haineux, sans instruction pute

My hope for her, is some hunky gay man will marry her. Any gay man who helps this WHORE should be labeled a trader. LET HER HAIR FALL OUT

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Carrie Prejean has been dethroned as Miss California USA for "contract violations," including missing scheduled pageant events, according to a state pageant official.

Carrie Prejean has been dethroned as Miss California USA.

Prejean, 22, retained her title last month despite a controversy over topless photos, missed appearances and her statements against same-sex marriage.
Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump made the decision to fire Prejean a month after he gave her a second chance.
"Carrie is a beautiful young woman and I wish her well as she pursues her other interests," Trump said.
Runner-up Tami Farrell, who was Miss Malibu, will immediately assume the Miss California USA title, according to state pageant Executive Director Keith Lewis said.
"This was a decision based solely on contract violations including Ms. Prejean's unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization," Lewis said.
Trump brought Prejean and Lewis together in New York for a meeting last month, after which he announced that communications between the beauty queen and pageant officials had been repaired.
"I told Carrie she needed to get back to work and honor her contract with the Miss California USA Organization and I gave her the opportunity to do so," said Trump. "Unfortunately it just doesn't look like it is going to happen and I offered Keith my full support in making this decision."
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Prejean stepped into controversy at the Miss USA pageant in April when she declared her opposition to same-sex marriage in a response to a question asked during the national pageant by Perez Hilton, a pageant judge. Prejean finished as first runner-up, but it was not clear if her answer cost her the crown.
The controversy boiled to a new level in early May when semi-nude photos of Prejean appeared on gossip Web sites.
Miss California USA officials -- some of them outspoken advocates of same-sex marriage -- suggested that the photos breached the contract Prejean signed with the pageant. These officials also complained they couldn't reach Prejean and she had missed important pageant events.
The controversy seemed over when Trump declared the pictures not to be too racy and Prejean promised to do better in communicating with the state pageant.
"After our press conference in New York we had hoped we would be able to forge a better working relationship," Lewis said Wednesday. "However, since that time it has become abundantly clear that Carrie is unwilling to fulfill her obligations under our contract and work together."
Hilton, the judge who asked the same-sex question during the pageant, cheered Prejean's firing.

OFF WITH HER HEAD, oh, I mean Crown

Based on her lack of MORAL character her crown will be lost riped off her bad WEAVE.

Still no word on whether Miss California USA Carrie Prejean will keep her crown after racy photos surfaced (and more racy Prejean pics to come, according to the website that posted the first picture of the Miss USA runner-up in pink lace underwear and nothing else). Miss USA franchise owner Donald Trump tells E! Newsthat a decision is expected today.
But the Miss California runner-up tells, Tami Farrell of Malibu, tells Billy Bush of "Access Hollywood" that she's ready to step up should Prejean be shed of her tiara. Farrell gives Prejean props for "taking a stance in something she believes in," but says that the Miss USA stage was not the right forum. "Had I got it, I would think let the people of each state decide and let the laws be made on that sense," Farrell says. "I'm just a simple beauty queen and I think it's funny that it's a question scholars and politicians have debated on, and now we're looking to a beauty queen for the answers."
Michael Jackson and Stephanie Seymour are also making news:
-- Raymone Bain, the publicist who shepherded Jackson through his molestation trial, is now suing the rebounding King of Pop for unpaid bills totalling $44 million, the Associated Press reports. Bain also claims that she also oversaw his business affairs for a time.
-- Seymour is embroiled in a nasty divorce with her publisher and polo-playing husband Peter Brant. The former Victoria's Secret model and onetime Guns N' Roses muse has been married to Brant for 16 years and they have three children. Now she tells a pal that she's living in the maid's quarters of their Greenwich, Conn., mansion and that Brant is "playing very dirty with me," the New York Post reports. Brant reportedly plans to challenge Seymour for custody of the kids, saying she's an unfit mother

Cinco de Mayo

WHY? other then a reason to drink and party what is the celebration about.
Mybe they are just proud how far they have come as a nation since the revolt?

