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April 19, 2004
Court knocks Clarett, Williams from Draft
Ohio State's Maurice Clarett and Southern Cal's Mike Williams have been scratched from the NFL's draft board. An appeals court ruled in favor of the NFL today, overturning a a lower court's ruling that would have permitted them to enter the NFL Draft.
So the question now is: What happens to Williams and Clarett? Under NCAA rules, the players could have their universities apply for their reinstatement - provided the player repays every red cent of monies, loans, and bling any agent(s) may have fronted.
While the door remains open technically, ESPN.com reported Monday that neither Williams nor Clarett had been in contact with their respective programs.
For Williams, there's a little question of academic eligibility as it relates to enrollment and credit hours. No one knows for sure if Williams would even be academically eligible, as he has basically been a full-time NFL prospect rather than a full-time student.
For Clarett, there's the little issue of his complete lack of a relationship with Ohio State. The Buckeyes suspended Clarett last year and he hasn't been in contact with the coaching staff for some time.
What does the future hold for Clarett & Williams? In the words of Yoda, hard to see the future is. I suspect that we'll see Williams back in a Trojan uniform, even if he has to complete a full semester at summer school. For Maurice Clarett, I'm guessing a one year deal in the CFL, that way he would be able to enter next year's draft.
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January 20, 2004
2003-2004 Bowl Game Results
NationalChamps has the complete list of 2003-2004 Bowl Game Results listed on their website. Great resource!
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January 10, 2004
Preseason Top 25
Here is a rundown of Ivan Maisel's preseason Top25.
1. USC (2003 NC)
2. LSU (2003 NC)
3. Oklahoma (2000 NC)
4. Georgia
5. Miami (2001 NC)
6. Florida State (1999 NC)
7. Michigan
8. Maryland
9. Texas
10. Iowa
11. California
12. West Virginia
13. Clemson
14. Utah
15. Ohio State (2002 NC)
16. Oregon State
17. Tennessee (1998 NC)
18. Auburn
19. Missouri
20. Virginia
21. Florida
22. Nebraska
23. Toledo
24. Purdue
25. Colorado
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January 09, 2004
Fanblogs Server Update
We want to make everyone aware that we will be relocating the Fanblogs servers and making some site updates next week. This is scheduled to take place January 14 and may take as long as three days. During the server upgrades, Fanblogs.com will be offli......more
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Gateway CEO offers $30 million for game between USC and LSU
It seems Ted Waitt, chairman and CEO of Gateway Inc., is just as unhappy about the split national championship as the majority of us. He has offered to give each school $10 million in scholarships for disadvantaged students if they'd play each other the weekend of Jan. 24-25. The winner would have gotten an additional $10 million in scholarships and $1 million in Gateway products.
There's only one problem, NCAA President Myles Brand has already turned the proposal down.
"It's just not as simple or easy as doing that," said Wally Renfro, the senior adviser to Brand. "Decisions about postseason football are made by the membership of the association. Those two institutions would not be able to make that decision in any event.
"Right now, by the bylaws, it couldn't happen."
And the NCAA wouldn't jump even with $30 million in scholarships up for grabs?
"No," Renfro said.
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.. Maybe it's just me, but screw the NCAA bylaws.
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January 08, 2004
Historical list of National Champions
Complete list of college football national champions by year:
2003 Louisiana State (13-1) Southern California (12-1)
2002 Ohio State (14-0)
2001 Miami (12-0)
2000 Oklahoma (13-0)
1999 Florida State (12-0)
1998 Tennessee (13-0)
1997 Michigan (12-0) Nebraska (13-0)
1996 Florida (12-1)
1995 Nebraska (12-0)
1994 Nebraska (13-0)
1993 Florida State (12-1)
1992 Alabama (13-0)
1991 Washington (12-0) Miami (12-0)
1990 Colorado (11-1-1) Georgia Tech (11-0-1)
1989 Miami (11-1)
1988 Notre Dame (12-0)
1987 Miami (12-0)
1986 Penn State (12-0)
1985 Oklahoma (11-1)
1984 Brigham Young (13-0)
1983 Miami (11-1)
1982 Penn State (11-1)
1981 Clemson (12-0)
1980 Georgia (12-0)
1979 Alabama (12-0)
1978 Alabama (12-1) Southern Cal (12-1)
1977 Notre Dame (11-1)
1976 Pittsburgh (12-0)
1975 Oklahoma (11-1)
1974 Oklahoma (11-0) Southern Cal (10-1-1)
1973 Notre Dame (11-0) Alabama (11-1)
1972 Southern Cal (12-0)
1971 Nebraska (13-0)
1970 Nebraska (11-0-1) Texas (10-1)
1969 Texas (11-0)
1968 Ohio State (10-0)
1967 Southern Cal (10-1)
1966 Notre Dame (9-0-1)
1965 Alabama (9-1-1) Michigan St. (10-1)
1964 Alabama (10-1)
1963 Texas (11-0)
1962 Southern Cal (11-0)
1961 Alabama (11-0)
1960 Minnesota (8-2)
1959 Syracuse (11-0)
1958 LSU (11-0)
1957 Auburn (10-0) Ohio State (9-1)
1956 Oklahoma (10-0)
1955 Oklahoma (11-0)
1954 Ohio State (10-0) UCLA (9-0)
1953 Maryland (10-1)
1952 Michigan State (9-0)
1951 Tennessee (10-0)
1950 Oklahoma (10-1)
1949 Notre Dame (10-0)
1948 Michigan (9-0)
1947 Notre Dame (9-0)
1946 Notre Dame (8-0-1)
1945 Army (9-0)
1944 Army (9-0)
1943 Notre Dame (9-1)
1942 Ohio State (9-1)
1941 Minnesota (8-0)
1940 Minnesota (8-0)
1939 Texas A&M (11-0)
1938 Texas Christian (11-0)
1937 Pittsburgh (9-0-1)
1936 Minnesota (7-1)
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January 07, 2004
Pre-Draft Bowl Games
With the completion of the bowl season, there are only 2 major college football games left until next September. One is the Hula Bowl in Maui, the other is the Senior Bowl in Mobile Alabama. I thought I'd share with you who all will be involved this year in each respective bowl game.
Hula Bowl:
Team Kai
Coach: Ralph Friedgen of University of Maryland
Team Aina
Coach: Jim Tress of The Ohio State University
The game will be played January 17th, at 8pm on ESPN.
Senior Bowl:
Team North
Coach: Marvin Lewis and Bengals coaching staff
Team South
Coach: Marty Schottenheimer and Chargers coaching staff
The Senior Bowl rosters will not be posted until January 18th, 2004.
The Senior Bowl will be played, Saturday, January 24th at 4pm on ESPN.
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January 05, 2004
How to fix the BCS and eliminate two champions
Over the past week I have heard two things above all else.
1) USC has won the national championship.
2) The Sugar Bowl and BCS mean nothing.
I have one question to ask everyone out there. What does the AP poll really mean? Why does the AP poll determine a national champion? When the BCS was created, why was the AP poll still left with the ability to crown a national champion other than the system created by college football?
