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Original List: 1. Handsome 2.  Charming 3.  Financially successful 4.  A caring listener  5. Witty 6.  In good shape 7.  Dresses with style 8.  Appreciates finer things 9.  Full of thoughtful surprises 10.  An imaginative, romantic lover 

What I Want in a Man, Revised List (age 32)    1. Nice looking 
2. Opens car doors, holds chairs
3. Has enough money for a nice dinner
4. Listens more than talks
5. Laughs at my jokes
6. Carries bags of groceries with ease
7. Owns at least one tie
8. Appreciates a good home-cooked meal
9. Remembers birthdays and anniversaries
10. Seeks romance at least once a week

What I Want in a Man, Revised List (age 52)  1. Not too ugly 2. Doesn't drive off until I'm in the car 3. Works steady - splurges on dinner out occasionally 4. Nods head when I'm talking 5. Usually remembers punch lines of jokes 6. Is in good enough sh ape to rearrange the furniture 7. Wears a shirt that covers his stomach 8. Knows not to buy champagne with screw-top lids 9. Remembers to put the toilet seat down 10. Shaves most weekends

What I Want in a Man, Revised List (age 62) 1. Keeps hair in nose and ears trimmed     2. Doesn't belch or scratch in public 3. Doesn't borrow money too often 4. Doesn't nod off to sleep when I'm venting 5. Doesn't retell the same joke too many times 6. Is in good enough shape to get off couch on weekends 7. Usually wears matching socks and fresh underwear 8. Appreciates a good TV dinner 9. Remembers your name on occasion     10. Shaves some weekends

What I Want in a Man, Revised List (age 72)      1. Doesn't scare small children               2. Remembers where bathroom is 3. Doesn't require much money for upkeep 4. Only snores lightly when asleep 5. Remembers why he's laughing 6. Is in good enough shape to stand up by himself 7. Usually wears some clothes 8. Likes soft foods               9. Remembers where he left his teeth 10. Remembers that it's the weekend

What I Want in a Man, Revised List (age 82) 1. Breathing 2. Doesn't miss the toilet.

Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is a husband.


A woman came home, screeching her car into the driveway, and ran into the house.
She slammed the door and shouted at the top of her lungs, 'Honey, pack your bags. I won the lottery!'
The husband said, 'Oh my God! What should I pack, beach stuff or mountain stuff?'
'Doesn't matter,' she said. 'Just get out.'


A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband.
Suddenly, her husband burst into the kitchen.
'Careful,' he said, 'CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my gosh! You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We need more butter. Oh my gosh! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER? They're going to STICK! Careful. CAREFUL! I said be CAREFUL! You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up! Are you CRAZY? Have you LOST your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the! salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!'
The wife stared at him.
'What in the world is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?'
The husband calmly replied, 'I just wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving.'

 

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A WOMAN'S POEM:

Before I lay me down to sleep, I pray for a man, who's not a creep,
One who's handsome, smart and strong.  One who loves to listen long,
One who thinks before he speaks, One who'll call, not wait for weeks.
I pray he's gainfully employed, When I spend his cash, won't be annoyed.
Pulls out my chair and opens my door.  Massages my back and begs to do more.
Oh! Send me a man who'll make love to my mind, Knows what to answer to 'how big is my behind?'
I pray that this man will love me to no end, and always be my very best friend.   

A MAN'S POEM:

I pray for a deaf-mute gymnast nymphomaniac with
huge boobs who owns a bar on a golf course,
and loves to send me fishing and drinking. This
doesn't rhyme and I don't give a BLEEP.
The End

>>>typical male response

"Frankly, these guys are hobby drinkers: for some us, it’s professional & we are embarrassed."  

That is the take that GeekLawyer's blog has on this recent story of a couple of esquires gone wild Also known as Wasted lawyers behaving badly.  Two drunks at a drive-through that happen to be practicing attorneys. You know it must be bad if lawyers are making fun of other lawyers.

Oklahoman attorney Lewis Moon and Oklahoma County public defender David Bedford (both in their forties) got a little wild at a Whataburger hamburger joint early Friday morning (or late Thursday night, depending on how you count your days.) They were driving the wrong way  through the drive-through and then got a little worked up when Johnny Law stopped by to see what the commotion was all about.

