That is just terrible.

Deep Religious Thought...
Saudi Clerics Issue Ruling

Share it with colleagues? Really? Will they have "Take Your Breast Pump To Work Day"?

What a bizzare article.

It gives new meaning to the term "family friend"...

WASHINGTON – The FBI thought it was closing in on Joran Van der Sloot in the notorious Natalee Holloway missing-teenager case, paying him at least $15,000 in a sting operation, federal officials said Wednesday. But when the agency delayed his arrest to help build a murder case, he took the money and headed for Peru, where authorities say he now has confessed to killing a different young woman.

Federal law enforcement officials and a private investigator say the work on Holloway's disappearance was revived about six weeks ago when Van der Sloot reached out to someone close to the Alabama teenager's mother and requested $250,000 in exchange for disclosing the location of the young woman's body on the island of Aruba.

Link

Or friends with privileges!

Truly disgusting! WTF??

Man in Brazil jails daughter, has 7 kids with her

Kill the fucking bastard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On a much lighter note, I heard just now that it was 3 years ago today that HBO aired the very disappointing (IMHO but we won't go there again) season finale of The Sopranos. They showed a very brief clip of the ending and commented on how the cable companies received phone calls to see if there tv went out. Plus, they said that "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey has been in the top 10 most downloaded songs even still.

Wow, time does fly but I sure miss that show.

TIS

are they suppose to make a movie or not?

They also performed that song on "Glee", which has added to its popularity.

It's hard to believe that it's been three years, though!

Three years really? TIS, do you watch the re-runs on A&E?

I tried once. The censoring and commercials just ruin it entirely! I have the complete series on DVD, so there's no reason to watch A&E for me...

'Female viagra' could be approved next week by the FDA

Washington, June 12 (ANI): Next week, the FDA will vote on whether the female libido enhancing drug Flibanserin should be voted in or out. If in, it could mean a business of 2 billion dollars in US markets alone. The Food and Drug Administration will vote on what's being called 'female viagra', a drug that could be a boon to many women suffering from low sex drives across the globe but is still ensnared by controversy.

The pill is designed to treat a condition identified in an estimated 10 percent to 30 percent of women as hypoactive sexual desire disorder or HSDD - characterised by lack of sexual desire or fantasies, causing emotional distress, a rather vague diagnosis. The pill, however, comes with side effects, which include insomnia, nausea and dizziness. As always, women will need to decide whether the risks versus the benefits compared to other treatment alternatives are worth it for them.

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/163235

Arizona's Next Immigration Target: Children of Illegals

Buoyed by recent public opinion polls suggesting they're on the right track with illegal immigration, Arizona Republicans will likely introduce legislation this fall that would deny birth certificates to children born in Arizona - and thus American citizens according to the U.S. Constitution - to parents who are not legal U.S. citizens. The law largely is the brainchild of state Sen. Russell Pearce, a Republican whose suburban district, Mesa, is considered the conservative bastion of the Phoenix political scene. He is a leading architect of the Arizona law that sparked outrage throughout the country: Senate Bill 1070, which allows law enforcement officers to ask about someone's immigration status during a traffic stop, detainment or arrest if reasonable suspicion exists - things like poor English skills, acting nervous or avoiding eye contact during a traffic stop.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100612/us_time/08599199606400

Of course, there are potential (and probable) conflicts with the 14th amendment. Such conflicts will almost certainly be the subject of a Supreme Court case.

this is going the wrong way of handling this...arizona is putting a bad name on this country like hitler did to germany.
what's next make 'camps' for all the illegals rounded up?

Why not? We did it to the Japanese! Oh, wait, that's right, they were actually citizens and not illegal immigrants!

They did it with Italians, too, Babe. But I'm sure that you know that .

Actually, no, I didn't know that.

Germans also. There's a couple of books published during the previous ten years on the internment of what was mostly American citizens whose ancestry originated in the countries on which the US had declared war.

really? like a large majority of italians or justs ones suspected on being allied with opposing forces?

This is taken from Wikipedia, but it seems on par with what I've read avout the subject elsewhere.

