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Thomas Montgomery, a 46-year-old balding husband and father of two (screen name: Marinesniper) had lied to beautiful 18-year-old Jessi (Screen name: Talhotblond) for more than a year. Pretending to be a handsome 18-year-old Marine, he won her heart in cyberspace and, despite the fact that they had never met face to face, even proposed marriage. But it all came undone when his wife discovered a trove of love letters and sent Jessi a photograph of her husband and his family.

He's honest, he wasn't a liar like you were   -Thomas Montgomery

 

Luke Douglas will play his 100th consecutive game for the Sharks today, writes Chris Barrett. When Luke Douglas writes his name into the record books at Mount Smart Stadium this afternoon, becoming the first top-grader to play 100 consecutive games from his debut, St George Illawarra officials are unlikely to be watching with a great deal of enjoyment. Brought to the Dragons by then coach Nathan Brown from his home town of Yamba while in high school, Douglas might well have achieved the unique feat in

It's not that they didn't show any interest but they weren't ringing me looking for me   -Luke Douglas

 

Four Liberal Democrat MPs have been ordered to apologise to the House of Commons and repay money after an inquiry into cash they received from the landlord of taxpayer-funded second homes in Westminster. John Barrett, Sandra Gidley, Paul Holmes and Richard Younger-Ross showed "serious misjudgment", the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee said. No action was recommended on lesser "misjudgments" by Sir Alan Beith and former party leader Sir Menzies Campbell.

I am very pleased that Liberal Democrat MPs acted promptly and correctly in referring themselves to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and making clear that they would comply with the recommendations of the committee.   -Nick Clegg

 

The House is expected to vote Sunday on the health care bill passed by the Senate in December. Republicans have vowed to do everything they can to kill the bill. Here's the latest on where the debate stands:

voting on an imperfect bill or doing nothing.   -John Boccieri

 

Let me spell it out for you. Gresham Barrett's treasonous vote to usurp constitutional responsibility of the "power of the purse" of Congress and transfer it to the United States Treasury Department by developing a never-ending, continuously refilled slush fund known as TARP which can be used at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury without strings attached, is worth a thousand liberal, socialist votes. You cannot compare a vote to support the Boy Scouts of America with such a unbelievably funda