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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Just One More Reason to Hate Cheerleaders
A cheerleader and her friends in Lakeland, Florida beat up a fellow student after seeing an alleged 'trash talking' MySpace post.

The Polk County Sheriff's office have released the video of the teenager being beaten. According to Sheriff Grady Judd, the 16 year-old teen was beat unconscious in a bedroom and then later awoke on a couch in the living room to more beating and screaming. The fight happened on March 30th at 6124 West Calendar Court in Lakeland.

Judd says the teens showed no remorse after their arrests.

"When they were in a holding cell, they were all laughing," Judd stated. "One of the teens arrested, who is a cheerleader, asked, 'Does this mean I'm going to miss cheerleading practice tomorrow?' The others were cutting up and said, 'It looks like we won't be going to the beach this weekend.'"


During a statement Sheriff Judd commented on the tape in which the girl holding the camera stated, “There's only 17 seconds left. Make it good."

"That is animalistic behavior. It's pack mentality. They lured her there to beat her," added Sheriff Judd.

Here's hoping some biker chicks make them, do stuff
Posted by: Icerigger || 04/08/2008 12:40 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And make a video for the internet.
Posted by: Excalibur || 04/08/2008 15:49 Comments || Top||

#2  LOL!
Posted by: Icerigger || 04/08/2008 16:22 Comments || Top||

#3  If her parents know any good lawyers, I'd say she's not going to have to worry about paying for college
Posted by: Pancho Elmeck8414 || 04/08/2008 18:26 Comments || Top||

#4  I read that the victim has vision and hearing damage. I don't know what to recommend as punishment for the vicious witches who did this, but they deserve the harshest treatment possible.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 04/08/2008 19:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Heinlein had the answer to that..

A public flogging for them and their parents.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/08/2008 19:50 Comments || Top||

#6  I don't know what to recommend as punishment for the vicious witches who did this, but they deserve the harshest treatment possible.

I can think of a few things. How about a vicious closed fist beating from someone that knows how to administer one. Maybe knock half her teeth out...and the two putz's that stood lookout.

Also, nasty beatings for all the parents. This sort of crap with kids these days has to stop. I do like the Heinlein solution though.
Posted by: Tiny Snoque2251 || 04/08/2008 23:31 Comments || Top||


Obama delegate accused of RACISM!!
Identity politics and nosy neighbors combine; hilarity ensues.
Moving to nip in the bud some potential bad press, White House hopeful Barack Obama's campaign persuaded a delegate to step down after she was ticketed for calling her neighbor's African-American children "monkeys." Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, a Carpentersville village trustee, was elected as an Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention. She sports an Obama sign in her front yard.

On Saturday, two neighbor children were playing in the tree next-door to her house. Ramirez-Sliwinski "came outside and told the children to quit playing in the tree like monkeys. The tree was not on Ramirez-Sliwinski's property," Carpentersville Police Commander Michael Kilbourne said.

Ramirez-Sliwinski admitted she used the word "monkeys," but said she did not intend racism. She said she was only trying to protect them from falling out of the tree. . . . The mother of one of the children did not see it that way, noting she and Ramirez-Sliwinski have clashed before. "She felt it was racist because of the fact the children were African-American," Kilbourne said.

Sarto said he hopes Ramirez-Sliwinski will plead "not guilty" to the $75 charge and stay on the board: "Frankly, I don't see a law that was broken here. She's a good neighbor. She went over to caution the children to be careful not to fall out of a tree. We have a[nother] trustee who has been convicted on four counts of domestic battery and refuses to resign from the board."
Whaddaya expect, it is Chicago, after all.
Posted by: Mike || 04/08/2008 08:50 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Woman Stabs Husband During Fight Over Hot Dogs For Dinner
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A 28-year-old woman in Orange County stabbed her husband during a fight that sparked over having hot dogs for dinner, according to a sheriff's office report. Officers said Alfreda Van Bladel apparently had prepared a dinner for her husband, Anton, that consisted of hot dogs.
Hot dogs? She made him hot dawgs? Oh, the heartless bitch!
At some point, the man snatched the plate of hot dogs from his wife's hands, the report said.
Well, yeah. I mean, what else could he have done?
The action prompted the woman to stab her husband in the shoulder with a steak knife, according to authorities.
"Put the knife down, Alfreda! I'm a-warnin' yew!"
Anton Van Bladel then alleged grabbed a handgun and pointed it at the woman's head and said he was going to kill her.
"Die, boiler of dawgs! [KERBLAMMO!]"
"Y'missed me, ass splatter! [LUNGE!]"

