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An  "abortion reversal"  bill was taken back by a committee
in the state House of Representatives (it's too stupid to sum-
marize; you'll have to click the link). . . .

Attorneys for a Jeffersonville man accused of  killing  and
eating his girl friend asked a court to find him incompetent
to stand trial.
                                              [courtesy Columbus Republic]

Unseasonably warm weather closed the Paoli Peaks ski re-
sort in Southern Indiana.
                                                [Louisville Courier-Journal]



                           

rockbianc.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Rocky Simbeck, 5'10", 155 lbs, domestic battery; Bianca Spears, 5'6", 155 lbs, theft, FTA; eromont.jpg Wanted in Berrien County, Michigan Jerome Jermiah [sic] Winbush, absconding parole, tampeering with electronic monitor; Amanda Lynn Trulove, unlawful driving away; Anthony Lamont Brothers Jr., Home invasion x4, armed robbery x3, assault on a police officer x2, weapons felony firearms x3, larceny from a person (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

A high temperature  of  85°  Friday  broke a record that had
stood for 142 years  in Edmonson County  (74° on  Feb. 24,
1875) and broke also the records for the day before (79° on
Feb. 23, 1982)  and after (79° on February 26, 1930)  – in a
state whose governor is a climate change denier. . . .

Firefighters, heavy equipment operators  and  30  neighbors
pitched in to rescue a dog from a culvert in Bath County. . . .

A family of five barged into a Sunday service  at Faith Bap-
tist Church in Simpson County demanding "Money! Money!
Money!"  and grabbed a collection plate,  marching  up  and
down  the  aisles  (no one offered).  The family, which spoke
little English and was reported seen  at  other  churches,  left
in a van with California license plates.
                                                                    [courtesy LEX18]

heatstep.jpg Lexington's most wanted: Heather Stewart, WF, confused (and, apparently, diseased); Derrian Eldridge, BF, 23, 5'5", having trouble understanding how she wound up in jail with these dumb white women; Stephanie Ziegler, WF, 5'3", 125 lbs, who? me? (pulled kicking and screaming from the Herald-Leader)

                                              

      
A 23-year-old blonde who did cartwheels instead of "walking the
line" failed her "field sobriety test" in Albuquerque, New Mexico
(there's  video). . . .  A 26-year-old blonde aide at a nursing home
in Sandusky,  Ohio,  was arrested for doing a lap dance on a 100-
year-old male patient,  baring her butt and boobs  (there's  video).
.  .  .  An armless Chinese professor, who signs documents with a
pen held in his mouth,  was unable to obtain home loans because
he could not provide fingerprints  (and,  footprints didn't count).
. . .  School was called off in Batagai, Yakutia, Siberia, when the
temperature dropped to -53° Celsius (-63° Fahrenheit).  . . . The
Toronto Star listed  87  falsehoods  attributed to Donald Strump.
.  .  .  Vice Admiral Robert Harward was reported to have called
the post of  National  Security  Adviser  to the President  a  "shit
sandwich"  as he turned it down. . . . Geologists posited an eighth
continent called Zealandia submerged in the South Pacific Ocean
(the mountaintops are New Zealand).

                                   [courtesy Harper's, HuffPost,  LEX18, AP]

adamanue.jpg Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): Adam Rocha , HM, 27, 5'8", 250 lbs, injury to a child; Manuel Vidaurri, HM, 54, 5'10", 250 lbs, indecency with a child; Michael Girtz, WM, 52, 6'1", 245 lbs, possession of heroin with intent to deliver (Abilene Crime Stoppers)

I have been a vegetarian for 12 years.  My husband has been
one on and off for five years.  I thought our children, 7 and 3,
had never had meat; but I recently found out that my father-in-
law has been giving them chicken nuggets.

