Andymatic

Month: September 2007

  • Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Tasered 10 Times

    Trifecta: “One, she’s in a wheelchair. Two, she’s schizophrenic. Three, they’re using a Taser on a person that’s in a wheelchair, and then four is that they tasered her 10 times for a period of like two minutes,” Alexander said. According to a police report, one of the officers used her Taser gun nine times […]

  • Meanwhile the Dollar Further Devalues

    While you were out: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Wednesday the government will hit the current debt ceiling on Oct. 1. The limit is $8.965 trillion. Unless Congress votes to raise it, the country would be unable to borrow more money to keep the government operating and to pay debt obligations coming due. […]

  • Senate Votes to Not Restore Habeas Corpus

    Yes it happened last week – just filing it here for future reference. Senators voted 56-43 in favor of the bill, but the final tally was short of the 60 votes needed under Senate rules for it to move forward. The bill would have restored the ancient writ of habeas corpus to inmates, giving them […]

  • Woman Hog-Tied, Blindfolded and Tasered

    And she was already in prison: Norman “was handcuffed, leg shackled, hog-tied, blindfolded and tasered numerous times,” according to a news release issued by her her attorneys, John Lewright and Robert Foulke. Lewright said Monday the Taser incident was recorded by a video camera in the booking area, although he had yet to receive a […]

  • 17 Year-Old Dies After Being Tasered

    He wanted Jesus: Police officers responded around 8:56 p.m. Saturday to the 600 block of South State Street to find a man holding a Bible and a cordless phone yelling, “I want Jesus!” The subject was later identified as Holyfield. Officers attempted to speak to Holyfield, but he became combative toward officers and would not […]

  • Chernobyl Reactor Reveals Startling Organism

    Inside the reactor relic nothing should be alive: This slime, a collection of several fungi actually, was more than just surviving in a radioactive environment, it was actually using gamma radiation as a food source. Samples of these fungi grew significantly faster when exposed to gamma radiation at 500 times the normal background radiation level. […]

  • Delayed

    I’ll be bouncing around cafes today. My flight home is already delayed 2 hours.

  • Of Course They Killed Her

    I mean really. Come on.

  • Hillary Clinton's Prayer Group

    From Mother Jones: Clinton’s prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or “the Family”), a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and military leaders dedicated to “spiritual war” on behalf of Christ, many of them recruited at the Fellowship’s only public event, the annual National Prayer Breakfast. (Aside from the breakfast, the group has […]

  • AT&T Laptop Connect Card

    I hate hate hate these commercials. Is the internet really that hard to find? No. It is in every hotel and coffeeshop and airpot I’ve been around in the past week and a half. And the guy’s accent really is annoying. Ugh.