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People who have indoor cats can help them relieve the boredom of being stuck inside all day long.
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It appears the media can't get their collective stories straight about the condition of actress Natasha Richardson, who was critically injured in a skiing accident in Canada.
Some sites said she was dead, other sites said she was brain dead, still other sites reported she had been flown to another hospital, but most sites say she has traumatic brain injury.
If Richardson recovers, she won't be the first performer in history to have her death erroneously reported. Actress Barbara Weeks, who appeared in a number of films in the early 1930s before getting married and becoming a secretary in Las Vegas, is said to have had an obituary published in Variety, some 49 years before she actually died. She passed away in 2003 at the age of 89.
Update: Richardson has been moved to a NYC hospital, according to the New York Times. She is reported to be in serious condition.
The people, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters, declined to describe Ms. Richardson’s condition before or during the flight, other than to say it was very serious and that her family was highly distressed. They said the plane had arrived in New York by Tuesday evening, but declined to say where Ms. Richardson was being treated.
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A web site is seeking donations in an attempt to get O.J. out of prison.
Lots of luck with that.
The latest issue of the National Enquirer (page 5) has an article about O.J.'s rather bleak life at the Lovelock Correctional Center, about 90 miles northeast of Reno, Nevada. He's dropped 20 pounds, he's segregated from the rest of the prison population because of his notoriety, he spends 23 hours a day in his jail cell, he's had at least four death threats made against him, and, worst of all, his prison food isn't up to his previous gourmet standards.
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The Fritzl trial went through another day, and the defendant was described as an emotional "volcano."
Elisabeth's video testimony describes how the absolute horror and depravity of her father and was summarized in the indictment:
The indictment states: "He chained his daughter up, strapping up her arms and tying her hands behind her back with an iron chain, which he then secured to metal posts behind her bed. She could only move approximately half a metre either side of the bed."
After two days he gave her more freedom of movement by attaching the chain around her waist. Then around six to nine months into her imprisonment, he "removed the metal chain", because "it was hindering his sexual activity with his daughter".
He forced her to endure sexual abuse and rape at his hands sometimes several times a day, from the second day of her incarceration right up until her release last April. During the first nine months he kept her on a lead and "constantly covered her mouth and prevented her from breathing".
He repeatedly threatened her with the statement: "If you do not do as I say, your treatment will get worse and you will not escape from the cellar anyway."
The indictment states how he repeatedly beat and kicked her. He also subjected her to humiliating sexual abuse, including forcing her to reenact scenes in pornographic films with him as well as inserting objects into her in a violent manner. The abuse left her with serious lasting physical injuries and did huge damage to her mental state. The indictment details how she gave birth to seven children in the cellar without any medical help.
If there was ever a case for the death penalty, this is it.
In any case, he is on suicide watch.
Video clip from CNN:
Part 1 of a documentary about the case via YouTube:
link
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To the troll who keeps leaving messages on my blog: You don't seem to understand your comments go unread and into the garbage. You need to get a life.
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