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A jury in the Bahamas, after hearing testimony in an Inquest regarding the cause and manner of death of 20-year-old Daniel Smith, son of Anna Nicole Smith, has determined that the young man died from an accidental drug overdose. The seven-member jury deliberated for two hours, after weeks of testimony spread out over [...]

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Ah, an article after my own heart. Regular readers are aware of how much I love the bad American Idol auditions, and Entertainment Weekly must have read my mind, because it has made a list of the Top Ten worst appearances by American Idol contestants. These aren’t the auditions, folks. These are [...]

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I previously covered this story, back when it first broke, and updated readers again when the cops were trying to blame it on the man who died.
Here is my statement from my second blog article, on the matter of whether he was killed by the cop:

Lawrence County Coroner Burton Payne said there were was no [...]

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…. that Paris Hilton would take some dancing lessons.  I have seen a number of videos of Paris “dancing”, and if I “danced” as badly as she does, I’d be too embarrassed to even dance in my house alone.
Here, a contestant on “Miss Turkey” invites Paris onto the stage during her belly dance.  What a [...]

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I just finished appearing on “Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla” – what a blast!
We talked about American Idol, and politics. We even talked about immigration for a minute or two.
Jason and Cilla are very nice folks, and they’re doing a great job with their show despite the technical problems they ran [...]

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Meme: Tag You’re It

I was tagged by Dee

What time did you get up this morning? I’m not sure, but it was very late.
Diamonds or pearls? Both

What is your favorite TV show? The Office
What do you usually have for breakfast? I don’t eat breakfast.
What is your middle name? Sue
What food do you dislike? Rice. I think it [...]

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I previously wrote about Joshua Mauldin, who was convicted of microwaving his infant daughter; yesterday he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. His wife, Eva (who wasn’t there when it happened, so she wasn’t charged), claimed that the devil made him commit that crime, and he pled insanity. In another unrelated case, [...]

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Regular readers may recall that I was going to appear on last week’s episode of “Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla“, but the show had to be canceled due to circumstances beyond their control. This is just to let you know that the show is on for tomorrow, Saturday, March 28th.
The show [...]

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Candidate Endorsement: Chris Bennett for Vice President

[NOTE: Originally posted on Last Free Voice]
As you are hopefully all by now aware, longtime LFV contributor Chris Bennett is seeking the LP’s Vice Presidential nomination. While he would have my support simply for being an LFV contributor and a great guy, there is so much more to his candidacy that I have decided [...]

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Joshua Mauldin, previously discussed on this blog, has been found guilty of felony injury to a child. He had pled not guilty, and claimed he was insane when he committed the crime. His wife, Eva, had previously stated that he was possessed when he punched the baby, put her in a hotel safe, [...]

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Tonight is the first night for the Top Ten. For those of you who don’t normally follow this crap competition, the Top Ten go on tour together during the summer, so they all make some major moolah simply for having gotten this far.
To refresh your memory, last week Amanda “Vampira” Overmyer was eliminated. [...]

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Chantal Sebire, a 52-year-old French schoolteacher, suffers from a rare disease which has left her disfigured with facial tumors, and which will eventually damage her brain and kill her; there is no cure, and no treatment. She could suffer horribly for years before dying, in the meantime becoming [...]

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A court in California has ruled that parents cannot homeschool their children, unless they have a teaching degree. Strangely, this ruling would prevent even parents with a doctorate in another discipline from teaching their own children, unless they go back to college to get a teaching degree. Yet I once even taught public [...]

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From TIME Magazine:
At least 15 military service members or their relatives are believed to have been infected with hepatitis by a nurse suspected of stealing their painkillers during surgery.
The nurse, retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones, was arrested this month in Miami on federal charges of assaulting three of those patients and possession of a [...]

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From Scientific American:
Are smarter people drawn to music, theater and dance? Or does arts training in childhood change the brain in positive ways? In 2004, the philanthropic Dana Foundation created a consortium of neuroscientists from seven universities to address those questions. On March 4, the group released a report, Learning, Arts, and the [...]

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The website for Alton, Illinois – located about 15 miles north of St. Louis – says that it’s “a great place to live, work, grow, and prosper”.
It wasn’t any of that for Dorothy Dixon (pictured at left), who relocated there last fall from Quincy, about 100 miles from St. Louis.
Ms. Dixon, a 29-year-old mentally disabled [...]

