Quote :

"Police were called to a home in the 4600 block of South Graham Street just past 2 a.m. Friday, spokeswoman Renee Witt said. The residents told officers that five to seven men, all dressed in black and wearing masks, burst into their home and handcuffed everyone inside. The men apparently gained entrance through a rear window. After binding the people inside, the men, some of whom may have been armed, ended up leaving out the back door without taking anything, Witt said."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/364322_homeinvasion24.html

5/23/2008 8:50:31 PM

http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/mf_monkeybusiness?currentPage=all

5/25/2008 7:05:10 PM

Quote :

"The Public Education Department and the American Civil Liberties Union are looking into a religious ceremony before graduation at Robertson High School. Students were told in three notices that attendance at the May 19 baccalaureate at Immaculate Conception Church in Las Vegas was mandatory. Robertson principal Richard Lopez said going to baccalaureate was optional despite the notices."

http://www.koat.com/news/16425637/detail.html?rss=alb&psp=news

5/29/2008 9:04:54 PM

Quote :

"Drawings and computer-generated images of child sex abuse would be made illegal under proposals announced by Justice Minister Maria Eagle. Owners of such images would face up to three years in prison under the plans. The Obscene Publications Act makes it illegal to sell or distribute photos of child abuse but it is legal to own drawings and computer-generated images. Ms Eagle said the proposed move would "help close a loophole that we believe paedophiles are using"."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7422595.stm

5/30/2008 11:20:04 PM

lol

5/31/2008 12:01:34 AM

Quote :

"Some students at Centennial High School have shaved vertical lines into their eyebrows in a trend recently made popular by hip-hop star Soulja Boy. School officials say the mark looks like a gang symbol. Centennial administrators are telling students with the lines that they can't return to school until they shave their eyebrows off. Assistant Principal Mark Porterfield said the students are not suspended, but they are not allowed in school until they cooperate. [...] "We don't dictate policy for any schools," Officer David Schmidt of the East Multnomah County Gang Enforcement Team said. "We just tell them what we see the latest trends are. This is a way for them to identify each other. In a school setting, it intimidates other kids." "

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90BGIG00&show_article=1

5/31/2008 12:29:39 AM

i thought that was about centennial campus middle, thats where i did 7 & 8th grade.

on another note, i had 3 guy friends in highschool who just completely shaved their eyebrows

5/31/2008 12:45:01 AM

the world is getting incredibly queer

5/31/2008 12:50:10 AM

Quote :

"Peek said park signs warn visitors of the risks of falling and even death at the beginning of the Skyline and Cliff trails. He said the park discourages parents from taking smaller children on the trails because of the cliffs. "We didn't see any signs in Spanish," Saenz said. "If they don't think children should be on those trails, then why does it say at the entrance, "Adults $14 and children under six, free?""

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/2966932/

5/31/2008 8:33:35 PM

if(keb == 3){
sib = sib % 0;
}

[Edited on May 31, 2008 at 9:08 PM. Reason : wrong programming language]

5/31/2008 9:07:27 PM

Quote :

"Morris Williams' mother wailed as he went off to jail. The judge asked for media not to show 13-year-old Alisha Dean's face in court, but her pictures are all over her MySpace page and they portray a sexy, 19-year-old divorced woman. "She told me she had just turned 18," Williams said. Williams said Dean picked him up on the street and after a few conversations they had sex. When he heard she was not 18, he went to her father. "He was like 'well, she's 13,'" Williams said of a conversation with Dean's father. Williams said he never did it again, but Dean has done it before with 24-year-old Darwin Mills. Mills was sentenced to five years in prison. Dean's father wanted Williams to join Mills there. "One of the reasons for the law is the fact that minors have poor judgment," said Jerry Dean, the girl's father."

http://www.wftv.com/news/16348047/detail.html

6/1/2008 6:11:44 AM

Quote :

" A Bronze Medal-winning Green Beret from Raeford died after being wounded by enemy fire during a combat patrol in southwestern Afghanistan on Thursday."

