Activists speak out against culling of Michigan's mute swans. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources calls the mute swan -- a bird noted for its white, billowy feathers; black mask-like marking; orange bill, and long, curved neck -- one of the most aggressive waterfowl species in the world. The state is aiming to reduce Michigan's mute swan population, with about 15,500 of the regal birds spread across every county, to fewer than 2,000 by 2030. The DNR's management plan allows for killing the birds with a single shot to the head as one of several lethal options. But an Oakland County woman and other residents are fighting that plan by signing an online petition and opposing community resolutions that aim to reduce the mute swan population. Karen Stamper of Walled Lake, who is leading the charge, said she wants residents to be able to decide the swans' fate in a state election.
Stamper, the deputy treasurer for Commerce Township, has gathered more than 2,650 signatures on an online petition at change.org asking DNR officials and Gov.
Changes to ELECTRONICS RECYCLING Program for Residents - Town of Wallingford. Hidden camera footage of murderer. Lonesome George dies, last of his species. Cat, squirrel have bubonic plague. My life is more interesting in my head. Feminist agena insanity. ‘Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening ends ‘Life in Hell,’ comic that started it all. After exploring a world populated by “anthropomorphic rabbits and a pair of gay lovers” for over 30 years, “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening is putting down his pen and ending his highly acclaimed comic strip, “Life in Hell.”
The last “Life in Hell,” Groening’s 1,669th strip, was released on Friday, June 15. For the next four weeks, editors will have their choice of strips from Groening’s extensive archive before they close up shop in July on Friday the 13, which seems oddly appropriate. “I’ve had great fun, in a Sisyphean kind of way, but the time has come to let Binky and Sheba and Bongo and Akbar and Jeff take some time off,” Groening, 58, said by email. “It’s hard to imagine how the business model that sustained alternative social-commentary and political cartooning for two decades (and is now all but dead) would have evolved had papers not discovered the power of Groening’s strip and its ability to attract readers,” said syndicated cartoonist Ted Rall by phone.
Pit bull does not eat deer, film at 11. Liquid cats. Miami Zombie Attack Prank! Alan Turing 100 bday. Deformed Barbie doll. Jealous husband ate wife's lip 'on impulse' 26 Jun 2012, 08:52 A Stockholm-area professor charged with cutting off and eating his wife's lower lip has told investigators he planned to kill himself after the attack and that the decision to eat his wife's lip was made "spontaneously".
"I didn't want to kill her. I wanted her to suffer for the rest of her life for what she had done," the 52-year-old man told police, according to the Expressen newspaper. The man, who is a respected researcher at the Karolinska Institute north of Stockholm, stands charge with aggravated assault for the attack on his wife, which took place in May in the couple's home south of Stockholm. According to prosecutors, the man was upset with his wife for requesting a divorce and flew into a jealous rage. Following his arrest, he told police that his 32-year-old wife had repeatedly asked for a divorce and that he ultimately attacked her when she returned home from a trip the professor believed she had taken with her new lover. "I got the idea spontaneously.