Two Australian nursing home residents were "severely chewed" by mice when the Queensland state-run facility in which they were patients became infested with the rodents.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Man checks pot pipe at courthouse security
From the "Real swift move there, Sherlock" Department:
A Florida man faces misdemeanor charges for possession of drug paraphernalia after he placed his keys and other belongings, including a pot pipe, in a tray at a courthouse security checkpoint.
New Wrinkle On Avoiding Jury Duty
There are probably better ways to avoid jury duty than the approach recently taken by a Montana man.
After Erik Slye, 36, received a jury notice earlier this year, he filed a notarized affidavit seeking to be excused from serving on a District Court panel in Gallatin County.
Girl Fights Off Muggers With Marching Band Baton
This one time at band camp ...
Don't mess with a marching band girl, especially one armed with a baton.
A 17-year-old high school marching band student beat up two assailants who tried to mug her as she walked to school in this high desert community about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.
Car hits crowd watching Dutch queen
A Dutch driver careened through police barriers and plowed into a crowd of merrymakers cheering their popular queen Thursday, in a premeditated assault on the royal family that killed five bystanders and injured 12, authorities said.
World takes drastic steps to contain swine flu
Officials across the globe are intensifying efforts to combat swine flu, but some doubt they'll work. Drastic steps to contain swine flu
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Just for fun ...
Can you translate this?
Khai Sang Phuong Phap Nuoi Vit
Long Island Nguyen Thuy
Culver Dung Hang Tien Phong
(Hint: I helped you out a bit)
Khai Sang Phuong Phap Nuoi Vit
Long Island Nguyen Thuy
Culver Dung Hang Tien Phong
(Hint: I helped you out a bit)
Workout mistakes
America's smoggiest cities
The Horrors of Socialism
It's enough to make a wing-nut piss themselves!
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Very interesting tidbit: the Swedish MP explains that Sweden has a trade surplus and lends money to the US (we, of course, have a massive trade deficit).
There is, of course, a contrarian view: that the trade deficit is not a bad thing. That it is, in fact, a good thing:
The Causes and Consequences of the U.S. Trade Deficit
Are Trade Deficits Really Bad News?
(a case that seems less and less reality-based every day)
Foods that are dangerous for dogs
Swine flu experts: Don't blame the pig
Humans and birds are just as responsible as the now-maligned swines.Lawyer for Fiancee of Accused 'Craigslist Killer' Says Couple's Wedding Is "Dismantled"
Like DUH!
It appears that Megan "Stand By Your Man" McAllister finally took a seat in the court of public opinion and "dismantled" her planned late summer wedding to the alleged Craigslist Killer.
To think you let one dead body and some flimsy circumstantial stand in your way of happiness.
A lawyer for the fiancee of accused "Craigslist Killer" Philip Markoff says the couple's summer wedding is being "dismantled."
Robert Honecker, the lawyer for Megan McAllister, told ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday that his client's planned August wedding to 23-year-old Markoff "will not occur" and is not likely to happen at any time in the future.
McAllister, accompanied by her mother and Honecker, met with Markoff in jail for about 25 minutes on Wednesday.
McAllister, 25, did not appear to be wearing an engagement ring and wouldn't talk to the media.
Markoff is in jail for allegedly using Craigslist to lure women selling erotic services to hotel rooms, then robbing them at gunpoint to feed a gambling habit.
He is charged with killing one of the women, 25-year-old New York City masseuse Julissa Brisman, on April 14 when she fought back. He is also accused of robbing another masseuse four days earlier at a different hotel in Boston.
And he is suspected in a third attack in Rhode Island on a Las Vegas stripper, who was tied up in a hotel room by a man she met on Craigslist but got away when her husband came in.
Authorities say they expect to file charges in that case by week's end.
Markoff has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
This week, McAllister issued another statement through an attorney saying that she stands by Markoff and still loves him, but is cooperating with the investigation.
She asked that her fiancé's fate not be determined by the press and public opinion.
