I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts. As I would with acts of other, what I would consider to be, acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships. And that includes a variety of different acts, not just homosexual. I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations. The question is, do you act upon those orientations? So it's not the person, it's the person's actions. And you have to separate the person from their actions.
- Senator Rick Santorum in AP Interview
"The Virtual Flowers feature has been turned off for this memorial because it was being continually misused. It may return again in the future."
- Findagrave.com for the Audrey Marie Hilley entry.
| Murderess. Perpetrator of one of the most bizarre and convoluted murder cases of all time. Killed her first husband, Frank, with poison, then attempted to kill her daughter, Carol, the same way, both for insurance money. But doctors saved Carol just in the nick of time. She was also suspected of poisoning her mother and mother-in-law, who both died suspiciously. She even lightly poisoned the coffee and cookies she served to the police when they came to question her! Before she could be tried for her crimes, while out on bail, she disappeared for three years and assumed a fake identity as "Robbi Hannan". She married a Florida man and moved to New Hampshire. After living there a few months, she told her husband she was ill and needed to be treated in Texas. She insisted on going there alone. A few weeks later, she showed up at her husband's home with her hair dyed blonde and claimed that "Robbi" had died and that she was her twin sister, "Teri", a deception he unbelievably fell for. She moved in with him and lived peacefully until she was finally arrested again. This time she was tried and sentenced to "life plus twenty years" and went to prison. But, after a few years, she was amazingly released for a weekend furlough! Of course, she promptly escaped again. But, this time, she wasn't so lucky. She spent four days outdoors in the cold winter weather and died of exposure. She was buried next to the husband she poisoned. Her second husband, John Homan, who stood by her through everything, stayed in town and mourned her, until he was shot to death trying to break up a fight at his hotel. Thus, he became her final victim. Two books have been written about the case, and it was also the subject of the TV-movie, "Wife, Mother, Murderer: The Marie Hilley Story", starring Judith Light. | |
My favourite Mugshots: The Smoking Gun
The footage showed POW Hudson being asked why he had come to Iraq. He said: "I follow orders." He was asked repeatedly whether he was greeted by guns or flowers by Iraqis, but appeared not to understand the question.
- Newsday.com March 24
Smiles and flowers greet Marines: Hundreds of jubilant Iraqis mobbed a convoy of US Marines yesterday, cheering, dancing and waving as American troops swept towards central Baghdad through slums and leafy suburbs from the east.
- Gulf News April 8
PS: Ya Right
"It was no coincidence that a man named after Islam's prophet Mohammed saved an American woman from a town called Palestine. It is the will of God"
- Imam Jamal Dauodi, spiritual leader of the Islamic Association of West Virginia
Fox News
CIA believes it hit Saddam:
"They say there is no doubt he is dead," a US military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, was quoted as saying.
Saddam escaped, say Brit sources
British intelligence sources believe that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein escaped a coalition attack on a building in Baghdad on Monday, news reports said today. - Edmunton News, Canada
My Private INKPOT Searcher
I appreciate it's rather cheeky of me to create a search engine for somebody else's website... but I hope the webmaster will take it as a complement (not to mention BIG HINT).
Oh Where Oh Where Has My Little Lamb Gone?
If you can't find anything on your computer, FEAR recommends two software programs I am earmarking for testing: Enfish & 80-20 which both have free downloads you can use for a month. For heavy users, dtSearch Desktop is recommended.
"What she has learned growing up in the country and woods, and by what her brother put her through, that kind of prepared her for a lot."
- Gregory Lynch Sr., from his home in the "Heart of Appalachia", on how his daughter survived capture in Iraq.
The New York Times
"Here's what I wish: I wish they didn't have to play any fucking music to get their people ready to have bombs dropped on them. That's my bottom line. These are crazy times we live in. I hate that my stuff is being misused – of course I do."
- Hans Zimmer on learning that the Iraqi TV was using part of the score of Gladiator to prepare the people of Bagdad for war.
The Independent UK
