Pigs Can Fly But Apparently Not Goats

HELENA, Mont. — Two young goats wandered onto the thin ledge of a railroad bridge and spent nearly two days high above the ground until rescuers in a towering cherry picker plucked them from their perch, hungry but safe.

These teeny little goats can barely be seen in the accompanying photo. They look like insects on the narrow ledge, just beneath the nut case person leaning out to try to see the goats. He or she is pretty damned lucky they didn't fall off that bridge and break some bones. Whoever it was, was taken to a mental hospital and held for observation for up to a month.

The rescue occurred Wednesday 60 feet above a little-trafficked rural roadway in southern Montana between Billings and Roundup, after a caller told the Rimrock Humane Society the goats were stranded on the 6-inch ledge.

Some observers just wanted the goats left there, to see what they would do. Others (the Palin faction) wanted to shoot them with high-powered rifles and videotape their falling carcasses. A childless couple from Laredo, Texas, offered to adopt the goats if they could be Fed Exed to them in Laredo.

There really is nothing especially bizarre about this story. Goats do this sort of thing all the time, and there are goats that can do some rather bizarre things, like the goat that either wandered onto or was dumped on my farm. That goat was very destructive and had some perverse sexual habits, too, that upset some of our women guests.

Obsessed Doctor Offs Self in Failed Chimney Entrance To Boyfriend's House

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A doctor whose decomposing body was found in a narrow chimney suffocated after she tried to get into the home of her boyfriend, authorities said Wednesday.

The body of Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac was found Saturday _ three days after she slid feet first down the chimney of the Bakersfield home, police said.

"The pressure being placed on the chest wouldn't allow her lungs to expand and she suffocated," Kern County sheriff-coroner spokesman Ray Pruitt said after an autopsy.
"She was not a happy camper when she realized she couldn't breath and was going to die in that chimney," said an unidentified by stander who listens to police radio all day so he can go to the site of the latest tragedy and watch. It's his hobby.

The coroner's office also ruled the death was accidental. Foul play was not suspected, although the contents of Dr. Kotarac's stomach revealed she had just eaten fowl, a chicken. Dr. Kotarac had a long history of acting like a lunatic and was sex crazed about the boyfriend, who was nothing to write home about.

Police said Kotarac, a 49-year-old internist, wanted to confront the man with whom she had an "on-again, off-again" relationship.

Her corpse was discovered when a house-sitter noticed an odor coming from the fireplace. People in the home had noticed nothing until then, police said.

Kotarac was reported missing Thursday when she failed to show up for work, Bakersfield police Sgt. Mary DeGeare said.

The night before, she tried to get into the house with a shovel (how, by digging up the foundation? by digging up the foundation?) then climbed a ladder to the roof, removed the chimney cap and slid down. police said. That was her last slide, ever.

Meanwhile, the man she sought left unnoticed to avoid a confrontation and slept like a baby elsewhere that night, authorities said. He was a smart man but still had a big cleaning bill for getting the rotting corpse out of his chimney.

Firefighters spent five hours tearing up the chimney to extract the body that was wedged about two feet above the top of the interior fireplace opening.

Not only did the crazed M.D. do herself in, she also destroyed a perfectly good fireplace and chimney in the process. A local lawyer said her estate could be sued for the damage to the house and the cost of the fumigators to rid the home of the stench of decaying flesh.

Men Genetically Wired To Spot "Hot" Women

"Hotness" of a Woman is Judged by the Male Brain in One-Fifth of a Second



Typical Male Reactions to "hot" women

Sunday, August 29, 2010


Why do men ogle women? It’s not their fault. They can’t help it. Blame biology instead:

You’re at a café with the woman in your life when your eyes move inexorably toward another woman walking by.


Average "Hot" Woman Walking by>>>>>

In one-fifth of a second, before the conscious mind has had a chance to react, the male brain has rendered judgment on whether the oncoming stranger is sexually "hot."

If the ruling is favourable, physical manifestations are immediate.

Pupils dilate, heart rate spikes, testosterone surges and the eyes assume a vacant stare — sure signs that the “man trance” has set in.

For genetically preprogrammed men, the alleged offence is as involuntary and natural as breathing, says brain researcher, neuropsychiatrist and author Louann Brizendine, whose book, The Male Brain, mounts a unique defence for such male indiscretions. Leave them alone and they'll "usually" come home is the key thing to remember.

"Men are more visual, more driven to sexual pursuit and more predisposed to cheat than women," she writes.

Strippers Picket Church - Free Speech At Issue: Boobies Speak Louder Than Words

Bikini-clad strippers protest church in rural Ohio

Aug 27 2010

Not one of the Fox Hole's broken down strippers. She's from Chicago.>>>

JEANNIE NUSS - Associated Press Writer and Other Kibitzers



WARSAW, Ohio — Strippers dressed in bikinis sunbathed in lawn chairs, their backs turned toward the gray clapboard church where men in ties and women in full-length skirts flocked to Sunday morning services. Many of the men paused briefly to ogle the strippers before entering.

