Carradine's family calls for FBI probe

Master Kan (left) imparts wisdom on aspiring Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine) in Kung Fu, the hit TV series from the 70s that made him famous.

The family of David Carradine is asking the FBI to investigate the mysterious death of the 72-year-old actor, who was found Thursday morning hanging in the closet of his Bangkok hotel room with ropes around his neck and genitals, suggesting that he may have accidentally died while performing autoerotic asphyxiation.

Thai Police said Carridine likely committed suicide, but his family and co-manager, Tiffany Smith, are vehemently refuting those reports, claiming foul play might be involved . "All I can tell you is that David did not commit suicide," Simth told US magazine. "I can tell you that 100 percent. He would never commit suicide."

Following an autopsy, the body of the Kung Fu star was released into U.S. Embassy custody to be flown home. It is being transported to the U.S. on a United Airlines flight that left Bangkok at 6:50 a.m. Saturday, according Thai press reports.

Smith told CNN that a second autopsy will be conducted in the U.S. at the urging of the actor's family. "They're doing everything possible to get to the bottom of what really happened." The results of the autopsy performed in Bankok won't be known for three weeks.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said the agency only gets involved in death investigations overseas if a crime is suspected. In the case of Carradine, that has yet to be determined.

Thai police claim that surveillance footage showed no one entering Carradine's hotel room prior to his death and he was apparently the only one who used a keycard to access the room.

The family's lawyer expressed outrage over a photo of Carradine's hanging body that was printed in a Thai tabloid and vowed to pursue legal action against any U.S. publication that uses the image.

I saw the photo, and the man shown in it does not look like Carradine at all. For one, the man a full head of black hair, and Carradine's was all white. Plus there's no way the room shown is that of a five-star hotel, which reportedly was the type of hotel where Carradine was staying. Hmm...

Sources: US magazine, CNN, AP
Copyright © 2009

N. Korea says the South will trigger war

North Korea says it will retaliate against South Korea's decision to join a U.S.-led anti-proliferation program, noting S. Korea's decision to join the program would trigger a war on the Korean Peninsula.

It says South Korea will be "wholly accountable for the disastrous consequences as it has followed foreign forces."

*sigh*

I'm telling you--all they need are penile implants and end of story.

Source: BNO News

Sick Fuck of the Week

.......IT'S A TIE!!!

Yes, I couldn't decide between the sick fuck "mother" who every so carefully inserted shit (yes, shit, feces) into her 3-year-old daughter's IV tube and the four sick fucks who gang-raped a 13-year-old boy for two months with a broomstick and hockey stick in the boy's locker room at school.

Congratulations to our winners:

Emily Beth McDonald, 23, of Austin, Texas and Randall John Moye, 14; Raymond A. Price-Murray, 14; Lee Louis Myers, 14; and Diamante J. Roberts, 15, of Tampa, Florida.

Both stories were published on June 4: "Mother Charged for Feeding Feces to Her Child" and "Teens Charged as Adults for Heinous Rape"

Copyright © 2009, Primetime Oracle
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N. Korea might be using journalists to bargain

Ugh.

North Korea again.

Not my cup of tea, to say the least.

All week we've been hearing about the U.S. journalists North Korea arrested on March 17 while they were at the border of China and N. Korea reporting on the trafficking of women.

American TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been accused of illegally entering North Korea and unspecified "hostile acts." To this day we don't know whether they actually strayed into the North or were grabbed by border guards who crossed into China. Surely we can't expect N. Korea to be specific about the exact location and the so-called hostile acts--that would be totally unfair. Perhaps the women were chewing gum or wearing lipstick, and detaining them was matter of national security. Or maybe they had the audacity of asking why they were being arrested, which would no doubt be interpreted as a hostile act by phallocentric men with tiny dicks.

*sigh* As you must know by now, I have no patience for N. Korea and its bullying tactics.

Pyongyong, N. Korea's capital city, has yet to publicly announce the exact charges against the journalists, but South Korean legal experts say that a conviction for "hostility" (whatever this hostility is) or espionage (are you fucking kidding me?) could mean five to 10 years in a labor camp. Great.

N. Korea's latest wanna-be bold move was to announce the two journalists were about to go on trial and then sort of check out of the airwaves.

The "news blackout," as AP calls it, could mean the journalists are being used as "bargaining chips." The North might be dragging out their trial as the communist leadership waits to see what kind of sanctions Washington and the U.N. use to punish the nation for its latest nuclear blast and barrage of missile tests last week, AP reported Saturday.

So am I to understand that N. Korea is terrorizing these women and their families, not to mention the U.S., to avoid a UN spanking? Yet more proof of the lack of testicles evidently prevalent among North Koreans. These undated photos show Laura Ling, right, and Euna Lee, who have been imprisoned in North Korea since March. (AP Photo/Yonhap)

Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korean expert at Dongguk University in Seoul, said Pyongyang will likely free the reporters and treat their release as a goodwill gesture (goodwill my ass) that should be reciprocated with a special U.S. envoy visiting the isolated state, AP reported. "It shows how the North makes political judgments, which have nothing to do with laws," Koh said.

Yeah, they're probably expecting a Nobel Peace price for releasing the journalists. Ugh.

