'X-Men The Last Stand' - 3 Scoops

Visually stunning although somewhat slow to get started. Brilliant performances by Ian McClellan and Kelsey Grammer. If you have seen the other two, you must see this one!

Chinese Baby Born With 3rd Arm

from WKMG Central Florida TV6

Doctors in Shanghai on Tuesday were considering surgery options for a 2-month-old boy born with an unusually well-formed third arm. Neither of the boy's two left arms is fully functional and tests have so far been unable to determine which was more developed.

The boy, identified only as "Jie-jie," also was born with just one kidney and may have problems that could lead to curvature of the spine. Jie-jie cried when either of his left arms was touched, but smiled and responded normally to other stimuli.

Doctors hope to work out a plan for surgery, but the boy's small size made it impossible to perform certain tests that would help them prepare. Media reports said other children have been reported born with additional arms and legs, but in those cases it was clear what limb was more developed.

Batwoman Returns as a .... Lipstick Lesbian?

from BBC News

Comic book heroine Batwoman is to make a comeback as a "lipstick lesbian" who moonlights as a crime fighter.B atwoman - real name Kathy Kane - will appear in 52, a year-long DC Comics publication that began this month. In her latest incarnation, she is a rich socialite who has a romantic history with another 52 character, ex-police detective Renee Montoya.

52 will be published in the UK as a graphic novel by Titan Books in 2007. The series is set in a world in which established superheroes like Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman no longer play a part.

The new-look Batwoman is just one of a wave of ethnically and sexually diverse characters entering the DC Comics universe. Others include Mexican teenager Blue Beetle - who replaces the character's previous white incarnation - and the Great Ten, a government-sponsored team of Chinese superheroes.

Batwoman, who first appeared in July 1956, has not been seen since September 1979 when she was killed by the League of Assassins.

LOCAL Deadly Drug Mix Takes Life 48

from the Detroit Free Press

Another person died from a probable drug overdose Monday, bringing the toll to 48 people who have died since May 19. Even though the number was dropping from the multiple deaths per day, health officials aren't ready to say the deadly overdose spurt is tapering off.

Toxicology results won't be available for several weeks, but health officials say they believe the deaths have been caused by a dangerous combination of heroin or cocaine and the painkiller fentanyl (a pain killer with about 80 times the potency of morphine).

The latest surge in deaths first came to the public's attention when Wayne County issued a warning on May 19 because 12 people had died over a 24-hour span.

Since then, the county has distributed at least 20,000 flyers, warning people of the dangers of the illegal street drug and urging drug addicts to get treatment rather than risk using the substance.

From September through April, more than 100 drug overdose deaths were recorded in metro Detroit and most of those are believed to have been caused by the heroin/fentanyl mixture.

BREAKING NEWS

MD Jury finds DC Area Sniper Guilty
from Breitbart.com

Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was convicted of six more of the killings Tuesday after a trial in which he acted as his own attorney and the prosecution's star witness was his young protege and partner in crime. Muhammad, 45, is already under a death sentence in Virginia for a killing there. The most he can get for the six Maryland slayings is life in prison without parole.

The jury took slightly more than four hours to convict him after a four-week trial. As the verdict was read, Muhammad sat grim-faced, his arms folded across chest. He was led out of the courtroom, pausing to ask the judge, "Your honor, may I speak?" The judge answered, "No sir," and Muhammad was taken away.

The trial marked the first time Lee Boyd Malvo testified against the man prosecutors say was his mentor and manipulator. During two days of testimony last week, Malvo, 21, gave the first inside account of the shootings and described Muhammad's elaborate plans for a reign of terror.
According to Malvo, Muhammad planned two phases of attacks - six shootings a day for a month, followed by a wave of bombings of schools, school buses and children's hospitals.

Muhammad hoped to extort $10 million from authorities and use the money to set up a school in Canada to teach homeless children how to use guns and explosives and use violence to shut down other cities.

Maryland prosecutors said they needed to put Muhammad on trial as insurance in case his conviction in Virginia was overturned. Some of the victims' families had also sought a second trial, seeking an explanation for the random slayings that targeted people as they went shopping, gassed up their cars and mowed lawns near the nation's capital.

LOCAL FBI Calling Off Hoffa Search

from CNN

The FBI is wrapping up its two-week search of a suburban Detroit horse farm after finding no trace of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa's remains. Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca said the search was ending without any remains found at the Hidden Dreams Farm in Milford Township.

Hoffa disappeared in July 1975 from a Detroit-area restaurant about 20 miles from Hidden Dreams Farm, land once owned by Hoffa associate Rolland McMaster.

On Monday, a Michigan congressman said it was time to set some spending limits on the search for Hoffa's remains.

