Sure, but are those women fatties? Or are they just lascivious slatters?

8/20/2010 1:27:28 AM

that stat probably means that I'm going to die alone and unmarried.

8/20/2010 1:28:39 AM

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"A man who was hurt in a car crash but was misidentified as a cancer patient claims security guards at Prince George's Hospital beat him up when he tried to leave the hospital to avoid chest surgery he didn't need - "to have a potentially cancerous mass removed from his chest." He adds that one guard repeatedly called him "bitch" as he roughed him up. Joseph Wheeler says a June 23 car accident put him in the hospital, which is owned by Dimensions Health Corporation. When he woke up hungry on June 24 and asked a nurse for food, she told him he couldn't eat because he was scheduled for surgery, Wheeler claims in Prince George's County Court. Wheeler says the nurse checked his identification bracelet and told him the surgery was "to have a potentially cancerous mass removed from his chest." Wheeler says his ID bracelet "contained a name that was different from Mr. Wheeler's, appeared to be that of a woman, and had a birth date that was 13 years prior to his own." The complaint continues: "Mr. Wheeler, still in serious pain from the car accident and subsequent treatment from injuries sustained, was starting to fear for his safety as the hospital had misidentified him and he was being prepped to go into a surgery that he knew nothing about. "At this point, Mr. Wheeler's wife, Felicia Ann Wheeler, came into the room to see her husband. Mr. Wheeler immediately told Mrs. Wheeler about what was taking place. The Wheelers decided that it was in their best interest to leave Prince George's Hospital Center and seek medical care for Mr. Wheeler elsewhere." Mrs. Wheeler confirmed with nurses outside her husband's room that he was scheduled for cancer surgery, and when she told the nurses that she and her husband were leaving, "an argument ensued." According to the increasingly bizarre complaint, Mr. Wheeler, "hearing the argument, took out his I/V, got out of the hospital bed, put his clothes on, and started to walk out of the room. He was bleeding from the spot on his hand where that I/V had been connected. "Mrs. Wheeler and the nurse met Mr. Wheeler at the door. The nurse told Mr. Wheeler that he was not allowed to leave. She put a bandage on Mr. Wheeler's hand to stop the bleeding from the I/V spot, and then yelled for security. "Mr. Wheeler, now bandaged and clothed, began to walk toward the exit of the floor while his wife gathered the rest of his belongings. As he moved toward the exit, two large men in security uniforms moved quickly toward Mr. Wheeler." These men, defendants William Reese and Donovan Scott, worked for the hospital and/or defendant Broadway Services, according to the complaint. The Wheelers say the two security guards were "immediately hostile." "Defendant Scott harshly asked, 'Where do you think you're going?' Mr. Wheeler told both Reese and Scott that his business was finished at the hospital and that he was on his way out," the complaint states. "In the moments immediately following this exchange, defendant Scott began to appear angry and upset with Mr. Wheeler. He began to use profanity directed at Mr. Wheeler about getting back to Wheeler's 'damn room.' "At this point the two officers put on black padded gloves in front of Mr. Wheeler and defendant Scott started to hit his fist against his own hand and moved closer in proximity to Wheeler's face. Defendant Scott appeared angry and agitated." Wheeler, "in fear for his safety," tried to reason with the guards. "He told the officers that he had been in a serious car accident and suffered from multiple injuries to the torso and shoulders. Wheeler also told the officers that he was retired from the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office and that he knew that the security officers had no right or authority to detain him. Wheeler stated that he wanted to leave." At that point, Wheeler says, Scott grabbed him and shoved him "hard from behind into the adjacent wall and metal railing," hurting his ribs. The complaint continues: "Mr. Wheeler, in serious pain and feeling like he was going to black out, fell to floor. Defendant Scott stood over him and yelled, 'Get off the floor bitch! This game is over!' "Defendant Scott continued, 'I don't care who you think you are, this is my camp, you listen to what I got to say!' The vocal officer then grabbed Mr. Wheeler and pulled him up off of the ground as Wheeler pleaded with the officer to stop hurting him. "At this point the defendant Reese said to the vocal officer, 'Man, ease up on him. He might really be hurt.' Defendant Scott replied, 'Hell no, he don't come up in here and be telling us what the fuck to do!'" As the two guards "escorted" him back to his room, "Scott accused Wheeler of attempting to push the second officer down a flight of stairs," and "continued to shout expletives at Wheeler," according to the complaint. Wheeler says the men took him to the hospital security office, where an unidentified lieutenant questioned him. "After Mr. Wheeler explained what had happened, the lieutenant looked at Wheeler's hospital-provided identification bracelet and acknowledged that Wheeler had been misidentified," Wheeler says. But that was not the end of the conflict. Wheeler says the lieutenant became agitated when he would not return the incorrect bracelet, and ordered the security guards to stop him from leaving. He says a plainclothes hospital employee, a woman he identifies as an "administrator ... intervened in the conversation" and after he explained the situation, said she would make sure he "would have his own private room and any type of drug he wanted, just to name the pain killer." Wheeler says he and his wife chose to leave the hospital, but when he tried to leave with the incorrect ID bracelet, one of the security guards "charged Wheeler, again calling Wheeler 'bitch,' and shoved him against the wall." "Mr. Wheeler spent the next three days at St. Mary's Hospital and was diagnosed with four broken ribs, a sprained shoulder, a ruptured spleen, and a concussion," he says. The Wheelers seek $3.2 million in compensatory damages and $9.5 million in punitive damages for assault and battery, false imprisonment and infliction of emotional distress. They are represented by Bryan Dugan with Dugan, McKissick, Wood & Longmore of Lexington Park, Md."

