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Outrageous? Why don't you click on the link to ascertain the authenticity of the story.

@Almondjoy, there is no trace of incest in the love story. On another webboard, someone else endorsed the relationship

Honestly, for once, I was a little bit confused, trying to piece the information together, despite being aware of the unfortunate baby switch. Ok, a bit of explanation. The groom's baby was switched without his knowledge, and he and his then girlfriend were raising another child. When the man reneged on his child support payment (or something like that), claiming that he was not convinced that the baby was his, the girlfriend appealed in court. DNA was conducted, and the man was exonerated. His girlfriend was confused, which heightened when the baby was determined not to be hers. So upon investigation, they found out that the baby was switched and raised by another couple, who unfortunately had just died in a motor accident, prior to this revelation.

The woman, Paula Johnson, said that when she saw her real biological child, she knew that it was her baby, owing to the resemblance. DNA was taken, and she was right. And yeah, the ex-boyfriend is the father.

Now, this ex-boyfriend just married an aunt of his 'supposed' daughter that his ex-girlfriend was raising. The last I read, the judge had refused to grant his ex-girlfriend full custody of their daughter. So, that means, he is marrying the aunt and also (hopefully) raising his daughter.

It is a very convoluted story, but oh well, the man probably figures that by marrying the woman, he will be involved in his child's life.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9809/01/switched.babies/index.html.

Remember the above story on the switched babies? Now, here is the latest!


Buena Vista, Va. (AP) -Relatives of two girls who were switched
at birth have married. Carlton Conley, the biological father of
Rebecca Grace Chittum, wed Pamela Miskovsky, the biological
aunt of Callie Marie Conley, on Saturday. In 1995, Conley left
the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville with
Callie. Rebecca went home with Callie's biological parents,
Kevin Chittum and Whitney Rogers. Miskovsky had assumed
Rebecca was her niece until the hospital discovered the mix-
up in 1998, shortly after Kevin Chittum and Rogers died in
a car crash. The girls' identities were revealed through DNA
test results arising from a child support dispute between
Rebecca's biological mother, Paula K. Johnson, and Carlton
Conley. The marriage makes Carlton Conley Callie's uncle
by marriage as well as her biological father. Johnson, Carlton
Conley's ex-girlfriend, has custody of Callie. The Rogers and
Chittum families share custody of Rebecca

http://www.mail-archive.com/weirdside@topica.com/msg00024.html

Read this story
http://www.cnn.com/US/9809/01/switched.babies/index.html

4play, you are very funny. Law professor pausing to come up with big words. LOLLL. Very funny.

Very interesting question.

I doubt the authenticity of this story. Really bizzare!

Should be based on one's income, with the higher wage earner assuming a larger percentage of the bills.

Sheriff: Woman sat on toilet for 2 years By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer
2 minutes ago



WICHITA, Kan. - Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years — so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally called police.

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Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.

"We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

Whipple said investigators planned to present their report Wednesday to the county attorney, who will determine whether any charges should be filed against the woman's 36-year-old boyfriend.

"She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body," Whipple said. "It is hard to imagine. , I still have a hard time imagining it myself."

He told investigators he brought his girlfriend food and water, and asked her every day to come out of the bathroom.

"And her reply would be, `Maybe tomorrow,'" Whipple said. "According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom."

The boyfriend called police on Feb. 27 to report that "there was something wrong with his girlfriend," Whipple said, adding that he never explained why it took him two years to call.

Police found the clothed woman sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants down to her mid-thigh. She was "somewhat disoriented," and her legs looked like they had atrophied, Whipple said.

"She said that she didn't need any help, that she was OK and did not want to leave," he said.

She was reported in fair condition at a hospital in Wichita, about 150 miles southeast of Ness City. Whipple said she has refused to cooperate with medical providers or law enforcement investigators.

Authorities said they did not know if she was mentally or physically disabled.

Police have declined to release the couple's names, but the house where authorities say the incident happened is listed in public records as the residence of Kory McFarren. No one answered his home phone number.

The case has been the buzz of Ness City, said James Ellis, a neighbor.

"I don't think anybody can make any sense out of it," he said.

Ellis said he had known the woman since she was a child but that he had not seen her for at least six years.

He said she had a tough childhood after her mother died at a young age and apparently was usually kept inside the house as she grew up. At one time the woman worked for a long-term care facility, he said, but he did not know what kind of work she did there.

"It really doesn't surprise me," Ellis said. "What surprises me is somebody wasn't called in a bit earlier."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080312/ap_on_re_us/woman_in_bathroom;_ylt=AuLYrioewv0SXi26_f_FlLms0NUE

Places I'd like to visit for vacation apart from Nigeria are

Senegal, Guinea, Burkina Faso (Bobo Dioulasso, Yako, Banfora, Ouagadogou), Mali (Timbuktu, Kayes, Bamako)

To all business inclined folks on the board. Would any of you have any idea on the amount of money needed to set up a gas station in Nigeria?

Thanks.

Where I would like to vacation at is my village!

Cemetery full, mayor tells locals not to die Wed Mar 5, 3:58 PM ET



BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.

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In an ordinance posted in the council offices, Mayor Gerard Lalanne told the 260 residents of the village of Sarpourenx that "all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish."

It added: "Offenders will be severely punished."

The mayor said he was forced to take drastic action after an administrative court in the nearby town of Pau ruled in January that the acquisition of adjoining private land to extend the cemetery would not be justified.

