Fake Census Workers Invade Home And Commit Murder

From KHOU.com  (Houston)

By Tiffany Craig

Reginald "Pete" Haynes

HOUSTON — Police are warning homeowners to be careful who they allow inside their homes. A man posing as a census worker and two more suspects barged into a north Houston house Saturday afternoon, killing the homeowner and beating others. It happened Saturday afternoon in the 400 block of Truman.

A day later, Reginald “Pete” Haynes’ family is planning a funeral instead of celebrating Mother’s Day.  His nephew, Larry Johnson Jr., struggles to talk about what happened.

“They’ve taken something precious from us,” says Johnson. “They really have.”  Johnson lost his uncle after a man claiming to be a census worker went to their house and Haynes’ son, unknowingly opened the door.  (Read and see video  here.)

Actor Danny Glover Criticized At Commencement For Not Putting Hand Over His Heart During Anthem

From the Salt Lake Tribune

By Arrin Newton Brunson

Danny Glover speaks at commencement on Saturday (Alan Murray / Herald Journal)

Logan » Utah State University’s 123rd commencement ceremony Saturday, featuring keynote speaker Danny Glover, will likely be remembered more for the actor’s controversy than his celebrity.

During the color guard presentation of the American flag, a spectator yelled across the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, “Put your hand above your heart, Glover!”

The five-time Emmy nominee told The Salt Lake Tribune after the ceremony that he doesn’t typically cover his heart during flag ceremonies and he meant no disrespect.

“I was listening to the national anthem and paying attention,” he said. “I probably wasn’t the only one in there who didn’t put a hand over their heart.”  (Read more.)

Thanks For The Memories: Lena Horne; Singer, Actress Dead At 92

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

By ALJEAN HARMETZ

Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. She was 92 and lived in Manhattan.

Her death was announced by her son-in-law, Kevin Buckley.

Ms. Horne might have become a major movie star, but she was born 50 years too early, and languished at MGM in the 1940s because of the color of her skin, although she was so light-skinned that, when she was a child, other black children had taunted her, accusing her of having a “white daddy.”

Ms. Horne was stuffed into one “all-star” musical after another — “Thousands Cheer” (1943), “Broadway Rhythm” (1944), “Two Girls and a Sailor” (1944), “Ziegfeld Follies” (1946), “Words and Music” (1948) — to sing a song or two that could easily be snipped from the movie when it played in the South, where the idea of an African-American performer in anything but a subservient role in a movie with an otherwise all-white cast was unthinkable.  (Read more.)

President Obama Finds His Nominee

By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer

Elena Kagan (AFP)

WASHINGTON – Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be nominated Monday to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama, a person familiar with the president’s thinking says, positioning the high court to have three women justices for the first time.

Obama plans to announce his choice at 10 a.m. in the East Room of the White House. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision, which came after a monthlong search, had not been made public. Shortly before 8 a.m., Kagan emerged from her Washington, D.C., apartment, got into the back seat of a vehicle and was driven away. She did not acknowledge the photographers and reporters who had gathered to await her appearance.

Kagan is known as sharp and politically savvy and has enjoyed a blazing legal career. She was the first female dean of Harvard Law School, first woman to serve as the top Supreme Court lawyer for any administration, and now first in Obama’s mind to succeed legendary liberal Justice John Paul Stevens.  (Read more.)

Real Ass: Man Pleads Guilty To Felony Tattooing Of Toddler’s Butt

From Canton Rep.com  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Dave Sereno

Tattooing your own kids butt is bad enough...but tattooing someone else's kid's butt is insane!

CANTON —Whatever his reasoning, Lee M. Deitrick thought it wise to tattoo a toddler’s bottom.

It wasn’t even his child.Now the 20-year-old Louisville man has learned his punishment. He was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison.

Deitrick pleaded guilty in Stark County Common Pleas Court to two felony child endangering charges as part of a plea deal with county prosecutors.  Deitrick tattooed the outline of the letter “A” on the child’s buttock. The mark covers about one-half inch.

The mother — a friend of Deitrick’s — left her then-19-month-old at Deitrick’s W. Main Street home for a few hours on Nov. 7 while she visited a friend in the hospital, said Katie Chawla, assistant Stark County prosecutor.  (Read more.)

Quote Of The Day: Grover Cleveland

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds… I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

–Grover Cleveland

Candidate Twice Botches School’s Name During Commencement Address

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Alex Sink

ORLANDO, Fla., May 9 (UPI) — Florida gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink probably won’t be invited back as commencement speaker after getting the University of Central Florida’s name wrong.

Graduates interrupted her address with boos and groans Saturday afternoon after Sink, a Democrat, called the University of Central Florida — “USF” — at least twice during her remarks. USF are initials of the University of South Florida, which is in Tampa, while Sink was speaking at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

“I think I better just get off the stage right now,” Sink, Florida’s chief financial officer, joked after the faux pas.

However, she finished her speech to the 1,300 graduates inside the UCF Arena by referring to the school by its full name.

Police Mistakenly Swarm Teens Thinking A Kidnapping Was In Progress

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ORLANDO, Fla., May 9 (UPI) — A birthday surprise went wrong as Florida police surrounded two teenagers after bystanders thought they were witnessing a kidnapping, authorities said.

Courtney Rogers was driving her friend Briana Vega to Vega’s surprise party but was running late, so she pulled into a restaurant parking lot to put a blindfold on Vega, WOFL-TV, Orlando, Fla., reported Wednesday.

Diners in the restaurant, thinking there was a kidnapping in progress, called police, who arrived in minutes and surrounded Rogers and Vega.

“They were like ‘have you ever had a gun pointed at your face?'” Vega said. “I was like ‘no I haven’t’ and he was like ‘well that could have happened today, we could have had you on the hot pavement down on the ground with guns to your heads.'””At that point I was freaked   out,” Vega said.

After being handcuffed for 20 minutes, Rogers and Vega were released but charged with disturbing the peace.  The girls and their parents have complained the actions of the police were “excessive,” WOFL reported.

Florida Bestiality Bill Falls Apart Before Making It To House Floor

From the Miami Herald.com  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

BY CRISTINA SILVA

"Thanks a lot Florida legislature"...

TALLAHASSEE — From every angle, a ban on bestiality, long pushed by state prosecutors and animal rights activists, seemed poised to finally become law this year, with Republicans and Democrats in both chambers of the Florida Legislature joining forces to push it through.

Yet it failed.

The inability to outlaw something so repugnant reveals how difficult it can be to get even the most carefully crafted, widely supported bill passed in the Florida Legislature.

Its advocates say that in the political stew of a legislative session, the very outrageousness of the topic worked against it.

Lawmakers said they did not want to be accused of wasting time addressing a rare crime when Floridians needed them to help create jobs. They also did not want to debate the icky subject in public meetings occasionally frequented by children.

"Let me have a piece of those lawmakers!"

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