I am very upset about this.  It's been six months since I've spo-
ken  to  him,  and I no longer let my kids go over there without
my husband.  Please advise.
                                                                Furious in the South

frankali.jpg Most wanted in Tom Green County, Texas: Francisco Vazquez Zertuche, W*M, 61, 5'7", 170 lbs, murder; Kali Lauren Lord, WF, 27, 5'11", 150 lbs, forgery; Stacy Kassie Espinosa, W*F, 32, 5'5", 120 lbs, organized crime; Staci Marie Edwards, WF, 43, 5'2", 190 lbs, forgery; * no such thing as "H"ispanic designation in San Angelo; it's a racist term there (Sheriff David Jones)

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The Southern Poverty Law Center identified 26 hate groups
operating  in  Indiana,  ranking the state 13th  in  the  nation
(only 23 in Kentucky,  ranking 14th;  California ranked first
with 79) – including,  in  Indiana,  three neo-Nazi organiza-
tions,   seven  KKK  groups,  two "black separatist" groups
(the Nation of Islam  and  the  Israelite School of Universal
Practical Knowledge,  both  in  Indianapolis),  four  "racist
skinhead" organizations, seven white nationalist groups (in-
cluding two in Paoli),  an anti-Muslim group, an anti-LGBT
group and a "radical traditional Catholic" group.

                  [Indianapolis Star, Louisville Courier-Journal]

The mayor of Indianapolis,  Joe Hogsett,  said the city Vice
President Mikey just left welcomes all immigrants. . . .

A 23-year-old man jumped from a moving van on I-65 near
Frankfort and was run over and killed as he crawled across
the highway.
                                              [courtesy Columbus Republic]

A state Senate committee approved a bill to establish an elec-
tive "Bible literacy" course for high schools.

                                        [courtesy Lexington Herald-Leader]

The state House of Representatives passed a bill to require chil-
dren under the age of 13 to wear helmets while riding bicycles.

                                                                         [courtesy WLKY]

High school girls basketball players were duking it out on the
floor at games in Lexington (there's video). . . .

Two young men and three girls were arrested for robbing a piz-
za  deliverer  in  Frankfort;   the girls' plans to set him up were
saved in text messages on a cell phone,  and  one  of  the  girls
made a video recording of the murder on her cell phone. . . .

A 19-year-old man was arrested for shooting  a  BB  gun  at  a
school bus in Monticello.  Another BB gun shooter of a school
bus, in Harrodsburg, was still at large.
                                                                        [courtesy LEX18]

The best radio station in the nation,  WNKU-FM,  was sold by
Northern Kentucky University to Bible Broadcast Corp (there
is a "Listen" button at  this link  if you want to hear the format
that will soon be leaving).
                                               [discourtesy Cincinnati Enquirer]


                   

Kentucky's most wanted: Jonathan Leach-Thurman, WM, 38, 6'1", 240 lbs, featured fugitive of the week, failure to register as sex offender; Israel Cocotle, UM, 27, failure to register as person of unknown weight, height and race; Kayla Slone, WF, 25, Height, weight and crime unknown; Matthew Divelbiss, WM, 28, 5'9", 120 lbs, up to no good; Djuan Davis, BM, 33, 5'7", 185 lbs, misspelling "DeJuan" (pulled kicking and screaming from the Herald-Leader); travcris.jpg Travis Hall, WM, 18, 5'10", 300 lbs, overindulgence at the China Buffet; Cristal Flores-Sanchez, W(?)F, 23, height, weight UNKNOWN (?!), a/k/a 'Dirty Sanchez'; Mackenzie Davis, BM, 31, 5'9", 310 lbs, overindulgence at the China Buffet

"We are living in a fake news era."
                                                            – President Bashar al-Assad, denying mass executions in Syria

"I think there is significant dysfunction in the national security apparatus of the Trump
  administration."
                                     – John McCain

" . . . San Bernadino . . . ."
                                                –in a list of terrorist attacks in the United States released
                                                  by the White House press office (it's San Bernardino, Sean)
" . . . W.E.B. DeBois . . . ."
                                                        –  in a "tweet" from the U.S. Education Department
                                                            (it's W. E. B. Du Bois, folks)
"No challenge is to great."
                                                        – President Trump, as quoted by the Library of Congress
                                                           in the caption of an inaugural photo

mereleih.jpg Wanted in Wichita Falls (Texas, not Wichita, Kas.) Meredith (Wichita Falls Crime Stoppers) Meredith Shikish Lopez, 23, black hair, brown eyes, 220 lbs, 5'7", surety off bond, aggravated robbery; Leslie Leigh Williams, 44, blonde hair, blue eyes, 150 lbs, 5'9", surety off bond, assault family violence

