What's in a name?

The law says it's confidential because they're minors and the children's names are not to be released to the media. But the names were originally THE issue, ever since dad told the press he was outraged that the local Shoprite wouldn't put the name of his 3-year-old son on a birthday cake.

The market said it was "inappropriate" to write on a cake: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADOLPH HITLER. Yes, the boy's name is Adolph Hitler Campbell, brother of Joyce Lynn Aryan Nation Campbell, 1, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, seven months.

Dad, Heath Campbell, has Nazi tattoos on his arms - just below Pebbles Flintstones and Winnie the Pooh (so then why not Pebbles and Winnie?) He and his wife say they aren't fans of Hitler. They just like the names.

Now DYFS has taken the children away and won't release their names.

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
-Wm Shakespeare

I think the whole thing stinks for the kids, especially what the parents did for whatever friggin agenda. This, from someone who never classified any word as "bad" ("You bad bad word, you!!) The parents' name should be mud (not to desecrate any further the good name of Dr. Samuel Mudd who didn't know his patient, John Wilkes Booth, had just murdered Pres. Lincoln, but hey...)

On another note (this was all local news in the Delaware River valley of NJ and PA)...

After UFO sightings, alien hunters to gather here

What started with a single UFO sighting over a Middletown Mexican restaurant last January has turned into a science fiction sensation. Spaceships were spotted over Sesame Place. Black boomerangs were reported over Citizens Bank Park during the Phillies National League Championship series. An extraterrestrial even was seen recently in the men’s department of the local JCPenney, smiling at our women.

With more than 50 reports from Bucks since January, the Pennsylvania Mutual UFO Network says it now will gather here for its next alien hunter conference Jan. 24 at Bucks County Community College. State MUFON coordinator John Ventre is scheduled to discuss what he calls the “Pennsylvania UFO Wave.” The list of speakers also includes self-professed local abductees, including history professor David Jacobs of Temple University. Bucks County also was profiled in a documentary - “UFOs over Earth” - on the Discovery Channel.

No doubt, MUFON will have a lot to talk about that day. The encounters reported to the organization are lengthy and, at times, almost too incredible to believe.

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Now don't get me wrong, I believe in UFOs. I've even seen a UFO. If we were the only ones in the universe, it would be, like Jody Foster said in Contact, "an awful waste of space." It wouldn't make any sense if we were IT. But I also think they'd be advanced enough to do thermal scans or something and avoid abductions, anal probes, and other bad press. Especially if these aliens, uh, undocumented, want to avoid some yahoo in the back woods taking a pop at them.