Italian American internment

Terms
The term "Italian American" does not have a legal definition. It is generally understood to mean ethnic Italians of American nationality, whether Italian-born immigrants to the United States (naturalized or unnaturalized) or American-born people of Italian descent (natural-born U.S. citizens).

The term "enemy alien" has a legal definition. The relevant federal statutes in Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the United States Code, for example par. 21 [1], which applies only to persons 14 years of age or older who are within the United States and not naturalized. Under this provision, which was first defined and enacted in 1798 (in the Alien Enemies Act, one of the four Alien and Sedition Acts) and amended in 1918 (in the Sedition Act of 1918) to apply to females as well as to males, all "...natives, citizens, denizens or subjects..." of any foreign nation or government with which the United States is at war "...are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed as alien enemies...."[2]

Thus, at the outbreak of World War II, for example, an Italian businessman temporarily living in the United States, Italian diplomats, and Italian international students studying in the United States all became "enemy aliens" the moment Italy declared war on the United States. In some cases, such temporary residents were expelled (such as diplomats) or given a chance to leave the country when war was declared. Some were interned, as were the Italian merchant seamen caught in U.S. ports when their ships were impounded (discussed below) in 1939 when war broke out in Europe.

The members of the "Italian community" in the United States presented an unusual problem. Defined in terms of national origin, it was the largest community in the United States, having been supplied by a steady flow of immigrants from Italy between the 1880s and 1930. By 1940, there were, thus, millions of native-born Italian Americans in the United States. However, there were also a great many Italian "enemy aliens" (more than 600,000, according to most sources). These were not Italian students, diplomats, or businessmen, but rather 600,000 Italians who had immigrated during the previous decades and had never become naturalized citizens of the United States.

The laws regarding "enemy aliens" did not make ideological distinctions—treating as legally the same pro-Fascist Italian businessmen living for a short time in the U.S. and trapped there when war broke out, anti-Fascist refugees from Italy who arrived a few years earlier intending to become U.S. citizens but who had not completed the process of naturalization, and those who had emigrated from Italy at the turn of the century and raised entire families of native-born Italian Americans but who were not naturalized themselves. They were all considered enemy aliens.

Before United States entry into World War II
Custodial detention index
The problem of "enemy aliens" in the United States started well before the nation's entry into World War II. The United States entered the war after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

In September 1939, Britain and France declared war against Nazi Germany after the Germans invaded Poland. In a show of support of Britain and France, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, to compile a Custodial Detention Index of persons to be arrested in case of national emergency. The Axis powers allied with Germany included Fascist Italy and the Japanese Empire. Thus, at more than one year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Department of Justice began to list possible saboteurs and enemy agents among the German, Japanese, and Italian populations. [3] Also, resident aliens were registered in 1940 under the Smith Act.

War relocation centers
A distinction must be made between:

Italian Americans designated "enemy aliens" (non-U.S. citizens) as defined by Title 50 of the United States Code[4]
Italian Americans who were evacuated and interned under the War Relocation Authority. This authority was based on Executive Order 9066 (issued February 19, 1942) and Executive Order 9102 (issued March 18, 1942). These orders authorized the "removal from designated areas of persons whose removal is necessary in the interests of national security."[5] That authority did not distinguish between native-born Americans and citizens of other nations living in the United States; the orders simply said "persons." This was the same basis upon which Japanese Americans were interned, an effort much larger in scale than Italian American internment. Indeed, both foreign-born and native-born Japanese Americans and both citizens and non-citizens were interned, though the majority (about 60 percent) were in fact native-born U.S. citizens.[6][7][8] Italian Americans interned under the War Relocation Authority were not arrested under the Enemy Alien Act, but were simply "persons" removed under the War Relocation Authority.
Generally speaking, that was not the case with members of the Italian community.[citation needed] Although there were anomalous cases of U.S. native-born Italian Americans being caught in the round-up, the others had been born in Italy and were still Italian citizens, even if many of them had resided in the U.S. for decades.

