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LONDON: In an astonishing revelation found in the memoirs of Christa Schroeder, Adolf Hitler’s secretary, Hitler often hallucinated about happier romantic times because his doctor often injected him with hormones procured from the testicles of bulls. According to Schroeder’s book, the Führer’s mood was known to change in the blink of an eye, and his periodic bursts of bonhomie perplexed and overwhelmed most in his inner circle. Schroeder worked for the Führer from 1933 until the end in May 1945. Hitler became so relaxed in Schroeder’s company that he would talk with surprising openness about his childhood. Schroeder was arrested...

MOSSAD'S KILLING MACHINE COMES TO BRITAIN A killing war between Israel's Mossad and Islamic fanatics came closer this weekend in Britain. The Israeli intelligence agency has sent four members of its kidon assassination squad to this country, to join fifteen other handpicked katsas, its relentless field agents. Their brief is to "disable" any of the "close to 50" British Muslims that the extremist Islamic group, Al-Muhajiroun, last week boasted were ready to carry out suicide missions similar to the one in Tel Aviv. Al-Muhajiroun spokesman, Asif Butt, said the 50 were "primed and ready to go". The threat was sufficient...

mmontag@siouxcityjournal.com | Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 SIOUX CITY -- Officers took appropriate action when they shot a bull 15 times in a city park, killing it, after it was found roaming through Sioux City's west side, officials said Monday. The bull's owner, however, expressed disbelief that an animal he bought for its friendly demeanor was killed for posing a threat to the public. Sioux City Police spokesman Lt. Mark Kirkpatrick said officers were dispatched about 9 p.m. Saturday to a report of a bull roaming inside the city limits near 26th and Rebecca streets. A black Angus bull, named...

Published May 25 2009 Pit bull attacks bull near Pelican Rapids A LeSueur, Minn., woman reported that her pit bull jumped out of the back window of her pickup truck Saturday and attacked a bull in a pasture southeast of Pelican Rapids, according to an Otter Tail County sheriff’s office report. Deputies responded, and the owner was able to regain control of the dog, the report said. The bull suffered abrasions to its head, but the injuries did not appear to be severe.

They dropped their tiny dog off for grooming at the Castle Rock PetSmart. Minutes later, another dog mauled it to death...What troubled the family most though, was that Buddy had been killed by the PetSmart grooming manager's dog, a dog other workers call a pit bull. But a dog the owner calls in the police report, an American Bulldog Mastiff.

It's not just what you know, it's who you know. And it's not just who you know, it's who you pay off. As the Center for Public Integrity reports (as cited in last week's Financial Times), the largest US originators of subprime mortgages spent roughly $370 million on lobbying and campaign donations in Washington during the past decade in attempts to stave off tighter regulation of their industry. The study “shows that most of the top 25 originators, most of which are now bankrupt, were either owned or heavily financed by the nation's largest banks, including Citigroup (C), Goldman Sachs...

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 at 6:42 p.m. ALANSON -- For Bob Wiley, life is not about taking second chances for granted. "I would have been dead," Wiley said a little more than a week after being attacked by a bull on his Emmet County farm. "The bull for some reason on this day didn't like the situation." Wiley moved to his 150 acre farm three years ago after retiring in Ohio. A little more than a week ago, Wiley had started what turned out to be a typical Saturday. He was doing his routine chores around the farm; his neighbor,...

Mom accused of sex with toddler, dog Webcast leads to arrest Trevor Wilhelm The Windsor Star Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Police call it one of the most shocking and disturbing crimes they've seen after a woman allegedly broadcast herself on a webcam having sex with her toddler and her dog. "It's one of those things that just makes your stomach roll," said Essex County OPP Const. Janet Hayes. "It's hard to believe there are people out there that can commit these despicable offences, especially against their own child. You can't comprehend someone that could do something like that." The Lakeshore...

About the pit bull threads... Okay, I am going to ease off on the pit bull threads. The Admin Moderator has not asked me to, nor have I been threatened with banishment. Nor am I persuaded by the threads devoted to bashing me for posting these stories. I am just frankly getting tired of it myself. These attacks are basically unending, and it will only get much worse as school is out for Summer, and kids are around more, the temperatures rising, and what have you. I will certainly still post these from time to time, or maybe I'll do...