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2972812/

6/1/2008 3:41:29 PM

http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/Home//Detail?contentId=6664418&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

6/2/2008 1:50:04 AM

Quote :

"The dog, a German shepherd-Labrador retriever mix, had to euthanized later in the day after Kenneth E. Holder, 48, shot him with a bow and arrow. Holder, described by police as "highly intoxicated," told police that he'd been bitten by the dog while trying to wash it. After the dog bit Holder, he went into the house, had a number of alcoholic beverages and waited an hour before he went outside to shoot the dog with a bow and razor-tipped hunting arrow, police said."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5820820.html

6/5/2008 7:25:46 PM

Quote :

"A new orginance in Minneapolis limits vehicle idling at three minutes. Mayor R.T. Rybak says the idea is to reduce air pollution. City Council member Sandy Colvin Roy says cars don't need more than one minute to warm up, even in the winter."

http://wcco.com/local/minneapolis.idling.ordinance.2.742859.html

it makes you wonder if these people actually live in minneapolis...

6/7/2008 8:34:10 PM

RYBAK!!!!!!!!!

6/7/2008 9:33:16 PM

Quote :

"The presidential candidate told senior citizens in Ohio that it is unfair for middle-class earners to pay the Social Security tax "on every dime they make," while millionaires and billionaires pay it on only "a very small percentage of their income." The 6.2 percent payroll tax is now applied to all wages up to $102,000 a year, which covers the entire amount for most Americans. Under Obama's plan, the tax would not apply to wages between that amount and $250,000. But all annual salaries above the quarter-million-dollar amount would be taxed under his plan, Obama said."

http://www.wral.com/news/political/story/3040317/

6/14/2008 10:35:39 AM

http://www.sunbeammajorappliances.com/pdf/Final%20Refrigerator%20Manual%2020051026.pdf

6/18/2008 7:52:27 PM

Quote :

"Authorities say a suspect wanted on an armed robbery charge has drowned after jumping into a lake while running from officers. Raleigh police say 24-year-old Gabriel Lee Miles ran before he could be arrested Friday afternoon and tried to swim away in a small lake in an industrial area. Authorities say Miles began to struggle and slipped below the water's surface. Divers found Miles' body about five hours later."

http://www.charlotte.com/breaking_news/story/680424.html

6/21/2008 8:42:25 PM

Quote :

"It’s the newest attraction in downtown Buffalo. Since its opening May 23, the historic site has attracted thousands of visitors, all interested in seeing the terminus of the Eire Canal. Eire? That’s what several Fix It readers who have visited the new Erie Canal Harbor on Buffalo’s waterfront have been wondering, noting that one of the historic information markers at the site recounts the early history of the canal under the heading “Eire Canal”. “That’s intentional,” Matthew Davison, communications director of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp., told Fix It when we questioned that and another misspelling on the sign. Davison said the unusual spelling is Gaelic for “Ireland” and is a reference to the contributions the Irish made not only in the building of the canal, but on Buffalo’s waterfront. But what about another apparent misspelling, in the narrative about “Fingy” Conners, a major political figure of the time, in which Fingy “spoked” like a dock worker? “The signage at Erie Canal Harbor was developed to capture the historic nature of Buffalo’s inner harbor and convey the story of some of the most prominent figures impacting our waterfront throughout the years,” Davison said by e-mail. “Wording variations on the signage were intentionally utilized to capture the rich cultural heritage of the inner harbor, as well as help establish an ‘old tyme’ feel and experience for visitors.”"

http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/376431.html?imw=Y

Quote :

"Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman has found, however, that being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things, and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed. People who make less than $20,000 a year, for example, told Kahneman and his colleagues that they spend more than a third of their time in passive leisure -- watching television, for example. Those making more than $100,000 spent less than one-fifth of their time in this way -- putting their legs up and relaxing. Rich people spent much more time commuting and engaging in activities that were required as opposed to optional. The richest people spent nearly twice as much time as the poorest people in leisure activities that were active, structured and often stressful -- shopping, child care and exercise. Kahneman and his colleagues argued that many people mistakenly allocate enormous amounts of their time and psychological focus to getting rich because of a mental illusion: When they think about what it would mean to be wealthy, they think about how enjoyable it would be to watch a flat-screen TV set, play lots of sports or get a lot of pampering -- our stereotypical beliefs of how the rich spend their time."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/22/AR2008062201859.html

WHY CAN'T PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW HORRIBLE IT REALLY IS TO BE RICH??

