EFL: Willie Nelson once said: "Billy Joe Shaver may be the best songwriter alive today." Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, the Allman Brothers, Kris Kristofferson and of course Waylon and Willie have all covered his songs. It was Shaver who wrote nine of the cuts on "Honky Tonk Heroes," Jennings' breakthrough album. Among his many hits are "Georgia on a Fast Train," "When the Fallen Angels Fly," "Black Rose," "Wild Cow Gravy" and "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (but I'm Going to Be a Diamond Someday)."
These days, this redneck rebel, a key figure in the outlaw country music revolt that roiled '70s-era Nashville, is in a familiar place -- in trouble again.
That trouble began on a Saturday night, March 31, when the longtime Waco resident drove to nearby Lorena and dropped in at Papa Joe's Texas Saloon, an unpretentious little beer joint in a gray metal prefab on Interstate Highway 35. While he was there he shot a man in the cheek, according to local police.
The exact chain of events is uncertain, although the story Papa Joe patrons told police and reporters would seem to have the makings of a country-western chart-buster for the songwriting legend, who in recent years has become a hyper-patriotic, born-again Bible believer. ("If you don't love Jesus, you can go to hell.") At Papa Joe's he was sitting at a table on the back patio with several other patrons, including a 50-year-old man named Billy B. Coker. The two men had never met. Coker told Lorena police that in the course of the conversation, he and Shaver discovered that Shaver's wife, Wanda, had been married to Coker's cousin, who had since died.
Cue the banjo music
Something seems to have annoyed Shaver -- some patrons thought it was Coker stirring a drink with a hunting knife -- but whatever it was, the two men stepped out back to settle their differences. Moments later, Coker staggered back inside, his face a wet smear of red, a bullet from Shaver's .22 pistol lodged in his mouth. Shaver and his wife were long gone.
Another patron said Shaver posed something of an existential question just before the shot. "Where do you want it?" he asked Coker.
Coker got out of the hospital April 3. Shaver has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawfully carrying a handgun. Jailed briefly after turning himself in, he's out on bail.
For a country music legend, just like a rap star, this is not a set-back. It's a career boost.
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the longtime Waco resident drove to nearby Lorena and dropped in at Papa Joe's Texas Saloon, an unpretentious little beer joint in a gray metal prefab on Interstate Highway 35. While he was there he shot a man in the cheek,
Well, it was alla Ima could do to keeper from crying...
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Well, it was alla Ima could do to keeper from crying...
lol Shipr, poor billy joe kain't find any kissin kousin to marry and/or snort koke with.. there's no justice in dis ole krule world ceptin ur own kind pardner...
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FRANCONIA, N.H. A cousin of skiing star Bode Miller fatally shot and ran over a police officer, then was killed by a passer-by who grabbed the officer's gun. Liko Kenney shot Cpl. Bruce McKay four times and ran over him after a traffic stop Friday evening, state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte said. Gregory Floyd, who was driving by with his son, grabbed McKay's gun and shot Kenney when he refused to put his gun down, Ayotte said.
The 24-year-old Kenney was convicted of assaulting McKay and resisting arrest in 2003. Ayotte had no other details of that previous incident between the men, and rejected suggestions the officer should have let someone else handle the traffic stop given his history with the driver.
Officials said McKay pulled Kenney over for speeding on Route 116. Kenney took off, and McKay pursued him for about 1 1/2 miles before pulling in front of Kenney's car and pushing it off the road.
The officer used pepper spray on Kenney and his passenger and then turned around and was shot, Ayotte said Saturday at a news conference in Concord. Soon after, Floyd arrived and confronted Kenney while his son called for help using the officer's radio. Authorities said Floyd was justified in shooting Kenney.
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"And so the countdown begins on how soon the moonbats start screaming for head and money of Greg Floyd."
Although NH is turning "bluer" because of people moving in from Mass., the core of the state are still very conservative, gun rights, self determination oriented people who will see this as justified.
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Thank God for people like Floyd. A legacy of bravery and selfless service his son will no doubt carry with him for the rest of his life. I'd be curious to know more about Floyd. Could have been any upstaning citizen, but wouldn't it be interesting if he turned out to be a veteran of Viet or the GWOT. Just saying...