The criminal proceedings were supposed to begin two days ago, but instead the "secretive" nation's news agency today filed stories about Sweden's king, American "warmongers" and Syrian Embassy workers helping North Korean farmers weed bean fields. Are we supposed to be panicking now? Penis-less bullying.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday she was "incredibly concerned" about the plight of the two women, AP reported. In working for their release, Clinton said she has spoken with foreign officials with influence in North Korea and explored the possibility of sending an envoy to the North, but suggested that no one would be sent during the trial. I say we send them penile implants.

U.S. officials and others working for the reporters' release have said they've received no information about the defendants and even lacked independent confirmation about whether the trial has started, AP reported. The North has said the proceedings wouldn't be open to foreign observers, including Swedish officials who act as Washington's proxy in Pyongyang because the two countries do not have diplomatic ties. Well, of course not. Opening the proceedings to anyone but themselves is an outrageous expectation and, again, would be totally unfair.

If found guilty, the women won't be allowed to appeal because the case is being heard in Pyongyang's high court, where decisions are final, said Choi Eun-suk, a professor on North Korean legal affairs at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University in South Korea, AP reported. Isn't that convenient? It would also be convenient to send the much-needed penile implants aboard a long-range missile.

Choi said the reporters would likely be sentenced to more than five years but less than 10 years in a labor prison, AP reported. Then the negotiations with the U.S. would begin, he said. Then? Then the negotiations would begin? Are you fucking kidding me? Well, of course! The bargaining chip would be much bigger and valuable after a conviction.

Reportedly, that's how previous trials for Americans played out, according to the report. The most recent one involved Evan C. Hunziker, a man with alcohol, drug and legal problems. Apparently acting on a drunken dare, he swam across the Yalu River, which marks the North's border with China, and was arrested after farmers found the man, then 26, naked. He was accused of spying and detained for three months before being freed after negotiations with a special U.S. envoy. Yes, he was spying fish and bugs in the river.

In other words, anyone and everyone who for whatever reason ends up on N. Korea automatically is a spy. Phallocentric and paranoid little men with tiny dicks.

The N. Koreans wanted Hunziker to pay a $100,000 criminal fine but eventually agreed on a $5,000 payment to settle a bill for a hotel where he was detained. How gracious of them.

In another case, Venezuelan poet Ali Lameda was sentenced to 20 years in a labor camp in 1967 when he was working as a translator in Pyongyang. And guess what--he, too, was a spy! N. Korea charged him with spying, sabotage and infiltration, according to the AP report. During the one-day trial, it didn't present any evidence, formal charges or specific allegations but demanded Lameda confess his guilt. And get this: a defense lawyer was assigned to him, but the attorney gave a long speech praising the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung before suggesting his client be sentenced to 20 years (WTF!!). Lameda was released after six years.

I may know diddly squat about N. Korea and its relations with the rest of the world, but if anything happens to those two journalists, the shit is going to hit the fan, and those dimwits can kiss their implants (and only hope to resemble real men) goodbye, if you ask me.

Sources: The Associated Press, My Twisted Mind
Copyright © 2009

Man guilty of failing to fake his death

Photos of Marcus Schrenker, compiled by TheWeeklyVice.com

A money manager pleaded guilty on Friday to federal charges stemming from a plot to fake his own death in a small plane crash in Florida in an attempt to avoid financial fraud charges in Indiana, Reuters reported Friday.

Marcus Schrenker, 38, parachuted out of his plane over Alabama in January and let it continue to fly on autopilot before it eventually crashed in Florida. He was arrested a day later at a Florida campsite and taken to a hospital with wounds to his wrists that apparently resulted from a suicide attempt.

OK, can someone please explain to me how a money manager--whom one would expect to be of above average intelligence given the demands of his job--thought he could fake his own death in a plane crash without a body? Poor planning, my friend. But, then again, he got caught with his pants down and charged with financial fraud, so maybe he wasn't smart enough to be a money manager to begin with. If indeed he had tried to kill himself prior to the hoax, could that have been his first attempt at faking his death?

Schrenker was wanted in Indiana on fraud charges alleging that he misled people who invested money with his financial management companies and that he misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars, Reuters reported.

In U.S. District Court in Pensacola, Florida, Schrenker pleaded guilty to two charges, deliberately crashing a plane and placing false distress calls. His trial had been scheduled to start on Monday. His sentencing was set for Aug 19, according to the report.

Authorities say Schrenker radioed a distress call from his single-engine Piper aircraft, reporting that the plane's cracked windshield had imploded and that he was bleeding.

So he has a flair for drama.

Two rescue helicopters and two military F-15 fighter jets were dispatched. When the jets caught up with the plane as it continued to fly with no one aboard, the windshield was intact, the door was open and there was no sign of the pilot, investigators said.

One has to laugh. The last this dude expected was the windshield to not crack after the plane fell from the sky. He also forgot to close the door behind me. Bad manners, if you ask me.

The Piper crashed in a swampy, wooded area north of Milton, Florida.

He's lucky his pilot-less plane did not crash in a highly populated area; otherwise, he would be facing manslaughter charges. *sigh* What a dunce.