When agents arrived at the farm earlier this month, based on a credible tip the search for the former Teamsters' boss' body was expected to take a couple of weeks and involve more than 40 FBI personnel, along with demolition experts, archaeologists and anthropologists.

The FBI defended its efforts in a statement last week, saying: "The expenditure of funds has always been necessary in each and every case the FBI works, and this one is no exception."

BREAKING NEWS

Taylor Hicks Wins American Idol Season 5

Atheist Suing Catholic Church for Proof of Jesus

from CNN

Luigi Cascioli is suing the Catholic Church demanding proof that Jesus existed. He says that he intends to bring down the Catholic Church. He said that the Church is full of "con men that take advantage of popular belief."

He claims that that the idea that Jesus Christ existed is a "complete fabrication composed of pagan myth." A European court in Strasbourg has agreed to hear the case after several failed attempts throughout Italy. Cascioli wants criminal charges.

The Catholic Church says that there is ample historical evidence that supports the existence of Jesus Christ and they are prepared for any legal battle that may come.

'Smiling' Driver Runs Over 3 Toddlers at McDonald's

from CNN

A driver ran over three young children and two women in the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant. One witness described the man as having a smile on his face. A 2-year-old girl was in critical condition; two other children and a pair of adult sisters were in stable condition.

Lanny Barnes, 36, was in custody at the Newton County Sheriff's Office and faces multiple charges, including aggravated assault. All indications are that he intentionally hit them, but there is no apparent connection between Barnes and the victims but reports indicate that he had been battling depression for many years.

Witnesses said the car went over a curb as the victims left the restaurant, hit them and the building before backing up and hitting them again.

Ryan Boldman-Snyder, 20, an employee at the restaurant, was on a break outside when he heard screaming, and said Barnes was "smiling the whole time." Witnesses tried to pull Barnes out of his car. Police officers finally pulled him out of the car from the passenger-side front door.

Teen, Dressed in Drag, Barred from Senior Prom

from WBBM Chicago Radio 780

The prom ticket was in hand: $85. The fuschia, slinky prom dress and strappy heels were ready.
The whole week of giddy anticipation and pampering -- more than $200 worth of a manicure, pedicure and hair set -- was set to culminate with the grand walk into the glam ball. But when Kevin Logan, a gay student at Gary, Indiana’s West Side High School, arrived last Friday at Avalon Manor in Hobart for his prom, he was banned by Principal Diane Rouse.

That ban, according to Indiana Civil Liberties Union legal director Ken Falk, violates the First Amendment. The Logan family is mulling both a complaint with the ICLU and possible litigation.

Logan said while he wasn’t allowed in and left after police were called, his friends did come out to the parking lot to pose for pictures with him.

In 1999, Falk and the ICLU helped an Indianapolis male teen win a court battle to wear a dress to prom. Logan said he had spent years defining and exploring his sexuality. This year, he took a major step toward self-identity by dressing as a female every day this school year.

The school's position is that Logan was banned because of a violation to the school's dress code which forbids male students from wearing dresses.

Hillary Clinton Supports Returning Speed Limit to 55

from the New York Post

In a surprise move yesterday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called for "most of the country" to return to a speed limit of 55 mph in an effort to slash fuel consumption. "The 55-mile speed limit really does lower gas usage. And wherever it can be required, and the people will accept it, we ought to do it."

Before sounding off on the benefits of a lower speed limit, Clinton called for a combination of tax incentives, the use of more ethanol-based fuel and a $50 billion fund for new energy research to cut the consumption of foreign oil 50 percent by 2025. She also pushed for half of all the nation's gas stations to have ethanol pumps by 2015, and for every gas station to have them by 2025.

Woman's Toes Licked By Man Hiding Under Car

from WKMG Central Florida TV6

Police in Tulsa, Okla., are searching for a man who hid under a woman's car at a Wal-Mart parking lot and then licked her toes as she loaded groceries into the vehicle.

The woman said she was at the Tulsa Wal-Mart located near 81st Street and Lewis when she felt her toes being licked. She assumed it was a dog but when she looked down, she saw it was a man lying under her vehicle.

The culprit got up and ran away before police arrived at the scene. The woman said the man who licked her toes is Hispanic or Indian, about 5-foot-9 and weighs 150 pounds. He was wearing a black t-shirt and blue jeans. The victim filed a police report and a witness also saw it happen.

If the man is caught, he could face a misdemeanor charge of battery or outraging public decency.

Woman Sacrifices Children

from CNN

A woman accused of killing her three young sons by tossing them into frigid San Francisco Bay believed God summoned her to sacrifice her children.

