The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. The Supreme Court recently heard 2 cases related to same-sex “marriage”. Facebook lit up with picture of red “equal” signs with folks proclaiming their support of “marriage equality”. But is equality really what this is about? This episode asks you [...]

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On January 25th, three days after his 85th birthday, legendary artist Shozo Shimamoto died of heart failure. A memorial event titled Shozo-ism was held at Hotel Novotel Koshien, Osaka West in Japan on March 13th. Another memorial is ongoing. Quoting Shozo’s first son, Takashi Shimamoto “please visit Shozo’s soul, he would be so excited to [...]

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Welcome to the First Virtual Church of Our Lord and Savior, Steve Jobs. As you enter the sanctuary, please do not make eye contact with anyone. Keep your eyes focused on the screen of the mobile device of your choice. We are relevant and practice diversity here, which is easy since no one will even [...]

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“You oughta get better locks around here if you don’t want people taking your private information, Mr. Squirl. It’s up to you to do something preventive….” “Mr. Mercer, I’m Jack Squirl, President of Data Miner Servicing, y’ know, ‘Servicing You With a Smile.’ Our security guard detained you one hour ago, and we are holding [...]

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“So JFK is going to be the new president. Right? Not so fast. Some goober decides to drive up to the Kennedy compound with dynamite in his car….” I have a long memory, so I’m still unwilling to bet that Mitt Romney will win or keep the Republican nomination, much less the election. I know [...]

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Okay, parents. Your 13 year old makes a decision that he wants to do something that has a 2 percent chance to be fatal. Do you 1) Forbid him to do it. 2) Try to talk him out of this but if he refuses to listen to your concerns, allow him to do it anyway [...]

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GMA and ESPN are now promoting hate speech against Catholics under the guise of accusing Filipine boxer Pacquiao of homophobia. From “An Open Letter to Manny Pacquiao From a Gay Filipina American,” …your parents give you Catholicism as a kind of heavy gift. A centuries-old guide for every life transition a human can go through. [...]

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“Traumatic grief, with its unanswered questions, its numbing shock, its horror, its ability to sear disturbing images into our souls that cannot be erased by sleep or by time–this process follows the same general path both for persons and groups.” When 12:30 struck, none of us fourth graders knew that our young president was being [...]

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The media freedom website BBG Watch reported that the Senate Committee on Appropriations has rejected the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) proposal to end Voice of America (VOA) radio and TV broadcasts to China and criticized the BBG for the lack of transparency. The committee recommended $740,039,000 for U.S. international broadcasting operations, for the operating [...]

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Money Ball is deservingly going to draw comparisons to The Social Network primarily because both are true stories about people who found success doing the seemingly impossible by going about their business in an unlikely and unusual way.  The other comparison will come from the fact that both had academy award level performances. Money Ball [...]

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From Freakonomics:Killer Cars: An Extra 1,000 Pounds Increases Crash Fatalities by 47% The Actual report name is “Pounds that kill: The external cost of vehicle weight. Well, anyway, the study shows the obvious: If you have a big car that collides with a smaller car, the small car folks are toast. Well, duh. Yes, all [...]

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There is an old comedy monologue by the late Alan Sherman where he explains why he got fat: As a boy, his mother reminded him that people were starving in Europe, so he needed to eat everything on his plate. So I would clean the plate, four, five, six times a day. Because somehow I [...]

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TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA, March 1, 2011 — In this series of analyses for Free Media Online (FreeMediaOnline.org) — U.S. International Broadcasting in Crisis– Ted Lipien, former Voice of America acting associate director, examines recent Broadcasting Board of Governors’ decisions, with a focus on the latest controversial plan to completely eliminate Voice of America on-the-air radio [...]

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If you live in the US, mark your calenders: It’s the Great American Shake- out drill. check out this link for more information. so what do you do when an earthquake strikes? when I lived in Minnesota, we always kept emergency supplies in our car (in case we got caught in a snowstorm or skidded [...]

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The sins of child protective agencies are many, and many have detailed them at length. I’ve tossed my hat in that ring on occasion. Mostly, CPS agencies tend to over-interfere in families. I recently ran a piece based on a blog in the New York Times written by attorney Chris Gottlieb. She’s an attorney whose [...]

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“Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.” Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker With that ruling [...]

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Most of the sharks are out attacking Mel Gibson’s shocking behavior. Well, it’s better reading that the other stories in the news, such as the oil spill or that suffering Haitians still need help. And it allows lots of folks to wax self righteous. Ironically, it is Whoopie Goldberg, a celebrity who also defended Roman [...]

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Even Eric Holder and his crew have been unable to justify a reason to fight it. That’s why they are sitting on it, claiming that they are going to go slowly in order to mull it over. As near as many of us can tell, they are sitting on it until the law takes effect in the hopes of catching an Arizona police officer attempting to use it to commit a crime.

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Moving for a vote before the California State Assembly is an amendment to California’s civil stalking law that will include “surveillance” as a basis to assert claims. This addition is designed to prevent constant, non-consensual, and non-privileged surveillance of a person. (Specific language has been built into the amendment excluding any official surveillance from being [...]

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…President Obama has made jokes about Arizona and the law. He gave an appearance of being unaware of the federal law in which the Arizona law was based, but I think he knows full well what the law is. After all, wasn’t he trained as an attorney and didn’t he once claim to have taught law?

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I have many ethical problems with the Obama Health Care bill. But the real story that is being ignored about Obama’s health care bill is that it kowtows to big insurance and big drug companies, who stand to make a killing from the bill. Reuter’s review of “winners and loser” should give you pause: hospitals [...]

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  Maine USA–The world laughed with collective play and celebration on March 17, 2010 when The Levity Project released its latest Micro-Movement: Car Dancing video.  It celebrates being in the present and a feeling of being connected worldwide with a four and half minute video of individuals and families from all over the world car [...]

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 Americans have been vilified and conditioned to believe that they are the worst polluters on the planet.   The USA has the assignment; worlds whipping boy for any and all environmental abuse on the earth.  Somehow it’s all our fault that 16 of the worlds 20 most polluted cities are in China.     None of the top [...]

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San Jose, CA-  Four San Jose police officers are on paid leave for the beating and tasing of an unarmed Vietnamese man. Officers Kenneth Seigel, Steven Payne Jr., Jerome Smith, and Gabriel Reyes were involved in a brutality incident against 20 year old student Phuong Ho, all of which was caught on cell phone video [...]

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The legislation California Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law recently is widely known to restrict the actions of paparazzi and penalize the organizations that purchase photos taken illegally. But what is less understood is the strong language the California Legislature used in the wording of the bill. The following are quotes from the text of the [...]

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Well, another week and more news on the Peer Abuse front. This week, its great news and involves someone finally taking a group of bullies by the horns. In California, there is a serious problem with the paparazzi who try and do what they can to get photos of celebrities without their consent. When I [...]

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Today’s news that former Congressman William Jefferson, was convicted of bribery and racketeering, among other things, comes as no big surprise.  Several things are worth revisiting regarding this former “big wheeler” and the support he was given by the House  leadership.  Most people will remember the media coverage and uproar that occurred as a result of the [...]

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Unless the California legislature finds a way to balance the state’s budget today (July 1st) everyone who receives money from the state, state employees, contractors, welfare recipients, etc., will receive IOUs in their pay envelopes instead of money. Why? Because the California Constitution requires (demands) a balanced budget every year. Why the state budget got [...]

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I wasn’t too surprised that Proposition 8,which defended traditional marriage, passed in California because of the large number of Black and Hispanic Democrats who voted against it. Their votes were actually about how people traditionally live together, and the place of marriage in society, but fifty years after the sexual revolution, one doubts that the [...]

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To those out there desperately trying to paste together scraps of enthusiasm by singing the poetic praises of VP Dick Cheney, please don’t expect the average conservative out in flyover country  to join your little Republican booster club.     Certainly, there is not much to disagree with in what the former VP says.  No doubt, we’re [...]

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California- Seems Sandra Cantu’s murderer Melissa Huckaby is in some more trouble regarding the little girl she is suspected of poisoning back in January and now an adult male. It has been reported she poisoned an adult male back in March. What? So we have now murder, rape, lewd and lavicious acts, suspicion of arson and [...]

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Oh joy! Lori Drew is back in the news. Hearing her name tends to make my blood boil. However, it gives me something to blog about and express my feelings about her. This time, there is a delay in her case as the defense filed to dismiss the case. Excuse me? Did they say dismiss? [...]

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Well, like many Americans on Friday night, I sat down and watched the NBC special about 70’s icon Farrah Fawcett and her battle with cancer. It was a 2 hour long documentary that included watching Farrah go through some of the hardest times in her battle with anal cancer. Plus, the support of Alana Stewart [...]

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I seethed in anger last March, when Nancy Pelosi helped to jiggle the votes for the Democratic convention so that the super-delegates and the caucuses would be able to nullify the popular votes in the primaries. This enabled the hard left, who had hijacked a lot of the caucuses, to have their candidate Barack Obama [...]

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Tracy, California- I have found a news report from Sacramento that sends shivers up my spine. Due to the gag order in this case the source of this report could not go into detail regarding the report. The source said that during the investigation of trailers in the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park while Sandra [...]

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Yreka California- Monday morning at 4:30am an intruder went in to the home of 3 year old Francis Collins and abducted her. Francis is 3 ft tall and 30 pounds and she has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen in a tie dye shirt. Her abductor is Cody Kaplin a 22 year [...]

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Why Naomi of 90210 is not a Bully In the 1990’s, I was a fan of the show Beverly Hills 90210. I watched it in college and during most of the decade. So, when a new 90210 came this season to the CW, I watched some of it as it had some of the old [...]

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A couple of months ago, a physician in California who refused to perform in vitro fertilization (aka “IVF”, aka “Testtube baby”) on a lesbian was taken to court and sued for “discrimination”. He contended that doing IVF on single women was against his religious beliefs, but lost the case on the basis of discrimination laws. [...]

