POLICE used capsicum spray on a golfer they later charged with drink-driving after he allegedly did burnouts and doughnuts on a Northern Territory golf course yesterday. The golfer, who was driving a golf buggy, returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.12 after he was arrested at the Palmerston Golf and Country Club. Senior Sergeant Mark Stringer said the Palmerston man was allegedly doing burnouts and doughnuts and driving with a person on the roof.
"Hey, watch me do this!"
Police were alerted by a member of the public playing in the club's Sunday competition who allegedly saw the man hooning with friends at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd holes. The man allegedly refused a breath test at the course and, following a struggle, was capsicum-sprayed by officers trying to arrest him.
Hung-over AND pepper-sprayed. That's gonna hurt
The man was eventually subdued, arrested and charged with exceeding .08 and resisting arrest. The club confirmed the 1st hole green and fairway was damaged during the golf buggy joy-ride.
They really don't like you doing doughnuts on the greens, screws up putting to no end
"It's definitely fairly unusual," Sen-Sgt Stringer said. "Obviously his behaviour is what brought him to police attention - doing burnouts and that sort of thing." Police believe the group was partying on following a buck's night.
Boys will be boys
Sen-Sgt Stringer said a golf buggy was classed as a motor vehicle and the golf course was a public place. "It is a motor vehicle under the Motor Vehicles Act and a golf course is a public place. In a public place you are subject to the Traffic Act," he said. "There may be some other charges forthcoming for damage at the golf course but that is subject to investigation."
Last night, Palmerston Golf and Country Club general manager Laurie Greenwood expressed disgust over the incident. "We would look at pressing charges depending on the damage. We're not a rich club," he said. "If there is damage we need to chase down the people that have caused it."
(CNSNews.com) - The California Democrat currently acting as ranking member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee reportedly launched a profane verbal assault on two employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs after they labeled a press conference held outside the VA headquarters Tuesday a "publicity stunt." Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.) is described as "uttering obscenities" at the VA employees in one media account.
Get in line with the rest of us
Filner joined other Democrats Tuesday outside the VA's main offices to criticize VA Secretary Jim Nicholson for waiting three weeks to inform the public about the theft of a computer disc drive that contained the names, birthdates and Social Security numbers of 26.5 million veterans and their spouses, along with those of thousands more active duty military personnel. The Marine Corps Times later reported that "Filner got into a shouting match with unidentified VA employees after he called Nicholson a political 'crony' of President Bush who wasn't up to the job."
The two employees, Assistant Veterans Affairs Secretary Lisette Mondello and VA spokesman Matt Burns, reportedly challenged Filner, noting that Nicholson is a decorated combat veteran and questioning the congressman''s lack of military service. The ensuing argument continued after the news conference ended, with Filner calling the pair "spin doctor[s]." Mondello and Burns characterized the event as a "publicity stunt," and that remark, according to Associated Press reports, is what triggered Filner''s "F-bomb."
"You guys f***ed it up!" Filner reportedly shouted. "Stop covering your a** and figure it out."
The original Associated Press report of the altercation, which was not included in later articles about the news conference, noted that "Mondello and Burns afterward declined to comment on Filner's remarks, saying only that they were embarrassed that reporters had to 'witness a distinguished lawmaker act in such a reprehensible manner.'" Filner explained his behavior in the June 14 edition of the Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, saying that he was "furious" with the VA over its handling of the data theft. Calls from Cybercast News Service to Filner seeking his version or an explanation for the incident were not returned.
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The two employees, Assistant Veterans Affairs Secretary Lisette Mondello and VA spokesman Matt Burns, reportedly challenged Filner, noting that Nicholson is a decorated combat veteran and questioning the congressman''s lack of military service...."You guys f***ed it up!" Filner reportedly shouted. "Stop covering your a** and figure it out."
If you insist, I'm sure we can find some former drill sergeants with far more colorful language which is equally unprintable to describe your actions [pitchforks and burning torches optional].
BILLINGS - Without ever mentioning his Democratic opponent by name, U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns said Saturday he is proud to have brought millions of dollars of federal money back to Montana, and he fully supports President Bush's war on terror. Speaking to the Montana Republican Party convention, the three-term senator referred to Democratic nominee Jon Tester, president of the Montana Senate and a Big Sandy farmer, only as "my opponent."
