Crazed man wanted to make love | Alberta | Edmonton Sun — It’s in the water, I’m sure of it.

Believing he was God, a crazed city man broke into a stranger’s home, announced he was her husband and said they were going to make love, court heard yesterday.

And after the half-naked victim fought off a nude Yvon Joseph Larocque and ran outside, he tackled her and tried to carry her back inside, Crown prosecutor Susan Kennedy said.

“The victim called out, ‘Help me, he is trying to rape me,’” Kennedy told provincial court Judge Marlene Graham.

Larocque, who defence lawyer Andre Ouellette will argue was legally insane at the time, testified voices in his head told him he was the Almighty.

A typical, hypocritical action by someone who rejects Jesus’ teachings against violence and against the commandment against killing by taking action against what he sees as killing by killing. If we all took his view, shouldn’t we do the same to those who start wars under false pretenses that lead to soldier and civilian deaths? Or don’t those dead deserve the same as the unborn?

Authorities said they had a suspect in custody Sunday afternoon in the shooting death of George Tiller, a Wichita doctor who was one of the few doctors in the nation to perform late-term abortions.

Dr. Tiller, who had long been a lightning rod for controversy over the issue of abortion and had survived a shooting more than a decade ago, was shot inside his church here on Sunday morning, the authorities said. Dr. Tiller, 67, was shot with a handgun inside the lobby of his longtime church, Reformation Lutheran Church on the city’s East Side, just after 10 a.m. (Central Time). The service had started minutes earlier.

Dr. Tiller, who had performed abortions since the 1970s, had long been a lightning rod for controversy over the issue of abortion, particularly in Kansas, where abortion opponents regularly protested outside his clinic and sometimes his home and church.
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“Dr. Tiller was a fearless, passionate defender of women’s reproductive health and rights,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, based in New York, which had worked on a legal case related to Dr. Tiller. “It’s time that this nation stop demonizing these doctors, and start honoring them.”

The killer has been caught.

Man accused of burning dead squirrel in Novato – Marin Independent Journal What is with the cops nowadays? Don’t they have real crime to fight?

A 19-year-old man could be facing criminal charges after he was found burning a dead squirrel in Novato, police said. Oscar Josue Arroyo, a Rohnert Park resident, was contacted by Novato police after a witness reported a group of teens behaving suspiciously Monday afternoon on Shady Lane, according to police reports.

Police arrived to find Arroyo holding the smoking carcass at the end of a string or rope, said Novato police Lt. John McCarthy. The squirrel had apparently been struck by a car prior to the burning. “His answer to the officer was, he was just messing around,” McCarthy said. “It was obvious that it had been dead for some time.”

Novato police are sending the case to the district attorney’s office to request a charge of tampering with an animal carcass. Arroyo was not arrested.

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Wired – May 28, 2009:

Intel’s fabrication plants can churn out hundreds of thousands of processor chips a day. But what does it take to handcraft a single 8-bit CPU and a computer? Give or take 18 months, about $1,000 and 1,253 pieces of wire.

Steve Chamberlin, a Belmont, California, videogame developer by day, set out on a quest to custom design and build his own 8-bit computer. The homebrew CPU would be called Big Mess of Wires or BMOW. Despite its name, it is a painstakingly created work of art.

The BMOW is closest in design to the MOS Technology 6502 processor used in the Apple II, Commodore 64 and early Atari videogame consoles. Chamberlin designed his CPU to have three 8-bit data registers, a 24-bit address size and 12 addressing modes. It took him about a year and a half from design to finish. Almost all the components come from the 1970s- and 1980s-era technology.

The BMOW isn’t just a CPU. Chamberlin added a keyboard input, an LCD output that shows a strip of text, a USB connection, three-voice audio, and VGA video output to turn it into a functioning computer.

Aren’t the rising prices going to hurt the economy’s recovery?

Storage tankers across the globe may be brimming with oil that no one is buying because of the global economic downturn, but the traditional laws of supply and demand don’t always apply to oil prices. Drivers have faced rising prices at the gas pump in recent months, as investors and oil-producing countries hoard supplies in anticipation of a global economic recovery later this year.

The 12 member countries of the OPEC cartel voted in Vienna on Thursday to maintain output at current levels rather than increase supplies in order to bring some relief to consumers, particularly in the gas-guzzling West. The OPEC oil ministers, whose countries account for about 40% of the world’s entire crude-oil supply, also renewed their commitment to stick to their agreed quotas, rather than ship extra oil, as they began doing last April when several members ignored their agreed output limits. OPEC leaders, many of whose economies are heavily dependent on oil exports, have struggled to stabilize prices at a level that suits their own economic needs amid falling demand and rising supplies.
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“There is some risk we will run out of storage space in the next four to six weeks,” says Simon Wardell, director of global oil at IHS Global Insight, an energy-forecasting company in London.
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Despite such dangers, investors and oil producers are betting that global demand will roar back, apparently hoping that the recession has already hit bottom. Over the past two months, investors have plowed billions of dollars into oil futures. If the U.S. and other major industrial economies rebound, oil supplies could be depleted because the recession has prompted producer nations to freeze hundreds of projects to open new oil wells or upgrade existing ones.

Ah, isn’t it wonderful how the “free” market operates?

Changing diapers, shopping for diapers, writing letters to Angelina, throwing out the trash filled with diapers… It’s hard to imagine how exciting this show will be.

It’s official: Nadya Suleman and her brood of 14 are coming to a TV near you.

After weeks of meetings and negotiations, Suleman’s attorney Jeff Czech confirmed exclusively to Usmagazine.com that Suleman signed a deal Thursday night to star in her own reality series.

“[Nadya and the producers] are hoping to have an arrangement whereby several events in the children’s lives would be filmed in a documentary series,” Czech told Us.

“One of the events in the children’s lives might be their first birthday.”

I can hardly wait.