Madness Beckons

I guess he lost the bet.

The Chinese seem to have found the latest radioactive material to go walk-about.

BBC: Chinese officials say that potentially deadly radioactive material lost in north-western Shaanxi province may have been found at a steel mill.

Officials told the BBC that they had detected what may be the missing Caesium-137, adding that it may have been melted down.

The Caesium-137, encased in lead, was lost this week when workers at a cement plant demolished an old factory.

The material was part of a measuring instrument and is extremely dangerous.

The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville in Beijing says China has an appalling record on industrial safety – there are around 30 cases of radioactive material being lost every year.

Last July, a farmer in Shaanxi province was arrested after he stole a similar radioactive container and attempted to sell it for scrap.

“a farmer in Shaanxi province was arrested???” What kind of security do these fools have?

You know China has to have their share of violent dissidents. So how long before somebody combines fertilizer, #2 diesel and Cesium-137?

Topic 357 – Tax Information for Parents of Kidnapped Children

You may claim a kidnapped child as your dependent if the following requirements are met:

1. The child must be presumed by law enforcement to have been kidnapped by someone who is not a member of your family or a member of the child’s family, and
2. The child had, for the taxable year in which the kidnapping occurred, the same principal place of abode as the taxpayer for more than one-half of the portion of such year before the date of kidnapping.

If both of these requirements are met, the child may meet the requirements for purposes of determining:

* The dependency exemption
* The child tax credit, and
* Head of household or qualifying widow(er) with dependent child filing status.

This tax treatment will cease to apply as of your first tax year beginning after the calendar year in which either there is a determination that the child is dead or the child would have reached age 18, whichever occurs first.

The Dallas Morning News says it has obtained a school board report that says two “cage fights” took place at South Oak Cliff High between 2003-2005.

The paper said it was not clear from the report whether there were more than two fights in a steel mesh equipment cage in the boys’ changing room.

No criminal charges were ever filed, and the principal at the time has denied any fights took place.

Donald Moten, who retired as principal last year, told the Morning News: “That’s barbaric… It never did happen. I never put a stop to anything because it never happened.”

The alleged fights came to light during a grade-fixing investigation, after which the school was stripped of two basketball titles.

In the report, a teacher was quoted as saying Mr Moten told a member of staff to put two fighting students “in the cage and let ‘em duke it out”.

Cage fights? This isn’t cable tv. Those students should be forced to sneak out in back of the gym like everybody else.

As she gets older Pamela Anderson goes to great lengths to stay in the spotlight.
–But this?–

This is from Yahoo’s “OMG! What were they thinking?“