Face Transplant Recipient Connie Culp Offers Thanks

Connie Culp, 46, is the recipient of the first United States face transplant, by the Cleveland Clinic in the United States.   She was shot in the face from 8 feet away in an attempted murder/suicide by...

Hitman: Sniper Spam

So if you get an email from a purported assassin threatening to ice you (or a loved one), rest assured that it's not Agent 47, but a garden-variety spammer.""The online Hitman scammer, who threatens to kill...

Cops Make Major Drug Bust When FedEx Delivers Pot Package to Wrong Address

And here I thought that Big Brown and FedEx trucks mostly brought goodies from shopping or expedited business materials. But one drug pusher decided that his business would do best by FedEx--which luckily then took a shipment to the wrong address."When it absolutely,...

Gold medal Olympic scams

Tickets for the Beijing Olympics are going to be hot commidities - but it seems some people are already trying to cash in on the action, with fake Olympic ticket websites, selling Olympic bonds that do not exist...

Trisomy 18 or Edwards Syndrome - What is it? - Who Does It Effect

Earlier this year I was personally moved after seing a video that was posted on GodTube about a little boy named Elliott, It was simply not possible to contain my tears at this precious life and I think that this...

Heart Transplant Recipient Dies as Donor Did, by Suicide

This is a totally weird story. Man gets heart from suicide victim. Gets in touch with family. Marries donor's widow. Kills self like donor did.There's been speculation, and some movies, about the notion that...

April Fool from your friendly Google

"Introducing Gmail Custom TimeTMBe on time. Every time.* How do I use it?Just click "Set custom time" from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient's inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by...

High steppin’ and fancy dancin’

"I ran across this a few days ago and posted it as an update on the previous thread. Rather than be accused of burying the lead, I wanted to take the opportunity to ask our readers this question: “Is it legal for dead people to make political contributions?” I don’t...

UN fund raises $420 million from Europe, Canada, developing countries

Christmas will come early to Third World Nations most needy, unfortunately the Status Quo will most likely remain the same in that Despot Dictators will get the Lions share to squirrel away in Swiss Banks or other...

UK govt mislays personal details of half the nation

Hmmnnnnn....remarkable!"The personal details of half of Britain have been mislaid by the government, finance minister Alistair Darling said on Tuesday, in another major blow to an administration reeling from the Northern Rock banking debacle. The opposition...

Scant evidence to support the Facebook Hacker crisis. bm_tnoo7@hotmail.com ma...

A CQ Extra investigation has failed to uncover any evidence to support claims of a purported Facebook Hacker, and many signs that point towards a hoax.

Financing Terrorism 3.0

"Over the past 5 years, I’ve spent a great deal of time reading and writing about the War against Islamic terrorism, with special emphasis on exposing the myths of the religion of peace™  ... Looking back, one area in which I have not spent a great deal of time, is...

Geek News - New Scam E-mail Threatens to Kill You! - Posted by Michael Fomkin

"The FBI is warning of an e-mail scam that may lead recipients frightened enough to pay up to US$20,000 in order to prevent their own death. The content of the scam e-mail is reportedly from a hit man hired to kill you. The only way out of not being killed is to pay the hit...

Man Receives Hand Transplant After 32 Years

"A Michigan man who lost his right hand in a work-related accident more than 30 years ago became the third successful hand transplant recipient in the United States, doctors said Thursday. David F. Savage was doing well the day after the surgery at Jewish Hospital in...

Video: Harold Ford Sr. calls pro-life activists “crackers”; Update: Or is...

"Harold Ford Sr., the father of Tennessee Democrat Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. (D), called pro-life activists who were outside of his son’s campaign headquarters “crackers”. Ford Sr. was on a cell phone telling the recipient “we have a cracker here...

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