Bryson, 65
                Randolph "Randall" Fischer, 92
                Eighie Pennington, 60
                Hughleen Riley, 89
                Thomas "Tommy" Thompson, 93
                                      
   [Louisville Courier-Journal]                                                                                                        Amaalia Samuel, 105, left her Earthly Home for her Heavenly Home Sunday, Feb. 12 . . . .

Lady Gag-a gagged all at the Grammys (the Daily Mirror dubbed her attire an "under- boob en- semble").

Naked women returned to Playboy magazine.  .  .  .  A Dominican
newspaper published a photo of Alec Baldwin identified as Don-
ald Trump. . . . Kim Jong Nam, 45,  Kim Young-'n's older brother,
was assassinated in Malaysia. . . . Rachel Wilson became the first
black bachelorette (or bachelor) in the 15 years of the TV surreali-
ty show. . . . British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, former may-
or of London,  born in New York to British parents,  renounced his
U.S. citizenship. . . . A 90-year-old Australian lungfish,  thought to
be the oldest domestic fish in the world,  was euthanized at Chica-
go's Shedd Aquarium for old age. .  .  . Fire broke out at a Chinese
factory making Samsung Galaxy Note 7  "smart phones";  110 fire-
fighters  responded. . . . Domino's launched a wedding registry for
couples to stock their wedding gift lists with pizza instead of china
or a new toaster.
                                                                    [courtesy Harper's, AP]

The United States Tennis Association apologized for an
outdated version of the German national anthem, associ-
ated with Nazis, sung before a Fed Cup match between
the United States and Germany (it contained a verse go-
ing  "Germany,  Germany . . . above all in the world"  –
and Andrea Petkovic, a German player from Bosnia, al-
most walked off the court). . . .

University of Kentucky basketball players De'Aaron Fox
and Bam Adebayo were involved in a traffic accident in
Lexington. . . .

wkugmtsu.jpg Western Kentucky University's Kyvin Goodin-Rogers (left) and Micah Jones (right) battle Middle Tennessee State University's Kyla Allison for a rebound in the WKU Lady Toppers' 82-75 win in Murphreesboro, Tennessee; Middle Tennessee's Alex Johnson (right) drives against Western Kentucky's Ima Akpan (photos by Brent Beerends, MTSU Athletics)

Don't you think it's gross to see the jungle of underarm hair
on male basketball players when  they  shoot  free  throws?
Do the TV cameras have to face them as they shoot?  Can't
they take a side view or a back view?

The white men are worse than the black men  –  especially
those two pretty white boys who play for Duke and almost
lead the Atlantic Coast Conference in free  throw  percent-
age.  I'm gagged!   I can smell them!

Don't you think the NCAA,  and  the  NBA,   and  the  high
school athletic associations,  too,  should institute a rule re-
quiring basketball players to  shave  their  armpits?   Or  at
least a dress code requiring T-shirts.

                                              Grossed Out in Grosse Pointe

andreahf.jpg Arrested in Abilene (Texas not Kansas): Andrea Castillo, HF, 38, 5'6", 130 lbs, possession of dangerous drug; Andrea Rocha, HF, 32, 5'7", 180 lbs, possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver (Abilene Crime Stoppers)

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A semitrailer hauling vegetable oil caught fire in Newton
County, backing traffic up for 10 miles on I-65.

                                    [courtesy Northwest Indiana Times]

A semitrailer crossed the center line of U.S. 231 in Owen
County, near Freedom,  and knocked a school bus off the
highway, sending 11 pupils and their driver to hospital. . . .

The state's House of Representatives  voted  to  override
Vice President Mikey's veto last year, when he was Gov-
ernor,  of a bill that would allow  college  police  depart-
ments to withhold information city police can't.

