07 July 2011

video: casey anthony sentencing


www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony

recorded live; unedited from from online stream 7:59 am cdt through 8:42 am cdt. this is up to the court recess.

hearing begins at 04:44:
http://youtu.be/thorGvCmZsA?t=4m44s
orlando sentinel:
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Casey Anthony sentencing: Casey is not leaving jail today

Should could be out by late July or early August, depending on how credit for time served is calculated.

Chief Judge Belvin Perry sentenced Casey Anthony this morning for lying to police, giving her four years in jail and credit for the time she's already served since 2008.

How much credit she gets will be calculated later. But it's clear she's not getting out of jail today.

She could be released by late July or early August.

The sentence also includes four, $1,000 fines for each of the four counts of lying to police. ~ read more
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UPDATE: www.orlandosentinel.com Casey Anthony will be released from the Orange County Jail on July 13. [2011] ... served 1,043 days ...
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    06 July 2011

    #askobama @townhall twitter [[complete]]


    this afternoon, president obama took some questions tweeted to him by tweeters using the hashtag #askobama.

    the president said that he was making history today by becoming the first president to live tweet:


    this was recorded live and there are a few buffering/streaming issues -- screen freezes, but we dont believe that much, if any, content was lost.
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    UPDATE: #askobama stats https://twitter.com/#!/whitehouse/status/88733612618424320

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    state of louisiana vs mary henderson trahan: 3rd circuit reverses 2nd degree murder convicton; orders acquittal

    an accidental shooting made into a 2nd degree murder case out of lafayette, la. it's unclear why the victim came to be shot other than references by the prosecution and defense in opening and closing statements to an abusive relationship of which the 3rd circuit said the state never presented evidence that the relationship was acrimonious.

    the autopsy toxicology analysis revealed that the victim had "amphetamine, methamphetamine, and MDMA [ecstasy] in his urine at the time of death."

    the third circuit found that the evidence presented at trial "was insufficient for a finding of specific intent to support a verdict of second degree murder." and that "the evidence was also insufficient to convict the defendant of any of the lesser responsive verdicts of manslaughter or negligent homicide."

    our own associate justice, shannon gremillion, dissented, writing that while the evidence did not support the 2nd degree murder verdict -- it did support a verdict of negligent homicide, mostly because "there was no dispute at trial that defendant pulled the trigger."

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    State of La vs Mary Henderson Trahan 06 July 2011
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    State of Louisiana vs Mary Henderson Trahan Gremillion Dissent 06 July 2011

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    dust storm swallows phoenix

    via: twitter @usrealitycheck

    VIDEOS: Dust Storm Swallows Phoenix: Anyone caught outside when the 50-mile wide cloud rolled through the... http://n.pr/mZf5gH npr #US
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    "It went from day to night, just like that ... [and] it just wouldn't stop."

    That's how 12 News meterologist Rob Carlmark describes what it was like in Phoenix Tuesday evening when a massive dust storm blew through the area. ~ read more
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    UPDATE: via twitter @youtube Many videos posted of last night's sand storm in Arizona
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    05 July 2011

    nancy grace upside-down

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    denham springs rino mack bodi white to run for state senate


    HB569 internet access tax senate commerce committee closing [2009]

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    wbrz via: the dead pelican
    current louisiana state representative mack "bodi" white "will, seek election to the newly-drawn district 6 seat, which represents parts of east baton rouge, livingston, st. helena and tangipahoa parishes." ~ read more
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    sounds about right; how soon they forget: rep. mack a. "bodi" white, jr., is the jackass in the elephant costume who just two years ago, sought, through his HB 569 to place a tax in everyone's internet access account.

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    vatican secret archives to go on public display february 2012

    via: twitter @news_va_en

    excerpt:

    Gregory VII’s 'Dictatus papae' of (1073-1085); Clement VII's letter to the English parliament on the matrimonial cause of Henry VIII (1530), and the codex of the trial of Galileo Galilei (1616-1633) are just some of historic treasures set to leave the Vatican for the first time in centuries.

    They will go on public display on Rome’s Capitol Hill in a groundbreaking exhibition due to open February 2012.

    "'Lux in Arcana' - the Vatican Secret Archives unveiled", is the title of the exhibit ... read more
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    04 July 2011

    faux news twitter feed tweets "president barack obama dead"

    via: twitter @drudgeretort

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    (CNN) -- Hackers apparently broke into the FoxNews.com's Twitter feed for political news early Monday and used it to announce -- falsely -- that President Barack Obama had been assassinated.

    Obama was "shot twice at a Ross' restaurant in Iowa while campaigning. RIP Obama, best regards to the Obama family," read one of several Twitter messages posted on @FoxNewsPolitics early Monday.

    "We wish @joebiden the best of luck as our new President of the United States. In such a time of madness, there's light at the end of tunnel," the last in the series of tweets said later.

    An article on FoxNews.com confirmed the hack. ~ read more

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    03 July 2011

    happy birthday pete fountain

    via: twitter @nolanews

    1960s: Pete Fountain, born on the 3rd of July http://bit.ly/lUrQDt

    new orleans jazz great, the clarinetist, pete fountain is 81 today.
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    01 July 2011

    desi fulmer vs la dept of wildlife and fisheries et al supremes rule that injured state employees may sue the state under the jones act

    Desi Fulmer vs La. Dept of Wildlife and Fisheries 01july2011
    source: louisiana supreme court news release # 42

    Louisiana has consented through Article XII Section 10 to suits for personal injury

    This case involves a seaman who was injured in the course and scope of his employment with the State of Louisiana.

    We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether an injured, state-employed seaman in Louisiana can sue the state under the Jones Act (46 U.S.C. § 30104 et seq.) in state court or whether his claim for damages is governed exclusively by the provisions of the Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Act (“LWCA”) (La. R.S. 23:1032 et seq.).

    For the reasons that follow, we find Louisiana has waived its sovereign immunity from suit for injury to persons and the legislature has not limited that waiver concerning suits by state employees under the Jones Act. Thus, the ruling of the court of appeal is affirmed.
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    30 June 2011

    louisiana speckled king snake vs yellow-bellied water snake


    we adore king snakes and dont really have anything against rat a/k/a chicken snakes water snakes, however, we would have preferred that it would have been a cottonmouth instead.

    we couldnt get a clip or photo of the king snake actually consuming the rat snake because after it killed it, it drug it down a hole.

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    note: the youtube commenter TripAAAHerping let us know that we misidentified the snake in the video; its actually a yellow-bellied water snake.
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    UPDATE: a kalb.com viewer, denisecoldiron, sent in some good photos of a king snake eating another snake. click here to view that gallery.
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