VERY good news in what was a vicious crime--edited for brevity.
A missing newborn girl who was abducted from her mother was found alive Tuesday, and appeared to be well at a hospital, a hospital official said. Bill Miller Sr., who is publisher of the Washington Missourian and also a member of the board of directors at St. John's Mercy Hospital in Washington, said family members were gathered with 11-day-old Abigale Lynn Woods.
St. Louis television station KSDK the baby was found not far from her home in Londell. Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke confirmed to KSDK-TV in St. Louis Tuesday evening that the baby was found alive in an abandoned house near Lonedell, not far from where the crime occurred. Toelke said a woman has been arrested.
The child's mother, 21-year-old Stephenie Ochsenbine, told police Friday a woman entered her rural home, attacked her with a knife, and stole Abigale Lynn Woods, who was a week old at the time.
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Thank God. I said a prayer for this family and their baby girl.
This one's for Pappy!
Founded by two guys in 1995 and popularized by humorist Dave Barry's syndicated column in 2002, this bizarre occasion probably would've been a one-hit wonder if it weren't for the Internet's appetite for sublime ridiculous humor. Talk Like a Pirate Day website
Arrrrghh! There be celebratin' in Chittagong anchorage tonight!
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Yarrrrrrr! Pass me more khat, matey! Me spies a container boat with a ripe crop of UN wheat crossin the horizon inbound to the Mog! Easy pickins fer the crew of the Starvin African...
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LOL, mcsegeek1.
Prepare to be boarded, LOL. Yep, that's the best. :)
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Yarrrr! There be a song! ("With Cat-Like Tread" from Pirates of Penzance)
With cat-like tread,
Upon our prey we steal;
In silence dread,
Our cautious way we feel.
No sound at all,
We never speak a word,
A flys foot-fall
Would be distinctly heard
Tarantara, tarantara!
So stealthily the pirate creeps,
While all the household soundly sleeps.
Come, friends, who plough the sea,
Truce to navigation;
Take another station;
Lets vary piracee
With a little burglaree!
Come, friends, who plough the sea,
Truce to navigation;
Take another station;
Lets vary piracee
With a little burglaree!
Heres your crowbar and your centrebit,
Your life-preserver you may want to hit!
Your silent matches, your dark lantern seize,
Take your file and your skeletonic keys.
Tarantara.
With cat-like tread
Tarantara.
In silence dread
With cat-like tread,
Upon our prey we steal;
In silence dread,
Our cautious way we feel.
No sound at all,
We never speak a word,
A flys foot-fall
Would be distinctly heard
Residents of crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro have a new kind of predator to worry about – hawks. A pair of hawks have attacked more than 100 residents of the upscale Ipanema beach district since the Pope's remarks over the past year, scratching peoples heads and faces, doormen working at buildings in the area said Monday. "People leave the building carrying umbrellas to protect themselves from the attacks," said Luis Honorato, a doorman in a building near where the hawks have built a nest. "At first, they think that someone is throwing something, like a can, onto their heads from the floors above." All together now: we need to ask why they hate us.
Honorato said that one day he saw five attacks in 20 minutes. "Every time I leave the building I keep waving my hands over my head," said Mario Roxo, a 75-year-old chauffeur who had his head badly scratched by a hawk. The O Globo newspaper reported that one woman lost part of her scalp to a hawk and another man mistook an attack for a stray bullet.
Rodgrigo Carvalho, a biologist with Brazil's environmental agency, said the hawks were just trying to defend the dignity of Islam their young. "This happens all the time in poor areas and people think it's funny, but when it happens in a rich neighborhoods they start calling them attacks," Carvalho said. He estimates as many as 1,000 hawks live in the city, flourishing because of a lack of predators and easy access to rats, pigeons and garbage.
Residents have asked the fire department to remove the nest, but officials say they cannot until they get approval from Brazil's environmental protection agency.
A historic meeting in the Spanish city of Córdoba yesterday saw ministers from Britain and Spain sit down for the first time with political leaders from Gibraltar to resolve long-standing squabbles over the Rock. Deals over joint use of Gibraltar airport, as well as pensions, telephones, border controls and culture, were agreed by the Europe minister, Geoff Hoon, the Spanish foreign minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, and Gibraltar's chief minister, Peter Caruana.
The key agreement involves joint use of the airport by Spain and Gibraltar, with the building of a terminal that will straddle the border zone. Passenger aircraft will soon be able to fly from Gibraltar to Spanish airports, turning Gibraltar into a regional airport. Spanish officials said that the Spanish flag would also fly on the Rock for the first time since 1954, when the dictator General Francisco Franco closed the Spanish consulate in a fit of rage over a visit by the Queen. The flag will fly outside a new branch of the Cervantes Institute, Spain's equivalent of the British Council.