No one will ever be happy with what happened this year, but I have a solution to end the split championships. While we function under the rule of the BCS system, the AP poll should not award a national championship. And if they feel they need to award one, then eliminate them from the BCS formula. The BCS is set up to award a national champion, it is NOT designed to change the opinions and force the AP poll to vote the same way the BCS does.
When Mike Tranghese and his BCS bretheren hole themselves up from the rest of the world come this April, this should be the issue at hand. How do you get rid of a second national championship? You get rid of the ability to award a second one. Please ESPN, Associated Press and the rest of the free world, the BCS is not going away and we are not getting a playoff. Please lay off and help it move forward.
If you have any comments that are not suitable for this message board, you may send me electronic mail.
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January 03, 2004
Updated Top5 Prediction
There will be quite a shake-up in the Top5, with either Oklahoma or LSU losing, as well as Texas, Tennessee, Florida State and Kansas State losing the past week. Here's the look at what you should expect come Monday.
Coaches Poll
1. Oklahoma
2. USC
3. Ohio State
4. LSU
5. Miami
AP Poll
1. USC
2. Oklahoma
3. Ohio State
4. LSU
5. Miami
Good luck to both Oklahoma and LSU tomorrow night in the Sugar Bowl.
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Court knocks Clarett, Williams from Draft
Ohio State's Maurice Clarett and Southern Cal's Mike Williams have been scratched from the NFL's draft board. An appeals court ruled in favor of the NFL today, overturning a a lower court's ruling that would have permitted them to enter the NFL Draft.
So the question now is: What happens to Williams and Clarett? Under NCAA rules, the players could have their universities apply for their reinstatement - provided the player repays every red cent of monies, loans, and bling any agent(s) may have fronted.
While the door remains open technically, ESPN.com reported Monday that neither Williams nor Clarett had been in contact with their respective programs.
For Williams, there's a little question of academic eligibility as it relates to enrollment and credit hours. No one knows for sure if Williams would even be academically eligible, as he has basically been a full-time NFL prospect rather than a full-time student.
For Clarett, there's the little issue of his complete lack of a relationship with Ohio State. The Buckeyes suspended Clarett last year and he hasn't been in contact with the coaching staff for some time.
What does the future hold for Clarett & Williams? In the words of Yoda, hard to see the future is. I suspect that we'll see Williams back in a Trojan uniform, even if he has to complete a full semester at summer school. For Maurice Clarett, I'm guessing a one year deal in the CFL, that way he would be able to enter next year's draft.
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January 20, 2004
2003-2004 Bowl Game Results
NationalChamps has the complete list of 2003-2004 Bowl Game Results listed on their website. Great resource!
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January 10, 2004
Preseason Top 25
Here is a rundown of Ivan Maisel's preseason Top25.
1. USC (2003 NC)
2. LSU (2003 NC)
3. Oklahoma (2000 NC)
4. Georgia
5. Miami (2001 NC)
6. Florida State (1999 NC)
7. Michigan
8. Maryland
9. Texas
10. Iowa
11. California
12. West Virginia
13. Clemson
14. Utah
15. Ohio State (2002 NC)
16. Oregon State
17. Tennessee (1998 NC)
18. Auburn
19. Missouri
20. Virginia
21. Florida
22. Nebraska
23. Toledo
24. Purdue
25. Colorado
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January 09, 2004
Fanblogs Server Update
We want to make everyone aware that we will be relocating the Fanblogs servers and making some site updates next week. This is scheduled to take place January 14 and may take as long as three days. During the server upgrades, Fanblogs.com will be offli......more
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Gateway CEO offers $30 million for game between USC and LSU
It seems Ted Waitt, chairman and CEO of Gateway Inc., is just as unhappy about the split national championship as the majority of us. He has offered to give each school $10 million in scholarships for disadvantaged students if they'd play each other the weekend of Jan. 24-25. The winner would have gotten an additional $10 million in scholarships and $1 million in Gateway products.
There's only one problem, NCAA President Myles Brand has already turned the proposal down.
"It's just not as simple or easy as doing that," said Wally Renfro, the senior adviser to Brand. "Decisions about postseason football are made by the membership of the association. Those two institutions would not be able to make that decision in any event.
"Right now, by the bylaws, it couldn't happen."
And the NCAA wouldn't jump even with $30 million in scholarships up for grabs?
"No," Renfro said.
Link
.. Maybe it's just me, but screw the NCAA bylaws.
Posted by: Lloyd Severence | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
January 08, 2004
Historical list of National Champions
Complete list of college football national champions by year:
2003 Louisiana State (13-1) Southern California (12-1)
2002 Ohio State (14-0)
2001 Miami (12-0)
2000 Oklahoma (13-0)
1999 Florida State (12-0)
1998 Tennessee (13-0)
1997 Michigan (12-0) Nebraska (13-0)
1996 Florida (12-1)
1995 Nebraska (12-0)
1994 Nebraska (13-0)
1993 Florida State (12-1)
1992 Alabama (13-0)
1991 Washington (12-0) Miami (12-0)
1990 Colorado (11-1-1) Georgia Tech (11-0-1)
1989 Miami (11-1)
1988 Notre Dame (12-0)
1987 Miami (12-0)
1986 Penn State (12-0)
1985 Oklahoma (11-1)
1984 Brigham Young (13-0)
1983 Miami (11-1)
1982 Penn State (11-1)
1981 Clemson (12-0)
1980 Georgia (12-0)
1979 Alabama (12-0)
1978 Alabama (12-1) Southern Cal (12-1)
1977 Notre Dame (11-1)
1976 Pittsburgh (12-0)
1975 Oklahoma (11-1)
1974 Oklahoma (11-0) Southern Cal (10-1-1)
1973 Notre Dame (11-0) Alabama (11-1)
1972 Southern Cal (12-0)
1971 Nebraska (13-0)
1970 Nebraska (11-0-1) Texas (10-1)
1969 Texas (11-0)
1968 Ohio State (10-0)
1967 Southern Cal (10-1)
1966 Notre Dame (9-0-1)
1965 Alabama (9-1-1) Michigan St. (10-1)
1964 Alabama (10-1)
1963 Texas (11-0)
1962 Southern Cal (11-0)
1961 Alabama (11-0)
1960 Minnesota (8-2)
1959 Syracuse (11-0)
1958 LSU (11-0)
1957 Auburn (10-0) Ohio State (9-1)
1956 Oklahoma (10-0)
1955 Oklahoma (11-0)
1954 Ohio State (10-0) UCLA (9-0)
1953 Maryland (10-1)
1952 Michigan State (9-0)
1951 Tennessee (10-0)
1950 Oklahoma (10-1)
1949 Notre Dame (10-0)
1948 Michigan (9-0)
1947 Notre Dame (9-0)
1946 Notre Dame (8-0-1)
1945 Army (9-0)
1944 Army (9-0)
1943 Notre Dame (9-1)
1942 Ohio State (9-1)
1941 Minnesota (8-0)
1940 Minnesota (8-0)
1939 Texas A&M (11-0)
1938 Texas Christian (11-0)
1937 Pittsburgh (9-0-1)
1936 Minnesota (7-1)
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January 07, 2004
Pre-Draft Bowl Games
With the completion of the bowl season, there are only 2 major college football games left until next September. One is the Hula Bowl in Maui, the other is the Senior Bowl in Mobile Alabama. I thought I'd share with you who all will be involved this year in each respective bowl game.
