SAVANNAH, Ga. - A Savannah man was arrested after he told a 13-year-old girl to hand a note to a bank teller threatening a holdup, police said.
Michael Lyons, 45, told police that he and a group of girls celebrating his daughter's birthday were trying to play a practical joke. The note said "Give me all of your money, this is a stick up," according to a police report. Too late to stop him from breeding, I guess.
While Lyons was getting money out of an ATM on Friday, the girl went into the bank and handed the note to a teller.
The teller sounded the bank's alarm and police and FBI surrounded the building searching for suspected burglars. "We are not amused"
Instead, they found Lyons and the group of girls.
Lyons was charged with criminal attempt of robbery by intimidation, said Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police spokesman Bucky Burnsed.
"You can't yell fire in a crowded theater, can't joke about a bomb in your luggage at the airport, and you can't write notes to cashier that say 'This is a stick up,'" Burnsed said.
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You don't tug on Superman's cape.
You don't spit in the wind.
You don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger
and you don't mess around with fake bank robberies.
A secondary school is to allow pupils to swear at teachers - as long as they don't do so more than five times in a lesson. A running tally of how many times the f-word has been used will be kept on the board. If a class goes over the limit, they will be 'spoken' to at the end of the lesson.
The astonishing policy, which the school says will improve the behaviour of pupils, was condemned by parents' groups and MPs yesterday. They warned it would backfire.
Parents were advised of the plan, which comes into effect when term starts next week, in a letter from the Weavers School in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
Assistant headmaster Richard White said the policy was aimed at 15 and 16-year-olds in two classes which are considered troublesome.
"Within each lesson the teacher will initially tolerate (although not condone) the use of the f-word (or derivatives) five times and these will be tallied on the board so all students can see the running score," he wrote in the letter
"Over this number the class will be spoken to by the teacher at the end of the lesson."
Parents called the rule 'wholly irresponsible and ludicrous'.
"This appears to be a misguided attempt to speak to kids on their own level," said the father of one pupil.
Tory MP Ann Widdecombe said the policy was based on 'Alice in Wonderland reasoning'.
"What next?" she asked. "Do we allow people to speed five times or burgle five times? You don't improve something by allowing it, you improve something by discouraging it."
The 1,130-pupil school, which was criticised as 'not effective' by Ofsted inspectors last November, also plans to send 'praise postcards' to the parents of children who do not swear and who turn up on time for lessons.
Headmaster Alan Large said he had received no complaints about the policy. "The reality is that the fword is part of these young adults' everyday language," he said.
"As a temporary policy we are giving them a bit of leeway, but want them to think about the way they talk and how they might do better."
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Our kids spend their days in the hands of morons.
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Glad you're still up. I feared none of our Brits would see it.
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housecleaning of teachers and administration and school board, is apparently long overdue. Crack some heads and separate out the ones who want to learn
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CRAWFORD, Texas â A driver for the Rev. Al Sharpton led Ellis County Sheriff's deputies on a nine-mile chase at speeds up to 110 mph before state troopers stopped the car, authorities said. The driver was rushing Sharpton to the airport after his visit anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Sunday at her camp outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford.
Couldn't get away from her fast enough, huh?
The car carrying Sharpton and two other passengers was clocked doing 110 mph in a 65 mph zone on Interstate 35 in Ellis County in North Texas, said Lt. Danny Williams. The car ignored deputies' attempts to stop it and continued speeding and weaving in and out of traffic before it was stopped, Williams said.
Brief, glorious vision of the Rev face down on a Texas highway
Calls Monday to Sharpton's spokeswoman were not immediately returned. A spokesman for his attorney, Michael Hardy, referred inquiries to the spokeswoman. Deputies arrested Jarrett Barton Maupin, 43, of Phoenix. Maupin told the officers he was hurrying to get Sharpton to the airport. Deputies impounded the rented 2005 Lincoln. Williams said his officers offered Sharpton and the other, unidentified passengers a ride to a hotel across the highway, but they declined and walked there instead. Maupin posted a total of $1,000 in bonds on charges of evading arrest with a vehicle and reckless driving.
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Well, I wound it up to 110;
Twisted the speedometer cable right off the end.
Had my foot glued right to the floor;
I said, "That's all there is - there ain't no more.
Now the fellas thought I'd lost all sense;
The telephone poles looked like a picket fence.
They said, "Slow down, I see spots."