Maybe or Maybe not

Like a evil Truman Capote
(Geneva) A New York State man is asking a Swiss court to reinstate an assault conviction on a brother of the United Arab Emirates’ ruler who last year was found guilty of beating the man with belt in a Geneva hotel bar when he spurned the sheik’s sexual advances.
Sheik Falah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan denied the charges brought by Silvano Orsi, 40.
At his trial last year, the court heard the attack began when Orsi, originally from Rochester, New York, declined a bottle of champagne the sheik offered him in August 2003.
Orsi claimed that after he refused the champagne, the sheik - whom he never before had met - came up behind him, jostled his glasses, sat in his lap and tried to kiss and fondle him. When Orsi protested, the assault began, he said.
Two former hotel employees and a security officer testified that they had seen the sheik assaulting Orsi.
The sheik said the men got into a heated argument after he overheard someone call him gay and acknowledged that he pulled his belt from his trousers, but insisted he never struck Orsi.
The sheik was convicted of inflicting “bodily harm with the use of a dangerous object” and imposed a suspended fine of 540,000 francs ($530,000), which would be payable in the event of another infraction in Switzerland during the next three years.
The sheik appealed and last month an appeals court in Geneva overturned the verdict, saying in its ruling a belt could not be considered a dangerous object.
Through his attorney, Orsi said he will appeal to the Swiss Supreme Court to have the original sentence reinstated.
Orsi’s injuries and post-traumatic shock from the beating left him incapable of working.
A lawyer for the sheik said that Orsi’s accusations are “false” and purely motivated by his desire to gain money from the sheik.
The sheik is a brother of Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who was appointed president of the United Arab Emirates in 2004 after the death of their father, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

WE ARE UNDER ATTACH AGAIN

"Once again in a show to harass the wealthy and appease the middle class before a revolution we are hurt " by Zurich HRH

By Paul Carrel and Anna Willard Paul Carrel And Anna Willard – Fri Apr 3, 3:19 pm ET
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Luxembourg on Friday said it should be taken off a "grey list" of countries that do not comply fully with standards for catching tax cheats, as France called for sanctions on uncooperative states.

The Group of 20 leading industrialized and emerging nations pledged on Thursday to crackdown on jurisdictions that fail to cooperate in cross-border tax evasion cases.

Pushed by France and Germany, the G20 agreed that countries should sign up to global rules on sharing tax information, with a commitment to cooperate when cheating is suspected.

Faced with the threat of being added to a blacklist, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Monaco and others signed up to standards drawn up by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development just ahead of the G20 summit.

The OECD put Luxembourg, Austria and Belgium -- all European Union member states -- on a "grey list" of countries that have agreed to improve transparency standards but have not yet signed the necessary double taxation accords.

Luxembourg said the list was "fatuous."

"I find the treatment of certain states to be incomprehensible," said its prime minister and finance minister, Jean-Claude Juncker.

"We will negotiate double-taxation agreements. When we do that, we will disappear from this list," he added on arrival for a meeting of euro zone finance ministers in Prague.

Austrian's finance minister, Josef Proell, said the OECD list on tax havens must be discussed further.

"As a member of the OECD, I expect to be listened to and to be able to join in the discussion and to take a joint decision," Proell said.

"We have already given information in individual cases, without legal steps being taken. We do not need, because of that (the G20 declaration), to tackle banking secrecy as it exists in Austria in our banking practice law," Proell said.

Diplomats said the aim of the grey list was to put pressure on countries that have just signed up to the OECD rules to implement them quickly.



French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said nobody could object to transparency.

"How can you be furious against a principle which consists of saying that you need transparency? That taxes are paid where they should be? The money that finances terrorism, the networks which escape thanks to obscure corners of the world, continue to finance such scandalous and uncertain causes," she told reporters.

"If certain states refuse transparency, we need the arsenal of sanctions that is already planned and on which the finance ministers have worked and which we will submit at the next G20 in September," Lagarde said.

Sanctions could include requiring significant increases in capital requirements for EU-based financial institutions that have relations with non-cooperative tax centers, Lagarde said.

If only the Evil people would do this

AOKIGAHARA FOREST, Japan (CNN) -- Aokigahara Forest is known for two things in Japan: breathtaking views of Mount Fuji and suicides. Also called the Sea of Trees, this destination for the desperate is a place where the suicidal disappear, often never to be found in the dense forest.


Japan's Aokigahara Forest is known as the "suicide forest" because people often go there to take their own lives.

