A 34-year-old woman posed as her 15-year-old daughter in a bid to go back to school and try out for the cheerleading squad.
Wendy Brown turned up at Ashwaubenon High School in Wisconsin, U.S., for a day of classes - and was given her own cheerleading locker and even attended a pool party with other students. Her day of fun was only discovered after truancy officers wondered where their new 'pupil' had gone. . . .
Court documents revealed that Brown 'stated that she wanted to get her high school degree and be a cheerleader because she had no childhood and was trying to regain a part of her life she missed.' She attended school for one day last August after assuming the identity of her daughter while she was living with a relative out of state.
Her teachers reported the ‘student’ for truancy and the mother’s elaborate ruse to re-live the life of a teenager was eventually uncovered when she was found in a police cell, where she’d been charged over a separate forgery conviction. . . . Lieutenant Jody Crocker, an Ashwaubenon Public Safety officer, said: 'Ms Brown's criminal history says she's been involved in fraud and deceptive practices across the country for most of her adult life. No kidding!
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the mother's elaborate ruse to re-live the life of a teenager was eventually uncovered when she was found in a police cell
So much story in so few words. How long until the made-for-tv movie comes out?
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Tom Servo: So you went to school with a bunch of geeky losers, and now it's our cross to bear?
Joel: Nobody calls the Ashwaubenon Jaguars a bunch of geeky losers!
(What kind of geeky loser am I that I can do that from memory?)
According to Agatha Christie, it's all in the knees. You can always tell a girl of sixteen from an old hag of 25 (much less 34) by examining her knees.
Hundreds of demonstrators have clashed with riot police in Latvia's capital, Riga, after an anti-government protest. You say you want a revolution
Well you know
we all want to change the world
Police used mace and truncheons to disperse rioters who smashed shop windows and overturned a police van after failing to storm parliament. You tell me that it's evolution
Well you know
The violence followed a peaceful rally in which some 10,000 people accused the government of economic mismanagement and demanded new elections.
Latvia's economy is expected to contract by at least 5% this year. Until last year, it was one of the fastest growing economies in Europe.
Many Latvians frustrated by rising unemployment and tax hikes blame the centre-right governing coalition of Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis for their country's economic woes. We all want to change the world
Tuesday's peaceful protest was Latvia's largest since it became independent in 1991.
As the crowd swelled, dozens of burly protesters tried to storm the parliament building, and hundreds of demonstrators then hurled rocks and chunks of ice at government buildings. But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
The vandals were dispersed by riot police using mace and truncheons, but they gathered again in a neighbouring street in Riga's historic business district. There, they overturned a police van, smashed windows and looted shops.
"There was a nice event and then when it finished people decided to go and express their anger and destroy the parliament and then it all spread through Old Riga," Anna Gulbe, 19, told the Associated Press news agency. Don't you know it's gonna be alright
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Of course the reporter was a bit lazy, so that left me wondering.....the participants mentioned in the last paragraph were mainly drunk, angry young men.
I would not be surprised if a majority of them were ethnic Russians. Latvia has a sizable percentage of ethnic Russians (more than the other Baltic states do, if my memory is correct), and I'm sure that they wouldn't mind being part of Putin's glorious reborn Rodina. If they are no longer the biggest demographic group in the capital, Riga, I would be surprised.
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Suave dude. I always thought I was too young for the good drugs to understand the Prisoner. The pulsing balloon ball of death was a frequent dream participant, though. I got faster
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After The Daily Star ran a report yesterday on a self-proclaimed Pir who put graffiti on a wall by a Pirojpur road, prohibiting movement of women on that road, Mathbaria police removed the writings and are hunting for the Pir.
Officer-in-charge of the Mathbaria Police Station Matiur Rahman erased the graffiti that read "Women are absolutely forbidden on this road" from Mathbaria Bara Masjid Road. They were also trying to arrest the so-called pir and former soldier Maulana Md Abdus Sattar, our Barisal correspondent reports.
Matiur Rahman told The Daily Star, "Following the report of The Daily Star we removed the sign and we will take legal actions against the self-declared pir who obstructed women's movement on that road."
