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THE European Commission
on Human Rights rejected
the appeal of Manuel
Wackenheim, aka “The Flying
Dwarf,” whose stage show
was banned in France because
it consisted of allowing cus-
tomers to pay to toss him
around.

Wackenheim said his show
“is part of a French dwarf tra-
dition,” but authorities said it
“damages human dignity.”

Barrie, Ontario — Six
nurses at a government health
care facility for the disabled
were fired in December for
disobeying new county-wide
rules that required them to
provide sexual assistance to
their patients (e.g., helping
them masturbate, positioning
couples for sex, assisting to
put ona condom).

In January, the agency said
it would reconsider the rules,
but the women remain jobless
and have filed a lawsuit.

according to a recent
Chicago Tribune report,
Illinois and most other states
interpret the federal “motor
voter” law to require mental
health agencies to help all
clients register and vote in
national elections, :ven those
with mental ages down to five
or six.

The only ones who cannot
vote are clients formally
declared by a court to be
mentally incompetent {about
half of Ilinois agencies’
clients). One woman in the
Tribune story, now qualified
to vote, took 20 minutes to
write her first name at the reg-
istration desk; another was
registered despite the fact that
his only communication abili-
ty seemed to be to repeat the
last words he hears.

Relatives fear the clients
will be ridiculed at the polls
and that agencies’ personnel,
while “assisting” them to
vote, will simply complete the
ballots as they wish.

The Palm Springs
Regional Airport Commission
has issued hygiene rules for
cab drivers serving the air-
port, including requiring dri-
vers to shower daily with soap,
brush with toothpaste and eat
breath mints.

After vociferous com-
plaints, the commission soft-
ened the specifics on “fresh
breath” and “pleasant body
odor.”

Said cabbie Ken Olson to
the commission, “You're not
my mother.”

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