Fort Hood Massacre Shooter Awake And Talking

From the Jerusalem Post

Major Nidal Malik Hasan

Alleged Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan is awake and talking, said on Monday a spokesman for Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.

The spokesman stated that Hasan, currently the only suspect in a deadly shooting spree at a US Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, in which thirteen people were killed and 29 wounded, had regained consciousness after being taken off a ventilator on Saturday.

The suspect was shot by civilian policewoman Kimberly Munley during the incident.

His condition remains stable.

B.S. Report–Below is the video of President Obama addressing the massacre.  First, lets assume that the President was not privy to exactly what went on–that’s what his staff is for.  But Obama’s odd remarks make him look unprepared and insensitive.  But worst of all–he looks Un-Presidential…He just doesn’t inspire confidence and he continues to make many of us think he’s out of his league.

Columnist Of The Day: Michael Fumento; Swine Flu Boogeyman

From Townhall.com  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

“The boogeyman will get you!” parents sometimes tell misbehaving children. With about 40% of parents saying “no!” to vaccinating their kids for swine flu, apparently health officials think turnabout is fair play. And the media seem happy to help.

You see it in such headlines as “CDC Shocker: Swine Flu Killing Young People at Record Rate!” And in lines of panicked parents queued outside vaccine clinics like fans trying to score tickets to a Paul McCartney concert. And in schools closing willy-nilly, which could cost the nation tens of billions, according to a recent Brookings Institute study.

Which is so sad, because this boogeyman is not much more substantial than the legendary one. And adding the proverbial insult to injury, parents are told they must get their children vaccines that–because of the shortage and despite Obama administration promises–they can’t get.

As told, the tale does sound scary. Almost a quarter of deaths from swine flu since Sept. 1 have occurred “in young people under the age of 25,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official Anne Schuchat declared at a press conference. Among cases of seasonal flu, those over 65 account for about 90% of deaths.

What Schuchat didn’t say is that, as tragic as any child’s death always is, in this case they merely represent a disproportionately larger slice of a very small pie. Very few people are dying of swine flu in any age category. Put another way, it’s not that younger people are being slammed but that older ones are catching a break.

Hence among 65,000 college students afflicted with CDC-defined “flu-like illness” seriously enough to seek medical help, according to an American College Health Association running survey, there have been only 123 hospitalizations and zero deaths. That in turn reflects swine flu as a whole, which in the seven months since the outbreak began has apparently killed fewer Americans than normally die every two weeks from “ordinary” flu during the season.

But the CDC claims to have scary numbers as well as percentages, with 85 attributed swine flu fatalities under age 18 in the last two months, as of Oct. 30. By comparison, in the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons there were 78 and 88 such deaths reported, respectively. Although it appears the epidemic has peaked, attributed child swine flu fatalities this season will eclipse them. But it probably won’t mean much according to James Chin, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and former World Health Organization epidemiologist.  (Read more.)

Welsh Burglar Sends In Own Mug Shot To Newspaper

Maynard sent in this picture because he didn't like the one the newspaper published.

(UPI)–An alleged burglar wanted by Welsh authorities sent a newspaper a picture of himself because he didn’t like the mug shot it published. A spokesman for the South Wales Evening Post said Matthew Maynard, 23, whose mug shot appeared in the paper during the weekend as part of a police effort to track down wanted suspects, called the newspaper Monday, the Daily Mail reported Friday.

“He telephoned on Monday saying he was not happy with the picture and that he would send in another,” the spokesman said. “We just didn’t believe that he would do it.” However, staff received a photo of Maynard posing next to a police van. Police said Maynard’s stunt is likely to backfire as the newspaper printed the photo on its front page. “He is a berk. He thinks he is being clever by showing off like this, but we’ll have him in soon now,” one officer said.

He thinks he's an evil genius...but he's no Lex Luthor.

Wife Allergic To Husband’s Sperm…Whatever Happened To “I Have A Headache?”

UK Daily Mail

A new wife was given a nasty wedding night surprise when she discovered she was allergic to her husband’s sperm.

Mike and Julie Boyde had been going out for two years when they got married and decided to have unprotected sex for the first time that evening.

It's troubling when your wife is already complaining about sex with you on your wedding night--but it turns out she had a reason, and not a phony headache.

