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anti-fluoridation knowledge going mainstream

recently americans for limited government, chairman, howard rich, penned a piece to their netright daily.com blog project entitled: "fighting fluoridation: fringe no more."

it's encouraging to see articles about the hazard and folly of water fluoridation in more mainstream outlets because so many people simply will not believe anything is true until the main stream media tells them so.

with this article you can now consider yourself as having permission to discuss water fluoridation without risk of being tagged a conspiracy theorist.

as far as louisiana -- louisiana has a mandatory water fluoridation law in effect since 2008. yes 2008 not 1958. this is due to the machinations of corrupt, criminal, lake charles democratic state senator, willy landry mount and her state house partner in crime, corrupt, criminal, monroe rino, kay "bucket of bolts" katz. 

mount's SB312 was signed into law by that subversive rino weasel piyush "bobby" jindal.

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rednecks gone wild! louisiana mudfest sued

like nobody could see anything like this coming.

in their petition for damages, plaintiffs, kent devillier and ivy tran, residents of krotz springs in st. landry parish, louisiana, claim that on 21 may 2012 they and their kids and some local friends were swimming in the river at mudfest.

eventually, mr. devillier and ms. tran left the swim party (their kids wanted to stay) to return to their campsite to start supper.

about twenty minutes later here comes their kids with a group of four wheelers behind them seemingly like herding their kids back to their camp.

upon arrival at their camp the group of four wheelers began accusing mr. devillier and ms. tran of abandoning and starving their kids.

so they started shouting and arguing back and forth when finally mr. devillier who was sitting in a lawn chair asked them to leave ... "when suddenly a bald man with a beard ... attacked mr. devillier."

then, according to their petition, "as mr. devillier was getting attacked, three other men proceeded to jump in and hit mr. deviller at the same time."

ms. tran went to mr. devillier's aid and was attempting to pull one of the men off him when some girls from the four wheeler group attacked her.

finally someone phoned 911 and the rest is civil court history.

kent devillier and ivy tran's petition for damages is filed on 11 february 2013 by opelousas, louisiana attorney alfred v. pavy boudreaux of the pavy & boudreaux law firm; docketed at number 246,684 and allotted to ninth judicial district court judge harry f. randow.

wst... note: while we've never personally visited mudfest, over the past year, or so, members of our family have repeatedly attended events there and have never mentioned having anything other than a pleasant time.

"the abduction of psyche"

The painting The Abduction of Psyche (which is also known by the French title Le ravissement de Psych ) is one of artist William Bouguereau's most recognizable and famous works.

The Abduction of Psyche was inspired by an episode from Classical mythology, and Bouguereau was certainly not the first to be fascinated by the legend.

Indeed, the tale of Psyche and Cupid (or Eros, if you prefer the Greek name for Cupid) has appealed to many painters and poets over the centuries. But the way in which the artist has depicted his version of the myth is what makes this particular image so memorable.

In this painting, the beautiful woman Psyche is being carried by her immortal lover Cupid.

Bouguereau biographer Fronia E. Wissman writes poetically of this piece: "...she [Psyche] is literally being transported by love." And this, in essence, is what the image represents.

Psyche seems lost in a blissful reverie. She is being embraced by the handsome god of love, who, with his elegant wings and idealized features, seems custom made to drive young women into a frenzy of admiration and desire.

The two figures almost seem as one in this work, and together their bodies form a lyrical arrangement.

Floating draperies - delicate lilac for Psyche and muted blue-grey for Cupid - complete the composition and give the painting a subtle but sophisticated diagonal emphasis.

It is also worth noting that the composition of The Abduction of Psyche is similar to one of Bouguereau's much earlier works, his beautifully decorative painting The Dance (which is in the collection of the Muse d'Orsay).~ source

... cos your kisses lift me higher ... like the sweet song of a choir ...

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city of alexandria la seeks declaratory judgment determining the validity of ordinance 236-2012

the petition for declaratory judgment of the city of alexandria, la., seeks the court to determine the validity of ordinance 236-2012 {.pdf from page 8), which:

"appropriates additional funds, within the budget of the city of alexandria for the purpose of providing to regular, properly-tenured [employees] for the purposes of the payments hereunder, full-time city employees ['qualified employees'] a 'one-time salary supplement payment.'"

apparently, there is a question as to whether supplemental payments to salaries to city employees violate article 7 sec.14(A) of the louisiana constitution of 1974 which pertains to "donation, loan, or pledge of public credit."

the petition for declaratory judgment, to be served on louisiana attorney general james d. "buddy" caldwell, is filed on 05 february 2013 by alexandria, la., city attorney charles e. johnson, jr., with an assist from, cough, cough, misty antoon, docketed at number 246,619 and allotted to ninth judicial district court judge harry f. randow.

pineville la police department sued in taser/police brutality cause

UPDATE: 17 february 2013 front page scan and a .pdf of the 16 february 2013 gannett/alexandria daily town talk pages a-1 and a-5 added. click here to download the two page .pdf [976 kb].