When rescuers reached the scene, they found evidence including a book of campsites in America missing its pages on Alabama and Florida, and a list scribbled on the back of a book stating, "cracked windshield, window imploded, bleeding profusely," a court affidavit said.

OMFG, this just keeps getting better and better! Turns out he truly was--is--a dunce! He actually needed to write down the three--count them, three--things he would say when radioing for help. Are you kidding me?

Schrenker parachuted safely to the ground near the Alabama city of Harpersville, convinced a police officer to give him a ride to a hotel and then fled, police said. He previously had stashed a motorcycle near the hotel and got away before local police learned of the plane crash.

Is this for real? So, he lands and takes a ride from--of all people--a cop? Jeez!

He still faces the financial fraud charges in Indiana, Reuters reported.

He should be charged with reckless stupidity, if you ask me.

Sources: Reuters
Copyright © 2009

Only in New York...man dead in van for weeks

A man's decomposing body inside a minivan covered in parking tickets went undiscovered for weeks because the vehicle's windows were apparently tinted and ticketing officers don't normally search cars, police said Friday.

The body was found in the backseat Wednesday when a city marshal tried to tow the vehicle from beneath an overpass on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, police said, according to an AP report.

Weeks. He was inside the car dead for weeks, my friends, and none of the ticketing officers noticed. Are you fucking kidding me? Tinted windows or not, when so many tickets pile up on a windshield that you, while giving yet another ticket, have to use both windshield wipers to pin them down, when there are so many it's obvious some have seen their share of rainy days, don't you at some point wonder what's up with that car and the owner? Wouldn't you take a peek inside the car? Oh, but that's not in the their job description. Jeez.

George Morales, a 59-year-old handyman, who according to the medical examiner died naturally from heart disease, was believed to have been living out of the white Chevrolet minivan, which had North Carolina plates, AP reported.

But his daughter, Jennifer Morales, 29, told the Daily News he had been living with her family in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. She said she last saw him in early May and had called police. But police do not have a missing person's report on record for Morales, AP reported.

"The window was cracked open. I don't understand how no one noticed him. They just gave him tickets," she told the Daily News.

So the geniuses didn't even have to stick their faces to the glass to see through the tinted windows--a window was cracked open. How tuned-out do you have to be to your environment to miss something like this?

It wasn't clear exactly how many tickets were on the minivan's windshield when the body was discovered. Well, in New York City, notorious for issuing parking tickets, how many do you think there were? It had to be tons...an encyclopedia of tickets.

Witnesses had reported a foul odor near the vehicle. Oh, for the love of god...so the evidently brain-dead ticket officers also didn't notice the odor. Does NY smell that bad.

So it turns out that the fear many New Yorkers have of dying and not being found for days until a bad smell gets so bad neighbors finally notice is a valid one.

Sources: The Associated Press
Copyright © 2009

Stew of News - Mattel fine, abortion Dr., Boyle, Mitsubishi electric car, Calif. arson, Jolie, Darfur

No more toying around

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Friday said it imposed a $2.3 million civil penalty against Mattel Inc. for violating a ban on bringing dangerous products to the United States, Reuters reported.

The fine stems from Mattel's recall of 95 types of toys and up to 2 million units, from shelves in recent years, primarily for excessive lead content in paint. The toys were all made in China, the CPSC said.

The photo shows a Chinese boy holding a Mattel "Barbie and Tanner" still for sale in China despite being recalled in the U.S., at a department store in Shanghai last month. Mattel issued an extraordinary apology to China Friday, saying it was to blame for design flaws. (Mark Ralston / AFP - Getty Images file)

It figures I own Mattel shares...

U.S. Justice Dept. to probe Kansas abortion murder

The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it's launching an investigation into the murder of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, who had been reviled by anti-abortion groups, Reuters reported Friday.

The Justice Department said it would investigate whether Tiller's murder violated a 1994 U.S. law that establishes penalties for those who block access to abortion services, according to the report.

Kansas authorities have charged Scott Roeder with murder in the Sunday shooting death of Tiller in his church.

Tiller was one of only a few physicians in the U.S. willing to perform late-term abortions, those performed after the 20th week of gestation when a fetus potentially could survive outside the womb and legal under certain conditions.

Tiller's Wichita clinic had been the site of several mass protests by anti-abortion groups and was bombed in 1985. The doctor was shot in both arms by an abortion opponent in 1993.

After the shooting, Attorney General Eric Holder directed agents to protect other abortion facilities.

The killer sought to boost the anti-abortion movement, but what he achieved was set it back to barbaric times, if you ask me.

Susan Boyle leaves London clinic

Susan Boyle has left the clinic she checked into last week after the pressure of participating in the TV show Britain's Got Talent, dealing with the paparazzi 24/7, and extremely high expectations about her winning the show got to be too much.

Sources at Britain's Got Talent told US magazine that Boyle, 48, checked out of the London Priory Hospital on Wednesday. Her brother Gerry also confirmed her release on Britain's GMTV Friday, US reported.

Boyle, who sought treatment for exhaustion hours after the show ended on May 30, has relocated to a flat in central London and has since been in hiding, the sources told US.

"She wanted to be with her friends again," an insider said.

