Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

[Kuya]

What kind of punch was that

[Pharaun]

What kind of punch was that

But in all seriousness that kid just screwed up the rest of his life. I can't see any situation where he's not charged as an adult and will spend a good portion of his life in prison.

[Kuya]

That guy must have had a previous condition or that 17 year old should consider boxing.

[AidenCarby]

Seems like he was a shitty ref if people kept swinging on him for bad calls lol.

[Moss]

That guy must have had a previous condition or that 17 year old should consider boxing.

a well-aimed punch is p dangerous, boxer or not. it said he was a big kid too

[Hatedregret]

To make him vomit blood right after a punch to the side of the head?

[Moss]

are you familiar with the kermit washington punch?

[Aristio]

Judge sells kids to prisons

Mark Ciavarella Jnr ordered to pay $1.2m in restitution after he was found to be a ‘figurehead’ in the conspiracy.

An American judge known for his harsh and autocratic courtroom manner was jailed for 28 years for conspiring with private prisons to hand young offenders maximum sentences in return for kickbacks amounting to millions of dollars.

Mark CiavarellaMark Ciavarella Jnr was ordered to pay $1.2m (£770,000) in restitution after he was found to be a “figurehead” in the conspiracy that saw thousands of children unjustly punished in the name of profit in the case that became known as “kids for cash”.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned some 4,000 convictions issued by the former Luzerne County judge between 2003 and 2008, claiming he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles – including the right to legal counsel and the right to intelligently enter a plea. Ciavarella Jnr, 61, was tried and convicted of racketeering charges earlier this year but his lawyers had asked for a “reasonable” sentence, claiming that he had already been punished enough.

Federal prosecutors accused Ciavarella Jnr and a second judge, Michael Conahan, of taking more than $2m in bribes from the builder of the PA Child Care and Western PA Child Care detention centres and extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the facilities’ co-owner. Ciavarella Jnr filled the beds of the private prisons with children as young as 10, many of them first-time offenders convicted minor crimes.

[arus2001]

Pretty sure this was a Law and Order episode at some point. Hell, if I remember right, the prison the judge they ferried them off to was even in PA.

[Moss]

wow that's heinous, what a fucking shitbag

[jmc]

Pretty sure this was a Law and Order episode at some point. Hell, if I remember right, the prison the judge they ferried them off to was even in PA.

Your right, I remember that episode.

[myreality]

http://rt.com/news/superbug-gonorrhea-aids-sex-900/

'Worse than AIDS' - sex 'superbug' discovered in Japan called disaster in waiting

Doctors are warning that a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea could be more deadly than AIDS, and are urging members of US Congress to spend $54 million for the development of a drug that would fight it.

"This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive and will affect more people quickly," Alan Christianson, a doctor of naturopathic medicine, told CNBC.

The new strain of gonorrhea, H041, was first discovered in 2009 after a sex worker fell victim to the superbug in Japan. Medical officials reported that the medication-resilient ‘sex superbug’ was discovered in Hawaii in May 2011, and has since spread to California and Norway, the International Business Times reports.

Nearly 30 million people die from AIDS-related causes each year, and the H041 superbug could have similar consequences, according to Alan Christianson, a doctor of naturopathic medicine.

"Getting gonorrhea from this strain might put someone into septic shock and death in a matter of days," Christianson said. "This is very dangerous."

The gonorrhea strain has not yet claimed any lives, but the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have asked Congress for $54 million to find an antibiotic to treat the strain.

In a Capitol Hill briefing last week, health officials said an education and public awareness campaign is crucial in minimizing the effective of HO41. William Smith, executive director of the National Coalition for STD Directors, said that if the ‘sex superbug’ spreads, it could quickly kill many people before a treatment is discovered. And that risk becomes increasingly more likely if Congress does not provide the funds to find a cure, he said.

"It's an emergency situation. As time moves on, it's getting more hazardous," he told members of Congress.

"We have to keep beating the drum on this," he added. "The potential for disaster is great."

In the United States, there are 20 million new STD infections each year, which results in about $16 billion in medical costs, the CDC reports. More than 800,000 of these cases gonorrhea infections, most of which occur in young people ages 15 to 24. Gonorrhea is sometimes difficult to detect, since it shows no symptoms in about half of all women. Those who fall ill to the deadly strain may not notice it until it’s too late.

“That’s what’s kind of scary about this,” Smith said.

Although health officials have widely reported that cases of H041 were discovered in California, Hawaii and Norway, the CDC has disputed those claims and told CNBC on Monday that the infection has not been confirmed anywhere outside of Japan. The CDC did, however, make an announcement in 2011 that it was noticing greater gonorrhea bacterial resistance to certain types of antibiotics in Hawaii and California.