He raised the specter of what might happen if Montanans don't send him back to the Senate and Democrats take over. "Do you want Ted Kennedy picking the next judges?" Burns asked. "Send me back to Washington. Do you want John Kerry to run defense? How about Hillary Clinton running your health-care system?"
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"Do you want Ted Kennedy picking the next judges?" Burns asked. "Send me back to Washington. Do you want John Kerry to run defense? How about Hillary Clinton running your health-care system?"
Not NO,but HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"Do you want Ted Kennedy picking the next judges?" Burns asked. "Send me back to Washington. Do you want John Kerry to run defense? How about Hillary Clinton running your health-care system?"
Sounds like the Republicans have their 2006 election taling points!
DOVER, N.H. -- Calling the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks a greater shock to the American psyche than Pearl Harbor, Sen. Joe Biden said Saturday that Democrats must demonstrate they can provide for national security to win back the presidency. The Delaware Democrat spoke to more than 100 people gathered at an event organized by Strafford County Democrats. "I'm running for president -- flat out," he said, adding his party should learn to be more blunt.
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Okay, Sen. Biden, I can be just as blunt, I'm will not vote for you in 2008.
That's one for the polls. Please have them call me, so I can register my exit vote of not having voted for you with them so there is no false record of my vote. No for Biden. Shall I send my vote to your office, so there will be no question of how I voted?
Just tryin' to help, you know. What you what is yours. But don't want you to have mine, that isn't yours.
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Jeebus, does he have any idea what's going to happen to him if he even polls 0.5%? All the things we know and dislike about Joe, all the things that came up last time he ran futilely for president, are going to come back again.
Loudly.
Joe Biden is an argument against the Founding Fathers' Great Compromise -- some small states simply don't have two intelligent people to send to the Senate.
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"...some small states simply don't have two intelligent people to send to the Senate."
Some of the largest states don't, either.
Ah, well. Even though I was a Democrat for 31 years, I'll never again vote for another one of those idiots for President-- or for any other public office, for that matter. And I have ZERO respect for anyone who does after seeing the Democratic Party in action since 9/11.
The Democratic Party WILL NOT provide for America's security. They will not, because their base on the Left does not believe that America is worth defending.
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Well stated, Dave.
The one thread I find common among democrats is corruption. Democrats must believe all America is corrupt, therefore not worth saving.
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#3: "...some small states simply don't have two intelligent people to send to the Senate."
Some of the largest states don't, either.
Actually you're both right and wrong at the same time.
The intelligent folks are too busy to run for frat house president, leaving the losers to fight it out in the polls.
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"I'm running for president -- flat out,"
That phrase seems familiar - maybe I heard it before.
Georgia's July 18 primary elections are less than a month away and still the state's voter ID cards haven't been issued. The state Board of Elections on Monday is expected to approve final rules governing the state's new photo voter IDs. The rules must still be approved by the U.S. Department of Justice but state Elections Board Chairman Tex McIver said that will be little more than a formality and could come as soon as Monday afternoon. The Justice Department has already approved the state's new voter ID law.
McIver said that barring intervention by the courts, officials could probably begin issuing the voter ID cards by the end of the month. "I think we are going to be ready for the primary," McIver said. "It's just down to a ministerial function now."
The rules the board will consider Monday involve who gets the photo ID cards, what hours the issuing sites must be open, and what documents can be used to obtain the cards. Only voters without a driver's license, passport or other valid government-issued photo ID will need the new ID cards. The wild card is whether the courts will step in. Emmet Bondurant, the lawyer for the a coalition of groups who oppose Georgia's voter ID law, has said he will ask U.S. District Court Judge Harold Murphy for an injunction once federal officials sign off.
Last year, Murphy blocked enforcement of Georgia's first voter ID law, saying it amounted to an unconstitutional poll tax. He also raised questions about whether the IDs would be readily available in remote parts of the state. The law makes Georgia one of just seven states to require that voters show a photo ID to vote. Early this year, the state Legislature amended the law to make the IDs free to anyone who needs them and also to make them available in every county, seemingly addressing Murphy's concerns.
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Some judge is going to overrule it. However, no judge is going to be able to convince the general citizenry that has to produce ID for plane tickets, check cashing, library privileges, driving checkpoints, etc. that it is not reasonable to protect the most valued function in a republic with similar requirements. Such judges need to be immediately and permanently removed from positions of responsibility to end the silliness once and for all.
