celeb doctors

Hey, if you go to a celeb doctor I would seriously worry about the quality of care provided by this physician. Just read the fuckin' article, ok jacknut? Thanks.

http://www.nypress.com/18/39/pagetwo/conterfeit3.cfm

Theft amazes me!

Sometimes even I am astonished by the level of fraud some people aspire towards. $400K stolen from public funds! How much of this graft goes on that is never found out and remains unaccounted for? The total would no doubt be shocking. How many family fortunes were started by a distant relation pulling this type of theft and getting away with it? "Aye, we remember fondly aged Horace Greabner, your distant cousin may he rest in peace, his embezzlement from the railroad in 1885 enabled your great, great....." you get the picture.

September 27, 2005
Lansing State Journal

By Kelly Hassett
Lansing State Journal

A Lansing woman embezzled more than $400,000 from a state office that helps ready troops for deployment so she could buy bowling and exercise equipment, police and state officials said Monday. Sandra Wentworth, 47, is due back in court next week on charges she abused her position as a Department of Military and Veterans Affairs purchasing manager to buy equipment for her family-owned bowling alley, a plasma television, furniture and other items with a department credit card, Maj. Dawn Dancer said.

The 18-year department veteran resigned last year, two days after an internal investigation revealed the discrepancies and she was suspended, Dancer said. "She was a trusted and well-liked employee," Dancer said of Wentworth, whose duties included buying equipment or providing shelter for National Guard troops on state missions. "When this was discovered, her co-workers were shocked and truly devastated."

Wentworth, along with her husband, Wayne Wentworth, 56, and son Eric Krauss, 24, was charged Friday with three counts of tax fraud and filing false returns, said state Attorney General spokeswoman Allison Pierce. Embezzlement is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Wentworth was released after paying 10 percent of a $20,000 bond, and her husband and son were released on personal recognizance bonds.

A woman who answered the door of the family's Lansing home Monday said none of them were home and declined comment. Sandra Wentworth's attorney did not return a phone call Monday. Lansing attorney Vincent Green is representing Krauss. "I really do believe this young man is not guilty of the charges," he said, adding that he felt the charges were a way for authorities to get to Wentworth.

State police investigated after military officials thought some of Wentworth's purchases were suspicious. "One of the larger expenses was over $100,000 in bowling equipment and supplies for the bowling alley they own in Fowler," state police spokeswoman Shanon Akans said. All three are scheduled for preliminary hearings - at which a judge determines if there's enough evidence for trial - on Oct. 6 and Oct. 7.

Dancer said the department was not insured for losses such as this and is not sure how or if it will recoup the money. But her office has worked in the past year to tighten its bookkeeping procedures, and Dancer has seen an increase in requests for internal audits in other departments - simply as a precaution.

"Part of the reason this happened is that we weren't following our own internal practices," she said. "Some of that comes from doing more with less. But she was a trusted and valued employee."

Contact Kelly Hassett at 267-1301 or khassett@lsj.com.

Grandma got run over!

OMG It's just like in that song.

Reindeer Injures Old Couple in Finland

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - A reindeer injured an elderly couple in the wilds of Finnish Lapland, in a rare attack that caused injuries needing hospital treatment, officials said Monday. A male reindeer suddenly appeared from a forest and attacked a man who was hiking Sunday with his partner near Kittila, about 620 miles north of Helsinki.

The buck butted the man to the ground and kicked him before turning on the woman who was talking to her son on a mobile phone, Kittila fire chief Jorma Ojala said. The son alerted rescue workers who arrived in helicopters and flew the couple to hospital. The man and woman were not named, and officials declined to give further details.

A researcher at the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute said the attack came during the peak rutting season when up to 30 female reindeer may be on heat in the territory of one buck. ``Every year in the rutting season, buck reindeer are very possessive about their harems,'' said Mauri Nieminen, a reindeer expert at the institute. ``If a person goes into an area between the reindeer and his females, the buck can easily turn on him or her.''

``Normally, reindeer pose no danger at all,'' Nieminen added. In Finland, unlike in neighboring Sweden and Norway, there are no wild reindeer. They are domesticated, but are allowed to roam the wilds of Lapland where herders seasonally track them down for branding and slaughter.

09/26/05 09:36

© Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press

good reading..

Awsome! Raunchy girls pushing the limits, what a great article. Just the thought has gotten me worked up a little, heh. Drunk girls will do anything for attention, and this I am all in favor of.

Girls gone raunch

Increasingly, young women are treating themselves and each other like pieces of meat. Why?