But almost immediately the bride was in unbearable pain – and eventually they discovered it was because of Mike’s sperm.

Now they have been forced to abandon their plans of conceiving a baby as it seems her own body destroys the sperm.

Mike, 27, and Julie, 26, from Ambridge, Pennsylvania, started going out while at university and became engaged two years later, finally having a dream wedding in 2005.

But following the reception, as they enjoyed their first night as a married couple, things went badly wrong.

"Mrs. Boyde, we're coming to get you!"

‘Before we were always very careful and used protection – this time we didn’t,’ said Julie, 26.

‘We figured, “we’re married, if we get pregnant, we get pregnant”.’

But she added: ‘Pretty much right after I knew something was not right because I was in a lot of pain.

‘The pain that I was feeling was inside, like somebody sticking needles up inside of me like a real painful burning.

‘It was really scary.’

The pain, and at times blisters, would go on for weeks, she said.

‘On a scale of one to ten, it’s pretty much ten,’ she said, describing the pain.

After numerous tests and doctors visits, the couple were eventually told that Julie suffers from seminal plasma hypersensitivity.

Dr Andrew Goldstein said: ‘The body recognizes the sperm as a foreign protein, like it would recognize a peanut allergen or a pollen so you have swelling, you have itching, you have inflammation of the nerve endings.’

It means that her body attacks Mike’s sperm, making it inactive.

The discovery shattered their plans to conceive.  But now, after a treatment failed, they have started adoption proceedings.

The couple are featured in a Discovery Health documentary called Strange Sex, airing in the U.S. this week.

Quote Of The Day: James Madison

“[T]he powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its
jurisdiction.”

– James Madison, Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention [June 6, 1788]

Man’s “Fat Defense” Falls Flat; Doesn’t Carry Any “Weight” With The Jury

From the UK Telegraph

A jury on Friday convicted a man of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man’s defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway.

Edward Ates used the "fat defense," but the jury doesn't "bite."

Edward Ates looked down and shook his head in court as he was found guilty of murder and weapons counts for killing Paul Duncsak, who was shot six times at his home in Ramsey, about 25 miles north-west of New York.

Ates’ “too fat to kill” defense provided an angle to the trial that attracted attention from the news media but didn’t sway the jury of eight women and four men, who reached a verdict on their second day of deliberations after a six-week trial.

Some of Duncsak’s family members cried softly after the verdict was read. Ate’s wife, Dottie, sobbed in the gallery as he was handcuffed and led away by court deputies.

“It doesn’t bring him back, but at least he won’t get away with it,” said Duncsak’s sister-in-law, Barbara Duncsak. “It’s satisfying. It was a long time coming.”

Ates had argued he did not have the energy to accurately shoot Duncsak from a perch on the staircase at Duncsak’s home in August 2006. He was 62 years old and 285 pounds at the time of the murder.

Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Wayne Mello termed Ates’ defense “nonsense” and credited dogged work by investigators, particularly Det. Sgt. Russ Christiana, that built a circumstantial case around cell phone records and computer forensics.

“This was a complicated case, and it was good old-fashioned police work combined with new technology,” Mello said.

Prosecutors contended Ates drove from Florida to New Jersey, climbed a staircase and shot the 40-year-old Duncsak, a pharmaceutical executive who was embroiled in a bitter custody dispute with Ates’ daughter after their divorce.

Ates then drove 21 hours to his mother’s house in Louisiana, prosecutors said. The last evidence the jurors reviewed in court on Friday was videotaped testimony from Ates’ sister in which she admitted that she lied to authorities about when he arrived in Louisiana, per his request.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–This is Ates version of the twinkie defense but this time, fortunately, it was unsuccessful.  When a fat man is “hungry” enough (pardon the pun) it’s not so hard to walk up and down a flight of stairs.  Especially when your goal is to murder your son-in-law. Besides, he was “only” 285 pounds–it’s not like he weighed 400 pounds.  This guy moves pretty well and he’s much heavier.

Man Steals Car To Make It To Court Appearance

AP (Pic added by B.S. Report)

"Sorry, I have a court appearance in an hour!"

(AP)–The California Highway Patrol say a man stole a car to make a court appearance on a previous auto theft charge. The patrol says 24-year-old Samuel Botchvaroff, of Oakland, was arrested Tuesday after he left his arraignment at the Vallejo courthouse on auto theft charges.