When billionaire Michael Bloomberg became New York mayor shortly after the September 11 attacks, some mocked his dullness and lack of political savvy. Now the Republican mayor of America's most populous city doesn't understand why he can't quell talk he wants to be president. "I won't be running for president (in 2008)," Bloomberg said on his radio show on Friday. "I don't know why I can't convince everybody."
Okay. I'm convinced.
Since taking office in early 2002, Bloomberg -- a longtime Democrat who switched parties in 2001 to run in the less-crowded Republican field -- has honed his political street smarts and built a niche as a social liberal and fiscal conservative. Following a landslide re-election win last November, the 64-year-old Bloomberg has been increasingly speaking out on national issues and become one of America's most prominent mayors, fending off more and more questions about a White House bid.
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"Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again... Didn't need no Welfare State, Everybody pulls their weight". Net scuttlebutt says Bill Gates may also run - wish them well as I would like to see major US corporate personages run for POTUS, ala NEW ROCKEFELLERS, etc. WND.com says elements within the Dems are [still] pushing BARACK OBAMA to run.
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It's funny how pretty much everyone in New York politics is assumed to be running for president. Hillary, Rudy, Pataki, Bloomberg...I wonder if it's because they all really are, or because so much of the media is here that these are just the politicians they know really well, so they're the ones we hear the rumors about. Pataki and Bloomberg don't seem to have much of a chance, but I think Giuliani and Clinton will be prominent in '08. And I know which one I'd prefer.
SACRAMENTO - By all rights, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should be a goner come November. He's a Republican in a Democratic state. Voters rejected his conservative agenda of 2005 and soured on him in the process. His approval ratings stubbornly refuse to budge above 50 percent. But this is Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star swept into office by a public that hasn't always liked his politics but still likes him -- and still lines up, often in awe, to get a glimpse or an autograph.
In great part because of that complicated relationship with voters, no one dares count out the action star in his bid against Democratic nominee Phil Angelides. Even when Schwarzenegger was at his lowest, "when you asked people to choose between him and Angelides, most people still thought he would probably win," said GOP political analyst Allan Hoffenblum, who publishes the nonpartisan California Target book analyzing races. "Because of the likability factor. And he's Arnold. He's more fun to have around."
Chastened by last year's failure, the 2006 model governor has shown himself an apt pupil of California politics, overhauling his style and substance. Two years after announcing his candidacy in the most Hollywood way possible -- on the "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno -- Schwarzenegger is now seeking re-election not as the glib Terminator of the establishment but as a public servant seeking political affirmation.
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He's a Republican in a Democratic state
This statement isn't completely correct. The reason that the Dems keep winning in California is because the Republican party keeps putting forth candidates that are simply unacceptable to Californians - so they feel forced to vote for the Dems. I know, I lived it for much of my life. I voted for Gray Davis (the first time) but I hated him from the get-go. The alternative was worse. I know very conservative Republicans who did the same thing. The California Republican party is in touch with voters from Mississippi or some other such place - but California ain't Mississippi. The Republican party would apparently rather lose the entire state than to put forth some moderate Republicans - or maybe they are just so out of touch in their insular - but powerful little bubble - that they keep putting up candidates sure to lose.
While the press does its best, in articles like this one - to make it sound like CA hates Arnold - the truth is that much of California is conservative (meany not looney dems) - but the people want someone who is concerned about the environment, saving open space, for mass transit and other sorts of things that their current Republican party just scoffs at.
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I would like to piggy-back on 2bs statement about poor candidates. Babs Boxer NEVER should have been elected let alone re-elected. The first election would have made the moonbat conspiracy theorists proud. Babs was trailing late into the night until magically San Francisco and Marin Counties found uncounted ballot boxes after midnight. Just let the happen in Orange or San Diego counties and see if it passes the smell test for liberals. The last candidate lost a debate to Babs! My dog can beat Babs in a debate and makes a lot more sense. The bottom line is that the national party fears spending money in California. This baffles me because this state gave the country Nixon and Reagan. Arnold is not nearly Conservative enough for me but he got lucky when the Dems picked that wackiest of the two Dem hopefuls. Arnold has to run against raising taxes, more regulations, and tree huggers (he will win by 20 points).
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The state of Reagan and Nixon is lost in the mists of memory. Look at the State Legislature. Pure moonbat liberal wacko. And that's what the people want and vote for. The wacko liberal Bay Area and the libs in the LA basis simply outweigh the rest of the state. That's why all those props lost in the last election and Arny became a liberal overnight, a true RINO. And that's why I'm gone.
