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Baby is named "Sarah McCain Palin" - REALLY!

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:09:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The father is clearly brain-dead.

A new father has secretly named his baby girl Sarah McCain Palin after the Republican ticket for president and vice president.

Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton put that name on the documents for the girl's birth certificate, ignoring the name Ava Grace, which he and his wife had picked earlier.

"I don't think she believes me yet," he told the Kingsport Times-News for a story to be published Tuesday. "It's going to take some more convincing."

Ciptak, a blood bank employee for the American Red Cross, said he named his third child after John McCain and Sarah Palin to "to get the word out" about the campaign.

"I took one for the cause," he said. "I can't give a lot of financial support for the (McCain/Palin) campaign. I do have a sign up in my yard, but I can do very little."

Parents Charged With Starving Teen Girl

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:18:24 GMT

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A father and stepmother were charged with withholding their 14-year-old daughter's food and water so drastically that she weighed only 48 pounds, authorities said.

According to prosecutors, Long confirmed to a deputy that she considered the girl a behavior problem and restricted her water as discipline. The woman said she had been home-schooling the girl and her 12-year-old brother for four years.

The girl, who is 4 feet 7 inches tall, told authorities that she was given primarily toast to eat and only about 6 ounces of water per day. She said her stepmother even watched when she brushed her teeth to make sure she didn't drink extra water.

She suffered severe malnutrition and dehydration and spent two weeks at Children's Hospital in Seattle. Dentists had to extract six teeth because of long-term decay, court papers said.

She is now in foster care and has gained more than 20 pounds, prosecutors said. Her foster father said she is attending a private school and making friends.

Tags: child, abuse, starvation, teen

Stonehenge Hedgehog Update

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:14:27 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Prehistoric child is discovered buried with 'toy hedgehog' at Stonehenge

This toy hedgehog, found in a child's grave at Stonehenge, is proof of what we have always known - children have always loved to play.

The chalk figurine was probably a favourite possession of the three year old, and placed next to the child when they died in the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age, around 3,000 years ago.

Archaeologists who discovered the grave, where the child was laying on his or her side, believe the toy - perhaps placed there by a doting father - is the earliest known depiction of a hedgehog in British history.

Archaeologist Dennis Price said: 'It is not difficult to envisage the raw emotion and harrowing grief that would have accompanied the death of this child.

'Amid the aura of gloom that surrounds Stonehenge, it comes as a beam of light to find a child's toy lovingly placed with the tiny corpse to keep him or her company through eternity.

Musim father burns Christian daughter alive

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:54:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: what can you say?

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Muslim father burns Christian daughter alive

Man slices out girl's tongue, ignites her after 'heated debate on religion'

A Saudi Arabian Muslim father cut out his daughter's tongue and lit her on fire upon learning that she had become a Christian.

The child became curious about Jesus Christ after she read Christian material online, the Gulf News reported.

Her father read of her Internet conversation, detached her tongue and burned her to death "following a heated debate on religion," according to an International Christian Concern report.

The father is employed by the muwateen, or Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The muwateen are police tasked by the government with enforcing religious purity. The man has been taken into custody, and his identity has not been released.

Tags: religion, islam, christianity, another dead girl

Frank Marshall Davis

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:11:31 GMT

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Frank Marshall Davis, alleged Communist, was early influence on Barack Obama

Although identified only as Frank in Mr Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father, it has now been established that he was Frank Marshall Davis, a radical activist and journalist who had been suspected of being a member of the Communist Party in the 1950s.

One chapter concerns the seduction by Mr Davis and his first wife of a 13-year-old girl called Anne. Mr Davis wrote that it was the girl who had suggested he had sex with her. “I’m not one to go in for Lolitas. Usually I’d rather not bed a babe under 20.

“But there are exceptions. I didn’t want to disappoint the trusting child. At her still-impressionistic age, a rejection might be traumatic, could even cripple her sexually for life.”

He then described how he and his wife would have sex with the girl. “Anne came up many times the next several weeks, her aunt thinking she was in good hands. Actually she was.

Photos that Changed the World

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:49:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Are our petty problems so important?