The lines on the road just looked like dots.
Went around a corner and passed a truck;
I crossed my fingers just for luck -
The fenders clickin' the guard rail post;
The guy beside me was white as a ghost.
Smoke was rollin' outta the back
When I started to gain on that Cadillac
I knew I could catch him and hoped I could pass
But when I did I'd be short on gas.
There were flames comin' from out of the side;
You could feel the tension; man, what a ride.
I said, "Look out, boys, I've got a license to fly"
And the Cadillac pulled over and let me by.
All of a sudden a rod started knockin';
Down in the depths she started a rockin'.
I looked in the mirror and a red light was blinkin';
The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln.
Well they arrested me and put me in jail.
I called my pop to make my bail.
He said, 'Son, you're gonna drive me t' drinkin',
If you don't quit drivin' that - Hot ... Rod ... Lincoln!'
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What can I say. Bitch be creepin me out...
Do you know who I am, officer?
Jarrett Maupin is running for the Phoenix City Council. Motto: "Putting the people back in politics." He links to Air America, the AZ Dem party, the Mexican American Political Association, and Chicanos por la Causa.
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Only 17? Well you gotta show THE MAN that you mean business early if you want to set yourself up for a life of no heavy lifting. I'll bet that's the first lesson in the Al Sharpton Training Manual.
The driver was rushing Sharpton to the airport after his visit anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Sunday at her camp outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford.
He must have heard about the next biggest concentration of TV cameras somewhere else.
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you would hope think the g force from the bling medallions would do neck damage going that fast
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If these guys were so pressed for time, one would think that they would have hired a helicopter to take the Rev. Al (*ahem*) Sharpton to the airport. Of course, that would have blown the shakedown budget.
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The righteous rev. doth have his car driven by the hired help way too fast. Driver's got a hearing and vision problem too it seems. Says alot about Sharp Al though we already knew the basics of the ugliness.
A Swedish nuclear power plant shut down one of its three reactors Monday because of an abnormal accumulation of jellyfish in the cooling system.
The Oskarshamn plant in southeastern Sweden uses water from the Baltic Sea in its cooling tanks. The water has been unusually rich in jellyfish in recent weeks, but the problem grew worse Monday morning, forcing officials to shut down the reactor. "When there are too many jellyfish in the cooling water, the flow is hindered and we have to clean it to keep the reactor going at full effect," plant spokesman Erik Mattsen said.
Operator OKG said there was no danger to the public. The reactor was to be restarted Tuesday. The Oscarshamn plant supplies about 10 percent of the electricity used in Sweden. The reactor that was shut down was commissioned in 1972 and was Sweden's first commercial nuclear power unit. I'm still waiting for the 50' attack jellyfish movie.
Link is to NOLA.com for on-site reports. Will try to keep up to date info here. Hurricane damage: Collapsed buildings, massive flooding
During a morning teleconference, emergency preparedness officials from across southeast Louisiana reported flooding, building collapses, power outages and fires.
Here's a run-down of what they reported:
- In New Orleans, water topped a levee along the Industrial Canal. The city's 911 emergency system was out of service and Charity Hospital was on emergency power and windows had been blown out on five floors. The Police Department was operating on a backup power system. Three to four feet of water was reported on St. Claude Avenue at Jackson Barracks. And a 20-foot tidal surge knocked out four pumping stations; only one was able to get back into service. Also in New Orleans, a bridge connecting a parking garage to Memorial Hospital collapsed.
- In Jefferson Parish, there was a report of a building collapse in the 200 block of Wright Avenue in Terrytown. Parish officials could not provide details other than to say they had been notified that people were inside the building.
- In St. Charles Parish, significant flooding was reported on the east bank.
- In Arabi, up to 8 feet of water was reported, and people are climbing into their attics to escape the flooding. "We're telling people to get into the attic and take something with them to cut through the roof if necessary,'' said Col. Richard Baumy of the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office. "It's the same scenario as Betsy.'' Baumy said 100-plus mph winds were preventing rescue efforts. At Bayou Bienvenue, water levels were reported at 9 1/2 feet, almost twice normal levels.
- In St. John, massive power outages are reported.
- In Gramercy, there was extensive damage to the town's 1 1/2-year-old fire station.
- Terrebonne Parish reported a fatality from a heart attack.
