I think I saw this on "Being Bobby Brown"...
HAWTHORNE, Fla. - A North Carolina woman was arrested after complaining to a police officer that the crack cocaine she had just purchased wasn't very good, authorities said.
Eloise D. Reaves, 50, approached the Putnam County sheriff's deputy at a convenience store Friday, telling him that another man had sold her "bad crack" that contained wax and cocaine.
She pulled an alleged crack rock out of her mouth and placed it on the deputy's car for inspection, the Palatka Daily News reported for Tuesday editions.
The deputy told Reaves that she would be arrested if the crack tested positive for cocaine.
She was charged with possession of cocaine and bonded out for $1,504. Should've remembered, honey. Bad crack is better than no crack at all...
Olbermann and MSNBC are knocking heads over a new contract. The controversial host of Countdown With Keith Olbermann is said to be seeking "north of $4 million" a year, according to an industry source, to re-up on his pact that comes due in April. That would represent roughly a four-fold increase over his current deal, believed to be in the $1 million-per-year range.
Olbermann is looking for such a big pay raise because Countdown has been on fire, playing a big part in the current audience uptick at the network. In the key 25-54 demo, its ratings are up 25% year-to-date and an astounding 75% so far in the fourth quarter.
But MSNBC brass may have their hands tied on how much they can pony up for Olbermann. MSNBC parent NBC Universal has mandated $750 million worth of budget cuts across all divisions, and this is hardly a politic time to hand out a gargantuan raise. Meanwhile, CNN may have interest.
Still, Olbermann likely wants to stay put. He has been given an incredible amount of creative freedom in this, his second tour of duty at the network. Famously, he left MSNBC at the end of 1998 after clashing with management over being pushed to endlessly cover the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky imbroglio.
An MSNBC spokesman acknowledged that talks were under way but declined to provide details. Both Olbermann and his agent Jean Sage declined comment.
There's obviously $$$ in BD$. Olbermann isn't known for anything else, except sucking.
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Looks like one of the possible outcomes, with him demanding more and the network having less to offer, is a parting of the ways.
Ya know how some actors/actresses get out of a series so they can further their career and then they disappear? Can anyone remember Denise Crosby?
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"The raise would bring his annual pay to $4 million, proving that even under the Orwellian jackbooted tyranny of the illegitimate Bush regime, a man can still eke out a living."
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Hmmm. Lemme see. Low ratings = big raise. How but I just sit on my ass for the next year, then I'll hit up the boss for another $50K. Yeah, that'll work.
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Countdown has been on fire, playing a big part in the current audience up tick at the network.
Not to get all conspiracy theory with yall but at last years Kos Convention more then one of the media experts suggested that if consumers want to see more lefty-leaning television they should program their cable/satellite receivers to always receive programs like Countdown to get surges in Arbitron ratings. The theory being that, whether they like the specific content or not, it will get the attention of the programming execs. Of course, theres no accounting for bad taste but it is curious how a pompous no-talent hack like Olberman should suddenly get a surge in ratings.
RACHEL WILLIAMS IN NEW YORK
A SECOND World War veteran who was blinded in his right eye when he was hit by shrapnel can see again after being head-butted by a pedigree racehorse.
Doctors tried in vain for 64 years to restore Don Karkos's sight, until My Buddy Chimo stepped in.
Hours after the horse smacked the 82-year-old paddock security guard in exactly the same spot as the shrapnel gashed his forehead in combat in 1942, he realised his vision was returning.
"I was putting a collar around his chest, and he whacked me real hard with his head," Mr Karkos told the New York Daily News.
"Being kicked is part of the job, but I've never been hit that hard.
"I was pretty shaken up, kind of dazed. Then, later that night, I started to get the vision back in my right eye.
"It was unbelievable. I've been seeing doctors all my life, and they've always told me there is nothing can be done."
Although his vision is still not perfect, Mr Karkos has been able to see about 15ft with his damaged eye since the incident at the Monticello Raceway racecourse in New York state two months ago.
"What happened is still a mystery to me," he said.
"But I do know I had got used to not seeing things and bumping into walls, and I don't do that anymore."
Dr Douglas Lozzaro, the head of ophthalmology at Long Island College Hospital, said the blow could have knocked a dislocated lens into place.
Mr Karkos said he was eager to show his gratitude to My Buddy Chimo.
"I'm on very good terms with that horse now, and he gets special care from me," he said. "Now, I hope he will kick me in the groin, but I won't dwell on that."
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I used to walk by HB studio on my way to school when I was a kid. The artists sat in windows facing out so you could sit and watch them draw. I was late to school many times.
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While I always viewed the HB characters and drawing style as inferior to Warner Brothers, they still represented a day when animation was hand-crafted. Another star has dimmed in cartoon heaven.