Taro, a 46-year-old man fired from his job at an iron manufacturing company, hoped to fade into the blackness. "My will to live disappeared," said Taro. "I'd lost my identity, so I didn't want to live on this earth. That's why I went there."

Taro, who did not want to be identified fully, was swimming in debt and had been evicted from his company apartment. He lost financial control, which he believes to be the foundation of any stable life, he said. "You need money to survive. If you have a girlfriend, you need money. If you want to get married, you need it for your life. Money is always necessary for your life."

Taro bought a one-way ticket to the forest, west of Tokyo, Japan. When he got there, he slashed his wrists, though the cut wasn't enough to kill him quickly.

He started to wander, he said. He collapsed after days and lay in the bushes, nearly dead from dehydration, starvation and frostbite. He would lose his toes on his right foot from the frostbite. But he didn't lose his life, because a hiker stumbled upon his nearly dead body and raised the alarm. Watch report on "suicide forest" »

Taro's story is just one of hundreds logged at Aokigahara Forest every year, a place known throughout Japan as the "suicide forest." The area is home to the highest number of suicides in the entire country.

Japan's suicide rate, already one of the world's highest, has increased with the recent economic downturn.

There were 2,645 suicides recorded in January 2009, a 15 percent increase from the 2,305 for January 2008, according to the Japanese government.

The Japanese government said suicide rates are a priority and pledged to cut the number of suicides by more than 20 percent by 2016. It plans to improve suicide awareness in schools and workplaces. But officials fear the toll will rise with unemployment and bankruptcies, matching suicide spikes in earlier tough economic times.

"Unemployment is leading to this," said Toyoki Yoshida, a suicide and credit counselor.

"Society and the government need to establish immediate countermeasures to prevent suicides. There should be more places where they can come and seek help."

Yoshida and his fellow volunteer, Norio Sawaguchi, posted signs in Aokigahara Forest urging suicidal visitors to call their organization, a credit counseling service. Both men say Japanese society too often turns a cold shoulder to the unemployed and bankrupt, and breeds a culture where suicide is still seen as an honorable option.

Local authorities, saying they are the last resort to stop people from killing themselves in the forest, have posted security cameras at the entrances of the forest.

The goal, said Imasa Watanabe of the Yamanashi Prefectural Government is to track the people who walk into the forest. Watanabe fears more suicidal visitors will arrive in the coming weeks.

"Especially in March, the end of the fiscal year, more suicidal people will come here because of the bad economy," he said. "It's my dream to stop suicides in this forest, but to be honest, it would be difficult to prevent all the cases here."


One year after his suicide attempt, Taro is volunteering with the credit counseling agency that helped him get back on his feet. He's still living in a shelter and looking for a job. He's ashamed, he said, that he still thinks about suicide.

"I try not to think about it, but I can't say never. For now, the will to live is stronger."
By Kyung Lah
CNN

As much as they change they remain the same

Such a terrible uproar Could this be a call to return to the Monarchy.

By James Mackenzie James Mackenzie – Thu Mar 19, 9:39 am ETPARIS (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people across France Thursday began protests expected to draw at least a million demonstrators to the streets to denounce President Nicolas Sarkozy's handling of the economic crisis.By James Mackenzie James Mackenzie – Thu Mar 19, 9:39 am ETPARIS (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people across France Thursday began protests expected to draw at least a million demonstrators to the streets to denounce President Nicolas Sarkozy's handling of the economic crisis.

The protests, which polls show are backed by three quarters of the French public, reflect growing disillusionment with Sarkozy's pledges of reform.

The crisis has sent the number of jobless past two million and left many people struggling with the high cost of living.

Transport, energy and some government offices were all affected as workers went off the job, although there was no general shutdown of the economy. Most businesses and public services functioned at close to normal levels.

Around 200 marches and rallies are planned to follow an earlier day of protest on January 29, when up to 2.5 million people took part. There has also been a spate of smaller demonstrations against factory closures and job cuts.

"They (the protesters) have a profound sense of social injustice, and that, I think, is something that neither the government nor the employers have understood," said Jean-Claude Mailly, head of the large Force Ouvriere union.

Sarkozy, battling to contain a budget deficit that has ballooned dramatically as the state pours billions of euros into bailing out banks and carmakers, has refused to contemplate union demands for pay hikes or better job protection.