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/08/25/29858.htm

wtf is wrong with people

[Edited on August 25, 2010 at 5:15 PM. Reason : /words]

8/25/2010 5:15:26 PM

you didn't bold the important parts

8/25/2010 5:18:43 PM

^crazed hospital security guard beat the shit out of a patient who was misidentified and almost forced into surgery he did not want or need

8/25/2010 5:24:12 PM

pretty much the whole article is one big clusterfuck

8/25/2010 5:24:30 PM

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"Faced with a crisis more than a decade ago in which thousands of people were sickened from salmonella in infected eggs, farmers in Britain began vaccinating their hens against the bacteria. That simple but decisive step virtually wiped out the health threat. But when American regulators created new egg safety rules that went into effect last month, they declared that there was not enough evidence to conclude that vaccinating hens against salmonella would prevent people from getting sick. The Food and Drug Administration decided not to mandate vaccination of hens — a precaution that would cost less than a penny per a dozen eggs. [...] The F.D.A. said it considered mandatory vaccination very seriously. “We didn’t believe that, based on the data we had, there was sufficient scientific evidence for us to require it,” said Dr. Nega Beru, director of the agency’s Office of Food Safety. However, Dr. Beru says that the new rules encourage producers to vaccinate if they think it will help fight salmonella. Another F.D.A. food safety official, Nancy S. Bufano, said that despite the success of vaccination in Britain, the agency thought that because the vaccines used in the two countries were not identical, it made comparisons difficult. Vaccine company executives, however, said the differences were minor and the drugs used in both countries were equally effective. The drop in salmonella infections in Britain was stunning. In 1997, there were 14,771 reported cases in England and Wales of the most common type of the bacteria, a strain known as Salmonella Enteritidis PT4. Vaccine trials began that year, and the next year, egg producers began vaccinating in large numbers. The number of human illnesses has dropped almost every year since then. Last year, according to data from the Health Protection Agency of England and Wales, there were just 581 cases, a drop of 96 percent from 1997. “We have pretty much eliminated salmonella as a human problem in the U.K.,” said Amanda Cryer, director of the British Egg Information Service, an industry group."

http://tinyurl.com/2andnbk

with emphasis added for the reading impaired...

8/25/2010 5:32:02 PM

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"This case began in 2007, when Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents decided to monitor Juan Pineda-Moreno, an Oregon resident who they suspected was growing marijuana. They snuck onto his property in the middle of the night and found his Jeep in his driveway, a few feet from his trailer home. Then they attached a GPS tracking device to the vehicle's underside. After Pineda-Moreno challenged the DEA's actions, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled in January that it was all perfectly legal. More disturbingly, a larger group of judges on the circuit, who were subsequently asked to reconsider the ruling, decided this month to let it stand. (Pineda-Moreno has pleaded guilty conditionally to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and manufacturing marijuana while appealing the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained with the help of GPS.) In fact, the government violated Pineda-Moreno's privacy rights in two different ways. For starters, the invasion of his driveway was wrong. The courts have long held that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes and in the "curtilage," a fancy legal term for the area around the home. The government's intrusion on property just a few feet away was clearly in this zone of privacy. The judges veered into offensiveness when they explained why Pineda-Moreno's driveway was not private. It was open to strangers, they said, such as delivery people and neighborhood children, who could wander across it uninvited."

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013150,00.html

[Edited on August 25, 2010 at 6:54 PM. Reason : today's a bumper crop]

8/25/2010 6:53:19 PM

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"Thinking about running for eighth grade class president at Nettleton Middle School in Nettleton, Mississippi? Well... are you white? Because only white kids are allowed to run for president. Black kids can be vice-president, though! But only black kids. A few days ago, Nettleton Middle School students brought home the following memo, which spells out the requirements for students who want to run for class office and was provided to blogger Suzy Richardson by a parent: Okay, so obtain 10 signatures from classmates... check. Maintain a B average... check. Have "good disciplinary status and moral character"... okay, I haven't sexted anyone recently, check. White... ch... what? They must mean, like... wears white clothing? Right? Or like... the color... of their lockers? Right? Uh, well, not really. When one Nettleton mother approached the school board, wondering—among other things, obviously—which "category" her mixed-race kids (Italian and Native American) fell under, she was told the following: They told me that they "Go by the mother's race b/c with minorities the father isn't generally in the home." They also told me that " a city court order is the reason why it is this way." Ah. Richardson, who first reported this story on her website MixedandHappy.com, later called the school vice principal, and confirmed that the policy is in place. The Smoking Gun independently received a copy of the same memo but were unable to reach school officials. It's still unclear what the reasoning behind the rules is—some kind of utterly misguided attempt at affirmative action, so that the student government won't end up entirely white (the school is around 72 percent white, according to The Smoking Gun)? Plain old racism? Hilarious satire? Update: Some Mississippians have asked me to point out that two of the four administrators listed on the school website are black, which... could mean a lot of things. The school has since put up a "media statement" on its website, which reads: "Student elections have not yet been held at Nettleton Middle School for the 2010-2011 school term. The processes and procedures for student elections are under review. We are reviewing the origin of these processes, historical applications, compliance issues, as well as current implications and ramifications. A statement will be released when review of these processes is complete.""