Both a knife and a handgun were recovered from the couple's home.
"I need that knife back! I hain't made the sallid yet!"
"Ah needs m'gun back, too!"
"Fer what? The salad?"
"No! I missed the bitch!"

The husband and wife were arrested and face several charges in connection with the incident, including aggravated battery and aggravated assault.
Why'd they do that?
Posted by: Fred || 04/08/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Goodness! Another one? The dude better file for a divorce pronto. She may reach for a knife only every 3 years or so, but that is one time too many.
Posted by: twobyfour || 04/08/2008 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The action prompted the woman to stab her husband in the shoulder with a steak knife...

Steak knife, eh? What was she doing with a steak knife when all they had to eat was hot dogs, hmmmm? Why don't the MSM ask these kinds of probing questions?
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 04/08/2008 2:27 Comments || Top||

#3  The dude ought to count his lucky stars that she didn't go 'total wiener cut up'! He'd be singing with the canarys by now!
Posted by: smn || 04/08/2008 3:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Was it wid Sauerkraut - too many Amers, restaurants, and cafeterias mix the wrong-flav 'kraut wid the wrong-flav dawgs???

STILL DOING IT WRONG AFTER 40 YEARS!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/08/2008 3:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Is self defense out of the question. She did bring a knife to a gunfight, in Kentucky that's one of the leading causes of death I think.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 04/08/2008 8:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Perhaps hubby felt threatened by the foot longs?
Posted by: ed || 04/08/2008 9:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Which one was the Obama supporter and which one the Clinton supporter?
Posted by: charger || 04/08/2008 9:55 Comments || Top||

#8  I really expected this story to include the words "authorities suspect that alcohol was involved."
Posted by: Rambler in California || 04/08/2008 11:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Next time, Boars' Head.
Posted by: Perfesser || 04/08/2008 13:18 Comments || Top||

#10  Not mentioned, but most certainly a key motive in this is the fact that there were 10 dawgs, but only 8 buns. bunless weiners are not a pretty site. look for lawsuits against Oscar Meiger and Wonder Bread for being the instigators.
Posted by: USN,Ret. || 04/08/2008 13:53 Comments || Top||

#11  "Dammit! I said Hamburgers, not Barkburgers!"
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/08/2008 20:02 Comments || Top||


Driver climbs on roof of van, crashes
READING, Pa. - A Reading man whose minivan crashed after he climbed on its roof while driving about 55 miles per hour is in fair condition this weekend. Police in West Reading say the 38-year-old man later stripped naked and led them on a chase along the highway.
I couldn't say for sure, but I think I used to live next to this guy...
... I'm not sure I'd admit that even if it were true ...
Authorities are not identifying the man, who is not charged. He remains in a Reading hospital recovering from what witnesses call a deep gash in his side. Police say they used Taser jolts and pepper spray during the chase Friday but only subdued the man when they tackled him.
Posted by: Fred || 04/08/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Angel Dust maybe? I'm not sure it's possible to be drunk enough to shake off both a Taser and pepper spray.

But it's not something about which I have personal experience so I could be wrong .... ;-)
Posted by: lotp || 04/08/2008 6:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Meth? PCP? Something stronger than aspirin you can bet.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 04/08/2008 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  PCP signs are strong. But I thought PCP fell out of favor 20 years ago because of stuff like this.
Posted by: ed || 04/08/2008 9:12 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm guessing cocaine. It never goes out of style.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/08/2008 12:12 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Dictators Prefer Baywatch To Simpsons
Venezuela has yanked "The Simpsons" off the air, claiming it may be inappropriate for children. Aye carumba!

