TUNNELS FOUND DURING DRUG RAIDS

TUNNELS

Two tunnels were found linking Nogales, AZ to Nogales, Mexico. These tunnels were found during simultaneous raids conducted by American and Mexican law enforcement. One tunnel was reenforced in some places with wood and sandbags. And was lighten. Law enforcement officals new about these tunnels and kept them under surveilance, conducting the raids before the tunnel could be put to use smuggling drugs.

According to the article, over 20 tunnels have been found between these two towns. If drug smugglers can build tunnels without detection. who else can do it?

FORMER ALABAMA GOVERNOR SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS

SIEGELMAN

Today, the court sentenced former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman to seven years and four months for his part in a bribery scheme in his effort to get a state lottery. Siegleman is a Republican with a Democratic legislature. There is no way they were going to let a state lottery come into being. That would make too much sense. Georgia has a state lottery and it helps students and teachers. It helps pay for school activities and other educational function. That was what Siegelman wanted to bring to Alabama, where we have schools that are falling apart, students out in portables because they haven't built enough schools to hold all the students.

But, again, that's a Republican Governor battling a democratic Legislature. Just like Guy Hunt. He was nearing the end of his second term. Since he knew he couldn't run again, he took some of the money out of his campaign war chest and used it to buy a house. He was brought up on Ethics charges and found guilty. Now, after Hunt was removed from office, Jim Folsom JR. took over as governor. Now, before he was removed from office, Guy Hunt had been working to get Mercedes to build a plant near Vance. After Hunt's removal from office, Folsom took over the negotiations. He gave Mercedes the land tax free, and not only that, but he called out the National Guard to clear the land that the plant would be built on. An Ethics group from Washington was looking into the deal.By the time they made a decision, Folsom was ending his term in office.

SUPREME COURT LIMITS STUDENT'S FREE SPEACH

FREE SPEECH

The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, put limits on student's free speech, especially if it advocated drug use, and in the case that started the debate. The court stated that students have free speech but "they may not be disruptive or lewd or interfere with a school's basic educational mission."

CHENEY'S AIDE EXPLAINS CHENEY'S POSITION ON THE EXECUTIVE ORDER

DOCUMENTS

One of VP Cheney's aides wrote an explaination as to why Cheney says he is exempt for the Exective order having the Archeives to view how his office handles "secret" documents. Cheney Chief of Staff David S. Addington wrote that the Executive order treats the offices of President and Vice President as agencies of the executive branch. They hold that neither is an agency of the Excutive Branch, they are the offices of the Excutive Branch. The National Archieves and Records Dept has been battling Cheney since 2003. The order was created by President Clinton and amended by President Bush.

CIA RELEASES FILES ON MISDEES

CIA

For the first time in his history, The Central Intelligence Agency is opening its files for the Archieves to preview before Archieving them. One set of documents are from the 1950s through the 70s. The collection is known as The Family Jewels.

FAMILY JEWELS

The second set of documents are from 1953-1974 and covered the ins and outs of the Soviet Union and China. Those documents were called CAESER-POLO-ESAU.

SOVIET-CHINA DOCS

EPA NOT PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT

EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency is doing everything BUT protecting the environment. They are supposed to the air quality standards based on scientific test. Today they released a recommendation for the smog level. This recommendation was set after a two day meeting with industry officials. The level they set was .08 parts per million. The EPA's own scientist say that levels as low as .06-.065 ppm, would reduce deaths related to heart attacks or respiratory ailments by 75 percent. But instead of listening to their own scientist, they are listening to scientist that have their interest in industry, not public health.

The EPA has given two weeks for the public to make their opinions known before the make their levels permanent. If they do, we might all have to wear respirators.

SECOND ARREST IN PREGNANT MOTHER'S MURDER

ACCOMPLICE



A friend of Bobby Cutts Jr. has been arrested on obstruction charges. Myisha Ferrell was a high school friend of Cutts. So far the police have not released how much she was involved in the murder of Jessie Davis. Neighbors of Ferrell said that the police were knocking down her door witih a battering ram and after spending several hours in her apartment, they left carrying paper bags and boxes of items.

