Just the facts, please. Circumstantial evidence seems to be where this scandelous journalism lives.
More blahs.
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"The mug shot was lite from beneath, not very flattering." He should have called Tom DeLay for pointers. I don't believe this mess.
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This article at Forbes only verifies what is already known about Mr. Karr. So, people should feel better at least one more monster is behind bars. Reputation and previous behavior which seems to pervade anything about this man matters in court.
Costa Rica Landlord: Karr Was a Pervert
http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/08/24/ap2971548.html
John Mark Karr bragged to his landlord's wife that sexually, he was "like a wolf," and said he "liked little boys and girls" when he worked in Costa Rica as an English teacher, his former housemates told The Associated Press. Karr, now jailed in the United States after his arrest in Thailand, faces a Colorado warrant for the 1996 murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. Karr traveled around the world in recent years, including brief stays in Honduras and Costa Rica, where he rented a room in 2004 from Canadian John Hall, who now teaches at a private university in the capital of San Jose. "I had to kick him out, because he was obviously a pervert, and I was worried about the safety of my wife and my stepdaughters," Hall told The Associated Press.
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This is interesting. Evidently, saving animals when Katrina became a habit.
Powerful oilman T. Boone Pickens joins effort to save horses from slaughter
http://www.ntxe-news.com/artman/publish/article_35799.shtml
GLENVILLE, PA – The mom and pop horse rescue groups received a big shot in the arm recently when Texas oilman and rancher T. Boone Pickens lent his muscle to the battle to convince Congress to enact the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act.
Pickens, who owns a ranch in West Texas, entered the national spotlight after Hurricane Katrina by airlifting 800 abandoned dogs and cats out of New Orleans with 70% ultimately being reunited with their owners.
Pickens, founder of BP Capital and Mesa Petroleum, was emotionally driven to act upon learning that more than 100,000 horses are slaughtered in the U.S. every year to be eaten as a “delicacy” by diners in France, Belgium, and Japan. The oilman was persuaded to enter the fray by his wife, Madeleine, who raises thoroughbred horses.
“I was thrilled and deeply touched that someone as powerful and influential as T. Boone Pickens feels so strongly about our cause,” says Jo Deibel, President of the Angel Acres Horse Haven Rescue, Inc. http://www.saveahorsenow.org/. “I, too, share Mr. Pickens’ feelings of horror about the horrible treatment given thoroughbreds auctioned off to kill buyers and processed as horseflesh to be eaten.”
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Jill Carroll is home. The past is her legacy. The knowledge she had about the subject she wrote more than likely helped save her life. Then again, it might have been luck or a whim of men who see killing as a pre-curser to the after life.
I think her experience is her experience. But. I doubt seriously it is a strategy for survival after capture. It would seem as though these aren't issues of hate so much as politics.
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Tribe can't serve defendants
By HINA ALAMThe Lufkin Daily News
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
It has been a little over a month since the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas made history by filing a case against disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates Michael Scanlon, Jon Van Horne, Neil Volz and Ralph Reed.
But defendants Van Horne and Reed are making it difficult to serve them with a copy of the lawsuit "by making themselves unavailable," according to one of the attorneys of the tribe, Fred Petti. "It's like they've gone underground."
So now, it is a waiting game, with patience as the main player.
The tribe is in the process of serving the defendants with copies of the lawsuits, Petti said.
Scanlon, Volz and Abramoff were already served, he said. "We still have to serve Jon Van Horne and Ralph Reed."
Once they are served, they have 20 days to either answer it or file a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. All in all, Petti said, it would take another 30 to 45 days to know what happens next.
"They all know they've been sued ... because of the media attention," Petti said. "But you have to physically give them a copy of it."
http://www.lufkindailynews.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/08/23/case_update.html
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No one has 'moved on' Anderson. Put your ego away ! The UN peacekeeper force is taking place, but, Hezbollah is an issue. The UN does not want a return to the killing of their personnel that occurred when Israel was shelling the sites Hezbollah used to send missiles to Northern Israel.