Hula Bowl:
Team Kai
Coach: Ralph Friedgen of University of Maryland
Team Aina
Coach: Jim Tress of The Ohio State University
The game will be played January 17th, at 8pm on ESPN.
Senior Bowl:
Team North
Coach: Marvin Lewis and Bengals coaching staff
Team South
Coach: Marty Schottenheimer and Chargers coaching staff
The Senior Bowl rosters will not be posted until January 18th, 2004.
The Senior Bowl will be played, Saturday, January 24th at 4pm on ESPN.
Posted by: Lloyd Severence | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Permalink
January 05, 2004
How to fix the BCS and eliminate two champions
Over the past week I have heard two things above all else.
1) USC has won the national championship.
2) The Sugar Bowl and BCS mean nothing.
I have one question to ask everyone out there. What does the AP poll really mean? Why does the AP poll determine a national champion? When the BCS was created, why was the AP poll still left with the ability to crown a national champion other than the system created by college football?
No one will ever be happy with what happened this year, but I have a solution to end the split championships. While we function under the rule of the BCS system, the AP poll should not award a national championship. And if they feel they need to award one, then eliminate them from the BCS formula. The BCS is set up to award a national champion, it is NOT designed to change the opinions and force the AP poll to vote the same way the BCS does.
When Mike Tranghese and his BCS bretheren hole themselves up from the rest of the world come this April, this should be the issue at hand. How do you get rid of a second national championship? You get rid of the ability to award a second one. Please ESPN, Associated Press and the rest of the free world, the BCS is not going away and we are not getting a playoff. Please lay off and help it move forward.
If you have any comments that are not suitable for this message board, you may send me electronic mail.
Posted by: Lloyd Severence | Comments (16) | TrackBack (1) | Permalink
January 03, 2004
Updated Top5 Prediction
There will be quite a shake-up in the Top5, with either Oklahoma or LSU losing, as well as Texas, Tennessee, Florida State and Kansas State losing the past week. Here's the look at what you should expect come Monday.
Coaches Poll
1. Oklahoma
2. USC
3. Ohio State
4. LSU
5. Miami
AP Poll
1. USC
2. Oklahoma
3. Ohio State
4. LSU
5. Miami
Good luck to both Oklahoma and LSU tomorrow night in the Sugar Bowl.
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Priest accused of bizarre fetish rituals
Advocate | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"A molestation charge against a Wyoming priest has brought forth allegations of a bizarre bondage ritual performed on men two decades ago in the basement of a small-town church. Several men have told investigators they allowed themselves to be stripped, blindfolded, suspended upside-down, whipped, and bound about the genitals while praying for penance, a prosecutor said Monday... The stories became public after Father Anthony Jablonowski pleaded no contest last week to a charge of taking indecent liberties with a 17-year-old boy in 1982... The priest's attorney, Dallas Laird, said Jablonowski likened the rituals to initiation rites in fraternities or the Marine Corps and suggested the men's memories of the incident may have gotten hazy with time."
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Iraq mercenary former apartheid assassin
All Africa | Submitted by: Timisoara
"A security contractor killed in Iraq last week was once one of South Africa's most secret covert agents, his identity guarded so closely that even the Truth and Reconciliation Commission did not discover the extent of his involvement in apartheid's silent wars. Gray Branfield, 55, admitted to being part of a death squad which gunned down Joe Gqabi, the ANC's chief representative and Umkhonto weSizwe operational head in Zimbabwe on July 31 1981. Gqabi was shot 19 times when three assassins ambushed him as he reversed down the driveway of his Harare home."
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Princess Di death scene photos ready for broadcast
CBS News | Submitted by: Chris Neill
"48 Hours has obtained a report produced by the French government that was never made public until now. The report contains thousands of pages of confidential police documents, scientific analysis and photos that tell what really happened to Princess Diana, beginning with the night she died... Eerie black and white photos, taken just moments after the crash, have never been shown until now. Part of the official report, they were confiscated from the paparazzi who were chasing the couple that night."
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Bird Flu just waiting to fuck everything up
BBC | Submitted by: rtype
"Bird flu could develop into a threat big enough to overturn world order if it evolves to transfer directly from person to person, a UK scientist says. Dr John McCauley, of the Institute for Animal Health, said the virus could be 20 times worse than the 1918 pandemic. That is estimated to have killed 40 million people, with later influenza outbreaks also killing millions more. Dr McCauley said there was a realistic chance of the current avian flu virus evolving to threaten people directly... 'If it does - if the virus becomes adapted to man and can transmit efficiently - there'll be no point in selling a vaccine. You might as well give it away at that stage, because money would be meaningless. The world order would change.'"
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Diebold finally starting to face the music
CNET News | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"California's Voting Systems and Procedures Panel grilled Diebold Election Systems President Bob Urosevich and an attorney for the company after releasing a blistering report that alleged the company violated state law by installing uncertified software on voting machines in four California counties... The panel could decide Wednesday or Thursday to recommend a variety of remedies, from decertifying some of Diebold's voting equipment to barring electronic voting methods altogether. 'Diebold marketed, sold and installed its TSx (voting machine) in these four California counties prior to full testing, prior to federal qualification, and without complying with the state certification program,' read a staff report on the investigation of Diebold Election Systems released Tuesday. An audit of all 17 California counties using the company's equipment, the report went on to say, 'discovered that Diebold had, in fact, installed uncertified software in all its client counties without notifying the Secretary of State as required by law, and that the software was not federally qualified in three client counties.'"
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Diebold was warned by own lawyers
Oakland Tribune | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"Attorneys for Diebold Election Systems Inc. warned in late November that its use of uncertified vote-counting software in Alameda County violated California election law and broke its $12.7 million contract with Alameda County. Soon after, a review of internal legal memos obtained by the Oakland Tribune shows Diebold's attorneys at the Los Angeles office of Jones Day realized the McKinney, Texas-based firm also faced a threat of criminal charges and exile from California elections. Yet despite warnings from the state's chief elections officer, Diebold continued fielding poorly tested, faulty software and hardware in at least two of California's largest urban counties during the Super Tuesday primary, when e-voting temporarily broke down and voters were turned away at the polls."
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Feds ordered to quit harassing marijuana club
San Jose Mercury News | Submitted by: shebink
"A federal judge on Wednesday sided with a Santa Cruz cannabis cooperative, issuing an order allowing pot to be grown for the sick and dying without fear of a raid by federal drug agents. San Jose U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel blocked federal agents from enforcing drug laws against the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Davenport, prompting founders Valerie and Michael Corral to immediately begin planting marijuana seeds for a fall harvest... The ruling marked the first lower court interpretation of a recent federal appeals court decision that crafted an exemption to federal drug laws for seriously ill patients who grow their own marijuana or get it for free... The Bush administration has argued that federal drug laws trump any state efforts to permit the use, possession or sale of marijuana, including California's 1996 voter-approved medicinal marijuana law."
