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Do You Know Where Your Child Is? Not with his teacher, we hope.

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Ever found yourself yearning for those good old school days?
Well, school and teachers change.
I might be a little torn on the subject and believe it changes with varying circumstances.
If my 18 year old boy scored with the 22 year old teachers aid... no harm, no foul. Then when my 12 year old is raped by a 52 year old English teacher... different story.
You judge for yourself.

Ashley Renee Flores - Teacher at East Junior High School in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Arrested On Accusations Of Repeatedly Raping Student. Had Sex With Teen While Own Children Were In The House







Brooke Biggs, a 27-year-old physical education teacher at at Grissom Middle School and asst. girl's athletics coach at Penn High School in Mishawaka, Indiana has been arrested on suspicion of seducing a female student.

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Does WAMU Top the Outragous CEO Compensation List?

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Wamu is Tops again for Compensation to Failed CEO’s

Well, give 'em a hand, everybody ... WaMu just beat its own record of corporate arrogance.

WaMu's new CEO, Alan Fishman, might go down as the ultimate showcase of executive greed if he doesn't do the right thing in the next few days. After just 432 hours on the job -- during which time he presided over the complete collapse of the company -- Fishman stands to collect more than $19 million in pay. Even if he foregoes his package, he has 7 mil for just showing up. And it might have been worse. Fishman also received more than 600,000 shares of restricted stock and 5 million stock options. Those are all worthless scraps of paper now.

On top of that they gave $16.5 million cash severance payment to ousted CEO Kerry Killinger,
You've got to be kidding me
Wait a minute. Is this the same Washington Mutual that:
•Slid 70% in the past year amid mortgage and foreclosure headaches?
•Canned 3,000 employees and shuttered 190 of its 336 loan centers last year, in the wake of an ugly real estate mess?
•Announced a $1.8 billion quarterly loss related to losses in its loan portfolio?
Yes. Yes, it is.
In an age where nine-figure golden handshakes are awarded for mediocre-at-best performance, we sometimes overlook whether a CEO is producing a proportional amount of bang for their bucks.
I started looking at what these CEOs of companies that were losing value were making. I know everyone is already aware but when you list them out, you no longer have to wonder about how our financial system needs a bail out.

The working class is asked to cut the budgets by $30 million and suffer job cuts on the same day as it is announced that the CEO has received his $23 million bonus. Not good for morale.

Average pay for a CEO of an S&P 500 firm remained 430 times that of the average worker.

Let’s look at a few of the leaders:

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Selling the kids.

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When I am not working, I am spending time with my beautiful daughters, I am very blessed to have such wonderful kids in my life.

That is what Jennifer Richards wrote on her Facebook page.
Jennifer and her boyfriend, Sean Block, are in jail for trying to sell her five year old daughter for sexual favors to an FBI agent. Well, not even really selling. Trading for an apartment and a used car.

Text message from Sean to the FBI agent:
“Nice piece 5 yrs old belongs to my gf and she wants to sell it.”

I feel so sorry for these people. I wish I could sit down and talk to them... in a closed, locked, sound-proof room!

Watch your Penis

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Here is some advice, guys. If you ever have to be operated on for anything, before you go under, grab the doctor by the collar and tell him,"No matter what... Don't cut off my penis."
A Shelby County, Kentucky man and his wife said two doctors amputated the man's penis without his consent, and have filed a lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, Philip Seaton went to have a circumcision last October. Seaton said when he woke up from the procedure, he realized his penis had been amputated.
The lawsuit states that Patterson received consent to perform a circumcision and only a circumcision, and that Seaton did not consent to his penis being removed.
Kevin George, the plaintiff's attorney, said the doctors amputated the organ after finding cancer, but he only had consent to remove the foreskin.
Seems there was some debate as to exactly how much skin to take off.
I guess someone has to make the hard choices.

Caylee is All We Care About

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Released from recordings of Casey Anthony's call to her mother, brother and friend after her arrest.
Oh my God. Calling you guys...huge mistake, I just watched the fucking news and heard everything my mom said. All they're worried about is getting Caylee back.


Those that care what happens to Casey Anthony, please stand up.
Hummm, I thought so.

I held back posting anything on this until I had read the discovery documents on the case. Over 400 pages of police investigation reports that prove Casey is a pathological liar and a thief but it holds few clues as to what she has done with her baby.