UPDATE: 16 february 2013 gannett/ alexandria daily town talk: Lawsuit filed against Pineville and officers over stun gun incident

UPDATE: 15 february 2013: louisianarecord.com Police brutality alleged by Pineville residents in lawsuit




some people like to talk about what a great place pineville, la., is but yet their police department gets sued for taser and police brutality all the time. much more than the city of alexandria which has the bad reputation.

according to their petition, on 11 may 2012, fred wilson called the pineville police department from the chevron station located on the monroe highway in pineville (possibly chevron ball 6101 monroe highway, ball, la.}, because he thought (or had, it's not clear), a large amount of money stolen from out his vehicle.

pineville police officers samantha welch belgard and john hebert responded. they kept questioning mr. wilson as to how and why he had such a large sum of money and finally mr. wilson said "what difference does it make?" then according to the petition officer john hebert pulled out his taser and tased him. and then tased mr. wilson a second time while he was on the ground.

janice brittain and donald brittain were customers at the chevron and were so shocked at what they witnessed, attempted to exchange information with the wilsons'.

the police said they couldnt exchange information and arrested janice brittain and fred wilson charged with resisting arrest and battery on a police officer. rapides district attorney jam downs eventually dismissed those charges.

so now they're suing and good luck to them. we'd add that there needs to be an investigation into what's going on in pineville.

the petition for damages is filed on 06 february 2013, by alexandria, la., attorney, paul j. tellarico of the tellarico law firm, docketed at number 246,629 and allotted to ninth judicial district court judge george c. metoyer.

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click here to download thirteen page .pdf [352 kb]

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3rd circuit: ninth jdc judge thomas yeager's violation of criminal procedure Article 814 A(45) results in vacated conviction/sentence in 2010 alexandria mall skirmish/shoot em up

of coz no mention is made of how much taxpayer money was squandered on the first trial as well as the next one.

ref: la code of criminal procedure article 814 responsive verdicts; in particular

hawk

one might wonder how hawks ever catch anything to eat cos they so loudly (or proudly) announce their presence. it just occurred to us that besides signaling each other their location and conditions, their screeching mostly serves to frighten the birds and small animals below (squirrel, rabbit etc) so that they scatter, making it easier for the hawks (as you can see at the end when it folds its wings up into a dive) to see something to pick out for lunch or in this case brunch. 

speaking of birds ...

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winter

UPDATE for 2012 cenla christmas day tornadoes

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rpso: sufficient probable cause established arrest in rigolette bridge & serial arsonist case

For Release to the Media
FM: Lt. T. Carnline RPSO
DTD: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:59
SUBJ:Arson Arrest in Rigolette Bridge Fire of Last Year

During the early morning hours of March 26th 2011, the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office received a complaint that the bridge spanning Rigolette Bayou located on Rigolette Road in Tioga was on fire.

Local fire personnel were able to put out the fire, but due to extensive damage it created, the bridge was closed for public safety.

R.P.S.O. Detectives in conjunction with investigators of the Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office immediately began an investigation into the incident as it was believed the fire was the result of an arsonist.

Various leads were followed up, but none led to an arrest up until now.

In November of this year, R.P.S.O. Detectives received information relating to multiple structure fires in the Tioga area, which included the Rigolette Bridge and two uninhabited residences located on Hollowdale Drive.

Detectives re-opened the original investigations and were able to establish sufficient probable cause that twenty-three year old Trenton Lloyd Malone was the main suspect in each of the fires.

As a result, warrants were granted for Malone’s arrest for Three Counts of Simple Arson Over $500.

On December 27th 2012, Deputies located Malone at a residence in the Alexandria area.

He was advised of the warrants and taken into custody without incident.

Trenton Lloyd Malone of 144 Hollowdale Drive, Tioga, LA, was booked into the Rapides Parish Jail, where he is currently being held in lieu of a $300,000.00 bond.

Detectives say their investigation is still ongoing and additional arrests may be forth coming.

If you or someone you know has any information relating to these fires please contact Detective Jonathan Treadway at the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office Tioga Sub Station (318) 640-6000, R.P.S.O. Main Office (318) 473-6700, or Crime Stoppers (318) 443-7867.

"Whenever a case goes cold, you always keep it in the back of your mind and then one day, one piece of evidence or information comes up and our detectives got right back on this case and solved it with an arrest" said Sheriff William Earl Hilton.
in light of the recent christmas day 2012 tornadoes which wrought much devastation to parts of central louisiana such as the garden district in alexandria and parts of tioga, ball & rigolette that after reading the press release a couple of questions came to mind.

is this bridge reopened?

what role if any did this bridge arson mischief play in hampering the responders getting to this neighborhood?

so we emailed lieutenant carnline to ask if the bridge was reopened (we figured he would know if the sheriff's office was able to patrol this area) and was he aware of any reports linking this 2011 mischief with hampering this storm's first responders and clean up crews?

he replied:

I checked with the Police Jury and the bridge was re-opened in the spring of this [2012] year. The only thing that hampered response to the devastation by the tornado’s were the trees in the roadway.

UPDATED kalb special report cenla christmas day 2012 severe weather

 

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the story of the birth of christ

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