RECALL PETITION FILED
JAN 10, 2006 9:11 AM
**EXCLUSIVE**
Tuesday morning, Kat Landry, founder of the website RECALLGOVERNORBLANCO.COM told THE DEAD PELICAN that she had officially filed the petition for a recall election for the office of the governor.
The official word comes on the heels of yesterday's press release, when she announced her intentions to file the petition with the Louisiana Secretary of State's office.
For more info., go to http://www.recallgovernorblanco.com/.
Developing...
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Filed By Chad E. Rogers
(c) THE DEAD PELICAN
http://www.thedeadpelican.com for updates
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this readers write appeared in todays town talk...
Pineville not picture-perfect
My husband and I grew up in Pineville, and after college we moved back to start a family. The town was safe and schools were great. We built a home in a great neighborhood and my parents built next to us.
In our neighborhood you could leave doors unlocked and let children play without worry. What a difference only a few years have made.
Despite the propaganda articles that are printed in The Town Talk, things are not as they may seem. Several years ago the mayor and his professional spokesman were on the front page of the newspaper and on television patting themselves on the back that a new low-rent apartment complex would be built in Pineville right next to our subdivision. They proudly proclaimed that they considered this to be economic development.
I'm not a genius but the "economic" and potential crime impact of this development was not going to be positive at all. The immediate concern to me and other neighbors was people being able to walk into our backyards from the complex. I voiced my concern to our proud mayor and was told that they would get right on it. I wrote letters asking to please, at least, make sure a fence was put up. I was promised something would be done. Unfortunately, I did not have the glare of the spotlight to get the mayor and his staff's attention. Two years have passed and nothing has been done.
In broad daylight on Christmas Eve my family's home was broken into, ransacked and burglarized. Two residents of the "economic development" complex were coming out of my mother's home just as I walked up. My husband and a neighbor caught one suspect after a long chase.
For the first time in my life we have a gun and soon will have a "for sale" sign on the house. Economic development is not showing up for every ribbon cutting or taking credit for every good thing that happens this side of the Red River; it is having a vision that takes into consideration the needs and safety of all the people who live here as well as being responsible to the needs of people when the media are not around. We need less image and more substance from our leaders.
Tracy Liotta
Pineville
Originally published January 9, 2006
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we dont get to listen to this show as much as we would like to. it comes on on saturday mornings on ksyl so we dont always get to listen. when we do get to listen we are never disappointed because chef folse; his assistant michaela york are the perfect foil to each other. they are comfortable with each other and they have a big time, laughing, joking and stirrin it up. they talk about anything and everything.
now we have noticed that chef folse and company are streaming their latest show on his website. tonight, its the show from new years eve and chef has a very hoarse voice he said at the shows opening "the man who needs three women, a producer, a singer, a historian and one chef to carry the show for him today because yall he went to the big game last night - chef john folse." so he has a very hoarse voice but he hangs in there.
anyway, a little into the program michaela was asking the historian they had on about, the feast of christs circumcision. chef folse cut in and said "i never heard anything about that" and after the historian explained that used to be christmas was the holy day everyone went to church then on the epiphany also called the visitation of the magi (which coincidentally is today 06th january) that was when everyone would get their gifts because thats when jesus received his gifts. "yall lucky i cant talk" chef folse cut in ending that circumcision talk lol.
one of their guests and ive probably mispelt her surname was lillian boutet. it was her first time back to south louisiana since katrina from what we could gather she lives in germany shes a singer and she did an accapella version of james taylor's "you've got a friend" ms boutet said its "...a song for everyone affected by the hurricanes..." and if you would like to hear her excellent rendition we have it here.
2006 is also stirrin it up's 10th anniversary year.
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**updated 10:07am cst tuesday 17 january 2006** mike francis has launched a website touting his candidacy for secretary of state you may view it here: http://francis06.com/
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dead pelican is reporting that mike francis, ceo of francis drilling fluids ltd has decided to run for louisiana secretary of state. francis was louisiana gop chair from 1994 - 2000.
see also: sos jay dardenne
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we received this new style advance fee fraud email scam this morning and thought we would share - notice how in one paragraph the writer claims that it was a "Susan Phillipp" with citibank of texas then towards the bottom he called her "THE SAID MRS. WHITE"
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see also "
I will eat your dollars"
from the los angeles times.