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WDSU 6's Katrina blog reports a tear in the Superdome Roof. Weirdly, the current weather bug in the upper right shows 80 degrees (F) and light rain at New Orleans airport.
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WWL reporting: .. A LEVEE BREACH OCCURRED ALONG THE INDUSTRIAL CANAL AT TENNESSE STREET. 3 TO 8 FEET OF WATER IS EXPECTED DUE TO THE BREACH...LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ARABI AND 9TH WARD OF NEW ORLEANS.
St. Bernard Parish spokesman Larry Ingargiola says the parish's two shelters at Chalmette High and St. Bernard High are suffering major damage. He said Chalmette High shelter is losing its roof, and St. Bernard High has plenty of broken windows and glass. He estimates 300-plus refugees at the two sites.
Entergy says 317,000 customers were without power as of 6 a.m. Cleco reported 40,000 without power in St. Tammany Parish.
Air conditioning out at Louisiana Superdome due to power outages.
St. Bernard Parish officials say most of the parish has no power.
CNN is reporting sections of Superdome roof blown off and leaking. Fox reporter inside sez slits opened between panels, fairly small.
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From WeatherBlog: Pumps in New Orleans Not Functioning Or so says WDSU/WAPT. Not good. This likely means flooding will occur across quite a bit of the city as there are no way to pump the water out. No word on when the pumps could be returned to service.
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Seafarious, the 3 dead were elderly persons being evacuated from their nursing home. heat + stress + fragile condition + probably few attendents = casualties
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Here are some additional links for more information:
Michelle Malkin: She also has a long list of links. Scroll down. Brandon Loy: He has an excellent list of comments on current conditions. Brandon also has links to a couple of local N.O. bloggers.
I checked out the New Orleans website, NOLA. There's a lot of good information there, but it's pretty much what's being repeated elsewhere.
I'm thankful that my extended family mostly live north of the Red River, in what's considered "high country" in Louisiana. "High country" is considered anything over 50 feet above sea level.
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2nd hand info that Tulane freshmen (classes should have begun today) were bussed enmasse to a gym in Jackson Ms. Jeez.... welcome to New Orleans.
9:34 - Reports of widespread flooding now, although not at the doomsday scenario levels. But we've got several hours to go before we've seen the worst past. Scanner traffic is busy with calls of rising water, including 18 inches and rising against the levee in the French Quarter. Dispatchers questioning officers on the scene, trying to determine if there is a break in the river levee, or if water is pouring over the top. Independently, NOLA has received a flooding alert for the French Market area.
Fairly heavy street flooding in front and behind the Times-Picayune . . . water appears about knee deep, whipped by the steady wind into whitecaps and breakers. Water is hubcap deep on the furthest vehicles in the employee parking lot, and rising quickly.
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playing "When the Levee Breaks" by Zeppelin all day as bumper music on KFI
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Well, it looks like the MSM's hurricane of a lifetime was more like the MSM's hurricane hype of a lifetime. I woke up hoping that New Orleans was "only" under 10 feet of water instead of 30 feet. Most of New Orleans is under more like 10-30 milimeters of water. I bet most people don't even leave next time.
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They were among a group bussed to a church, so they couldn't have been too sick. My guess is that there were far too few attendants. One of the three was found dead on the bus.
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it looks like the MSM's hurricane of a lifetime was more like the MSM's hurricane hype of a lifetime.
Looks to me like New Orleans was incredibly lucky that the storm veered east a little and slowed a little.
Biloxi and Mobile will be hard-hit. The flooding and damage in New Orleans hasn't even fully hit yet - wait until the waters flow down from the surrounding countryside before you get too cocky.
Current estimates are damage as high as $25-27 BILLION dollars. We haven't begun to hear about the state of the ports -- and if they are closed, or the channel for the Mississippi has shifted right before we are due to harvest and ship grain from the whole mid-west, we are talking about many billions more in losses.
And that doesn't address the oil platforms, the depots or the refinery -- all of whose condition is at this time unknown.
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I'm reminded of the morning after Hurricane Andrew went thru Florida. The news crews were all chirpy that downtown Miami was more-or-less ok...and then someone realized that they had heard NOTHING from Homestead. Which essentially didn't exist anymore.
Ed Rappaport, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center, predicted that the worst hit areas in Mississippi would be about a 15-mile stretch of coast including Waveland, Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian. The last time that area was hit by such a severe storm was in 1969 when the Category Five Hurricane Camille devastated the region. Broken utility poles, many with dangling power lines, spread through powerless neighborhoods. Along highways, billboards were shredded and debris piled up on some roadways.
