from tarzans lair

CONCERT GOERS MAY LOSE OUT TO TICKET BROKERS

2007-10-07T03:02:00.000-05:00

TICKETS

People looking for tickets to concerts and sporting events may not get the chance to buy them on "Ticket Master" or any other well known ticket outlet because there are others using computers and auto dialers to flood Ticket Master with calls as soon as tickets are to go on sale, and buy up all available ticket in a short period of time, only to resale them at higher prices either through ads in news papers or online. Ticket Master has even joined the investigation to put a stop to this type of ticket sales.

CA DEPUTIES COMPETE ON BOOKINGS AND SEIZURES

2007-10-05T02:31:00.000-05:00

DEPUTIES

Deputies in Lakewood, County, CA were havihg competitions amongst themselves called "Operation Any Booking and Operation Vehicle Impound". The deputies competed on how many people they booked and how many cars they seized. The tally was kept on one of the walls of the headquarters. The sheriff himself claims not to have any prior knowlodge of the competitions and when he found out, had them stopped. He said that there would be no disiplinary actions taken against the deputies. He felt that they really did nothing wrong.

NEW KIDS STUDY

2007-10-05T00:45:00.000-05:00

STUDY

A new and innovative study of American kids is about to be launched. Although other child studies have been done, they have usually concentrated on one particular aspect of a child's life. This study is going to track their educational, economic, educational, health, achievements and many other aspects. This study will involve the CDC, Dept. of Health and many other agencies.

Over 100,000 children will be picked from all across the US, and will be tracked from before birth until they are 21.

TRIBAL MEMBERS INDICTED

2007-10-04T19:10:00.000-05:00

HUNT

Nine members of the Makah tribe of the Seattle area, have been indicted on charges in the illegal whale hunt.

In 1994, the Federal gov't removed the California gray whale from the endangered species list. In 1999, the tribe gor a permit through the National Marine Fisheries Service, to kill one whale, which would provide the tribe with a year's worth of whale meat. They killed their first whale in over 70 years. Although the Government allowed that first hunt, there were negotiations to allow the tribe to continue the hunts. Nothing was final.

The man who lead this illegal hunt was the same man who lead the first whale hunt in 1999, in which they are allowed to hunt as their ancestors did, with harpoons. The tribals elders say that these men did not have permission from the tribe and they used high powered rifles this time.

WOMEN ARE LESS LIKE TO RECEIVE AN INPLANTABLE DIFIBOLATER

2007-10-02T23:30:00.000-05:00

WOMEN

A study at Duke University's School of Medicine showed that men, up until the age of 85 are more like to die from a sudden heart attack than women, there fore Medicaid and Medicare are unlike to pay for the expense of the operation or device for women when they are less likely to die from a heart attack.

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA PLANNING TO REOPEN FALLOUT SHELTERS

2007-10-01T02:22:00.000-05:00

FALLOUT SHELTERS

Because of the increasing threat of an al-Qiada attacks, Huntsville, AL in working on reopening the fallout shelters that were built or designated during the cold war. These shelters were closed after the fall of the Soviet Union. Even the air raid sirens have been changed to tornado sirens.

The one worry I have is, those shelters were laughingly inadequate during the cold war. Most wouldn't have protected anyone from a nuclear attack. Huntsville wants to reopen these shelters in fear that al-Qiada might use a dirty bomb to attack the US.

MAN LIVED WITH DEAD ROOMMATE'S BODY A MONTH

2007-09-30T07:26:00.000-05:00

BODY

David Morse, 40, waited a month to report his 86 yr old roommate's death while he cleaned out the roommates bank account and cashed his checks. The reason he didn't report the death is because he had an active warrant for his arrest for non-payment of child support. So far the roommate's death is under investigation.

SIX DIE FROM A BRAIN EATING AMEOBA AFTER SWIMING IN LAIKE

2007-09-29T00:29:00.000-05:00

BRAIN EATING MICRO-ORGANISM

Six young men have died after swimming in Lake Havasu, near Phoenix, AZ. What killed them was a single cell organism that lives in lakes, ponds, swimming pools that haven't been maintained well. It enters the boy through the nose or other opening and makes its way to the brain, which it feeds on.

U. OF WISSCONSIN SECURITY LOOK FOR SUICIDAL GUNMAN

2007-09-26T01:46:00.000-05:00

GUNMAN

The University has been receiving calls from a suicidal man who they believe doesn't really want to shoot anyone but is trying to provoke the police into shooting him.

Jesse Miller, 19, has a history of mental illness and was on a work release program after serving most of an armed robbery conviction.

He made a call to the police on Tuesday that he was on the parking deck of the hospital and was going to shoot anyone who came near him. He also called ina bomb threat to the hospital on campus.

The police really believe that he is trying to provoke a suicide by cop.

BEAKED WHALES ARE AFFECTED BY SONAR TEST

2007-09-24T01:39:00.000-05:00

WHALES

There is a small group of whales that have been shown to be effected by sonar tests. Beaked whale have been shown to be more sensitive to such after. After a series of tests by the Navy, some beaked whales washed a shore and they were shown to have bleeding around the brain.

Beaked whales dive deeper than most others whales and that may be the reason that they are more sensitive to mid range sonar.

BENT ARROW, WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON AUG. 29

2007-09-23T04:11:00.000-05:00

MIS-STEPS

It turns out that the B-52 that flew from Minot AFB with nuclear missiles was supposed to be carrying some obsolete missiles to be destroyed. The problems began at the storage locker where conventional missiles were stored with nuclear ones. The second was that the ordinance handlers didn't notice the nuclear labels on half the missiles the pulled to be loaded or even during the loading process. The pilot made the mistake of signing off on everything without doing a "walk around" which most pilots do, to check if the missiles are secured, check for any damage to the plane and if its clear to move it.

It took almost 24hrs before the mistakes were noticed.

SHE MAY GO TO MIT, BUT SHE'S NOT SMARTER THAN A FIFTH GRADER

2007-09-23T01:27:00.000-05:00

SHIRT

A student from MIT was wearing a hooded sweatshirt with a plastic circuit board with some different color LEDS on it and a battery, She walked up to the information counter at Logan Airport to check on an incoming flight when the lady behind the counter notified security. Shorty, the student was surrounded by security cops with guns drawn.

The student, Star Simpson, said the device was something all the electrical engineering majors were wearing during the week when prespective employers were on campus during career week.

