Keyword: passiveaggressive
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A flight attendant apologized for leaving a bomb threat aboard an airplane that forced it to make an emergency landing, an FBI agent testified Friday. The threatening note was left on an American Airlines flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Boston on May 27, forcing the plane to be diverted to Nashville. "I'm sorry," Gay Wilson wrote in a confession, according to FBI agent Greg Franklin. "I take full responsibility for my problems. I've never been in trouble in all my life until now." Wilson, 37, initially said she found the note in the bathroom and showed...
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<p>WHY are dems so insistent about this topic? Bush knows what he's doing, let him finish the job!</p>
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I loost my mind, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa . . .
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HENDERSON, Texas (AP) - A man set up a bubble bath for his wife, complete with candles and music, then tried to electrocute her by pushing a radio into the tub, authorities say. William Joseph Wolfe, a 34-year-old emergency room nurse, was arrested Thursday on charges of attempted murder and freed on $40,000 bail. "It's the kind of case you would expect to see on a 'Columbo' episode," said Police Chief Randy Freeman. Teresa Wolfe told police her husband had moved the radio from its usual place in the bathroom to a bench near the bathtub, with an extension cord...
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"Day of Silence" is coming this Friday, to a public school near you! The "Day of Silence" is a day on which people of all sexual orientations who support homosexuality, bisexuality and transgender rights (does not include heterosexual relationships or marriage) take a 9-hour vow of silence in the classroom to protest the alleged discrimination of these individuals.
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<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A college has placed a professor on paid leave while prosecutors determine whether she vandalized her own car and reported it as a hate crime, officials said Saturday.</p>
<p>Kerri Dunn, 39, who was teaching on a one-year appointment at Claremont McKenna College east of Los Angeles, will be replaced when classes resume Monday following spring break.</p>
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<p>A professor who claimed she was targeted in a hate crime that stirred student protests at the Claremont colleges is suspected of staging the vandalism herself, police said Wednesday.</p>
<p>Kerri F. Dunn's car was vandalized and covered with racist, anti-Semitic and sexist epithets on March 9, leading faculty to cancel classes and students to stage rallies the following day.</p>
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Man plans own kidnapping to see if wife loves him Wed Jan 7, 4:02 PM ET BOGOTA (AFP) - Colombian authorities arrested a man who arranged to be kidnapped to get back at his cheating wife, police said. Jorge Bravo, who was captured in Colombia's second largest city Medellin, said by planning for his own kidnapping he was trying to test whether his wife loved him. A brother of Bravo's had called the woman, asking her to pay three million pesos (1,100 dollars) for her husband's release, according to the police. "All I wanted was to see how she felt"...
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Hello all. A friend of mine posted some replies here that were promptly deleted. It seems -- and please correct me if I am wrong -- that liberal viewpoints are not allowed to be expressed here. I am genuinely interested in engaging in dialogue that presents both sides of the political spectrum. If this is not the site for that, can you recommend another?
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CHICAGO -- A 19-year-old Northwestern University student was charged with felony disorderly conduct for allegedly faking two racist incidents earlier this month because "he wanted to do something to motivate minority students," police said Tuesday. Nov. 11: Northwestern University Students Rally Against Hate Jaime A. Saide (pictured, right), 19, of Des Moines, was charged late Monday with two counts of felony disorderly conduct for filing separate false police reports claiming he was the victim of a hate crime, Evanston Police Commander Michael Perry said. In the first report, filed Nov. 4, Saide said someone hung a sign on the door...
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A Klein couple who had claimed their house was burned in a hate crime admitted staging the blaze to collect on insurance. Nicholas Gatlin, 31, pleaded guilty Monday to arson and insurance fraud and was sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison, said Harris County Assistant District Attorney Steve Baldassano. His wife, Tracey Gatlin, also 31, pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and received four years deferred adjudication. They also must pay $13,000 in restitution to Allstate, the company that insured the home, Baldassano added. The couple claimed their house in the 9800 block of Tassel Brook was torched...
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<p>BATON ROUGE - A professor at Louisiana State University has been accused of sending threatening letters to herself and pulling police away from the investigation into the South Louisiana serial killer case, authorities say.</p>
<p>University police arrested Deidra W. Frazier at her Baker home Wednesday. She was released on bond after being booked on 16 counts of criminal mischief and one count of terrorizing.</p>
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DEFENDERS: Pay To Get Kidnapped? Some People Do New Thrill Is An Extreme Adventure, Some Say Posted: 5:47 p.m. EDT May 16, 2003 In a dark basement, somewhere in metro-Detroit there is something very strange and frightening going on. Local 4 Defenders have learned that local men and women are being kidnapped right off the public streets and brought to the basement for a game of mind manipulation and torture. Local 4 followed the kidnappers as they stalked a local man and waited for the perfect time to act. A group of masked men waited in their minivan as they...
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