The strippers, fueled by Cheetos and nicotine, were protesting a fundamentalist Christian church whose Bible-brandishing congregants have picketed the club where they work. The dancers rolled up with signs carrying messages adapted from Scripture, such as "Do unto others as you would have done unto you," to counter church members who for four years have photographed license plates of patrons and asked them if their mothers and wives know their whereabouts.

The dueling demonstrations played out in central Ohio, where nine miles of cornfields and Amish-buggy crossing signs separate The Fox Hole strip club from New Beginnings Ministries.

Club owner Tommy George met with the preacher and offered to call off his not-quite-nude crew from their three-month-long protest if the church responds in kind. But pastor Bill Dunfee believes that a higher power has tasked him with shutting down the strip club. (The old God made me do it ploy.)

"As a Christian community, we cannot share territory with the devil," Dunfee said. But Dunfee failed to show the devil anywhere in sight. "Light and darkness cannot exist together, so The Fox Hole has got to go," chanted a delirious Dunfee.
Others believe it's Dunfee and New Beginnings who need to go. The county government derives almost a quarter of its tax revenues from The Fox Hole and zero dollars from New Beginnings, which is tax exempt. County officials say The Fox Hole is a good citizen, keeps random prostitution down and satisfies the male urge to go see nekkid women.

New Beginnings is one of four churches in this one-traffic-light village of 900 people, 60 miles outside Columbus. (That's one church for every 225 residents and about half never attend church anyway so that's only a little more than 100 per church. "The churches are a big waste of time and money," said one local official, who declined to speak. "No one needs them and they are always causing trouble about one thing or another." The town has one gas station and a sit-down restaurant that serves country staples like mashed potatoes with gravy and Salisbury steak. It needs 4 churches like it needs a stinking feedlot.

On Sunday, four of The Fox Hole's seven strippers and more than a dozen supporters garnered both scorn and compassion from churchgoers _ and quite a few honks from pickup trucks and other passing vehicles, encouraging them.

One woman offered her skills as a hair dresser to the dancers: "If you or your kids ever need a haircut, give me a holler." Another woman from the church waited on the protesters with plates of noodles and chocolate cake.

Laura Meske _ known as Lola, stage age 36 but really 42 _ hid behind a sign proclaiming, "Jesus loves the children of the world!" to avoid the preacher who extended his hand for a shake.

Two nights earlier, Dunfee and more than a dozen churchgoers stood outside the club, one of them calling out Meske's stripper name.

"He who casts the first stone ... ," Meske said Sunday.

The pastor cut her off and repeated, "Lola, Lord bless you."

"Everybody has sinned, and that doesn't mean I'm not gonna get into heaven," she said, the stud piercing in her chin shimmering in the sunlight. "I believe in Jesus. I don't believe what they preach. They preach hate."

Debi Durr, who attends the church, disagreed. "You don't stand up there for four years for hate. That's not hate. That's love," she said. Durr left Meske with a copy of Jeremiah 3:13 _ a Bible passage that urges sinners to acknowledge their guilt.

Inside the church, voices from the 121 congregants seemed to float to the cedar rafters as they sang lyrics projected on a screen. Outside, a man strummed a guitar and sang, "God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes." No one understood his message.

Dunfee has offered to help the strippers pay for food, rent, utilities and gas if they leave The Fox Hole. But many of the women say their jobs are only a stopover on the way to work in cosmetology or the medical field _ a meal ticket that shelters them from another stigma: welfare.

"No little girl is growing up like, `I wanna do a pole trick,'" said Anny Donewald, a former stripper who lives in Grand Rapids, Mich., and ministers to dancers, prostitutes and porn stars.

She and other Christian groups that work with women in the adult entertainment industry have criticized Dunfee's methods of ministry as a means of putting the strippers on the defensive instead of showing support.

"I never saw Jesus with a picket sign," Donewald said. Church members countered by pointing out that no one alive today every saw Jesus, with or without a picket sign.

Community advocacy groups, including Citizens for Community Values in Cincinnati, support Dunfee's protests. But the group's president, Phil Burress, said the strip club has a right to be there.

"It's a legal business whether he likes it or I like it or not," Burress said.

The club operates in a white plywood box of a building. Beer cans and a dollar bill peaked out from the grass like Easter eggs last Sunday.

The Fox Hole encourages customers to check out its $30 private dance special, promoting it on the kind of sign convenience stores use to advertise cheap milk and cigarettes. Out back, letters on a bulletin board have faded away so that "No touching" now reads "ouch."

It's here where dancers strip down to panties and pasties for cash. Meske _ a tattooed mother of four _ said she made $30 instead of a couple hundred dollars last Friday with the protesters outside. "They are taking food out of my children's mouths," she said, angrily.

"I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world," she said. "I just go out there and I try to make my money by showing my assets."

