Prostitute auctions sex for charity November 29, 2007
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Can someone lend me $4000?
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A Chilean prostitute has auctioned 27 hours of sex to raise money for the country’s largest charity during an annual fund-raising campaign.
Maria Carolina became an overnight celebrity in the conservative Roman Catholic country, making news headlines and appearing on talk shows since she made her unusual donation to the televised charity event, which runs for 27 hours starting on Friday evening.
“I’ve already auctioned off the 27 hours of love,” Maria Carolina told Reuters on Wednesday, saying she had raised about $4,000. “One of my clients already paid. It seemed like a good deed to him.”
Adult prostitution is legal in Chile. Chile’s two-day Teleton fundraiser is endorsed by television stars and aims to raise funds for poor, disabled children.
Speaking about Maria Carolina’s unusual donation, campaign organizer Mario Kreutzberger said he would not encourage “immoral” activities, but said he would accept her pledge.
“Everyone can do what they want, but if someone tells me that they’ll do something immoral … I’m not going to encourage it,” Kreutzberger, who as “Don Francisco” hosts the long-running “Sabado Gigante” program on the U.S. Spanish-language Univision network, told local media.
But Maria Carolina, who advertises her services on the Internet, defended her money-raising scheme.
“There are people who are going to be donating money that’s a lot more questionable than mine,” she said. “The only thing I did was publicize it.”
(Reporting by Antonio de la Jara; writing by Lisa Yulkowski; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
Missing marijuana? Florida troopers found it November 29, 2007
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I wonder if anyone will call?
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 5:13 AM
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla.—The Florida Highway Patrol says anyone missing two big bags of pot can call their Tampa area office.
A crew picking up litter along Interstate 4 yesterday made an unusual find: two big plastic garbage bags stuffed with freshly harvested marijuana.
FHP Trooper Larry Coggins said the 60 pounds of pot might be worth around $54,000 on the street. It probably fell off or was thrown from a car on the interstate, he said.
Coggins said it’s not the largest amount of pot ever dumped along a roadside, but it’s certainly not a common find.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2007/11/28/florida.html
It’s a fat world November 27, 2007
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http://calorielab.com/news/2007/10/29/small-world-ride-revamped-for-bigger-passengers/
“Having children is selfish.” November 23, 2007
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If you want to be green, it seems to me that the greenest they could be is to die. If it is selfish to have children isn’t it selfish to be alive at all?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=495495&in_page_id=1879
Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers – and a voice calling her Mummy.
But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.
Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.
Military Wants Part Of Bonus Back November 21, 2007
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When you sit at a desk and work with numbers sometimes you don’t think about what you are actually doing…
http://kdka.com/local/military.signing.bonuses.2.571660.html
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments.
To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases.
Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back.
One of them is Jordan Fox, a young soldier from the South Hills.
He finds solace in the hundreds of boxes he loads onto a truck in Carnegie. In each box is a care package that will be sent to a man or woman serving in Iraq. It was in his name Operation Pittsburgh Pride was started.
Fox was seriously injured when a roadside bomb blew up his vehicle. He was knocked unconscious. His back was injured and lost all vision in his right eye.
A few months later Fox was sent home. His injuries prohibited him from fulfilling three months of his commitment. A few days ago, he received a letter from the military demanding nearly $3,000 of his signing bonus back.
“I tried to do my best and serve my country. I was unfortunately hurt in the process. Now they’re telling me they want their money back,” he explained.
It’s a slap for Fox’s mother, Susan Wardezak, who met with President Bush in Pittsburgh last May. He thanked her for starting Operation Pittsburgh Pride which has sent approximately 4,000 care packages.
He then sent her a letter expressing his concern over her son’s injuries, so she cannot understand the U.S. Government’s apparent lack of concern over injuries to countless U.S. Soldiers and demands that they return their bonuses.
While he’s unsure of his future, Fox says he’s unwavering in his commitment to his country.
“I’d do it all over again… because I’m proud of the discipline that I learned. I’m proud to have done something for my country,” he said.
But Fox feels like he’s already given enough. He’ll never be able to pursue his dream of being a police officer because of his wounds and he can’t believe he’s being asked to return part of his $10,000 signing bonus.
KDKA contacted Congressman Jason Altmire on his behalf. He says he has proposed a bill that would guarantee soldiers receive full benefit of bonuses.
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Satellite picture showing current sunlight on earth November 14, 2007
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http://www.opentopia.com/sunlightmaprect.html
It looks nice!
Woman Finds Boyfriend Dead In Cat Door November 14, 2007
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Wow, I wonder if the kitty was thinking what the hell is this blocking my door!
http://www.local6.com/news/14578224/detail.html
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — Authorities in Florida launched an investigation into what they called one of the strangest accidents they’ve ever seen.
Investigators said 32-year-old Charles Tucker Jr. was using the cat door early Saturday morning as a way to get back into his girlfriend’s St. Augustine home after she kicked him out.Deputies said several hours after Tucker’s girlfriend told him to leave she found him stuck in the cat door.”Maybe at 3 a.m., my older brother called me and told me — he was crying — that she had called him and she found him dead in the door,” said Tucker’s friend, Will Elliot.Elliot lives down the street from the home where Tucker was found dead.”He’s a big guy. I don’t even know how he could fit through there,” Elliot said. “Probably to get in and unlock the door. They said he had one arm through there and his head was caught in there like he was to reach up and unlock the door because there’s no way he could fit through there.”Tucker’s girlfriend called 911 when she found the 32-year-old stuck, but when officers showed up four minutes later — he was already dead.Officers said it was not the first encounter they had with Tucker that weekend. They said on Friday they found him slumped over the wheel of his car; He was taken to Flagler Hospital, and later released.The cause of Tucker’s death has not been released. Officers were awaiting autopsy results before releasing that information.The door in which Tucker got stuck had been removed and put out with the trash Monday.”Maybe he just passed out because there was no sign of struggle or anything. She would have heard him. She was in the house,” Elliot said.
