Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Road rage, loose change and ranch dressing?
An 18-year-old Boise woman threw spare change and ranch dressing at another driver, then rammed his car several times with her pickup, according to police.
Tales of the Weird
Can anyone shed a light on this mystery?
Cops and Robbers
Authorities arrested a woman for allegedly trying to kidnap her daughter's boyfriend and haul him away to Northern California.
Authorities said Bessie Lou Phillips was so mad her brother was sentenced to life in prison for scamming an elderly woman she followed the victim and rammed her car.
If it's Thursday, it's time to rob a bank. That was the schedule followed by a man who admitted robbing six New Jersey banks on consecutive Thursdays between late January and early March.
Academia ... Maybe
At the end of his speech Tuesday urging legalization of marijuana, a 17-year-old Peninsula High School student pulled out a joint, lit it and smoked away.
A Pittsburgh-area school board has upheld the expulsion of a 15-year-old middle school student who was found to have an eyebrow shaver in her handbag during a random search.
New Bin Laden Tape Blasts Obama
Al Qaeda Chief Says U.S. President Has Planted Seeds Of "Hatred And Vengeance"
Damn, he needs to learn another tune! This one has gotten very stale.
Ten-Year Old Fights Breast Cancer
Hannah Powell-Auslam, is a rarity, and not in a good way. In fact, she is one of few children to be diagnosed with breast cancer; she is only 10 years old and she is already fighting it.
Cops Looking for Bra Bandits
Parma, Ohio police are looking for a couple of bra bandits who walked off with $2,700 worth of Victoria's Secret bras.The theft happened at the Victoria's Secret store in Parmatown mall last week.
Police said the couple are seen first on surveillance video walking around the store. The man in the video is carrying a bag that is noticeably fuller when he leaves the store.
Parma Police Spokesman Marty Compton said it appears that the couple was stuffing the bras into the bags. They got away with a total of 60 bras.
"Surprisingly it's the brazen comfort they had in walking in scarfing up the merchandise and just walking back out," Compton said.
Compton said this is the third theft report from the store in the last nine months, but this is the first theft caught on video.
"It could be a ring of individuals who are obtaining merchandise to sell on the internet through black market outlets things of that nature," Compton said.
Gingrich backs off 'racist' label for Sotomayor
The former house speaker says he shouldn't have called the president's Supreme Court nominee a racist.
Gingrich backs off
Air France jet may have broke up above ocean
Investigators focus on a theory that the jetliner came apart over the Atlantic as it flew through a violent storm.
Air France jet may have broke up above ocean
Mongolian Death Worm
"In Search of the Mongolian Death Worm (creepy story and pictures of monstrous creature from the sands of Mongolia)"Two bullets that collided in mid air in 1854 - one Russian, one French
Those are two bullets, French and Russian collided in the air, back at 1854 during the war in Russia at Crimea peninsula. People say that a probability odds for this to happen is one to a billion, and to find such 150 years later was also a great luck.Two bullets that collided in mid air in 1854 - one Russian, one French...
How your undies track the recession
Guys, if you want to know where the economy is headed next, look in your underwear drawer.
If you're like most men, you've got more than a few skivvies in, well, less than perfect condition.
If you're put off buying replacements -- and your significant other hasn't done it for you -- then guess what? The recession probably ain't over yet.
In fact, right now men's underwear sales suggest that things have bottomed but not started to recover.
Sure, this sounds trivial. But no less an economist than former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan is a fan of men's underwear sales as an important economic indicator.
It's one of several unusual indicators economists turn to in hard times. We went looking through them in a quest for the much-discussed "green shoots" of an imminent recovery.
Read the rest here.
Now, there is a scary thought!
Mysterious night-shining clouds may peak this year
The lull in the sun's activity in recent years should produce a bumper crop of the high-flying clouds, which have been on the rise and could be linked to climate change.
Mysterious night-shining clouds may peak this year
How Antarctica grew its ice – and lost its hanging gardens
The most detailed radar maps ever of the Gamburtsev mountains, which lie under 3 kilometers of Antarctic ice, show how lush forests turned into frozen waste.
How Antarctica grew its ice – and lost its hanging gardens
(This is another take on the previous post from BBC-Science.)
Science News
 |  | The East Antarctic ice sheet was formed over an "Alpine" backdrop 14 million years ago, research suggests. |
Liars and Fools
Terry Declares That Tiller “Reaped What He Sowed,” Then Asks If Someone Will Buy Him Lunch
Damnation awaits terry and his ilk, most assuredly it does in any religious theory - even the Atheists!