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As a NH resident, I suspect there will be very little cry for Floyd's head. Yes, we have become blue, but I agree with Jim - most people will say "Yea Floyd". The cool thing about NH law, is that IF Floyd goes to court criminally, and is found innocent (which he would be) he cannot be prosecuted civily. State Law. No kidding. I love this state.
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Forgot this - Floyd is listed in the Union Leader (a Manchester NH Paper) as a 49 year old, former Marine. Yes, I know - once a Marine - always a Marine - I'm just reporting. More of the story at Unionleader.com
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...Floyd arrived and confronted Kenney while his son called for help using the officer's radio.
If Floyd is 49, I expect his son is in his 20s. Regardless, it sounds like both had their wits about them and took correct and measured action. They're both heroes in my book.
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No kidding. I love this state.
As a Mass resident, I'm more and more tempted to move to NH every day. BKZ, could you guys use a conservative-libertarian and family to help offset some of the massholes?
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A common enough occurrence. Shoot, I end up sounding like whomever I'm speaking with, if the conversation goes on long enough. My part of the country is the intersection of Northeast, Southeast and Midwest, so that is amusing enough, but when I've been conversing with Mr. Wife's colleagues from India, and when we lived abroad, the results have been startling. I've had quite a few compliments -- sometimes from Americans! -- on how well I speak the language for someone who didn't grow up speaking it. There was the time I'd spent the day tootling round Frankfurt with the English wife of a colleague, then had dinner with a young man who'd gone to my high school. His face was a picture throughout dinner, as we discovered old friends and old haunts in common, me sounding like the poshest of public school girls, he like a boy from the Rust Belt. Especially as he'd been in classes with one of my brothers, who most certainly never, ever sounded anything like how I did that day.
DENVER, Colo. -- Miracles do happen. That's what doctors said about 30-year-old Shannon Malloy. A car crash in Nebraska on Jan. 25 threw Malloy up against the vehicle's dashboard. In the process, her skull became separated from her spine. The clinical term for her condition is called internal decapitation. "I remember the impact and then I had no control over my head," said Malloy. "I wasn't focused so much on the pain. I just kept thinking, 'I have to stay alive.'"
Dr. Gary Ghiselli, a chiropractor at the Denver Spine Center, said Malloy's will to survive is what saved her. "I've seen it once before and, unfortunately, the patient didn't make it," said Ghiselli.
Five screws were drilled into Malloy's neck. Four more were drilled into her head to keep it stabilized. Then a thing called a halo -- rods and a circular metal bar -- was attached for added support. It's not exactly a pain-free procedure. "My skull slipped off my neck about five times. Every time they tried to screw this to my head, I would slip," said Malloy.
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"A car crash in Nebraska on Jan. 25 threw Malloy up against the vehicle's dashboard."
I wish her a full recovery, but this sounds like she wasn't wearing her seat belt....
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Right on, Barbara! Until mainstream media accurately reports the use of seatbelts, their accident coverage is essentially meaningless.
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I ran a wreck a number of years ago - 2 cars of about the same (fairly large) size, head-on (one probably going 55 or more, the other not so fast).
The two people in the car that was going faster and was (technically) not at fault were badly injured; the driver had chest trauma from hitting the steering wheel, while the passenger ended up with her head in the windshield (and died in the ER).
The guy driving the car that was (technically) at fault was uninjured; he got out of his car and ran across the highway to a pay phone to call for help. (No cell phones back then; this was also before air bags were prevelant.)
Anyone want to guess which one of these three people was wearing a seat belt?
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Dr. Gary Ghiselli, a chiropractor at the Denver Spine Center
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It really needs to made mandatory that newpaper coverage of all auto accidents makes notice of whether those involved were wearing seatbelts. You get all these sob stories about teenagers having their lives cut short only to find out that they were not wearing seatblets when their accident happened. At least they are revoking teenage driver's licenses until age 21 if they're caught driving without one.
A Saudi civil court is to hear the first ever case brought against the kingdoms religious police charged with enforcing a strict Islamic moral code, the woman plaintiffs lawyer told AFP on Saturday.
The unnamed woman is seeking compensation after she and her daughter were allegedly wrongfully arrested in a shopping centre car park in 2004 for not wearing decent clothing, her lawyer Abderrahman Al-Lahm said. Women in Saudi Arabia must be covered from head to toe when they go out in public. The religious policeman in question arrested the pair, commandeered the car from their driver and drove them to his headquarters where the already sick mother suffered health complications, said Lahm.