JUDITH TIMSON
She and her friends talk about it constantly. How to go out and have a great time. How to make their way through a sexual landscape that somehow has upped the ante in racy behaviour. The challenge, says Shauna (not her real name), a 20-year-old third-year psychology major at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., is how not to feel like a misfit just because she thinks that the sexual titillation factor has gone too far. "One thing I have noticed more and more," she says of the student scene, "is that girls spend as much time, if not more, dancing provocatively with each other as they do with men. Many girls have made out with each other in front of a group of boys, or for their benefit after having been dared, or even without provocation. I was recently at a bar with a group of friends from high school," she continues, "and a group of girls came wearing short skirts and low-cut tops -- they had each written words on their breasts or upper thighs and were willingly showing this to the guys when asked.

continue reading..

Katrina survivor beat up at school

This is awful, first his family is forced from their homes by hurricane katrina, and now this. When will it end?

Local Katrina Evacuee Attacked At New School
School Officials Say Incident Was Case Of Mistaken Identity

POSTED: 5:49 pm EDT September 23, 2005

DETROIT -- A Louisiana teen displaced by Hurricane Katrina was attacked by some students at his new school in Detroit, Local 4 reported.

A few students from Edwin Denby High School jumped the teen last week, punching him in the face at least once, the station reported.

Raynesha Walker, an 11th-grader at the school, said she was appalled by the incident.

"I think it was wrong for them students to do what they did to him because he's coming to a new place to start over," said Walker.

Detroit Public School officials said it was a case of mistaken identity and the student was not the intended target of the attack.

"This incident, though unfortunate, is not at all something that's representative about the spirit of community, hospitality that exists at Denby High School," said Detroit Public Schools spokesman Lekan Oguntoyinbo.

Before the attack occurred, students at Denby had been collecting supplies for hurricane victims, and many of them are now pitching in to help the Louisiana teen, the station reported.

"The principal, the teachers, the staff and the students, particularly the student leaders, have just been wonderful about embracing the student," Oguntoyinbo said. "They have taken him out, bought him clothes, they've tried to introduce him to the school, to the neighborhood."

The students accused in the attack have been suspended while officials continue to investigate the incident.

Copyright 2005 by ClickOnDetroit.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

this is just sooo sad.

This story made me cry.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common.....

ewwww, coach is a perv!

What logical sane explanation could possibly explain this? Cross training? I can't imagine why the students went along with this.

Baseball club manager accused of making students go on nude runs

Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 07:46 JST
OKAYAMA — A former manager of Okayama Sanyo High School's baseball club has been accused by club members and their parents of forcing a number of students to strip naked and go running in the school's ballpark in June and last summer, the school head said Wednesday.

Principal Miyoji Harada told reporters that the school is now investigating whether the allegations against the 35-year-old man, who was sacked as club manager last June, are true. Harada said the private school in Kamogata, Okayama Prefecture, conducted a survey of the 45 club members, their parents and guardians after reports of the incidents surfaced, and several acknowledged they had taken place.

The manager has admitted to being in the ballpark when the incidents are alleged to have occurred, and has apologized, Harada said. But the school head stopped short of saying exactly what the manager had apologized for. The principal added that he learned that some members of the school's baseball club had gone on a nude fun run in the ballpark back in 2002.

Harada admitted that he had failed to deal properly with the allegations, saying the school should have investigated them earlier. The manager was relieved of his position in June after failing to report club members to the prefectural branch of the Japan High School Baseball Federation for smoking and other rule infringements.

He was also accused of beating several club members in mid-August, claiming they had lied to him when they said they had cleaned their dormitory. He quit the school Sept 1, Harada said.

© 2005 Kyodo News. All rights reserved. No reproduction or republication without written permission.

Mexican priest takes 'dirty' money.

Exactly how does one go about purifying drug money? Is all the evil simply shamed out of these pesos? Hasn’t the church always been in bed with criminals; remember that Friar Tuck? Him and Robin Hood were awfully chummy.

Church in row over "purified" drug money
Sep 22, 11:50 AM (ET)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican bishop sparked a row with the government on Tuesday after he admitted the Catholic Church accepted alms from drug traffickers and that they were "purified" when they reached its coffers.

Ramon Godinez, the bishop of Aguascalientes in central Mexico, said donations from drug gangs occurred "everywhere" in the country, adding that it was "not up to us to investigate where the money comes from," daily Reforma newspaper reported.

"You don't have to burn the money just because it's bad. It's better to transform it ... I've known of cases (where) it's been purified," he added.

The remarks caused controversy in Mexico, where more than 1,000 people have been gunned down this year in a spiraling war between rival drug gangs, many in cities along the U.S. border.

Government spokesman Ruben Aguilar slammed Godinez's remarks at a news conference on Tuesday, telling reporters that "no one can allow organized crime to act with impunity."

