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   Like wet sand through the hourglass, these are the wars in our lives. Just cannot seem to get past these things with an idiot in the White house.

AP

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb ripped through a bustling shopping district in a religiously mixed neighborhood of western Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding about 20 as the U.S.-Iraqi security operation entered its third week.

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   The US is finally beginning to catch some flack about the treatment of detainees, from the UN no less.

AP

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.

Louise Arbour referred to the Military Commissions Act approved by Congress last year and last month's federal appeals court ruling that Guantanamo Bay detainees cannot use the U.S. court system to challenge their detention. The case is likely to go to the Supreme Court.

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   The Chinese stock market played kamikazi again on Thursday and dropped a bit more.

Al Jazeera

China's main stock index fell more than 3 per cent in early trade on Thursday, hit by renewed selling in blue chips, after it had rallied slightly in the previous session.

   I'm off to the races everyone! I've got computers to fix, taxes to do, and.....?   Good Day and Good Night!

 

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13 Year Old Dies From Drinking While 4 Others Watched

   There are some stupid people in this world not to mention ignorant!

Tucson Citizen

The Associated Press   02.28.2007

PHOENIX - Police arrested four people late Tuesday in connection with the death of a 13-year-old runaway whose body was found dumped in a Phoenix alley on Feb. 19.

Brenda Nguyen died after drinking a fifth of vodka in the course of about 30 minutes at a west Phoenix apartment complex, police said Wednesday. She died about four hours after the drinking binge, apparently of alcohol poisoning, and two men in the apartment then decided to get rid of her body.

Nguyen was last seen by her family on Feb. 11. It took five days for police to identify her body.

According to a police probable cause statement filed in court, Clayton Koepke, 18, wanted Nguyen to drink heavily so he could have sex with her. He and Armando Hernandez Jr., 18, watched as she drank 5 full glasses of vodka, fell unconscious and began having seizures and trouble breathing during the evening on Feb. 18.

Koepke and Hernandez, along with Hernandez' mother, Ana Laura Hernandez, 44, and her boyfriend, Scott Andrew Franze, 38, watched the unconscious girl for three hours, sometimes performing CPR to get her to keep breathing, court documents allege. None called police or the fire department because they were afraid.

   I'm wondering how much vodka Clayton Koepke figured she needed before she would give it up, although not willingly. At thirteen years of age, one glass would have been more than enough. Either way, his sorry ass and his friends are on their way to the slammer.

    I wrote the other day on a man getting 200 years for having child porn on his computer so these assholes should get at least that much time and then some!

brenda nguyen, phoenix, 4 adults