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Man fined for tossing pig at hotel

WEST POINT, Miss. – When pigs fly, indeed. Kevin Pugh, 20, of Cedar Bluff, has been fined $279 for tossing a pig over the counter at the Holiday Inn Express in West Point on Nov. 12. Pugh pleaded guilty Tuesday in city court to a charge of disturbing the peace.

West Point Police Lt. Danny McCaskill has said Pugh didn’t know the employees of the hotel. There was no evidence intoxication was a factor.

No one was hurt, including the pig, officers said.

“This was the silliest thing I’ve ever seen,” McCaskill said. “Almost every officer we had was involved because the incidents kept happening at different hours.”

McCaskill said Pugh was accused of walking into the hotel and throwing the 60-pound pig over the counter.

“He said it was a prank,” McCaskill said. “It must be some redneck thing, because I haven’t ever heard of anything like it.”

McCaskill said there have been four late-night incidents involving animal-tossing at West Point businesses. Twice a pig was tossed and two of the incidents involved possums.

All four of the disturbances took place between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., McCaskill said.

Pugh is accused in a second animal-throwing incident at a Hardee’s restaurant. He has pleaded innocent to disturbing the peace in that case and will appear in city court on Dec. 19.

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Dick Cheney’s Gay Daughter is Pregnant

There are few hotter issues than gay adoption, but I’ve found one: a high profile lesbian woman deciding to conceive a child with no apparent intention of involving the biological father in the child’s life.

Yesterday, the Washington Post reported the openly gay daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney is pregnant. The same published report says Mary, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, 45, are “ecstatic” about the baby, due in late spring.

Before commenting on the report, it is important to mention what we don’t know.

We don’t know how she got pregnant, and quite honestly, it’s none of our business.

What we do know is that two lesbian women can’t make babies, and as good as both women may be as caretakers, neither of them can be Dad. We also know there is a dad out there and this child will be deprived of his presence.

Because people have strong opinions about homosexuality, gay marriage and gay adoption, it is very difficult to embark on any single issue without the conversation bleeding into the others. Gay issue advocates have succeeded in linking all three together by arguing they each stem from the principle of equal rights.

This story, however, of Mary Cheney and her partner, allows us the rare opportunity to examine the consequences of redefining the family to include homosexual couples, without getting bogged down with arguments about the moral status of homosexual behaviour.

In an interview last year in People Magazine, Mary Cheney was asked if she and Heather “plan on having a family.” Here, we see a classic case of Hollywood-style linguistic manipulation. It sounds very nice and tolerant to speak as if two women can plan their family in the same way that a married heterosexual couple can. However, when it comes to the wellbeing and education of children, niceties aren’t enough. Mary’s response was characteristically kind and considerate, but equally dismissive of the seriousness of bringing a fatherless child into this world: “That’s one Heather and I are going to have to talk about before I can tell you.”

The movement to redefine the family threatens to subvert children’s rights. Mary thought the decision to get pregnant with the help of a third party was serious enough to merit a long talk with her girlfriend, but thinks her child should have no say in being born into a fatherless home.

Spokespersons for activist groups — in this case gay rights activists — are among the most blatant perpetrators of linguistic manipulation. Reacting to the news of Mary Cheney’s pregnancy, the director of Family Pride, Jennifer Chrisler, said this: “Unless they move to a handful of less restrictive states, Heather will never be able to have a legal relationship with her child.”

Why does Jennifer assume it’s Heather’s child too?

Many single mothers make great moms, but the ones I know are the first to say that nature (God) got it right with the complementary nature of the sexes, for both human reproduction and parenthood.

Trading a father or a mother for a third party lover may seem to make sense for the couple, but it will never make sense for the child.

But what is done is done. We now should celebrate the marvel of new life, a beautiful gift in every circumstance. I can understand why they are “ecstatic.”

I wish Mary, Heather and Mary’s child the very best.

God bless, Father Jonathan

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Dad Says Toy Taught Son F-Word

Man Wants Toys ‘R’ Us To Pull Toy From Shelves

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A North Carolina father wants Toys “R” Us to take a popular police toy set off the shelves.

He said the toy given to his 6-year-old son utters a curse word. Toys “R” Us has gotten two complaints and had the chip re-recorded.

The toy is a police officer set called “Elite Operations Role Play Set: Police,” that includes a nightstick and a utility belt. A recorded message that includes what sounds like a curse word plays when the nightstick is removed from the belt.

Philip Morton, 33, said he returned the toy to the toy store where he bought it and played it for store managers. He said they gave him a new set with a recording that didn’t include the obscenity.

He kept the original set and played the recorded message, including the apparent curse word, over the phone for Associated Press reporters.

“We shelter our kids,” said Morton. “We’re very protective about everything they watch on TV and discourage cussing around our kids. Our TVs are on the Disney Channel 97 percent of the time.”

Morton told The Daily News in Jacksonville, N.C., that when he heard his son, Jonathan, saying an obscene word to friends after his birthday party, he was incensed.

Morton said his son learned the word — a term for sexual intercourse — from his toy.

“He asked me if I wanted him to arrest me and I said no, (then) he asked me if I wanted to be cuffed and I said (maybe), and then he said, ‘(expletive) don’t make me use my nightstick,’” Morton told the paper. “Without even thinking I said, ‘What did you say?’ So he said it again. To some people that might have been funny to hear a child say that, but I got very, very mad.”

He said he’s been apologizing to people for his son’s cursing.

“I’ve had to explain to parents why my son is saying the f-word; it’s horrible,” Morton said. “It’s really a cute little toy; but God forbid, it’s not what I want my kid hearing.”

A store spokeswoman said the problem may be a faulty chip.

Jerry Gibson of TekNek Toys International of Southlake, Texas, said Morton hasn’t made the recording available, but that the recorded voice is supposed to say “stop.”

“I understand they can’t check every toy on the shelf,” Morton said. “But if one doesn’t say it and one does, maybe someone is playing a game and got in a hurry and forgot about it. Personally, I think they should be held liable.”

TekNek Toys denied claims that the toy has a potty mouth. Michelle Perea, the products and marketing manager for TekNek, told the paper that the recorded voice actually does say “stop.”

Woman’s tail wind downs jetliner

NASHVILLE – In case of emergency . . . pull finger!

Flatulence brought down an American Airlines [AMR] flight early Monday. It is believed to be the first incident in which gastrointestinal gas has forced an emergency landing.

American Flight 1053 was enroute from Washington Reagan National Airport and bound for Dallas/Fort Worth, when alarmed passengers reported smelling struck matches, Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority told the Tennesseean newspaper.

Despite the odoriferous menace, the plane landed safely. The FBI, Transportation Safety Administration and airport authority responded to the emergency, Lowrance said.

The passengers were taken off the plane with their luggage to go through security checks. Bomb-sniffing dogs found the matches. Astute FBI agents managed to identify and question a passenger who admitted she struck the matches to conceal a body odor issue caused by a medical condition. The flight took off again, but the woman was not allowed back on.

“American has banned her for a long time,” Lowrance said. It is unclear whether she intends to create a stink over the ban. She was not charged although it is illegal to strike a match in an airplane.

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