"Nobody can be allowed to receive illegal funds under any circumstances (and) no one can promote money laundering in this way," he added.

In a bid to crack down on drug gangs, President Vicente Fox has sent hundreds of troops and federal police to frontier states this year.

Godinez's remarks may have been out of step with the Catholic Church. Bishops in northern Mexico said earlier this year that the multibillion-dollar cross-border trade in cocaine, marijuana and amphetamines went against church teaching.

trippy sky shit phases locals

thank god it's not the space shuttle again!

Mysterious 'Ball Of Fire' Seen In Fla. Skies

POSTED: 7:23 am EDT September 21, 2005
UPDATED: 1:26 pm EDT September 21, 2005

Dozens of people from Jacksonville to Ft. Pierce flooded the U.S. Coast Guard late Tuesday with calls about a mysterious ball of fire seen flying in the sky, according to a Local 6 News report. Callers flooded the newsroom of Local 6 News partner Florida Today after they saw the object over the Space Coast Tuesday night.

"Starting at about 7:30 last night, we started receiving calls here in the newsroom," Florida Today online news editor Dave Larimer said. "In fact, the Coast Guard station in Port Canaveral got more than two dozen reports of people seeing a bright light in the sky over the ocean." From Fort Pierce to about five miles south of Jacksonville, reports came in to Coast Guard offices starting about 7:30 p.m., said Dan Yates, a Coast Guard petty officer in Port Canaveral.

Yates said one caller who was walking his dog near the Sebastian Inlet described the object as "huge, like a giant fireball." Yates said callers to the Coast Guard station thought a boater might have been in trouble. "A lot of people thought it might have been a flare that might have gone up," Yates said of other callers.

"One person thought this fire ball went into the ocean," Larimer said. "The Coast Guard said it probably didn't and it was just his perspective. We know it was not a rocket launch and we know the Air Force was not doing anything." Experts said it could be a piece of space junk or a large meteor burning up in the atmosphere.

The Coast Guard base near Jacksonville also received calls. Babs Angel, a public affairs spokeswoman for Patrick Air Force Base, said no local military activity was taking place Tuesday night.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

Copyright 2005 by Internet Broadcasting Systems and Local6.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

the redskins suck, my bike is gone

they suck. I'm heartbroken, the same day my bike gets stolen, my team losses to the cowboys. Potentialy one of the only games I'll truly care about this season. Oh, and my bike, totally jacked from the Columbia Heights metro station while I was at work today. It was a sky blue ten speed Nishiki Century with black handlebar tape and white brake lines, I loved that bike and now I have to go buy another one. It was kind of rare, Nishiki isn't making bikes anymore and they were only imported for a short time during the mid 90's. I am very upset about this.

ARRRRRRGGGGH!!!!!!11

Edit: ok, the redskins won, im elated, bike whereabouts remain unknown. I went to bed and missed the skins victory, I turned in the towel as i was pretty sure the game was rapped up. I hope this lights a fire under gibb's ass, I'd like to go to the superbowl damnn't!! If you see any cowboy's fans, (look for mullets) be sure and remind them that the braves are back on the warpath.

what's up w/ this picture

Yo, what is going on in this pic?? And don't tell me that it's merely a depiction of fellatio, there has to be a deeper meaning. Ya dig? View it, you hear.

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/9245/lanyka5qf.jpg

woman steals police car

LOLZ!! the cop says, "no I wont give you a ride why don't you take a cab" So in response she steals his squad car! That's awesome. There's something fishy about the cops account of events here. The cop claims that he shot at the car because she was trying to run him over, yet the car is described as fleeing the scene, i.e.... driving away from the officers. Even money says the cop shot at the car from behind and the woman never tried to run him over, he was likely enraged after this broad stole his cruiser!

Thursday, September 15, 2005
Local Digest
Woman charged in theft of police car

Prosecutors have filed charges against a woman they say stole a police car parked in front of Harborview Medical Center, prompting an officer to shoot out the windshield of the fleeing vehicle.

No one was injured in the Sept. 10 shooting, and the officer who fired the shots has been put on paid administration leave while the incident is investigated. According to court documents, police said the woman, Leslie Christine Morfin, 43, appeared to be trying to run them down.

Morfin told police she'd stolen the car after the officers, who had been called to the hospital to investigate a domestic disturbance, refused to give her a ride to West Seattle and suggested she take a cab instead.

Morfin, who has been charged with theft of a motor vehicle, is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.

smash n' grab

This is a pretty neat story. I like how they say 'tackle', do they really mean the driver was actually tackled? Or is this a play on words since the person involved is a former football player? I think it's a bad pun myself, reading the story it's apparent that the drunk driver was probably dragged through the window by the former CFL player who punched his way through the glass to stop the vehicle from leaving the scene of the accident. Had someone struck my wife and kids in a crosswalk while drunk driving, hell I'd do a lot worse to them

Former CFL player tackels suspected drunk driver

Thursday, September 15, 2005 Page S5

EDMONTON -- A former Canadian Football League player caught and tackled a suspected drunk driver after his wife and son were struck in a crosswalk near Disneyland in California.