                                          [courtesy Columbus Republic]

mystesia.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Mystesia Yeager,, 5'5", 130 lbs, fraud; Brooke Rhodes, 5'3", 120 lbs, criminal recklessness, criminal mischief

What  do  you  call that annoying pinwheel that spins visibly while
you are waiting for something to "load" on your fucking computer?

The technical term seems to be "asynchronous progress indicator."
The Windows world,  it seems,  calls it a "throbber,"  or "spinning
wheel," or sometimes "spinning pinwheel" (and even the "spinning
wheel of death").

The Mac world calls it a "spinning disc,"  or (more appropriately,
we think) a "spinning wait cursor."  If it's rainbow colored it is of-
ten referred to as a "beachball."

So let us suggest "spinning wait curser" (or "spinning wait curse").

Or "Spinnin' Ginny."

        

   danorely.jpg Texoma's most wanted fugitives of the week, Wanted in Wichita Falls (Texas, not Wichita, Kansas): Daniel Samuel Walker, 39, black hair, brown eyes, 139 lbs, 6'0", surety off bond, burglary of habitation; Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): Norely Puente, HF, 27, 5' 1", 130 lbs, endangering a child; chrischa.jpg Christina Smith, 41, black hair, brown eyes, 160 lbs, 5'6", bond forf, possession of controlled substance; Charles Manning, 29, brown (red) hair, brown eyes, 150 lbs, 6'2", surety off bond, burglary of a habitation

A Cheeto shaped like Harambe, the gorilla killed at the Cincinnati zoo
last year, brought $99,900 in an auction on line. . . . Philippines Presi-
dent Rodrigo Duterte offered to accept refugees rejected by the United
States. . . . Winnipeg  Willie,  Canada's version of  Punxsatawney Phil,
died less than a week before Ground Hog Day. . . . Kellyanne Cuntway
was "counseled" for hawking Ivanka Trump's clothing line on TV,  ac-
cording to White House press secretary Sean Spicer. . . . A woman in
Merrimack, New Hampshire, punched out her boy friend, armed her-
self with a 9-mm. Glock pistol and an M4 assault rifle,  threw him out
of their apartment, locked herself in and dumped his stuff out the win-
dow after he said her spaghetti dinner was just "OK." .  .  .  More than
650 whales "beached" in New Zealand.
                                                                        [courtesy Harper's, AP]

The National Anthem was sung at the Super Fucking Bowl
by a dumb fucking hillbilly, Luke Fucking Bryan, who sang
"the perilless fight . . . "

So, which was worse?  Luke's rendition of the National An-
them, or Lady Gag-a's halftime show?  Good question. . . .

Why do they do that?    Defensive  holding  on a pass play?
Automatic first down – do they think they are not on TV? . . .

The  "INTERNET"  said football's "Super Bowl"  would  be
on  CBS-TV  (it was on Fox) – by accident we wound up on
CBS with 1 minute and a few seconds to go in the game and
suffered through 34 commercials in a row not  knowing  we
were on the wrong network  –  did CBS not know it was not
carrying  the  "Super" Fucking Bowl,  or was it just trying to
cash in?  (we still don't know who won). . . .

P.S.  Here's the real "Bowling Green Massacre":  Bowling
Green (Ohio) State University was hammered by the Uni-
verity of Memphis 77-3 in football last September 24.

dennshan.jpg Wanted in Berrien County, Michigan: Dennis Allen Phillips, WM, cold check over $500; Shanqueisha Tyanna McCauley, BF, assault with a dangerous weapon (her butt, perhaps); Kevin Lafaate Rand, BM, receiving stolen property (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

My husband's sister, "Anabel," is bitter, nasty, venal, snide
and vicious.  She can't wait two minutes  before  making  a
cruel remark.

Soon after my husband and I moved back to his home town,
he had a stroke, at age 52.  He's recovering, thankfully. The
first person I notified was Anabel. She came to the hospital
and put on a great show of support, but as soon as we were
alone she'd say charming things like, "You should rest – oh,
wait, you'd better not. I don't think I could pull your big butt
out of the chair."  After  three  days  of being belittled and a-
bused by her, I had a breakdown at the hospital.  The nurses
told Anabel to leave  and not to return unless another family
member was with her.