Winds, which officials estimated had climbed to 135 to 145 mph range midmorning today, caused structural damage and even forced water under the door at the Harrison County emergency operations center. Officials said they had to estimate wind speed because their measuring instruments had been blown away.
There were increasing reports of damage. Trees were toppled across streets and onto houses from Pascagoula across Biloxi and Gulfport and westward to the Louisiana line. Power outages and damage spread northward with the storm's advance.
"We've got major street blockage. There's buildings down. We've got boats in buildings and all the traffic signals are gone," said Gulfport Fire Chief Pat Sullivan. "We've got buildings wide open all throughout the city."
The Gulfport Memorial Hospital in Biloxi experienced major damage and broken windows early today, said Lea Stokes, spokeswoman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
MEMA received reports that the Beau Rivage Hotel and Casino, one of the premiere gambling houses in Biloxi, had water on the first floor, Stokes said. Along with winds and storm surge, most of the state was threatened with flooding rains and violent storms.
The rising water and wind pushed sailboats from the Mississippi Sound onto U.S. 90 in Harrison County. Portions of the highway were flooded and water continued to rise. Street lights on the route twisted in the wind while highway signs fluttered wildly.
"This is a devastating hit â we've got boats that have gone into buildings," Sullivan said as he maneuvered around downed trees in the city. "What you're looking at is Camille II."
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Looks like half the outer roof got peeled off of the Superdome.
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The one vignette I'll always remember from Katrina...
Shep Smith is in the bars on Bourbon St. interviewing the stay behinds. "So why are you staying?"
"Mind your own fuckin business!"
"Interesting answer..."
My wife and I were still laughing about it this morning.
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A rancher close to San Antonio killed one of them a couple of months ago, and the pic was in the paper. (sorry, on way to work, no time to search for link.) Basically, it turned out to be a very emaciated coyote with a really bad case of mange. Looked like an unearthly beast, with sharp teeth, blueish skin and no hair.
This looks like another one.
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Of course, noone was saying that was even what a chupacabra was supposed to look like until the first time someone caught or killed one of the coydogs (or whatever) with mange.
Every time they've found one of these hairless canid things over the past couple years it's turned out to be, well, a hairless canid with mange. Texas has a lot of suburban development poking into formerly rural land, and a lot of interspersed rural and developed land. Coyotes and Coyote/dog hybrids tend to be the apex predator (besides man) in this habitat, and the population density is high enough that mange becomes common.
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Why all this becomes interpreted as being "the infamous chupacabra," I don't know.
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Was this thing pulled off Cindy Sheehan's neck? Did it have "move on" and "DNC" tatooed on it's butt? The blood sucking Chupacabra is known to be descended from modern left wing political operatives.
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I call BS on this.
From a top-secret source housed beneath the Denver airport, I present this Rantburg World Exclusive, the REAL chupacabra, along with positive proof of the US military connection alleged by many conspiracy theorists:
The Rev. Jesse Jackson offered support for President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela Sunday, saying that a call for his assassination by a U.S. religious broadcaster was a criminal act and that the United States and Venezuela should work out their differences through diplomacy. The American civil rights leader condemned last week's suggestion by Pat Robertson that U.S. operatives should kill the leftist Venezuelan leader, calling the statements "immoral" and "illegal."
Immoral? Sure. Illegal? Cite the law.
Robertson's comments last week have increased already tense relations between Caracas and Washington. Robertson called for Chavez's assassination on his television show "The 700 Club," saying the United States should "take him out" because the Venezuelan leader posed a danger to the region.
Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a supporter of Bush's reelection bid, later apologized. Jackson said the Federal Communications Commission "must prohibit such threats on the airwaves."
"Only liberals and radicals are allowed to make death threats!"
Chavez later met with Jackson during the president's weekly television and radio program and offered heating oil to poor communities in the United States, to bypass middlemen who he said inflated prices.
Chavez said 140 communities or groups in the United States have requested energy aid from Venezuela since he suggested such an initiative last week, Bloomberg News reported. Venezuela's energy and mines minister, Rafael Ramirez, said distribution may be coordinated by Citgo Petroleum Corp., the U.S. unit of Petroleos de Venezuela SA.