The about-turn in Anglo-Spanish relations over the Rock came after the prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's socialist government dropped Spain's refusal to negotiate directly with Gibraltarians. The issue of sovereignty was left deliberately to one side in three-way talks over the past 18 months. Spain, however, has not dropped its claim to sovereignty over the two-and-a-quarter square mile colony. Spain formally ceded Gibraltar to Britain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht.
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Due to the lack of land, Winston Churchill Avenue - the main road between Spain and Gibraltar - runs across the runway. The road is closed whenever there is a plane landing and/or departing.
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I emailed the tourist bureau after Colin had to intercede. I suggested that if they don't get what they want, they should threaten to petition the US to become a territory......
Voters in Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniestria have overwhelmingly backed plans to join Russia, strengthening the Kremlin's hand in its battle with the west for influence over the "frozen conflicts" of the former Soviet Union. Election officials in the tiny province on the edge of the European Union said yesterday that 97.1% of voters had cast ballots in a Sunday referendum in favour of continuing the region's 16-year-old de facto independence, with the ultimate goal of joining Moscow.
Nearly 79% of the region's 390,000 registered voters participated in the referendum. "The Dniester people are pinning their hopes for the future firmly on the Russian Federation," Igor Smirnov, the region's self-declared president, told reporters in its capital, Tiraspol.
The referendum was not recognised by Moldova, the EU or the US, but was welcomed by Russia. The Kremlin has made no promises to recognise or absorb Transdniestria, but supports the region financially and maintains a force of 1,200 troops there.
While the Moldovan foreign minister Andrei Stratan labelled the vote "a political farce", the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said it "reflected the legitimate will of the people".
Attached to Moldova by Stalin after the Soviet seizure of Moldovan lands from Romania, Transdniestria is a traditionally Russian-speaking region. It broke away from Moldova in a 1992 war after the Soviet collapse and 1,500 people were killed amid fierce fighting. Desperately poor, the region relies on Russian support to survive and many of its residents are stateless and unable to leave. Its government has been accused of perpetuating the Soviet system with tight controls on society and the economy, and Moldova says the region has become a haven for smuggling.
Talks aimed at giving Transdniestria special status within Moldova have repeatedly failed.
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Polish admirers of Ronald Reagan plan to raise a statue of the former U.S president in Warsaw, where he is revered for his role in the downfall of communism in Europe. The 3.5-meter (3.8-yard) stone-and-bronze statue will stand across from the U.S. Embassy, the head of the group raising money for the memorial said on Monday. The group includes Poles living in Poland, Canada and the United States.
"Reagan was the person who defeated the communists and opened the way for freedom in Poland," Janusz Dorosiewicz said. "The statue is a way for his legacy to live on."
Many Poles credit staunch anti-communist Reagan with helping the anti-communist movement in eastern Europe. In 1989, Poland became the first country in the region to shake off communism.
The group plans to unveil the Reagan statue on in 2007 on July 4 -- the U.S. Independence Day.
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Krakow already renamed a street after Reagan (or was it a roundabout?). Ronald Reagan Square or something like that.
Warsaw has an avenue named United States Avenue. But then again, the whole of eastern Warsaw is known as "Prague" (Praga) and there is a roundabout named after Charles De Gaulle, The U.N., and Thomas Woodrow Wilson.
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...and there are roundabouts...
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I hope they can raise enough money for it so they don't get stuck with a statue of Jimmy Carter.
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It can happen here, xbalanke. And it's not pretty...
Marge fails to make marshmallow treats for the town bake sale, which results in Springfield being unable to afford a statue of Abraham Lincoln. They settle for a bronze President Carter instead. When it's unveiled, someone shouts, "Jimmy Carter!? He's history's greatest monster!" and the town riots.
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional the latest version of a new Georgia law requiring voters to show photo ID. State Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford Jr. ruled that the photo ID requirement deprives otherwise qualified voters of the right to cast a ballot and adds a new, unconstitutional condition to voting. "you can't deprive them of their right to vote early and often, Counselor. How else would I get this lifetime job?
"Any attempt by the Legislature to require more than what is required by the express language of our Constitution cannot withstand judicial scrutiny," he wrote.
The judge took issue with the burden placed on voters to prove their identity using photo ID. Even if voters are allowed to cast ballots without the required identification, they must return within 48 hours with photo IDs or their vote is forfeited. too tough!
Bedford noted that a photo ID is not required to register to vote in Georgia. change that
The case is expected to go to the Georgia Supreme Court before the Nov. 7 general election.
