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West Memphis Church Awarded $43.6 Million Judgement

Pastor says lawsuit proves you don't cheat God

Stephanie Scurlock

1:17 PM CDT, May 16, 2010

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/16/deepwater-horizon-inspect_n_578079.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-graduating-at-94,0,4307365.story

Christina Boyle
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

 

Sunday, May 16th 2010, 4:00 AM

 

Chu for News

Ingrid, a 6-year-old pit bull, must take Viagra daily for a life-threatening heart condition.

 

Take two Viagra and paw me in the morning.

A Long Island shelter is looking for donations of those little blue pills to save a pit bull with a life-threatening heart condition.

Six-year-old Ingrid is dependent on two daily 50-mg. doses of the libido-revving meds, but her supply of the drug is just 30 days from running out. Caregivers at the shelter are appealing to Viagra users to share their coveted pills to give the much-loved pooch the gift of life.

"She's the first, and the only, dog that I've ever known that needs Viagra," said Jodi Record, spokeswoman for the Little Shelter Animal Rescue and Adoption Center in Huntington. "If she didn't have it, she'd most likely go back into heart failure."

The shelter launched its first ever Viagra drive two years ago when they first took charge of Ingrid and donations poured in from around the country. The well has nearly run dry.

Anonymous letters arrived by mail with a single pill enclosed. Doctors' donated whatever they could spare. And one woman gleefully handed over her husband's stash of Viagra, believing he was using the pills to fire up an extramarital affair.

"She was happy to be giving it to Ingrid," Record recalled. "As long as her husband wasn't getting it, she was happy."

Another donor walked in and gave Ingrid a month's supply.

"When I asked if he wanted to see Ingrid to see how it helped her he replied: 'Oh, you don't have to tell me. I know how it works.'" 

Actually, there's no scientific evidence that man's favorite pill has the same impact on man's best friend.

Ingrid was rescued by the animal shelter after being neglected by her owners and tied to a fence for most of her life.

The dog was found to have heartworm diseaseand a veterinarian suggested Viagra. The drug was originally developed as a heart medication that promotes blood flow. It is not covered by animal insurance, and costs about $10 a piece.

Ingrid is up for adoption and the staff at the animal shelter say as long as she keeps popping the blue pills, she can lead a long and healthy life. 

"She's such a sweet, loving dog," Record said. "Some people are afraid of pit bulls, but all she's going to do is kiss them."

Woman accused of heart monitor theft

Friday, May 14, 2010 6:45 am

WCF Courier

WATERLOO -- A Waterloo woman was arrested after she allegedly checked herself out of a hospital with medical equipment still attached to her.

Police said 45-year-old Wendi Mae Mingus was a patient at Allen Hospital May 8 when she walked outside telling staff she was taking a cigarette break.

But Mingus had her street clothes underneath her hospital gown and was carrying a bag with her belongings.

And she was also attached to a wireless heart monitor valued at $1,000.

Staff told her she couldn't go outside to smoke unless she was discharged, but she continued to leave, according to court records.

The following day, police found Mingus when she allegedly tried to break through a wall in an apartment building at 801 W. Fourth St., court records state. Mingus told police she was trying to get to her purse.

Mingus was arrested for second-degree theft and fifth-degree criminal mischief.

 
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A South Tahoe High softball coach required any player who struck out in a May 1 game to drink soda out of a shoe, school officials have confirmed.

Eight varsity players who struck out against the Wooster Colts in that game at Todd Fields were required by coach Anneliese Neitling to drink soda pop out of a team member's softball cleat at a team slumber party that night.

The Tahoe Daily Tribune contacted Neitling on Wednesday and she refused to comment. She did not return additional phone calls before deadline Thursday.

James Tarwater, the superintendent of Lake Tahoe Unified School District, interpreted the action as a young coach's mistake.

“It was meant as a joke and obviously it went too far,” said Tarwater, whose office received one parental complaint about the incident.

Tarwater said the incident will be addressed during Neitling's postseason coaching evaluation.

