Today's Headlines

zepboy · Post by **zepboy** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:10 pm

Nonetheless, to ignore a law before you change it is to ignore the rule of law altogether, and I think that is wrong.

If there is a law you think is "sucky," be actively involved in getting it changed. But don't break the law just because you don't agree with it.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:19 am

The Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger
Will Cost You

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertain ... 5516.story

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:51 am

Deadly Plane Crash Near Buffalo Kills 49

Sholnn Freeman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 13, 2009; 1:44 AM

Authorities say 49 people are dead after a regional commuter plane,
carrying at least 44 passengers and 4 crew members, crashed into a
home in suburban Clarence, N.Y., near the Buffalo Niagara International
Airport.

State police spokeswoman Rebecca Gibbons confirmed early Friday the
48 deaths aboard Continental Connection flight 3407, operated by
Manassas, Va.- based Colgan Air.

Clarence emergency control director Dave Bissonet says the crash also
killed one person on the ground.

The airplane, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, apparently was set to land on a
specified runway at the airport under weather conditions that include light
snow. Video from local television reports showed fire fighters battling
blazes at a crash site. The flight was bound to Buffalo from Newark's
Liberty International Airport.

The National Transportation Safety Board is preparing a team of
investigators to leave from the Washington region at 6 a.m.

Colgan Air is a subsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines. Colgan operates planes
under the Continental Connection, United Express and US Airways
Express names. It has operations in Boston, Houston, New York,
Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:56 am

^^^^

I didn't see the morning news, but my brother said one of the passengers was a 9/11 widow.

Man how horrible for all in this. Why can't we clone Captain "Sully"???

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:07 am

Walkinghairball wrote:^^^^

I didn't see the morning news, but my brother said one of the passengers was a 9/11 widow.

Man how horrible for all in this. Why can't we clone Captain "Sully"???

I know Hairy. It's messed up. Sigette called me at work to tell me.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:26 am

Horrible.

I saw that this morning over breakfast. I was eating Life cereal. Irony.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:19 pm

By-tor lives in Buffalo...

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:25 pm

awip2062 wrote:By-tor lives in Buffalo...

Man yer right.......................

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:28 am

13-year-old father Alfie Patten: The world reacts
Alfie Patten, the British 13-year-old at the centre of a teenage pregancy case in Eastbourne, has sparked media interest across the world.

American news and blog sources have reacted with almost universal condemnation. Time?s Gregory Katz has condemned the case of the 13-year-old from Eastbourne, East Sussex who allegedly fathered a child with his 15-year-old girlfriend, Chantelle Steadman, as evidence of ?broken Britain.?

Chris Matyszczyk at CNET blamed the pregancy on a low moral fibre brought on by Patten?s love of the video game, Saints Row 2, although the game has violent rather than sexual content. ?I am sure that you, too, are only waiting for the first wise academic to declare that this sort of behavior is the fault of the video game culture,? he said.

Celebrity U.S. commentator, Perez Hilton, says that the entire episode sounds like a reality show in the making.

Coverage in continental Europe has mainly reported the facts of the story, although Die Welt said the case ?sounds like a story from a cheap TV soap, if only it were not so tragic?.

Further afield, The Dominion Post of New Zealand has blamed the underage pregnancy on the adults surrounding the two teenagers saying ?the sinners here are not Alfie and Chantelle, but those around them who have failed to do what good parents do protect their children till they are old enough to look after themselves?.

Closer to home, the Irish Independent said that the wider reaction to the Alfie Patten pregnancy case reflects ?a moral ambivalence of our age?.

what gets me is Alfie looks about 10!!

there's a pic of the 'happy couple' at this link
http://learning.sohu.com/20090217/n262291347.shtml

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:42 am

It's difficult to find condoms that fit when you are only 13 and look like you're 10.

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:44 am

lol!!

too many kids probably dont even know what a condom is...

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:45 am

I'm not sure why so many papers are writing about this. It's not like he's the only kid his age to have fathered a child.

Is it because he is staying invilved; because there wasn't an abortion or adoption?

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:46 am

I actually think its all image related...I mean he does not look 13

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:48 am

Perhaps that is it.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:53 am

Finally a baby-daddy who wants to be apart of his child's life. Too bad he has to be a child himself.
Will they take the kid away, do you think?