VERY preliminary, but heard a whiff of it on AM radio this morning in "da ATL." Wonder if Vick likes pink boxers and bologna sandwiches?
Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, says Falcons quarterback Michael Vick may be connected to pit bull fighting operations in Arizona. "He's a person of interest as far as my office is concerned," Arpaio said. "I'm not talking about a case. I'm talking about a person of interest regarding pit bull fighting." Arpaio said Vick's name has been "very familiar" to his office since "a while back."
He confirmed that his detectives have contacted Georgia authorities about Vick after the quarterback was indicted on federal charges involving illegal interstate dog fighting.
Arpaio is a popular but controversial elected official, and his critics believe he'll say anything to get his name in the paper. But whatever the merits of the Arizona investigation, it's a reminder that even if Vick beats the federal charges, he might have a long way to go before he's in the clear. Vick is constitutionally protected from being tried twice for the same offense, but if there is evidence that he committed multiple acts of dog fighting, animal cruelty or any other crime in multiple states, each individual state could charge him.
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And in the Sheriff Joe cheering column, he has been asked by the local Latino community to take down his Illegal Immagrant Hotline. Must be making somebody nervous, even though his office has not yet acted on any of the calls that have come in ( ~300 according to the report i read)
The Vick circusside show arraignment was this afternoon in Richmond. The local cops blocked off several streets around the Federal Courthouse from 6 last night to 6 tonight. Wotta zoo.
I work a couple of blocks from there (don't need to drive through the blocked-off streets to get to work, Gott sei dank) and could see some of the entertainment crowd from my building. And today was around 90 degrees F and humid; asphalt & concrete no doubt made it worse.
I realize the newsies had to be there, but it was surprising how many other people came (even from out of state) to pitch a fit throw a protest. Some brought their pet pit bulls. I wouldn't bring a dog out in that heat on the pavement for hours, but obviously others' mileage varies. The news even said there was a 10-year-old boy there who was a supporter. (If that's the best Vick can come up with, support-wise, he's in deep doo-doo.)
And we get to do it all over again just after Thanksgiving, for days on end.
Yeesh.
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I know Mike is losing quite a few advertizers, but with Arpaio's pink underwear policy I see a Michael Joradan and Hanes possibility.
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Sounds like a mentally-distrubed loner and not a terrorist, so goes in Local news.
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A gun dealer in Southern Illinois....? Who would have thought?
A gun dealer had alerted federal authorities about Olutosin Oduwole, saying he had seemed overly anxious to get an online shipment of semiautomatic weapons, according to an affidavit filed in court by a police detective.
Whahahahahhaaa
From the Iota Phi Theta web site:
"Partial listing of involvements undertaken by Iota Phi Theta"
The NAACP
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The National Federation of the Blind
The National Sickle Cell Foundation
The United Negro College Fund
Big Brothers of America
Project IMAGE Ewardsville Rod and Gun Shop
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Yes, name is Olutosin Oduwole. But my homies just calls me Rocket-88 for short.
You heard of those dirty jalopies,
you heard of the noise they make,
let me reintroduce my new Rocket 88,
yeah she's straight, just won't
wait, everbody likes my Rocket 88,
Ride with me all round town in joy.
She's got a V-8 motor, baby black in design,
black convertible top and the girls don't mind,
Ride around the corner gonna get a fifth-everybody in my car's gonna take a little nip...........
PATERSON -- Someone stole 1,000 gallons of water from Daisy Valdivia's backyard. And they didn't spill a drop.
Valdivia woke Wednesday morning to find that her family's inflatable pool, hip high and 10 feet in diameter and filled with water, was stolen from her backyard in the middle of the night. There is no evidence that the water was poured out, pumped out, evaporated or drunk.
"I've never heard of a pool being stolen, let alone one with water in it," Valdivia said.
According to Valdivia, the theft must have occurred between 1 a.m., the time her husband went to bed, and 5 a.m., the time she woke to put out the recycling. "For them to do something that fast, that's what amazes me," she said.
Valdivia, a lifelong city resident, moved into her home on McBride Avenue just five weeks ago. She and her husband purchased the bright blue pool for their three children less than a month ago. They never expected that it would be stolen in a neighborhood Valdivia described as "a nice, quiet area."
Although Valdivia said she is grateful nothing else was stolen, she was surprised that the thieves went through all that trouble for a pool. "We have two grills, chairs, umbrellas, they're much easier to take," she said.