The womans family is bringing the case before a civil court in Riyadh on Sunday after an Islamic court rejected the complaint, reportedly ruling that a member of the religious police cannot be judged, Lahm said. He said he hoped his clients case would help consolidate the role of justice in defending individual freedoms and human rights.
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He said he hoped his clients case would help consolidate the role of justice in defending individual freedoms and human rights.
APIA, Samoa (AP) - King Malietoa Tanumafili II, one of the world's longest-reigning monarchs, has died, the prime minister's office said Saturday. He was 94. Malietoa died Friday night at Tupua Tamasese National Hospital in the Samoan capital of Apia, where he had been staying for about a week. The cause of death was not immediately available.
The king succeeded the Malietoa title in 1940, when his father passed away. He was made Samoa's joint head of state with Tupua Tamasese Meaole when the country gained independence from New Zealand in 1962, and he became sole head of state a year later when Tupua Tamasese passed away.
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Cool pic! Those are some nasty-looking head smashers there.
Efforts to counsel a Calgary man against allegedly joining terrorist forces in Afghanistan seem to have failed, said a local cleric.
Sohail Qureshi, a 24-year-old graduate of the University of Calgary, was reportedly taken into custody earlier this week and detained in Afghanistan on suspicion of attending a militant training camp in Pakistan. According to media reports, Afghan officials allege Qureshi wanted to emulate the actions of his brother, who is suspected of carrying out a suicide bombing in Kabul on Sept. 30.
Although he would not confirm the identity of Qureshi out of respect for the family, Calgary imam Sheikh Alaa Elsayed says he met with a University of Calgary computer sciences grad in November to try and talk him out of joining the fight with insurgents in Afghanistan. "I was deeply concerned because the train of thought and the determination on his face was very evident that he was going to go through with it," Elsayed said. "Unfortunately ..."
The imam said he was contacted by the Calgarian's father, who was frantic at his son's behaviour and wanted an intervention to help him. "We talked for two hours trying to convince his son the ideology he has may not be the proper one, but apparently it was in vain," Elsayed said. "I will not doubt one single second his intention was pure and sincere because according to him, it was the right thing to do to go and defend his brothers -- basically going to stand shoulder to shoulder and fight defending them."
Elsayed added he tried to work with the young man to get him working or teaching in his field of computer science. "We said, 'Yes, I understand you may want to get martyrdom status ... but you can do more good if you live for the sake of Allah or the God almighty.' "
The imam believes the Calgarian, who he said grew up a quiet, polite well-mannered boy, was "brainwashed" or "manipulated by emotion" by ideas he found on the Internet.
Sources say Qureshi came to Canada in the 1990s with his family, became a Canadian citizen and then was reported missing by loved ones earlier this year. The federal government has since been checking into his activities by contacting family and friends, said a source.
A U of C student, who is a fellow Muslim, said Qureshi was a typical student who liked to go to clubs and drink but then suddenly became deeply committed to his religion and become an introvert. "It was a total 180-degree flip," said the student.
"The reports I was getting was that everybody tried to talk him out of it and tell him this was not what the religion is. It's unfortunate because it's going to bring disgrace to the community here."
Another university student, who knows Qureshi from prayer groups, said the Calgarian took his religion seriously but didn't peg the computer sciences grad as an extremist. "He used to talk to imams about defending his brothers and sisters, and he kept talking about it and talking about it," said the student. "But none of the people around him seemed to agree with his views."
The university had no comment on the arrest, said U of C spokesman Colleen Turner.
She is an incredibly shrewd politician, one of the most powerful in India and, some say, a future Prime Minister
Ushering in a single party rule after 14 years, BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday assumed reins of power in Uttar Pradesh heading a 50-member jumbo ministry inducting several persons from the upper castes, reflecting the rainbow coalition she stitched to get an absolute majority in the elections.
The 51-year-old leader, who became the chief minister for a fourth time, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor T V Rajeshwar at a simple ceremony at the Raj Bhavan here.
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Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Nehru Gandhi clan spent the last month campaigning in Uttar Pradesh state (population 166 million) for the Congress party.
He was demolished by Mayawati. The communists came off even worse. Not one of their candidates won a seat.