FBI SURVEILLANCE

HOOVER

J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI from its creation until his death in 1975, had his agency keeping up surveillance through wiretapping and following members of the Lawyers Guild. Just like McCarthy, he was afraid that they Guild was a subversive group out to destroy the government. As the FBI files are being archived, the extent of their surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. and others involved in the Civil Rights movement, is coming to light.

Alot has been made of the wiretapping that President Bush knows about, but it doesn't compare to the wiretapping Hoover and the FBI did from the 50s through to the 70s. And they didn't bother at that time to get any warrants to do the wiretapping.

FATHER KILLS WIFE AND KIDS

LAW AND ORDER

A case which the police say was inspired by an episode of Law and Order: SVU, a father killed his wife and 3 kids in the family van, then tried to blame the wife for the shooting.

Christopher Vaughn, 32, has be charged with killing his wife Kimberly, 34, and their children: Abigayle, 12, Cassandra, 11, and Blake, 8. According to Vaughn, the family got up a 5am to go to the Springfield Water Park, when Kimberly complained of being sick, so he pulled the SUV down a back road to a subdivison. He stated that as he walked toward the road, he notied his leg bleeding, He claimed no to remember anything after that.

In a recent episode of Law & Order: SVU, the man claims that his wife shot everyone, including herself, only to be later charged with the murder of his wife and kids.
After his arrest, the police conduct a search of his house, removing computers, along with what appeared to be VCR and a TiVo. The police even asked friends and neighbors if they knew if that Vaughn ever watched "SVU."

BUSH FOLLOWS CHANEY'S REFUSAL

SECRETS

President Bush is following the example given by his Vice President, by refusing to let the Information Security Oversight Office review his office. And this is the office that he amended in 2003 requiring ALL offices of the Executive Branch to allow the Oversight Office to monitor their handling of secret documents. And I know Bush can't claim not to be of the Executive Branch.

BODY OF MISSING OHIO MOTHER FOUND

Bobby Cutts Jr.

JESSIE DAVIS

MURDERED

Body of missing Ohio mother, Jessie Davis, 26, was found a week after her 2 yr old son was found home alone, bedroom furniture knocked over, and the comforter from the bed missing, along with his mother. The son was helpful from the begining, and saying that mommy broke the table and that mommy was in a rug.

The police said that information, along with more the boy told, but the police won't say, was responsible for solving this mystery.

Jessie's body was found in Summit County, a few miles from her house, in a park. Bobby Cutts is a cop in a near by town. Eventhough Cutts fathered Jesse's son and possibly the father of her unborn daughter, he was married to another woman.

VP NOT PART OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH

CHENEY

All the history and high school government classes have to change what they teach, Cheney says that the office of Vice President is not part of the Executive Branch of Government. He says that since he is President ProTem of the Senate, that makes his office part of the legislative branch.

The debate as to which branch of Government the office of Vice President falls under started with his refusal to turn over his records to the Information Security Oversight Office, an office that Clinton created and Bush endorsed, as an entity that secures and protects secret documents from the Executive Branch. Its job is to see that secret documents stay secret.

Cheney refuses to turn over documents from his office, saying that his office is nor part of the Excutive Branch. Makes you wonder what secrets he doesn't even want a Govenment Office seeing?

BIRTH ORDER AND INTELLIGENCE

FIRST BORN

A new study from Norway shows that the is a correlation between birth order and intelligence. According to the study, the first born enjoys a period of time as the only child and therefore is the center of attention. This allows the first child to learn more since there are no other siblings to compete with.

Other journal articles show very little correlation between birth order and intelligence, other than to say that the younger siblings may have a slight advantage because they observe their older siblings studying and may pick up information from them.

I know that was how it was for me. I always watched my older sisters and brother doing their homework and by the time I started school, I was a couple of grades ahead of my age. My oldest sister, and the oldest of the siblings, graduated high school and went to tech school for cosmetology. Then there is a set of fraternal twins, my second sister has been a legal secretary most of her adult life. Her twin brother was in the army and has other manual labor jobs. Then there is me, which has graduated college and has had some graduate school. Then there's my younger sister, who has worked at several service jobs.