RALLIES- CON'T

2007-09-23T01:06:00.000-05:00

Dennis said...

It's a way to keep Jesse and Al in power

Yeah but who would hold rallies if there were six "good ole boys" beat up a black kid. There would be a lynch mob waiting to hang them, but all because 4oo years ago, Africans were brought here to be slaves, black can get away with anything.

JENA SI X RALLIES

2007-09-21T01:17:00.000-05:00

SIX

I can't believe that they are having rallies in New Orleans and Atlanta backing a group of students that they have labeled the "Jena Six." You know that if it was a black student nearly beat to death by a group of white boys, there would be protest calling for those white boys heads. I think its a way to keep the black majority in New Orleans. Without the Ward 9 area being rebuilt at this time, NO has lost its black majority status.

CONGRESS TO GIVE FDA BROADER POWERS

2007-09-20T01:16:00.000-05:00

RULES

Congress is set to give the FDA more power. One of the new regulations is that pharmaceutical companies will have to pay a new user fee totalling some $225 million over five years. This fee will cover all drug safety tests. Used to be that a drug company would pay a fee only when they submitted a new drug to be tested.

The FDA will also have the power to control the commerical ads of drugs that are out on the market.

O.J. SIMPSON RELEASED

2007-09-20T00:14:00.000-05:00

After being charged with 10 felonies and originally being held without bail, O.J.'s lawyers managed to get him a bail hearing and he was released on a $125,000 bail. After leaving the courthouse, O.J. was escorted to the airport, where passengers were off loaded until O.J. and his lawyers boarded and took their seats. Then the passengers were allowed to reboard the plane. He flew back to his home in Kendall, FL. A fifth person is being sought in connection for the crimes.

O.J. SIMPSONS ARRESTED, ALONG WITH THREE OTHERS

2007-09-19T01:01:00.000-05:00

SIMPSON

O.J. Simpson, along with 3 other men were arrested in connection with the robbery at a Las Vegas hotel. O.J. could be charged for 11 counts including two counts of first-degree kidnapping with use of a deadly weapon; two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon; and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.

He could received up to 35 years in prison if convicted

ALABAMA PLAN

2007-09-17T00:42:00.000-05:00

DESEGREGATION

A school district in Alabama is using the "No child left behind" law to move black students to schools closer to their neighborhoods. It smacks of desegregation, which has many parents in an uproar. To me, is seems like a way to get parents and others involved in improving those schools. Make repairs, keep drugs and guns out, hire better teachers in those schools. That way black students in black schools will do just as well as white students.

O.J. SIMPSONS ARRESTED, HELD WITHOUT BOND

2007-09-16T23:15:00.000-05:00

ARMED ROBBERY

Even intimidating a witness couldn't keep Simpson from being arrested this time. The memorabilia collector who was robbed at gunpoint of items Simpson said was stolen from him, later recorded a phone call from Simpson trying to get the victim to change his story about guns being involved in the robbery. So another charge of tampering with a witness could be involved. If convicted, Simpson could spend up to 30 years in prison. Maybe he is tired of sleeping of friend's couches or where ever and decided to live off the state for a while. He's become more popular as a criminal than as a football star. He tried acting and sportscasting after he retired from football, but wasn't too successful at either. Only his Avis commercials brought him some success.

O.J. SIMPSON INVOLVED IN ARMED ROBBERY

2007-09-15T02:35:00.000-05:00

SIMPSON

O.J. Simpson was in Las Vegas for a friends wedding when he found out that there was a collecter of memorabilia was in town selling items that O.J. claims were stolen from him. according to the collector, O.J. and four other men broke into his room with guns and took the items O.J. claimed was his.

O.J. was questioned but released. It is not known if charges will be filed against him.

SEPT. 11, SIX YEARS LATER

2007-09-12T03:07:00.000-05:00

BLOOD OF HEROES

Yes I know this shows up as 9/12, but I spent the day listening to stories about 9/11/01. I even watched the replay of the Today Show, that I was watching that morning.

You know, there was a psychologist named Baldura, who claimed that children exposed to violent tv becomes desensitized by it. Well, I'm here to tell you that isn't true for everyone. I grew up in a military family and I've seen more war movies than I can count. But when those towers fell, I cried like a baby. To know that I just saw over 3,000 people die was more than I could handle. And that day, when everyone at first thought it was debris falling from the towers, i knew it was people jumping.

For those who are against the war on terror need to remember what happened six years ago

MEXICAN TRUCK EXPLODES

2007-09-11T00:10:00.000-05:00

MEXICAN TRUCK

A truck carrying 25 metric tons of ANFO, a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, exploded in the city of Nadadores, killing 29 people. According to an Army explosives expert, ANFO is used widely in the mining industry. Coahuila is a major mining state. If trucks in Mexico carry such thingss, then all trucks coming from Mexico to make sure its clean.

FBI COLLECTED MORE PHONE RECORDS THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT.\

2007-09-10T01:02:00.000-05:00

FBI

The FBI had originally said they wanted the records of those who they suspected of being in contact with possible terrorist cells, but if turns out that they collected alot more information, even on those who were never suspected of any wrong doing. If I didn't know better I would swear J. Edger Hoover had returned from the dead. During his reign as head of the FBI, he also threw people rights out the window.

THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS

2007-09-10T00:36:00.000-05:00

GUN CONTROL

The District of Columbia is asking the Supreme Court to rule in their favor of banning hand guns in the city. They argue that the Second Amendment applies to the militia or what is now the National Guard. They are also not including in their ban shotguns and rifles. Their claim in will reduce crimes. The problem is that criminals can always find ways to get gun illegally. So, taking handguns away from law abiding citizens will only make them more vunerable to the criminals.

ODESSA POILICE SHOT WHILE RESPONDING TO 911 CALL

2007-09-10T00:11:00.000-05:00

911

The police were responding to a domestic call when the wife came from the house, saying her husband had a gun. When the police tried to enter the front door it was locked, as the came around the back the husband came out shooting, killin both before retreating back into the house for a 4 hr standoff.

I've heard from several former police officers that domestic calls are the worst to respond to. Even though you are there to help, sometimes the one who called will turn around and attack the police for arresting their spouse.

