January 24, 2012

Baraa Melhem, Palestinian Woman locked in Bathroom for 10 Years by Father

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/baraa-melhem-palestine-woman-locked-bathroom_n_1224194.html
Reuters, Huffington Post

By Jihan Abdalla

RAMALLAH, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A 21-year-old Palestinian woman has told authorities she was locked in a bathroom for the past decade by her father, who let her out only in the dead of night so she could clean their house.

"People are monsters," Baraa Melhem said her father would tell her, according to a social worker dealing with the case.

Palestinian police said on Monday they freed Melhem from the small bathroom of a home in the West Bank city of Qalqilya on Saturday after an anonymous tip.

Her father, who holds Israeli citizenship, was arrested and handed over to Israeli authorities. He is due to appear in an Israeli court on Wednesday, an Israeli police spokesman said.

January 23, 2012

46 Degrees in Chicago Area this morn at 7am...30 degrees above normal.

Of course, some say there is no problem with the climate. We had about an inch of rain last nite.. These two middle weeks in
January are the coldest months of the year. We also had rain last week.

January 20, 2012

A Joke about Home Improvement...#18

> A HUSBAND IS AT HOME WATCHING A
FOOTBALL GAME WHEN HIS WIFE INTERRUPTS,

"HONEY,......
COULD PLEASE YOU FIX THE LIGHT IN THE HALLWAY?
IT'S BEEN FLICKERING FOR WEEKS NOW."


HE LOOK AT HER AND SAYS ANGRILY,
"FIX THE LIGHTS NOW?
DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE
G.E.".. WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD?"

I DON'T THINK SO."

FINE,

THEN THE WIFE ASKS,
"WELL THEN, COULD YOU FIX THE FRIDGE DOOR? iT WONT CLOSE RIGHT"
> TO WHICH HE REPLIED,

" FIX THE FRIDGE DOOR?

DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE WESTINGHOUSE
WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD?
I DON'T THINK SO:....
"FINE", SHE SAYS....


THEN YOU COULD AT LEAST FIX THE STEPS

TO THE FRONT DOOR?

THEY ARE ABOUT TO BREAK.

"I'M NOT A DAMM CARPENTER AND I DON'T WANT TO FIX THEM..
> HE SAYS, "DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE
ACE HARDWARE WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD?
I DON'T THINK SO.... I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU..I AM GOING TO THE BAR."..


SO HE GOES TO THE BAR AND DRINKS .. ALL AFTERNOON, AND INTO THE EVENING. HE DRINKS....


HE STARTS TO FEEL GUILTY ABOUT HOW
HE TREATED HIS WIFE, AND DECIDES
TO GO HOME.

AS HE WALKS INTO THE HOUSE HE NOTICES
THAT THE STEPS ARE ALREADY FIXED.

AS HE ENTERS THE HOUSE, HE SEES THE
HALL LIGHT IS WORKING.
AS HE GOES TO GET A BEER, HE NOTICES

THE FRIDGE DOOR IS FIXED.
HONEY, HE ASKS, HOW'D ALL THIS GET FIXED?

SHE SAID, WELL,... "WHEN YOU LEFT I SAT OUTSIDE AND CRIED....
AND JUST THEN A NICE YOUNG MAN WALKED BY AND ASKED ME
WHAT WAS WRONG, AND I TOLD HIM...SO,
HE OFFERED TO DO ALL THE REPAIRS, AND

ALL I HAD TO DO WAS EITHER

GO TO BED WITH HIM OR BAKE A CAKE.........


THE HUSBAND SAID, SO WHAT KIND OF CAKE DID YOU BAKE?
SHE REPLIED,
"HELLOOOOO.......
DO YOU SEE BETTY CROCKER WRITTEN ON MY FORHEAD??"


I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!