But a series of disputes, ranging from strikes by university staff to unruly protests by workers at a tire plant in northern France, have underlined a worsening climate of discontent that the government fears could escalate. The tire plant workers pelted managers with eggs at the protest this week.

SERVICES HIT, THOUSANDS MARCH

The main rally in Paris was due to start at 1300 GMT (2 p.m. local time) and run until around 2000 GMT. Demonstrations in provincial cities earlier showed a generally strong turnout.

"According to the information we have on the demonstrations from this morning, there are more demonstrators than there were on January 29 and more stoppages in the private sector," said Bernard Thibault, head of the powerful CGT union.

Between 40,000 and 50,000 people marched in the northern city of Rouen, organizers said, while in the port city of Le Havre, unions said 35,000 people took part in protests. Police put the number in Le Havre at only 10,000.

High speed TGV intercity trains and suburban rail services in Paris and a number of provincial cities, including Lyon, Bordeaux and Strasbourg, were heavily affected, although most Paris metro services were running close to normal.

Energy workers also cut off 10,000 megawatts of French electricity production capacity overnight, including 14 percent of nuclear capacity in 11 different plants, the CGT union said.

The unions have presented a long list of demands, including a boost for the lower salaried, more measures to protect employment, a tax hike for high earners and a halt to job cuts planned in the public sector.

The government has introduced a 26 billion euro ($36 billion) stimulus plan aimed at business investment, and after the January 29 strike Sarkozy offered 2.65 billion euros of additional aid to help vulnerable households weather the storm.

With its large public sector and generous welfare system, France is better placed than many to ride out the economic storm, but it is nonetheless taking a hit, with many analysts predicting the economy will contract by 2 percent this year and unemployment will jump 25 percent to almost 10 percent.

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Call me Gready

Truth be told, I hope we do open up Cuba think of all the beach property waiting for development.


(CNN) -- The $410 billion budget President Obama signed Wednesday will make it easier for U.S. residents to travel to Cuba and to send money to family members on the island. It also could facilitate the sale of agricultural and pharmaceutical products to Cuba.


The residents of Havana, Cuba, often rely on bicycle taxis for transportation.

Three provisions attached to the omnibus spending bill loosened restrictions enacted by then-President George W. Bush after he came to office in 2001.

Analysts see the move as a way for the new Obama administration to start thawing relations with Cuba one month before the Fifth Summit of the Americas brings together the U.S. president and 33 other leaders from the Western Hemisphere in Trinidad and Tobago.

"[Cuba] is the issue of greatest symbolic importance," said Peter Hakim, president of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue policy institute. "It will be seen as a test of real U.S. readiness to change in the hemisphere. What he says about Cuba will make headlines."

Hakim testified about Latin American policy Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Cuba and the United States have had a troubled relationship since Fidel Castro came to power in 1959. The United States broke off diplomatic relations in 1961 and imposed a trade embargo in 1962. Bush tightened some of those restrictions in recent years, most notably limiting travel to the island to once every three years for a limit of 14 days.

Under the new provisions, relatives will be able to go once a year and stay for an unlimited time. In addition, the definition of relatives has been broadened to include uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces. The new measures also increase the amount of money visitors can spend.


Lugar says Cuban embargo is ineffective
Otto Reich, who served presidents Reagan and both Bushes in a number of high-level Latin American posts, also testified Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Reich and Hakim have different perspectives on how far Obama should go on improving relations with Cuba, but they agree that attaching the latest measures to the spending bill was the wrong way to do it.

"It's important to open up Cuba, but it should be done systematically," Hakim told CNN. "This is very important for the Cuban American community. It ought to be done with them at the table. If they're not involved, they're going to push back."

Initial opposition from two Democratic senators with large Cuban American communities in their states put the spending bill in jeopardy. Senators Bill Nelson of Florida and Bob Menendez of New Jersey voted for the budget Tuesday after receiving personal letters from Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner assuring them that the new provisions will not alter U.S. policy.

Reich said he did not like the Cuba provisions in the budget because the United States gets nothing in return.

"I'm opposed to it because of the way it was done," he said. "There's a way it can be done to advance the conditions of the people in Cuba. I don't approve of the unilateral way it's being done. The embargo is a negotiating tool. We should not negotiate with ourselves, and that's what we're doing."

