"Undocumented immigrants are starting to leave Arizona because of the new
employer-sanctions law. The state's strong economy has been a magnet for illegal
immigrants for years. But a growing number are pulling up stakes out of fear
they will be jobless come Jan. 1, when the law takes effect. The departures are
drawing cheers from immigration hard-liners and alarm from business owners
already seeing a drop in sales."
"In a clear sign that the credit crunch is still affecting the nation’s
largest financial institutions, the Federal Reserve agreed this week to bend key
banking regulations to help out Citigroup and Bank of America. The regulations
in question effectively limit a bank’s funding exposure to an affiliate to 10%
of the bank’s capital. But the Fed has allowed Citibank and Bank of America to
blow through that level. Citigroup and Bank of America are able to lend up to
$25 billion apiece under this exemption, according to the Fed. If Citibank used
the full amount, “that represents about 30% of Citibank’s total regulatory
capital, which is no small exemption,” says Charlie Peabody, banks analyst at
Portales Partners. So, how serious is this rule-bending? Very. One of the
central tenets of banking regulation is that banks with federally insured
deposits should never be over-exposed to brokerage subsidiaries; indeed, for
decades financial institutions were legally required to keep the two units
completely separate. This move by the Fed eats away at the principle."
"When doctors told Francisco Santos he had tuberculosis Friday, health officials
said the Gwinnett County 17-year-old refused to believe it. Then the wiry,
dark-haired youth refused to submit to any treatment. Worse, he said he was
walking out of the Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville and heading back to
his home country of Mexico, officials said. “I think he was scared,” said David
Will, attorney for the Gwinnett County Board of Health. Gwinnett health
officials found themselves in a bind. They had a person with a case of active,
contagious tuberculosis, refusing treatment and threatening to carry the disease
to a foreign country. They also were aware of the recent incident involving
Atlanta lawyer Andrew Speaker, who also has tuberculosis. After Speaker left for
his wedding in Greece, a national news conference set off an international
health scare. In this case, the Gwinnett officials acted decisively: They put
Santos in jail Friday evening, in a rare act of a government agency confining a
sick person. Santos is the only inmate in a special medical isolation cell
designed for inmates with contagious conditions. The cell, which measures about
15 feet by 20 feet, has a special ventilation system that keeps the air from
reaching other inmates."
"Bill O'Reilly , looking for some left/right controversy, tried to manufacture
some divisive outrage in his weekly column about Disney's High School Musical.
According to BOR, traditional Americans are 'cheering' the wholesome musical
unlike some critics. However, he never gets around to identifying these harsh
critics of wholesomeness but makes sure to suggest they are mostly 'liberals'
with this comment. 'Here's what I believe, based upon more than thirty years of
working in the media: Many critics are jaded and cynical. Most are extremely
liberal. If the property is 'edgy,' anti-American, or over-the-top offensive,
they will like it. If the writers of High School Musical had turned the dancing
kids into flesh-eating zombies, the critics would have been wowed.'"
"Iran summoned a Swedish diplomat to its foreign ministry on Monday to protest
against a cartoon in a Swedish newspaper depicting the head of Prophet Muhammad
on a dog’s body, Sweden’s foreign ministry said. “Gunilla von Bahr, Sweden’s
charge d’affaires, was summoned to the Iranian foreign ministry today where she
received a protest from the Iranian government,” foreign ministry spokeswoman
Anna Björkander told AFP. The Iranian government told Von Bahr the cartoon was
“offensive to Prophet Muhammad,” Björkander said, refusing to disclose any
further details of the meeting."
"For example, he found legal contracts from late medieval France that referred
to the term 'affrèrement,' roughly translated as brotherment. Similar contracts
existed elsewhere in Mediterranean Europe, Tulchin said. In the contract, the
'brothers' pledged to live together sharing 'un pain, un vin, et une bourse,'
(that's French for one bread, one wine and one purse). The 'one purse' referred
to the idea that all of the couple's goods became joint property. Like marriage
contracts, the 'brotherments' had to be sworn before a notary and witnesses,
Tulchin explained. "
"Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has announced a reconciliation deal
between the country's Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders. The Shi'ite leader
made the announcement easing restrictions on Ba'ath party members on national TV
'flanked by Jalal Talabani, the country's Kurdish president, and the Sunni
vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi,' says the Guardian. The consensus-building
agreement was forged in the wake of a week of political pressure from the White
House and U.S. senators including Hillary Clinton, Carl Levin and John Warner.