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Candidates Gone Wild: Presidential Wackjob Edition

We’re all familiar with John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. However, have you ever wondered what other presidential candidates are out there? Are you longing for a presidential candidate who is really and truly different? If so, one of these guys just might be your man.
Unlike most mainstream presidential candidates, God The Great Holy [...]

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I previously posted that I would be on “Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla” this afternoon, discussing American Idol and politics.
However, due to circumstances beyond their control, they were not able to have a show today, so it has been rescheduled to next Saturday, March 29th, at 6:30 (the show starts at 5:30).
I’ll [...]

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Dr. Jack Tsao, a Navy neurologist with the Uniform Services University, was looking for ways to help soldiers like Paupore. He remembered reading in graduate school a paper by Dr. V.S. Ramachandran that talked about an unusual treatment for amputees suffering “phantom limb pain,” using a simple $20 mirror.The mirror tricks the brain into [...]

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It’s Beatles night. Again.
I guess that explains why Randy Jackson was yawning when Ryan went to introduce him. That’s never a good sign. Then he plugged Paula’s new song by working it into a comment. How corny.
As usual, I’ll just type what I’m thinking. I do not go back [...]

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I have written about the case of Nixzmary Brown several times. Nixzmary was a little 7-year-old girl in New York who was treated like an animal, tied to chairs, forced to use a cat litter box, starved, and eventually beaten to death for taking a yogurt out of the refrigerator.
Although I first heard and [...]

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I was tagged by Dee. I am tagging: Kent, Sandy, Blessed1, Yuriko, Tyler, Paulie, Miche, Danny Vice, Stupid Evil Bastard, Jake, everyone at Last Free Voice, and everyone else who’s reading this (if I left you out, I’m sorry, it wasn’t on purpose!)

List 5 things you still do, that you did when you were a baby/little [...]

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Just to give everyone a head’s up, I’m going to be on the cool new “Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla” this Saturday, March 22nd.
The show starts at 5:30, I’ll be on around 6:30. You probably want to listen in early, though, because their first guest is a former WWE Ring Announcer. [...]

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Disturbing medical marijuana case involving an AIDS patient

Tom Faltynowicz, a 43-year-old gay rancher in Meade County, South Dakota, was diagnosed with Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in 1990, and is currently facing criminal charges for possessing and growing marijuana for medicinal usage.
For those of you unaware of the specifics of that disease, a patient infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) may [...]

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When I read about this, I almost vomited.
An 18-year-old, Scott Wade Smith, was living with his girlfriend (who was still in high school, and who had a five-month-old daughter) in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. When she left for school on March 7th, leaving the baby with Smith, the baby was fine; there are witnesses who say [...]

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I saw this scam email reproduced on Stupid Evil Bastard. If you believe this is real, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you, LOL.
This scam seems to be targeting people who have already fallen for a Nigerian scam. Basically, it’s a scammer pretending to be the FBI [...]

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Alden Link is a Libertarian candidate for the Libertarian presidential nomination. He’s an older gentleman, and his main emphasis seems to be on nuclear power. He claims that nuclear power plants can produce enough gasoline to end our dependence upon foreign oil.
I’m no scientist, but I don’t understand how nuclear power plants can [...]

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While looking for an update on the scheduled autopsy of Guy Thomas, who was dragged underneath a police cruiser for over half a mile, I’ve run across some very strange stuff. Of course, I was already aware of some very strange goings on in that area, and not only the cop claiming he didn’t [...]

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I decided to liveblog American Idol again, since this is the first day with all of the top 12 performing. As previously stated, this is mostly what I am thinking as I watch the show. If you were sitting in my family room, this is what I would be saying to you as [...]

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Pretty funny stuff, got this from ElfNinosUncle.
This guy is a heathen, bless his heart, but he has a good sense for the oddly humorous. I also find Tom Cruise to be the strangest aspect of Scientology, even given that their religion was made up by a diagnosed schizophrenic pulp science fiction author who pointed [...]

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Here’s an update on the investigation into the death of a man who was hit by a cop car and dragged for over half a mile before the cop allegedly noticed it:
The body has been taken to the Franklin County Coroner’s office in Columbus for an autopsy. The autopsy is set for 8 a.m. today. [...]

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While again looking for updates on the man who was killed by getting hit by a cop car which then dragged him for over half a mile (that’s been updated this afternoon, incidentally, so if you haven’t seen the update, click on the link in this post) I found this interesting albeit weird story on [...]

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MSNBC is reporting that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, the former Attorney General of that state, has admitted to being involved in a prostitution ring.
I guess he can’t claim he didn’t know it was a crime, LOL.
While I’ll admit that the news is giggle-worthy, and will probably produce a lot of good jokes for The [...]