DUKE LACROSSE PLAYERS SEEK A LAWSUIT

2007-09-08T01:14:00.000-05:00

RAPE CASE

With the former prosecutor spending a day in jail for his handling of the case, the three lacrosse players are seeking a settlement with the city of $30 million dollars and some changes in the way the police handle such cases in the future. Such changes are:

An oversight of the police department by an independent commission, stricter procedures and videotaping of witness identifications conducted by the police, and the passage of a City Council resolution calling on the state to establish ombudsmen for district attorney’s offices and require the transcription of grand jury proceedings.

Hopefully with these changes, the next DA can't go on another witch hunt to solve a crime.

NEW ORLEANS NURSING HOME OWNERS ACQUITTED

2007-09-08T00:11:00.000-05:00

NEW ORLEANS

The owners of St. Rita's nursing home was acquitted in the deaths of 35 residents that drowned during the flood caused when the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina. The residents that did survive were laying on plastic covered mattresses, which allowed those mattresses to float.

The Manganos, who claimed that they stayed with the residents and did all they could to save them, blame LA Governor Blanco for ordering an evacuation of New Orleans. I agree that both Blanco and Mayor Nagin should share in the responsibility for those deaths. The National Weather Service had warned that New Orleans was going to be hit by Hurrican Katrina. Washington had even called Blanco, wanting her to call out the National Guard. Her and N.O. Mayor Nagin thought they could just call for help and it would arrive. In all previous hurricanes to hit the US, the local government and the states Emergency Management System is supposed to kick in and do what they can to protect their citizens. The after the storm, FEMA rolls in to set up temporary shelters and emergency supplies.

Governor Blanco didn't want to call out the National Guard unless she had control of them, not Washington. Mayor Nagin had a parking lot full of school buses he could have commandeered to be used for evacuation. And as for drivers, in an emergency, you don't have to have "bus drivers" to drive a bus. Anyone who can drive a truck should be able to drive a bus. So, no the Manganos weren't directly complicit in the deaths of those resident, they tried their best to save those they could. Those in local government who dropped the ball should be found guilty of those deaths.

RARE GRIZZLY BEAR KILLED IN IDAHO

2007-09-07T23:31:00.000-05:00

BEAR

The first grizzly bear seen in Idaho since 1946 was killed by a hunter who was hunting black hear, which is in season right now. The hunter and his guide skinned and brought the carcass out on horseback from the remote, road less area and turned it over to the wildlife authorities for identification. It is not known if they were be charged or fined, but the authorities said that for the rest of the black bear season, hunters will be warned of possible grizzlies in the area and that they are protected.

Wildlife officials removed the protecting from the grizzlies in the Yellowstone Area, angering some environmentalist, because it is believed their population is large enough that it can sustain itself. But, the population between Idaho and Montana isn't large enough yet to sustain itself without man's help.

Even California, who has a grizzly bear on it's state flag hasn't seen one since the 1920's. According to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia:

The California grizzly bear (Ursus californicus) disappeared from the state of California in 1922 when the last one was shot in Tulare County

There are efforts to re-introduce the grizzly back into California.

FEDERAL JUDGE STRIKES DOWN "SECURITY LETTERS'

2007-09-07T14:21:00.000-05:00

FBI

A Federal judge in New York has struck down one of the tools the FBI has been using as part of the Patriot Act. Security Letters, which compelled communications businesses to turn over their records to the FBI and prevented those companies from telling their customers what they have done.

Judge Marrero said he feared that the law could be the first step in a series of intrusions into the judiciary’s role that would be “the legislative equivalent of breaking and entering, with an ominous free pass to the hijacking of constitutional values.”

Its the first attempt to reel in the FBI. They were going in the direction of the "Elliot Ness" days.

WHALES, CONTINUED

2007-09-07T01:14:00.000-05:00

Dennis said

Once again, if navy Sonar is harming whales, why aren't thousands of SONAR Buoys in the Atlantic and Pacific causing mass hysteria? Why haven't these mass stranding been reported until the mid 90's and linked to SONAR? There has been SONAR since the 40's and very powerful SONAR since the 60's, why has this not become a major issue until now? Once again, it is easier to blame man than actually discovering the real cause.

I did want to take this item separate because what is being "tested" is a new mid range sonar, one that can detect the newer, quieter submarines. Scientist are finding that it somehow causing the bends in toothed whales. You never hear about the baleen whales beaching, such as humpbacks and right whales. It could be because just like submarines, they can drop down below a thermal layer that disrupts sonar. Subs use such tactics to try and avoid detection.

BOMBER FLYS OVER US WITH NUKES, CON'T

2007-09-07T00:48:00.000-05:00

Dennis said...

An atomic bomb also landed in a backyard in NC, plus others.

Yes that did occur in 1958, but as I said, not since the Thule AFB, Greenland, in 1968, incident has bombers been allowed to fly with armed nuclear weapons.
The story about the SC incident is on a website titled "So Long Savannah."

An excerpt from the website:

At precisely 4:19 PM on March 11, 1958, a month after the Savannah incident, a similar bomb, but purportedly without a nuclear payload, was inadvertently dropped from a B-47 when the aircraft experienced electrical problems while flying over Mars Bluff, near Florence, South Carolina (see newsreel). Exploding over ground zero, it injured six people and left an enormous 70 feet wide, 30 feet deep crater. The high explosives used to trigger an atomic bomb are by themselves a significant threat. The detonator (all by itself) destroyed local farmer Walter Gregg’s house and wounded five members of his family while damaging cars, houses, and churches as far away as five miles. Obviously, when Air Force spokesmen say that unarmed bombs aren’t dangerous, they are talking through their hats. Hundreds of bomb fragments were recovered and the area was monitored for radiation. Even now, nearly six decades later, traces of radiation can still be detected with a Geiger counter.

FUMES FROM MICROWAVE POPCORN FLAVORING CAN BE HARMFUL

2007-09-05T22:40:00.000-05:00

POPCORN

ConAgra and Showtime II are both considering stopping of the use of the flavor chemical diacetyl, which gives the popcorn its buttery flavor. The chemical has already been shown to cause bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare life-threatening disease often called popcorn lung, among the factory workers and one doctor and a clinic specializing in lung diseases, is concerned it could show up in consumers too. According to the article, it could be a year to find a replacement flavoring agent.

