He was a deep thinker.

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Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  
Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  
Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  
Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  
Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  
Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  
Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  
Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  
Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  Shut up.  

Yes, you.

The one with the "Some gave all, all gave some" bumper sticker.

The one with the lapel flag pin. 

The one who complains that the money isn't enough and the public's 
memory is too short.

The one who thinks her loss entitles her to a direct line to every 
reporter and politician in the country.

Look at me when I'm talking to you.

SHUT UP.

Go back to Arden Heights or Middletown or whatever other area you've 
helped overdevelop with your townhouses made of cheap materials, and 
shut up.  

Shut up, and get on with your lives.

Shut up, and take the money.

Shut up, and spare those of us in the NYC area from your continued 
attention-whore routine.  

Shut up.  Callate.  Ferme-la.  Halt dein Maul.  Fique quieto.  Hou je 
bek.  Chup raho.  Urusai kono bakayaro.

Did you get that?

Come September 11, I'm doing what all smart Americans are doing: leaving 
the country for a week.  As much I enjoy mocking shallow sentimentality, 
I'd rather spend my time in a country that won't be wallowing in 
self-pity and whose citizens won't agonize over knocking back a few 
during happy hour because, like, we can't be happy in light of the 
unimaginable pain so few of us directly experienced.  

I've given up on the newspapers until I return.  One can read only so 
many self-absorbed tales of those who have the awful luck of being born 
on a day that no one will care much about in 50 years.  Does anyone fret 
over being born on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked?  Does anyone even 
know when that is?

"Sept. 11, that date, will live in people's hearts and minds for 
generations just as the date Dec. 7 will never be forgotten even by 
people who were not alive when it happened," NY's Governor Pataki said. 

This is going to make shriveled old men with purple hearts cry, but I've 
forgotten December 7.  If someone told me that the date was December 7, 
I'd have no conscious realization of the date's significance.  If 
someone kept poking at me -- "Today is December SEVENTH, DECEMBER 
SEVENTH" -- I'd guess it eventually, but the date has no special meaning 
for me.  And I suspect there are a lot of Americans for whom September 
11 will be just another day.  

One hopes that the memorial circle jerk will cease after this year, but 
when teenaged rape victims think nothing of exploiting their violated 
snatches for free clothes and a tumble with Connie Chung, I suspect 
we're in it for the long haul.  Keep your fingers crossed for low 
ratings.

I've added new entries to the hate mail page, and there should be a real 
update shortly.  A little something on middle-class welfare, a little 
something on the childfree community, and eh -- I'm out of ideas.  I'll 
just update Stupid Teen Girl, instead!  We could use some 19-year-old 
tits to liven things up.

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INDIA - Confectionery giant Cadbury has apologized for an advertisement 
that compared disputed Indian-controlled Kashmir region to a chocolate 
that was "too good to share." 

The ad appeared in a Bombay newspaper on Aug. 15, India's Independence 
Day, and featured a map highlighting the boundaries of India's 
Jammu-Kashmir state -- the Indian-controlled part of a region both India 
and Pakistan claim as their own. 

Below the map, the ad reads "Issued in the spirit of Independence Day by 
Cadbury Temptations -- International chocolates you'd love to share but 
won't." 

Members of India's ruling polical party, Bharatiya Janata Party, stormed 
into the company's office in Bombay that day, accusing the company of 
trivializing the Kashmir issue. 

"It was not in good taste," said the president of BJP's Bombay branch, 
Vinod Tawde. "Hot and sensitive issues like Kashmir, where thousands of 
people and soldiers have laid down their lives should not be a topic for 
an ad," he said. 

Cadbury India issued a written apology to BJP members. Director R.B. 
Menon said the advertisement was issued "entirely in good faith with no 
intention whatsoever to offend the sentiments of the public." 

"In case sentiments have been hurt, we sincerely apologize," it said. 

Source: AP

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CONNECTITCUT - Little Anna Goodrich is blind, can't talk, hear, crawl or 
even lift her head for more than a minute. 

But she wasn't born that way.

Her father severely injured her brain and limbs last year when Anna was 
only 6 weeks old. David Goodrich, 47, of West Hartford, beat, shook, 
choked and slammed his infant daughter onto her changing table, 
permanently leaving her among the "living dead," Sandra Tullius, senior 
assistant state's attorney told a Hartford Superior Court judge Friday. 

For permanently disabling Anna and punching her brother, Timothy, in the 
face, Goodrich was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison, suspended 
after 25 years, and five years of probation. 

