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TROIS-RIVIÈRES, QUE. — As Ghyslain Raza recalled, whenever he walked by his high school's common areas, other students would jump on tables and chant, "Star Wars Kid! Star Wars Kid!" There would be a commotion as they shouted and poked at him, trying to get a reaction. "It was simply unbearable," he said. An otherwise ordinary teen in this Quebec small town, Mr. Raza had become a worldwide object of ridicule when schoolmates put on the Internet a video of him clumsily pretending to be a Star Wars character.
Three years later, Mr. Raza and his parents this week reached an out-of-court settlement with the families of three former schoolmates they had sued for $351,000 in damages. more>>
Raid on sheep farm ends 43-year hunt
(ANSA) - Palermo, April 11 - Cosa Nostra superboss Bernardo Provenzano, whose ghostly aura fed the Sicilian Mafia's mystique for almost half a century, was arrested Tuesday morning in the biggest police coup in over a decade. Provenzano, 73, did not resist arrest when police broke into his hide-out in an apparently abandoned building on a sheep farm near his home town of Corleone south of Palermo ."He didn't move. He was unruffled and didn't say anything," the arresting officer said. Police called the arrest "historic". more>>
Media jumps all over Duke because of a stripper?
DNA tests performed on 46 members of the Duke lacrosse team in an investigation into an alleged rape at an off-campus party last month have come back negative, according to defense attorneys. Lawyers for the athletes said the tests failed to link any of the players to the alleged incident involving a stripper from a nearby college, according to the Durham Herald-Sun newspaper.The dancer, identified only as a 27-year-old black student from nearby N.C. Central University, has claimed that she was hired to dance at an off-campus party held by members of the men's lacrosse team on the night of March 13 and that three white team members raped and beat her in the bathroom of the house and shouted racial insults. She said she broke five artificial fingernails while clawing at the arms of one of her attackers, but defense attorneys said there was no evidence showing any of the players were touched by her fingernails. The lone black member of the lacrosse team was not DNA tested because the accuser said her attackers were white.----Editor's note----So you believe a stripper over 46 Duke students? So what if they are white, I would still believe a college student over a stripper. But that's not good news. And where was her pimp? Don't "on-site" strippers always have a WWE size tag along?----End----
Zimbabwe
As I was wasting time on Google Earth, taking the sightseers tour somewhere between Red Square and Vatican City I took a southern turn to Zimbabwe.<--Google Earth Link. Ever been there, neither have I. However, I must admit that it was much more civilized than I was led to believe by the TV people trying to bleed money from my kung fu grip. Cruising overhead I was able to make out soccer fields, golf courses, buildings big and small and many many homes. Of course the detail for the homes is limited by Google Earth, but still, blew me away and changed my perception of this third world country. This intrigued me to look up local news for Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe News Here the headlines are of a serious cholera outbreak. The local authorities spot check vehicles not for DUI but for produce. Concerns are all relative. Here in the states, our produce is generally disease free, consequently we are able to focus our authorities on the teenager with a bag of weed. Nice.
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Some people are just more creative.
Pimpin' ain't Easy
Try collecting charitable donations at 6:30 am the Mon after daylight savings for a cause few are aware of while your bribe is a newspaper no one reads with headlines about a MLB team that no one follows. My job was to stand on a street corner offering newspapers in exchange for a donation. This donation could be any amount. $0.50 to $20.00 I saw. On average, the people that gave were those that looked to have less and the one's that completely avoided eye contact had $50,000 cars. Thank-you to those that have not. You made my awakening worthwhile.
The Ozone Layer
The ozone layer is safe from me. Once upon a time I believed in topping of the tank to postpone the next trip to the gas station. No more. With gas prices way higher than they should be, for whatever reason, I want only to put in as much gas as necessary.