6/23/2008 9:01:47 PM

Quote :

"On Monday, the recording industry sent the National Association of Broadcasters -- the trade group representing the $16 billion a year AM-FM broadcasting business -- a can of herring to underscore that it believes its arguments against paying royalties are a red herring. The NAB says its members should not pay royalties because AM-FM radio "promotes" the music industry. [...] Broadcasting music without payment is akin to piracy, the industry says. "It's a form of piracy, if you will, but not in the classic sense as we think of it," said Martin Machowsky, a musicFirst spokesman. "Today we gifted them a can of herring, about their argument that they provide promotional value."

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/recording-indus.html

Quote :

"STEPPING in dog poo might be a thing of the past thanks to a new policy being introduced in one UK park. Mansfield District Council has decided to spray the excrement with bright pink die in an attempt to cure the problem of messy pavements. The idea is to shame owners who fail to clean up after their pets and also help walkers avoid stepping in the waste."

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/41778/An-end-to-stepping-in-dog-poo-/

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 11:04 PM. Reason : &]

6/23/2008 10:49:38 PM

Quote :

"How to convince the world that an isometric-hexoctahedral crystal lattice allotrope of carbon was something they absolutely needed to buy? The answer was marketing."

http://www.nerve.com/regulars/singlelife/029/index.asp?page=1

6/27/2008 4:38:33 PM

Quote :

"A school has confiscated an 8-year-old boy's birthday party invitations after they were handed out during class because it said it had a duty to ensure against discrimination. The boy handed out invitations to classmates at his school in Lund, southern Sweden, but did not invite two boys because they were not his friends, the Sydsvenskan newspaper reported earlier this week. The school, 360 miles south of Stockholm, confiscated all the invitations, saying it objected because it had a duty to ensure against discrimination."

http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/world/story/3124626/

6/29/2008 8:27:41 PM

Quote :

"A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly. The Times newspaper on Monday quoted examiner Peter Buckroyd as saying he gave the student - who wrote an expletive starting with f, followed by the word "off" - two points out of a possible 27 for the English paper. "It would be wicked to give it zero because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for, like conveying some meaning and some spelling," Buckroyd was quoted as saying. "It's better than someone that doesn't write anything at all." Buckroyd said the student would have received a higher mark if the phrase had been punctuated. Buckroyd is a senior examiner for the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, one of several bodies that grade British high school exams. He said the expletive was used in 2006 by a student in response to the question: "Describe the room you are sitting in.""

http://www.wral.com/news/strange/story/3127994/

6/30/2008 2:20:14 PM

^haha

6/30/2008 2:36:27 PM

Quote :

"A tobacco smoking ban has come into effect in cafes, bars and restaurants in the Netherlands. The country is following a growing trend across Europe and the world of bans on smoking in public places. Pro-smoking lobbyists say the ban will lead to a drop in business, but others say any losses will be made up by non-smokers going out more. Patrons of cannabis cafes will still be allowed to smoke marijuana as long as it is not mixed with tobacco."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7482571.stm

6/30/2008 10:20:06 PM

Quote :

"On the July 2 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe "attack dogs," claiming that Steinberg's June 28 article on the "ominous trend" in Fox News' ratings was a "hit piece." During the segment, however, Fox News featured photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered -- the journalists' teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and portions of Reddicliffe's hair moved further back on his head. Fox News gave no indication that the photos had been altered."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200807020002

and people still think fnc is journalism...

7/2/2008 5:45:07 PM

Quote :

"First Lady Mary Easley said Wednesday that she wasn't bothered by criticism of a new contract she has with North Carolina State University that almost doubles her annual salary. "Negative stories and exaggerations and partial stories go with the territory, and that's part of public life," she said in an interview with WRAL. Easley has been an executive-in-residence and senior lecturer at N.C. State for the past three years, developing a speakers program and teaching a graduate course in public administration and courses in the Administrative Officers Management Program, which provides leadership training to law enforcement officers. Her previous salary was $90,300 a year, but that increased Tuesday to $170,000 a year – an 88 percent increase – as part of a five-year contract. Provost Larry Nielsen said in a statement that Easley's salary "is within the range of similar management and law faculty and administrators at N.C. State and other universities." A full-time professor at N.C. State earns an average of $110,790. [...] The Easleys said they couldn't understand the uproar over her salary. "It's not a raise. She's taking a new position," the governor said. "She could go out with a law firm and make a lot more money, but she's decided to stay with public service." "I certainly didn't want a conflict with my husband's endeavors, but I've got plenty of energy left," Mary Easley said. "What people have to understand is that I bring something unique to N.C. State." The governor said he senses sexism in the critics of his wife's success. "If she were a man, it wouldn't be an issue," he said. The Easleys have come under fire recently for taking taxpayer-funded trips to Europe in recent years. [...] "I wish (the trips) didn't cost so much, but let's be honest about it, a cheeseburger and onion rings is $60 over (in Europe)," he said. "The dollar's very, very weak now, and that is why we were over there – to get those euros coming to the United States.""

