"I feel pretty!"
A Boston-based federal bankruptcy judge has resigned after pleading guilty to drunken driving in New Hampshire. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Somma resigned Friday, effective April 1. He'll be on leave until then. racking up that last dab of pension time...
The resignation comes after a newspaper reported that Somma was in drag when he was stopped by police on Feb. 6. The Union Leader of Manchester, N.H., reported Somma was wearing a cocktail dress and high heels. Yer slip is showing, yer Honor
Somma did not contest the driving charge and was found guilty on Wednesday. His license was suspended for a year in New Hampshire and he paid $600 in fines and penalties.
Somma, of Newbury, was appointed in 2004. Gary Wente, Circuit Executive of the First Circuit in Boston, said Somma resigned to put the incident behind him. He called Somma a "brilliant" "hard-working" jurist and said he would be sorely missed. "He brought a certain bon vivance to the chambers"
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effective April 1
Nuff said, cause, you know, like, Halloween has already passed.
Sydney: Searchers are scouring the Australian outback for a thoroughbred horse who escaped from its paddock and may have joined a herd of wild horses. The seven-year-old gelding got out of a field on its trainers property in Alice Springs a month ago. His owners a six-member syndicate chartered a helicopter to look for the prize-winning racehorse and circulated photos to property owners. Most people in the town believe the gelding has teamed up with a herd of brumbies, or wild horses.
Hes brought everybody a lot of good times and were very keen to get him back, said syndicate leader Stephen Smedley of the horse, called Not Abandoned.
He said that when the gelding disappeared he expected him to be found dead in the bush, unable to survive the harsh environment. Veterinarians have since told him that if Not Abandoned has joined a herd of wild horses they will have led him to fresh water and grazing. Unseasonal rains have improved its chances, meaning it will be able to get the 20 litres of water a day it needs to stay alive.
The thoroughbred has a history of overcoming the odds, according to the local newspaper, The Centralian Advocate. As a yearling he was given away in a lottery and delighted his new owners by coming second in his first race. It has collected tens of thousands of dollars in prize money.
Andrew OToole, chief executive of the Alice Springs Turf Club, said: Not Abandoned is one of the best horses to have raced here and I, along with everybody else, am keen that somebody spots him and he can be caught.
Let's hope he never gets caught
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Reminds me of a Sherlock Holmes tale by the name of "Silver Blaze"...
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It has happened before.
"There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
That the colt from old Regret had got away,
And had joined the wild bush horses - he was worth a thousand pound,
So all the cracks had gathered to the fray.
All the tried and noted riders from the stations near and far
Had mustered at the homestead overnight,
For the bushmen love hard riding where the wild bush horses are,
And the stockhorse snuffs the battle with delight." The rest of Banjo Paterson's famous poem is here.
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Feral horses while common in the East of Australia are rare to non-existent in the West. Feral goats and camels have beaten them in the game of adaptation called life.
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I love the idea that camels gone wild in Australia have succeeded where the the breeders of the noble racing camels of Arabia have't: figuring out when she-camels are in season and getting them to make baby camels. ;-)
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The Doctor made a style error. He should have had the book reviewed by someone like Ann Coulter before he had it published. A book like this thrives on careful bibliography and research, but also on readability.
To start with, there is pop-medical style of writing that goes back to the classical Berton Rouche, all the way through neurologist Oliver Sacks' "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat", both of whom are still being ripped off by others for that genre.
Probably the highlights of his books would typically be anonymous case histories to demonstrate his theories.
By making general comparisons of individuals under treatment with examples from well known political figures statements, he could establish that a large percentage of liberals walking around today are people who could be diagnosed as having some variety of textbook mental illness, and not very subjectively, but obviously, even to laymen.
And this is where his expertise would be essential. Liberals *have* to assert that Republican Presidents are mentally deficient, even after those men have whupped seven bells out of them repeatedly, because to admit that they are not just of normal, but of superior intelligence, is to deny their delusion that conservatives must be deficient, otherwise they would be liberals.
But liberals efforts to prove this are irrational and unprovable, and without scientific evidence or merit.
A national dance craze in Ivory Coast has spawned a black market in treatments claiming to increase one's bottom size.
The dance in question has been inspired by DJ Mix and DJ Eloh's hit song Bobaraba, which means "big bottom" in the local Djoula language. When it plays you can be guaranteed that the dance floor will be packed with people shaking their derrieres. Even Ivorian footballers have adopted the moves and could be seen wiggling their bottoms in a curious on-pitch dance after each goal scored during the just-ended Africa Nations Cup. However, doctors have warned of the possible dangers of some of the concoctions on sale.
