Angry flight attendant charged with setting fire on plane

FARGO, North Dakota (AP) -- A flight attendant angry about
his work route smuggled a lighter aboard an airplane and set
a fire in a bathroom, forcing an emergency landing,
authorities said Thursday.
Eder Rojas, 19, appeared in court Thursday, following his
arrest a day earlier in Minneapolis, and was ordered held
without bail, prosecutors said. The charge of setting fire
aboard a civil aircraft carries a maximum penalty of 20
years in prison.
Court documents said Rojas, of the Twin Cities suburb of
Woodbury, told authorities he was upset at the airline for
making him work the route. He is accused of taking a lighter
with him through the security checkpoint, authorities said.
"Rojas further stated that he was preparing his cart to
serve the passengers, he set the cart up, went back to the
lavatory and reached in with his right hand and lit the
paper towels with the lighter," court documents said.

- I guess if he's that stupid, he didn't deserve the job
anyway. Ted K

Conflict follows device that drives away teen loiterers

CNN - A wall-mounted gadget designed to drive away loiterers
with a shrill, piercing noise audible only to teens and
young adults is infuriating civil liberties groups and
tormenting young people after being introduced into the
United States.
Read the full story at
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/23/teen.be.gone.ap/index.htm
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So it's against someone's civil liberties if you don't allow
them to trespass on your property?

$20M 'fence' scrapped for not catching enough illegals

CNN - The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of
its highly touted "virtual fence" on the Arizona-Mexico
border because the system is failing to adequately alert
border patrol agents to illegal crossings, officials said.
Read the full story at
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/23/border.fence.ap/index
.html

For 20 million you think they could have installed lasers or
something too....

Al-Qaeda in Iraq calls for one-month offensive

"We call on our beloved ones … that each unit should present the head of an American as a gift to the charlatan Bush … in addition to one of the apostate servants and slaves of the Awakening [Councils] during a one-month period,"

I wonder which American University he attended?

Full Story - CBC.ca

Reservists plead guilty in fatal beating of homeless man

The brutality of the killing shocked people in Toronto. It
was not only the violence against a vulnerable man that
caught people's attention, but also that three Canadian
Forces reservists were accused of the fatal assault.

I realize you can't paint everyone with the same brush. And
it's a damn good thing they weren't let loose on the
vulnerable and sometimes homeless people of Afghanistan.

Full CBC.ca Story

Protests raise fears of food crisis

Food prices are soaring sending political shockwaves around
the world but the reasons behind the looming crisis are
numerous and complicated.

Or is it just that people are greedy for money. Kinda like
the oil companies....

Read the full story at
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/04/15/food.prices/index
.html

Dr. Phil Show Bails Out Teen in YouTube Attack

FOX NEWS

"In the statement on Saturday, the Dr. Phil show said that
bailing the girl out of jail was a violation of the show's
rules, and that the show would no longer go forward with the
girl's story."

Well, lets see the rules... or was it because they got
caught??

She would have been a prize for the show. Everyone would
have wanted a piece of her. Maybe Jerry Springer could use
her now.

Canadian vessel, conservation group ship collide

A coast guard icebreaker and a ship owned by a militant
conservation group have collided in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
as tension mounts over the annual seal hunt off Canada's
East Coast.
Read the full story at
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/31/canada.hunt.ap/
index.html

Maybe the "militant conservation group" should concentrate
thier efforts at stopping child abouse.

Study: 1 in 50 U.S. babies abused, neglected annually

About 1 in 50 U.S. infants are victims of nonfatal child abuse or neglect in
a year, according to the first national study of the problem in that age
group.
Read the full story at
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/04/03/infant.neglect.ap/index.html

And you need a licence to drive a car......

Britney in 'dire need' of psychological help: Dr. Phil

Being a "doctor", don't you think that Phil McGraw should maybe keep his patient confidentiality. Why in the hell would a real doctor go and tell the whole world he's helping Britney Spears with her problems? Oh, wait, Ratings....



Check out the CBC News article here.