First 150 pages PDF
Pages 151 through 263 PDF
Pages 264 through 431 PDF

It is a boring read and it only confirms rumors and raises questions about the case.
She still refuses to tell what happened to the baby.
She still insist that the nanny does exist.
She insist she dropped the baby off at the nanny's but the apartment had been empty for three months.
Video from a location across the street shows she was not there.
She lied to her family, friends and police about having a job when she was fired years ago.
Does the mysterious phone SIM really exist?
She stole $700 from her friend. What did she need the money for?
Although she said she had been doing her own investigation on her missing baby, none of her closest friends knew about it.
Why did she all of a sudden need to dig up a root that she had been tripping over for months?
Why did the dogs hit on her car and the back yard?
Three witnesses say the car smelled like a dead body.
DNA from Caylee was found in the trunk of her car. Decomposed hair was found.
She insist that she received a phone call from the nanny saying Caylee was okay but police prove she did not receive a call.
Why did she take down hundreds of Caylee's pictures from her MySpace before her mother made her talk to the police about her baby being missing.
There were traces of chloroform found in Casey's car.
They also found search inquiries on "chloroform" on Casey's computer.

It seems there really only one question about this case.
Is "getting Caylee back" all her family cares about or are they protecting their daughter?
After all, they did turn down two million dollars. I wonder how high the bid will get before they sell out.

Now here is where it gets funny. Not only is she a liar, it seems she has tempted at least one deputy into lying also.
Deputies recently discovered that Deputy Tony Rusciano, 24, was linked to Casey Anthony not long before her daughter was reported missing.
When Rusciano was questioned about knowing Casey Anthony, he initially told them that he met her at a party and barely knew her.
Detectives did a forensic search of Anthony's computer and typed some keywords -- which led them to pages of chats between Rusciano and Anthony.
The pair did talk about Anthony's daughter, Caylee, during the chats, but none of the chats were apparently meaningful in terms of helping detectives find the missing 3-year-old.

Rusciano and Anthony had a sexual relationship.
Seems Palin's daughter has nothing on this gal.

Woman Attacks Sex Offender: 'I Would Do It Again'

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A woman who police said assaulted a sex offender with a baseball bat said," I'd do it again if I had to," reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.
After learning that her Puyallup neighbor, 24-year-old William Baldwin, was a convicted level 3 sex offender from a flyer she received from the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, Tammy Gibson said, "I lost my mind."
"She grabbed a bat, picked it up and started beating the crap out of me. She started beating me the way a man would with a bat", said Baldwin of the incident. "I've never even seen her before and she just comes over and accuses me of molesting her children and attacks me with a bat."

Gibson said she once told her live-in boyfriend she thought Baldwin was harmless, but said all that changed when she got the flyer that listed Baldwin's conviction on two counts of first-degree child molestation in 1999 as well as other offenses.
"Last year, on the Fourth of July, he was talking to my daughter. I got the flyer in the mail and I snapped. I went nuts," Gibson told McCarty.
The flyer states that Baldwin lured a 5-year-old girl into a doghouse in his backyard and sexually assaulted her. That crime was committed while he was on parole for another sexual assault in which he forced a different 5- year-old girl into a sex act with him.
Baldwin, who is currently in the Pierce County Jail, said he had to be escorted by Pierce County Corrections Officers for protection once the news of his alleged assault and sex offender status was broadcast by KIRO 7.
Gibson was arrested and charged with second-degree assault and felony harassment. She was arraigned Wednesday and pleaded not guilty.
Gibson, meanwhile, is being held on $15,000 bail. Her friends, who view her as a hero, are working to raise $1,500 to post bond.
Way to go, Mom!

More Monsters Found in Texas

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Toddler who was beaten after toilet accident dies.

The beating Jontai Johnson received was so violent, it stopped his brain activity and his breathing for a time. Paramedics noticed bruising to his head, blood in his right eye and bruising around his right arm.
On Friday, one day after the beating, the toddler died. He was pronounced dead at Methodist Hospital at 12:08 p.m., officials said.
Just shy of turning 2, Johnson soiled his underwear Thursday morning. That's when police records say Joseph Nathaniel Cannady, the mother's boyfriend, began to whip Jontai with a belt, holding him by one arm. When the boy didn't respond to the beating, Cannady got angry and slapped him, then flung him into one of the bedrooms.
Cannady, 24, was arrested Thursday for injury to a child, but police upgraded that charge Friday to capital murder.

Johnson is the third child to die of suspected child abuse or neglect this year.

On Tuesday, 5-month-old Nathaniel Garcia died, allegedly while in the care of his mother, Michelle Ann Uvalle, 23. Child Protective Services had removed Garcia and his three siblings from his parents, but a relative had returned Garcia to his parents. No one has been charged in Garcia's death, and police are investigating it as an accident. The autopsy is pending.

And earlier this month, Alicia Gina Carranza, 23, was arrested and charged with capital murder after residents said she smothered her newborn baby and put the girl's body in a halfway house's dryer.

