.... the gathering gloom.
Plenty of people -- including obviously the stock market and its commentators -- believe everything will b...
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.... the gathering gloom.
Plenty of people -- including obviously the stock market and its commentators -- believe everything will b...
youtube description:San Francisco Reclaiming's annual Halloween ritual brings together over a thousand people to dance the spiral of regeneration. A glimpse of a true Pagan ritual. Author Starhawk narrates.
errr around 3:58 for a few seconds some chick or possibly a guy is shown dancing topless.
looks like kalb sent photojournalist bryant ferguson out to get some nice footage of the effects of todays heavy rainfall -- including around cloverleaf boulevard, in alexandria.
at the noon forecast, kalb weather babe, kari hall, breaks up the monotony (which is always nice) by giving viewers acid flashbacks.
ouachita correctional center and
old landfill on enterprise drive in west monroe near the rifle range
UPDATE:
30 october 2009 - ouachita parish police jury declares a state of emergency for the entire parish
"We were there and all of a sudden we heard something that sounded like thunder. And we were like, thunder? But the sun's shining," said Rub Smith. Smith is talking about the sound the levee made as portions of it near her house in Columbia came crashing down. read more
The Ouachita River is a 605 mile long river that runs through the US states of Arkansas and Louisiana.
The Ouachita River begins in the Ouachita Mountains near Mena, Arkansas. The river flows generally southeast into Louisiana where it joins the Red River.
The river has six locks and dams along its length. The lower portions of the river are sometimes known as the Black River. Portions of the river flow through the Ouachita National Forest.
The river is named for the Washita Indian tribe. The Washita tribe was one of several tribes that lived along the river including the Caddo, Osage, Tensas , Chickasaw, and Choctaw.
The word "Washita" is an Indian word meaning "Good hunting grounds" and "sparkling silver water". ~ read more
* UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE...OR UNTIL THE WARNING IS CANCELLED.
* AT 900 AM THURSDAY THE STAGE WAS 42.5 FEET.
* MINOR FLOODING IS OCCURRING AND MODERATE FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* FLOOD STAGE IS 40 FEET.
* FORECAST...THE RIVER WILL CONTINUE RISING TO NEAR 43.1 FEET BY TUESDAY MORNING. ADDITIONAL RISES MAY BE POSSIBLE THEREAFTER.
The White House keeps up its attack on Fox News as biased in this video with Valerie Jarrett, another senior adviser to President Obama making the claim. But watch how fast Jarrett folds when CNN anchor Campbell Brown asks her if pro-administration MSNBC isn’t just as biased. ~ white house war on fox news
A radical leftist with a ruthless agenda, she is the Obama advisor most responsible both for originating and orchestrating his most egregious attempts to impose a socialist regime upon the American people. Policies and appointments, brickbats and bouquets – they all come through Valerie Jarrett’s office. ~ who is valerie jarrett?
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These animals were photographed just north of the Wisconsin border on a highway near Marenisco , MI.
The odds of seeing an albino moose are astronomical and to see this in the upper peninsula of Michigan, near Wisconsin, is even greater than astronomical.
To see two of them together is nearly impossible.
We wanted to share these photos with as many people as possible because you will probably never have a chance to see this rare sight again.
This is a really special treat, so enjoy...more photos...
cns news asked house speaker nancy pelosi to explain how the federal government can mandate everyone to purchase health care insurance and it be constitutional. cns news says that "pelosi dismissed the question by saying: 'are you serious? are you serious?'" before moving on to some other question.
later the speakers spokeswoman, nadeam elshami, answered some of cns news follow up questions by sending them a copy of one of the speaker's press releases from 16 september 2009 in which the speaker explained how the congress subject to article one section eight clause three of the constitution may mandate health care:[T]he Constitution gives Congress broad power to regulate activities that have an effect on interstate commerce. Congress has used this authority to regulate many aspects of American life, from labor relations to education to health care to agricultural production. Since virtually every aspect of the heath care system has an effect on interstate commerce, the power of Congress to regulate health care is essentially unlimited.
then she goes on to give two supreme court cases as examples: katzenbach v. mcclung, 379 u.s. 294 (1964) -- the famous ollie's barbecue discrimination case out of alabama and gonzales v. raich, 545 u.s. 1 (2005) a medicinal marijuana case from california.
