Al Sharpton’s ancestors were slaves owned by Strom Thurmond’s relatives
February 26, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton’s great-grandfather was a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, a newspaper reported.
Genealogists working at The Daily News’ behest recently uncovered the ancestral ties between one of the nation’s best known black leaders and a man who was once a prominent defender of segregation.
According to the newspaper, the genealogists found documents establishing that Sharpton’s great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond’s great-great-grandfather. Coleman Sharpton was later freed. Read more
Clinton, Obama trade barbs over donor
February 21, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
Two Democratic presidential campaigns accused the other of nasty politics on Wednesday over a Hollywood donor who once backed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s husband but now backs her top rival.
Amid the accusations in tit-for-tat news releases, Clinton tried to remain above the fray.
“I’m just going to stay focused on my campaign and I’m going to run a positive campaign about the issues that affect the people in our country,” she said in a brief interview with The Associated Press. Read more
Mother/Wife of Iraq Soldier gets 2 YEARS in jail for throwing McDonalds cup
To the locals, it’s the “McMissile” case.
And like the name, the details of it spill forth like a bad joke: A woman is driving north on Interstate 95. Three kids squirm in the back seat, and her sister, six months pregnant and having early contractions, sits in the front. The stress starts to simmer. Traffic slows, then crawls, then creeps. More stress. A car cuts in front of her, then scoots away. A short time later, it darts in again. She can no longer take it. She veers onto the shoulder and speeds up. Wham! She tosses a large McDonald’s cup filled with ice into the other car.
“From my side, I heard a whoomp,” recalled the woman’s sister, LaJeanna Porter, 27. “I was like, ‘I know you didn’t throw that cup.’ She said, ‘Yes I did.’ “
Neither woman foresaw the seemingly supersize repercussions of that misguided moment July 2. Read more
Woman, 84, confesses to sex with boy, 11
February 16, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
An 84-year-old woman who confessed to having sex with an 11-year-old boy in her foster care reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted sex abuse, officials said.
Georgie Audean Buoy will serve 36 months in prison, said Leslie Wolf, chief deputy district attorney for Wasco County. She was originally charged with six counts, including attempted rape, for which she faced eight years in prison, Wolf said. Read more
Woman Allegedly Ties Up Valentine, Drinks His Blood
February 16, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
Woman Allegedly Ties Up Valentine, Drinks His Blood
An Arizona woman is under arrest, accused of tying up her lover on Valentine’s Day in order to drink his blood.
Police in Tempe, Ariz., said 23-year-old Tiffany Sutton allegedly tricked her 43-year-old victim with an offer of kinky sex.
But, after tying him up, police said, she pulled out a knife and cut the man on the leg. She then told him she likes to drink blood and proceeded to drink from his leg, officials said. Read more
Two S.C. black leaders back Clinton
February 15, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
Two key black political leaders in South Carolina who backed John Edwards in 2004 said Tuesday they are supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
State Sens. Robert Ford and Darrell Jackson told The Associated Press they believe Clinton is the only Democrat who can win the presidency. Both said they had been courted by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama; Ford said Obama winning the primary would drag down the rest of the party.
“It’s a slim possibility for him to get the nomination, but then everybody else is doomed,” Ford said. “Every Democrat running on that ticket next year would lose - because he’s black and he’s top of the ticket. We’d lose the House and the Senate and the governors and everything.”
“I’m a gambling man. I love Obama,” Ford said. “But I’m not going to kill myself.” Read more
Virginia governor to endorse Obama
February 15, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will endorse Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, perhaps as early as the weekend, two officials said Wednesday.
Kaine, a Democrat who took office last year, has decided to endorse the Illinois senator in his bid for the party nomination, according to two officials with political ties to the governor. They spoke on the condition they not be identified because the decision had not been made public. Read more
Giuliani confirms he’s running in 2008
February 15, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a moderate Republican best known for his post-Sept. 11 leadership over his city, confirmed Wednesday his intentions to run for president in the 2008 elections.
Giuliani made the announcement during an appearance on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” He had filed a statement of candidacy earlier this month with the Federal Election Commission and filed paperwork for an exploratory committee in November.
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Women Settle for Mediocre Sex, Scientist Finds
Women Settle for Mediocre Sex, Scientist Finds
Women have high expectations for nearly every area of their lives, but when it comes to sex, they settle for less.
And most women keep their dissatisfaction with sex a secret, leaving their partners (let alone their doctors) in the dark, said Anita Clayton, a psychiatrist who focuses on women’s sexuality at the University of Virginia Health System.
“Whereas men, if they have trouble with sex, it’s a crisis. They run to the doctor and say ‘I need something for this.’ Women don’t do that. They just sort of stuff it down and push it further down on the list,” Clayton said.
With surveys and years of clinical experience, Clayton has compiled a vast collection of data on women’s sex lives. Often, she said, a female patient would visit her with issues like marital problems or depression, and only when directly asked about sex, the patient would divulge dissatisfaction. Read more
Stolen kids turned into terrifying killers
February 14, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
CNN reported that warlords are forcing children in conflicts around the world to become killing machines — nothing more than what one child advocate calls “cannon fodder.”
Some children are kidnapped from their schools or their beds, some are recruited after seeing their parents slaughtered, some may even choose to join the militias as their best hope for survival in war-torn countries from Colombia, and across Africa and the Middle East, to south Asia.
Once recruited, many are brainwashed, trained, given drugs and then sent into battle with orders to kill.
There is no escape for what the United Nations and human rights groups estimate are 250,000 child soldiers today. These children, some as young as 8, become fighters, sex slaves, spies and even human shields. Read more
