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A BOY of seven was kept chained in a cellar by his cannibal family — as they ATE parts of him. Sobbing Ondrej Mauerova was rescued alive when a neighbour’s TV picked up footage from a camera filming his agony. He had been partially skinned after monstrous mum Klara, 31, caged him for...

Susan Atkins, one of the 'Manson family' killers is asking to be released from prison on grounds of compassion as she dies of brain cancer. Diagnosed in April, doctors feel she will have mere months left to live. A born again Christian, she has been denied parole 17 times, despite her soft...

Guys, I could really use any tips anyone might have, on how to deodorize a bag my mom bought me for my birthday. It is the cutest bag, made to carry a laptop, and it's perfect for my trip abroad. The problem is, it stinks! It smells like gasoline! I don't even want to know how they...

A Triumph of Astroturf? How a consumer protection law may be defeated by a faux consumer watchdog campaign by Daniel Loxton Is it possible for a vested business interest to derail national legislation by posing as a consumer watchdog? We’ll soon learn whether a shadowy...

Hey Andem! I thought I would raise the idea here of an 'invite' option, so that we could invite people who we might think would be interested in the forum. Personally, I don't like my real life people to know where I post, but, there are a few acquaintances that I think would LOVE this forum...

For the purpose of this discussion, I am going to suspend the debate on if souls exist, and assume that they do. Please do not enter this discussion to debate that side of things, thanks. Assuming the existence of a soul, the debate regarding transgenderism being 'against God's plan' loses me...

A drunk driving campaign in the US stepped up their mock accident program by sending police officers into a class full of students to inform them that two of their classmates had been killed the night before when they were struck by a drunk driver. Students were left to grieve for a full 2...

Two children were recently removed from their home because the oldest (7) showed up at school with racist drawings on her body. The question is then raised, what degree of socially unacceptable behavior warrants removing children from their families...

An Edmonton judge on Tuesday found Thomas Svekla guilty of second-degree murder in the death of sex worker Theresa Innes, 36, whose body was found in a hockey bag in a home northeast of the city in May 2006. However, Judge Sterling Sanderman found Svekla not guilty on charges of second-degree...

I sat in my doctor's office desperately awaiting some form of help, even if it was nothing more than a stern lecture about how I need to 'snap out of it', or that I was being put on some new medication, like it or not. When I was diagnosed with fibromylagia, I knew intellectually that I was in...

An article I read today about the church crying 'blasphemy' due to a zombie parade which utilized Christian symbols in it, struck me on a bad note. Blasphemy. It's a heavy word. It's a meaningful word. But what do we truly mean by it? In my lifetime I've heard it thrown at a lot of...

Judge gives girl, 12, go-ahead to change sex By Nick Squires in Sydney Last Updated: 12:22AM BST 26/05/2008 A judge has provoked controversy in Australia by ruling that a 12-year-old girl could begin the first phase of a sex change. The unnamed girl has begun hormone...

Yeah, you heard me right. An incident in Edmonton has seen a man arrested for 'assault with a weapon'. The weapon? The nipple of a baby bottle. The victim? The baby. He walked up to a woman on the street, grabbed her child's bottle, and hit the kid with it. I have to say, it's a first...

By JEREMY LOOME, LEGISLATURE BUREAU checkCookie(); The recent swarming attacks on city cops has prompted...

Mom indicted in My Space suicide case By Linda Deutsch, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS This handout shows self portrait shows Megan Meier, 13, who committed suicide after receiving cruel messages on...

Investigators gingerly peeled back the brittle lining of the small caskets buried a century ago in a Forest Park cemetery, revealing the remains of three children—orange-stained ribs, leg bones, pieces of skull. They were jarringly mingled with hair and bits of charred tissue, hinting at the...

Recent articles on weight, diabetes, polycystic ovary disease, and fibromyalgia, have all touted the same magic bullet to either prevent, control, or bring about a remission.... Lose 10% of your body weight. I'm going for it. And trying to make hubby go for it too.

CRANBROOK, B.C. -- A pedestrian crushed yesterday under the exploding fireball of a crashed helicopter had little warning of the tragedy, witnesses said. The person was walking along a residential street in the quiet community of Cranbrook, B.C., when the chopper dropped out of the sky and...

Boy, 11, can't endure chemo any more, defiant father says...

PEACE RIVER, Alta. — Dan and Huguette Ropchan stand on the grainy edge of ice-crusted Lac Cardinal in northwest Alberta and worry that in a decade they’ll have to raise their wheat and canola in the shadow of monster nuclear cooling towers. In Peace River, a 15-minute drive down the road...