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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Random Tidbits from the News
Here's some of the stuff you may not have seen today:
- Joe Pesci decked a guy... for taking his picture.
According to the police report, Montenegro, a student at Broward Community College, says he first saw the Oscar-winner in front of a Circuit City store and shook his hand. He then went inside to buy a camera, and came out to ask Pesci if he could take his picture.
uh... then the idiot deserved the fat lip.
"Not now," was Pesci's purported response, as he kept walking to his car.
Montenegro claims he followed Pesci, 62, who suddenly stopped and pulled an about face.
The student says he then snapped a photo, and the "furious" actor gave him a case of smash mouth with his right fist. - A court decided that a rabbi can have prayer services in his home.
In 2001, Konikov and his family were ordered by code enforcement officers to stop holding prayer meetings in their home, near Disney World, alleging he was in violation of local laws that forbade "operating a synagogue or any function related to a synagogue and/or church services. ..."
You know, I might expect something like this in China. Or Cuba. Or... well, somewhere else. But not in Orlando, Florida. That is insane.
The county issued Konikov another code violation in February 2002, and at a hearing the following month, he was given 60 days to stop the prayer gatherings or be fined $50 per day...
In March 2002, Konikov filed his lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida after the county refused to negotiate a settlement.
The district court initially dismissed the case, ruling the county's ordinance was permissible, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta later ruled the ordinance violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
The appeals court said ordinance was so "vague" that even the county's code enforcement officers were confused about how to properly apply it. - You know all of those goofy names that celebrities give their kids (Kal-El Cage comes to mind for some reason)? Well... the kids don't like it!
Peaches, the daughter of Sir Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates, says her own name has made her life hell.
Let's see... Dweezil, Diva, and Moon Unit Zappa... Dandelion Richards, Apple Martin (daughter of Gwenyth Paltrow)... Tallulah Belle and Rumer Glenn Willis... geez- makes Aimee, Kelly, Jack, Eliot, Jessica and Louis (Ozzy Osborne's kids) seem absolutely... normal.
Her given name in full is Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa Geldof.
She said: "I hate ridiculous names, my weird name has haunted me all my life."
...Peaches has three sisters named Fifi Trixabelle, Pixie and Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lilly. - Russia has its first baby conceived after one parent's death.
Russia's first posthumously conceived child has been born in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, television station NTV reported Friday. The baby boy was conceived using the frozen sperm of a man who had died nine years earlier, the station reported. The man's semen, frozen and stored at a Tel Aviv hospital where he had been treated for cancer, was brought to Yekaterinburg by his mother.
So... this guy died nine years ago... his mother brings his sperm back to Russia, gets donor eggs, have them implanted in a surrogate, and is now raising her... grandson (who is "the image of his father")? Does anyone else see therapy in this child's future? - And... in a study in contrasts, we have the Austin ISD planning a single-gender Young Women's Leadership Academy for grades six through twelve while Newsweek is reporting that "Boys in Every Demographic Are Falling Behind According to Almost Every Key Societal and Academic Metric". Wonder if AISD will have a boys' only campus as well... nothing like being a decade or two behind the times, Superintendent Forgione.
