Some Weird News Oldies ...
Man accused of trying to swap baby for beers...
http://wbztv.com/local/baby.for.beer.2.1700066.html
[Al Bundy?]
Condo complex to test dog poop for DNA, charge offending owners $500...
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Doggie-Doo-Whodunit-93939284.html
[I love it!]
TSA Agent Accused of Stealing Cash from Wheelchair-Bound Woman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2516521/posts?page=1
Woman Hides Inside Coffin To Avoid Being Arrested...
http://cbs3.com/local/Coffin.Funeral.Home.2.1701504.html
Trained Chimp ‘Can Predict Hurricanes Better Than NOAA’...
http://www.nationalcenter.org/HurricaneForecast.html
Toilet brush ‘blunder’ death...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2978052/Toilet-brush-blunder-death.html
[Ban toilet brushes? I don’t ‘stink’ so.]
Teacher uses ‘assassination’ of Obama to demonstrate geometry problem...
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/05/jefferson_county_geometry_teac.html
[Leftists taught me not to be outraged with their reaction to similar Bush ‘jokes’.]
New nonprofit restaurant opens: ‘Pay what you want’...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37213165/ns/business-consumer_news
COPS: Women tried to zap WENDY’S worker with stun gun; Botched drive-thru order...
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0517102wendys1.html
[One fry short of a happy meal. Islam take note — we’re crazy too.]
Actor Danny Glover heckled for not putting hand over heart at flag ceremony; Boos at commencement...
http://www.sltrib.com/D=g/ci_15046518
Police Taser fan who heckled ... [ ... Tiger Woods I assume — tyranny?]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1275641/Police-Taser-drunk-fan-heckled-Tiger-Woods-golf-tournament.html
Billionaire to open ‘save the planet’ restaurant...
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/indian-billionaire-to-open-save-the-planet-restaurant-in-uk_100360979.html
[Bloomberg Syndrome strikes another billionaire.]
STUDY: Babies know difference between good and evil — at six months...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1275574/Babies-know-difference-good-evil-months-study-reveals.html
Questions surround Kagan’s handling of White House eco-terrorist controversy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2512138/posts
“ ... a leak that Forest Service officials believed endangered the lives of their agents on the ground ...”
[Republican] Congressional Candidate Rescues Baby in Rollover Crash
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612048/posts
UK teacher banned for life ‘for being useless’...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322989/The-teacher-banned-life-useless.html
Crocodile Blamed for Congo Air Crash
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2612237/posts
Woman Drove Around With Corpse For Nearly a Year COSTA MESA,CALIFORNIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2612798/posts
US presidential nuclear codes ‘lost for months’ [During Clinton administration]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612706/posts
Pranknet-Style Hoax Fools ESPN Reporter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2612803/posts
Did Steny Hoyer punch his Republican opponent? (Yes, twice)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611986/posts
[Hoyer said to Lollar, “I’m coming after you.”]
GOP congressional candidate Stephen Broden says he would not rule out violent overthrow of govt.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612262/posts
“We have a constitutional remedy,” Broden said then. “And the framers say if that don’t work, revolution.” [Here we are on the verge of victory, and this guy has to give the rats ammo.]
Hezbollah Finances Campaign Against Sharron Angle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611951/posts
Dog Has His Day, In Paladino Memo To Media
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611970/posts
[Media investigates licence of Paladino’s dog, but not BO’s long form birth certificate. — Cicero]
Cindy Sheehan Goes Republican [War protestor Sheehan?]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611546/posts
Psychiatric Manual DSM-IV-TR Labels free Thinkers, non conformers as Mentally Ill or ODD
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611730/posts
It is now confirmed by USWGO News that the DSM-IV-TR Manuallabels free thinkers, non conformers, civil disobedient advocates, those that question authority, and people considered hostile toward the government (aka Oath keepers and local militias) as mentally ill with the illness titled “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. [snip]
Postcard delivered after 64 years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2611788/posts
Court takes children away from woman who taunted dying girl...
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/2-of-jennifer-petkov-kids-to-live-with-father-20101020-wpms
Meth Lab Found At Georgetown University...
http://wusa9.com/news/breaking/story.aspx?storyid=116843&catid=158
REPORT: First lady ‘likely’ to meet ‘commercial sex workers’ in India
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Barack-and-Michelles-Mumbai-darshan-plans/articleshow/6797379.cms
AUDIO: Upset with dinner, boy, 10, dials 911...
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/illinois/911-call
Russia’s top drug official says CA legalizing pot would be ‘catastrophic’...