“People learn from mistakes,” Tarwater said. “She does a good job pulling the team together, morale-wise and support-wise.”

However, the parent who complained about the event said it was a safety issue.

“I was not happy about this. She should have thought about this and acted with better judgment,” the parent said. “This is a safety issue. Each year there is a horrible story of someone killed because of hazing. I just didn't want this go any further and see someone get hurt.”

Many states, including California and Nevada, have laws against hazing, which is an initiation or act that subjects someone to possible bodily danger, physical harm, personal degradation or disgrace in order to be accepted in their group or organization.

Hazing incidents have been reported in the United States for more than a century and are routinely related to college fraternities and sororities, high school and college athletic teams and military outfits.

The parent was concerned that if the girls thought that being forced to drink out of a shoe was OK, that something worse might follow.

The parent's daughter who struck out and drank out of the shoe spoke to the Tribune about the experience.

“I thought she was joking about it at first,” the team member said. “I was a little shocked. I thought it wasn't a very smart thing to punish us with.”

Another player who didn't strike out in that game said no grade levels were excluded from the strikeout rule.

“If I had to do it, I would have been upset,” the player said. “It wasn't meant for harm. She was motivating us to do good, try hard and do our best.”

The reporting parent said that coach Neitling has apologized to the team and parents, satisfying his concerns. Tarwater also said that an apology has been made.

“I don't want her to be fired. That was never my intention,” the parent said. “She deserves a second chance. We've all made mistakes. We all deserve second chances; that's the American way.”

Neitling, an off-campus coach, just completed her second season in charge of the Vikings' softball program. She took over the team on the eve of the 2009 season as an emergency replacement when Joann Allister unexpectedly resigned.

“She stepped in, pulled them together and has done a good job,” Tarwater said. “Being a coach is one of the most difficult jobs that I see. Most of it comes from a passion from the heart. Sometimes that passion and enthusiasm get off the bubble a bit.”

South Tahoe Athletic Director Don Borges declined to comment on what he regards as a personnel matter.

Borges, however, did say that Vikings' coaches are required to attend a pre-season coaches' orientation meeting, and hazing is addressed during an online coaching fundamentals certification program required by the National Federation of State High School Associations.

“All coaches have to go through that,” Borges said.

Since South Tahoe is a member of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, the school adheres to the Nevada hazing law. The law states that hazing is a misdemeanor offense if there isn't substantial bodily harm, and a gross misdemeanor if significant bodily harm occurs. Consent of a victim is not a valid defense to prosecution, the law states.

In California, hazing incidents that don't result in serious bodily injury are still punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and/or serving up to a year in a county jail.

LINK TO PHOTO OF COACH

http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20100514/NEWS/100519906&parentprofile=search

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid36425221001?bclid=27948308001&bctid=85466857001

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278673/Policeman-sold-fake-goods-seized-boot-sales.html

Press staff 

Friday, May 14, 2010

What started as a reported robbery in a Wawa turned out to be a failed drug deal, police said.

On Thursday morning at about 8:15 a.m., the Middle Township Police Department responded to a call from Lawrence Walsh, 24, who is living in the Offshore Motel in Rio Grande. Walsh said he was robbed at the Rio Grande Wawa on Route 9.

By the time police responded, they learned that the suspect had fled in a cab.

However, further investigation revealed that Walsh had made arrangements with Thomas Michael Sexton, 23, of the Erma section of Lower Township, to purchase cocaine from Sexton at the Wawa, police said.

Instead, Sexton sold imitation drugs, specifically sheetrock, to Walsh, police said, and it was after he found out he had been sold imitation drugs that Walsh called the police. 

Both Sexton and Walsh were charged as a result of the incident. Sexton was charged with the distribution of imitation drugs, a third degree offense, and Walsh was charged with wandering in a public place to purchase drugs, a disorderly persons offense.

Both men were released on summonses.

Additional charges are pending, as the investigation is still ongoing.

A billboard in Buffalo had some straight talk for President Obama during his visit to the city.

