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California Woman Arrested After Throwing Puppy Into Traffic During Argument With Boyfriend

Posted on March 01, 2010
Danielle Graham, 21, was arguing with her boyfriend Hakeem Funtua, 24, when she decided to emphasize her points by grabbing his pit bull puppy and throwing it into traffic where it was killed. When police tried to arrest Graham, Hakeem joined her in resisting arrest and had to be pepper sprayed...

Dubai Police: Al-Mabhouh Was Drugged and Then Suffocated

Posted on March 01, 2010
Dubai police now say that they have identified 26 suspects in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh — widely believed to be a Mossad operation. The government also released toxicology reports that show that Al-Mabhouh was first drugged and then suffocated...

Wedding Crasher: Elephant Goes on Rampage at Wedding and Tramples 20 Cars and Sexually Assaults a Truck

Posted on March 01, 2010
A Hindu wedding in New Delhi experienced the ultimate wedding crasher when the elephant used in the ceremony spotted a female elephant in a nearby field. The elephant proceeded to smash 20 cars, tried to mate with a truck, and then smashed through a shopping mall during a 15-hour rampage...

Sue Them All and Let God Sort Them Out: Family Adopts Shotgun Approach to Suing a Wide Variety of Defendants in Child?s Death

Posted on March 01, 2010
The Kudlis family appears to view litigation as a matter of suing them all and letting God sort them out. The family suffered a terrible loss in the death of 3-year-old Marten Kudlis, who was killed in an accident in front of an ice cream store by Francis Hernandez, 25, an illegal immigrant...

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Out of Step: Victory of All-White Team in National Stepping Competition Leads to Controversy and Then Elevation of African-American Team

Posted on March 01, 2010
There is an interesting controversy brewing in Atlanta where an all-white Zeta Tau Alpha team from the University of Arkansas won this year’s step competition — a traditionally black competition. The victory unleashed a torrent of criticism from fans who felt that white teams should be barred...

HUMANS DID THIS TO ME

Posted on February 28, 2010
This should be covered as an international crime and subject to an Interpol warrant. What concerns me is that Interpol is so gung-ho to arrest assassins in Dubai but express no interest in what was done to his small animal.

When Nature Attacks: Media Asks Whether Earthquakes Are Evidence of ?Nature Out of Control?

Posted on February 28, 2010
In the wake of the Chilean earthquake, major media has speculated (as in this MSNBC story) where “Nature [is] out of control.” It is the type of drivel that drives scientists batty. The suggestion that earthquakes are evidence of “nature out of control” is as bizarre as God sending earthquakes to punish people for sins, [...

Italian Court Convicts Three Google Executives For The Posting of a School Beating Video

Posted on February 28, 2010
We have been following the growing threat to free speech in the West through blasphemy and hate crime prosecutions, here. Now, Italian prosecutors in Milan have criminally charged four Google employees after a video was posted by students showing the bullying of an autistic child in late 2006...

The Ultimate Motion to Sever: Arizona Court to Decide Who Gets Head of Dead Woman

Posted on February 28, 2010
When Mary Robbins, 71, passed away on February 9th, she left a $50,000 annuity and her head. Her relatives and a cryogenic company are now fighting over who gets the cash and head in probate. Hopefully, none of the lawyers are working on a one-third contingency arrangement...

Report: Pat Robertson Allegedly Attributes Chilean Earthquake on God?s Punishment for The Mistreatment of Augusto Pinochet

Posted on February 28, 2010
Various sites are reporting that TV evangelist Pat Robertson is again holding forth on seismic retribution. Robertson is quoted as saying ?God is even angrier with them than he is with the people of Haiti” — which would explain the greater seismological magnitude in the 8...

Send in the Clowns: Tampa Police Arrest Teen For Wearing Clown Mask in Public

Posted on February 27, 2010
Police in Tampa, Florida appear to have clown issues from their youth. Matthew David Lopez, 18, was arrested for wearing a clown mask in public. (The picture is some other clown). Isn’t it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground, You in mid-air...

Stout Family Values: Georgia Voters Replace Politician In Sex Scandal With Another Family Values Candidate Who Allegedly Had Affair With Mother-in-Law

Posted on February 27, 2010
When Glenn Richardson stepped down as speaker of the Georgia House in a sex scandal with a lobbyist, it was widely denounced as another politician who ran on “family-values” while living la vida loca. Voters of Paulding Country, however, quickly replaced him with another Republican running on family values, Rep...

We Apologize But Have No Regrets: Danish Newspaper Reaches Agreement With Muslim Groups Over Mohammed Cartoons

Posted on February 27, 2010
Danish daily Politiken has issued a perfectly bizarre apology for reproducing the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2008. The newspaper reached an agreement with eight Muslim organizations to apologize without expressing regret. In a controversial move, the newspaper apologized to Muslims everywhere for possibly offending them: “We apologise to anyone who was offended [...

Yelp Accused of Extortion in Trading Positive Review for Advertising Money

Posted on February 27, 2010
Yelp, a site that allows customers to write reviews of businesses, is the subject of an interesting lawsuit that alleges that the San Francisco company engages in secret quid pro quos with businesses under which it removes negative reviews in exchange for advertising...

San Diego Man Charged With Choking Puppy

Posted on February 27, 2010
David Hale Warner, 50, is facing charges that he choked his Labrador retriever puppy named Coco after the dog bit his girlfriend. Coco later died. Coco was just 10 weeks old when the dog bite his girlfriend on the nose — showing how intuitive dogs can be...