Lashaun Harris, 23, was arrested last October, shortly after she dropped her children, one by one, over a rail and into the bay.

Harris, who faces three counts of murder, has pleaded not guilty. She was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic with delusional thought disorder and was hospitalized once because she said God was telling her to jump out a window.

She told the investigators God "said I need to kill my kids," and she took them to the pier for that purpose. Police officer Thomas Johnson testified that he found Harris at the scene pushing an empty stroller. "Where did you put the babies?" he asked. Harris replied, "They're OK. They're with their father."

6,000 Troops to Secure Border

from CNN

Trying to navigate the political minefield of immigration reform in a televised address to the nation Monday night, President Bush called for a "comprehensive" approach to solve "a matter of national importance."

Bush called for the short-term deployment of up to 6,000 National Guard troops in a supporting role along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Guard force Bush proposed would remain under state control, although the federal government is expected to pick up the cost. About 350 Guard troops currently are assigned to the border. Active-duty U.S. troops are barred from domestic law enforcement by a Reconstruction-era law known as Posse Comitatus, but National Guard troops under state control can perform some law enforcement functions.

And he and endorsed a controversial proposal to give illegal immigrants already in the United States a path to work toward eventual citizenship.

Bush made the argument that a guest-worker program is necessary to gain control of the border and relieve pressure from the border. Bush has long championed a guest-worker program that would allow people to enter the United States to fill jobs for which employers can't find enough American workers.

Teacher Has Kids Write About Whom They'd Murder

from WDIV Detroit TV 4

A Missouri high school teacher has apologized for asking students to write about whom they would kill and how they would do it. He said it was a horrible mistake he regrets.

Michael Maxwell said the request to describe how students would carry out a murder was merely a writing exercise. Maxwell teaches a beginning drafting class and it's not clear why he asked the class to write, considering that fiction has nothing to do with drafting.

School officials in St. Joseph said the teacher will likely keep his job. He was described as an "exemplary teacher" and has had no prior incidents against him.

About 25 to 30 students from ninth through 12th grades were in the class.

'Play-Doh' Scented Perfume

from WDIV Detroit TV 4

It's one of the most unique smells around. And now you can wear it.

Hasbro is continuing its celebration of Play-Doh's 50th anniversary by releasing "Eau de Play-Doh," a perfume designed to smell just like the kids' modeling clay.

Play-Doh's smell is one of its most enduring memories, and Hasbro figures smelling the perfume will transport people back to their childhood.

It sells for $19 a bottle.

Bears Eat Monkey in Front of Zoo Visitors

from Breitbart

Bears killed and ate a monkey in a Dutch zoo in front of horrified visitors. In the incident Sunday at the Beekse Bergen Safari Park, several Sloth bears chased the Barbary macaque into an electric fence, where it was stunned.

It recovered and fled onto a wooden structure, where one bear pursued and mauled it to death.

UPDATE 'American Idol'

from The Kansas City Star

Chris Daughtry admitted to being “a little shocked” and “bummed” after his dismissal last week from American Idol. “I’m disappointed, but I’m trying to see the bigger picture and see that there’s going to be bigger opportunities.”

One of those opportunities is lead singer of the band Fuel. That group has been looking for one since Brett Scallions quit in February. Bass player Jeff Abercrombie and guitarist Carl Bell told Extra they’d love to have Daughtry as their new singer.

Daughtry performed Fuel’s song “Hemorrhage” on a recent Idol show. Many observers thought he would win this year’s competition.

Man Bites Off Own Tongue

from New York Post

A Brooklyn man with a long history of bloody encounters with the police barricaded his family in its apartment early yesterday. He then bit off his tongue and spat it at cops and EMTs as they struggled to take him into custody.

Kaijuan Corbett, 27, of Argyle Road, locked his family in its Alabama Avenue apartment in East New York at 12:45 AM. Authorities responded to a 911 call that said an emotionally disturbed person was inside the house.

Cops and paramedics, thinking that they had talked the raving Corbett into standing down, were wheeling him out of the building on a gurney when the troubled man shocked them by biting off his tongue and spitting it in their direction.

Corbett had already developed a reputation for staging bloody confrontations with cops that often ended with his chopping away at and cutting himself.

In 2003, he went so far as to stab himself in the left part of his chest, whack off his left ear and try to remove a piece of his scalp. The following year he rammed his head into a wall.

UPDATE 'Idol' Predictions

The Top 5 Contestants performed live on American Idol tonight. Here is a recap of my Top 5.

Chris Daughtry, 26, McLeansville, NC





Mandisa, 29, Antioch, TN
Katharine McPhee is actually in the Top 5.


I think Katharine will go home next!

