DUBLIN, Ga. – He shot a man twice and felt so good about it, police said, a rapper wrote a song describing the shooting and calling out the victim by name. A judge sentenced 25-year-old Rico Todriquez Wright Monday to spend the next 20 years in prison after his victim mentioned the hip hop confession to police. Chad Blue, 28, told police he had known Wright before the September 2006 shooting, but that the men weren't friendly. He testified companions egged Wright on as he chased and shot his victim.
Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday. The high court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of a decision by the Canadian Transportation Agency that people who are "functionally disabled by obesity" deserve to have two seats for one fare. The airlines had lost an appeal at the Federal Court of Appeal in May and had sought to launch a fresh appeal at the Supreme Court.
A dad, locked up for smacking his son's bottom in public, has demanded an apology from police who he branded as "ridiculous". The young boy was running riot in a shop and not listening. After repeatedly telling him off, he finally gave in and smacked his bottom. He was handcuffed and put in a police car with his young child watching. Are you for or against smacking a child?
It appears in this video that President Bush's approval is in a sorrier state than polls indicate. In a video taken at the G20 summit, Bush walks across a line of world leaders without shaking or being asked to shake any of their hands. Whether the President is being rejected by the world leaders or he is rejecting them, CNN's Rick Sanchez aptly says that Bush looks like "the most unpopular kid in high school that nobody liked."
Advertisements take airtime away from programs. In the 1960s a typical hour-long American show would run for 51 minutes excluding advertisements. Today, a similar program would only be 42 minutes long; a typical 30-minute block of time now includes 22 minutes of programming with 6 minutes of national advertising and 2 minutes of local.
In other words, over the course of 10 hours, American viewers will see approximately 3 hours of advertisements, twice what they would have seen in the sixties.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith wants to end the evil trade of smuggling women into Britain to become sex slaves. She claimed seven out of ten hookers are run by pimps or had been trafficked into Britain by organized crime gangs. Ms Smith explained she is targeting men to cut demand. The laws unveiled yesterday would also see fellas who have sex with hookers controlled by pimps slapped with a £1,000 fine. But what do you think? Charged with rape for using a prostitute?