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BUSTED: Wal-Mart Caught In Massive Bribery Scandal That Goes All The Way To The Top
‘Justice for Trayvon’: Alabama Man in Critical Condition After Mob BeatingGuilty plea planned in Ted Nugent AK hunt caseA
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Mobile police need your help to catch a mob that beat Matthew Owens so badly that he’s in critical condition.
According to police, Owens fussed at some kids playing basketball in the middle of Delmar Drive about 8:30 Saturday night. They say the kids left and a group of adults returned, armed with everything but the kitchen sink.
Police tell News 5 the suspects used chairs, pipes and paint cans to beat Owens.
Owens’ sister, Ashley Parker, saw the attack. “It was the scariest thing I have ever witnessed.” Parker says 20 people, all African American, attacked her brother on the front porch of his home, using “brass buckles, paint cans and anything they could get their hands on.”
What Parker says happened next could make the fallout from the brutal beating even worse. As the attackers walked away, leaving Owen bleeding on the ground, Parker says one of them said “Now thats justice for Trayvon.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/justice-for-trayvon-alabama-man-in-critical-condition-after-mob-beating/Mobile police need your help to catch a mob that beat Matthew Owens so badly that... more
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I'm seeing a side of Mitt Romney that I never knew existed. He truly is a regular Southern guy.I'm seeing a side of Mitt Romney that I never knew existed. He truly is a regular... more
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This one's better than Bill Maher's recent video profile of Mississippi Republicans...
(warning: you may experience a loss of brain cells when viewing)
http://veracitystew.com/?p=32193This one's better than Bill Maher's recent video profile of Mississippi... more
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It’s no wonder that the misinformed who rely on Fox News for their information have their fears confirmed when political candidates like Rick Santorum continue to question the president’s religious beliefs by claiming Obama has a “different theology” than the rest of America, or when high-profile Evangelicals like Franklin Graham go on national television to declare that Islam gets a “free pass” on Obama because his father was Muslim.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=32029It’s no wonder that the misinformed who rely on Fox News for their information... more
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Funny thing about the Alabma ultrasound law...one of its major supporters, State Senator Greg Reed (R), owns a company that sells ultrasound equipment...
http://veracitystew.com/?p=31298Funny thing about the Alabma ultrasound law...one of its major supporters, State... more
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I've joked for years that God needs a better PR team on Earth. Some of the most log-headed charlatans, grifters, and just plain logically-challenged people claim to speak on His behalf. Pat Robertson, Ted Haggard, and ethically inept Newt Gingrich are just a few. But, AL state Sen. Shadrack McGill covets his own serving of ignobility.I've joked for years that God needs a better PR team on Earth. Some of the most... more
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There’s not much that passes for happiness or credible hope on Here We Rest, but what finally broke me down, after seven or eight spins, was sitting with the lyrics and humming along to “Stopping By,” a gut-wrenching number about dropping in to see Dad, unannounced, after 15 years. I’m sure most of us understand how the dysfunctions of one generation all too predictably serve as the only role model the next generation has. If we wonder why a boy grows up unable to connect with a woman – say, the woman in “Alabama Pines” or perhaps “Daisy Mae” – we might have a look at their parents. Add a hint of bygone scandal, the intimation of bile and repression that still characterizes family and community in the Gothic South, and what remains is a moment where little is said, even less is understood.There’s not much that passes for happiness or credible hope on Here We Rest, but... more
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By Brian Wheeler
BBC News, Alabama
Banks stand to lose millions of dollars in debt repayments if the biggest municipal bankruptcy in American history is allowed to proceed.
But the real victims of the financial collapse in the US state of Alabama's most populous county are its poorest residents - forced to bathe in bottled water and use portable toilets after being cut off from the mains supply.
And there is widespread anger in Jefferson County that swingeing sewerage rate hikes could have been avoided but for the greed, corruption and incompetence of local politicians, government officials and Wall Street financiers.
Tammy Lucas is the human face of a financial and political scandal that has brought one of the most deprived communities in America's south to the point of what some local people believe is collapse.
She says: "If the sewer bill gets higher, my light might get cut off and if I try to catch up the light, my water might get cut off. So we're in between. We can't make it like this."
Mrs Lucas's monthly sewerage rate bills - the amount levied by the county to flush away waste and provide water for baths and showers - has quadrupled in the past 15 years. She says it is currently running at $150 (£97) a month, which leaves little left out of her $600 social security check for food and electricity.
"We need to keep the water running because we're women," she says. "We need to take baths. I try to pay the sewer bill and the water bill together and then what little I got left I try to put on my lights. I got to have lights."
More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16037798By Brian Wheeler
BBC News, Alabama
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From the left and from the right the ads will come until one day, not so far off, we'll all reach saturation and walk off a cliff. Welcome to the United Lemmings of America!From the left and from the right the ads will come until one day, not so far off,... more
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Hello there. My name is Cristie Clark and I am the District Coordinator for the North Alabama region of The Alabama Medical Marijuana Coalition (AMMJC). We just started our Non-Profit organization June 3, 2011 and have since put forth a Patient’s Rights Bill that will be headed to the Legislature in February 2012. We have gained the support of Representative K.L. Brown, a Republican Conservative Christian, and he has agreed to sponsor our Bill. Since making this progress, we have been hosting picnics all over the state in an effort to spread the word and gain support. We have also been on several morning talk shows.
We are solely fighting for the most terminal patients who have chosen to push their harsh and addictive medications to the side, and replace it with marijuana, despite being labeled a criminal. I feel that it is imperative to give these patient’s a voice, as well as the right to choose what treatment is best for them.
-Cristie L. Clark
District 2 Coordinator
Board Member, AMMJC
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https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/167652663294034/
https://www.facebook.com/#!/cristielynnclarkHello there. My name is Cristie Clark and I am the District Coordinator for the North... more
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FOLEY, Alabama -- An Arizona couple reportedly outraged by a Foley police officer’s walk-through at an area Walmart last week was arrested after the man allegedly hit the officer and his wife jumped on him.
Anthony Scott Smith, 41, and his wife, Chrisanna Elizabeth Smith, 40, of Scottsdale, Arizona, were arrested Friday and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and second-degree assault on a police officer.FOLEY, Alabama -- An Arizona couple reportedly outraged by a Foley police... more
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With hurricanes missing the United States over the past two hurricane seasons, the country has now gone more than 1,000 days without a landfall.
http://exm.nr/jphR1DWith hurricanes missing the United States over the past two hurricane seasons, the... more
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Massive EF5 Killer Tornado Birmingham Alabama April 27th Kills 43
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Alfa Mutual Group said t it will not renew
73,000 property insurance policies statewide as it
following the April 27 tornadoes.
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Visit www.givetuscaloosa.com to download forms. Call 205-248-5045.Massive EF5 Killer Tornado Birmingham Alabama April 27th Kills 43
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Harriett Louise Carter, 22-year-old Courtland (Decatur, Alabama) woman has pleaded guilty in Morgan County Circuit Court to second-degree rape for having sex with a 13-year-old boy.
According to the court documents, Carter had agreed to babysit five children for a friend at an apartment in June last year. During the night, Carter first performed oral sex on the 13-year-old boy and then engaged him in sexual intercourse. When boy admittedt sexual acts to his mother, she reported Carter to Decatur
http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/311-harriett-carter-pleads-guilty-Harriett Louise Carter, 22-year-old Courtland (Decatur, Alabama) woman has pleaded... more
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As rescue workers continued their search Monday for possible survivors of last week's deadly tornadoes, it was unclear just how many people really are missing across the state.
The daily situation report from the Alabama Emergency Management Agency reported eight people missing statewide -- seven of those in Marion County and one in Elmore County.
But in Tuscaloosa, one of the hardest hit areas with 39 killed, Mayor Walt Maddox's office was reporting 340 people missing as of Monday. The number was even higher Sunday, when the city was listing 370 people missing.
Tuscaloosa officials are quick to point out that missing is not the same thing as dead.
"We do not presume any of those are dead," said Vickie Gilliland, an aide to Maddox. "If someone called the police or sheriff's office to report a missing person, that name got on the list. If someone called the mayor's office to report a missing person, that name got on the list. It's as complete a list as we can make it, but we also know there may be some mistakes on it too."
Gilliland said the number may be high because some names have been duplicated or, once a person has been found, the person who reported them missing did not call back to have the name taken off the list.
Gilliland said police and the county's sheriff's office have been attempting to contact each person on the list.
"It is putting a strain on police, but if someone called to report a missing person we are going to do all we can to find them," Gilliland said.
cont.As rescue workers continued their search Monday for possible survivors of last... more
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