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NEW YORK -- A Dutchess County special education teacher has been accused of having sex with a 15-year-old disabled student. Teacher Mandi Weeks, 27, was arrested on Monday in Queens. She admitted to having sex with her student at the Devereux Foundation NY Center for the past month, according to police. Weeks is being charged with two counts of rape with a child under the age of 21 and two acts of acting in a manner to injure a child under the age of 17. The student was in the school’s residential program and lived on campus. He had been...

"Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., greets supporters outside the National Constitution Center before a debate between Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen., Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Philadelphia."

SCOTTSBORO - Jackson County Circuit Judge John Graham today ordered the Scottsboro City Board of Education to allow a gay couple to attend Scottsboro High School's senior-junior prom tonight. Chelsea Overstreet, 17, a junior at the high school, and her date Lauren Martin, 16, a sophomore at the school, were initially told by school officials they could not attend because the school board does not allow students of the same sex to attend the prom together, their lawyer Parker Edmiston of Scottsboro said in a press conference this afternoon. Because there is no state law specific to the issue, Graham...

Campaigning For Mom In N. Carolina, Clinton Says She Was Sheltered From Chauvinism (AP) Chelsea Clinton said Saturday that she didn't realize how much sexism remained in the United States until she noticed the issue at recent campaign stops for her mother. "I didn't really get how much sexism there still was in our country until I was at a rally with my mom in New Hampshire, and someone came up to me and said, 'I just can't see a woman being commander in chief,"' Clinton said during a stop in Research Triangle Park. She also noted another New Hampshire...

Sen. Hillary Clinton's daughter campaigns for her, but sets limits on questions and doesn't talk to the press. Harry Smith talks to Sally Quinn from the Washington Post. [Quinn: "What happened yesterday is Bill Clinton's legacy" (4:04)]

An Oklahoma man was arrested after police say he stabbed another man in the neck with a pork chop bone during a food fight. Police in Ardmore, Oklahoma responded to call of a fight outside a local business New Year's day. When they arrived, they found the victim covered in blood with a puncture wound to his neck.

Send in the straightjackets - Newsweek has cracked up. Of all the stories in the entire world to cover, Newsweek's website is flagging as its "Top Story" an insane piece about a woman (complete with photo) who thinks she is an ordained Catholic priest. They found her in Missouri, though had Newsweek reporter Karen Springen walked into the nearest asylum, she would have found some who think they're the pope. Springen's discovery is Jessica Rowley. Jessica thinks she's a Catholic priest because some crackpot group said they ordained her. Springen, whose contempt for the Catholic Church is rivaled only by...

EMMY WINNER KATHY GRIFFIN: “SUCK IT, JESUS, THIS AWARD IS MY GOD NOW” - Catholic League September 10, 2007On September 8, at the 59th Annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards, comedian Kathy Griffin won Outstanding Reality Program for her Bravo show, “My Life on the D-List.” In her acceptance speech, Griffin said, “Suck it, Jesus, this award is my God now.” Fox will televise the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 16 from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:“Mel Gibson. Michael Richards. Isaiah Washington. Imus. Jerry Lewis. Every time a celebrity offends a segment...

On an almost daily basis, Amy Goodman continues to parade a string of poor, Black Americans on her show as victims. The motive is clear. People like Goodman, in their typical liberal superiority complex, feel like Black people will only get a fair shake if she cares for them, as an owner cares for their pets. I've used that analogy several times before. If your cat pees in the corner, most of us understand the cat really doesn't know any better. When Black people misbehave, according to liberals, they didn't know what they were doing. As Whoopi Goldberg recently said...

First the WaPo's Robin Givhan talks about HRC's cleavage last week, prompting Ms. magazine to write a letter and then Breasts not Bombs throw a surprise protest at the HRC campaign headquarters last night in San Fran. Someone just told us: "I don't know if it was harder for Hillary to stare at those boobs or these boobs." While a Dem Senate aide just said: "Why do all the hot naked protestors just do stuff for PETA?" The good news and the bad news interlink: These protestors wouldn't exactly sway your vote. (Be warned: There are uncovered areas of people...

President George W. Bush still has to learn to say "the buck stops here" when it comes to presidential decisions. The "decider" and commander-in-chief seems to be trying to pass the buck, particularly if the war in Iraq implodes and he has to bring troops home from his disastrous invasion of Iraq. The president is counting on Gen. David Petraeus -- the top military commander in Iraq -- and Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki to take the fall if his troop "surge" fails. Bush is a long way from that mirage, even with an expected Pentagon buildup of U.S. troops to...

