October 10, 2006
Short and Sweet
My 3-year-old grandson, Chad , wanted to preach into the microphone at church. Finally, his dad held him up to the microphone and told him he could preach now. Chad leaned in and said, "Be good, love Jesus, amen."
-Virigina Moore, Livingston , Ala.
October 2006 Mature Living, www.Lifeway.com
Man Eats 247 Jalapenos to Win Contest
Oct 09, 2006 -A 62-year-old retired accountant from Nevada swallowed 247 peppers in eight minutes to win the Jalapeno Eating World Championship at the State Fair of Texas.
Richard LeFevre won $2,000 for prevailing in Sunday's contest, which was sponsored by the International Federation of Competitive Eating.
"I love to eat, and I love to compete, so the two go pretty well together," said LeFevre, the world's eighth-ranked eater according to the federation...
…Christopher Huang, of Arlington , entered the competition even though he doesn't normally eat spicy foods…The 26-year-old required several minutes of recovery time after eating 53 jalapenos.... "I cant feel my face," he said when he was able to speak again…
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/09/D8KLGCHG0.html
Silence in court shattered as suspect causes a stink
(maybe he ate too many peppers...?)
Oct 10, 2006
A suspect was slammed in the cells after he broke wind in a British court then burst out laughing about it.
Joseph Wildy let rip and refused to apologise after he had a fit of the giggles with his co-defendants on Tuesday.
However, magistrate Simon Bridge , sitting in Blackpool, on the northwest coast of England , was not amused by his interruption. He found Wildy in contempt of court and ordered him to be locked up…Wildy returned to court 90 minutes later…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061010/wl_uk_afp/britaincourtoffbeat_061010143641
If it was me once I started laughing the judge would have to give me life without parole...
Court says UPS discriminated against deaf drivers
10/10/06 San Francisco -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that UPS Inc. violated anti-discrimination laws by automatically barring the deaf and hearing-impaired from driving parcel delivery trucks. (that ought to be good for UPS’s insurance rates… guess who’ll pay for that…)
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson's 2004 ruling that the Atlanta-based company's practices breach the Americans with Disabilities Act.
…"While UPS offered anecdotal testimony involving situations where a driver avoided an accident because he or she heard a warning sound, the company ... failed to show that those accidents would not also have been avoided by a deaf driver who was compensated for his or her loss of hearing by, for example, adapting modified driving techniques or using compensatory devices such as backing cameras or additional mirrors," Judge Marsha Berzon wrote for a three-judge panel of the appeals court.
The case was litigated by Disability Rights Advocates who represented current and former employees who were passed over for driving positions, and other potential employees who consented to what the group dubbed UPS's "deaf-need-not-apply" policy.
Yeah, and I bet they discriminated against the blind drivers, too! The only winners will be the lawyers!
ABC Blows Smoke at Audience on Tobacco-on-Film Study
Business & Media Institute ^ | October 10, 2006 | Ken Shepherd
The Disney movie ‘102 Dalmatians’ should be R-rated instead of G, two anti-smoking activists insist. Not because they antagonist was a demented woman bent on turning cute puppies into a fur coat. Nope. Cruella De Vil’s real crime was smoking.
“Movies that depict smoking are the single greatest media threat to children say two prominent doctors,” ABC’s Heather Nauert warned her “Good Morning America” audience.
Nauert’s October 10 story focused on two activists who call for the Motion Picture Association of America to automatically assign an R-rating to movies with any smoking in it. Yet in her story, Nauert left out how biased her sources were as well as failed to balance her story with any criticism of the doctors’ claims.
“Research found that in 2004, 75 percent of all G, PG, and PG-13 films showed characters smoking,” Nauert noted, pointing to a study by Stanton Glantz of the University of California , San Francisco and James Sargent, a pediatrician at Dartmouth University .
Yet in citing the study’s authors, Nauert failed to inform viewers that Glantz and Sargent are hardly dispassionate, apolitical scientists. In fact, they are celebrated by colleagues for their anti-tobacco activism...
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2006/20061010123346.aspx
In terms of life expectancy impact, which is worse - smoking or engaging in homosexual acts? Imagine the uproar if someone suggested banning depictions of homosexuals from TV and automatically giving an 'R' rating to any movie showing homosexuals (regardless of how they are portrayed).
Brain-Injury Patients Should be Used for Medical Experiments, Suggest Bioethicists
LifeSiteNews ^ | 10/5/06 | Gudrun Schultz
MELBOURNE, Australia, October 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Patients designated as in a “persistent vegetative state (PVS)” should be used for medical experiments, according to several top bioethicists, regardless of whether or not prior consent was obtained.
Several articles published in the recent issue of the Journal of Medical debated the potential use of patients with non-responsive brain function for such medical experiments as animal organ transplants—to bypass ethic prohibitions against using a living human being for medical experimentation, some even suggested designating such patients as “dead,” saying their cognitive impairments justified treating them as cadavers.
Dr. John Shea, medical advisor to Campaign Life Coalition, told LifeSiteNews.com it would never be ethically or morally acceptable to use a living human being for medical research without their permission, regardless of their level of cognitive function...
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06100502.html
Man Wakes from Two-Year Coma – was Aware and Remembers Everything
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/oct/05100604.html
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