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FGDean@aol.com wrote Sun 21 Oct 2007 @08:46:23 PDT:

Who the bloody Hell is Madeleine McCann?    (I guess
I've gotta get out more.)

Madeleine McCann is the 21st century's JonBenet Ramsey  –  a
4-year-old English girl lost in Portugal.  After a 5-month "Maddy
watch,"  suspicion has focused on her parents.  You gotta get out
more. – Ed.

P.S.   Are you aware that JonBenet Ramsey's father and Natalee
Holloway's mother are now linked romantically?

The Dalai Lama, in an address at Purdue University, said he did not know how to
bring peace to Iraq.
                                                                               [courtesy Associated Press]

The name of a star running back for the Ballard High School football team in Lou-
isville is  Sir Weakley  (don't ask).  For more dumb high school sports news from
Louisville, here's a photo below of Sacred Heart Academy's state champion girls
field hockey team.



                                                                [courtesy Louisville Courier-Journal]

Archery is now prohibited at Archery Park in Eau Claire,Wisconsin, where
it had been allowed for decades, and where the city had developed earthen
berms and a practice tower for deer hunters.

The converse is the Highway 70 Sports Complex in Brownsville, Kentucky,
one of only two places in town where skateboarding is allowed -- but a sign
at the entrance prohibits skateboarding on the tennis courts.  (Not to worry -
there are no tennis courts.)
                                                      [courtesy AP, Tabloid Headlines staff]

"People who have to deal with black employees find this is not true."

                                 -- James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA, on the
                                     notion that blacks are as intelligent as whites

An 8-year-old boy riding with his mother in Vancouver, Wash-
inton,  called 911 to report her erratic driving,  and she was ar-
rested for DUI. . . . Arkansas's legislature retained a rule allow-
ing  chewing  tobacco  and dipping snuff  in its chambers.  .  .  .
Lynn Cheney admitted that her  husband  and  Barack  Obama
are eighth cousins,  and  Obama  responded,   "Everyone has a
black sheep in the family."  .  .  .  A  poll  concluded that 49 per
cent of New Jersey's adult population would prefer to live else-
where, and a second poll concluded that 79 per cent planned to
leave the state eventually. .  .  . A 2004 Lexus and a 2004 Mer-
cury Marquis got stuck in  freshly  poured  concrete  when they
drove around a barrier during rush hour in  Mequon, Wisconsin
(eight other cars followed them but managed to back out). .  .  .
A jury in Naples,  Florida,  found  a mother not guilty of child a-
buse for having her 13-year-old daughter's  genitalia  pierced  to
make sex uncomfortable  (the girl's experience included sex with
the mother's boy friend, for whom an arrest warant was issued).

                                              [courtesy Harper's Weekly, AP]

FGDean@aol.com wrote Mon 15 Oct 2007 @10:13:04 PDT:

And were charges filed against the teacher's aide who stapled
the post-it to the little girl's head in Plymouth, Indiana?

Ed.:  Not that we know of.  The teacher's aide did resign.  Here's a
blog posting on the incident that reflects your view:

I wonder if anyone in Indiana has heard of assault?????

A guy goes into a bathroom in Minnesota and makes some
lewd gestures and gets prosecuted.

A 9-year-old kid gets a piece of paper stapled to his [actually,
her] head in Indiana and no charges are filed????

A Pepsi-Cola deliveryman punched a Coca-Cola deliveryman in the
face at a Wal-Mart.
                                                           [courtesy Associated Press]

A drive-by shooter fired into the window of a grade school cafeteria.

                                                                                 [courtesy AP]

More than two dozen catalytic converters were stolen from cars park-
ed at a hospital in Pike County. Such theft requires only a few minutes
with a power saw under a vehicle.  The devices contain small amounts
of valuable platinum, palladium and rhodium.
                                                                                   [courtesy AP]

Kim Ledford returned to her home in Decatur after a long absence to
find a strange man in her bed and a woman wearing her clothes. Then
another man walked up and asked what she was doing in his house....

Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon returned to their home  in Montgomery
after a week away to find that thieves had emptied  almost  everything
they owned onto the floor.   Tiffany went to her sister's for safety while
Adrian inspected the mess,  and a man walked in wearing Adrian's hat.
The  McKinnons  forced the man,  at  gunpoint,  to put things back the
way he had found them -- and the man complained to the police about
being forced to clean up the McKinnons' home.
                                                                                    [courtesy AP]

"You can't prosecute somebody for swearing at a cop or a toilet."

