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Frankie and Benny’s get toddler blind drunk on whiskey
TREMENDOUS news parents! Eaterie chain, Frankie and Benny’s are getting your children drunk! We can all laugh as they slur their words, soil themselves, garble incoherent nonsense, waddle around flitting from gleeful to angry crying and… wait… that’s all children ever isn’t it?
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Alexis Wright photos: Maine’s Zumba dance studio sex siren
PHOTOS of Alexis Wright, 29, the keep-fit instructor accused of running a prostitution racket from her Zumba dance studio – the Pura Vida – in Kennebunkport, Maine, home to, among other things, the Bush family summer compound. It is alleged that she taped the sessions. In puritanical New England this is big news. Zumba. Yikes. Filthy stuff:
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Alexis Wright, 29, turns towards her attorney Sarah Churchill, left, during her arraignment Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 in Portland, Maine on 109 counts of prostitution, violation of privacy, tax evasion and other charges for allegedly providing sex for money at her Kennebunk fitness studio and office. Wright pleaded not guilty on charges she ran a prostitution business out of her Kennebunk Zumba studio and secretly filmed her encounters. (AP Photo/Joel Page)
Posted: 10th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Malala Yousufzai shot by the obscenity police
THE Taliban shot Malala Yousufzai, 14. They shot her in the head (BBC), the neck (Times), twice (Reuters) . The Taliban struck in Mingora, the main town of Swat which fell under insurgents’ control in 2008. The Taliban tageted Malala because from the age of 11 she her posted an anonymous blog for the BBC’s Urdu website. She wrote Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl under the pseudonym Gul Makai.
The Taliban banned girls from going to school. Malala was outraged.
The men shot as Malala’s bus arrived at the Khushal School and College which her father set up in 1994. Two other girls were injured.
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Posted: 9th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
In photos: The Greek Army played Über Alles as Angela Merkel landed in Athens
IN 5 years the Greek economy has shrunk 23%. Some Greeks believe the country is in the thrall of Germany. So. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Athens today, demonstrators shouted slogans, dressed as German World War II soldiers with Nazi swastika armbands, called her a Nazi, compared her to Hitler, and as Merkel’s private plane landed at Eleftherios Venizelos airport the Greek military band struck up that German national anthem (“Germany, Germany above everything”). The past is never far away…
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A protestor holds a banner with the picture of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel that reads "wanted" and "war compensations" during a protest in Athens on Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012. German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes her first visit to Greece since the eurozone crisis began here three years ago. Her five-hour stop is seen by the government as a historic boost for the country's future in Europe's shared currency, but by protesters as a harbinger of more austerity and hardship. More than 7,000 police will be on hand, cordoning off parks and other sections of central Athens, to keep demonstrators away from the German leader who is due to arrive today in the Greek capital for talks with conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. . (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Posted: 9th, October 2012 | In: Politicians, Reviews | 0 Comments
Azhar Ahmed of West Yorkshire given community order for offensive Facebook comment
ANTI-Free speech news of the day: Azhar Ahmed of W Yorkshire has been given a community order for posting an “offensive” message on Facebook after six UK soldiers died.
He wrote:
People gassin’ about the deaths of soldiers. What about the innocent families who have been brutally killed… The women who have been raped… The children who have been sliced up…! The enemy’s were the Taliban not innocent harmful familys. All soldiers should DIE and got to HELL. THE LOWLIFE FOKKIN SCUM! got a problem go and cry at your soldiers grave & wish them hell because thats is where she is going”
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Posted: 9th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 5 Comments
Stupid Matthew Wood sentenced by stupid court for stupid April Jones joke
MATTHEW Wood has appeared at Chorley Magistrates’ Court. He wrote something on Facebook about April Jones and Madeleine McCann that social media narks and police didn’t like. A “vigilante mob” of censorious troll-hunters arrived at Mr Wood’s home. Wood was arrested.
Matthew Wood is a dickhead. But to make him a criminal is wrong. In court, he admitted making wrongheaded comments that caused offence. (What couldn’t offend someone?). He says he was inspired to say something horrible by Sickipedia – a website that “trades in sick jokes”.
Martina Jay, prosecuting, told the court:
“When interviewed by police he fully admitted he posted messages about the two missing children. He started this idea when he was at a friend’s house when drinking, saw a joke on Sickipedia and changed it slightly. He said he did it in a bid to make people think his account had been hacked. He said it got out of hand and he was drunk while doing it.”