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Long Beach, CA.-  A missing couple most likely fell off of a cruise ship between Long Beach Califonia and Mexico.  The 90 year old man and his 79 year old wife have yet to be found.  There names and residence is being with held until notification to the families.  The couple was aboard a Carnival [...]

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As the holidays are finally over, I am finally able to start getting back into the swing of things after two weeks of being away from blogging and all things Peer Abuse. Now, I am finally able to catch up and boy and figured a continuation of the Rock of Love Charm School scandal involving [...]

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Real Housewives, Orange County version: Nice Guy Jeff Beitzel Passes Away Who’s Throwing Stones? It’s season four of Housewives with two new additions: 30-yr-old Gretchen Rossi and Lynne Curtain. Curtain replaced Lauri Waring Peterson after Peterson opted to drop out of the show when her son was arrested for drug possession. The storyline surrounding Gretchen [...]

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What would you do if you bought a box of crackers and when you opened it you found an envelope with $10,000 all in $100 bills? Would you keep it or do the right thing and turn it in to authorities? First of all I can’t imagine getting that lucky but Sandra Rogoff sure was. [...]

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One day a man was in a car wreck, and lay inside his car. The engine was ominously smoking, suggesting it might burst into flame. A doctor passed by, thinking: I have no experience in emergency care, I have no medicine with me, and if I remove him from the car I could be sued, [...]

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Monday morning, I was pointed in the direction of an article online concerning Sharon Osbourne, the matriarch of the Ozzy Osbourne family and reality television star Megan Hauserman who has been on various shows such as Beauty and the Geek and others. Both were recently on a Vh1 show called Rock of Love Charm School [...]

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John Edwards Affair/Scandal: Rielle Hunter Back in New Jersey John Edwards’ mistress, Rielle Hunter and daughter, Frances Quinn, are back on the East coast. After money man, Fred Baron, passed away October 30, Hunter’s hush money payments have stopped and she was forced to trade ritzy Santa Barbara for a more pedestrian setting: New Jersey. [...]

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Two Original RHOC Gone: Quinn Fry’s Disappearance Lauri Waring Peterson Also Gone It’s a new season of Real Housewives of Orange County and another of the original ladies, Lauri (Waring) Peterson, has bid goodbye while one wonders: what happened to Quinn Fry? The new season has a new “housewife”: 30-yr-old Gretchen Rossi, a blue-eyed blonde [...]

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In describing the Taliban’s destruction of the two colossal Buddhas of Bamiyan in March 2001, The Wall Street Journal noted: History has accustomed us to the persecutions that intolerance exercises on those persons whom it intends to subjugate and to the destructions inflicted on the monuments that represent their beliefs and convictions. … The case [...]

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Over the weekend my wife and I had the pleasure of attending incoming California State Senator Rod Wright’s (pictured) swearing-in Inglewood. While serving in the Assembly from 1996 to 2002, Rod was a pioneer of child support and family law reform in California and the nation. One of the interesting people we met at the [...]

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In the aftermath of the Lori Drew trial, I have been reading bits and pieces online as time has permitted. This trial made me think of a few things over the past several days about internet safety, the realities of social sites and other odds and ends pertaining to the internet. I stumbled across this [...]

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There has been a low-grade terrorist war in the US that gets little attention, and the shadowy group has attacked again. Several cars have been firebombed, and an animal rights group is behind the attacks. Don’t expect much publicity about the attacks, because the attackers are so called animal rights protesters, a group beloved of [...]

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Political Correctness Claims Another Victim: Kindergarten Thanksgiving Celebration Had Been Held for 40 Years “Racist” children celebrate Thanksgiving by “dehumanizing” American Indians In yet another case of political correctness run amok, a forty-year history of kindergarteners dressed as pilgrims and native Americans celebrating Thanksgiving at school has been quashed in Claremont, California, due to four [...]

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[ABOVE: Megan Meier's Mom, Tina Meier] There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court. ~Clarence Darrow, 1936 We wondered, will there finally be “justice” for Megan Meier in a Los Angeles Federal courthouse and the Lori Drew MySpace trial, as prosecutors rested their case Friday. It was November of last [...]

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A leaked June memo, outlining the decision by Mormon Church leadership to use resources and staff in support of California’s Proposition 8, may just eventually end up costing the cult far more than the 20 million or so it spent helping get the ballot initiative passed. I do not know a lot of openly gay [...]

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Naked Truth? PETA, Boobs Not Bombs, Other Causes Use Nudity to Call Attention to Protests Nude PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Protest in Barcelona, Spain, against the abuse of animals whose pelts are used in the fur industry, January 21, 2007 Charges against a naked Portland, Oregon, male bicyclist were recently dismissed [...]

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California’s Prop 8 is nothing new. Other states have essentially banned gay marriage by “defining” marriage as a union between a man and woman. The question is: who gave them the right? I fully understand that most religious organizations and other organizations consider homosexual relations to be immoral. That’s their prerogative! No one has to [...]

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M.I.T. graduate Will Bradshaw is co-founder and President of Green Coast Enterprises, using innovative procedures to rebuild New Orleans homes devastated by Katrina. He is pro-life. He is voting for Barack Obama. When Bradshaw describes himself as “pro-life,” he is speaking about an issue that goes beyond the simplistic code word that usually refers only [...]

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In one of the weirdest science stories I’ve read in awhile, some scientists took an x ray using simple sticky tape (what in America is commonly called Scotch Tape). Some kids are aware that if you unroll sticky tape in a dark room you sometimes see light emissions. But in the latest experiment in UCLA, [...]

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Wednesday morning two men, which police believe to be Mexican drug dealers, entered a home of 6 year old Cole Puffinburger posing as police officers and tied up the boy’s mother and her fiancé and then ransacked the apartment apparently looking for money. When they couldn’t find it they took little Cole by gunpoint and [...]

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When newspapers started collecting in the driveway of the two-story beige home on Como Lane in the upscale Porter Ranch neighborhood about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles the neighbors started noticing that there had been no activity around it also, so someone finally notified police. When the Los Angeles police finally entered the home they [...]

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FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog October 3, 2008, San Francisco –  As journalists, their organisations, and human rights and press freedom groups are preparing to commemorate the second anniversary of the killing of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, the International Federation of Journalists urged Friday all its affiliates worldwide to join the call for renewed efforts to end [...]

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Heather Locklear, better known for her part on shows such as “Melrose Place” and “Spin City” was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance Saturday night in Montecito, California. She was booked about 7 pm after a concerned citizen spotted her getting into her car and driving erratically. The citizen [...]

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Not in words, or not in English ones anyway, but by being the Austrian-born Governor of California himself. Attempting to explain American politics to a German audience that doesn’t really get it, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has himself, unintentionally, offered the best example of what the current excitement about Sarah Palin’s entry into the 2008 presidential [...]

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Dear Governor Schwarzenegger, It has been over a week since the poopy-doo hit the fan over the impending induction of antiwar activist Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane to The California Museum’s Hall of Fame. Quite frankly, I thought by now your office would have issued a statement to the effect that upon further consideration, the [...]

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The Jane Fonda controversy has all the makings of a perfect storm. And, like the storms currently wending their way across the Atlantic Ocean, it has a life of its own, and won’t go away just because a few people would like it to.

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In a completely idiotic and incoherent rant (video; extremely vulgar language) titled “Diddy Blog #16 – ‘John McCain Is Buggin The F%^k Out’’!” so-called rapper and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs puts on his political pundit hat to “analyze” presumptive GOP nominee John McCain’s choice of AK Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. From [...]

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The California Museum’s Hall of Fame for the third year has compiled a list of notable and legendary Californians who have made extraordinary achievements in the fields of music, architecture, art, literature, politics, science, cinema, fitness and food.  Among the inductees, who will include such notables as Jack Nicholson – three-time Oscar winning actor, and [...]

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As I am located in Los Angeles, I try and keep up with the ins and outs of the bullying and peer abuse problem in this state. Recently, a bill entitled AB86 introduced by Assemblyman Ted Lieu of Torrance would finally crack down on the cyber bullying that so many of our young people face [...]

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Ray Bierl Any Place I Hang My Hat Any place Ray Bierl hangs his hat is home, to go by the baker’s dozen of traveling songs he’s chose here. The thing is, the California based songwriter tells these tales as though both the road and the places are his home, and you believe he’s ridden [...]

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While too good to be true lottery scams hit the news all the time, stories of crimes involving real lotteries happen less frequently. Apparently, a 37-year-old Ceres, California man was arrested by local and state detectives after stealing thousands of lottery tickets in a series of burglaries stretching throughout California’s Central Valley. I suppose this [...]

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After John McCain stole the show at Rick Warren’s “Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency,” Barack Obama’s moonbat and MSM supporters cried foul. They insisted that since McCain was en route during part of Obama’s interview with Warren, he could have been listening to the questions and answers.   As “proof,” the conspiracy theorists pointed [...]

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Some would argue that journalism died in 2007 when “fake news” anchor Jon Stewart was ranked among the most trusted TV news anchors in the U.S. – along with that other fake news purveyor, Dan Rather (second item) in a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. But “citizen journalist” Rick [...]

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By the time the MSM deigned to take notice that former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) may have fathered a “love child” with campaign staffer Rielle Hunter – a story broken by the National Enquirer – it had become a staple of Jay Leno’s monologues, the blogosphere was abuzz and Fox News had corroborated the Enquirer’s reporting. [...]

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Analyzing a spate of recent polls, political analyst Michael Barone finds that even with Obama’s whirlwind trip around the world and the MSM’s relentlessly favorable coverage of every breath he takes, every move he  makes and every vow he breaks (second item), “the basic dynamics of the race haven’t changed”: [H]e doesn’t come close to [...]

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The man accused of kidnapping his 7 year daughter, Reigh Rockefeller and led police on a week long manhunt is to be interviewed by Los Angeles police that are investigating the disappearance of a Los Angeles couple more than 20 years ago. The question is that the same man that claims to be Clark Rockefeller seems [...]