BOMBER FLYS OVER US WITH LIVE NUKES

2007-09-05T16:21:00.000-05:00

NUKES

The incident took place on Aug 30th when a B-52 armed with 6 nuclear weapons took off from Minot AFB, North Dakota, and flew to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. The mistake was discovered when the plane landed and the munitions commander at Minot was immediately discharged. Six munition handlers are being investigated. Not since the late '60s have planes been permitted to fly with nuclear weapons on board. That changed when to accidents occurred. One happened over Spain in 1966 when a B-52 collided with a tanker during re-fueling. The bomber was carrying 4 nuclear bombs, un-beknownst to the Spanish Govt. My Uncle James was killed in that incident. The second happened over Greenland in 1968.

NIFONG WENT TO JAIL, CON'T

2007-09-05T00:48:00.000-05:00

Dennis said...

Hell, Paris Hilton was punished worse than this guy and she didn't even hurt anyone. He needed to be the example that people should not play politics when dealing with peoples lives. The one thing that I detest about any politician is that they will go to no ends to use people to get where they want to go.

I agree and each of those players should sue him for all he's worth. He could have permanently ruined those guys lives had he been able to continue.

Politicians do anything, say anything, use anyone, just to get ahead. That's why there is no such thing as an honest politician And they make promises they never intend to keep. The father of our present President promised if he was elected, he would release all the information that the CIA had in the Kennedy assassination, since he was one time head of the CIA and knew what was in those files. But, of course that never happened.

Showing my age, there was only on honest politician in Alabama and that was Shorty Price. He used to run for Governor but never won. He believed in term limits and only a 2 yr term. He said that if you couldn't steal enough money from the state in two years, you didn't need to be Governor. He said Alabama needed three things, a Camel ciggarette in one hand, a Budweiser in the other and Shorty Price as Governor.

MEXICAN TRUCK, CON'T

2007-09-05T00:37:00.000-05:00

Dennis said...

I don't know why anyone is surprised, It was in the NAFTA Bill. It just took a long time for them to implement that provision. If I understand it right, the truckers who enter the country must speak English, but we all know how well these laws are enforced. Only time will tell if they are using the trucks to smuggle things other than goods across the Border. Hopefully there is a way to track them once the enter the Country and move to their destination.

I agree, it was in NAFTA, and they have taken a long time to implement it, but they still haven't worked out how these trucks will operate. I would think they would have to pass emission standards here in the US. And I would hope they would pass other inspections. No "beater" trucks on the highway. Inspect for contraband, including illegals. One good thing is they will have to buy American gas and maybe spending money for food and lodging.

ENDANGERED WHALES LOSE IN FEDERAL COURT, CON'T

2007-09-04T23:52:00.000-05:00

Dennis said...

It has never been proven that the SONAR causes the whales to beach themselves or wreak other havoc in the ocean. If SONAR was the root cause of the problem, wouldn't it stand to reason that since WWII that whales would have been beaching themselves en masse since then and would have caused a mass extinction of several species? The whole issue is based on junk science.

SONAR TESTING

This article documents several major beachings of toothed whales in link with sonar testing.

BENDS

This article by the National Geographic links mid range sonar a condition like the bends that effect whales, causing them to beach.

COVER UP

This article in the Washington Post shows that after tests off of North Carolina, there was a mass beaching of toothed whales. One reporter who follows stories of beached whales wrote a report mentioning the sonar testing. When the Navy released their findings, sonar testing was never mentioned as a possible cause.

And although I can't remember the scientist's name, on the National Geographic Channel, the guy has been studying whale beachings around Florida. He and placed several underwater microphones around the area. One day he noticed a small pod of dolphins trying to beach themselves. When he turned on his microphones, he caught the sound of the sonar of a passing navel ship. That, he believed, was proof of the link between sonar and beachings.

ENDANGERED WHALES LOSE IN FEDERAL COURT

2007-09-04T00:29:00.000-05:00

WHALES

In a decision that left environmentalists upset. The court in California has lifted an injunction preventing the Navy from conducting sonar tests off the coast of CA. It is believed by the environmentalist that those tests are responsible for whole pods of certian whales to beach themselves, causing many to die. One of the judges said that since the US is involved in two wars, national security comes before the saefty of a few endangered whales.

NEW SCHIZOPHRENIA DRUG SHOWS PROMISE

2007-09-03T02:23:00.000-05:00

TRIALS

A new drug, manufactured by Eli Lilly, is under going trials for its effectiveness in treating schizophrenia. Unlike Zyprexa, which Lilly released in 1995, this new drug shouldn't have any of the same side effects, like weight gain and diabetes. This drug is being tauted as the best drug since Thorazine, which was released in 1954.

RICHEST DOG IN NYC

2007-09-03T01:52:00.000-05:00

TROUBLE

Trouble is a Maltese dog that was owned by Leona Hemsley, the hotel baron who died recently. Hemsley, known as the "Queen of Mean" left her chauffeur $100,000 but left 12 million dollars to her beloved dog, Trouble. And the dog seems to have the same personality as her owner. Trouble has bitten several people, including one of Hemsley's assistants, who had filed suit against her employer and is now looking to sue the dog for compensation for her injuries.

MEXICAN TRUCKS TO BE ALLOWED ON US HIGHWAYS

2007-09-01T14:55:00.000-05:00

TRUCKS

In a trial program, 100 Mexican Trucking companies will be allowed to cross into the US, bringing Mexican goods to the US. This was supposed to be part of the NAFTA agreement that President Clinton signed off on, but that part of the deal has never been inforced.

The one problem I see is that those trucks could be carrying more than Mexican products to the US. Illegals are trucked in everyday as it is.

NIFONG WENT TO JAIL

2007-09-01T14:28:00.000-05:00

JAIL

Largely for humiliation purposes, Mike Nifong was sentenced to a day in jail for his rush to judgement in trying to put six Duke lacrosse players in prison for the rape of a black dancer that attended one of their parties.

Nifong, who was up for re-election, vowed that those boys would not go unpunished. He even went as far as lying to the court and not turning over exculpatory evidence. He was replaced on the case, disbarred and now sentenced to spend on day in jail. All Duke players were cleared.

P0SSIBLE SERIAL KILLER ARRESTED

2007-09-01T04:22:00.000-05:00

MURDERS

Matthew Emmanuel Macon, 27, was just paroled on June 26 of this year for parole violation. His original sentence was for larceny from a person. But he does have a background of sexual assaults. Although juvenile records are usually sealed an not considered during trial, men like Macon make an argument of opening those records to stop offenders early on. Probation officers who have had charges that were arrested for sex offenses should flag those records once those teens leave probation. Most serial killers atart as teens.