http://gawker.com/5623138//middle-school-segregates-class-elections-by-race

8/27/2010 3:35:41 PM

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"Local residents are again speaking out about a practice used by GEUS, the local electric utility system, to collect on delinquent payments. Other complaints aired during Tuesday’s City Council meeting dealt with the recent crackdown on alleged code violations and whether some people are facing retaliation for speaking their minds. “We are going to address these concerns,” said City Manager Steven Alexander. “We cannot have these kind of concerns out there.” Officials with GEUS appeared before the Council late last month, explaining the utility had been carrying more than $300,000 in debt related to people not paying outstanding amounts on their electric bills. After the utility had hired a full time collection person in 2008, the debt had been reduced to about $188,000. Tuesday, Sadie Hearne spoke about one of the strategies being used by the utility, in which local residents are having charges added to their bills that their relatives or other close acquaintances have skipped out on. Hearne, who said her monthly bills always come in at less than $100, received a recent bill for $680. After checking, Hearne said the utility claimed it was for a bill left unpaid by her ex-husband. Hearne said the couple divorced in 2002 and that he now lives in another state, but added the utility would not remove the charge. “I would like us to look into this,” said Council member Dan Perkins. Alexander said it may time for another meeting between the Council and GEUS. “We need to get back together and get some movement in getting these things changed,” Alexander said. City Attorney Brent Money said there have been efforts undertaken to change the ordinance that allows GEUS to make the collections which have been the source of contention. Mayor Tom Oliver said the persons receiving the giant bills should at least be allowed a payment plan."

http://heraldbanner.com/local/x271882484/GEUS-collection-practices-code-enforcement-criticized

8/28/2010 11:56:25 AM

Sounds like a mafia boss going after families of people

8/28/2010 12:06:28 PM

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"As though we needed more reason to feel uneasy about the situation in Afghanistan, a piece in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle detailed the shocking prevalence of child sexual abuse in the southern part of the country. Joel Brinkley, a journalism professor at Stanford University, explains that, according to a report commissioned by the Defense Department, many Pashtun men (half of the tribal members in Kandahar, according to some accounts) develop sexual relationships with boys as young as 9. The technical term for these men is "bacha baz," which translates to "boy player" (although "pedophile" works just as well). In popular weekly events, "young boys dress up as girls, wearing makeup and bells on their feet, and dance for a dozen or more leering middle-aged men who throw money at them and then take them home," writes Brinkley. I could spill several hundred more words relaying fascinating details about this centuries-old cultural phenomenon -- but for our purposes on this here lady blog, the most interesting element of the story is the theory of why and how this practice came to be. Brinkley explains: Sociologists and anthropologists say the problem results from perverse interpretation of Islamic law. Women are simply unapproachable. Afghan men cannot talk to an unrelated woman until after proposing marriage. Before then, they can't even look at a woman, except perhaps her feet. Otherwise she is covered, head to ankle. It isn't just that women's bodies are kept under lock and key. Men are also taught that women, what with their monthly curse, are "'unclean' and therefore distasteful." Brinkley writes: "That helps explain why women are hidden away -- and stoned to death if they are perceived to have misbehaved." It also helps explain why boys are dressed up as girls for men's sexual entertainment: it allows for titillation without the female threat of contamination and corruption. "Even after marriage, many men keep their boys, suggesting a loveless life at home," Brinkley explains. The man-boy relationships are seen as an exception to the Islamic ban on homosexuality, since there isn't "love" involved. As a local saying goes: "Women are for children, boys are for pleasure." There lies the justification for a cycle of sexual abuse spanning several generations. There are no easy words of wisdom here, but I will say that this seems an especially powerful reminder that women's inequality hurts more than just women."

http://www.salon.com/news/afghanistan/index.html?story=/mwt/broadsheet/2010/08/30/afghanistan_women