Before Judge Elliot Solomon handed out his sentence, he listened to 
passionate pleas from Tullius and Goodrich and his lawyer, Walter 
Hussey. Tullius wanted Goodrich to serve all 40 years behind bars. 
Hussey said that 25 years was enough of a deterrent to ensure that 
Goodrich would never harm another child.

"She is suffering a living death trapped in a body, blind, deaf, unable 
to walk, to talk or barely to suck on a bottle," Tullius said. Instead 
of reaching milestones as normal children would by walking, running, 
pulling themselves up or using a potty, Anna's typical milestone at 17 
months old "is measured in how many seconds she can raise her head," 
Tullius said.

Hussey, a new father himself, said there was no defense for his client's 
behavior. He said Goodrich was deprived of sleep and angry and 
frustrated by his daughter's crying when he lost his self-control and 
injured the baby. He said his anger was derived from his childhood, when 
he was deprived of playing sports because of his size. Goodrich stands 4 
feet 11 and suffers from "self-loathing," Hussey said.

Source: HARTFORD COURANT

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HAWAII - There have been days when grief overwhelmed her, when she had 
no way to cope except by crying, but now Nancy Dick has a mission. 

The way Dick sees it, seven weeks after her oldest son, Daniel, was 
killed at the Halona Blowhole while on vacation, she needs to convince 
state officials to install a grate over the landmark so no one else will 
die there. 

The 47-year-old hairdresser from Sylmar, Calif., understands that a 
steel grate is an extreme idea but said her 18-year-old son's memory 
demands nothing less. 

"I would think that people would be happy that maybe a life would be 
saved," she said by telephone from Barbara's Hair Company in Sylmar. 

She said the pain of Daniel's June 30 death was beyond anything she and 
her two other sons — Jacob, 16, and Matthew, 15 — could imagine. 

Daniel was "the glue" that held family and friends together, his mother 
said. 

Classmates were always eating meals at his house, girls were always 
calling for his advice on their boyfriends, and troubled teens Daniel 
barely knew seemed to always befriend him and get help. 

"He was a deep thinker," Nancy Dick said. "And he was always thinking 
about other people. He never went through that selfish teenage thing." 

At the Ralphs supermarket where the teenager was a bag boy, the manager 
turned a checkout stand into a shrine with candles and flowers and a 
photograph of Daniel. Customers left a slew of sympathy notes. 

More than 1,000 people showed up for his memorial service. 

Daniel had just graduated from First Lutheran High School, where he was 
student-body president. He was going to attend community college in the 
fall to study business. 

He and his brothers had never been to Hawai'i. 

On the day he died, Daniel was at Sandy Beach with a girl. 

According to witnesses, Daniel walked up to the blowhole from Sandy 
Beach and may not have known of the area's hazardous conditions. 

At the blowhole, he leaned over the opening, forming a bridge with his 
body. About 30 seconds later, a geyser of water shot through the hole, 
catching him square in the chest and sending him 8 to 12 feet into the 
air. He somersaulted and disappeared head-first into the blowhole. 

Police found Nancy Dick and her other sons at their hotel and brought 
them to the blowhole to wait. 

"It was just sick and gut-wrenching," she said. 

When firefighters suspended their search that night, she was going to 
stay until they returned at first light. She said she asked them: What 
if he comes up through the hole and he can't get out by himself? 

"That's when they told me 'That isn't going to happen,' " she said. 
"That was a real reality check for me and we went back home to the hotel 
and I don't remember us saying very much. We took showers and cried a 
lot." 

Divers found Daniel Dick the next morning not far from the underwater 
entrance to the blowhole. 

The idea for a grate came to Nancy Dick a few days later. It needs to be 
simple and sturdy, she said. 

"I am looking at it from such a practical point of view," she said. "I 
don't think people would see it, but if you did, so what?" 

She explained her views in a letter to Gov. Ben Cayetano, who then 
ordered the state Department of Land and Natural Resources to see what 
could be done to prevent similar accidents. 

"It's not as simple as people think," said Gilbert Coloma-Agaran, 
director of the land use agency. "You're talking about making a man-made 
change to a natural feature. If it makes sense to do, we will work with 
whomever we need to work with." 

Coloma-Agaran said he has no idea how long it will take to make a 
recommendation on Dick's proposal, but he will discuss it with the 
governor. 

Nancy Dick said she will push the state as hard as she can. 

David Dick, her ex-husband, filed a lawsuit in Circuit Court in Honolulu 
Aug. 9 against the city and the state. He is seeking unspecified damages 
due to alleged negligence over the failure to post warning signs from 
Sandy Beach. He said he isn't sure if a steel grate is the right 
solution. 