THE FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST

2007-08-28T07:45:00.000-05:00

TURKEY

Everyone who has studied 20th century world history knows about the holocaust of World War II, where millions of Jews were murdered by the Germans, but the first holocaust, and from which Winston Churchill coined the term, happened during WW I, where the Ottoman Empire (present day Turkey) slaughtered 1.5 million Armenians. Although not as widely known, pictures of those atrocities exists too. Its even believed that Hitler took their example for his attempt to eliminate the Jews.

MOTOR COP IN PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCADE KILLED

2007-08-28T02:20:00.000-05:00

CRASH

It seems to be a dangerous job being a motor cop in Bush's motorcades. In Albuquerque, NM. They were traveling at a high rate of speed when the motorcade turned into a underground garage. The motor cop lost control of his bike and ran into a tree. Less than a year ago another motorcycle cop died when the President was visiting Hickem field in Hawaii. At that time, three motorcycles collided when escorting the President across the Air Base.

GONZALES RESIGNS

2007-08-28T01:24:00.000-05:00

GONZALES

After a year of defending his position and being investigated for the firing of several state attorneys, Alberto Gonzales has turned in his resignation. Already Bush is planing to put Michael Chartoff as Gonzales' replacement.

MICHAEL VICK PLEADS GUILTY

2007-08-28T00:58:00.000-05:00

DOG FIGHTING

Michael Vick is going to take a plea of Conspiracy to commit gambling for his involvement in the dog fights that took place on his property. There maybe charges of cruelty to animals to add to the plea. Several dog carcasses were found on Vick's property as well as a fighting pen and evidence of torture of the dogs.

TALES FROM THE NURSING HOME

2007-08-26T11:37:00.000-05:00

Karen Y. said...

^5 to you guys for opening the eyes of the inspectors. I hope everyone living there will benefit from your courage to speak up.

Thanks, but this place doesn't learn. As soon as the inspectors leave, they go back to their old ways. We were short staffed again last night. One day they will get it right.

NORTH AMERICAN BLOC-CON'T

2007-08-26T11:25:00.000-05:00

Karen Y. said...

Sounds interesting. I'm wondering if it would be a feasible plan?? Is this something you are thinking or have you read this is what is on the agenda? I can't see the companies allowing same pay.

Maybe the companies won't want to do it, but it would stop jobs from leaving the US, and would definitely stop illegals from crossing over. Why come here when you get paid the same at home. And some of those jobs that they are sending to India could be filled by people like me or those coming back from the war. How hard is it to operate a call center? I did it for 3 yrs. And Americana's wouldn't be trusting their personal information to someone on foreign soil. Credit card companies, food stamp offices, and others are shipping their call centers to India.

CHINA FIGHTS BACK, CON'T

2007-08-26T11:14:00.000-05:00

Karen Y. said...

Amen to Made in America! :)

I agree, Sam Walton, founder of Walmart is probably rolling in his grave because before he died, Walmart was promoting "Made in the USA" until an investigative reporter showed that shirts sold there were really made in Vietnam and the "Made in the USA" label was sown on in the USA.

I know back in the late 1800s, early 1900a, the US become isolationist and there is something to be said for that. American money stayed in the US. The stock market didn't crash until the US tried to help Germany rebuild its economy after WW I. That was when our money started leaving our shores for economic reasons and it hasn't stopped since.

ISLAMIC SCHOOL SET TO OPEN IN NYC, CON'T

2007-08-26T10:37:00.000-05:00

Joe Janes said...

I think you're right in that some caution should be taken, but don't confuse the religion for the terrorists. Just like in America where there are extremists hijacking Christianity, there are extremists hijacking Islam. They don't represent the whole religious community.

True, but last year when there was a rash of Muslim suicide bombers blowing up bus loads of people in the middle east, one network news reported asked Muslims that have lived in the US most if not all of their lives and they said that they agreed with the bombers. That Muslms have the right to kill all infidels and infidels are those oppose the Muslim faith. And in England they showed that the Muslims used their "schools" to promote hatred. One thing about Enland though, they don't have religous tolerence written in their laws. So, after the bombings that took place over a year ago in London, England closed the Mosque and deported the Muslim rabbi who was behind the attacks. Here, because of our freedom of religion, the Gov't can't close a mosque or church, even if they were promoting violence. Now, there is a Hindu School that's opening in Atlanta, GA, and everyone seems happy about it.

HINDU

The Hindu religion dates back to over 3,000 BC and has had many different leaders. Hindus believe in achieving a higher power, or station in life. They believe that humans are on the lower end of that ladder. They believe that they reincarnate every time they die into another life form and will continue to do so until they achieve spiritual perfection, where they won't come back at all. And they believe all living creatures have the right to live. Unlike our Muslim "friends".

EAR SURGERY

2007-08-25T00:56:00.000-05:00

Dennis said...

Wow, it's a good thing you have a TV to watch. I'm glad you're doing ok.

I know you wrote this a while back, I had thought I responded to it. I'm not the only one who watching TV had helped. One woman credited the show er, with saving her life. It was back when one of the main doctors found out he had a brain tumor. He found out when during an emergency, he somehow bit his tonue. One of the nurses told him to stick it out for her to examine it and when he did, it went to the side, not straight out. She told him to do it again and again it when to one side. When they did a cat acan, they found a brain tumor. Okay, the woman saw that and noticed her tongue did the same thing. On the show the doctor died from the tumor, but the woman caught hers in time, thanks to that show.

ISLAMIC SCHOOL SET TO OPEN IN NYC

2007-08-23T23:36:00.000-05:00

CONTROVERSIAL SCHOOL

The same religious group that tried to wipe NYC off the face of the earth in 2001 now is going to open a school in that same city. And no one seems concerned. NYC is where the last terror plot was interrupted, when a group planned to blow up the supply lines that feed jet fuel to JFK airport. This school will make it easier to train terrorist without them having to travel to the middle east. For some unexplainable reason, the US is bending over backward to help the Muslims.

