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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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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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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’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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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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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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A robber in Texas came into a convenience store, pointed his gun at the clerk’s head and fired.
The clerk moved just in time to dodge the bullet, and emerged quickly from behind the counter with her own gun.
You go, girl!
A Longview clerk showed her mettle for the second time within a year Saturday, returning gunfire [...]

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San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department
Current Press Release

PC 245 ADW / PC 182 CONSPIRACY [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report.The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less [...]

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I ran across this proposed law at DownsizeDC. I absolutely agree that no member of Congress should ever vote to pass any bill they haven’t actually read in its entirety, yet it happens all the time. Worse, far too often special interest items are inserted at the last minute. The truth is [...]

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I had heard about this, but seeing really is believing.
In Tampa (Hillsborough County, Florida) a quadriplegic man named Brian Sterner was arrested for a traffic violation (I’m not sure what the violation was, since they didn’t say, but obviously the guy wasn’t a violent felon or anything like that). An incredibly stupid cop [...]

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This, I wouldn’t have believed had I not read it in a print newspaper’s online edition. Honestly, it reads more like an April Fool’s Day joke:
An Elizabethtown man was charged Saturday with possessing a weapon of mass destruction after police said he ignited a device filled with plastic pellets inside Saturday’s Market in Londonderry [...]

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Patients suffering from chronic pain, loss of appetite and other ailments that marijuana is said to alleviate can get their pot with a dose of convenience at the Herbal Nutrition Center, where a large machine will dole out the drug around the clock.”Convenient access, lower prices, safety, anonymity,” inventor and owner Vincent Mehdizadeh said, [...]

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In one of the most bizarre lawmaker acts ever, Mississippi legislators seek to stop any restaurant - which requires a state health permit and has more than five seats - from serving food to obese customers.
From The Smoking Gun:
FEBRUARY 1–Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to [...]

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From SNAFU-ed:
Brattleboro, Vermont calls itself the place “Where It Can ALL Happen!” That appears to include a possible indictment of Bush and Cheney on war crimes. A petition with the required number of signatures was presented to the Brattleboro Selectboard on January 25th, and they voted 3-2 to place the measure on the ballot.
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I wrote the below entry on my old blog on January 21, 2006, almost two years ago to the day.
Today, Nixzmary’s stepfather goes on trial. Obviously, I never forgot about this monster, and what he did to this poor little girl. I never will forget, either.
For those who are easily upset [...]

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Crime investigators always have their ears open for information only a perpetrator could know—where a gun used in a murder was stashed, perhaps, or what wounds a stabbing inflicted. So imagine a detective asking a suspect about a killing, describing the crime scene to get the suspect to visualize the attack. The detective is careful [...]

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In St. Charles, Missouri, officials are considering a bill which would ban profanity, table dancing, drinking contests, and any other type of indecent, profane or obscene music, literature, and entertainment in bars. They claim the law is needed to keep rowdy bar crowds in the historic downtown district under control.
They don’t seem to know [...]

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In the next six years, Americans born after December 1, 1964 will be required to get more secure driver’s licenses under the [...]

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We can’t even trust the government to pay their phone bills, so why should we trust them to not misuse wiretaps?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau’s repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.

One FBI office had $66,000 in [...]

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According to the Los Angeles Times, a federal grand jury has started issuing subpoenas in the case of Megan Meier, the “Myspace Suicide” girl.
Megan, age 13, had suffered from depression and ADD since third grade. She committed suicide after a cute 16-year-old boy on MySpace - who she viewed as her boyfriend, but had [...]

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I’ve been using Sprint cell phones for years and years. I have bought into a few of their add-ons, such as equipment replacement and roadside rescue.
The first time I had to use equipment replacement, they replaced my (by then very old) phone with a very nice phone. I was extremely pleased, and made [...]

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The RIAA, the recording industry mouthpiece responsible for suing everyone from pre-teens to grannies for downloading music online, has now suggested that it is against the law even for consumers to copy a CD onto their own computer, for their own personal use, or to loan a CD to someone else for them to listen [...]

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