CDC officials said that the US and Norwegian cases were treated effectively with antibiotics not routinely recommended and that these cases were mistakenly identified as H041. But the agency continues to urge Congress for research funding, indicating that the risk of infection is high regardless of where the cases occurred.

Christianson is urging people to practice safe sex and get STD tests if they are in a new relationship, since a superbug infection could be around the corner.

"This is a disaster just waiting to happen," he told CNBC. "It's time to do something about it before it explodes. These superbugs, including the gonorrhea strain, are a health threat. We need to move now before it gets out of hand."

[Tajin]

Feels good bein' Mexican

VIDALIA, Ga. — For years, labor unions and immigrant rights activists have accused large-scale farmers, like those harvesting sweet Vidalia onions here this month, of exploiting Mexican guest workers. Working for hours on end under a punishing sun, the pickers are said to be crowded into squalid camps, driven without a break and even cheated of wages.

But as Congress weighs immigration legislation expected to expand the guest worker program, another group is increasingly crying foul — Americans, mostly black, who live near the farms and say they want the field work but cannot get it because it is going to Mexicans. They contend that they are illegally discouraged from applying for work and treated shabbily by farmers who prefer the foreigners for their malleability.

“They like the Mexicans because they are scared and will do anything they tell them to,” said Sherry Tomason, who worked for seven years in the fields here, then quit. Last month she and other local residents filed a federal lawsuit against a large grower of onions, Stanley Farms, alleging that it mistreated them and paid them less than it paid the Mexicans.

Been a while (two months?) since we had one of these:

CLEVELAND (AP) — The woman's voice was frantic and breathless, and she was choking back tears. "Help me. I'm Amanda Berry," she told a 911 dispatcher. "I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now."

Those words led police to a house near downtown Cleveland where Berry and two other women who vanished a decade ago were found Monday, elating family members and friends who had longed to see them again.

Authorities later arrested three brothers. They released no names and gave no information about them or what charges they might face. A relative said one of them is the homeowner, his nephew Ariel Castro.

[Outlaw]

Putting this in Political cause of the discussion it could inevitably lead to.. When someone told me about this recently I thought they were joking. >.>

Looking to take on Denny's, McDonald's and every other kid on the late-night block, Steak 'n Shake has launched an audacious new AllNighter Menu available between midnight and 6 a.m. while also making its full breakfast menu available now from midnight to 11 a.m. (at participating locations, of course). The attention grabber on the AllNighter Menu is the 7x7 Steakburger, a $7.77 tower of seven Steakburger patties alternating with seven slices of American cheese. While Steak 'n Shake's menu calls the burger "The Ultimate Challenge," nutritionists are likely to call it something different. The 7X7 weighs in at 1,330 calories (880 from meat), nearly double the 770 calories in Steak 'n Shake's next highest burger, the Grilled Portobello 'n Swiss Steakburger. The 7x7 Steakburger also packs 98 grams of fat, 290 mg of cholesterol, 34 grams of carbohydrates and 4,490 mg of sodium. Over-the-top, stacked burgers are fairly common features at independent burger joints and smaller chains: BurgerBusiness.com recently broke the story about the nine-patty Triple Triple Burger joining the Jake's Wayback Burgers menu on March 1. But major burger chains generally have avoided promoting more than triple-decker burgers. Steak 'n Shake goes small as well as big on the AllNighter Menu. Specialty Shooter mini burgers are available in All American, Jalapeňo Crunch, Guacamole or Gorilla (grilled in mustard and topped with American cheese). The minis are priced (with fries) at $1.49 each or $4.99 for three. Other items are Buffalo or BBQ Chicken Fingers ($5.99); Nacho Fries ($4.99); Chili or Bacon Cheese Fries ($4.79). Also on the late-night menu is an item that simultaneously appears on the breakfast menu: The $5.99 Steakburger Slinger Skillet has hash browns topped with Steak 'n Shake's chili, two Steakburger patties, shredded cheese and two eggs. Need more? It comes with choice of buttermilk biscuit, toast or bagel.

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/201..._7x7Burger.jpg

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/burger...b_2756857.html

[quannum]

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/...ut_100x100.jpg

100x100. checkmate atheists.

[Correction]

this isn't the miss piggy's checkout line tabloid headline subforum.

[Buffy]

Less than 1400 calories? Disappointing.

[Tarage]

In-N-Out is a glorious place and I wish they had one in Washington.

[Tricen]

They had the 7x7 at the SnS near me about a month ago. Friend and I battled it, we won. Sooo much grease, ugh. If there was less grease it would have been fairly easy, but with the amount that there was, we were gagging by the end.

[Kalmado]

The number of patties isn't impressive but the weight could be. Adam Richman on Man vs. Food (travel channel) has put down bigger burger challenges. I believe there is a place in Ann Arbor, Mi. where you can get like, 20 patties but they are only 1.6 oz. per patty.