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I can name 52 of the characters shown. HB's artwork wasn't top-notch, but their cartoons were always more fun than the others'. They had the "most lovable, laughable, loonies by far."
Just when you think you've heard everything.
Women allergic to their partner's semen can be cured by treatments requiring frequent sex, a New York allergist says. Husbands were seen nodding enthusiastically at this announcement.
But don't try it without a doctor's help. Without proper desensitization, sex can be deadly for some women allergic to semen. Yes, some women really are allergic to sex, according to a report at this week's annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology in Philadelphia. A lot of them have been acting like it for some time now.
These women have powerful allergic responses to their partner's semen, says David J. Resnick, MD, acting director of the allergy division of New York Presbyterian Hospital. Such women may suffer genital itching, burning, and swelling. In severe cases, they may break out in hives or even have trouble breathing. At the conference, Resnick and colleagues report a case of semen allergy in a Puerto Rican woman who responded well to desensitization therapy. Treatment, Resnick says, comes in two forms.But only one shape.
One is allergy shots containing small doses of the male partner's semen.Easily arranged.
The other is a technique called intravaginal seminal graded challenge. In this treatment, which takes several hours, every 20 minutes a doctor places increasing amounts of the partner's semen in the woman's vagina. Home medicine has never been so much fun. Talk about playing doctor!
Both treatments require that the woman and her husband have sex at least two or three times a week. "Honey, it's time to take your medicine. Doctor's orders."
"Treatment failure is associated with couples who do not engage in frequent intercourse that re-exposes the patient to the allergen," Resnick says in a news release. "Not tonight, dear. I'm having a case of anaphylactic shock."
"Patients not living near their partners can refrigerate or freeze specimens so they can continue frequent exposure," he says. Insert gratuitous turkey baster joke >here<.
Like any immunotherapy, the allergy shots or seminal challenge must be started in a facility equipped to treat hypersensitive patients for any severe anaphylactic shock reactions. Since such life-threatening reactions are possible any time an allergic person encounters an allergen, Resnick recommends that women with semen allergies keep a self-injectable epinephrine kit on hand. I see. A post injection injection.
Though case reports of semen allergy are rare, many may go unrecognized. The typical patient, Resnick says, is a woman in her 20s. Though 41% of allergic women have symptoms during their first intercourse, symptoms tend to worsen with subsequent exposures unless they undergo desensitization treatment. Semen allergy, Resnick adds, is not a direct cause of infertility. Let the suggestive humor begin. Keep it clean, all right?
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"Hello, Boss? No I can't come in today, y'see my wife is sick and I have to adminsiter her allergy shots." Yeah, I agree, once every 2 hours seems like a lot, but that's what the Dr. said."(hangs up before busting out laughing)
As rural police stations close, self-protection is the only answer, writes John Gibb
A widow who lives alone in a Wiltshire farmhouse has taken to sleeping with a Smith & Wesson Saturday Night Special under her pillow. It belonged to her husband and is more than capable of stopping an intruder, of which she has had three in the last two years.
When she goes shopping in Swindon, she slips a can of Mace into her handbag in case of assault. "Bought it at the ironmongers in Bergerac," she says. "Much more effective than an Asbo."
A senior civil servant, now retired and living in a remote house near Losthwithiel in Cornwall, believes in the efficacy of a small-calibre .22 pistol. It was easy to buy without a licence or proof of identity in rural France, where they are used to kill vermin. The .22 is also an assassin's weapon - once the round has entered the cranium, it will ricochet about as it looks for an exit, devastating brain tissue in its wake.
Many country people consider a sawn-off 12-bore to be the most effective and easily available short-range weapon. A farmer at the Suffolk Show told me that, for added impact, he pierces the crimped end of the cartridge and pours in warm wax which sets and creates a mass of lead shot.
Owning a weapon is becoming a habit for rural homeowners who feel unprotected now that so many police stations have closed.
I have never seen a police car in my village and violent crime in the county, of course, is up. Baseball bats, swords, machetes, Mace and firearms are kept beneath the bed or close to hand by many people.
In spite of Tony Blair's legislation against handguns, lethal weapons are easy to acquire in the countryside. They aren't perceived as a problem because they are kept secretly for
emergencies, rather than to show off to rival drug-dealers.
Often they are acquired during military service and handed down through the family. But increasingly they are brought back from Europe by car.
HM Revenue and Customs figures confirm this, showing an increase in weaponry seized at ports. For instance, 842 stun guns were intercepted by searches in 2005, an eight-fold increase year on year.
Most weapons seized are from respectable people worried about their security. Mace, pepper spray and metal-spring batons, illegal here, are easily and lawfully acquired in Europe, while high-calibre pistols can be bought in the Czech Republic.
