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Conservation Groups Again Seek Endangered Species Protection For Giant, Spitting Worm In Wash. (AP) Fans of the giant Palouse earthworm are once again seeking federal protection for the rare, sweet-smelling species that spits at predators. They filed a petition Tuesday with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service requesting the worm be protected as an endangered species.

an angry mob that included many ACORN supporters nearly knocked New York state Sen. James Alesi, a Republican, down on the floor and spat in the face of his chief of staff.... The protesters were reportedly upset that two Democratic senators decided to caucus with Republicans, a move that when finalized by the state Senate would hand Republicans control of it. Majority Democrats have shut down the chamber to prevent the transfer of power.

Mexican player banned for spitting, swine flu admission A Mexican footballer has been banned for spitting and blowing nasal secretions at an opponent then telling him he had swine flu. Guadalajara defender Hector Reynoso has provisionally been suspended from all matches in the Libertadores Cup following last week's game at Everton of Chile in South America's top club competition. The South American Football Confederation (CSF) said the length of the ban would be determined in the next 72 hours. "At around the 90th minute of the aforementioned game, Reynoso, following an incident in the game, reacted by spitting at Everton...

A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face. The clergyman prefered not to lodge a complaint with the police and told an acquaintance that he was used to being spat at by Jews. Many Jerusalem clergy have been subjected to abuse of this kind. For the most part, they ignore it but sometimes they...

A friend of a friend produced this video, one of the best I’ve seen when it comes to documenting the anti-Americanism of the radical left. Complete with an upside down flag, spitting on an Iraq War veteran and calling him a rapist, it’s sure to make your blood boil. Good gosh, can we please rid our country of this kind of human garbage? You know, the Left would like to turn almost anything now into a hate crime. Do you think we could get the Dems in Congress to include US servicemen and women in their next piece of hate...

An HIV-positive man with a history of spitting at police officers and biting fellow jail inmates was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday. Willie Campbell's sentence came one day after the same Dallas County jury convicted the 42-year-old of harassment of a public servant for spitting into the eye and open mouth of Dallas Officer Dan Waller in May 2006. As Mr. Campbell was being arrested for public intoxication, he began to resist and kicked at the computer screen in the police vehicle, Officer Waller testified during the two-day trial. "He turns and spits," Officer Waller said. "He hits...

NAIROBI (AFP) - A new giant species of spitting cobra -- about 2.6 metres long and with enough venom to kill up to 20 people in one bite -- has been discovered in Kenya, a study said Friday. The large brown spitting cobra, initially included under the black-necked spitting cobra species, was discovered at a snake farm in June 2004, but confirmed as a separate species this year. The black-necked species grows to a maximum two metres, with an average of 1.5 metres, scientists said, making the new species the largest in the world. The new Naja Ashei species, named...

London: Bus drivers are to be issued with DNA kits so that passengers who spit on them can be traced by police. The "spit kits" are already supplied at all 275 Tube stations and are expected to be rolled out this summer across London's 7,000-strong bus fleet. It is the latest initiative against anti-social behaviour on buses and has coincided with the Mayor's introduction of free bus travel for under-16s. The DNA kits will allow drivers to take swabs of saliva that can be passed to the police and checked against criminal records. Transport for London says that about seven...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A 43-year-old German man was taken to hospital in critical condition after he fell off a second storey balcony during a spitting contest with his 12-year-old son, police said Friday. A spokesman for the police in the eastern town of Cottbus said the man in Forst had apparently lost his balance after thrusting too far forward in his attempt to outspit his son. He tumbled over the ledge and landed on a balcony of the ground floor apartment, police said. He was taken to hospital in a rescue helicopter.

BEIJING - Residents were reminded again: Spitting must stop, starting now. With the 2008 Beijing Olympics less than 500 days away, officials say they are prepared to take harsh measures against people who spit in public if appeals do not work. "Very soon you will see action to stop spitting," said Jin Dapeng, director general of Beijing's municipal health department. He hinted that fines might be involved. Residents say the habit is a reaction to Beijing's dirty, dry air. Bad manners have been a constant worry for Chinese officials. At a discussion panel on the subject, one adviser, Zi Huayun,...

