Mummified and Forgotten

Last week in Santa Fe, New Mexico the mummified remains of a Chicana teacher, activist, and author; Barbara Salinas-Norman, were discovered in a what appears to be a "trash-dump" of a home. Authorities and family of the woman believe the body has been inside the home for over a year. Over a year ago Barbara was a children's author, writing and publishing stories through Pinata Publications. A publishing company that she founded and designed "to help Mexican American children identify with their culture." Within recent times she became financially broke, according to her friends, at times homeless.
Her body was uncovered by her brother-in-law, Louis Ponce. Ponce stated "that he'd visited the home determined to find her, because it'd been such a long time- over two years- since he had last heard from her." Upon entering he had scented a very strong odor, and shortly after spotted her mummified remains covered in a red cloth, next to a poster. There were debris everywhere in the house, it appeared to look like Salina had been a hoarder.
 In conclusion autopsy's revealed she had died of natural causes.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/14/mummified-body-chicana-author-found-in-new-mexico-home/

Child Exploitation On The Rise In India

Recently in New Delhi, India, police arrested a grandfather that reportedly sold his infant grandson on Facebook. However it goes much deeper than that. Around 90,000 children go missing per year on average in India. After police received news of the infant they acted fast in search of him. The mother of the child had contacted police and stated that her father-in-law told her the baby had died and was taken away by the hospital staff. The truth behind the incident was that the grandfather made a deal with a man that planned to smuggle the baby out of the nursing home. The economic status of the families that have missing children often plays a disturbing role in the treatment of the cases. There are many suspicions that members of the families could have sold out their children in order to get money, as desperate as they were or are. The use of children for labor, slavery, sex or adoption is on the rise. However recently a law has past prohibiting any and all forms of human trafficking.
Child protection experts call this the norm. "Out of 10 children who are going missing every hour, only one case is being investigated", "These children are all being put into various kinds of exploitation. And a child who is being sold on Facebook is not even part of this figure."

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/05/child_trafficking_in_india_on_the_rise_partner/

Toad In Your Green Beans!

Few weeks has passed since Gloria Chubb had cooked her son a nice meal that consisted of meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, and toad... not even fresh. Just any ordinary day, she set the table and her son sat down and started dishing food on to his plate. After scooping out of the bowl of green beans his mother, Gloria noticed what she described appearing as "moldy bacon", as she came closer to inspecting it, it became apparent that it was a dead toad. She expressed her disgust and concern by heading to the St. Joseph County Health Department. The food service manager explained to her that during the green bean harvest the toad was accidentally picked up and placed in the can of green beans after going through the conveyor line. She was later rewarded with a $50 dollar check and an apology letter from the company.

They murdered a toad, the green beans were infected, everything in the situation was disgusting!

http://gawker.com/woman-finds-toad-in-can-of-green-beans-485000025

Anonymous Encouraging Anti-CISPA Protests

Through the progress of Cyber Intelligence Sharing and the Protection Act dealing with the House and Senate, online activists and hackers are encouraging anti-CISPA protests. This passed Monday Anonymous affiliated websites planned a blackout. Many are trying to stop the bill from going through. Certain "organizations like the law [CISPA] because it makes it easier for them to share data about hacking without getting in trouble. In the last few months alone Apple, Facebook, and Twitter have all made a public to do about their company's security breaches."  Anonymous points out that CISPA's most recent "iteration" is full of privacy protection related problems. In passing, the legislation would be allowing a private sector to access    private data relating to U.S. citizens. Copyright.gov, the U.S.'s copyright website was involuntarily and  temporarily taken down by the hacker group, Anonymous this last Monday, AKA the Blackout.


http://www.salon.com/2013/04/22/anonymous_pushes_anti_cispa_protests/

Qatar Pledges $500 Mil. to Darfur

DOHA, Qatar is donating $500 million dollars to help Sudan's "war-battered" region, Darfur in rebuilding and boosting the stability after the last decade of violence as part of an international conference.
Qatar's mission is to strengthen peace efforts by the Gulf nation. A donors' conference is now open in the capital, Doha. Darfur has been left devastated since 2003 when rebels took up arms against the government in Khartoum. "Sudan's leader Omar al-Bashir was accused of genocide and war crimes by the International Criminal Court for attacks in Darfur."
Yesterday Britain had pledged $102 mil. to Sudan for the next three years, and half going to Darfur.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/08/Qatar-to-give-500-million-in-aid-to-rebuild-Darfur-minister.html

Golden Booty Shorts and Prom

It's Prom Season!!!
Are you one of those people struggling to find a way to ask that pretty girl to prom? Here's a great example of a young man that found the perfect and most unique way to do it....














A student named Senn from Palisades High decided to dress up in a white dress shirt, bow tie, and golden booty shorts so he could go out in front of the entire student body and rip his black sweatpants off to "twerk" all over the girl he was asking. He said "the point of his performance was to show how incredibly ridiculous it is for a man to gravel at his prospective prom date's feet when this isn't an event that should be taken seriously at all."
watch the video if you wanna find out what she said!!

http://elitedaily.com/elite/2013/confident-young-man-twerks-booty-shorts-dream-girl-prom-video/

The Birthing License

Alcoholic, drug-addicted, child abusing, and just plain irresponsible parents have now led a new bill passed, proposing, actually stating that every adult (18 years of age or older) are now required by law to apply for a license to have kids. If you are seen with young children, police posses the right to ask to see your birthing license, otherwise you must have evidential proof that the child or children do not belong to you. If you do not have a license or any evidence providing proof that they are not yours, such as a birth certificate, the police officer can rightfully arrest you and or can fine you. Similar to having a liquor license and marriage license, you cant get married and or sell liquor if you don't have a license for them.
I guess the government is stepping in even more, now they're the ones deciding the rights you have to your own body. However the positives are that, just maybe population growth will be more controlled:).

Happy April Fools!