A Baltimore County police have charged a Democratic senatorial candidate with raping and assaulting his 19-year-old wife at their home in Sparks.
Forty-three-years-old David Dickerson was charged Saturday with second-degree rape, a fourth-degree sex offense, and second-degree assault and released on 100-thousand dollars bail.
Dickerson's attorney says Dickerson vehemently denies the charges and is not dropping out of the race, because he didn't do anything wrong.
According to court documents, Anna Dickerson told investigators that David Dickerson slapped her on Saturday and forced her to have sexual intercourse. She described a history of such assaults dating to the beginning of the couple's marriage in Latvia last year.
Dickerson, who is unemployed, filed last month for the U-S Senate seat of Paul Sarbanes, who is retiring. He is considered a longshot in a crowded field vying for the position.
#4
We've one that takes socks and carries them to the water dish, where they act like a wick. Trying to clean them? Naw, they're usually freshly washed. Playing I have kittens and I'm gonna drown 'em? Yeah, that's my guess.
Forty minutes into her reign as Miss Universe, Miss Puerto Rico Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza collapsed during a post-pageant news conference and was rushed offstage on Sunday night.
Pageant officials immediately said the lithe 5-foot-9 18-year-old was all right and had fainted. "She's OK. She's fine," pageant representative Lark Anton told Reuters. "She got dizzy. Its very hot up here. Her dress is tight - as you could see it was beaded and heavy. She passed out."
We see.
Anton said Mendoza "had plenty to eat today," when pressed for the beauty queen's condition before she fainted at the center of the stage at the Shrine Auditorium, where she had become the 55th Miss Universe before an international television audience less than an hour earlier.
Mendoza attended the pageant's Coronation Ball after recovering from her collapse, according to guests including Donald Trump, co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization. "Yes, she's fine," Trump said as he left.
The Puerto Rican beauty queen was named Miss Universe 2006 over runner-up Miss Japan, Kurara Chibana, 24. Second runner-up was Miss Switzerland Lauriane Gillieron, 21. Rounding out the top five were Miss Paraguay Lourdes Arevalos, 22, and Miss United States, 20-year-old Tara Conner. The youngest of the five finalists, Mendoza appeared radiant as she waved to photographers several minutes before collapsing. Most of the press had left by the time she fainted.
Having lingered on stage, Mendoza was leaning on some assistants when her face fell to her chest, her new tiara atop her head. Tottering on high, spiky heels, she appeared to lean in this fashion for about 10 seconds and, at 8:38 p.m., collapsed in the arms of pageant assistants.
She was rushed offstage while the organizer of a post-pageant press conference called for aid. "Is there a nurse in the house? Can a nurse come to the stage," said the announcer, who was not identified. Within a minute, Anton said Mendoza was fine and had merely fainted.
During her news conference, Mendoza said she would carry out the work of the Miss Universe Organization, which is to work to help those with HIV/AIDS.
#4
Anyone who doubts this need only to own a parrot for more than five minutes. Psiticines are irrevocably convinced that the entire known universe was brought into existence solely for servicing their personal whims (as in; The sun shines out of their @ss). Those requiring additional proof can Google "Alex" the African Gray that is able to discern odd objects and geometrical shapes in related sets and also count numerically.
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler has sat in front of some of the hottest television lights in the world of news talk, barking about political rivals, demanding action and mostly holding his own in on-air squabbles.
Then he sat down with comedian Stephen Colbert.
Wexler thought he knew what he was getting into but really he didn't.
He found himself talking about whether caribou meat should be used to fuel sport utility vehicles. And he found himself being cajoled into staring at the camera and saying, "I enjoy cocaine because it's a fun thing to do," in a segment that aired Thursday night.
Welcome to Comedy Central, congressman. Those tough political crowds in Boca Raton have nothing on the sharp wit of Colbert and the editing skills of the staff on his popular comedy show, The Colbert Report.
When the cable TV show's producers contacted Wexler's Capitol Hill office to ask if the Democrat would be interested in appearing, his young staffers went crazy. All fans of the show, they persuaded a somewhat reluctant Wexler to do it.
So three weeks ago, Wexler gamely walked to an office on the hill that the show was using to tape the program. Someone stuck a Florida flag behind Wexler so Colbert could pretend the interview was taking place in his congressional office.
The taping lasted 90 minutes, which the producers artfully trimmed and rearranged for five minutes of the best comic effect.
The show, which airs at 11:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, is political satire, a takeoff on shows such as Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor.
After poking fun at the "fighting 19th" Congressional District, Colbert introduced Wexler with the question, "Which well-tanned politician has the SPF to represent this district?"
Throughout the taping, Wexler like all of Colbert's subjects was forced into the role of straight man. Asked about the show Friday, the normally exuberant Wexler seemed a bit subdued after watching it Thursday night.
"I had never seen the show," he said. "Many of the people in the office love the show, and they said it would be fantastic."
His verdict? "Not my cup of tea."
Which really is the point of Colbert's recurring segment on congressional districts making a member of Congress uncomfortable. When Orlando Republican John Mica appeared, Colbert asked whether he had trouble getting his rumored toupee through airport security. Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, who is gay, reportedly was seething after Colbert asked him what it was like to be "an openly left-handed" American.
So as Wexler sat watching the show with his 17-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son, he cringed. At one point, Colbert asked Wexler about drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Colbert: "Should we drill in ANWR?"
Wexler: "No, no."
C: "So caribou are more important than my SUV?"
W: "No, no."
C: "That's what you just said."
W: "What's most important is that your SUV be required to have better efficiency in the future."
C: "What if I could make it run on caribou meat? Would you be in favor of that?"
W: "On caribou meat?"
C: "Or hide it doesn't matter or bone?"
W: "Probably not."
Then, because Wexler has no opponent this year, Colbert saying "this is just kidding" egged him on to "say a few things that would really lose the election for you if you were contested." Colbert neatly hemmed him in by telling him to complete this sentence: "I enjoy cocaine because... "
And for Comedy Central, here's the money shot: Wexler squirming but looking straight ahead and playing along by saying, "I enjoy cocaine because it's a fun thing to do." Followed by, again at Colbert's suggestion: "I enjoy the company of prostitutes for the following reasons because it's a fun thing to do. If you combine the two together, it's probably even more fun."
Colbert wrapped up soon after, joking "there is no amount of damage control" that Wexler would be able to do now.
So what did Wexler's kids think of his performance?
#4
(Washington, D.C.) - Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL), a senior member of the House International Relations Committee and Ranking Democrat on the Europe and Emerging Threats Subcommittee, will travel to Israel on an official CODEL from July 24 to 27, 2006. In Jerusalem, Wexler also plans to travel to Kiryat Bialik, the sister city of Boca Raton, located approximately 15 miles northeast of the port city of Haifa, which has been hit by Katyusha rockets launched by Hezbollah terrorists....
HB donks ... now remember it's Kiryat Bialik. Could be today, tomorrow or Friday. Fire for effect!
U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney lost support last week in her political stronghold, south DeKalb County, forcing her into a runoff, an analysis of election results shows. Former DeKalb County Commissioner Hank Johnson, who surprised many with his strong showing in the Democratic primary, made inroads in the predominantly black neighborhoods where McKinney traditionally has enjoyed staunch support. And he carried many precincts in largely white north DeKalb, according to the analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The two will face each other in an Aug. 8 runoff. The winner will face Republican Catherine Davis, considered a long shot, in the November election. McKinney was expected to win Tuesday's primary easily, but she won 47 percent of the ballots cast to Johnson's 44 percent. Alpharetta businessman John F. Coyne III, received 8.5 percent. The AJC analysis looked at voter turnout in DeKalb, where most 4th District voters live. The AJC also compared Tuesday's election returns in 120 DeKalb precincts with the results of McKinney's 2002 race, which she lost to Denise Majette. (The Georgia Legislature drew new congressional lines in 2005, so only 120 precincts were the same in 2006 as in 2002.)
The analysis found:
This year, 49 percent fewer voters cast ballots for McKinney than in 2002. That indicates those voters either did not cast ballots Tuesday, or voted for another candidate.
Overall turnout was significantly lower this year than in 2002. Then, 47 percent of 4th District voters who live in DeKalb went to the polls; this year only 26 percent cast ballots.
Support for McKinney dropped by an average of 4.5 percentage points across the 120 precincts. She experienced the biggest decline in south DeKalb precincts. In the precincts where McKinney was strongest in 2002, she still won majorities this year but by a lower percentage.
Johnson had the strongest support in predominantly white north DeKalb, but he received a lower percentage of the vote in many of those precincts than Majette did in 2002. The third opponent, Coyne, received 10 to 20 percent of the vote in many of those precincts.
While the analysis gives some insight into what happened Tuesday, it's difficult to predict how many voters will go to polls for the runoff or how they will cast their ballots. Runoffs are known for very low voter turnouts.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/24/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[6 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
She's a crazy, dumb bitch. But...she's a crazy, dumb bitch.
When the rather buggy-eyed thing looks good. Really good.
Disclaimer: I was looking for Lee Remick pix and, somehow, I ended up here. I think it was a triple poison reverse with a full pike and 2.5 twists. Degree of difficulty: 400.62.
#13
Like I said I dont have a problem with it myself. But I work in Seattle and some of my -er- tolerant leftist co-workers might be 'offended' [by her --er-- charms] and file a complaint.
As for Helen... well those selfsame 'tolerant' co-workers might not might object but I would suffer irreversible optic nerve damage. Possibly insanity.
(Your right I should have known better then to follow the link -- at least from work. :).
#17
Now, back to the topic at hand. This is EXTREMELY good news that South DeKalb (McKinney's strong districts) is not voting or throwing their support behind someone else. As the article mentions, it doesn't really mean a hill of beans for the runoff, but those 9 percentage points for Coyne will mostly go to her opponent (Johnson). He could very well win it. Unfortunately, whomever wins that primary wins the seat.
Posted by: BA ||
07/24/2006 19:47 Comments ||
Top||
#18
First time I saw it, I assumed it was photoshopped. Then I saw her on TV and realized the weird bug eyes and hair were authentic.
OK, let's put the two pix side by side and vote on it! :-)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined thousands of Israel supporters in the withering heat Sunday to rally behind Israel's recent attacks in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Loudly condemning the "relentless rocket attacks of Hamas and Hezbollah against Israel," Villaraigosa drew a cheer when he said: "We're here to defend (Israel's) unassailable right to defend itself."
Schwarzenegger also affirmed Israel's right to self-defense and offered prayers for peace in Lebanon. "I hope they can recover their country and live without violence or strife," he said.
Police estimated some 2,000 to 3,000 people attended the Los Angeles rally and said no major disturbances were reported. A group of about 20 held signs that called for an end to "Israeli war crimes in Gaza," but that did not disrupt the rally's block party atmosphere or the crowd's expression of support for recent Israeli military actions.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/24/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Forty minutes into her reign as Miss Universe, Miss Puerto Rico Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza collapsed during a post-pageant news conference and was rushed offstage on Sunday night.
U.S. Rep. 
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined thousands of Israel supporters in the withering heat Sunday to rally behind Israel's recent attacks in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Loudly condemning the "relentless rocket attacks of Hamas and Hezbollah against Israel," Villaraigosa drew a cheer when he said: "We're here to defend (Israel's) unassailable right to defend itself."
