20 December 2011
developing: louisiana college denied reaffirmation of accreditation and placed on warning for 12 months by sacscoc
we cant help but wonder how that goof and liar over at the so called baptist message, kelly boggs, is gonna spin this...
this story is developing on cenlamar.com click here to learn more.
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hello hooper, nebraska
hooper bay, alaska we'd heard of before, but until we received a recent visitor from hooper, nebraska ...
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according to this informative article in the new york times, "hooper -- population 827, more or less -- [got] its [name] either from an otherwise forgotten railroad official or from a man who won an uphill wagon race, and, with it, naming rights.
founded as a railroad depot in 1876, it grew to become a hub for farmers raising corn, soybeans and livestock — a point of interest along U.S. 275."
the new york times article states how the nebraska department of roads recently built a highway bypass around hooper, thereby depriving them of a lot of through traffic from travelers headed north to norfolk or south to omaha.
not to be outdone, the good people there banded together; took up a collection to erect that huge phallus highway sign to garner the attention and hopefully curiosity of passersby.
we like these people already.
anyway, other hooper's of the human persuasion that we're likely kin to -- although proving it on paper is nigh impossible -- thanks mostly to the war of northern aggression and all the records destruction it wrought, include:
william hooper (1742 - 1790) - a founding father and signer of the declaration of independence. hooper earned his law degree from harvard university back when a harvard law degree actually meant something. he was appointed a federal judge by president washington and served for a short period before his untimely death aged 48. he was a protégé of founding father james otis.
mr. otis was the guy who popularized the phrase "taxation without representation is tyranny." otis also believed that the african slaves should be equal to everyone else.
thomas hooper (1788 - 1851) - personal secretary to city of alexandria, louisiana founder alexander fulton - or so we've been told. after mr. fulton died, hooper married his widow, mary henrietta wells fulton.
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taylor swift covergirl mascara ad banned for excessive photoshopping
the national advertising division banned the above ad due to taylor swift's eyelashes being excessively photoshopped.
"You can't use a photograph to demonstrate how a cosmetic will look after it is applied to a woman’s face and then–in the mice type–have a disclosure that says 'okay, not really,'" NAD director Andrea Levine tells Business Insider.
Procter & Gamble, which has admitted to enhancing models' lashes in the past, has agreed to remove the ad. ~ read more
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19 December 2011
gannett/the town talk seeks to protect "thecleartruth" anonymous commenter alleged to be controversial alexandria la attorney thomas davenport
in the latest installment of the davenport vs slayter and slayter vs davenport internet defamation litigation -- two extremely contentious lawsuits which have generated massive public interest -- gannett/the alexandria daily town talk a/k/a alexandria newspapers, inc., recently -- through their attorney, andrew p. texada, of the alexandria, la., stafford, stewart & potter law firm, filed a motion and accompanying memorandum for a protective order and to quash a subpoena mr. slayter had served on them for the production of, amongst other things, account information of several past town talk anonymous commenters including:"thecleartruth;" "thecrazyone2011;" "bigmouth2010;" "speakupnow;" "triplefun4me" and "damnshame123."
we suppose that gannett and the town talk really have no choice but to fight the subpoena -- what with all the fallout gannett received a couple of years ago over their wausau daily herald screw-up.
in any event, the town talk recently switched over to requiring their commenters to log in to and comment through their facebook account.
as we understand it, mr. davenport has maintained all along that he is not one or any of the above anonymous commenters. however, it must be noted that he sure has waged a hard fought and expensive legal battle to keep that information from being released. hmmmmm.
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18 December 2011
slide it in
when you're a rethuglican (and zionist) propaganda blog -- especially one arising out of louisiana, it might not be such a good idea to use the word "diapers" in the title of a post.
nevertheless, the sixty-three second video embedded there is worth a look.
by the way, if you're interested in acquiring a dash or windshield mounted camera similar to the one in the video there is a distributor in indiana -- ultimate gadgets, that carries them. we havent bought one of these type cameras from them, (if we had one we probably would have caught this traffic accident on video) but we can vouch for their outstanding customer service.
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time to dump suddenlink internet access?
friday (16 december 2011) morning we were listening to the ksyl talk back 970 with fred & bob program, when news reader and station engineer, dave graichen interrupted to mention suddenlink internet access service and that "they're one of the first cable companies in the country that are going to start charging you if you go over a certain amount of downloads if you have their internet service, it really, truly sucks and if you're not aware of what they're going to do it's really going to cost a lot of money for folks -- especially if you are one of these people who uses netflix or any any one of those services that you download movies -- you'll go over your limit very, very quickly ... so get ready."
link to audio page
as you can see the letter has a link to "visit" to learn more from: suddenlink.com/allowanceplan/
we dont use netflix or anything similar to download movies from, so that's not really a concern but we do enjoy watching youtube clips and programs on hulu as well as listening to audio .mp3 files and according to the below monthly activity examples graph these all (as well as emails) count towards the monthly usage allowance.
we love the wording in how suddenlink chose to open their letter: "to further enhance your internet experience, a monthly usage allowance will be put into place for all residential (non-business) suddenlink accounts in your area, effective in the next few weeks."
we know that we're not that smart so we hope that someone preferably from suddenlink corporate would explain how exactly by placing a monthly usage allowance on our internet access -- that is enhancing our internet experience?
according to the suddenlink.com allowance plan web page here you can monitor your internet usage "by logging in to your online account at suddenlink.net, choosing 'my account,' and then choosing 'my internet usage summary.'"
we've had cable internet or broadband since the summer of 2005, it was cox then and for the previous five years we had msn dialup and was pretty pleased with msn apart from the obvious drawback of it tying up the telephone line. we've also been pleased with suddenlink.
however, we'd never registered an online account with either cox or suddenlink. we dont even have a cox or suddenlink email address.
registering an account is pretty easy though -- you'll need your statement in order to get your account number and pin from.
after you do that click on "my internet usage summary."
we already knew that we had the cheapest available internet access plan of 10.0mbps and according to suddenlink's letter that plan now "entitles" us to a 250 gb monthly allowance.
there are a variety of ways that you can check your internet usage.
