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Chicago woman loses 4th child to gun violence

on 28 January 2013



At least five people were gunned down Saturday in Chicago, including a 34-year-old man whose mother had already lost her three other children to shootings.

Ronnie Chambers, who was his mother Shirley's youngest child, was shot in the head while sitting in a parked car on the city's West Side. A 21-year-old man who was also in the car was wounded, police said.

Shirley Chambers, whose two other sons and daughter were shot in separate attacks more than a decade ago, was left grieving again on Saturday, WLS-TV reported.

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Icelandic girl fights for right to her own name


Call her the girl with no name.

A 15-year-old is suing the Icelandic state for the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother. The problem? Blaer, which means "light breeze" in Icelandic, is not on a list approved by the government.  Like a handful of other countries, including Germany and Denmark, Iceland has official rules about what a baby can be named. In a country comfortable with a firm state role, most people don't question the Personal Names Register, a list of 1,712 male names and 1,853 female names that fit Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules and that officials maintain will protect children from embarrassment. Parents can take from the list or apply to a special committee that has the power to say yea or nay.

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Cafeteria Worker Rehired After Losing Job for Giving Food to Low-Income Student


A woman who was fired from her job in an elementary school cafeteria earlier this week after giving free lunch to a needy student has been given her job back, according to Missouri's Channel 5 News. Dianne Brame had been employed as the cafeteria manager for Hudson Elementary for the last three years; she began giving free lunches to the student, a fourth-grader, after she realized his name was listed under the free lunch program but his eligible status had expired.

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Juan Manuel Marquez knocks out Manny Pacquiao with vicious counterpunch in sixth round


LAS VEGAS – On a night when a star-studded crowd that included Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney, Dodgers owner Magic Johnson and hip hop star 50 Cent were seated at ringside at the sold-out MGM Grand Garden, Juan Manuel Marquez delivered the best performance of his career.


He knocked Manny Pacquiao out as the sixth round ended, putting the Filipino superstar out face first on the canvas. Pacquiao had missed a right and Marquez used his specialty, the counter right hand, to close the show.


He landed the right directly on the chin, putting Pacquiao out cold. Pacquiao's wife, Jinkee, shrieked out and attempted to get to the ring. Promoter Bob Arum put his arm around her shoulder to comfort her.

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Society's Ratchet Rumble



By Willie D

Today, I came across a video on Facebook of a gang of girls beating down two girls and a dude at a fast food establishment.  All of the participants happened to be black including the guy who filmed it as he enthusiastically reminded anybody with a set of ears that the video would be posted on World Star Hip Hop, a hip hop shock website and content aggregating video blog.  Most people who commented on the video were repulsed by the girls’ actions but even more by the lack of action on behalf of the witnesses to the assault.  Considering the fact that videos like the one in question has become commonplace on the Internet and is a heated topic of discussion I decide to chime in.  Here’s my two cents on the ratchet rumble...

Since none of us was there we don't know what the fight was about so we don't know how we would have responded if we had found ourselves in that situation.  The girls who got whooped could have initially been the aggressors.  I doubt it but we just don't know.  That said, with all those people witnessing the attack more than one person should have had sense and more importantly courage to intervene.   It's not just black people but society is in a bad place right now. 


Ever since they took God out of the schools things have gotten progressively worse.   It's anything goes.  America is on some Humpty Hump shit, "Do what you like."  You're only a couple of clicks of a mouse away from seeing members of every ethnic group showing their naked ass, engaging in some of the most reprehensible acts imaginable.  Much of this was already in place but thanks to the Internet the ratchet of the ratchet has found a way to be seen, heard and have a purpose in being foul.  Subsequently, we have full access to up-to-the-minute displays of ignorance and we're reminded of just how far we -all of us -have yet to go. 

 
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Hector Camacho dies aged 50


Hector "Macho" Camacho, a Puerto Rican boxer known for skill and flamboyance in the ring, has been declared dead, four days after being shot in the face. He was 50.

Shot while sitting in a parked car outside a bar Tuesday with a friend in the city of Bayamon, he was declared dead at the Centro Medico trauma centre in San Juan. The friend, 49-year-old Adrian Mojica Moreno, died at the scene of the shooting. Police said Mojica had nine small bags of cocaine in his pocket and a 10th bag was found open in the car.

Originally from Bayamon, just outside San Juan, Camacho was long regarded as a flashy if volatile talent, a skilled boxer who was perhaps overshadowed by his longtime foil, Mexican superstar Julio César Chávez, who would beat him in a long-awaited showdown in Las Vegas in 1992.

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Doctor: Puerto Rico boxer Camacho is brain dead


Famed Puerto Rican boxer Hector ''Macho'' Camacho is clinically brain dead, doctors said Thursday, though they said family members were disagreeing on whether to take him off life support.

Dr. Ernesto Torres said doctors have finished performing all medical tests on Camacho, who was shot in the face Tuesday night.

''We have done everything we could,'' said Torres, who is the director of the Centro Medico trauma center in San Juan. ''We have to tell the people of Puerto Rico and the entire world that Macho Camacho has died, he is brain dead.''

He said at a news conference that the family expects to say by Friday if Camacho should remain on life support.

Torres said Camacho's father has already indicated that he wants the boxer taken off life support and his organs donated, but one of his sisters opposes the idea.

''This is a very difficult moment,'' he said.

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