Bible Used to Justify Dr. Tiller’s Murder
That work of pure fiction is used to 'justify' a whole hell of a lot of things - erroneously of course.
Randall Terry: “George Tiller was a mass-murderer. We grieve for him that he did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God.”
Tell another whopper while you're at it - two is not enough!
*****
(here's a hint for you - nada, nil, zip, zilch, nunca, none, nothing, zero)
What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?
Five piece toolkit made by wild chimps
Chimps built a 5-piece toolkit to help them extract honey from underground bee colonies.
The tools consist of pounders, enlargers, collectors, perforators and swabbers. Chimps, suspended in acrobatic positions on branches, might first pull out a thick stick pounder to break open beehive entrances. They then reach for another stick, the enlarger, to perforate and widen different honeybee hive compartments. Next comes the collector, used to dip or scoop out honey.Different tools and methods are needed to obtain underground bee honey. The chimps wield a perforator to penetrate the ground, locate a honey chamber and dig into the soil. They then pull off strips of bark to "dip and spoon the honey out of the opened beehive."
Obtaining honey from an underground hive isn't easy. Aside from dealing with angry, stinging bees, the chimps must dig narrow sideways tunnels, maintain perfect aim and prevent soil from falling into, and ruining, their desired sweet reward.
Liars and Fools
Oh my, Media Matters catches Swill O'Really in another lie.
He cannot tell the truth and guess what ...
Here's what Media Matters has dug up:
* On the May 15 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly stated that Kathleen Sebelius, who was then the governor of Kansas and is now secretary of health and human services, "is the most pro-abortion governor in the United States. Based upon Dr. Tiller, the baby killer in her state, and all of that. All right? So there's no doubt."* On the May 11 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly said Sebelius "is pro-abortion. She wants the babies done for. This is -- she supported Tiller the baby killer out there."
* On the April 27 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly said that Sebelius "recently vetoed a bill that placed restrictions on late-term abortions in Kansas. The bill was introduced because of the notorious Tiller the baby killer case, where Dr. George Tiller destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000."
* On the April 3 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly said, "Tiller got acquitted in Kansas, Tiller the baby killer."
* On the March 27 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly stated: "Now, we have bad news to report, that Tiller the baby killer out in Kansas -- acquitted. Acquitted today of murdering babies. I wasn't in the courtroom. I didn't sit on the jury. But there's got to be a special place in hell for this guy."
Giant jellyfish crop circle baffles Britons
The enormous field art has already earned a distinguished spot in crop circle lore.Giant jellyfish crop circle baffles Britons
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Heavy seas hamper recovery of Flight 447 debris
High seas and heavy winds are delaying the arrival of deep-water submersibles needed to help recover debris from an Air France jet.
Heavy seas hamper recovery of Flight 447 debris
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Amateur Abortions in Africa
Amateur Abortions in Africa
Boy, 10, 'Too Tall' For Kid's Meal Discount
Boy, 10, 'Too Tall' For Kid's Meal Discount
Tiananmen Square Massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the June 4th Incident, or colloquially, Six-four by the Chinese public, and as the Political Turmoil between Spring and Summer of 1989 by the government of China, were a series of demonstrations led by students, intellectuals and labor activists in China between April 15, 1989 and June 4, 1989.
In the days leading up to the twentieth anniversary of the massacre ...
The 70-year-old leader of the Tiananmen Mothers, Ding Zilin, whose son was killed in the 1989 massacre, has been put under surveillance and told not to accept visitors in the lead-up to the anniversary.
She is followed by police even when she leaves her home to buy food and daily necessities.
Ding's 15-year effort demanding the Chinese government give a full accounting of the massacre and find out who was responsible for ordering the military to fire on unarmed civilians has led to her nomination for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Other members of her grouping, like Huang Jinping, whose husband was shot and killed in the crackdown, are also facing similar police harassment.
Illinois dad, daughter arrested after fight over shoes
Illinois dad, daughter arrested after fight over shoes
Man, 82, chokes girlfriend for loading dishwasher wrong
An elderly Florida man allegedly choked his live-in girlfriend because he was unhappy with the way she loaded the dishwasher.