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this is a pretty interesting story. it seems that the rhode island legislature overrode their governors veto and legalized medical marijuana.
its pretty strange when you think about it - making illegal a plant that occurs naturally. we wonder what it would be like if say smoking oak tree leaves or acorns had the same effect instead of marijuana.
how would the government handled that? lol
anyway heres the story. oh and by the way we found that marijuana plant picture on a google image search so please dont bust our door down in the middle of the night or any other time. thanks.
House overrides Carcieri's medical marijuana veto
By M.L. Johnson, Associated Press Writer - January 3, 2006
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Rhode Island on Tuesday became the 11th state to legalize medical marijuana and the first since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that patients who use the drug can still be prosecuted under federal law.
House lawmakers voted 59-13 to override a veto by Gov. Don Carcieri, allowing people with illnesses such as cancer and AIDS to grow up to 12 marijuana plants or buy 2.5 ounces of marijuana to relieve their symptoms. The law requires them to register with the state and get a photo identification card.
Federal law prohibits any use of marijuana, but Maine, Vermont, Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington allow it to be grown and used for medicinal purposes.
The U.S. high court ruled on June 6 that people who smoke marijuana because their doctors recommend it can still be prosecuted under federal drug laws.
Federal authorities conceded they were unlikely to prosecute many medicinal users, and Rhode Island lawmakers pressed on, passing their medical marijuana bill on June 7.
Carcieri vetoed it, and the state Senate voted the next day to override his veto, but the House recessed before following suit. Tuesday's House vote came just before the start of the 2006 session, allowing the law to take effect immediately.
Rep. Thomas Slater, D-Providence, and Sen. Rhoda E. Perry, D-Providence, introduced the legislation last year after watching family members suffer from terminal illnesses.
Perry's nephew died two years ago of AIDS. Although marijuana may have relieved his suffering, he never used it because it was illegal, she said.
Perry said after the vote that she was "very grateful on behalf of my family and my nephew."
Slater has cancer and several of his family members have died from it. He said he doesn't need marijuana now, but it could be part of his treatment in the future.
"I'm sure everybody in this room knows at least one person who would have benefited from medical marijuana," he said before the vote.
Carcieri reiterated his opposition to the bill on Tuesday, saying it fails to provide ways for users to buy marijuana legally and would leave Rhode Islanders open to federal prosecution.
"Users will be forced to purchase marijuana in the illegal street market, putting them at risk and complicating the difficult jobs that our law enforcement personnel must do every day," Carcieri said in a statement.
Warren Dolbashian, 34, of Cranston, said he has used marijuana to relieve symptoms of Tourette's syndrome since he was 17. Marijuana allows him to reduce the amount of other drugs he uses, which helps because those drugs cause fluid to build up around his heart, he said.
Tom Riley, a spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, called the vote "largely symbolic" because of the existing federal law. He said he thought the vote showed "misguided and out-of-touch" views on the harms of marijuana.
"There's this notion from the 60s or the 70s that marijuana is a harmless drug," Riley said. "It's not."
The legislation contains a sunset provision that would cause it to expire on June 30, 2007 if no further action is taken.
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**updated** 1:08 pm cst friday 06 january 2006 microsoft has released their own patch for the wmf flaw. to download and install it simply click your start button > then windows update> and follow the directions. microsoft website information here.
updated 1033 pm cst wed 04 january 2006 - we went ahead and downloaded Mr.Ilfak Guilfanov's unofficial .WMF flaw patch based on this post at the internet storm center
uh oh :-| note to self...be sure and check windows updates...often until this is taken care of. thankfully we use the Firefox browser the latest version 1.5 was released around the 29th november 05...must check into switching to linux for the new year lol. we have been watching this story brew for the past few days now its in red on drudge. we remember seeing something over the weekend about a patch some guy had made up until microsoft can be bothered to release one supposedly on tuesday the 10th january 2006 ...right now we are watching closely to see what happens...shame if we have to switch-off our pc.