Replacing the Simpson family - "Baywatch Hawaii" - a wholesome show where half naked bodyguards strut their enhanced ta-tas on the beach.

The decision was made to get rid of "The Simpsons" after several viewers complained to Venezuela's National Telecommunications Commission. Elba Guillen, a spokeswoman for Televen TV in Caracas, said showing the animated cartoon series at 11 a.m. could violate national regulations prohibiting "messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents." We're guessing Venezuela doesn't get irony.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/08/2008 17:50 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I knew David Hasselhof was evil. I KNEW it!
Posted by: Mike || 04/08/2008 19:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Just as long as Presidente-for-life Chavez isn't spanking it in front of Pa-MEE-la...
Posted by: eLarson || 04/08/2008 19:19 Comments || Top||

#3  well. tta shows how fra their taste goes
Posted by: sinse || 04/08/2008 20:19 Comments || Top||

#4  It's OK, hugo has em all on DVD.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 04/08/2008 20:37 Comments || Top||


Democrat Weapon of Mass Destruction
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 04/08/2008 15:08 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Must have been a good one. Whoever put it up has now taken it down.
Posted by: GK || 04/08/2008 18:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Try this Link
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 04/08/2008 18:58 Comments || Top||


Protestors picket Snowflake debut in Nuremberg
Germans dressed up as polar bears.
Posted by: mrp || 04/08/2008 12:38 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, I'm sure that Snowflake would much rather be out in the wild, where she can be eaten by another polar bear, starve to death because she can't catch enough seals, or any other of the hundreds of things that kill polar bears.
Not to mention global warming!!!!
/sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in California || 04/08/2008 19:13 Comments || Top||


Yesterday in History: Beer!
At 12:01 a.m. on April 7, 1933, sirens, fire alarms and train whistles shrieked. In Chicago, harried bartenders scrambled to serve crowds that stood 12 deep. At Pabst Brewing Co. in Milwaukee, thousands of onlookers cheered as company employees hoisted barrels and crates onto trucks. About 800 people stood in the rain outside the White House, watching as a man hopped out of his vehicle and unloaded two cases of beer. Secret Service agents accepted the goods, a gift for the chief executive from one of the nation's brewers. "President Roosevelt," read a sign on the side of the truck, "the first real beer is yours."

After 13 dry years, legal beer had returned to the United States. . . .
Posted by: Mike || 04/08/2008 09:39 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's a lesson here for today. If only we could figure it out.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 04/08/2008 9:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Let's hear it for beer! The new health food.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/08/2008 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  I brewed a batch in celebration.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/08/2008 10:55 Comments || Top||

#4  It's O.K.for you guys to celebrate, but down under we are facing doom...doom I tell you.
Posted by: tipper || 04/08/2008 12:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh geeze now I have to wait until dinner.

Beer is one of the world's oldest beverages, possibly dating back to the 6th millennium BC, and is recorded in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Posted by: Icerigger || 04/08/2008 12:38 Comments || Top||

#6  It's O.K.for you guys to celebrate, but down under we are facing doom...doom I tell you.

Quick!! Send emergency supplies of malted barley to our allies!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/08/2008 12:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Beer, rich in anti-oxidants, IS a health food. The darker beers are anyway. Lite beer, not so much. Red wine gets all the credit, but here in the states, we collectively get more anti-oxidants from beer than from wine.
Posted by: Hector || 04/08/2008 14:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Here in the States we get more lots of things from beer than wine, Hector. And I'll happily take your wine if you take my share of beer. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/08/2008 15:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Alas TW, my drinking days are over. Now I must get all my anti-oxidants from things like broccoli and blueberries etc. :(
Posted by: Hector || 04/08/2008 18:51 Comments || Top||

#10  i drink enoough for your anti oxidants hector
Posted by: sinse || 04/08/2008 20:24 Comments || Top||

#11  color me shocked!
Posted by: Frank G || 04/08/2008 20:27 Comments || Top||

#12  I scream!
You scream!
We all scream for

BEER!!!!
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 04/08/2008 20:33 Comments || Top||

#13  We need a colorado springs beer RantFest.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/08/2008 22:51 Comments || Top||


"Doom is coming - doom, I say!"
Commenter "Lyle" at Tim Blair's blog

Doom is coming - doom, I say;
It will be here any day -
Helen Caldicott agrees
That we’ll either burn or freeze.