Sociologist Jerry Lembcke of Holy Cross [claims]: “Stories of spat-upon Vietnam veterans are bogus.” Contrary to Lembcke’s claims, I quite easily found many accounts published in the 1967-1972 period claiming spitting on servicemen. For example, on October 6, 1967, John F. Geyer and Bill Bowers, two sailors in uniform on a ten-day leave before shipping out, were accosted and taunted by a group of about ten young men while leaving a high-school football game in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Bowers heard one of them say, “We’re going to get a couple of sailors.” Then one of the band of attackers spat at...

Resolving The Spitting Debate Posted by Dan Riehl on February 3, 2007 - 19:27. There's a growing blog debate going on as regards peace activists spitting on returning veterans during the Vietnam era. It begins here at Slate in an article claiming the charges are false. The myth of the spat-upon Vietnam veteran refuses to die. At Volokh, Jim Lindgren points out some weaknesses in search mechanisms that could lead to the stories not showing up in contemporaneous reports, leading to the assumption that it didn't happen.Always up for a Google challenge, I decided to take a look and can...

"...Although Nexis overflows with references to protesters gobbing on Vietnam vets, and Bob Greene's 1989 book Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned From Vietnam counts 63 examples of protester spitting, Jerry Lembcke argues that the story is bunk in his 1998 book The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam" ... Lembcke, a professor of sociology at Holy Cross and a Vietnam vet, investigated hundreds of news accounts of antiwar activists spitting on vets. But every time he pushed for more evidence or corroboration from a witness, the story collapsed--the actual person who was spat on turned out to...

Rick "Pellet Gun" Krause has reclaimed family bragging rights. Krause on Saturday took home his 13th championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship in southwestern Michigan, an event his family has dominated in recent years...

BARNSTABLE, Mass. --Two employees at a Dunkin' Donuts shop on Cape Cod were arrested after allegedly spitting in customers' coffee. Rodrigo Rodrigues, 22, and Junior DaSilva, 26, both of Barnstable, each face a felony charge of distributing food intended or expected to cause injury. Both are free on bail after their arraignment this week, the Cape Cod Times reported. Barnstable police made the arrests Feb. 3 after a six-day investigation prompted by an anonymous tip that employees were spitting and urinating in police officers' coffee, according to a police report filed in court.

Dear Everyone, We were able just today to get the itinerary for Jane Fonda's book signing tour. We are encouraging all Vietnam Veterans and their family, as well as all concerned Americans, to protest her signings. This is Operation Street Corner, now used for another traitor, Jane Fonda. Watch the Operation Street Corner website for pictures and information about our protests (http://operationstreetcorner.com/). There is nothing posted yet, as we are getting the word out first to our email listservers. Thank you so much for your time and help! I will be sending out additional information about Jane soon. See Hanoi...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Police said they arrested a man for spitting on Academy Award winning actress Jana Fonda during a book-signing stop in Kansas City Tuesday night.Fonda, 67, spoke at Unity Temple, in The Plaza shopping district, about her new book, "My Life So Far" and her new movie with Jennifer Lopez called "Monster-In-Law."At about 9 p.m., police said a man who had been waiting in line for about 90 minutes, passed a book to Fonda and then spit a large amount of tobacco juice into her face. Michael A. Smith Thy said the man then ran away and...

Roger Clemens was given an emphatic apology Thursday for "unjustly" being ejected from his 10-year-old son's baseball game last weekend in Colorado. David King, president of tournament organizer Triple Crown Sports, said "Mr. Clemens was a non-aggressor and a victim of mistaken identity and confusion" by an upset umpire. Roger Clemens accepts an apology issued for his ejection from his son's game.(AP) Clemens was asked to leave son Kacy's game Saturday in Craig, Colo., when a 22-year-old ump said the Houston Astros pitcher spit a sunflower seed at him. Moments earlier, Kacy was called out on a stolen base attempt...

Pardon the vanity but I just saw a clip on Fox News of John Kerry giving a stump speech and he is seen spitting on the microphone and slober can be seen on the microphone. If someone has the ability to capture video this could make for great humor as well as a "name that caption" posting.