Michael Hildebrand's wife, Christine, was in intensive care in a Los Angeles-area hospital yesterday. She was expected to return to Edmonton by private aircraft today. The couple's seven-year-old son, Nolan, and a 10-year-old-friend whose family was travelling with the Hildebrands, both escaped serious injury.

Christine's younger sister, Heather Halpern, said had it not been for Hildebrand's actions, the driver of the car would have got away. "He's kind of like the hero," Halpern said. "I don't know how he did it." The two families had left Disneyland and were on their way back to their hotel on the first day of their vacation Monday when the crash happened around 8:30 p.m.

Christine and the two boys were crossing with the green light at a marked crosswalk when they were struck. Halpern said her brother-in-law saw the car, a Toyota Camry, moments before it struck and reached out to grab his family and the boy, but was too late.

Hildebrand, who was a defensive back for the Edmonton Eskimos and the Toronto Argonauts in 1989 and 1990, chased after the car and smashed his fist through the windshield to make it stop. Christine, a dental assistant, sustained facial injuries and had surgery for a broken leg. According to NBC news reports, a 53-year-old man was arrested and charged with being under the influence of alcohol.

Whorehouse raided

Oh, man this sucks.

News Briefs 9/16/05
September 14, 2005

Police Close Illegal Massage Parlor

County Police closed down an illegal massage parlor off of Chevrolet Drive in Ellicott City Sept. 7.

Police received numerous complaints of prostitution at the location. The business, Presence of Mind, was determined by detectives as not possessing a license as a massage parlor.

Detectives determined that the employees were providing sexual acts to customers in exchange for money and that Presence of Mind’s owner, Dana Zimmerman, was receiving a portion of the money paid to employees for the sex acts.

Four people including Zimmerman, 38, of Ellicott City, Amber Linn, 20, of Baltimore, Christina Perry, 25, of Catonsville, and Robert Williams, 42, of Columbia, were arrested as a result of a search warrant.

elephants killed for wanting to be free

Here's another story with basically the same plot. I think this is despicable.

Six elephants shot dead after S.Africa park escape
13 Sep 2005 08:53:19 GMT

Source: Reuters
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Six elephants were shot dead last week after they broke out of South Africa's famed Kruger National Park, a park spokesman said on Tuesday.

William Mabasa said the elephants escaped from the park on Thursday afternoon and were then driven back into it. "But then on Friday we received a report that they were about 20 kms (12 miles) west of the park," he said. "It was difficult to push them back into the park from that distance and they were near a school, posing a danger to local villagers. So a decision was taken to put them down."

Mabasa said meat from the animals had been given to the local community. He said there was no apparent reason for the behaviour of the elephants, which broke through a fence. Kruger covers an area roughly the same size as Israel.

It has seen its elephant population swell to nearly 12,000 from around 7,000 a decade ago, when the practice of using lethal culls to contain numbers was stopped in the face of international protests. Some scientists believe elephant numbers at Kruger are reaching breaking point, with the confined wilderness unable to provide the giant animals with enough food.

chimps killed after escaping zoo

That's really awful, why did they have to be shot? Why are animals so afraid of 'wild' animals? It seems like these stories where captive creatures escape always end badly for the animals. I remember a similliar story in florida about an escaped puma, it was killed by sheriff's deputies. This shit makes me very sad. What could those chimps possibly do that was worth their lives?

Chimps Shot Dead After Zoo Escape
September 13, 2005 8:00 a.m. EST

Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Royal, NE (AHN) - A zoo director says three chimpanzees were shot and killed after escaping from their enclosure at a small-town zoo.

Ken Schluter Jr. says the chimps managed to get out of their cage at Zoo Nebraska on Saturday because a padlock was not completely closed after cleaning. When a tranquilizer gun proved to have no effect, he killed the animals using a deputy's service revolver . State patrol spokeswoman Deb Collins says no one was hurt.

Schluter says once the chimps broke out, visitors were moved into an office area. The chimps, weighing up to 300 pounds, then tried to get into the building. Two of them were shot with a tranquilizer gun, but after five minutes, the sedative had not taken effect. When it was obvious they were a danger to those inside, they were killed. A fourth primate escaped, but quickly returned to its cage.

Their carcasses were flown Sunday to a zoo in St. Louis, where autopsies are planned. The zoo is located in Royal, a northeastern Nebraska village of 75. One of its major donors was the late Johnny Carson.

