Rattle wrote:
] ] Three teens with a "morbid sense of entertainment" have
] ] been charged with killing eight exotic birds at a zoo for
] ] abused animals, authorities said yesterday.
] ]
] ] The slayings capped a violent night of revelry that began
] ] with an attack on a duck at a county park, continued with
] ] an arson-and-graffiti spree at a paintball facility and
] ] included vandalism at a church, where $5,000 worth of
] ] stained-glass windows were shattered.
] ]
] ] The three spray-painted swastikas and defaced a "God
] ] bless America" inscription at the paintball complex,
] ] replacing "God" with "Satan," authorities said.
]
] ] The birds were found dead in their pens Monday morning.
] ] One duck’s eye was gouged out; the emus had their
] ] windpipes crushed and jugular veins slashed, in addition
] ] to being beaten on the heads.
] ]
] ] "They suffered immensely,’’ said veterinarian Sherry
] Podhayny.
]
] I hate this town. This is typical of the people in this town.
] Fuck this town.

How about this one? http://www.app.com/app2001/story/0,21133,743552,00.html
A 10-year old and a 12-year old are being charged with the cemetary vandalism. This shit simply DID NOT HAPPEN when we were kids! Can you imagine if we DID do this shit? We would no longer be ALIVE, our parents would have killed us.
I feel very strongly that I am not capable of raising children in this current world. And even if I was, Ocean County is not the place to do it. I never heard such horrible things in the APP as I have the past week or two. The 10-12 year olds' parents ought to be hung, and the bird-killers' parents ought to be shot alongside their children. I don't care how old you are, if you were raised correctly, you don't DO this stuff.

RE: The Trentonian | Ocean County teens get bored, resort to killing exotic birds

] GAHANNA, Ohio (AP) -- A 13-year-old boy who wanted to
] make his own version of "Jackass: The Movie" threw a cup
] of boiling water on his best friend as he slept, causing
] second-degree burns, police said.

'Jackass' stunt causes burnination

This is a day to not go to the beach.

Be the first on your block to start hoarding supplies. There are only 300k shopping days left.

March 16, 2880 Massive asteroid impact on earth.

] "You also can't say Mother Russia or Fatherland or
] brotherhood in texts and that's both silly, trivial and
] breathtaking. It is like George Orwell's 'Newspeak' come
] to life," she said in an interview, referring to the
] manipulation of language in "1984."

They say if you don't like it here, to get out. I don't like it here. I am getting out.

Language police bar 'old,' 'blind'

] He would not divulge the Eastern Pequots' list of
] potential casino sites. The tribe has met twice with
] Preston officials about the abandoned Norwich State
] Hospital site, which is situated on the Thames River
] along the most direct route between Foxwoods Resort
] Casino and Mohegan Sun.

This article is about Trump wanting a piece of the Connecticut casino action. But what I wanted to address is the Eastern Pequots using the Norwich State Hospital land for their new casino.
1. I -love- abandoned mental hospitals. Marlboro Psychiatric is probably the most beautiful area I've ever seen... unbelievable architecture and gorgeous lands... that's how I feel about Norwich too.. it's just incredible. I will be SO PISSED if they put a casino there.
2. The grounds of Norwich State Hospital are within spitting distance of Mohegan Sun. They are DIRECTLY across the river from one another. Will they run a ferry from one casino to the other? This will make THREE casinos within 10 minutes of each other!! And within 20 minutes of me!! I haven't lived here that long, but I know enough to see that crime and "bad element" have been going up and up and up because of the casinos. Not that I have a problem with them, mind you. There really isn't anything else to do around here, I just have a love-hate relationship with them. Pretty soon, though, if they put in this third casino, New London county is going to become Connecticut's Atlantic City, and I'll be pissed.
3. The Golden Hill Paugussetts should, by all means, build a casino in Bridgeport. Bridgeport is already a slum, a casino could possibly help, and I liked their billboards in Bridgeport when they were fighting for recognition: "Vote for the Golden Hill Paugussetts, The Tribe With a PLAN!".