Last fiscal year — from Sept. 1, 2006, to Aug. 31, 2007 — in Bexar County, 13 children died of abuse or neglect, one less than the previous fiscal year. Texas saw 223 children die of abuse or neglect, a decrease of four from the previous year — the deadliest ever in Texas.

No wonder Texas has so many child abuse cases. Look at what is happening where the State tried to take children out of the child molesters compound. What did the child molesters call it? Freedom of Religion??? Yeah, God told me to have sex with a 12 year old! More monsters.
Courts are now saying the police had no right to remove the children. What about the children's rights? Is it right to force a 15 year old child into motherhood?
And the mothers of these little girls! I think in the nature kingdom, only the human mother lets her young stray into harms way.

There are so many couples out there that yearn for a child to love, there is no reason for a child to ever go with out care.

Domestic Spying Confirmed!

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So after all the lying to the public about "Big Brother" tactics it was revealed last week by Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that at least two of the chief judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had been informed since 2001 of White House-approved National Security Agency monitoring operations.
"None raised any objections, as far as I know," said Hatch, a member of a special Intelligence Committee panel appointed to oversee the NSA's work.
This isn't the first time Hatch has let classified information slip.

A senior senator’s disclosure of highly classified information about the U.S. terrorism investigation has infuriated Bush administration officials and led to a clampdown on how much the White House will share with lawmakers.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters hours after terrorists crashed hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that U.S. intelligence had intercepted a telephone call from a suspect reporting to his handler that the targets in New York City and near Washington had been hit.


After USA Today broke the story of Bell's complicity in the unlawful domestic spying scandal, Bell threatened to sue the newspaper if it didn't print a retraction. USA Today refused and stood by it's story that Bell illegally turned over private information such as phone records to the NSA without a court order. (Yes, this is one of the companies that Bush wanted to protect from prosecution.)
Bell has now backed down from it's threats and says it could be possible that some of their third party contractors slipped the NSA these records.

As for me, I welcome the future. I think one of those dandy little bar code tattoos would look cool on the back of my neck.
Imagine; Never having to worry about getting lost because you are tracked by GPS at all times. Cameras on every street corner hooked to a computer system that can recognize you face and let loved ones know where you are. Police can catch criminals by just monitoring the words they say over the phone. Never having to handle money. All your income goes into an account and you swipe an ID badge to pay for things.
Wait...

I would also like to point out that for those that don't remember "1984", the reality show "Big Brother" is named after the Orwellian concept of the government watching everything we do. Next time you watch that show... look around you. You never know.

Strange Laws

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In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female.
Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.

In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman's genitals, but is prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.

Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers. The organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times.


In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation.

In Guam, There are men whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time...
Reason: Under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry.

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.


In Liverpool, England, Topless saleswomen are legal but only in tropical fish stores.

In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens, her mother
must be in the room to witness the act.

In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.

In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: Prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises."


In Rochester, Michigan, the law is that anyone bathing in public must have the bathing suit inspected by a police officer.

In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession. (fencing pliers, that is)

In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.

In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping.

In Virginia, the Code of 1930 has a statute which prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than political candidates.

Missing Email at the Whitehouse?????

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A White House declaration filed late last night in CREW v. EOP, CREW's (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) lawsuit challenging the failure of the White House to preserve millions and millions of emails, makes the stunning admission that the White House failed to preserve ANY backup tapes for the period March 1, 2003 through May 22, 2003, a period of time during which the U.S. went to war in Iraq.
Previously disclosed documents by the House Oversight Committee had revealed that the White House also has no backup tapes for the period September 30, 2003, to October 6, 2003 -- a period that coincides with the Department of Justice opening up an investigation into the disclosure by top White House officials of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert identity.
Just as remarkably, the White House now argues that even with its own admission that critical backup tapes are missing, it should not be required to preserve ANY backup tapes because there is no evidence that any emails are missing.
Of course, what the White House overlooks is that it has already told both the House Oversight Committee and Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald that critical White House emails are missing.

Yada, yada, yada... Face it folks, they are not going to incriminate themselves. We have the forensic knowledge and technology to recover simple missing emails. The government itself recovered data from a hard drive that blew up on reentry from space.
Where I work it is a common and daily thing to instantly recover data. It is the law that this data be kept. The government makes us. But gosh, they make it seem like it is so final that there happens to be no data existing for what the courts are asking for. It's not like it was a recording that someone "accidentally" erased.
Face it, we will never see these emails. Not because it can't be done, they will just never abide having to be embarrassed.
Really, if you made a big **** up at work, would you do what you could to hide it?
So Bush made a mistake. I am soooo shocked that politicians have lied to us. Who would have thought it?