awww that's such a shame.The Air Force Academy's live mascot, "The Bird," took advantage of his usual pregame flight around the stadium to flee the premises ahead of the Falcons' 14-7 Independence Bowl win over Georgia Tech, leaving Independence Stadium behind ... read more
someone sent us this link earlier. we checked it out and it appears legitimate. in other words its not a malicious site. whois: likebutton.me
also a cursory google search of likebutton.me shows that its been around since april 2010 and has been mentioned on mashable as well as cnet and others..
copy and paste into your browser's address bar:
it should resolve to something like this.now this is a great story!
wall street journal excerpt:By SEAN GARDINER
Each morning for 5,546 days, Jabbar Collins knew exactly what he'd wear when he awoke: a dark-green shirt with matching dark-green pants.
The prison greenies of a convicted murderer, he says, were "overly starched in the beginning, but as time wore on, and after repeated washes, they were worn and dull, like so many other things on the inside."
For most of those 15 years, Mr. Collins, who maintained his innocence, knew the only way his wardrobe would change was if he did something that's indescribably rare. He'd have to lawyer himself out of jail.
There was no crusading journalist, no nonprofit group taking up his cause, just Inmate 95A2646, a high-school dropout from Brooklyn, alone in a computerless prison law library. ~ read more
another pet shop bois out; good riddance!
gannett/daily advertiser excerpt:City-Parish Attorney Pat Ottinger will step down from his position next month.
Ottinger has held the position since January 2004.
City-Parish President Joey Durel must appoint a new attorney, subject to the approval of the City-Parish Council.
That replacement will be named and considered by the council Jan. 25.~ read more
STEPHEN A. BALDWIN vs. KEVIN M. COSTNER ET AL
this document is courtesy of slabbed.
click here to begin following what we're sure will be their usual outstanding coverage and commentary.
this morning, louisiana sec'y of state, tom schedler, was on the ringside politics program with jeff crouere.
amongst other things, sec'y schedler talks about whats going on with the recent voter purge.
link to audio download page
sadly, no one called in to complain about / demand an end to, the electronic voting machines scam.
"one love / people get ready" album version
bob marley and the wailers
legend - the best of bob marley and the wailers
give thanks and praise to the lord and i will feel all right. let's get together and feel all right.
bruce springsteen "santa claus is coming to town" live b/w jerry reed "please come home for christmas" + elvis presley "santa claus is back in town & blue christmas" medley
link to video watch/download page
part six (and the first one we've managed to capture) in a series on former new york city, mayor rudolph giuliani, by documentary filmmaker, kevin keating and k video productions.
this segment is about crime fighting techniques deployed by the giuliani administration. including the "street crimes unit," "stop, question and frisk," "quality of life policing," "broken windows" and the amadou diallo shooting.
via what really happenedA media experiment of feeding live tweets onto giant television screens displayed in the EU summit building had to be switched off after Italian twitterers bombarded the system with attacks on Silvio Berlusconi. ~ read more
911 researcher/investigator, christopher bollyn, is interviewed by kevin barrett about his book "solving 911: the deception that changed the world."
link to audio download page
website of christopher bollyn: www.bollyn.com
Solving 9-11 - The Deception That Changed the World
via twitter @louisianarecord
excerpt:Beaumont, Texas lawyer Brent Coon caused a bit of a stir during Friday's status conference for the multi-district litigation (MDL) regarding the BP oil spill when he introduced around seven million documents from a previous class action against BP.
Coon, who serves on a plaintiffs discovery committee, spoke at the end of a hearing in U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier's courtroom at the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans.
Wearing a brown blazer and jeans, Coon said that the plaintiff steering committee asked to go through the files from discovery he conducted while representing plaintiffs in a suit regarding an explosion at BP's Texas City refinery.
The files were contained on an external computer hard drive that Coon brought to the hearing.
"I'm not sure what just happened," Barbier said after Coon had presented the hard drive. ~ read more
times-picayune excerpt:Former Fair Grounds and Jefferson Downs jockey Stephanie Young, whose career ended in a spill in 1989, died Wednesday of cancer at age 48.
A New Orleans native, Young rode in the 1980s at all of the Louisiana tracks. She won 203 races before she was thrown from a horse at Birmingham Race Course and paralyzed.