Helen Thomas chatted with young [National Press] Club members over breakfast March 13 and with characteristic bluntness dismissed President George W. Bush as a chief executive who has made little contribution. The legendary White House correspondent, who has covered every president since John Kennedy, was acerbically critical of the Democratic Congressional leadership as well. Even at this stage in her long career, Thomas, now a syndicated columnist for Hearst, pointed out that she still depends for information on other journalists. “I’m reading newspapers every day like you are. And as eager as she was to take questions, Thomas was just...

Every theater-style seat in the White House briefing room, now closed for renovation, had a brass plaque inscribed with the name of a news organization. Only one, in the middle of the front row, had a name: “HELEN THOMAS,” it said. The unique assigned seat between the chairs for CBS News and ABC News was reserved for the legendary United Press International correspondent who is now a columnist for Hearst Newspapers. The press corps is scheduled to move from temporary facilities back into the spiffed-up, rewired briefing room in May or June. Thomas, who has been questioning presidents and press...

<p>"With its 2007 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups due to roll onto dealer lots by early November, GM plans a muscular buy America-themed advertising effort aimed in part at blunting the efforts of Toyota, which plans to begin selling San Antonio-built trucks in January.</p>

Madonna pays a few bob for new blonde look 20.09.06 Add your view Madonna tries out a radical new hairstyle. From strawberry blonde and permed, to Gothic black and straight, there are not many hairstyles that Madonna hasn't tried. Now, with a dramatic new platinum blonde bob, the 48-year-old singer has undergone yet another reinvention. While the shade is reminiscent of her 1990s Material Girl heyday, the blunt-edge cut is different to anything she has ever previously had, Costing a cool £750, it is, however, a little more pricey than the average cut n' blow-dry. "Madonna wanted to do something...

Cindy Sheehan, the mother whose loss of a son in the war in Iraq led her to become the most recognizable face of opposition to the war, confirmed Wednesday she will come to Salt Lake City this month to join protests during the visit of President Bush. Sheehan's presence likely will increase the visibility and intensity of protests planned to coincide with Bush's address to the American Legion. Bush plans to arrive in Utah on Aug. 30 and speak the following day to the group's national convention. Salt Lake City "is a great opportunity for her to be where Bush...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A "Presidential Bust" of U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton was unveiled on Wednesday at New York's Museum of Sex, where sculptor Daniel Edwards hopes it will spark discussion about sex, politics and celebrity. Edwards, the artist who also created a life-size nude of Britney Spears giving birth on a bear-skin rug, said he wanted to capture Clinton's age and femininity in the sculpture. Clinton's office had no immediate comment. Edwards said his work features soft "presidential smile" and wrinkles framing her eyes. A floral pattern runs across her breasts, part of Edwards' effort to present Clinton "as...

Can you tell from the picture which is woman running for Minnesota's open seat is a Lib and which is a GOPer?

Crocs Shoes Making Great Strides [SNIP] The bulky clog with a strap along the heel and holes across the top and around the toes is winning consumers over with its versatility and comfort. Food service and factory workers, hair stylists and hospital personnel buy them for comfort. Boaters and swimmers buy them for function. And some just think they're fun. [SNIP] Crocs, which got its name because the shoes are water-friendly and tough, now lends its cartoon crocodile logo to more than a dozen styles. There are flip flops, slides, a calf-high boot, a hiking shoe and a Mary Jane...

Fellow Americans, there comes a time every mans life when we must give up ourselves before we are worthy to recieve. There comes a time in this war on terror when in order to protect liberty, we have to give it up in the mean time for safty. That's right folks. Today, Americans have forsaken the creator for the creation and have decided that they would value our "civil liberties" than protecting western civilization and rich white people from the tender mercies of radical Islamic terrorists. Selfish liberals insist and whine that Bush has no right to spy on Americans...

Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of film maker Theo van Gogh, is to be given the chance to address the court later today in the case against the Amsterdam terror network, 'the hofstadgroup'. Bouyeri has two solicitors, but is adamant that he will do the talking.

AUSTIN, Texas (Creators Syndicate) -- Several great minds were asked to help think up interview questions for George W. Bush. I liked, "Are you the worst president since James Buchanan, or have you never heard of him?" Sorry about the snarkiness quotient, but is there anything these folks can't screw up -- and then refuse to own up to? Iraq is the most difficult to judge because it's so far away. I can find no indication -- from hours of electricity available to amount of oil being pumped to number of dead people -- that hints at any improvement. On...

After reading all of the crap that people have been saying regarding Adult Private Social Clubs, I felt that I had to post an article and give my opinion. I am sick and tired of all the religous groups that are saying that there are drugs, prostitution, minors, non-consenting people, and just immoral people at these clubs! First of all, who do these people think they are to decide what is morally right or wrong for me? I believe that I have a good set of morals. I am a law abiding, tax paying citizen, I work full time and...