He also said two policemen will be deployed on the road to help schoolgirls use the road. He said they will continue their search for Abdus Sattar.
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Maulana Md Abdus Sattar and Abdus Sattar are a couple of nasties. When they were boys they would sneak into people's houses at night and straighten out their curly-toed shoes.
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Well, if the leadership in Beijing argues a historical justification for 'owning' Taiwan, then the same precedent applies for the area known as North Korea. However, I think those in Beijing are about as interested in annexing North Korea as America would be interested in annexing Mexico. The return on investment isn't there.
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SKors might romanticize about 'reunification, but when it comes time to finance the awesome task of bringing the north up to 21st century standards, they'll think again.
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At this point, any new management would be an improvement.
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You mean like Somalia? Gee, pirates on the Yellow Sea again. We'll hold this shipment of rubber ducks till you fork over a six month supply of tree bark!
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If the North collapses the best thing South Korea could do is set up a puppet government that would tr to bring North Korea up. A puppet government that allowed South Korean investment but didn't require handouts. A puppet government that wouldn't threaten the South or China and that would sell or remove its nuclear weapons. A puppet government with laws modeled upon pre-1997 Hong Kong which had nothing but rock and hard working people and made itself wealthy.
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CHINA has made it clear that the INTER-KOREAN DMZ is as far as it will allow any outside Nation or Coalition to have influence in NOKOR after a collapse. CHINA PREFERS TO UNILATER CONTROL NOKOR, OR IN THE ALTERN WILL DEMAND LEADERSHIP + MAJORITY/DOMIN AUTHORITY IN ANY POST-COLLAPSE MULTI-NATION RULING COALITION [ UNO-approved].
CHINA HAS MADE IT CLEAR IT WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY ANTI-CHIN REGIME IN PYONGYANG, AND IS PREPARED TO USE MIL FORCE TO BACK ITS INTERESTS EVEN IFF IT MEANS REGIONAL NUCLEAR WAR.
A PORTUGESE cardinal has warned Roman Catholic women against marrying Muslim men.
"Be careful with love. Think twice before marrying a Muslim, think seriously because it brings loads of hassle - and even Allah can't say where all that will end,'' Jose Policarpo, the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, said during a public debate. "When you recognise what a young European of Christian upbringing is subjected to, given Muslim attitudes to women, the first time she goes to their countries, we can imagine what that entails.
"You can only dialogue with someone who is willing to dialogue. With our Muslim brothers, for example, dialogue is very difficult,'' he said.
"We have taken the first steps, but it's extremely difficult - because for them, their truth is the only way.''
Around 40,000 Muslims live in Portugal, according to Lisbon's Islamic community leaders - who have yet to react to the cardinal's remarks.
A spokesman for Portugal's episcopal community, Manuel Marujao, said that Policarpo was offering "realistic advice'' which he said amounted neither to "discrimination nor contempt for another culture or religion'', according to the Catholic news agency Ecclesia.
Liberal Wisconsin capital would limit development, tree removal, fast food restaurants and parking to promote 'sustainability.'
Call this a case of Lunacy liberalism via central planning gone wild.
In one of the most politically left-of-center cities east of Berkeley, Calif., ideas put forth at city hall in Madison, Wis. would dramatically limit free enterprise and personal liberty, all in the name of environmental sustainability. Current temps: high 8, low -12
According to the "Broad Strategies" section of a meeting agenda recently posted on the City of Madison Web site, an ordinance being considered would force city zoning to account for and mitigate Global Warming climate change:
10. Zoning should adapt to meet the demands of Global Warming climate change; use zoning to address or mitigate effects, or adapt to Global Warming climate change; remove any barriers to mitigating the effects, adapting to Global Warming climate change (trees, green space, mobility, renewable energy, land use).
Another item in the "Broad Strategies" section has a grim outlook for the future. It includes a proposal that spells out a doomsday scenario -- allowing for the city to function should shortages in energy and food occur:
11. Write the code to allow the city to function when automobile travel will be severely limited and oil-related products, including food and heating fuel, become prohibitively expensive because of the scarcity and high-cost of fuel.
