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Northwest Re-Introduces Peanuts Despite Danger to Passengers

Posted on February 17, 2009
People with allergies are legitimately outraged this week by the decision of Northwest Airlines to re-introduce peanuts to its flights despite the large number of kids and adults with severe allergies to the snack. I have written repeatedly about my astonishment that any major airline would continue to serve peanuts when there are other snacks available [...

Chinese Woman Becomes Internet Star with Airport Meltdown

Posted on February 17, 2009
Now, when you get really mad as those flight attendants, you might want to watch the video below, which is now a major hit on the Internet. While watching this woman writhing on the ground, keep in mind that she merely missed her flight and caught the next plane a couple hours later...

Hamburgers and Hummers: Scientists Denounce Meat As Major Cause of Global Warming

Posted on February 17, 2009
Another scientific report has denounced the environmental damage caused by beef consumption in the United States. Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Canada has released a study showing how cows consume a disproportionate amount of food (more than they produce in meat) and cause 18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions...

Lott Backs On From Criminal Charges Against Phelps

Posted on February 17, 2009
After launching a controversial investigation involving dozens of people for marijuana use in the Phelps bong incident, South Carolina’s Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said he couldn’t ignore the photo but defended has suddenly announced that he would not charge Phelps, though he did charge others...

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Nazi Satanist Bites Boy and Verbally Attacks Judge in Indiana

Posted on February 17, 2009
A judge in Muncie, Indiana has accepted a plea of guilty in a bizarre case involving a white supremacist and Satan worshiper who turned a prior hearing into chaos by shouting “Heil Hitler” and “White Power” at the judge before being held in contempt...

Islamic Television Founder Beheads Wife in New York

Posted on February 17, 2009
Muzzammil Hassan, 44, the founder of an Islamic television station in New York, has been charged with beheading of his wife, Aasiya Hassan, 37. Ironically, Hassan founded the Bridges TV station in Buffalo to dispel stereotypes of Muslims and has now contributed to such stereotypes in his alleged murder of his wife...

Texas Legislator Moves to Impeach Judge Sharon Keller Over Execution of Prisoner

Posted on February 17, 2009
Texas Rep. Lon Burnam has filed a resolution seeking an impeachment investigation of Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller, who has been denounced around the world for her refusal to keep a court office open to allow the filing of a late appeal in a death case...

Scientology Solves 9-11: Psychiatrists Did It

Posted on February 17, 2009
There seems to be an endless series of theories as to what occurred 9-11. Homosexuality, Israel, abortion, and other causes have been cited by religious groups. Given those theories, it is perhaps not so surprising that Scientology has come to claim its standard villains: psychiatrists...

Bad Source of Iron: Texas Beef Producer Recalls Beef Containing Metal Fragments

Posted on February 16, 2009
There may be on thing that is not quite better at Here Everything’s Better stores in Texas. The chain has recalled meat that it sold due to metal fragments in the meat due to “an equipment malfunction.” The recall was issued appropriately on Friday the 13th...

Hampshire Students Accuse Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz of Intimidation

Posted on February 16, 2009
Students of Hampshire College are complaining of harassing or intimidating telephone calls. Nothing new there, such calls can be common particularly when the students are leading a political cause. Yet, the alleged caller was Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who they claim was upset over their effort to get the school to divest [...

Welcome to Brandon, You Unrepentant Gender Oppressors: Manitoba Men Seek Club Over University Objections

Posted on February 16, 2009
Male students at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada are a bit put out this week after the curious reception given a simple proposal for a Men’s Collective, a group to mirror the Women’s Collective. The proposal by Will Breen was allegedly met with scorn from both students and faculty alike, including such dismissals [...

PETA Porn II: Animal Rights Group Puts on Live Girl on Girl Show in El Paso

Posted on February 16, 2009
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) appear to be intent on getting the first XXX rating for political advocacy. Just last month, PETA attempted to air a commercial during the Superbowl in which stripping models had sexual moments with various vegetables...

The Bitters: Oregon Proposes a 1900% Tax Increase in Beer

Posted on February 16, 2009
This would be enough to get reach for a stiff drink . . . if it weren’t prohibitively expensive. Oregon legislators are proposing a 1900% tax increase so voters not only have to face the economic crisis but do it without beer. Oregon House Bill 2461, which would impose a $49...

Did Roland Burris Commit Perjury?

Posted on February 16, 2009
There are growing calls for a perjury investigation of Senator Roland W. Burris of Illinois after he acknowledged that the brother of former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich sought campaign fund-raising help before his appointment to succeed Barack Obama in the Senate...

Tomb Raider: Tourist ?Discovers? 350-Year-Old-Vault in Boston By Falling Into History

Posted on February 16, 2009
Now here is a public invitee case worth following. Boston’s Granary Cemetery is dealing with an alarming incicent where a woman strolling on their grounds fell into a burial chamber. The tourist was walking along a fence when she found herself in a hole that proved to be a staircase into a 350 [...

Pygmy Rattlers at Pembroke Pines: Third Floridian Bitten By Snake At Walmart Garden Center

Posted on February 16, 2009
While Walmart advertises Spend Less, Live Better, the company may want to just reduce it to “Spend Less.” Jay Richitelli, 42, is now the third Floridian to be bitten by a snake at a Walmart garden center in that state alone. The culprit was a pygmy rattler at the Pembroke Pines Wal-Mart...