AUSTIN - I'm so sorry, but we are having a constitutional crisis. The timing couldn't be worse. Right in the middle of the wrapping paper, the gingerbread and the whole shebang, a tiny honest-to-goodness constitutional crisis... **snip** The Department of Defense has just proved this yet again with its latest folly of mistaking a flock of Florida Quakers for a threat to overthrow the government. A few months ago, a student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth tried to check out a copy of Mao's Little Red Book and wound up being interviewed by two feds. Cointelpro and all...

REGAL ROSES: Bearing flowers, Charles and Camilla visit Hanover Square, where they left a tribute to British 9/11 victims. Photo: AFP/Getty Diana would be amused. Her successor and former rival, Camilla Parker Bowles, failed spectacularly in her attempt to wow Manhattan society with her sartorial splendor last night. Dressed in an unflattering Anthony Price navy velvet frock with a fussy oversized chiffon collar, the Duchess of Cornwall arrived at a chi-chi cocktail party looking more like an escapee from the choirboy pew of Westminister Abbey than the guest of honor. Earlier, Camilla caused quite a stir when she chose...

Helen Thomas appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher this past Friday to preach to the choir. Maher starts off the segment with a statement basically saying that no one is able to directly ask President Bush questions.

People Magazine just released its "50 Most Beautiful People" Issue. We thought a "50 Ugliest People" Issue would be a best seller. This is the list we came up with: (Feel free to fax any additions to dorks@qconline.com) Sandra Berhardt Michael Richards Fiona Apple Janet Reno Kyra Sedgwick Chelsea Clinton Lyle Lovett Mick Jagger Dwight Yokam Tori Spelling Amy Carter Gheorghe Muresan Ru Paul Woody Allen Marcia Clark Michael Jackson Marge Schott Ellen DeGeneres Martha Stewart Scottie Pippen Liza Minnelli Willie McGee Rosie Perez Rodney Dangerfield Aerosmith Bette Midler Marilyn Manson Marty Feldman Mike Tyson Paula Jones Kevin Kerr Kelsey...

NEW YORK - On the heels of the success of the Todd Rundgren-Joe Jackson concert tour of unattractive songwriters, an all-star line-up of ugliness is planned as a benefit for "Skin Deep," a world-wide beautification effort. In addition to Rundgren and Jackson, Lyle Lovett, Tom Waits, Keith Richards, Tom Petty, former Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, and Rush lead singer Geddy Lee have signed on to the tour. Other ugly rock icons, including Neil Young and Johnny Winter, are expected to join the 35-city tour, which kicks off next month in Hibbing, Minn. Billed as "Fugly-Fest 2005," the concert series will...

TOM: Well, the people have spoken. And what they've said is, "Yecch!" RAY: We held a contest to name the ugliest new cars for sale in showrooms today. Readers of the column and listeners of our radio show made nominations, and folks voted on our Web site. And the results are in. TOM: We'll work our way up (or should I say down?) to the ugliest car, starting with the runners-up. Now remember, we don't necessarily agree with all of these choices, although we wholeheartedly agree with some of them. But this is what you guys think. RAY: Runner-up No....

Teacher Accused of Sex Abuse Posted 3/3/2005 05:21 PM Toni Lynn Woods Photo Credit: West Virginia Regional Jail The Braxton County teacher admitted having sex with three middle school students, State Police said. Story by Christine D’Antonio Email | Bio A Braxton County middle school teacher is in police custody after allegedly confessing to sexual misconduct with five of her students. Toni Lynn Woods, 37, of Strange Creek was arrested Wednesday on eight counts of sexual assault. State Police said several students reported they had been treated or touched inappropriately. In the criminal compliant filed against Woods, she admitted she...

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Sunday that when the full Senate debates the nomination of Dr. Condoleezza Rice to be Secretary of State on Tuesday, she intends to repeat charges that Rice deliberately misled the nation about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. "I will lay out again on the Senate floor [why] I do not believe [she] has been candid with the American people," Sen. Boxer told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer." "[She's] gone on shows like yours and made statements that I don't think were true, or they were half-true, didn't tell the whole story, didn't level...

Asked about the election result, the sharp-tongued reporter simply put her hand on her face and said, "My God, the man is a fascist -- a fascist, I tell you." She warned that Bush's victory will mean one thing: more war. She expects Iran to be next. But surely Thomas, a female reporter who succeeded decades ago in a "man's world," had some empathy about Condi's appointment. As we suggested the notion, a look of horror came over Thomas' face. "I tell you, the women is a monster, a monster, a monster," she kept saying.......

Simply hilarious! 90% of the pics feature people with eye-brow piercings and black nail polish and/or signs laced with extreme profanity. The handwriting of some also makes me laugh pretty hard. Most of them can't get their facts right either. Have a good chuckle at this one!