This weekend, Boyle will continue to rest, although it's not clear whether she'll have time to go back to her home town in Blackburn, Scotland. Her home on Yule Terrace is currently empty, US reported.

Next week, Boyle begins meetings with 19 Management, Simon Cowell and Sony BMG to discuss her recording contract.

"Susan wants to get on with it now," a source told US. "She's not quitting--those rumors are rubbish."

I love her and hope these music business moguls treat her well.

California man gets death sentence in arson murders

A convicted arsonist was sentenced to death Friday for setting a Southern California wildfire that killed five federal firefighters struggling to defend a rural home from raging, wind-driven flames, AP reported Friday.

Holy crap! I hope other arsonists are paying attention.

Raymond Lee Oyler, 38, was found guilty in March of five counts of first-degree murder for setting the Oct. 26, 2006, blaze about 90 miles east of Los Angeles, according to the report.

"After evaluating the same evidence that the jury had heard and going through that, I find that the aggravating circumstances do outweigh the mitigating circumstances," Riverside County Superior Court Judge W. Charles Morgan said.

"In particular, Mr. Oyler set on a mission ... to wreak havoc in this county by setting fires by his own design for his own purposes and as proven by the evidence he became more and more proficient," Morgan said. "He knew that young men and women would put their lives on the line to protect other people and property and he continued anyway."

The fires Oyler set killed Jason McKay, 27; Jess McLean, 27; Daniel Hoover-Najera, 20; Mark Loutzenhiser, 43, and Pablo Cerda, 23.

Oyler, a former auto mechanic, was also convicted of 20 counts of arson and 17 counts of using an incendiary device for a rash of blazes in the area that year.

One of his daughters, Heather, 22, said: "My dad is not a bad guy. He's not bad at all," she said.

Not bad? Then what do you call someone who sets fires to fry people all over town? Fiery? Yeah, he's a saint who meant to purify the victims' souls through a trial by fire. OK, seriously--what compels someone to do something like this?

The fatal blaze, known as the Esperanza Fire, destroyed 34 homes and 20 outbuildings and charred nearly 70 square miles of terrain.

Here's another one who could be burned at the stake rather than given a soothing lethal injection.

Mitsubishi unveils $47,000 electric car

Mitsubishi's electric vehicle is twice as expensive as popular hybrid cars by rivals Toyota and Honda, but Japan's No. 4 automaker said Friday the i-MiEV will help it survive increasingly intense global competition, AP reported Friday.

The i-MiEV? Who the hell will remember that name? Doesn't Mitsubishi have a marketing department...or common sense? It doesn't take a marketing degree to know that name recollection is critical for any product to make it past its launching.

The i-MiEV is powered solely by electricity and can be recharged from a regular home socket, AP reported. The four-seater vehicle can run up to 100 miles after charging seven hours at 200 volts. A hybrid car switches between a gas engine and electric motor to boost mileage.

"It is a zero-emission vehicle. It does not rely on oil, which is different from hybrid cars," Mitsubishi Motors President Osamu Masuko said at a news conference.

(Photo: Mitsubishi Motors Corp. execs walk around the new electric car "i-MiEV" during its unveiling Friday in Tokyo, Japan.)

The i-MiEV costs $47,560--more than twice as much as Toyota's new Prius hybrid vehicle or Honda's Insight, the cheapest hybrid on the market. Masuko acknowledged the high price is a major hurdle to encouraging people to buy the i-MiEV.

Turns out MiEV stands for Mitsubishi innovative electric vehicle, with the initial "i" having not particular meaning. Brilliant.

Masuko said the company had spent more than 40 years to develop the i-MiEV, but declined to say how much the company had invested in its development. Globally, Mitsubishi hopes to sell 15,000 units for the year through March 2012, AP reported.

But the company can only make a profit on the i-MiEV if it produces 30,000 units per year, Masuko said.

Angeline Jolie calls for more action to end Darfur crisis

Actress (who hasn't acted in I don't know how long) Angelina Jolie has written a new article for Time magazine calling for more action to end the crisis in Darfur, US magazine reported Friday.

I was going to make fun of this, but now that I think about it every interview of Jolie I've seen has left me with the impression that she's extremely intelligent. Plus, I haven't read the article. And, furthermore, the crisis in Darfur is a serious mess.

On Friday, members of the United Nations Security Council will learn the results of the International Criminal Court's Darfur investigation, US reported.

"The evidence the prosecutor has presented is clear and compelling," Jolie writes, pointing out that "millions of people have been displaced" and "hundreds of thousands have been killed."

Jolie recalls her first trip to Chad to visit refugees from Darfur in 2004, noting that "nothing changed" since then, US reported.

Despite the Bush administration labeling the Darfur situation as "genocide," Jolie says the words have not "compelled us to intervene."

"Darfur has almost disappeared from the news, and experts now call it a 'low intensity' conflict. But the intensity of the crisis has not lessened for those who are struggling to survive," the Oscar-winning actress (who turned 34 Thursday) says in the article.