There are a lot of other factors that effect intelligence besides birth order. Did the parents read alot to the child. Was the child allowed to observe their parents or older siblings working on problems? That can effect it. Exposure to lead can effect it. Nutrition even effects it. So, you can't say just one factor and only one effects intelligence.

MOTHERS TURN THEMSELVES IN

FIRE

One mother turned herself in and the other was arrested in the deaths of five children in that fire in Pittsburgh, PA. The children ranged from 4 yrs to 7 yrs old and were left in the care of two 8 yr old boys while the mothers went to a bar for a few drinks. The two 8 yr old escaped unharmed. The fire was believed to have been started by kids playing with matches.

They sound as responsible as my have sister's mother, who left two 2 yr olds in care of a 4 yr old while she went to the bar. Some mother's don't deserve kids.

HONOR KILLING

Svit said...

it is very limited to write about muslims. Its like talking about christians taking one case of mormons.seriously, note next time what country and village it happened. Plus, would also not hurt to note (if reporter didnt) that muslim - people that belong to certain religion but they do reflect traditions of own country more then of its religion.
Oh, boy.... do I change mind of someone who has never been outside of own village (or even continent)? No. So why bother? Good luck in making war on the planet. Especially in such a "peacefull" period. (From next blog).

June 14, 2007 4:56 AM

DAD SHOOTS DAUGHTER

In 2007 a father in Arman, Jordan, shot his 17 yr old daughter 4 times in the head because he thought she was having sex. The daughter had went to a woman's clinic a couple of weeks before and shown to be a virgin at that time and was only released to her parents after they signed a statement that nothing would happen to the girl. The autopsy showed that the girl was still a virgin when she died. According to the article, it was Jordan's first honor killing that year. They usually average 20 such killings a year.

HONOR KILLINGS

In 2004, there was an estimated 1200 honor killings in Pakistan. It is so accepted that family members have no qualms about it.

So a son could forgive his father for murdering his mother, a mother could forgive her husband for killing their daughter, a father could forgive his brother and so on," says Saba Gul Khattak, executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and a women's rights activist.

BRITIAN'S HONOR KILLINGS

In one case in Britian, a girl, living in Oxford, didn't want to marry the person her Bangladeshi parents arranged for her to marry. Instead she was seeing another guy and when she found out she was pregnant, they got married. Three months later, she was dead and her brother and father were on trial for her murder.

that's just one of 117 murders that happened in 2004 that Britian is re-investigating as possible honor killings.

NIFONG DISBARED IN NORTH CAROLINA

D.A. DISBARRED

Right before the Ethics Panel released it's findings, Michael Nifong said he thought disbarment would be appropriate punishment for what he had done. So, the panel took him up on his offer and their decision was for him to be disbarred. They have decided what further punishment was warranted.

Nifong was found guilty of lying to the judge and defense attorney and he withheld ex culpable evidence that showed none of the lacrosse players were guilty of raping the dancer. He used this case to help him in 2006 election. Nifong will lose his job, his license to practice law and may have to pay back the state for the cost of his investigation.

FIGHTING SENATORS

ALABAMA

A fight broke out on the senate floor here in Alabama when two senators got into a heated argument. Sen. Charles Bishop, R-Jasper, and Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe, got into an emotional exchange when Bishop hit Barron hit Bishop on the side of the head, knocking him over a desk. Other senators intervened before any other blows could be delivered. It's the most attention that the Alabama Senate has gotten since 1999 when the Lt. Gov. Steve Windom-Rep, was in the middle of a filibuster and was afraid to leave the front of the senate chamber to go to the restroom, so he urinated in a hidden jug. The story followed him in his bid for the Governor's office.

CHILD MOLESTER

RESPIRATORY THERAPIST

Wayne Albert Bleyle, 55, a respiratory therapist, who worked at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, CA, for 25 years, pled guilty to eight counts of forcible lewd acts upon a child and four counts of exhibiting a minor in pornography. Under the plea agreement, he will serve 45 yrs and 4 months instead of the 165 yrs if the case has went to the jury.

Bleyle said that he chose the most brain damaged, most non-verbal because he knew they couldn't tell on him. One victim was 2 yrs old. Two of the girls as since died.

My opinion is that he should serve his sentence in the general population instead of segregation. In general population, child molesters don't last very long.

