15 year old girl dies after kissing boyfriend

This is an interesting and tragic story, one has to feel for all involved, but it must really be hard on her boyfriend who will most likely carry guilt for the rest of his life.

Boyfriend Unaware of Deadly Peanut Allergy

By PHIL COUVRETTE, Associated Press Writer
Wed Nov 30, 4:43 PM ET

Thinking she was having an asthma attack, Christina Desforges burst into a friend's room and woke him in a desperate search for medicine.

Friends called an ambulance as her breathing grew labored, but Desforges collapsed a moment after she stepped outside. She died four days later.

It quickly became clear the 15-year-old girl succumbed to a peanut allergy — not from nuts she ate, but a peanut-butter sandwich her boyfriend had consumed before kissing her that day.
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Now this is a tailgate party! Strippers give lap dances before Bears/Bucs game.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out in court, lets see how good the lawyers in this case. One must wonder why it took four games for the cops to bust this interesting promotion. Not willing to miss out on an obvious joke, windycitywatch.com feels compelled to point out that this give new meaning to the term "tailgate."

Motor Home Used As Strip Club at Bucs Game
Nov 29th - 4:07pm

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A 40-foot motor home was converted into a strip club on wheels, offering alcohol and lap dances to football fans outside the stadium before kickoff of Sunday's Tampa Bay Buccaneers game, police said.

Six women performed lap dances inside the motor home, charging $20 to $40 depending on whether they danced topless or totally nude, police said Tuesday. The vehicle, adorned with a sign for strip club Deja Vu, was parked across the street from Raymond James Stadium.

Patrons paid a $20 cover charge and were served alcohol, said Tampa police Sgt. Bill Todd. Officers also caught a male patron smoking marijuana in the back of the vehicle.

"We determined this was the fourth game this season where they had done this," Todd said. "I don't understand what justification they think they had, bringing this to a family environment like a Bucs game."
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What you get when you spend $10 million on a bat mitzvah

Boy oh boy did David H. Brooks show up all of his daughters friends' fathers when he shelled out $10 million on her bat mitzvah. For a mere $500,000.00 50 cent belted out "Go shorty, it's your bat miztvah, we gonna party like it's your bat mitzvah." However according the New York Daily News' Lloyd Grove the occassion of a 13 year old's coming of age celebration did not stop the rapper from his usual behavior:

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"Fitty and his posse smelled like an open bottle of Hennessy," a witness told told me, adding that when the departing rapper prepared to enter his limo in the loading dock, a naked woman was spotted inside.
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In addition to 50 cent other perfomers included:
Aerosmith, Ciara, DJ AM, Don Henley, Kenny G, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and Joe Walsh.

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Brawls break out/people trampled at Wal-Mart. . .

I knew there was a reason I didn't like Wal-Mart and some of it has to do with the metality of its customers. This morning in Orlando people were literally brawling as the Christmas season kicked off, then there is a report of people being trampled at a Wal-Mart in Michigan.


ORLANDO, Fla. -- Security guards wrestled a man to the ground and handcuffed him, this morning at an Orlando Wal-Mart.

Eyewitnesses told Channel Nine that the man cut in line to get laptop computers that were on sale.

The man started arguing with people inside the store, and then scuffled with plain-clothed security guards.

One man told reporters that the laptops were being thrown into the air and people rushed toward them, collapsing on each other. Another man described the scene as crazy.
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It was an ugly scene when the doors opened at the Cascade Township Wal-Mart. Hundreds of shoppers pushed and shoved their way into the store, trampling a number of customers, sending two to the hospital.

At 5:00 a.m. the doors opened, holiday shoppers rushed in, and immediately one customer is pushed to the ground.

"This is ridiculous. I do not want my life in danger for this," said shopper Karen Dietstra. "This is not worth it. This has been a tradition for years. I don't think that I have to get beat up to try to get a sale."

Two shoppers from Grand Rapids did. One of them, 13-year-old Deja McHerron, had to be taken away by ambulance.

"They stumbled over a pregnant lady and Deja was trying to help her get up. And they stumbled over her and they stepped on her back. And now she's going to the hospital," said McHerron's mother, Deborah.
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Bush*/GOP use troops for fundraising, this is personal!

Two years ago while stationed at Baghdad International Airport my nephew, who was a cook in the Army, was photographed next to the president as he served Thanksgiving turkey to the troops. Well it appears a photo of that moment has worked its way into a calendar that the GOP is sending out to its donors accompanied by a letter from Laura Bush asking for a $25.00.

Here is a photo from that day:

Please note: This is not the photo that appears in the calendar, however its a similar shot, taken from a different angle.

My family first learned of the existence of this calendar when my sister-in-law received a copy of it from a friend/co-worker who said her mom is a GOP donor and received it in the mail and (get this) asked if my nephew would be so kind as to sign it. Of course this made its way through the family grapevine very quickly and the calendar was a popular topic of conversation as it was passed around during Thanksgiving dinner. My nephew, who is no longer in the Army and currently a college student with a 3.5+ GPA(can you tell I'm a proud uncle?), joked that he wants to be paid for his appearance. We joked about how to deal with it, one cousin joked that we photoshop it, I recommended that when he signs the copy for the GOP donor he writes that he did not volunteer to take his photo with *.