Tokyoflash.com phat watches!

Holy shit some of these watches on this website are amazing looking, with nonstandard methods for displaying the time. I gotta get me one of thems!! check it out.

http://www.tokyoflash.com

more kiss kiss, bang bang please!

Instead of anchoring a plot driven spy film with solid writing and good acting, Brosnan feels the series could best be benefited by more explosions and T&A. great.....

Hollywood News
Posted on 12 Sep 2005 # ANI
Brosnan wants more sex for Bond!

Washington: Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan believes that the 007 producers need to make the next movie sexier and more violent, or risk its failure at the box-office.

The four-times James Bond star, who is alleged to leave the ladies shaken and stirred, has reportedly requested the filmmakers to spice up their next movie by adding hotter ‘n’ steamier sex-scenes to ensure it is a hit all-over.

“You’re not even allowed to show a bl**dy nipple. It’s pathetic. What Bond needs is a good, palpable killing sequence and a good sex scene,” Contactmusic quoted the 52-year-old hunk as saying.

400 pound elephant, gone?

That's going to be difficult to pawn. Who would steal such a thing? Teenagers, without a doubt. I remember going to a party back in '03, we were playing beer pong on a highway sign advertising a liquor store, the kids who brought it to the party said they 'accidently' hit it with their car while drunk driving. That was a wild party.

400-pound elephant sculpture stolen from Natick business

NATICK, Mass. Police in Natick are investigating a theft that must have required some heavy lifting. A 400-pound elephant sculpture was reported stolen from a local business this week.

The elephant's owners, Dennis and Myrna Starr, say they noticed the handcarved, granite sculpture was missing when they returned home from Cape Cod. It had been on display at Natick Memorial Works on Pond Street. The couple says a 250-pound Japanese-style lantern pagoda was also was stolen.

Dennis Starr told the MetroWest Daily News he's offering a reward for the elephant's return. And he says it won't be peanuts. Starr said the elephant is worth about 25-hundred dollars. His wife says it originally took three men with a dolly to move the granite pachyderm.

Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

drunk russian goes to jail

Man I sure am glad I have never called a prank into 911 cause I was too drunk to know any better. At our keg party last Saturday someone decided to spray the fire extinguisher all over the second floor landing. Seeing the dust covering the hallway really brought me back to freshmen year at college. That's kind of the same thing, right? :shrug:

Drunk Russian Arrested for Putin Plane Bomb Hoax

Created: 12.09.2005 14:02 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:02 MSK, 5 hours 55 minutes ago

MosNews

Moscow police have detained a man who reported a false bomb threat to President Putin’s plane. He was caught after police traced his phone call to a cell phone operator. The man was drunk.

Moscow police received the report of a bomb planted on board the presidential plane on Sunday, Sept. 11. Earlier an anonymous caller contacted a cell phone operator and claimed that Vladimir Putin’s plane would blow up 40 minutes after the call. The man also said he was on a federal wanted list for murder.

The caller was detained soon afterwards at his home. He was in a state of extreme intoxication. The “phone terrorist” may face up to three years in prison for reporting a false terrorist attack.

It transpired that the suspect’s ex-wife is an employee at the Vnukovo-2 airport.

See no evil dude sets record

It's amazing that records are kept for this feat, I mean where is it going to end, 175, 200MPH?? The sky is the limit, it'll take one horrific accident to ruin this quest for any blind kid dreaming of staking his claim to fame at the salt flats in Utah.

World's fastest blind driver..

Sep 9, 11:25 AM (ET)

MAFIKENG, South Africa (Reuters) - A South African became the world's fastest blind driver Thursday after driving across a remote airstrip at 269 kph (167 mph).

Blind since birth, 33-year-old Hein Wagner of Cape Town had a sighted navigator for his record attempt. After crossing the airfield, he told reporters he wanted to do it again but was considering piloting an aircraft for his next record attempt. "I'm very happy," said Wagner, whose drive in a borrowed Maserati V8 GranSport was monitored by motoring organization Motorsport SA and filmed for the Guinness Book of World Records.

The drive, on an airstrip near South Africa's border with Botswana, was aimed at increasing public awareness of problems facing blind people and raising money for a national charity for the blind. The previous record, set by a blind British bank manager, was 233 kph (145 mph). "I drove it with no insurance. No one wanted to give any to us," Wagner told national news agency SAPA.

Office Funnies

Holy shit this is funny. I'm seriously in tears here. omg. sooy funny, cracked up here. wow.

10 ways to make yourself popular at the office

10. Keep telling the same person that they have bad breath even if they don't, and then punch them in the mouth.

9. Announce in a meeting that you have AIDS. After everyone gives you the sympathy remarks.. tell everyone how you're just kidding.. and tell them that they are all a bunch of queers.