"More than 250,000 people from Darfur have lived destitute lives in refugee camps in Chad for six years now," says the mother of six. "Camps with more than two million internally displaced persons inside Darfur are even worse. Thirty percent of those displaced are school-age children. Girls leaving the camps are raped; boys leaving the camps are killed. They want an education; they want to go back to their villages, to their land; they want peace. But they also want justice."

The world is a fucked up place, if you ask me.

Sources: The Associated Press, Reuters, US magazine
Copyright © 2009

Sex game may have killed Carradine

Earlier today (12:05 p.m. on this page) it was reported that actor David Carradine, 72, was found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok Thursday and that given the circumstances in which the body was found suicide was a possible cause of death.

Since then, additional details about the case have emerged, among them that he may have died as a result of a sex game gone wrong.

Thai police have taken back their position that Carradine likely died as a result of a suicide, BNO news reported.

According to the Bangkok Post, the actor was found naked, curled up inside the wardrobe with one end of a shoelace tied around his penis and the other end fastened around his neck. Both of his hands were bound with a cord which was also tied around his neck, an unnamed police officer told the newspaper.

Forensic experts have also reportedly found a footprint on the bed which did not match the shoes worn by the actor and a glass of water in the room that is being checked to see if the drink had been tampered with, BNO reported.

It is believed Carradine died some 12 to 24 hours before he was found by the hotel maid.

The Kung Fu and Kill Bill actor had been in Bangkok since Tuesday to shoot an upcoming movie called Strand.

Carradine's is best remembered as the half-Chinese, half-Caucasian Shaolin monk called Kwai Chang Caine in the 1972-75 TV series Kung Fu. The show, which was often described as a mystical kung-fu western, was honored with several Emmy nominations and awards, including a best actor nomination for Carradine.

But now, the circumstances of his death might be what many will remember about him, and that's a shame.

Sources: BNO news
Copyright © 2009

Obama's Islamic homage wins praise

Wearing masks to conceal their identities, Palestinian militants from the Popular Resistance Committee watched Obama's televised speech at a training base in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)

I resist politics, but it would be irresponsible to go through today without even mentioning Obama's much-awaited speech in Cairo earlier today.

It has been praised and criticized any which way possible, as any other important political speech. But I like the following story because it's optimistic. And after the eight loooong years after W and the consequences we're now facing thanks to his words and actions, I have little patience for negativity.

Here's what one AP story out of Dubai reported about the speech.

The tone of respect was set from the opening lines of President Barack Obama's address to the Muslim world, AP reported Thursday.

"Assalamu Aleikum"--Arabic for "peace be upon you"--he said, triggering applause from the crowd at Cairo University and bringing nods of approval in places like a coffee shop in the West Bank town of Ramallah, where some began calling him "Abu Hussein"--using his Muslim middle name--as a sign of honor, according to the report.

Obama's ambitious speech, which sought to define a new relationship between Washington and the Islamic world, also represented an opportunity to shape his own image in the eyes of Muslims, AP reported. He quoted from the Quran, paid homage to the cultural and intellectual achievements of Muslims, and noted his middle name and his father's ties to the faith.

"As the Holy Quran tells us, 'Be conscious of God and speak always the truth'," he said. "That is what I will try to do today, to speak the truth as best I can."

Whether political stagecraft or sincerity, his gestures resonated strongly among many Muslims who often complain their traditions and culture are devalued in the West and have become overshadowed by Islamic radicals, AP reported.

"He came across as sincere and credible," said Sheik Muhammad al-Nujaimi, a member of a committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that tries to moderate the radical views of jailed militants. He said he plans to give a copy of Obama's address to the inmates with a message: "Muslims should offer help to the new American administration and reciprocate its overtures."

Obama also sprinkled his address with Arabic words that are well-known to all Muslims: "hijab" for the Islamic coverings for women, "zakat" for alms giving, which is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.

Even these few references carry powerful significance in the Arab world, where the language is cherished as an important ethnic bond, revered for its connection to the Prophet Muhammad, and filled with elaborate greetings and finely crafted formalities that display respect.

Obama's closing line--"And may God's peace be upon you"--rings with authenticity and cultural sensitivity to Arabic ears. (Photo: President Obama/Reuters)

There were obvious comparisons to Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, whose use of language, such as calling for a "crusade" against terrorists after the Sept. 11 attacks, a term that brought to mind the Christian Crusades against Islam in the Holy Land, helped stir anti-American anger (to put it lightly, if you ask me) in the Muslim world, AP reported.

Obama "was fair on basics, soft on tone," said Labib Kamhawi, a political analyst in Amman, Jordan. "He avoided using provocative terms of the previous administration like 'war on terrorism.'"

Even some extremist Web sites, which have carried statements from al-Qaida and other groups in the past, added some rare hints of praise amid the scorn for Obama.

One posting on a chat room noted admiration for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton "wearing a head scarf ... and she and Obama taking off their shoes" during a visit to a Cairo mosque. The contributor also praised Obama's quotation of verses from the Quran, "while many of our leaders don't memorize these verses."

In response, another writer said Obama "is manipulating the emotions of the people the same as a lute player does. ... He is undoubtedly a wise enemy compared with George Bush, the enemy known for his stupidity."

In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a 27-year-old computer engineer, Yasmine Bennami, said of the president's address: "It's the first time ever that I see an American president quoting verses from the Quran."