Moon flashed a badge, claimed to be a deputy and said they could work it out. Then he spit on the real officer when he refused to let him go. He was arrested on complaints of actual physical control of a motor vehicle while intoxicated, impersonating a law officer (the badge was a "keepsake" given to sheriff's department supporters), resisting arrest and placing bodily fluids on a law officer.  Now that sounds like something you want on you permanent record, doesn't it?

His drinking partner, the PD,  was charged with public intoxication for going along with that ride that was a party.

The intoxicated lawyers kept up their shenanigans after they were taken into the local police station for booking.  A video camera preserved their rantings about how wrong the cops were to pick them up in the first place and how Moon had been shoved during the arrest and injured his elbow.  Not only did the police refuse to give him an ice pack for that, but they wouldn't take the men to county jail no matter how loudly and often they made that request.  "You don't have the balls to take us to county" Moon railed at an officer. Then Moon closed out his temper tantrum by naming all the judges that most certainly would take his version of events over that of the men in blue any way. 

After they somewhat sobered up both men were freed on bond. 

Another bad guy in black story in the news. Samuel B. Kent is a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, nominated to the single-judge Galveston Division seat by George H.W. Bush on August 3, 1990. He was recently indicted on charges of abusive sexual contact and attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a female employee, making him the first federal judge to be charged with federal sex crimes and the first in Texas indicted in recent history.

Cathy McBroom, a case manager in his court, said that in 2003 Kent made unwanted advances on her that included touching her breast, buttocks, inner thigh and groin "both directly and through the clothing." Last year he did the same thing, but also pushed her head down toward his groin. The confidential investigation by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judicial council described these allegation as being of "sexual harassment" and issued a reprimand.

The reprimand was short on details. The public, according to the Fifth Circuit, did not have a right to know. All that was said was that Judge Kent's actions "violated the mandates of the Canons of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges and are deemed prejudicial to the effective and expeditious administration of the business of the courts and the administration of justice."

The Fifth Circuit covered the rest up, placed him on a four month paid leave of absence and barred him from hearing criminal cases and sexual harassment lawsuits. He was also moved to Houston where he "reigned" as the sole federal judge.

It all could have ended a year ago with the wrist-slap reprimand. All the public would have known is that the judicial council's secret investigation found accusations of Kent "harassing" or inappropriately touching an anonymous female employee. A reporter at the Houston Chronicle decided to look into the situation and discovered what sounded more like attempted sexual assault instead of telling dirty jokes to a co-worker. The details revealed in the news articles last November led to a request by the U.S.House judiciary committee to launch a federal criminal investigation which resulted in the August indictment.

The three-count indictment charging Kent with abusive sexual contact and attempted aggravated sexual abuse comes nearly five years after the date of the first alleged incident, during which the judge is accused of attacking McBroom in a little-used exercise room at the Galveston courthouse in August 2003. According to the indictment,"Judge Kent did engage in the intentional touching, both directly and through the clothing, of the groin, breast, inner thigh, and buttocks of McBroom with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, and degrade." He also allegedly attempted to put the woman's mouth on his penis.

Judge Kent's defense lawyer Dick DeGuerin issued a statement. "Judge Kent did have a relationship with this woman, worked for him for six years never complained about their relationship, which was completely consensual." He describes the incidents in the indictment as "enthusiastically consensual" and part of a close personal and professional "relationship" the two shared.

More recently Dick DeGuerin put another spin on it. Now he says Kent and McBroom did not have a sexual relationship but 'they did have a flirty, close relationship' and there are many witnesses to show that." So that's what flirting is like in Texas? Well, everything is bigger there. And you "Don't Mess With" it if I recall correctly. They are making sure to keep the word "consensual" in the definition of whatever it was though - in his defense. The thing about "witnesses" - I don't want to think about what that could mean.

