Fresh Baked Bread, Anyone? Gruesome Body Bakery
Living Art - Albuquerque Halsey - 22 Comments
Tags: art, horror, bread, baker, death bakery
05/15/08 -  -  - (Link)
Imagine running up to the bakery around the corner and coming across bread shaped like body parts. Sound yummy? Artist Kittiwat Unarrom creates just that; gruesome works of art out of bread.
Feds: Drugs Made at Kosher Meat Plant
Crime - Jimmy The Headless Frog Boy - 9 Comments
Tags: methamphetamine laboratory, kosher slaughterhouse, Agriprocessors, Postville, Iowa.
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
Federal authorities charged that a methamphetamine laboratory was operating at the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse and that employees carried weapons to work.
The charges were among the most explosive details to emerge following the massive raid Monday at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa.
Ex-Fed Chief Warns That ’70s-Style Inflation Is Possible
Business - Jimmy The Headless Frog Boy - 3 Comments
Tags: Inflation, oil prices, Federal Reserve, Paul A. Volcker, 1970s-style
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, warned on Wednesday the United States could face a 1970s-style period of skyrocketing inflation if investors lost confidence in the buying power of the dollar.
Escaped Tibetan rioter tells of Chinese repression
Government - dorje - 0 Comments
Tags: china, Refugees, Tibet, riots, Beijing
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
Before fleeing across a mountainous border, Kusang Sonam says he hid for 12 days from Chinese forces searching for Tibetans who rioted against Beijing's rule in the Himalayan region.
"I knew I would be dead if they had caught me," the 38-year-old clothes trader and father-of-one told AFP in his first media interview at a refugee centre in India.
Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo
Followup - Corporate God King - 15 Comments
Tags: Suicide, 13-year-old girl, emo, cult conspiracy, my chemical romance
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
Eight months have now passed since 13-year-old Hannah Bond committed suicide, but for her parents the questions continue.
Original Story:
Emo Blamed For Teenager's Suicide
World's Biggest Bullock
Living Nature - Corporate God King - 14 Comments
Tags: giant, bullock, Guinness world record, Chilli, enjoys the occasional swede
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
Chilli the giant bull is set to stampede into the record books as Britain's tallest bovine.
Pregnant Girl, 14, strangled, burned, thrown down well by suspected fathers
Crime Violent - Corporate God King - 6 Comments
Tags: murder, well, teenage pregnancy, teenage Mafia, Italian Trio
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
Three teenage boys have confessed to killing a pregnant 14-year-old in a murder which has shocked a nation.
The Italian trio, aged 15, 16 and 17, said yesterday that they strangled Lorena Cultruro before setting her body on fire and throwing it down a well, fearing one of them was the father.
'Shamed' Austrian man kills family with ax
Crime Violent - Corporate God King - 10 Comments
Tags: shame, Vienna, ax murderer, financial difficulties, public relations consultant
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
An Austrian man has confessed to killing five members of his family with an ax, Vienna police said Wednesday.
The man walked into a Vienna police station early Wednesday and told authorities he had killed his wife and 7-year-old daughter early Tuesday, police spokesman Michael Braunsperger said.
Woman admits 'rough-sex' stabbing
Living Sex - Name Brand Aspirin - 9 Comments
Tags: death, Winnipeg University, rough-sex, knife play, consensual
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
A Winnipeg university student who nearly stabbed her boyfriend to death during a bizarre act of consensual "knife play" has been spared a jail sentence.
DEA wants hikers to be on lookout for marijuana in backcountry
Crime - Name Brand Aspirin - 15 Comments
Tags: marijuana, DEA, backcountry, fish hook, machine guns
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
If you're out hiking or hunting in the backcountry this summer, watch for a big cash crop, one that's not entirely legal.
It's been a big water year, so the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) suspects that Utah's backcountry will be in high demand for marijuana growers.
Grave situation
Crime - Name Brand Aspirin - 0 Comments
Tags: marijuana, cocaine, Cemetery, Buda man, scale
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
All was not quiet in an area cemetery late one night last week.