8/31/2010 11:20:00 AM

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"Police say a California doctor apparently tried to get into the home of the man she had been dating by sliding down the chimney. Her decomposing body was found there days later. Police Sgt. Mary DeGeare says investigators do not suspect foul play in the death of Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac. Authorities say the 49-year-old apparently climbed on the roof Wednesday night, removed the chimney cap and slid feet first down the flue after unsuccessfully trying to get into the house other ways. DeGeare says the man whom Kotarac was pursuing had left the home unnoticed to avoid a confrontation. The body went undiscovered for several days until someone noticed odors coming from the fireplace. Firefighters dismantled the chimney Saturday to remove the body."

http://www.wlsam.com//Article.asp?id=1937170

wth

9/1/2010 12:11:43 PM

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"September 21, 2010 Cutler looks to win back-to-back NFL passing awards   By: Larry Mayer | Last Updated: 9/21/2010 12:42 PM       LAKE FOREST, Ill. – One week after being named FedEx Air NFL Player of the Week, Bears quarterback Jay Cutler has been nominated for the award again for his performance in Sunday's 27-20 win over the Dallas Cowboys. After two games, Bears quarterback Jay Cutler leads the NFL with a 121.2 passer rating. Cutler completed 21 of 29 passes for 277 yards with three touchdowns, no interceptions and a 136.7 passer rating that was his highest in 18 career starts with the Bears. Cutler became the first Bears quarterback to register a passer rating of at least 100 in four straight games since Rudy Bukich in 1964. Over that span, Cutler has thrown 13 TD passes and only two interceptions. He is now 17-0 all-time when recording a passer rating of 100 or more. "We could spent the rest of the time talking about what Jay Cutler has done, and not just [Sunday]," coach Lovie Smith said Monday. "I am going to say the last four games he has played outstanding football for us, the last two last year and the first two of this season.  "But [Sunday] he was under heavy pressure early quite a bit but hung in there and made play after play. When you end up with over a 130 quarterback rating, that is a pretty good day." Fans can vote for Cutler for FedEx Air Player of the Week at NFL.com. "

http://www.chicagobears.com/news/NewsStory.asp?story_id=7100

[Edited on September 21, 2010 at 3:14 PM. Reason : Tldr fix]

9/21/2010 3:12:33 PM

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"Police said a district judge from Intercourse, Pa., hid condoms inside acorns and handed them out to women in the state Capitol complex last week. A summary charge of disorderly conduct was filed Tuesday against Isaac H. Stoltzfus, who presides over low-level cases as a district judge in Lancaster County. The citation from Capitol Police said the 58-year-old jurist gave the acorns to unsuspecting women, who were offended when they discovered the contents."

http://www.wral.com/news/strange/story/8372049/

handing out free condoms is illegal? in a town named intercourse?

9/29/2010 3:55:42 PM

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"Two teenagers were sentenced to jail after duct-taping a 22-month-old child to the wall. The pictures—here with the child's face obscured—show him stuck to the wall at uncomfortable angles and with tape directly on his bare skin. The mother, Jayla Hamm, 18, was sentence to 10 days in jail and two years' probation, while her boyfriend, 19-year-old Corde Honea, received a sentence of 36 to 60 months in prison"

http://gawker.com/5652804/mom-boyfriend-sentenced-to-jail-for-taping-toddler-to-wall

10/1/2010 11:49:08 AM

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"A campaign to create a new category of driving while intoxicated is being promoted at the Capitol as one way to curb growing problems in Texas’ system of punishing drunken drivers. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, among the supporters of the change, said the idea behind a new offense of “driving while ability impaired” — DWAI — would cover drivers whose blood-alcohol content is between 0.05 and 0.07. That would be less than the 0.08 level required before police can charge a motorist with drunken driving. A first-offense DWI is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine, plus potential driver’s license restrictions. No specific penalty has been proposed for DWAI. Though Acevedo said he does not support lowering the DWI limit below 0.08, “the new offense would give prosecutors and judges and juries another tool to use” in thwarting impaired drivers across the state."

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/austin-chief-pushes-for-new-drunk-driving-charge-958125.html

10/7/2010 5:00:29 PM

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"A group of 11 prominent charities is preparing a letter calling on the US to remove logos on American-funded assistance in Pakistan. The letter, signed by charities including Save the Children, Oxfam, and World Vision says that such "branding" of aid jeopardises their neutrality. They say that this is especially dangerous in a country with numerous anti-American militants. The letter will be delivered later this week in Washington, officials say. It says that there are "strong indicators" that branding will attract violent attacks for both economic and ideologically-motivated reasons". Supplies unloaded from a helicopter Aid agencies say that the safety of partners and beneficiaries is at stake The letter will be sent to the US government aid agency, USAID, by the InterAction group, a coalition of more than 160 humanitarian organisations working around the world. International charities have for several years refrained from using their own logos in Pakistan because of the security risk. However the US government, through USAID, requires non-governmental organisations that receive funding to "brand" aid with the agency's handshake logo and the words "from the American people" in local languages. USAID have yet to comment on the proposed letter, but a blog written by the organisation's Mark Ward says that it is "highly sensitive to the risks of branding in environments where one's association with foreigners can turn a humanitarian worker into a target"."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11522197

if you're dumb enough to shoot the person bringing your starvin' marvin-ass some food, then maybe you should do without

