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Mums Behaving Badly

Apparently, the beer was “Miller Lite” – no doubt about it, she’s a classy person.

Ms. Johnson, her son and three of the boy’s friends met up at 10 p.m. July 26 at Recreation Station in Hermitage, police said. They intended to ride go-carts, but the go-carts already were rented out … Ms. Johnson took a prescription medication while the boys were there … She drove to an Ohio beer distributor and bought a 30 pack of beer, then went to the Radisson Hotel, Shenango Township, and rented a room … In the room, Ms. Johnson gave the boys beer and tried to touch them in their pants and lick their faces … She gave the boys $1 bills, told them she wanted to be a stripper, and asked them to put the bills in her bra and pants … Ms. Johnson exposed herself and told the boys to spank her … She drank beer and took more pills … She offered pills to the boys, but they declined … Ms. Johnson yelled and trashed the room … When the boys went to bed, Ms. Johnson tried to lie between two of them.

Killing Palestinians to Keep the “Calm”


When the two Palestinian suicide bombers each killed an Israeli civilian along with themselves on August 12, U.S. news outlets immediately depicted the attacks as an apparent resurgence in Mideast violence. “Summer truce shattered in Israel,” announced CBS (8/12/03), while NBC (8/12/03) reported that “the attacks broke more than a month of relative silence.” The Los Angeles Times (8/13/03) wrote that the bombings “broke a six-week stretch during which the people of this war-weary land had enjoyed relative quiet.” During this six-week period of “relative quiet,” however, some 17 Palestinians were killed and at least 59 injured by Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society. The dead included Mahmoud Kabaha, a four-year-old boy, who was sitting in the back seat of a jeep with his family at a checkpoint when an Israeli soldier shot him dead– in a spray of bullets that the army simply called an “accidental burst of gunfire” (Associated Press, 7/25/03).

Building Democracy in Iraq


At the meeting, the soldiers announced that they were going to supervise elections for a local council and asked people to put themselves forward as candidates. The council members would not be paid, they were told, but they would receive the assistance of the US military in making local improvements … Five local councils members were selected from a slate of 11. Majid, the highest vote getter, was made president … A few days later the Americans came to Majid’s house with an assignment. They wanted him and the council to do a report about the neighborhood’s problems and suggest solutions. They also wanted him to do an inventory of the weapons people kept in their homes … With a great sense of accomplishment, the council finished its report on June 11, a mere 9 days after they were elected. When they went to turn in the report, however, they were told that the council had been disbanded and they should go home.