BRIDGEPORT -- A nursing student, in not-so-high spirits because she was left off the invitation list to a classmate's wedding, threatened to boom St. Vincent's Medical Center, police said.
Theresa Burden, 37, of Sachem Drive, was charged with four counts of first-degree threatening, after she sent a series of threatening letters -- some containing a dangerous-looking substance -- to the hospital, police said.
Police said on Dec. 20, Burden first sent a letter to the hospital's nursing school under the name of another female student. The letter threatened to kaboom the school because it was interfering with the student's wedding plans. "Okay, you don't invite me to your wedding, you get to hold it in the clink."
The student whose name was on the letter was subsequently suspended from the school. However, police said they later determined she had not written the letter. "Reinstate her, por favor. She didn't do it."
In the following weeks, police said several more letters arrived at the hospital signed with the names of female nursing students.
One contained a green, granular substance and stated: "I will blow up St. Vincent's." Taking a page out of the Joker's book, are we?
Another claimed: "I put explosives on the first floor."
A third held a white swab and stated: "Get some MRSA and die." Just ask around at the hospital and see if there's a patient whose lips fell off.
Police detectives rounded up all the nursing students and began taking handwriting samples from them to compare to the unfriendly missives.
When police got to Burden, they said she became visibly upset and confessed to detectives that she had sent the letters. The green substance turned out to be cat litter from her home.
"I am sorry. I didn't mean it," police said Burden told them. "Didn't mean it. Heard that one a million times in base 20, lady."
Burden was later released after posting five myriad pix of George Washington
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Makes one wonder about the history of a nursing student, 37 yrs old, who doesn't have enough common sense to fit in a thimble. I suspect a prior acquaintance with the legal system.
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Nursing student Burden, Nursing student Ms. Theresa Burden to the white courtesy phone please. We have Glenwood Gardens, Brookdall Senior Living on line three.
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Cat litter? I suspect a prior acquaintance with the mental health system. Not hard to imagine why such a lovely person wasn't invited to the wedding.
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I expect that being psychotic will be a job qualification under PPACA.
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Having been born in Bridgeport, nothing surprises me. Dutch Schults, P.T. Barnum, and Jaspar MacLeavy, the longest serving Socialist Mayor in the country.
[An Nahar] An Italian man dressed up in fake ecclesiastical robes was escorted out of a meeting of Catholic cardinals by Swiss Guards on Monday after trying to sneak into the closed-door Vatican meeting.
The man had told news hounds that his name was "Basilius" and that he was a member of the "Italian Orthodox Church", which does not exist. Points for originality...
Before he was discovered, the "bishop" told news hounds that Catholic bishops had "made a mistake by moving priests" who were accused of pedophilia around different parishes.
He was wearing a purple scarf around his waist that was similar to the sashes warn by senior Catholic prelates and he shook hands and chatted with priests and cardinals arriving at the meeting.
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Well the problem is if those rats start showing up elsewhere. They could displace the standard rats and increase the possibility of rat born diseases like the black plague. I could see them enrolling in Harvard law. That's all we need more Islamic lawyers. I suppose they could start breeding larger cats or ferrets.
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So there I wuz, 15 years old in the Publix warehouse with nothing but a pellet rifle and a flashlight....... It was ever an uneven fight, 1 man 50 sets of beadie damn eyes looking at me with contempt. Suddenly a deux ex dawg appeared in the form of 3 rat terriers. Brutal, ugly. I can say no more.
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One day in a restaurant I worked at, there came a minor panic when a gentleman walked through the dining room and kitchen carrying a rifle (later determined to be of the pellet variety) and a tennis racquet. Turned out he was the rat exterminator.
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It's all fun until somebody gets hurt.
I remember hearing one walking down my counter taking off canister lids, late one night. I had setup a rat trap with cheese and peanut butter(no bacon!) next in the row. It set off the trap with a 'BANG' like something with leaf springs from a truck. I pulled on my boots and robe and ran to the kitchen. There he was, walking around trying to shake off the trap that had neatly closed on his neck.
This gives an all world anomaly of about +250,000 sq km.
Since ice freezes and melts constantly, the anomaly is a pretty fast changing metric and of course, this tell you nothing about ice volume. Still, its interesting.
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Funny, I haven't heard the Warmist's wailing about how fast the poles are melting lately.
