Elderly woman attacked in her home by a Black male

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Woman attacked in her home
Thursday, June 22, 2006

This morning at approximately 7:43 a.m. on the 1400 block of Hillview street an elderly woman was assaulted after returning from her daily walk. The reported victim interrupted a burglary in progress and was stuck over the head with a rifle that was taken from the home. The suspect was not caught but the victim said the suspect was a black male, about 5'9, medium build, short hair, clean shaven and was wearing a dark pullover shirt with dark pants and he fled the scene on foot. The victim was transported to a local hospital where she will receive treatment. Investigators are still on the scene at this time where there is an ongoing investigation. Police officers are following many leads at this time. There wer
e no eye-witnesses who witnessed this crime occur. Although a long time neighbor and friend stated that the victim usually goes on her daily walk at about a quarter till 6 every morning where she meets up with two other ladies. The neighbor also said that this was not the first time the couple has been exposed to burglary. The victim and her husband are devoted Christians and her husband is a deacon at the Oak Grove church.

 

[Cali4yaokie]

Gutted - slang book is banned

Gutted - slang book is banned

Duncan Campbell
Saturday June 24, 2006
The Guardian

The author of what has been described as the definitive dictionary of slang is gobsmacked, gutted, throwing up bunches, honked, hipped and jacked like a cock-maggot in a sink-hole. A North Carolina school district has banned the dictionary under pressure from one of a growing number of conservative Christian groups using the internet to encourage school book bans across the US.

Jonathon Green, who compiled the 87,000 entries in the Cassell Dictionary of Slang, which was published last year, said that North Carolina is the only place he knows of where the book cannot be used in schools.

A Wake County school official told ABC News that five books, including the dictionary, were formally challenge
d. The others were listed as The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier, Junie B Jones and Some Sneaky, Peaky Spying by Barbara Park, Reluctantly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds and In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak. School officials acted after pressure from Called2Action, a local Christian activist group whose website asks people to "join our E-army today to take your place on the front lines of the battle for our children's future".

Some parents were also upset that their children were required to read books such as The Colour Purple by Alice Walker and Beloved by Toni Morrison, on the grounds that the books contain "vulgar and sexually explicit language".

"I'm very flattered," said Mr Green. "It's not exactly book-burning but, in the great tradition of book censorship, there never seems to be the slightest logic to it."

The ban comes a week after a children's book about Cuba was removed from Miami-Dade County school libraries because it painted too rosy a picture of life on
the island.

 

[Tyrone N. Butts]

Re: Gutted - slang book is banned

Skewls should ban niggers, not books.