She has tried to undermine everything regarding my husband's
after-stroke care. She brought him a pizza while in rehab, and
I went ballistic. But here's the kicker: When my husband and I
arrived at his after-care rehab appointment,  we  saw  Anabel
coming out of the training room using a walker.  We  had no i-
dea she'd been ill.

While my husband was in therapy I talked to Anabel,  and she
confessed that she'd nearly died a year before.  When  I asked
why she hadn't told anyone, she simply shrugged. I told her she
would have been furious if I hadn't notified her of my brother's
stroke. Later she told the rest of the family I was a monster and
had stopped my husband from coming to see her.

I no longer wish to have any contact with Anabel.  My husband
is cordial to her,  and she thinks this gives her carte blanche to
keep babbling about how horrible we are.  Other than ignoring
her and the rest of this miserable breed,  can  you  think  of any
other way to deal with the situation?
                                                                        No Name, Please

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An effigy of Donald Strump was hanging from a tree in a front
yard in Fort Wayne.
                                                                   [courtesy WANE-TV]

The Indianapolis winner of a state lottery last August 17  has
yet to turn in the ticket for a $4.5 million prize, and time will
be up a week from tomorrow (Feb. 13). . . .

A 14-year-old boy in Elkhart named D'Angelo Honorable  got
mad at a teen-age girl and fired a gun into the house where the
girl lived, killing 34-year-old Teketa Hixson,  the woman who
owned the house.
                                                   [courtesy Columbus Republic]

johndeni.jpg South Bend's most wanted: John Bryner, WM, 5'7", 150 lbs, domestic battery; Denis Schwanert, WF, 5'6", 100 lbs, theft, failure to appear; Antinica Flowers, BF, 5'6", 210 lbs, forgery, violation of a court order; Robert Grenert, WM, 5' 11", 235 lbs, fraud

                           

demetriu.jpg Wanted in Berrien County, Michigan: Demetrius Kwame Date, BM: Absconding parole, tampering with an electronic monitor; Sylvia Marie-Ann McCarver, WF: Domestic violence, 3rd offense; assault w/ dangerous weapon; Kylisha Nicole Knight, BF: Uttering and publishing (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

The first county seat of Perry County,  in southwestern Indiana
across the Ohio River from Kentucky, was the unincorporated
community Troy.   Another unincorporated community,  Rome
(née Washington, and later called Franklin) became the county
seat upon settling on its present name in 1819.    In 1844 Can-
nelton became the county seat, but it relinquished the position
to Tell City  in  1994.  Cannelton (pop. 1,563 in 2010) was the
smallest incorporated city in the state until 2010, when Wood-
burn  (pop. 1,520),  in Allen County  (that's where Fort Wayne
is, in northeastern Indiana) took the title. Tell City (pop. 7,272)
is the only other incorporated city in Perry County.  Troy (pop.
385)  eventually became an incorporated "town"  (and the only
one in the county).  Rome (pop. 129) remains unincorporated.

A dozen 6th grade girls wore leggings to school in Georgetown
in protest of a dress code prohibiting leggings.

                                            [courtesy Lexington Herald-Leader]

A theology professor at Asbury University, in Wilmore, Ky.,
"tweeted" about Women in the March as "pigs wallowing in
the mud,"  called Miley Cyrus a tramp and "tweeted" to Bar-
bra Streisand, "It's a good time to get your nose fixed."  Not
everyone connected with the university was pleased.

                                                    [courtesy Asbury Collegian]

A convoy of four military vehicles paraded through Louisville
on I-65 flying a blue "Trump" flag, and no locally known mili-
tary unit claimed it – not Fort Knox, not the Kentucky Nation-
al Guard,  not the U.S. Defense Department.   Speculation  fo-
cused on private citizens using military surplus until the Naval
Special Warfare Command in  Virginia Beach, Virginia – on a
training mission at Fort Knox,   40 miles south of Louisville –
fessed up (it was being investigated for improper insignia use).