While the dance has been embraced by both sexes, DJ Mix says it was inspired by women. "We made it as a tribute to women, because African women are defined by the shape of their bottoms," he says. "Move your bottom, jump, you see, it's alive." Kady Meite, one of his dancers, says the song is a message for women. "There are women today with large bottoms who are embarrassed, so it's to say don't be ashamed - be comfortable," she says. The message seems to have been taken on board - so much so that some women are now going in search of a "bobaraba".
In the sprawling Adjame market just north of the city centre in Abidjan, women sell "bottom enhancers". "You need to inject this liquid into your bottom once a day," says a market trader, showing a vial of coloured liquid labelled "Vitamin B12". Each vial costs $2. The label claims it is made in China. If you do not like the sound of injections, the same amount of money will also get you a small tub of cream. There is no description of what the product contains or how to apply it; just the words "Big bottoms and big breasts", and two illustrating pictures.
Local gynaecologist Dr Marcel Sissoko is sceptical about the concoctions. "This medicine could be dangerous for your health because we don't know the ingredients. It's being used without a medical prescription," he warns. "The health ministry hasn't authorised this and doctors don't know what's in there, so there are risks." At the Micronutrient Information Centre at Oregon State University in the United States, Dr Victoria Drake says she knows of no scientific evidence that vitamin B12 can be used to treat anything except vitamin B12 deficiency.
DJ Mix admits there is now a growing fashion for young women to show off their bottoms. "If a woman goes dancing and wants to take two or three treatments, no problem," he says. "But we don't say to girls that they must take treatment to enhance your bottom, no." One man on the streets of Abidjan agreed: "Us boys, we appreciate these things because when women use the treatment it attracts us, but for women it's not good." Most women I spoke to preferred to avoid the treatments. "Me? I prefer to be natural so you can know your true value. It's best not to use these medicines. It's not good - it's actually very dangerous," one said. Another woman was happy with what came naturally. "I do the bobaraba because I already have a big bum. When I dance, everyone looks at me."
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The label claims it is made in China. If you do not like the sound of injections, the same amount of money will also get you a small tub of cream. There is no description of what the product contains or how to apply it; just the words "Big bottoms and big breasts", and two illustrating pictures.
That sounds very safe, at least as much as the skin-whitening creams so popular for african girls, if not more!
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Take 2 tubs of Crisco and call me in the morning.
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I like big butts
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"I like bacon, I like grits, I like girls with great-big butts. Honey let me be your Salty Dog"
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"Ain't gonna 'bump' no more with no big fat woman . . . "
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"Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery - huh
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me"
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Since this includes "butts" and "vitamin B-12" in the same story, I wonder how long it will take Henry Waxman to look into the story and schedule a hearing?
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In Senegal the word is jaayfunde, meaning porridge seller; the lady who makes the porridge gets to eat it, therefore develops a large derierre. #2 daughter is studying in Senegal for a year, and has concluded that the jaayfunde is necessary for surviving the the bumps and jabs received while riding public transportation.
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My favorite quote: "I did not want to live among dead-looking people in Japan," said Oshiro, who was a job-hopping part-time worker in Japan. Sounds to me like he wants adventure, and doesn't see himself finding it in Japan. Good on him.
A woman who worked for the United Nations died Sunday after falling from the 19th floor of the U.N.'s Secretariat Building, authorities said. It's a start.
Police and U.N. security officers at the scene, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, said the woman in her 40s had jumped from a window after showing up to work early in the morning. Walked in on an unscheduled Security Council meeting when they were discussing "financing" on one of their latest endeavors, perhaps?
"A U.N. agency staff member died after falling from the 19th floor of the U.N. Secretariat Building," U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said. "At this time there is no suspicion of foul play."
Okabe said U.N. officials would not confirm her identity even after her next of kin were notified. The official cause of death was to be determined by the medical examiner. Let me save you some money: It was the abrupt stop at the end of the fall that did it.
U.N. staff rushed to the scene and escorted investigators to the rear area of the building, where yellow tape was put up around the woman's body. Some U.N. staff were blocked from leaving the building just after the discovery. Quick! Schedule weekly update meetings in a central location until this blows over! The Bahamas should do nicely. Of course we'll need to use one of their finest hotels.
In 1982, a 57-year-old senior U.N. official who had just resigned from the Office of Financial Services and was reported to have been upset about his failing health plunged to his death from the 18th floor of the Secretariat building. Looks like she one-upped him.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Nancy Reagan's spokeswoman says the former first lady is staying overnight in the hospital after falling in her home in Bel-Air. Spokeswoman Joanne Drake says the 87-year-old Reagan was taken to St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica for examination Sunday. Doctors determined she did not break a hip as feared.
Drake says Reagan is staying in the same room where former President Ronald Reagan stayed after he broke his hip at home in 2001.
Get well soon, Nancy.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
