Mother Marries Alleged Pervert Just Two Hours After He Was Indicted For Molesting Her 7-Year-Old Daughter

See... Good God. Never mind a nice cushy electric chair: days like this, I think maybe we should reinstitute quartering-by-wild-horse. 

Mother Marries Alleged Pervert Just Two Hours After He Was Indicted For Molesting Her 7-Year-Old Daughter
Barbara Whitehead Facebook

Damascus, Oregon (The Weekly Vice) - Barbara Whitehead, a 41-year-old Oregon woman was charged Wednesday after she allegedly married a man just two-hours after he was indicted for sexually abusing her 7-year-old daughter.

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Just two hours after Smock's indictment, Whitehead is alleged to have married him in a secret wedding with the little girl looking on. After the wedding, the happy couple fled with the child to a Portland hotel where they reportedly celebrated a week-long honeymoon together.

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OpenFeint Discussion on Obama

This is only a snippet of the conversation. Firstly, the username is "untochable 2019".

And this is what s/he had to say:


Now, I've missed a sentence in the middle of those two section, I apologise. It has the words "Obama ses", so you've not missed much.

My response:


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New 419 Scam

Nigerian scam emails are so common that I - and probably most - simply delete them & move on. The ones I do read are generally bad enough to make you wonder whether they've just picked random words and whacked them together.

This morning I received one that... well, it's a new one!


A title just off enough for me to open the email, while assuming it would be a scam.


Reverend Jerry Smith, a regular [American/Australian/English-speaking] guy from wherever you're from! Orphanage! Ghana, not Nigeria! Shipping costs! Legitimate purchaser with credit card! I have your email address but not your phone number! I'm a Reverend but I'm only semi-literate!

And again, if any native speaker of English takes this as an actual email from an actual person... Well, then you deserve to be scammed.

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"Revert"

I first noticed this word being used to mean "refer back to" or "reply" in emails from Indian colleagues. India has a number of delightfully anachronistic English words still in use (such as the online article I read about how the "cads" had gotten away, but the "sleuths" were on their tail), which always amused me, but "please revert" at the end of an email...? My muttered response was usually, "to what?"

According to Dictionary.com:



Lately, it's been used twice by people who should know better, so I thought I would point it out.

It might be an actual word, but in this context it's like "refudiate" - yes, I know what you meant, but no. Don't.



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A dog just peed on my head

I wish that was a joke. It's not.

We have a front deck which is down some stairs from the front porch. It's totally hidden from the road. I was lying on the deck with Vivaldi on the iPod, watching the bats fly black against the backdrop of grey clouds, all very peaceful.

Then I woke up thinking, is it raining?


Uh, no. That would be the big black dog who wanders through our yard every so often.

Peeing.

On my head.

Maybe I smelled a LOT like my dog...? Fuck knows. At any rate, there was punching, some swearing, a bit of yelping/running, some frantic checking of the health of the iPod, then a sprint to the bathroom.

I now smell like soap, shampoo & clean clothes. I may never fully relax on the deck again.

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7 Unassailable Reasons Why Gayness Should be Banned [NB: facetiousness]

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Twilight Haters Rejoice...

... for here is "Vampires Suck".

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Be a Dangerous DayDreamer

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.

-- T.E. Lawrence

Ha! Nice one, Sheriff...

ROACH MOTEL:

After a tip, sheriff's deputies got a search warrant for a home in Jackson, Miss. Sure enough, they found drugs. The homeowner, Millie Steverson, 62, was arrested, even though she protested that she needs the pot to treat her glaucoma.

Investigators note the haul from the house included 30 pounds of marijuana, plus crack cocaine, ecstasy, a gun (as a convicted felon, Steverson is not allowed to possess firearms), and a stolen car. "I understand she smokes the drugs to help her glaucoma," Hinds County Sheriff Malcolm McMillin said. "By the time she got through smoking all of that, she would have X-ray vision." (Jackson Clarion-Ledger)

Life

“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. ”

—Alfred D. Souza
(-2004); writer, philosopher



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Allie Brosh is a genius

I think I actually love this girl - how cool is this?

happiness poster from zazzle.com

I mean, OK, chest-bursting happiness is not something I'm overly familiar with, but if I was? I would just hold this up and point to it.

