Texas Legislature Video Just watch the video in the link. contained in this post. Its too difficult to put into words. These fucking rat bastards are stealing votes knowing that its being caught on camera …. and they don’t care!!! Its amazing. And we all sit around and wonder why this country is falling apart.

The irony here is that during the very legislative vote you will see in the video, they are stealing votes from each other while trying to make it illegal to vote twice in Texas. Thats the bill they are voting on!! As you will witness first hand, some of them are voting more than 5 times!!! JD

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Tania Head told her story of survival again and again, quietly and memorably, so that the atrocities of 9/11 would not be forgotten. She told it to me in the summer of 2004, over coffee in Times Square. Head was on the 78th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when a plane struck the building, she said. The fire burned her terribly. She made it out, only to discover that she’d left her life behind: her fiance was in the North Tower, she said, and he had died. She did not dwell on the graphic. She seemed, more than anything else, fragile, and nothing less than convincing.

On Thursday, however, a front-page New York Times story raised many doubts about the veracity of Head’s story. Among other things, the family of her supposed fiance does not believe the relationship ever existed, the story claims. And her supposed employer has no record of her, either, according to the Times.

Many questions remain. Was Head in the Trade Center at all that day? Was she in fact injured in the fire, and did she in fact wake up five days later in a hospital bed? Did she know the man she said she was going to marry, and did she really return a wedding ring to the widow of another man who perished after helping her escape? Where does the truth begin? Head, who did not cooperate with the Times other than to say she did nothing illegal, did not respond to my e-mail request for comment. Nor did her lawyer. But in talking with other survivors who knew her, and looking back on my own notes, I am struck by the paradox of her case. After 9/11, there were thousands of stories of suffering, each exquisitely painful. But Head’s tragedy was different. It was a story of surviving one Tower — only to be metaphorically crushed by another. And ironically, it may have been the unimaginable scale of her suffering that gave her the freedom to tell her story any way she wanted, without the burdens of consistency or specificity. Then again, that could all be hindsight talking.

The first and most perplexing question is why. If all or even just some of Head’s story was not true, what was her motive? According to the Times’ story and my own reporting, it appears Head received no financial reward from her story. In fact, she sometimes spent her own money on events for the nonprofit World Trade Center Survivors’ Network, one of the largest support groups for survivors — of which she was the president until earlier this week, when the board voted her out. Sometimes other group members felt guilty because she did so much and asked for so little in return. “She’s a dynamo,” one survivor told me about Head back in 2004. I remember a group of survivors applauding her at a support-group meeting, so grateful for all the work she had done.

After every disaster, a small number of people pretend to be victims. Usually, they do it for money; but not always. After 9/11, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office charged 539 people with offenses related to the Trade Center collapse. The charges ran the gamut from trespassing to shoplifting to breaking and entering. But a majority of the arrests were for fraud. “People who tried to get benefits they were not entitled to,” explains spokesperson Barbara Thompson. “Employees who said they’d lost their jobs; they hadn’t. People who said they’d lost spouses; they didn’t.” In all, 76% of the criminal charges resulted in convictions.

In a way, the most disturbing cases were the ones in which money played no role, in which the impersonator craved nothing so much as our compassion. Sugeil Mejia, a young mother of two, told police two days after the attacks that her husband was a Port Authority police officer — and he was trapped in the pile. He had just called on his cell phone, she said. A police officer raced her down to Ground Zero, and rescue workers put their lives at risk searching for the man in the unstable rubble. Then Mejia vanished. Four months later, she pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment in Manhattan Supreme Court and was sentenced to three years in prison.

“Why do people do this? There’s an obvious benefit,” says Elizabeth Loftus, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Irvine who is famous for her critical work on the recovered memories of alleged sexual-abuse victims. “It may not be immediately financial. But certainly being bathed in a love bath of attention and affection is a lot of benefit for a lot of people.”

We have all seen, on a much smaller, almost incomparable scale, this yearning to be part of 9/11. Don’t we all have relatives or friends who insisted, for years, on telling their own somewhat less-than-impressive 9/11 stories at dinner parties, about how they’d been in the Trade Center themselves — in 1989; or how they’d watched CNN and felt that something awful was happening and called their husbands at work — in Chicago. If we’re honest, we’ll admit that many of us have those stories ourselves. We cling to them, in a slightly undignified but somehow understandable wish to feel connected to the defining event of our time. To share in the plot line, just as we shared in the grief, to be part of something bigger than ourselves.