It looks like Kent is getting special attention. Last Friday the visiting judge in from Florida to oversee Kent's trial imposed a sweeping gag order without anybody even having to ask him. So once again, the door is slammed shut keeping the talk about what this judge has done in private.There was just a small window of opportunity to find out why his case has been handled the way it has. That first review board must have found some truth that McBroom's allegations were "sexual harassment" because they placed Kent on leave, reassigned him, and barred him from hearing criminal cases and sexual harassment lawsuits. But from the initial report McBroom made to her supervisor (who took no action) to the cloaked investigation and the first court hearing and now the gag order, Kent has been handled with kid gloves according to the Houston Chronicle.

Part of this special treatment includes the salary he will continue to receive unless he is impeached and DeGuerin says Kent has no plans to resign or retire.

Real people know what that white stuff is.

To KfC , in response to my previous post about the legality of cockfights>>
To be honest, I really don't trust a man who doesn't know what the white stuff in the middle of chickenshit is. And chickenshit is, in and of itself, part of life.  And dare I say, much like what you have written here.

"Chickenshit is so called -- instead of horse -- or bull -- or elephantshit -- because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously. Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war."*

chickens  August 14, 2005

I once owned a lot of chickens. I kept them in a coop and fed them every day. The hens gave me fresh eggs and I liked watching the roosters engage in their sexual antics. All chickens are sluts.

But those are about the nastiest animals I've ever seen. A chicken will eat ANYTHING, no matter how rotten or disgusting it may appear to YOU. That's what chickens do.

A neighbor of mine showed me how to skin a rooster. I sent Quinton out to feed the chickens one day and a one-eyed rooster attacked him and spurred the hell out of my boy. Quinton was only six years old at the time, and the rooster was getting the best of him.

Quinton was screaming, so I ran to the coop outside and shot that rooster with a .22 pistol. He had NO EYES after that, the bastard.

I cut his head and feet off. I cut him down the middle, pulled his guts out, rolled the skin off from the inside-out, which takes all the feathers with it, and I cooked the sumbitch for supper that night. He never spurred Quinton again.

I left his feathers, guts, head, feet and hide in the coop. It was all gone the next day, except for a few stray feathers. His brothers and sisters devoured the rest of him.

That's life on a farm.

Comments----

Do you know what that white stuff is in chickenshit?                                    
                         Posted by : GUYK on August 14, 2005

GUYK, about 50 years ago my dad told me what his mother did when one of the kids had a "Monday morning" stomach ache. She'd send the suffering child out to the chicken coop with a spoon to get a dollop of the "white stuff", then the kid would have to eat it. Cured tummy problems instantly! Miracle drug! BTW, I was told this story when I started the 1st grade. I didn't have too many stomach aches.                                                                                                                                   Posted by: Bogdaddy on August 14, 2005

yeah, that white stuff in chickenshit is chickenshit also.                                           Posted by: GUYK on August 14, 2005

The word is coprophagous: Shiteatin'. As in, "Get outa here, you, with that coprophagous grin."The white stuff in bird BLEEP is uric acid. Solid bird piss, if you will. Crapping out uric acid saves weight, which is useful for a bird. We're less efficient, and we piss liquid. Not sure whether it has any medicinal value, but the threat of having to take it would cure "fake ache" real fast.                              Posted by:  Elisson on August 14, 2005

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This post and accompanying comments are from the blog of Rob 'Acidman' Smith, who passed away June 26, 2006. Acidman was a unique voice  with a fascinating life from which to draw his stories that began with his roots in a Kentucky coal-mining town. He asked that his blog remain online as part of his legacy - check it out at http://gutrumbles.com.

* The first quote is from "Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army From The Normandy Beaches, To The Bulge, To The Surrender Of Germany" by Stephen E. Ambrose

 

Can't help but wonder about the real value of the internet.

GIGO- Garbage In, Garbage Out - pretty much the way I look at it. You can never find anything other than what has been posted there by somebody else.

Apparently though it was vital for one person to seek the requested information -maybe she was adopted and was looking for the woman who gave her up at birth. Who knows? But really - to take up valuable internet space? When there is so much more important information awaiting the click of a search engine?

Question:  How many kids does Mildred D Taylor have?
Answer:     One.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_kids_does_Mildred_D_
Taylor_have

This weekend signifies the end of summer for another year.

In the middle of cook outs and  swimming,  was anybody thinking about winter snows?

If you follow folklore you would have been.