8. Before a meeting, fill your mouth with custard- then during the meeting put one finger in the air and make like you are hocking up a big loogie - then spit the custard into a clear glass and hand it to the person next to you and say 'Beat that!'

7. Inform a male coworker that he 'wouldn't make a good hooker,' then piss in his coffee and tell him he needs a good 'ass fucking.'

6. Always walk around with a big smile and keep one hand down the front of your pants.

5. Answer every question asked to you with 'fuck if I know!' then call the person a racial slur that doesn't even match their race.

4. Brag about the fact that you own a gun, and keep playing with your nuts. Get them really sweaty, and then walk around shaking everyone's hand.

3. Run down the hall with your dick out while urinating all over and yell, 'It won't stop! God help me! It don't stop!' Then when it stops... look down and say... 'Oh!'

2. Ask to borrow someone's pen- bring it to the bathroom - stick it in your butt - return it and tell the person to smell it - when they tell you that it smells bad - be like, 'It should! I had it in my butt!'

1. Shit on the floor in your office and when someone comes in and sees it, tell them it's the fake plastic kind- when they try to pick it up, and realize that their hand is full of shit, laugh and point.

Animals need rescuing as well!

Animals need rescuing as much as people, in the vicious wake of hurricane Katrina please consider donating to the humane society's animal disaster relief effort.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com

Our Disaster Animal Response Teams go to the rescue of animals in communities devastated by hurricanes and floods. You can help by making an emergency gift today. *Click here.*

Dear Friend,

It is a race against time. At this very moment, thousands of pets are stranded in New Orleans and Mississippi - scared, alone, and in some cases on the path to starvation.

We are their last hope. That's why I'm writing to ask if you could support us today by making *a special donation to the Disaster Relief Fund of The Humane Society of the United States.*

I'm on the ground in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area, directing 180 highly trained members of our Disaster Animal Response Teams. Even as you read this, our team members are in the hardest-hit areas, running search and rescue missions to save stranded pets and operating temporary shelters to evaluate, treat, and house those rescued animals.

Our entire relief effort is funded by donations from people like you, and we desperately need your support. *Please make an emergency contribution to our Disaster Relief Fund today.* If you've already made a contribution to HSUS's Disaster Relief Fund, thank you so much! Your tax-deductible gift will be used exclusively for our disaster animal relief work.

We're committed to being here as long as it takes. Please keep the human and animal victims in your thoughts, and please consider *making an emergency donation today* to help our disaster relief teams save as many stranded and injured animals as possible. My dedicated corps of professionals and volunteers here in the disaster zone sends our gratitude.

Sincerely,

Laura Bevan
Incident Commander
HSUS National Disaster Animal Response Team Jackson, Mississippi

*P.S.* As the leader of our on-the-ground disaster relief efforts, I can tell you first-hand that the difficult and dangerous task of saving animals' lives in disaster situations is vital not only to the animals, but to the people who love them, too. *Any support you can provide for our animal relief work is deeply appreciated.*

PTA Theft, or mom goes to jail?

Stealing from the schools? tsk, tsk.. some people will just go that low. This actually doesn't surprise me much since it's commonly known that people living in NYC have no morals at all, unlike here in DC. You wont find stories like this in our local media, I know; because I looked!!

Woman charged with $40K in PTA theft

BY HERBERT LOWE
STAFF WRITER

September 8, 2005

The former president of a Queens elementary school PTA allegedly stole $40,000 from the group's funds in what officials are calling the largest such theft in city history. Laura AlQaisi, 38, who led the PTA at PS 152 in Woodside from 1996 to 2003, was released without bail Wednesday after being arraigned on grand larceny and other charges in Criminal Court in Kew Gardens. She was arrested on Tuesday outside her home in Flushing, prosecutors said. Shielding herself from the media behind a black blazer, her sister and court officers, AlQaisi offered no comments while rushing from the courthouse and into a cab on Queens Boulevard.

"At the end of the day here the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all," AlQaisi's attorney, Eugene Levy, told Judge Mary O'Donoghue. Prosecutors said AlQaisi admits not depositing into the PTA's bank account $23,400 the school's students raised through the sale of chocolate and other items from 1999 to 2003.

AlQaisi, who handled all financial matters during her presidency, also wrote out numerous PTA checks totaling $16,600 to herself or payable to "cash" and concealed it by controlling the records and checkbook, prosecutors said. In one instance, they said, she signed a $3,300 check to herself but wrote in the register it was for a $48 "candy sale reimbursement." "PS 152's parents, teachers and students have spent many years raising tens of thousands of dollars for a school computer room -- only now to see that dream callously erased by the defendant, who allegedly used the association's funds as her own private piggy bank," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement. "Her alleged conduct is a betrayal of the trust of the parents who elected her to serve as their leader."