NORTH AMERICAN BLOC

2007-08-22T11:24:00.000-05:00

BLOC

Although President Bush Denys it, there is talk of forming a North American Bloc to rival the EU. Actually I thought NAFTA was the beginning of such movement. The three countries could share in the production of goods and services and there wouldn't be a need for illegal aliens. The same goods made here for a set price would be produced in Mexico at that same price. Mexicans wouldn't need to cross the border for better jobs and American companies who have factories outside our borders will have to pay their employees the same as if they were on our soil. Nike would have to pay the Vietnamese the same as they would American employees. No forced labor or sweat shops.

CHINA FIGHTS BACK

2007-08-22T11:07:00.000-05:00

IMPORTS

After a host of problems with Chinese exports, they are fighting back claiming that there are problems with the soybeans they've been importing from the US. Melamine has been foud in dog food and other products from China and Mattel Toy company has had problems with lead in the paints used on their Fisher Price toys. Even toothpaste imported from China has been found to be contaminated.

I know to the companies, its all about the dollar, but if those items were manufactured here in the US, there might not have been contamination problems. American products should be made in America.

TWO CHARGES AGAINST INTELLIGENCE OFFICER DROPPED

2007-08-21T01:47:00.000-05:00

ABU GRAHIB

Lt. Col. Steven Jordan, who headed the interrogation center, is so far the highest ranked officer brought up on charges of the abuse of detainees. The two charges that were dropped were, lying to investigators and obstruction of justice.

Jordan still faces charges of cruelty and maltreatment of detainees, disobeying a superior officer and failure to obey orders. These charges are in violation of the Code of Uniformed Military Justice.

Since the abuse was uncovered, seven members of the soldiers stationed there have been tried and sentenced on charges. Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who was commander of the prison, said she never knew of the abuse. She was demoted in rank to Colonel in 2005.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO USED A CHURCH FOR SANCTUARY ARRESTED AND DEPORTED

2007-08-21T01:23:00.000-05:00

DEPORTED

Elvira Arellano, 32, and her 8 yr old son had been using a church in Chicago for much of the past year for sanctuary to avoid deportation, was arrested over the weekend and deported. Arellano was ordered to be deported last year, but had become and advocate for illegals. She was deported once before, in 1997, but re-entered the country again illegally and was convicted of a felony of using a stolen social security card to obtain a job cleaning airliners.

Arellano wants to be compared to Rosa Parks, in her fight for justice, but Rosa Parks was not arrested on felony charges. And she didn't break the law several times. Plus, Rosa Parks was a citizen of the US.

TALES FROM THE NURSING HOME

2007-08-21T01:10:00.000-05:00

Well, the nursing home has been shocked tonight. At least one state inspector came in after 7pm. finding section 1 with only one CNA. There is no telling how short staffed we really were tonight. The inspectors usually talk to me and Denise when they come through during the day and we've been telling them that we are always fully staffed during the day. If they want to catch the problems, its the night shift that is ALWAYS short staffed. As soon as the inspector walked in, the supervising nurse was on the phone trying to call people in. I don't know if she was successful or not.

TRAIN HITS TEEN WHILE TEXTING

2007-08-21T00:56:00.000-05:00

TEEN

A teen in Elwood, Ohio was struck by a train while the teen was texting on his cell phone while crossing the tracks. The gate was down and the alarms were working as a south bound train passed, but unaware of a train coming from the other direction, the teen went around the gate and walked across the track when the north bound train struck him. He was knocked several feet and was unconscious, but came to without remembering being struck.

DEMOCRATS GIVE BUSH ADMINISTRATION MORE POWER

2007-08-19T00:49:00.000-05:00

DOMESTIC SPYING

A Democratic Congress passed a bill that gives more power to the Bush Administration than they sought. It allows searches without warrants and allows the collection of business records. Under this new legislation, the FBI can collect the business records of a business here in the US if they suspect that the business is connected to someone outside the US.
As for wiretapping, the new law allows them to do what is called a "trap and trace." They can randomly "trap" certain phone calls, then trace them to identify calling patterns of those here in the US.

ABU GHRAIB

2007-08-19T00:15:00.000-05:00

OFFICER

Finally an Intelligence Officer is being brought to trail for the abuse that took place at the Iraqi's infamous prison, Abu Ghraib. The abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war took place at the prison between September 17, 2003 to August 19, 2004. Since then several enlisted personnel have been tried but not until has an officer been brought up on charges; although all those tried had testified that they were just following orders.

NURSING HOME UPDATE, CON'T

2007-08-18T23:48:00.000-05:00

Karen Y. said...

WOW! That is shocking. Did you lose any hearing?

Well, the doctor said that I had lost 10% of my hearing, but after seeing the damage done, he was shocked it was ONLY 10%. What he thought at first would be only a 45 minute surgery turned into a 3 hour surgery. He had to reconstruct the area behind my eardrum. He said he was glad I saw that show and kept pushing my doctor into sending me to an ENT specialist. Had I waited, the damage would have been worse and I might have lost all hearing in my left ear. But now he says I should hear fine with only a slight decrease on the left side.

FOOD SAFETY

2007-08-18T15:05:00.000-05:00

CONSUMERS IN DANGER?

Right now the FDA is holding off on closing some of its field labs. That concerns some about the safety of our food supply but doesn't the USDA have overlapping responsibility as the FDA when it comes to food? After all, its the USDA that inspects the meat supply as well as most produce. I think we would be better served if the FDA concentrate on the drugs and the USDA concentrate on the food supply.

NURSING HOME UPDATE

2007-08-18T14:29:00.000-05:00

I know I told you all about me having cellulitus and going to the hospital but I had to go back at the beginning of this month for surgery on my left ear.

It started when I saw last year on the discovery health channel about this guy whose ear would constantly pop like he was changing altitude. When he went to the doctor, they found a growth behind his eardrum that had ate its way through the mastoid bone to where part of his brain had slipped into his ear canal. Well, I had the popping and dizziness like he did, so I pushed my doctor to have me sent to an ENT specialist. Sure enough I had a similar grown behind my eardrum. Luckily for me, it had only made a tiny hole in the mastoid bone which the doctor repaired. So, now I'm doing better with no more popping in my ear and no dizzy spells. Sometimes it pays to watch tv.

NY GOVERNOR HAS TOY INSPECTORS RAID STORES

2007-08-18T14:16:00.000-05:00

RECALL

Gov. Spitzer has order safety inspectors to go into stores in New York and pull all the toys that were made in China that toy manufacturer Mattel had promised to pull from store shelves. These toy were either painted with lead based paint or had small parts that could become a choking hazzard. Spitzer wanted these toys pulled and melted down.