"For every fog in August, there will be a snowfall." 

The Amish say  "August fog blooms winter's snow." To the English  "Each fog in August foretells one tracking snow."

Those old weather wives tales say for every foggy morning in August there will be a corresponding snowfall -the thicker that fog, the deeper the snow.

I haven't been keeping count exactly  but nearly every morning  here in August we have been coated with that thick as soup, cut with a knife, low ground cover mist well before daylight hours.

If you want to get into even fancier weather predicting and maybe do something like higher math, then keep up with  heavy fogs  that come in before nightfall and linger until 11 p.m. on any of the first 10 days of January because that means  winter will be worse than anticipated.

I don't think  you will see me doing that since that's like asking what the square root of x is.  You can only take an old wife so far.  I mean old wives'  tales. 

Please, save some fuel oil #2 for me. It's going to be a cold winter.

Virginia Association of Convention & Visitors Bureaus

1800 Camden Rd. Suite 107, #213

Charlotte, NC 28203

Virginia made attending a cockfight a felony, actually attending any animal fight a felony, even though lobbyists worked hard to persuade lawmakers that is was a "family friendly" sport.

Right.

The sport, still popular in countries including Mexico and the Philippines,  is onlylegal now  in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam and American Samoa. Advocates for immigrant rights say that it is discriminatory for states like Virginia to change their tune at a time when cockfighting among immigrants is attracting attention.

Louisiana was the last state to ban cockfighting effective last week. Defenders of the sport brought up nationality there, too. "The culture, the custom of the Cajun people, it's gone," said one breeder from Louisiana.

This "family friendly"event that almost always involves gambling (maybe the kids learn to count the money?) is in reality a blood sport between two roosters that takes place in a dirt ring called a cockpit. The gamecocks are bred and conditioned to be the best fighters, which includes cutting off their comb and wattle and pumping them up with drugs; basically treating them like pro boxers for the first couple of years. They fight in a small ring they can't escape, their legs outfitted with "gaffs"- metal spurs. There is plenty of information online, including some graphic video if you don't get the picture.

Hey I am a graduate of USC - home of "Cocky". Not only has the state of South Carolina long been closely connected with the breeding and training of fighting gamecocks but famed guerrilla fighter of the Revolutionary War, General Thomas Sumter was known as "The Fighting Gamecock."

The university brags about the early days of its football program, calling the early teams a feisty and spirited group not unlike their namesake fighting rooster known for its "spirit and courage."

While they acknowledge that cockfighting has been outlawed by most states for humanitarian reasons, they recognize that it is still held surreptitiously in many areas.

Just like it will always be.

Back in Louisiana one of the long time players made an insightful point about the new  statute that outlawed the sport. "They're still going to fight, they're still going to fight for years to come," she said. "They've still got cockfighting in every state. They just hide it from the law."

Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it's gone.

Especially in those states, like South Carolina, that choose not to impose felony status on the crime, So instead of facing $1,000 fines and six months in prison it's only a $100 fine and 30 days in jail.

Just for fun, here's some comments from others, at different sites.

"gl0ck0wner" says: It will be a cold day in hell before they break the bond between a man and his BLEEP in Louisiana.

Sen. John H. Chichester(Va): "How do you know that the game chicken wandering around my house there, whether I'm training it or not training it or is there as an ornament or it's just chasing people up and down the sidewalk."

(personal note - I have always hated chickens in the yard. It is not tolerated. What is that white stuff in the middle of their poo anyway?)

richlands virginia says: i've been to a coupe of BLEEP fights and i see no difference in the BLEEP fight and two grown men in a boxing ring beating each other bloody. The birds have a born in need to fight and if people want to watch these animals fight in a pit so be it. as for the betting what about horse racing and dog racing. and as for the kids they see a lot worse on tv and viedo games. and the truth be known cockfights were held in the white house.

Hatch says :  You need to put your feelings back in your pocket, we as gamefowl people are sick and tired of being picked on. We take our sport very seriously. The fighting of these birds are just part of there life. They get better care than your kids. The HSUS likes to juice there propganda up and make it sound what awful people we are. Stop using gamefowl in the same sentences as dogs , they are very differnt. WE DON'T SUPPORT DOG FIGHTING, and it's not the same!

