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US Drones Kill 15 in Yemen's Abyan Province
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Ex-Detroit mayor released from prison
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was released from prison Tuesday and will go to Texas to rejoin his family, officials said. Kilpatrick, 41, was allowed to transfer supervision of his two-year parole to Texas, where his wife and sons live in Grand Prairie, a Dallas suburb, The Detroit News reported.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey - has anybody told Texas about this?
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division || 08/03/2011 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Good riddance, fucktard. Detroit deserves better.
Posted by: rammer || 08/03/2011 1:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Good riddance, fucktard. Detroit deserves better.

Not really. Detroit is a crap hole that has consistently voted for Liberals, and in doing so has received what they asked for.

And while Grand Prairie may not be a garden spot (and I will tell you, it isn't) We here in the DFW Metroplex can without this trash Detroit. We are all full up with enough trash as it is.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 08/03/2011 6:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Texas...isn't that where those Republican people live? How odd the mayor of Detroit would choose to live among them. Or perhaps his wife insisted on moving somewhere sane...
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/03/2011 6:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Republicans, yes. But also numbers of non-Republican Blacks and Hispanics, the former rapidly being outnumbered by the latter and both lagging significantly behind Whites in income etc. Ripe for community organizing, perhaps.
Posted by: lotp || 08/03/2011 11:00 Comments || Top||

#6  He probably won't be out for long. Detroit Free Press...

Kilpatrick is out of prison now, but some legal experts say it's only a matter of time before he'll be behind bars again. They contend the former Detroit mayor will have a tough time beating his pending federal public corruption case, which goes to trial in September 2012.

Some say cutting a deal is his only option and could lead to a sentence of 10-12 years in prison. He faces 15-20 if he goes to trial and loses.

"I do expect that Kilpatrick will take a plea," said public corruption expert and San Francisco law professor Wes Porter. "The charges are so wide-ranging that they suggest to a jury truly pervasive conduct -- bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice. ..."Kilpatrick represents the type of defendant that has dug such a hole for himself and his credibility, that (it) is very difficult to imagine that he could ever take the stand in his own defense or garner sympathy as a victim of potential government overreaching."
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/03/2011 12:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Kwame got burnt out on Detroit? Wanted to move on to somewhere that wasn't a Democrat-created Zimbabwe?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/03/2011 13:12 Comments || Top||

#8  I guess it is time to run for Senator of Michigan for Kwame.
Posted by: airandee || 08/03/2011 20:08 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Mubarak was offered asylum in Israel
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 08/03/2011 10:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He should have accepted, but preferred the role of 'patriot.'
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 08/03/2011 11:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Methinks he's going to come to regret not taking them up on that offer.
Posted by: Jaimble Chereper6975 || 08/03/2011 11:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Better medical facilities, too.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/03/2011 14:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Iff the SADDAM REGIME, + now possibly Uncle Muammar in Libyuh, etal. is any measure, the Egyptian Courts will find him de facto guilty of high crimes, give him the death penalty or LT imprisonment, but then later allow him to go into self-imposed exile in the US-West includ Russia.

NOT SURE ABOUT HIS KIDDIES = SONNY BOYZ, THOUGH, WHICH MAY INSPIRE HIM AS WID ANY CARING PARENT TO UNDERGO THE ABOVE PROCESS JUST TO SAVE THEIR ****.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/03/2011 19:43 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2011-08-03
  US Drones Kill 15 in Yemen's Abyan Province
Tue 2011-08-02
  Israeli, Lebanese Troops Exchange Fire in Wazzani Area
Mon 2011-08-01
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  Arkansas soldier shooter pleads guilty, gets life
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  Taliban hang 8-year-old boy in Afghanistan
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  8 Dead in Syria as More Than 1.2 Million March in Hama, Deir Ezzor
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  AQAP Announces Allegiance to New Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri
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