“She rode quite a few horses for me,’’ said veteran Louisiana trainer Bunky Richards. “Some of those horses that guys don’t want to ride, she’d ride them. She was brave.’’ ~ read more
Stephanie Ann Younga hacker going by the alias S|A|M|E|T claims credit for hacking the tunk's cypress inn restaurant website.
www.tunkscypressinn.com
full screen view
here via google cache is what the contact us page of tunk's cypress inn website normally looks like
here is a short clip we recently took of traveling from alexandria, la. to pineville via the o.k. allen bridge.
this bridge is slated for demolition and replacement. after we uploaded this clip we noticed from the related videos, that the youtuber AnthonyJKenn recently uploaded a nice cgi clip to show what the new bridge will look like. you can view that clip here. be sure and read its description.
as you can see the roadway is a bit bumpy and we noticed in another related video that the youtuber Freewayjim likes to shoot very well done videos of roads and bridges such as this clip of his US-190 & Bridges: Baton Rouge, LA as you can tell the camera is very steady and smooth.
so we sent him a message through youtube asking him how he achieved this and he replied that:I have the camera mounted on a tripod based on the front seat floorboard, it is very steady at highway speeds.
Police say Marshal Wyatt was eastbound on Interstate 220 about 7:45 p.m. Oct. 8, when he took the Shed Road exit.
The SUV, his personal vehicle, rolled past the stop sign, crossed Shed road and crashed into a culvert.
“The individual was under the influence of ethanol at the time of the incident,” the report states. “The manner of death is considered to be accidental.”
The toxicology report shows that Wyatt’s blood alcohol concentration level was 0.216, more than twice the legal limit of .08.
However, the exact cause of death is blunt force injuries as a result of the accident. ~ source
this is the call from this mornings c-span washington journal program which received some play at the top of today's moon griffon talk radio program.
unfortunately, we werent recording today's moon griffon program but we were surprised to hear mr. griffon finally apologize to the voters for all the lies he told and the pi pushing he did in the 2007 louisiana gubernatorial campaign. this apology was extremely long overdue.
the gannett/the town talk repeater, bret h. mccormick, repeated today via his "city notebook" column thatCITY WEBSITE HACKED AGAIN
For at least the second time in less than three months, a link on the home page of the city of Alexandria's website has been hacked.
In September, a link to the city's Sugarhouse Road extension project was hacked.
Now, it's a link to information about the now-settled city's lawsuit involving Cleco Corp.
The link -- www.cityofalexandriala.com/ClecoCity/ -- has been accessed by a hacker who goes by the handle TW!$T3R.
It now features a headline that reads "N3w Own3r" with a picture of the back of a young child and the words "YOU'RE NOT ALONE!!" ~ source
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here's hoping that next time the hacker will do the city a favor and finally install a title tag and favicon in their homepage.churches have historically and traditionally been places of refuge from life's travails.
yet in louisiana, city, parish and state police routinely use houses of worship as cover to operate their revenue enhancing schemes from.
around 11:08 am this morning we observed city of pineville, la. police apparently running radar from the parking lot of the pineville church of christ.
that's just wrong. when are we ever going to see a state law banning this practice?
louisiana style good 'ol boy network cover-up initiated
UPDATE: Attorney Fighting to Seal Records of Case Involving the SheriffThe court order would keep any of Royce Toney's possible testimony out of the press and unavailable for public viewing.
via: lincoln parish news online
========ouachita parish, la. sheriff royce toney named in divorce action ====you may remember that sheriff toney was a big supporter of corrupt district court judge marcus clark who of course went on to be elected (this is louisiana after all wink, wink} to the louisiana supreme court.====
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====this should be a good example to help you to understand why the criminal network selects the types of people that they do to promote to high elective office. see also
many (or most?) people in top positions of government, media, school, police, and military were selected to be promoted to leadership positions because they can be controlled by blackmail.
do you really think that someone like sheriff toney and others like him would ever stand up to the federal government and its increasing tyranny -- what when the feds -- thanks to unconstitutional laws like the misnomered usa patriot act have access to all his banking and credit card accounts and transactions as well as his cell phone records and can probably even listen in and record his calls as well as his computer activity -- all to blackmail him with?
are stupid louisianaians ever going to demand honest, respectable, high-quality leaders?====
eric hufschmid
to get away with crimes pretend to be a crime fighter
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kalb announced at the top of their 6:00 p.m. news cast that louisiana college head women's basketball coach, janice joseph-richard has passed away.former candidate for lieutenant governor, caroline fayard, posted the following statement on her website www.geauxcaroline.com today:
we had never heard of ms. fayard prior to the lieutenant governor's special election. we didnt pay her any attention either until she made the runoff;Fayard Contemplates Future
New Orleans – Caroline Fayard, who garnered 43 percent of votes cast in the November 2nd runoff election for Lieutenant Governor, said that she will carefully consider where she can best contribute to the state of Louisiana.
“I’m extraordinarily grateful to my supporters and volunteers who have helped to make my first run for statewide office possible,” said Fayard. “Going from being a virtual unknown to having over a half-million voters place their trust in a first-time candidate is a tremendous accomplishment, and I’m very proud of the positive campaign we ran.”