Rebecca in SC: I guess you think you are talking to people who have never seen a BLEEP fight. well, I have. I also used to know quite a few cockfighters. It is a dirty,bloody mess. It is not humane in the least. It's just a bunch of drunks at a blood bath with usually more than booze.


Now if the guy down the road will get rid of those trashy looking coops  he keeps his game hens in - which always amazed me - that a person would invest time and money in raising fowl that are illegal to carry across state lines,or fight, or watch them fight or bet on the outcome.Hey - they can't even get around another male without going all Mike Tyson - you have to wonder how they "explain" why they keep them in the first place. 

Recently I asked what this little hairless thing was. Word on the street was it was a chupacabra. But I have been told it is something quite different. It's a pig that has overdosed on methamphetamine in the north Georgia mountains.




Yes, this could very well be one of Early Cuyler's pigs that overdosed on meth- maybe even the very one that the Sheriff tried to save with some CPR.



I am referring to "Squidbillies" which airs on the Cartoon Network during Adult Swim. If you have never seen it, well, you should.

This is what it's all about: The Cuylers are mud squids stranded in the hills of north Georgia after the water that is said to have covered the Appalachian Mountains receded. They appreciate the gun-shooting, law-skirting ways of the natives and how much drinking goes on. They operate a peanut stand and beauty salon out of their cabin, among other things (like the meth lab).

Wikipedia spells out the cast:

Early Cuyler: Not long out of the correctional facility, where he served 15 years, when he discovers he has a bastard son, Rusty. His favorite possessions are his many interesting ball caps, including one that says, "David Allan CEO, Live, Macon." He's got three teeth left, and a quick temper to match his quick trigger finger.

Rusty Cuyler: While Early was in prison, Rusty was raised by wolves. Now he's with Rusty, but misses the wolves. His two favorite possessions are his Camaro and his iPod.

Granny, the clan's matriarch, occasionally stops by when she isn't deep in conversation with Jesus Christ, her Lord and Savior. She hangs on her walker, occasionally  doing an Olympic style flip. She's super old and refuses to die.

Lil: Early's sister. She's a hair stylist and meth lab technician. She tries to mother Rusty, but seeing as she's usually cooking up meth, it's not really helping Rusty much. She likes to watch TV ("Good Times") and ventures online to post pictures of herself. Wears lots of makeup, fake nails and big hair. Smokes all the time.

In the episode "Meth O.D. to my Madness" Early buys a "hog lagoon", a range where he lets people shoot at the local porkers for a fee. But when he can't make the monthly payment of $60 to local big shot businessman Dan Halen he has Lil cook up some meth. Poor management of the pig farm coupled with cooking up the meth(should have used a closed system I suppose) results in pee raining down on the place and the pigs overdosing.

All right now, this should settle the question of hairless hell demons and "jibberish style oinkery what make no sense at' all."





Big thanks to the creators of Squidbillies.
http://www.babydeathtrap.com/ep12.html
http://www.babydeathtrap.com/screengrabs/Ep12
http://www.adultswim.com/shows/squidbillies
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one of the sites you can view the 10 minute epidsode "Meth O.D to My Madness" http://www.blinkx.com/video/ep-12-meth-o-to-my-madness/
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Man, would you read what my horoscope says today has in store for me?  Doesn't this sound great? Much better than my only plans, which are to put the garbage out for pick up in the morning.  Maybe I will let you know how things turn out.  And I hope you have a great day as well.



Cancer

An attraction for the exotic is scintillating, so an evening of cultural stimulation is in order. Pondering the higher meaning of all, conversing with others over a sumptuous feast will ensure this day is one of unusual exploration. Moments shared with a love from a foreign land can easily turn into a romantic fantasy of future togetherness.