January 20, 2012

Newt's Conversion: Then and Now on What is Acceptable in Presidential Politics: Talking Points Memo

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/then-and-now-newts-conversion-on-whats-acceptable-in-presidential-politics.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

The clip is dated September 28, 1998..listen. then..he was after Bill Clinton..
...now he is concerned totally about himself..
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Paul Werdel-January 20, 2012, 1:48 PM268649
Newt Gingrich opened Thursday’s debate with a full-throated assault on CNN and the media for having dared ask about ugly allegations made by his divorced second wife.

To make an issue of his past personal failings was beneath the forum of a presidential debate, Gingrich roared at host John King.

It was a masterstroke of debate strategy, but there’s good reason that it’s still funny coming from a guy like Gingrich.

So we decided to put a little ‘then and now’ together: Newt back in 1998, on the warpath to impeach President Clinton, and now - with a recently developed aversion to the personal side of presidential politics.

January 20, 2012

Janitors Respond to Newt Gingrich's Proposal to Replace them with Kids at Minimum Wage

Huffington Post..Lila Shapiro posted there
First Posted: 1/19/12 06:56 PM ET Updated: 1/19/12 07:00 PM ET
also on YouTube

January 18, 2012

SEX..

January 17, 2012

Did someone mention...

its.
.or is it tits...............wait aminute...is it tits or tats, or tuts.??????

now I like tits..

but not toos, or twos or tats or tuts...hell?
where are the tits...oh, oh...community standards.......Stuart ....

January 16, 2012

Story of a Young Woman and her baby #17

It was many years ago since the embarrassing day when a young woman, with
a baby in her arms, entered his butcher shop and confronted the butcher
with the news that the baby was his and asked what was he going to do
about it?

Finally he offered to provide her with free meat until the boy was 16. She
agreed.

He had been counting the years off on his calender, and one day the
teenager who had been collecting the meat each week, came into the shop
and said, "I'll be 16 tomorrow."

"I know," said the butcher with a smile, "I've been counting too, tell
your mother, when you take this parcel of meat home, that it is the last
free meat she'll get, and watch the expression on her face."

When the boy arrived home he told his mother. The woman nodded and said,
"Son, go back to the butcher and tell him I have also had free bread, free
milk, and free groceries for the last 16 years and watch the expression on
HIS face!"

January 16, 2012

Amercan Red Cross Cited by FDA for Blood-Safety Rule Violations

American Red Cross Cited by FDA for Blood-Safety Rule Violations

Blumberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-15/red-cross-cited-by-fda-for-u-s-blood-safety-rule-violations-for-14th-time.html
By Molly Peterson - Jan 14, 2012 11:01 PM CT .


The American Red Cross, the biggest U.S. supplier of donated blood, failed to correct violations of blood-safety rules, raising the risk that ill-suited blood will be used in transfusions, U.S. regulators said.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration fined the Red Cross $9.59 million, according to a letter from the agency to the Red Cross made public on Jan. 13. The organization has been cited 14 times since 2003 and fined about $46 million for similar offenses.

The Red Cross didn’t ensure that all staff had adequate blood-safety training and hasn’t created a complete list of prospective donors who were disqualified from giving blood, according to the letter. The Washington- based consumer group Public Citizen this month urged the agency to levy sanctions.
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14 times????? what is wrong there???

January 15, 2012

Jesus is Watching You..not reglious, just a clean joke...#16

There was a burglar making his way thru a nice house when he hears a
voice, "Jesus is watching you" From the bedroom,after taking the
lady's jewels, he goes to the living room takes a
flat screen TV, DVD, and another small DVD- TV combo...from another room..
, a voice "Jesus is watching you"
....
He finally gets to the kitchen........starts to
steal the fine silver wear, and notices a parrot, saying,
"Jesus is watching you".......The burglar looks up, and says, "Oh, you
must be Jesus, you are nothing to worry about..." What kind of owner
would name a parrot "Jesus".....

.....The parrot replies.." My name is Moses
,not Jesus, Jesus is the meanest 150 pound German Shepard you ever
met, and he is standing right outside the kitchen door, and believe
me, Jesus is watching you."