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Posted: 8th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Technology | 69 Comments
April Jones: Mark Bridger almost weeps in court
MARK Bridger has appeared at Aberystwyth Magistrates’ Court. He is charged with murdering April Jones, having kidnapped her in Machynlleth. He is also charged with abducting April, unlawful disposal and concealment of her body with intent to pervert the course of justice. Mark Bridger will appear at Caernarfon Crown Court on Wednesday.
Did he cry?
Times: “Mr Bridger appeared on the verge of tears throughout the hearing”
Telegraph: “Murder suspect Mark Bridger sobbed in the dock today as he was accused of the murder of April Jones”
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Posted: 8th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 3 Comments
April Jones: Matthew Wood arrested
A SECOND arrest has been made in the April Jones murder investigation. Matthew Wood, 20, of Eaves Lane, Chorley, has been arrested. No, not for the child’s apparent murder or kidnap. Wood has been arrested for something he wrote on Facebook.
The Lancashire Evening Post tells us the news but not the key details. It has been censured. They can see it. We cannot.
Wood will appeal before The Beak on Chorley on Monday morning.
A Lancashire Police spokesman explins:
“An arrest was made at an address in Brinscall on Saturday and we can confirm we have charged Matthew Wood with breaching Section 27 of the Communications Act, namely sending a public electronic communication which is grossly offensive. He has been remanded in custody and will appear before Chorley Magistrates Court on Monday.”
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Posted: 7th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 20 Comments
April Jones: service for a missing body
APRIL Jones: The five-year-old from Machynlleth has not been found.
Mark Bridger, 46, was charged on Saturday with the child’s abduction and murder, and of perverting the course of justice.
Iwan Jenkins, the district crown prosecutor from the Crown Prosecution Service in Wales, said:
“I now have to advise that, having carried out a detailed review of the evidence gathered so far by Dyfed-Powys Police, my conclusion is that there is sufficient evidence to charge Mark Bridger with the murder of April Jones, and that it is in the public interest to do so. I have also concluded that there is sufficient evidence to charge the defendant with attempting to pervert the course of justice and child abduction.”
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Posted: 7th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 5 Comments
425-pound man arrested for allegedly trying to kidnap a 10-year old
WHAT does menace to children look like? Victor Joseph Espinoza, 55, is the 425-pound man arrested for allegedly trying to kidnap a 10-year old boy in Santa Ana, California.
Cpl. Anthony Bertagna says Espinoza allegedly lured the boy close enough to grab him by both of his arms and pull him into his body. After a struggle, the boy and his cousin were able to run and alert his soccer coach, who tried to tackle and detain Espinoza, but the suspect escaped.
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Posted: 7th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Ride To The Wall 5 In Photos (with Mike Yorke’s Empty chairs)
RIDE to the Wall: Evolving artwork Empty Chairs by Mike Yorke is representative of each of the British soldiers lost in action during the conflict in Afghanistan on display, as the the fifth annual Ride to the Wall motorcycle event takes place, with many thousands of motorcyclists from around the country making a pilgrimage to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
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Posted: 6th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Upset at walking on Islamic calligraphy in Toulouse
TO France:
A Moroccan artist on Wednesday suspended one of his works from a major arts festival in southern France after his projections of Islamic calligraphy onto a bridge nearly set off a riot when local Muslim youths saw pedestrians walking on the words…
According to Toulouse Police, the reaction was rapid. Up to 80 young people, many called in from the city’s housing estates, gathered on the bridge to stop pedestrians from treading on the verses.
One woman was slapped after she accidentally walked onto the projection, police said…
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Local News: It’s all kicking off in Norwich
LOCAL News: The Norwich Evening News says its call kicking off…
Spotter: @Raphaelite_Girl
Posted: 6th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
April Jones: Kay Burley makes them weep as troll-faced Amanda Platell spots paedos everywhere
APRIL Jones: The five-year-old went missing from the Bryn Y Gog estate in Machynlleth, Wales. The news round-up:
Daily Mail (front page): “April’s family release poignant new photos as hope for her fades”
Daily Mirror (front page): I saw April driven off”
“Witness says he was the last to see her alive”
Armchair detectives know that the last person to see anyone live is a suspect in that person’s unexplained demise. But April Jones might be alive. We don’t know.
AN OAP saw a car speed away from the spot where April Jones vanished. The distraught 70-year-old said moments earlier he had seen her playing with pals but she suddenly disappeared. As the hunt for April, five, became a murder inquiry yesterday, he added: “I’m kicking myself that I did not raise the alarm.”
