`A Republican gubernatorial candidate’s call for creation of a forced labor camp for illegal immigrants drew rebukes Friday from two GOP lawmakers, who labeled it a low point in the immigration debate.
Don Goldwater, nephew of the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, caused an international stir this week when EFE, a Mexican news service, quoted him as saying he wanted to hold undocumented immigrants in camps to use them “as labor in the construction of a wall and to clean the areas of the Arizona desert that they’re polluting.”
The article described Goldwater’s plan as a “concentration camp” for migrants.’
`The commander of the Utah Highway Patrol’s drunken driving unit has been cited for driving under the influence of alcohol after crashing his cruiser into a concrete barrier, authorities said Thursday.
Lt. Fred Swain veered off the shoulder of a highway in Draper early last Friday, overcorrected and hit the barrier that separates the lanes, Lt. Doug McCleve said.
Swain said he fell asleep at the wheel, but officers suspected he had been drinking, said Draper police Sgt. Scott Peck. Swain initially refused to submit to a breathalyzer test until two patrol captains talked to him, Peck said.’
`The scenario is you are without Internet connectivity anywhere. You have found either an open wireless access pointed or perhaps you’re staying in a hotel which permits rented Internet via services like Spectrum Interactive (previously known as UKExplorer). You make the connection, whether its physically connecting the Ethernet cables, or instructing you’re wireless adapter to lock onto the radio signal. You are prompted with some sort of authorization page when you open a browser. You don’t have access to it, so what do you do?’
`A decade-long feud between two factory workers over the Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide ended in a forklift duel that left one with a bloodied face and the other unemployed.
After a history of workplace pranks, jibes and racial insults, Crows fan and Greek-born Simeon Christopoulos, 63, hit Power fan and Italian-born Frank Cappelluti, 58, after the pair locked forklifts on the factory floor of Kilburn steel firm, Korvest.
Mr Cappelluti, of Pooraka, suffered a cut lip and his boss, Mr Christopoulos, who had worked with the company for 34 years, was sacked.’
`See, this is why mobs aren’t really a good idea. They’re just too quick to judge. For example, yesterday afternoon in East Flatbush a livery driver seemingly lost control of his vehicle and swerved into an 8-year-old riding a bike. When the hack finally stopped crashed his cab into a wall a “group of dozens of bystanders confronted and attacked him.”
And then it gets crazier.
The cabby, as he was being beaten, finally managed to explain his side of the story to his assailants. It wasn’t that he was a bad driver, he explained, no, it turns out he lost control of his car after “his passenger had struck him in the head with a metal bar” in an attempt to rob him. Upon hearing this news the crowd left the driver and “turned to his passenger, beat him, and tightened a belt around his neck.”‘
`The Ophcrack LiveCD is a bootable Linux CD-ROM containing ophcrack 2.2 and a set of tables (SSTIC04-10k). It allows for testing the strength of passwords on a Windows machine without having to install anything on it. Just put it into the CD-ROM drive, reboot and it will try to find a Windows partition, extract its SAM and start auditing the passwords.’
`The U.S. Army will investigate charges that American soldiers were involved in the killings of four Iraqi relatives, including a woman who had been raped, military officials said Friday. It’s the sixth current inquiry into the alleged slayings of Iraqi civilians by American troops.
Some of the five soldiers also allegedly burned the body of the woman they are accused of assaulting in the March incident, a U.S. military official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.’
`Prime Minister John Howard has described reality TV show Big Brother as “stupid” and called on Channel 10 to cull the controversial program. [..]
“I think it is just a question of good taste,” Mr Howard told Macquarie Radio today.
“The business community is always saying to me `let us self-regulate’.
“Well, here’s a great opportunity for Channel 10 to do a bit of self-regulation and get this stupid program off the air.”‘
A Jamaican demonstrating how Bob Marley used to sit on a rock and smoke spliffs.
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`US actor David Hasselhoff has been treated in hospital after being hurt in a chandelier accident.
Hasselhoff, 53, hit his head on a chandelier in the men’s room after using the gym at the Sanderson Hotel in London’s West End on Thursday.
His right arm was cut by shards of glass, severing a tendon.’
`A young Johns Hopkins University graduate smashed through a double-pane window early yesterday and plunged to his death from a millionaire family’s posh midtown apartment after night of partying, police and relatives said.
Just before hurtling out the eighth-floor window, Seth Pitman, 23, told friends he “wanted to enter the afterlife” and knew he could “fly,” police sources and pals said.
“He was talking to himself, he was praying, he was uncontrollable, I didn’t recognize him,” his girlfriend Elektra Carras said. [..]
Falling six stories, he slammed against an air conditioning unit before landing on a second-floor scaffolding, where he was found dead about 1 a.m.’
`Dier, 67, said depression, loneliness, denial and a recent bout of flu and bronchitis kept him from maintaining control of the fast-breeding population.
“I did not set out to do this,” he told The Press Democrat. “I do acknowledge irresponsibility and there’s a case for laziness, denial, incompetence and just plain foolishness.”
But “it was not all my fault,” he added. “It was this force of nature that overwhelmed me.”‘
followup to Animal control workers discover house stuffed with rats.
`On April 8, 2005, Buckalew went to a cemetery on the Washington highway in Morrisville and broke into an above-ground tomb, opened the lid of a casket and cut off the head of a corpse. He wrapped the head in plastic bags and took it home. He also stole eyeglasses and a bow tie from the corpse.
Buckalew told witnesses he intended to leave the severed head out and would then bleach it, according to the affidavit of Senior Patrolman Ryan Bjerke of the Morristown Police Department. He told witnesses he intended to turn the skull into a bong, which is a type of pipe used to smoke marijuana or other drugs.’
`A man who committed suicide at a party also killed a 16-year-old girl when the bullet traveled through his head and struck her in the chest, authorities said.
Jacob R. Lee, 19, and Lorena Mocko, 16, were found shot to death at around 1 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln County authorities said.’
