*sigh*.....AGAIN a careless gun owner....AGAIN a child.....AGAIN a senseless killing.....when will this stop??

Toddler shoots mom dead, boy's father tells Florida police - CNN.com

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NY Daily News, April 27

Wow-that is just sickening :sad:

Kansas state Rep compares getting pregnant from rape to getting a flat tire.

Banning insurance coverage of abortion–in the new state exchanges as well as the private market–has been a favorite anti-choice tactic ever since health care reform. A couple weeks ago, Kansas became the latest state to pass a bill prohibiting all private insurance companies in the state from covering abortion care, except when the woman’s life is at risk.

Women will be free to buy separate riders if they anticipate needing an abortion in the future because, obviously, just like cancer and car accidents, an unintended pregnancy is something that they should be able to see coming. There was some disagreement in the Kansas House, however, as to whether that’s a reasonable expectation. The McPherson Sentinet reports:

And Rep. Barbara Bollier, a Mission Hills Republican who supports abortion rights, questioned whether women would buy abortion-only policies long before they have crisis or unwanted pregnancies or are rape victims.

During the House’s debate, Rep. Pete DeGraaf, a Mulvane Republican who supports the bill, told her: “We do need to plan ahead, don’t we, in life?”

Bollier asked him, “And so women need to plan ahead for issues that they have no control over with a pregnancy?”

DeGraaf drew groans of protest from some House members when he responded, “I have spare tire on my car.”

“I also have life insurance,” he added. “I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.”

I was just loading this thread to post the same article. :barf:

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what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder

The Young and the Betrothed - An FP Slide Show | Foreign Policy

Seriously dude?

Makes me so glad that I'm too broke to fly anywhere

We’re Gonna Need A Cleanup In Aisle 18 | The Smoking Gun

Sex Trafficking of Americans - The Girl Next Door (Vanity Fair)

Some of the statistics and theories in there will be debated, but the case in question is vile stuff.

komonews.com

TAHUYA, Wash. - A man was airlifted to the hospital after being shot in the torso with a hunting bow by his teenage daughter on Wednesday evening.

The incident unfolded at a home in the 300 block of NE Tee Lake Road in Tahuya in unincorporated Mason County around 8 p.m.

Mason County sheriff's spokesman William Adam said Tony Iovinelli was shot by his 15-year-old daughter after he took away her cell phone as a disciplinary measure. The girl refused to let her wounded father use the phone, forcing him to crawl to a neighbor's home, Adam said.

Neighbor Dave Blackwood said as Iovinelli came to his house with an arrow shot into his side.

"It went straight sideways," he said of the arrow. "It was parallel to his arm, right into his body."

As the two waited for help to arrive, Blackwood said his injured neighbor recounted the incident.

"He said that he was in his house and all of a sudden, he felt something. And he was shot in the side of the chest, and it was his daughter," he said. "He pushed her away and tried to get the phone. And she evidently had taken the phone so he couldn't call 911."

The 35-year-old victim was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in serious condition.

The girl ran from the home with the bow and at least 35 arrows, but was later found by a SWAT team in the woods behind her house. The team surrounded the girl, and took her into custody without incident.

After she was apprehended, the girl was found to be despondent with a serious medical issue, Adam said.

She was taken to Mary Bridge Hospital in Tacoma to be checked out, and is expected to be there a few days.

Since her father is the girl's only known family member, the girl will not be brought before any court until after being released from the hospital and medically cleared to be detained in juvenile detention.

abcnews.com

By SUSANNA KIM
June 15, 2011

Companies with fewer than 50 employees may offer little legal protection for employees requiring medical leave. Carl Sorabella of Natick, Mass., learned that the hard way.

Sorabella, an accountant, said after he told his employer his wife had lung cancer and would need a modified schedule to deal with it, he received a termination letter the following week.

"This is not an unprecedented situation," David Frank, a legal analyst with Lawyers Weekly, told ABC affiliate WCVB.

Frank said the termination is likely legal in part because laws protect firms that employ fewer than 50 people. Sorabella said his former company had about 20 employees.

The Family and Medical Leave Act, for example, only applies to private employers with 50 or more employees working within 75 miles of the worksite. That federal law gives employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year for serious health conditions or to care for an immediate family member with a serious health condition.

"The reality of life is that it is a lot more difficult for a small company to deal with a situation where an employee is going to be out of work for an extended period of time than it is for a larger company," Frank said.