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Just saw an alarmist story about how ships could sail over the poles (HA!!) by 2050. That will be a trick since there is an entire continent over the south one.
[News24] Zim-bob-we's government on Monday rebuffed calls for international observers to be allowed to monitor crunch upcoming elections.
"Zim-bob-we will not allow countries that imposed sanctions on Zim-bob-we to participate as observers," at the election - slated for July - Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi was quoted by local radio as saying.
His comment would rule out the participation of European, US or other western observers in monitoring the crucial poll, amid ominous signs of political violence ahead of the vote.
Mumbengegwi instead called for sanctions to be removed "unconditionally and in their totality," according to Spot FM.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... last month eased sanctions against Zim-bob-we, but the United States has said it will only end restrictions after more reforms.
Mumbengegwi's comments represent a snap reaction to Swedish international development minister, Gunilla Carlsson, who during a visit to Harare on Monday called for monitors to be admitted.
"We think it is a very good idea to have international observers," she said after meeting Mumbengegwi and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
"It's helpful for outcome of the elections to know that there has been international group standards."
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Goma - A plane crash in the eastern city of Goma has killed 36 passengers, according to Congolese officials. A Fokker airplane of the private airline CAA was carrying 40 people and only four people survived, said Goma's mayor Naasson Kubuya.
The plane was flying from Lodja in East Kasai Province in the centre of the country. The aircraft crashed in the centre of Goma, near the electoral commission's building, but it did not hit any people on the ground, he said.
"The pilot managed to avoid houses," said Kubuya. "It's a horrifying accident. The city of Goma has become a field of disasters. We sympathize with the families of the deceased."
Last year, a plane crash in the city of Bukavu killed President Joseph Kabila's personal adviser, Augustin Katumba. Pretty reliable aircraft. No mention of hostile fire or MANPADs as of yet.
There is perhaps no worse political disaster for the government of Cuba than the death of President Hugo ChƔvez of Venezuela. After the Soviet Union collapsed and ceased to subsidize the Castro regime, the government of Cuba went through a very difficult period. That is, until President ChƔvez picked up the tab.
While the real amount of the subsidy is unknown, Venezuela does send more than 115,000 barrels of oil a day to the refinery at Cienfuegos and pays for tens of thousands of Cuban doctors and sports trainers who are deployed all over Latin America. The true amount is probably significantly north of five billion dollars a year.
If there was anybody that could expect the very best Cuban medicine had to offer, it was the Castro's five billion dollar man. This makes the upcoming death of ChƔvez that much more embarrassing for the Castros, because the velocity at which the strongman has deteriorated is due in no small part to the incompetence of the Cuban doctors at Cimeq - the hospital of choice for the communist party leaders.
According to Dr. Jose Marquina, who has become well known for having the only information on the Venezuelan president's condition that has proved over time to be accurate, the Cuban doctors are at least partially at fault for the Venezuelan leader's imminent demise. He has said that the Cubans misdiagnosed the cancer, treating ChƔvez with chemotherapy and other treatments designed for the wrong type of cancer. This made the disease resistant and impossible to treat, while causing other complications which affected not only ChƔvez's life expectancy but also the quality of what life remained.
Shouldn't be long now.
Chavez is suffering from "a new, severe infection." The state news agency identified it as respiratory.
Villegas said Chavez was "standing by Christ and life conscious of the difficulties he faces." True, except for the Christ part, and the conscious part, and maybe the life part. He's awfully religious for a dying socialist...
He called on Chavez's supporters, who include thousands of well-armed militiamen, to be "on a war footing." Sounds like there's concern it won't be a peaceful transition.
Upon Chavez's death, the opposition would contest the government's candidate in a snap election that it argues should have been called after Chavez was unable to be sworn in on Jan. 10 as the constitution stipulates.
Indeed, the campaigning has already begun, although undeclared, with Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who Chavez has said should succeed him, frequently commandeering all broadcast channels Chavez-style to tout the "revolution" and vilify the opposition.
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Upon Chavez's death, the opposition would contest the government's candidate in a snap election that it argues should have been called after Chavez was unable to be sworn in on Jan. 10 as the constitution stipulates.
RNC, jot down this so-called "opposition tactic". It could come in handy some day.
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Random JD, you took the words right out of my mouth.