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So which of Jessie's illegitimate children need Citgo francises?
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IOW, the Lefties want RACE WAR in America, against alleged FASCIST America led by Clintonian Communists-for-Fascism-for-Communism, espec since ala CINDY and MOTHER-GATE we pretty much already have GENDER/SEX WAR, with or without the show DESPERATE HOUSEWIFES, etc. Call in Putin and the Commie Airborne - SAVE US, HILLARY AND STALIN!? Good Clintonians of the USR/USSA demand to be nuked by Osama!?
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I really wish the MSM would quit calling him "Reverend." Je$$e completely makes light of that title. When you make deals with the devil, you're no longer a "Reverend" in my book. I'm hoping that maybe Chavez will show up in Crawford w/ Je$$e...that's the only thing I can see that would make that circus even funnier sadder. Of course, as we've noted the last few weeks, every time I think that circus can't sink any further, they do.
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Jesse's been losing power as of late hence the roadtrips and need to insert himself into things to stay relevant and maintain the cash flow.
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BBC: Venezuela's president says his government will take legal action against a US TV evangelist who called for US agents to kill him.
Hugo Chavez said Venezuela might even seek to extradite Pat Robertson. He also warned he would complain to the UN if the US failed to take action.
"I announce that my government is going to take legal action in the United States... to call for the assassination of a head of state is an act of terrorism," Mr Chavez said in a televised speech. "If the US government does not take action that it must take, we will go to the United Nations and the Organization of American States to denounce the US government," Mr Chavez said.
Mr Chavez, who has frequently charged that the US are plotting to kill him, said Mr Robertson was "crazy" and "a public menace".
Well, yes, which is why most people don't take him seriously.
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Steve -- Isn't Chavez and Fidel coming to the UN in September? Believe they are scheduled to speak. Should be interesting...
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I don't think assassination of a terrorist is either illegal of immoral. The only law I can cite is from Leviticus 27:29ââNo person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; he must be put to death."
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The more this "controversy" continues, the more I think that idiot Pat Robertson may have been right after all. Just judging him by his own words, our boy Hugo stands a good chance of becoming at least the Mussolini of the early 21st Century. He wants to ârebuildâ Gran Columbia (basically Panama, Venezuela, Columbia, and Equador) into a great power. Heâs buying lots of guns, modern aircraft, and attack helicopters from our good buddies the Russians. Heâs running supplies to those unreconstituted homicidal bastards in FARK. Heâs basically destabilized Equadorâs oil producing region. Heâs even got his beady eyes on the Panama Canal, an acquisition that could really screw with the world economy.
Finally, heâs beginning to attract the usual suspects (like âReverendâ Jackson) to his side.... and CBSâs news service referred to him as a âfiery leftist critic of the Bush administrationâ last night. Sure, and Hitler was a vegetarian who loved animals and hated unemployment. Factually true, but it doesnât tell the whole story
Japan's largest organised crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, is reported to have appointed a new head. O-Ren Ishii Sixty-three-year-old Kenichi Shinoda was named as the new leader during a ceremony in the western town of Kobe, the Kyodo news agency said. The change is believed to be the first shift in the group for 16 years. Police could not confirm the report.
The Yamaguchi-gumi is thought to have some 40,000 members, almost half of Japan's total number of gangsters. Gang members reportedly exchanged cups of sake during the handover to symbolise the creation of family bonds.
Kyodo reports that Mr Shinoda, who spent 13 years in jail for murdering a rival gang boss with a sword, will lead one of the most prominent crime syndicates in the country. Although police have tried to crack down on the underworld gangs, Japan's yakuza - or mafia - remain among the world's richest, correspondents say.
An Australian model facing drugs charges in Bali has declared herself a Muslim and adopted an Islamic headdress to shield her face from media attention. Here's a pic of the lovely Michelle without her burka.
Wowzers.
Adelaide-born Michelle Leslie, 24, appeared covered from head to toe as she was led from her cell at Bali police headquarters, where she is facing up to 15 years in jail if convicted on charges of possessing two tablets of ecstasy.
Wearing black pants, shirt and a Muslim headdress with netting to allow her to see, Leslie walked to a holding room to meet with her friend Norah Cullen and her new legal team. Leslie, who is of Australian and Filipina heritage, models underwear, swimwear and other clothes, and last year appeared in little more than body paint at a modelling assignments.