SKELETON FOUND IN HOUSE

WOMAN'S SKELETON

An elderly woman's skeleton was found in her Middlefield, Conn. house, years after her death. Her neighbors said that they haven't seen her in seven years. The police were called when a family member was worried about her. The medical examiner said that she died of natural causes. Surprisingly, the electricity was still on in the house. And her ex-husband regularly mowed her lawn, but he said he didn't have keys to the house and never went inside.

A STRANGE MUSLIM TRADITION

HONOR KILLING

One tradition that Muslims have is honor killing. They believe that if a daughter does something that dishonors the family, the father has the right to kill her. In this case, the daughter, Banaz Mahmod, 20, left her abusive husband from a pre-arranged marriage and was seeing another man. Several attempts had been made on hers and her boyfriend's life since they started seeing each other. The boyfriend went to the police again when she didn't show up for a date. She was found 3 months later, in a suitcase buried in a backyard garden. She had been strangled with a bootlace. Britian has seen 25 honor killings in the past decade, but there are 100 other deaths that are under investigation.

POSTAL WORKERS

HUH?

I thought the word "ergonomics" meant comfort and ease of use. So, what is an ergonomic injury? Besides that, what do postal workers do now that can cause injury but maybe spill hot coffee on themselves? They hardly ever leave their truck anymore, the pull up to a curbside mailbox and take the mail and put mail in. Real hard work. They might be a paper cut. I guess OSHA needs to protect them from that.

NIFONG

Dennis said...

This case in of itself is ground breaking. Lawyers usually only punish each other through the respective states Bar Assosiation. What is even more monumental is that a DA is on trial for the handling of a case. I am happy to see at least the State of North Carolina gets it. I suspect he may lose his license over this, if not his office.

I agree. I've seen D.A.s blunder cases but not as badly or blatantly as Nifong did. He had a victim who the police report that when they get to the scene, she was passed out in the front yard. Then she claimed the whole team gang raped her until photos made by one of the guys at the party show her dancing. These photos were time stamped. At the time she claimed she was being assaulted, she was in the living room of this house dancing. Plus, another girl came with her to the party and that girl claimed the victim was only out of her sight for a couple of minutes. The bruises the victim claimed to have gotten because of the attack, were clearly scene in the photos before the time of the supposed attack. Her fake fingernails had DNA evidence but it did not match anyone on the team. Nine months after the alleged attack, the victim has a baby, but refuses to have it's DNA tested. As the evidence stacked up that cleared the lacrosse time, the more Nifong refused to drop the charges. Only after the state stepped in, did he finally drop all charges.

DURHAM D.A. STANDS TRIAL A YEAR AFTER DUKE CASE

NIFONG

Former Durham, NC District Attorney Mike Nifong will stand trial for his handling of the Duke lacrosse rape case. He is charged with lying to the court and withholding potentially exculpatory evidence. All the charges against the lacrosse players have been dropped. Nifong ignored the fact that the victim's story kept changing, plus there wasn't any DNA evidence linking any of the players to the rape victim.

DEATH PENALTY

DETERENT

Recent studies show that the death penalty does deter murders. According to the studies, every execution prevents two or three murders. Some say that they could prevent as many as 14 murders a year. Even those who oppose the death penalty can not argue with the results of these tests.

IMMIGRATION BILL DIES IN SENATE

ILLEGALS

With the help of some Senators that opposed the bill, a grass roots movement, along with the Internet, killed the immigration bill. Many voters got on the Internet and asked other to email or call their Senators to oppose the bill that would make millions of illegal Mexicans already living in the US, citizen after a short process. The word "amnesty" was being used to describe the bill. I think they should round up every illegal they find and send them back and let them try re-entering the "legal" way. I was for the "guest worker" program as long as they go back to Mexico after the harvest season. After so many years of a responsible work history, then they can apply for citizenship. While they are working, they should have to take English classes so they can communicate with others here. I'm not saying they can't speak Spanish, but they should know English too. And take American History and Civics just other immigrants. I don't they should get special treatment because they slipped in illegally.

