Heroes of the Day, Hooah!
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Heroes
Today’s heroes are a courtroom full of folks who weren’t really in the mood for a throat-slashin’: A female federal prosecutor was viciously attacked by a hulking, razor-wielding drug dealer in a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday – and was saved when the thug’s 72-year-old lawyer and others tackled him. Now that is what I’m talkin’ about! [...]
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Hero of the Day, Eh
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Heroes
Today’s hero hails from Canuckistan, a mother of seven (and her uterus deserves a round of applause just for that, people) who tossed her kids, one by one, from a second story window into snowbanks and the arms of waiting neighbors to escape a house fire: A Montreal mother tossed her seven children one by [...]
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Hero of the Day
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Heroes
Too often you read stories where children are injured or killed while their parents emerge unscathed. You want to believe that in some cases nothing more could have been done, but you also know that in some cases it was pure selfishness. If you are not prepare to die for your children then what kind [...]
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Hero of the Day, With the Mr. Rogers Seal of Approval
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Heroes
Holy moly, helpful neighbors and a case of actual parenting all in one story, I think I might faint: Police said at least one neighbor is responsible for the safe return of a 4-year-old girl after being snatched off her bicycle Sunday. The kidnapping occurred on Tupper Court in east Bakersfield. Police said 43-year-old Robert [...]
Tags: Heroes, self-reliance
Heroes of the Day, With Meatballs*
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Heroes
Ok, here’s something we’re not accustomed to hearing about from the land of Eurotrash (specifically Sweden), actual arse-kickery: “The robber came in, pulled out his gun and went up to the cash desk. Then he said: ‘Take it easy – this is a robbery’,” one witness told newspaper GT. There were chaotic scenes in the [...]
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“Tear Down This Wall,” and Other Moments of Which *I* am Proud
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Nostalgia
Reagan stood in Berlin, Germany on June tenth of 1987 and challenged Gorby to “tear down this wall.” In August of that same year, back home the FCC was allowing capitalism and the First Amendment to finally work together by getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine. In October, Jesse Jackson announced his plans to run [...]
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