Lalanne, who celebrated his 70th birthday on Wednesday and is standing for election to a seventh term in this month's local elections, said he was sorry that there had not been a positive outcome to the dilemma.

"It may be a laughing matter for some, but not for me," he said.

(Reporting by Claude Canellas, Writing by Andrew Dobbie; editing by Sami Aboudi)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080305/od_nm/election_cemetery_dc;_ylt=AjTFT2U3gsjeaMxA.T9VBJ.s0NUE

Even if you did not keep your mouth shut, how are you certain that his prospective inlaws would be quick to repudiate his beggarly actions? You never know. Please stay out of it, or if you really want to prove a point, take the girl with you to the venue, so that the guy can be 'caught' in the act.

May God have mercy on the poster!

I would rather watch CNN, where portrayal of Africa, even if is exagerrated at times, is better than some governmental news agencies that try to ridiculously gloss over our problems.

Bad news is 'good' news to the media.

Besides, I don't see anything wrong in the media highlighting the lows of any continent in the world. Even the USA currently facing a recession is not immune to such coverage.

The Mercies of God are profound!
Praise be unto His Holy Name in the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen!

Pregnant woman uses train toilet, baby slips out Thu Feb 28, 11:23 AM ET



AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - A newborn baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving Indian train onto the tracks when a pregnant woman unexpectedly gave birth while relieving herself on Tuesday.

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"My delivery was so sudden," said the Bhuri Kalbi, the mother of the infant, born two months prematurely. "I did not even realize that my child had slipped from the hole in the toilet."

Kalbi, a 33-year-old woman from a village in Rajasthan, fainted on the toilet seat after the birth for a few minutes before waking up and alerting her family.

"They stopped the train and ran on the tracks to find the baby," she said, speaking from her hospital bed in the western city of Ahmedabad.

Railway staff at a nearby station were alerted and soon found the newborn girl lying uninjured on pebbles by the track. She is now in intensive care because of her premature birth, doctors said.

Most toilets on Indian trains are filthy chutes emptying directly onto the tracks.

(Reporting by Rupam Jain Nair; Editing by Jonathan Allen and Sugita Katyal)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080228/od_nm/india_toilet_dc;_ylt=AgVi9c9WOSHGhZemSpBurZms0NUE

If HRC is behind it, then she is displaying the antics of a 'scorned' woman. The white house is not a do or die affair.

Monkey dey work, baboon dey chop

"we must not forget that even our learned men are learned via the whites."

Do you honestly think that law and order in pre-colonial times were under the auspices of whites? I doubt it!

Thanks for the information@caliboy. I just did some research on your claims, and yup, education is free in Finland. Interesting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080502015_pf.html

Wanita, you live in Timbuktu?

Nope@foreigner. We, Christians are not expected to be in a polygamous relationship.

Trust While We Soar

In the last two messages we've considered how God uses storms in our
life
to shape and mold us "to the likeness of His Son" (Romans 8:29). James

says that storms (or trials) are used to make us "mature and complete,
not
lacking anything" (James 1:4). So when will all our storms end? Not
until
the process is complete. Not until we're called home to be with the
Lord!

But there is certainly much more to our Christian walk than storm
survival. As we mature and grow closer to our Heavenly Father, we will
see
more clearly His purpose and learn to actually rejoice during our times
of
difficulty. Rather than fight the wind, we will allow it to teach us
and
cause us to soar! The storms will continue to be a part of our life,
but
we will also experience seasons of great victory.

These seasons of victorious soaring WILL come! For they are as much a
part
of God's plan as the storm. But they are equally a time of teaching -
a
time where we must be reminded to keep our eyes on Jesus and trust the
guidance of His Spirit.

The Israelites had wandered forty years in the desert and were now
ready to
cross into the promised land of Canaan. But Moses warned never to stop

praising and trusting God: "When you have eaten and are satisfied,
praise
the Lord your God for the good land He has given you. Be careful that
you
do not forget the Lord your God" (Deuteronomy 8:10-11). Moses warned
that
when we fail to trust God during the peaceful times of blessing, we
tend to
forget and quickly become susceptible to our sinful pride.

Deuteronomy 8:17-18
"You may say to yourself, 'My power and the strength of my hands have
produced this wealth for me.' But remember the Lord your God, for it is
He
who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms His
covenant."

We must continually "trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not
on
your own understanding" (Proverbs 3:5). We must trust as the storm
approaches and as the waves threaten to sink our boat; but we must also

trust as the wind and waves are calmed. In fact, we must focus on
trusting
Him even more when the storm ceases. In difficult times, we are
continually reminded of our need for God; but times of blessing can
cause
us to trust our own ability, and forget.

God desires far more than to just be available during our times of
great
need. He desires to walk with us in an intimate relationship every
moment
of the day. Let's continue to trust Him while we're sailing through
the
storm; but as we victoriously rise up on the wings of eagles, let's
also
remember to praise Him and trust while we soar.

Have a Christ Centered Day!

Steve Troxel
God's Daily Word Ministries

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I remember reading an article once about some folks who cried louder than the bereaved over the annulment of June 12. I think Dele Momodu was among those mentioned. It was quite shocking to me when I saw a piece about (either Babangida or Abacha) in Ovation magazine years later. Unimaginable! Did he think of the annuled June 12 elections?