we saw that...

air force mascot "the bird" goes awol at independence bowl

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

what are your most shared pages on facebook?

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:

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it should resolve to something like this.
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against the odds: jailhouse lawyer argues his way out of prison

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

yahoo! sports: saints disrespect falcons with celebration

click picture to enlargesaints celebrate their win by standing on the falcon's face
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lafayette redflex scam enabler/shyster pat ottinger to step down

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 baldwin vs kevin costner complaint doc

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.

sec'y of state tom schedler ringside politics interview

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.

bob marley "one love / people get ready"

"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" b/w jerry reed "please come home for christmas" + elvis

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

"giuliani time" part 6

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.

eu shuts off twitter giant television screens after berlusconi insults, accusations, death threats, obscenities, etc

via what really happened

A 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

christopher bollyn radio interview with kevin barrett

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

texas lawyer causes stir in bp hearing by introducing 7 million docs from previous class action

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

former fair grounds jockey stephanie young dies at age 48

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

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UPDATE

Stephanie Ann Young
February 2, 1962 - December 15, 2010

Stephanie Ann Young, beloved mother, daughter, sister, and friend, rode her way into heaven on Tuesday, December 15, 2010.

From the time Stephanie was born she had an innate love of all animals, but in particular, she had a passion for horses.

She had a natural gift and a strong will, which led to her successful career as a jockey at racetracks in Louisiana and throughout the country.

Stephanie's loving family includes: her son, Sean; mother, Gail Compagno; stepfather, Tony Compagno; father, Laurence Young; also her brother, Kevin Young; sisters: Kathleen Lunn, Susan Guidry, Sharon Young, Julie Compagno; and many nieces and nephews.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend Stephanie's Memorial Service at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd., New Orleans, LA on Monday, December 20, 2010 at 11:00 AM.

Visitation will be held from 9:30 AM until service time.

In lieu of flowers donations may be sent to the Louisiana Horse Rescue Association, P.O. Box 24650, New Orleans, LA 70184.

To sign and view the Family Guestbook, please visit www.lakelawnmetairie.com.

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tunk's cypress inn website hacked

a hacker going by the alias S|A|M|E|T claims credit for hacking the tunk's cypress inn restaurant website.

www.tunkscypressinn.com
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here via google cache is what the contact us page of tunk's cypress inn website normally looks like
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o.k. allen bridge

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.

john winston lennon 09 october 1940 - 08 december 1980

autopsy report: bossier city marshal johnny wyatt all boozed up at time of fatal crash

late bossier city marshal johnny wyatt

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

rapides parish clerk of court skates in frivolous suit filer case

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c-span caller "charles in shreveport" aint pushin pi no mo

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.

city of alexandria, la. website hacked ... again

the gannett/the town talk repeater, bret h. mccormick, repeated today via his "city notebook" column that

CITY 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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link to audio download page
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one thing that mr. mccormick didnt bother to repeat, is that the hacker also installed on that page, an audio file which appears to be hosted from oz by the website hosting company cyanidehosting.com.

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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.

should police be allowed to run radar from a church?

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?

UPDATED ouachita parish, la. sheriff royce toney is a freak - divorce petition

louisiana style good 'ol boy network cover-up initiated

UPDATE: Attorney Fighting to Seal Records of Case Involving the Sheriff

The court order would keep any of Royce Toney's possible testimony out of the press and unavailable for public viewing.

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via: lincoln parish news online

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source: www.roycetoney.com
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ouachita parish, la. sheriff royce toney named in divorce action

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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.

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?

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eric hufschmid
to get away with crimes pretend to be a crime fighter
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last updated/edited 7:17 am cst saturday 04 december 2010
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r.i.p. head coach janice joseph-richard

gunfighter blog to retire

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la state senate staffer suspended over obama email forward

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