http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/3140281/

what fuckwads

7/2/2008 6:11:12 PM

The Easley's are two of the biggest crooks since Bonnie and Clyde. Hypocrite bastards

7/2/2008 8:40:18 PM

Quote :

""Some students at Centennial High School have shaved vertical lines into their eyebrows in a trend recently made popular by hip-hop star Soulja Boy. School officials say the mark looks like a gang symbol. Centennial administrators are telling students with the lines that they can't return to school until they shave their eyebrows off. Assistant Principal Mark Porterfield said the students are not suspended, but they are not allowed in school until they cooperate. [...] "We don't dictate policy for any schools," Officer David Schmidt of the East Multnomah County Gang Enforcement Team said. "We just tell them what we see the latest trends are. This is a way for them to identify each other. In a school setting, it intimidates other kids." ""

Haha, those copycats, Vanilla Ice used to do that, shave lines in his eyebrows.
[old]

7/2/2008 9:10:34 PM

This shit does not compute!

7/2/2008 10:35:26 PM

Quote :

"The man who escaped from a state prison van on his way to Baltimore Circuit Court on Tuesday didn't have a very difficult time of it. The corrections officer driving the van told a judge yesterday that she didn't normally transport prisoners to court but had missed a morning drop-off in Jessup with other officers who were supposed to take him to Baltimore. After a conversation with a supervisor, Officer Deborah Barron said, she believed she had orders to bring him downtown herself. She took a regular van that lacked cages and any other security features. She didn't have handcuffs, either. But she put Marcus Anderson - a 6-foot, 3-inch, 220-pound convicted drug dealer who was facing gun charges - next to her in the front passenger seat anyway. When she stopped at a red light at Baltimore and South streets, Anderson opened the door, "leaped out" and ran away in a light blue, V-neck Division of Corrections shirt, Barron said. She couldn't call for help - she had no cell phone or radio. The light changed, and impatient commuters started honking at her, so she drove on to the courthouse alone, she said."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-te.md.ci.escape03jul03,0,7676071.story

7/3/2008 4:16:48 PM

Quote :

"According to Plantation police, two armed men barged into the Subway at 1949 Pine Island Road shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday, demanding money from the employee behind the counter. When they tried to force John Lovell into the bathroom, he pulled out a gun and shot both men, police said. Donicio Arrindell, 22, was shot in the head and later died at the hospital. Fredrick Gadson, 21, was shot in the chest and ran from the Subway, but police found him in hiding in some bushes on the property of a nearby BankAtlantic. Lovell, 71, was the lone customer at the time. Police said he had a concealed weapons permit. Gadson's grandparents told Local 10 on Thursday that Lovell was wrong for pulling the trigger. "He should not have taken the law in his hands," said Rosa Jones, Gadson's grandmother. Her husband, Ivory Jones, also condemned the media for its portrayal of Lovell's actions. "I don't condone what they did, (but) I definitely don't condone the news people making him out to seem like they're making a hero out of this man because he shot somebody down," he said."

http://www.local10.com/news/13594353/detail.html

7/4/2008 11:29:53 PM

Quote :