A Buffalo billboard displayed a succinct message when President Obama visited the economically distressed city Thursday, according to reports. The billboard read "Dear Mr. President, I need a freakin job. Period." 

The president was scheduled to stop in Buffalo - a city that had fallen on hard times long before the recent recession - as part of his "Main Street" economic tour."

The billboard was part of a media campaign known as the INAFJ Project, organized by a local businessman who saw his own small business go under 15 months ago.

"We employed 25 people and it was the most heartbreaking situation I've been through in my life" Jeff Baker told CBS News. The ad – and a video posted on YouTube - features college students.

Baker told the Buffalo News that the banks had refused to work with him and his brother Scott, according to the Washington Examiner. The men rented the billboard space for $5,500 a month ago, before they knew that the president would be visiting their town.

The INAFJ website says: "See here's the thing, Nothing matters if people and families aren't working. We need to make some noise."

In the Buffalo/Niagara area of the state, household income had dropped 4 percent between 2000 and 2008, before the economy collapsed, reports the Washington Examiner. Nationwide, while 297,000 jobs were created in April, the unemployment rate's still 9.9 percent, according to CBS News. 

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/05/14/2010-05-14_buffalo_billboard_to_president_obama_dear_mr_president_i_need_a_freakin_job_peri.html#ixzz0nzvVhzDH

Pat Buchanan: Too Many Jews On The Supreme Court

First Posted: 05-14-10 05:01 PM   |   Updated: 05-14-10 05:17 PM

Huffington

Okay, so, filed under "Kagan, Elena; reasons she would be the Supreme Court's greatest monster," I have: secret lesbian, Ivy League, friend of Obama, played softball (cf. secret lesbian), no children (cf. secret lesbian, also see "Cohen, Richard, worst columnist in English language), wrote thesis on socialism in New York, hiring practices, treatment of military recruiters, no paper trail, no judicial experience, reminds everyone of that time President George W. Bush tried to nominate Harriet Miers on some sort of dare, and secret lesbian.

Am I leaving anything out? Oh, hey, MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan! You wanted to add something?

Indeed, of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.

If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats.

Is this the Democrats' idea of diversity?

But while leaders in the black community may be upset, the folks who look more like the real targets of liberal bias are white Protestants and Catholics, who still constitute well over half of the U.S. population.

Oh, well, there you go. Pat Buchanan has counted up the Jews on the Supreme Court (no doubt with the help of current Bob McDonnell crony/former Nixon White House "Jew-counter" Fred Malek) and has discovered that there is just not enough Protestantism on the Supreme Court, thus continuing America's rich tradition of only letting Protestants do just about everything else in American society.

Remember the last time we had a fresh-faced Supreme Court nominee to obsess over? Back then, Pat Buchanan was all worked up about Sonia Sotomayor successfully learning English and going to Princeton, and how awful she was for doing so -- or something! It did not make sense. Later, Buchanan got together with a bunch of fellow travelers and talked about Sotomayor's Hispanicity at some sort of conference. Oh, wait! I'm sorry. At a "CONFERENECE".

Anyway, this is a crushing blow to the American Jesus. The end.

UPDATE: Per Media Matters:

A commenter on the post looked a little deeper at the religious background of ALL Supreme Court Justices to show how ridiculous Buchanan's column was on its face:

Overall, Jews represent 6.4% of ALL SCOTUS justices over the years (7 Jews have sat on the bench, total). By contrast, over 32% of justices have been Episcopalians, when only 1.7% of the country is within that religion.

The comment is accurate according to this breakdown of Justices by their faith.

New Kensington man, mom charged in drug deal gone awry

Chuck Biedka

VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Celery Makes Men Sexier

5/14/2010 12:00 pm

Ron Hogan

Fellas, are you on the prowl?  Will you be spending your Friday night looking for love out on the town?  Well, after you work out, get a nice hot shower in, and get yourself groomed and dressed, why not eat a few sticks of celery?  Celery makes a man more attractive to women, says Judy Gaman, Dr. Walter Gaman, and Dr. Mark Anderson.  The trio, authors of the book Stay Young:   Ten Proven Steps To Ultimate Health, say that celery contains androstenone, a hormone that promotes sexual health, increases the sex drive, and triggers pheromone production.