In Saudi Arabia, home of Islam's holiest sites, Rabah al-Mutawa said Obama, by quoting from the Quran, "touched people." "I challenge any Arab leader to go to the U.S. or the West and quote the Bible like Obama quoted the Quran," she said at her home in Riyadh.

When Obama opened with his Arabic greeting, Mahmoud Ramahi smiled.

"This is good," said Ramahi, a lawmaker with the anti-Israel militant group Hamas in the West Bank. "This is the first good signal. We'll start counting."

I'm no political pundit by any conceivable means, but if you ask me Obama rocks. He rocks because he's graceful and wise with words. He rocks because he makes an effort to show respect for other countries and cultures. He rocks because he brings issues down to a level of sensibility from up where reason no longer matters. And though the eight years with W were, in my opinion, the most disastrous in this country's recent history, perhaps had it not been for his monumental mistakes, we wouldn't have Obama today. Extreme change requires extreme measures, if you ask me.

If you ask Rush Limbaugh, the Right's self-proclaimed champion, the speech was "outrageous, absurd, and embarrassing." Now, who could've seen that coming?

Rush has problem: he has a extremely narrow, one-track mind capable of perceiving, processing and conceiving ideas and events from a single point of view--his. And that's exactly the opposite of what Obama does when he makes an effort to understand and address issues from various points of view.

Sources: The Associated Press, CNN, Reuters, Me
Copyright © 2009

EMT posts photo of corpse on Facebook

Prosecutors say an EMT took a cell-phone photo of a corpse while working a crime scene and posted it on Facebook, AP reported Thursday.

Mark Musarella was awaiting arraignment Thursday on an official misconduct charge. Defense lawyer Edward J. Pavia Jr. says Musarella will plead not guilty, noting that the photo was posted by accident and that Musarella is sorry.

Just how does someone take a photo of a corpse and post it on Facebook by accident?

Musarella was working for Richmond University Medical Center on March 30 and responded to an emergency call on Staten Island. The victim, Caroline Wimmer (shown above), was found strangled with her hair dryer, AP reported.

Prosecutors say Musarella snapped a picture of Wimmer's body and posted the image on his page on the social networking Web site, AP reported.

A retired police officer, Musarella lost his job as an EMT this year when his superiors learned about the photograph.

Musarella faces up to a year in jail if convicted.

Source: The Associated Press
Copyright © 2009

Mother charged for feeding feces to her child

Another strong contender for the Sick Fuck of the Week award emerges. Lucky us.

A woman in Austin, Texas, has been accused of repeatedly smearing human waste on her 3-year-old daughter's intravenous feeding line, potentially causing life-threatening infections, AP reported Thursday.

Emily Beth McDonald, 23, was charged with felony injury to a child and faces up to life in prison if convicted, according to the report.

According to an arrest affidavit, a surveillance video at Dell Children's Medical Center captured McDonald placing feces from a soiled diaper on the cap of a tube with a direct link to her child's bloodstream.

Too bad that if convicted, she can't be sentenced to receiving shit via an IV for the rest of her life.

According to the affidavit, police interviewed McDonald, who allegedly confessed and said she knew that her actions could make the child severely ill and possibly even kill her. No motive was disclosed, AP reported.

McDonald was arrested Sunday and released on a $100,000 bond Wednesday. The bond came with the condition that McDonald not have any contact with children unless supervised and approved by Child Protective Services, among other rules. (Right: Police photo of McDonald)

The Austin American-Statesman reported she must wear an electronic monitoring device and comply with a police protective order that prevents her from seeing her three children, AP reported.

Bob Phillips, an attorney representing McDonald, told the newspaper she is a "fine young woman from a fine family who loves her children very much."

Another sick fuck from a "fine family." What a load of crap! (No pun intended.)

"I believe that as the facts unfold, the impression people have of this young woman will change for the better," (a delusional) Phillips said.

The affidavit said that the sick child was admitted to the hospital April 15 with a high fever and "a long history of chronic diarrhea." She had a catheter and doctors conducted a blood test, which was positive for foreign bacteria common in feces.

The medical records showed the child would start getting better, and then get sick again. The affidavit said that hospital staff placed a camera in the room based on their concerns and it recorded McDonald's actions. They reviewed the tape Sunday and it showed McDonald putting feces from a diaper on her finger and placing it in a tube leading to the child's bloodstream.

According to the affidavit, detectives questioned McDonald at the hospital, and she told them that she had wiped feces in the tube five times during her daughter's hospital stay.

Officials said relatives are caring for McDonald's 6-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son. They're better off having Happy Meals at McDonald's, if you ask me.

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Gun smuggled on board U.S. Airways flight

Two men have been arrested after smuggling a gun on board a U.S. Airways flight at Philadelphia International Airport on Thursday morning, FBI officials told BNO News.

Authorities ordered a passenger plane to return to the gate after a passenger reported a concern about a carry-on bag to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a U.S. Airways spokesperson said. Officers then boarded the plane and discovered a handgun in the bag, resulting in the arrest of two people.