Through my research I have found
Zombies will live underground
And crawl out to eat the dead,
As Ted Turner, scholar, said.

Psychic healers and my cat
Say, with proper funding, that
Spirits will communicate
Doomsday’s precise day and date.

Kill yourselves, it’s not too late
To avoid a gruesome fate;
Trust me, I have seen the tapes -
Humans will be ruled by Apes!
Posted by: Mike || 04/08/2008 07:51 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Head fer the hills! If yer already in the hills, build an ark!
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/08/2008 12:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Eyes built an arc but then these here Nazi fellers showed up and plum done stold it right out the shed!

And then this here Dr. Jones fella showed up and eyes axed him about Ma's brasitus, but he don't know nothin ...

Got a 20 gauge for the zombies tho! That'll learn 'em.
Posted by: Adriane || 04/08/2008 18:26 Comments || Top||

#3  As Ted Turner, scholar, said.

Truly brilliant doggerel. Your prose, too, Adriane. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/08/2008 18:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Save the world....Kill yourself.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 04/08/2008 20:35 Comments || Top||


Atlantic City sex blackmail case delayed
I posted this link for just this one sentence:

"Just another day in paradise," said Ronald Callaway, also known as Jihad Q. Abdullah.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/08/2008 05:58 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Science
At 78, scientist hopes for proof soon that he was right about the Universe
The 40-year hunt for the holy grail of physics – the elusive “God particle” that is supposed to give matter its mass – is almost over, according to the leading scientist who first came up with the theory.

Peter Higgs, whose work gave his name to the elusive Higgs boson particle, said that he was more than 90 per cent certain it would be found within the next few years.

The Higgs boson was the professor’s elegant 1964 solution to one of the great problems with the standard model of physics – how matter has mass and thus exists in a form that allows it to make stars, planets and people. He proposed that the universe is pervaded by an invisible field of bosons that consist of mass but little else.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: gorb || 04/08/2008 01:43 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The proton beam will carry the equivalent energy of an aircraft carrier sailing at 11 knots


That is about half the energy used in Al Gore's mansion.
Posted by: JFM || 04/08/2008 9:27 Comments || Top||

#2  LOL JFM.....or the amount of equivalent expelled hot air of one george soros as his doom and glum brigades distribute their chaos.
Posted by: Thraviper Panda2099 || 04/08/2008 10:15 Comments || Top||

#3  A good site for rumors is
Tomaso Dorigo's blog. This is his most recent (non-April-Fools) post on the Higgs search. (I don't find his musings on politics or religion as useful.)
Posted by: James || 04/08/2008 12:44 Comments || Top||

#4  he is a great physicist and certainly having robust evidence of the Higgs boson would be wonderful

but the cost of the LHC is really an outrage and bringing out Higgs to cry about how we need to keep building bigger and better particle smashers is disgusting


Posted by: mhw || 04/08/2008 14:44 Comments || Top||

#5  "I will certainly open a bottle of something ......Iff it is not there, I will no longer understand what I think I understand" > WW3: FAMOUS BOTTLES OF THE APOCALYPSE - NOSTRADAMUS, MADONNA, HEADBANGERS BALL, and OLIVER STONE'S "W", etc.

"YOU ARE THERE" with Admiral Isaac Kidd and Officers, aboard the exploding BATTLESHIP ARIZONA, + rock bands THE EAGLES + FOREIGNER + JUDAS PRIEST. As ADMIRAL, he said it was his duty to stay with his brave but dying, burning ship and crew.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/08/2008 19:25 Comments || Top||



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