Israel gives up on disarming Hizbullah
Israel has essentially given up hope of Hizbullah being disarmed, and instead is now concentrating on ensuring that an arms embargo called for in UN Security Council resolution 1701 be implemented, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Furthermore, senior Israeli officials have made it clear in recent days during talks with foreign governments that Israel realizes a Hizbullah presence south of the Litani River is unavoidable, if for no other reason than because the organization is so well rooted there that the only way to get rid of Hizbullah would be to evacuate the entire region.
What Israel does expect, however, is that the Lebanese Army and the international force that will deploy there ensure that Hizbullah doesn't have offensive weaponry to attack Israel, and that if they do try to attack, there will be someone there to stop them.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525940768&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
ISRAEL needs to take them to the next level. They need to take a case to the World Court and have Ahmadinejad remanded for trial. He is willing to allow his own countrymen to die to achieve genocide of Israel's people. He's a Jihadist. He's not a president. He was elected because the USA invaded Iraq and killed so many peole. He has an agenda of a man determined to kill with the power of a nation with a hatred that is penetrating. Before tragedy strikes Israel and Iran the world needs to stop this madman.
'Ahmadinejad would sacrifice half of Iran to wipe out Israel'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525940677&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, if he ever became the supreme decision maker in his country, would "sacrifice half of Iran for the sake of eliminating Israel," Giora Eiland, Israel's former national security adviser, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
At present, Eiland stressed, the ultimate decision maker in Iran was Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 67, whom he said was "more reasonable." But, Eiland went on, "if Ahmadinejad were to succeed him - and he has a reasonable chance of doing so - then we'd be in a highly dangerous situation."
The 49-year-old Iranian president, he said, "has a religious conviction that Israel's demise is essential to the restoration of Muslim glory, that the Zionist thorn in the heart of the Islamic nations must be removed. And he will pay almost any price to right the perceived historic wrong. If he becomes the supreme leader and has a nuclear capability, that's a real threat."
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Former Bush Official Wants New Trial
The Associated PressThursday, August 24, 2006; 9:29 PM
WASHINGTON -- A former Bush administration official convicted of lying about his relationship with lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked a judge Thursday to overturn the verdict or grant him a new trial.
David Safavian, former chief of staff of the General Services Administration, was convicted in June of making false statements and obstruction. His attorneys argued Thursday that the charges didn't meet the legal standard for conviction.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/24/AR2006082400917.html
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Dover mayor drops out of race to replace Ney, backs Padgett
Associated Press
DOVER, Ohio - One of seven candidates who hoped to replace scandal-scarred U.S. Rep. Bob Ney on the November ballot dropped out Tuesday and threw his support behind Ney's hand-picked successor.
Dover Mayor Rick Homrighausen announced he would withdraw from the Sept. 14 Republican special primary election and support state Sen. Joy Padgett, who is backed by Ney and most of the 18th District's GOP leadership.
Homrighausen's endorsement gives Padgett, of Coshocton, a base of support in the Dover-New Philadelphia area, in Tuscarawas County. It's the most populous county in the district and the home of the Democratic nominee, Dover law director Zack Space.
Padgett said she and Homrighausen plan to campaign together. The mayor said he decided to stay in charge in Dover to oversee a new water treatment project and a fiber optic network for the city.
Ney quit the race last week, citing the strain of an intensifying corruption investigation that had focused for months on his dealings with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Ney denies wrongdoing and has not been charged.
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Calendar says State official met with reporter during CIA leak case
WASHINGTON -- Richard Armitage, then the deputy secretary of state, met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the period during which the reporter has testified an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.
Armitage's official State Department calendars, provided to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act, show a one-hour meeting marked "private appointment" with Woodward on June 13, 2003.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has investigated whether Bush administration officials intentionally revealed Plame's identity as a one-time CIA covert operative to punish her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for criticizing the administration's march to war with Iraq. Knowingly identifying an undercover CIA operative can be a crime.