Plantation, Florida: The Democrats unleashed their girl power in Florida on Saturday, deploying daughters of the presidential contender John Kerry and those of the former presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton. Also in the charm brigade were the daughters of Senator Kerry's running mate, Senator John Edwards, and of the former vice-president Al Gore, the beaten Democratic candidate in 2000. "We're all going to take back our future," Vanessa Kerry said at a rally in Plantation, north of Miami, one of several the girls deployed in the pivotal state. "He needs your help," she said in reference to her...

It looked like Put Your Daughters to Work Day on the campaign trail yesterday. Chelsea Clinton made her first political speeches yesterday, hitting the trail in Florida to get out the vote for John Kerry - as President Bush's twins took their message to a Republican Party rally in New Jersey. The appearance by the publicity-shy Clinton, who never campaigned for her own father, underscored the importance of the Sunshine State in Tuesday's election. "To be honest, I couldn't imagine being anywhere else today," she told a crowd in Tampa. "I couldn't imagine not being in Florida because the stakes...

SCRANTON - Returning to her father's hometown, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, criticized the Bush administration for what she called an attempt to undo 60 years of domestic progress. "I realized they weren't out just to turn the clock back on the 1990s. They wanted to turn the clock back on the 20th century," she told the crowd at Lackawanna College's Mellow Theater on Wednesday morning. Democratic campaign officials estimated the crowd at nearly 1,000. "Don't be fooled by what could very well be the sleeper issues of this campaign," Clinton said. President George Bush plans to privatize...

Fabiola Armitage is back on television, only instead of a campaign ad the focus has been on her mugshot. Armitage is a Kerry supporter and a strong believer in stem cell research. She's featured in an advertisement urging Floridians to vote against Amendment 3 on this year's ballot. The amendment would cap how much money a lawyer can make from a medical malpractice lawsuit. St. Johns County Sheriff Deputies arrested Armitage for grand theft and battery this week. They say she had 78 campaign signs supporting George Bush and Mel Martinez in her trunk. Armitage tells First Coast News that...

One pro-abortion sign held above the head, and a second one duct-taped to an intriguingly-labeled tshirt: Here's the original, FWIW:(Scanned in from newspaper, since the photo is not on their website).

All the Nudes That's Fit to Print Radicals planning to cause mayhem at the GOP convention should accept this sad fact: Murdoch’s minions are waiting.The last time a major party held its nominating convention in New York City, I was among the tribe of protesters clamoring outside. I had hitchhiked from Oakland to Manhattan and, after adventures with a guy in Barstow who claimed he was jumping parole and barked, "I swear by my white skin!" after each beer, or the gentleman in southern Missouri who loaded the shotgun in his rifle rack and declared his intention to shoot the...

The one on the right needs to cover up some more. Look at the signs, they are all identical. Doesn't look like they even want to protest.

U.K. Citizen/Human Shield/High Rantress Ms. Uzma Bashir AKA "Baghdad Betty" Title: "A Lady With Real Attitude" By Paul Belden BAGHDAD - On the first night of bombing in Baghdad, I recall having written about a much-loved young peace activist named Uzma Bashir who had gone to Iraq to serve as a human shield, and whose many friends had gathered in an Amman hotel to hear the latest news from Iraq. They were all very frightened for her safety, I wrote.They needn't have bothered. As it turned out, the bombing campaign didn't hurt Uzma one bit. It did, however, really...

ARI FLEISCHER: And with that, I'm more than happy to take your questions. Helen. HELEN THOMAS, Hearst Newspapers columnist: At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up. FLEISCHER: I refer specifically to a horrible terrorist attack on Tel Aviv that killed scores and wounded hundreds. And the President, as he said in his statement yesterday, deplores in the strongest terms the taking of those lives and the wounding of those people, innocents in Israel. THOMAS: My follow-up...

f...sometime within the last 7 days a falsehood has been written in print, spoken on radio, or aired on television about Ms. Streisand...the TRUTH ALERT will contain a statement made by Ms. Streisand and/or her representatives to correct that falsehood. Current falsehood corrections will appear in the section called "Truth Alert." After one week all "Truth Alerts" will be transferred to the Truth Archive. A daily visit to both will keep you up-to-date with these additions. TRUTH ALERT: Question: If the NY Post does not know that Richard Gephardt is House Minority Leader and that he is not a Senator,...

Please parody the following article from http://losangeles.craigslist.org/w4m/4490297.html. The best parody will win a pound of tofu and a poster of Phil Donahue. An open Letter to the Tall White Guys: You work with me nearly everyday. But to say that you know me would be incorrect. I’m the woman who ultimately stands between you and your dreams of how the world should really be. And I want you to know that I’m on to you. I’m the professional woman in the next office, the secretary down the hall, the girl who cleans your home, the peer who sits next to...