Caldwell County deputies arrested a 35-year-old Buda man on May 9 after finding him apparently intoxicated in a Reedville Cemetery and in possession of cocaine, marijuana, cash, a scale and packaging materials.
Amateur video captures moment quake struck China
Living Disaster - Cody Garrett - 2 Comments
Tags: video, china, Earthquake, amateur, quake video
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
The video begins with hills shaking forcefully as panic ensues. Rubble from houses and broken trees are strewn on the road.
Extra:
Damn good quake video.
Medic saw her duty, and did it
Government War - happy trauma - 0 Comments
Tags: Iraq, war, roadside bomb, medic, women in combat
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
Three weeks ago Cpl. Jessica A. Ellis escaped with cuts and bruises when her heavily armored vehicle was destroyed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad.
"She told me on the phone, this is a very dangerous place to be," her father, Steve Ellis of Baker City, said Tuesday. "She told us on the phone it was heating up again."
Sunday night, two uniformed officers knocked on the front door of Steve and Linda Ellis' rural home to notify them that their 24-year-old daughter did not survive a blast Sunday that once again destroyed her Buffalo armored vehicle.
Vatican Says Aliens Could Exist
Living Religion - Babies Ate My Dingo - 9 Comments
Tags: Aliens, pope, vatican, Mars, darwin
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
The Pope's chief astronomer says that life on Mars cannot be ruled out.
Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space.
10-year-old scholar takes Calif. college by storm
Living Education - FeeFiFoFoTheFifeFifeBrown - 7 Comments
Tags: child prodigy, Moshe Kai Cavalin, Buckaroo Banzai: The Next Generation
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music.
But Cavalin is only 10 years old. And at 4-foot-7, his shoes don't quite touch the floor as he puts down a schoolbook and swivels around in his chair to greet a visitor.
Child 'Forrest Gump' actor leaving Army
Movies News - Zatoichi Jones - 3 Comments
Tags: army, Forrest Gump, movie Iraq, unpopular war
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
As a boy, Michael Conner Humphreys made a splash on the silver screen as "Young Forrest Gump." As an adult, he somewhat mirrored the life of his movie character: He joined the Army and fought in an unpopular war.
'Darth Vader' Spared Jail in Jedi Church Attacks
Crime Stupid - Elvis Hitler - 4 Comments
Tags: Darth Vader, jedi church, whacked, metal crutch
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday.
'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'
Crime Violent - RomancingTrain - 21 Comments
Tags: islam, Iraq, father, Honor Killing, remorseless
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.
Two weeks after The Observer revealed the shocking story of Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, murdered because of her infatuation with a British soldier in Basra, southern Iraq, her father is defiant. Sitting in the front garden of his well-kept home in the city's Al-Fursi district, he remains a free man, despite having stamped on, suffocated and then stabbed his student daughter to death.
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Gang beating death batters Cleveland
Crime Violent - Chet - 0 Comments
Tags: Cleveland, gang, beating, urination, 15 people
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
Even by tough, urban-crime standards, it was a grisly attack: Up to 15 people chased a man, then kicked and beat him to death on the street. Before police arrived, one attacker urinated on the victim's head.
Some Detainees are Drugged for Deportation
Living Legal - vulvacide - 5 Comments
Tags: deportation, foreigners, injection, psychotropic drugs, human rights violation
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged.
Extra:
With audio.
Bush says gave up golf in solidarity with Iraq dead
Government War - The Naz - 25 Comments
Tags: George W. Bush, golf, Empty Gesture, hypocrite, solidarity with the troops
05/15/08 - - - (Link)
President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of Americans killed in the war in Iraq.
Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82
Living Art - Harry - 6 Comments
Tags: Bed, Robert Rauschenberg, mixed media, American artist, prolific
05/14/08 - - - (Link)
Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died on Monday night at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82.