Ilfak Guilfanov's unofficial .WMF flaw patch
-----------financial times ---------By Kevin Allison in San Francisco
Published: January 2 2006 18:18 Last updated: January 2 2006 22:19
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and so we enter the final day of 2005. chad over at DP gives us a nice year end reminder of the morons we have elected to our state government. thanks chad.
meet la state senator don "doc" hines (d) bunkie, our asshole of the year...
dr. don its time to go home you are done.
anyway c b forgotston wrote a nice commentary on his blog that we are reproducing below - everyone who is concerned and loves louisiana should read mr forgotston's blog. its located here: www.forgotston.com
c.b. forgotston
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Session to focus on levee boardsBy MICHELLE MILLHOLLON and MARK BALLARDmmillhollon@theadvocate.comCapitol news bureauConsolidating the levee boards is emerging as the central issue for the upcoming special session. The question on some lawmakers' minds is whether Gov. Kathleen Blanco can build a consensus for it."The worst thing we can do is to call a special session, spend a lot of taxpayer money … and come out of there with no success," Rep. Tom Schedler, R-Mandeville, said Friday from Atlanta, where he was attending the Peach Bowl.Blanco told legislators late Thursday that she plans to call them into session in late January "to consider a variety of legislative proposals."Her announcement came on the heels of Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, circulating a petition for lawmakers to call themselves into session.Senate President Don Hines, D-Bunkie, admitted Friday that he crumpled up Scalise's petition."I threw it in the trash can," Hines said. "I just thought it was unnecessary for the Legislature to do this."Politics doomed an attempt to consolidate regional levee boards during the November special session. The legislation by Sen. Walter Boasso, R-Arabi, cleared the Senate but died in the House.Earlier this month, a U.S. Senate committee investigating hurricane response heard testimony about turf wars that broke out during the levee breaches that flooded the New Orleans area after the hurricane.Army officials complained they were blocked by one levee district from fixing a breach. Another levee board official said annual inspections amounted to officials having "beignets and coffee."Blanco already has testified before Congress about her response to Katrina. She is expected to testify again in February.The feeling among State Capitol figures is that consolidating the levee districts would win points for Louisiana in Washington.Sen. Jay Dardenne, R-Baton Rouge, said consolidation of the levee board could have been accomplished during the special session in November had Blanco been willing to push. But she did not.Dardenne said Blanco appeared to be pulling away from having a second special session until the last couple of weeks, when lawmakers, citizen groups and business interests began pressuring the administration to address the levee board issue.Two weeks ago, Blanco announced that she always had embraced consolidation of the levee boards but felt it couldn't be accomplished in the November meeting."The groundswell to do something about the levees has forced her into some action," Dardenne said Friday. With Blanco's backing, changes to statutes to change out the dozen and half levee boards for one entity could easily be accomplished in a week or so, he said."The consolidated levee board will be a slam dunk. It should have been a slam dunk last special session," Dardenne said from Disney World, where he is vacationing with his family.Blanco supporters responded to criticism about not backing the Boasso bill by saying his measure was introduced too late in the last special session to receive adequate attention. Instead, Blanco pushed a bill that would create another panel above that of the existing levee boards. That bill passed.High-ranking politicians, including Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, as well as the business community criticized the Legislature for failing to pass measures that would consolidate the levee boards.However, Hines, who was hand-picked by Blanco to lead the Senate, said he does not understand the rush for consolidating the levee districts considering that the Army Corp. of Engineers has control of rebuilding the levees."Everybody is screaming and yelling for the consolidating of the levee boards," he said. "I don't see where it is going to accomplish much right off."Schedler supported levee board consolidation in the recent special session. But he said Friday that a lot of questions arose after the session, including whether small, privately funded levee districts would be affected.He said he plans to meet with Boasso in the next few weeks to work out the kinks on the legislation.Schedler said it's crucial to Louisiana's future for Blanco to iron out the issues and build a consensus."I think she's got to attempt to pull this thing together," he said. "I still think we're very disjointed. We have some talented people. I don't see a consensus developing (or) one clear focused message coming out of Louisiana."======
we just came across this story linked from one of our new favorite websites Drudge Retort this young englishman had what turned out to be a great idea. its odd who fortune chooses to smile upon. anyway we will be patiently waiting for the next off the wall internet success story.