In my interview with Head, she talked a lot about how the survivors of the collapse had been overlooked by the media. It was something many survivors talked about, but she was particularly focused on the unfairness. “What hasn’t been acknowledged is that even if you weren’t injured or didn’t lose someone, you went through something people cannot understand. You saw things,” she said. She also talked about how survivors could help grieving family members. She talked of meeting a woman who had lost her son on 9/11. “She didn’t understand why her son hadn’t evacuated,” Head said. “I was close to where her son was, and I was able to run after her. I was able to tell her.”

If Head’s story is not true, it is a terrible betrayal of trust. It is hard to imagine a satisfying explanation. But the other nagging mystery about this story is not about Head at all. It’s about me and the dozens of reporters, fellow survivors and audiences who listened to Head — and truth be told, virtually every 9/11 survivor — without the least bit of skepticism. Why didn’t we sense something amiss?

I was extraordinarily cautious when I interviewed Head, I remember. People around her — other survivors and support-services providers— were very protective of her. They had warned me to be gentle with her, not to ask too much. One of them had actually asked me to leave an event when this person (mistakenly) thought I was questioning her without permission. That had never happened to me before. So when we finally sat down for our interview, I let Head talk. I didn’t, to my regret, ask for specifics. I didn’t want to push her to talk about things she wasn’t ready to discuss. As a result, I never wrote about her extensively. But I did quote her in a TIME story about survivors three years ago. And I must admit I never once doubted the veracity of what she told me. The truth is, I have never called the alma mater of 9/11 victims to make sure they are who they say they are. There is to this day no complete public database listing the survivors, partly due to privacy concerns. For the same reason, it is not easy to confirm that a person has received medical attention at a hospital. Still, I could have been less credulous. I wanted, like most reporters interviewing victims of trauma, to get what I needed, without making things worse.

Her fellow survivors gave Head a wide berth, too. “All of us are so deferential to each other,” says Peter Miller, a financial planner who was on the 65th floor of the North Tower on 9/11 and who has worked closely with Head over the years through survivor events. “We just assume we’re always on the brink of getting emotional.” He remembers noticing one inconsistency in Head’s story: Miller was there when I met Head for coffee three years ago. During our conversation, he heard Head refer to her fiance. Years later, while conducting tours of Ground Zero alongside Head, he heard that she had called this man her husband. “I just thought, ‘That’s odd.’” He asked her about it, he says. “She said, ‘Oh, yeah, we did get married.’”

After that, Miller’s recollection is hazy. “I may have asked, ‘Well, then why did you refer to him as your fiance?’ But you don’t want to press these things. I don’t even remember what her response was, if I did indeed press her. I was sort of of the mindset, ‘whatever makes her feel better.’ Her story was just so much more horrible than anything else.”

Four days before the Times story came out, Head called Miller to tell him that the article was in the works — and that it was an invasion of privacy and untrue, Miller says. Having now read the story, he says he finds it to be fair. Beyond that, he does not know what to think. He hopes clarity will come. “Beneath everything — and above everything — there is always the truth,” he says in a resigned and sad voice. “There is something such as the truth, and it will, thank God, get out.”

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I knew that stupid fucking O.J. would go back where he belongs. JAIL!!! The Juice thinks that because that memoribilia was at one time his, he can simply take it back. Fucking retard.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — News conferences, a slew of felony charges, a perp walk in handcuffs and detention in a holding cell without bail — it’s clear authorities aren’t giving O.J. Simpson any celebrity breaks.

Police insist such treatment is prudent for a man whose name is synonymous with a slow-speed chase from officers in a white Ford Bronco. But legal experts are questioning whether Simpson is being singled out for extra-tough prosecution in his casino-hotel robbery case as payback for his murder acquittal more than a decade ago.

“It is regrettable that America has not gotten over the O.J. Simpson criminal case,” said Carl Douglas, who was co-counsel with Johnnie L. Cochran in Simpson’s 1995 criminal trial.

“The fact that he is being held without bail seems unfair and over the top,” Douglas said. “O.J. has always been able to satisfy his obligations to the court. He cooperated with the authorities in this case. He is not a flight risk. And he certainly can’t hide anywhere.”

At least six plainclothes policemen, accompanied by a handful of hotel security guards, arrested Simpson on Sunday at The Palms casino-hotel. He was accused of leading an armed heist of sports memorabilia. Simpson said he was only reclaiming possessions that had been stolen.

“By our standard, there was no major show of force,” Sgt. John Loretto said.

Simpson was handcuffed and taken in a police vehicle to the Clark County Detention Center to be booked on six felonies, including two counts of robbery with use of a deadly weapon. If convicted of the charges, he could get up to 30 years in state prison on each robbery count alone.