According to Lt. Anthony Traina of the Paterson Police Department, it's clear that this was carefully planned. "Someone took a little time and effort thinking about this," he said. "This wasn't just walking by and snatching a bike. That tells us something, too."
In light of the theft, Valdivia said she is considering putting up a fence, She also has questions for the thieves who stole her pool. "I just want to know what the heck they did with the water," she said.
C'mon folks: 1,000 gallons of water at 8 1/3 pounds per gallon didn't walk away.
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So pay the tax already, stoners! Nobody's stopping you.
(Please note: the definition of "income" in the Internal Revenue Code and in state income tax statutes is not limited to legal income. They already owe the tax. They can't legitimately make paying tax contingent upon legalizing their illegal trade.)
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Oh yeah, feel free to sign up on the list of producers and distributors. Be sure to include your SS#.
These guys have been smoking so long they are retarded.
Art imitated art at Bayreuth Wednesday, with Germany's greatest opera genius interpreted by his great-grand-daughter in a bold new production of one of his key works.
The venue: The Bayreuth "Festspielhaus," the operatic shrine dedicated exclusively to works of Richard Wagner. The event: a new production of his "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg," by Katharina Wagner -- in a debut that could help decide whether the 29-year-old becomes the next family member to run the Bayreuth Festival.
Expectations were high -- and for the hundreds who booed the performance obviously not met. But at least as many among the audience loved the production, reflecting the annual Bayreuth split of traditional Wagnerites and those hungry for experimentation.
And experimentation ruled Wednesday. No quaint gabled houses or medieval town squares and no period costumes either. Instead, the audience was given a plot turned topsy turvy, a villain turned hero, a hero turned wimp -- and a few minutes of full frontal nudity.
The opera is an ode to art -- and the interpretation kept that focus intact. Beyond that, though, Richard and Katharina -- in her first production at Bayreuth -- parted ways 180 degrees.
In the original version, a young knight falls for the daughter of a rich Nuernberg burgher and decides to enter a singing contest to win her hand. He is rejected by the "master singers" because he breaks all of their formalistic rules but his natural talent and melodic ardor ultimately overwhelms the stuffy inner circle.
Boy gets girl. Art conflicts with art and emerges elevated. And the villain -- the lecherous city clerk who had also cast an eye on the heroine -- gets his comeuppance.
Not so Wednesday.
Walther von Stolzing, the young nobleman, turns from sloppily clothed, paint-slinging rebel to buttoned-down conformist, ultimately mirroring the master singers he initially scorned. So does Hans Sachs, the shoemaker and master singer -- and true-life German medieval poet -- who first supports Stolzing only to turn from mild iconoclasm to narrow-viewed supporter of the status quo.
And Sixtus Beckmesser, the city clerk? Originally the hair-splitting pedant who looks jealously at Stolzing as his rival for the charms of Eva -- and who does everything he can to trip him up -- he undergoes epiphany at the boisterous riot at the end of Act II.
Where Stolzing and Sachs grow increasingly straight, the originally slicked-back Beckmesser is now the nonconformist, in dress, mimicry and action. His final song -- an embarrassing effort to sing a song stolen from Stolzing in the original version -- turns into a Dadaist outcry against stultified status quo art in the Katharina Wagner production.
At nearly seven hours, including two 60-minute breaks, there were slow moments. But clever devices helped move the action. One of them was the decision to link visual art to music -- for almost every formal song there was a picture, subtly demonstrating the composer's later claim to creating "Gesamtkunst," or total art.
The principals were a mixed blessing.
Michael Volle was wonderful as Beckmesser, powerful and evocative vocally -- and even more so in his acting skills. His transformation from ranting pedant to cool rebel was impressive.
As Stolzing, Klaus Florian Vogt delivered a clear but burnished tenor, effortless intonation and steady pitch -- and nearly matched Volle in metamorphic skills as he mutated from iconoclast to conformist.
Franz Hawlata was booed as Sachs by audience members who apparently mistook his weakness for a bad night on stage. But in this production, Hawlata looked to be playing indecision and lack of direction -- as called for by Katharina Wagner. If he was acting, he succeeded admirably.
Norbert Ernst was solid as David, Sach's apprentice.
