Year: 2013

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News santa claus

OMG! Reporter Tells Kids, “Santa is made up!”

The truth is out of the bag. Santa is out of work in Raleigh!

Parents of kids young enough to still believe in Santa Claus living in the Raleigh-Durham market were left scrambling to undo what WTVD anchor Anna Laurel did during the ABC owned station’s 4:00 p.m. newscast yesterday.

While tossing to meteorologist Chris Hohmann after a story about a school denying a black student the opportunity to be Santa, anchor Anna Laurel told viewers, “Hide your ears, but the Santa of today is made up.”

The station responded to comments on its facebook page by writing, “We obviously struck a raw nerve during our Santa story at 4 pm. We will be more mindful of our 4 pm audience in the future.”

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News Oklahoma

Killer’s Last Words Before Being Executed? “I Love you Momma!”

Oklahoma on Tuesday executed a 48-year-old man convicted of the 1998 stabbing death of a horse trainer from Ringling.

Johnny Dale Black was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. Tuesday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester after telling his mother he loved her.

He was the second inmate executed by the state in the past two weeks and the sixth put to death in Oklahoma this year.

Black was convicted of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing Bill Pogue, 54, during a roadside attack near the southern Oklahoma town that left Pogue with 11 stab wounds, broken ribs and punctured lungs. Pogue’s son-in-law, Rick Lewis, was also attacked. Lewis suffered more than a dozen wounds but later recovered.

He had been looking for someone else, according to court documents.

Black was one of five men who went out hunting for a man who had threatened one of the five because he had been having an affair with the man’s soon to be ex-wife, according to court documents.

The group was looking for the man’s black sport-utility vehicle and instead encountered Pogue, who had gone to a convenience store with his son-in-law, Richard Lewis, to buy chewing tobacco and was driving home in a black SUV.

The group of five men stopped their compact car in front of the SUV and attacked Pogue and Lewis, beating them and stabbing them more than 10 times each, according to court documents.

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Health News

Severed hand attached to man’s ankle to keep it alive

Xiangya Hospital – Central South University via Reuters

Xiao Wei’s severed right hand is seen attached to his ankle before the reattachment surgery at Xiangya Hospital in Changsha, Hunan province, on Dec. 4, 2013.

Doctors at a hospital in China saved a man’s hand by grafting it to his ankle after it was severed in an industrial accident, according to reports in the Chinese media.

Xiao Wei lost his right hand in an accident in the factory where he worked but it could not be reattached to his arm right away. Doctors kept the hand alive by stitching it to his left ankle and “borrowing” a blood supply from arteries in the leg.

After a month, they were able to reattach the hand to his arm. Xiao Wei said he would be having another operation in six months but might not be able to regain full use of his hand.

Earlier this year another Chinese man had a new nose grown on his forehead after a traffic accident.

— Reuters, Agence France-Presse

AFP – Getty Images

Xiao Wei lying on his hospital bed with his hand grafted to his ankle.

AFP – Getty Images

A doctor checking Xiao Wei’s hand on Dec. 10, after it was reattached to his arm.

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Arrest Made In New York “Knockout” Game – Video

New York (WABC) — Law enforcement sources tell Eyewitness News, a 20-year-old Long Island man is under arrest and is expect to be charged with up to 7 counts of ‘knockout’ assaults that date back to April of 2013.

Darryl Mitchell of Amityville is expected to be charged in the assaults of residents, at least two of them elderly in the Babylon to Amityville area.

Darryl Jones says it came out of nowhere. A single, roundhouse punch to the face that left him stunned. And a gash above his eye that took seven stitches to close.

“It I wasn’t strong enough, I probably would’ve passed out,” Jones said.

He told Eyewitness News he was walking home from the grocery store at three in the afternoon when a young man came walking toward him.

“He was walking on the sidewalk and I moved out of the way just to step into the street and he stood in front of me holding up his hands and hit me in the face,” adds Jones.

Eyewitness News has learned exclusively tonight that Darryl Mitchell will be charged with half a dozen assaults that go back as far as April.

One of them, on the Long Island Rail Road platform in Amityville. Several others in Babylon and in his own neighborhood, in North Amityville.

Sources say the victims were as young as 17 and as old as 69.

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Politics

More Trouble – Chris Christie Subpoenaed In Fort Lee Lane Closings

This story is not going away anytime soon.

The Democratic lawmaker investigating September’s controversial lane closures at the George Washington Bridge has subpoenaed any correspondence on the matter between Gov. Chris Christie and Port Authority officials.

Assemblyman John Wisnieswki (D-Middlesex) wants to know what the governor knew about the closures and when he knew it.

The subpoenas, issued to key officials of the bistate agency, demanded “all documents and correspondence, produced between Aug. 1, 2013 and the present date between Governor Chris Christie or any member of his administration and/or any employee, officer, or executive of the Port Authority.” The subpoenas give the officials until Thursday to respond.