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I found this very disturbing local story while looking for updates on the cop who hit and killed a pedestrian, dragged his body under the police cruiser for over half a mile, then claimed he didn’t know he had hit anyone.
Apparently a lot of young soldiers are making it through the war, and coming home [...]

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I’m not exactly sure why someone who sits on a state legislature (where he represents about two and a half obscure rural counties out of 120 counties in the state) thinks that he can legislate what everyone in the world does, but
Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online [...]

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In Ironton, Ohio last night, a pedestrian was hit and killed by a police cruiser, driven by a cop on his way to work. Unbelievably, the cruiser dragged the man for blocks, and the cop allegedly didn’t even realize he was dragging a human underneath his cruiser. In fact, he dragged the man [...]

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I found this entry on Thomas Knapp’s blog, Kn@ppster, and found it quite interesting. Here is an excerpt; you can read it in its entry in its entirety at the link:
I’m not one for silver bullets—no one thing will put third party candidates into contention for the presidency—but some changes just make sense. One [...]

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James Branch Cabell:
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Albert Einstein:
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax
R.D. Laing:
Life is a sexually transmitted disease
George Orwell:
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap [...]

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Well, I guess I may as well talk about the 10,000 pound elephant in the room.
As everyone knows, I am against the war in Iraq, and always have been. I didn’t believe there were WMDs in Iraq even before the war started, and I believed before the war started that we were attacking [...]

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From The Smoking Gun:
MARCH 5–Chris Rock, Sylvester Stallone, Farrah Fawcett, Garry Shandling, and Hollywood titans Brad Grey and Michael Ovitz head a list of 127 witnesses that federal prosecutors intend to call at the wiretapping trial of disgraced Los Angeles private investigator Anthony Pellicano. The government witness list, a copy of which you’ll find below, [...]

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In Port St. Lucie, Florida, a man was arrested after threatening his wife with Voodoo death, and a gun.
I don’t know about you, but I’d be far more afraid of the gun than I would be of the Voodoo. Then again, I’m not brainwashed into believing that voodoo really works.
The woman is a recent [...]

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In Galveston, Texas, 20-year-old Joshua Maudlin was accused of placing his two-month-old daughter in a microwave, which he turned on for 10 to 20 seconds. He is also accused of punching the baby, and putting her in both a refrigerator and a hotel room safe.
Baby Ana was hospitalized for 11 days with burns [...]

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I watch a lot of documentaries. On the Discovery Health channel, there has been a long series of shows about extreme obesity (which is now referred to as “super-obesity”). Luckily obesity is a subject I’ve never had to experience firsthand, but ElfNinosDad had quite a bit of trouble keeping his weight down so [...]

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Tonight is ’80s night, and the girls perform. I’ll just type in my thoughts as I watch. You may not feel like you’re there, but at least you’ll feel like you’re here, inside my head. That alone should scare you. I know it scares the hell out of me.
Asia’h Epperson sang [...]

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While I admit that I haven’t been watching closely, I have been watching some controversial American Idol issues which have made the news.
First, Carly Smithson (the tattooed girl from Ireland) actually had a recording contract with MCA, at the same time as American Idol judge Randy Jackson was working there.
Can you say “plant”?
Second, finalist David [...]

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The Moderate Voice, “None of the Above”
March 5, 2008 by Pete Abel
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“As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.” – H. Rider Haggard
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.” – William James
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So [...]

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I just had to put that headline on this one. Apparently every time Steve-O gets arrested, what he did wrong somehow involves public urination. Maybe our tattooed little man is finally growing up, and turning to grownup crime. *sniff*

Steve-O, the stuntmeister of the MTV series “Jackass,” was arrested Monday for vandalism and [...]

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Prosecutors have charged Roozrokh with three felony counts, including one charge of “dependent adult abuse” for allegedly administering excessive amounts of a drug cocktail that included morphine and Ativan, both of which are used to comfort dying patients. Roozrokh is also accused of injecting Betadine, a topical antiseptic, into Navarro’s feeding tube.
If convicted, [...]

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There’s been an ongoing discussion on an earlier thread (about a young couple who literally ignored their baby to death) about whether it is okay to spank children. I’m not exactly sure how this started, except that a first-time commenter named Susanne from Sweden (no url given, but she’s definitely from Sweden based on [...]

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“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.” — Freidrich von Schiller
Hat tip to my friend wserra on Quatloos

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