Clinton cruises to easy win in West Virginia
Government Elections - Harry - 1 Comment
Tags: Hillary Clinton, West Virginia, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Elections, democratic primary
05/14/08 - - - (Link)
Hillary Clinton scored a big victory over front-runner Barack Obama in West Virginia on Tuesday, although it could be too little and too late to stop his march to the Democratic presidential nomination.
Radioactive Roadbeds in Niagara Falls, NY
Government Corruption - aka_mouse - 3 Comments
Tags: toxic waste, radioactive waste, DU, Manhattan project, love canal
05/14/08 - - - (Link)
This past Monday, May 5, the Niagara Falls City Council voted to authorize an expenditure of $110,000 to lease three PK2000 trucks—more popularly known as “Pothole Killers”—for a city-wide roadwork blitz this summer.
China bloggers cook up quake conspiracies
Living Disaster - vulvacide - 7 Comments
Tags: china, Earthquake, conspiracy theories, Bloggers, earthquake omens
05/14/08 - - - (Link)
As the death toll in China's Sichuan province climbs, the nation’s bloggers have joined together in the search for a scapegoat.
Broadband connections across the country are pulsing with rumours of "earthquake omens" involving toads or butterflies - all allegedly ignored by the authorities. Some even talk of a vast pre-Olympic conspiracy.
Rapper Remy Ma gets 8 years for shooting friend
People Musicians - The Naz - 0 Comments
Tags: Rapper, conspiracy, Shooting, Papoose, Remy Ma
05/14/08 - - - (Link)
Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday for shooting and wounding an acquaintance after discovering money was missing from her purse after a night out in Manhattan.
Girl, 12, trained to work as dominatrix
Crime - anonymous coward - 0 Comments
Tags: Child, Kansas City, Dominatrix, commercial sex trafficking, minor
05/14/08 - - - (Link)
Federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment accusing a man and woman of training the woman's child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts.
Newly Discovered Species of Spider Named After Neil Young
Science - Rudy - 11 Comments
Tags: new species, Neil Young, Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi, trap door spiders, favorite musician
05/14/08 - - - (Link)
Iconic singer and songwriter Neil Young has had an honor bestowed upon him that is not received by many musicians -- his own spider.
An East Carolina University biologist, Jason Bond, discovered a new species of trapdoor spider and opted to call the arachnid after his favorite musician, Canadian Neil Young, naming it Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.
Racism alarms Obama's backers
Government Elections - delicatessen - 12 Comments
Tags: racism, ignorance, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Elections, anti-black sentiment
05/14/08 - - - (Link)
Danielle Ross was alone in an empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue Converses, stories from the trail on her mind. It was the day before Indiana's primary, and she had just been chased by dogs while canvassing in a Kokomo suburb. But that was not the worst thing to occur since she postponed her sophomore year at Middle Tennessee State University, in part to hopscotch America stumping for Barack Obama.
Here's the worst:
Dalai Lama prays for China earthquake victims
Living Religion - dorje - 6 Comments
Tags: china, Prayer, quake, Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader
05/14/08 - - - (Link)
The Dalai Lama offered his condolences and prayers Tuesday for the victims of the massive earthquake that hit central China, killing some 12,000 people.
"I would like to extend my deep sympathy and heartfelt condolences to those families who have been directly affected by the strong earthquake," the Tibetan spiritual leader said in a statement. "I offer my prayers for those who have lost their lives and those injured."
Helicopter Crashes on City Street, Decapitating Pedestrian
Death Accidental - Ruteger - 13 Comments
Tags: death, crash, British Columbia, decapitation, helicopter
05/14/08 - - - (Link)
A pedestrian crushed today under the exploding fireball of a crashed helicopter had little warning of the tragedy, witnesses said.
Extra:
News article contains video.
Childbirth simulator helps trainee medics get a grip
Technology - enki don't - 0 Comments
Tags: France, experience, childbirth, BirthSIM, obstetricians
05/14/08 - - - (Link)
A childbirth simulator developed in France can help junior obstetricians gain the equivalent of several years' experience at forceps-assisted births in just a few days.
