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Apparently the only thing crazier than Michael Jackson are his fans. http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/index.jsp?fn=2006/10/24/230709.html&cvqh=itn_jacko

For chrissakes, if you've got a dietary issue/allergy why are you eatting at a fast food franchise in the first place? It's like complaining about being hit by a car when you're playing in the freeway.

Flannery O'Connor wrote a short story eeriely similar to this news story.

Arkansas has numerous "look for your own diamond" type tourist spots. Once a year my Girl Scout Troop would go to one in the Ozarks. Never found anything myself. The state's a real rockhound's paradise, though.

Basically, its not a question of having sympathy for them but once they have have actively crossed the line from victim to victimizer the only people who are capable of handling the situation so it does not escalate to the point of creating an extremely dangerous predator are professionals...

Apparently comic/juggler/magician & long time French Quarter resident & business owner, Harry Anderson, has finally reached the same conclusion I did back in 1992. His comments re the city and the people running it are fairly astute...

I don't know how much longer the people I know will be able to remain in NO. Most still have their homes, but well over half no longer have jobs. The thought of having to deal with the inherently corrupt LA government plus the traditionally incompetent NO city government under dire...

Sociopathy isn't a mental illness. It's a personality disorder. He wasn't sexually experimenting with other children his own age, he was molesting children significantly younger than himself. At 15 you're dealing with a "mixed up kid", you talking about a predatory sexual sadist in training...

I have a friend whose dog was attacked and eaten by a displaced gator during the flood, so I don't discredit anything from the Neville family, some of whom lived in my old neighborhood. I also know someone whose sister's best friend (a doctor who volunteered) was raped in the Astro Dome ladies...

Well, that kind of ignores the fact he was molesting children even while in a supposedly stable & loving atmosphere. Ever have any actual dealings with a sociopath? They will make you pay every day of your life for ever involving them in your world.

This came from an email that was forwarded to a friend of mine from NO from someone we both knew back in NO who works for the paper of record there. ----------- "They may have downplayed the violence that happened here but happen it did. Charmaine Neville was raped on the roof of her shelter...

For god's sake--if the child had been exposed to smallpox, you'd want to know that before brining him into your home, if no other reason than to take precautions against infecting everyone else in the home. You can't help someone overcome problems if you have no clue what they are to begin with.

Sexual abuse of children in Amish communities is a fact, but one that doesn't get a lot of ink. There's also a huge problem with inbreeding in the various communities. Amish names are Christian Name-Mother's Maiden Name-Father's Surname. It is not uncommon for Jacob Stoltzfus Stoltzfus to be the...

Mennonites drive cars and wear clothes with zippers on them, for one thing. Although hardline Mennonites drive trucks and not cars, as cars are viewed as a "luxury". They also used to not have have rear view mirrors on their vehicles because that was "vanity"--until the state stepped in and...

I lived in Lancaster County for 3 years. There's a lot more that goes on inside the Amish communties than building barns and making fudge.

I must have gone to school with this creep, as we're roughly the same age, although I can't place his name or face. I lived both in Tillar and McGehee in the 60s and 70s--two communities he's listed as living in as well. The Wolfe Project is named after my grandfather's best friend, who donated...

Guilty On All Counts http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/15550790.htm

I know the area where this girl was abducted extremely well. My father attended high school in Dumas, Ark. and his sister & her husband still live there. I grew up in Desha County. I've seen reports that her car was on the south side of Dumas on US 65 (still a 2 lane highway that cuts through...

Let me get this straight...lets say I have a neighbor who lives 15 feet away from me. His bed room window is paralell to mine. The neighbor keeps his shades open and routinely lays down on his bed in the nude. Perhaps even arouses & satisfies himself in full view of me and whoever else happens...

"Mr." is a sign of formal respect. I don't think the dead guy was apt to have instilled that in the neighborhood. And if she only heard him called "Barry" (no doubt because his father MR. James, was still alive, that' s what she'd call him).