Scotland Yard recently investigated a French company selling arms through the internet and found that the majority of British customers considered themselves to be law-abiding people, often young couples
This precision hunting crossbow has the power to skewer a hoodie at 50 metres
worried about personal safety. Police searches of their homes revealed a wide selection of weaponry.
Could we be seeing the first signs of a militant middle class which has had enough and is beginning to arm itself? Perhaps.
For those who cling to the notion that an Englishman's home is his castle, a new weapon will soon be available to help deter intruders. Designed by BowTech in Oregon, USA, the Stryker (left) will be on sale in Europe by mid-January.
It is a precision hunting crossbow complete with a multiple reticule, red dot 1x30 scope nightsight, 175lb draw weight, binary cam technology and the power to skewer a hoodie at 50 metres. It fires bodkin-tipped 425 grain bolts at 405ft per second and will cost a little under £1,000.
Strangely enough, it's legal and fits neatly beneath the bed.
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"A Smith & Wesson saturday night special..." Journos are so pathetically uninformed when it comes to guns. When I was a reporter, I tried for days to make the "top crime reporter" of the paper where I worked understand the difference between a .38 special and a .380 ACP. Poor bastard couldn't get that one was for a revolver and one was for a semi-auto. "Aren't they both guns?"
Poorest quality thing S&W ever put out was no "saturday night special..."
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"It fires bodkin-tipped 425 grain bolts at 405ft per second and will cost a little under £1,000.
Strangely enough, it's legal and fits neatly beneath the bed."
Whatever works.
Just be sure to wipe your fingerprints off the bolt before firing. ;-p
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Next time, wear a burkha! That kind of stuff wouldn't happen (the poor scorpion would be smothered to death by the lack of oxygen and accumulated gas).
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Scenes from my youth:
I- Free Radical mows the lawn
II- Free Radical runs at 50 mph chased by 1000 yellow-jackets
III- Free Radical jumps in pool- knows he can hold his breath for 3 minutes.
IV- Dog thinks it is 'playtime': jumps into pool; attacked by remaining yellow-jackets.
V- Stupid yellow-jackets didn't realize that I had taught my dog to dive and swim underwater. Mass insect casualties ensue.
VI- Free radical and dog climb out on deep-end ladder.
VII- Free Radical rummages in storage shed for flame-thrower.
VIII- REVENGE.
The End.
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I once found that an underground "Nest" was near my house, I discovered this by lawnmowing over it.
After retreating I left the mower sitting over the nest running, it took about an hour and a half to run out of gas, never saw another Yellow Jacket come out of that hole, sliced and diced them all.
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Unlikely. While yellow jackets and bumble bees have a tendency to use mouse dens and such as their homes, they also have a limited ability to burrw and will almost always give themselves at least one exit (if the mouse or other rodent hasn't already (which they always do).
So, the yellow jackets simply learned that the front door was not the best way out of their hive anymore.
46 years since Nehru ordered the Indian army to seize the territories of Goa, Daman and Diu from the Portuguese
Panaji, Dec 19: Several functions would be held in Goa on Tuesday to mark Goa's 46th Liberation Day.
The main function would be held at the Parade ground, Campal, in Panaji where Chief Minister Pratapsingh Rane would unfurl the tricolour and present awards to eminent personalities for their outstanding services.
Prominent personalities to attend the function would include deputy Chief Minister Wilfred de Souza, Cabinet ministers, speaker Franciso Sardinha, Dy Speaker Victoria Fernandes, and veteran freedom fighters.
A pageantry will be presented by the students of schools from Panaji and neighbouring areas.
Governor S C Jamir would host a reception at Raj Bhavan in the evening.
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I thought it was a land grab then. I think its still a land grab now. What is there for the Indian Army to celebrate?
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Mr. Wife used to work with a lovely gentleman from Goa. His family owned the key ambasadorships of India -- to the US, Canada, the UN, Brussels, etc. It doesn't sound like they came out too badly from the annexation, although I've no idea about the lower classes. How does India's rule compare to that of the Portuguese?
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wife; The Christians aren't as happy, since millitant Hindus are about as nasty as millitant Moslems. OTOH, the Portugese sucked as a colonial power, exceeded only by the King of Belgium.
Two gunmen opened fire at their opponents on Rawalpindi district court premises on Monday. Police said Sajid Abbasi and Mohammad Omar were arrested in an attempted murder case. The two men were taken to the court of additional district and sessions judge where their opponents Tariq and Waheed shot them. The attackers were hiding in bushes on court premises, police said, adding that they were still at large. The injured have been taken to the district hospital where their condition was stated as critical.
Man killed while resisting robbery: Robbers killed a man on resistance in Dhoke Najju in the Pir Wadhi police precincts. Police said three gunmen tried to rob Khiam khan, supervisor at a private firm, on his way home. They said the robbers took valuables from Khan and shot him dead before fleeing as he tried to resist them. Police are investigating the case.
