t buy it.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Wynne sentenced Steven G. Childress, 47, to one year in jail for breaking into the Seven Star Texaco store in Lynnwood in April.
Childress had claimed he broke into the convenience store only to slake his thirst for a beer.

Cloning Allergen-Free Cat
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Transgenic Pets, a tiny company in Syracuse, N.Y., says it is developing a genetically engineered cat that won’t cause allergies, a development that could allow millions of people who can’t now do so to keep the animals as pets.

The Ice Cream Man Is Dead!
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Two little boys watched in horror as their local ice cream man, the neighborhood children’s summertime friend, was shot in front of them.
“He was screaming, ‘Mom, the ice cream man is dead, the ice cream man is dead.”

Paula Poundstone update –

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/2000/20010627/lo/843838_1.html

Still no real info, but folks are rallying around her, disagreeing with the charges. I hope very much that the charges are unfounded.

Evil news…

Shetland Pony Gives Birth to Zebra
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The owners of Tilly the Shetland pony received a double shock when she gave birth. They didn’t know she was pregnant – and they certainly weren’t expecting a zebra.
Tilly’s owners at Eden Ostrich World, a modest visitor attraction on a farm near Penrith in northwestern England had been unaware of the pony’s exotic past life at a wildlife park, where she shared a field with a male zebra.
“She was fairly fat when we received her and we thought that she was getting fatter,” Ostrich World manager Karen Peet said Tuesday.

You Might Be A Redneck If You Are 19 and Still In High School
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Tom Sypniewski thought his “redneck” t-shirt was funny, but school officials deemed it offensive, ordered him to remove it and are now being sued for allegedly violating his free speech rights. Sypniewski, 19, wore the shirt, which listed comic Jeff Foxworthy’s “Top 10 Reasons You Might Be A Redneck Sports Fan,” to Warren Hills Regional High School on March 22 and was told to remove it.
He refused and was suspended for three days, losing an appeal to the Board of Education in April.

Nut Protests Bad Food And Service
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On 12 separate days, Jack Neu has picketed a Parma restaurant, saying the food served at his oldest son’s wedding reception was old, cold and three hours late.
And now the restaurant is serving the Cleveland man with a lawsuit.
…Neu decided to protest outside the restaurant. Neu said that some people “flip me the bird” and others point out that he misspelled “Stancato’s” on his sign.

Zoo Animals Shoot Back
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The bullet that killed a 41-year-old woman walking her child at a zoo over the weekend was fired intentionally from more than 100 yards, police said Monday.
The tragedy was compounded later Saturday when Bernita White’s mother, Barbara Sims, 67, collapsed and died of a heart attack after State Police in Detroit informed her of her daughter’s death.

Branded Woman Sobers Up
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Anybody that pays $5 and gets branded with the mark of a bald-headed man with a mustache and goatee can get 50 cents off any drink for life at a Tucson bar called the Meet Rack.
But a woman is suing the bar owners and the man who does the branding, claiming that she was branded near her navel with a red-hot stamp against her will.

Word of the Day, and Evil News

interlard in-tur-LARD, transitive verb:
To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions.

Interlard comes from Middle French entrelarder, from Old
French, from entre, “between” (from Latin inter-) + larder, “to lard,” from larde, “lard,” from Latin lardum. The original sense of the word, now obsolete, was “to place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean.”

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McVeigh Execution Items Too Gruesome For Ebay
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A man hawking copies of Timothy McVeigh’s death certificate and handwritten last statement was booted off an Internet auction site after users thought his sale was too gruesome.

School Trips Banned Amid Child Slave Panic
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Burkina Faso ordered the suspension of school trips to Ivory Coast for fear that its children could be picked up as suspected slaves. Ivory Coast, facing criticism over the use of forced child labor on its cocoa plantations, has been repatriating hundreds of young people from Burkina Faso believed to be victims of a trade in child slaves.

Black Leaders Get Wacky!
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Some black politicians and civil rights activists refuse to pledge allegiance to the U.S. flag, calling it a symbol of slavery and racial oppression. “This flag represents the former colonies that enslaved our ancestors,” says Tennessee state Rep. Henri Brooks. “And when this flag was designed, they did not have [black people] in mind.”