Maliki delivered a 'stinging rebuke to Hillary Clinton yesterday, telling her to
stop meddling in the affairs of his country as though it was part of America,'
writes the Independent."
"In 1981, Republican presidential hopeful, Fred Thompson was appointed as a
special counsel to investigate intelligence director, William J. Casey, which
worried the White House. According to the NY Times “the White House’s worries
were quickly set to rest by the man the Senate had chosen to get to the bottom
of the matter, Fred D. Thompson. In July 1981, just one day into his job as
special counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mr. Thompson assured the
White House that there was no “smoking gun,” documents show. He had yet to
interview a single witness.”"
"Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, one of President Bush's closest
confidants and a key architect of his controversial counterterrorism policies,
announced yesterday that he is quitting after seven months of bitter
confrontation with Congress over his honesty and his competence to run the
Justice Department. His resignation, submitted Sunday to President Bush and
disclosed yesterday, removes one of the nation's most controversial attorneys
general since the Watergate era. He will leave behind a Justice Department
battered by allegations that partisan politics has infected its law enforcement
mission."
"While I've spent quite a bit of time writing about the violent triple
murder of three college students at the hands of illegal aliens and those of
indeterminate immigration status, illegal aliens and/or individuals of
indeterminate immigration status are also victims. In Jersey City, New Jersey we
learn of a truck driver who was found stabbed to death. Investigators found ID,
which suggested he was a Costa Rican immigrant. They then went to his apartment,
where they found another, different, identification. So, they don't know who the
dead man is."
"MIAMI - A Cuban father allows his young daughter to emigrate legally to the
United States with her mother, hoping they will find a better life. But months
later, when the mother becomes incapable of caring for the girl, he seeks to
bring the child home. "
"LOS ANGELES - A self-described pedophile is leaving California after a
judge ordered him to stay away permanently from places where children gather,
the man told a TV station for a report that aired Sunday. 'I have to leave the
state, really, I can't live here under this Orwellian protocol,' Jack McClellan
told KABC. 'It's nightmarish.'"
"Has Bill Moyers become PBS's Jack Cafferty, Bill Maher, Rosie O'Donnell, and
Keith Olbermann all rolled into one crusading, Bush-hating, anti-war
propagandist funded by American tax dollars? "
"THE HAGUE, 22/08/07 - The former Open Air Bible Museum near Nijmegen has
received 500,000 euro in subsidy from oil state Oman. With this, the museum will
expand to include a House of Koran."
"Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) 'was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport by a
plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men’s
public restroom,' according to an arrest report obtained by Roll Call. 'Craig’s
arrest occurred just after noon on June 11 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International
Airport. On Aug. 8, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct in the
Hennepin County District Court. He paid more than $500 in fines and fees, and a
10-day jail sentence was stayed. He also was given one year of probation with
the court that began on Aug. 8.'"
"In yet another discouraging development for accused murderer/avowed bitch-hater
Phil Spector, lead defense attorney Bruce Cutler--who so famously got things
started with a bang by hammering the phrase 'murder on their minds'
approximately 17,000 times into the jurors' skulls, then became a rarer and
rarer courtroom presence as he attended to his daytime-TV-starring
commitments--has officially stepped down from the case as of today"
"Lauren Caitlin Upton, Miss South Carolina Teen USA, whose mangled response to a
pageant question has become an Internet sensation, will have a second chance to
answer it on Tuesday morning's Today show. 'I didn't do anything wrong,' she
told South Carolina's The State newspaper. 'I wasn't expecting [the question]. I
lost my train of thought.' "
"The Jake Gyllenhaal is gay rumor just got a lot more specific, and people
seem to really be buying into it: 'Last year Jake and his bf were arrested and
brought into the West Hollywood station after the sheriffs office was called
after catching Jake and his bf having sex in an SUV behind the restaurant Chin
Chins in LA...Jake and his bf are currently expecting a baby through a
surrogate. They used a company based in Westwood, CA. The baby is due in
September.' "
"Jason 'Gummybear' Davis, the flaxen-haired, plus-size brother of oil heir
Brandon 'Greasy Bear' Davis, was spotted Friday by a Radar spy at the Beverly
Hills Hotel hot spot 1912, wheezing, sweating, slurring, and bleeding, looking a
hell of a lot like an undead John Belushi. The oil heir and frequent Hyde reject
appeared to have blood spots around his waist, our witness says. And although he
has claimed to have given up the sauce for nine weeks, our spy says he was all
vowels this weekend, bragging that he was starting a company that would 'put
iTunes out of business,' and explaining that he was speaking gruffly because 'I
have a staph infection.'"