Pheromones, as we know, are key in attractiveness and the selection of mates in most animal species.  Humans are no different.  Just be careful you don’t overdo it, both on the celery and on the ladies.  Androstenone, in an artificial form, was one of the magical ingredients to Mark McGwire’s steroids-fueled baseball career.

Also, if I can offer another tip?  Brush your teeth after you munch your celery, because there’s nothing attractive about celery breath and green strings caught between your teeth.

LINK TO ADDITIONAL STORY

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/breaking-news/celery-makes-men-more-attractive/story-e6frea73-1225865937266

             WARNING-

  "THIS STORY IS EXTREMELY DISTURBING!!"

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-infant-sex-abuse-20100513,0,3200883.story

Wed May 12, 11:17 AM ET

Cops: Texas High School's Star Athlete Really 22

Basketball Star Claiming To Be 16 Was Really U.S. Citizen From Haiti Who Was Had Already Played at Fla. High School

ODESSA (AP/CBS 11 News)

A West Texas student who led his high school basketball team to the state playoffs last season was actually a 22-year-old man, police said Tuesday.

Police say the basketball star was really Guerdwich Montimere, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti who school officials say was recognized last month by Florida coaches as having been a star high school player in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a few years ago.

Ector County school district officials said the man posed as 16-year-old Jerry Joseph and enrolled at Permian High School in Odessa for the 2009-2010 academic year. He also presented himself as homeless to the school's basketball coach, Danny Wright, who took the boy in last summer, the coach said.

Montimere was arrested at Permian High on Tuesday and booked into Ector County jail on a charge of presenting false identification to a peace officer. He was released from jail Wednesday after posting a $500 bond.

Officials said Jerry Joseph originally enrolled at the local junior high as a 15-year-old in February 2009, then moved on to high school.

Permian High officials say suspicions about the player's identity first arose when three Florida basketball coaches familiar with Montimere recognized him last month at an amateur tournament in Little Rock, Ark. The Odessa American reported that the coaches recognized him as Montimere, who graduated from Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale in 2007.

School district officials said they grew more suspicious after contacting U.S. immigration officials.

The smoking gun came from a fingerprint match from his original immigration papers - a direct contradiction to the false documents he gave to the school district, reports CBS affiliate KOSA in Odessa.

"The only information we had identified him as a 16 year old male identifying him as Jerry Joseph," said Police Lt. Mark Rowden.

The investigation shows that Montimere mingled with even younger students when he was enrolled at Nimitz Junior High at the age of 21, the station reports.

So how did it happen?

The school district says they're bound by state law to allow anyone an education as long as they have proof that they are of the proper age, KOSA reports.

"Anyone has to be attended for at least the first 30 days without any I'd, they have to be admitted so we really don't have that much of a choice, that would be a matter of changing the law," said Rowden.

Police said they arrested Montimere after confronting him about his identity.

"I feel like I was hit by a ton of bricks," district athletic director Leon Fuller said. "In my 50 years in education, I've never heard of anything like this."

Wright told The American that the player was like a family member.

"This affected a lot of people. The whole school of Permian embraced that kid. He deceived us and played on everyone's emotions," Wright said.

Montimere was being held on $500 bond Tuesday night, according to jail records. Jail officials said no attorney was listed for Montimere.

If convicted of the misdemeanor, Montimere could face up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $2,500.

The revelation means Permian likely will have to forfeit the 2009 basketball season in which the 6-foot-5 player known as Jerry Joseph led the team to District 2-5A state playoffs and earned newcomer of the year accolades.

"I feel sick, but now that we've gotten the truth we can move on from here," said Permian principal Roy Garcia.

Permian High School's football program and the community support for it inspired the book "Friday Night Lights."

LINK TO PICTURES

http://www.inquisitr.com/72617/guerdwich-montmiere/