Category: Crime
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Ted Haggard, Christian Evangelical Leader, Father of 5 and MegaChurch Millionaire Resigns Over Alleged of Sex with Gay Prostitute
Again – when someone is that obsessed with what you do with your genitals, it usually means that they have problems with what they do with their own. Ted Haggard, one of the most prominent evangelical pastors in the nation, resigned today as president of the National Association of Evangelicals amid allegations that he carried […]
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And Paula Zahn Wept: Charges Against Karr Dropped
And JonBenet pundits live to see another few years of publicity and publishing to squeeze out of the murder of a little girl. Prosecutors decided not to charge John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, his lawyers said Monday after a TV station reported that the schoolteacher’s DNA failed to match genetic material […]
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Drunken Mel Gibson Rants About The ‘Fucking Jews'
Mel Gibson went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets. TMZ has also learned that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department had the initial report doctored to keep the real story under wraps. The report says Gibson told the deputy, "You mother f****r. I’m going to […]
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Congress Considering Adding MySpace to Data Retention Requiments
Again, What about the children! and The terrorists will win! are invoked: In those meetings, Justice Department representatives went beyond the argument that data retention was necessary to protect children–and claimed it would aid in terrorism investigations as well. During Wednesday’s hearing, politicians also claimed that social-networking sites were not doing enough to verify that […]
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Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ‘08,No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War by Greg Palast (Mindmap)
Must read. You know Greg Palast as the ex-pat journalist that reports for the BBC and reported to the rest of the world how the 2000 election was FUBARed while no one in the US did a damned thing. He’s back. Armed Madhouse is a complete tour of the greedy, selfish assholes that run our […]
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HOWTO: Tell AT&T To Fuck Off
From Metafilter: On the eve of its hearing on charges that it assisted in the government’s illegal spying on millions of Americans, AT&T, the largest phone company in the United States, has changed its privacy policy to clearly establish its ownership of its customers’ personal account information. Because your records aren’t yours. They can do […]
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When to Stone Your Children
A drama in six slides, performed by Legos: When to Stone Your Children
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Ken Lay: Guilty on All Counts
Time for the prison sex! The verdict put the blame for the demise of what was once the nation’s seventh-largest company squarely on its top two executives. It came in the sixth day of deliberations following a trial that lasted nearly four months.
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1 in 136 Americans Incarcerated
Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer. Of particular note was the gain of 33,539 inmates in jails, the largest increase since 1997,
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Mugged in Chicago
One of my colleagues was recently mugged in Chicago and is blogging her experience back to normalcy. Writing about my experience is, admittedly, an exercise for the internal. It may not be bringing those memories to the surface, but it is providing an outlet for my frustration, fear, anger, hope, and thankfulness. This afternoon a […]