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Photos that Changed the World

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Palestinian father shields son

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Little Rock desegregation

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The Boston Fire

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Child Draws Home

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Oklahoma City bombing

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Niagara falls frozen

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Starving boy and missionary

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Segregated water fountains

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Flower Power

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Napalm Girl

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Face off - Oka Crisis

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Flag raising on Iwo Jima

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Man walks on the Moon

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The Falling Man

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Execution of a Viet Cong

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The lynching of young blacks

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Tiananmen Square protests

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Dying Soldier Hangs to Priest

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First Black Student

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Burial of an unknown child

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The First X-ray

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How Life Begins

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Loch Ness Monster

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Mouse with Human Ear

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Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper

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Anne Frank

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Stopping Time

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Patterson Bigfoot

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Ruby shoots Oswald

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Hector Pieterson

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Solomos Solomou

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Death of a loyalist soldier

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Migrant Mother

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Omaha Beach

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Conrad Schumann

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Last Jew of Vinnitsa

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Assassination of Asanuma

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Che Guevara

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Reichstag flag

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The Kiss at Times Square

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The First Photograph

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JFK Assassination

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I Have A Dream

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Kent State Shootings

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Biafra

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Earthrise

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9/11 Attacks

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Botany of an Antarctic Voyage (1847)

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:26:45 GMT

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(Sir) Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) came from an eminent family of naturalists and botanists and developed a passion for plants early in life, when, from the age of seven, he attended lectures given by his father on botany at Glasgow University. Travel stories that he heard as a child, particularly those related to the voyages of Captain Cook, would prove equally influential in the trajectory of Dalton's career.

After completing his medical training, Hooker signed on to the position of Assistant Surgeon aboard HMS Erebus. The Erebus and HMS Terror, under the command of renowned polar explorer, Captain James Clark Ross, left Britain in 1839 on a three year expedition - the last major voyage of discovery powered by sail alone - attempting to locate the south magnetic pole.

Two books constituting 'The botany of the Antarctic Voyage' by Joseph Dalton Hooker [1847] are available from SICD. Choose the book, then click 'See digitalized document', then click the folder icon top left

Big Daddy: 'World's Tallest Man' Has Son

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:45:30 GMT

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The world's tallest man, China's Bao Xishun, became the world's tallest father this week with the birth of his first child, a boy whose initial height seems a compromise between his gigantic dad and average-sized mum.

Although slightly taller than average for newborn children, Bao's boy came up well short of the 29.5 inches claimed as a record birth length last year, also in China.

Bao, a 7-foot-9-inch herdsman from Inner Mongolia, last year married Xia Shujuan, a pygmy by contrast at 5-foot-6 inches.

"I hope he or she can be about 2 metres tall," Bao, 57, said last year about his wishes for a child. "Then he or she can play basketball."

Bao's son was born on Thursday but news of the birth only spread widely on Saturday, with the Chinese press according the newborn a level of privacy that is rare for the world's tallest man.

Tags: children, family, china, world record

Court Affirms Custody Case Involving Allegations Of Wicca

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:15:42 GMT

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A Southeast Arkansas woman who argued she lost custody of her son because of a judge's perception of her alleged practice of Wicca lost her appeal Wednesday before a divided state Court of Appeals Wednesday.

In a 4-2 ruling, the appeals court affirmed a decision granting custody to the child's father, though the judges disagreed on whether the lower court considered the mother's religious beliefs.

In the appeals court ruling Wednesday, Judge Robert J. Gladwin wrote that religious beliefs and practices are material only as they affect children's best interests, and in this case "no party explored connections between religious belief and upbringing."

Tags: wicca, religion, custody, children, legal

To Kill and Be Killed: Battered Spouse's Sad Life

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:51:18 GMT

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A decade and a half after shooting her abusive husband in the head, Cassandra Johnson seemed to have finally found peace in her life with a steady job, a growing family and a renewed sense of confidence.

Until her next husband allegedly turned on her.

Randy Lipkins, the father of Johnson's first child and a man she trusted to protect her, killed her earlier his month, according to Miami-Dade police, allegedly stabbing her 22 times and smashing her face with a hammer, leaving the body to rot in his apartment for four days.

"I totally thought Cassandra was going to make it," Edith Georgi, the public defender who helped Johnson escape a murder charge in the shooting of her first husband, told ABCNews.com.