Vocally, Amanda Mace disappointed as Eva, with little of the carrying power needed for this part, although her pitch and intonation were flawless. She showed little of the steel the role originally called for. But perhaps simpering and a bit vacuous was the way Katharina Wagner wanted the woman who falls for the less-than-hero Stolzing.
Ditto for Carola Gruber as Magdalena, her maid.
The Festival Orchestra under Sebastian Weigle was a dream -- sonorous, rhapsodic, finely nuanced and at one with the singers on stage.
As for the fate of Katharina Wagner, some of the buzz was pro and some con as the audience left the Festspielhaus. Her father, Wolfgang, who now runs things, is 87, and pressure is growing on him to step down and make way for a younger member of the Wagner clan.
But at least some of those gathered outside for most of the evening were focused on less weighty things -- like catching a glimpse of the political movers and shakers and glitterati that make the festival an annual place to be seen.
"We just like to star gaze," said Hildegard Kunze, 72. Her husband, Adolf Mayer, 82, nodded, adding: "Wagner will remain Wagner, no matter who runs the show." "Now is the time on Sprockets vhen ve dance."
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To put Wagner in his proper, if bizarre perspective, it would be hard to beat director Ken Russell's Lisztomania (1975), which while it featured the equally bizarre life of Franz Liszt, played by Roger Daltrey, who hands down was the first rock star, it also features a justifiably surreal Richard Wagner.
And if you know the history of the two, from cigar smoking Russian countesses with mummified husbands in their closets, to Lola Montez' performing a strip tease on the table of a royal banquet and trashing a Parisian hotel room in a fit of lust, with visitations to the intensely insane Friedrich Nietzsche in the insane asylum, the movie may not be as wacky and surreal as it seems.
Though the infamous scene of the ribbon dance by nude women around the 15' tall penis of Liszt is obviously Wagnerian in character. Only in a Wagnerian opera will you see a 7' tall woman with 3' of hair, wearing little more than a fishnet body stocking, sing over a 3x normal size orchestra playing at full volume.
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Hell, a quick look through Groves encyclopedia's composer biographies will give an amazing number of examples of sexual scandals, wasted lifes, drunkeness, drug abuse, alternate lifestyles, and stormy scenes and illicit passions among composers through the ages.
About the only first-rate composer with a totally blameless and conventional personal and professional life was J.S. Bach. Most of the others were out there... and in some cases, wa-a-a-a-y out there. (And in the case of Tchaikovsky, way in there, closetwise.)
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The Secularists can neither quantify it, nor control it in any way, hence Oscar does NOT exist or else will have to be put down for the sake of all humanity and decent OWG-SWO felines.
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I visited one such place, which looked like it had been built by the same contractor who did 1960s brick Army barracks, except with narrower hallways and a security key pad by the exit door.
All along the corridors were old women in wheelchairs, parked side by side, either asleep or staring off into space at the opposite wall.
At that moment, I reached the firm conviction that if I am ever getting anywhere near that state of health, that I am going to take an extended holiday to the most isolated part of rural Mexico I can find.
Where I will first pay the local undertaker, then bribe the locals to think of a place, then tell anyone looking for me that I stopped by, but then went there.
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I read about another cat that did this same thing. They speculated that perhaps changes occur in the body shortly before death that a cat can detect. And, believe it or not, some cats are affectionate and like people. So it may be that he knows that they will be leaving and is saying goodbye. It would be interesting to also see if he is affectionate towards patients who will obviously be checking out (ie: alive).
Not to get too off topic for this site - but before my father died -there were several times that the room had this quiet, peaceful hush that came over it. It was a beautiful, strange feeling. I suppose, it could have been me, but I don't think so, because it was such a nice feeling that I kept trying to recapture it after it went away. I had no idea he was going to die several days later - shortly after I felt it again. I would describe it like the peaceful quiet that you get when it snows outside.
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I think this cat might be a soulcatcher, sent to "harvest" those who are passing on into the next plane. Ohhh Scary!
No mention of whether or not, this was terrorism.
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - An explosion and fire hit a major gas pipeline in northwest Russia early on Thursday but it was unclear if exports were affected, officials and witnesses said.
"It is an explosion on a trunk gas pipeline under high pressure," said Valentin Sedorin, a spokesman for the Leningrad region around Russia's second city of St Petersburg.
It was not immediately clear if the pipeline carried gas for export. The main route for Russian gas to Europe, the Yamal-Europe pipeline, is well to the south. But a pipeline shipping gas to Finland is near the area where the explosion happened.
