Category: Bizarre

Bizarre, Lawyering, Society

Everyone’s Dunne: Court Fight Erupts Over Money Found in Cleveland Home’s Walls

c11findB.jpgIn Cleveland, both a home owner, Amanda Reece, and contractor, Bob Kitts, have been left with little to show for the finding of a lifetime: $182,000 stuffed in a wall in a home in Cleveland. Due to their inability to agree on a division of the money, they ultimately attracted the attention of descendants of the previous owner — relatives who claimed and received some of the money. There are now some raw allegations of theft and double dealing. The case, however, raises some interesting questions of ownership over Dunne’s money.

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Academia, Bizarre, Politics, Society

Republican is Clearly Not One of the Three Rs in North Carolina: School Teacher Under Fire for Anti-McCain Statements

thumb_teacherAn elementary teacher in Fayetteville, North Carolina is under attack after a video has surfaced where she appears to criticize John McCain and embarrass a student who supported her in her fifth-grade glass at Mary McArthur Elementary School. Diatha D. Harris also calls the Iraq war “senseless.”

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Bizarre, Environment, Politics, Society

Findings: Lemmings Do Not Commit Mass Suicide But Sixty-Four Percent of Republicans Want Palin to Run for President in 2012

561normalize_jpegjhtmlThere are two related stories this week of some scientific interest. It turns out that lemmings do not commit mass suicide by blindly following other lemmings over cliffs, as discussed in the article below. However, it also appears that 64 percent of Republicans want Gov. Sarah Palin to run for president in 2012 despite her disastrous impact on independent and moderate voters this election.

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Bizarre, Constitutional Law, Criminal law, Politics, Society

Florida Court Strikes Down Law Prohibiting Wearing of Uniforms For People Not in the Military

thumb_soldier_army_military_gi_cartoonA Florida Appellate court has struck down an unconstitutional state law in Florida that made it unlawful to wear military uniforms if you are not in the military. The court ruled that the law violated the first amendment.

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Bizarre, Politics, Religion, Society

Israeli Supreme Court Rules That “Museum of Tolerance” Can Be Build on Top of Ancient Muslim Cemetary

_45184458_center226Israel’s Supreme Court have ruled that the government may destroy part of an ancient Muslim cemetery to build a new “Museum of Tolerance.” The cemetery contains the bones of past leading Muslim clerics and the warriors of famed Saladin who retook Jerusalem.

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Bizarre, Media, Society

Leading Austrian Journalist Lashes Out In Racist Diatribe Over Obama’s Election

01020134909900What is happening to journalists after the election? The world has been watching a British reporter give a drunken resignation on YouTube. Now, leading Austrian television personality Klaus Emmerich has given a deeply racist rant on European television stating “I wouldn’t want the Western world to be directed by a black man.”
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Bizarre, Media, Politics, Society

Drunken Adam Smith Admits Plagarism and Resigns with “F— You” to Bosses on YouTube Video

13911Not that Adam Smith. But Birmingham Mail’s Adam Smith (also known as Steve Zacharanda) may be an even bigger sensation with his drunken YouTube appearance where he admits to plagiarizing from the BBC, chasing women, and then resigns with a “F— You” to his bosses in England.

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Bizarre, Society

Honey, I Got Rid of the Cobweds: Man Sets House on Fire While Removing Cobwebs with Blowtorch

thumb_halloween_spider_web_boxSome wives are so never satisfied. In Sargent, Georgia, Galen Winchell got rid of the cobwebs on the outside of the house. Whatever webs may have been missed were certainly cleared out by the fire that he started when he used a blowtorch for the job.

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Bizarre, Courts, Lawyering, Religion, Society, Torts

Orthodox Jewish Parents Fight Hospital to Prevent Termination of Life Support for Twelve-Year-Old Boy

thumb_scales_of_justiceThe Children’s National Medical Center in Washington is going to court to seek a court order to terminate life support for a 12-year-old boy in a case raising parental and religious rights. A ventilator and medications are currently keeping Moti Brody of Brooklyn, N.Y. alive but his Orthodox Jewish parents do not recognize brain death in their religion.
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Bizarre, Criminal law, Politics, Society

The Stevens Defense: Alaskan Claims that He Didn’t Intend to Steal Car and Thus Is Innocent

225px-ted_stevensIt seems that Alaskans are not only returning convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens to the Senate, but they are adopting his novel criminal defense. If you recall, Stevens insisted that gifts from lobbyists and industry were not “gifts” if he did not consider them gifts in his mind. Thus, a massage chair in his basement for years was simply left there and not really accepted by him. Now, Alaskan Charles J. Schultz in Fairbanks appears to have learned from the master. When stopped by police, Schultz insisted that he did not steal the car despite that fact that it was not his.

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Bizarre, Politics, Society

A Dying Breed: Smokers Banned from Fostering Children

no smokingSoon signs in London will read “Thank You For Not Fostering Children.” This week, a council in London became the first city to mandate that smokers cannot foster children. Redbridge Council’s cabinet agreed Tuesday night to a ban on placing children with foster carers who smoke absent exceptional circumstances. Anti-smoking advocates are seeking to expand the mandate to other areas of London and other cities.

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Academia, Bizarre, Politics, Society

Leading California Professor Suspended Over Refusal to Take Mandatory Sexual Harassment Training

3340An interesting fight is brewing at the University of California. Alexander McPherson, 64, is a leading biologist who has taken a stand against mandatory sexual harassment training on principle. Among other things, he objected to the requirement as an infringement of academic freedom and an act of political correctness. He may lose his tenured position and the University may lose a researcher responsible for $20 million a year in grants.
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Bizarre, Politics, Society

Novatics: 3.5 Million Vote Margin for Bush is a Mandate But An Over 7 Million Vote Margin for Obama is No Mandate

180px-robert_novak_iub_img_1622Robert Novak has long been dismissed by rational people as a mean-spirited hack. However, he has really out done himself. Novak quickly dismissed the 7 million vote margin of Barack Obama as not a mandate while, in 2004, he said it was obvious that a 3.5 million margin for President Bush was such a mandate. Novak mathematics — or Novatics — appears to demand three times the margin of a Republican for a Democrat to declare a mandate.

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