Please check out Allie's blog, twitter, facebook and Zazzle links!

History of Hacking

Via: Online MBA

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The slippery slope

Earlier this week, a Puerto Rico-born US citizen was detained for 3 days and threatened with deportation. Even though his wife brought his birth certificate, they suspected he was an illegal immigrant.

This comes to mind:

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the labor leaders, but I did not speak out because I was not a unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

As one day became another and others disappeared, gypsies, mentally retarded, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, criminals, anti-socials and emigrants, I remained silent because I was not one of them.

Then it was they came for me, but no one spoke for me because by then there was no one left to speak.

-- Martin Niemoller, 1945.

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Rush Limbaugh... in his own words

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Mystery Fungus

I found this in my garden - any ideas what it is?





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Not seaworthy

This is too funny:

From the Telegraph via http://thisistrue.com

AHOY THERE! A lifeboat crew rescued a sailor off the coast of England taking his first voyage. The unnamed 45-year-old man had just bought the boat, which was not suitable for sea voyages, and was trying to navigate from Gillingham to Southampton -- using only a road map.

He figured he could simply keep the coast of England on "his right" and get there fine, but forgot about the Isle of Sheppey, only about 10 miles away from his starting point. He went around and around the 8-mile-wide island all day and all night, until he ran out of fuel and went aground, rescuers say. He had a marine radio that he could have used to call for help, but didn't know how to use it. "He didn't even;know what navigational charts were," said a lifeboat volunteer who helped in the rescue.

Read the whole story here

Rethinking policy..

Nature - or possibly God - is punishing women.

Why do people do this sort of thing?? It makes me want to stab them in the eye.

From WEIRDNUZ.M160 (News of the Weird, May 2, 2010)
© 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.

Child-Bearing, Explained

Virginia state legislator Bob Marshall, speaking in February in opposition to state funding for Planned Parenthood, said the organization is partly responsible for the number of disabled children in America. According to the Old Testament, he said, being forced to bear a disabled child is punishment for the mother's having earlier aborted her first-born.

So, God... oh, wait, there's more:

"[W]hen you abort the first born . . . nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children." Said Marshall, the organization ought to call itself "Planned Barrenhood." [Richmond News Leader, 2-22-10]

Hang on - so it's nature's fault, not God's? Well, now I'm cranky because yet another public speaker can't maintain message consistency. He's citing the OT, but doesn't mention God at all, just a passive voice "you are being punished" and "nature".

Well, everybody knows Nature's a bitch - I mean, she notoriously "abhors a vacuum", and THAT's clearly wrong. Since women love vacuum cleaners. Apparently.

Also, if you're going to start citing OT laws as if they apply today, we're going to have to have a chat about natural fibers, shellfish and exactly how long it's been aince your last blood sacrifice. Exactly.

Should we have a poll on how many disabled chlldren have been born subsequent to an abortion? Let's get some stats in here.

Story courtesy of Chuck Shepherd, as below:

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Cat Stevens - pre-sale

Yusuf Islam, the artist previously known as Cat Stevens, is playing in Australia. I just got an email advertising pre-sale of tickets, and clicked through to see prices.


$200+ !?! I love your work, Yusuf, but for that I'll stay home and play your old stuff.

Still, if anyone else is interested, here's the link.

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Muppets FTW! Webby Awards

The Muppet version of Bohemian Rhapsody has been nominated for a Webby for Best Viral Video. While I was checking that out, I came across a bunch of other ones that made me smile.

So here are some Muppet videos, for your amusement:

ELTON JOHN "CROCODILE ROCK"



"The Muppet Show" Intro



Kokomo by The Muppets



Original Muppets mana mana song



The Muppet Show - Yakkety Yak



Bohemian Rhapsody




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