"When Scott Hoover bought a $5 scratch-off ticket in Virginia called "Beginner's Luck" last summer, he carefully studied the odds. Even though he figured his chances of winning were a long shot, he felt the odds were reasonable. Hoover, a business professor at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, wasn't surprised when his tickets didn't bring him the $75,000 grand prize, but he was shocked to learn the top prize had been awarded before he bought the ticket. "I felt duped into buying these things," Hoover said. He discovered the Virginia State Lottery was continuing to sell tickets for games in which the top prizes were no longer available. Public records showed that someone had already won the top prize one month before Hoover played. He is now suing the state of Virginia for breach of contract. "It's one thing to say it's a long shot to win the $75,000, but it's another thing to say you have no shot to win it," said John Fishwick, Hoover's attorney."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/lottery.tickets/index.html?eref=rss_topstories#cnnSTCVideo

7/7/2008 7:53:55 PM

Quote :

"The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care. This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food. The guidance by the NCB is designed to draw attention to potentially-racist attitudes in youngsters from a young age. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2261307/Toddlers-who-dislike-spicy-food-racist,-say-report.html

7/7/2008 7:58:37 PM

GREEK FIESTA

7/7/2008 8:00:54 PM

http://tinyurl.com/5lsxtf

oy, so much fail...

7/7/2008 8:14:26 PM

Quote :

"When it comes to presidential politics, Barack Obama has all the buzz on the Internet. He has raised record amounts of money online. He hired a Facebook co-founder to help leverage social networking for his White House push. And just today, Nielsen Online declared that the Illinois Democrat had an online "head start" (PDF download) on his Republican opponent, John McCain. Obama drew nearly twice as many blog mentions in June, and his website attracted 2.3 million unique visitors in May, compared with 563,000 for McCain's. But although McCain admitted to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington that he was computer illiterate, the Arizona senator has a big name making the case that he's the right choice for the high-tech industry: former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/07/carly-fiorina-t.html

Quote :

"Prisons in Mississippi got coffee makers, pillowcases and dinnerware -- all intended for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The state's Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks took more coffee makers, cleaning supplies and other items. Plastic containers ended up with the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration. Colleges, volunteer fire departments and other agencies received even more. But the Mississippi hurricane victims who originally were intended to receive the supplies got nothing, a CNN investigation has found. "It's scary to know that there are supplies that they are harboring and people [are] in need right now as we speak today," said Sharon Hanshaw, director of Coastal Women for Change, a nonprofit group helping storm victims. Last month, CNN revealed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had stored $85 million worth of household items in warehouses for two years. Instead of giving the supplies to victims of the 2005 hurricane, FEMA declared them surplus and gave them all away to federal agencies and 16 states in February."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/mississippi.katrina/index.html

7/7/2008 9:28:49 PM

Quote :

"The Social Development Committee hearing into unregistered and deregistered doctors took evidence from Shirley O'Donnell, whose daughter Shannon died 36 days after receiving "ozone treatment", in 2003, from a man known as Lubo Bitelco. Ms O'Donnell was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 and went to Mr Bitelco after hearing from a friend about his treatments. He promised her a "50 per cent cure" after giving her a treatment known as "vaginal blowing" during which she had to move up and down on the bed saying "Oh, Boy", Mrs O'Donnell said. The committee heard he then offered to continue the treatment for almost $10,000, showing her albums and videos of previous clients. "Shannon . . . told me he had an album of women patients whom he photographed nude, and she had advised Lubo she would not be photographed nude while being treated," Mrs O'Donnell said."

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23985327-5006301,00.html

7/7/2008 11:37:29 PM

Quote :

"A national restaurant chain has apologized to the family of a girl with autism who was kicked out of one of its Edmonton locations on Saturday for being too noisy. Sarah Seymour said her five-year old daughter, Eowyn, had been screaming and kicking because she was upset her favourite food wasn't on the menu at the Smitty's on Stony Plain Road in Edmonton's west end. "We were approached by the waiter, who informed us that there was another patron at the restaurant who was refusing to pay for their food unless Eowyn was removed," Seymour said. Seymour said the family was asked to leave, despite her attempts to explain her daughter's condition to the supervisor. Mike Seymour, the child's father, said staff should have handled the situation with more sensitivity."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2008/07/08/edm-smittys.html

7/8/2008 5:47:29 PM

Quote :