10/12/2010 12:33:45 PM

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"A 31-year-old man was sentenced to five years in prison Monday shortly after pleading guilty to shooting two narcotics detectives when they tried to execute a “no-knock’’ search warrant at his north Baton Rouge home in 2008. State District Judge Chip Moore also ordered Ellis Henry Jr. to be put on active supervised probation for five years after he is released from prison. Henry allegedly fired nine shots at East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives from inside his home at 2569 73rd Ave., according to an affidavit of probable cause. One deputy was hit in the knee, and another was shot in the calf. That deputy also was struck in the chest but was wearing a bullet-proof vest, sheriff’s officials said after the shooting about midnight Aug. 5, 2008. Henry initially was booked on six counts of attempted first-degree murder because six deputies involved in the execution of the search warrant were in his line of fire. “You could have killed two people,’’ Moore said of the two deputies Henry shot. “You probably could have killed more than that.’’ The judge said two weapons — a 9 mm handgun and an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle — seized during the search are to be forfeited and/or destroyed. Moore noted that a 70-round magazine of ammunition also was found in Henry’s home. “That’s something you have in Vietnam, not inside your house,’’ the judge told Henry. “We’re not in a war here. Seems like we are.’’ Henry, who declined Moore’s invitation to address the court, pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated assault upon a police officer with a firearm. He was indicted last year on two counts of attempted second-degree murder, one count of illegal use of weapons and one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III said his office had thoroughly reviewed the case in preparation for a trial that was supposed to start Monday. “We believe this was the best outcome,’’ he said, noting that Henry is a first-time offender and that there were some inconsistencies in the statements of lay witnesses. The district attorney also said Henry made a 911 call during the encounter. Tommy Damico, one of Henry’s attorneys, told the judge that Henry lives in a high-crime area. Damico said after court that Henry and his fiancée thought the detectives were burglars. “He did not know it was police officers breaking down his door,’’ Damico added. Henry’s fiancée, Crystal Magee, said after the shooting that the men were dressed in plain clothes, did not knock and did not identify themselves until after shots were fired. Sheriff’s officials disputed those statements, saying after the shooting that the deputies wore vests with “sheriff’’ written on them in yellow, shouted “search warrant’’ and “Sheriff’s Office’’ while they knocked on the door with a battering ram, and used emergency lights from two patrol vehicles to illuminate the house. “We had some conflicting testimony that that wasn’t the case,’’ Damico said. Damico added that the Sheriff’s Office and Henry could have handled the situation better. The affidavit of probable cause says detectives obtained the no-knock search warrant after a confidential informant bought suspected crack cocaine from Henry."

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/latest/105231338.html?showAll=y&c=y

should've aimed higher and there wouldn't be any conflicting stories...

10/21/2010 12:22:46 PM

I've never been comfortable with the idea that you can be charged with murder when you shoot someone who breaks into your house if they happen to be a cop. Anyone can say that they're a police officer. And let's face it; when someone breaks down your door in the middle of the night and is screaming at you, would you rather spend critical seconds lining up your shot or trying to figure out what the crazy people who just knocked down your door are screaming?

10/21/2010 1:40:10 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_undecidable_problems

10/21/2010 3:17:25 PM

^^exactly. that (^^^) entire situation is fucked. I'm torn on the issue of no-knock warrants, but if you're going to do them, you must realize that in many states, citizens have the LEGAL RIGHT to protect themselves, which often means using lethal force to cease illegal entry into your home. If you're going to do no-knocks, you're taking the risk of legally being shot at. I don't care what's on your vest or what you yell, anyone can do wear those things and/or yell them; not to mention in the heat of the moment, you may not hear/understand the words or see the writing. If cops are worried about getting shot then they shouldn't do no-knocks.

And fuck the police who said this isn't a war; you don't need those things (guns). A 9mm pistol and an AR-15 are perfectly legal weapons used by thousands of citizens for their entertainment. they have nothing to do with war/vietnam in this case.

10/21/2010 4:27:52 PM

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"Tim Profitt -- the former Rand Paul volunteer who stomped on the head of a MoveOn activist -- told told local CBS station WKYT that he wants an apology from the woman he stomped and that she started the whole thing. "I don't think it's that big of a deal," Profitt said. "I would like for her to apologize to me to be honest with you." "She's a professional at what she does," Profitt added, "and I think when all the facts come out, I think people will see that she was the one that initiated the whole thing." Profitt also blamed the incident on his back pain. Footage shows that Profitt stomped down on Lauren Valle's head, neck and shoulder while she was being restrained by another man with her shoulder on the street and her head on the curb."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/kentucky-stomper-wants-an-apology-from-woman-he-assaulted.php

10/28/2010 10:13:27 AM

I just watched that video... it was not a stomping. It was an improper restraint, but not a stomping. He was trying to hold her down with his foot, she struggled, and his foot slipped down onto her neck area- that is very far from a "curbing." yes, it could legally be called assault, but it is ridiculous to call it a "stomping"

10/28/2010 10:18:37 AM

either way, when stepping on someone's face, the onus isn't generally on the face owner to apologize for the incident

10/28/2010 10:29:30 AM

he came down force while having her foot already on her head

that was a fucking stomp and someone should stomp on his head

i dont care who you vote for but fucking republicans are disgusting

from the stupid bitch that carved the B in her face to this guy to all the homophobic rednecks and racists

im so glad im not associated with people like that

[Edited on October 28, 2010 at 10:39 AM. Reason : how can you defend that?]