Save the Children… So We Can Have Sex With Them.
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Nicholas Morency, 30, of Villas is the first person prosecuted in New Jersey for violating the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.His 30-month prison sentence, however, also covers an unrelated offense, the possession of thousands of items of child pornography. Under federal sentencing guidelines, the child pornography offense is more serious and had the effect of giving Morency concurrent time for the Internet offense.

Visit Hawaii Before Its Too Late and They Are Too Old
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Support is building at the State Capitol for an effort to override Gov. Ben Cayetano’s veto of a bill to raise the age when minors can legally consent to having sex. Hawaii’s present age of consent is 14, the youngest in the nation, and the bill would have raised the age to 16. In cases where 14- and 15-year-olds have consensual sex with a person who is at least five years older, the bill called for adult offenders to face up to 20 years in prison.

The Best Slaves Are Chinese Slaves
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When a man offered Feng Chenyun temporary work in another city, she jumped at the chance. Barely literate and desperately poor, Ms. Feng had two children, 10 and 16, and it was nearly impossible to scrape together school fees from her small plot of rice and rape seed.

Her husband was working as a migrant laborer 1,000 miles away, in Guangdong Province. At 37, she had never left her county in Sichaun Province and was feeling restless.

“I went with him because he was offering me work,” she said, recounting from her small dark home the start of a tale that still brings tears three years later. “I just wanted to get out and earn a bit of money.”

Instead, Ms. Feng was kidnapped, drugged, placed on a train and sold for about $1,500 as a bride to a brick maker in faraway Xinjiang Province — becoming one of the tens if not hundreds of thousands of poor Chinese women who are sold on a black market each year.

Little Brother is my fave!!

In Search of Fecal Accidents
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Any kid will tell you, sometimes accidents just happen. But with summer-like temperatures luring more residents into the water, health officials are doing their best to keep accidents — “fecal accidents,” to be precise — from causing trouble in the city’s public pools.

Little Brother Gets Busted
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In this lively and engaging tale, a naive young robot runs afoul of the law – and wacky hijinks ensue! Through the trials and tribulations of our protagonist, we discover the nuances of U.S. drug enforcement policy and learn valuable lessons including proper procedures for handling police interrogations and hiding contraband in one’s anal cavity.

Segregation Is Back, But Its Okay!
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This weekend, UCLA’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community will unite pink with black – colors of triangles used to identify gays and lesbians in Nazi Germany – in the Lavender Celebration to convey the significance of their graduation as visible LGBT individuals.
The celebration, along with the Iranian Student Group and the Asian Pacific Islander Celebrations, are examples of the identity-based graduation ceremonies, which are available in addition to the traditional, degree-conferring commencement events…
“Students not of the majority feel that they’re not included in university life,” Sanlo said. “(These) celebrations tell students not only that their identities are something of which they can be very proud, but that this institution is very proud of who they are and what they are going to become.”

Dog Boy Rescued!
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In Chile, an 11-year-old boy who had been living wild with a pack of dogs has been rescued by authorities and taken to hospital. The child, who has severe physical and psychiatric health problems, had been surviving by drinking the milk of a female dog, who was the pack leader, and scavenging for food.

Fungus Eats Compact Discs
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FIRST there was the computer virus. Now scientists have found a fungus that eats compact discs.
Victor Cardenes, of Spain’s leading scientific research body, stumbled across the microscopic creature two years ago, while visiting Belize. Friends complained that in the hot and sticky Central American climate, a CD had stopped working and had developed an odd discoloration that left parts of it virtually transparent.

All Your Money And A Chalupa
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It was a late-night run for the border gone awry. A 17-year-old man was shot and arrested early Monday after he rode his bicycle to a drive-through Taco Bell window, demanding that the crew give him all their money and a chalupa.
But, while he was waiting for the food, a Taco Bell worker called the police.
The man, whose identity has not been released, was a former employee of the restaurant.
Fort Worth Police Lt. Duane Paul said the crew handed over the money, but while the suspect waited for the chalupa, a police officer pulled up behind him…

Evil News

Tree Attacks Tree Hugger
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On the eve of the first anniversary of its aerial “village” in a remote forest near Mount Madonna, Earth First!’s attempt to establish a large tree-sitting operation near Boulder Creek has been marred by the serious injury of a young woman. Jenna Griffith, 20, who uses the forest name “Sparrow,” was injured Wednesday when she fell about 30 feet from a tree and hit her head on a redwood stump.
“Sparrow was hurt doing her utmost to save those trees,”