The theft was first discovered last year after AlQaisi's successor as president, Laura Druiett, reported to the school's principal, Robert Burke, that the association did not have as much money in the bank as expected. Officials from the city Department of Education investigated and then confronted AlQaisi in April 2004. A month later, she produced receipts totaling about $6,000 for teacher supplies and student awards. But she stopped returning the investigators' calls after May 2004, sources familiar with the investigation said.

"We definitely want restitution," said Marge Feinberg, a spokeswoman for the education department. If convicted, AlQaisi faces up to 7 years in prison.

Drunk man snoozes on train track

Wow, you think the train would have made more noise than that, enough to wake this guy at least. I guess he really was lucky that he was that drunk. crazyness.

Russian survives snooze on train track
A Russian man who fell asleep between train tracks failed to wake up when a 140-tonne cargo train passed over him.
Vladimir Rasimov passed out and fell asleep between the tracks as he took a short cut home after going out with some friends in a bar.
The train driver saw somebody on the line and braked sharply. When rescuers tried to pull the drunken sleeper from underneath the carriages the man was still sleeping. Unfortunately the rescuers failed and the train had to carry on to free him.

Train driver Vladimir Slabiy said: "I saw a man lying between the tracks and tried to stop, but it was too late. The train went right over him and I thought he must have been killed." "But when I got out and checked he was still lying there fast asleep." "If he had woken up from the noise of the train he would have lifted his head and been hit by the undercarriage and that would have been the end of him. It was lucky he was so drunk."

Gravestone kills binge drinker

BAHAHAHAHAHA!!! omg, that's just too funny. Who takes shortcuts through cemeteries when drunk? that would be way toooo creepy for me. Now you may be saying, "mattb, how can you laugh at this story, a woman has died." and to that I say read this story carefully and you'll see that this woman was about to shit on someone's final resting place, so see that she's not entirely innocent in the matter.

Drunk Woman Dies In Freak Cemetary Accident

September 7, 2005 4:33 p.m. EST

Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Brussels, Belgium (AHN) - Belgian news agency Belga reports a drunk woman died in a freak accident, when she ended up beneath a heavy grave stone at a cemetery. The 33-year-old was on her way home from a bar in the town of Pulle when she decided to take a short cut through the cemetery during the early hours of Saturday.

She got the urge to go to the bathroom, ducked down between two gravestones, losing her balance and grabbed one of the gravestones, which gave way and landed on her. The public prosecutor's office says she died of suffocation as she could not lift the gravestone off her.

The real looters in NOLA.

It's not often that I'm truly appalled. That's completely disgusting. just, wow...

Brian Krebs on Computer Security
Posted at 06:00 PM ET, 09/ 7/2005
Missouri Attorney General To Sue Katrina Phisher

The Missouri attorney general today filed civil charges against an Internet scam artist I wrote about last Thursday who was running a hub of Web sites that claimed to be accepting donations on behalf of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

Today a Missouri federal judge signed a temporary restraining order against Frank Weltner, 64, of St. Louis, Mo., that prohibits him from accepting donations through the slew of Web sites he registered with names like www.donate-katrina.com, www.clergydonations.com, and www.internetdonations.org. Weltner is also the owner of JewWatch.com, a decidedly anti-Semitic Web site.

According to the Missouri AG's complaint, Weltner conveniently "omitted the fact that the ultimate company behind the Defendants’ websites support white supremacy and that the money raised from the consumers will be only for use to help white victims of the hurricane."

The state is seeking to shutter the fake donation site and to freeze the assets of Internet Donations Inc., the nonprofit entity Weltner registered the day after our first blog post about him (and after he was already accepting donations through his site). The New York Times also ran a story on the Missouri legal action in on its Web site today.

hey, this is fun.

oh yeah check it. gotta staayy away.. gotta keep it alive, ya jive!?!?

http://saty-home.com/prouge/pro.php?proid=28

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SAIC IPO

OH shit i am ever excited about this, I'm going to be fuckin' rich! Although I don't agree with the move in principal and will not vote in support of the decision, it's good to know we'll all be taken care of.

SAIC Announces IPO

Science Applications International Corp., a government contractor specializing in high-tech systems, plans a $1.73 billion initial public offering, the company disclosed Sept. 1 in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The move will mark the end of an era for San Diego-based SAIC, which has been employee-owned since its founding in 1969.

SAIC said in its federal filing that it hopes to use the IPO’s proceeds to pay a special dividend and put into short-term investments. Ultimately, the company plans to use the money to fund organic growth, as well as growth by acquisition.