Other proposals throughout the document would push for use of alternative energies (solar, geothermal and wind), conservation, electric cars and urban agriculture. Other more Draconian regulations throughout the document would:
Limit waterfront development in the name of water sustainability,
Require two trees to be planted if one is removed from your property
Limit the "number/density of fast food outlets and drive-through windows" in the name of public health
Discourage individual parking options to promote public transportation usage
Madison is the state of Wisconsin's capital and home of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With a very low industrial base and few blue-collar workers, it has a reputation for being politically liberal, based on a high concentration of government employees, academics and students within its city limits.
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Am I the only one who wishes that they would get serious about climate change by shutting their pieholes (all that 98.6 degree air emitted into the atmosphere can't be good for the planet)?
(Of course, if they were really serious about not using up Gaia's precious resources, they would go kill themselves in an eco-friendly way, but I guess I ask too much.)
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Exactly, Blondie. If they were serious about AGW they would hold their breaths, because they are expelling CO2 into the atmosphere.
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It's not about shutting their pieholes, it's about shutting yours and mine.
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MADTOWN = BADGERCITY, FIGHTING WEASELS, the BADGE PACK.
Marquette, Milwaukee Institute of Technology, + UW-Milwaukee + Fort Mccoy [SpecFors]. WHITESNAKE's TAWNEY KITAEN starring as KAREN VERONA in the Milwaukee Mists [Lakeshore].
And then there was also BAMBI BEBENEK.
When MOUD's BEARD + HUGO CHAVEZ's RED BERET were YOUNG, DUMB, + FULL OF FUTURE 9-11 HOPES.
A RELIGIOUS court has sentenced a Muslim woman to six strokes of the cane for drinking alcohol, possibly for the first time in Malaysia.
In 2005, the same judge sentenced two Muslim brothers to six strokes of the cane after they were caught drinking. However, the caning has yet to be carried out as the brothers are appealing against the decision.
The Syariah High Court in Pahang also handed the same sentence to a man on Monday, and is due to make a decision on another woman in May.
Mohamad Nasir Mohamad, 38, a father of four, and waitress Noorazah Baharuddin, 22, were found drinking beer separately in pubs in July last year in central Pahang state, said reports released yesterday. Nasir admitted that he had drunk beer at a pub in Cherating on July 11, while Noorazah was caught drinking at the pub where she worked, in Jalan Gambut.
Both were also fined RM5,000 (S$2,100) each by the Pahang court on Monday.
The third accused was part-time model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32. According to the New Straits Times, Kartika, a Singapore permanent resident, could not attend court as she is studying in Singapore.
And she's likely to stay there, too ...
Judge Abdul Rahman Yunus said that he had given the maximum fine and caning as a deterrent to other Muslims, but had spared them a jail sentence. 'The caning is to shame them and should be done at any of the prisons in the country,' he was quoted as saying by NST.
The case comes after two controversial fatwas, or edicts - one over tomboyish behaviour by women and the other concerning the practice of yoga - sparked intense public debate over decisions made by the country's top religious body.
Malaysia has a two-track legal system, with the civil courts operating alongside state-based syariah courts. Muslims are governed by syariah laws in family and personal matters, while ethnic Chinese, Indians and other races come under civil courts.
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The Gannett Company, the nation's largest newspaper publisher, said on Wednesday that it would force thousands of its employees to take a week off without pay in an effort to avoid layoffs.
Gannett, which owns 85 daily newspapers across the United States including its flagship USA Today, said it could not say exactly how many people would be required to take time off, or how much money the company would save. But it said it would require unpaid leave for most of its 31,000 employees in this country.
Also on Wednesday, USA Today notified its staff of a one-year pay freeze for all employees.
"Most of our U.S. employees -- including myself and all other top executives -- will be furloughed for the equivalent of one week in the first quarter," Craig A. Dubow, the chairman, president and chief executive, wrote in a memorandum to employees. "We sincerely hope this minimizes the need for any layoffs going forward," he added.
The company cannot impose the measure unilaterally on employees covered by a union contract, but Mr. Dubow said Gannett was asking unions to participate voluntarily. Tara Connell, a company spokeswoman, said about 12 percent of Gannett's domestic employees were unionized. Any bets?