A few houses and a ribs joint called Peggy Sue's separate the club from another white building, a church where some of the strippers donate blood during drives for the American Red Cross.

"I got a church 900 feet down the street that causes me no problems," club owner George said. "And I got this moron nine miles down the street that causes me more headaches." When questioned about George's statement, Dunfee claimed he was not a moron and would be willing to take an IQ test to prove it.

Rae Anderson, who heads New Castle Ministries with her husband, says her church believes Dunfee is doing what the Lord called him to do, but her parish takes a different approach. Dunfee is a moron and is getting nowhere with this silly campaign.

"You can share the truth, but you can't make anyone believe what you believe."

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Associated Press Writer Doug Whiteman contributed to this report.

Pa. Dad Does Baby Daughter, Then Freezes Her Because She's Too Fussy.

Man Gets Life Sentence After Sexually Abusing Baby Daughter And Freezing Her To Death


August 24, 2010


William Page (see photo inset) told the judge he’s innocent, said he got an unfair trial, and then was sentenced to life in prison for leaving his 23-month-old daughter outside to freeze to death after sexually abusing her. Page did not explain why he thought his trial was unfair, but in earlier interviews said the girl came on to him while he was changing her diaper and the jury never got to hear that because of the judge's ruling.

Page’s daughter, Nyia, was found dead in Feb. 2007. Page molested the girl then became angry because she kept removing her diaper. He thought she was being immodest. He then left her outside in freezing temperatures, to teach her to be more modest about exposing her body. Nyia’s body was found in a wooded area of Rankin, Pa., east of Pittsburgh. Jurors convicted him in March, but split on whether he deserved the death penalty. It later was disclosed that half the jurors had IQ's of less than 85.

Page on Tuesday denied having killed anyone and vowed to fight until he was free. He said he was an innocent black man convicted by an all white, racist jury.

Allegheny County Judge David Cashman told Page he should have received the death penalty and called him a “despicable human being.” Page's court appointed attorney objected to the judge's remarks, saying the prosecution had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Page was a human being.

The judge then sentenced Page to life in prison plus 21 to 42 years for murder, kidnapping, making false reports to police and aggravated indecent assault. He also sentenced Page's attorney to 24 hours in the county jail for contempt, for arguing that Page was not a human being.

Mother Pimps For Infant Son

March 16, 2010

ST. GEORGE, Utah — A St. George man has been arrested after police said pictures of the man sexually abusing his infant son were discovered by a photo technician at a Walgreens photo lab.

Dad,dear old Dad

Police were called Tuesday to the Walgreens store on St. George Boulevard after workers developing film contacted them with concerns about several photos that appeared to show an infant being sexually abused by an adult male.

Officers determined that at least two photos were "definitely sexually explicit and even met the state statute for sodomy," said St. George Police Lt. James Van Fleet.

They were able to identify the man as Sergio Diaz-Palomino, 34, and went to his St. George home to interview him. Diaz-Palomino told officers the boy in the photos is his son.

Police are looking for the child's mother, who they believe took the photos, Van Fleet said.

"We are trying to locate her to see (about) the welfare of the infant child as well as determine what her culpability in the case is," he said.

Diaz-Palomino was booked into the Purgatory Correctional Facility for investigation of sodomy on a child and sexual exploitation of a minor. He is being held on $70,000 bail.


March 24, 2010

ST. GEORGE, Utah -- Police in St. George say they've arrested a mother accused of photographing a man sexually assaulting her baby boy.

Police spokesman James Schafer said Tuesday the 22-year-old woman was jailed on $20,000 bail after her arrest Monday on suspicion of felony sexual exploitation of a minor.

The infant child was put in state custody.

Police arrested 34-year-old Sergio Diaz-Palomino on March 16 for investigation of felony sodomy of a child and sexual exploitation of a minor charges. He's being held on $70,000 bail.

Several St. George men have offered to stomp Diaz-Palomino to death at no charge to the state. State officials were said to be mulling the offers.

Chilled Baby Discovered in Arizona Freezer

Arizona man puts infant son in freezer

Aug 27 2010


PHOENIX — Police say a suburban Phoenix man who put his infant son in a freezer has been arrested on charges of child abuse.

Chandler police say Chance Kracke told police he was high on methamphetamine when he placed his son in the freezer Aug. 16. The outside temperature was 110 degrees.

Kracke told police he was preparing food when he put the boy on the bottom shelf of his freezer and closed the door because the kitchen floor was too dirty and he wanted to keep the baby clean and cool.

Kracke says he removed the baby after several minutes when it began crying, possibly for its afternoon beer. Police say the 7-month-old suffered only a forehead laceration, possibly from the freezer door being slammed against it, but otherwise appeared in good health although very cold to the touch.

Kracke offered to warm the infant by holding it in front of a blowtorch he kept in the garage. Police declined the offer.

Kracke was arrested Thursday and also faces a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. It was unclear Friday whether he had legal representation. It was unclear Thursday and Friday whether he possessed a brain.