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California has been becoming more Democrat by hemorrhaging middle class Republicans for years. Through self-selection, conservatives have been abandoning California's high prices, high taxes, and generally unsuitable environment for children for the surrounding red states. Arnold's campaign reflects the same approach that the national party takes with conservatives: Vote for us because the other guys are bad beyond belief. Phil Angelides is not only funny looking, but talks like Mr. Rogers on speed.
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it's more a urban coast (LA/Santa Monica/Santa Barbara/SF/Marin/Oakland) vs the rest of the state issue. Gerrymandering has helped keep all status quo entrenched. Inland Empire, San Diego/Orange Cty/Riverside/San Bernardino are all Republican bulwarks in the south. Babs Boxer was just lucky to scate by and powers of incumency help keep the nitwit in place. Arnold is OK, not too conservative to alienate others, and building back political capital. He'll crush Angelides like a bug
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin asked the governor Monday to send National Guard troops and state police to patrol his city after a violent weekend in which five teenagers were shot to death.
Lottsa luck, Ray. She'll have to set up a commission to study the problem
City leaders convened a special meeting to voice outrage after the killings Saturday in an area near the central business district.
Quagmire!
``If we don't have wind knocking us down, we have shooters knocking us down, and that's unacceptable,'' said City Council President Oliver Thomas.
Why? Didn't seem to bother you guys much before Katrina.
Saturday's shootings - plus the fatal stabbing Sunday night in an argument over beer - brought this year's murder toll to 53, raising fears that violence was back on the rise in a city that was plagued by violent crime before Hurricane Katrina drove residents away last year.
The crooks must be returning home
Crime has been creeping in the city: 17 killings in the first three months of 2006, and 36 since the start of April. The shootings Saturday of five teenagers who had been in an SUV together created one of the bloodiest attacks in this city's turbulent history; the last killing with that many victims was in 1995.
Nagin asked the governor to send up to 300 National Guard troops and 60 state police officers to patrol the city. The City Council said it also would consider increasing overtime for police to put more officers on the street and it called for a "crime summit" within two weeks. "We have to deal with it now," Councilman Arnold Fielkow said. "If we don't make people feel safe in their homes, nothing will happen. Let's make this priority Number One."
A 'crime summit' will make the bigs feel like they're doing something important without actually doing anything. How about hiring a hardnosed police chief and giving him power to clean house?
Cynthia Willard-Lewis, who represents predominantly black eastern New Orleans, said a big part of the solution will be getting young people off the streets and into caring environments such as schools.
More midnight basketball, yeah that's the ticket!
She suggested opening schools after hours but didn't say how that could have prevented Saturday's 4 a.m. shooting, which police have said apparently was either prompted by drugs or revenge.
"We're looking forward to the day when ... this city returns to being one of the safest cities in America," Nagin said.
And that was when, Ray?
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"the kellogg, root and brown goons, as well as the blackwater mercenaries, are Halliburton paid mercenaries to look after the interest of supremacists and others who are trying to prevent THE PEOPLE from returning to NEW ORLEANS, or from returning to certain neighborhoods in NEW ORLEANS.
as such, if the national guard are still there to protect the people and their rights, then a confrontation between the national guard and the mercenaries could very easily ensue...and call it what you want but that, in short, would be a civil war."
"So what's to keep the Guard out of Detroit, Chicago, Methville LA, etc? I just see this as the thin edge of a very large wedge. They are taking up positions along the Border as we type.
I am by no means minimizing the desperate plight of your city. I just do not like what is happening. And it is happening at a very rapid rate."
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Reminds me of the old joke about a New Orleans Bar that' so rough that they check EVERYONE for a gun or knife.
If you don't have one, they'll loan you one.
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No, really. When was that, Ray?
Probably about a month after Hurricane Katrina, after they'd finally finished evacuating everyone.
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Crime has been creeping in the city: 17 killings in the first three months of 2006, and 36 since the start of April.
I wonder if the FBI would consider some of the kills in Houston to be accredited to New Orleans. You know, sort of like the visiting team's on-the-road record.
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First, a few true stories here "in da ATL" (Atlanta). There's already been several murders, and other "softer" crimes (not that the ATL was all that innocent to begin with, but N.O. was far worse per capita) here tied to N.O. evacuees. A few rapes too (as well as your standard thefts, corruption & bilking FEMA for thousands of $). So, those should actually count toward N.O. in my book TT7510.