Taylor Hicks, 29, Birmingham, AL





Paris Bennett, 17, Fayetteville, GA





Elliott Yamin, 27, Richmond, VA





At this time, I would like to make my prediction for the winner...

Another Person Found Glued to Toilet

from Breitbart

A 20-year-old was found by a Wal-Mart employee in the bathroom Sunday night after he sat down and was glued to the toilet seat.

The man, whose name was not released by police, was taken to the hospital late Sunday night.

"The man had gone into the bathroom and sat down," she said. "He was banging on the wall when the employee came in."

The man was treated and released. No more information is available at this time

UPDATE Soldiers in Gay Porn

from AP

A second Army paratrooper pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an investigation of soldiers who appeared on a military-themed pornographic Web site. Pvt. Kagen B. Mullen, 21, one of seven members of the 82nd Airborne Division charged with appearing on the site, pleaded to charges of conduct detrimental to the Army and use of marijuana.

He told a judge he received $7,500 for appearing in the pornographic scenes but didn't perform homosexual acts, though the pornography on the Web site was mostly aimed at gays.

He was sentenced to 90 days in prison, a bad conduct discharge and loss of two-thirds of his pay.

Last week, Pfc. Richard Ashley pleaded guilty to sodomy, using an unauthorized prescription drug and conduct detrimental to the Army. Ashley was sentenced to about 2 1/2 months in prison.

A hearing is scheduled May 16 for Pfc. Wesley K. Mitten.

Four other paratroopers received nonjudicial punishment, and the division recommended they be discharged. The soldiers, whose names weren't disclosed, were reduced to the rank of private, lost a half-month's pay for two months and were restricted to Fort Bragg for 45 days.

The 15,000 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne are among the Army's most elite soldiers, having volunteered to serve in a unit that trains to deploy anywhere in the world within 18 hours.

The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy states that "homosexual orientation alone is not a bar to service, but homosexual conduct is incompatible with military service." Service members who violate the policy are removed from the military.

Mexico To Decriminalize Small Amounts of Drugs

from My Way News

Mexico's president will approve a law that decriminalizes possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and other drugs to concentrate on fighting violent narco gangs.

President Vicente Fox will not oppose the bill despite likely tensions with the United States. The approval of the legislation, surprised Washington, which counts on Mexico's support in its war against gangs that move massive quantities of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamines through Mexico to U.S. consumers.

Under the law, police will not penalize people for possessing up to 5 grams of marijuana, 5 grams of opium, 25 milligrams of heroin. Nor does the law penalize possession of 500 milligrams of cocaine.

The legal changes will also decriminalize the possession of limited quantities of LSD, hallucinogenic mushrooms, amphetamines, ecstasy and peyote -- a psychotropic cactus found in Mexico's northern deserts.

Under current law, it is up to local judges and police to decide on a case-by-case basis whether people should be prosecuted for possessing small quantities of drugs.

Attack On Obesity

from Reuters

Connecticut's state legislature voted on Thursday to ban sales of sodas and other sugary beverages in state elementary, middle and high schools as part of an effort to stem teen obesity.

The ban includes all regular and diet sodas, along with "electrolyte replacement beverages" such as Gatorade. The only drinks allowed to go on sale in schools would be bottled water, milk or 100-percent fruit and vegetable drinks.

A Northwestern University study released in December showed more than one in three American adolescents are physically unfit and have many of the risk factors for heart disease.

The Connecticut law, which will take effect from July, will allow soda sales at concession stands at school-sponsored events after school and on weekends. Students can also pack their own sodas and sports drinks and bring them to school.

Supreme Court Backs Anna Nicole

from Breitbart

The Supreme Court ruled that one-time stripper and Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith could pursue part of her late husband's oil fortune.

Justices gave new legal life to Smith's bid to collect millions of dollars from the estate of J. Howard Marshall II. Her late husband's estate has been estimated at as much as $1.6 billion.
Smith has been embroiled in a long running cross-country court fight with Marshall's youngest son, E. Pierce Marshall. The court's decision, which was unanimous, means that the case will go back to federal court in California

She was a 26-year-old topless dancer when she married Marshall, then 89, in 1994. He died the following year, setting off an intense family fight.

At issue in the legal battle was competing court jurisdiction. A Texas court held a five-month trial before deciding that Smith was entitled to nothing from Marshall's estate. Smith brought a separate claim in federal court in California.

Smith had been awarded $474 million by a federal bankruptcy judge. That was later reduced by a federal district judge and then thrown out altogether by the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit.

So far, Smith has received nothing from Marshall's estate, although before his death Marshall showered Smith with $6.6 million in gifts that included two homes, expensive jewelry and clothes. She contends that he also promised her half his estate.