Simpson became inmate number 2648927.

Justice of the Peace Douglas Smith, who made the decision to hold Simpson without bail, was “concerned about the flight factor” and because Simpson had no ties to the Las Vegas area, said Judge Nancy Oesterle, who addressed reporters on Monday.

Arraignment was set for Wednesday. Yale Galanter, Simpson’s lawyer, said he was preparing a bond motion and will ask for Simpson’s release on his own recognizance.

“If it was anyone other than O.J. Simpson, he would have been released by now,” he said.

“You can’t rob something that is yours,” Galanter said. “O.J. said, ‘You’ve got stolen property. Either you return it or I call the police.’”

Police said they were giving Simpson no special treatment — other than keeping him separated from the rest of the general prison population for his own protection.

In June 1994, Los Angeles police gave Simpson a day and a time to turn himself in to face allegations he had killed ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. It was a courtesy, said then-prosecutor Marcia Clark, often extended to celebrities or those with no criminal record.

Instead, Simpson jumped in an SUV, apparently with a loaded gun and ready to commit suicide, and led police and media helicopters on a dramatic, televised chase before surrendering.

“The Bronco chase was a nightmare,” said Clark, now a special correspondent for “Entertainment Tonight.” “Certainly he has abused that courtesy, so I would not expect anyone to extend it to him again.”

In a clear misstatement, Capt. James Dillon said Friday at a news conference that, because Simpson was involved, police were being extra careful to conduct “a thorough, biased and competent investigation.”

But some think it might have been more than a slip of the tongue.

Jerry Reisman, a New York lawyer who represented O.J. Simpson in the early 1990s in business and real estate matters, said the public and law enforcement “are looking for some sort of conviction for those who want justice for Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. Everyone wants to be the one that gets him.”

Experts also raised questions about the decision to release a man who police said carried a gun in the alleged holdup of two collectors at a Palace Station casino hotel room.

Walter Alexander, 46, of Mesa, Ariz., was released without bail, despite facing charges almost identical to Simpson’s. Legal experts said that may indicate his testimony could be key to convicting Simpson.

On Monday, another man suspected in the alleged heist surrendered, police said. Clarence Stewart, 35, of Las Vegas, lived at one of the residences that police searched early Sunday to recover some of the memorabilia. Stewart turned over some of the missing goods, including footballs bearing autographs, Lt. Clint Nichols said.

Stewart was held on six felony charges: two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, burglary with a deadly weapon and conspiracy. He was awaiting a bail decision.

An apparent audiotape of O.J. Simpson’s standoff with men he accused of stealing his memorabilia begins with the former NFL star demanding, “Don’t let nobody out of here.”

“Think you can steal my s— and sell it?” the voice identified as Simpson’s said, in a recording released by celebrity news Web site TMZ.com.

A big hurdle for prosecutors will also be determining who owned the memorabilia — everything from cleats worn by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana, to autographed baseballs, and Simpson’s Hall of Fame certificate.

Bruce Fromong, one of the sports memorabilia dealers who said he was robbed, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday that the items did not belong to Simpson.

“If you’re asking did they once belong to him, yes, they did,” Fromong said. “But these were things that belonged to him a long time ago.”

In 1997, a civil jury in Santa Monica returned $33.5 million in judgments against Simpson in a wrongful-death lawsuit by the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

David Cook, an attorney for Goldman’s father, Fred Goldman, said he intended to file requests in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday to obtain ownership of the seized sports memorabilia for sale to satisfy the judgment.

“We’re going to presume that the bulk of the stuff is probably in police custody,” Cook said Monday by telephone from San Francisco. He said other key items were a gold Rolex watch and the suit that he Simpson wore on the day he was acquitted.

“Assuming that this case is resolved one way or another, at the end of the case, the stuff will never go back to Mr. Simpson,” Cook vowed. “He’s going to walk out of Clark County empty-handed.”

Thomas Mesereau Jr., the defense attorney who represented Michael Jackson in a high-profile trial two years ago, said of the Simpson arrest: “This is the kind of case that will test how fair and professional our legal system is. When you have such a groundswell of dislike for someone, you have to make sure they are treated like anyone else.”

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How great would it be if OJ was convicted of strong armed robbery? He denied using a weapon? Hey moron!!! It’s against the law to steal even if the stuff you are stealing was at one time yours!! What a retard. Fucking OJ man …. The guy just doesn’t get it. Being black doesn’t make you above the law. That dumb ass is going to do time now.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) – O.J. Simpson was under investigation Friday in an alleged armed robbery at a casino hotel room involving sports memorabilia, but the former football star denied breaking into the room or carrying a weapon. Simpson told The Associated Press he went to the room to get memorabilia that was stolen from him. The incident was reported as an “armed robbery” involving firearms, Las Vegas Metro Police Capt. James Dillon told a press conference.