* FLOOD ADVISORY FOR THE RED RIVER AT ALEXANDRIA.RECREATIONAL BOATERS SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION OR CURTAIL ACTIVITIES DUE TO HIGH RIVER CURRENTS UNTIL THE RIVER FALLS TO SAFE LEVELS.
* UNTIL LATE FRIDAY NIGHT.
* AT 12:00 PM WEDNESDAY THE STAGE WAS 29.7 FEET.
* FLOOD STAGE IS 32.0 FEET.
* FORECAST...THE RIVER HAS CRESTED AND WILL BEGIN A SLOW FALL.
* IMPACT...AT 28 FEET...OVERFLOW OCCURS ON THE FLOODWAY SIDE OF THE LEVEE.
this report isnt clear on whether it was a 2,500 pound bomb or a bomb equivalent to 2,500 sticks of dynamite exploded at fort polk, la today.October 21, 2009
Loud boom was 'controlled blast' at Fort Polk
A loud boom heard by many Leesville residents early this afternoon, Oct. 21, was a controlled blast conducted at Range 19 on Fort Polk.
The blast consisted of a 2,500-pound demolition performed by the Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center.
Controlled blasts are planned events, and there was no danger to Leesville or Fort Polk residents, a Fort Polk news release said.. ~ gannett/the alexandria daily town talk
Scrambled jets cause sonic booms in Puget Sound-area
by KING 5 News and Associated Press
KING5.com
Posted on August 17, 2010 at 2:23 PM
Updated today at 5:08 PM
SEATTLE - Military fighter jets were scrambled to respond to an airspace violation near Air Force One in Seattle on Tuesday afternoon, causing sonic booms that scared residents throughout Western Washington.
North American Aerospace Defense Command spokesman John Cornelio said the F15 jets were sent from Portland as the president was visiting Seattle after a report that an aircraft violated the restricted airspace. The small plane left the restricted air space before the jets arrived.
Pilot Lee Dailey and his passenger, Laura Joseph, were returning home after a weekend at Lake Chelan. They landed on Lake Washington in Kenmore.
"We just landed, sailed in here, nice and peaceful, pulled up to the dock and a guy came out and said I have some bad news for you guys," said Joseph. "Obama is in town and you guys violated the air space or something."
They reported that they saw jets as they flew between the Seattle area and the mountains, but said the jets didn't motion for them to land.
Once they landed, Dailey and Joseph were interviewed by the Secret Service. The Secret Service then spent about 90 mintues checking out the plane.
When the president is visiting there is a 10-mile radius from the center of Seattle and 18,000 feet up, where it is no-fly for commercial aircraft. Extended another 20 miles, to make it a 30-mile radius, there can be private air traffic if the pilot files a legitimate flight plan, if that person is in contact with air traffic control and if that person has the plane's transponder turned on.
There is no system for notifying private pilots about airspace restrictions. It's incumbent upon them to check to see if restrictions are in place.
911 call centers overloaded
Emergency agencies across Western Washington were flooded with calls from people who heard and felt a double boom about 1:50 p.m.
Residents in Pierce County ran from their homes.
"It shook my whole house," said Stephanie Walters of Lakewood.
"It rattled the whole house, the ground, everything," said Charlie Kuhn of Lakewood.
Det. Ed Troyer with the Pierce Co. Sheriff's Dept. said the 911 system was down via landlines in areas of Pierce County for a time and car and home alarms were set off by the booms.
KING 5 News was flooded with calls and e-mails from people who heard and felt the explosions. Many people reported that their homes shook.