Russ Willard, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office, said it would appeal "as quickly as possible." "he's a f*cking nut!"
Supporters of the photo ID law, including Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue, have said it is needed to protect against voter fraud. Opponents argue it disenfranchises poor, elderly and minority voters who are less likely to have a driver's license or other valid government-issued photo ID. gotta have one to cash that welfare or SS check...
Former Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes challenged the law in the state case on a voter's behalf. Several civil rights groups filed a similar lawsuit in federal court. "you'll restrict our voter base to the living, non-felons, and those that vote only once!"
"Judge Bedford obviously understood that at the end of the day, you don't play politics with the most fundamental right - the right to vote," said Jennifer Jordan, co-counsel with Barnes on the case. "The right to vote is actually the one thing that makes us all equal."
The new law took effect July 1, but its enforcement was blocked by state and federal judges during the state's July primaries and August runoffs. Donks
Last October, federal Judge Harold Murphy struck down an earlier version of the law, saying it amounted to an unconstitutional poll tax. cuz it costs...um...nothing to prove you're who you say you are...
The Georgia Legislature addressed his complaints in the latest version of the law, but when Murphy issued an injunction before the July primaries, he said the state had not taken enough time to educate voters.
Because the Department of Justice did not approve the photo ID requirement until late June, the state's election board had only three weeks to educate voters before the primaries - a window that was too short, Murphy said.
Nationwide, 24 states have legislation requiring voters to show some form of identification. Seven states, including Georgia, have passed legislation requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls.
The issue heads to Congress on Wednesday, when the House takes up debate on legislation that would require all voters to show government-issued photo ID proving their citizenship. even if the state IDs're free, the Donks will demand that we accept Matricular Consular cards, crayon-drawn geneological trees, and mr potato-head characatures as positive ID
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"I get real excited about things because I see myself as a conductor or an actor, and I realize that it's very powerful."
T. Jackson Bedford
Leave Georgia then "T" Jack and try Hollywood. They're all into "conducting and acting" out there.
This would be a most welcome start in the vital process of eliminating all lobbying from the political process.
If a corporation wants certain legislation passed, it asks its employees to vote for it and tell their friends about it, too. Secret ballots prevent any reprisals against the workers. Lobbyists, and by extension, the campaign funding they disburse represent some of the most toxic political poison there is.
I agree, Steele comes across as a sincere and likeable individual. All of which probably damns him from the very start.
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. A powerful southern New Jersey politician was paid for a no-work job at a scandal-ridden state university while helping the school garner millions of dollars in new state funding, according to a report released Monday. The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey paid state Sen. Wayne Bryant, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, $35,000 a year "to lobby himself in his capacity of state senator," according to the report of a federal monitor who had investigated the school's finances. The report said all Bryant appeared to do at the university's School of Osteopathic Medicine was show up for three hours most Tuesdays to read newspapers.
Bryant, a Democrat, was the sole subject of the report released Monday. He did not return calls seeking comment, and did not show up to an event he was expected to attend on Monday at a college near Newark. Herbert J. Stern, a former federal prosecutor and judge, was appointed to investigate the university in December after the school admitted overbilling Medicaid by more than $5 million. A previous report he issued suggested losses from fraud and abuse there could exceed $243 million.
The report said Bryant was employed at the university's School of Osteopathic Medicine from March 2003 until February 2006 and that during that time, the school's state allocation skyrocketed. According to the report, Bryant helped deliver a total of $12.8 million over the three years up from $2.8 million per year before the school created a job for him. In 2003, the osteopathic school created a position for Bryant and did not advertise it publicly, the report found. John Crosbie, an official at the school, told investigators that Bryant was hired only for his "political juice."
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and that during that time, the school's state allocation skyrocketedBryant was hired only for his "political juice."
And a Demo-donk to boot. What an amazing surprise.
Any free-entrprise guy would applaud that! I even bet that beats Hillary's investments in the '90's.
Illegal, you say?
Well ..... could be.
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NJ politicians are beyond absurd in their abuse of the system. The machine is so entrenched and it has happened so often on both sides of the aisle I'm not so sure anyone cares anymore other than federal prosecuters. It's certainly a sad state of affairs.
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Personally, I blame Toll Roads. These donks get their corruption training from Toll Commissions. Chicago and Cook County, IL can't be far behind NJ.
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Situation in Tallahassee at FAMU had a booster giving a cool million to the school for an eminent professor chair. The state matched the donors million. (2 million okay, stay with me here) The donor is a Memphis lawyer who borrowed all money at little more than prime. At the time 5 percentum. Donor is tapped to be the eminent professor! Pay is $100,000 per annum. :> Life is good, especially since an eminent professor never only visits couple times a year.
