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Wednesday, July 5, 2006

The Smartest Guy In The Room Is Dead

Kenneth Lay, founder of Enron, that multibillion dollar energy giant that went belly-up a few years ago with the help of its own corporate staff, died today of an apparent heart attack. Not to sound insensitive, but after what he cost millions of good, honest, hard-working Americans when he guided... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 23, 2006

Good Thing I Got My Financial Assets In Mason Jars Out Back, Huh?

Just when you thought all the scandals concerning your civil rights that could rock an administration had come and finally gone (thanks to a Republican-controlled Congress that isn't doing its job in the checks-and-balances system), the Washington Post and the New York Times hit the streets today... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

What Next? Putting Up Signs That Read: "Don't Feed The Homeless!"

The Orlando City Council is considering a regulation to limit the number of times the homeless are fed and who can actually do it. It seems that several charity groups make a trip to Lake Eola each week to feed the homeless and said "feedings" are causing local residents and businesspeople to become... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 17, 2006

Five New Orleans Teens Murdered In Shootout

It looks to be more of a mobile shoot-'em-up instead of a shootout, considering that there is no evidence that the five teenagers shot to death in an SUV found against a utility pole in New Orleans' Central City even returned fire. Police Captain John Bryson says that he cannot remember so many shot... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 11, 2006

State Farm Is Not There And The Good Hands People Using Only One Finger

The number one and number two insurers of Louisiana aren't coming across with flood damage insurance like their customers expected them to, not so much denying claims, but using technicalities to reduce the amounts being settled. In an industry that posted a $43 billion profit in 2005, a fifteen... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Justice Shorted By Short-sighted Nebraska Judge

Last Tuesday, Cheyenne County District Judge Kristine Cecava of Nebraska, sentenced a 5-foot-1-inch man to 10 years intense probation instead of the ten years prison time his sentencing demanded. Why? She maintained that, due to his diminutive size, he would not survive in a prison environment. What... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 26, 2006

Video Rapist/Killer Duo Turn Themselves In With Kidnapped 5-Year-Old

For those of you who have been following this chain of insane events, this in covered territory. But for those of you who haven't heard about the Kansas couple who abducted, raped, sodomized and murdered an Independence, Missouri woman and videotaped the entire crime in their own bedroom, well,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Columbine Video Game, Online Reprehensibility

There is a new role-playing video game online. It has and is drawing a lot of attention and a lot of heat because of its content. Families of the murdered students of Columbine High School, humanitarian groups, child protection organizations, and game creators are speaking out against the game. As... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 12, 2006

You Can Always Burn The Books

Laura Mallory of Loganville, Georgia, would like to see the Harry Potter series of books pulled from the Gwinnett County schools. Why? Because it glorifies witchcraft, she says. This coming from a woman who has never read one of the books. Her children have never been required to read one for class.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Teens Killing Teens; Teens Killing Cops

As if the recent spate of Columbine-wannabes wasn't bad enough, out of northern Virginia, greater suburbia to our nation's capital, comes the story of an 18-year-old, Michael W. Kennedy, who decided it was time to take on a police station. By the time the shooting stopped, Kennedy and a detective,... Sign in to see full entry.

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