The King County Sheriff's Office reported that about 300 calls came in to the 911 center. ~ source
excerpt:
Typically, when any of the following characteristics is present, the conduct will not be in clear and unambiguous compliance with applicable state law and may indicate illegal drug trafficking activity of potential federal interest:
• unlawful possession or unlawful use of firearms;
• violence;
• sales to minors;
• financial and marketing activities inconsistent with the terms, conditions, or purposes of state law, including evidence of money laundering activity and/or financial gains or excessive amounts of cash inconsistent with purported compliance with state or local law;
• amounts of marijuana inconsistent with purported compliance with state or local law;
• illegal possession or sale of other controlled substances; or
• ties to other criminal enterprises.
[...]
Indeed, this memorandum does not alter in any way the Department's authority to enforce federal law, including laws prohibiting the manufacture, production, distribution, possession, or use of marijuana on federal property.
This guidance regarding resource allocation does not "legalize" marijuana or provide a legal defense to a violation of federal law, nor is it intended to create any privileges, benefits, or rights, substantive or procedural, enforceable by any individual, party or witness in any administrative, civil, or criminal matter.
1374. (09-0022)sunday, gannett/the shreveport times published a story "medical marijuana legislation growing throughout country." [.pdf]. in it, the reporter, melody brumble, informs us that since 1978 louisiana has had a mechanism in place to allow for marijuana prescriptions for glaucoma and cancer patients.
the tax, regulate, and control cannabis act of 2010.pdf
Changes California Law to Legalize, Regulate, and Tax Marijuana. Initiative Statute.
Circulation Deadline: 02/05/10 Signatures Required: 433,971
1377. (09-0024. Amdt. #1S)
regulate, control and tax cannabis act of 2010.pdf
Changes California Law to Legalize Marijuana and Allow It to Be Regulated and Taxed. Initiative Statute. Circulation Deadline: 02/18/10 Signatures Required: 433,971
1378. (09-0025)
common sense act of 2010. pdf
Changes California Law to Legalize, Regulate, and Tax Marijuana. Initiative Statute.
Circulation Deadline: 02/18/10 Signatures Required: 433,971
The question posed in Zugsberger’s case is one of "first impression" in Louisiana, his attorney Jerri Smitko of Houma wrote in a memorandum to Judge LeBlanc. The term "first impression" means that a case asks a legal question that a state’s courts have not previously ruled upon.the story leaves a lot of unanswered questions like how did mr. zugsberger come to be arrested in the first place? also is mr. zugsberger some kind of medicinal marijuana activist? the houma paper mentioned that he has pulled a similar stunt in king county, washington. according to the houma paper mr. zugsberger won that case.
Possession. It is unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally to possess a controlled dangerous substance classified in Schedule I unless such substance was obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner...then it sends you over to R.S. 40:978 dealing with prescriptions law. neither 40:966 or 40:978 say that a prescription must be issued by a louisiana doctor.
late thursday evening (15 october2009) gannett's alexandria, la. property the town talk posted a story out of monroe by johnny gunter the story was credited to gannett louisiana news.
we didnt know until friday morning that the story had apparently been thursday morning news in monroe.
that thursday evening 15 october story was originally captioned "faircloth agrees to drop reference of 'sanction' regarding finding." [click here for two page .pdf 15 kb] in this report gannett would have us believe that the judicial campaign oversight committee chairman meekly asked mr. faircloth "to stop referring to a ruling it made sept. 24 as a sanction against 4th district judge marcus clark." to which mr. faircloth gallantly agreed. it also gave mr. faircloth the opportunity to remind us all again about judge clark's inability to be ethical, blah,blah,blah.
by friday night however, the article had morphed into "faircloth drops 'sanction' reference, while campaign ads for clark still use it" [click here to download two page .pdf 21 kb]. the trick here is to implant into your mind that jimmy faircloth is complying with the judicial campaign ethics law and so forth while judge clark remains unethical...as usual.
judge clark has been put through the meat-grinder, for sure, but he deserves it though. he is a classic usurper and rino.