O.J.'S BOOK

2007-08-07T09:25:00.000-05:00

Karen Y. said...

The question is why it needed to be granted in the fist place. He owes them if my memory is correct.

The Goldman's won a wrongful death lawsuit, but because of the trial, O.J. lost all of his endorsements and job opportunities, so he hasn't been able to pay them the money he owes.

The he writes this book which is supposed to be fiction, detailing how he could have pulled of the murders on his own. Because of the "Son of Sam" law, no one can profit from the crimes they supposed to have committed, so the judge granted the Goldman's the rights to the book. That way if they decide to publish it, they would get the proceeds and possibly the amount of the judgement they were awarded in court.

Dennis said...

I think the judge was right in this ruling. Even though he was not convicted of the crime, you know he did it. He once said that he wouldn't stop until the real killer was caught, but it doesn't look like he is trying too hard.

No he isn't, and he wrote this book as a confession and he can't be convicted because he was already acquitted at trial. I've always said it was possible that he did it, it's just the police mishandled the crime scene before the coroner's dept took possession of the crime scene. Therefore any evidence found wouldn't be admissible in court.

4 FETUSES FOUND AT THE HOME OF A MOTHER OF 4

2007-07-31T14:38:00.000-05:00

BABIES

A 37 yr old mother of 4 was arrested after police, investigating a story about a woman who had recently gave birth with no apparent baby. When police came to her house, the found her pre-term fetus wrapped in a blanket in the bathroom. As they further searched, they found another 3 fetuses. They are trying to determine if the fetuses are hers and if they were still borns or aborted fetuses.

GOLDMAN'S FAMILY GETS RIGHTS TO O.J.'S BOOK

2007-07-31T14:03:00.000-05:00

GOLDMAN

A bankruptcy judge granted the rights to O.J. Simpson's book to settle a $38 million wrongful death lawsuit that Ron Goldman's family filed against Simpson. Bad publicity kept Simpson himself from publishing it. His book titled "If I Did It", according to Simpson, was a fictional account of how he could have committed the murders of his ex-wife Nichole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. O.J. was acquitted of those murders.

BOTTLED WATER-CONTINUED

2007-07-31T03:01:00.000-05:00

Karen Y. said...

I have heard Dansi is tap water from England. That seems dirtier than Massachusetts since we are suppose to have superior water treatment facilities. It has always seemed odd to pay for something you can drink for free.

That's the biggest rip off, you pay a dollar a bottle for something you can get basically for free by turning on the tap. I admit that some cities' tap water doesn't taste all that great and some cities have had to improve their treatment plants due to crytospiridium that hit Milwaukee several years ago. But, you can buy water filters that fit on the faucet that will catch such things but will also improve the taste of the water.

DRUNK IN SPACE

2007-07-31T02:55:00.000-05:00

Karen Y. said...

Goes to show no matter the position held.......humans are human.

True, but to have drunk astronauts responsible for billions of dollars worth of equipment is crazy.

Of course there are even drunk doctors. That's a scary thought.

LOHAN CONTINUED

2007-07-31T02:47:00.000-05:00

Karen Y. said...

I have to wonder why none of the places she partied at while under age got in trouble. Everyone KNEW she wasn't of legal drinking age. Maybe now the celebrity above the law will end?

I doubt it because just like with Paris Hilton, bar owners pay these girls to come to their clubs because that will draw more people in to drink in those bars. Anytime any of the celebrity women are hitting certain clubs, it's the best advertising that club can get. So, I don't think they want to stop the underage celebs from drinking in those clubs.

SCOOTER LIBBY

2007-07-31T02:32:00.000-05:00

Dennis said...

First: No one has ever been charged with leaking Valerie Plames name to Robert Novak.
Second: Richard Armitage was the one who told Robert Novak about Valerie Plame and he was under Colin Powell, not Dick Cheney. To this day, he has not been brought up on any charges and Fitzgerald doesn't plan too.
Third: Libby was charged with a process crime, not leaking her name, just a bad memory. You cna't single him out for that either, Hillary Clinton suffered from a bad memory during Whitewater and the FBI file scandal, Bill CLinton seemed to suffer from them also.
Fourth: I don't recall the exact authors name, but the woman who helped write the law that pertained to agents under cover stated that Valerie Plame was not a Covert Agent according to the Law as it was written.
Finally: The Cheney's War bit is just getting old. So is the Rumsfelds War mantra. it is a Tin Foil hat issue and is about as crazy as the FDR knowing beforehand about Pearl harbor.

This investigation went about like Kenneth Star's investigation of Bill Clinton. It started with White Water and ended up with his affair with Monica Lewinski. Libby was made the scape goat so that the one who truely released Plames identity could go free. If they really wanted to get the one who leaked Plame's identity then Armitage should be charged.

VALARIE PLAME

2007-07-31T02:19:00.000-05:00

Dennis said...

I think we are going to find out more about this story as time goes on and I don't think Valerie Plame is going to wind up being as heroic as the media has made her

I don't think the press has made her into a heroine, but just a person whose clandestine job was ruined by someone in the White House. It would be the same as revealing the identity of undercover DEA agents. That puts their job at risk.

AQUAFINA LABELS SHOW WATER SOURCE

2007-07-28T23:16:00.000-05:00

BOTTLED WATER

Aquafina is finally going to own up to the fact that most bottled water is just treated tap water. Some bottled water labels claim "mountain spring" or glacial water" as the source. One company has a picture of a mountain lake on the label when the actual source of the water was a tap in a parking lot next to an industrial park in Massachusetts. Since it was revealed, five bottlers that were using that source has stopped. The link below answers most questions about bottled water.

BOTTLED WATER

ASTRONAUTS FLYING DRUNK

2007-07-28T23:02:00.000-05:00

DRINKING

Seeing that the space shuttle is built to fly like an airplane, no wonder some astronauts fly drunk. Airline pilots fly drunk. But then you have to wonder about the recent tragedies, whether if the crew were clear headed, would they have known they were in trouble earlier? With all the screening they go through from begining of preflight up to launch, it's a wonder no one has caught it yet.