Extra:
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCUj5O5RbOI
34 Stingrays Die Suddenly in Petting Zoo-like 'Touch Tank'
Living Nature - Ruteger - 34 Comments
Tags: zoo, stingray, Calgary, mysterious deaths, touch tank
05/13/08 - - - (Link)
The sudden and mysterious deaths of 34 prized stingrays at the Calgary Zoo's new "touch tank" had veterinarians searching the water in vain Monday for some explanation.
The ultimate ethical meal: a grey squirrel
Living Food - revdrew - 14 Comments
Tags: England, Squirrels, environmentalism, British food, you must try them
05/13/08 - - - (Link)
It's low in fat, low in food miles and completely free range. In fact, some claim that Sciurus carolinensis - the grey squirrel - is about as ethical a dish as it is possible to serve on a dinner plate.
The grey squirrel, the American cousin of Britain's endangered red variety, is flying off the shelves faster than hunters can shoot them, with game butchers struggling to keep up with demand. 'We put it on the shelf and it sells. It can be a dozen squirrels a day - and they all go,' said David Simpson, the director of Kingsley Village shopping centre in Fraddon, Cornwall, whose game counter began selling grey squirrel meat two months ago.
Extra:
Squirrel Pasties recipe included.
Slab of beer buckled up, but not boy
Crime Stupid - oball - 31 Comments
Tags: beer, australia, Priorities, seatbelt, five-year-old
05/13/08 - - - (Link)
Police were shocked when they pulled over a driver near Alice Springs and found that while he had buckled up his slab of beer, the five-year-old boy next to it was unrestrained.
Obama, Clinton tied in race for superdelegates
Government Elections - Nyms Lives! - 24 Comments
Tags: Obama, Primary, clinton, Superdelegates, Democratic
05/13/08 - - - (Link)
Sen. Barack Obama has tied Sen. Hillary Clinton in the race for superdelegates, according to CNN's latest count.
Sen. Barack Obama has received a flurry of endorsements in the past few days.
19-Year-Old Killed In Jet Ski Vs. Boat Collision
Death Accidental - Leonassan - 2 Comments
Tags: florida, death, Water, boat, jetski
05/13/08 - - - (Link)
A 19-year-old man died and his 18-year-old girlfriend was hospitalized with serious injuries after a deadly Jet Ski crash last weekend.
Friends of George "Tyler" Rosborough and Kimberly Anaheim said the two were always together and were always on the water.
However, it was on the water where investigators said Rosborough's passion turned deadly at a narrow part of Durban Creek in St. Johns County.
When Bears Steal Human Food, Mom's Not To Blame
Living Nature - enki don't - 11 Comments
Tags: bears, Human Food, Wildlife Conservation Society, bad influence
05/13/08 - - - (Link)
Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) found that the black bears that become habituated to human food and garbage may not be learning these behaviors exclusively from their mothers, as widely assumed. Bears that steal human food sources are just as likely to form these habits on their own or pick them up from unrelated, "bad influence" bears.
Chine quake death toll nearly 12,000
Death - Squeamish - 7 Comments
Tags: china, death, quake, Natural Disaster, Planet Earth Hates Pandas
05/13/08 - - - (Link)
The death toll from Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake in central China exceeded 12,000 Tuesday, as rescue workers frantically tried to pull victims from the rubble and clear roads so relief can be delivered.
A senior official with the Sichuan provincial government said Tuesday the death toll was still rising, state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
Wildfires Burn 6,000 Acres Of Central Fla., 71 Homes Damaged, Destroyed
Living Nature - Leonassan - 0 Comments
Tags: florida, wildfire, Homeowners, Firefighters, destroyed
05/13/08 - - - (Link)
Nearly 20 wildfires described by homeowners as worse than any hurricane have scorched 6,000 acres of land in Central Florida and destroyed or damaged 71 homes, officials said.
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