                                                       [courtesy Courier-Journal]

Louisville Congressman John Yarmuth waved a bottle of dirty
water from a family's well in eastern Kentucky on the floor of
the House of Representatives  and  challenged  his colleagues
to  drink  it  before voting on a proposal to end a rule banning
coal mine run-off.
                                                                       [courtesy LEX18]

rainijav.jpg Lexington's most wanted: Raini Williams, WF, 26, rainy day girl; Jevontae Taylor, BM, 21, 5'7", 135 lbs, bad boy; Ronnyeia Lindsey, BF, 19, 5'6", 145 lbs, thinks her folks can spell given names as bad as the boys' folks can; Quandarious Taylor, BM, 18, 5'10", 210 lbs, no kin to Jevontae? Do not believe it; Jessica Parker, WF, 35, 5'4", 150 lbs, no kin to Sarah Jessica Parker or to Raini Williams (pulled kicking and screaming from the Herald-Leader)

"I'm dating a girl with no self-esteem – which is good because if she had any, she'd
 leave me."
                               – Devin Dugan

"Five years ago she began driving a school bus route of which took her past
  the crash site."
                              – Rob Earnshaw, in the Northwest Indiana Times

"Michael Grout, a former student, said that when he saw the posts he was disgusting
 and disappointed."
                                     – LEX18


"Well, so, . . . .  So, . . . .  Well, . . . .  So, . . . .  Uh, so, . . . ."

                                – Steve Walsh, KPBS radio, San Diego, in a 3-minute report on NPR
"So, . . . ."
                      – National Public Radio's Quil Lawrence, concluding the report

runhilde Pomsel, 106
                Antonin Scalia, 79
                Crystal Dick, 69
                Doris Lee Leep Leep, 91
                Theauthor "Ted" Roberts, 73
                                                                 [Louisville Courier-Journal]

                                               

White House aide Kellyanne Conway, in an MSNBC interview, spoke
of a 2011 "Bowling Green massacre" in Kentucky that did not happen.
. . . The  judiciary  was unlisted as one of the branches of government
on the White House web site from Inauguration Day until last Monday.
.  .  .  Targets  of  the President's proposed voter fraud investigation in-
clude persons registered to vote in more than one state  –  a group that
includes several members of his Cabinet,  his son-in-law,  and at least
one of his children.  .  .  .  The President grabbed British Prime Minis-
ter Theresa May's hand (not her crotch) as they descended steps at the
White House because,  it was said,  of his bathmophobia (a fear of fal-
ling on steps and slopes). .  .  .  $20 million in cash was found under a
money-laundering suspect's mattress in Boston, Massachusetts. . . .  A
substitute choir teacher exposed herself to junior high school students
in  Pawhuska,  Oklahoma,  by doing cartwheels in a long dress but no
underwear.  . . . The Hawaii legislature was considering a bill to lega-
lize prostitution.
                                           [courtesy Harper's, the Smoking Gun, AP]

The National Collegiate Athletic Association  and 11 colle-
giate athletic conferences agreed to pay $208 million to set-
tle a federal court class action lawsuit filed by  former  ath-
letes complaining that the value of  their  scholarships  was
illegally capped. . . .

Chimpanzees in Jessamine County, Kentucky, picked the At-
lanta Falcons to win the Super Bowl. . . .

Two Sudanese basketball players for the University of Lou-
isville, both citizens of Australia,  seemed not concerned a-
bout the new immigration ban.

One of my girl friends is dating my ex boy friend.  They just
had a kid,  and he started flirting with me.   I'm not in a rela-
tionship;  so I flirted back.  Now I'm getting bullied nonstop
because people say I'm gonna break them up.  But shouldn't
they be mad at him more than me?

Why is everyone jumping down my throat?   I didn't do any-
thing with him.  It was just words.  Either way,  he's the one
in  the  relationship!  He shouldn't have done it  in  the  first
place;  and,  yes,  I admit it was wrong on my part, too.  But
not as wrong, right?

I need help because I go to a small school and everyone here
wants to jump me now. It's hard to concentrate on work with
mean comments getting shouted out at me. I've said my "sor-
ry's" to everyone.  Even though it's none of their business.

                                                                HE'S WRONG, RIGHT?

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