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/22/interview_viktor_ivanov
Union Stagehand Fired for Wearing Bush Hat and Shirt (Wore USS Bush attire at Obama set-up)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612685/posts
Dem promises move to trailer if elected Texas gov.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612077/posts
Rent Is Too Damn High Candidate Doesn’t Pay Rent
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611295/posts
Is Obama Submissive to Islam?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612648/posts
CA boarder killed by shark; ‘The waves turned red’ [photo at Drudge]
http://www.keyt.com/news/local/Deadly-Shark-Attack-105537773.html
HORROR: Headless animals dumped on Miami street...
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/Neighbors-Wake-to-Headless-Animals-in-the-Street-105460693.html?dr
EU to Italy: Clean up Naples trash or face fines...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20101022/tts-uk-italy-rubbish-ca02f96.html
[Naples] Residents complain of stench...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20101022/tts-uk-italy-rubbish-ca02f96.html
FACEBOOK ‘accidentally outing gay users’...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1322916/Facebook-accidentally-outing-gay-users-advertisers.html#ixzz13B6XwRtM
[Oh boy will the fur fly!]
French strikes ablaze: Britons warned to stay away as violence spirals
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611093/posts
Sarkozy sets the heavy squad on the riots as demonstrations over French pension reforms continue....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612452/posts
Riots Spread From France To U.S. As Strikes Continue (cars set ablaze in Brooklyn?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2612056/posts
[A leftist’s fantasy, for now.]
SunkenCiv’s link list reg. French riots
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2612056/posts?page=48#48
“I was anti-gun, until I got stalked - I can’t stand weapons. But after disturbing e-mails and...”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612219/posts
Taiwanese bride bemoans lack of men, marries herself...
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/offbeat/102210-taiwanese-bride-marries-herself-ncx
[Soon to have millions of men attempt to contact her?]
DUmmie FUnnies 10-22-10 (Dialoguing for Dollars: Alan Grayson talks to the DUmmies!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2612313/posts
Serious news updates in Monster Ping:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2496737/posts?page=1193#1193
” Billionaire to open ‘save the planet’ restaurant...
Indian billionaire should have stuck to Tandoori chicken ;-)
New company claims they’ll be able to RESURRECT THE DEAD by 2045
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3378987/posts
France Welcomes New Year With 800 Cars Burnt to a Crisp (Trump Campaign Material)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3378996/posts
[Islamic tradition there.]
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French soldiers open fire on car ‘attempting to ram mosque’...
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Scientists rediscover snake used by ancient Greeks as weapon of war...
[I wonder if this was post-Pelopenesian Wars or prior to Sparta’s dominance? The Spartans spoke long and hard about fighting with their sense of honor.]
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Alabama family holds burglary suspects at gunpoint
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3378642/posts
Last week, a surveillance camera at an Alabama family’s home captured burglars stealing Christmas presents and two televisions. On Sunday, the Wyatt family was being interviewed by a local news station about the robbery when they recognized the car used in the crime from the surveillance video. The quick-thinking - and well-armed - family jumped into action and held the burglars at gunpoint until police arrived.
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Cracks appear in Japan-South Korea deal on war-time sex slaves
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3378622/posts
In Tokyo, government officials were saying that the $8.3 million it agreed to put into a fund for the remaining 46 South Korean ‘comfort women,’ who were forced into sexual servitude during World War II, would not be paid until a statue to the women was removed from outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul. Meanwhile in Seoul, supporters of the women said they would put up other statues if...
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Indonesia: Hundreds cheer as unmarried pair are flogged for being ‘too close’
Hundreds of people gathered to cheer as a woman was publicly caned in Indonesia for having affectionate contact with a man who was not her husband. University student Nur Elita was rushed to hospital after receiving five lashes in front of a jubilant crowd. The 20-year-old was forced to kneel as a masked man whipped her repeatedly outside the Baiturrahim Mosque in Aceh, Indonesia’s only province to enact Sharia law. Her companion, 23-year-old Wahyudi Saputra was also caned. Under Sharia law, unmarried men and women are not allowed to get too close to each other due to the ‘khalwat’ offence....
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China has a variety of blinding laser guns which violate the 1998 Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3378396/posts
China has BBQ-905 Laser Dazzler Weapons. China has been updating its home-made blinding laser weapons in recent years to meet the needs of different combat operations. Blinding laser weapons are primarily used to blind its targets with laser in short distance, or interfere and damage the laser and night vision equipment, etc. China has many different types of laser guns, including the BBQ-905 Laser Dazzler Weapon, the WJG-2002 Laser Gun, the PY132A Blinding Laser Weapon, and the PY131A ...
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FBI OFFERS $5,000 REWARD AFTER BACON FOUND AT VEGAS MOSQUE...
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Fight breaks out at New Jersey anti-violence demonstration...
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Christmas Nightmare Moment ...
HOLIDAY HORROR: Waterfall of blood pours from elevator after crushes cruise ship worker...
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War against feral hogs rages on in Texas...
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/war-against-feral-hogs-rages-on/nprbX/
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[other updates above]