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FL Sheriff's Deputy Shoots And Kills Mentally Ill Woman

March 28, 2006 12:40 p.m. EST

Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Boca Raton, FL (AHN) – A sheriff’s deputy remains on administrative leave Tuesday after authorities say he fatally shot a mentally ill woman who lunged at him with a knife.

Monday morning, Richard Furtado, husband of Marilou Forrest, phoned the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office looking for help on getting his wife, who he says was a paranoid schizophrenic, to follow doctor’s orders that she be committed to a mental facility.

Sheriff’s spokesman, Paul Miller, says when cops entered the couple’s home, Forrest lunged at them with a knife. When a Taser proved ineffective, a deputy shot her. A short time later, the 56-year-old died at Delray Medical Center.

The names of the deputies have not been released. They are on administrative leave until the investigation continues.

This is the ninth fatal shooting involving a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy since 1995.

Best comment on my Myspace account....EVER!

" telling people I read the entire Transmetropolitan Series is a great way to pick up guys.....thanks for that" --PunkyJewster on Myspace.com

'South Park' Rules....

My favorite part is highlighted in BOLD.....This show has been KICK-ASS this season and deserves every award they can get their hands on. God Bless Matt and Trey.

'South Park' Creators Skewer Own Network

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer Thu Apr 13, 6:14 PM ET

NEW YORK - Banned by Comedy Central from showing an image of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the creators of "South Park" skewered their own network for hypocrisy in the cartoon's most recent episode.

The comedy — in an episode aired during Holy Week for Christians — instead featured an image of Jesus Christ defecating on President Bush and the American Flag.

In an elaborately constructed two-part episode of their Peabody Award-winning cartoon, "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker intended to comment on the controversy created by a Danish newspaper's publishing of caricatures of Muhammad. Muslims consider any physical representation of their prophet to be blasphemous.

When the cartoons were reprinted in newspapers worldwide in January and February, it sparked a wave of protests primarily in Islamic countries.

Parker and Stone were angered when told by Comedy Central several weeks ago that they could not run an image of Muhammad, according to a person close to the show who didn't want to be identified because of the issue's sensitivity.

The network's decision was made over concerns for public safety, the person said.

Comedy Central said in a statement issued Thursday: "In light of recent world events, we feel we made the right decision." Its executives would not comment further.

As is often the case with Parker and Stone, they built "South Park" around the incident. In Wednesday's episode, the character Kyle is shown trying to persuade a Fox network executive to air an uncensored "Family Guy" even though it had an image of Muhammad.

"Either it's all OK, or none of it is," Kyle said. "Do the right thing."

The executive decides to strike a blow for free speech and agrees to show it. But at the point where Muhammad is to be seen, the screen is filled with the message: "Comedy Central has refused to broadcast an image of Muhammad on their network."

It is followed shortly by the images of Christ, Bush and the flag.

A frequent "South Park" critic, William Donohue of the anti-defamation group Catholic League, called on Parker and Stone to resign out of principle for being censored.

"The ultimate hypocrite is not Comedy Central — that's their decision not to show the image of Muhammad or not — it's Parker and Stone," he said. "Like little whores, they'll sit there and grab the bucks. They'll sit there and they'll whine and they'll take their shot at Jesus. That's their stock in trade."

Parker and Stone did not immediately respond to a request through a spokesman for comment.

It's the second run-in over religion in a few months for the satirists. Comedy Central pulled a March rerun of a "South Park" episode that mocked Scientologists.

Isaac Hayes, a Scientologist who voiced the Chef character on the show, resigned in protest over the episode.

"South Park" again got the last word last month with an episode where Chef was seemingly killed and mourned as a jolly guy whose brains were scrambled by the "Super Adventure Club," which turns its members into pedophiles.

Only last week, "South Park" won broadcasting's prestigious Peabody. Awards director Horace Newcomb said at the time that by its offensiveness, the show "reminds us of the need for being tolerant.

