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Thursday, June 19, 2008

911 call released in case of NC teen tied to tree

Two callers didn't answer a 911 dispatcher's repeated questions about what a 13-year-old boy was doing before he stopped breathing on a tape released Tuesday by investigators, who have said the teen was tied to a tree for two nights.

"Our little boy stopped breathing," a woman tells the dispatcher. Later she pleads, "Please hurry. Please hurry."

Brice Brian McMillan, 41, and his wife Sandra Elizabeth McMillan, 36, of Macclesfield are accused of killing their son, Tyler, by tying him to a tree for two nights for punishment. The Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office wouldn't immediately confirm whether they believe the callers are the McMillans but said the recording was related to the case.

The dispatcher repeatedly asked the woman and later a man what the child was doing before he stopped breathing, but neither respond. The man said the boy did not have any medical problems. Toward the end of the call, neither responded to repeated questions from the dispatcher as they apparently performed CPR on the teen, who later died at a hospital.

Headlines

Just a few News Headlines. Presented without reference or explanation. I wonder what conclusions you make from just the headline?

Midwest feels misled by feds


Poison sue royalty


Kentucky indicts Ohio over rock


Two longtime survivors meet


School gets transvestite bathrooms


Hula Hoop turns 50


Hats and heels take the day


Rape is a way of life


Man who proved true birth year dies at 83


Bush tells no one he's listening


Germany seeks Nazi from US

Ok, there are a few key words missing from some of the headlines - but not from all of them ... can you tell which ones?
Hint: They're not the ones you might think.
So what do you conclude from these headlines?

Group files suit over 'I Believe' plates in SC

A group that advocates separation of church and state filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to prevent South Carolina from becoming the first state to create "I Believe" license plates.

The group contends that South Carolina's government is endorsing Christianity by allowing the plates, which would include a cross superimposed on a stained glass window.

Washington-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed the lawsuit on behalf of two Christian pastors, a humanist pastor and a rabbi in South Carolina, along with the Hindu American Foundation.

"I do believe these 'I Believe' plates will not see the light of day because the courts, I'm confident, will see through this," said the Rev. Barry Lynn, the group's executive director.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for South Carolina, asks a judge to stop the state from making the plates and rule that the law allowing them violates the First Amendment.

A spokeswoman said the state Department of Motor Vehicles had not yet received the lawsuit and planned to go ahead with the plates unless told otherwise. The agency plans to unveil the final design and start taking orders by late August.

The bill sailed through the Legislature with little discussion earlier this year. Gov. Mark Sanford let it become law without his signature because the state already allows private groups to create license plates for any cause.

Republican House Speaker Bobby Harrell said residents asked for a way to express their beliefs, and legislators responded.

He disputed Lynn's accusation that they were pandering to constituents in an election year.

"That's what critics always say when they see something they don't like," Harrell said. "I think this has less to do with the First Amendment and more to do with their disdain for religion generally."

Lynn said his group would not have opposed the "I Believe" plates had they been advocated by private groups. State law allows private groups to create specialty plates as long as they first collect either a $4,000 deposit or 400 prepaid orders.

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer said last week that he is willing to put up the money, then get reimbursed, though the Department of Motor Vehicles spokeswoman said that isn't necessary. Bauer said the idea came from Florida, where a proposal for an "I Believe" tag failed.

He called it a freedom-of-speech issue.

But a Methodist pastor who joined the lawsuit, the retired Rev. Thomas Summers of Columbia, said the plate provokes discrimination.

"I think this license plate really is divisive and creates the type of religious discord I've devoted my life to healing," he said.

Another of the ministers, the Rev. Robert Knight of Charleston, said the plates cheapen the Christian message.

"As an evangelical Christian, I don't think civil religion enhances the Christian religion. It compromises it," Knight said. "That's the fundamental irony. It's very shallow from a Christian standpoint."

This is one more minister here who joins in saying that the separation of church and state is paramount and these vanity plates should never be allowed. Being a scientist as well as a minister I am not blinded by dogma as are those attempting to foist these plates on the people of this nation (you know they won't stay in SC if they are allowed to see the light of day as another put it).

It's not McPain's age - it's his judgment

John McPain's campaign is accusing Democrats of ageism because they say McPain is "confused", "oblivious", and "out of touch".

But this isn't a criticism of McPain's age because the shrub is far younger than
McPain and the shrub is also confused, oblivious, and out of touch.

The problem with McPain isn't his age, it's his poor judgment.
It's not that McPain is to old, it's that McPain. like the shrub, is just
plain wrong and he hasn't learned anything from the shrub's mistakes.

Sixth foot a hoax

Canada's Sixth Foot!


British Columbia's coroner's office is calling the discovery of a sixth floating human foot a hoax, saying it was really an animal paw stuffed inside a running shoe.

At first, Wednesday's discovery deepened the mystery surrounding the feet, all found floating along island shorelines in the Strait of Georgia near Vancouver.

But the coroner's office Thursday called the latest find a hoax, saying an animal's foot had been inserted inside the shoe.

Authorities say they haven't reached any conclusions about the origin of the five human feet.

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Ok, who is doing this and what is going on and why are the hoaxers getting in on the action?!

Haters Scream Loudly

What I find utterly amazing is the haters on an old forum are spouting off about 'angry' posters when it is they who are the angry ones and brook no deviation from their proscribed dogma.

People are ceasing to go to that forum because of these people, who have reared their heads once again and are all chorusing the same tune claiming they debate ideas and everyone else 'ruthlessly attacks them personally' when the reverse is reality.

Haters have a problem with reality - it seldom, if at all, meshes with their dogma.

What we are seeing and hearing now is the last screams of the Hater Movement ... the shrub and the rest of the cabal have seen to their death knell by their 'activities' over the last seven plus years - it is the one thing the shrub and the cabal have done that is good for the nation and the world.

Too, bad they have come to dominate a forum that was once vibrant and vital but now is totally irrelevant just as they have done on numerous forums before.