AWOL MOM GET HONORABLE DISCHARGE

MOM

A mom in the New Hampshire National Guard, had turned herself on AWOL charges when she came state side to fight for custody of her 7 yr old daughter, but because the hearing has been delayed, her leave, which had been extended a couple of times, had run out, making her Absent WithOut Leave. She applied for a Hardship discharge but was given a Honorable one, which is a big change from when my father was in the military, because back then the military said that if they wanted you to have a family, they would issue you one.

MISSING GIRL FOUND, CON'T

Karen Y. said...

They can get search warrants right away to look for drugs.........missing children aren't as important?

That's what I don't understand. I know that they had to have "probable cause" to get the warrent, but what evidence that had recently had to be what they had before.


karen said...

I agree with the Twin Karen (lol) another one thru the Cracks. so sad

By the way.. I think you are in hiding from me.. what is new in the Nursing home Drama?

Yes it is sad and it would have been sadder if she had been found dead instead of alive. No, I haven't been hiding, I'm still here.

WILD WHEELCHAIR RIDE, CON'T

karen said...

I Know what you would have done... Screamed like a GIRL.. :-)
and of course wet your Pants.

I don't know about the "screamed like a girl" I don't know, but the wetting my pants, probably.


Karen Y. said...

My guess is you would have hung on for dear life! :)

Now that I know I would have done. and you would have had to pry my hands loose from my armrest.

PARIS HILTON, CON'T

Karen Y. said...

Aren't you curious what the medical condition was to get her released? I could have sworn there are some extremely sick people still in jail. There are some extremely sad people in there too!

There are alot of sick people in jail, both physically and mentally sick. And they get treatment in jail. I know this for fact because while I was taking "Correctional Psychology" in college, we took a tour of one of the prisons around Montgomery and they had a special wing for those with mental illnesses. As for the physically sick, they had a prison hospital. So her excuse for her being released was just that, an excuse. She didn't want to spent 45 days with "common criminals." Now had she committed a Federal crime she could have went to one of those "club feds." But, DUI is an offense that us common folk sometimes commit.

SKIN CELL BECOME STEM CELL, CON'T

Karen said...

Isn't that like saying all blondes are stupid? Shame on you for lumping Japanese like that.

Well, the field of scientist that are doing stem cell research isn't all that big. It's a highly specialized area with few scientist from the countries doing the research and we know one country's scientist faked their results.

Now if blondes held the key to stem cell research, then I would agree. But would you trust your doctor if you found out that he or she cheated their way thru medical school???

This research could be the answer to alot of diseases and shouldn't be trusted with someone who already admitted to cheating on their research before.

PARIS HILTON SENT BACK TO JAIL

HILTON

After thinking she didn't have to be present for her hearing today, Paris Hilton was dragged, handcuffed and crying, and put in the back of a patrol car for a ride to the court house. The judged had ordered the police to bring her to court. The judge said it was wrong for the sheriff to have released her for medical reasons when the jail has a medical facility in it.

The judge ordered back to jail, where she will be held in the prison infirmary for a few days undergoing psychological testing. She still may not have to served the rest of her 45 day sentence since they give time off for good behavior. She was in a cell without a roommate before the sheriff released her, even though the sheriff cited over crowding as a reason for her release to house arrest.

When the judge issued his order, Paris became hysterical and was reaching and calling for her mother before a couple of deputies dragged her from the courtroom.

PARIS HILTON

JAIL SENTENCE

Not even a week after entering jail for her drunk driving offence, Paris Hilton was sent home to finish her sentence under house arrest. Another case of celebrities getting away without paying their debt to society. Anyone else who was pulled over for DUI as many times as she had would be put in jail without hesitation. What happened to equal justice under the law??

WILD WHEELCHAIR RIDE

WHEELCHAIR AND SEMI

A man crossing a street in Grand Rapids, Michigan, got the handles of his electric wheelchair locked into the grill of a semi and was pushed down the road several miles before the police were able to stop the truck driver, who didn't even know that the wheelchair was there. The man was strapped in with a seat belt and the only damage to the chair was that the tires were wore down.

If it had been me, I don't know what I would have done.