He was booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of auto theft and possession of stolen property. Authorities were looking for the stolen car after its tracking system alerted them about the theft. The car was stolen from Oakland. They say Botchvaroff told officers his own car had been impounded and that he had no other way to get to his arraignment. No details about the previous theft charge were immediately available. Calls to the highway patrol and the jail were not immediately returned Friday.

B.S. Report–Most Californians don’t trust public transportation…

Natural Selection At Work: Man Calls 911 To Report His Marijuana Stolen…

From the Statesman Journal

Calvin Hoover is not firing on all cylinders... (Photo-Statesman Journal)

A 21-year-old Salem man reportedly called 911 to say that his marijuana was missing, but when deputies arrived, he was booked on drunken-driving charges instead, officials said. It began at 12:52 a.m. Tuesday as a report of a vehicle break-in at the Freeloader Tavern, 501 Lancaster Drive SE, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Lt. Sheila Lorance.

A man told dispatchers that while he was in the bar, someone broke into his truck, stole $400 cash, a jacket and about 3/4 ounce of marijuana, valued at about $180. Deputy Ryan Clarke went to the tavern but was unable to find the driver. About an hour later, the driver called 911 again, angry that deputies had not arrived. Lorance said the dispatcher had difficulty understanding the caller because the driver was driving and stopping several times to vomit.

Deputies eventually found the man at 49th Avenue and Fontana Court SE, where he had parked. The man, who was found about 100 feet from his truck, told deputies that he was looking for the people who stole his “weed.” Clarke said the driver was drunk. Clarke took a theft report from the man regarding his missing items but explained the implications of possessing marijuana, Lorance said.

If the driver, who did not have a medical-marijuana card, was found in possession of marijuana, he would have been charged with possession of a controlled substance. Calvin Hoover, 21, of Salem was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of intoxicants.

Woman Awarded $150,000 Claiming She Had To Wear Diapers Due To Lack Of Toilets At Work

(UPI)–A Pennsylvania woman was awarded $150,000 in a discrimination suit claiming she had to wear diapers to work due to a lack of toilets. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s lawsuit against Danella Construction Corp., of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., said Lisa Drozdowski, 37, had to wear adult diapers while she was working as a flagger for the company in 2005 because officials refused to provide portable toilets, the Philadelphia Daily News reported Thursday.

Drozdowski said her bathroom breaks, which involved walking a quarter mile to her car and driving several minutes to the nearest restroom, often came after she had already urinated on herself. She said the company stopped giving her work when she complained about the bathroom breaks and was denied a laborers position. The commission and Danella entered into a consent decree filed in a court Wednesday. Danella agreed to pay $150,000 to Drozdowski and four other female employees who claimed they were also discriminated against by the company will split a $50,000 payout.

B.S. Report–As a rule I hate lawsuits.  But sometimes a company acts so stupidly that they are literally inviting an employee lawsuit.  Any fool could see that if you don’t provide bathroom services for your employees you are begging to be sued.

This device would have at least kept the poor gals from peeing on themselves…

Duke University Criticized By Religious Leader For Sex Toys “Tupperware” Style Parties

(UPI)–A sex toy study being conducted by Duke University in North Carolina is being criticized by a religious leader. The Rev. Joe Vetter, director of the Duke Catholic Center, said he was concerned about ads seeking female students at the school to take part in a “sexually explicit” study on Tupperware party-style gatherings that feature the discussion and sale of sex toys, The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer reported Friday.

The Catholic center is one of more than 25 religious life groups representing a variety of faiths at the private university. Vetter said he found the study was designed by healthcare workers to examine whether sex toy use reduces sexual promiscuity, an approach that has been promoted on campus by student health groups. “I’m concerned about promiscuity also,” Vetter said. “And to be honest, I don’t have the solution … . My concern is these students are in this developmental phase, and I don’t think it’s a good developmental practice to just tell somebody to just sit around and masturbate.

I don’t think that promotes relationships.” Michael Schoenfeld, Duke’s vice president for public affairs, said the project went through a peer-review process before being approved. “Not all research will make people comfortable,” Schoenfeld said.

"Oh my! Where's the tupperware? I just came by for some food storage containers!"