"When I told my boss, she said 'We were thinking about laying you off.' I thought, 'You can't do that,'" Sorabella told WCVB.

Sorabella, 43, says he offered to work evenings and weekends while he accompanies his wife, 44, during testing and treatments.

"Ultimately she said don't worry about it and come in on Monday, and when I came in on Monday I got a letter that I would be laid off," he said. Sorabella said the letter stated he was being laid off due to "workforce modifications." But one week after he was fired, he says he saw a listing for his job on the company website.

"She said, 'It's business. I'm running a company here, and I need to make sure the department runs.' And I argued that I would make sure the company runs," Sorabella said.

Sorabella, who had worked for the company for 14 years, says he had even received a raise in November.

In an e-mail, vice president of Haynes Management Mary Butler told WCVB "this is a private personnel matter and we are not going to comment publicly."

The company did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment.

Sorabella said he is speaking with an attorney and may look to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, but he said there is almost no recourse for a small business.

"The company is considered a small company even though they have millions of dollars in annual sales," Sorabella said.

Kathy Sorabella, 44, said she was just as shocked as her husband when he was laid off. She said he was a diligent employee who went to work early and left late.

"He was one of these company guys," she said, adding that they did not have children.

Adding to their financial difficulties is their $60,000 worth of graduate school loans from Kathy's studies in psychotherapy. Kathy, currently undergoing chemotherapy, said she is considering trying to obtain a part-time job despite her nausea and loss of appetite. Kathy Sorabella said her cancer had not spread as far as initially believed, though she will not know if she has a year or 10 years to live until her next CAT scan in three months.

For now, Sorabella and his wife are surviving on his unemployment and her disability insurance while he looks for work.

"Now we're just spending time with each other," said Kathy. "This has been a horrific situation."

Petkovs' Neighbor Tells Trenton Police: ‘I Can’t Take It Anymore’ - Trenton, MI Patch

Its stories like these that make me a) lose faith in humanity b) consider free speech restrictions online.

I saw this on Anderson Cooper's ridiculist last night. I could be wrong but I think he used the f word and not "homosexuals". What a charmer. He must also be ridiculously hot and good looking.

Pilot's Rant About Flight Attendants Caught on Open Mic - ABC News

There are absolutely no words to describe this.....

Police: Florida teen killed parents with hammer, hosted house party - CNN.com

What do they mean by "alleged" murder weapon? It was lying between the bodies for gods sake - I'm sure the PARENTS didn't put it there....

And why SECOND-degree murder?? Are we to assume that he hit them with a hammer but didn't intend for them to die??

The mind boggles at the American justice system.....

YEESH!
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That's just beyond terrifying.

As for the second degree murder, he has been arrested and booked, not indicted or sentenced.

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Banadir Hospital, Mogadishu (Tyler Hicks/NYT)



New York Times, Aug. 1

That picture is so awful :sad:

DALLAS (AP) — A 10-year-old Dallas-area boy who died of dehydration after his father and stepmother kept water from him was being punished for wetting the bed, authorities say.

The boy, Johnathan James died July 25 after water was kept from him for five days while temperatures soared to 100 degrees or more each day, police said. The boy's dad, Michael Ray James, and stepmother, Tina Alberson, both 42, were jailed after being charged Thursday with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.

Johnathan's twin brother, Joseph James, and a 12-year-old stepbrother were not injured and are staying with relatives.

Attorneys for the dad and stepmother did not immediately return calls seeking comment left at their offices Saturday night.

Joseph told the Dallas Morning News (Boy who died of dehydration was punished for wetting bed | Dallas-Fort Worth Crime News - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News) that his parents put Johnathan in a room without air conditioning and told him to stand by the window. Joseph said that on the day Johnathan died he had peanut butter stuck in his throat but his parents wouldn't let him wash it down.

"They still wouldn't let him have water," Joseph said.

Joseph told the newspaper he wanted to help his brother but was worried he would face similar punishment.

"I wanted to do something, but I couldn't," Joseph said. "I couldn't do nothing because I would get in trouble."

Police documents show the boy suffered until he collapsed at his father's Red Bird home and hit his head on the floor. He was taken to a hospital, and authorities say Michael James told authorities there that Jonathan was sick. Medical staff were unable to revive the child.

The boys' grandmother, Sue Shotwell, said Jonathan was easy-going and never held a grudge.

"This kid, if you know Jonathan, he could forgive you for no matter what you did," Shotwell said. "You could ground him, and he would say 'I love you, Mimi.'"