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There’s an update to yesterday’s story about an elderly woman who stole a pregnant lady’s purse. Here’s the story from the Associated Press:

>>Elderly woman suspected of armed robberies nabbed

FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — A crime analyst who put together a flyer for the “Granny Bandit” wanted in a series of armed robberies in Southern California helped police arrest the woman after she spotted the suspect during her lunch break.

Fontana Police Chief Rod Jones thanked the analyst for helping detectives catch 51-year-old Dodi Wasbotten (DOE’-dee wahz-BOHT-tin) on Wednesday, hours after she allegedly robbed a woman outside a Target store.

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I keep saying that the economy is in bad shape, and the news keeps providing examples of that.

Check out this story from CBS Los Angeles:

>>FONTANA, Calif. (CBS) — A robber on the loose in Fontana turned Mother’s Day into a frightening experience for one local woman, who said the criminal was actually an elderly woman packing a gun.

Fontana police confirmed that a woman believed to be in her 80s held up another woman who was waiting for her husband in the parking lot of Kohl’s. The victim, who is nine months pregnant, said the robbery occurred in broad daylight, around 11:00 a.m. Sunday.

The alleged victim, who only identified herself as “Shelly,” talked to KCAL9 reporter Nicole Gonzales.

“When she approached me. She seemed like a nice old lady that might need directions, that’s what I was thinking,” she said. “I just thought, I’m dead. I kind of froze, and freaked out a little bit.”

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When I thought I’d seen everything, I came across a story like the one below from Detroit’s local CBS station:

>>DETROIT (WWJ) – Be careful of what’s being sold under the counter.

Crack pipes are being sold at neighborhood stores from Detroit to the suburbs.

That’s according to  former Detroit police officer David Mahalab, who says the pipes are disguised as novelties.

“To avoid police detection and to try to avoid the law, they put a pen insert – (in) a glass tube, and try to evade the law, which talks about paraphernalia and stuff that has a second use,” says Mahalab.

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It’s hard to believe, but this is a really, really bad economy these days no matter what the press says. This story is proof of just how bad it is:

>>WOODBURY, N.J. (AP) – Two southern New Jersey residents who robbed a bank last year to pay for their wedding trip to Las Vegas are now headed to state prison.

Twenty-eight-year old Charles B. Koch of Stratford and 27-year-old Cheri Harper of Malaga both received seven-year terms on Friday. They must serve 85 percent of their sentences before becoming eligible for parole.

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My favorite vocalist has been for decades (and remains) Karen Carpenter. I can listen to her voice anytime, anywhere.

Since she passed a long time ago, anytime I come across new music that has her voice in it, I’m immediately interested.

I recently found some unreleased songs with her singing in them, and I thought I’d share them this Mother’s Day weekend. Hope you like them!

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Sometimes I feel like my little blog is not very important compared to the news of the day. After all, the passing of Osama bin Laden is dominating the news on every channel I turn on as I post this entry. I don’t have much to say about that except that I feel somewhat relieved instead of joyous. Bin Laden was responsible for the death of thousands, so the world is a safer and better place now, in my humble opinion.

But more important to me is the fact that recently this blog passed a year of bringing what interests me to the Web on a regular to somewhat-regular basis. I apologize for not always being meeting my own schedule of posting something on a daily basis, but real life has gotten in the way sometimes.

It’s been a good year, and I want to thank each and every one of you who has read what I’ve been talking about.

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Since the warmer weather has arrived, how about some songs dealing with Spring?

First up is Chris Geith with “Eternal Spring” from the “Island Of A Thousand Dreams” CD:

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It had to happen. Just like Internet usage, women have surpassed men when it comes to obtaining degrees of higher knowledge.

Here’s the story from myway.com:

>>In a first, women surpass men in advanced degrees

WASHINGTON (AP) – For the first time, American women have passed men in gaining advanced college degrees as well as bachelor’s degrees, part of a trend that is helping redefine who goes off to work and who stays home with the kids.

Census figures released Tuesday highlight the latest education milestone for women, who began to exceed men in college enrollment in the early 1980s. The findings come amid record shares of women in the workplace and a steady decline in stay-at-home mothers.

The educational gains for women are giving them greater access to a wider range of jobs, contributing to a shift of traditional gender roles at home and work. Based on one demographer’s estimate, the number of stay-at-home dads who are the primary caregivers for their children reached nearly 2 million last year, or one in 15 fathers. The official census tally was 154,000, based on a narrower definition that excludes those working part-time or looking for jobs.

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I’ll never understand the desire to damage someone or something else. If I don’t like what’s being done, I get away from it. Why a person decides it is time to hurt someone else is beyond me.

Recently, there was a beating of transgender person in a McDonalds in Maryland, where I live. Here’s the latest on that story from thewashingtonpost.com:

>>Community Rallies Around Victim Of McDonalds Attack

The woman who was attacked in a Baltimore County McDonald’s last week thanked the woman who stepped in and tried to help, as more than a hundred supporters gathered at the Rosedale restaurant Monday night. The rally drew together representatives of transgender, civil-rights and faith-based communities in a call to action to stop violence against all people.

“I’ll never forget you for this,” Renee Polis told Vicky Thoms, who was hit in the face as she stepped between Chrissy Polis and the two teens who were caught on video punching and kicking Polis, and dragging her by her hair until Polis appears to have a seizure.

The attack was filmed by a McDonald’s employee and was first posted on YouTube last week. Despite being removed from the video-sharing site, it quickly went viral, garnering hundreds of thousands of views after being linked from several websites, including the Drudge Report.

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I’ve always enjoyed John Stossel‘s reports and reporting. In a new column, he poses a good question: Since the wars in the Middle East have been cranking up and not down, why aren’t there more and bigger anti-war protests?

Here’s what he said:

>>Where Did All The Anti-War Protestors Go?

The anti-war movement was all over the news before President Obama was elected. But apparently they weren’t really anti-war … they were just anti-President Bush. Two college professors just released a study of national protests between 2007 and 2009. What did they find?

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