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Wife gets 25 years for attempted murder
Boston Globe | Submitted by: stoptional
"A woman who stabbed her husband during a game in which he was handcuffed and blindfolded was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison. Sheila Davalloo, of Pleasantville, was convicted in February of attempted murder after a nonjury trial... The Westchester County investigation began March 23, 2003, when Davalloo and Christos were engaged in a game in which Christos, blindfolded and handcuffed, was to guess what she was using to touch him. She took a 4-inch paring knife from the kitchen and stabbed him twice in the chest. Prosecutors said Davalloo pretended to call 911 and took Christos to the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla only after he begged her. When she parked near the hospital, she took the knife and stabbed him a third time."
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British sportscaster fired over "nigger" comment
London Daily Record | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"Football pundit Ron Atkinson quit ITV last night after calling a black player 'a lazy fucking nigger' live on air... Atkinson has been ITV's top football analyst for years. Senior executives discussed his fate at a crisis meeting last night and accepted his offer to resign from ITV Sport. Fans watching Tuesday's Champions League semi-final between Monaco and Chelsea were horrified by Atkinson's outburst against French idol Desailly. British viewers did not hear the slur but it went out on air in the Middle East to thousands of people watching an 'international feed' of the game. Engineers had forgotten to turn down the microphones in the studio while UK viewers were on a commercial break."
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Surgical scissors left inside patient
Wire Services | Submitted by: stoptional
"A Sydney woman demanded an explanation Tuesday from a hospital where a pair of scissors were left in her abdomen after surgery and said she planned to sue. Pat Skinner, 69, had part of her colon removed at Sydney's St. George Hospital in May 2001. But she said that she continued to suffer intense pain in her abdomen for months after the operation. Eventually, she demanded doctors x-ray her abdomen. They did and discovered the 6.7-inch pair of scissors, which were removed in October 2002."
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Howard Stern champions Porky's remake
Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Gorg sez "caw caw caw!"
"Shock jock Howard Stern is set to produce a remake of Porky's, the 1982 gross-out comedy that is Canada's top-grossing English-language film. Although no director or actors have been attached to the project, Stern has drafted screenwriters Craig Moss and Steve Schoenburg to pen the script... Made with a mostly Canadian cast and crew, Porky's was filmed on location in Florida. It featured characters with colourful names like Beulah Balbricker, as well as a performance by a young Kim Cattrall."
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Man allegedly finds shrapnel in Taco Bell soft taco
Tribune-Review | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"Taco Bell is investigating a Greensburg man's claim that he got more than meat, tomatoes and lettuce in a tortilla he bought at one of the company's restaurants on Route 30 in Hempfield Township. Jeff Sano said Monday that he found a piece of metal about an inch long in one of three soft tacos that he took home Friday night... 'We are investigating the matter,' said Laurie Schalow, spokeswoman for the fast-food chain based in Irvine, Calif... 'I threw the first one in the microwave, unwrapped it and put hot sauce on it. Then I wrapped it up tight, and the metal poked through the center,' he said... Sano said he returned to the restaurant that night and showed a manager the metal object. 'I said, "There's a piece of metal in one of my tacos,"' he recalled. 'She said, "I'll make you another one."'"
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Unitarians lobby for polyamory
San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"Unitarians from Boston to Berkeley have opened another front in the liberal crusade to expand the definition of marriage and family in America... according to the Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness, their relationships are at least as ethical as other marriages - gay or straight... last week, a group of conservative evangelicals asked San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom whether his support of same-sex marriage applied to multiple-partner marriages. 'What possible reason could you find for discriminating against or denying equal access to threesomes, foursomes, etc.?' they asked in a letter to Newsom."
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Tuesday April 20, 2004
British foil al-Qaeda bomb plot
Sun | Submitted by: Felmart
"A suicide bomb plot to kill thousands of soccer fans at Saturday's Manchester United-Liverpool match was dramatically foiled yesterday... Intelligence chiefs believe al-Qaeda fanatics planned to blow themselves up amid 67,000 unsuspecting supporters... Ten people were arrested after a massive surveillance operation involving British anti-terror units and American authorities. A police source said: 'The plot involved several individual bombers in separate parts of the stadium. If successful, any such attack would have caused absolute carnage. Thousands of people could have been killed.'"
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Bloodthirsty Aztecs claim two more victims
Toledo Blade | Submitted by: Flush master
"An emotionally disturbed Hancock County man strangled his mother, beat her in the head with a crudely made hammer, and then, in what investigators say was a ritual of his own making, he cut off her head, right foot, and both hands. He also cut off one his testicles. He had been reading about Aztec culture, which authorities say may have spurred the bizarre killing of his mother. The revelations came yesterday - five days after Alma Businger, 83, was found dead in her Cass Township home just north of Findlay. Her son, Rex, 41, told deputies he'd killed his mother. He died from self-inflicted burns the following day... Deputies found an array of reading material in the house they suspect may have sparked the violence - books on astronomy, Aztec culture, and a novel called The Crystal Skull."
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Homeless man caught allegedly fucking dead geezer
sfexaminer.com | Submitted by: JOPY - 666
"A funeral home employee discovered [Mahdi Allah] Saturday on top of the corpse with his pants around his ankles, passed out drunk, according to police spokesman Dewayne Tully. Allah, a former employee at the funeral home, allegedly used a key to let himself in sometime the previous night, went downstairs and removed the corpse from a storage freezer before placing it on the floor. He is being charged with two counts of sexual assault upon a person who is unconscious or unaware [huh?] and one count of burglary... [Funeral home owner Steve Fujii] remembered Allah as always reading, and described him as extremely smart and well educated. Allah was homeless by choice and slept in nearby Golden Gate Park, according to Fujii."
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Canadian healthcare system unprepared for SARS
Canada.com | Submitted by: Crazy Quagga
"The SARS crisis exposed Ontario's public health system as unprepared, poorly led and 'professionally impoverished,' says an interim report on the crisis released Tuesday... A federal government probe of the outbreak released last October criticized the inadequate and poorly co-ordinated responses of all levels of government and highlighted severe, ingrained problems that exacerbated the scope of the Toronto crisis... Ontario's SARS outbreak killed 44 people. There were a total of 247 probable and 128 suspect cases of the disease in the province."
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Hezbollah's popular TV game show
BBC | Submitted by: Tobermory
"A game show aired by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah's satellite television channel has raised eyebrows. In The Mission, which is shown on al-Manar, contestants battle for points which enable them to step towards Jerusalem on a virtual map. Questions range from the date of the French Revolution to names of militants who carried out suicide attacks... Contestants compete for prizes of up to $3,000, with each question they answer correctly they move one step closer on a virtual map towards Jerusalem. Should a contestant successfully reach Jerusalem the show plays a favourite Hezbollah song which declares 'Jerusalem is ours and we are coming to it.'"
