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Children Tried as Adults

MSFixR — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:41:57 GMT

In a recent murder case, a 17 year old girl was ordered by a judge to stand trial as an adult. She is accused of planning and executing the murder, by strangulation, stabbing and slitting of the throat, of a 9 year old neighbor girl just because she "wanted to know what it felt like". A poll in the online edition of a local news organization is conducting a poll of its readers. The questions in the poll are repeated above. How would you vote in this poll?

On This Day (November 19)

MSFixR — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:58:03 GMT

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln said:

Quote:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate...we can not consecrate...we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us�that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion�that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain�that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom�and that government: of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Archie for US President!

Plastic Flute — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:37:57 GMT

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You Have To Hand It To Those Chinese

MSFixR — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:05:13 GMT

They sure are creative when it comes to making a yen.

Customs officers seize rabbit poo cigs
More than �1 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes filled with rabbit droppings instead of tobacco have been confiscated by customs officials in Spain.

The fake cigarettes - due to be sold on the black market as famous brands - were discovered after British holidaymakers in the Canary Islands smelled a rat whenever they lit up.
"They stunk. They smell just as you'd imagine burning poo to smell," said one customs official in Tenerife.
Police and customs staff arrested 12 smugglers in an undercover operation to intercept the cigarettes as they landed on a boat from China.
"They not only smell bad but the toxic chemicals they give off are pure poison," explained a customs official.

Ananove, 11/13/09

NJ DITCHES CORZINE

Plastic Flute — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:20:19 GMT

Finally!!! a message to the Emperor. My property taxes are out of control. For what city water and garbage pick up? I know Christie was the best of the worst BUT.:grin:

Wildlife officer loses alligator in school

MSFixR — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:58:54 GMT

A US wildlife officer's decision to bring a 5ft alligator into his daughter's school for a show-and-tell backfired when it escaped.

Dave Brady had recently captured the reptile and thought he'd bring it into his daughters class, with its mouth taped shut, in Florida.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Stan Kirkland said it proved a hit with the class: "They were impressed," he said.
Things started to go wrong when Mr Brady loaded the alligator back into his truck after the school visit in Panama City Beach.
"Most people don't think they can jump, but they have an amazing ability to jump," Mr Kirkland said. "They can not only jump, they can run."
The alligator successfully jumped out of the truck and ran off towards a local pond where it has so far managed to avoid recapture.
Mr Kirkland asked people to keep an eye out for the alligator: "It's green, it's 5ft long and it was last seen on the lam," he added.

Ananova, 11/3/09

(It would have been more impressive if it had eaten one of the kids!)

15yr-old Girl Gang Raped at High School Dance

RebelMan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:16:58 GMT

Police: As many as 20 present at gang rape outside school dance
October 28, 2009 9:03 a.m. EDT

Richmond, California (CNN) -- Investigators say as many as 20 people were involved in or stood and watched the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a California high school homecoming dance Saturday night.

Police posted a $20,000 reward Tuesday for anyone who comes to them with information that helps arrest and convict those involved in what authorities describe as a 2�-hour assault on the Richmond High School campus in suburban San Francisco.

Two teenage suspects have been jailed, but more arrests, as many as 20 total, are expected, according to a police detective.

"We will be making arrests continually as we develop probable cause," said Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan. "With this number of people implicated in the incident we're going to be making arrests on an ongoing basis."

As many as 10 people were involved in the assault in a dimly lighted back alley at the school, while another 10 people watched without calling 911 to report it, police said.

A 1999 California law makes it illegal not to report a witnessed crime against a child, but the law applies only to children 14 and under.

"We do not have the ability to arrest people who witnessed the crime and did nothing," Gagan said. "The law can be very rigid. We don't have the authority to make an arrest."

Charles Ramsey, a member of the Richmond school board, said the school district bears some responsibility for the attack. School administrators and police apparently weren't watching the area as they should have, Ramsey said.

The school said it would hold a safety meeting for parents and students Wednesday evening to address the assault.

The victim was found unconscious under a bench shortly before midnight Saturday, after police received a call from someone in the area who had overheard people at the assault scene "reminiscing about the incident," Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan said.

The girl was flown by helicopter to a hospital where she was admitted in critical condition. She was in stable condition Tuesday, police said.

Investigators canvassed the community with fliers, which included the reward offer, hoping to identify more suspects Tuesday.

"There is one individual in custody who has made some spontaneous statements that have led me to believe that he is culpable for what happened," Richmond police Lt. Johan Simon said.

Nineteen-year-old Manuel Ortega, described as a former student at the school, was arrested soon after he fled the scene and will face charges of rape, robbery and kidnapping, police said.

A 15-year-old was later arrested and charged with one count of felony sexual assault. A third teenager was being interviewed, Gagan said.

"Based on witness statements and suspect statements, and also physical evidence, we know that she was raped by at least four suspects committing multiple sex acts," Gagan said.

"As people announced over time that this was going on, more people came to see, and some actually participated," Gagan said.

The attack occurred on school grounds as the annual homecoming dance was under way inside the school Saturday night, authorities said.

On This Day (October 27)

MSFixR — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:13:11 GMT

In 1275, the earliest recorded usage of the name "Amsterdam" was made on a certificate by Count Floris V of Holland that granted the inhabitants, who had built a bridge with a dam across the Amstel, an exemption from paying the bridge's tolls.

Angry Man wouldnr marry interracial couple

Hermie — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:27:43 GMT

Seriously.. I can't believe this guy refused to give an interracial couple a marriage license. I mean it's hard to believe the denial of a marriage license is even legally possible. This crap is simply unacceptable. Here's the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091016/...RlcnJhY2lhbGM- What do you guys think about this??