There was no word on casualties but witnesses spoke of a massive explosion that shook buildings 5 km away. Officials did not say what caused the blast. A Reuters reporter on his way to the scene of the blast by road said he could see flames and the air was thick with smoke. He said the opposite carriageway was clogged with vehicles trying to flee.
A spokesperson for TGC-1, an electricity generating company with a power station on the outskirts of St Petersburg, said the explosion was at a gas pipeline next to the station.
Emergency services officials said windows at the power station had been blown out by the force of the blast.
"I live 5 km (from the power station). My house shook and the residents ran out onto the street," said Andrei Alyabev, a local spokesman for the Emergencies Ministry. "Initial information is that it was an explosion on a gas pipeline. The rumbling went on for about 40 minutes and has just finished," he said.
An eyewitness who gave her name as Lena said the blast happened at about 00.15 a.m. (2015 GMT) and was followed by a large fire. "I am about 2 km away and I can see flames," she said.
Delphi: use the 'hilite' button instead of hand-entering the hilite command: I had to fix this one. Thanks, AoS.
See last paragraph in story
Republicans are uttering a word that for 12 years has been utterly unspeakable.
Shutdown.
Its a word that can send shudders through those who saw the last one actually, two play out after Republicans took control of Congress in 1995. The Newt Gingrich-Bill Clinton standoff was so traumatic that since then, neither party has ventured anywhere in that direction.
This years appropriations tug-of-war between a new majority in Congress and a president of the opposing party does not appear to be headed for a government shutdown, but a rhetorical taboo was lifted when the word became part of the partisan message of the moment.
I hope we are Nazis. They have a better sense of style in both clothes and architecture. I just loved the way those Third Reich buildings looked like ruins from the day they were built. You can just imagine the Morlocks streaming out at night.
As for clothes, not to hurt anyone's feelings but I find that jihadi Lawrence of Arabia look kind of faggy.
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Liberals and their love affair with the muzzies, suprises me that they'd use that word. That's just the sort of word that they would pass a law to keep us from using.
Well if they are jihadis, maybe they should start beheading people, I can think of a few traitors to get them going.
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Somebody explain the downside to shutting this government down. Will it set the Michael Vick investigation back? Everything they draft involves, either calls for investigations of the executive branch or a demand for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Lindsey Lohan has a better record than this congress.
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Favorite is next to last pic. Talk about indecent.
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Who cares about Sherry Glaser? Did ya notice that Sen. DiFi stepped up and announced she's throwing in with Your Thighness ? Obama gets big crowds and donations, but big money & power are starting to align with Billary.
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Ewwww. Change the name to "Really Ugly Bitches Not Bombs". Did they hand out sharp objects so it'd be easier to poke your own eyes out?
Talk about a hate crime...yeesh!
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Even the bloody army found this one too objectionable!
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Ewwww. Change the name to "Really Ugly Bitches Not Bombs". Did they hand out sharp objects so it'd be easier to poke your own eyes out?
Talk about a hate crime...yeesh!
What is it with the ladies peeling off their tops at these things. What is the message that we are supposed to get? This might truly be a case of indecent exposure.
Washington, D.C. (AHN)-U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) announced Friday he will offer an amendment to an annual spending bill that would prohibit the federal government from using funds to enforce the prison sentences of two U.S. Border Patrol agents.
If approved, Tancredo, a Republican presidential hopeful, said the amendment would force the release of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, who were sentenced to 11- and 12-year prison terms respectively for shooting a fleeing alleged drug-smuggler.
"Americans have been waiting months for the president to right this wrong and I am not going to wait any longer," Tancredo said, according to The Washington Times. "It's time that the Congress took matters into its own hands."
He added, "This kangaroo court in Texas has made a decision, but Congress is under no obligation to provide the administration with the funds they need to enforce it."
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That "West Texas Jury" was also kept in the dark on certain points. Two of them said they would have decided differently had the information been told to them at the time.
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That prick, Bush has lost all my respect over this case. He is the most tone deaf idiot I know. A mere glance at the facts of this case sould be enough to choke a goat. Do what's right, you stupid turncoat.
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This has got to be the most stupidest way to right a wrong ever invented. but the bottom line is, those agents should have never been charged, much less convicted. a W's complete silence on this as well as any tangible domestic border issues is going to cost the 'Pubs. bet on it.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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