EASTPOINTE, Mich. - Police say a family's pit bull terrier has fatally mauled a 1-year-old boy. Lt. Darrell Corsi says the boy's parents were home when he was attacked by the dog shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday in Eastpointe, which borders Detroit on the northeast. The father, whose name was being withheld, shot the dog to death with a handgun.

"Yesterday, a Department of Homeland Security report about the rising radicalization of “rightwing extremists” was leaked. The right wing was immediately incensed, viewing the report on radical “extremists” as an attack on “conservatives.” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, for example, tried to suggest it was a report about Republican “loyalists.” However, this morning, Fox News’s Catherine Herridge revealed that the report, along with an earlier report on radicalized left-wing groups, was actually “requested by the Bush administration” but not completed until recently:

Doing a favor for a friend has left the 4-year-old son of a Mansfield resident critically injured. Gabe Cooper was severely mauled in the face by a pit bull dog. Mansfield Police say 28-year-old Allison Cooper, Gabe's mother, was also attacked while trying to rescue her son. Cooper had gone to the home of a friend at 767 Park Avenue West Friday to look after her friend's dogs, while the friend was out of town. She brought her son and mother, Julie Bond. One of the dogs, a male, lunged out of its cage at Gabe. Cooper tried to fend...

On Feb. 17, I presented a watch list of conditions that, if in an improving trend, would likely indicate that a sustainable up move is possible for equities. It is time to review this checklist (and add one more factor) to determine the market's standing. Our new grades and those of two weeks ago are in parentheses and will be updated in the weeks and months ahead. * Bank balance sheets must be recapitalized. Yesterday a comprehensive bank rescue package was introduced. It is obviously too early to consider its full impact, but the details of the program suggest to...

U.S. President Barack Obama high-fives five-year old Nick Aiello at the Washington Wizards NBA basketball game against the Chicago Bulls in Washington February 27, 2009.

AUGUSTA -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Geological Survey and Maine State Climate Office announced today that a minus-50 reading in northwestern Maine held up to scientific scrutiny. That beats Maine's old record of 48 below zero set in 1925 in Van Buren, and ties the record for coldest temperature recorded in New England. That reading was made in 1933 in Bloomfield, Vt. The record on New Hampshire's Mount Washington is minus-47. Maine's minus-50 reading was made on Jan. 16 at a remote site along the Big Black River near the Quebec border as the region was in...

Cop Uses Taser to Save Elderly Man From Charging BullMonday, February 09, 2009 A police officer used his Taser to control a bull that attacked a man on a Minnesota farm. The Stearns County sheriff's office says 74-year-old Melvin Pundsack was knocked down and attacked by a bull while he and his wife were trying to herd cows on their son's farm late Sunday morning. Rose Pundsack, 66, was forced to stand on a snowpile for safety. At first, responders could not help Melvin Pundsack because the animal was too aggressive. So an Albany police officer used his Taser on...

In an effort to crack down on gangs, Lancaster is considering a plan that would also crack down on dogs -- specifically, pit bulls and Rottweilers. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/01/lancaster-pit-b.html

Dec. 11) - An Oklahoma City family is calling a beloved pit bull a hero after the dog took three bullets while fending off an intruder, KWTV reports. Roberta Trawick said she was sitting in her living room when a man came through the front door, holding a gun. The family's pit bull, D-Boy, raced in from another room, ready to attack. The intruder then began shooting, hitting the dog three times before fleeing the home.

The Obama press office just sent out the following statement, via email: I was mistaken when I told an interviewer last month that the President-elect has spoken directly to Governor Blagojevich about the Senate vacancy. They did not then or at any time discuss the subject.

A police officer shot and killed a pit bull shortly after the animal killed a cat and another dog in a West Side neighborhood Saturday morning, police said. The incident started about 10:40 a.m. in the 5200 block of Bakersfield Street. Resident David Avila said he witnessed the white pit bull attack the dog and cat a few houses down from his home. “We have reported that dog to authorities two or three times over the past month,” he said. “I’m glad the police officer did what he did. What if it wasn’t a cat or dog that pit bull...