Another Female Teacher Getting Some From The Kids
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A second-grade teacher suspected of having sex with a 14-year-old boy was reported to authorities by Marysville teachers after her behavior with a boy at a middle-school sports event raised red flags, Marysville School District officials said yesterday. The 37-year-old woman, a Marysville resident who teaches in the Mukilteo district, was at a basketball game at Cedarcrest School when teachers noticed “behavior of concern” between the two, Marysville district spokeswoman Mary Fears said. Fears said she was touching the boy. The teacher is under investigation for her involvement with at least two boys, both 14-year-old friends of her son. One told investigators he’d had sex with the woman on three occasions in her home in April, according to a probable-cause arrest document. The mother of another boy had obtained a no-contact order against the teacher in February, after she became worried that her son was having an inappropriate relationship with the woman.
“Oh, I have the car all warm for you.”

Yahoo Bans Japanese Child Killing Game
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A computer game modeled after the fatal stabbing of eight children in western Japan has been removed from a Yahoo portal site, Yahoo Japan Corp. said today.An unidentified person put “Killing Children at Ikeda Elementary School” on the Yahoo portal site following the June 8 school attack, Yahoo Japan Corp. officials said on condition of anonymity.

New Zealanders Call for Fat Tax
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand nutritional group suggested today that food should be taxed according to its fat content in an effort to curb obesity

Thirsty Beer Fans Want Tax Repeal
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A tax on liquor brought America the Whiskey Rebellion two centuries ago. Now the brewing industry is looking to start the Battle over the Beer Tax.”Beer is one of America’s best pastimes,”

Man Makes Wacky Excuse To Evade Wife’s Fury
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Greenville County authorities are investigating the Friday morning kidnapping of a Greenville businessman, News 4 reports. Authorities said that Donald Burdette walked out of work early Friday morning and into the barrel of a gun.

Another Vendor Whines About Kids
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Three girls aged 7 to 9 have been ordered to shut down their front yard snow cone stand. An ice cream vendor’s tip brought orders from the Santa Barbara County Environmental Health Services to halt snow cone sales. The popular flavored snow cones went for 50 cents. The ice cream man apparently didn’t want the competition.
“It is really sad,”

Weight Watchers Fooled With ‘Diet’ Ice Cream
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At Weight Watchers meetings from Florida to Virginia, rooms frequently become abuzz with talk of “Big Daddy” ice cream. Internet chat rooms and bulletin boards share the secret of this tasty, guilt-free treat made by DeConna Ice Cream Co. in Orange Lake, which has been selling briskly in several major grocery store chains. In a world in which counting calories and fat is a way of life, the nutritional label on the product is a dieter’s dream. Vanilla Big Daddy, according to the label, has 100 calories and 2 grams of fat for a 12-ounce serving — a mere 2 points for Weight Watchers devotees, about the same as an apple. But lab tests commissioned by the Sun-Sentinel could explain why calorie and carbohydrate-watchers who nosh on the supposedly light delight might not be losing weight. The tests showed the calories are triple what is touted on the label and the carbohydrates are more than double — an understatement of 200 calories, 5.5 grams of fat and 31 grams of carbohydrates.

more mixed feelings….

In my local news. – –

Convicted molester seeks OK to marry

A woman begged a Broward circuit judge Thursday for permission to marry the man she loves: John Medlock, convicted child molester.

His fiancée, Katherine Anderson, says she wants to marry Medlock as soon as possible and have him move in with her and her children, a 10-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl.

Anderson told Circuit Judge Marc Gold that she was aware of her fiancé’s prison record.

“Before we even started dating, he showed me all of his paperwork,” Anderson said. “He’s a wonderful man. He’s about to be ordained as a minister at our church.”

the whole story is here-

Now, he’s served what the law feels is his time… and I think that he should have the right to marry, if the family is willing to accept him… but I honestly don’t think I could forget his past. Forgiving an admitted sexual predator? I don’t know if I could. I know I wouldn’t want the wedding happening to someone I cared deeply about… I’d have trouble working in the same office with the guy. I get angry just thinking about it.