Florida Woman Barred From Seeing Dying Partner of 18 Years by Hospital

Posted on February 15, 2009
For years gay and lesbian couples have complained about being denies access to loved ones in hospitals. Now, a lawsuit has been filed in Miami in which Janice Langbehn alleges that she was prevented from being with her partner of 18 years, Lisa Marie Pond, 39, as she died at Jackson Memorial Hospital after [...

Drug Interdiction- American Style: Gen. Craddock Calls For Shooting Drug Traffickers Without Proof of Association with Taliban

Posted on February 15, 2009
NATO countries are shocked by the proposal of a leading U.S. military officer on how best to handle drug dealers in Afghanistan. NATO?s senior military commander Gen. John Craddock does not understand why NATO should bother with the need to establish that any given drug dealer is associated with the Taliban...

Ohio Judge Rules That NCAA Cannot Bar Lawyers From Assisting High School Players At Negotiations

Posted on February 15, 2009
A state judge has struck down one of the most obnoxious rules of the NCAA: a ban on college baseball players hiring lawyers to assist them in discussions with baseball clubs. The NCAA suspended Oklahoma State pitcher Andrew Oliver after her allowed legal advisers to listen to contract negotiations after being drafted by the [...

Transgender Wife Confesses To Killing Elderly Husband With Excessive Exercise

Posted on February 15, 2009
Everything about a murder in Chardon, Ohio is perfectly bizarre. Christine Newton-John, 41, (formerly John Vallandingham before a sex operation) has confessed to killing her husband James Mason, 71, by keeping him exercising and refusing to allow him out of a swimming pool...

?All Together Ooky?: Man Convicted of Criminal Nuisance for Repeatedly Whistling Theme Song of The Addams Family

Posted on February 15, 2009
Leopold Wrobel, 51,of Wingerworth, England is whistling a different tone this week after a court found him guilty in a unique form of criminal nuisance. Wrobel is to spend 20 weeks in jail for continually whistling the theme music to The Addams Family series whenever his elderly neighbors, Michael and Kathleen Sharpe, passed by...

Los Angeles City College Sues Over Christian-Based Presentation in Speech Class

Posted on February 15, 2009
Jonathan Lopez has filed a lawsuit against a professor and Los Angeles City College over his treatment after giving a speech on the Christian view of marriage in speech class. Lopez alleges that Professor John Matteson had made it clear that he supported same-sex marriage...

Cashing In On The Kinder: Pennsylvania Judges Plead Guilty To Massive Corruption Charges

Posted on February 14, 2009
Prosecutors in Allentown are accepting pleas in one of the most disturbing cases of alleged judicial corruption in years. Two Pennsylvania judges was accepted generous plea bargains after taking more than $2 million in kickbacks to send youth offenders to privately run detention centers...

Former Yankee Jim Leyritz Jailed For Drinking While Awaiting Trial in DUI Manslaughter Case on

Posted on February 14, 2009
In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, former New York Yankee Jim Leyritz has been jailed for drinking as he awaited trial for killing a woman in a drunk driving accident. He was busted when his car system (that requires him to blow into a tube to start the car) registered alcohol...

Federal Court Holds Stevens Prosecutors in Contempt

Posted on February 14, 2009
The United States Justice Department has finally outdone the O.J. Simpson prosecution team as the worst in history. After derailing a relatively straightforward case with prosecutorial abuse and creating major appellate issues for former Senator Ted Stevens (R...

Hello Kitty: Transvestite Mafia Boss Named ?Kitty? Arrested in Naples

Posted on February 14, 2009
Here is your Mafia Valentine story. Ugo Gabriele, 27, a mafia boss in Naples who ran a huge drug, prostitution, and murder racket has been arrested. Police were surprised, however, to find that he insisted on being called Kitty and was now a transvestite...

HAPPY VALENTINE?S DAY: THE LARCENY OF LOVE

Posted on February 14, 2009
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, I give you the best criminal cases from the last year of amorous relationships gone bad. There are times when society simply does not understand the attraction of a man to a park bench, mannequin, or car vacuum...

END OF RAINDOW FOUND: POT OF GOLD MISSING

Posted on February 13, 2009
The search is over. The end of a rainbow has been conclusively found, but there was a conspicuous absence of a pot of gold. The suspicion is that it is no coincidence that this missing pot is revealed on the day that Congress approves the roughly $800 billion stimulus package...

Strike Out: Federal Judge Guts Roger Clemens? Defamation Case Against McNamee

Posted on February 13, 2009
U.S. District Court Judge Keith Ellison gutted the defamation case of Roger Clemens against his former trainer Brian McNamee. As discussed on this blog, the case was unlikely to succeed and seemed part of Clemens’ public campaign to defend his reputation...

Austrian History: FDR Caused The Great Depression

Posted on February 13, 2009
It appears that the cause of the Depression has been finally determined with certainty. The fault for the Depression, according to Rep. Steve Austria (R-OH), was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This time traveling moment was all the more impressive since the Depression began in 1929 and Roosevelt took office in 1933...

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