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Kathleen's body is covered with scars and red welts. They cover her arms and legs and rim her hairline. She said they're caused by mysterious fibers that emerge from her skin and make her body feel like it's crawling with bugs. "It feels like a stinging sensation or like a gnat has lightly landed on my skin. It makes my skin itch. It feels like I've been bitten in the beginning, and when I get a raised bump on my skin, that's when I usually find one of the black fibers", said Kathleen.
The strange illness has plagued her for four years and cost her jobs, an engagement, and her happiness. She said now even her 10-year old daughter, and 17-year old son are showing the same symptoms.
"Kathleen" - we changed her name to protect her privacy - first called Newschannel 8 a year ago about the disease many call "Morgellons." She declined to go on camera at the time, worried it would harm her loved ones. Last month, she changed her mind, and said she'd let us see for ourselves the fibers that have taken over her life. Kathleen set up a newly purchased microscope at her Tualatin home so we could examine and videotape the fibers.
We watched as she carefully washed her hands, then covered them with Eucerin cream. "What will happen now is they'll begin to come to the surface of the skin,"she said.
Kathleen probed at her fingers with tweezers, and examined her skin with a magnifying glass. After several minutes, Kathleen said, "I see a fiber. They are coming out of the side of my finger."
We couldn't actually see any fiber come of her skin, but when I looked at the tweezer, I could see what looked to be a small hair wrapped around the end of the tweezer. She placed it on a slide under the microscope. As she examined it she told us, "Some of the fibers, like this one, have barbs that resemble thorns. I find it fascinating, disgusting, horrifying at times, but at the same time, it's like watching a train wreck."
She said the fibers can be black, but sometimes are clear or red or blue. "When they're black, they're usually shaped like a staple." I looked through the microscope and saw what looked like a hair with a barb or bubble on it.
What was it, and what is Kathleen's illness? It is the subject of an emerging medical controversy. A growing legion of peole across the country say they have the illness they call Morgellons. However, the medical community has not recognized Morgellons as a disease.
We took the video of the fibers to Portland psychiatrist Dr. Annette Matthews. Dr. Matthews hasn't treated Kathleen, but after watching the tape, she said she's seen it before in other patients. "I think it's part of a larger phenomenon called Delusional Parasitosis. Some people call it dramatophobia or bugaphobia. It's extremely distressing to people. They really think they have bugs, or worms or fibers," she said.
But, Kathleen insists it's not in her head. "I am not mentally ill. There are doctors, nurses, people in all professions with this disease. I just want treatment for it. Just because it's scary doesn't mean it's not real", she said.
The Centers for Disease Control has received so many calls from people who say they have Morgellons, it has formed a task force to look into it. Dan Rutz, a spokesman for the CDC, said, "We are not doubting for a moment that people's suffering is real. What we're not sure of is what's behind it. We would like people to be patient with the process. Good science takes time."
While Kathleen waits for answers, she said the disease is destroying her life and her children's lives. "What's frustrating to me is to see my own children being really sick with this, and maybe even having shorter lives because of it and just having everyone ignore us, it's very difficult. It's a nightmare, an absolute nightmare,"she said. This, whatever it is, used to be almost exclusive to California, Texas and Florida.
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...This sounds like an episode of 'House' just waiting to happen. All kidding aside, I have read about cases like this, but they were always far less severe. Every last one of them, however, turned out to be soem kind of infected or ingrown hair.
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I had an ingrown hair in my nose. Eventually it grew out the side, and when it grew real long, I used it to sew my nose closed.
Now when I talk, I sound like Larry King.
George Schwartz of Santa Fe, New Mexico initially believed the cause may be the bacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, and has claimed success in treating patients with antibiotics that target this waterborne bacterium.[17] He now believes it is a parasitic infection. In his booklet "Lisa's Disease, A Fiber Disease", he describes four stages to this condition. Stage four places body organs in jeopardy. Schwartz also treated patients with anti-worm medication and diatomaceous earth.[21]. He says it is "a modern day plague which silently grows within the host and after weeks may explode into cavernous, thread- bearing skin lesions, and can extrude eggs and larvae" and is "a highly contagious, world-wide epidemic which will soon reach a critical mass". He has developed a treatment plan for the early stages[22]. In August, 2006 he published a new book describing this disease and treatment plans.[23] Currently he is barred from practicing medicine, due to a narcotics violation[4].