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Martin Luther King Politics santa claus

Another Fruitcake Insist – Santa Is White Because Martin Luther King is Black – Video

A self-described libertarian radio host on Monday defended Fox News host Megyn Kelly’s assertion that Santa Claus was white, saying he was going to “scream and complain because Martin Luther King is always portrayed as black.”

In a clip obtained by BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski, Herman Cain radio show guest host Neal Boortz speaks to a caller who called to complain that Kelly had been criticized after she recently said that both Santa and Jesus Christ were white men.

“Yeah, I’m sorry, Santa Claus is white!” Boortz exclaims. “Okay? Deal with it!”

“Everything has got to be black now, it doesn’t matter what it is,” the caller laments.

“You know, I’m going to scream and complain because Martin Luther King is always portrayed as black,” Boortz quips. “It just ain’t right.”

Boortz goes on to predict that he was going to “chase away” about 100,000 of Herman Cain’s listeners before the show was over.

Listen to the audio below from the Herman Cain Show, broadcast Dec. 16, 2013.

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Featured News

Witnesses stop Brazen Rape Attempt in Woodbridge

Police say witnesses stopped a bold rape attempt outside the HH Gregg in Woodbridge on Saturday.

The victim, a 19-year-old Woodbridge woman, was walking into the store in the 14500 block of Potomac Mills Road about 6:10 p.m. with a friend when a man with his pants down to his knees ran up to them.

“Once close enough, the man picked up the victim and took her to the ground where he then got on top of her,” Prince William County police spokesman Jonathan Perok said. “Multiple witnesses intervened to get the man off of the victim.”

The woman wasn’t injured.

Police arrived and arrested the attacker, identified as 20-year-old Jaguar Robert William-Palmer. He is charged with attempted rape and is being held without bond at the Prince William-Manassas regional jail.

 

h/t – insidenova

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Politics

Shooting Spree – Black People The Target – Verdict Reached

Oklahoma (AP) — Two men charged with first-degree murder and hate crimes in the shooting deaths of three people last year pleaded guilty Monday and were sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Alvin Watts and Jake England changed their previous pleas of not guilty in District Court as part of a plea deal in which prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty against them.

England apologized and said he takes responsibility for his actions. Watts said nothing when offered a chance to speak in court.

Watts, 24, and England, 21, were charged with first-degree murder, shooting with intent to kill and five hate crimes in the Easter weekend 2012 shootings of William Allen, Bobby Clark and Dannaer Fields, who were killed as they walked near their Tulsa homes. Two others were shot and wounded.

All five victims were black. Watts is white and England has said he is Cherokee Indian.

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Politics taxes

New Data – Rich People Paying Less Taxes Under Obama

This, despised the fact that Republicans and those in the top 10 percent huddle together to convince low information Americans that President Obama is waging a war on the rich.

New data is out from the IRS, showing the share of federal income taxes paid by those in each economic strata. Bruce Bartlett points out that the richest Americans have seen their share of taxes declining rather significantly under Obama. Specifically, the richest 1% paid 37.5% of taxes in (recession-damaged) 2008; in 2011, their share was down to 35%. (Their share peaked in 2007, during the boom times—and the Bush administration.) The top 5% of earners also saw their share of taxes decline by a similar margin. So, under the first three years of the Obama administration, the very rich saw their share of taxes go down. This is the class warfare that Republicans are always complaining about.

This is happening, remember, during a time with a disparity between the rich and poor that has not been seen since the Gilded Age. This is not the legacy that Obama wants to leave. Two easy ways to address this worrisome trend are to cut or abolish the (highly regressive) payroll tax and to just go ahead and tax the hell out of absurdly high incomes. Also, tax investment income, which flows mostly to the rich, as what it is: income.

Obama says all the right things. In his speech, he said that this issue “drives everything I do in this office.” Fine. I hope it shows up in the numbers next year.

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Politics

PIC: Jesus is White, Santa is Real and Fox is News

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Entertainment Movies

Feature Film ‘Aloft the Flames’ Now Casting for 7 Roles

Casting “Aloft the Flames.” Synopsis: While screening her documentary film about the Gaza War, Jessica falls deeply in love with a Los Angeles novelist. Seven roles are available.

Want to see if you have what it takes? Submit via Backstage.com. 

h/t – backstage.com

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Entertainment Music

Read the “Stomach-Churning” Sexual Assault Accusations Against R. Kelly in Full

It has been nearly 15 years since music journalist Jim DeRogatis caught the story that has since defined his career, one that he wishes didn’t exist: R. Kelly’s sexual predation on teenage girls.

DeRogatis, at that time the pop-music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, was anonymously delivered the first of two videos he would receive depicting the pop star engaging in sexual acts with underage girls. Now the host of the syndicated public radio show Sound Opinions and a professor at Columbia College, DeRogatis, along with his former Sun-Times colleague Abdon Pallasch, didn’t just break the story, they did the only significant reporting on the accusations against Kelly, interviewing hundreds of people over the years, including dozens of young women whose lives DeRogatis says were ruined by the singer. READ MORE

h/t -http: blogs.villagevoice.com
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