"I am not an expert on safety, but obviously there needs to be something 
done," David Dick said by telephone from California. "I don't know what. 
I am not an engineer." 

Source: HONOLULU ADVERTISER
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PENNSYLVANIA - Tanya Meyers and John Stachokus are back together, 
according to two family members.

The couple, who battled through a messy court fight over whether or not 
John had the right to prevent Tanya from aborting their child, are 
reportedly enjoying some vacation time at the New Jersey shore.

Stachokus and Meyers made national headlines during the abortion fight 
because Stachokus took the unusual step of trying to stop Meyers from 
aborting the child he wanted to have. He told Meyers he would take full 
custody of the child if she didn't want it but she rebuffed the offer.

That led Stachokus to seek a court order to bar Meyers from having an 
abortion. But a Luzerne County judge denied his petition, citing a 
woman's legal right to choose to have an abortion.

Stachokus said he'd appeal. But the issue became moot when Meyers was 
hospitalized for hemorrhaging that resulted in a miscarriage.

The issue attracted an array of supporters on both sides. Pro-life 
groups lined up behind Stachokus saying they believe a man should have a 
say in his child's birth.

A family member on Tanya's side reported that a reconciliation took 
place and the couple decided to spend some time together, much to the 
chagrin of her relatives, the source stated.

A check with Mrs. Betty Lambert, Tanya's maternal grandmother, confirmed 
that the two have gotten back together.

"Yes, that's what I hear," she responded from her Shickshinny home.

She also said that other family members were not pleased with the 
development, in view of the ill will the abortion dispute engendered.

Stachokus' mother, Loretta, said she was aware that John "went away for 
a few days to get some rest" and that he told her he was going "with a 
friend."

She said she was not aware of a reconciliation between her son and 
Meyers.

Meyers' mother, Tracy Curry, hung up on a reporter seeking comment.

Another family relative, who asked not to be identified, confirmed that 
the two have reconciled.

Attorney Linda Rosenthal, Meyers' lawyer, said she considers any reports 
about a reconciliation between her client and Stachokus as "rumors" and 
that she would have to hear it straight from Meyers before she would 
believe it.  She dubbed the report "incredulous."

Attorney John Williamson, Stachokus' lawyer, said if the report is true, 
"Hopefully, they are now of a like mind."  He added, "There must have 
been something there to begin with. I hope things work out."

During their public feud in the courts, Meyers had filed a request for a 
protection from abuse order against Stachokus because she said he was 
harassing her to have the baby and saying things she interpreted as a 
threat to her.


Source: CITIZENS VOICE

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KOSOVO - HAXJERE Sahiti was married on a Sunday, murdered on a Monday, 
and buried in the woods the same afternoon. Married life lasted less 
than 12 hours for her. It ended with the 20-year-old Kosovar Albanian 
woman lying dead on her family’s living room carpet, with seven pistol 
bullets fired into her torso. 

The killer was her elder brother, Ismet. The murder was witnessed by her 
mother and brother. Her crime was supposedly not being a virgin on her 
wedding night, thus bringing the honour of her family into disrepute. 

Under an Albanian traditional law dating from the 15th century, laid out 
in a massive tome known as the Kanun of Leke Dukagjini, a husband may 
return his bride to her family if he should discover that "she is not as 
she should be" on her wedding night. 

Alternatively, he may kill her himself, sometimes with a bullet 
traditionally given to him at the wedding by the bride’s father, just in 
case. 

The Kanun of Leke, which is known as the "code", says that if a woman is 
not a virgin on her wedding night, her husband may "cut her hair braids" 
and return her to her family. Any bride whose hair has been cut, says 
the code, may then be legitimately shot. 

Ismet Sahiti, who murdered his own sister in front of his mother and 
brother, and then tried to cover up the evidence by burying his sister 
in the woods, recently began serving a five-year sentence at a UN prison 
in western Kosovo. 

The UN police post-morten examination carried out on the body of Haxjere 
showed that she had been indeed a virgin when she died, and that her 
brutish Albanian husband, Skender, to whom she had been wedded in an 
arranged marriage, didn’t know any better. 

Haxjere was a pretty Kosovar Albanian girl from the tiny farming 
community of Velika Goden, a beautiful hillside village set half-way up 
a mountain near Kosovo’s border with Macedonia. 

On Sunday, 7 October last year, Haxjere was picked up from her family 
home by her new husband, Skender Rrahimi, a 30-year-old man from the 
village of Zegra, which lies across the mountain. 

