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Via Drudge:
1. SEXY AT 69, DAME HELEN NEW FACE OF L’OREAL…
2. UPDATE: Clown terror spreads in France…
Paris (AFP) – A wave of panic sparked by evil clowns stalking French towns has spread to the south of France where police on Saturday night arrested 14 teenagers dressed as the pranksters, carrying pistols, knives and baseball bats.
A police source said Sunday the group of teens were arrested in the parking lot of a high school in the Mediterranean port town of Agde, as several other complaints poured in about “armed clowns” in the region over the weekend.
3. Naked Man Accused Of Raping Pit Bull In Neighbor’s Yard, Says ISIS Sent Him
WATERBURY, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) — A naked man is accused of raping a pit bull in his neighbor’s yard.
Alice Woodruff told WTNH-TV that she confronted her neighbor at gunpoint while he was performing sex acts on her rescue pit bull that is kept on an 800-pound tow chain in her backyard.
“I thought my dog had killed somebody because I saw a man underneath her,” Woodruff explained to WTNH. “I started to scream. I had a citronella candle and I threw it at him, screaming ‘get off my dog, you have to get out of here.’ He said, ‘No, today is the day we are going to spend the rest of our lives together.’”
Woodruff said the man appeared mentally ill as he was telling her that the terror group ISIS sent him.
At Slate:
4. Hanged Iranian Woman Leaves Heartbreaking Last Message
The 26-year-old Iranian woman who was executed on Saturday for murdering a man she said tried to rape her sent a final message to her mother, asking her to make sure her organs would be donated. Reyhaneh Jabbari is largely calm in the voice message she recorded for her mother in April; in it she seems resigned to her fate after being on death row for five years. Iranian activists distributed a translation of the message, equating it to Jabbari’s will.
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I don’t want to rot under the soil. I don’t want my eye or my young heart to turn into dust. Beg so that it is arranged that as soon as I am hanged my heart, kidney, eye, bones and anything that can be transplanted be taken away from my body and given to someone who needs them as a gift. I don’t want the recipient know my name, buy me a bouquet, or even pray for me.
5. Showrunner Terence Winter on Why He Chose to End Boardwalk EmpireThat Way
Warning: Spoilers ahead for the series finale of Boardwalk Empire.
No Sopranos-style ambiguity here: Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi)
Featured for today’s question of the day: “Boardwalk Empire: Now That You Know the Ending, Is It Worth Watching?“
Via Memeorandum:
At the New York Post:
6. Black Panther hails ax attack on cops
The Muslim extremist who attacked rookie cops with a hatchet last week was “a crusader seeking justice’’ — and more assaults will likely follow, the head of his local New Black Panther Party warned.“It probably won’t be the last [attack on police] because you have a lot of frustrated people out here,” Queens chapter leader Frank Sha Francois told The Post.Francois said ax-wielding Zale Thompson wasn’t officially a member of his group, but he came to meetings and they talked about “police brutality” cases such as Eric Garner and Michael Brown.“I don’t condone violence, but something needs to be done,” Francois said. “We need to have some type of deterrent and real oversight to deter the police from violating the laws and to know they are not above the laws.”While he hailed the ax man as a “crusader,” Francois insisted he didn’t agree with Thompson’s methods.
More at the New York Post:
7. Teen wounded in Washington state HS shooting dies
8. Mick Fleetwood on sex, rock ‘n’ roll and his alleged $60M drug habit
9. Halle Berry: Women should ‘be prepared’ with nice lingerie
Via The New York Post:
At The Decider:
10. 10 HILARIOUSLY AWKWARD AND UNSEXY SEX SCENES
At Page Six:
11. Judd Nelson’s agent dispels death rumors
Via Media Gazer
At the Globe and Mail:
12. Canadian radio host Jian Ghomeshi fired from CBC over public revelations of his private sex life, plans to sue for $50M
“Let me be the first to say that my tastes in the bedroom may not be palatable to some folks,” he writes. “They may be strange, enticing, weird, normal, or outright offensive to others. We all have our secret life. But that is my private life.”He also raises the prospect of allegations of abuse, saying, “the implication may be made that this happens non-consensually. And that will be a lie.”The Toronto Star reported late Sunday that three women have made allegations of violent, non-consensual assaults by Mr. Ghomeshi, while noting that none had reported their claims to police. The Star further reported that a former employee of the CBC claimed to have been sexually harassed by Mr. Ghomeshi.The ouster of Mr. Ghomeshi, who as host of Q has emerged as a prominent personality in music, art and literary circles, appears to be the opening round of a very public spat between the public broadcaster and a man who was for years one of its central personalities. Mr. Ghomeshi has hired Navigator, a prominent company that describes itself as a “high-stakes public strategy and communications firm,” and his lawyers announced Sunday that he intends to sue the CBC for $50-million.
At TMZ:
13. Mama June’s New Man: Daughter-In-Law Says His Past is Irrelevant
14. Mama June Sugar Bear Always Took Back Seat To Child Molester
At the Daily Mail:
15. Poster girl for Kurdish freedom fighters in Kobane is ‘captured and beheaded by ISIS killers’ who posted gruesome pictures online
16. How Mama June allowed child molester boyfriend to touch Honey Boo Boo… and the heartbreaking betrayal of eldest daughter Anna who was sexually abused by him for MONTHS
Alana is just a year older than when June’s eldest daughter Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell – who is now 20-years-old – claims she was abused by McDaniel, aged eight.
The picture, taken on September 9, shows 53-year-old McDaniel gently touching Alana on the shoulder as they sit on a staircase together with June.
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Susan Boatwright of Georgia’s Division of Family and Child Services told People: ‘From our point of view, when there are young children who are not able to protect themselves that are in daily contact or living with a sex offender, someone would go out and assess the situation and decide whether the children can stay there or not.’
She added: ‘If we thought a child was in harm’s way in any way, shape or form, we would develop a safety plan and make sure the children are not around an offender.’
Despite the startling revelations about McDaniel’s past, his daughter-in-law Peaches McDaniel has defended him on Facebook, insisting he’s a good father.
17. Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza’s growing rage and delusions were ‘overlooked by his mother, psychiatrists and counselors for years before shooting spree’
18. Chinese student, 19, sparks outrage by offering sex to different man in each city on her backpacking trip to pay her travel costs
She said: ‘It is sort of like hitch-hiking. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.’
But critics say the deal is nothing but prostitution and have called for the ad to be taken down.
One Weibo user Hsin Tao said: ‘If she was taking cash we’d all know what to call her. This is a disgusting way to carry on.’
19. ‘I love you and I forgive you Jaylen’: Student shot by cousin in Washington school cafeteria forgives gunman on Twitter from intensive care
20. Schizophrenic black man was fatally shot 14 times by white cop six months ago – and his family are STILL fighting for the officer to be charged even though he was fired for killing
And here’s your spiritual palate cleanser for the day, from Psalm 78:
Updated:
At The Daily Caller today:
21. Paris Hilton’s Scandalous Halloween Costumes Never Do Disappoint
At LifeNews:
22. Mom Killed Her Newborn Baby to Save Her Sex Life, Cut His Throat Minutes After Birth
Nadine Koenig, 20, from Regensburg, smothered her newborn son before killing him with a Stanley knife. Koenig concealed her pregnancy from her parents, gave birth at their home and, after she was arrested, her mother committed suicide. Later she dumped the body of her baby in the river.
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