PASSedOVER

Wednesday night was the first night of Passover. For those NOT in the know this is the holiday the Jews celebrate that represents the struggle "our people" suffered through under the pharaoh's rule in Egypt before Moses came and led us all out of Egypt. Essentially this is the holiday that you can learn the most about from watching the film, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
So on Passover we Jews sit around the dinner table at have what we call a Seder. This is supposed to take place the first two night of this 8-day holiday. The Seder is laced with customs and rules. We read passages from the Torah and sing songs and cannot eat any bread or anything not blessed as Kosher for Passover...
In my house Passover goes like this: my Grandfather reads the highlights from the Torah and the Passover blessing and history books my parents picked up at the local supermarket. We usually breeze through the ceremony, keeping it WAAAAY informal. Then we dig into the food and gorge ourselves on matzoh balls, matzoh crackers, chicken or turkey, greenbean casserole made with matzoh and gefilte fish (if you've never had a piece of gefilte fish allow me to describe it to you: it is a ground de-boned fish recipe using a variety of kosher fish meat that is then made into fish balls and coated in a thin clear slime... Yes, I said slime). What follows is four to five days of painful constipation and then a glorious expelling of all things matzoh...It's not my favorite holiday.
This year was my girlfriend and her two-year-olds first Passover. They aren't Jewish and have never had the pleasure. Maybe I'll have my girlfriend write up her view of this year's Passover Seder and I'll post it here in the next couple of days.
If anyone is actually reading this and would like to POST their Passover (or Easter) stories or thoughts or gripes....Please feel free to do so in the comments section below.

Nanotech is the bomb....

'Nanopatches' to replace needles from PhysOrg.com

People who fear needles may one day have no need to fear the doctor, with the help of a funding injection for The University of Queensland's Professor Mark Kendall.
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How F*cked Up Is This?

Student Expelled After Revealing He's Gay On MySpace 04.10.2006 2:04 PM EDT Jason Johnson is asked to leave Baptist college for 'sexual behavior not consistent with Christian principles.'

Photo: MySpace.com

The headlines have come fast and furious in recent months about kids being busted for everything from threatening teachers to plotting to burn down churches on their MySpace and Facebook pages. But at a small Christian liberal arts university in Williamsburg, Kentucky, last week, 20-year-old Jason Johnson was expelled not for a threat, but for admitting he is gay.

University of the Cumberlands spokesperson Larry Cockrum said he wasn't allowed to discuss matters pertaining to students or faculty, but the Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper confirmed that the expulsion happened recently.

Cockrum said the 117-year-old school has a policy that allows administrators to expel a student who "promotes sexual behavior not consistent with Christian principles."

Johnson isn't the first gay student to face such a fate. In January, Michael Guinn, a student at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, was asked to leave the 87-year-old university when administrators at the Christian liberal arts school became concerned about some of the things he posted on his Xanga journal.

Guinn, 22, whose parents both work at the small school, was dismissed after being told he violated campus lifestyle guidelines, according to Andrea Phillips, the school's director of communications.

Those guidelines ban smoking, drinking, gambling and having sex outside of marriage.

"He was dismissed, which is different than being expelled," Phillips said. "He was asked to leave campus, but he is eligible to return if he chooses. We were aware of his orientation when he came to JBU and didn't learn about it from a Web site, but we did find some things on the site that were of some concern." Phillips would not specify what those things are, but she said the postings were a factor in his dismissal.

— Gil Kaufman

We All Go A Little Mad Sometimes....

I stole the title of today's blog from a movie. I wish I had thought it up myself but alas....

Couple of things to talk about today...

1. My girlfriend's exhusband is an asshole. Seriously. This guy is unbelievable. Get this: He marries the girl, they have a kid. He continues to party and live a lifestyle that my girlfriend (now mother to a baby) is uncomfortable with. They seperate. At first he sees the kid all the time but gradually his visits lessen until he's not around at all. Some time passes. Now the kid is two and the exhusband is trying to make a reappearance in her life, which is great except for the fact that he's tottally inconsistant with his visits and is confusing the hell out of the kid by crammy all this, "I'm your Daddy" shit down her throat. She thinks I'M her Daddy and just cannot understand who this new guy is who she sees once a week and calls himself "Daddy".
To make matters worse my girlfriends mother (the FUTURE Mother-In-Law) seems to have sided with the exhusband more than her own daughter (my girlfriend) and only further confuses the kid. It's all very convuluted and annoying and I'm sure makes NO SENSE in this rushed blog post, but it was something I needed to get off my chest in print...it's not like anyone is reading this anyway. I'll explain everything in more detail sometime soon...

2. Bah. I have no time for number 2 because things are getting busy at work and I've got to go. Sorry. More later.

--Odium.