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On Friday, the FBI arrested a former Countrywide employee and his accomplice for stealing and selling personal information (including social security numbers) obtained from people applying for mortgages. According to news sources, the number of people compromised was about 2 million. The Countrywide inside man was identified as Rene L. Rebollo Jr., who worked at [...]

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Here in the Philippines food poisoning is a common problem. We eat local veggies, and grow organic veggies that use a chicken manure based fertilizer. So when we heard that the US was having a Salmonella outbreak from Tomatoes, my husband Lolo ordered our cook to wash the tomatoes well. No use taking a chance. [...]

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Just Who is Rielle Hunter? John Edwards, a tireless advocate for the homeless, was allegedly caught visiting his purported mistress, Rielle Hunter, at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles last night. The National Enquirer has the lowdown on Edwards’ visit to the mother of his alleged love child. DBKP has been following the Edwards-Hunter-secret love [...]

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  By RB Scott  In April Thomas Sowell, a respected conservative scholar, wrote an insidious column undercutting Barack Obama and attacking preemptively the presumptive stupidity and gullibility of an American electorate that would elect him President simply to make a little history. (http://www.townhall.com/col umnists/ThomasSowell/2008/0 4/29/an_old_newness )   This would not be particularly noteworthy were Sowell [...]

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When you cash in a small lottery prize at a lottery retailer, the amount might not exactly what you were were entitled to receive. On 7/1/08, the California Lottery announced that they are using undercover agents to sting dishonest retailers, who cheat lottery winners out of their prizes. The press release on this matter pointed [...]

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Police received a call with complaints that a man in one of the rooms in a hotel near Disneyland was exposing himself to children and adults. Two officers arrived just before 8 am. They found a man that they believed to be the one the complaints were made against in the parking lot getting into [...]

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Former Fulton County (GA) magistrate judge William Garrett Jr., 72, his son Russell Garrett, 43, and his daughter-in-law, Malika Garrett, 42, were arraigned in federal court on a nine-count indictment that included human trafficking, alien harboring, witness tampering, and making false statements in what a federal prosecutor called a case of “modern-day slavery,” reports the [...]

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Comedian Al Franken, who is looking to unseat incumbent senator Norm Coleman (R-MN), has a problem with porn. Not ribald humor created by someone else that he downloaded to his computer in the privacy of his home, but material he created for public consumption.   A former “Saturday Night Live” cast member, Franken wrote a [...]

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 The Megan Meier suicide case in Missouri (US) where the 13 year old girl committed suicide after being befriended and rejected online by a 49 year old lady posing herself as a 16 year old boy has attracted attention worldwide both for its tragic implications as well as the legal aspects involved in the trial [...]

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Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski is famous for his “ribald sense of humor,” as The Wall Street Journal put it, and The Mercury News (San Jose) calls him “an ardent supporter of the First Amendment” whose “rulings crackl[le] with distaste whenever there is even a hint of trampling on free-speech rights.”  Those two traits [...]

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“The new honor was created to celebrate ForeWord’s tenth anniversary and to recognize Kunati’s innovation and fearlessness.” by T.K. Kenyon

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In the largest workplace raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to date, 389 workers were detained at the Agriprocessors Inc. meat processing plant in Postville, IA, on May 12th, and during the following week 297 of them were tried on – and pled guilty to – charges of document fraud. Twenty-seven immigrants received [...]

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In the USA, few remember that the left once was on the forefront of insisting that men be paid a living wage, which was defined as enough to support a household. Instead, I have seen the left evolve to a libertarian agenda, where it has decided to “reform” many laws in order to free people [...]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.” According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim. Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw [...]

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When menopause hits you will no longer joke about how Krispy Kreme doughnuts go straight to your hips. That’s because they won’t. You’ll be storing fat like a man. Your body will have lost the estrogen supply it needs to direct fat to your hips and buttocks, and will instead store it in your midsection. [...]

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Since May 2007, Absolut Vodka has been running an ongoing ad campaign created by TBWA/Chiat/Day/New York, “In an Absolut World,” described by The New York Times as: [A] fanciful, even surreal, place where common sense prevails and just deserts are always on the menu. On Planet Absolut, for instance, men can get pregnant, the Curse [...]

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Dangerous and counterfeit products, hacking government systems and espionage all have one thing in common, they are likely to originate from China. The latest example of this is being reported by the AP: Two men attempting to board a plane to China with nearly a dozen sensitive infrared cameras in their luggage were arrested on [...]

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Two years ago, Atlantic City, NJ lost its only Supermarket. IGA closed its doors in April 2006 forcing residents and tourists to shop at small markets or outside of the ocean resort. Since the closing, attempts have been made to convince others to replace IGA, but no new supermarket has yet to open. In late [...]

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Lori Drew has denied any involvement in Megan Meier’s death. Her former employee, Ashley Grill told a LA Grand Jury a different story.    Federal prosecutors in California questioned Ashley Grill, an employee of the woman who allegedly was behind a cruel hoax which led to the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier. Grill was questioned [...]

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When Justice H. Walter Croskey ruled that “California courts have held that … parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children,” he set off a firestorm of protests from homeschooling parents and organizations, not only throughout the state but throughout the country — and rightly so. What right has any court or [...]

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A construction worker in the movie industry killed himself at one of Mel Gibson’s homes in the Agoura Hills, near Malibu. 48-year-old, Michael John Van Dyke, hanged himself on one of the structures under construction on Gibson’s property. His body was discovered early yesterday morning by the job site foreman. According to TMZ, Mel’s rep [...]

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A legal opinion issued Thursday in Connecticut may allow lawmakers to extend a state smoking ban to the American-Indian casinos, which claim that smoking restrictions would be a threat to tribal sovereignty. Lawmakers in Pennsylvania have debated this week to make casinos completely smoke-free or limit smoking to 25 percent of the gaming floor which [...]

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What do fine wine and identity theft have in common? According to the FTC’s top cities for identity theft, the answer is Napa, California. Christopher Null blogged about this on Yahoo: While you’re sipping Chardonnay and enjoying the beauty of the wine country, crooks may be busy swiping your identity. According to a Federal Trade [...]

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Back in the Days before there was Madonna Back before MTV There was Bubble Gum Music 16 Videos of Bubblegum Music 1967-70 Talk about a labor of love. Songs with sugary-sweet hooks and lyrics drenched in 100% sucrose. Ok, we admit it, Bubble Gum music–it’s a guilty pleasure from the seventh grade. Sweetest music this [...]

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Larry Sinclair, Obama’s Accuser in the YouTube Sex & Drug Video, Behaving Badly Some digging Revealed He Hit up YouTubers for Cash a Few Days Ago Putting the Squeeze on some “Sunshine Club” Members Not a Pretty Picture  Oh what a tangled web we weave… DBKP has learned that the man who accused Senator Barack [...]

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Is this really what Britney will look like at 36? Age Progression Artists simulate photos of Britney, other famous Celebrities Britney Spears, through the wonders of Age Progression What Britney Will Look Like? “Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.” –Dion Boucicault [Age Progression by www.Phojoe.com] If anything can sober her up, [...]

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The California Lottery announced that the Mega Millions lottery — where $270 million was won last night — is now being being used to trick people into cashing worthless checks. The intent behind this is to get people to cash a bogus check and send the money back to them before your bank, or financial [...]

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Is Ralph Nader gearing up for a 2008 Presidential Run? Signs are pointing to a “yes” Nader to discuss his presidential plans Sunday on “Meet the Press” Ralph Nader, coming to a 2008 November ballot for president, near you? Ralph Nader will be on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday to possibly announce that he [...]

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About every 2 weeks, somewhere in the US, a SWAT team raids the wrong home   The Increasing Militarization of the America’s Police “A Man’s Home is his Castle.” –A proverbial expression that illustrates the principle of individual privacy, which is fundamental to the American system of government. In this regard, the Fourth Amendment to the [...]

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The Body of Missing Brianna Dennison was Found Her DNA has been tied to a Serial Rapist-Murderer in Reno Police are looking for the Killer Reno Area Residents and Students are Nervous  Nightmare in Reno: Missing Brianna Denison found dead, DNA tied to local Serial Rapist The news was what any parent would never want [...]

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Aaron Klein interviewed Middle Eastern Terrorist Leaders for “Schmoozing with Terrorists” Released last fall, The Book Gave the Terrorists’ Views on America under Sharia Law Britney, Madonna Killed; No Alcohol, FOX News Shut Down and Harems for Men The DEA Would Still Be Around, Though Last October, a book which gave a glimpse of what [...]

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The Failed War on Drugs Combined Edition for January-February 25 Links to stories about Corrupt Cops, Reforms, Botched Drug Raids, News, This Week in Drug History and More The USA’s Second Longest Running “War”–After the “War on Poverty”  Corrupt Cops, This Week in Drug History, Reforms, News, More! Our January-February Special Edition of the “Failed [...]

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Equinox Fitness Club’s new print advertising campaign depicts four nuns – wearing habits and rosary beads around their necks – sketching the figure of a nude man. Actually two of the nuns are sketching, the other two are gawking. One of the nuns, who is seated, has her skirt hiked high enough up her thigh [...]

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Cuts in Jobs Announced at the New York Times Cutbacks in News Bureaus announced by NBC Cuts in Jobs at Washington Post, LA Times and Chicago Tribune Cutback in Everything MSM–except Left Wing Rhetoric Masquerading as News  When You’re Selling what No One is Buying  The big story of the Mainstream Media in the last [...]

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A Glendale CA couple Changed From a Water-Guzzling Lawn They changed it to a lovely Drought-resistant Oasis Then the City Inspectors Came After the Couple Nanny State Alive and Well in Glendale, California  When a couple decided to change their water guzzling lawn into a lovely, low maintenance drought resistant oasis, they were shocked when [...]

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Britney Spears’ Family Has Fired another of her Managers, Howard Grossman  Britney Spears Has Changed Managers Frequently over the Past Several Years A Look at the Many Managers of Britney Spears  Britney Spears’ family has fired yet another business manager of the embattled pop star. Britney’s family has accused Howard Grossman of “aiding and abetting” [...]