While scooting around the net, I found this guy from Plano,Texas (another place I used to live for those who think they need to know everything about me). It's interesting - I am not vouching for him but this makes for a fun read this early in the morning. Maybe he has a point or two in these books he has written:

How to Duck a Suckah - A guide to living a drama-free life

If You Want  Closure in Your Relationship Start With Your Legs

From his myspace page: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.vi
ewprofile&friendID=91457383

"Big Boom, the Bodyguard For Women's Hearts

Boom, is a celebrated speaker, author and celebrity bodyguard. He is the man who will give you the shirt off his back in time of need, or tear the one off your back if you’re the problem. Boom is a large, well dressed man with a rich and charismatic personality. He raised himself from his pimp days of hurting women, to now protecting women as the Bodyguard of women’s hearts. Boom is not proud of his past as a pimp, but he has to reveal the seedy side of his life for one to appreciate his message. His down to earth and warm colorful message tells women how to “ducka sucka” and protect their hearts while living up to the deserved greatness of good love. Boom, “the bodyguard of hearts,” gives up his playa card and reveals the secrets men have kept from women to help them obtain the fulfillment their heart’s desire."

There's more - check it out.

Remember a while back I asked how one would go about changing the way their trailer looked? I had come across  CMT's "Mobile Home Disaster" and wondered how much ripping and resurfacing you could do before you end up with what is essentially a new trailer.

Seems like it's not so unreasonable to gut a trailer and start over with it after all. That's what the property manager of Beaver Dam Mobile Home Park in Lavonia, Georgia plans on doing with the trailer just vacated by the family that was held hostage inside it for the past three years. After a very thorough cleaning, they will have to replace the floors, insulation and wallboard to bring that place back to life. Or should I say "livable condition"?

In case you haven't seen this on the news, Raymond Daniel Thurmond was arrested for holding his wife and their four children, ages 14, 13, 12 and 9 captive inside their rented trailer.  There wasn't any food in the place, but judging from the thousands of cockroaches that were running all over the place, they could very well have picked up and carried off any thing good to eat that might have been there.

The family was discovered after the woman  was finally able to leave the house and call for help. Actually, she left the trailer after her husband told her he was stepping out,  literally. He was leaving her for another woman but promised to drop by every few days with food. She and the children ended up at a women's shelter for several days before law enforcement was called in to help.

"He was very respectable, very kind and very serious," according to the park's property manager, who lived three homes down. "You'd never imagine he would live like this." In fact none of the neighbors thought there was anything wrong - even though no one ever came out of the trailer to go to school, to throw a football around or to even take the garbage out apparently.

"A very nice guy, very quiet," she said. "He never bothered nobody." However when the rent went unpaid this month the manager sent maintenance in to look around. He wasted no time running back to get the manager's attention.  She went in the trailer and found trash piled upwards of six feet high.

"You'd never imagine he would live like this" Well then visualize, if you will, a place so filthy that responding law enforcement wore protective masks or just flat out refused to stay on the scene after their  initial visit left one officer hurling behind the trailer next door.  Beaver Dam's property manager described the smell as being so bad the first whiff you get would knock you out.  The Lavonia police officer who tossed her cookies couldn't agree more. "You couldn't breathe. I have never in my life smelled anything like that."

Video shot inside the trailer shows off the piles of trash, including Diet Mountain Dew bottles, board games, cigarette boxes, frozen pizza boxes and piles of human hair on the kitchen floor. The laundry room was filled to the ceiling with trash. There were the nasty bugs scurrying all over the place, along with piles of dirty dishes and laundry and trash that never made it outside. A plumbing leak was never repaired leaving the floors rotted and the mattresses moldy and funky smelling.

After Thurmond's arrest for rape, cruelty to children and false imprisonment, two dumpsters of filth and debris were removed and the trailer throughly cleaned. The nasty floors, wallboard and bug infested insulation are being replaced.  There was no mention of whether the padlocks found on the bedroom and exterior doors will be refurbished. It really does fit the bill of a "Mobile Home Disaster" - all the way around.

Yellow jackets have swarmed around the loaded dumpsters which now hold the stroller, car seat and toys that belonged to those children. A horrible stench still lingers. Anthills remain under a mattress in the master bedroom, maggots creep around the trailer, and roaches roam inside the fridge.

Thurmond's wife told police she wasn't allowed to clean.

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Thanks for the info from these sources:

 ww.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail


http://www.wyff4.com/news/17171253/detail.html  -    - the only video from inside the trailer is available at this Greenville SC TV news site.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU2UqolrFM9GMgOKgdm
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Copyright 2008 Associated Press.

