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Former Head of Interpol Sentenced to 15 Years for Corruption

Posted on August 03, 2010
The former President of Interpol and South African National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in Johannesburg for corruption. He was accused of receiving payments from convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti. He was also accused of manufacturing evidence by the court...

Man Filmed While Playing in Traffic ? Ending in Being Hit By a Truck

Posted on August 03, 2010
I just saw this video on YouTube and no nothing about the back story. It seems to be genuine, but shows a guy messing around in traffic as his friend films him — until he is hit by a truck. This would make for rather poor evidence if the man hoped to go to court...

?Beauty Bandit? Faces Justice in Alleged Botox Thefts in Florida

Posted on August 03, 2010
The so-called Beauty Bandit” has been arrested in South Florida. Maria Elizabeth Chrysson, 29, has been accused of stealing Botox and other cosmetic treatments. She is not going to be pleased with the mug shot. She is now facing three counts of grand theft...

St. Louis Lays Off Roughly One-Third of Police Force

Posted on August 02, 2010
Cities continue to shutdown basic services as the country spends billions abroad on two wars. Just a couple weeks after Oakland announced a plan to no longer respond to calls for such crimes as grand theft auto and burglary, East St. Louis is laying off roughly one-third of its police force as well as part [...

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Sharia Scrum: Iranian Women Take Field In New Islamically Correct Uniforms

Posted on August 02, 2010
The Iranian government continues to be a fashion leader this week with the appearance of its female rugby team in its new modesty protecting uniforms. The team to the field in headscarves and full tracksuits to satisfy Muslim values. Heat stroke appears to be allowed over shorts...

Man Arrested After Seeking License to Marry 13-Year-Old

Posted on August 02, 2010
Pedro Valladares Martinez, 27, is an alleged child molester who was the subject of a rare arrest. City officials in Lake Placid reported to police that Martinez was seeking a marriage license for himself and a 13-year-old girl. Police state that relatives sought the license and police allegedly confirmed that the girl is pregnant...

For He?s The Jolly Dead Fellow . . .

Posted on August 02, 2010
When Japanese police went to the house to congratulate Sogen Kato on his 111th birthday, they allegedly discovered an over 30-year-old conspiracy instead. Police were suspicious when Kato’s 53-year-old granddaughter told them that the birthday boy “doesn’t want to see anybody...

Mr. Clean Knows Where You Live: Company Adds GPS Trackers To Boxes of Detergent

Posted on August 01, 2010
First there was that broom stalking you on commercials when you got rid of it. Now, your detergent is watching you. Unilever — maker of Omo detergent — is placing GPS tracking devices in boxes of detergent to locate winners of its prizes through a promotions agency called “Bullet” in Brazil...

The Hope For Co-Existence

Posted on August 01, 2010
While I am pretty sure humans and dinosaurs did not co-exist, that does not mean such co-existence is not possible among the species. I like this much better than the image in today’s story of Noah and the T-Rex.

Australian Public Schools Teaching Humans and Dinosaurs Co-Existed

Posted on August 01, 2010
Australia is facing a controversy that is all too familiar to Americans. Fundamentalists in state schools are teaching children that humans and dinosaurs lived together and Noah brought dinosaur eggs on to the Ark. Children are also taught that Adam and Eve were not eaten by dinosaurs “because they were under a protective spell...

God?s Governor: If You Love God, Vote for Me

Posted on August 01, 2010
Tennessee GOP Gubernatorial candidate Zach Wamp has a simple message for voters: if you love God, vote for me. I have been a critic in prior columns of the increasing use of faith-based politics by both Republicans and Democrats, including President Obama...

YouTube Hit: Weiner Confronts GOP on Health Care

Posted on July 31, 2010
The House floor was the scene of some heated exchanges after Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) took the floor to address the 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. Congress is becoming the WWF without the folding chairs and pile drivers.

Shifting the Burden: Man Who Was Found Bouncing Naked and Masturbating on Trampoline Given No Jail Time

Posted on July 31, 2010
For our criminal defense attorneys, most of us would like to secure a deal like the one given to James Burden, 55, in Falkirk, England. Burden was found bouncing naked on a woman’s trampoline while masturbating. He then got down and walked naked toward the terrified woman...

Free Cable and Cud: Couple Finds Goat in Hotel Room

Posted on July 31, 2010
A couple of guests at the FairBridge Inn & Suites returned to their hotel room to find everything in order except one small detail: the live goat. The police arrested a man who they accuse of getting drunk and stealing a goat from the Enzian Falls Putting Course...

Misery Loves Company: Rangel Accuses Other Members of Same Conduct Alleged in Case

Posted on July 31, 2010
Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) is going for the nuclear option on his defense: publicly accusing his colleagues of the very same conduct that is the basis for his own ethics charges. He is basically grabbing on to other members like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky...

Report: Powerful Catholic Priest Fathered and Abused Children

Posted on July 30, 2010
Jason Berry has an amazing account of how a powerful Catholic priest, Father Marcial Maciel, was allowed to not just sexually abuse young seminarians but both father and abuse his own children. These allegations surfaced in a Connecticut lawsuit. The priest’s son, Raul Gonzalez, 30, stated to ABC that he thought his father was a [...

