The Week In Stupid (February 11-18)

I promise to love, honor, cherish, and choke the shit out of you. Till death do us part. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35444345/ns/us_news/?gt1=43001)

LEWISTON, Idaho - A marriage got off to a rocky start after the 21-year-old groom from northern Idaho was arrested twice on his wedding night and charged with assaulting his new wife in nearby eastern Washington.

Court records show Nathan Lewis of Lewiston, Idaho, was charged Tuesday in Asotin County Superior Court with second-degree assault and interfering with a report of domestic violence.

The Nez Perce County Sheriff's Office in Idaho says Lewis was married Sunday and later arrested for drunken and disorderly conduct in Lewiston.

Police say that after Lewis was released on bail, he assaulted his new wife at a home in nearby Clarkston, Wash. The bride told authorities she was slapped and choked during the altercation, the Lewiston Tribune reports.

Lewis is scheduled to be arraigned March 1.







Woman kills psychic over bad fortune (http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/tanya-nelson-found-guilty-of-killing-clairvoyant-over-bad-fortune/19362384)

(Feb. 17) -- A California Superior Court jury has found a North Carolina woman guilty in the bizarre murder of an Orange County fortune teller and her daughter because of a failed love spell.

The jury deliberated for less than an hour Tuesday before finding Tanya Nelson, 45, guilty of murder with special circumstances in the slayings of Ha Jade Smith, 52, and Anita Vo, 23.

During the trial, Deputy District Attorney Sonia Balleste argued that Nelson was so angry at Smith for telling her a bad fortune that she traveled more than 2,600 miles to kill her.


Live Grenade Found In Serviceman's Car (http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/18/fort.hood.grenade/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29)

(CNN) -- An access point to Fort Hood in Texas was briefly shut down Wednesday after guards discovered a live grenade during a random vehicle search, officials said.
At about 9:15 a.m., guards alerted Fort Hood Emergency Services after finding the live munition and closed Clarke Gate for about 30 minutes, according to a Fort Hood news release.
Security at the Army post remains heightened following a mass shooting on November 5 that left 13 people dead. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is charged with 13 counts of pre-meditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder in the shootings. He is currently awaiting trial.
The single grenade, which is made for a Mark 19 40mm grenade launcher, was found inside a serviceman's car, Fort Hood spokesman Tyler Broadway told CNN.
There is an investigation under way to determine what, if anything should happen to the serviceman, Broadway said.

China Hates US!!! A Billion Chinese can't be wrong!!! (http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20100218/pl_bloomberg/amwsg_dkpv70)

Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama goes into today’s meeting with the Dalai Lama on notice that it will anger China’s leadership and add tension to an already strained relationship.
That isn’t likely to fray economic ties secured by $366 billion of mutual trade and $755 billion in Chinese-held U.S. Treasury bills, according to analysts.
And the path to a more constructive overall relationship may lie in both sides dropping any pretense at friendship and acknowledging they are competitors as much as partners, said Yan Xuetong, director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
“If China and the U.S. identified each other as rivals I don’t think they would be disappointed with each other,” Yan said. “Both sides pretend to be friends. Actually, they are not.”

China Owns US!!!

Largest Creditor
China surpassed Japan as the largest creditor abroad to the U.S. in September 2008, although it fell back to second place in December when its Treasury holdings declined for the second consecutive month, the Treasury Department said on Feb. 16. China allowed its short-term Treasury bills to mature and replaced them with a smaller amount of longer-term notes and bonds, the Treasury data showed.
The December reduction in China’s holdings didn’t prompt a sell-off in U.S. bonds as investors focused instead on an overall increase in foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries, which rose by a net $69.9 billion. The yield on the benchmark 10-year note fell three basis points, or 0.03 percentage point, to 3.66 percent on Feb. 16, according to BGCantor Market data.
The Obama administration is also convinced that the recent tensions won’t fundamentally change the countries’ relationship, said an administration official who asked not to be identified out of concern for Chinese sensitivities.

Federal Judge -1 TV Pitchman -Zip (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100218/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_trudeau_ftc_lawsuit)
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – A federal judge sentenced Kevin Trudeau to 30 days in jail on Wednesday after scolding the TV pitchman for inciting his fans to flood the judge's e-mail with testimonials in his favour.
Trudeau has long battled federal regulators over his marketing of alternative "cures" for obesity, memory loss, disease and financial ruin.
U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman chastised Trudeau last week when he learned the pitchman had urged buyers of his books to write to the judge's e-mail address with letters of support.
Gettleman saw it as a threat to his safety. Trudeau apologized and posted a message on his Web site to stop the campaign.
Trudeau was in court because an appeals court had thrown out a $37.6 million (24 million pound) fine and a three-year infomercial ban against him for violating the terms of a 2004 Federal Trade Commission settlement with his book, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About."
Gettleman has yet to decide on a revised punishment.

Have a footlong on us (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100217/od_nm/us_surgery_odd)

IVANCICE, Czech Republic (Reuters) – Czech medical staff are being disciplined after a foot-long surgical instrument was found in the abdomen of a woman who was operated on five months ago.
The patient, 66-year-old Zdenka Kopeckova, repeatedly complained of severe abdominal pain following a gynaecological operation at a hospital in the southeastern town of Ivancice.
"I said that nobody helps me and I cannot live like this till the end of my life. I'll get pills, have a glass of an alcohol and hang myself," she said after the spatula-like instrument was discovered a week ago and successfully removed.
Kopeckova is seeking compensation over the error, claiming staff initially tried to cover up the mistake by saying there was nothing they could do but recommend pain killers.
"I told the head surgeon that if I had no pain I would not be complaining. I'm not a hypochondriac," she said, adding she had requested an x-ray but was told this would needlessly expose her to radiation.