"What has been portrayed and leaked to the media is not the Philip Markoff that I know," McAllister said. "To me and my family, he is a loving and caring person."
Evidence has been mounting against Markoff since he was jailed.
Last week, a preliminary match was made between a gun allegedly found in Markoff and McAllister's apartment and the bullets that killed Brisman, police sources said. The underwear of Brisman and his second alleged victim was also reportedly discovered at Markoff's home, according to the sources.
On Friday, authorities in Rhode Island said his fingerprints were found on the wall of the hotel room where the Vegas stripper was tied up in an attempted robbery.
Markoff was a second-year medical student at Boston University when he was arrested last week during a traffic stop as he drove to Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. He has pleaded not guilty.
It appears that Megan "Stand By Your Man" McAllister finally took a seat in the court of public opinion and "dismantled" her planned late summer wedding to the alleged Craigslist Killer.To think you let one dead body and some flimsy circumstantial stand in your way of happiness.
A lawyer for the fiancee of accused "Craigslist Killer" Philip Markoff says the couple's summer wedding is being "dismantled."
Robert Honecker, the lawyer for Megan McAllister, told ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday that his client's planned August wedding to 23-year-old Markoff "will not occur" and is not likely to happen at any time in the future.
McAllister, accompanied by her mother and Honecker, met with Markoff in jail for about 25 minutes on Wednesday.
McAllister, 25, did not appear to be wearing an engagement ring and wouldn't talk to the media.
Markoff is in jail for allegedly using Craigslist to lure women selling erotic services to hotel rooms, then robbing them at gunpoint to feed a gambling habit.
He is charged with killing one of the women, 25-year-old New York City masseuse Julissa Brisman, on April 14 when she fought back. He is also accused of robbing another masseuse four days earlier at a different hotel in Boston.
And he is suspected in a third attack in Rhode Island on a Las Vegas stripper, who was tied up in a hotel room by a man she met on Craigslist but got away when her husband came in.
Authorities say they expect to file charges in that case by week's end.
Markoff has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
This week, McAllister issued another statement through an attorney saying that she stands by Markoff and still loves him, but is cooperating with the investigation.
She asked that her fiancé's fate not be determined by the press and public opinion.
"What has been portrayed and leaked to the media is not the Philip Markoff that I know," McAllister said. "To me and my family, he is a loving and caring person."
Evidence has been mounting against Markoff since he was jailed.
Last week, a preliminary match was made between a gun allegedly found in Markoff and McAllister's apartment and the bullets that killed Brisman, police sources said. The underwear of Brisman and his second alleged victim was also reportedly discovered at Markoff's home, according to the sources.
On Friday, authorities in Rhode Island said his fingerprints were found on the wall of the hotel room where the Vegas stripper was tied up in an attempted robbery.
Markoff was a second-year medical student at Boston University when he was arrested last week during a traffic stop as he drove to Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. He has pleaded not guilty.
California Woman: My Father Was the Zodiac Killer
A woman stepped forward Wednesday to claim her late father was the infamous Zodiac Killer and that she as a 7-year-old wrote and stamped some of the letters that taunted local police.Kevin McLean, the former law partner of the late Melvin Belli, said he has led a two-year investigation into claims by Deborah Perez [pictured] that her father, Guy Ward Hendrickson, was the Zodiac killer. Hendrickson, who lived in Orange County, died in 1993 of cancer.
Perez described Hendrickson as a carpenter, a father of six, with a violent nature.
“He was a Jekyll and Hyde,” McLean said of Hendrickson. “He was nuts. He set out to kill people. Some of these killings were not random.”
McLean said Perez came forward on Wednesday because another investigator in Sacramento was about to come forward with a different theory of the killings. She was also currently involved in making a documentary on the crime.
As a youngster, Perez said she sometimes accompanied her father on his killing sprees to the Bay Area. The family lived in Santa Ana, but McLean said Hendrickson may have worked at one time at the Mare Island Naval shipyard in Vallejo.