Hakim warns that too much should not be read into the new measures, saying, "The fact is that this is very minor."

Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, said in a policy statement Wednesday that the new provision "suffers from being too little and too late."

Similar measures have been attached to previous spending bills in the past eight years but Bush threatened to veto the legislation, so the language was scrapped.

Senators Nelson and Menendez were most concerned with the provision that allows cash advance sales of agricultural and pharmaceutical products to Cuba.

Before Bush, "cash advance" used to mean that money would have to be paid as soon as the goods reached Cuba. But the Bush Administration said "cash advance" had to mean money was sent before the cargo was loaded on ships in the United States for Cuba. The language in the new spending bill reverts the meaning to the previous "cash-on-delivery" method favored by U.S. farmers and exporters.

Some members of Congress also were concerned the new provisions would allow credit sales, which would poke major holes in the economic embargo. But Geithner's letters to Nelson and Menendez assured them this would not happen.

He did tell the senators, though, the Obama administration is reviewing its policies toward Cuba.

Jesus is anoyed by Mormons

Mormon church says bishop acting alone in civil union fight

(Chicago, Illinois) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says that an Illinois bishop was acting alone in sending an e-mail to members of his ward urging them to oppose a civil union bill before the state legislators.

Send / ShareAdd CommentBut the Utah-based denomination has not ruled out becoming involved in the issue in the future.

The e-mail, sent to at least one LDS ward in Illinois, was authorized by Bishop Chris Church of the Nauvoo, Illinois, 3rd Ward, and was sent out by that website’s ward administrator.

It urges members of the church to call their local legislators and tell them to oppose the bill. The e-mail claims that civil unions would “empower the public schools to begin teaching this lifestyle to our young children regardless of parental requests otherwise.” It goes on to also claim that “it will also create grounds for rewriting all social mores.”

The e-mail raised the concerns of national LGBT civil rights groups. The Mormon Church was instrumental in the passage of anti-gay measures in a number of states.

It was heavily involved in the Proposition 8 campaign in California, a voter-based initiative that prohibits same-sex marriage in that state, a similar constitutional amendment in Arizona and the defeat this year of a package of LGBT rights bills in Utah called the Common Ground Initiative.

The e-mail prompted the Human Rights Campaign to issue an alert to its members.

“It is irrefutably clear that the LDS Church is fighting an anti-gay crusade throughout the nation, targeting any form of equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community,” said Bruce Bastian, a member of the board of the Human Rights Campaign and former member of the LDS Church. “Church leaders want nothing more than to do their hateful work in secrecy, but the time has come to shine a light on their insidious efforts. If the LDS Church won’t tell the truth, we will.”

But Thursday, the LDS Church’s National Public Affairs Office said the e-mail was not part of a coordinated effort by the Mormon Church but an isolated act. Still, it did not rule out future involvement if the civil union bill appears to gain support in the legislature.

“As is widely known, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes in the sanctity of traditional marriage,” the LDS statement said.

“The Church has not taken a position on any legislation currently being considered by the Illinois State Legislature. The Church did not send an e-mail to its members in regards to House Bill 2234, although a false report to the contrary has been circulated. An e-mail was sent from a local Illinois church leader to his congregation — one of 129 congregations in the state — who was free to express his own views.”
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KARMA

Despite what we all thought this hateful new monied heffer is rumored to have a heart.
CNN) -- Former first lady Barbara Bush underwent heart surgery Wednesday at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN.


Former first lady Barbara Bush had heart surgery Wednesday in Houston, Texas.

Jean Becker, chief of staff for former President George H.W. Bush, said that Barbara Bush, 83, was "fine" following the surgery.

"In fact, she is awake," Becker said.

"We, of course, naively wanted to keep it quiet -- Mrs. Bush did," Becker said Wednesday night. "She thought there was too much fuss the last time."

Wednesday's surgery was not related to surgery she had in November for a perforated ulcer.

Her husband is with her in the hospital, where she is expected to remain for seven to 10 days.

"I am very impressed with and grateful to the wonderful team of doctors and nurses at The Methodist Hospital who have helped Barbara," the former president said. "We have every confidence she is in the best hands."

