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      Dying Girl's Notes to Parents, Sister Inspire Book
  • With just days to live and too sick to speak, a six-year-old girl hid notes and drawings all over her house telling her parents and her sister again and again "I love you."

    While Elena Desserich was writing the notes, her parents were keeping a diary so her younger sister Gracie would one day understand what happened after Elena was diagnosed with brain cancer.


    •   Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty?
  • My inbox has been filling up with messages labelled "Your scam exposed", "The great fraud unravels" and "How do you feel now, jerk?" They are referring to a new "scientific paper", which proves that the "climate change scare" is a tale "worthier of St John the Divine than of science."

    The author of this "research article" is Christopher Monckton, otherwise known as Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. He has a degree in classics and a diploma in journalism and, as far as I can tell, no further qualifications. But he is confident enough to maintain that - by contrast to all those charlatans and amateurs who wrote the reports produced by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - he is publishing "the truth".


    •   Cheerleader Gets Flu Shot, Can't Walk
  • A 26-year-old cheerleader in Virginia claims she came down with dystonia, a rare neurological disorder, just days after receiving a flu shot.

    Desiree Jennings, a Washington Redskins ambassador, says her problems began ten days after receiving the seasonal flu shot at a grocery store. She claims she fell ill with flu-like symptoms and then experienced convulsions and blackouts.


    •   No Einstein in Your Crib? Get a Refund
  • Parent alert: the Walt Disney Company is now offering refunds for all those "Baby Einstein" videos that did not make children into geniuses.

    They may have been a great electronic baby sitter, but the unusual refunds appear to be a tacit admission that they did not increase infant intellect.


    •   Burlington Township Kids Focus of Uproar
  • A YouTube video showing Burlington Township schoolchildren being directed in a song celebrating President Barack Obama has caused a national stir as well as concerns among state and local educators about the partisan politics, appropriate lesson plans and student privacy.

    The video is titled "School Kids Taught To Praise Obama," and runs for nearly 2 1/2 minutes. The clip shows more than a dozen children at B. Bernice Young Elementary School, at the direction of an unknown adult, singing the song. At the conclusion of the song, the children pump their fists and chant "hip, hip, hooray!"


    •   White House Debunks Reports It Will Fly China's Flag on South Lawn
  • The White House dismissed as inaccurate reports from China that the administration will mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic by flying the Chinese flag on the South Lawn.


    •   Jefferson County Sheriff Defends Soldier's Funeral Procession
  • The Jefferson County sheriff has offered a stern response to a woman complaining she was inconvenienced by a procession accompanying a soldier's casket.

    The woman wrote an e-mail to Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer after she had a hard time driving around the procession escorting the casket of Sgt. William Woods, who was killed by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.


    •   Obama's 'Emergency' Powers Over Internet
  • Cybersecurity Bill S. 773

    The second draft of a Senate cybersecurity billappears to tone down language that would grant President Obama the power to shut down the Internet.

    The Senate bill, first introduced in April 2009 by Sen. John Rockefeller, still includes language that gives Obama the authority to direct responses to cyberattacks and declare a cyber emergency.


    •   Michael Jackson Hoax Was 'Experiment,' Broadcaster Says
  • A hoax video purporting to show Michael Jackson hopping out of a coroner's van alive was produced by a German television station as an experiment, the broadcaster told CNN.

    It was made to show how easy it is to spread rumors online, said Heike Schultz, a spokeswoman for RTL, the leading private broadcaster in Germany.


    •   Lady Gaga Sparks Rumours She Is a Hermaphrodite
  • Footage of Lady Gaga dancing on stage has sparked rumours across celebrity gossip websites that she is a hermaphrodite.

    Hollyscoop.com reports there's a rumor spreading like wildfire on the internet that Lady Gaga has both male and female reproductive parts and she's reportedly even addressed it in the past.


    •   John Holdren, Science Czar
  • John Holdren coauthored a book stating that there should be forced sterilizations, abortions and babies forcibly taken from unwed mothers?


    •   Anti-Israel Group Boycotts Trader Joe's
  • Although "World Refugee Day," the boycott of Trader Joe's planned by the anti-Israel group "Don't Buy into Apartheid," came and went on Saturday, June 20, with no apparent incidents in Los Angeles, other cities in California did witness protesters invade the popular supermarket chain.


    •   Blogger's Baby Was a Hoax
  • The unmarried mother's story about giving birth to a child diagnosed as terminally ill in the womb hit a major nerve on the Internet.

    Every night for two months, thousands of abortion opponents across the nation logged on to a blog run by the suburban Chicago woman who identified herself only as "B" or "April's Mom."


    •   Teen Bride: 'My Wedding Cost £100,000'
  • The bride dazzled in her £16,000 Swarovski crystal-covered dress, the guests guzzled dozens of bottles of champagne and the smell of fake tan hung thickly in the air.

    It sounds like a typical celebrity wedding, but the bride was 16-year-old traveller Missy Quinn, whose family threw an extraordinary £100,000 bash, celebrating with 150 guests.


    •   Tapping Your Cell Phone
  • Imagine someone watching your every move, hearing everything you say and knowing where you are at every moment. If you have a cell phone, it could happen to you. 13 Investigates explains how your cell phone can be secretly hijacked and used against you — and how to protect yourself.


    •   Obama Blows Off Medal of Honor Recipients... Not Exactly
  • The American Legion, as it has on every inauguration evening since 1953, hosted the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Banquet & Ball on January 20th.


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