10/28/2010 10:39:15 AM

well lets hope she doesn't get bullied into dropping the charges. that guy needs to spend some time in the butt hut since he thinks it is fine to assault a defenseless woman while a video camera is recording the whole thing

10/28/2010 1:52:08 PM

10/28/2010 3:23:56 PM

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"A North Carolina State University student has been charged with assaulting a man who asked if he needed help in a parking deck early Saturday. N.C. State police said that James C. Jackson and his roommate were wrestling in the parking deck on Dan Allen Drive around 2:30 a.m. when a car stopped, and its occupants asked if they needed help. Police said Jackson punched out the rear passenger-side window and reached in to punch a passenger in the back seat. Police said he then dragged out the passenger, kept punching him in the head and slammed it on the floor. The victim, identified as St. Augustine's College student Wayne Lamar Louis, was taken to WakeMed. He was listed in good condition. Jackson was charged with assault inflicting serious injury and damage to property. Police said that he had been drinking and apparently "took offense" at the offer of help."

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/8538262/

10/31/2010 1:03:24 AM

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""The appropriate question to ask in this case is not whether a person can burglarize his own place of residence," wrote Justice Raymond Ikola on behalf of his colleagues, justices William Rylaarsdam and Richard Fybel. "It is more productive to ask whether the defendant, a live-in boyfriend of a homeowner's daughter, has an unconditional possessory right to enter the premises? And, even if the defendant's status entitled him to an unconditional possessory right to enter the home, did the defendant have an unconditional possessory right to enter the bedroom of the homeowner's child?" No and hell no, the three justices concluded in response to their own questions after citing this: "Every person who enters any . . . room . . . with intent to commit . . . any felony is guilty of burglary.""

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2010/11/can_a_person_burglarize_his_ow.php

11/19/2010 10:18:22 AM

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"Pakistani authorities have arrested a doctor on suspicion of violating the country's contentious blasphemy law by throwing away a business card of a man who shared the name of Islam's prophet, Muhammad, police said Sunday. The blasphemy law has been widely criticized by human rights groups following the case of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death last month for insulting Islam. Critics say the law should be amended or repealed because it is often used to settle grudges, persecute minorities and fan religious extremism. Naushad Valiyani, a Muslim doctor in the southern city of Hyderabad, was arrested Friday after a complaint was lodged with police alleging his actions had insulted the Prophet Muhammad, said regional police chief Mushtaq Shah. The case began Friday when Muhammad Faizan, a pharmaceutical company representative, visited Valiyani's clinic and handed out his business card. He said when the doctor threw the card away, Faizan went to police and filed a complaint that noted his name was the same as the prophet's."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/12/12/international/i055248S70.DTL#ixzz186ZH53GL

12/14/2010 11:39:56 AM

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"d) do some type of marathon, even if it is just a 5k "

12/29/2010 3:36:57 AM

Financial Aid lady on the phone: Oh you need to speak with them about that.
Me: Who's them?
Financial Aid lady: Financial Aid
Me: Well who are you?
Financial Aid lady: Financial Aid
Me: Well then, are you 'them'?
Financial Aid lady: ummm
Me: Ok. Let's do it your way. I'm unfamiliar with who falls under the 'them' definition of Financial Aid, so why do we try names and get this thing figured out. So what is the name of the person I need to talk to if that person is not you?
Financial Aid lady: umm, Financial Aid
Me: Ahh. How unfortunate that someone named their child that. What her/his office location/phone number?
Financial Aid lady: The number you called.
Me: Oh. So you're Financial Aid, I was thrown off because you said your name was Lucy.
Financial Aid lady: umm what?
Me: So, Ms. Aid, what needs to happen here?
Financial Aid lady: umm, Sir? Can I put you on hold?
Me: Sure.
<20 mins later>
Financial Aid lady: Ok, the person you need to talk to is .... transferring you now.

12/29/2010 4:32:06 PM

^lol

12/29/2010 4:33:26 PM

yeah. I almost ragequit and hung up in disgust, but I didn't have anything better to do this morning so I played the game. Totally fucked her world up lol. She was so confused-but then again, that's par for the course probably.

