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PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – Among the green landscape of CB Smith Park in Pembroke Pines was something that stuck out just a bit on Thursday. Actually, quite a lot. Park goers were shocked to see two pigeons whose feathers had been dyed pink. “They are now just a bright target for predator animals,” said Susan Oddo with Palm Beach Parrot and Bird Rescue. The bizarre sight is no laughing matter according to Oddo. Her rescue has taken in another bird with dyed feathers that was also captured in the area of Pembroke Pines. “These are animals that are raised in...

The Democratic majority leader last week opened a pro-forma session of the House of Representatives with the Pledge of Allegiance – well, most of it. The U.S. House of Representatives is technically in session while its members are back home campaigning. So, every other day or so, to satisfy a constitutional requirement, they gavel a session in, say the prayer and the Pledge, then close the session. Last week it fell to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland to do the honors. Hoyer:" The chair will lead the House in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag...

The Democratic presidential primary is doing just what Amy Klobuchar feared it would do in last week’s debate: ripping it apart. A self-proclaimed democratic socialist who bashes billionaires every chance he gets competes with an actual billionaire for the nomination while largely ignoring the other white male septuagenarian and the last remaining woman in the race. As Sen. Bernie Sander’s candidacy gains momentum, traditional party liberals like Matt Bennett, who worked as Deputy Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs for President Clinton, say, “It’s this incredible sense that we’re hurtling to the abyss. I also think we could lose...

“I told her I got beat up by the KKK and she called me a liar so I had to show her what it was like to get beat up by four or five grown men,” he told officers, according to charging documents. “She knows I’m a black belt in martial arts and knew what was coming.” Police spokesman Lt. Ryan Frashure said he made these comments and more before police actually questioned him. He added there appeared to be no validity to his claim that he was assaulted by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

All beheadings are grotesque but Muslim beheadings are the most reckless, repulsive, and reprehensible because they are religiously inspired. Islamic hypocrisy is astounding. Well, the barbarians did it again! Islamic terrorists in Syria released a video Sunday of their beheading of American aid worker Peter Kassig, of Indianapolis, who had recently converted to Islam! The video also shows about a dozen Syrian military men being beheaded. Kassig is the fifth westerner to be beheaded. It seems modern Muslims are giving past decapitators a bad name! Alexander Blackwell (died 1747) was a British adventurer who was involved in a mysterious plot...

Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, and the last surviving Mitford sister, has died aged 94. Her son, the Duke of Devonshire, announced the death in a statement from Chatsworth House, her stately home. The Mitford sisters fascinated - and sometimes scandalised - British society in the 1940s. Unity was a friend of Hitler, Diana, the second wife of British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, and Jessica a left-wing polemicist. Deborah was more focused on her home life.

"Ron Paul is “the best-known American propagandist for our enemies”, writes Dorothy Rabinowitz in a recent Wall Street Journal hit piece. To support the charge, she writes that Dr. Paul “assures audiences” that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 “took place only because of U.S. aggression and military actions”. It’s “True,” she writes, that “we’ve heard the assertions before”, but only “rarely have we heard in any American political figure such exclusive concern for, and appreciation of, the motives of those who attacked us”—and, she adds, he doesn’t care about the victims of the attacks. The vindictive rhetoric aside, what is...

Meet Otis Lockett, whose penis Milwaukee cops received judicial permission to peruse photographically. Lockett, who was shot in the groin early Sunday, told police that he was fired upon “by an unidentified person behind him,” according to a Circuit Court filing, which notes that the 27-year-old was treated at Froedtert Hospital “for a single gunshot wound to his penis.”

Months before authorities announced the arrest of a 77-year-old Reno man in four slayings going back to 1977, they alerted law enforcement in California, Nevada and elsewhere to review cold case homicides for possible connections. Piquing their interest was the fact that all four of Joseph Naso's alleged victims – two in Yuba County and two in the Bay Area – had first and last names starting with the same initials.

Frogs are suffering from a fatal fungal infection.Vance T. Vredenburg/SFSU A fungal infection that is killing amphibians around the world acts by disrupting the flow of electrolytes across their skin, ultimately causing heart failure. The discovery is helping to raise hopes that a treatment for the infection could one day be given to amphibians in the wild.Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a kind of chytrid fungus that causes the skin disease chytridiomycosis in amphibians, was likely spread around the world by the South African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) in the 1930s and 1940s, when the frog was widely used as a pregnancy test....

from dictionary.com quib·ble (kwĭb'əl) Pronunciation Key intr.v. quib·bled, quib·bling, quib·bles 1. To evade the truth or importance of an issue by raising trivial distinctions and objections. 2. To find fault or criticize for petty reasons; cavil. n. 1. A petty distinction or an irrelevant objection. 2. Archaic A pun. [Probably diminutive of obsolete quib, equivocation, perhaps from Latin quibus, dative and ablative pl. of quī, who, what (from its frequent use in legal documents); see kwo- in Indo-European roots.] quib'bler n. Synonyms: These verbs mean to raise petty or frivolous objections or complaints: quibbling about minor details; a critic...

Yes he leans left. But MSNBC host Chris Matthews was manifestly offended by the Mexican audience at the Miss Universe pageant that booed Miss USA. The Mexicans were adding insult to injury, since the lovely and gracious Rachel Smith of Tennessee had earlier slipped onto her derrière during the evening gown segment of the competititon. Discussing the matter on this afternoon's Hardball with his panel of NBC political director Chuck Todd, Howard Fineman of Newsweek, and Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Tribune, Matthews unleashed on the Mexicans: That's about the worst PR I can think of for this Mexican immigration...

OPENING in theaters Friday, a motion picture called "September Dawn" depicts a brutal American mas sacre that has been forgotten. On Sept. 11, 1857, in Utah Territory, Mormons slaughtered more than 120 California-bound settlers from Arkansas. Retelling at this time the 9/11 carnage of 150 years ago does not help Mormon Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. The basic facts about the Mountain Meadows Massacre are not in dispute. Mormons mobilized Paiute Indians, accompanied by Mormons disguised as Indians, to attack a peaceful wagon train. The settlers beat off the attack but were left short of food and ammunition. They disarmed themselves...

Britney Spears' child-care techniques seem to be growing positively "Toxic" - she nearly dropped her 8-month-old son on his head yesterday as she tottered out of a posh Manhattan hotel with a glass in one hand and the tyke in another. The baby-bobbling bungle began at about 6 p.m., as the "Not That Innocent" pop tart left the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Central Park South, holding her kid, Sean Preston, and what witnesses said was a tumbler of water and ice (photo, far left). While heading to a car, her long pants appeared to get tangled in her open-toed shoes (inset,...

NEED HELP--- Any there any FReeper lawyers or judges out there who KNOW how to FORCE a judge to REQUIRE fraudsters to follow the rules---and his ORDERS---when they have been caught REPEATEDLY committing bald-faced PERJURY on KEY issues, KNOWINGLY SUBORNING PERJURY, OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE and CONTEMPTING the COURT by DISOBEYING ORDERS---THREE TIMES?