Second, I met a family (who happened to be black) when we were helping them out here in Atlanta (getting settled in here). He was a sherriff in the next parish over and they lived in Kenner. Besides getting 8 feet of water in his home, he went into N.O. for security detail and told me he saw first hand the N.O.P.D. kicking people out of the French Quarter, only to turn around themselves (the cops) and rob the place. He mentioned he was an eyewitness to one of the cops taking out a duffel bag (from a jewelry store downtown) and he said it had been so heavy, it took 2 of them to take off with it. Just passing on eyewitness accounts, who were black themselves.
And,what did this gentleman do with his family. He didn't claim victim status. He got them here to suburban Atlanta, and he did electrical work on the side (of his sherriff's job), so his electrical company had an office in ATL where he started over. His wife got a job at the local JoAnn's store and his teenage daughter even switched schools and had a job too. I welcome them ALL to Atlanta...that's the way you do it. In fact, he was thinking about going back as an electrical contractor for 6 months or so (they were offering $3,000/week down there). What a true American dream story.
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Great idea! The National Guard drives through the hood kicking off crates of 9mm ball at each streetcorner. Let'm shoot it out be done with it. Chocolate on Chocolate.... more ammo please.
June 19, 2006 -- The ratings-starved Maury Povich and Connie Chung weekend show on MSNBC ended its short, six-month run with a bizarre send-off - sure to live on as a tone-deaf stunt Chung will not soon be allowed to forget. Perched on the edge of a white grand piano and decked out in a full-length evening gown, the former CBS and CNN anchorwoman warbled a farewell song that put down Dan Rather (with whom she co-anchored the CBS news in the early 1990s), her husband and cable TV - all at the same time.
"Thanks for the memories," she sang to the tune of the old standard:
We came to do a show for very little dough
By little, I mean I could make more working on skid row
That's cable TV.
Thanks for the memories
This half a year flew by
That Maury, what a guy
Instead of asking: Who's the daddy? He could talk Dubai
How stunned were we all
Thanks for the memories
The thing I love the most
About hubby as co-host
Is all those other anchors were as dull as melba toast
The sparks really flew
Thanks for the memories
Now that the show is through
I've got bigger things to do
But Maury is back weighing in:
Fat babies, how taboo!
He can't get enough.
At the end of the song, she collapsed on the floor of the studio as the camera faded out. Video excerpts of Chung's off-key performance began popping up on the Internet almost as soon as it aired Saturday night.
The couple's half-hour talk show, "Weekends with Maury & Connie," aired its final edition Saturday and Sunday. The weekly program, which began last January, marked Chung's return to TV after her weeknight CNN series was canceled in 2003.
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Connie and Maury, the Not-Ready-For-Cable-Access Players...
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The highlight of Connie Chung's career was when Jane Curtin ripped off her blouse and cried "Try these on for size, Connie Chung! If it's raw news you want, it's raw news you'll get."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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BILLINGS - Without ever mentioning his Democratic opponent by name, U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns said Saturday he is proud to have brought millions of dollars of federal money back to Montana, and he fully supports President Bush's war on terror. Speaking to the Montana Republican Party convention, the three-term senator referred to Democratic nominee Jon Tester, president of the Montana Senate and a Big Sandy farmer, only as "my opponent."
DOVER, N.H. -- Calling the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks a greater shock to the American psyche than Pearl Harbor, Sen. Joe Biden said Saturday that Democrats must demonstrate they can provide for national security to win back the presidency. The Delaware Democrat spoke to more than 100 people gathered at an event organized by Strafford County Democrats. "I'm running for president -- flat out," he said, adding his party should learn to be more blunt.
When billionaire Michael Bloomberg became New York mayor shortly after the September 11 attacks, some mocked his dullness and lack of political savvy. Now the Republican mayor of America's most populous city doesn't understand why he can't quell talk he wants to be president. "I won't be running for president (in 2008)," Bloomberg said on his radio show on Friday. "I don't know why I can't convince everybody." 
By all rights, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should be a goner come November. He's a Republican in a Democratic state. Voters rejected his conservative agenda of 2005 and soured on him in the process. His approval ratings stubbornly refuse to budge above 50 percent. But this is Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star swept into office by a public that hasn't always liked his politics but still likes him -- and still lines up, often in awe, to get a glimpse or an autograph.