Natural Swimming Ponds Ditch The Chemicals
Natural Swimming Ponds Are Catching On
Natural swimming ponds are already quite popular in Europe and are gaining interest in the US. Companies like Clear Water Revival (UK) and Total Habitat (US) can help you design your perfect dream pond, or revamp the pool you already have. The cost of new natural ponds versus conventional swimming pools is said to be comparable, but maintenance costs for a chemical-free pool will be much lower. (Just think of the increased health benefits as an added bonus.)Unusual Holidays and Celebrations
Chimborazo Day
(Hey, don't ask me I haven't a clue either)
Teen's freak accident leads to medical mystery
Nineteen-year-old Kayla Hutcheson's amnesia has stumped doctors.
Teen's freak accident leads to medical mystery
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Just who is the terrorist here?
You don’t need me to fill you in on the details of the murder of George Tiller in Kansas. The terrorist who committed this crime is in jail ...
He’ll be charged with murder, but there’s no mention yet of any sort of terror charges. The FBI and others have been eager to use anti-terror provisions of the PATRIOT Act to go after ALF and ELF activists, some of whom have done nothing more than organize protests or post information to the web. Many of them have destroyed property, but no one has done any killing, or even wounded someone other than themselves.
Alternet quotes the National Abortion Federation for these statistics here:
“Not surprisingly, his killer is strongly suspected to be affiliated with the ‘pro-life’ movement. If that’s the case, it makes Tiller the 10th person in the United States to be murdered by anti-choice terrorists.”
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Since 1977, there have been at least 17 attempted murders, 383 death threats, 153 incidents of assault or battery and three kidnappings committed against abortion providers in North America. Tiller himself survived an assassination attempt in 1993.
Compare the anti-abortion movement’s record on violence with the environmental and animal rights movements, and see who you think should more properly be charged with terrorism.
Tienanmen Square Erased!
I have spent a lot of time over the past three years with Chinese university students. They know a lot about the world, and about American history, and about certain periods in their own country's past. Virtually everyone can recite chapter and verse of the Japanese cruelties in China from the 1930s onward, or the 100 Years of Humiliation, or the long background of Chinese engagement with Tibet. Through their own family's experiences, many have heard of the trauma of the Cultural Revolution years and the starvation and hardship of the Great Leap Forward. But you can't assume they will ever have heard of what happened in Tiananmen Square twenty years ago. For a minority of people in China, the upcoming date of June 4 has tremendous significance. For most young people, it's just another day.
Too bad for China - the rest of the world isn't as gullible nor have we forgotten or will we let it be forgotten!
Woman delivers her own baby in car
He proved it when he entered the world three weeks early.
Woman delivers her own baby in car
Mortuary's License Pulled Over Severed Legs
Cave Funeral home in Allendale, SC and its director, Michael Cave, have had their licenses revoked after it was discovered the home cut off the legs of a man so that his body would fit into a casket.
Man arrested for the 153rd time to plead guilty
A New Hampshire man has been arrested for the 153rd time, this time after he was accused of punching someone in the face over the weekend.
Twenty UFOs fly in formation?
Mystery ... bright objects light up night sky
This incredible picture captured the strange sighting of what appeared to be more than 20 UFOs buzzing over awestruck Britain.
China Blocks Twitter, Hotmail and Flickr
China ramps up Internet censorship as the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre approaches.
The government accidentally posts sensitive nuclear info
Officials insist that the mistakenly published information is not a "road map for terrorists."
The government accidentally posts sensitive nuclear info
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More debris, few clues in Air France flight search
Despite new finds hopes are fading for conclusive answers to the still-unexplained crash.
More debris, few clues
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Past flight may offer clues to Air France crash
The flight computer of a similar Airbus jet sent it on a 650-foot dive last October, injuring more than 100 passengers.
Past flight may offer clues to Air France crash
Careers that remain red hot
Qualified applicants are still hard to find for these jobs that can pay as much as $86K.
Careers
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Where the unemployment rate is highest
Joblessness rose in all U.S. metro areas last month, with some regions suffering especially high rates.Unemployment
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Daily Horoscope
Your natural leadership skills are a curse and a blessing.
They're a blessing for others because, when things get out of control, they know they can turn to you for help.
The curse part comes in when you're out for recreation, looking forward to some fun, and then, suddenly, you're asked to take over.
Like today, for example.
Oh, well. Think of it as a compliment -- or resolve to find yourself another companion.
Ain't it the truth.