Mr Rrahimi, described by the Kosovo Police Service officer who 
interviewed him as "really stupid", decided after a few hours in 
Haxjere’s company that she was not a virgin. 

Telling her that her mother was really sick and needed her at home, Mr 
Rrahimi delivered the terrified Haxjere back to her family house, 
despite her pleadings that she would stay with him and be a dutiful 
wife. 

At 3am on the Monday morning, Haxjere was dumped at home. Her mother was 
woken by the noise, as was her eldest son Ismet, a short-tempered and 
traumatised former guerrilla fighter from the Kosovo Liberation Army. 
"Haxjere was saying, ‘I’ve betrayed you, I can never look you in the 
eye’, you know this is not true," says her mother, sitting crying last 
week under a row of damson trees in the family garden. 

Haxjere’s mother says that the irascible Ismet rushed into the kitchen, 
picked up a pistol and shot his sister in horror at the shame she had 
bought on the family, after which her mother says she passed out, 
conveniently not remembering anything for most of the following week. 

Haxjere’s body was exhumed. There were eight 7.65mm bullet holes in it. 
Her bloodstained clothes were still in the house. It was clearly not 
suicide. Ismet then confessed to the crime, although Mr Peace estimates 
that the entire family was involved in the killing and that Haxjere’s 
mother and brother were almost certainly in the living room watching it 
happen. 

"What happened was meant to be, it was ordained," says Haxjere’s other 
brother, Ahmet, 20, sitting next to his mother on the grass. He says the 
family feels that their honour in the village has been redeemed. 

"I can look the village in the eye," says his mother "and I’m more 
worried about my son than my daughter."

Source: THE SCOTSMAN

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WILMINGTON, Del.- Police in Delaware are trying to get a head-start on 
cracking crimes before they happen by setting up a database that 
contains a list of people who officers believe are likely to break the 
law. 

Defense attorneys and the American Civil Liberties Union oppose the 
database, which lists names, addresses and photographs of the potential 
suspects - many of whom have clean slates. 

The precise grounds for putting a person on the list aren't clear. But 
since the system was introduced in Wilmington in June, most of the 200 
people included in the file have been minorities from poor, high-crime 
neighborhoods. 

State and federal prosecutors say the tactic is legal, but defense 
lawyers object to the practice. 

"We should enforce the existing laws, but not violate them, to catch the 
bad guys," said Theo Gregory, City Councilman and public defender. 
"We've become the bad guys, and that's not right." 

Mayor James Baker called the criticism "asinine and intellectually 
bankrupt." 

"I don't care what anyone but a court of law thinks," he said. "Until a 
court says otherwise, if I say it's constitutional, it's 
constitutional." 

The pictures are being taken by two Wilmington police squads created in 
June to arrest drug dealers. The units are known in some neighborhoods 
as "jump-out squads" because they jump out of cars and make quick 
arrests. 

Many of the people whose photos have been taken for the file were 
stopped briefly for loitering and let go. 

Source: AP
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WASHINGTON -- Posting information about the first 25 awards from the 
federal September 11 Victim Compensation Fund may have reignited doubts 
about the program, instead of encouraging more people to apply. 

The average amount of the first 25 awards was $1.363 million before 
deductions for life insurance and other "collateral offsets," according 
to Feinberg. The final amounts ranged from $300,000 to $3 million and 
nine have been accepted, he said. 

"It is our hope that these initial payments will result in increased 
filings," Feinberg said in a statement yesterday. 

Several victims' survivors on Staten Island who were interviewed after 
the posting roundly panned the financial awards as meager, and 
complained anew about the congressional legislation that created the 
fund, which requires that life insurance and other collateral benefits, 
such as some workers' compensation and pension payments, be subtracted 
from awards. 

"I think that is way too low, considering what happened to people on 
September 11th," said James Alario of Lighthouse Hill, whose wife was 
killed at the World Trade Center. 

(What happened on September 11, James?  Your wife died?  So did the wife 
of some guy in California.  A guy in Kansas lost his wife, too.  I bet 
even Florida gained a few widowers that day.  Do you really believe that 
we should all pay for how your wife died?  Were the circumstances of her 
death so extraordinary that every taxpayer should be held liable?  What 
if she had died in a car accident on September 10, James?  You'd still 
be a widower.  You'd still have bills to pay.  You'd still have two kids 
to raise and support.  But you'd be millions of dollars poorer, and no 
one whose spouse died in the WTC would have cared.)

