Obviously, child abuse is no laughing matter, but
I think this headline writer could have been more careful.
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Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:02pm EST
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Parents who teach “tough love” by disciplining their children with spankings could be making them more likely to have sexual problems as teenagers and adults, a leading researcher said.
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Hopefully, it’s a declining “niche market.”
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This ranks with other twists in the fabric of history:
Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert was present at both President Garfield’s and President McKinley’s assassinations.
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King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm and Czar Nicholas were cousins and still found reason to […]
As a carnival barker at a Guess-Your-Weight stand…
Carnival Rube Hey honey, let’s see how good this guy is. What’d I win?
Navin Uh, anything in this general area right in here. Anything below the stereo and on this side of the bicentennial glasses. Anything between the ashtrays and the thimble. Anything in this three […]
Texas pastor arrested for dragging girl at camp
Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:54AM EDT
This is an edifying story because we are able to go beyond the ephemeral
“What Would Jesus Do?”
to see how true Christianity works…in the Lone Star state.
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SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A Texas pastor and a colleague have been charged with tying a […]
Transplant surgeon charged with trying to hasten patient’s death
The physician faces felony counts alleging he tried to hasten a man’s demise to make use of his organs.
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ACCUSED: Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, 33, of San Francisco faces three felony charges.
(www.permanente.net)
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By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers
July 31, 2007
A San Francisco transplant surgeon was criminally charged […]
(Don’t get too excited, DBp condemns child-battering.)
While not uncommon in discount stores and on interstate motor coaches, this behavior is rare aboard airliners. Once could assume the contrarian position and conclude that the woman was concerned that her children’s talking and whining would be cause for banishment from the flight.
The story about the […]
Feds search Michael Vick’s property
By HANK KURZ JR., AP Sports Writer Fri Jul 6, 1:15 PM ET
SURRY, Va. - Federal agents investigating possible dogfighting searched property owned by Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick on Friday.
Portsmouth’s WAVY-TV broadcast video of investigators working under a blue tarp on a portion of Vick’s wooded property in southeastern Virginia. […]
Body Count In Baghdad Up in June
By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, July 5, 2007; Page A01
BAGHDAD, July 4 — Nearly five months into a security strategy that involves thousands of additional U.S. and Iraqi troops patrolling Baghdad, the number of unidentified bodies found on the streets of the capital was 41 percent higher in […]
Thursday June 28, 08:23 PM
Iraqi police find 20 beheaded bodies near Baghdad
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When one considers that it could have been twenty, beheaded, drawn & quartered corpses. Things are looking up. A more balanced view would be to assume that these folks are getting a real taste for murder and mayhem. Would it be unpatriotic to say […]
ABC NEWS
Gun Control Debate Heats Up in Virginia
Families of Va. Tech Victims Stand Outside Rally
May 19, 2007
As Sean McQuade, the final victim of the Virginia Tech massacre to be released from the hospital, wakes up in his own bed, the national struggle over gun control continued this week as two Virginia gun shop owners decided […]