These kinds of 'stealth' difficult to treat bacterial infections are far more prevalent than the medical system recognizes. I'd urge anyone who has physical symptoms labelled autoimmune or psychosomatic to look into the possibility it's treatable by antibiotics.
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How many times have doctors told people that some physical problem was "all in their head", only to get proven wrong years later? I'd get another doctor.
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I knew a poor old guy who had a *month* of bad diarrhea with four doctors mis-diagnosing him. The fifth asked him just one question: visited Mexico recently?
"Yes".
Then he did one test, positive for amoebic dysentery. Gave him a few pills and that was the end of it.
The others had said "probably cancer", "old age", "bad diet", and "bad diet".
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I had an ingrown hair in my nose. Eventually it grew out the side, and when it grew real long, I used it to sew my nose closed.
Now when I talk, I sound like Larry King.
i concur... fucking hiLarious!! ;-)
and heh whats not to like about these names, Delusional Parasitosis, Dramatophobia or Bugaphobia...
Several North Carolina readers send word of this WRAL report about a church in Spring Hope that is rankling local Muslims. The church's sign is causing controversy...
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If they are offended or humiliated, they can pack their sorry asses back to their hell hole of origin. We need to stop apologizing or even paying any mind to these self-serving piles of shit.
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The use of free speech in order to "humiliate" Muslims needs to become common-place practice until these skinless hyper-sensitive shits become adapted to our sandpaper world or just fuck off and die. Any questions?
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The message was spot on but it should not have been posted on a church sign. There are plenty of good reasons to oppose jihadist goals but making this seem like religious opposition will only muddy the issue.
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If the religious will not stand up to those who would enslave them, who will?
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Muslims are offended when Christians deny the Mohammed was a bona fide "prophet." Reality dictates: if Christians believed otherwise then they wouldn't be Christians. As Christopher Hitchens documents in his current anti-religion diabtribe, "prophet" claims can be made by anyone who can communicate. Prophet = Liar
Mohammed = The Worst Effing Liar Who Ever Lied
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BFd, islam's religious main doctrinal points themselves are direct refutation of christianity, and slandering of the christians (and it's at core an antisemitic religion too).
A religion that teaches to despise and hate and destroy all others "false religions", claiming to be the one and only and pre-existing Master Religion, and that not from a schism or an hersesy, but from its fundations, and which put this into action every day, everywhere it has the upper hand... and yet that constantly is Humiliated and Offended and Under Attack and Victimized : "It would be funny, if that weren't so despicably evil", or something.
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So we're still debating whether Islam is evil or not ?
Wake me when the debate is over and the time to eliminate Islam is here. You can talk for another decade or two and what will be accomplished ?
Europe will be muslim, America will be socialist and spanish speaking, China will rule the seas, Africa will be a zoological park, Israel will be the size of a golf course, and Australia will be building a border fence.
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History is solid on that fact that one effective tool against the spread of Islam is Christianity.
The Crusades, inspired by the Popes, drove Islam back from Europe.
The tools then was the sword coupled with the conviction in the Christian heart that Islam was not the truth.
The tools today can be even more lethal, instant world wide communications of things like what the sign above said, sent out to all the people of the world.
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The message was spot on but it should not have been posted on a church sign.
This should be printed on one dollar bills, replace the multi-color test pattern broadcasts and be branded/tattooed on the forehead of every goat-f*cker in North America.
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If the religious will not stand up to those who would enslave them, who will?
In the end, all other religions must exhort their followers to destroy Islam. Nothing less will suffice if they wish to survive. Just ask the Thai Buddhists.
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Look for the sign or the church to be vandalized or parishioners intimidated/attacked. Standard practice when you wont give them what they want. They may try the lawsuit route first, that little church prolly can't afford to fight very long in court, but saudi arabia can afford to harass them for a long time.
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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A Saudi civil court is to hear the first ever case brought against the kingdoms religious police charged with enforcing a strict Islamic moral code, the woman plaintiffs lawyer told AFP on Saturday.
APIA, Samoa (AP) - King Malietoa Tanumafili II, one of the world's longest-reigning monarchs, has died, the prime minister's office said Saturday. He was 94. Malietoa died Friday night at Tupua Tamasese National Hospital in the Samoan capital of Apia, where he had been staying for about a week. The cause of death was not immediately available.
