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KYRON Horman: The child is still missing from his home in Portland, Oregan. The latest news is interesting.
A US reader writes:
OKAY – the judge ruled Desiree’s Young civil suit is going forward but he is protecting Terri Horman’s rights.
Desiree Young is Kyron’s birth mother. Terri Horman is the child’s step-mother – a woman whom Young says knows what happened to Kyron. Terri Horman denies any wrongdoing.
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THE Croydon Guardian reports on Roger Ellis, of New Addington, who, as the story goes, slept in his bath because the light from a new streetlamp was polluting his bedroom.
The paper says he was “forced to sleep in the bath in his…home” for four nights.
Says Mr Ellis, 47:
“It is a terrible society we live in where people are put after money and profit. I will take this to the next level and will be speaking to my lawyers.”
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Posted: 23rd, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
IN a profile of Londoner Ed Weeks, the New York Times notes:
With his molten-chocolate eyes and accent designed for wheedling off panties
Control yourselves, ladies, the late Derek Jameson is about to knock you bandy:
LOOKS like the Anglican Christians and Pakistan PM Ashraf agree: there must be no debate on religion:
Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Friday said the blasphemy against the Holy Prophet (PBUH) was unacceptable under any circumstances and demanded the world community to declare sacrilege a global crime.
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Posted: 22nd, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
BACK in October 2011, a group of Amish men cut the hair from the members of another Amish group. Now, Samuel Mullet Sr. and fifteen of his group have been convicted of federal conspiracy and hate crimes. They each face a possible ten year sentence for waging a campaign of terror across Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana.
Mullet Sr’s group also faces allegations that he forced his followers to have sex with married women to “cleanse them of the Devil”.
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Posted: 21st, September 2012 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
ANGLICANS have reacted to the Islamists conniving overreaction to the dire and defamatory film The Innocence of Muslims by penning a letter to the United Nations’ Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon.
The Anglicans want the UN to ban “intentional and deliberate insulting or defamation of persons (such as prophets), symbols, texts and constructs of belief deemed holy by people of faith”.
Such are prophets. Not “such as Jesus”. Not such of Buddha.
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YOU know those expensive amusement park thrill rides that are over too quickly. Well, at Knott’s Berry Farm the punters get value for money on the WindSeeker ride:
“The first half an hour was pretty rough on me. I have a fear of heights,” rider Donna Garrison told KABC-TV. “I was on it because my husband wanted to train me to get over my fear of heights.
“By the end,” she added, “I was.”
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PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes were murdered on duty. Last summer, when Marc Duggan was shot dead by police, the call was for less police guns. When unarmed Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by police as he ran for the Tube, did arming all police look like a sensible answer to maintaining law and order?
Now two policewomen have been murdered the call is for more guns. As ever, we hear from the grieving:
Pc Fiona Bone’s father:
“I never expected this. It’s so hard to take. He deserves to be hanged but I know we’ll never get that.”
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Posted: 20th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (8)
CECILIA Gimenez, the famous Spanish artist, wants money for her rendering of Jesus.
El Correo reports that Spain’s most noteworthy living artist wants due credit for her updating of Ecce Homo (Behold the Man), the fresco now known as Ecce Mono, or Behold the Monkey.
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BACK in May 2012, Conal Urquhart told Guardian readers that Israel had offered £4m compensation to Turkish victims of the raid on the Mavi Marmara flotilla. The boat was bound for the Gaza Strip when Israeli commandos landed on deck.
There is much dispute as to what happened. But Urquart is misleading:
Turkey cooled diplomatic relations with Israel after nine of its citizens were shot dead by Israeli commandos who landed on the Mavi Marmara to prevent its passage to Gaza. Protesters on the ship repelled the first wave of lightly armed commandos, but then the Israeli soldiers used lethal force against the unarmed passengers to end their resistance.
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Posted: 19th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (7)
FLASHBACK to a 1972 Archie comic where our hero time-travels to the year 2012. He was right about one thing: those hats are on-trend… (More from Dan DeCarlo):
WHAT causes earthquakes? The Japanese thought it was a giant catfish. One thrashed about and triggered the Great Ansei Earthquake that struck the city of Edo (Tokyo) in November 1855. The event was marked in namazu-e (“catfish pictures”). These portraits of the giant catfish (namazu) show it as the hero of the building trade – you can see the workers celebrating and partying with the giant fish – and enemy of fishermen and farmers, who rely on the god Kashima to keep namazu restrained:
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FOLLOWING violent protests in Sydney against the film Innocence of Muslims, Today Tonight features a cheery exchange between journalist Joe Hildebrand and Muslim convert Rebecca Kay. The fun starts at 2:20:
Rebecca Kay: “No offence Joe, [but] you have restrictions against your religion, you can’t say anything bad about Jewish people. We don’t have them kind of protections.”
Joe Hildebrand: “I’m not Jewish.”
Rebecca Kay: Are you sure?
Posted: 19th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
FIONA Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, have been murdered in Abbey Gardens, Hattersley, Greater Manchester. The women were police officers responding to a repots of a burglary.
Sir Peter Fahy, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, tells media:
“Clearly, this is one of the darkest days in the history of Greater Manchester Police, if not for the police service as a whole. We are absolutely devastated by this loss.”
