the two la constitutional amendments on the 02 oct 2010 ballot. what they are for and why to vote against them:
October 2, 2010
Primary Elections
Proposed Amendment No. 1
Act 537 of the 2009 Regular Legislative Session
To move the convening of the legislature in annual regular session in even-numbered years to the second Monday in March and in odd-numbered years to the second Monday in April and to change the effective date of legislation enacted at such sessions to August 1st. (Effective January 1, 2012.) (Amends Article III, Sections 2(A)(3)(a) and (4)(a) and 19)
Proposed Amendment No. 2
Act 538 of the 2009 Regular Legislative Session
To provide that the director, deputy director and all employees of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness shall be in the unclassified service of the state civil service. (Becomes effective 20 days after the governor proclaims its adoption.) (Amends Article X, Sections 2(B)(11) and (12); adds Article X, Section 2 (B)(13))
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wst... is extremely shocked and saddened to learn that jonesville, la bull rider and cowboy corbin carpenter has been killed in an automobile wreck.
details will not be released until after 2:00 pm cdt from youngs's funeral home in jonesville, louisiana.
Tragic News
Corbin Carpenter of Jonesville, former LHSRA member and NHSFR qualifier in Bull Riding and Boys Cutting, died last night as the result of a vehicular accident.
Please pray for his family who has already suffered so much in these last few months, following the death of his brother-in-law in the Deepwater Horizon tragedy in March.
Corbin overcame tremendous odds after being injured at the NHSFR in 2008.
Arrangements will be posted when received. ~ www.lhsra.info
Funeral services for Corbin Lowery Carpenter, 19, of Jonesville, La. are incomplete at this time
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gannett/the town talk tuesday 28 september 2010candidate for city of alexandria, louisiana, mayor von jennings, appeared after the 8:30 am break on the ksyl talk back program this morning.
this is a partial file because just as ksyl was going into their 8:30 commercial break our electricity blinked. by the time we restarted and got set back up it was 8:36.
the complete interview will likely be available for download sometime today from ksyl.com.
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UPDATE: 23 september 2010: avery michaels was on the kalb tv "jambalaya" program this morning to talk about his new restaurant, which opens later this afternoon:
a recently posted sign outside the former "jamie's lil saline" seafood restaurant at the deville, la. crossroads reads: "coming soon 3 sisters p_zza, subs, blue bell hand dipped ice cream." we think that the sisters ought to give louisiana's own kleinpeter ice cream a shot as well.
heres a pic of jamie's lil saline from earlier this month.UPDATE: 22 february 2012 3rd circuit court of appeal affirms astounding 40 year sentence for cottonport bank robber
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UPDATE-3 photo (1 of 3 released so far) courtesy avoyellestoday.com photos released of effie bank robbervia: the dead pelican
the lunacy never ends. on the other hand, surely "who dat" has reached the over saturation point by now anyway.Let’s be clear what’s happening here. The Monistere Brothers are shaking down local businesses like Storyville and threatening them with lawsuits if the local merchants continue to sell “Who Dat” merchandise.
They are essentially claiming something that they do not own and attempting to prevent anyone else from making money from the phrase “Who Dat.” ~ read more
hotel heiress paris hilton appeared in a clark county, nevada courtroom this morning to plead guilty to cocaine possession and obstructing justice by lying to a police officer.Standing before Justice of the Peace Joe Bonaventure, Hilton admitted that both 0.8 grams of cocaine and the Chanel handbag where it was found were hers and said she was guilty of misdemeanor drug possession and misdemeanor obstructing an officer.
meanwhile, here in louisiana -- the most corrupt state in the nation -- someone from a prominent family who ran over and killed three people -- supposedly while intoxicated, in what some consider one of the most gruesome crime/accident scenes in recent memory -- can stand before a judge and not have to say one word to give account of himself or apologize while being sentenced under the terms of a very plum plea bargain.
"I was in possession of cocaine," Hilton said in a meek voice. She then told Bonaventure that she had lied to a Las Vegas police lieutenant when she told him the handbag wasn't hers. ~ read more
imagine what the really wealthy, patrician families here in louisiana are getting away with.
kudos to the clark county, nevada district attorney for doing his job.
