Monthly Archives: March 2010

Teen Bullied For 4 Months, Kills Herself

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NORTHAMPTON, MA (AP) – Six Massachusetts teens are facing rape, assault and other charges after a schoolmate they’re accused of bullying killed herself in January.

A prosecutor says the bullying was “unrelenting” and “intolerable” for 15-year-old Phoebe Prince, who had recently moved to western Massachusetts from Ireland. District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel says the girl was stalked and harassed nearly constantly for four months.

Three other students face delinquency charges in the case. The prosecutor says there may be more charges.

Scheibel says the actions happened primarily on school grounds while classes were in session but says school officials won’t face criminal charges.

She says Prince’s family has asked that the public not pursue vigilante justice and instead allow the judicial system to provide some justice for their daughter.

Senators Piece Together New Climate Bill

From the Financial Times  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Kevin Sieff in Washington

Three senior US lawmakers are piecing together a sweeping bipartisan energy and climate bill, which looks set to include sweeteners to galvanise support among Republicans and industry groups.

The proposed legislation, encouraged by President Barack Obama, dilutes a climate bill that stalled last year in the Senate. The senators have hosted meetings with industry groups over the past two weeks, revealing details about their plan that would cap carbon emissions while expanding offshore oil drilling and nuclear power generation.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–Fresh off destroying health care, President Obama and his Senators are still setting their sights on destroying what’s left of the private sector economy…all against the will of the people.  Did the American people elect a President or did we crown a King?

Christianity Offensive In America: Davenport, Iowa, Removes “Good Friday” From Calendar And Replaces It With “Spring Holiday”

From ABC News  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Russell Goldman

Like suffering the indignity of being snubbed in a Christian country...

One week before the most solemn day in the Christian year, the city of Davenport, Iowa removed Good Friday from its municipal calendar, setting off a storm of complaints from Christians and union members whose contracts give them that day off.

Taking a recommendation by the Davenport Civil Rights Commission to change the holiday’s name to something more ecumenical, City Administrator Craig Malin sent a memo to municipal employees announcing Good Friday would officially be known as “Spring Holiday.”

“My phone has been ringing off the hook since Saturday,” said city council alderman Bill Edmond. “People are genuinely upset because this is nothing but political correctness run amok.”

Edmond said the city administrator made the change unilaterally and did not bring it to the council for a vote, a requirement for a change in policy.

"Remember, I'm dying for "Spring Holiday!"

Quote Of The Day: Samuel Adams

If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

–Samuel Adams

British Man In Dubai Allegedly Gave Arab “The Finger”; Faces 6 Months In Jail

From the UK Daily Mail  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

Dubai--modern on the outside, ancient on the inside...

A Briton is facing six months in jail in Dubai for allegedly making a rude gesture at an Arab.

Police arrested Simon Andrews, 56, on suspicion of public indecency after receiving a complaint from an Iraqi aviation student.

It was said the pair got into a heated argument before Mr Andrews stuck one finger up at 18-year-old Mahmud Rasheed.

Mr Rasheed complained to police and the Briton was arrested for outraging public decency last August. Mr Andrews has been banned from leaving the country ever since as he awaits trial.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–Beats me why anyone would go there unless it was absolutely necessary…the place sounds like a real “Disneyland.”

"Okay infidel, that's going to cost you 6 months in jail!" ... "But it's just a foam finger!" ... "Not in Dubai it isn't!"

Scientist: Humans Too Stupid To Save Themselves From “Climate Change”

From the UK Guardian  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Leo Hickman

The "all-knowing" scientist James Lovelock is not happy with humans...

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades. This is the stark conclusion of James Lovelock, the globally respected environmental thinker and independent scientist who developed the Gaia theory.

It follows a tumultuous few months in which public opinion on efforts to tackle climate change has been undermined by events such as the climate scientists’ emails leaked from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit.

“I don’t think we’re yet evolved to the point where we’re clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change,” said Lovelock in his first in-depth interview since the theft of the UEA emails last November. “The inertia of humans is so huge that you can’t really do anything meaningful.”  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–This is one arrogant SOB.  He has a “feeling” that climate change may be as severe a situation as a war.  So we’re all supposed to bow down to this guy’s “feeling.”  One million years ago, wasn’t the Earth entirely iced-over?  Was that due to “man-made” global warming also?

...Maybe the end of the global warming hoax...

Loony Leftie Frank Rich Says The Rage Against Obama Is Not About His Policies

From the New York Times  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Frank Rich


THERE were times when last Sunday’s great G.O.P. health care implosion threatened to bring the thrill back to reality television. On ABC’s “This Week,” a frothing and filibustering Karl Rove all but lost it in a debate with the Obama strategist David Plouffe.

A few hours later, the perennially copper-faced Republican leader John Boehner revved up his “Hell no, you can’t!” incantation in the House chamber — instant fodder for a new viral video remixing his rap with will.i.am’s “Yes, we can!” classic from the campaign. Boehner, having previously likened the health care bill to Armageddon, was now so apoplectic you had to wonder if he had just discovered one of its more obscure revenue-generating provisions, a tax on indoor tanning salons.  (Read more.)

The Times is barely suitable even as fish wrap...

B.S. Report–As usual, Rich couldn’t be more wrong.  The rage against Obama is almost entirely policy driven.  The type of “change” Obama is calling for is not popular among mainstream Americans.  Rich, of course, knows nothing about mainstream America or those of us who hold traditional American values.

We’re an embarrassment to the phony pseudo-sophisticated types at the New York Times.  We’re what they consider to be the Yahoos that occupy fly-over country.  That’s one of the reasons why the Times is a dying newspaper–they have little understanding about what it means to be an American.

Rich is basically calling those of us that oppose Obama’s agenda “racists.”  Wasn’t President Obama black when he won the election?  It’s his unpopular agenda that has galvanized a majority of the country to reject him.  He’s still hovering around 50% approval–but that’s due to his own personal charisma.

When a poll is taken on his policies they fail miserably.  Even after ramming through the health care bill, it remains unpopular with 60% of the country still opposed to it.  Obama is out of touch with the people and we’re not coming around to his way of thinking  simply because he manages to pass lousy legislation.

Tonight’s Music Selection…Joe Cocker

Funny Video Of Baby & Dog Crying

Ancient Doorway To Afterlife Discovered In Egypt

Carved stone door was ancient Egyptians threshold to the afterlife.

CAIRO (AFP) – A large red granite false door from the tomb of an ancient queen’s powerful vizier has been discovered in Luxor, Egypt’s culture minister said on Monday.

The carved stone door — which ancient Egyptians believed was the threshold to the afterlife — was unearthed near the Karnak Temple in Luxor and belongs to the tomb of User, a powerful advisor to the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut, Faruk Hosni said in a statement.

The door, 1.75 metres (5.7 feet) high and 50 cm (19 inches) thick, is engraved with religious texts and various titles used by User, including mayor of the city, vizier and prince, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass was quoted as saying.

“The newly discovered door was reused during the Roman period. It was removed from the tomb of User and used in the wall of a Roman structure,” said Mansur Boraik, who headed the excavation mission.

Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt between 1479 BC and 1458 BC, was the longest reigning female pharaoh.