“There were strange events with my father,” she said. “I would hear shots and my father would say it was firecrackers. I would see a woman running and then hear shots and he would tell me someone threw firecrackers at her.”
Perez said that she wrote and stamped the letters to the San Francisco Chronicle following the murder of San Francisco cab driver Paul Stine in October 1969. Those letters have been in the possession of the San Francisco police since 1969.
She also claimed to be with her father when he allegedly killed Darlene Ferrin, 22, at the Blue Springs Golf Club in July 1969 and wounded her companion, Michael Mageau, 19.
“He had a vicious argument with Dee that night,” she said. “My father grabbed his gun. He goes up to the passenger side. I heard shots. I heard screams and moans. Five minutes later, we were pulled over by the police. He hid the gun on me.”
Perez said her father apologized for “doing bad things” on his death bed, but she didn’t know that involved the Zodiac killings.
The findings of McLean’s investigation have now been forwarded to the FBI and he has also asked local police for help in verifying Perez’s claims. She claims she still has Stine’s presciption glasses, which could serve as the material evidence necessary to help verify her claims.
Perez also said she embroidered the mask her father wore during some of the slayings and added she had – as a child – seen a scrapbook that would indicate her father may killed “30-40” people.
“Everyone is going to say she is crazy, but we had psychologists examine Ms. Perez,” McLean said.
The Zodiac killer -- he gave himself that moniker in his taunting letters to police and newspapers -- is blamed for at least seven murders in 1968 and 1969.
He was never caught though many believe he was Arthur Leigh Allen, a convicted child molester from Vallejo who died in 1992.
In September 1969, the Zodiac struck in Napa County, stabbing two 20-year-old college students picnicking at Lake Berryessa. The crime scene was a small peninsula jutting out into the lake. The couple was accosted, hog-tied and repeatedly stabbed by a man dressed all in black and wearing an executioner-type hood.
Cecelia Shepard died; Bryan Hartnell survived and is now a lawyer in Southern California.
Three killings then took place in the Vallejo area. David Farraday and Betty Lou Jensen, teenagers on their first date, were shot to death in December 1968. Ferrin, 22, was shot and killed seven months later at the Blue Springs Golf Club, while her companion, Michael Mageau, 19, survived.
His final Bay Are slaying may have occurred on October 11, 1969, when a man entered Stine's cab at the intersection of Mason and Geary Streets in San Francisco and requested to be taken to Washington and Maple Streets in Presidio Heights.
One block later, the passenger shot Stine once in the head with a 9 mm, took his wallet and car keys, and then tore off his shirt tail. On October 14, the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from the Zodiac containing a swatch of Stine's shirt tail as proof he was the killer.
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- Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
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Daily Horoscope
Today's horoscope says:
You are full of so much positive energy today that your ego will be enormous -- just be careful that you don't lose sight of what you are actually capable of.
You can negotiate the difference between cocky and confident.
It's a great time to try your most insane-sounding scheme and see how far you can take it.
On any other day, reality might keep you from aiming so high -- but today, you don't really feel like anything can stop you.
And you just might be right!
And with that ... away we go ...
You are full of so much positive energy today that your ego will be enormous -- just be careful that you don't lose sight of what you are actually capable of.
You can negotiate the difference between cocky and confident.
It's a great time to try your most insane-sounding scheme and see how far you can take it.
On any other day, reality might keep you from aiming so high -- but today, you don't really feel like anything can stop you.
And you just might be right!
And with that ... away we go ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Science News
Science news:
- 5 Wild Diseases We Got From Animals Wild Diseases We Got From Animals
- Hundreds of Rogue Black Holes May Lurk in Our Galaxy Hundreds of massive black holes left over from the early universe may wander the Milky Way, according to new calculations.
- 10 Deadly Diseases That Hopped Across Species A host of infectious and deadly diseases have hopped from animals to humans, and the other way.
- Hypersonic: Aiming for Mach 10 on Autopilot Engineers have designed control system software to fly such hypersonic jets without a pilot.
- Catastrophic Climate Future: Are We That Stupid? Are we?
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