One of the people arrested was a U.S. Airways employee, who reportedly helped the passenger smuggle the gun on board, Special Agent J. Klaver said. "The investigation is ongoing but the threat posed by this isolated incident has been contained," he said.

The flight involved was U.S. Airways flight 1195 which was scheduled to depart to Phoenix, Arizona this morning.

"Safety and security is our first and foremost priority in everything we do," a U.S. Airways spokesperson told BNO News in a written statement. "We are cooperating with investigators fully and take security considerations very seriously," it added.

The spokesperson refused to provide further comment, saying it was not appropriate at this time as the investigation is still ongoing.

According to Phoenix-based KPHO-TV, it was a 9mm handgun and reports say bullets were found in the bag. Special Agent Klaver said it is unclear what their intend was but did say it does not appear to be terrorism-related.

"We are still trying to sort through all the pieces," he said.

Source: BNO News

Kung Fu star found dead, suicide suspected

David Carradine, who became a an American cultural icon in the 70s with his role in the TV series Kung Fu, was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room, everybody and their mother reported Thursday.

Thai police believe he hanged himself; however, the circumstances of his death are still under investigation.

Carradine, 72, was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and had been staying at the Park Nai Lert Hotel since June 2. Carradine's manager Chuck Binder said his client's death "seems like an accidental death" and is "under investigation."

Carradine was absent from a dinner with the film crew on June 3. The crew attempted to get a hold of him but were not successful. They assumed he was resting, according to media reports.

A hotel maid found Carrradine on Thursday morning in the closet of his suite. A police investigation reports the actor was hanging by a rope. Police said he was dead for at least 12 hours and found no signs of foul play.

In the closet hanging by a rope. What kind of accident would that be? Oops, I hanged myself while searching for my shoes? Strange...

His manager insists the actor did not commit suicide.

"The cause of death is still under investigation in Bangkok," she told US magazine Thursday. "All I can tell you is that David did not commit suicide. I can tell you that 100 percent. He would never commit suicide."

Carradine played the title role in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1 in 2003 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 the following year. He was best known for his role as a fugitive in Kung Fu for which he was nominated for an Emmy. He also starred in Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha in 1972, portrayed folksinger Woody Guthrie in Bound for Glory in 1976, and acted in Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg in 1977, Extra reported. Carradine also co-starred with half brothers Keith and Robert in the 1980 western The Long Riders.

He was the eldest son of noted actor John Carradine. He was married five times and leaves two daughters and a son.

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Speidi: "The devil made us do it!"

It's official. Speidi is back.

After a number of conflicting reports surfaced in the media, it's official that celebrity wanna-be's Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are returning to the jungle in Costa Rica to complete their run on NBC's I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.

The married couple had already tried to quit the NBC reality show twice, and went as far as planting decoys at the Los Angeles International Airport to give the illusion that they had returned home, Ryan Seacrest said in his website Thursday.

Planting decoys? Ugh...

Life in the jungle is really getting to Spencer.

In a deleted scene from Monday's show, he went off (again) on comedian Angela Shelton and pro-wrestler Torrie Wilson for (get this) defacing a bottle of wife Heidi's shampoo, US magazine reported.

"Why would you do that? How dare your disrespect my wife's possessions like that," screamed Spencer, who is rumored to be working on a shampoo line.

“This is a billion dollar brand!" he went on. "I want a billion dollars from them! I want a $100 million for the label and a billion for the branding!"

“As soon as we get some paper and a pen, we can write something down," said a fellow cast member.

"IOUs! I just want an IOU...on paper, or on a tree! Spencer yelled back."

The Pratts, who quit the show after Monday's show, apologized for leaving Wednesday night.

"The devil got to us and said, 'Get out of the jungle'," Heidi explained. "[But] it's not even about us. It's about the charity, and it's about the experience here, and we really took that for granted."

Thursday night the remaining cast members will vote on whether the Pratts should stay, US reported.

Their childish antics will not go without consequences, according to Paul Telegdy, NBC's executive vice president of alternative programming. In an exclusive statement to Ryan Seacrest, Telegdy explained how Speidi will be dealt with back in the jungle:

"They are everything that's wrong with America...they are insincere, lazy, entitled and they claim the devil has possessed them.

They are back and this time they are contrite...yeah right. What they don't realise is that they are now going to be examined and their value system utterly deconstructed.

They are going to spend the night somewhere in isolation and guarded with lots of surprises...but not traditional reality [stunts].

These people really are going to bare their souls."

"Wow," posted Seacrest. "How do you really feel Paul? We can wait to see what he's talking about!" The show airs Monday through Thursday, 8/7c on NBC.

Can you believe these dunces are claiming the devil made them leave? In the show, Heidi is heard preaching about Jesus and Halleluyah-ing this and that while continually--I mean, nonstop--spraying who knows what on her jungle hair given the lack of hair dryers and flat irons, on which she depends for her daily bread.

I'm sorry, my friends, but I find Heidi's pseudo-religiousness repulsive.

Earlier this week, while in the show, she told the camera--with a straight face, mind you--that what's important to her is to God, Jesus, what's inside, her soul...that her goal is to be like Mother Teresa (I'm not making this up!), help people...that clothes and things and looks don't matter...

Are you fucking kidding me?