When contacted at home Monday night, Woodward would not discuss his meeting with Armitage or the identity of his source in the CIA leak case. Instead, he referred to his statement last year that he had a "casual and offhand" discussion about Plame with an unidentified administration official in mid-June 2003.
A person familiar with the information prosecutors have gathered, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the material remains sealed, said Woodward met with his confidential source was June 13, 2003.
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/international/news/20060822p2g00m0in004000c.html
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Haven't heard much about Natalee lately.
The Worth of a Child: Missing Children
Does One Child Really Matter?
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/53120/the_worth_of_a_child_missing_children.html
Natalee Holloway was an 18 year old honor student with a scholarship to the University of Alabama waiting for her when she disappeared on May 30, 2005. She was enjoying the paradise that is Aruba with her senior class when she walked out of a bar one night and into international headlines....
... I saw her on television explaining that young girls go missing on Aruba and are sold as sex slaves. I was wondering where she got her composure and understanding her hope that Natalee was still alive somewhere – anywhere—and hoping she would just be found and could go home again.
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Study: Millions wasted in Katrina contracts
70% of contracts awarded without full bidding, Democratic report says
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14502390/
WASHINGTON - The government awarded 70 percent of its contracts for Hurricane Katrina work without full competition, wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in the process, says a House study released Thursday by Democrats.
The report, a comprehensive overview of government audits on Katrina contracting, found that out of $10.6 billion in contracts awarded after the storm last year, more than $7.4 billion were handed out with limited or no competitive bidding.
In addition, 19 contracts worth $8.75 billion were found to have wasted taxpayer money at least in part, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the report. It cited numerous instances of double-billing by contractors and cases of trailers meant as emergency housing sitting empty in Arkansas.
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Grapefruit-size hail reported as storms hit North Dakota
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/state/15350798.htm
BISMARCK, N.D. - A storm system brought funnel clouds, heavy rain and large hail to North Dakota on Thursday.
The National Weather Service posted various watches and warnings throughout the day, for severe storms, tornadoes and flash flooding.
In Mercer County, officials reported hail the size of grapefruit in Stanton and flooding of low-lying areas from Beulah to Hazen.
"I've never seen hail that big," Stanton City Auditor Rick Honeyman said. "It didn't really hail all that much, but what it did hail was big."
Mercer County Sheriff's Deputy Terry Ternes said the storm pounded holes in siding and dents in vehicles, but no injuries were reported. Reports of a tornado in the county were not confirmed, he said.
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Storms, possible tornadoes batter NW Indiana
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/indianastorm24.html
A one-two punch of powerful storms, accompanied by tornado reports, battered northeastern Porter County, much of LaPorte County and parts of Lake County in Northwest Indiana on Wednesday evening.
Emergency management crews worked late into the night clearing roadways, marking downed power lines and checking for injured residents.
The hardest hit areas in Porter County included Dune Acres, Beverly Shores and Pines. Washington Park in Michigan City was wracked by tornado-like winds that whipped boats around at the In-Water Boat Show set to begin today, and winds of 106 mph were reported by meteorologist Tom Skilling.
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A timeline of the rise and fall of Tom DeLay
McClatchy Newspapers
A timeline of the rise and fall of Tom DeLay:
November 1984 - Tom DeLay, a Sugar Land exterminator and member of the Texas Legislature, is elected to Congress from the 22nd District.
November 1994 - After Republicans sweep the congressional elections and take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years, DeLay is chosen to be majority whip, the chamber's third-ranking Republican.
September 2001 - DeLay spearheads the creation of the Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee, aimed at ending more than a century of Democratic rule in the state House, an impediment to a pro-Republican redistricting plan.
November 2002 - DeLay is elected U.S. House majority leader; Texas Republicans take control of the state House for the first time in more than 130 years.