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This is what happens when people don't trust the law.
You could call them Bible Bratz, or He-Men for a Higher Authority. But Don Levine, who created the G.I. Joe doll in 1964, calls his new line of biblical action figures the Almighty Heroes.
There's Queen Esther, a doe-eyed brunette hottie, dressed in a shimmery pink ball gown with plenty of plastic gemstone bling. And Moses (before the beard years) with biceps as big as The Rock's and a righteous pharaoh headdress.
There's Deborah the Warrior, who looks remarkably like Jessica Simpson the Warbler. And action Noah, who looks like, well, nobody seems quite sure.
Actually, the reporter got these two female figures confuzzled, Queen Ester is shown here, but hey...
"I saw this line as a way to teach about the quest of good over evil," said Levine, who established his own company, Family Values L.L.C., to market the dolls. I'm very passionate about what is going on in the world right now, seeing youngsters with guns, seeing terrorism and all that," he said in a telephone interview. "I wanted to come up with characters kids can look to as heroes."
Truth be told, he's also seeking a profit. "There are two billion Christians out there," Levine said. "Quite a niche market." In other words, for a savvy businessman with the right product, Levine said, a new twist on the Old Testament could bring manna from heaven.
Currently, the toys are not available at mainstream stores. They are being sold for $12.99 to $24.99 at Christian stores, and online at Amazon.com and at Familyvaluescenter.com.
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Images of Prophets are tabu to the Muslim terror cult. They aren't powerful enough to cause Jesus figures to be banned in the civilized world, but they will be.
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First, it was last Thursday's news of the "Left Behind" video game where you're a left-behind believer in Christ and you "shoot 'em up" against the jihadis, and now this?
Methinks we're getting closer and closer to either the end times or the next TRUE Crusades. Personally, I don't care either way, just wanna do away with the jihadis.
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The kid has a point: There should be a three piece set of Balaam, his donkey/hotrod, and the angel. The angel's sword arm is spring loaded and swings a fluorescent light saber...
Some people may have giggled at the idea of a gaggle of homeless men taking over the upscale Short Hills Mall in New Jersey, a stunt staged by radio shock jocks Opie and Anthony and heard by WBCN [website] listeners all weekend. It was tantamount to bringing a bus filled with the bedraggled from Boston Common to sit on Santas lap at the Chestnut Hill Mall.
But Mayor Thomas M. Menino was not amused in the slightest.
"This so-called 'shopping spree' is a sick and twisted exercise that degrades the most vulnerable members of our society. This is an outrage. This is wrong, and we need the public and our partners who care about the homeless and about basic human decency to stand up and tell them so," Menino said, adding that the broadcast came on the same day that the city began counting the Hubs homeless.
"The homeless people who will be used for this event are human beings who may have been struggling for years with the adversity and problems that come with alcoholism and addictions, or with mental illness and other disabilities," Menino said.
"The fact that WBCN has chosen the homeless and the holidays to present this humiliating and shameful attempt at humor is inhumane and shameful..." Thus artfully dodging the point that the shock jocks weren't laughing and sneering at the homeless.
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Mumbles is pretty familiar with these guys. A few years back, their April Fools joke was that Menino was killed in a car crash, which came as quite a shock to Menino's family, seeing that they weren't in on the joke when they heard the story. It got them canned out of their first major gig.
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Well, seeing how Boston is fast becoming the Detroit of the Northeast, he'd best remember that he has more important things to worry about, the bums he worries so much about being one of them...
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I guess it shames and humiliates the Homeless to be seen by Regular People. They should saty out of sight where they belong, right Mayor? Sarcasm off.
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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.
Olbermann and MSNBC are knocking heads over a new contract. The controversial host of Countdown With Keith Olbermann is said to be seeking "north of $4 million" a year, according to an industry source, to re-up on his pact that comes due in April. That would represent roughly a four-fold increase over his current deal, believed to be in the $1 million-per-year range.
RACHEL WILLIAMS IN NEW YORK 
Japanese finds scorpion in jeans
Two gunmen opened fire at their opponents on Rawalpindi district court premises on Monday. Police said Sajid Abbasi and Mohammad Omar were arrested in an attempted murder case. The two men were taken to the court of additional district and sessions judge where their opponents Tariq and Waheed shot them. The attackers were hiding in bushes on court premises, police said, adding that they were still at large. The injured have been taken to the district hospital where their condition was stated as critical.
You could call them Bible Bratz, or He-Men for a Higher Authority. But Don Levine, who created the G.I. Joe doll in 1964, calls his new line of biblical action figures the Almighty Heroes.
There's Queen Esther, a doe-eyed brunette hottie, dressed in a shimmery pink ball gown with plenty of plastic gemstone bling. And Moses (before the beard years) with biceps as big as The Rock's and a righteous pharaoh headdress.