I doubt there is anything illegal in using this photo in the GOP fund-raising calendar, however its very disturbing. My nephew is not a political person, he enlisted in the Army to provide for his family (he has two small children)and to fund his college education. As with many of our young soldiers he was excited and flattered to meet the Commander in Chief and it did not matter if it was George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan. I remembered the mixed feelings the family, especially my sister-in-law, had when local news media covered the story 2 years ago, we hated the war, distrusted the president (hell I was working for regime change, leading Wes Clark's efforts in Illinois), but we were excited for my nephew.

The most appalling thing about this photo was the fact that while my nephew was a cook, he spent most of his time in Iraq loading ammunition on helicopters while the fine folks of Kellog Brown and Root worked in the kitchen. He had not been working in the kitchen when this pic was taken, but for some reason they saw fit to put him on the chow line.

My nephew volunteered to serve his country and now he is involuntarily serving the Republican party. . .it just ain't right.

Man busted driving stolen lawnmower drunk. . .

. . .this from today's Chicago Sun-Times:

November 24, 2005

SPRINGFIELD -- Bad idea: fleeing from police in a stolen car. Terrible idea: fleeing in a stolen lawn mower.

But that's what police say a ''happy drunk'' did, a decision that landed the suspect back in prison for violating his parole.

Police say they got a tip about a stolen riding lawn mower. When they investigated, they spotted a man driving across a cornfield near Springfield.

''I happened to be driving south when the call went out, and lo and behold, off to the west there was this man bouncing through the cornfield with his ponytail flopping in the breeze,'' said Kurt Taraba, a police officer in the suburb of Southern View.
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Evidently there is no freedom of the press in the UK

According to a report on London's Channel 4, any editors who reveal the contents of a Downing Street memo that has been leaked to them face jail. The memo in question was reported on earlier in the week by the Daily Mirror which is alledging that British Prime Minister Tony Blair talked George W. Bush* out of bombing the al-Jazeera network.

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Man is he dumb. . .

U.S. President George W. Bush pulls on the door as he tries to
leave a press conference in Beijing, China, Sunday, Nov. 20,
2005. Bush headed for a set of double doors after the press
conference only to discover that they were locked.
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

U.S. President George W. Bush jokingly makes a face as he tries
to open a locked door as he leaves a press conference in Beijing,
China, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

I'm at a lost for words. . .so I will leave it to others:

New York Post
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The beginning of the end of the press conference came moments earlier when a reporter asked Bush whether he was "off his game" at an earlier meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao.

"Have you ever heard of jet lag?" Bush responded. "Well, good. That answers your question."

When the reporter asked for a quick follow-up question, Bush responded, "No, you may not," and strode off.
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The Courier Mail
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A lighter moment on the trip came when the US leader sought to leave a news conference in Beijing but was thwarted by locked doors. He appeared to be making a hasty exit after being irked by a reporter who asked if the President was "off his game" in an earlier appearance with Mr Hu in the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square.
"I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work," Mr Bush quipped, facing reporters again until an aide rescued him by pointing him toward the correct door.
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Reuters via the Los Angeles Times
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Irked by a reporter who told him he seemed to be "off his game" at a public appearance here, President Bush sought to make a hasty exit from a news conference but was thwarted by locked doors. At the end of a day of meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao and other officials, Bush held a session with a small group of U.S. reporters and spoke at length about religious freedom, the Iraq war and the value of China's currency.

The final reporter he called on assessed Bush's performance earlier in the day when he stood beside Hu in the Great Hall of the People near Tiananmen Square to deliver a statement.

"Respectfully, sir — you know we're always respectful — in your statement this morning with President Hu, you seemed a little off your game, you seemed to hurry through your statement. There was a lack of enthusiasm. Was something bothering you?" he asked.

"Have you ever heard of jet lag?" Bush responded. "Well, good. That answers your question."
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Frozen turkey saves couple from burning car!

According to the Chicago Tribune a man used a frozen turkey to save an elderly couple from a car wreck.

Man uses turkey to rescue 2 from car

By Angela RozasTribune staff reporter
Published November 21, 2005, 9:17 PM CST

Mark Copsy saw the smoke inside the car, and watched as the vehicle careered into a curb in Northlake on Sunday afternoon. It took him only a moment to realize the horror--the car was on fire, and there were people inside. Copsy and his 12-year-old son ran the half-block to help.

When they got to the car, Copsy, 42, said he couldn't open the door. Inside, he could see an elderly man in the driver's seat. A female passenger sat next to him, her face white. He tried to smash the glass with his foot, but couldn't do it. In his hands, he held a 20-pound frozen Norbest turkey he and his son had just bought for Thanksgiving.

"I said, `Hell, I'll just use the damn turkey.' And that's what I did," Copsy said. He yelled for the driver to cover his face, and used the turkey to smash out three windows.
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Carolina Panther cheerleaders flagged for illegal use of hands in womens' room

Police: Two NFL cheerleaders arrested at Tampa bar

Tampa, Florida – Two Carolina Panther cheerleaders spent the night in jail after a rough night in Channelside. The Panthers were in town to play the Bucs Sunday afternoon.

Witnesses say Angela Keathley and Renee Thomas were engaged in some type of sexual activity inside a bathroom stall at Banana Joe's around 2:20 am Sunday. Another woman waiting to use the bathroom got into an argument with the pair.

Police say Thomas punched the woman in the face. When Thomas was arrested, she gave police the name of another Panthers cheerleader.
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