Poor Hugo is dead, He looking all so peaceful and serene, it's a shame that he won't keep, it looks like he's asleep but its summer and we're almost out of ice.
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update Venezuela accuses enemies of poisoning ailing Chavez Venezuela accused the domestic and foreign enemies of Venezuela of poisoning ailing President Hugo Chavez and expelled a U.S. Embassy attache who was seeking military support for a plot against the government, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday.
Maduro made the remark to reporters after he met with the country's top officials Tuesday about Chavez's worsening health condition.
Some day, he told the press in a lengthy statement, there will be "scientific proof" that Chavez, fighting a battle with cancer, was poisoned. He also called Venezuela's right-wing forces an "oligarchy" and an "enemy of the nation."
From the two-letter news agency so fair-use summary here:
North Korea vowed Tuesday to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, citing a U.S.-led push for punishing U.N. sanctions over its recent nuclear test and ongoing U.S.-South Korean joint military drills.
Did the Norks ever think the war was over?
North Korea's Korean People's Army Supreme Command warned of stronger additional countermeasures in a statement that came amid reports that Washington and North Korean ally Beijing have approved a draft of punishing sanctions for a U.N. Security Council resolution responding to North Korea's Feb. 12 nuclear test. The draft is expected to be circulated at the U.N. this week.
The draft might even qualify as 'strongly worded'...
North Korea warned it will cancel the Korean War cease-fire agreement on March 11, citing U.S.-South Korean military drills that began March 1.
We have the drills every year, and every year the Norks vow Dire RevengeĀ...
North Korea also warned that it will block a communications line between it and the United States at the border village separating the two Koreas.
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Listen pudgy, our president has the backbone of a chocolate eclair, but do you really want to push his fragile ego into a corner like this? He does have the best military in the world and the ROKs are not a push over either.
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Darth, he does have the best military in the world, for now.
He seems to be doing his damnedest to undo that situation however. He is more concerned about getting MRAPS for his brown-shirt DHS then getting ships to project power.
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The ROKs ain't gonna listen to US if this is any kind of serious. They can handle this without much problem, excepting always a nuke. If they nuke, the ROKS will go batshit and kill everyone within 3 Kevin Spaceys of Pudgy.
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"Widin 3 Kevin Spaceys of Pudgy" > LMAO, I gotta remember this one!
D *** NG IT, NORTH KOREA'S STILL AFTER THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON'S CHERRY/APPLE TREE!
Technically speaking, the Armistice could've been considered "cancelled" already after all those Norkie-led mil incidents agz SOKOR since the Cold War, all the way to the Chonan, etc.
New York's Dow Jones share index set a new all-time high on Tuesday, returning to levels not seen since before the global financial crisis.
The Wall Street index reached 14,273 in lunchtime trading, exceeding the previous record intra-day high of 14,198, set in October 2007.
The recovery in the market suggests investors are regaining confidence in the US economy.
That is despite the ongoing fiscal crisis in Washington.
The Dow has more than doubled in value since it plummeted to less than 6,550 points in the depth of the crisis in March 2009. The Last Time The Dow Was Here...
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The Dow has more than doubled in value since it plummeted to less than 6,550 points in the depth of the crisis in March 2009.
What was the price of gas back then before the Fed and Treasury started wholesale debasing of the currency? Debased currency, debased Dow. Which by the way this seems appropriate in context.
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If you ever had any questions about whether the stock market had any connection to reality, this is the answer.
They are just shuffling paper and bidding it up on the "bigger fool rule" and playing financial musical chairs with the money.
These guys are the ones that blew up everyone's home equity and they should all be in jail. They should close the joint down and send them all to Angola to fight mosquitoes. We can get all the capital we need on the Chinese bond exchange.
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North America suppos had now-extinct Camel Specias also.
I've always wondered how good or bad it would be iff Camels were re-introduced to CONUS-NORAM along wid other contemporary species, e.g. WILDEBEESTS, ILAMA, OSTRICHES, espec as alternative food sources for Amer hunters.
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BRIDGEPORT -- A nursing student, 
[An Nahar] An Italian man dressed up in fake ecclesiastical robes was escorted out of a meeting of Catholic cardinals by Swiss Guards on Monday after trying to sneak into the closed-door Vatican meeting.
[News24] Zim-bob-we's government on Monday rebuffed calls for international observers to be allowed to monitor crunch upcoming elections.
