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  • Rosenbergs’ sons admit father was spy

    Rosenbergs’ sons admit father was spy – CNN.com

    I wonder if this means the Meeropol brothers will stop defending convicted cop killing scumbags like Mumia Abu Jamal. I doubt it.

  • Poor Lori Drew

    Woman in MySpace Suicide Case Moving Away From Neighborhood:

    Poor Lori Drew. When she’s not busy kicking puppies, tearing the wings off of butterflies and making 13-year-old girls commit suicide she has to find a new home. The Drews have decided to leave their Dardenne Prairie, Mo. home for parts unknown. Isn’t that where all the masked wrestlers are from? Then she might fit in real nice there. She could use a nice mask.

    Seriously though they are moving within the week and they claim they don’t know where they are going. At least they have the luxury to move. Megan Meier doesn’t.

  • Nashville rental scam

    I received an e-mail from Michael who was looking for a condo in Nashville and found one that was too good to be true. When he e-mailed the ‘seller’ this was the response he got.

    Hello,

    Thanks for your response regarding your interest in having my apartment for rent.The apartment is much available for now.I want you to know that I amthe owner of this building .But right now i am in africa on a Christain mission with my wife and we have the keys right here with us.I will like toinform you that it was due to my transfer that makes us to leave the apartment and also want to give it out for rent and looking for a resposible person that can take very good care of it as we are not after the money for the rent but want it to be clean at the time and the person that will rent it to take it as if it were its own.So for now,We are here in West Africa,NIGERIA our new house and also with the keys of the house,we are trying to look for an agent that we can give this document before we left but could not see and we are as well as dont want our house to be used any how in our absent that is why we took it along with us here.We are only willing to give the apartment out to a lovely and caring family only, so if you know you cannot give the apartment the neatness it deserves please don’t contact me.But if you promise to always take good

    care of apartment,get back to me on how you could take care of our house or perhaps experience you have in renting home.Hope you are okay with the price of $650 with hydro,heat laundry facilities,air-condition and so on.i look forward to hearing from you ASAP so that i can forward you an application to fill out and discuss on how to get the apartment for rent,also are you ready to rent it now or when?

    Thanks,

    Marcie anderson.

    So we can add Marcie Anderson to the list of fake scammer names.

    Michael e-mailed Mrs. ‘Anderson’ back and then ‘she’ requested the usual personal information for identity theft purposes. Michael did not e-mail her back of course and he notes that the ad was removed the day after.

    Let’s go over the red flags again…

    • Broken English: The apartment is much available for now.

     

    • Christian Mission: If there were as many Christian missionaries as they claim to be on craigslist the entire continent of Africa would be Christian.

     

     

    • Africa: Especially Nigeria, the birthplace of internet scams.

     

     

    • Asking for money sight unseen: It doesn’t matter how desperate you are for a place, never rent without seeing the inside of the place first.

     

    And remember the old saying applies true even more with craigslist, if it looks too good to be true it probably is.

  • Texas craigslist kidnapping

    Kidnapped girl to return to Austin Thursday:

    33-year-old David Snyder of Pflugerville, Texas was arrested in New Jersey on kidnapping charges for taking a 15-year-old girl from Austin he met on craigslist to the Garden State.

    The girl’s mother claimed that the pair met over craigslist and began text messaging each other. When her mother found out she took away the girl’s cell phone. However, as kids are want to do the girl would use a friend’s cell phone or internet.

    Snyder was arrested in Newark while the pair were trying to board a bus to New York. The girl went willingly with Snyder but due to her age, it is considered kidnapping.

    Snyder also has a previous arrest record for aggravated sexual assault of a child on an unrelated case.

    So by craigslist’s philosophy shouldn’t Snyder’s ad, which I’m assuming he posted, have been flagged by craigslist’s legendary policing community? Oh, that’s right, guys like Snyder are craigslist’s community and wouldn’t flag anything related to sex whether it’s illegal or not.

  • Vatican: Guess what, Darwin? Evolution is OK

    Vatican: Guess what, Darwin? Evolution is OK – Science msnbc.com

    No shit. I was taught evolution by a priest in Catholic school 20 years ago.

  • The latest on Giovanni Gonzalez

    Authorities appeal again for help in finding missing Lynn boy:

    Law enforcement officials have once again appealed to the public for information regarding the disappearance of Giovanni Gonzalez.

    Ernesto Gonzalez Jr., Giovanni’s father, had a pre-trial hearing this morning. He wasn’t man enough to actually appear in court.

    The only new information that has come out recently from the investigation is that police have eliminated the possibility that Giovanni is in Puerto Rico.

  • Closing of last Margate mini-golf par for the course

    Link

    Part of me is sad because I used to play at this mini-golf course as a kid and I hate that Absecon Island is becoming nothing but condos. However part of me is sadistically happy because the people who ran it always treated me like crap. They ripped me off for more than one free game.

  • Statutory rapist arrested for looking at victim’s MySpace

    Spencerport rapist accused of looking at victim’s MySpace page:

    50-year-old Jeffrey L. Tewksbury was previously arrested for having sex with a 16-year-old girl and was given 10-years probation. The parents of the girl had agreed to that sentence to spare the victim from having to testify.

    Now Tewksbury is in hot water for accessing the girl’s MySpace. Part of his probation was to not have any contact with the victim.

    Tewksbury could be sent to jail for four years.

  • Paducah shooter now claims he heard voices

    Michael Carneal
    Michael Carneal

    High court hears arguments on Carneal’s competency:

    Michael Carneal was the then 15-year-old gunman who killed 3 and wounded 5 at Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky in 1997. At his trial, he pleaded guilty but mentally ill to the murder charges and was sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole in 25 years.

    Of course, he claimed he was bullied but again as most cowards do he shot and killed innocent bystanders, a group of students who were in a prayer circle.

    Now it’s being argued in the Kentucky Supreme Court on whether or not Carneal was too mentally ill to plead guilty. Now, through the wonders of modern junk psychology, Carneal is claiming that at the time of the shooting he was schizophrenic and was hearing voices.

    The Kentucky Supreme court is expected to rule in three to six months.

  • New new West Memphis 3 ‘evidence’

    More Developments in West Memphis 3 Case:

    Speaking of Damien Echols, because you know we were, his wife Lorri Davis has come forward with what she says is new evidence that will get her husband a new trial. Her timing is amazing considering a judge just denied a retrial Thursday.

    Lorri Davis, who is married to Damien Echols, claims an Arkansas attorney is quoted in a sealed affidavit as saying he had conversations with a member of the jury in Echols and Jason Baldwin’s 1994 trial.

    Misskelley confessed to the crime, but later recanted. His confession was not allowed to be presented in the trial against Echols and Baldwin. Now Davis claims they have proof that jurors were discussing the confession during deliberations.

    So how long has she been sitting in this alleged information? And do you notice it’s evidence that could potentially get her husband a new trial, not Misskelley or Baldwin? Like I keep saying it’s all about Echols and always has been. Misskelley is seen as the turncoat and Baldwin is basically the Shemp of these stooges.