12/29/2010 4:36:43 PM

http://www.google.com/patents?id=hhYJAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

1/14/2011 10:10:10 AM

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"A 31-year-old Stillwell man and his 19-year-old niece were arrested late Saturday night for triggering acts of violence after they were caught having sex, police said. LaPorte County police placed the man into custody after his release from a hospital. He was booked into the LaPorte County Jail, suspected of Class A misdemeanor battery. The 19-year-old woman is suspected of underage drinking. Sheriff’s deputies were called to a home in the 4300 block of East 300 South about 11:30 p.m. The investigation shows a woman walked in to see her brother and her daughter naked and engaged in a sex act, police said. Police said the man who ultimately was arrested was told to leave by his brother-in-law, then both men began to scuffle. The 31-year-old then went outside and came back into the home holding a piece of lumber. According to police, the man hit his brother-in-law with the board and also hit his sister while she was trying to separate the two men. Witnesses also told police the 31-year-old man hit his 15-year-old niece with his fist. She also cut her arm when it went through the glass of a door the man slammed shut, police said. According to police, the 31-year-old man then left the home. Police officers followed footprints in the snow and found him inside a trailer that sits on the same property. He was bleeding from a cut to his right hand. He and the 15-year-old girl were taken by ambulance to LaPorte Hospital and received stitches to close their wounds. The 19-year-old woman had a blood alcohol content of 0.14 percent, police said. They also noted she told them she had consumed 10 shots of tequila."

http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20110125/News01/110129755/-1/XML

wtf

1/25/2011 4:40:23 PM

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"The city’s Civil Service Board and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed on a lower passing score for the police recruit exam after it was rejected because not enough blacks passed the exam. The city lowered both written exams a combined 15 points that resulted in 258 more people passing the exam, according to a statement released Thursday by Civil Service officials. The agreement allows the city to immediately resume its plans to hire police and firefighters. "

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/city-agrees-to-lower-test-scores-for-police-exam-1103409.html

3/13/2011 3:59:42 PM

now that's real racism!

3/13/2011 4:45:06 PM

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"Authorities were searching for an escaped inmate from a Hoke County prison Sunday who they believe might be headed to Raleigh. William Robert Emory, 37, was serving a two-year, three-month sentence for obtaining property by false pretense at Hoke Correctional Institution, west of Raeford. He was scheduled for release on May 30, according to Department of Correction records."

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/9299525/

3/20/2011 9:47:56 PM

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"Chess programs like Fritz are now routinely used by chess players. Their increasing strength has led to speculation that the game of chess might one day be solved - solved in the sense that we will be able to say that the initial position is a win for White in say 200 moves. Or a draw. Or a win for Black - after all, the shortest possible game ending in mate is a win for Black. This question of the solvability of chess is intimately connected to the question of the number of possible different chess games. The Laws of Chess have as a consequence the fact that chess is a finite game provided that the three-fold repetition and fifty-move laws are always invoked: there is a distinct and finite number of different chess games. The numbers involved are very large by ordinary standards and we need a way of writing them so that they don’t take up too much space. We write: 10^10 to mean ten to the power 10, or one followed by ten zeroes – a biggish number. Bigger still is: 10^10^10 which is one followed by 10^10 zeroes, a seriously large number. It is numbers of this order which we must consider when looking at the number of possible chess games. Could a computer of sufficient speed and storage capacity calculate and store them all so that the question of the solvability of chess could be answered? A "game" must here be defined as a legal sequence of moves ending in mate, stalemate or a draw by obligatory imposition of the three-fold repetition and fifty-move laws so that the result is beyond dispute. How many such games are there? Three different methods have been used to produce an answer. The British mathematician J.E.Littlewood (not to be confused with the chess player of the same name)published "A Mathematician's Miscellany" (1953, later revised as "Littlewood's Miscellany,1986). Littlewood used the sledge-hammer approach. He calculated the number of possible arrangements, legal or not, of the pieces and the number of sequences of such arrangements to produce an upper bound of 10^10^70.5: However many games of chess there are, the number cannot be bigger than this. As part of his derivation Littlewood wrongly used 28 rather than 27 as the maximum number of moves for a queen but this has little effect on his estimate. A second method uses the fact that chess is a finite game of no more than about 6000 moves and with no more than about 500 moves available in any position. Consider a simpler chess-like game where in every position there are just 10 moves available. Then after White has moved Black can reply to each of White’s 10 moves in 10 ways leading to 100 (10^2) possible games. After 2 moves (4 half-moves) there will be 10^4 games. More generally, for games of L moves and with M moves available in any position, the number of games will be 10^2LlogM. (For those who have forgotten their high school maths, this is 10 raised to the power 2 times L times the logarithm of M.) With L=6000 and M=500 this gives the maximum number of games as about10^10^5. This seems to have been the method used by G.H.Hardy. In his book "Ramanujan" (1940), speaking of large numbers he says "The number of protons in the universe is about 10^80. The number of possible games of chess is much larger, perhaps 10^10^50 (in any case a second-order exponential." This is a casual comment by Hardy and the 50 is presumably a misprint for 5. It is odd that Littlewood makes no reference to this earlier statement from his long-term friend and collaborator. These large numbers do not belong to the world of practical chess.It is rare for the 50-move rule to be invoked once let alone twice or more so games of 100 moves are rare and games of anything like 1000 moves nonexistent in real life. A third estimate was made by Claude Shannon in his ground-breaking paper "Programming a computer for playing chess" (1950). Shannon calculated the number of "typical games". He took L to be 40 and M 30 to obtain 10^118 or in his round figures 10^120. The critical weakness in this argument is the assumption that in any position there do exist 30 moves which will branch to to produce 40-move games. Shannon assumed this to be true. Littlewood had commented: "The problem of a not too hopelessly inadequate lower bound (even a moral certainty without full proof) seems not at all easy." Littlewood, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, must have considered and rejected this crude argument as not even "morally certain" (whatever that means). I think chessplayers may be a little more accepting. They are well aware that during the course of a game most positions have many possible moves. If Fritz is set to analyse a game it seems to show about 30 possible moves in most positions from opening to endgame. The principal exception occurs when a king is in check when replies are often fewer than 10. My moral certainty may not be as highly developed as Littlewood's so I am prepared to accept 10^100 as an indication of the number of games. Such a number is far in excess of the number of particles in our galaxy. If each game could be written on an atom there would be far too few atoms for completeness. If all the atoms in the other 10,000,000,000 galaxies were added there would still not be enough. With a number like 10^100 the extra atoms of a few billion more galaxies are neither here nor there. Who wins a game of perfect chess? "Perfect chess" is chess in which both players, foreseeing all possibilities, play only moves to produce a win or if that is not possible a draw or if even that is not possible, a loss after the most possible moves. Shannon amusingly describes a game between two mental giants: "They sit down at the chessboard, draw the colours, and then survey the pieces for a moment. Then either (1) Mr. A says, "I resign" or (2) Mr. B says, "I resign" or (3) Mr. A says, "I offer a draw," and Mr. B replies, "I accept." This must be so. Suppose White wins a particular game which began with say a3. Consider Black’s last unforced move. All other moves at that branch point must also lead to mate in as many moves or fewer or Black would have chosen one of them in preference. This argument applies at every branch point so all games starting with a3 must then be wins for White. Games starting with the other 19 possible moves are of little consequence. They could all be wins for the unfortunate Black, who would never get to play them. Black’s prospects are therefore rather gloomier: to win any game it is necessary that every game be a win for Black. And if all perfect games are drawn then our mortal wins and losses are mere aberrations caused by bad play. Who wins in a game of chess between two perfect players? We may never know. Chess appears to be effectively an infinite game with no solution. The nature of the universe and not our limited intellect may be the ultimate determinant of our knowledge of chess. Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and chess-writer, touches on this idea in "The Defence": "