Pictures have been released showing inmates at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay being told their 'rights.'Detainees were told they could make an appeal to a military panel to end their imprisonment. The US Supreme Court has already said that they can appeal to America's civil courts as well.'In several instances, detainees chose to ignore the reading, chose to tear up the paper that had been given to them with the information on it,' Deputy Comissioner Brian Janke said.Some 15 people at Guantanamo Bay have been identified as potential defendants for military tribunals. But so far only 4 have been charged....

Speaking to you on tape: Osama Bin Laden, killer and craven coward, who presumes the Western world is as pusillanimous as he. Stop waging war upon Muslims, he says, and we shall spare you from our swords (or bombs or grenades or hijacked planes). To which offer the Western world responds, "Stuff it, cave boy." Or words to that effect. It must, of course, also be noted that the U.S. and its friends in Europe are waging war not upon Muslims, but against terrorists who happen to be Muslim, and against a minority of Iraqis, and their radical cohorts, who...

I share this info with you and invite any of you to share more stories, etc. The left is now trying to re-write history AGAIN (WMD vs 1441 as reason for going to war with Iraq) I found at least one soldier's story where he was spit on 3 times in SF while in uniform. The leader of the Syracuse Peace Council seemed to take issue with my sign about them spitting on the troops. He said that it is an urban legend, that no troops were spit on during Vietnam. I just ran across another leftist who tried to...

Spit all you want, Chicagoans, at least on the sidewalk. A 17-year-old's arrest last week for spitting about a block from Senn High School on the North Side unleashed a protest from the student's family -- and an acknowledgement from the city that a ban on spitting in the public way was actually repealed in 1997. Now Marcus Fulbright's mother, Valerie Fulbright, is considering a lawsuit against the city alleging civil-rights violations against her son. The Chicago Police Department, meanwhile, sent a message to officers telling them not to enforce the spitting ban anymore. Marcus Fulbright, a Senn senior, was...

<p>NAPLES, Fla. - A homeless man received 12 years in prison for spitting on a Collier County sheriff's deputy during an arrest.</p> <p>David Michael Hird, 41, was convicted in June of battery on a law enforcement officer.</p> <p>Hird was arrested on a trespassing charge Feb. 18 and put into a patrol car by Cpl. Paul Boliek. Prosecutors said when Hird was in the back of the patrol car, he coughed up phlegm on the deputy. When Boliek asked what he was doing, Hird replied: "I'm trying to make you sick, man."</p>

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<p>Former Burger King cook Joshua Arbuckle has been charged with aggravated assault for supposedly spitting on the hamburger he prepared for a Pennsylvania state trooper.</p> <p>Arbuckle, 18, was tied to the crime after a four-month police investigation that included DNA analysis, Clarion County District Attorney Mark Aaron said yesterday.</p>

I have long contended that our socialist system of government is in fact nothing but a renovation of the ancient system of aristocracy. Whenever you have different rules and punishment for people based upon their status, in this case the status of being a government employee, you have injustice (although the ones receiving the preferential treatment would of course argue against you). A good example of this has occurred recently in Oklahoma City where John Carl Marquez was arrested for suspicion of beating his wife and faces a year in prison and a fine. During the arrest, the man also...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Spitters and litter bugs beware: the Hong Kong government is about to make the familiar habit of cleansing one's airways and tossing of rubbish very expensive. The government, aiming to prevent more outbreaks of the deadly SARS virus and bird flu, is launching a sweeping clean-up campaign to give the city's image a much-needed polish. "Some of the measures will be seen as very draconian," a government source, who did not want to be identified, said on Monday. The price of spitting or littering? HK$1,200 (94 pounds) a time. Those who cannot afford to pay may...

California's Libertarian Party voted Saturday to drop its candidate for governor because he spat on a radio talk show host. The party's 15-member executive committee voted to rescind its endorsement of Gary Copeland's campaign and to censure him for "repugnant" and unprofessional conduct. The Libertarian Party has about 98,000 registered members in California. The committee's resolution also called on Copeland to apologize and to withdraw from the campaign. The state Legislature was urged to allow the party to remove his name from the November ballot. "There was just a lot of anger over what he did," party Chairman Aaron Starr...