LOHAN DOES IT AGAIN

2007-07-28T00:07:00.000-05:00

DUI

Lindsay Lohan was just in court for DUI and has been in rehab twice, and now she has been arrested again after chasing the mother of her personal assistant at speeds of over 100 mph while two guys were sitting in the back seat fearing for their lives. When she was arrested, her blood alcohol level was 0.12 and 0.13. In CA the legal limit is 0.08. While at the police station, a white powder was found in her pocket which tested positive for cocaine. Everyone wonders if her career will survive these incidents.

CIA LEAK

2007-07-27T23:47:00.000-05:00

Dennis said...

I think we are going to find out more about this story as time goes on and I don't think Valerie Plame is going to wind up being as heroic as the media has made her

Maybe not, but I don't think that Dick Cheney is going to come out clean from this either. Joe Wilson criticized the Iraqi war and Cheney wasn't going to have someone criticize his war. This time Cheney was able to do what he couldn't as Secretary of Defense and that was take out Sadam. And he wants to finish the war he didn't get to in 1991.

BAD DEAL

2007-07-27T23:20:00.000-05:00

WEAPONS

You would think after dealing with Irag that the US would learn it's lesson. Not only that but Saudi Arabia has always been a friend that you never turned your back on. Especially since Osama Bin Ladan is a Saudi. And yet the US wants to sell them advanced weapons??? Back in the 1980's, the US sold weapons to Sadam to fight Iran, only to have some of those same weapons used against our troops in Desert Storm.

If this deal goes through, we might have to fight against those weaspons at a later time.

THE TRUTH OF MUSLIMS

2007-07-21T22:39:00.000-05:00

I got this from my brother-in-law and I thought I would share it.

Subject: Hooray for Michigan State

The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical
engineering professor named Indrek Wichman. Wichman sent an e-mail to
the Muslim Student's Association. The e-mail was in response to the
students' protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet
Muhammad as a terrorist. The group had complained the cartoons
were "hate speech."

Enter Professor Wichman. In his e-mail, he said the following:

Dear Moslem Association:
As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to
protest your protest. I am offended not by cartoons, but by more
mundane things like beheading of civilians, cowardly attacks on
public buildings, suici de murders, murders of Catholic priests (the
latest in Turkey ), burnings of Christian churches, the continued
persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt , the imposition of Sharia
law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women (called
"whores" in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland,
and the rioting and looting in Paris France . This is what offends me,
a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many of my colleagues. I
counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-
trading Muslims to be very aware of this as you proceed with your
infantile "protests."
If you do not like the values of the West - see the 1st Amendment -
you are free to leave. I hope for God's sake that most of you choose
that option.
Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves
instead of troubling Americans.

Cordially,
I. S. Wichman
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the
univers ity didn't like this too well. They're demanding that Wichman
be reprimanded and the university impose mandatory diversity training
for faculty and
mandate a seminar on hate and discrimination for all freshmen.
Now the local chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray. CAIR, the
Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn't believe that
the good professor had the right to express his opinion.

For its part, the university is standing its ground in support of
Professor Wichman , saying the e-mail was private, and they don't
intend to publicly condemn his remarks.
That will probably change. Wichman says he never intended for his e-
mail to be made public, and wouldn't have used the same strong
language if he'd known it was going to get out.

Send this to your friends, and ask them to do the same. Tell them
to keep passing it around until the whole country gets it. We are in a
war. This political correctness is getting old and killing us.

If you agree with this, please send it to all your friends, if not
simply delete it.

That's like another story I heard. This one church, in an effort to bridge the gap between Christians and Muslims invited a Muslim to come speak to their church. The Muslim said that the purpose of his religion was to recruit as many Muslims as they could to kill all the infidels. When someone asked him who are the infidels the Muslim said that an infidel was anyone who wasn't a Muslim. So the church leader asked the Muslim that wouldn't it be better to follow someone who taught to love your fellow man than to follow someone who teaches to kill those who don't believe the same as you do?

Think about it.

JUDGE DISMISSES PLAME LAWSUIT

2007-07-19T23:44:00.000-05:00

LEAK

Although it's against federal law to release the name of a CIA agent's name, and one person has already been sentenced in this case, a federal judge dismissed Valarie Plame's lawsuit against 4 members of Bush's administration. Plame claims her identity was released in retaliation for her husband, Joseph Wilson's criticism of the war in Iraq.

NORTH KOREA STOPS NUCLEAR REACTOR

2007-07-16T00:37:00.000-05:00

NORTH KOREA

The International Atomic Energy Agency has verifyed that North Korea has shut down it's sole reactor producing nuclear material. This leaves Iran as the only country outside the controls of the IAEA.

FREE SPEECH-CON'T

2007-07-16T00:25:00.000-05:00

Karen Y said...

Hhhhmmmmmmm...........sounds like they need to review what free speech is. I believe every issue should be open to debate; however, it should always remain respectable to allow people to give solid opinions and not ones polluted with foul non-thinking word choices.

I know over the years the Supreme Court has defined free speech, but this is the first time an age was tied to it. I know you can't yell "fire" in a crowded room, but to make a joke about drug use, while dis-tasteful, shouldn't be considered illegal unless it's promoting such acts.

CHENEY

2007-07-16T00:19:00.000-05:00

I got this response from my post about Cheney. Whether it's legit or not, I don't have the ability to make a video as this person asks.

Candice ABC News said...
Hey, I came across your site as I was researching information about the Cheney record’s situation. This is a great interactive opportunity and we hope you’ll take a moment to send in a short 30-45 second video

Executive Privilege

Do you think it's fair for the White House to refuse to hand over Vice President Dick Cheney's records to Congress? Is the President over-extending the use of Executive Privilege? Tell us what you think!

Upload your video below:
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July 3, 2007 3:33 PM

I'M BACK

2007-07-16T00:11:00.000-05:00

Readers,

Just want to let you know that I was in the hospital for a week. I developed cellulitus in my right leg again. Those who know me personally know that I have had this several times before. But I'm back and recovering nicely. Sorry I haven't been able to write until now. I do appreciate the responses I got while I was gone.

Kenny

TUNNELS FOUND DURING DRUG RAIDS

2007-06-30T00:40:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-28T23:03:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-28T00:55:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-26T23:52:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-26T14:48:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-25T22:34:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-25T00:14:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-24T23:09:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-23T23:38:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-23T22:46:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-23T18:50:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-22T23:36:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-22T22:40:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-21T23:07:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-18T00:33:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-17T02:02:00.000-05:00

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

2007-06-14T04:42:00.000-05:00

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.