"Actor Samuel L. Jackson called in at the Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles
today to visit Owen Wilson, reportedly recovering after attempting to take his
own life. Jackson told reporters he was there to visit his friend, before
cursing out the awaiting media, saying ''get the F#@* away from me.'' Temper,
temper Sammy!"
"Former Hollywood publicist Jonathan Jaxson says that Jake Gyllenhaal is
planning to come out some time by the end of next month. Jake is reportedly
ready to come out because he and his boyfriend of several years (rumored to be
actor Austin Nichols or Chef Chris Fischer) are expecting a baby in September."
"First it was the Super Bowl. Then came the Emmys. Now comes news that for
the first time in nearly 15 years, an American DJ will be syndicated throughout
the U.K. and on London radio. And that DJ is none that than Ryan Seacrest. "
"'My son Nick and a friend were involved in a car accident last night. Nick
suffered minor injuries and has been treated and released from the hospital. At
this time, his friend, John Graziano remains hospitalized. Nick is currently at
the hospital with John and his family. His sole concern is for the well being of
his friend. On behalf of my family, we ask that your thoughts and prayers be
with John and his loved ones.'"
"That's right, Michael Vick, formerly of the NFL is speaking out about his
newfound religious convictions and how he came to them courtesy of his decision
to take responsibility for his actions in connection to dogfighting. Vick made a
statement in which he apologized to various parties, including Atlanta Falcons
owner Arthur Blank, his young fans, as well as the NFL commisioner Roger
Goodell. He also expressed his desire to start steering his life into a more
mature direction. "
"All that's known right now is that it's an 'active investigation' and no
specifics are being reported. But it's ok, Bri! You might be leaving your
children out in the rain, but you've been cleared of any charges in the alleged
abuse of your dogs! The puppies are all set despite your kids being allowed to
play with Exacto knives near the electrical outlets. Keep reading for the dog
story, and for details about how her ex-manager is on the lam from the
inevitable K-Fed subpoena. Probably delivered by a man in a Mustang with bumpin'
hydraulics and fishbowl smoke coming out of it. "
"There are rumors flying around that Jake Gyllenhaal will soon be
coming out of the closet. Jake, also known as “Toothy Tile” in several blind
items, is supposedly going to be on the cover of several magazines announcing
his gayness, kind of like Lance Bass."
"'Blake is the best man in the world. We would never ever harm each other .
. . I was cutting myself after he found me in our room about to do drugs with a
call girl and rightly said I wasn't good enough for him. I lost it and he saved
my life.'"
"SANTA MONICA, Calif. (August 27, 2007) — After being hospitalized in Santa
Monica on Sunday, actor Owen Wilson is speaking out. “I respectfully ask that
the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult
time,” Wilson said in a statement to Access Hollywood today."
"Hulk Hogan's son, Nick Bollea, is said to be serious but stable condition
after his speeding car hit a palm tree in Clearwater, FL last night. Nick's
friend and passenger however is still said to be on critical condition. CNN
reports that Nick's injuries are not life-threatening."
"'I would like to dedicate this award to a young man who has been on my
mind for the last 19 years: Ross,' Jessica Alba, 26, told a rapt audience as she
accepted the female hottie award. 'Ross didn't love me. I was pigeon-toed, I had
a sway back, I was slightly cross-eyed, buck-toothed, I sucked my thumb.' She
added, with a laugh: 'Look at me now, Ross! Look at me now!' "
"Aaron Carter - Methface of Methfaces
Wayne Newton - Mr. Plastic Las Vegas
Mark Cuban - Billionaire which means small dicked
Jane Seymour - Lovely
Scary Spice - Yeah...
Tori Spelling - BARF!
Jennie Garth - Take Donna Martin down!
Floyd Mayweather - Hot boxer
Richard Quest - Some nerd
Sabrina Bryan - Some ho
Helio Castroneves - Race car driver
Lou Ferrigno - The Hulk
Nia Peeples - Hotness!!! "
"'She drinks in front of the kids. At first, the drinks would help her
loosen up and not be so angry. But she'd inevitably drink too much and be out of
it, at which point the nannies would take care of the kids. She'll strip down in
front of staff, nannies, whomever. She'll ask, 'Do I look sexy? Do I look
pretty?' She's extremely insecure.'"