Di Stasi[9] cites a number of such cases of mistreatment and internment of "Italian Americans," although he apparently defines "Italian American" as anyone within the Italian community, native-born U.S. citizens or Italian-born non-U.S. citizens.

1941 to 1943
The general chronology of events regarding the treatment of enemy aliens and the reaction in the Italian community is as follows:

In the months immediately after the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, hundreds of Italians were arrested. On December 11, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy declared war on the United States. The United States reciprocated and entered World War II. By June 1942, the total reached 1,521 Italian aliens arrested by the FBI.[9] About 250 individuals were interned for up to two years in military camps in Montana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.
In late December 1941, enemy aliens throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are required to surrender hand cameras, short-wave radio receiving sets and radio transmitters not later than 11 p.m. on the following Monday.[10]
In January 1942, all enemy aliens were required to register at local post offices around the country. As enemy aliens they were required to be fingerprinted, photographed, and carry their photo-bearing "enemy alien registration cards" at all times. Attorney General Francis M. Biddle assured enemy aliens that they would not be discriminated against if they were loyal. He cited Department of Justice figures: Of the 1,100,000 (sic) enemy aliens in the United States, 92,000 were Japanese, 315,000 were German, and 695,000 were Italian. In all, 2,972 had been arrested and held, mostly Japanese and Germans. Only 231 Italians had been arrested.[11]
On January 11, the New York Times reported that "Representatives of 200,000 Italian-American trade unionists appealed to President Roosevelt yesterday to 'remove the intolerable stigma of being branded as enemy aliens' from Italian and German nationals who had formally declared their intentions of becoming American citizens by taking out first papers before America's entry into the war."[12]
A few weeks later, the same newspaper reported that "…Thousands of enemy aliens living in areas adjacent to shipyards, docks, power plants and defense factories prepared today to find new homes as Attorney General Biddle added sixty-nine more districts in California to the earlier list of West Coast sections barred to Japanese, Italian and German nationals.[13]
On February 1, the Justice Department warned all aliens of enemy nationalities fourteen years of age or older that they had to register within the week if they lived in the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Montana, Utah or Idaho. Failure to do so could result in severe penalties, including internment for the duration of the war.[14]
Later in February, the Italian American Labor Council, founded by Luigi Antonini, met in New York and voiced "opposition to any blanket law for aliens that does not differentiate between those who are subversive and those who are loyal to America."[15]
In March, the War Relocation Authority is established (see above). Again, the relocation of citizens and non-citizens, alike, under this authority was legally quite different than the arrest and detention of foreign nationals under the Enemy Alien Act. By September 23, 1942, the Justice Department claimed "…From the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor until 1 September, 6,800 enemy aliens were apprehended in the United States and half of them have either been paroled or released."[16]
In October, the 600,000 unnaturalized Italians living in the United States were freed from the stigma of being alien enemies. The plan was approved by President Roosevelt and many restrictions were lifted. Members of the Italian community could now travel freely, own cameras and firearms, and were not required to carry ID cards.[17]
Italy's surrender on September 8, 1943 brought about the release of most of the Italian American internees by year's end. Some had been paroled months after "exoneration" by a second hearing board appealed for by their families. Nonetheless, most of the men had spent two years as prisoners, moving from camp to camp every three to four months.[9]
Attorney General’s Report on Wartime Restrictions
On November 7, 2000, the U.S. Congress passed the Wartime Violation of Italian American Civil Liberties Act.(Pub.L. 106-451, 114 Stat. 1947) This law, in part, directed the U.S. Attorney General to conduct a comprehensive review of the treatment by the U.S. Government of Italian Americans during World War II and to report on its findings within a year. The Attorney General submitted this report, A Review of the Restrictions on Persons of Italian Ancestry During World War II, to the U.S. Congress on November 7, 2001 and the House Judiciary Committee released the report to the public on November 27, 2001.[18] The report, covering the period September 1, 1939, to December 31, 1945, describes the authority under which the United States undertook enforcement of wartime restrictions on Italian Americans and detailed these restrictions. In addition, the report provides 11 lists, most of which include the names of those most directly affected by the wartime restrictions.[19] The lists include:

1.the names of 74 persons of Italian ancestry taken into custody in the initial roundup following the attack on Pearl Harbor and prior to the United States declaration of war against Italy,
2.the names of 1,881 other persons of Italian ancestry who were taken into custody,
3.the names and locations of 418 persons of Italian ancestry who were interned,
4.the names of 47 persons of Italian ancestry ordered to move from designated areas under the Individual Exclusion Program or, and an additional 12 who appeared before the Individual Exclusion Board, though it unknown if an exclusion order was issued,
5.the names of 56 persons of Italian ancestry not subject to individual exclusion orders who were ordered to temporarily move from designated areas,
6.the names of 442 persons of Italian ancestry arrested for curfew, contraband, or other violations,
7.a list of 33 ports from which fishermen of Italian ancestry were restricted,
8.names of 315 fishermen of Italian ancestry who were prevented from fishing in prohibited zones,
9.the names of 2 persons of Italian ancestry whose boats were confiscated,
10.a list of 12 railroad workers of Italian ancestry prevented from working in prohibited zones, of whom only 4 are named, and
11.a list of 6 wartime restrictions on persons of Italian ancestry resulting specifically from Executive Order 9066.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_American_internment

In the world of bullfighting, a bit of cowardice comes at a high cost.

That's a lesson Christian Hernandez learned the hard way Sunday, when, in a bullfight at Mexico City's famed Plaza Mexico, the 22-year-old matador decided to bolt across the ring and leap headfirst over a wall as the bull charged forward. The move drew jeers and whistles from less-than-impressed spectators.

Though he briefly re-appeared in the ring, a humiliated Hernandez was later arrested for breach of contract. According to local media reports, he was released by police after paying a fine.

"There are some things you must be aware of about yourself," the Mexican apprentice matador said in an interview before announcing his retirement. "I didn't have the ability, I didn't have the balls ... this is not my thing."

This is not Hernandez's first brush with infamy in the bullfighting arena. Earlier this year, he was injured after being gored in the leg by a bull.
Brave Sir Christian Ran Away

I have never understood people who lose it after romantic setbacks and want to kill other innocent people.

A correction officer went on a blood-thirsty rampage in Long Island Wednesday, killing her ex-girlfriend and her uncle, and wounding her grandfather, police said.

The suspected shooter then abducted her niece and hopped in a car, surrendering during a traffic stop about four hours after the carnage began. Charges are pending against Kim Wolfe, 43, who was hospitalized after having trouble breathing.

"She loved her job," Patricia Bines said of her slain sister, Stacie Williams, a nurse's aide. "She loved working with babies. This is the worst day of our lives."


Long Island Corrections Officer kills her girlfriend and uncle

I saw this on the news this morning. She had just been apprehended.

Who's that riding into the sun.
Who's the man with the itchy gun.
Who's the man who kills for fun !

Psy-cho Dad, Psycho Dad, Psycho Dad !

He sleeps with a gun, but he loves his son.
Killed his wife 'cause she weighed a ton... Psycho Dad !

School bans student's hat honoring Army troops over no-weapons policy
Associated Press • June 17, 2010

Twitter FarkIt Type Size A A A PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island mother says her son's school cited its no-weapons policy in stopping the second-grader from wearing a patriotic hat he made to honor Army troops.

Christan (KRIS'-ten) Morales says her 8-year-old son, David, was assigned to make a crazy hat for his class at the Tiogue (TEYE'-ohg) School in Coventry. She says they brainstormed and he came up with an idea to glue small plastic Army figures to a camouflage hat with an American flag. But she says David was not allowed to wear the hat for the project. Morales says his teacher called her to say it wasn't appropriate because it had guns, violating a school ban on weapons and toy weapons. The principal did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

That's dumb.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Nevada's jobless rate hit a record high last month and and is now the highest in the nation, the first time in four years that Michigan doesn't hold that distinction, according to a government report released Friday.

The Silver State's unemployment rate climbed to 14% in May, the highest in the state since 1976 when the Labor Department began collecting the data. It was up from 13.7% in April.