Australian solicitor Ross Hill, who is working with Leslie's team of five Indonesian lawyers, said the Sydney-based model was a Muslim and her cover-all headdress was a response to the heavy media presence in Bali. She has previously appeared with a sarong covering her head. "That (the outfit) is just something that we all thought about just to keep her covered, you know, we're just trying to keep things down," Hill said in a brief statement to journalists.
But later, after consulting with Leslie, family spokesman Sean Mulcahy said the model had decided to cover up for religious purposes. "Michelle as a Muslim made the decision to wear the hijab (head covering) to find solace with God, not for any other purpose," Mulcahy said.
"Please don't let them kill her!"
He would not comment on how long Leslie had been a Muslim or whether her career in modelling conflicted with her beliefs. "That's a matter entirely for Michelle after she finishes with this situation," he said.
Mulcahy said Leslie was in good spirits and not upset her parents did not plan to visit her. "Michelle has a person closest to her at this point in time in Norah Cullen," Mulcahy said.
Cullen, who was granted special access by police to meet Leslie in her cell and later to spend the whole day with her in a police holding room, has identified herself as the model's business manager and best friend.
Earlier, three other people identified by Mulcahy as friends arrived with sarongs over their heads and briefly met with Leslie. Mulcahy said Leslie's relatives did not want to come to Bali and face the media scrutiny that accompanied the trial of Gold Coast woman Schapelle Corby.
Leslie was not interrogated and police are still awaiting the formal result of tests on urine, blood and the pills allegedly seized from her handbag at a dance party near Kuta. She has denied drug use.
Leslie, in demand for her exotic Eurasian features, had just completed an assignment in Singapore before she flew to Bali for a holiday. She models internationally under the name of Michelle Lee, and recently became the new face of Antz Pantz underwear.
HEIDELBERG/PRISTINA - Kosovo's President Ibrahim Rugova was being treated in a U.S. military hospital in Ladstuhl, western Germany, the U.S. military confirmed Monday. A U.S. military spokeswoman in Heidelberg refused to disclose any details, saying that Kosovo authorities had asked to inform the public of Rugova's condition. Rugova was flown in from Kosovo on Saturday, reportedly with a respiratory infection together with a bout of flu, which had confined him to his home over most of the past week. Rugova, 60, a moderate Kosovo Albanian leader, has held office since 2001. His Democratic League of Kosovo has been the strongest party in parliament since October 2004.
Is it that time already again? Seems like it was just last week...
LUDZIDZINI ROYAL VILLAGE, Swaziland (Reuters) - More than 50,000 bare-breasted virgins vied to become the King of Swaziland's 13th wife on Monday in a ceremony which critics say ill befits a country with the world's highest HIV/AIDS rate. Yo, like don't be laying your cultural morays on me, whitey...
King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, arrived dressed in a leopard-skin loincloth to watch the Reed Dance ceremony, which he has used since 1999 to pluck new brides from the girls dressed in little more than beaded mini-skirts. Looks like the King might want a quick test ride...
Wielding machetes and singing tributes to the king and queen mother, also known as the Great She-Elephant, the girls danced around the royal stadium in the hope of catching the eye of the 37-year-old monarch. I think I've known the Queen. Or someone very much like her...
"I want to live a nice life, have money, be rich, have a BMW and cellphone," said one dancer, 16-year-old Zodwa Mamba, who wore a traditional brightly colored tasseled scarf. Yeah, baby. I can do that. C'mon over and sit on yo highnesses' lap...
Critics say Mswati, who has courted controversy for his lavish lifestyle while two thirds of his subjects live in abject poverty, sets a bad example by encouraging polygamy and teenage sex in a country where 40 percent of adults live with HIV. Yo, like don't be laying your cultural morays on me, whitey. Didn't you hear me the first time?
Some say the Reed Dance, traditionally meant to celebrate womanhood and virginity, has become little more than a showcase for the king's young would-be brides. "The Reed Dance has been abused for one man's personal satisfaction," Mario Masuku, leader of the banned opposition party, told Reuters. "The king has a passion for young women and opulence." ...and it's Good to be the King!