Tags: marriage, abuse, women, murder, domestic violence

Parents Legally Abandon Their Children

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:51:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: My initial reaction to this story was repulsion, first towards the parents for giving up all rights to their children. Fortunately they didn't just walk away and leave the children to fend for themselves.

Secondly, the article states the original intention of the Safe Haven Law was to "protect newborn children, if a parent is overwhelmed." If this was the case, then why didn't lawmakers write the law to state exactly this?

Lawmakers need to be held responsible for the way in which they write laws. When we elect officials to write laws we assume they are articulate enough and educated enough to actually write laws that spell out exactly what is intended instead of leaving it open to other interpretations.

Now these children have become an additional burden on taxpayers and the parents are free to continue their irresponsible procreation which will produce even more of a drain on society. These people need to have vasectomies and tubal ligation.

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A Creighton University Medical Center Nursing Supervisor told KETV NewsWatch 7 a man left all nine of his children at the hospital Wednesday night.

The children are between 1 and 17-years-old.

The father will not be charged because of the safe haven law which states any child under the age of 19 can be left at a hospital if they're in immediate danger.

This is the fourth case of children ages 11, 13, and 15 being dropped off at a hospital since it became a law in July.

In the wake of children being abandoned by their parents, Nebraska officials will try to clarify the new 'safe haven' law on Thursday.

Tags: irresponsible parents, irresponsible procreation

How do you explain to a Palestinian child he must ration his drinking water so an Israeli can swim?

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:20:47 GMT

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How do you explain to a young Palestinian that his father is being kept in Israeli jail because he was born Palestinian? How do you explain to a young Palestinian that his sibling was shot because he or she wanted to look out of the window? How do you explain to a young Palestinian that he has to ration his drinking water so an Israeli youngster can swim? How do you explain to a young Palestinian that all of the countries in the world are against you because you keep saying no to occupation, corruption and imperialism?

Neighbours alert charity to abuse

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:22:44 GMT

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At least 7,000 seriously abused children received help last year after concerned neighbours alerted the NSPCC, the charity has revealed.

The organisation's Helpline service received nearly 10,000 calls so grave that they had to be referred to police and social services in 2007. One in three of these calls came from people living near the abused child.

According to the NSPCC, one recent telephone call was from a neighbour who described a young girl being threatened with an axe by her father. Another neighbour alerted the charity after seeing a mother dangle her two-year-old child by the wrist from a second-floor window.

"Thankfully, there are many responsible neighbours who are looking out for these children. But we want more to join them and to call as soon as they suspect something is wrong.

The NSPCC has announced a £50m Child's Voice Appeal to expand its helplines.

Tags: children, abuse, childline, nspcc

Dust in a Sunbean

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:17:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Carl Sagan on a picture of Earth from 4 billion miles away. Pretty awe inspiring.

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Earth seen from 4 billion miles away, photographed by Voyager 1 on June 6, 1990.

Of the "pale blue dot," astronomer Carl Sagan said, "That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

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Becca McEvoy, Deserves Justice

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:24:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Rebecca McEvoy's family thought they would finally have their day in court. Instead, they spent this morning protesting.

"Justice delayed is justice denied again," says Rhonda Wheelus, Rebecca's cousin, who was one of several people holding signs outside Government Plaza Monday morning. "Where is the victim's rights in this. It's all about the defendant and his rights, but where are Rebecca's rights," she says.

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Child Rape Trial Delayed

For eight months, Wheelus has sat through hearing after hearing, as attorneys argued over what evidence would be allowed in her cousin's unprecedented case. According to prosecutors, Rebecca was 10-years-old when she confided in a friend, saying her step-father, Bob Ingle, began raping her when she was eight. Rebecca testified twice before a Grand Jury and gave statements to investigators, but she died in a car crash before the case went to trial. Ingle's attorney has argued his client, who was also a Chickasaw police officer, has a right to confront his accuser in court, and now that she's dead, he wants the charges dropped.

Michael Harbin, who represents Ingle, filed a motion late last week to appeal Judge Michael Youngpeter's decision to allow the testimony of Rebecca's young friend, her sister, a doctor and a nurse, delaying the case for at least several months, according to Steve Giardini, Mobile County Assistant District Attorney.

Tags: becca mcevoy, crime, rape, sexual molestation, victim, justice, justice denied