Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SCARLET LETTER: Delaware has just passed a new law requiring sex
offenders to get a special mark on their driver's licenses. People
convicted of sex offenses will get a "Y" designation on the front of
their license upon release from prison. On the back, in the area where
it shows regular driving restrictions, such as the need to wear
glasses, will be a fuller explanation. (AP) ...Remember, kids: before
accepting a ride from a stranger, be sure to ask to see his license
first.
POLITICS AS USUAL: Alberto Russi's wife is glad he was convicted --
maybe now he'll stop meddling in politics, she says. "But I love
politics," Russi, 92, retorted after he pleaded no contest to four
counts of voter fraud for tampering with absentee ballots in the recent
Miami, Fla., mayoral election. Sentencing guidelines called for a
one-year jail term but the judge, citing Russi's age, instead sentenced
him to two years of probation. (UPI) ...He may actually have preferred
jail -- it would have been a good way to spend a year with well-known
politicians.
FIGHTING WORDS: "I was wrong. I should not have said what I said," Jane
Fonda admits. "My comments were inaccurate." She was backing off from a
speech she made to the United Nations Population Fund agency where she
said, "In the northern part of Georgia, children are starving to death.
People live in tar-paper shacks with no indoor plumbing, and so forth."
Georgia Gov. Zell Miller, a native of the northern part of the state,
was outraged. "Maybe the view from your penthouse apartment is not as
clear as it needs to be," he told Fonda, referring to her living area
on top of the CNN Tower in Atlanta, Ga. (AP) ...Hey, cut her some
slack. Maybe she was having flashbacks from her days in North Vietnam.
DON'T DO IT: Now that everyone knows smoking is dangerous, the U.S.
Surgeon General is turning his attention to other pressing health
problems. Dr. David Satcher says a new surgeon general's report will
argue that the country needs to pay more attention to suicide. "It is
hard for many to believe that more people in this country die from
suicide than homicide, but it is true," he proclaimed at a meeting of
the American Society of Suicidology. The report is due in about a year
and will include recommendations on how to improve suicide awareness.
(Reuters) ...Surgeon General's Warning: Suicide may be dangerous to
your health.
DREAM ON: When Jimmy Carter was president of the U.S., Eleanor Mondale,
daughter of the vice president, said she had a problem one night while
sleeping in the vice president's mansion. "I was so scared, I fainted,"
she writes in Swing magazine. "Upon coming to, I reached for the phone
and picked up the 'hot line' to the Secret Service Command Post. I
whispered that there was a man in my room and hung up. Minutes later,
two agents busted into the room, guns drawn." There was no man in the
room: she told the bodyguards she had seen a ghost. Secret Service
agents "requested that I NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!" (AP) ...She wasn't be
the first, or last, Democrat haunted by Caspar Weinberger.
EDUR WOH: "We often have to seek help from the German or French language
departments of Victoria University to clarify the meaning or
pronunciation of names," notes a spokesman for a New Zealand horse
racing association. But the language experts didn't help when it came
to Tulsy Tsan, a filly entered to race in Wellington. The name wasn't
German or French, it was English -- spelled backwards. When the name's
etiology was discovered, she was pulled from the race, but was allowed
to re-enter after being renamed "Ben Again". (Reuters) ...After "Ben
Dover" was rejected too.
THERE AND BACK: The road to Hell needs work. "It'll close the whole
town," complains Hell Chamber of Commerce President Jim Ley. "That's
where our money comes from. It'll kill us." A bridge on the main road
that leads to Hell, Mich., is in bad shape and the repair crew needs
three months to fix it. "It's probably going to put a couple of us out
of business," one shop owner conceded. (AP) ...They shouldn't worry:
the road crew's intentions are good.
RAGEOUS INTERRUPTUS: In an attempt to reduce "road rage", police in
Ontario, Canada, are pulling over drivers that look angry to give them
a survey, asking 10 questions about driving habits. "When you get a
situation where one or two people are road raging, they'll tell us why
they got in that state of mind," claims Provincial Police Sergeant
Peggy Gamble. (Reuters) ...While others just scream, "You made me late
to work for this?"
MAN'S BEST FRIEND: When an elderly couple saw their dog fall into a
ventilation shaft, someone was there to help them. The Budapest,
Hungary, couple watched as a man identified only as Jozsef P. came to
their aid by lowered himself down the 20-meter shaft on a rope. The man
then tied the rope to the dog so they could pull the animal to safety.
The relieved couple hurried off with the dog, but didn't bother to
throw the rope back down to Jozsef. A passerby heard his dwindling
calls for help -- four days later. He is hospitalized in serious
condition suffering from malnutrition and dehydration. (AFP) ..."Maybe
the only thing worse than having to give gratitude ...is having to
accept it." --William Faulkner (1897-1962), U.S. novelist.
BUT TO BE SURE, THEY'LL CHECK BACK LATER: "Study Links Menopause, Aging"
-- AP headline
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Kathy E
"I can only please one person a day, today is NOT your day, and tomorrow
isn't looking too good for you either"
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