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Would-be vigilante rewarded with jail time
WRAL-TV 5 Raleigh | Submitted by: Dusik
"Wilbur Grady said [Reginald Suggs], 49, approached him Sunday and told him he was under arrest. He brandished a wooden stick and a .25-caliber semi-automatic handgun, according to police reports... 'He told me I was under arrest. I told him to get out of my yard with that crazy talk.' The two exchanged words before Suggs rushed up and cuffed Grady's hands behind his back. Suggs then forced Grady, 68, into Suggs' car and drove him to the county jail. He told a magistrate that he had brought in a prisoner for possession of stolen property, selling illegal lottery tickets and selling alcohol without a permit. The magistrate, a 12-year veteran in the Lenoir County Magistrate's office, quickly realized Suggs did not have the authority to make arrests." [Bullshit. All citizens have the authority to make arrests.]
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Former Scotland Yard cop urges drug legalization
Stuff NZ | Submitted by: Kiwiboy
"A visiting former Scotland Yard drugs boss is calling for all drugs, from marijuana and methamphetamines to cocaine and opiates, to be legalised. And the retired detective chief superintendent is going further, calling for state-sponsored hard drugs for addicts. Eddie Ellison said he believes prohibition on drugs is costing a fortune and helping no one but criminals involved with drug dealing. [Hear! Hear!] ... Heroin and other hard-drug users could be given subsidised drug doses, which would stop forcing them to commit crimes to finance their habits. Once the users had a guaranteed low-cost supply of the drug, they could get on with their lives, he said. Mr Ellison said a British heroin addict must steal about $5000 worth of goods a day to finance a $500-a-day habit - a habit the Government could supplement for about $1.25."
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Pediatrician recommends marijuana for teenage ADD
Fox News | Submitted by: The Kung Fu Magician
"As a California pediatrician and 49-year-old mother of two teenage daughters, Claudia Jensen says pot might prove to be the preferred medical treatment for attention deficit disorder - even in adolescents. 'Why would anyone want to give their child an expensive pill … with unacceptable side effects, when he or she could just go into the backyard, pick a few leaves off a plant and make tea for him or her instead?' Jensen asked the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the House Government Reform Committee earlier this month. While some wonder whether Jensen was smoking some wacky weed herself, the clinician for low-income patients and professor to first-year medical students at the University of Southern California said her beliefs are very grounded."
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Supreme Court ponders Guantanamo legal status
Wire Services | Submitted by: optional
"The government can't throw out prisoners' constitutional rights to make their case in court just because the country faces new threats in the war on terrorism, a lawyer for foreign-born detainees argued Tuesday in the Supreme Court's first case arising from the Sept. 11 attacks... Foreigners held at the Navy's prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, want the Supreme Court to give them a legal right 'that is not authorized by Congress, does not arise from the Constitution, has never been exercised by this court,' said [Theodore Olson]... Olson's wife, Barbara, was killed aboard the jet that slammed into the Pentagon in September 2001. She called him on her cell phone minutes before the crash, and reported the plane had been hijacked... Two and a half years after Sept. 11, the high court is starting small, with a simple question about whether federal judges can even hear the complaints of the Guantanamo prisoners."
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Scary TCP/IP vulnerability
Wire Services | Submitted by: optional
"The British government announced the vulnerability in core Internet technology on Tuesday. Left unaddressed, experts said, it could allow hackers to knock computers offline and broadly disrupt vital traffic-directing devices, called routers, that coordinate the flow of data among distant groups of computers... Paul Watson said he identified a method to reliably trick personal computers and routers into shutting down electronic conversations by resetting the machines remotely. Routers continually exchange important updates about the most efficient traffic routes between large networks. Continued successful attacks against routers can cause them to go into a standby mode, known as 'dampening,' that can persist for hours. Experts previously said such attacks could take between four years and 142 years to succeed because they require guessing a rotating number from roughly 4 billion possible combinations. Watson said he can guess the proper number with as few as four attempts, which can be accomplished within seconds."
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Bluetooth enabling anonyfucks
CNN | Submitted by: Arachnyd
"British commuters take note - the respectable person sitting next to you on the train fumbling with their cell phone might be a 'toother' looking for sex with a stranger. 'Toothing' is a new craze where strangers on trains, buses, in bars and even supermarkets hook up for illicit meetings using messages sent via the latest in phone technology. 'Toothing is a form of anonymous sex with strangers - usually on some form of transport or enclosed area such as a conference or training seminar,' says the 'Beginner's Guide To Toothing' on a Web site dedicated to the pursuit. It is made possible by Bluetooth technology which allows users to send phone contacts, pictures and messages to other Bluetooth-enabled equipment over a range of about 10 meters (yards)... 'messages are exchanged until a suitable location is agreed - usually a public toilet, although there are tales of more adventurous spots such as deserted carriages or staff areas,' his guide adds."
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Norwegian girls really know how to go wild
Nettavisen | Submitted by: sinistre
"26 seniors from two high schools in Oslo are going to participate in a porn film staring Norwegian porn actor Rocco in order to finance their end of the year parties... The girls have signed a contract with 21-year-old porn star Thomas Rocco Hansen to tape a scene for a porn film in their own bus as they lack other types of sponsorships to finance their party costs. They are also going to be interviewed regarding their sexual habits and sex fantasies. The girls will be paid about $2,900."
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Pet food pile spontaneously ignites
Asheboro Courier-Tribune | Submitted by: Tank's Grrl
"Randolph County fire officials say that a fire which destroyed the office at the Happy Hills Animal Foundation Sunday was an accident, caused by spontaneous combustion in about 2,000 pounds of dry dog food... 'They had about a ton of dog food in one of the rooms,' said [fire inspector Wendell Whatley]. 'A lot of the stuff is donated - bags are ripped and taped back. If it ever gets wet at all - it's the same as a hay fire in a barn - it starts heating up as it decomposes.' Eventually there was enough heat in the office at Happy Hills to start a fire, which quickly spread to combustible material in the room where the bags of dog food were stored... The clincher, Whatley said, was finding bags of dog food burned on the inside, but not the outside."
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Chinese babies killed by fake milk
BBC | Submitted by: sTabby
"Dozens of Chinese babies are said to have died from malnutrition in the past year after being fed fake or inferior-quality baby milk powders. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said makers of the products would be severely punished, the China Daily paper said... Local media said some of the babies developed what doctors called 'big head disease,' where infants' heads appear abnormally large in comparison to their bodies. It was not clear of the counterfeit powder included any toxic ingredients, but some children were reported to have died within three days of being fed the fake milk."
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Bush names secrecy freak to head National Archives
Government Computer News | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"After almost nine years as archivist of the United States, John Carlin will step down as soon as the Senate confirms Allen Weinstein, President Bush's choice to become the ninth archivist... The Society of American Archivists has expressed concern about Weinstein's nomination. 'Prior to the announcement, there was no consultation with professional organizations of archivists or historians,' the Chicago association noted in a statement this month. 'This is the first time since the National Archives and Records Administration was established as an independent agency that the process of nominating an archivist of the United States has not been open for public discussion and input.'"