Trump wants a piece of the action

] UMATILLA, Oregon (Reuters) -- Horacio Alberto
] Reyes-Camarena, a convicted murderer with failing
] kidneys, is presenting Oregon officials with a tough
] choice -- how best to keep him alive until they can
] execute him.
]
] The cash-strapped state, struggling to provide basic
] education and health care to its citizens, pays $120,000
] a year to clean Reyes-Camarena's blood with a dialysis
] machine at Umatilla State Prison. That treatment could
] continue for a decade as he appeals his death sentence in
] the 1996 murder of an 18-year-old woman.
]
] After Reyes-Camarena's prison doctor last month concluded
] he was a good candidate for a transplant, state officials
] may consider giving him a priceless donated kidney. The
] $100,000 operation could save the state money but would
] deprive someone outside prison of a life-giving organ.

This is absolutely absurd!!!! More later, too angry to make coherent arguments.

Oregon debates kidney transplant for death row inmate

Rattle wrote:
] ] At least 100 dead fish were seen yesterday floating in
] ] the Oyster Creek by the nuclear power plant here, a
] ] veteran fisherman reported.
] ]
] ] Plant investigators saw four dead fish by the Route 9
] ] bridge that crosses the creek and another near the
] ] plant's property line, but officials here said the plant
] ] did not cause them to die.
] ]
] ] "We've checked all of our systems and we've done
] ] nothing," said Ernest J. Harkness, site vice president at
] ] the Oyster Creek plant.
]
] ] The plant was shut down since Tuesday following an
] ] electrical malfunction. Power generation should resume
] ] within the next two days, Harkness said.
] ]
] ] In December, the largest fine ever assessed on a New
] ] Jersey nuclear power plant for causing a fish kill --
] ] $372,912 -- was levied by the state Department of
] ] Environmental Protection against Oyster Creek.
]
] Oh yeah.. The plant is _never_ killing the fish. Not this
] time, not earlier this year, not every six months this
] happens.
]
] This time it was only a few hundred (or the offical number of
] "four"), last time it was thousands. Does this mean they are
] getting better?
]
] The workers are still striking too..

For God's sake, will you MOVE already?! I've been pissed that you live within spitting distance of that plant for some 10+ years now, would you please MOVE!? Don't come crying to me when you grow a third eye from the radiation. :.)

RE: Asbury Park Press | Official: Plant did not kill any fish

] Handsome men produce the best quality semen and beautiful
] women seem to have good voices, according to two
] different scientific studies.

It's true.

Study: Handsome men produce best sperm

] It's Keith Lichtman's second trip to the Home Depot in
] Long Island City. He's redoing his kitchen and bathroom
] and needed to buy bathroom tiles and accessories.
]
] He's a self-checkout neophyte who didn't want to suffer
] through the long wait at the regular checkout for just a
] handful of items. In five minutes Lichtman had paid for
] all his purchases and was walking away with bag in hand.

Are you f-ing kidding me?! I've tried to use the self-checkout at Home Depot. Actually I tried it twice. I will never do it again. The first time, one of the things I attempted to purchase was a flowerpot. The scanny tag was on the inside rim of the pot. Couldn't scan it. They also don't have a handheld scanny thing. So I was pretty pissed off and frustrated, and it took forever for the cashier or whatever to come over and help me. They did not have an option for typing in the UPC. The second time I went to use the Home Depot self-checkout, one of the things I was purchasing were plastic screws in little plastic baggies. They scanned fine. The problem came when I went to put my screws in the shopping bag. They have these things sense when you put something in the bag... Apparently it senses it by weight. The plastic screws weighed practically nothing, so I'm standing there like an asshole while the machine is screaming "PLEASE PUT YOUR PURCHASE IN THE BAG" and it's not letting me continue scanning things, until I put my screws in the bag. I tried throwing them in the bag REALLY hard, but that didn't fool the machine either. Eventually (after hearing me curse out the f-ing machine several times) someone came over and helped me. I will never use the self-checkout at Home Depot again, even though the regular lines are out of control there.
At Stop-n-Shop, however, I LOVE the self-checkout. It has sensors that see your items on the belt, so you don't have to bag your items right away. Self-checkout there is fun when both of us go, but it sometimes sucks if it's just me, and I buy a lot of stuff, because the bagging area gets full and I have to stop scanning and run down there and bag. But I like that self-checkout. It's fun.

Stuck at the checkout? DIY lane's open.

] Even as an endangered species, with protections afforded
] only a handful of other creatures on Earth, the Florida
] manatee loses up to 10 percent of its number every year,
] many crushed or slashed by boats.

Poor sea cows!!!!!!

Florida grapples with plight of manatees