Daily Rotten Archives March 3, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Cain and Abel Vie For Dad's Coke Ring Wire Services | Submitted by: ik "Mykel, a 7th grader, is now accused of masterminding the slaying of his 16-year-old half-brother so he could take over the drug operation -- one police say they inherited from their father, who is in prison for running one of the biggest cocaine rings on Cape Cod... Jordan was found shot, stabbed 27 times and dumped into a pit, where his body was torched. Another 13-year-old friend and a 20-year-old cousin also are charged with murder." Read article... Comments (668) Washington Legalizes Auto-Euthanasia Health News | Submitted by: ik "On March 5th, Washington state will enact Initiative 1000, which will allow terminally ill patients with less than 6 months to live to ask their doctors for a life-ending prescription." Following Oregon's lead: "Deaths from a legal drug prescribed under the Death With Dignity Act now account for 2 of 1,000 deaths in Oregon. In all, 401 terminally ill Oregonians have died this way since Oregon became the only state to make doctor-assisted suicide legal in 1997." Read article... Comments (53) Power Of Christ Compels Number Two KTLA News | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "When firefighters arrived, they found the unidentified man threatening to jump from a cross about 10 feet above the roof of the two-story building. The man was apparently protesting Christianity... Fire department rescue teams worked for hours to entice the man to come down. The man ranted and, at one point, spread his feces on the cross." Read article... Comments (44) DoJ Terror Memo Authorized Martial Law Newsweek | Submitted by: PatsyStoneCheers "In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and office complexes inside the United States, deploy high-tech surveillance against U.S. citizens and potentially suspend First Amendment freedom-of-the-press rights in order to combat the terror threat, according to a memo released Monday... The memo was co-written by John Yoo, at the time a deputy attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel." Read article... Comments (39) Lusitania's Secret Cargo Archaeological Institute of America | Submitted by: Lord RedPubes "The nearly century-old debate about whether the passenger liner Lusitania was transporting British war munitions when torpedoed by a German U-boat is over. Physical evidence of just such a cargo has been recovered from the wreck, which rests 12 miles off the Irish coast in 300 feet of murky, turbulent water... This past September, Bemis's team used a remotely operated vehicle to penetrate the wreck. They were able to clearly identify a vast amount of ammunition in an area of Lusitania not believed to have carried cargo." Read article... Comments (24) Conservative States Lead In Porn Consumption Salt Lake Tribune | Submitted by: azdollarbill "A study by a Harvard Business School professor shows that Utah outpaces the more conservative states -- which all tend to purchase more Internet porn than other states... Online porn subscription rates are higher in states that enacted conservative legislation banning same-sex marriage or civil unions and where surveys show support for conservative positions on religion, gender roles and sexuality, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives." Read article... and This article... Comments (45) Indonesian 9yo Miracle, But Lowers His Life Expectancy The Age | Submitted by: Poot "The nine-year-old, who had been playing in the rain in his front yard, was hit by the thunderbolt but, to the astonishment of his young friends, he was unharmed... when he came to, he found a stone the size of an egg on his head, and was convinced he possessed healing powers." The boy is a "dukun", or folk faith healer, but unfortunately, Indonesians have a habit of massacring dukuns. Read article... Comments (13) Pepto the Dolphin London Telegraph | Submitted by: Alias47 Looks fake but it is not. "Charter boat captain Erik Rue, 42, photographed the animal, which is actually an albino, when he began studying it after the mammal first surfaced in Lake Calcasieu, an inland saltwater estuary, north of the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern USA." Read article... Comments (33)