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“. . . and we are political junkies.”–“Hi, Mark; hi Mom!” You’ll never catch Mom or me at a Twelve Step meeting. I don’t want “serenity.” I want adrenaline. I want to roll up one sleeve, plug my high speed internet cable into a vein, let my eyes roll back, and quiver uncontrollably when I [...]

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February 5, 2008 may go down in political history as the day Rush Limbaugh lost his grip on Republican voters – and the day Ann Coulter may have lost her grip altogether. Despite a concerted effort by the conservative chattering class to tar Sen. John McCain as a “liberal” or a “phony Republican,” and Fmr. [...]

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Barack Obama won more than half of the 22 Super Duper Tuesday states (12 to Hillary Clinton’s  8) – but Hillary’s wins came from such delegate-rich states as her adopted home state of NY, as well as CA, MA and NJ. Overall, 49 percent of voters supported Hillary, 46 percent supported Obama. Since none of [...]

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(Photo courtesy of EYASU.SOLOMON at Flickr) I try to stay on the subject of Fraud, Phishing and Financial Misdeeds, but every once in awhile I stray a little off subject. Although, technically push polling is slightly off subject for this blog, it is similar to what I normally write about. “In the broadest sense, a [...]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday [...]

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John Edwards (D-NC) finally bowed to the political reality that he was in a two-person race for his party’s nomination – and he was neither one of the two candidates that voters were supporting: “It’s time for me to step aside so that history can … blaze its path.” As he racked up loss after [...]

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The last Republican and Democrat presidential candidates left standing met for the final debates of the primary season in CA. The GOP debate, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley, was notable for the palpable loathing the two frontrunners have for each other. The Dem debate, held at the Kodak Theater in [...]

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    ALONG THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Will A  Year of Firsts Yield  More of The Same Old, Same Old?   January 30, 2008   By RB Scott Boston, Massachusetts   Note:  RB Scott, a former staff writer and editor at Time, Life, People and Sports Illustrated, frequently writes about national politics.   As  the barrow [...]

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  The complaint in California was lodged by a psychologist Thursday with the California Board of Psychology. It alleges that McGraw was illegally practicing without a license when he did an ambush visit on Britany Spears in the hospital.  And the act would have violated doctor-patient privilege when he began discussing Spears with the media had he been invited by the pop star [...]

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American TV self-help guru DR. PHIL MCGRAW faces criminal investigation by the California Board of Psychology after offering his services without a licence. The unlicensed “Doctor” agreed to treat Spears after she was committed to Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following an apparent breakdown at her home on 4 January (08). He then upset members of the pop star’s family by going [...]

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Vending Machines for Medicinal Marijuana Open Today in California Users are Carefully Screened before they Can Use the Machines Only in the U.S.A., Only in California “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson It may not be a better mousetrap, but there’s a feeling that [...]

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Opening Night of the 2008 San Francisco Ballet displayed a spectacular showcase of nine stellar performances in three acts, a fitting beginning to the 75th anniversary season of the oldest ballet company in the United States. The SF Ballet’s “Diamond Gala Celebration” included surprises like appearances of SF Ballet alumni dancers such as Jocelyn Vollmar, the first ballerina to perform as the “Snow Queen” in “The Nutcracker” in the United States. Vollmar danced with the SF Ballet from 1939 – 1948 and later taught at the SF Ballet School. While she no longer danced across the stage, Vollmar still appeared a queen on opening night with her snowy white hair and glowing white gown….

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Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) still hasn’t moved on, and remains fixated about the legitimate questions raised about his four-month tour of duty at the helm of a Navy patrol-boat in Vietnam by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 presidential race. He has since leaped to the defense of any [...]

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The Popular Reality Show, Real Housewives of Orange County Has “Altered” Stars Each of the Women have had Cosmetic Makeovers Does all this Nipping and Tucking Bring Love and Happiness in O.C.?  “Botox in Paradise” The Bravo TV reality series, The Real Housewives of Orange County, follows the lives of five women, ages 40 to [...]

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Orange County Parents and Teens are Upset and Shocked Teen Pix are Turning up on Gay Porn Sites Photographer Worked for Irvine Police Department Now what? Students, parents, and school officials are in shock over the revelation that dozens of photos of high school athletes participating in water polo, some as young as 14, have [...]

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The 80th Academy Award nominations have been announced Oscar Nominations don’t Generate the Excitement They Once Did Big Five Oscar Nominees Still Cause a Stir The nominations for the 80th Academy Awards are announced. There’s great excitement in the movie industry and in the Hollywood/New York area. But outside that small area, life goes on. [...]

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Long-time actress Suzanne Pleshette Passed Away Early Yesterday Evening Her Career was Long and Varied Well-liked, thrice-married and with Numerous Acting Credits on her Resume The Life of an Actress in Words, Video and Pictures  Later Suzanne Pleshette, at Charity Awards show in December 2002. Suzanne Pleshette had a long and varied career. Sexy and [...]

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Bravo Reality Series, “Real Housewives of Orange County” Has Real Trouble Real-life Husband and Wife, Matt and Jeanna Keough, Are Headed for Divorce Ex-MLB All Star, Matt Keough’s Drinking Lands Him Jail for Six Months It Could Have Been Five Years Real life means jail time for one of the reality “stars” of the Real [...]

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Bill Blackwood, who Wore man Hats,  passed away This Week A Survivor of Pearl Harbor and WWII Aviator The Inventor of Portable Hand Controls to enable the Disabled to Pilot Planes  Bringing the Joys of Flying to Thousands of Disabled Pilots  The passing of Bill Blackwood motivated a look back at a unique American who [...]

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Tiger Attack at the San Francisco Zoo Has Fueled Rumors and False “Facts” Two Weeks After the Attack, Facts Still Haven’t All Been Collected A Collection of Some SF Zoo “Facts” So Far  Since the deadly Christmas day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo, misconceptions, false rumors, and blaming the victims are being replaced [...]

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The Megan Meier MySpace Suicide Story is Back in the News An LA Federal Grand Jury Has Handed Down Subpoenas Reaction, as Expected, Is Quickly Heating Up in the Media and Internet  Does Lori Drew’s Attorney, Jim Briscoe, Have any Reaction to the Latest Development? The Megan Meier MySpace Suicide story is heating back up [...]

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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Announces Hearings into the SF Zoo Tiger Attack To Mark the Announcement, 30 Quotes about the Tiger Attack from the Media and Internet  San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that the city’s Recreaction and Parks Department Commission will conduct a series of public hearing on the deadly tiger attack that [...]

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Who was the Mysterious Lou of the Bravo TV Series, Real Housewives of OC? Peripheral character, who shoehorned his way into the series, died in April 2007 How Lou Built One Fortune, Lost it and Was on His Way to Another Lou, we hardly knew ye… It’s the third season of the Bravo TV Reality [...]

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Dr. Phil McGraw Cancels His Britney Show Britney Spears Was Never Going to Be There How Effective is a Show about Britney’s Problem without Britney? In a move some might consider coming to one’s senses, Dr. Phil, Phil McGraw, has canceled today’s previous planned “Britney Breakdown Retrospective” show. From the DrPhil.com: From Dr. Phil Regarding [...]

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Many believe that the reason behind the identity theft crisis is the irresponsible data mining and selling of people’s personal and financial information. This information then gets stored in places, where it is obtained (bought or stolen) by people, who have more than a “marketing” interest in it. The buying and selling of people’s personal [...]

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Patron Relates How Young Men Taunted, “Roared at Lions” Short Walls, Loudspeakers and Signs Offered as Protection Zoo  Director: “Something Prompted Our Tiger to Leap over Exhibit” What Prompted Same Tiger to Tear Part of Zoo Keeper’s Arm Off in September?  The current debate over the mauling of two brothers and fatal attack of 17-year-old [...]

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Proof of a Bad Idea Christmas won’t be the same for Dhaliwal Brothers   Allegations and Discovery Lend Weight to Idea that Tigers were Taunted  Another Christmas idea we’ll see less of as time goes passes. The whispers that the tigers at the San Francisco Zoo were taunted by the teens who were mauled, and [...]

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Popular Bravo Show Has Underwent Changes in Three Seasons  Show’s Families Have As Many Problems–and more–As Most Folk  A Capsule Look at The Real Housewives of Orange County Into its 3rd season, the hit Bravo reality TV show, The Real Housewives of Orange County, has given us a glimpse into the lifestyles and mini-dramas of [...]

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Two Brothers ‘Psychologically Impaired’?  Speculation Still Continues Concerning the Escape Authorities Still Working to Piece Together Details of Deadly Attack  According to the LA Times the scene where three young men were attacked by a Siberian tiger during a Christmas Day trip the San Francisco Zoo was chaotic and fraught with misinformation. The Times also [...]

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           At noon on Saturdy, Dec. 22, over a thousand people showed up for the film industry’s annual outdoor Christmas dinner at Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver’s low income Downtown Eastside neighborhood.          Turkey is what Downtown Eastsiders are left with since the povertarians stopped the trickle of film industry wealth that reached the poor. A [...]

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The Tiger Attack at the San Francisco Zoo wasn’t the Only Story about Urbanized Tigers Tiger Shot in Dallas Christmas Day A story About a Tiger in Harlem Is America Turning into Safari Land?  The deadly tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo a few days ago was a tragedy. Another tragedy either occurred or [...]

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The San Francisco Zoo Tiger Attack stories Touched off a Debate How High Can Tigers Leap? How High Can Tigers Jump?  Were the Zoo Visitors Impaired?  Was it Right to Shoot the Tigers?  Little Baby Ginn did a story about the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack a few days ago. In the story, which was [...]

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BNN, DBKP Ran a Story Yesterday about Tigers and their Leaping Abilities We Received Flak from Commenters on Our Story Animal “Expert” Jack Hanna said Tigers Leaping the SF Walls “virtually Impossible” SF Zoo Director Today Says Zoo Wall Only 12.5 Feet High  Zoo Director Did the Math  Last night we got some flak from [...]