MISSING GIRL FOUND

SECRET ROOM

A 14 year old girl was found in a secret room of a neighbor's house a year after she went missing. The neighbor was a 41 yr old dog trainer who lived with his 40 yr old common law wife and another woman who is 26. The police knew that the dog trainer knew the girl but couldn't get a search warrent until recently. All three are being charged with unlawful inprisonment, endangerment, and several other charges. Police are still not sure whether the girl was there willingly or not.

NEW STEM CELL NEWS

SKIN CELLS INTO STEM CELLS

The different groups of scientists have developed a technique that can turn skin cells into stem cells, eliminating the need for embryonic cells and reducing the controvery of stem cell research.

But since one of the teams was Japanese, they need to be careful, since two years ago, one scientist was caught faking his research results.

FAKE RESULTS

PROTESTING SOLDIER, CON'T

Dennis said...

He just wants out of the Military and this is how he is going to do it. These type of people are useless in the Military, so when they start this nonsense they should just give them a dishonorable discharge and say Good-Bye and not give them any publicity.

True, they should give the a dishonorable discharge and put it in their records that they were discharged for insubordination. That would ruin their chances of ever getting a job in management, which where a lot of ex-military go. Also, they should be a clause in the enlistment papers that if at any point they refuse to go into combat, if needed, they should have to pay the gov't back for all the money the gov't spent to train them. That would cut down on those who refuse to go where they are told to go.

PROTESTING SOLDIER

SOLDIER

This man knew what he could be getting into when he signed up for the military. I mean, everyone knows that the military is for, war. Anyone who signs up for the military has to expect the possibility of going into combat. That's why in boot camp they teach how to shoot and clean a gun, how to fight in hand-to-hand combat. It's not the boyscouts. If you are against war, don't sign up. Right now, there is no draft, you have the choice to join or not. I'd rather have our country protected by those who WANT to be in the military than those who don't.

JFK AIRPORT PLOT

TERRORIST PLOT

Four men, including a former baggage handler, at JFK airport, plotted to blow up the airport by using the jet fuel lines that run from NJ to the airport. The baggage handler, Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen and native of Guyana, was the one doing surveillance on the airport, noting escape routes, where the pipeline originated, security cameras. Another member of the group was an ex-Parliament member of Guyana. Two others were from Trinidad and Tobago.

The plot was uncovered last August by an informant. The informant was so convincing that he was flown to the terror group's compound for several meetings. During one of those meetings, Defreitas is heard saying that Americans love john F Kennedy so much that by blowing up JFK Airport would be like killing Kennedy twice, and that it would totally devastate the country, and would have a greater economic impact than the 9/11 attacks.

The informant was a twice convicted drug dealer. Like most informants, they end up working for the government hoping for a lighter sentence for was ever crimes they have committed. But informants have become another weapon in the war on terror. It was an informant that reveal the plot on Fort Dix.

MORE DETAILS COME FORWARD ABOUT TB PATIENT

XDR-TB PATIENT"

Robert Speaker, eventhough he knew he had tuberculosis, was so determined to get married in Greece, and Honeymoon in Italy, he took steps to make sure that his trip couldn't be stopped. He changed his departure date, meaning that he left sooner than he previously planned. Which caused him problems in Santorini, because Speaker didn't file the neccessary papers for a civil wedding.

MARRIAGE

TB MAN APOLOGIZES

HOMELAND SECURITY

Mr. Andrew Speaker, the man whose case of XDR-TB has been all over the news, has apologized for all the problems he caused to his fellow passengers all because he wanted to get married. Although Mr. Speaker was warned that it wouldn't be in his best interest to fly with his form of TB, but he claims he was never told he could be a danger to anyone else.

And another wrinkle in the case is that Mr. Speaker's father-in-law worked at the CDC, doing research on tuberculosis. Robert C. Cooksey said that the strain of TB that his Son-in-law has, did not originate at the CDC labs.

Mr. Speaker avoided being taken in while in Italy and instead flew to Prague, then to Montreal, and then drove across the border. By that time, there was an all points bulletin out for him to be detained. The border guard claimed that Mr. Speaker didn't appear sick, so he let him in. Now, anyone who has been following this story, will notice that there are gaps in our Homeland Security. Someone on a suicide mission, could cross our northern border with a case of small pox and infect a large portion of our population before anyone could know about it.