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Need Freeper input. Next week King Vanity is scheduled to have the routine nail split and pull for a bothersome infected ingrown toe nail. Is there any other new treatments out there? He cannot control flailing movements and the thought of him kicking after the treatment is making me cringe. Also soaking his foot after is impossible as he moves like a fish out of water. He literally wears hi top Converse shoes in the shower which are strapped down to his foot plates in order to keep him from kicking and thrashing around to avoid injury. I then wash...

The Bush administration is showing signs of all of the vices of successful foreign policies arrogance, overreaching, elitism, and messianic zeal in its decision to enter the Liberian quagmire. Americans will gladly support their president when he attacks nations that sponsor or harbor terrorists. We will even back him in a preemptive war against a country that might attack us. But when we start sending troops around the world to stabilize nations that, if left to disintegrate, might become breeding grounds for terror, it's a step too far for most Americans.Why are we suddenly sending troops to Africa? Is it...

Partying Daughter Grounded, Foot Nailed to Floor Wed Nov 27, 8:52 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian mother took drastic measures to stop her party-loving 13-year-old daughter from going at out night -- she nailed her foot to the floor, officials said on Wednesday. Mao Savoeun, 36, from Kompong Thom province in central Cambodia, told police she was angry with her daughter for going to a party at a local pagoda during last week's Water Festival, the annual knees-up in the war-ravaged southeast Asian nation. On the girl's return,...

Partying Daughter Grounded, Foot Nailed to Floor PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian mother took drastic measures to stop her party-loving 13-year-old daughter from going at out night -- she nailed her foot to the floor, officials said on Wednesday. Mao Savoeun, 36, from Kompong Thom province in central Cambodia, told police she was angry with her daughter for going to a party at a local pagoda during last week's Water Festival, the annual knees-up in the war-ravaged southeast Asian nation. On the girl's return, and after she went to sleep, her mother drove a two-inch nail through the top...