Left: Heidi in Chanel shorts and bracelet, Dior shoes and Valentino tote. Wanna guess how many thousands of dollars this "casual" outfit costs?

Then why the hell is she prancing around Hollywood in obscenely expensive designer wear, not only in an attempt to convince herself and others that she's an A-list celebrity, but to get paid by the designers for parading in front of the paparazzi in these outfits. In what shape or form does that resemble Mother Teresa?

Hey, Heidi--this is how it's done:

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Teens charged as adults for heinous rape

This week's Sick Fuck of the Week award will be a highly contested one. It's only two hours into Thursday and already we have a sizable pool of sick fucks to choose from.

The latest nominees are Randall John Moye, 14; Raymond A. Price-Murray, 14; Lee Louis Myers, 14; and Diamante J. Roberts, 15, from Tampa, Florida. Their names have been released because they were charged as adults, CNN, among other new sources, reported.

Photo: baynews9.com

The Fantastic Four were charged Wednesday with four counts each of sexual battery on allegations of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy. But get this: these sick fucks brutally raped the kid multiple times over a two-month period with a broomstick and a hockey stick.

Charming, isn't it? Their parents must be SO proud.

At a bond and arraignment hearing, the defendants appeared before Hillsborough County Judge Wayne Timmerman Wednesday to hear the counts against them read in court.

Prosecutor Kimberly Hindman described to the court how two defendants held down the victim while the other two defendants violently sodomized him with the sticks, CNN reported. "The victim screamed and cried, telling them to stop," Hindman said.

Jesus F. Christ

The prosecutor said the victim's screams could be heard outside the boys' locker room at Walker Middle School where the alleged assaults took place. Multiple people witnessed the attacks, but no one reported the incidents Hindman said.

What a pack of cowards. They too should be prosecuted, if you ask me.

The school began an investigation after a fight that began on the football field and continued until a coach broke it up in the locker room, said the prosecutor. During the fight, the victim said, "I'm tired of them getting on me," Hindman said according to the CNN report.

When school officials questioned the defendants, all four admitted in a written statement sexually assaulting the victim.

They can write?

School officials contacted authorities, who initially charged the four as minors with sexual assault and false imprisonment.

The victim did not acknowledge the attacks until questioned, CNN reported.

Well, who the fuck would talk, much less explain, something like this?

Several (courageous, compassionate, honorable) students witnessed the incidents over the two months, said the prosecutor, who added that she could not understand why no one reported the attacks.

Well, is someone going to question these kids to try to figure out why they didn't say a word about these incidents? Yes, I know they're only 13 and 14-years-old, but it doesn't take a high school diploma to know that someone screaming his brains out while being fucked up the ass with broomsticks and hockey sticks by four bullies needs help. A five-year-old could figure that out! Yes, perhaps they were afraid of being raped by the bullies, but that wouldn't have happened if they had reported the sick fucks. Well maybe they didn't know that. Or maybe, just maybe, they enjoyed the spectacle.

The victim, who had to finish the school year at home, told a judge his father was angry and his mother couldn't stop crying when they heard about the attacks.

We don't know for sure what we would do as parents in their place, not unless we go through it ourselves, right? Yet, I visualize myself in the express lane at Wal-Mart buying two items: the thickest broomstick and hockey stick I could find.

Defense attorneys told the judge their clients were good students and had never been in trouble before. WTF does that mean? Then no one would be guilty of his/her first atrocity. So if Hitler and the motherfuckers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center in New York had up to then been good citizens--you know, no outstanding parking or speeding tickets, no felonies or misdemeanors--then they would automatically receive a get-out-of-jail-free card. Are you fucking kidding me?

Attorney Tim Taylor, representing Randall Moye, said his client's family is among the finest in the community.

*sigh*

The finest in the community. If one of the four is the offspring of the finest family in the community, I say the D.A. should quarantine the whole community since they're all bound to rape and kill each other sooner or later.

Taylor presented six character witnesses, including his client's mother, Jeanne Myers, who said her son wants to attend college. Oh, really? He wants to attend college. How cultured of him. Where was his education and wishes to go to college when he was gang-raping that boy? I don't give a fuck if he wants to go to college. I want $10 million.

The prosecutor asked her about her son's written statement about the attacks. Myers said her son described clowning around in the locker room with a hockey stick. She added that he told her about holding down the victim for a few seconds.

Clowning around? Only a mother would believe such a load of crap, I suppose. Judge Judy always says:"You know how to figure out a teenager is lying? You see them move their mouths."

The judge set bond for each defendant at $15,000 (a travesty--they should've been held without bond, if you ask me), with ankle monitors for all but one, who has left the area. What?! One has to laugh...

The Fantastic Four were taken into custody in court and booked into the adult jail, CNN reported. The judge warned the four to have no contact with one another, the victim or any witnesses in the case. The defendants could spend up to 120 years in prison if convicted on all four counts.

There are no hockey sticks in prison, and accessibility to broom or mop sticks might be restricted given their potential to become weapons. But creativity and resourcefulness can't be contained within bars and fences. And I'm confident that if these sick fucks sent to prison, their fellow men will find a way to bring them to justice in a way the judge simply can't.

Source: CNN
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