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A stolen laptop turned into somewhat of a joke when the alleged thief found himself on the internet courtesy of the victim. This video, going viral on YouTube, was posted by Mark Bao. But it’s not just any video. Mark says this is video of the guy who stole his laptop.

Mark says “first of all, not only was it hilarious, but it let me figure out who exactly this guy was.”

A South Carolina man is in police custody today after authorities say he was belligerent and found with crack cocaine hidden between his buttocks.

According to WYFF 4, 23-year-old Marvel Foster was arrested Tuesday after being stopped for speeding in Spartanburg, County.

Police report that Foster told police he didn’t have a license and noted that his car smelled of cologne.

They also noted however that he had a leafy green substance on the floor of his vehicle.

A check confirmed that the man’s license was suspended for a drug violation and he agreed to let officers search his car.

A search found two more bags of what officers described as a “leafy green substance” and over $1,000 in Foster’s pockets he claimed was from a girlfriend.

Officers report that he then became aggressive and was taken into custody.

At the Spartanburg County Detention Center a strip search was administered and a large white crack rock inside a clear bag was found tucked between Foster’s buttocks.

He is now facing drug trafficking charges.

The UN-sanctioned attack on rebels and non-combatant civilians loyal to strongman Muammar Gaddafi in Libya have been met with approval by US Republicans.

Some Democrats are questioning Obama’s decision to send air assaults last week without Congressional approval or a clear definition of America’s role in the mission in Libya.

Minister Louis Farrakhan spoke with FinalCall.com about the war in Libya and offered words to President Obama as he shed light on what he feels is the reason for American intervention.

“Our dear brother [Obama] has to be very careful in his decision…whenever government wants you to think and act in a certain way that would bring justification to an action that they are already planning to make, they must make the person that they hate, the boogey man.”

Farrakhan states that in every nation there is dissatisfaction and the CIA moves into a country and aligns with the people to stimulate a revolt against a leader that they don’t like. Although the Libyan people have legitimate grievances, The Minister suggests that imperialist powers such as France, England and the United States aren’t truly concerned with the countrymen.

“What is their dissatisfaction about?” Asks Farrakhan, “…do they have jobs? Yes. Do they have food? Yes. Has Gaddafi used the oil money to build Libya? Yes…Did he impose farming in the desert so that they could feed their own people? Yes.”

He warns that the Libyans  may unite against the US and other countries if they kill Gaddafi. He advises that Barack meets with the country’s leader instead of using force and Louis gives his thoughts on the actual reason for war strikes.

“Don’t tell me and wise Black people or White people that you’re interested in Black suffering. Where were you in Rwanda? Where are you in the Congo? Why did you go to Darfur? Because oil is there!

No, you don’t want to save the Libyan people, that’s your noble motive to hide your wicked agenda.”

After a burst appendix nearly cost 4-year-old Colton Burpo his life in 2003, his parents were thankful just to have him alive and well. But when he opened up about his brush with death a few months later, they were shocked when he described a very vivid trip to heaven, and spoke of matters about which he had no apparent way of knowing.

During an automobile trip, when Sonja Burpo asked him about his memories of being in the hospital, little Colton replied: “Yes, Mommy, I remember — that’s where the angels sang to me.” A sweet answer, to be sure — but then Colton made his parents’ jaws drop when he told them about sitting in Jesus’ lap, watching his parents while he lay seemingly near death, and meeting his great-grandfather.

But most poignantly, Colton described meeting a sibling in heaven — even though he had no way of knowing that his mother had miscarried two years before he was born, since his parents had never told him.

Jesus And John The Baptist
Todd Burpo began telling of his son’s heaven-sent visions from the pulpit of the Crossroads Wesleyan Church in Imperial, Neb., where he serves as pastor. Word of mouth spread, and the family landed a book deal. The book — “Heaven Is for Real,” written by Todd with co-writer Lynn Vincent — has become a best-seller, with some 1.5 million copies in print since its release in November.

Appearing live on TODAY Monday with Sonja and Colton, who’s now 11, Todd told Matt Lauer he understands that naysayers may believe Colton’s story is a little too heavenly to be true — initially, so did he and Sonja. “At first we were surprised; we never anticipated to talk to our son about these things,” Todd told Matt Lauer.

“We didn’t share at first, and then once we started sharing, people were amazed,” Sonja Burpo added. “They were encouraged by what we were sharing with them.”
Colton was stricken with appendicitis shortly before his fourth birthday. Family guilt was heavy — for five days he lay getting sicker and sicker with what the family believed was stomach flu, which had previously hit Colton’s older sister Cassie.

Little Colton nearly didn’t make it: He lay in a hospital bed for 17 days. When he finally rallied, the family rejoiced — but they were floored when, months later, the boy began matter-of-factly describing what he had experienced when he was in between life and death: seeing Jesus dressed in royal purple, meeting John the Baptist, having angels sing to him to ease his anxiety.

The Burpos believed these were things Colton could have gleaned from his Bible studies. But he also told his mother he saw her talking on the phone in another room while he was having surgery, and saw his father praying in a small room, all while he was seated in Jesus’ lap.

“What caught my attention was he could tell me where I was while he was in surgery,” Todd told Lauer. “The surgeon couldn’t tell me that, the nurses couldn’t, my wife couldn’t tell me where I was praying. But he could tell me.”