                    -- Mary Catherine Roper, a Philadelphia lawyer
                        hired by the ACLU to represent Dawn Herb

Sheriff's deputies stopped a man walking by the courthouse in
Tulsa,  Oklahoma,  with  a  set of handcuffs dangling from one
wrist  – but he was just making a Goth fashion statement.  . . .
Ramzi  Yousef,  the 1993 World Trade Center bomber doing
time in SuperMax, said he had become a Christian. . . . Two-
thirds of American CEO's think American CEO's are overpaid
according to a poll. . . . Mexican police found a woman's torso
in her lover's closet, one of her legs in his refrigerator, bones in
a cereal box, chunks of unidentified fried meat in a skillet,  and
his draft of a novel titled  "Cannibalistic Instincts.". . . A motor-
ist  "texting"  on  his cell phone  ran into a moving freight train in
Eugene, Oregon. . . . Rescuers used a wrecker to pull a 1,200-
pound  horse  from a swimming pool  in  Knoxville,  Tennessee.
.  .  .   A woman in Brooklyn found a 7-foot python in her toilet.
.  .  .  Britney Spears ran over a TMZ.com photographer's foot.
.  .  . Dawn Herb, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was charged with
disorderly  conduct  for cussing out her overflowing toilet within
the hearing of a neighbor. . . . Jenna Bush wrote a book.

                 [courtesy Harper's Weekly, AP, the New Yorker]

A fourth-grader in Plymouth picked up a  post-it  from the floor
and  stuck it on her forehead,  and a teacher's aide stapled  it to
the girl's forehead when she refused to remove it. . . .

A Fort Wayne strip dancer was ruled eligible for double workers
compensation for a herniated disk suffered performing on a pole.

                                                     [courtesy Associated Press]

Two liquor stores and three grocery stores sued to set aside an e-
lection in which four Louisville precincts voted to go dry.   Irregu-
larities cited in the suits included allowing sales of alocholic bever-
ages on election day.
                                       [courtesy Louisville Courier-Journal]

Governor Ernie, a Baptist preacher running for re-election, and his
opponent, the son and grandson of Baptist preachers,  were mud-
slinging each other over "family values" in ads on Christian radio.

                                                                              [courtesy AP]

"Saddam Hussein clearly had had WMD. . . . Can I have
 a round of applause?"
                                       – Fred Thompson, on the stump in Iowa

"It was a sobering experience."
                                                    – Lindsey Lohan, just out of rehab

A 10-year-old boy stole a school bus in Dumas, Arkansas, and
led police on a chase through three counties. .  .  . A 6-year-old
boy  put his booster seat behind the steering wheel of his grand-
mother's car and took off for Applebee's  in Broomfield,  Colo-
rado (but drove only 75 feet before crashing). . . .An 8th-grader
in Nepal who felt sorry for policemen  invented a crowd-control
robot that can charge a mob with a baton, use water canon,  lob
tear gas,  and shoot.  .  .  .  The mother of a bullied schoolboy in
Jacksonville, Florida, brandished a gun at his bus stop and asked
his companions,  "Does anyone have something to say?" .  .  .  A
woman was jailed for two months in Tampa, Florida, for posses-
sion of methamphetamine until tests showed  that  the  vial  in  her
purse contained dehydrated cat urine (as she had said -- she said
she had bought it from a veterinary  for her son's science project).
. . . Senator Larry Craig was selected for the Idaho Hall of Fame.
.  .  .  An Australian hospital that had run out of medicinal alcohol
drip-fed vodka to a patient.  . . . The libertarian Middlebury Insti-
tute,  of  New  England,  which opposes the war in Iraq,  and  the
League  of the South,  which has the Confederate battle flag on its
banner, met in Tennessee to discuss their shared goal of secession
from the union.  .  .  . A dog in Greenville,  Maine,  rescued a man
from a fire started by a cat.
                                                  [courtesy Harper's Weekly, AP]

Protesters in Uniontown, Jackson County, were photographing por-
nography shop customers and posting their photos on the internet.

                                                           [courtesy Associated Press]

A barber in Clarksville, Tennessee, who served soldiers at Fort Camp-
bell, Kentucky (and had been commended by General Petraeus),  shot
himself in the head and died at a city council meeting when  his  request
to rezone his home for a bigger shop was denied.  
                                                                                     [courtesy AP]

"Y'all  have  put  me under – I'm out of here."
                                                                        – Clarkesville (Tenn.) barber Ronald
                                                                           "Bo" Ward, as he pulled the trigger

A surrogate mother in Brazil gave birth to her own grandchil-
dren. .  .  .  Russell "Rock Bottom" Byars skipped a stone 51
times  at the mouth of French Creek  into the Allegheny River
in Pennsylvania. . . .  Cincinnati tentatively approved the Ben-
gals' request to shoot  pooping  pigeons  in their football stadi-
um.  .  .  .  A fund-raiser for Rudolph Giuliani was held in Palo
Alto, California, with an admission charge of $9.11 .  .  . Brit-
ney Spears lost custody of her children. . . .  Paris Hilton plan-
ned a good will mission to Rwanda. . . . The High Court of In-
dia ordered a judge back to law school.  .  .  . U.S. marshals
refused to let a woman enter a federal courthouse in Coeur D'-
Alene, Idaho, until she removed a bra that had triggered a met-
al detector. . . .  A negligent homicide charge was dismissed a-
gainst a woman in Lake Jackson,  Texas,  who  had  given  her
husband a sherry enema that led to alcohol poisoning. . . . O. J.
Simpson's Rolex,  seized by attorneys for Fred Goldman,  was
ordered returned after it was found to be a knockoff   made  in
China.
                      [courtesy Harper's Weekly, Daily Snopes, AP]