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Mischa Barton of Fox’s The O.C. is Arrested for DUI Barton played Marissa in the Once-Popular, Now-Defunct TV Show Accounts Vary; Some Say Celebrity Was Also Charged for Possession of Drugs Life Imitates Art? Mischa Barton, little ‘Marissa’ from the now defunct teen angst show, The OC, was arrested by Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies for [...]

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The Deadly Tiger Attack at the San Francisco Zoo Has Sparked Curiosity “How Did the Tigers Escape?” Simple Math Exercise May Yield Clues  Yesterday’s tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo has zoo authorities mystified as to how the big cats could have escaped. The zoo break-out caused the death of one man and two [...]

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Four Tigers Escape, Three People Mauled, One Dead Two Mauled People Are Critically Wounded Police Battle Tigers in Dramatic Shoot-Out Christmas Zoo Outing Turns Deadly  Recent Zoo Security Fixes Questioned  No word yet as to how the tigers were able to get out of their enclosure. No information as to the identity of the victim. [...]

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Government, in General, and Democrats, in Particular, Try Disguising Taxes Taxpayers Are Getting Better at Recognizing the Camouflage San Francisco’s Mayor Proposes a New “Fee” on Soda San Franciscans Have Some Ideas for “Fees” of Their Own Government officials at all levels have become more saavy at trying to disguise taxes as something else. But, [...]

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We Asked Ginn to Put Together A Brunch for Rich Blondes We’re Inviting the Real Housewives of Orange County Everybody Else Is Invited, Too Here are some of our ideas of what a Real Housewife of Orange County might serve for Christmas Brunch. Of course our chances of being invited are between slim and none [...]

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“Real Housewives of Orange County” — More Than Meets the Eye Matt Keogh Arrested for Multiple Charges Binge Drinking Ex-Pitcher Usually “Away”  The Reality series, The Real Housewives of Orange County, follows the upscale lives of several women who live in the swank community of Coto de Caza, California. In its third season the cast [...]

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Civil Rights Pioneer, Roy Innis, Agreed Last Week to Monitor Duane “Dog” Chapman Newshounds’ Ellen Thinks Roy Innis is “dubious” when it Comes to Civil Rights  DBKP Asks 2006 “Angry Negro Award” winner, Snoop, of Political Party Poop  for his Opinion “More Fake White Liberal Outrage: The Rehabilitation of Duane “Dog” Chapman is the result. [...]

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Hungry Competitors Contribute to the Continued Traffic Decline Censorship Claims About Bury Brigades Won’t Go Away Will The Site Address the Problems? Will Founder, Kevin Rose, Sell Out First?  Social site Digg, once the shining example of what social media was supposed to be, saw its 2007 traffic in a steady downward spiral. Sites as [...]

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The Boston Globe reports that debate-weary voters are looking past the rehearsed sound bites to non-verbal cues in order to glean more meaningful insight into a candidate’s psyche than their poll-tested words can convey: The talking heads gab about front-runners and wannabes, attacks made and deflected, answers carefully parsed. But when Newbury Street hairstylist Mario [...]

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Duane “Dog” Chapman Buys $26,000 Worth of Toys BOND Home for Boys and Jim Gilliam Youth Center Beneficiaries Continuing a Long Journey Back  A lot of under-privileged kids in Los Angeles found out what Dog the Bounty Hunter fans knew all along: the Dog has a big heart. Duane “Dog” Chapman is no longer in [...]

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Rumors Buzz about Dog the Bounty Hunter’s Return Is TMZ’s story true? Neither Arts & Entertainment nor Dog’s Camp could be reached for Comment Is Dog the Bounty Hunter headed back to the TV airwaves? Could be, if the wags at TMZ are correct. The “Dog the Bounty Hunter” was a mainstay of Arts and [...]

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Three months to the day after the Dem presidential candidates gathered at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL, for the “Univision” debate, the Republican candidates did the same. For those who were watching the Pittsburgh Steelers get their asses kicked by the New England Patriots and tuned in late or not at all, [...]

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BOND–Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny Has Charity Event Dog Will Be Signing Books and Meeting Fans  All Proceeds To Help BOND’s Home for Boys  Fans Finally Have a Chance to Help Out  We Talk to BOND about Boys and the “Dog”  The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson has spent his entire life stretching out his [...]

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Before your New Year’s resolutions have all been broken and forgotten, the presidential nominations could be a done deal, what with IA holding its primary January 3rd, followed in rapid succession by NH on January 8th , MI on January 15th and more than 20 states holding primaries or caucuses Feb. 5th. Reports the Los Angeles [...]

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Until recently, botnet owners seemed to be able to trash people’s systems without having to face very many consequences. And in a lot of instances, more than a system gets trashed when it is compromised by a botnet owner. Friday, the Central California U.S. Attorney’s office announced the prosecution of one of these botnet owners. [...]

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There are some of us wondering how many more politicians will be caught with their hands in the cookie jar. In the past few years, quite a few of them seem making a mockery of the oath they took when they went into public service. One of the San Francisco’s own is being prosecuted for [...]

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In an apparent scam that packs a double whammy, the IRS is being impersonated in a spoofed e-mail requesting donations for the recent Southern California fires. From the IRS press release: The Internal Revenue Service today warned taxpayers to be on the lookout for a new e-mail scam that appears to be a solicitation from [...]

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A sad commentary on how some people react to a disaster are the amount of scams that surface as a result of them. The Postal Inspectors are warning us that we are likely to see a lot of these scams appear as a result of the Southern California fires. If you are one of the [...]

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The next shortage for the United States that some predict? Oil? Gold? Food? How about water. Those living in parts of many western states already know this as old news, but it’s something new to many parts of the country. Three states: California, Texas and Forida account for over a quarter of all the water [...]

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After running a string of editorials against the Armenian Genocide Resolution (fourth item) – plus an anti-Armenian diatribe written by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan – The Wall Street Journal belatedly lets the other side present its case when it’s too late to resuscitate the symbolic bill. On Friday’s edition of “The Journal Editorial [...]

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Republicans in California are trying to change the way electoral votes from California are distributed. Veteran GOP consultants said Monday that they were relaunching a drive to change the way California allocates its electoral college votes, aimed at helping the 2008 Republican presidential nominee capture the White House. Political strategist David Gilliard said he was [...]

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Instapundit writes: WHO SHALL RID ME OF THESE TURBULENT MULLAHS? California! Yup….the Governator did it again. He signed a bill taking California’s pension fund money out of companies that invest in Iran. This is not merely a symbolic gesture, since California, it were an independent state, would have the sixth largest economy in the world. [...]

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Two bills just signed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger limit gun ownership and use in California. AB 1471 requires gun manufacturers to build in a mechanism to microstamp ammo: Existing law defines unsafe handguns as failing to pass certain tests, or lacking certain features, as specified. This bill, the Crime Gun Identification Act of 2007, [...]

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It appears the data breach bill, which went to Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk for signature has been vetoed. Cheryl Walker at the OC Register is reporting: An ID theft protection bill that would have made businesses that take credit cards for purchases more accountable to consumers and card issuers was vetoed Saturday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. [...]

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More than 60 years ago, Polish-Jewish scholar Ralph Lemkin coined the term “genocide” precisely to describe the scale and brutality of the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Christian Armenians by the Ottoman Turks. The assertions Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates made arguing against Congress passing HR 106/SR 106, which calls [...]

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With all the technology that California is famous for, you would think their government websites were state of the art, when it comes to security. Apparently, this is NOT the case. The result has been a lot of misdirection to sites of a pornographic nature. Alex Eckelberry, CEO of Sunbelt Software, has been blogging on [...]

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Last week, a family in Marysville, Ohio welcomed their third child into a family. This birth would be unextraordinary for the general public except for the fact that the baby girl was born on October 2. This is the same date that her two older brothers were born on. Kayla Cotton was born to parents [...]

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Without changing anything since prior to the 2004 presidential election, California’s Republican Party is causing a ruckus among Republicans who are finally noticing a rule changing how delegates are allocated to the national nominating convention. An AP story by Glen Johnson describes how the rule change might allow Republican presidential candidates to focus on tiny [...]

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Oh my God. You did it again. Yesterday you voted Yea on the Lieberman/Kyl amendment, which basically calls Iran’s military a terrorist organization and informally declares war on their country. I’m confused by your vote. Don’t you remember how the Iraq war started? Let me remind you: While the media was airing program after program [...]

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More than one-third of the people in the United States under the age of 65 had no health insurance for some or all of 2006 and 2007, according to Families USA, an advocacy group representing the uninsured. The most recent census data pegs the number of people in the U.S. without insurance in 2006 at [...]

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Columbia University president Lee Bollinger exercised his free speech rights by giving guest lecturer Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a good tongue lashing. It is doubtful his words swayed the Iranian despot – “OK, OK, the Holocaust happened, and I will dismantle my nuclear program just as soon as I get back home!” – but with his tough [...]

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Now, here we have a very interesting debate about journalism, racism, crime and the new media on the internet. The Sacramento Bee has been forced to revisit a long standing, 15-year-old policy this week. It seems that for years the Bee has, for the most part, avoided mentioning the race of a suspected criminal in [...]

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One often hears that government schools in totalitarian nations brainwash their children to love the government. People in free nations decry that as oppressing the free will of innocent children, and rightly so. In American schools, however, just the opposite is true as with the case of an anti-American teacher in a public school in [...]

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News Item: San Francisco drafting legislation for ID cards for illegal aliens Plans are in the works to create city identification cards for immigrants who are unable to get other forms of ID.  The cards would be accepted by all agencies and organizations that receive city funding.  Proposed services would include libraries, golf courses, public [...]

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Though Fred Thompson finally ended his dance of the seven veils and revealed his candidacy to Jay Leno in a taped appearance on NBC’s “Tonight Show,” it’s Mike Huckabee – who has always made the most of his limited time in the spotlight as a second-tier candidate – who’s looking sexy after Wednesday’s “The First [...]

