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Florida man gets life in prison for impregnating 9-year-old Haitian girl who gave birth
Florida man gets life in prison for impregnating 9-year-old Haitian girl who gave birth
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A South Florida man has been sentenced to life in prison for impregnating a 9-year-old Haitian girl who gave birth to the baby. Palm Beach County prosecutors say 33-year-old Fede Datilus was sentenced Wednesday. He was convicted of sexual battery on a person less [...]
Fat people are funny, and fat jokes are not, unless......
UNLESSSSSSS.....YOU are the fat person and the joke is about you. the potential to be hysterical can increase dramatically. when it's YOU telling the fat joke ABOUT yourself, hilarity ensues. You just gave everyone the green light to laugh at something most of us know is a cruel thing to do.
that word FAT.......my son, whom I've always encouraged honesty with, one day after 1st grade came home and said, "hey mama, I learned that a nicer way of saying fat is heavyset! So, mama, you're heavyset!" with a big 'aren't you proud of me!' smile on his face.
When I was a day care teacher a little girl used to use the F word in class. "Fat Fat NINA!" she'd scream at Nina, who wasn't sharing. "Fat FAT Andrew!" who took her dolly away before she was done with it. " Oh, FAAAAAAAT." when she'd made a mistake in her coloring book. We had to ban the actual word from the classroom, and kind of re-program all the kids that this 3 letter F word is not a curse word or a bad word. there are other things in the world that are fat and perfectly fine. Fat trees, markers, lines on the road, cats, the list goes on and on.
I'm pretty sure there's no collective support group that starts out with, "Hi, I'm Suzy, and I'm fat. " and then applause and "Hello Suzy" in unison. It's a sensitive word, a very sensitive topic, especially to those of us who have been called fat at ANY time in our lives, and I'm gonna say that's quite a few of us. We were fat as babies, and then the baby fat wore off, got fat after high school and everyone noticed at the reunion, got fat before, during and after having kids, broke my leg and was laid up all summer, got fat.
And yet....with all this self imposed fat stigma we have, fat people are funny! In an ironic sort of way, it's funny that Chris Farley is shakin what his momma gave him next to Swayze in SNL. Fat Bastard in the Austin Powers movies eats because he's fat and he's fat because he eats, it's all a vicious circle (totally butchered that quote). There's a new show on CBS called Mike and Molly about 2 heavyset people who find love and here's the funny in this, on NPR the program hosts explains them as 2 slightly overweight people, and I'm thinking from the trailers I saw about this show, it's not slight, they're overweight (the lead character is at an overeater's anonymous meeting!). FAT, just SAY IT NPR LADY! she must not be fat......but the show is predicted to be a hit.
Roseanne, John Goodman, John Candy, Monique, Kirstie Alley (ok, that's a matter of opinion), the guy who played Newman on Seinfeld before he lost all the weight.... Fat, funny, confident, wonderful people. don't go changin'. Keep telling jokes, making us laugh, take the pressure off of me, because I'm beyond the point of being embarrassed that I'm 100 pounds overweight. I can't even imagine what I'll look like in a couple years when it's all gone. But I do know that I have a wonderful steel enforced brick wall that no one can take down, you can't hurt me on my way to 100 pounds less... I don't think I'm the only one who uses humor to deflect any negativity that may arise from my weight. and I will continue to do so.
MEDICAL PROBLEM
An old woman came into her doctor's office and confessed to an embarrassing problem. "I do that all the time, Doctor Johnson, but they're soundless, and they have no odor. In fact, since I've been here, I did it no less than twenty times. What can I do?"
"Here's a prescription, Mrs. Harris. Take these pills three times a day for seven days and come back and see me in a week."
Next week an upset Mrs. Harris marched into Dr. Johnson's office. "Doctor, I don't know what was in those pills, but the problem is worse! I'm doing it just as much, but now it smells terrible! What do you have to say for yourself?"
"Calm down, Mrs. Harris," said the doctor soothingly. "Now that we've fixed your sinuses, we'll work on your hearing!!!"
(Thanks Mia)
HERES A STORY FROM ONE BRAVE PERSON
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 We all have stories of our lives that we hold deep inside, especially those of us who were fat children. On these pages, you will bear witness to the pain that fat children receive because of their large-sized exterior. Certainly fat children are not the onlychildren to have some traumatic memories. All children go through the pain of learning who, how and what to be, but the difference with fat children is that their pain is nearly universally inflicted because of the societal pressures for thinness. There is a special shame that only fat children know. Taught at an early age that they were unacceptable by societal standards, it wasn't a hard lesson to learn. No, the lessons were all around from the moment they became larger than *average*. There was no place to escape it...family, school and friends all provided pressure about the "problem."Some of the people who will write here are now thin, some are now fat, and some are just *average* as adults, but as adults they all can relate to their childhood existence when they were FAT kids.  The term "Fat" is only used as a descriptor, so the fat kids who share their stories may have been called, at the time, pretty-plus, husky, big, butter balls, etc, etc. Bottom line, the kids were fat. There is nothing wrong with the term "fat", yet there is still resistance in society, even in the fat-acceptance societies to the term being used. So be it. For this site, we'll use "fat" as to not have no doubts about what is being discussed.The goal of this site is simple...to share and to learn. Everyone has had a different set of life experiences...some great and some horrific. If you have no memories of being a fat child that were bad, then, by all means, share a happy story from your childhood. With any luck this site won't turn into a gripe session, but rather an open, sharing diary about life as a fat child in our society. |
Federal Agents Raid Gun Shop, Find Weapons
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Federal agents on Monday searched a south Tulsa gun shop
owned by the man who officials allege had kept in his house one of
the largest stockpiles of explosives ever confiscated by the Tulsa
Police Bomb Squad.
Thao Dinh Le was arrested July 2 on numerous federal and state
charges after the explosives were found. He has remained in jail
since then.
Agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
began searching Thao's shop, Wholesale Guns & Ammo, 8335 A E. 51st
St., with a federal warrant about 1 p.m., according to reports.
The agents carried out about a dozen cardboard boxes, which
appeared to contain weapons, and loaded them into a vehicle. ATF
officials Monday would not say what they were looking for or what
they had found.
Bomb squad officials also were at the scene but did not appear
to handle any explosives.
On July 2, undercover narcotics agents served a warrant at
Thao's home, 12121 E. 29th Court, to search for drugs. They found a
stockpile of land mines, hand grenades, dynamite and other
explosives, police said.
ATF agents are investigating the possible connection between
what was found in Thao's residence and a cache of explosives
discovered last week in the A.B. Jewell Water Reservoir at 21st
Street and 193rd East Avenue.
Police divers fished about 200 military explosives from the
reservoir June 28, after a fisherman pulled a string of grenades
from the water. Officials said it appeared that someone had thrown
the explosives into the reservoir to get rid of them.
ATF spokesman Dave Roberts has said some of the serial numbers
on the weapons from both finds are "similar" and may have been
stolen from the same military source. Thao has not been charged in
connection with the explosives found in the reservoir.
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Saturday 2 July 2011
Statistics
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ITS BEEN SAID THAT MOST TEENAGERS WILL STOP MAKING UNNECESSARY BABIES AT THE AGE OF 25... WHAT DO YA'LL HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT?
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