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at the aragon, spain, motogp, australian casey stoner aboard his ducati gp10 wins his first race of the season.
wafb excerpt:By Keitha Nelson
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Shoppers enjoying a Sunday afternoon inside the Mall of Louisiana got a scare after a mid-day robbery caused chaos inside the shopping center.
Crowds rushed out of the mall after initial reports indicated shots were fired. Authorities later confirmed shots had not been fired. Rather, two masked thieves had robbed a jewelry stand inside the mall.
The sound people mistook for gunshots was breaking glass at the first floor jewelry kiosk.~ read more
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yahoo! canada news excerpt:
A number of witnesses swear they saw a man falling head first from the sky without a parachute or paraglider in New Jersey.
"You could see the arms and legs flailing," Kelly Hale told 6ABC. "There is no doubt that it is a person, we are 100 per cent sure." ~ read moreTherefore rejoice, [ye] heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. ~ the revelation of saint john the divine: chapter twelve verse twelve
calling pollock, louisiana's christian zionist reprobate, john turner, one of israel's "megaphonies" whatreallyhappened.com's mike rivero (who is a sephardi jew, by the way) blasts turner's extremely lengthy and inaccurate anti-muslim propaganda published in today's gannett/the town talk:Megaphonies load up newspaper letter columns with anti-Muslim propaganda
UPDATE: gannett/the town talk sunday 26 september 2010
9th judicial district court judge thomas yeagerAllocute generally means to formally declare something...In the legal context, it refers to stating specifically and in detail one's actions and motices, [sic] often in relation to commission of a crime.louisiana style allocution, the loony looziana supreme court teaches us, for example in the unpublished appendix to opinion in state of louisiana v ricky joseph langley, (a capital case) pages 41 - 42, that the right of allocution is a defendants right at the sentencing hearing.
In most United States jurisdictions a criminal defendant is allowed the opportunity before sentencing to offer an explanation for the crime through allocution.
Some jurisdictions provide that this is an absolute right for all defendants, without which, a sentence may be overturned, and a new sentencing hearing must be held.
Allocution is sometimes required of a defendant who pleads guilty to a crime in a plea bargain in exchange for a reduced sentence.
In such cases, allocution is intended to provide closure for victims or their families by removing any doubt as to the exact nature of the defendant's guilt in the crime. ~ source
“right of allocution has normally been reserved to a defendant addressing the sentencing judge.”in louisiana there is nothing to stop the district attorney from asking for or requiring a criminal to allocute to his or her crime and give account of himself. especially... especially, in exchange for when a criminal receives such a plum plea bargain as it appears happened in mr. brouillette's case.
a gannett/the town talk commenter on the jeffrey deville story
via: david icke - two of a kind ... and the end is nigh
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leonard ford, jr., the light - 15 september 2010, page 3
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new york times
excerpt:
ATLANTA — That photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Ala.? He took it.
The well-known image of black sanitation workers carrying “I Am a Man” signs in Memphis? His.
He was the only photojournalist to document the entire trial in the murder of Emmett Till, and he was there in Room 306 of the Lorraine Hotel, Dr. King’s room, on the night he was assassinated.
But now an unsettling asterisk must be added to the legacy of Ernest C. Withers, one of the most celebrated photographers of the civil rights era: He was a paid F.B.I. informer. ~ read more
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fernando alonso crossing the finish line first at monza:Italian GP - Prancing Horse gallops to victory on home turf
Monza, 12 September – Fernando Alonso produced a stunning drive to give Ferrari its first win on home turf since 2006 and to add to the delight for the thousands of tifosi who filled the grandstands ... read more
Alonso: “A victory for the fans”
“Winning at Monza at the wheel of a Ferrari is something special, which can only stand comparison to when I won in front of my home crowd in Barcelona in 2006.
Being on the podium was an incredible feeling: what a sea of people, so many flags! I was stunned by the emotion from the fans, right from the first moment they got here on Thursday.
I wish to dedicate this victory to them and to the passion that characterises all Ferrari fans ... read more
billboard, highway 28 east near pineville, rapides parish, louisianaThen answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. ~ jesus christ at saint luke chapter eleven
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