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New Jersey, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the State Legislature.
Her five hundred year mission: to exploit strange new sources of wealth. To seek out new marks
and new taxpayers. To boldly loot where no politician has stolen before.
Country legend Willie Nelson has been charged with drug possession after his tour bus was pulled over by police.
Police say they were making a routine inspection and as soon as the door was open the strong stench of marijuana was unavoidable despite it being early in the morning. Officers in Louisiana then say a search of the bus also found "magic mushrooms" as well as marijuana.
Uh-huh, just a routine inspection. Sure.
Nelson, 73, and four members of his tour crew including his 79-year-old sister were issued citations for the drugs.
Police say the tour bus was pulled over for an early morning commercial vehicle inspection. of the tour bus. "When the door was opened and the trooper began to speak to the driver, he smelled the strong odor of marijuana," a police spokesman said. Trooper Willie Williams of the Louisiana Highway Patrol said a search of the bus turned up about 1.5 pounds of marijuana and about two-tenths of a pound of mushrooms.
Misdemeanor drug citations were issued for Nelson, of Spicewood, Texas, as well as his 75-year-old sister, Bobbie Nelson of Briarcliff, Texas, Tony Sizemore, 59, of Saint Cloud, Florida, Gates Moore, 54, of Austin, Texas, David Anderson, 50, of Dallas, Texas. Each was released after being issued a citation.
Nelson has not been shy of his drug use. Jackass star Johnny Knoxville recently recalled trying to keep up with the country music superstar and failing. "I'm not a weed person, but when Willie Nelson passes you a joint, you don't say no," the Jackass star told Playboy.
The country legend gave him a token that left Knoxville feeling like "I was on [bleeping] acid. ... And I had to do interviews that day. I called him later to say, 'Thanks a lot, Willie. I was on [bleeping] Mars for six hours.' Nothing could have made him any happier."
In another interview, he said that Nelson's "s**t is a commitment. I honestly don't see how he functions - people pass out smoking that.
"He had a crew with him shooting a documentary, and one of the camera guys keeled over while filming."
A call to Nelson's publicist was not immediately returned.
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Almost busted in Laredo Lafayette,
But for reasons that I'd rather not disclose,
But if you're stayin' in a motel bus there and leave,
Just don't leave nothin' in your clothes.
Doesn't have quite the same beat, but the storyline fits.
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It's Bush's fault I tell you. Ever since the totally unpredicatable and shocking defeat of his hero Dennis Kucinich, and later the re-election of the evil GW, Willie has sunk into the pit of depression. The grass takes the edge off, man. Don't harsh his mellow.
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He's only been charged. Could be another insidious IRS conspiracy. They're after non-smokers as well you know. Lets not rush to judgement, lets ..... wait until the (cough, cough, cough) smoke has cleared first. Thank you Trooper Willie "RAP" Williams of the Loooosanna Highway Patrol. We simply must keep CW and this kind of thing out of New Orleans.
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You mean musicians do drugs? I'm flabbergasted.
Another point of view:
We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee
We don't take our trips on LSD
We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street
We like livin' right, and bein' free.
We don't make a party out of lovin'
We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo
We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy,
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do.
Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear
Beads and Roman sandals won't be seen
Football's still the roughest thing on campus,
And the kids here still respect the college dean.
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.
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Someone left the cowshit out in the rain,
I don't know if I should taste it,
But the fungi I cannot waste it,
Cause I'll never see this many pods again!
Oh No!
Oh No.....
I wonder, if 2/10 of a pound of magic mushrooms were found in my truck, would I even get out on bail the same year?
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unlike you, Willy can claim the lb-and-a-half of pot and 2/10ths lb of shrooms were for personal consumption, and it would be true. Prolly only this month's supply, too
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They probably pulled the bus over for excessive smoke emission.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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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.
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional the latest version of a new Georgia law requiring voters to show photo ID. State Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford Jr. ruled that the photo ID requirement deprives otherwise qualified voters of the right to cast a ballot and adds a new, unconstitutional condition to voting.
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. A powerful southern New Jersey politician was paid for a no-work job at a scandal-ridden state university while helping the school garner millions of dollars in new state funding, according to a report released Monday. The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey paid state Sen. Wayne Bryant, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, $35,000 a year "to lobby himself in his capacity of state senator," according to the report of a federal monitor who had investigated the school's finances. The report said all Bryant appeared to do at the university's School of Osteopathic Medicine was show up for three hours most Tuesdays to read newspapers.
Country legend Willie Nelson has been charged with drug possession after his tour bus was pulled over by police. 