Shocking Revelation
Colton also spoke of meeting a long-departed relative in heaven, telling NBC News: “I was just sitting by the Holy Spirit and then this guy comes up to me and says, ‘Are you Todd’s son?’ I say yes, and he says, ‘Well, I’m his grandfather.’ ”

Colton said that everyone in heaven has wings. On Monday, he described his great-grandfather “Pops” as being “very big, huge wings, curly hair, a big smile, and he was very nice.”

But the real shocker came when Colton told his mother, “Mommy, I have two sisters.” Sonja told her son that he had to be referring to his oldest sister, Cassie, and his cousin Traci, but he responded: “No — I have two sisters. You had a baby die in your tummy, didn’t you?”

Sonja told Lauer the family had never uttered a word about the miscarriage to Colton — and what’s more, they never even learned the sex of their miscarried child. “It was a private hurt that we didn’t even share with our friends,” Sonja said, adding Colton’s revelation was at first “shocking, but then a relief that she’s OK, which we didn’t know she was a she.”

In a subsequent TODAY segment Monday, Sonja filled in Colton’s description of his meeting with his sister: “He told us what she looked like, and she wouldn’t stop hugging him. And she doesn’t have a name.”

“When he told us about his sister in heaven, that we hadn’t told him about, [it was] another one of those ‘holy cow’ moments — OK, he can’t make this stuff up, he can’t invent this; no memory was planted,” Todd told Lauer. “But the peace that came over us, and the healing, like, ‘Wow, I have a daughter in heaven waiting for me’ — I think a lot of people need that type of hope and healing, too.

And I think that’s what a lot of people are finding when they hear Colton’s testimony, to know what they have to look forward to.”

When Lauer asked Colton what heaven looked like, the 11-year-old replied, “Well, there’s a lot of color. There are a lot of people and a lot of angels.”

In his second segment later on Monday, Colton gave Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb some additional details — such as the fact that there are no old people in heaven. “Nobody wears glasses, [and] you’re in like your 20s, 30s.”

Todd Burpo told The New York Times that the family is donating much of the money they make from the book sales. As for Colton, he’s mostly happy his story is helping people.

“People are getting blessed, and they’re going to have healing from their hurts,” the boy told the New York Times. “I’m happy for that.”

TALLAHASSEE, FL — A new bill has passed in the House of Representatives that bans clothing that is worn sagging in the state of Florida.

Introduced by Rep. Hazelle Rogers (D-Lauderhill, Florida) the bill was passed unanimously by the committee.

“This pro-family, pro-education, pro-jobs bill provides each school district … adopt a student dress code of conduct, a policy that explains to each student their responsibility,” Rep. Rogers said. “This would make for a better school district and more productive students.”

The bill doesn’t say the word “sag” in it, but clothing that “exposes the underwear or body parts in an indecent or vulgar manner,” is pretty much saying the same thing.

If students are caught breaking the new clothing bill, they can be  excused from extracurricular activities and even be given an in-school suspension.

The  sagging pants trend is thought to originated in the prison system, “where belts are not issued because they may be used to commit suicide or used as weapons.”

The local branch of the NAACP in Florida has condemned the bill, claiming that black youth will be targeted.

NEW JERSEY — An elementary school in Asbury Park, New Jersey which was originally named the Bangs Avenue School was changed last year to the Barack H. Obama Elementary School. Due to a decline in enrollment however, the school will be shut down on July 1st.

Bruce N. Rodman, the state monitor who oversees the district’s finances, ordered that elementary students be reassigned to the city’s two other elementary schools.

There were plans to replace the school that has been in existence for over a century, but that move has been halted.

ATLANTA — Another Atlanta area preacher stands accused of molesting children.

Bishop Johnathan Alvarado is reportedly being looked at by the DeKalb County District Attorney’s office over recent allegations of his sexual misconduct towards members of his congregation.

The investigation apparently stems from the tweets of one of the church’s former pastors.

The ‘Crimes Against Children Review’ began when the D.A.’s office learned about a series of tweets on a Twitter page belonging to former pastor at the church, Shaun King, in which King suggests that Alvarado may be sexually abusing young members.

The D.A’s office has begun questioning people associated with the church about the matter, and are not calling it a full investigation right now.

Bishop Alvarado has yet to be charged with any crimes.

Michelle Obama is set to show off her literary skills now that she’s penning a new book. The First Lady is set to write a book on one her of passions, gardening.

Obama planted her spring kitchen garden Wednesday and plans to release the book in April 2012, during President Obama’s campaign for reelection.

She will reportedly have a ghostwriter help her write the book and proceeds from the publication will go to charity.

Michelle Obama’s gardening book is currently untitled.

HOUSTON  — A 32-year-old Houston woman is jailed on a charge of endangering a child after authorities found both her and her year-old daughter drunk.

Lashwanda Allen asked a Harris County judge Thursday for a court-appointed lawyer.

Court documents show emergency crews were summoned Feb. 21 after a roommate found her wandering around her apartment complex and her 4-month-old daughter hanging upside-down on the bed, tangled in sheets and turning blue.

Her year-old daughter had been retrieved by a neighbor near a parking lot outside. Test showed the older child was legally drunk.

Allen told officers she was drinking an alcoholic energy drink, fell asleep and awoke to see the older daughter holding the empty can.