"With minutes left in the last shift of his 35-year New Orleans police career, Sgt. Bobby Guidry received a call from a supervisor telling him he had been suspended for wearing the wrong uniform shirt, the veteran officer said. The Police Department confirmed the censure Tuesday, though it quibbled with the term "suspended." Rather, Guidry is "under investigation for wearing the wrong uniform," said Police Department spokesman Bob Young. Instead of the standard-issue all-black uniform, Guidry, a veteran officer in the city's Uptown 2nd District, chose the powder-blue uniform shirt that he wore to work for more than three decades. He viewed it as a simple statement, not an affront to rules or department leadership. "Eighteen people died in the line of duty in that powder-blue shirt while I was with the department," Guidry said. "I went to each of those funerals. I wore that shirt on a Saturday, on my last day, out of respect for them." Police brass apparently didn't appreciate the sartorial statement, which took place June 28. Young said the improper uniform complaint originated in the 2nd District. The department's Public Integrity Bureau then opened a formal investigation with about 15 minutes left in Guidry's career."

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/punished_nopd_officer_kept_his.html

7/9/2008 4:38:04 PM

Quote :

"But although McCain admitted to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington that he was computer illiterate, the Arizona senator has a big name making the case that he's the right choice for the high-tech industry: former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina."

I just thought I'd go out of my way to say that this is NOT a good endorsement. This bitch nearly ran Hewlett Packard into the ground and left the company in a shitty financial situation, and she took a good chunk of change with her when she left the company. Things have improved since she left, but she pretty much turned HP from a good place to work with good job prospects and a good work environment and good benefits to a shitty place to work that holds the threat of firing over employees' heads constantly in order to improve work output.

7/9/2008 4:45:17 PM

Quote :

"In the battle of the sexes, women's magazine editor Cynthia Good said this was a skirmish she had to fight. Across Atlanta they stood, orange signs with black letters that read "Men At Work" or "Men Working Ahead." Sometimes, the signs stood next to women working alongside the men. Good demanded Atlanta officials remove the signs and last week, Atlanta Public Works Commissioner Joe Basista agreed. Score one for gender equality, Good said Wednesday. "They get it," Good said about the city in a telephone interview. Public Works officials are replacing 50 "Men Working" with signs that say "Workers Ahead." It will cost $22 to cover over some of the old signs and $144 to buy new signs, said Public Works spokeswoman Valerie Bell-Smith said. Good, founding editor of Atlanta-based PINK Magazine, a publication that focuses on professional women, said she's not stopping with Atlanta. "We're calling on the rest of the nation to follow suit and make a statement that we will not accept these subtle forms of discrimination," said Good, 48."

http://tinyurl.com/638jl9

bitches are dumb...

7/10/2008 12:14:35 AM

http://yourscene.latimes.com/mycapture/photos/Album.aspx?EventID=503684&CategoryID=30888

7/10/2008 12:22:47 AM

Quote :

"A mother has been told she cannot travel to school with her severely epileptic son because she has not been police checked. Jayne Jones, of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil, used to travel with her son Alex, 14, in the council-provided taxi when she feared he may have a fit. But Merthyr Tydfil council has told her this must stop until she has undergone a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check. The council said this was a standard requirement for escorting children. Mrs Jones, 41, who is Alex's full-time carer, said: "I still don't understand why being his parent and being trained to use his drugs, I'm not allowed in the taxi. "I would be in no contact with any children other than my own child. "It would be a case of me going to school and catching a bus home and that's it. "I really don't understand it." Mrs Jones said she was in the process of being CRB-checked but was not allowed to travel with her son until it had been completed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7500376.stm

7/10/2008 6:04:36 PM

"Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills."

-Tom DeLay

7/10/2008 7:56:49 PM

^ what in the hellllll

7/10/2008 7:58:24 PM

we need a new constitution or something...ares is ok but it could be tweaked a little for modern times

7/10/2008 7:58:28 PM

Quote :

"TWO Brits have been jailed in Ibiza for beating up a man while dressed as Batman and Robin. The unnamed pair, both 18, were returning from a party in the resort of San Antonio when they got in an argument with their victim. The 30-year-old Spaniard lost three teeth in the attack in the early hours of Wednesday. Both men were sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay £5,000 compensation. They will be released and have their sentences suspended when the money is paid. A third arrested Brit, dressed as Batman’s arch-enemy The Joker, was cleared of any involvement."

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/1307_batman.shtml

7/13/2008 12:11:31 PM

more like


official [words] thread.

7/13/2008 12:12:41 PM