 

There's another naked hell demon on the loose. A cryptid known as El Chupacabra - meaning  "goat sucker."  Yes, another "evil looking, rodent-like animal with fangs", the size of a coyote but hairless. It has a long snout, short front legs and long back legs. Can it be? Is there yet another naked shaved hell demon/critter amongst us?

What makes this one even more special is it can suck all of it's prey's blood (and sometimes organs) through a single hole. Maybe two.

Frozen head of a so-called Chupacabra in Cuero, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay). In the past some have claimed coyotes with mange and deformed dogs as chupacabra and other mythological animals.

On the auspicious day that passed last week, 08/08/08, DeWitt County, Texas deputy Brandon Reiter wasn't pondering his prosperity. It's more likely he was thinking about something else when he came upon the chupacubra running down the middle of the dirt road when Reiter was checking for wandering cattle that had escaped downed fences.

"El Chupacabras symbolize the fear of something that doesn't exist".

The product of Mexican mythology, the chupa is said to have a doglike nose and face, a forked tongue and large fangs. It hisses and screaches when spooked and leaves a stench behind. Sometimes the chupa's eyes glow red - and people that see it get sick to their stomachs. But in reality doesn't this describe somebody we all know in our lives?

The chupa build is said to be that of a "quasi-simian-kangaroo-reptile." The deputies described the way it runs as different than other mammals. The chupa gallops; it doesn't have the straight smooth sprint of a dog or coyote.

Usually, chupacabras are said to appear in three specific forms:

The first and most common form is a lizard-like      being, appearing to have leathery or scaly greenish-gray skin and sharp spines or quills running down its back.

The second variety bears a resemblance to a wallaby or dog standing on its hind legs. It stands and hops as a kangaroo, and it has coarse fur with greyish facial hair. The head is similar to a dog's, and its mouth has large teeth

The third version is described as a strange breed of wild dog. This form is mostly hairless, has a pronounced spinal ridge, unusually pronounced eye sockets, teeth and claws. This animal is said to the the resul to interbreeding betwen several populations of wild dogs. Some claim that it might be an example of a dog-like reptile. Guess I was absent that day in biology class when the possibility of cross species reproduction was discussed.

There have been reported sightings, and some critters have been caught (dead not alive). Out in Texas in 2004 one of the first ones found was called the Elmendorf Beast. You read that correctly. The Elmendorf Beast.

Later another Texas farmer caught one in a trap. He described it as a mix of hairless dog, rat and kangaroo. He turned it over to the state Park and Wildlife officials to identify but was later told that the "critter was caught on a Tuesday and thown out in Thursday's trash." For those following the Montauk Monster that might sound familiar.

Some people swear the chupas are aliens. There is also talk about a possible vampire connection. Even NASA has even been implicated. Seems they had a trailer house in Latin America where an incarcerated creature was being housed. (Some kind of FEMA program?) There are also reported sightings of UFOs at the same time chupacabras have been seen so some speculate that the creature is an excaped pet of alien visitors that wandered off while it's master was visiting Earth. Anyone remember "My Pet Monster"?

Just like in the case of poor Monty, the Montauk Monster, the question of genetic experimentation playing a part has arisen. There is a theory Chupa escaped from a secret United States laboratory in El Yunque, a mountain in the east part of the island when the lab was damaged during a severe storm in the early 1990s. The U.S. military have had a large presence across Puerto Rico since the 1930s with bases on the island used as Research and Development facilities. The lethal 'agent orange' chemicals were tested by the U.S. on the crops in Puerto Rico in widespread crop spraying operations, all performed without notifying local people or farmers. Also the efficacy and safety of contraceptive medicines was also secretly tested on islanders who had no knowlege of their "guinea pig" status at all. Hmmm - both defoliants in nature - could they have somehow combined to produce this end result?

Another possibility talked about involves giant vampire bats, of which a few fossils have been found in South America. Some people swear they have seen vampire bat-like wings on the chupra.

An alternative explanation is that the creatures are not real at all, and the sightings are either a product of superstition and imagination, or simply other animals that have been wrongly identified.  Ed Lavandera with CNN has described the Chupacabras as the "Bigfoot of the Latino Culture." Most biologists and wildlife management officials view the Chupa as a Urban Legend - "pie grande",  if you will.