The open-heart surgery was taken as a precautionary step after she experienced shortness of breath last week and doctors found hardening on one part of her aorta, according to a statement released by the hospital.

Dr. Gerald Lawrie performed the 2 1/2 hour surgery, replacing her aortic valve with a biologic valve, the hospital said.

"This is a very common aging change," Lawrie told CNN's "Larry King Live."

"It's estimated as many as 10 percent of people over 70 need this type of surgery. It's basically a wear-and-tear that leads to calcium deposits."

It's such a fine line we all have to walk . Between living our lives to the fullest and helping others. Truth be told few are or can be Mother Terressa.
CHINHOYI, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was celebrating his 85th birthday with a lavish all-day party Saturday despite the fact that the country is gripped by an economic and health crisis.


President Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace, attend a cake-cutting ceremony for his birthday Saturday.

1 of 2 Mugabe's ZANU-PF party said it raised at least $250,000 to hold the party in Mugabe's hometown of Chinhoyi, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) outside of the capital, Harare.

Critics of the president say the country is desperate for that amount of money to be spent instead on its citizens, who are suffering from a cholera outbreak, food shortages, and spiraling hyperinflation. On Friday, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai visited a hospital's closed intensive care unit that he said needed $30,000 to resume operating.

During the celebrations, Mugabe announced that his controversial land reform would not be reversed. The program is designed to have white-owned farms given to blacks, and there have been violent seizures of such farms since the program began in 2000.

He emphasized that the country's "indigenization program" -- which forces all major foreign companies operating in Zimbabwe to have at least 51 percent black ownership -- will be carried out. It began last year and hasn't been implemented yet.

Mugabe's birthday falls on February 21 but his party loyalists postponed the celebrations as they were raising money for the event.

"I think it is going to be a great day for the legend and icon whose birthday we are celebrating today here," said Mugabe's nephew Patrick Zhuwawo, one of the fund-raisers for the birthday. "The country might be having problems, but we need to have a day to honor the sacrifices the president has made for this country." What do you think about the celebrations?

Zhuwawo said about 100 beasts would be slaughtered for the birthday bash. iReport.com: What do you think about Mugabe's lavish party?

Mugabe also invited schoolchildren from around the country to attend the party, being held at Chinhoyi University.

The farming town of Chinhoyi is usually quiet, but Saturday's event has changed everything. Cars with Mugabe's supporters could be seen hooting and some ZANU-PF supporters sang Mugabe's praises.

A banner in Chinhoyi read, "Age ain't nothing but a number

Nancy Pelosi

Once again Nancy Pelosi treated her self and her BFF to a Italian vacaction seeing the pope and more. Even the pope does not like this wannnabe Catholic diva as she is pro choice. But she has more trouble then that. The American people also have seen her true colours as she was rumored to do a private dirty deal with Former "W" for War monger G W Bush. Keeping him from being impeached.
Nancy also known as the lead whore for the democratic party must be held accountable.

UNFAIR TRADE

What a sad day when all you can get for 2 children is a bird. (CNN) -- Trading two children for a bird landed three people in jail in Louisiana, authorities say.

The biological mother, who was not involved in the alleged trade, is to be interviewed by authorities Friday. Investigators seek further details about a case that they say unfolded this way:

Paul and Brandy Romero advertised that they were selling their pet cockatoo for $1,500.

A woman named Donna Greenwell responded and said she wanted to buy the bird. Greenwell then told the Romeros that she was taking care of three children whose biological parents were going through a separation.

Greenwell proposed selling two of the couple's children to the Romeros for $2,000, saying that her job as a truck driver made it hard to take care of the children, said Capt. Keith Dupre of the Evangeline Parrish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana.
An anonymous tipster contacted authorities after the children began living with the Romeros.

As a result, Greenwell and the Romeros were arrested February 21 and charged with aggravated kidnapping, Dupre said.

The children were well taken care of when they were with the Romeros, who badly wanted children, according to Dupre.

Greenwell said she needed the cash for a lawyer to handle adoption paperwork, authorities said.

She had placed the third child with another Louisiana couple, Dupre said, but he didn't know whether bartering was involved.

The two children were ages 4 and 5, according to CNN affiliate WGNO.