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this may seem all well and good for now, but one thing we've noticed over the course of our 11 1/2 years of being netizens is that the internet is constantly changing. back then most websites were simple .html affairs that only required a couple 100 kb to download.
now most websites are extremely complex and many contain video and audio and other programs all of which have to be downloaded in order to navigate and/or display properly. so it's possible that in the not too distant future someone could use up 250 gb in a matter of days or weeks just from normally navigating the web.
it's unclear to us whether or not the louisiana public service commission had to approve this new monthly internet usage allowance. if you go to their website and look under the telecommunications tab you can see that it hasnt been updated with news and so forth in years.
yesterday we received a couple of retweets in our timeline marking what would have been the occasion of the late comedian bill hicks' 50th birthday. one such retweet was a tweet by keith olbermann which was his tribute to hicks containing containing several clips of his stand up act -- one in particular, in which hicks tells marketing people that they should kill themselves; we couldnt agree with more.
16 December 2011
deville man arrested on a disturbing the peace charge at alexandria city hall
details are sketchy surrounding the 22 november 2011 arrest at alexandria city hall of willard mcbrayer, 50 of deville, louisiana for, according to the alexandria police department: violating La. R.S. 14:103 - disturbing the peace.
according to La. R.S. 14:103B.(1) "whoever commits the crime of disturbing the peace shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than ninety days, or both."
the only information available is the La. R.S. 44:3A(4) a: Initial Report released this morning to wst... by the city in response to an La. R.S. 44:1 et seq., public records request.
city attorney and public records custodian charles johnson invoked the legal exceptions regarding the release of any information beyond the initial report -- which is of course his right and probably duty to do so.
anyway, for the record his initial response:The City of Alexandria is not in possession of any public records which are responsive to your request except the initial report. As to all other documents, the City herein invokes the exemptions noted in 44:3 (1) and (3). These are records pertaining to pending criminal litigation and records containing security procedures etc. You may view the initial report at your leisure in my office.
so we requested and received the initial report.
according to that report the disturbance was witnessed by city attorney charles johnson and the investigating officer was cpl. darrell bradley. it's unknown, at least to wst... for now, if mcbrayer is or was a city employee -- this is likely due to the La. R.S. 44:3(4)(a)(b)(i)narrative description of the alleged offense being sorely lacking in well descriptiveness.
rapides parish jail records show that mcbrayer was booked in and released from there on a $250 bond the same day of 22 november 2011. we're attempting to find out if this case is being litigated in the alexandria city court or ninth judicial district court.
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15 December 2011
senator david vitter live telephonic town hall meeting
we dont support subversive, treasonous, traitorous senator david vitter at all -- however, having said that we have to give him credit for being pretty darn clever in getting his propaganda out.
this evening at 4:11 p.m., cst, we received a telephone call and on the caller id it read "tele town hall 253-236-2011." we thought that it was some sort of robo-call similar to what we've posted before. so we switched on the recorder and got jumped in to some sort of live telephonic town hall meeting.
unfortunately, around 30 minutes in, the call for whatever reason disconnected.
that's too bad because our question to the senator had to do with the federal reserve. if we had the opportunity to have asked, it would have went something like this:hello senator vitter -- as you know the federal reserve was created by the unconstitutional federal reserve act of 1913 and furthermore the federal reserve is not a federal agency -- in fact it is a privately owned central bank which creates federal reserve notes out of nothing, backed by nothing and at interest.
this was all proven as far back as the 1950's due to the painstaking research by eustace mullins in his book 'the secrets of the federal reserve.'
so my question is -- would you lead the way and/or support an effort to repeal the federal reserve act of 1913 - if so why and if not why?
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controversial alexandria, la. attorney thomas davenport elected unopposed to the democratic parish executive committee
via: twitter @louisiana_sos
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since mr. davenport is now an elected official that would seem to make him a public person.
other local democrats elected at-large and unopposed to the rapides parish, dpec include, richard e. "dick" lee, rosia g. metoyer, helen w. moore, mary l. wardsworth.
district a - jonathan b. dean, district b - federal jail bird no: 07929-035, district c has no candidates, district d - angelina b. iles, district e - chris roy, sr., district f - gerber m. porter and district - g thomas d. davenport.
see the secretary of state's website for the complete list including the rethugs.
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"ode to the welfare state"
via rense.com a scan of the friday, 04 november 1949, daily news (new york).
the intro reads:mr. truman's st. paul, minn., pie-for-everybody speech last night reminded us that, at the tail-end of the recent session of congress, representative clarence j. brown (r-ohio) jammed into the congressional record the following poem, describing its author only as "a prominent democrat of the state of georgia":
alex cenla: alexandria, la pawn shop featured in tv program
new history channel television series will be set in a local pawn shop - according to this alex cenla scoop.