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Monday April 19, 2004
Feds withheld Oklahoma City bombing video
Guardian UK | Submitted by: Doich
"A Secret Service document written shortly after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing described security video footage of the attack and witness testimony that suggested Timothy McVeigh may have had accomplices at the scene. 'Security video tapes from the area show the truck detonation 3 minutes and 6 seconds after the suspects exited the truck,' the Secret Service reported six days after the attack on a log of agents' activities and evidence in the Oklahoma investigation. The government has insisted McVeigh drove the truck himself and that it never had any video of the bombing or the scene of the Alfred P. Murrah building in the minutes before the April 19, 1995, explosion. Several investigators and prosecutors who worked the case told The Associated Press they had never seen video footage like that described in the Secret Service log."
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Competitive drunk self-immolates
Newsday | Submitted by: whatever
"An intoxicated Davis Park man died after he lit a rug on fire and challenged his roommate to see who could stay in the house on Fire Island longer Saturday night, Suffolk County police said. Police said Thomas Woods, 59, ignited the rug in his house at 9 Driftwood Walk sometime before 8 p.m. As the fire spread, Woods fired one or two rounds from a pre-World War I Mauser pistol, said Det. Sgt. Ed Fandrey of the Suffolk County homicide squad. Police do not know why he fired the gun. When the fire began spreading dangerously, Woods' roommate, Rod Bennett, ran to a neighbor's house to call 911 a few minutes after 8 p.m. Volunteers from the Davis Park Fire Department responded, along with neighbors who tried to extinguish the blaze with garden hoses and anything else they could find. But it was too late."
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Advocate | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"A molestation charge against a Wyoming priest has brought forth allegations of a bizarre bondage ritual performed on men two decades ago in the basement of a small-town church. Several men have told investigators they allowed themselves to be stripped, blindfolded, suspended upside-down, whipped, and bound about the genitals while praying for penance, a prosecutor said Monday... The stories became public after Father Anthony Jablonowski pleaded no contest last week to a charge of taking indecent liberties with a 17-year-old boy in 1982... The priest's attorney, Dallas Laird, said Jablonowski likened the rituals to initiation rites in fraternities or the Marine Corps and suggested the men's memories of the incident may have gotten hazy with time."
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Iraq mercenary former apartheid assassin
All Africa | Submitted by: Timisoara
"A security contractor killed in Iraq last week was once one of South Africa's most secret covert agents, his identity guarded so closely that even the Truth and Reconciliation Commission did not discover the extent of his involvement in apartheid's silent wars. Gray Branfield, 55, admitted to being part of a death squad which gunned down Joe Gqabi, the ANC's chief representative and Umkhonto weSizwe operational head in Zimbabwe on July 31 1981. Gqabi was shot 19 times when three assassins ambushed him as he reversed down the driveway of his Harare home."
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Princess Di death scene photos ready for broadcast
CBS News | Submitted by: Chris Neill
"48 Hours has obtained a report produced by the French government that was never made public until now. The report contains thousands of pages of confidential police documents, scientific analysis and photos that tell what really happened to Princess Diana, beginning with the night she died... Eerie black and white photos, taken just moments after the crash, have never been shown until now. Part of the official report, they were confiscated from the paparazzi who were chasing the couple that night."
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Bird Flu just waiting to fuck everything up
BBC | Submitted by: rtype
"Bird flu could develop into a threat big enough to overturn world order if it evolves to transfer directly from person to person, a UK scientist says. Dr John McCauley, of the Institute for Animal Health, said the virus could be 20 times worse than the 1918 pandemic. That is estimated to have killed 40 million people, with later influenza outbreaks also killing millions more. Dr McCauley said there was a realistic chance of the current avian flu virus evolving to threaten people directly... 'If it does - if the virus becomes adapted to man and can transmit efficiently - there'll be no point in selling a vaccine. You might as well give it away at that stage, because money would be meaningless. The world order would change.'"
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Diebold finally starting to face the music
CNET News | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"California's Voting Systems and Procedures Panel grilled Diebold Election Systems President Bob Urosevich and an attorney for the company after releasing a blistering report that alleged the company violated state law by installing uncertified software on voting machines in four California counties... The panel could decide Wednesday or Thursday to recommend a variety of remedies, from decertifying some of Diebold's voting equipment to barring electronic voting methods altogether. 'Diebold marketed, sold and installed its TSx (voting machine) in these four California counties prior to full testing, prior to federal qualification, and without complying with the state certification program,' read a staff report on the investigation of Diebold Election Systems released Tuesday. An audit of all 17 California counties using the company's equipment, the report went on to say, 'discovered that Diebold had, in fact, installed uncertified software in all its client counties without notifying the Secretary of State as required by law, and that the software was not federally qualified in three client counties.'"
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Diebold was warned by own lawyers
Oakland Tribune | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"Attorneys for Diebold Election Systems Inc. warned in late November that its use of uncertified vote-counting software in Alameda County violated California election law and broke its $12.7 million contract with Alameda County. Soon after, a review of internal legal memos obtained by the Oakland Tribune shows Diebold's attorneys at the Los Angeles office of Jones Day realized the McKinney, Texas-based firm also faced a threat of criminal charges and exile from California elections. Yet despite warnings from the state's chief elections officer, Diebold continued fielding poorly tested, faulty software and hardware in at least two of California's largest urban counties during the Super Tuesday primary, when e-voting temporarily broke down and voters were turned away at the polls."
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Feds ordered to quit harassing marijuana club
San Jose Mercury News | Submitted by: shebink
"A federal judge on Wednesday sided with a Santa Cruz cannabis cooperative, issuing an order allowing pot to be grown for the sick and dying without fear of a raid by federal drug agents. San Jose U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel blocked federal agents from enforcing drug laws against the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Davenport, prompting founders Valerie and Michael Corral to immediately begin planting marijuana seeds for a fall harvest... The ruling marked the first lower court interpretation of a recent federal appeals court decision that crafted an exemption to federal drug laws for seriously ill patients who grow their own marijuana or get it for free... The Bush administration has argued that federal drug laws trump any state efforts to permit the use, possession or sale of marijuana, including California's 1996 voter-approved medicinal marijuana law."
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Wife gets 25 years for attempted murder
Boston Globe | Submitted by: stoptional
"A woman who stabbed her husband during a game in which he was handcuffed and blindfolded was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison. Sheila Davalloo, of Pleasantville, was convicted in February of attempted murder after a nonjury trial... The Westchester County investigation began March 23, 2003, when Davalloo and Christos were engaged in a game in which Christos, blindfolded and handcuffed, was to guess what she was using to touch him. She took a 4-inch paring knife from the kitchen and stabbed him twice in the chest. Prosecutors said Davalloo pretended to call 911 and took Christos to the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla only after he begged her. When she parked near the hospital, she took the knife and stabbed him a third time."
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British sportscaster fired over "nigger" comment
London Daily Record | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"Football pundit Ron Atkinson quit ITV last night after calling a black player 'a lazy fucking nigger' live on air... Atkinson has been ITV's top football analyst for years. Senior executives discussed his fate at a crisis meeting last night and accepted his offer to resign from ITV Sport. Fans watching Tuesday's Champions League semi-final between Monaco and Chelsea were horrified by Atkinson's outburst against French idol Desailly. British viewers did not hear the slur but it went out on air in the Middle East to thousands of people watching an 'international feed' of the game. Engineers had forgotten to turn down the microphones in the studio while UK viewers were on a commercial break."