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Mexico’s president Felipe Calderón used the occasion of his first state-of-the nation address to declare war on the United States (AKA Azatlan), proclaiming that, “Mexico does not end at its borders,” and “[w]here there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.” El gato is out of the bag. The 400,000 illegal aliens who cross our southern [...]

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We’ve all heard by now about the self-described pedophile who has been effectively ‘run out of’ California and who is playing hide-and-seek with bloggers around the country who say they’re trying to track his movements. His name is Jack McClellan, he maintained a website (now removed from the Internet) called: “Seattle Tacoma Everett Girl Love” [...]

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Earlier this month, the Town Council in Watertown, MA, home one of the largest Armenian populations in the U.S., voted 8-0 to withdraw from the No Place for Hate program because one of its sponsors, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), refused to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917. “We cannot join with the ADL when they [...]

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Battles over freedom of thought and expression are not just occurring in Europe, which woke up to the threat of “Sharia creep” too late. Muslims are now waging their global jihad against free speech in the U.S., using any means necessary to intimidate and silence people. † Herndon, VA: CAIR Threatens Lawsuit Over Speech Robert [...]

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Elvira Arellano is back in Mexico, where she belongs. Her 8-year old son, Saul, a U.S. citizen by birth will start school in September, living under the care of Rev. Walter Coleman, who had given him and his mother “sanctuary” for the past year in the Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago. Arellano’s arrest draws [...]

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From the “Electionline” column in Friday’s (8/17/07) USA Today we find that there is a proposed ballot initiative in California that would change the way the state’s electoral votes are divided up during a presidential election. The current method, a method used in all but two states (Maine and Nebraska), is the “winner-take-all” method, where [...]

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The murderer of 57-year-old journalist Chauncey Bailey, who was killed last week on his way to work, has stepped forward. Devaughndre Brousard, a 19-year-old handyman for a Black Muslim splinter group has confessed to the murder on Friday. He was one of seven people arrested on Friday at the raids on Your Black Muslim Bakery [...]

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Chauncey Bailey, the new editor of the Oakland Post, was shot dead on Thursday near a downtown courthouse. The shooting took place before 7:30 a.m. on 14th street on Bailey’s way to work. According to witnesses, a lone, masked gunman dressed in dark clothing approached the editor, shot him in the back and head, and [...]

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Some people would like to own a dog but do not have the time or space to commit to full ownership. Marlena Cervantes is putting an end to this dilemma with her young company, FlexPetz, a company that rents out dogs from a few hours up to a few days. In this way, customers can [...]

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Back in 1989, Robert John Bardo made headlines when he shot dead rising actress Rebecca Schaeffer inside the door of her apartment. Now, he is making headlines as the victim after being stabbed 11 times by a fellow inmate. The incident took place in the prison yard at Mule Creek State Prison in Amador County, [...]

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The arrival of soccer star David Beckham to California has already got merchandisers looking to make a profit from his fans. Adidas had planned to sell the same shoes that Beckham wears during games to the public. However, the California Supreme Court has banned the sale of these cleats because they are made from kangaroo [...]

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Oakland, Singer/songwriter Alexa Weber Morales recently released her second CD, Vagabundeo on Patois Records. She co-produced the CD with another Bay Area musician, jazz trombonist and three time Grammy nominee, Wayne Wallace. “Alexa is one to try things that others won’t. In this day and age of commercialism, I think it’s important to put out [...]

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Get a groove on with Funky Poetz, the Eggshell Egoz debut album produced by Ronan Chris Murphy (King Crimson, Tony Levin). The Egoz blend funk, rock and pop emulsifying these genres to create their own unique sound. The first single ‘Takin My Time’, has received radio airplay around the country and has had almost 2000 [...]

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John Murtha, a porkbarrel congressman from Pennsylvania, embraced the anti war left before the last election in a bid to get Harry Reid’s job. Murtha didn’t get the job, probably because of his connections to Abscam, but his charges painting the US Marines as murderers has angered a lot of people. Gateway Pundit claimed that  [...]

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No doubt about it, summer is here, and with it, what for some could prove to be a deadly heat wave. The National Weather Service (www.nws.noaa.gov) issued a heat warning for parts of California just in time for the 4th of July. As weekend sun worshippers headed out for beaches and other standard July 4th [...]

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By Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn Sacks  This article first appeared in World Net Daily (6/27/07). Congressional Republicans have taken enormous criticism from Democrats, feminists, and the mainstream media for making modest reductions in federal subsidies to state child support enforcement efforts. Because these enforcement programs are popular on the left, child support enforcement agencies have [...]

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 San Francisco’s Hall of Justice   Identity theft victims often get pretty frustrated after being accused of being deadbeats by collection agencies, or even being charged with a crime they didn’t commit.  Trying to seek justice seems to do little good, either. Law enforcement rarely has the resources to investigate individual cases, unless an identity [...]

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A 26-year-old graduate student is being charged in the death of the Pulitzer Prize winning author David Halberstam. Kevin Jones, a student at the University of California at Berkeley’s journalism school will be charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter after making an illegal left turn and running a red light on April 23 which resulted in [...]

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Although I wouldn’t start selling off my stocks just yet, new technology applications might add some third-party competition to the retail book business.As reported in the Wired Blog Network, The Espresso Book Printer has the capability to literally *chuckle* print your book selection while you wait. The New York Public Library is field testing a [...]

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The Taron James paternity fraud case is one of the most egregious examples of the abuses the child support enforcement system visits upon men. In my co-authored column Defrauded Veterans Have Mixed Emotions on Veterans Day (Daily Breeze [Los Angeles], 11/11/03), I wrote: “For Torrance photographer Taron James, a decorated veteran of Operation Northern Watch, [...]

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In 1985 when my son was born, conventional thinking on circumcision had begun to change. No longer was it just an accepted fact that boy babies would have their foreskins snipped. In fact, 1985’s pregnant women were told that circumcision was an invasive, unnecessary abuse of babies. Most women I knew preferred their men circumcised, [...]

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Suspected ATM Scammers operating in Southern California. If you know them, or have seen them –please call the San Diego Regional Fraud Task Force 619) 744-2534 or the U.S. Secret Service at (619) 557-5640. Devices to skim payment card information have become a big problem, whether they are portable devices used by dishonest employees at restaurants, PIN [...]

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On September 3, 2006, Nina Reiser, a 31-year-old Russian immigrant and mother of two went missing from her home in Oakland, California. On October 10 at 11:00 am, her husband, 43-year-old Hans Reiser, was charged with her murder, even though a body had not been found. Now, the trial has gotten underway with still no [...]

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Another major CA paper – the Sacramento Bee – reported Sunday on Senator McCain’s fund-raising operation, along with that of other major candidates in both parties.  However, unlike the LA Times article on Nevada fundraising, McCain did not get the lead.  Here are excerpts:  “MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. _ Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards arrived at the [...]

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There’s a classic technique used to get out of a bad date. They meet the person, and if they want to go home early, they have someone call them, pretending to have an emergency, and it gives them an excuse to leave without hurting the other person’s feelings. In the case of 20-year-old Sara White, [...]

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This year, the 2007 MLB All-Star Game will be held in San Francisco’s AT&T Ballpark. It will be the third time the games will be held in San Francisco, the first since 1984 held in Candlestick Park, and the first in AT&T Park since opening in 2000. This is an appropriate year for the Giants [...]

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California Assemblymember Patty Berg (D-CA1) is again trying to pass an assisted suicide bill. AB 374, the “California Compassionate Choices Act,” would legalize the prescription of a lethal dose of medication to a patient diagnosed as terminal. Provisions of the bill on the patient’s end include: the patient must be legally competent. the patient must [...]

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With a tip of the hat to Ron Coleman at Dean’s World comes word of a certain clientele that will take a company to court for not catering to them. Now, would it make sense for used of Macintosh computers to sue software companies that only write for Windows, complaining that they should have equal [...]

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The California State Assembly’s Appropriations Committee voted aye yesterday to advancing AB 1696: Existing law establishes the California Film Commission in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and requires the commission to work to encourage motion picture and television filming in California, make recommendations to the Legislature, the Governor, the agency, and other state agencies [...]

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On a night in February 2003, 67-year-old music producer Phil Spector was accompanied by 40-year-old B-movie actress Lana Clarkson back to his home in Alhambra, California. She had been working as a hostess at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip. That night, she was killed by a bullet wound to the mouth. Spector [...]

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While California gets a gold star for its elementary through high school (elhi) curriculum frameworks and content standards, its method for adopting course materials pleases no one. For instance, the last time the state approved new history texts a furor erupted not only over content distorted by multicultural pressure groups but also over influence of [...]

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In 1997 a phone booth in an isolated spot in the Mojave Desert became a popular destination for independent travellers. Its number was posted on the internet and people were encouraged to call it. Campers then began converging on the booth in the hope that the phone would ring and they would connect with someone [...]

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File this one under “not quite what he had in mind!” A young man in California decided that he’d had enough of his girlfriend and their fighting.  So, he pulled around some cars and onto the railroad tracks in the path of an oncoming train.  Then he leapt from the car and ran for his [...]

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Dang. I may live to see commercial space flight after all. An article by Spencer Reiss at Wired bangs the drum for the commercial space flight efforts of Burt Rutan and Richard Branson. The major roadblock isn’t engineering — Rutan and his engineering company, Scaled Composites, are proven innovators. I would bet my youngest child [...]

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Ignore position entirely. You don’t have to pick a side in the abortion debate to know this is wrong. Cheryl sent me this one last week, and I’ve been waiting for a chance to sit down and blog about it since. An 18-year old young lady attending UCLA went to Planned Parenthood where she posed [...]

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The California Fair Political Practices Commission has settled a lawsuit dating from 2005, stipulating that the Commission acted beyond its statutory authority in regards to regulations capping the amount of individual donations to ballot measure committees that are controlled by candidates for elective state office. According to an FPPC press release: In the stipulation, the [...]