the million dollar homepage
By Peter Graff Thu Dec 29, 1:04 PM ETLONDON (Reuters) - If you have an envious streak, you probably shouldn't read this.Because chances are, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet.Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, the tiny dots on the screen that appear when you call up his home page.He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page, called, logically enough, www.milliondollarhomepage.com, while lying in bed thinking out how he would pay for university.The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10 by 10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100.He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made $1,000, he issued a press release.That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with links to their own sites.So far they have bought up 911,800 pixels. Tew's home page now looks like an online Times Square, festooned with a multi-colored confetti of ads."All the money's kind of sitting in a bank account," Tew told Reuters from his home in Wiltshire, southwest England. "I've treated myself to a car. I've only just passed my driving test so I've bought myself a little black mini."The site features testimonials from advertisers, some of whom bought spots as a lark, only to discover that they were receiving actual valuable Web hits for a fraction of the cost of traditional Internet advertising.Meanwhile Tew has had to juggle running the site with his first term at university, where he is studying business."It's been quite a difficulty trying to balance going to lectures and doing the site," he said.But he may not have to study for long. Job offers have been coming in from Internet companies impressed by a young man who managed to figure out an original way to make money online."I didn't expect it to happen like that," Tew said. "To have the job offers and approaches from investors -- the whole thing is kind of surreal. I'm still in a state of disbelief."=======
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this morning we received not one but two ebay phishing emails. it seems to go in circles first "they" will phish ebay and paypal then the bank phishing ones arrive those are the easiest to spot because we dont have an account at any of the banks lol anyway you name it and someone will try and phish it. if you ever want to get a good education about phishing the Anti-Phishing Working Group keeps a great website with everything you will need to know its here. they even have an email address where you can forward any phishing emails that you receive to them its: reportphishing@antiphishing.org and dont forget to CC your email to spam@uce.gov you should also send any and all spam emails you receive to spam@uce.gov. - anyway these are two good email addys to add to your address book - just in case.
heres the first tip off (besides the fact that we dont have an ebay account) our email address isnt chellybrown@msn.com;
the second tip-off is if you mouse-over the blue link in the email while at the same time looking down into your status bar you will see that it actually goes to another non-ebay website -they dont match - so its always a good idea to look down in the status bar and compare what you see there with the url you see within an email.
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sean scully's phishing story
RECALL PETITION FILED
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we dont get to listen to this show as much as we would like to. it comes on on saturday mornings on ksyl so we dont always get to listen. when we do get to listen we are never disappointed because chef folse; his assistant michaela york are the perfect foil to each other. they are comfortable with each other and they have a big time, laughing, joking and stirrin it up. they talk about anything and everything.
anyway, a little into the program michaela was asking the historian they had on about, the feast of christs circumcision. chef folse cut in and said "i never heard anything about that" and after the historian explained that used to be christmas was the holy day everyone went to church then on the epiphany also called the visitation of the magi (which coincidentally is today 06th january) that was when everyone would get their gifts because thats when jesus received his gifts. "yall lucky i cant talk" chef folse cut in ending that circumcision talk lol.
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**updated 10:07am cst tuesday 17 january 2006** mike francis has launched a website touting his candidacy for secretary of state you may view it here: http://francis06.com/
we received this new style advance fee fraud email scam this morning and thought we would share - notice how in one paragraph the writer claims that it was a "Susan Phillipp" with citibank of texas then towards the bottom he called her "THE SAID MRS. WHITE"
this is a pretty interesting story. it seems that the rhode island legislature overrode their governors veto and legalized medical marijuana.
**updated** 1:08 pm cst friday 06 january 2006 microsoft has released their own patch for the wmf flaw. to download and install it simply click your start button > then windows update> and follow the directions. microsoft website information here. 
Ilfak Guilfanov's unofficial .WMF flaw patch
and so we enter the final day of 2005. chad over at DP gives us a nice year end reminder of the morons we have elected to our state government. thanks chad.
c.b. forgotston
we just came across this story linked from one of our new favorite websites Drudge Retort this young englishman had what turned out to be a great idea. its odd who fortune chooses to smile upon. anyway we will be patiently waiting for the next off the wall internet success story.
see the hidden true url on the status bar - lower left. its not an ebay url at all. 
