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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

News In America

  Looks as if a father in Ohio has ended up in jail because his daughter failed to get her high school equivalency diploma.

   A judge gave Brian Gegner i80 days in the slammer for " contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor." It seems that his daughter has a thing for truancy .

  About daddy's jail time, the daughter had this to say.

Brittany Gegner, who said Monday that she plans to take a required GED test this month, said her father shouldn't be blamed for her failure because she has been living with her mother.  Source

 

   Meanwhile, in Phoenix, police are looking for someone who they consider a serial predator who is linked to 4 unsolved attacks on women in Phoenix and in Mesa. This includes 2 killings.

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The newest case to be linked to the crime spree occurred Nov. 4 when a 35-year-old woman was kidnapped, taken to an alley in central Phoenix, raped and beaten, said Phoenix police Detective Reuben Gonzales.

Berry said DNA evidence connected the assault to the rape and killing of two women in Mesa in 2004 and in 2007, and to another rape in Mesa, a Phoenix suburb.

 

  How would you like to own your very own condo which just happens to have once been a shipping container? If a Detroit group has its way, you may have the chance to buy one of these.

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The Detroit Free Press reports Tuesday the project would stack empty containers four high, cut in windows and doors, install plumbing, stairways and heating, and add amenities such as balconies and landscaped patios.    

  The units will range in size from 960 sq. feet up to 1,920 and and will cost anywhere from $100,000 up to around $190,000.

  If I later decide to move, can I still have the condo shipped?

Sunday, May 11, 2008

George Bush Joke

  From a commenter at CommonDreams:

A Japanese doctor said, “Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks.”

A German doctor said, “That’s nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.”

A Texas doctor, not to be outdone said, “You guys are way behind. We took a man with no brains out of Texas , put him in the White House and now half the country is looking for work.”

  Have a good week everybody!

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