Police did not identify the biological parents, and no other information was available. The children have been placed in foster care

You can bet they went to Sunday school

New York City Police say Wednesday they have arrested one of the attackers who yelled slurs as they beat an Ecuadorean immigrant to death on a city street, and investigators are looking for a second suspect.
Hakim Scott, 25, was arrested in the Dec. 7 attack on real estate broker Jose Sucuzhanay, which ignited outrage from New York to Ecuador. Police and prosecutors said he was beaten with a bat and kicked by men shouting anti-Hispanic and anti-gay slurs as he walked arm in arm with his brother to keep warm.
Scott was expected to be charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime on Thursday, authorities said. Messages left at two possible telephone numbers for his Bronx home weren’t immediately returned Wednesday night. Authorities didn’t know if he had an attorney.
Police were looking for a second suspect they identified as Keith Phoenix, 28, also of the Bronx. No working telephone number could be found for him.
“Anybody who commits a hate crime, we will not rest until we find them,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference.
Sucuzhanay, 31, and his brother Romel were accosted on a Brooklyn street after attending a church party and stopping at a bar. Phoenix and Scott were sitting in a sport utility vehicle at a red light when they came upon the brothers, police said Wednesday.
After “exchanging words” with the brothers, Scott got out of the SUV, hit Jose Sucuzhanay with a beer bottle and chased Romel Sucuzhanay with it, separating the brothers, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
Phoenix then got out of the SUV, took out an aluminum baseball bat and “savagely beat Jose about his shoulders, ribs and back until he fell to the pavement,” Kelly said.
Then Phoenix struck the victim “several more times … with crushing blows to his head,” the police commissioner said.
Romel Sucuzhanay was able to run and call police.
The attack left Jose Sucuzhanay in a coma. He died five days later as his mother was en route from Ecuador to see him. He was buried in Ecuador.
Investigators used information from witnesses about the SUV’s license plate to trace the vehicle to Phoenix’s girlfriend, who wasn’t involved in the attack, Kelly said.
They linked Phoenix to the SUV using information from an Oct. 20 accident report; he was driving it at the time, police said.
Investigators have surveillance video from the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge showing Phoenix and Scott going through a toll 19 minutes after the attack, Kelly said.
Police took Scott into custody for questioning Tuesday near his home, he said.
Phoenix is on parole for an armed robbery conviction, Kelly said. There is a $22,000 reward for his arrest and conviction.
After the attack, hundreds of people gathered for a demonstration in Brooklyn condemning it, and officials in Ecuador monitored the investigation and discussed urging the U.S. Congress to back a campaign of anti-bias education.
The attack on Sucuzhanay came about a month after another Ecuadorean immigrant, Marcelo Lucero, was stabbed to death in Patchogue, on Long Island. Prosecutors said seven teenagers charged in that assault had set out to find a Hispanic person to attack.

Hate and Greed

Once again the Church of HATE and GREED is on the wrong side of Humanity.

Bishop scolds school over gay-rights speaker
By The Associated Press02.25.2009 8:40am EST
(Scranton, Pennsylvania) A Roman Catholic bishop in northeastern Pennsylvania wants a Catholic university to close a multicultural center because it hosted a visit by a gay-rights advocate.
Scranton Bishop Joseph Martino says Misericordia University shouldn’t have sanctioned a Feb. 17 visit by author Keith Boykin. He says viewpoints that contradict Catholic teaching should not be presented “under the guise of ‘diversity.’”
The school’s Diversity Institute describes itself as an educational resource center that promotes multicultural understanding.
The school said in a statement that it “welcomes the opportunity” to discuss the matter with Martino.

THE RISE OF UGLY PEOPLE

Remember when, ugly people new better and keep hidden. I blame reality TV for the huge influx of ugly people in the public eye. For years Politics was a place that was known as the HOLLYWOOD for ugly people. BUT this ugly? see photo above.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thrust into the spotlight as a Republican rising star, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has been depicted as an up-and-comer capable of helping reshape the party and jockeying for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.

Being tapped to give the GOP response to President Obama's address elevates Gov. Bobby Jindal's standing in the party.

