Journal

Thoughts, links, and randomness galore!

Monday, May 15, 2006
Christine's wedding pics

Another one bites the dust. My roommate Christine got married this weekend! View the pictures. Don't forget, there's also and index of older RCF-related pictures. Coming soon: senior night and bridal shower pics.

posted by Jessica at 10:58 PM | 0 comments

Saturday, December 24, 2005
The Year in Review

As the year draws to a close, it's time to reflect on the biggest headlines. We all know about Tom and Katie, Nick and Jessica, and the hurricanes. But did you hear about the golfer who claimed he made a hole-in-one with two shots? Or the retired nurse and 4-year-old boy who were both murder suspects?

Check out 2005's wackiest crimes and trials, courtesy of Court TV. Pay attention, because there will be a test afterwards. Below, a sampling of cases I helped find for the network.

A hole-in-one or a hole-in-two? Adam Fisher claimed he deserved a $10,000 prize for making the covetous shot in a charity golf tournament. The only problem: he took two swings because he used a mulligan, or a do-over.
DNA linked Gary Leiterman, a retired nurse and Little League organizer, to a 1969 college murder. The forensic evidence seemed airtight, until blood from a then-4-year-old boy also allegedly appeared at the crime scene.
In a case marked by jealousy, Shannon Walters and her friend Erin Wylie kidnapped Walters' boyfriend's dachshund and drowned it. Prosecutors said that Walters was angry over the attention that the dog received, but Wylie's attorney claimed it was a mercy killing.
In 2002, a bizarre attack left a respected medical examiner handcuffed to a window guard, wrapped in barbed wire and with a motion-sensitive bomb strapped to his chest. The prime suspect? The medical examiner himself. Prosecutors believed he faked his own attack.
A 16-year-old junior firefighter was accused of beating his girlfriend with a baseball bat to end her pregnancy. He originally claimed that he committed no crime because she consented. They both said they didn't want their parents to know about the baby.
Charles "Stan" Martin was believed to be the first person tried for murder in an amusement park death. Prosecutors said that he knowingly contributed to the death of a woman who fell from his ride.
Sheriff's deputy Chad Butler said he acted in self-defense when he shot who he believed to be an armed man. Unfortunately, Butler's judgment failed him: the man was unarmed, and the man died in what should have been a routine traffic stop. Butler ended up being thefirst Iowa law enforcement officer to be charged in a fatal shooting in 15 years.
A female teacher who allegedly wed a female student in a pagan ritual agreed to a plea deal just before the trial was to begin.

posted by Jessica at 8:38 PM | 0 comments

Saturday, September 24, 2005
New address

Bookmark the new link! My blog has moved to http://jessica.sugoodsweets.com/journal.

posted by Jessica at 11:05 PM | 0 comments

Thursday, September 15, 2005
President Bush has to go to the bathroom

My co-workers obviously had too much time on their hands when they found out this info.

As published on Yahoo News: U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005. World leaders are exploring ways to revitalize the United Nations at a summit on Wednesday but their blueprint falls short of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's vision of freedom from want, persecution and war. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

Editor & Publisher confirms that the photo is real:

Reuters Says Bush Photo Not 'Malicious,' Reports Wide Interest In it
NEW YORK With confirmation today that an accidental photo of President Bush at the United Nations on Wednesday, writing a note to Secretary of State Condeezza Rice about a “bathroom break,” was indeed real, newspapers around the U.S. and abroad are now planning to run it widely. But many, it seems, will treat it as something more than a joke.
...
The fact is, according to Reuters -- and this has not been widely reported -- President Bush did indeed take a bathroom break after passing the note to Rice.

This apparently raised some eyebrows around the room, because American representatives (among others) have a reputation for suddenly bolting, though normally for a far different reason than this latest one. Fair or not, the European press has already had a field day with the photo, often centering on the notion that Bush had to ask Rice for permission.

The headline at the Web site for The Times of London, for example, reads: "Excuse me Condi, can I go to the bathroom?"

In other hard-to-believe news, President Bush is the first result that comes up if you Google "failure." Try it!

posted by Jessica at 4:57 PM | 0 comments

Thursday, August 11, 2005
Wedding bells

My friend Sunny got married this weekend!

View more of my pics. Or visit collections from Sunny, Kim, Dave, Emmy, Karen, Yvonne, Ray and Christine.

posted by Jessica at 11:50 PM | 0 comments

Top