"I think the offsets are ridiculous," he said. "My wife had life 
insurance, disability and all that stuff. I don't think there should be 
any offsets." 

"But money is not the issue for me," added Alario, the father of two 
boys. "I haven't applied [to the fund]. I haven't even been thinking 
about it. I'd rather have my wife back than the money. It's going to the 
kids anyway." 

Denise Matuza  of Great Kills, whose husband died at the World Trade 
Center, charged that the deduction for life insurance was "totally 
unfair." "My husband paid for his insurance out of his own pocket," she 
said. 

(There's a familiar name.)

"The offsets are going to have to be looked at," said William Doyle of 
Annadale, whose son was lost at the World Trade Center. "Congress is 
going to have to go back to the drawing boards." 

(Thanks for telling us how to run the country, Mr. Doyle.  Do you think 
you could also figure out how to fund Social Security and bring the 
races together?)

Doyle, a spokesman for Give Your Voice, a metropolitan-area support 
group, said that the payouts announced yesterday were so "ridiculously 
low" they would likely discourage undecided families from applying to 
the fund -- a move that would restrict their right to sue for damages in 
court. 

"I think this is going to turn people off," he said. 

But a lawyer who has been representing survivors in their proceedings 
with the fund said future awards were likely to be significantly higher 
when claimants with legal counsel began applying. 

(So, we're going to be improving the standard of living for lawyers, 
too?)

"My understanding is that these initial awards went to people who just 
filled out applications and submitted to Feinberg's presumptions and 
calculations," said John D'Amato, whose West Brighton law firm Russo, 
Scamardella and D'Amato has about 50 Sept. 11 clients. 

"I wouldn't be representing these people unless I was sure I could make 
legal arguments to maximize their awards," he said. 

The awards were not listed individually, but in brackets arranged 
according to the ages and incomes of the victims involved. No 
information about marital status or number of dependents was provided. 

Charles Miller, a spokesman for Feinberg, said he decided to keep 
information on the victims to a minimum to safeguard their identities. 

But Sept. 11 relative advocates said that approach effectively nullified 
the purpose of the posting on the awards -- which was to give family 
members who have not applied an idea of what they could receive from the 
fund. 

"There is nothing in this that people can look at and identify with," 
said Stephen Push, a spokesman for Families of Sept. 11, a support group 
here. "I think they could have provided more information without giving 
away the identities of victims." 

But Push, a former Westerleigh resident whose wife was killed in the 
hijacked plane flown into the Pentagon, did not join other Sept. 11 
family members in criticizing the awards as too small. 

"They are clearly less than what you could get from a successful 
lawsuit, but the key word there is 'successful,'" he said. 

Push said that the fund, on the other hand, "is faster and holds a 
degree of certainty." 

Source: STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE

(I'm sure you've gotten the point, but if not: I'm sick of these people. 
 I'd rather don a niqaab and eat in segregated family sections of 
restaurants than spend one day with these hollow, perspectiveless asses.

They can't see outside of their realm of greed, and they honestly 
believe that the entire nation is falling over themselves to be 
emotionally and financially held hostage to the whims of a couple 
thousand middle-class nobodies who lost their meal tickets.  We get it 
already.  Death is stinky ca-ca.  It makes people sad.  We've been 
there.  Really.  Other people in the course of history have died, and 
the living mourned them.  

But it's been almost a year.  We've moved on.  You haven't.  Fine.  Keep 
it to yourself.  Build a shrine in your family room, light a candle 
everyday, post to message boards with the handle "never4get" --I don't 
care which meaningless gesture you choose to keep the memory alive -- 
but take the newspapers off your speed dial, and show a hint of 
gratitude for the enormous monetary support you're receiving.  

Staten Island is home to a number of soulless, shallow automatons who 
live to acquire stuff, so it's no surprise the local rag caters to them. 
 And given some people's belief that everyone's daily life should cease 
on every subsequent September 11 and Jesus's second coming will occur at 
the site of the WTC because it's such sacred ground, it's no surprise 
that there aren't more letters to the editor complaining about these 
twits -- even if quite a few people slam their head against a desk each 
time they read yet another of these "gimmemore" articles.

I want to change that.  You're good sheep.  Most of you, anyway.  The 
rest -- get in line.  Whenever you see an article in which family 
members decry the measly millions they're receiving, send a letter.  If 
enough of you do that, perhaps we can return to stories that are both 
exploitative *and* interesting.  For starters, this is the e-mail to the 
SI Advance: [email protected]

Get cracking.)
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