January 2011
41 posts
“QotD Jan. 31: Do you believe the current protests and uprisings in Egypt are a...”
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who...”
– Frederick Douglass
Is a worldwide youth revolt beginning?
MARSEILLE, France - January 19, 2011 - A 16-year-old French boy was rushed to hospital Tuesday in critical condition after setting himself on fire at his school, officials in Marseille said. The boy doused himself in a flammable liquid in the toilets of his private school in the southern city and then set himself alight, rescue service officials said. He has second and third degrees burns over 70%...
Tiny plastic toy gun ruled a firearm at UK airport
GATWICK, England - January 26, 2011 - It may be three inches long and made of plastic, but that didn’t stop a toy soldier’s gun being branded a “firearm” by zealous airport officials. Ken Lloyd and his wife bought the “signaller crouching” figurine during a recent visit to the Royal Signals Museum at Blandford Garrison. But when the box containing the figure passed through the scanning machine at...
First grader punished for pointing finger
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma - January 21, 2011 - An Oklahoma woman said she was outraged when school officials gave her 7-year-old son an in-school suspension for pointing his finger like a gun. School officials - without confirming the identity of the boy in question - said a student pointed his finger like a gun repeatedly, even after being told “on more than one occasion” not to do it....
Obama TSA pat down joke infuriates ACLU!
WASHINGTON - January 26, 2011 - During his third State of the Union address Tuesday night, illegitimate President Barack Obama cracked a joke about TSA pat downs - and earned an immediate rebuke from the American Civil Liberties Union. Hailing the benefits of high-speed rail, the illegitimate president jested that it would allow travelers to avoid being subject to the controversial airport pat...
Speed cameras around the world encounter...
January 23, 2011 - Motorists on four continents expressed displeasure with traffic cameras last week. In New Orleans, Louisiana, vigilantes disabled three red light cameras, WVUE-TV reported. Employing the same technique used last month, the cameras were bent so that they faced the ground and their lenses were covered with black paint. A pair of speed cameras on the A16 in Lincolnshire, UK were...
“QotD Jan. 27: Do you believe that official injustice can be eliminated from...”
Yogi and Bullwinkle prepare to be tasered
LAS VEGAS, Nevada - January 22, 2011 - It’s a viral video disaster waiting to happen. Taser International, manufacturer of the iconic stun gun, is taking aim at out-of-control animals. Marauding moose headed your way? Angry bear eyeing your picnic basket? You can taser him, bro. Taser’s X3 is no longer just for shocking humans. But unlike the model used on humans, Taser’s Wildlife Electric Control...
Hawaii governor says he cannot produce Obama birth...
HONOLULU, Hawaii (PNN) - January 20, 2011 - Pressure was mounting on Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie today amid increasing confusion over whether illegitimate President Obama was born there. Abercrombie said on Tuesday that an investigation had unearthed papers proving Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. He told Honolulu’s Star-Advertiser, “It actually exists in the archives, written down,”...
“QotD Jan. 24: Do you believe the Earth is heading into an Ice Age?”
“QotD Jan. 20: To what degree do you believe the sovereignty movement played a...”
New Big Brother device can ID fingerprints from a...
January 19, 2011 - While ears may be the new biometric du jour, Advanced Optical Systems (AOS) is doing its best to keep fingerprints as the preferred method for identifying enemies of the state. The company has built a fingerprint scanner with the ability to accurately read a print up to two meters away, and the United States military views the system as a means to reduce the risk to soldiers at...
Boston Court orders cat to jury duty
BOSTON, Massachusetts - January 18, 2011 - A pet cat has been summoned for jury duty - and has been told by courts that he must attend. Despite owner Anna Esposito’s protestations that a mistake has been made, a jury commissioner has ruled that Sal the cat must attend the court. She wrote that Sal was unable to speak and understand English - and included a letter from her vet saying that the...
Bill Gates wants to register all newborns on the...
Natural News - January 17, 2011 - Bill Gates is promoting a plan to use wireless technology to register every newborn on the planet in a vaccine database. In a keynote address to the mHealth Summit, which focuses on using mobile technology to improve health care, Gates said that improving survival rates among children under the age of 5 would benefit not just individual families, but societies and...
Utah city may use blimp to spy on citizens
OGDEN , Utah - January 18, 2011 - A proposed unmanned floating airship surveillance system is being hailed by city officials in Ogden, Utah as one way to fight crime in its neighborhoods. “We believe it will be a deterrent to crime when it is out and about and will help us solve crimes more quickly when they do occur,” Ogden City Mayor Matthew Godfrey told Reuters. The airship entails...
