December 6, 2009

Child Killer Sentenced in Omaha

The illegal alien whose reckless driving caused the death of four-year-old Josie Bluhm (pictured) was sentenced on Friday. The good news is that Eleazar Rangel-Ochoa got the maximum prison term; unfortunately that's only six years.

Infosys Employee Ridiculed For Celebrating Christmas And Thanksgiving

There is a school of thought that maintains that non-Western peoples are simply not capable of sustaining—or assimilating to—the civilization of the West, that "East is East and West is West," as Kipling put it, and never the twain shall meet.
Sam Francis, 2002

Tiger Woods and Steroids

Here's my column, "Tiger Juice," from Taki's Magazine last May speculating about whether Tiger Woods might have started using steroids during this decade. I didn't find any proof, but I found more evidence than I had expected.

Who Is Robert Ngari? Where Is He From? And Can He Go Back There, Please?

This is a strange story--a man named Robert Ngari was arrested for stealing an ambulance. Other stories say he was wearing an EMT shirt and a stethoscope.

Man arrested at school for stealing ambulance

By BETH LAMONTAGNE HALL
New Hampshire Union Leader
Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009

More On Status Hispanicus In The ER

Some of the stuff from the Wikipedia entry Steve quotes below seems to come from ER Stories, which is a blog about "Shocking, Hilarious, Bizarre, and Sad Tales from the Emergency Room."

Here's their entry on slang--and here are some quotes about the effects of large scale Hispanic immigration on Emergency Rooms:

Hospital Slang

Medical slang appears to be slowly dying out due to the discovery process in lawsuits, but it offered a rich lexicon when I first learned of it in the 1980s from a friend who worked in an emergency room. Here are some selections from Wikipedia's rather British-oriented list: