AUSTIN - A Fort Worth doctor twice honored by the Texas House of Representatives as the "doctor of the day" is a registered sex offender convicted of an illicit relationship with a 17-year-old.
Dr. Nilon Tallant, 75, was introduced by lawmakers at the Capitol in 2006 and again in January of this year's legislative session, even though one legislator said he warned others about the physician's past sex offense after his first appearance. "I don't think anybody that's a convicted sex offender should have a medical license in Texas. Period," said Republican Rep. Phil King of Weatherford, who introduced Tallant in the House chamber in April 2006.
Tallant now lives in King's district, but King said he doesn't know Tallant well.
Dallas-Fort Worth television station KTVT first reported on the doctor's background.
Lolly Lockhart, a nurse consultant who has worked with Tallant, told The Associated Press on his behalf Friday that Tallant "is a very fine upstanding physician and citizen." Lolly?
She said the criminal charge resulted from his mistake in judgment and involved the relative of a woman he once dated. The young woman allegedly tried several times to seduce the doctor when he was divorced and lonely, Lockhart said. "He's not a predator at all," she said. "not at 75 anyway."
Tallant is now remarried. He practices medicine part time on a fill-in basis and enjoys volunteer work, including the Capitol duty and helping out at local cheerleader camps, Lockhart said.
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King said he found out "through the grapevine" after Tallant's first appearance in the House that the doctor was a sex offender. He said he passed that information on to the House speaker's office and the medical association that screens doctors for the duty.
Tallant used to practice medicine in the San Marcos area, where the conviction occurred. Texas Medical Board records state that in late 1995 Tallant began "an improper sexual relationship" with a 17-year-old female patient for whom he had once prescribed medication and he pleaded guilty in 1997 to sexual performance by a child. He was placed on probation for 10 years and fined $1,000, according to board records. 63 at the time, hmmmm. The old goat obviously has ability but he should have applied it more wisely.
His medical license was revoked but reinstated in 2001, records show.
Also, Rantburg Ladies, (sexual assaults not with standing) clue me in on what a 17 yr old girl would find the least bit attractive in some geriatric wrinkled ass 63 yr old dude? I know my sister had a thing for Robert Redford when she was in her teens but I doubt this dude looked like Bob Redford prolly more like Bob Barker.
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Ah. One of Mr.Wife's people had a mid-life crisis and ran off with one of those until he ran out of money. When he came back, he made up with his wife until she trusted him again, then emptied the bank account and went back. I can't remember if she divorced him after that or just kept him on a really, really short leash.
(SomaliNet) Four Asians who murdered another Asian and then ate his body were caught when one of their victim's finger was found in the stomach of one during treatment for acute food poisoning, the daily Al-Sharq newspaper said today. The Qatari newspaper said the four men had to seek emergency hospital treatment after eating part of the corpse, various bits of which, including a finger, showed up on hospital X-rays. The paper did not give the men's nationalities. It said their victim was also of Asian origin, and that the affair, unprecedented in Qatar, was now in the hands of prosecutors.
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Four Asians who murdered another Asian and then ate his body were caught when one of their victim's finger was found in the stomach of one during treatment for acute food poisoning,
note to self; next time get the victim to wash his hands thoroughly.
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The main link will take you to the Grapheine server, where you can make your own subtitle movies in one of four different formats. (Seems to require Flash and a broadband or DSL connection.) If you come up with something good, post a link in the comments.
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"Many use more than 20 different beauty products a day"
Many also have way too much time on their hands.
When I decided I wanted to get my long hair cut (rather than sit through another perm), I started looking around for a style that would be simple, easy to care for, and easy to keep off my face (that part's very important).
I mentioned this to one woman during an open house at a salon and she asked in a shocked tone, "You mean you're not willing to spend 15 minutes in the morning on your hair?" She just about had a heart attack when I told her that I don't spend 15 minutes in the morning on my hair, makeup, and getting dressed for the office. (And I do wear regular office-type attire.)
We each get the same 24 hours in every day....
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I'll just say that cosmetics were a lot more likely of a culprit than what I hoped thought they might be ingesting.
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I'm just wondering what they count as part of the 20 different "beauty products". Deodorant? Soap? I just can't think of 20 different kinds of goo to plaster on my face and/or hair, and I used to spend an hour on my hair (back in the late 80's, ok....I was a silly teenager with "big hair", so cut me some slack. I'm better now....)
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Frank, you forgot to list the half hour or so it takes to pick just the right Hawaiian shirt each morning. I've gotten pretty good at applying make-up at stop lights, and my hairdresser has strict orders the cut has got to be wash'n'wear -- I'm hair-retarded, and can't figure out how to do all those fancy things requiring spray bottles and electrical equipment. ;-)
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I'm fortunate enough to see a couple of these over the reservoir near where I live once in a while. One of the things that's really striking about them is they are HUGE, have to be 5 or 6 feet across the wing.
Oh, dear - do you think it could be our fault? Perhaps ProCongress can pass a bill to offer them all high-quality toupees.
At least the poor things can still fly soar.
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In all seriousness, I'm glad they're making such a comeback. We have lots of them around the James River.
I was driving across one of the high bridges over the river going into downtown Richmond when a bald eagle flew directly in front of my car, just above the top of the bridge railings. It was spectacular (I almost wrecked the car - good thing it wasn't during rush hour).
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While driving up to the Olympic Rainforest in Washington state, I had just crossed the Astoria bridge over the Columbia river when a bald eagle flew overhead inbound with a freshly caught salmon in its talons. Talk about a Kodak moment!
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I nearly caught a Bald Eagle once in the Adirondack Mountains. I used to hike up the creeks with a friend of mine's son to go fishing.
One day around dusk we were fishing using spinning lures, when a Bald Eagle flew right down the creek directly in front of us. When it got level with me, no more than 10 yards away, it suddenly pulled in its wings and started to dive. I was so surprised that I stopped reeling in my lure. The Eagle pulled out of its dive and continued flying on down the creek. It was only afterwards I realized it was diving at my spinning lure.
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If you ever get up to Alaska between Anchorage and Seward, Bald and Golden Eagles are all over the place.
Some years ago, a woman who worked at a cannery asked if she could have some of their waste fish parts, as she noted that the Bald Eagles that lived around the protected bay had a hard time during the winter months.
So she started to feed them. Pretty soon, she was taking dumpsters full of fish parts for large flocks of eagles, and the State police had to set up a cordon for the photographers.
She must have had 20 or 30 eagles hopping around on the ground, gobbling down fish parts.
If you love wildlife, I highly recommend a visit during the first week in July. By then most of the mosquitoes are gone, everything is green and lush, flowers everywhere and temperatures that hover around 70 degrees. Plus 20 hours of sunlight a day, so you never want to sleep and walk everywhere.
Anchorage is very civilized, and ironically, the prices are pretty average, except for seafood, which costs more. I managed to gain a pound every day I was there.
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Unfortunately, some native Indian groups insist that real eagle feathers be used in head-dresses. Thus, most eagles are killed on Reserve lands in pursuit of the black market in feathers. If you know where to look, eagle feathers are easy to find because they fight hard over carrion. Ergo: the feathers fly.
A full bench of the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) on Friday declared awarding a sentence of limb amputation without Tazkiya Al-Shahood (two witnesses) un-Islamic, and set aside the limb amputation sentence awarded to a convict by a trial court in a robbery case.
"Amputations must be by the Book, sez we! Allanu Snackbar!"
Um, 'snackbar' and the butcher shop photo don't ... um .... I think I'll have a pizza for lunch today instead. A vegetarian one.
And hold the ketchup.
The bench, consisting of FSC Chief Justice Haziqul Khairi, Justice Salahuddin Mirza and Justice Allama Fida Muhammad, set aside the orders issued on January 26, 2006, by Peshawar District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Jamal Khan to cut off the right hand and left foot of Afghan national Ajab Khan under Section 17 (3) of the Offence of the Hudood Ordinance, 1979. The bench, however, maintained the sentence of a five-year imprisonment and a Rs 30,000 fine under Section 412 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) for the accused.
During the hearing of an appeal, the FSC bench said that if judges continued awarding sentences without fulfilling the condition of Tazkiya Al-Shahood, thousands of robbers in Karachi would lose their hands and legs due to the increasing incidents of robberies there.
The bench said the judges must observe whether or not the witnesses met the requirement of Tazkiya Al-Shahood while convicting under the Hadd (sentencing a person under Section 17(3) of the Offence against Property or Enforcement of Hudood Ordinance, 1979) and that a trial court must first conduct a proper inquiry to find out if the witnesses had committed any offences.
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So when is the supermassive star Eta Carinae going to blow? No one knows. But at 100 - 150 times the Sun's mass, it doesn't have much time left. And the presence of lots of nitrogen in the gas surrounding it is a bad sign: that means that the star was making heavy elements in its core, then belching them up into space. By the time a star like Eta Car is making nitrogen, it doesn't have long left to go. And when it goes, it'll go.
So Eta Car is ticking bomb. It could go off tonight, or in the year 3000 (did Futurama ever cover this?), but it won't be much longer than that.
Note that the lobes appear to be tilted away from us by about 40 degrees or so. That's a good thing. When stars like Eta Carinae explode, they tend to shoot of beams of energy and matter that, at its distance of 7500 light years, could kill every living thing on Earth. But since it's pointed away from us, all we'll get is a spectacular light show. If you're keeping score at home, gamma-ray burst aimed at you = bad, pretty supernova with no accompanying high energy radiation = good.
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.
A full bench of the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) on Friday declared awarding a sentence of limb amputation without Tazkiya Al-Shahood (two witnesses) un-Islamic, and set aside the limb amputation sentence awarded to a convict by a trial court in a robbery case.