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Surgical scissors left inside patient
Wire Services | Submitted by: stoptional
"A Sydney woman demanded an explanation Tuesday from a hospital where a pair of scissors were left in her abdomen after surgery and said she planned to sue. Pat Skinner, 69, had part of her colon removed at Sydney's St. George Hospital in May 2001. But she said that she continued to suffer intense pain in her abdomen for months after the operation. Eventually, she demanded doctors x-ray her abdomen. They did and discovered the 6.7-inch pair of scissors, which were removed in October 2002."
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Howard Stern champions Porky's remake
Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Gorg sez "caw caw caw!"
"Shock jock Howard Stern is set to produce a remake of Porky's, the 1982 gross-out comedy that is Canada's top-grossing English-language film. Although no director or actors have been attached to the project, Stern has drafted screenwriters Craig Moss and Steve Schoenburg to pen the script... Made with a mostly Canadian cast and crew, Porky's was filmed on location in Florida. It featured characters with colourful names like Beulah Balbricker, as well as a performance by a young Kim Cattrall."
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Man allegedly finds shrapnel in Taco Bell soft taco
Tribune-Review | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"Taco Bell is investigating a Greensburg man's claim that he got more than meat, tomatoes and lettuce in a tortilla he bought at one of the company's restaurants on Route 30 in Hempfield Township. Jeff Sano said Monday that he found a piece of metal about an inch long in one of three soft tacos that he took home Friday night... 'We are investigating the matter,' said Laurie Schalow, spokeswoman for the fast-food chain based in Irvine, Calif... 'I threw the first one in the microwave, unwrapped it and put hot sauce on it. Then I wrapped it up tight, and the metal poked through the center,' he said... Sano said he returned to the restaurant that night and showed a manager the metal object. 'I said, "There's a piece of metal in one of my tacos,"' he recalled. 'She said, "I'll make you another one."'"
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Unitarians lobby for polyamory
San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"Unitarians from Boston to Berkeley have opened another front in the liberal crusade to expand the definition of marriage and family in America... according to the Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness, their relationships are at least as ethical as other marriages - gay or straight... last week, a group of conservative evangelicals asked San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom whether his support of same-sex marriage applied to multiple-partner marriages. 'What possible reason could you find for discriminating against or denying equal access to threesomes, foursomes, etc.?' they asked in a letter to Newsom."
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Tuesday April 20, 2004
British foil al-Qaeda bomb plot
Sun | Submitted by: Felmart
"A suicide bomb plot to kill thousands of soccer fans at Saturday's Manchester United-Liverpool match was dramatically foiled yesterday... Intelligence chiefs believe al-Qaeda fanatics planned to blow themselves up amid 67,000 unsuspecting supporters... Ten people were arrested after a massive surveillance operation involving British anti-terror units and American authorities. A police source said: 'The plot involved several individual bombers in separate parts of the stadium. If successful, any such attack would have caused absolute carnage. Thousands of people could have been killed.'"
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Bloodthirsty Aztecs claim two more victims
Toledo Blade | Submitted by: Flush master
"An emotionally disturbed Hancock County man strangled his mother, beat her in the head with a crudely made hammer, and then, in what investigators say was a ritual of his own making, he cut off her head, right foot, and both hands. He also cut off one his testicles. He had been reading about Aztec culture, which authorities say may have spurred the bizarre killing of his mother. The revelations came yesterday - five days after Alma Businger, 83, was found dead in her Cass Township home just north of Findlay. Her son, Rex, 41, told deputies he'd killed his mother. He died from self-inflicted burns the following day... Deputies found an array of reading material in the house they suspect may have sparked the violence - books on astronomy, Aztec culture, and a novel called The Crystal Skull."
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Homeless man caught allegedly fucking dead geezer
sfexaminer.com | Submitted by: JOPY - 666
"A funeral home employee discovered [Mahdi Allah] Saturday on top of the corpse with his pants around his ankles, passed out drunk, according to police spokesman Dewayne Tully. Allah, a former employee at the funeral home, allegedly used a key to let himself in sometime the previous night, went downstairs and removed the corpse from a storage freezer before placing it on the floor. He is being charged with two counts of sexual assault upon a person who is unconscious or unaware [huh?] and one count of burglary... [Funeral home owner Steve Fujii] remembered Allah as always reading, and described him as extremely smart and well educated. Allah was homeless by choice and slept in nearby Golden Gate Park, according to Fujii."
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Canadian healthcare system unprepared for SARS
Canada.com | Submitted by: Crazy Quagga
"The SARS crisis exposed Ontario's public health system as unprepared, poorly led and 'professionally impoverished,' says an interim report on the crisis released Tuesday... A federal government probe of the outbreak released last October criticized the inadequate and poorly co-ordinated responses of all levels of government and highlighted severe, ingrained problems that exacerbated the scope of the Toronto crisis... Ontario's SARS outbreak killed 44 people. There were a total of 247 probable and 128 suspect cases of the disease in the province."
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Hezbollah's popular TV game show
BBC | Submitted by: Tobermory
"A game show aired by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah's satellite television channel has raised eyebrows. In The Mission, which is shown on al-Manar, contestants battle for points which enable them to step towards Jerusalem on a virtual map. Questions range from the date of the French Revolution to names of militants who carried out suicide attacks... Contestants compete for prizes of up to $3,000, with each question they answer correctly they move one step closer on a virtual map towards Jerusalem. Should a contestant successfully reach Jerusalem the show plays a favourite Hezbollah song which declares 'Jerusalem is ours and we are coming to it.'"
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Would-be vigilante rewarded with jail time
WRAL-TV 5 Raleigh | Submitted by: Dusik
"Wilbur Grady said [Reginald Suggs], 49, approached him Sunday and told him he was under arrest. He brandished a wooden stick and a .25-caliber semi-automatic handgun, according to police reports... 'He told me I was under arrest. I told him to get out of my yard with that crazy talk.' The two exchanged words before Suggs rushed up and cuffed Grady's hands behind his back. Suggs then forced Grady, 68, into Suggs' car and drove him to the county jail. He told a magistrate that he had brought in a prisoner for possession of stolen property, selling illegal lottery tickets and selling alcohol without a permit. The magistrate, a 12-year veteran in the Lenoir County Magistrate's office, quickly realized Suggs did not have the authority to make arrests." [Bullshit. All citizens have the authority to make arrests.]
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Former Scotland Yard cop urges drug legalization
Stuff NZ | Submitted by: Kiwiboy
"A visiting former Scotland Yard drugs boss is calling for all drugs, from marijuana and methamphetamines to cocaine and opiates, to be legalised. And the retired detective chief superintendent is going further, calling for state-sponsored hard drugs for addicts. Eddie Ellison said he believes prohibition on drugs is costing a fortune and helping no one but criminals involved with drug dealing. [Hear! Hear!] ... Heroin and other hard-drug users could be given subsidised drug doses, which would stop forcing them to commit crimes to finance their habits. Once the users had a guaranteed low-cost supply of the drug, they could get on with their lives, he said. Mr Ellison said a British heroin addict must steal about $5000 worth of goods a day to finance a $500-a-day habit - a habit the Government could supplement for about $1.25."
