July 2009
28 posts
hiatus
starting now
Report: Baby covered in rodent bites bled to death
Jul 22nd, 2009 | WESTWEGO, La. — A 3-month-old suburban New Orleans girl whose body was covered with rodent bites bled to death before she was found in her crib, according to an autopsy released Wednesday.
Westwego Police Chief Dwayne Munch said Natalie Hill had severe wounds on her nose and leg along with more than 100 suspected rat bites when her parents found her body last Thursday in...
New Video Game: Shoot Gays Before They Rape You →
notthatkindagay:
homopolitico:
Wow. Just wow.
Stéphane Aguie has created a game called “Watch out behind you, Hunter.” As the name might imply, the object is to shoot gay men who pop out of the bushes before they “rape” the player.
Sounds like a barrel of laughs, right?
The game is hosted on Georgian website called Uzinagaz and has European LGBT rights groups, including Gay Armenia,...
Hispanic worker deaths up 76%
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090720/1aworkerdeaths20_st.art.htm
my state is going through the worst drought in its...
just to let you know, Austin itself has been breaking numerous records within the past month with consecutive three digit weather and absolutely no rain. this is just one of the effects:
No rain, no grazing and no grass. These cattle are living on hay and tubs full of mineral and molasses.
“It forces them to eat dry grass,” said Bennie Bock.
Bennie Bock remembers the last time his ranch saw...
“White men were 100% of the people that wrote the Constitution, 100% of the...”
– Pat Buchanan speaking for the oppressed white man. (via notthatkindagay)
Jesus H. Christ.
(via inothernews)
Predators are free to move about the cabin
The mother cried, too, even before she learned that her daughter had allegedly been molested by a man seated next to her on the plane. The man, a widely known pastor from Uganda, has thousands of worshippers in churches he built across Africa, in addition to a radio station, ties to American politicians and spiritual leaders (Pat Robertson included), and an orphanage in Uganda where 1,000...
NY Times: Natalia Estemirova, human rights... →
inothernews:
Natalia Estemirova, was an employee with the Russian human rights group Memorial. She worked for years helping families uncover details about kidnapped relatives. She was the recipient of several international awards, and in 2007 was the first to win the Anna Politkovskaya Award, named for the Russian investigative journalist, who also worked to uncover abuses in Chechnya before...
RNC Chairman Michael Steele: I'll Woo Blacks To... →
inothernews:
boggle:
oh good god.
Jesus triple-H Christ.
michael steele is a disgrace
“[Sen. Orrin] Hatch, in pressing Sotomayor for her rulings involving gun rights...”
– Sotomayor hearings: America says, ‘Huh?’ | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times (via robot-heart-politics)
Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safety
“I was driving by a field where a squirrel fed off the end of the field, and so 30 feet in we had to destroy the crop,” he said. “On one field where a deer walked through, didn’t eat anything, just walked through and you could see the tracks, we had to take out 30 feet on each side of the tracks and annihilate the crop.”
In the verdant farmland surrounding Monterey...
“[Senator Kyl’s] entire rant [about Sonia Sotomayor’s heritage] is predicated...”
– the smart tart (via nerdshares)
Nope, because all conservatives are strict constructionists who pray to Jesus every morning to help them rule only as James Madison intended. Meanwhile, us wimmin flit around as our emotions dictate, chewing scenery and enabling whiners and going on crying jags at...
Ask Men Thinks You're Fat, Wants Your Boyfriend To...
“Isn’t it a total drag, bro, when the woman you supposedly love gains weight? Instead of perhaps considering that she’s aware of the issue, or perhaps wondering if there are health concerns or emotional reasons behind a sudden weight gain, Ask Men thinks you should approach the subject of your beloved’s body by humiliating her as often as possible.”
Jezebel has a...
China's Xinjiang death toll rises to 184
The death toll from violence in Urumqi, capital of China’s Xinjiang region has risen to 184, the official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday, quoting the regional government.
“Among the dead, 137 were Han people, including 111 men and 26 women. Forty-six were Uighur people, including 45 men and one woman. A man of Hui nationality also died”, the report said. China had earlier...
Homeless numbers include more families
The number of homeless has remained steady since 2007, but within the overall count are trends that can tell officials where federal resources would do the most good, the Housing and Urban Development Department says in its annual report to Congress being released Thursday.
About 1.6 million people used a homeless shelter or lived in transitional housing between Oct. 1, 2007, and Sept. 30, 2008...
USA Today: Too many patients die needlessly at... →
inothernews:
Too many people die needlessly at U.S. hospitals, according to a sweeping new Medicare analysis showing wide variation in death rates between the best hospitals and the worst.
The analysis examined death rates for heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia at more than 4,600 hospitals across the USA. At 5.9% of hospitals, patients with pneumonia died at rates significantly higher...
gag
http://www.townme.com/manhattan-ny/yuppie-locator/cougars
the cougar finder is a new low.
okay, one happy post every monday
finally! DARIA IS COMING TO DVD!
http://jezebel.com/5308620/finally-daria-to-be-released-on-dvd
“The incident, on the heels of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots,...”
– http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gay-bar-raid6-2009jul06,0,869366.story?track=rss
NY Times: Iraqi weapon of SOME destruction may go... →
(via inothernews)
“A man charged with shooting a prominent Kansas doctor who performed late-term...”
– http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ABORTION_SHOOTING?SITE=VTBRA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
“Sixty-three percent of the respondents say they are unaware of illnesses...”
– http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/07/03/One-in-six-adults-admit-urinating-in-pool/UPI-95151246679820/
“Two monorail trains at Walt Disney World collided early Sunday, killing a...”
– http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/05/u.s.disney.monorail/