3/20/2011 9:50:04 PM

What's wrong with the last post? It makes perfect sense.

3/21/2011 2:35:42 PM

^ i'm far from a chess master, but until someone moves a piece, i don't see how this is realistic:

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"Shannon amusingly describes a game between two mental giants: "They sit down at the chessboard, draw the colours, and then survey the pieces for a moment. Then either (1) Mr. A says, "I resign" or (2) Mr. B says, "I resign" or (3) Mr. A says, "I offer a draw," and Mr. B replies, "I accept." This must be so."

3/21/2011 2:41:06 PM

It would have to be c, because like tic-tac-toe, you know every combination of games and therefore it will be a CATS game every time.

3/21/2011 2:51:50 PM

^^I can see part c if no pieces were moved. If they outlined multiple perfect games which all end in draws (like what the article says), then they realize that no matter what happens, the outcome between them will always be a draw. I can not see part a or b though, because that would mean the game is imbalanced.

I can see all three possibilities if a piece has moved...though vaguely for parts a and b.

[Edited on March 21, 2011 at 2:55 PM. Reason : lkj]

3/21/2011 2:55:39 PM

so it's only feasible if both players admit that the opposing player is their unerring, perfect equal?

that's why it's unrealistic

3/21/2011 3:03:12 PM

If there was a method for winning without thinking... as in... someone figured out how to win 100% of the time with the same combination of moves, then the game wouldn't exist.

The shear number of games played since the beginning of time of Chess without finding such a perfect game to exist is proof that one does not exist. The number of chess games played on Earth is much greater than the number of every combination of moves possible.


The fact that the game is perfectly balanced and most humans can't remember every combination of moves, is what makes the game so fun to play.


[Edited on March 21, 2011 at 3:04 PM. Reason : .]

3/21/2011 3:03:16 PM

^^ He clearly states the game is between two mental giants.

3/21/2011 4:19:19 PM

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"The shear number of games played since the beginning of time of Chess without finding such a perfect game to exist is proof that one does not exist. The number of chess games played on Earth is much greater than the number of every combination of moves possible. "

I disagree. You wouldn't even know you had found a perfect game even if you had played it. You'd have to use computers to create a perfect game, like they did for checkers.

3/21/2011 4:21:55 PM

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"The shear number of games played since the beginning of time of Chess without finding such a perfect game to exist is proof that one does not exist. The number of chess games played on Earth is much greater than the number of every combination of moves possible."

This has to be a troll

3/21/2011 4:26:31 PM