Mom Arrested Smuggling Drugs to Son in Prison

Posted on July 30, 2010
We just saw how a mother bear came to the rescue of her captured cub on video. Loretta Cottey, 53, presents a distinctly human variation of that story after Ohio police arrested her for allegedly attempting to bring drugs to her son in the Warren Correctional Institute...

?Jewish Money? List: Rep. McMahon Criticized For Releasing List of Opponent?s Jewish Contributors

Posted on July 30, 2010
There is a bizarre dispute brewing in New York where Rep. Mike McMahon is being criticized for his publication of a list of his opponent Mike Grimm’s Jewish contributors. The McMahon campaign allegedly released a list labeled “Grimm Jewish Money Q2″ with over 80 names...

Mississippi Courts Confronted with Array of High-Profile Alienation of Affection Lawsuits

Posted on July 30, 2010
We have previously followed alienation of affection lawsuit — difficult tort actions that are not recognized in most states. Mississippi appears to be cornering the market on such lawsuits this month with lawsuits involving two political different prominent individuals, including Democratic Party chairman Jamie Franks...

Apocalyptic Politics Debuts on Fox

Posted on July 29, 2010
In this clip, former Governor and Fox News anchor Mike Huckabee has a matter-of-fact conversation with Moral Majority co-founder Tim LaHaye on whether “we are living in the end times.” LaHaye explains that Obama is pushing us ?closer to the apocalypse? It is the advent of apocalyptic politics — a movement that threatens to eventually [...

Utah Supreme Court Overturns Jeffs Conviction

Posted on July 29, 2010
The Utah Supreme Court has unanimously overturned the conviction of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. The Court ruled that the trial court erred in its instructions to the jury and specifically the instruction regarding lack of consent. Jeffs was sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life (a rather bizarre range for a determinate [...

?All I Asked You Was To Watch The Cub . . . ?

Posted on July 29, 2010
This video is going viral of a mother bear saving her cub from a net. This is solely offered as a cute distraction from our more troubling posts today. What you do not see is the father bear who is watching the cub still in the cave watching the Chicago Bears play the New York [...

Rape Charges Dropped After IPhone Allegedly Yields ?Deleted? Messages Showing Consensual Relations

Posted on July 29, 2010
While England has backed away from extending anonymity to rape defendants (as with rape victims), Australia has a new false rape case involving two anonymous parties. Notably, however, the woman is not being charged with a false report despite the allegation that she may have tried to destroy evidence that the sex was consensual...

Sherrod To Sue Breitbart

Posted on July 29, 2010
Earlier we discussed the grounds for former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod to sue Andrew Breitbart and other individuals involved in the posting of a misleading video that led to her resignation. She has now announced her intention to sue...

D.C. Judge Hits NLJ With Prior Restraint Order

Posted on July 28, 2010
There is a major first amendment case brewing in Washington, D.C. The National Law Journal was hit with a temporary restraining order from D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff preventing it from publishing facts that its journalists found in publicly available documents...

Tennessee Lt. Governor Questions Whether Muslims Are Protected Under Religious Clauses

Posted on July 28, 2010
Tennessee Lt. Gov. (and Republican gubernatorial candidate) Ron Ramsey has added an alarming new position to the race. He has stated that he is not convinced the Constitution protects Muslims under the guarantee of freedom of religion. In the video below, Ramsey was asked at a campaign event about the “threat that’s invading our country [...

No Schill For Mantooth: Daughter Runs Campaign Against Father?s Run for Judgeship

Posted on July 28, 2010
Oklahoma judicial candidate John Mantooth may defeat his opponents but not before he defeats the campaign launched by his daughter Jan Schill and his son-in-law against him. On her website donotvotformydad.com, Schill campaigns against her father — proclaiming “DO NOT VOTE FOR MY DAD… HE WOULD NOT BE A GOOD JUDGE!” She insists “District 21 [...

Preacher Seeks To Exorcise Demon From High School Teams

Posted on July 28, 2010
Pastor Donald Crosby of Warner Robins, Georgia is fighting to get the Devil out . . . of his son’s high school. The Warner Robins High School has a Demon mascot and Crosby is leading the fight to exorcise the Demon from the school’s sporting events...

Ahmadinejad v. The Octopus

Posted on July 28, 2010
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken on another evil world figure . . . Paul the Octopus. That’s right, Ahmadinejad is incensed by Paul after he again picked the winner of the World Cup. Paul resides at the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre, in Germany, but has been something of an obsession for Ahmadinejad...

Police Taser Autistic Teen and Then, After Family Complains, Return and Arrest Teen

Posted on July 27, 2010
The Hawthorne City Council is considering a $300,000 settlement in a case were its police tasered an autistic teenager and then, after the family filed a complaint with the department, returned a week later and arrested the teenager. There is a pending federal civil rights lawsuit related to the incident at Hawthorne Middle School...

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