But many Swazis say the young monarch has a right to do as he pleases, defending his penchant for young brides as Swazi tradition and arguing that ceremonies like the Reed Dance, which this year drew a record 50,000 maidens, cement national identity. "The king takes a wife whenever he wants and that's the way it is. This is our culture and we will never change," said Tsandzile Ndluva, 21, another dancer. So shut da fuck up! TICKET TO WEALTH
Many maidens, who come from villages across the country, dream of joining the king's wives who each have their own palace and BMW car. But others were scared catching the royal eye could curtail their freedom and force them into a polygamous marriage. Hey, you get a Beamer out of the deal.
"Marriage is about love, not money," said trainee police officer Patience Dlamini, who jazzed up her traditional outfit with a fake diamond necklace. "This thing of many wives is not good, how does he satisfy them all?" I try, baby. I try and try and try...
The king has also drawn censure from rights groups and the international community for entrenching a ban on political parties in the nation of 1 million people squashed between South Africa and Mozambique. But despite criticism of Mswati abroad, Masuku's outlawed People's United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) has failed to muster much support at home, partly because many ordinary people back the king and ceremonies like the Reed Dance as symbols of national identity. ...and you got a Beamer for me Masuku? Yeah. Didn't think so...
Monday's ceremony was the culmination of a week of preparations, which included the lifting of a royal ban on sex with virgins, decreed in 2001 to help rein in HIV. Partay harday, baybay!
Days after reviving the ancient ban, Mswati in 2001, married a virgin and fined himself one cow. Last week he lifted the five-year ban a year early, ordering thousands of maidens to throw off chastity scarves worn to ward of preying men. Yeah, man. Here's a cow. Shut the fuck up...
"What the king did by taking another wife was not good, because he was meant to keep virginity," said 20-year-old Zanele Dlamini, a health worker who chose not to join in the dance. "He is not a good leader because multiple wives can spread HIV." Palace officials said that if the king did select a new wife at Monday's dance, the announcement would not be made immediately. The world waits...
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You guys don't get it. It's extraordinary for an African leader, politician, or monarch to punish himself in any way for breaking the law. âOne rule for me, another for theeâ is the name of the game in Sub-Saharan politics. King Mswati is, comparatively speaking, a pretty good guy. Not to mention a strong believer in family values
EFL: Maybe fictional president can meet with fictional president if Iraq and surrender?
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- Cindy Sheehan still hasn't achieved a meeting with the president during her three-week-long war protest near his ranch, but she met a man who plays one on TV.
Martin Sheen, who plays Democratic President Josiah "Jeb" Bartlet on NBC's "The West Wing," went to Sheehan's makeshift campsite Sunday. He is known for his peace activism. "At least you've got the acting president of the United States," Sheen said as the crowd of more than 300 people cheered. "I think you know what I do for a living, but this is what I do to stay alive." Forget your pills there, Marty?
Then Sheen led anti-war demonstrators who are Roman Catholic in reciting the rosary. Awwwwwwwwwwwww...
Earlier Sunday, the Rev. Al Sharpton spoke at an interfaith service at the camp, saying he was compelled to meet Sheehan.
"I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation," Sharpton said. "Somebody had to bring to the doorsteps of this president the truth." Sharpton, a former Democratic presidential candidate, said he and the peace activists would protest a war they believed was wrong regardless of the president's political party. Suuuuuuuure they would, Al...
During the service, several cars with pro-Bush signs drove slowly down the road by the protest campsite. Later, one man who had been walking down the street was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly shoving an anti-war demonstrator, McLennan County sheriff's deputies said. Sharpton reminded protesters that Sunday was the 42nd anniversary of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. C'mon, Al. That's Jesse's schtick. Don't be horning in on a brothers action...
#3
Is dat where dat ugly bitch white woman at? I'd go cuz dey not be much happenin on my farm but I want to be here in case Bob send over a whitey to do my plantin.
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#4
Careful what you wish for, Emily.
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08/29/2005 14:45 Comments ||
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#5
Notice we didn't hear anything about the white supremacists on the news. Does anyone know if they even showed up?
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I think you know what I do for a living
yeah... a professional liar. Isn't that what acting is?
#7
Seeing as how Alan Alda is now a regular on The West Wing, there is no doubt that the syrupy liberalism dripping from the show will cause it's demise within the year. Good riddance.
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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.
CRAWFORD, Texas â A driver for the Rev. Al Sharpton led Ellis County Sheriff's deputies on a nine-mile chase at speeds up to 110 mph before state troopers stopped the car, authorities said. The driver was rushing Sharpton to the airport after his visit anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Sunday at her camp outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford. 