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By Carol Bogart Here’s an arcane little thing you may not know: A grassroots motorists association, the National Motorists Association (http://www.motorists.org/, dedicates the entire month of June to freeway driving etiquette. It calls this “Lane Courtesy Month.” Not that being courteous to drivers in other lanes is a bad thing. Especially dim-witted drivers who may be prone to [...]

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By Carol Bogart   In a sure sign of spring, the Howdy Gate is now open at the San Diego Zoo (http://www.sandiegozoo.org/). The Howdy Gate is what the zoo opens when the Giant Pandas show signs of wanting to get – chummy. Sexual maturity is a good thing in zoo animals, a not-so-good thing in exotic pets [...]

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Following an almost rainless winter, and a fire season extended from last year through what should have been the rainy season, California gardeners might be excused if they were grim and humorless. The adage goes When life gives you nothing but lemons, make lemonade. Gardeners, with the help of Roger’s Gardens, can turn the current [...]

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Once poised as the strongest front runner for the Republican presidential nomination, pundits said Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani took a beating over his position on abortion at the first GOP debate on May 3. Now, his claims on adoptions have found tought scrutiny from the fact checking unit of the Annenberg Public Policy [...]

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By Jefferson Flanders I once heard Abe Rosenthal, former editor of the New York Times, explain his simple test for fairness in a front-page news story: would you be comfortable with the balance and tone of the reporting if a close family member was the subject of the article? The story was fair if you [...]

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One would think the writers of The Onion satirical newspaper snuck into the offices of The San Francisco Chronicle after reading a report about a Pizza shop owner who saved the lives of his family by killing a gun wielding robber that was attempting to rob his store, a store with the owner’s whole family [...]

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Checking my local paper in the US, I ran across this small note: “Sentence restored for Sara Jane Olson, former SLA member“ Ah yes. The former terrorist turned yuppie housewife. When she was arrested, the politically correct in Minnesota came to her defense, raising money, and trying to stop her extradition. We all saw the [...]

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Is the Clerks and Dogma creator next going to attack middle America, Conservatives, Republicans and Christians in an upcoming movie? It certainly seems so with a recent interview he gave that appears on the moviefan website called Rottentomatoes.com. Smith, known for his irreverent skewering of conventional mores, seems to be in the midst of production [...]

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Drunk Driver to blame for two deaths. Robert Clark, who directed “A Christmas Story” as well as “Porky’s” and “Rhinestone,” died early Wednesday morning in Pacific Palisades. An unlicensed drunk driving an SUV in the wrong lane plowed into an Infiniti driven by Clark. Clark and his 22-year old son Ariel Hanrath-Clark were killed. ‘A [...]

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In another case of leftist hubris and stupidity, San Francisco is patting itself on the back for being sooooo environmentally conscious. In their latest paean to Greenists everywhere they have banned plastic grocery bags, forcing paper to become the norm in the left coast’s most leftist city. Have they done the environmentally right thing? Should [...]

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News Item: Gunman shoots 3 outside Nickelodean party Nicklelodean held its Kid’s Choice Awards program the other night, and as with any Hollywood production of this type, there were award parties afterwards.  One such party in West LA drew some unexpected fans.  Who knew that gangsters watched Nick at Night? LA street gangs have garnered [...]

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It is always interesting to me how a story can be published as if it is serious work, a story that almost seems plausible until you step back from it to realize that not a shred of proof to support the supposition was ever offered. After you’re done reading it you realize that all you [...]

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I had to laugh when I read this one. LOS ANGELES, (AP) — A minister who was arrested on charges of marijuana possession has sued police for $30 million, contending his civil and religious rights were violated because he heads a church that uses pot during worship.The Rev. Craig X Rubin, 41, is the founder [...]

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In the “good old days”, your heart stopped, and you were declared dead. Then came machines to keep the lungs breathing, so the heart went on and on and on…but no one wanted to turn off the machine, so doctors devised a new criteria: Brain death. In Brain Death, you turn off the machine, and [...]

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Once again, the most overruled appellate court in the land has come down with a verdict which can only be described as un-constitutional. The lawsuit originated when two employees of the City of Oakland posted a notice on a city bulletin board, after a series of notices from homosexual activists were delivered to them via [...]

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  Rexano editorial by Zuzana Kukol, March 6, 2007 On November 29, 2006, San Diego, California, SeaWorld Adventure Park’s trainer Kenneth Peters, 39, was bit and held underwater several times by the 7,000-pound killer whale during a show at Shamu Stadium. He survived suffering only a broken foot and is back at work. According to [...]

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Veronica Guzman, age 19, is missing. The sophomore at the California State University in Chico, CA was last seen leaving class on February 19, 2007. Neither Veronica nor her vehicle, a green 1999 Honda CRV, have been seen since then. Veronica lived with her family in Biggs, over 25 miles from Chico State. When she [...]

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News Item: Schwarzenegger criticizes Democrats and Republicans Private, behind closed doors audio tapes of meetings between California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his staff have been leaked to the press.  Historically, this is almost always a bad thing, as in Nixon, Watergate, etc.  The Governator doesn’t come off all that badly though in these new revelations.  [...]

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A story recently hit the press about Los Angeles County (potentially) losing $2 billion a year to fraud. That’s a lot of taxpayer money! This dollar figure was “estimated” (using Association of Certified Fraud Examiner statistics), which say that 5 percent of all revenues (generic) are lost to “employee fraud, waste and abuse.” Nonetheless, there [...]

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Human rights activists from Southern California will gather on Wednesday, January 17th to address the growing problem of human trafficking in Los Angeles and throughout the United States. A new docudrama that exposes trafficking in the US will be premiered followed by a panel discussion. The film, Cargo: Innocence Lost, by award-winning film director Michael [...]

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Ironman Cal Ripken, Jr. and slugger Tony Gwynn are heading to Cooperstown. Baseball Hall of Fame President Dale Petrosky announced today on Major League Baseball’s Web site that Ripken and Gwynn were elected to the Hall of Fame. It was the first year on the ballot for the men who both played their entire careers [...]

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Jurors in Los Angeles say a man convicted of killing six prostitutes and dumping their bodies along Highway 60 going east from Los Angeles should die. The jury deliberated for four days before deciding on the punishment for Ivan Hill, who has been dubbed the “60 Freeway Slayer”. Prosecutors said Hill had a violent past. [...]

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Coming to San Diego, June 29–December 31, 2007! While the scrolls have been exhibited in the U.S. before, Dead Sea Scrolls will be the most comprehensive exhibition of the scrolls ever assembled, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Dead Sea Scrolls was created by the San Diego Natural History Museum for the Museum specifically, and will not travel [...]

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More proof that our schools are failing our students. Santa Cruz schools rethink blood drives after gay student barred A gay student prevented from donating blood because of his sexual history has stirred debate among Santa Cruz school officials over whether to continue hosting campus blood drives. “I was turned away because of my sexual [...]

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The 24th edition of the McDonald’s High School Basketball Classic will be held in Erie on Friday, January 12 and Saturday, January 13, 2007 at the Gannon University Hammermill Center. This year’s event features nationally renowned programs from California and Ohio, featuring rosters replete with top-ranked players. The field is highlighted by the appearance of [...]

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- 22 Dec 06 – You may get to watch it on the Internet if you have a high speed Internet connection. – NASA Live TV – At this time (close to 5 AM Pacific time) they are saying it might land in one of three spots today. Florida, California, or New Mexico. – Questions [...]

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Donald Trump has said that the reigning Miss USA will not be dethroned from the investigation into inappropriate behavior at New York nightclubs, but recent reports say that the runner-up is preparing to receive the crown. TMZ.com is reporting that Miss California Tamiko Nash will take over as the reigning Miss USA. Nash allegedly was [...]

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The City of San Francisco recently labeled the Catholic Church to be a hateful organization and engaged in a tirade of anti-Catholic rhetoric. It’s not surprising that the City of San Francisco would engage in a childish rant because the Catholic Church reiterated a theological position that has been held for thousands of years, after [...]

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Someone threatened to steal Christmas from travelers in the Seattle-Tacoma Airport Sunday December 10, but they failed. This was another sad story about removing a traditional Christmas symbol from a public place. Authorities bending to a secular culture fear lawsuits, so they push Christmas in the closet at the least threat. The Port of Seattle [...]

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A star of the hit Fox show “Prison Break” allegedly drank alcohol before getting behind the wheel of a Land Rover and crashing into a tree last Saturday night, killing a 17-year-old and injuring two 15-year-olds. According to the Web site www.tmz.com, 26-year-old Lane Garrison had several shots of Grey Goose Vodka at a party [...]

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This story further illustrates how absurd it is to buy back guns with Guns N’ Roses tickets. The Oakland buyback netted a whopping 36 firearms –  12 were rifles, and seven were from the same guy. They even took high-power pellet guns. Only 20 were handguns. Blabbermouth story here. Something like 85 percent of gun [...]

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The new identity theft protection and recovery service by Truston is live. The service is unique because it doesn’t require you to give up your personal information, which could be stored in a database, and used to commit identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands. In case you’ve missed the weekly stories, databases [...]

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The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) may not be quite as ‘in your face, and in your wallet’ as their evil step sister the RIAA. But the MPAA are definitely a group that shares the RIAA’s obsession with making the consumer suffer when it comes down to using their products. The MPAA love DRM [...]

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In another attack on our security, U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins declared unconstitutional two provisions of Executive Order 13224 (signed by Bush, Sept. 23, 2001). This will make it easier for money to be raised for foreign terror groups within the USA. EO 13224 put a halt to fund transfers to groups known to [...]

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A 55-year-old California pastor who gave the eulogy at a friend’s funeral now is accused of killing that friend. According to reports, Doug Porter was arrested at the Mexico border for the murder of 85-year-old Frank Craig, who died in a car crash. Friends and relatives of Craig thought from the beginning that Porter had [...]