according to campaign literature paid for by the committee to elect jimmy faircloth that we picked up somewhere yesterday, under marcus clark's political party it says "lifelong democrat before switching parties to run for this race." sure thats from a faircloth ad and we have to assume that its been vetted and true and it goes back to marcus clark's ethics. is there hardly anything worse than a politician who switches parties because it's politically expedient? how can you trust someone like that? if they were honest wouldnt they would switch to independent or no party. democrat, republican they're just brands for repugnant politicians to wear dependent on which one we consumers are buying at the moment.
so dont worry about judge clark he'll be fine. the story here is about the media. see how a media monolith like gannett which controls probably two-thirds of louisiana state news and especially the news in this supreme court district can and does use its properties to shape the news and opinion while leaving out real news and information. thats not only wrong, its criminal.
link to audio page
we missed the moon griffon program yesterday. according to this clip they were discussing the latest public statement to come out of the judiciary oversight committee -- the 24 september letter -- concerning the race for louisiana supreme court dist #4 seat between jimmy faircloth of pineville and judge marcus clark from monroe.
they might have also been talking about this news story by johnny gunter, which wasnt posted to gannett's alexandria paper the town talk until sometime later thursday evening.
in any event, mr. griffon phoned mr. forgotston because he's an attorney to explain the matter.
so today 'wayne from alexandria' phones in. first he admits that he didnt catch but the tail-end of the show and apparently had left a nasty voice mail about mr. forgotston on mr. griffon's phone that he apologizes for.
apparently referring to yesterdays segment with mr. forgotston, he starts in on the "misleading information on the radio." then we have to go all back through the various sanctions or opinions or whatever, regarding judge clark's inability to be ethical. "judge clark was definitely sanctioned. there were five reasons for that...for willful failure to perform his duty and on and on." yeah on and on.
by this time 'ol ryan was really blowin'-n-goin' -- one tidbit he let slip out was that it was him and "cenla gopac" who filed the complaint against judge clark.
one thing we did agree with 'ryan' about was his reference to one of judge clark's television commercials. the one we call "unethical politicians for marcus clark" where william norris a retired chief judge from the second circuit court of appeal put his arm around clark's shoulder in what ryan described as "one of the courthouse gang comes on and says 'when he was a little boy he got sanctioned and shouldnt hold that against him." that was pretty funny.
a few minutes later mr. forgotston phones in and insists that the misrepresentation that he was referring to yesterday was on the part of mr. faircloth. mr. forgotston says that ryan "is trying to obfuscate the issues."
That all ended at about 4 p.m. when Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden was in the middle of a news conference and was told the boy had been found safe. "He's at the house," Alderden said. An investigator said the boy had apparently been in the attic the whole time.
Neighbor Bob Licko said he was leaving home when he heard commotion in the backyard of the family. He said he saw two boys on the roof with a camera, commenting about their brother. "One of the boys yelled to me that his brother was way up in the air," Licko said.
The balloon was owned by the boy's parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, and tethered behind the house. cbs4denver
The boy's father Richard Heene is a known storm chaser. During an appearance on the television program WifeSwap, Heene and his wife, Mayumi, focused on their love of science.
Last year, the 9NEWS Morning Show interviewed Richard and Mayumi Heene about their passion for storm chasing. This is that interview. Deputy thought he saw something fall, search ongoing 9News
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2010 is the 50th anniversary of the founding of lsua. to get the commemorative year started, lsua's art department led by professor roy deville in collaboration with the louisiana history museum and its director dale genius, have put together a 'vintage photographic exhibit of historic public buildings in rapides parish.'
the exhibit will open friday, 23 october 2009, with a reception in the lsua university gallery, located in the west wing of the student center. see lsua general information ten page .pdf. [170 kb].
the reception is from 6 pm to 8 pm. an informal concert of piano music will be presented from 6 - 6:30. at 6:30 louisiana history museum director dale genius will conduct a thirty minute gallery talk.
the event is free and open to the public.
for more information contact the louisiana history museum, 503 washington st., downtown alexandria, la. at telephone 318-487-8556 and visit its website at www.louisianahistorymuseum.org.