Sir Peter adds:
“We believe that Dale Cregan was in a house in Abbey Gardens overnight, and at some point either himself made a call or had someone else make a call on his behalf reporting a burglary. This house was not known to our intelligence systems and hadn’t featured in this huge inquiry [the manhunt for Cregan]. As would be routine, two unarmed officers were sent to the scene. As they arrived, Cregan emerged into the road and killed these two officers. A firearm was used and a grenade was also used. It would appear Cregan has deliberately done this in an act of cold-blooded murder. It is almost impossible to fathom such an evil act.”
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KELVIN MacKenzie has been doorstepped over Hillsborough. Enjoy:
THE Daily Mail reports on the man who died inhaling the fumes from a US flag:
A Pakistani protestor has died after inhaling smoke from burning U.S. flags during a rally against the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims. Abdullah Ismail died in Mayo hospital in Lahore having complained of feeling unwell during the angry demonstrations in the eastern Pakistan city yesterday.
Around 10,000 people are estimated to have taken part in the protest organised by the group Tehreek Hurmat-i-Rasool.
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Posted: 18th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
LIFE in Tijuana, Mexico, can be hard. Sex, drugs and life comes cheap:
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Posted: 18th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
IN the 1950s and 1960s, posters for B movies routinely featured scantily dressed young women in peril. We’ve compiled a gallery of the very best, including women being attacked by sexually aroused: flying fish; the undead; plants; werewolves, massive apes; robots; monsters; vampires; zombies; their husbands…
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Posted: 18th, September 2012 | In: Film, Flashback | Comment (1)
PC Simon Harwood will keep his police pension. Make that former Pc Simon Harwood, the copper sacked for gross misconduct. Ian Tomlinson’s family may well laugh. In Tomlinson was the man who died at the G20 protest in London back in 2009. Harwood was filmed hitting Tomlinson and pushing him to the ground. Tomlinson was on his way home from work. He was minding his own business. His hands were in his pockets. He was facing the other way.
An inquest ruled that Mr Tomlinson had been unlawfully killed. Dr Freddy Patel’s initial verdict was that Mr Tomlinson died of natural causes. That was wrong.
The Killing Of Ian Tomlinson In Photos
Harwood admitted using unnecessary force. He was acquitted of manslaughter.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Maxine de Brunner of the Met Police says Hawwood cannot lose his pension because he was not convicted of a criminal offence in relation to death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson. She says:
“Simon Harwood will retain his pension when he reaches pensionable age. I’m unable to remove his pension because he has not been convicted of a criminal offence…We must remember on April 1, 2009 Ian Tomlinson lost his life. I take full responsibility for Simon Harwood and I would like to offer my sincere apologies and condolences to his family. Today’s hearing has resulted in the maximum penalty that was ever available to the panel – dismissal due to gross misconduct. That leaves no ambiguity as to how the Met views the actions of Simon Harwood.”
She takes full responsibility. Good. Sack her as well, then.
Harwood did not work alone. Here is why his bosses at the Met should be charged, too.
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Posted: 18th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
SARAH Catt, 35, from North Yorkshire, is starting an eight year prison sentence for ending her pregnancy within a week of her due date. Sarah Catt is married to the man with whom she has two children. She believed the baby she aborted was the result of an affair.
She bought Misoprostol over the internet from a soutce in Mumbai, India.
You might call it an abortion.
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TO mark the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protest, a group marched towards the NEws York Stock Exchange:
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DAN DeCarlo was an American cartoonist who created the looks of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Cheryl Blossom and Archie and his gang. He also did one-shot jokes. The curvaceous females with wide eyes and snub noses was known as “good girl” art, inspired by World War 2 pin-ups. The women are avaricious, sexually available and self-aware. It might be sexist. But it just looks like fun. The best are here:
FLASHBACK looks at the women used to sell Rigid Tools, an actual brand selling tools since 1923.
Spotters: JWessel, RetroF; Aresources
Posted: 17th, September 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
TO Kuala Lumpur, where the government is teaching adults how to spot signs of homosexuality in children. An official for Teachers Foundation of Malaysia tells Reuters:
“It is a multi-religious and multicultural (event), after all, all religions are basically against that type of behaviour.”
Those of you keen to spot signs of gayness in boys should look out for tight, light coloured clothes and large handbags. Girls have “no affection for men and like to hang out and sleep in the company of women”. Got that? If your daughter wants a sleepover she most likely a lesbian and needs sorting. If the lad starts dressing like a 1980s footballer or Usain Bolt, he, likewise, needs attention.
According to Free Malaysiakini, signs of male gayness are:
A muscular body and [gays] like to show their body by wearing V-neck and sleeveless clothes
Prefer tight and light-coloured clothes
Attracted to men
Like to bring big handbags, similar to those used by women, when hanging out.
Posted: 17th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
WHY are there riots in Middle East? Was Christopher Stevens, US Ambassador to Libya, murdered over a 14-minute clip of a pisspoor film called The Innocence of Islam? Julian Borger says he was. He tells Guardian readers:
The long fuse that led to the explosion of violence that killed the US ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, was lit last summer in the pleasant hills of southern California, where a man who claims to be an Israeli-American real estate developer, Sam Bacile, set about making a film.
Sam Bacile is the fabrication of a Christian group.
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Posted: 17th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
