Daily Archives: June 18, 2012

By the CNN Wire Staff

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Max Page, the 7-year-old who played a mini-Darth Vader in a Volkswagen commercial, Monday left a hospital in Los Angeles where he had undergone heart surgery.

"I'm feeling great," a squirmy and smiley Max told a room full of reporters on his way out the door. "I do feel a little pain in my chest, but not much."

Posted By: Gareth Vaughan, Political Officer

Arguably one of the most distinctive of the United States of America’s 50 states, Louisiana is perhaps best known for its annual Mardi Gras celebration. In traveling throughout the state, however, any visitor will quickly realize that there is far more to Louisiana than Bourbon Street. Named for King Louis XIV, the French were the first to claim the Louisiana territory as their own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Z_NLKXOXc&hd=1

The original Los Angeles Times caption reported:

March 29, 1943:  Vierling Kersey, superintendent of schools, left, and Roy J. Becker, Board of Education president, demonstrate old and new methods of saluting Old Glory. The new hand-over-heart method goes in effect in schools on Army Day.

On Dec. 22, 1942, Congress amended the flag code to replace the salute with the hand-over-heart method.

In an un-aired interview last November, with NBC's Bill Costas  Jerry Sandusky may have unknowingly dug himself a grave now that he's actually standing trial on 52 counts of child molestation.

According to NEWSER, the former Penn state assistant coach made some incriminating comments about 'sexual needs with underage children'  during the interview, which has prompted the attorney general's office in Pennsylvania to request a complete transcript of the interview itself directly from NBC.

MONTREAL, CANADA:  According to authorities in Montreal, accused murderer Luka Magnotta has been returned to his home territory of Montreal as of this afternoon.

Berlin authorities extradited the killer via military transport late last night, and he arrived just this morning swiftly being taken into custody.  Police say he did not fight being extradited.

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As we previously reported, author Terry McMillan went on a Twitter rampage Saturday, where she lambasted Republicans as nefarious Hitler acolytes. McMillan originally refused to apologize, even after being taken to task by several tweeters (for both her comments and her grammar):

https://twitter.com/MsTerryMcMillan/status/214379503617712128

https://twitter.com/Lanettetay/status/214382852589092867

https://twitter.com/MsTerryMcMillan/status/214378200418103299

https://twitter.com/RhymesWithRight/status/214492134479372289

https://twitter.com/lolvincitomnia/status/214477003418640384

https://twitter.com/Mark604YVR/status/214402612374667266

https://twitter.com/ExPoleDancer/status/214105872773812224

After two days of Twitter backlash (and after repeatedly digging in), McMillan finally tried to walk back a small portion of her hate-filled tirade.

I can see it from where I'm standing