And now, Jindal's party is putting him on a national platform, awarding the once little-known congressman the political plum of delivering the Republican's televised response to President Barack Obama's address to Congress Tuesday night.
"The speech is very important. This is his coming-out party," said G. Pearson Cross, head of the University of Louisiana's political science department, who has observed Jindal's political rise. "His speech will put a face on the name."
And put a fresh face on the Republican Party.
The GOP, still reeling from election beatings in 2006 and 2008, is looking to revamp itself by rebuilding from the states up and reaching out to young voters. At 37, the popular Louisiana governor embodies that mission, experts say.
"The job is very important in framing the Republican message really for the rest of the year," said Nick Ayers, executive director of the Republican Governors Association, referring to the response speech Tuesday. "Gov. Jindal provides the outside-the-beltway, not D.C., perspective. And he's one of the smartest policy minds in the country. He's not perceived as a overtly political person."
Being tapped for this prime-time speech, a job normally for congressional leaders, has helped to elevate Jindal's standing in the party dominated by old pros, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader John Boehner, as well as personalities, such as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"It's time for another generation to come into play," said GOP strategist Ed Rollins, a CNN contributor. "A lot of Republicans came of age under Reagan, which was 25 years ago ... and we just haven't built on that with young people."

NASA A Waste of FUNDS

CHILDREN DIE OF HUNGER AS THE USA SEND ANOTHER CROTCH ROCKET TO SPACE. NASA MUST BE FULL OF SMALL MINDED SMALL HUNG MEN

Not the Liberal Courts People fear

CNN) -- At a friend's sleepover more than a year ago, 14-year-old Phillip Swartley pocketed change from unlocked vehicles in the neighborhood to buy chips and soft drinks. The cops caught him.

Former Luzerne county President Judge Mark Ciavarella pleaded guilty, faces prison and was disbarred.


There was no need for an attorney, said Phillip's mother, Amy Swartley, who thought at most, the judge would slap her son with a fine or community service.
But she was shocked to find her eighth-grader handcuffed and shackled in the courtroom and sentenced to a youth detention center. Then, he was shipped to a boarding school for troubled teens for nine months.
"Yes, my son made a mistake, but I didn't think he was going to be taken away from me," said Swartley, a 41-year-old single mother raising two boys in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
CNN does not usually identify minors accused of crimes. But Swartley and others agreed to be named to bring public attention to the issue.
As scandals from Wall Street to Washington roil the public trust, the justice system in Luzerne County, in the heart of Pennsylvania's struggling coal country, has also fallen prey to corruption. The county has been rocked by a kickback scandal involving two elected judges who essentially jailed kids for cash. Many of the children had appeared before judges without a lawyer.
The nonprofit Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia said Phillip is one of at least 5,000 children over the past five years who appeared before former Luzerne County President Judge Mark Ciavarella.
Ciavarella pleaded guilty earlier this month to federal criminal charges of fraud and other tax charges, according to the U.S. attorney's office. Former Luzerne County Senior Judge Michael Conahan also pleaded guilty to the same charges. The two secretly received more than $2.6 million, prosecutors said.
The judges have been disbarred and have resigned from their elected positions. They agreed to serve 87 months in prison under their plea deals. Ciavarella and Conahan did not return calls, and their attorneys told CNN that they have no comment.
Ciavarella, 58, along with Conahan, 56, corruptly and fraudulently "created the potential for an increased number of juvenile offenders to be sent to juvenile detention facilities," federal court documents alleged. Children would be placed in private detention centers, under contract with the court, to increase the head count. In exchange, the two judges would receive kickbacks.
The Juvenile Law Center said it plans to file a class-action lawsuit this week representing what they say are victims of corruption. Juvenile Law Center attorneys cite a few examples of harsh penalties Judge Ciavarella meted out for relatively petty offenses:
Ciavarvella sent 15-year-old Hillary Transue to a wilderness camp for mocking an assistant principal on a MySpace page.
He whisked 13-year-old Shane Bly, who was accused of trespassing in a vacant building, from his parents and confined him in a boot camp for two weekends.
He sentenced Kurt Kruger, 17, to detention and five months of boot camp for helping a friend steal DVDs from Wal-Mart.
Several other lawsuits on behalf of the juveniles who have appeared in Ciavarella's courtroom have emerged.

Short Men

With the average height of men in the USA of 6' why are there so many little men in Arizona. Its true they do well in porn its all about proportion's. But they tend to be angry control Divas.

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