The deputy in Texas might not agree with the "legend". He chased something down that dirt road in Texas.

So there you go. Another hairless hell beast roaming Earth. But there is no cause for alarm since the chupa symbolizes the fear of something that doesn't exist. There is nothing to be afraid of.

 

 

 

 

 

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"Make me a deal? Then let's make this real. Get the lawyers in here."

Gary Michael Hilton was extradited to Florida to face charges in the abduction and murder of Cheryl Dunlap.  He is serving a life sentence in Georgia after agreeing to a plea of guilty in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table in the death of Meredith Emerson this past January.

Florida is bound and determined to give him the death penalty and aren't making any deals with the devil. However,  I am confused over the procedural issues involved.  We know Hilton is - he wants to stay in Georgia where they treat him very nice with a private room, tv and meals.  When interviewed by a Pickens County SC sheriff's deputy about the disappearance of Jason Knapp, he expressed some concern about the looming death penalty he could face in other states. The deputy tells him something like,  "Georgia has you for your term, you get what I am telling you?" which seems to offer Hilton some reassurance that he wouldn't be dancing with Old Sparky any time in the near future.

If that is true, what effect would any verdict and sentence have in the Florida case? After spending what will be a very large amount of money prosecuting Hilton, will the jurors' voice carry any weight in what happens to Hilton?

After Florida tries Hilton, will there be charges coming out of North Carolina in the deaths of John and Irene Bryant?  Will the federal government, who has taken charge of the case, bring charges and if so, what power do they wield?  What happens to his sentence in Georgia?

I took my questions to the Death Penalty Information Center, which provides resources and guidelines to the death penalty in each state.  I am posting the replies I received from them when I asked about the procedure involved in extradition and sentencing in other states, and the effect any federal charges or convictions  might have in the case of Hilton and the effect of his life sentence in Georgia. Confused? I am.  

______________________________________August 7_________

This is a very interesting case and although it is rare, it certainly does sometimes occur that a defendant is charged in one state but then extradited to face charges in another state. States don't necessarily have to cooperate with a request for extradition; for example, Georgia could have chosen not to extradite Hilton to Florida, but for the most part they do cooperate in these situations. By extraditing him from Georgia, Gary Hilton is now in the hands of the Florida justice system, so whatever sentence is handed down by Florida is the one that Hilton will serve. He will no longer be an inmate of Georgia.

In general, a conviction and sentence handed down in federal court would trump a state court sentence. Although in a situation where a defendant receives a death sentence on the state level and a life-in-prison sentence from a federal court, the defendant would more likely than not be handed over to the state to carry out the death sentence.

____________________________________August 11___________

Georgia does not actually release the prisoner from his sentence of life in prison just because they agree to extradite him. But most likely the sentence that is handed down by the state who last has him in custody is the one that is carried out. There aren't really procedural guidelines about what state gets to carry out their punishment in a case like Hilton's where he is charged with murder in multiple states. That states can make their own arrangements among themselves about how the want to handle the sentencing. So, if Florida hands down a sentence of life in prison, they can arrange to have him carry out the full sentence in Florida without ever going back to Georgia. Or they can agree for him to be moved back to Georgia after serving out a certain amount of time. But it all depends on what the states agree on.  In the case that Florida hands down a death sentence,  what will most likely happen is that Georgia will agree to that sentence and Hilton will obviously then not be returned to GA to receive his life-in-prison sentence.

All this applies if North Carolina is added into the equation also. Remember that if one state has charged and convicted a person of a crime they are not necessarily bound to extradite that same inmate to another state to face charges there. But for the most part, states do cooperate with one another and with the federal government and allow these exchanges, making agreements on which sentence will carried out.

So to sum this up, a sentence still stands in Georgia even if the inmate is extradited and serves out the sentence handed down in Florida. It's generally the sentence that is handed down by last state that has custody of the inmate that is carried out, but this can change based on whatever agreements the states come to.

Death Penalty Information Center
1101 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 701
Washington, DC 20005
202.289.2275
Fax 202.289.7336