Fayard said that her message has always been about giving all citizens in the state a voice, as well as calling on our state government and leaders to be accountable to the hard-working people of Louisiana. Fayard said that she will continue that mission.
“I am honored by the calls I’m getting from people all around the state who are asking me to get more involved in politics. I am listening to them and I will continue to listen. The campaign just ended, and I will think things over during Christmas before deciding where I can make the best contribution as our state tackles very serious challenges affecting all of us.”
Fayard said that she will continue to focus on higher education and the brain drain, corporate accountability and increasing voter participation.
Posted on November 29, 2010.
while some aspects of ms. fayard's past professional life are troubling -- such as her work for goldman sachs -- and not counting her obamacare blunder, in the several interviews that we were able to catch, we found her to be a very fascinating and interesting person. we hope to see her in some political campaign again.
babs bush "said that she had never, as her son George W Bush claimed in one of more bizarre sections of his new book, placed her stillborn foetus in a jar, saying her housekeeper had."
Country music superstar Willie Nelson was arrested Friday morning for allegedly having about 6 ounces [170 grams] of marijuana after his tour bus was stopped at the Border Patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, about 85 miles [137 km] east of El Paso.EXTERNAL LINK
Nelson, 77, was traveling from California to Austin, where he owns a ranch.
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Nelson was stopped at the checkpoint about 9 a.m.
Border Patrol agents searched Nelson's tour bus and found the marijuana, which Nelson claimed was his, said Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West. [...] West said that Nelson posted a $2,500 [1,888 EUR] bond and was on the road again by 1:30 p.m. Friday.
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A court date has yet to be set.
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Nelson's publicist Elaine Schock could not be reached for comment Friday, and no changes had been made to Nelson's tour schedule.
His next performance will be today at the WinStar casino in Thackerville, Okla. ~ read more
the first christmas trees we've spotted this year went on sale in pineville, la., sometime wednesday, 24 november 2010.
workers were busy setting up the trees which had arrived moments before we passed by, so no immediate information about pricing was available.
the trees are located in the parking lot opposite the circle k/shell/subway convenience store.
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we also saw this temporary roadside advert sign for a&n christmas tree farm in echo, louisiana. the phone number is 318.447.9666.according to a 13 november 2010 piece by the gannett repeater jeff matthews, the city of pineville, louisiana, (actually gilchrist construction company) is presently finishing up work on its susek drive project: work almost finished on pineville's susek drive project or click here to download two page .pdf [55 kb].
gannett repeated that: The $8.6 million project is being funded through federal stimulus dollars.
so we had an opportunity to pass through there thanksgiving eve and found it to be pretty much as advertised.
Susek has been widened, flattened and resurfaced.
Sidewalks also are being constructed and drainage in the area improved.
in the article susek drive resident daniel o'reagan is really pleased and said "they made a neighborhood out of what was basically a rural road." and that's really true too. its not been all that many years ago when there were few people living along susek and no subdivisions that you could zoom over the hills to get a little something of the roller-coaster effect.
you cant do that now though cos the hills are gone. thanks president obama.
one observation -- although susek drive is open to through traffic its still a good idea to avoid it if you can -- until its renovation is finally complete -- especially if you're the type who likes to yak away on a cell phone while driving and/or you arent really comfortable driving in conditions where the circumstances are fluid; demanding a quick reaction time for human beings working on the shoulder and in the vicinity as well as tractors and other heavy equipment entering, working on or near and exiting the roadway -- all at the same time.
we would have preferred to have filmed this standing in the bed of a pick-up (and might do that for the return trip unless someone else does it first).
there appears to be an annoying bug on the windshield but the likely culprit we discovered later was a smudge on the camera lens.
although our vid is three minutes and thirty-four seconds long, for now the transit takes around four and a half minutes.
we trimmed the first forty seconds off cos we were stopped just inside the intersection to let a tractor pass. the rest of the time was trimmed from the end.
when susek is fully open you will probably be able to shave around ninety seconds or so off.
the perspective is going west from pinehurst drive to edgewood drive.
while we're unsure about all of the other stuff that frequent ksyl talk radio caller "becky" was on about, this is the first time that we've heard it mentioned in the msm that senator david vitter is a cosponsor of S.510 fda food safety modernization act -- so we give her props for that.
we wont hold our breath, but perhaps now someone will question senator vitter -- who, of course, claims to be a conservative republican -- just how he can justify cosponsoring and supporting such a massive expansion of federal authority and expenditure and still claim to be a conservative or even a republican. we're sure others would like to know the chapter and verse from the republican party platform that senator vitter is using as justification.
