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Feb. 25th, 2005 08:59 am
Feb. 25th, 2005
Hunter Thompson on Dubya
Feb. 25th, 2005 12:38 pm"I remember Bush as a kind of a butt-boy for the smart people. This was in the late 1970s, when he was in his drunken-fool period. He couldn't handle liquor. He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humour. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub," Thompson adds, "then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away."
Can a man escape this liability if he has neither the intent to have sexual intercourse nor the intent to make a baby? The answer is no. So long as a man engages in an intimate sexual act resulting in his depositing of his sperm with a woman who then becomes pregnant, he is liable for child support.
In State of Louisiana v. Frisard, 694 So. 2d 1032 (La. Ct. App. 1997), the mother and father of the child for whom support was sought met in a hospital while the father was visiting an ill relative. The mother was a nurse's aid who has access to a variety of medical equipment. The mother offered to perform oral sex on the father, and, in the words of the father, "as ... any male would, I did not refuse[.]" 694 So. 2d at 1035. The mother had the father wear a condom. The mother then removed the condom for the father, and unknown to the father, she inseminated herself with the father's sperm using a syringe.
The Louisiana court, noting that the probability of paternity was 99.9994%, held the father's testimony that he "had some sort of sexual contact with the plaintiff around the time frame of alleged conception, although he denied that they had sexual intercourse" was sufficient to prove paternity. 694 So. 2d at 1036. This fact of paternity obliges a father to support his child. 694 So. 2d at 1034. In essence, because the father intentionally engaged in a sexual act resulting in his deposit of sperm with the mother, he is liable for child support
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I'm going to have to start blowtorching the leftovers to protect the purity of my precious bodlily fluids, here.
(Oh, and they've even ruled that in the case of him being *raped*, he still owes child support payments. American courts are FUCKED UP.)
In State of Louisiana v. Frisard, 694 So. 2d 1032 (La. Ct. App. 1997), the mother and father of the child for whom support was sought met in a hospital while the father was visiting an ill relative. The mother was a nurse's aid who has access to a variety of medical equipment. The mother offered to perform oral sex on the father, and, in the words of the father, "as ... any male would, I did not refuse[.]" 694 So. 2d at 1035. The mother had the father wear a condom. The mother then removed the condom for the father, and unknown to the father, she inseminated herself with the father's sperm using a syringe.
The Louisiana court, noting that the probability of paternity was 99.9994%, held the father's testimony that he "had some sort of sexual contact with the plaintiff around the time frame of alleged conception, although he denied that they had sexual intercourse" was sufficient to prove paternity. 694 So. 2d at 1036. This fact of paternity obliges a father to support his child. 694 So. 2d at 1034. In essence, because the father intentionally engaged in a sexual act resulting in his deposit of sperm with the mother, he is liable for child support
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I'm going to have to start blowtorching the leftovers to protect the purity of my precious bodlily fluids, here.
(Oh, and they've even ruled that in the case of him being *raped*, he still owes child support payments. American courts are FUCKED UP.)
A mother has been jailed for five years for killing her nine-year-old son by putting salt in his hospital drip.
David Stocker died in Great Ormond Street Hospital in August 2001 from an overdose of 13 teaspoons of salt which his mother put into his drip feed.
On Friday at the Old Bailey, Petrina Stocker, 42, was also disqualified from working with children
On Thursday, the court heard David was ill for months but doctors were unable to make him better because his mother was misleading them.
Nicholas Hilliard, prosecuting, said the 13 teaspoons of salt poured into a milk drip feed was the last in a series of acts by Stocker.
David, who had been a healthy karate champion, was in and out of hospital for five months and had turned into little more than skin and bones.
Mr Hilliard said David had been treated since February 2001 in Great Ormond Street Hospital and in Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Essex, with his mother keeping a bedside vigil.
But doctors could not find what was wrong with him because of the various symptoms he displayed, such as loss of appetite and lethargy.
He said Stocker had put blood into urine samples and manufactured vomit samples, in addition to interfering with his intravenous drip.
Mr Hilliard said: "The episode of salt poisoning was the last in a series of acts done in an attempt to fabricate aspects of David's illness and to produce manufactured or misleading symptoms."
David Stocker died in Great Ormond Street Hospital in August 2001 from an overdose of 13 teaspoons of salt which his mother put into his drip feed.
On Friday at the Old Bailey, Petrina Stocker, 42, was also disqualified from working with children
On Thursday, the court heard David was ill for months but doctors were unable to make him better because his mother was misleading them.
Nicholas Hilliard, prosecuting, said the 13 teaspoons of salt poured into a milk drip feed was the last in a series of acts by Stocker.
David, who had been a healthy karate champion, was in and out of hospital for five months and had turned into little more than skin and bones.
Mr Hilliard said David had been treated since February 2001 in Great Ormond Street Hospital and in Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Essex, with his mother keeping a bedside vigil.
But doctors could not find what was wrong with him because of the various symptoms he displayed, such as loss of appetite and lethargy.
He said Stocker had put blood into urine samples and manufactured vomit samples, in addition to interfering with his intravenous drip.
Mr Hilliard said: "The episode of salt poisoning was the last in a series of acts done in an attempt to fabricate aspects of David's illness and to produce manufactured or misleading symptoms."
Those wacky Indians.
Feb. 25th, 2005 03:34 pmChildren wed to dogs to ward off evil.
Two small boys and two girls were married off to four puppies by tribal villagers in the small northern Indian state of Jharkhand to ward off evil, a report said on Wednesday.
Local officials in Kuluptang village in Jharkhand said the "kukur vibaha" or dogs' marriages, were organised on the last day of a local tribal festival, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
One of the tribals, 54-year-old Sonamuni, who blessed the marriage of her three-year-old grand-daughter Priya, said the wedding was no less important than other such ceremonies and all customs normally associated with marriage were followed.
The mother of "groom" Durga, aged one, said that if the first tooth of a baby came out in the upper jaw it was considered "inauspicious" for the child as well as the family and dog marriages had to be performed.
After a bath in a nearby river, the children are taken to a place of worship in a procession accompanied by a band.
Neighbours and relatives of the four children danced to music performed by the band before the marriages were solemnised with puppies of the opposite sex, the report said.
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#1: "all customs normally associated with marriage were followed."
#2: "solemnised"
#3: EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
Two small boys and two girls were married off to four puppies by tribal villagers in the small northern Indian state of Jharkhand to ward off evil, a report said on Wednesday.
Local officials in Kuluptang village in Jharkhand said the "kukur vibaha" or dogs' marriages, were organised on the last day of a local tribal festival, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
One of the tribals, 54-year-old Sonamuni, who blessed the marriage of her three-year-old grand-daughter Priya, said the wedding was no less important than other such ceremonies and all customs normally associated with marriage were followed.
The mother of "groom" Durga, aged one, said that if the first tooth of a baby came out in the upper jaw it was considered "inauspicious" for the child as well as the family and dog marriages had to be performed.
After a bath in a nearby river, the children are taken to a place of worship in a procession accompanied by a band.
Neighbours and relatives of the four children danced to music performed by the band before the marriages were solemnised with puppies of the opposite sex, the report said.
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#1: "all customs normally associated with marriage were followed."
#2: "solemnised"
#3: EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