Rangel To Be Admonished For Violating House Rules on Free Trips

Posted on February 26, 2010
Rep. Charles Rangel, chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee, has been found guilty of violating ethics rules in accepting Caribbean trips from a corporation. In a classic move, the House ethics office has decided not to find violations of four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus who also took the [...

Dutch (Re)Treat: Bobsled Pilot Refuses to Race on Canadian Course

Posted on February 26, 2010
Dutch bobsledder Edwin van Calker and this four-man team pulled out of the Olympic competition after the driver said that he was terrified of using the track. It is a major slap at the Canadian designers who have been criticized since the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili on the luge track...

Question of the Day: What Book Does A Naked Man Check Out of the Library?

Posted on February 26, 2010
Ypsilanti police are looking for a naked man who first exposed himself in the Ypsilanti District Library. The librarian had assisted the man in locating a book and then turned around to find him naked — he then fled with the book. The problem with the police report is that it fails to [...

Sharpton Pushes For Federal Prosecution After Brooklyn Jury Acquits in Mineo Case

Posted on February 26, 2010
Clyde Haberman at the New York Times has an interesting column on the general shift away from bringing civil rights charges when state juries fail to convict in cases on the state level. Al Sharpton is calling on the Obama Administration to try police officers again in the case of Michael Mineo after a [...

Saudi Cleric Defends Marriage of Nine-Year-Old Girls and Blasts Human Rights Treaties as the Work of Atheists and Fornicators

Posted on February 26, 2010
Leading Saudi cleric Muhammad Musa Al-Sharif defended the practice of marrying nine-year-old girls as sanctioned by the prophet Mohammad in his own marriage to a nine-year-old girl, Aisha. In a truly signature moment, Al-Sharif insisted that not only does a girl become a woman at nine but when Islamic law refers to [...

Archeologists Discover 74,000-Year-Old Tools in India

Posted on February 26, 2010
In a remarkable find, archeologists have discovered tools buried by a Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago in Northern India. Of course, where scientists see evidence of humans in the 15,000 years before earlier estimates, creationists see a pile of old tools and a gross miscalculation since the Earth is only 5000 years old...

Woman Sentenced to One to Three Years in Jail ? After Sending Innocent Man to Prison for Four Years

Posted on February 26, 2010
Biurny Peguero Gonzalez allegedly was embarrassed when her friends were berating her for ditching them at a bar. Instead of claiming some urgent call or just telling the truth that she got into a guy’s car, she elected to cry rape. She stuck to her story through a trial and through years of [...

Question of the Day: What is Scarier Than One of The World?s Largest Shark Tanks?

Posted on February 25, 2010
Question: what is the only thing scarier than one of the world’s largest indoor shark tanks? Answer: one of the world’s largest indoor shark tanks with a crack. The famous shark tank in a Dubai shopping mall surprised visitors with a massive crack that poured water into the mall and led to a partial evacuation...

Zombies! The Undead Return to the Streets of Minneapolis

Posted on February 25, 2010
Zombies are free to again walk the streets of Minneapolis due to another zombie-friendly decision from the federal courts. The federal court of appeals ruled that a group of protesters dressed as zombies could sue the police department and individual officers for wrongful arrest in a 2-1 decision...

United States Unveils $1 Billion London Embassy Plans

Posted on February 25, 2010
The United States has unveiled the design of its new $1 billion high-security embassy in London. It is an impressive design by Kieran Timberlake, the Philadelphia architect despite its hefty price (a record for an embassy). Timberlake won a competition of dozens of architects, here...

Maryland Teacher Orders Student Escorted From Classroom By Police After Refusal to Say the Pledge of Allegiance

Posted on February 25, 2010
A Montgomery County Middle School teacher had a 13-year-old girl escorted from the classroom after she refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance in clear violation of federal law. Since 1943, it has been clear that children cannot be forced to say the pledge...

Israeli City Establishes Program to Locate and ?Treat? Israeli Girls Who Date or Marry Arab Men

Posted on February 25, 2010
We previously read about bands of men roaming the streets of Jerusalem and other cities to break up mixed couples of Israeli women and Arab men, here. Now, there is a report that one city has created a formal program to locate such women and “treat” them outside of Tel Aviv...

Separate But Lethal: Leading Saudi Cleric Calls For The Killing of People Who Oppose The Segregation of The Sexes

Posted on February 25, 2010
Prominent Saudi cleric Shaikh Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak has issued a fatwa calling for “Modernisers” who object to the strict segregation of men and women in the Kingdom to be killed in the name of Islam. Barrak, 77, told critics to abandon their ideas and that such segregation is needed under Islam to prevent “sight of what is [...

Killer Whale Kills Trainer At SeaWorld

Posted on February 25, 2010
SeaWorld animal trainer Dawn Brancheau, 40, was killed Wednesday at SeaWorld Orlando during a show by Tillikum, a whale involved in two other deaths. While police say Brancheau slipped, onlookers insist that the whale knocked or grabbed her. One onlooker on the video below stated that the whale appeared to be acting strange [...

Improper Lane Change: Olympic Skater Loses Second Gold Medal After Coach Directs Him To Wrong Lane

Posted on February 24, 2010
It is a moment that may top the fall of the French skier in the first five seconds of her Olympic run, here. Top speed skater Sven Kramer lost his second gold medal after winning the 10,000m after his coach mistakingly sent him into the wrong lane — resulting in his disqualification...

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