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Pediatrician recommends marijuana for teenage ADD
Fox News | Submitted by: The Kung Fu Magician
"As a California pediatrician and 49-year-old mother of two teenage daughters, Claudia Jensen says pot might prove to be the preferred medical treatment for attention deficit disorder - even in adolescents. 'Why would anyone want to give their child an expensive pill … with unacceptable side effects, when he or she could just go into the backyard, pick a few leaves off a plant and make tea for him or her instead?' Jensen asked the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the House Government Reform Committee earlier this month. While some wonder whether Jensen was smoking some wacky weed herself, the clinician for low-income patients and professor to first-year medical students at the University of Southern California said her beliefs are very grounded."
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Supreme Court ponders Guantanamo legal status
Wire Services | Submitted by: optional
"The government can't throw out prisoners' constitutional rights to make their case in court just because the country faces new threats in the war on terrorism, a lawyer for foreign-born detainees argued Tuesday in the Supreme Court's first case arising from the Sept. 11 attacks... Foreigners held at the Navy's prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, want the Supreme Court to give them a legal right 'that is not authorized by Congress, does not arise from the Constitution, has never been exercised by this court,' said [Theodore Olson]... Olson's wife, Barbara, was killed aboard the jet that slammed into the Pentagon in September 2001. She called him on her cell phone minutes before the crash, and reported the plane had been hijacked... Two and a half years after Sept. 11, the high court is starting small, with a simple question about whether federal judges can even hear the complaints of the Guantanamo prisoners."
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Scary TCP/IP vulnerability
Wire Services | Submitted by: optional
"The British government announced the vulnerability in core Internet technology on Tuesday. Left unaddressed, experts said, it could allow hackers to knock computers offline and broadly disrupt vital traffic-directing devices, called routers, that coordinate the flow of data among distant groups of computers... Paul Watson said he identified a method to reliably trick personal computers and routers into shutting down electronic conversations by resetting the machines remotely. Routers continually exchange important updates about the most efficient traffic routes between large networks. Continued successful attacks against routers can cause them to go into a standby mode, known as 'dampening,' that can persist for hours. Experts previously said such attacks could take between four years and 142 years to succeed because they require guessing a rotating number from roughly 4 billion possible combinations. Watson said he can guess the proper number with as few as four attempts, which can be accomplished within seconds."
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Bluetooth enabling anonyfucks
CNN | Submitted by: Arachnyd
"British commuters take note - the respectable person sitting next to you on the train fumbling with their cell phone might be a 'toother' looking for sex with a stranger. 'Toothing' is a new craze where strangers on trains, buses, in bars and even supermarkets hook up for illicit meetings using messages sent via the latest in phone technology. 'Toothing is a form of anonymous sex with strangers - usually on some form of transport or enclosed area such as a conference or training seminar,' says the 'Beginner's Guide To Toothing' on a Web site dedicated to the pursuit. It is made possible by Bluetooth technology which allows users to send phone contacts, pictures and messages to other Bluetooth-enabled equipment over a range of about 10 meters (yards)... 'messages are exchanged until a suitable location is agreed - usually a public toilet, although there are tales of more adventurous spots such as deserted carriages or staff areas,' his guide adds."
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Norwegian girls really know how to go wild
Nettavisen | Submitted by: sinistre
"26 seniors from two high schools in Oslo are going to participate in a porn film staring Norwegian porn actor Rocco in order to finance their end of the year parties... The girls have signed a contract with 21-year-old porn star Thomas Rocco Hansen to tape a scene for a porn film in their own bus as they lack other types of sponsorships to finance their party costs. They are also going to be interviewed regarding their sexual habits and sex fantasies. The girls will be paid about $2,900."
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Pet food pile spontaneously ignites
Asheboro Courier-Tribune | Submitted by: Tank's Grrl
"Randolph County fire officials say that a fire which destroyed the office at the Happy Hills Animal Foundation Sunday was an accident, caused by spontaneous combustion in about 2,000 pounds of dry dog food... 'They had about a ton of dog food in one of the rooms,' said [fire inspector Wendell Whatley]. 'A lot of the stuff is donated - bags are ripped and taped back. If it ever gets wet at all - it's the same as a hay fire in a barn - it starts heating up as it decomposes.' Eventually there was enough heat in the office at Happy Hills to start a fire, which quickly spread to combustible material in the room where the bags of dog food were stored... The clincher, Whatley said, was finding bags of dog food burned on the inside, but not the outside."
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Chinese babies killed by fake milk
BBC | Submitted by: sTabby
"Dozens of Chinese babies are said to have died from malnutrition in the past year after being fed fake or inferior-quality baby milk powders. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said makers of the products would be severely punished, the China Daily paper said... Local media said some of the babies developed what doctors called 'big head disease,' where infants' heads appear abnormally large in comparison to their bodies. It was not clear of the counterfeit powder included any toxic ingredients, but some children were reported to have died within three days of being fed the fake milk."
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Bush names secrecy freak to head National Archives
Government Computer News | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"After almost nine years as archivist of the United States, John Carlin will step down as soon as the Senate confirms Allen Weinstein, President Bush's choice to become the ninth archivist... The Society of American Archivists has expressed concern about Weinstein's nomination. 'Prior to the announcement, there was no consultation with professional organizations of archivists or historians,' the Chicago association noted in a statement this month. 'This is the first time since the National Archives and Records Administration was established as an independent agency that the process of nominating an archivist of the United States has not been open for public discussion and input.'"
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Monday April 19, 2004
Feds withheld Oklahoma City bombing video
Guardian UK | Submitted by: Doich
"A Secret Service document written shortly after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing described security video footage of the attack and witness testimony that suggested Timothy McVeigh may have had accomplices at the scene. 'Security video tapes from the area show the truck detonation 3 minutes and 6 seconds after the suspects exited the truck,' the Secret Service reported six days after the attack on a log of agents' activities and evidence in the Oklahoma investigation. The government has insisted McVeigh drove the truck himself and that it never had any video of the bombing or the scene of the Alfred P. Murrah building in the minutes before the April 19, 1995, explosion. Several investigators and prosecutors who worked the case told The Associated Press they had never seen video footage like that described in the Secret Service log."
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Competitive drunk self-immolates
Newsday | Submitted by: whatever
"An intoxicated Davis Park man died after he lit a rug on fire and challenged his roommate to see who could stay in the house on Fire Island longer Saturday night, Suffolk County police said. Police said Thomas Woods, 59, ignited the rug in his house at 9 Driftwood Walk sometime before 8 p.m. As the fire spread, Woods fired one or two rounds from a pre-World War I Mauser pistol, said Det. Sgt. Ed Fandrey of the Suffolk County homicide squad. Police do not know why he fired the gun. When the fire began spreading dangerously, Woods' roommate, Rod Bennett, ran to a neighbor's house to call 911 a few minutes after 8 p.m. Volunteers from the Davis Park Fire Department responded, along with neighbors who tried to extinguish the blaze with garden hoses and anything else they could find. But it was too late."
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