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[thefadedone]

Well, they just keep dropping like flies. Apparently Tom Laughlin, the guy responsible for those dreadful Billy Jack movies, has also died. And actress Joan Fontaine has bit the big one also.

I had to google them. They were both wicked old. Peter O Toole too. They lived very long lives so their deaths aren't too shocking.

 

[Mischief]

I had to google them. They were both wicked old. Peter O Toole too. They lived very long lives so their deaths aren't too shocking.

Yes, much as I like Peter O'Toole, I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did. He was a hard living man for much of his life, working hard at ruining his body as fast as possible.

 

[Moll Flanders]

Miley Cyrus Tattoos: Carl McCoid Has 22 Tributes To Singer Inked On His Skin (PICTURES)

And actress Joan Fontaine has bit the big one also.

I was reading she had a big feud with her sister and she adopted a girl from Peru, sounded like she had an interesting life.

 

[rainforests1]

Another Bush is starting their political career.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/15/george-p-bush_n_4449576.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

 

[Envy]

Porn filters block sex education websites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25430582

 

[Snowcone]

Spang will finally be able to change his location soon:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...-greenpeace-activists-to-be-freed?ft=1&f=1001

 

[das_nut]

The 16-year-old boy facing hate-crime charges for allegedly setting a gender-identity activist on fire should not be prosecuted as an adult for a "prank," his attorney said Friday.

- SFGate

 

[peacefulveglady]

I am so sick and tired of reading on news feeds about the Duck Dynasty crap ……. I know this should go into rant but, its a piece of news also.

 

[das_nut]

I vaguely know it's a reality show on one of those channels that used to be a lot more serious.

 

[ledboots]

I vaguely know it's a reality show on one of those channels that used to be a lot more serious.

One of the 60-something rednecks made some statements to a magazine interviewer that were pro-vagina sex, anti male-male anal inercourse. Also they pray to Jesus at the end of episodes.

 

[nigel1]

http://www.salon.com/2013/12/20/surprise_peta_sex_doesnt_sell/

 

[das_nut]

New Mexico: Gay marriage is legal across the state!
Navajo Nation: Not so fast...

 

[Moll Flanders]

A Christmas miracle: Dog swept out to sea saved by lifeguards on training exercise - Yahoo News UK

 

[Calliegirl]

Why is this person not serving a life sentence after killing three people?

...He has already served out sentences for three murders committed in the 1980s.

Declared mentally ill by Italian courts, Gagliano earned his nickname in February 1989 when he killed his third victim on Valentine's Day after breaking out of a psychiatric ward.

In 1983, he escaped from a separate institution where he had been confined for murdering a woman and then held a family hostage and was recaptured only after a shoot-out with police.

Italian Justice Minister Annamaria Cancellieri was summoned to explain in parliament why Gagliano was let out on leave despite previous escapes that ended in violence. Cancellieri promised a "fact-finding" inquiry into the affair...

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/i...east-serial-killer-jailed-in-france?gt1=51501

 

[beanstew]

Surgeon suspended from Birmingham hospital over allegedly 'branding' his name on a patient's liver

A surgeon has been suspended over allegations that he “branded” his initials onto a patient’s liver.

The letters were reportedly found by a colleague who was performing a routine operation on the unnamed patient.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust confirmed that they were investigating the claims made against a surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

The surgeon has been suspended while an internal investigation is carried out.

 

[Moll Flanders]

Boxing Day hunt meets 2013: Thousands to attend 250 hunts as poll shows 80% opposition - Mirror Online

 

[shyvas]

Boxing Day hunt meets 2013: Thousands to attend 250 hunts as poll shows 80% opposition - Mirror Online

A disgusting sport for the upper class and apparently many of the hunts are illegal.

 

[thefadedone]

How horrible.

 

[shyvas]

How horrible.

Disgusting !

 

[KLS52]

FedEx and UPS failed to make some deliveries in time for Christmas. I placed my last online order three weeks early and received the last box on 12/24. I'm not going to say I wasn't annoyed because I kept getting emails from ups giving me a delivery date and time but then the package wouldn't arrive. I knew something bizarre was going on because this never happened to me before and three separate deliveries from three stores were delayed.

I'm kind of feeling bad for the workers, though.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...w-fire-after-christmas-delivery-problems?lite