With the newspaper industry in increasingly dire financial straits, Gannett's mandatory week off takes its place in a growing list of grave moves like widespread layoffs, the newspapers in Detroit halting home delivery four days of the week, the bankruptcy filing of the Tribune Company and warnings from the owners of The Rocky Mountain News and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer that those papers could shut down.
A second memo to Gannett employees says that some categories of "essential employees" will be exempted from the enforced time off, as will newly hired employees, but it adds, "there will be no individual hardship exceptions." It also says that to comply with federal and state labor laws, a furloughed employee must strictly observe a no-work rule, not even "reading or responding to e-mails, calling or responding to calls from colleagues."
Gannett eliminated 3,500 jobs throughout the company in 2007, and a similar numberlast year, though it has not provided a final 2008 figure. The deepest round of cuts came last fall, when it laid off some 2,000 or more newspaper employees in little more than a month.
Most of Gannett's newspapers are small, but they include some major papers, including USA Today, The Detroit Free Press and The Arizona Republic. In this country, it also has hundreds of smaller, nondaily papers and 23 television stations.
In Britain, the company publishes 17 daily newspapers and hundreds of smaller publications.
After being deadlocked twice, a D.C. Superior Court jury yesterday acquitted a Marine amputee on felony charges of gun possession stemming from an arrest while he was on the way to Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
In the 2006 incident, Cpl. Melroy H. Cort, 24, and his wife, Samantha, were en route from their home in Columbus, Ohio, to Walter Reed. Cort's legs had been amputated above the knees when he was wounded by a makeshift bomb in Ramadi during his third tour of duty in Iraq.
The couple's car got a flat tire, forcing them to pull over at a car repair shop in the 5000 block of Georgia Avenue NW. While there, Cort said, he reached into the glove compartment, removed a 9mm pistol and put it in his jacket pocket.
A witness who noticed Cort handling the gun called police, who arrested and handcuffed Cort while he was sitting in his wheelchair. He was charged with three counts of carrying a pistol without a license, possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of ammunition. He spent the night in the D.C. jail before returning to Walter Reed.
He was assigned a public defender, who encouraged him to plead guilty. But Cort refused, because a felony on his record could cost him his military benefits. So he decided to represent himself. "I had to fight for myself," he said yesterday. "I wasn't going to plead guilty and lose everything."
During his trial, which began Friday before Judge Lynn Leibovitz, the two arresting officers testified that Cort had thrown up his hands and told them he had a gun in his pocket when they approached him.
Taking the stand in his defense, Cort tried to tell his personal story: How he enlisted in the Marines in 2004 after graduating from Ohio's Wright State University with a business degree. How he went to Iraq in 2004 and 2005, when he was was critically injured. How he was fitted with prosthetic legs and honorably discharged in 2007.
But Leibovitz ordered him to discuss only the case at hand.
Cort, who said he had a permit to carry the gun in Ohio, said he had it with him because he had moved out of his house in anticipation of an extended stay at Walter Reed. He said his commanding officer had advised him to take the gun to the armory on Walter Reed's base as soon as he arrived.
Cort said 12 rounds of ammunition were in his car trunk, but police said the ammunition was in the gun's clip.
Although acquitting him of the gun charges, the jury found Cort guilty of possessing ammunition, a misdemeanor. He was sentenced to time already spent in the D.C. jail.
Cort, his wife and their 3-month-old daughter, Charlott, now plan to drive home to Columbus, where Samantha Cort is in real estate. Cort said he plans to appeal the verdict and tend to his family."I just plan to take care of my daughter," Cort said. the stupidity in D.C is beyond belief.
This isn't stupidity. It's planned.
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Welcome to Zimbabwe the District. We don't have gun crime here cuz we don't allow guns.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A 34-year-old woman posed as her 15-year-old daughter in a bid to go back to school and try out for the cheerleading squad.
Hundreds of demonstrators have clashed with riot police in Latvia's capital, Riga, after an anti-government protest.
Liberal Wisconsin capital would limit development, tree removal, fast food restaurants and parking to promote 'sustainability.' 
The Gannett Company, the nation's largest newspaper publisher, said on Wednesday that it would force thousands of its employees to take a week off without pay in an effort to avoid layoffs.