October 2003 - Texas Gov. Rick Perry signs into law a redistricting plan that DeLay had pushed through the Legislature, producing six new Republican seats in Congress.
Sept. 28, 2005 - DeLay steps down as majority leader after a Texas grand jury indicts him on charges of campaign-finance violations tied to Texans for a Republican Majority. Delay denies wrongdoing.
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/nation/15327737.htm
Courts Erred, DeLay Says
(August 24, 2006)--Former US House Majority leader Tom DeLay said Thursday he never thought the courts would prevent the GOP from replacing him on the November ballot.
DeLay, in an interview with KTRK television in Houston, also said he's "very disappointed" with the justice system and adds there doesn't seem to be justice.
The ex-congressman says he won't become a lobbyist and will never again run for political office.
DeLay also told KTRK he's helping with a book about his career and how the last 22 years helped advance the conservative cause.
The embattled Republican from Sugar Land won the March primary, but quit Congress in June and moved to Virginia.
DeLay faced scrutiny over ethical troubles, including state money laundering charges.
The Texas GOP declared DeLay ineligible and prepared to choose a replacement to face Democrat Nick Lampson.
But Democrats sued to stop the effort and won.
So DeLay recently withdrew from the ballot.
The GOP is backing Houston City Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs as a write-in candidate.
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You know it was actually Jean Meserve that got the ball rolling on the tragedy of New Orleans when she went to the back streets of the Ninth Ward to find people on roofs crying out for help.
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The views of the extreme right is that of religous dogma and not constitutional law in the USA. It should not interfer with women's right to choose. Plan B is part of that strategy against unwanted pregnancy. Yes, unwanted pregnancy. If it were up to the extremists of the USA every act of intercourse would result in a pregnancy and birth or miscarriage. This is the year 2006? Could have fooled me.
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Suri Cruise spotted
Thursday, 24th August 2006, 12:29
LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Tom Cruise's "normal" daughter has been seen again, by an unwitting member of the public.The man, who has asked to be identified only as "Frank", went on a tour of stars' mansions in Beverly Hills and accidentally gained entry to Tom's Hollywood home.Frank told Los Angeles radio station KROQ that while he was outside Tom's house one of the actor's friends pressed the buzzer and the gate to the property just opened.Frank and his three friends drove through and were waved on by security.When they reached the top of the drive they saw Tom playing with two children on the lawn, while his fiancée Katie Holmes craddled baby Suri.Frank said: "Suri looked cute and perfectly normal."When Tom's security team realised the car was not meant to have been granted access they surrounded the vehicle and emanded to see some identification.Frank explained: "The drive was too narrow to turn so once we'd gone through the gate we had to drive up to turn back."My friend refused to show her driving licence and said we had the right to leave."They kept us for about half an hour and then ordered us off the property."So far, Suri has been kept hidden from the public eye.Only three people claim to have seen the tot, actress Jada Pinkett Smith, Tom's ex-lover Penelope Cruz and 'King of Queens' star Leah Remini.Both Jada and Leah are Scientologists like Tom.However, pictures of Suri are due to be published in the autumn issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
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Tom Cruise's Firing: Anti-Scientology Religious Bigotry
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-shaw/tom-cruises-firing-anti_b_27878.html
Tom Cruise, whose last few movies have not reached the prestigious creative and box-office level of some of his earlier work, has just been told by Viacom's Paramount Pictures that his contract would not be renewed.
Earlier this week, HuffPo blogger and L.A. Weekly showbiz correspondent Nikki Finke went over the numbers and made the case that the non-renewal does not make economic sense.
I think there is too much made of this. Cruise was due for another 14 year contract. 14 years of an aging superstar is a long time. Cruise is currently 44 years old. Paramount doesn't want to have to 'cater' to a star that may not be able to deliver on his 'athlete-performer' demands. It's all math. Tom will be a wonderful addition to the independant film producers. We all look forward to his next film, perhaps a chance to show his versatility rather than just more of the same.
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