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As an aspiring lawyer, I’m ashamed to admit that I’m not sure what the crime is for pretending to try and give your kids away online…for free. Still, I’m pretty sure I can come up with something. Some fool in Southern California posted his 5-year-old son on Craigslist this morning. I’m not sure which I [...]

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First gypsies impersonate Dr. Phil and now someone is selling tickets to the Oprah show that smell a little “phishy.” Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan warned the public in a official statement: In this case, e-mail recipients are asked to submit personal information and told they will receive tickets to The Oprah Winfrey Show after [...]

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Today on NBC’s Meet the Press, California’s Governor Arnold Schwarenegger told Tim Russert that one of the top concerns of his second term will be reform of that state’s festering prison system. This is good news if he means it. Right now California’s prisons, like most of the others in the US, are dangerous and expensive [...]

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A California Highway Patrolman pulling duty on Thanksgiving, minding everybody else’s business as usual and harmlessly cruising down the stretch from Göttingen to Bavaria got pulled over and like totally hassled by these two pushy German cop dudes. And then it got like soo groady and totally worse. Officer T. J. Lazer (that was the [...]

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A new California court decision is good, but it’s totally inconsistent with established law. Some background. In print, you can be held liable for re-printing others’ slanderous statements (at this point it becomes libel, or printed defamation). I always thought this was stupid. If I print “so-and-so 1 said so-and-so 2 engages in sick behavior [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer (Disclaimer: If this post offends anyone, it has done it’s job!) When the San Francisco Board of Education passed a resolution last week to phase out the school system’s 90-year old Junior ROTC program over the next two years. The resolution indicated that the reason for the ban [...]

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University police officers used a Taser on a student repeatedly during an altercation at the UCLA library at 11:30pm November 15th. There was a video made by one of the students who captured only the end of the altercation with the student shouting profanities at the police and then screaming in pain when he was [...]

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The new book  “If I did it”  by O.J. Simpson is garnering headlines in anticipation of its release On November 30th.  An upcoming interview of Simpson on the Fox Television Network is to follow. A number of issues have been raised regarding this book, other than the obvious is it a confession? When Simpson was found [...]

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This George Will column (about this story) hits the mark in most ways. A man was sentenced to death after a gruesome crime, but the ultra-leftist Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the case. The Supreme Court then overturned the Ninth. According to the story: “At the [1979] trial, defense witnesses praised his conduct while [...]

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Yesterday I blogged about a YouTube video purporting to show police brutality on the part of the LAPD. I reserved judgment because many details are yet to come out, but I pointed out that many of the existing facts should make one skeptical any wrongdoing took place. I also brought up the fact that most [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer An Associated Press story (published at the American Chronicle website) that was most likely missed this week, amidst the Democratic revelry, the Republican spin and the emergence of a possibly new direction in our Iraq challenge, highlights the actions of the student trustees at a California community college. [...]

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There are a lot of details yet to come out, but I am slightly skeptical that this story indicates wrongdoing on the part of the police. There is a YouTube video (violence, profanity) of an LAPD arrest where the cops hold a suspect down and hit him in the face. The “victim” is a known [...]

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I’ve had the opportunity to look at a lot of identity theft services, but until now – I’ve never run into one I considered “victim friendly.” I’ve written off most of the services I’ve seen — either because they were financial services products (created by those who had compromised victims themselves) — or they were [...]

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A man in El Cerrito, CA was arrested last week on charges of possible parole violations, indecent exposure and carrying a concealed weapon. The man, John Sheehan, 33, was found by police laying naked on a stump masturbating and was originally only going to be charged with indecent exposure until police asked him if he [...]

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The 49ers may be leaving San Francisco. Team leaders decided yesterday to stop negotiating a new stadium with city officials. One topic of discussion was building a new, privately financed stadium at Candlestick Point, which was going to be part of the city’s bid for the 2016 summer Olympics. City officials said they wouldn’t contribute [...]

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I hate to say it, but the judge in this case is right. He blocked enforcement of a popular ballot initiative keeping sex offenders at least 2,000 feet from parks. Now, I’m all for frying every sex offender on the planet.* I think it’s nauseating that we don’t do more to punish rapists and child [...]

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Britney has learned the first rule of stardom – you play with trash, you don’t marry it!  (Actually, it might be throw away the trash – but you know what I mean.) In what could be considered the best move of her career, “irreconcilable differences” were listed in legal papers filed today in Los Angeles [...]

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Because she is protected from cruel and unusual punishment Too bad her victim wasn’t afforded the same protection. In March of 2005, Teresa Moses called police to report her belief that a family member had molested her son, Raijon Daniels. Detectives investigated, but found no evidence. Police say Teresa failed to return their calls or [...]

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by Craig Dimitri After the 2000 election, the parlance of “red” and “blue” states entered common usage.  But four states (three “blue”, and one in 2004, famously “red”) can be considered “orange states“.  Why?   Illinois produces about half a billion pounds of pumpkins a year.  And California, Pennsylvania, and Ohio each produce over 100 million pounds [...]

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 An interesting legal development in USA involving a law suit in physical space over a dispute of a virtual property has attracted attention of Cyber Law specialists. A case has been filed by a Pennsylvania resident Marc Bragg against San Francisco-based Internet game company Linden Lab and its president and CEO for alleged conversion, fraud, [...]

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Winds stoke deadly California wildfire, arsonist sought I spent all my life, until I joined the military in 1977, in Southern California, and thanks to my parents penchant for howling wilderness, we usually lived out in the hills, at the end of a dirt road, as far away as one can get from 90210 or [...]

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California just wouldn’t be California without a rich history of certified wackos. The ranks of politicos have had more than their share and the election November 7th has two prime specimens, Cruz “You Lose” Bustamante and Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown. Cruz is running for Insurance Commissioner and Brown has his Zen mind set  this time around on the [...]

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The poll released today by the Public Policy Institute of California confrims what pretty much everyone already knew. Arnold Schwarzenegger will beat Phil Angelides in the November 7th election, probably by the widest margin in twenty years for a gubernatorial race in California. Many factors are responsible for turn-around in Schwarzenegger’s popularity, which plummeted to [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I updated an earlier post about counterfeit American Express Gift Cheques and asked my readers to help me discover exactly how these items were surfacing. Prior to this, I knew they were showing up over a wide geographical area, but no one was “sharing” how they happened to get them. [...]

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Escondido, a community a few miles north of San Diego in Southern California has passed a new city ordinance making it illegal to rent property to undocumented aliens. This move is being called racist by it’s opponents. I lived in the San Diego area for almost 10 years and it is clear to me that [...]

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     Salladay uses several terms that are constant sound bites in political reporting. For example, he talks about “special interests” and “business as usual”. The very clear inference is these are negatives. It is accepted as an article of faith that special interest groups are a political negative, that business as usual is as bad [...]

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California is encouraging its inhabitants to bring worms with them to work and deposit them in areas where employees typically snack or eat meals.  Why?  Well, worms feed upon leftovers and garbage that humans generally throw away.  Upon consumption of the unwanted foods, the worms produce a natural compost.  Employees are then encouraged to take [...]

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International soccer star David Beckham is entertaining the idea of a new job…a children’s soccer coach.  His first pupil will be Brad Pitt’s and Angelina Jolie’s adopted son, Maddox.  According to the Sun newspaper of England, Beckham has already established his own soccer academy in Los Angeles, California. 

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Actor Lou Diamond Phillips, who starred in the movies Young Guns and La Bamba, among others, was charged with domestic battery on Thursday in Los Angeles. The charge stems from a dispute he experienced last month with his girlfriend. On August 11, an argument ensued between the two which led to a physical confrontation. Phillips [...]

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Forty two year-old Tom Morello set aside his guitar and went to bat for immigrants that work in hotels.  He was portesting the lack of rights immigrant hotel workers receive.  His stage of protest wasn’t at a hotel though, rather it was at the Los Angeles International Airport.  This stage seemed a bit odd, especially considering [...]

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By Ric Ottaiano  October 10, 2006 There is a “growing gap” between the number of black and Hispanic students graduating from high school in California and the number who are enrolling in the UC (University of California) system. Naturally, the race whores are having the vapors over these new statistics shedding tears of dread and [...]

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Forty two year-old Tom Morello set aside his guitar and went to bat for immigrants that work in hotels. He was protesting the lack of rights immigrant hotel workers possess. His stage wasn’t a hotel though; rather it was the Los Angeles International Airport. This stage seemed a bit odd, especially considering the stage he [...]

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   Much has been made of the fact that Schwarzenegger and Angelides will only have one debate. I think this might be the best news of the election campaign.     Voters tend to put far too much emphasis on performance in the debates. Debates emphasize rapid thinking, functioning off memory and speaking ability.     Which [...]

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California border agents arrested an 83 year old woman earlier this week on drug smuggling charges. The woman, a US citizen, was in the car with two Mexican nationals when they were stopped in San Ysidro, California. An inspection of the car revealed the elderly woman to have 10 pounds of methamphetamine strapped to her [...]

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It’s hard to find in the store! They say it is safe to eat fresh spinach again, if you can find it in the fresh veggie section. There is just something about eating something again, if it has made you (or anyone else) vilely sick. One is really in two minds about going back and [...]

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According to the Mercury News, “when the first of the dozen or so federal agents arrived Wednesday about 9:30 a.m. at Growers Express in Salinas, equipped with sidearms and search warrants, some employees initially thought it was some kind of sick joke.” The Boston Globe reports “by launching a criminal investigation into the role of [...]

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News and commentary by: Whymrhymer The media, and gay activists themselves, are coloring Thursday’s 1st District Court of Appeals ruling, upholding the state’s ban on gay marriage, as a defeat; the language of the decision, however, should be considered at least a partial victory. “The time may come when California chooses to expand the definition [...]

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    The history of who allows or disallows, who performs or allows to be performed the function of marriage is long and varied. Different cultures have applied different principles and the expectations for what constitutes a marriage…and for how long…have often been in flux.    In the Middle Ages when the Catholic Church began sanctioning [...]

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