SAIC had net income of $409 million on revenue of $7.2 billion for its 2005 fiscal year, ended Jan. 31. The company had net income of $351 million on revenue of $5.8 billion in fiscal 2004.

Underwriters are Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. and Morgan Stanley.

The company plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SAI.

The company has 42,500 employees.

– Brad Graves

Wolves make great pets

Ha ha ha... His pet tiger ate one of his dogs! that's so sad. update: I noticed this same story in the Washington Post Express two full days after it had first been reported here.

Official defends keeping wolves as pets

Sep 1, 12:03 PM (ET)

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian minister who revealed he is keeping wolves as pets told authorities Wednesday to feel free to come and investigate as he always needed "fresh meat."

Animal rights groups have accused Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli of breaking the law by owning wild animals and the Forest Department has promised to look into the affair.

"If anyone wants to visually ascertain what type (of wolves) they are, they're welcome. We always need fresh meat," he responded in Corriere della Sera.

Calderoli, a firebrand leader of the populist Northern League party, told La Stampa daily earlier this week he had the experience needed to look after the wolf cubs and had previously kept a tiger.

"I know how to manage them. Here in the villa, in Bergamo, I had a tiger for a year," he said, adding that he eventually had to get rid of the tiger because it ate a dog.

He could face up to eight months in jail for illegal possession of wild animals.

"He is a minister and should set a good example, not put himself on the same level as traffickers in endangered species," said Giovanni Guadagna, with Italy's anti-vivisection league.

Doctor becomes abusive

WTF??!?!?! Some bedside manner that guy has.

Doctor adds insult to injury
Sep 1, 12:00 PM (ET)

TOKYO (Reuters) - "Trust me, I'm a doctor" wouldn't describe one Japanese medic who has landed in hot water after hitting and abusing a patient during surgery.

The elderly female patient at a hospital in Shiga, central Japan, was given a local anaesthetic for an unspecified operation early last month, but began thrashing around on the operating table and yelling at the doctor to stop.

After trying to persuade her to calm down, the doctor hit the patient on the forehead and yelled at her to shut up, a hospital spokesman said. The patient needed five days to recover from the injury to her forehead.

The operation was re-conducted last week by another doctor.

Casting call... Angelina Jolie, woot!

Bmore= Hollywood! Extras Casting Call ESPNZone Inner Harbor -Angelina Jolie movie
Over 3,000 Extras needed for Open Call:

Carlyn Davis Casting is currently casting 2 Feature films and will be having an open call for extras next Thursday, Sept. 1st at the ESPN Zone in Baltimore.

Now is your chance to see yourself on the big screen!

Please see below for details or go to www.extrasnow.com or www.carlyndaviscasting.com No phone calls please.

Press Release:

Carlyn Davis Casting announces an open call for extras for two Hollywood feature films:

Touchstone's MUSIC HIGH, directed by Anne Fletcher and THE GOOD SHEPHERD directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie.

Touchstone's feature MUSIC HIGH will be shooting in Baltimore starting this September and running through November. This is a huge feature and we will be casting over 3,000 extras! We need all types and have huge party scenes where we will need lots of club and dancer types.

These are the extras we are looking for:

School Students, Cops, Hundreds of kids at an Inner City Party (must be 18), Pedestrians with cars, Club Patrons, Longshoreman, Thugs, Inner City Punk types, Drunks and Bums, Ghetto Party types, Chop Shop folks, Drug Dealers, Juvenile detainees (must be 18), Art Class Model, Warmup Dancers, Hospital Staff, Straight laced goody shoes school types, Parents of all ages, Attorneys, Teachers, Big Tough Guys (tall and large), Inner City Basketball Players (20s), Voluptuous Women (18-25), Pretty Girls (18-25), High School Students (look 14-17 but are at least 18), Audience Members and more!

Any one that is interested can attend this open call. All extras need to be at least 18 years of age, but any of them playing students should look younger. We need all races! We are particularly interested in Latinos and Asian.

For THE GOOD SHEPHERD- we need all actors to look like they live in present day 1961. All DC types. Filming will take place in early October.

Open Call will be held:

ESPN Zone in Baltimore Inner Harbor
Thursday September 1, 2005 3-7 PM **Please do not call the ESPN Zone. You can go to their website for info at www.espnzone.com/baltimore

Bring a current snapshot with a clear view of your face or we will be happy to take a Polaroid of you for $2.

If you can not attend the open call. Complete this form and mail it in with your photo.

For further information, go to www.extrasnow.com or www.carlyndaviscasting.com . Thank you!

NES controller Belt, wtf?

Holy SHIT!! That is cool, i'm ordering one right now and you should as well. NES Belt