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Posted: 6th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | 10 Comments
Face of the day: choking the Oklahoma flamingo
FACE of the day: American Flamingos are checked at the the Oklahoma City Zoo, in Oklahoma City. The flamingo is on the right…
Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Abu Hamza extradited to US – bring on the girls (photos)
HONK if you hate Abu Hamza. Outside the Royal Courts of Justice, Islamists don’t want Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects to be sent to America. But the law does. Hamza’s lost. He’s on his way. And once more the UK’s jihadi community is bereft. When Tottenham Taliban Omar Bakri left for Lebanon we wondered who would be the gurning face of militant Islam. Finsbury Park’s Hamza looked the part. And now’s he gone. Is there no-one left to turn their attention from shouting at pigeons in the precinct to rant about guns and God? Also leaving the UK are Babar Ahmad, Syed Ahsan, Khaled Al-Fawwaz and Adel Abdul Bary. Is anyone left? Maybe it’s time let the girls have a go?
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Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 4 Comments
April Jones: media ‘buzzards’ feast on Machynlleth
SUSAN Lee writes of April Jones in the Liverpool Echo of the people looking for the missing five-year-old:
But while we shake our heads in sorrowful disbelief there is comfort, albeit small, to be drawn from this terrible episode and it is this: there is more good in the world than bad.
Machynlleth has proved it.
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Sky’s Kay Burley tells April Jones’ loved ones that it’s a murder investigation (video)
APRIL Jones is missing from her home in Machynlleth. The police have opened a murder investigation. Sky News’ Kay Burley breaks the news to local people who knows the five-year-old child that she might be dead. She asks them how they “feel”. Nice scoop, Kay. Perhaps if a body is found, the police can hold off telling April’s parents and let dear Kay break the news on camera.
Note: the people approached Kay Burley. She zoomed in for the mourn porn:
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Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | 3 Comments
Heart transplant girl lives her dream by killing a 335-pound bear
HERE’S something to think about. To Stetsonville, Wisconsin, survivalist Kaitlynn Bessette, 11, has killed /murdered a 335-pound bear. Kaitlynn Bessette says:
“I felt thankful, like really thankful I shot a bear.”
What a little nutter, eh?
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Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | 7 Comments
Mayo’s finest dancer, John Conneely, on Ireland’s Late Late Show (video)
FLASHBACK to see Mayo’s finest dancer, John Conneely, on Ireland’s Late Late Show.
Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: Flashback, TV & Radio | 0 Comments
April Jones: orchestrating grief and the Bad Samaritans
APRIL Jones: The search for the missing five-year-old in the news:
The Daily Star leads with the command: “WEAR PINK FOR APRIL.”
Why?
In Machynlleth, Powys:
THE distraught sister of missing April Jones last night covered her town in pink ribbons to show how much she is missed. Jasmine Jones handed out the symbols of hope in the five-year-old’s favourite colour to friends and neighbours…
Well-wishers across the UK also donned the ribbons in a national show of support as word spread of the campaign on Twitter.
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Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
April Jones: Cerebal palsy and Mark Bridger’s ‘keen’ Swiss Army Knife
APRIL JONES: the missing five-year-old is in the papers.
Daily Star (front page): “Please find my little angel – Mum’s tearful plea”
Daily Mail (front page): “Missing April needs daily medicine for cerebral palsy”
The Sun (front page): “Tears, clues and a man in custody – but still no April”
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Lancashire school refuses to serve boy Yorkshire Puddings in Marmite
TO St Mary and St Benedict’s Catholic Primary in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, where Aryn Buchanan, 10, wants a Yorkshire Pudding smeared in Marmite. The only other foods he eats are toast (dry), chicken dippers, chocolate and sweet. Mum and dad say young Buchanan is a “very, very fussy eater”. But the dinner ladies and the school says Aryn can eat what everyone else has or bring in packed lunch.
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Posted: 4th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 7 Comments
Flashback: US Presidential election dirty tricks
CONTROVERSIAL film director Joel Gilbert – a longstanding critic of Barak Obama – complained recently that his ‘alternative biography’ of the President, ‘Dreams From My Real Father’, had been deliberately ignored by the mainstream media (see video below).
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Posted: 3rd, October 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Politicians | 0 Comments
The cynical Sun owns the missing and the dead with its wanted posters
THE Sun loves to grandstand when a crime against a woman or a child hits the news cycle. The tabloid that cares slaps its logo above their heads. It wants ownership of the story. To some it is cynical. To others it is something that might help. But there was no signs that the Sun’s patronage does anything to help the missing or the killed. It just looks like the worst kind of free advertising:
Jo Yeates
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Posted: 3rd, October 2012 | In: Reviews | 3 Comments