Parents pay retired cop to spy on their children
NEW YORK - January 18, 2011 - A retired New York police detective is being paid by parents to snoop on their children to ensure they do not misbehave. For $75 an hour, worried mothers and fathers can hire Andy Spieler to put their children under surveillance and take pictures of them or record videos when they get up to no good. The 49-year-old retired from the police in 2002 after 20 years in the...
“QotD Jan. 19: Do you believe that the practice of prescribing drugs for children...”
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“QotD Jan. 18: Should photographers ever be prohibited from taking pictures of...”
Greek mayor arrested after bulldozing tollbooths...
ATHENS, Greece - Janaury 16, 2011 - When drivers in Greece began refusing to pay road tolls it was seen as a bit of good-natured defiance, born of economy necessity. When Apostolos Gletsos, mayor of Stylida, took control of a municipal bulldozer and broke his way through the barriers of a toll booth, civil disobedience took on an altogether different hue. “What I did was within the realm of...
“QotD Jan. 17: Do you believe the FBI has overstepped its mandate? Has the FBI...”
Obama wants to create Internet ID for Amerikans
STANFORD, Kalifornia - January 9, 2010 - Illegitimate President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans. It’s “the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government” to centralize efforts toward creating an “identity ecosystem” for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity...
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Texas school police ticketing six year olds
DALLAS, Texas - January 11, 2011 - School police officers in Texas are doling out more tickets to children as young as six, who under past disciplinary practices would have been sent to the principal’s office instead, according to a report by a Texas nonprofit group. “Disrupting class, using profanity, misbehaving on a school bus, student fights, and truancy once meant a trip to the...
“QotD Jan. 13: Do you think Private Manning is a sinner or saint for releasing...”
“QotD Jan. 12: Do you believe tighter gun control regulations would have...”
“Is privatization, which is always more efficient than government administration,...”
Heartless officers issue ticket to comatose teen!
LAS VEGAS, Nevada - January 7, 2011 - The mother of a 13-year-old accident victim lashed out at Las Vegas Metro police on Wednesday, accusing officers of being insensitive when they issued her daughter, who had just been hit by a car, a jaywalking ticket in the hospital. “How cold could you really be?” asked Kellie Obong, a cab driver whose daughter, Takara, has been in a medically induced coma...
“If you could go back in time and rewrite history, at what point would you begin?”
“Always love your country - but never trust your government!”
– Robert Novak, 1931-2009
Pennsylvania police stop issuing tickets for...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania - January 6, 2011 - Firing off a few curse words can’t be charged as a crime anymore in the state of Pennsylvania - at least when state police are involved. State police have agreed to stop citing the public for cursing as part of a settlement Tuesday of a federal free speech lawsuit. The American Civil Liberties Union represents Pennsylvanians who have been...
“QotD Jan. 6: What is the most outrageous lie you’ve heard in the...”
“QotD Jan. 5: Do you expect a 9/11-type false flag event will be staged somewhere...”
Man arrested for protesting airport security
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - December 31, 2010 - A Charlottesville man who stripped down to his underwear at Richmond International Airpot to protest security-screening procedures was charged with disorderly conduct Thursday, airport police said. Airport police identified him as Aaron B. Tobey, 21. He told police he was a student at the University of Cincinnati. The incident occurred at 2:17 p.m....
“QotD Jan. 4: Besides Ron Paul in the United States, can you name one elected or...”
Actor Ashton Kutcher training for coming...
From the Huffington Post: Ashton Kutcher is in hard training for the apocalypse, but this no big screen role: he’s afraid that Armageddon is coming. Speaking to Men’s Fitness, Kutcher predicts that the end of days is on its way, and he wants to be prepared for the inevitable madness. He told the magazine: “It won’t take very much, I’m telling you. It will not take much...
Traffic camera attacks on the rise in United...
Vigilantes strike speed and red light cameras in California, Louisiana, South Carolina and France. January 2, 2011 - Over the past several years, vigilantes in Australia and Europe have destroyed hundreds of speed cameras. Until recently, such attacks remained rare in the United States. Last week, however, photo enforcement devices were taken out in California, Louisiana and South Carolina,...
“QotD Jan. 3: What are your commitments for 2011? To what actions or causes are...”
Montana jury stages mutiny in marijuana case
MISSOULA, Montana - December 26, 2010 - A funny thing happened on the way to a trial in Missoula County District Court . Jurors - well, potential jurors - staged a revolt. They took the law into their own hands, as it were, and made it clear they weren’t about to convict anybody for having a couple of buds of marijuana. Never mind that the defendant in question also faced a felony charge of...
“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people...”
– Thomas Jefferson 