“The victim stated that one of the suspects involved in the robbery was O.J. Simpson,” he said.

“We have reported from the victim that there were weapons involved,” Dillon said, but he added that no firearms had been recovered and he stressed that the investigation was in its “infancy.”

No charges had been filed and no one was in custody, he said.

Dillon said it could take several days to gather relevant information, and he said preliminary information being released was “based on the few facts that we are aware of, or that we’ve determined to be at this time.”

Simpson, who was questioned immediately after the incident, was cooperating, Dillon said. The captain said a formal interview was being arranged.

Simpson told the AP there was no armed robbery and no guns were involved.

Simpson said he was conducting a sting operation to collect his belongings when he was led to the room at the Palace Station casino. Police said he was a suspect in a break-in at the hotel.

“Everybody knows this is stolen stuff,” Simpson said by phone while still in Las Vegas on Friday. “Nobody was roughed up.”

The Heisman Trophy winner, ex-NFL star and actor lives near Miami and has been a tabloid staple since his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman were killed in 1994. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges, but a jury later held him liable for the killings in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Many of Simpson’s sports collectibles, including his Heisman Trophy, were seized under court order and auctioned to pay some of the $33.5 million judgment awarded to the Goldman family and the estate of Nicole Brown Simpson.

O.J. Simpson said that auction house owner Tom Riccio called him several weeks ago to alert him that collectors were quietly trying to peddle his belongings.

Simpson, who was in Las Vegas for a friend’s wedding, arranged to meet Riccio, who set up a meeting with collectors under the guise that he had a private collector interested in buying Simpson’s items.

“We walked into the room,” Simpson said. “I’m the last one to go in and when they see me, it’s all ‘Oh God.”

Simpson said he was accompanied by several men he met at a wedding cocktail party and they took the collectibles, which included his Hall of Fame certificate and a picture of the running back with J. Edgar Hoover.

Simpson said he wasn’t sure where the items were taken. Dillon said some of the items had been recovered. He did specify which items were located.

The break-in was reported late Thursday night, police spokesman Jose Montoya said.

“When they talked to him, Simpson made the comment that he believed the memorabilia was his,” Montoya said. “We’re getting conflicting stories from the two sides.”

One of the collectors in the room was Alfred Beardsley, a real estate agent and longtime collector of Simpson memorabilia, some of which he has been ordered to turn over as part of the Goldman’s lawsuit.

“I’m OK. I’m shaken up,” Beardsley told The AP by phone, but wouldn’t comment further, citing the police investigation.

Simpson was released after he and several associates were questioned, but he is considered a suspect in the case, Montoya said. He is believed to be in Las Vegas.

“We don’t believe he’s going anywhere,” he said.

The district attorney’s office will decide whether to pursue charges, but had not received police paperwork by Friday morning, an office assistant said.

On Thursday, the Goldman family published a book about the killings that Simpson had written under the title, “If I Did It,” about how he would have committed the crime had he actually done it. After a deal for Simpson to publish it fell through, a federal bankruptcy judge awarded the book’s rights to the Goldman family, who retitled it “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.”

Fred Goldman, Ron’s Goldman’s father, defended the family’s decision to publish the book. He said he was stunned by the news from Las Vegas.

“I’m overwhelmed and amazed,” Fred Goldman told The Associated Press. “If it turns out as it is currently being played, I think this shows more of who he is. He is proving over and over and over again that he thinks he can do anything and get away with it.”

Goldman’s lawyer, David Cook, said he would seek a court order on Tuesday to get whatever items Simpson took in Las Vegas.

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Was it just me or did Britney Spears VMA appearance look like William Hung’s drunken sister trying out for American Idol? She looked pathetic, at times seeming almost lethargic. Britney looked like she needed a nap after burning three skunk bud fatties. She did this thing where she was supposed to fall back and be caught by a bunch of male dancers but she was so fucking fat that they couldn’t lift her off the ground. One of the dancers appeared to bust a hernia.

Britney was wearing a panty and bra combo that only accentuated her girth and there appeared to be some extra appendages growing in places where they shouldn’t be growing I.E. a penis. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, she looked like she forgot the words to her own song which wouldn’t be a problem EXCEPT SHE WAS LIP-SYNCING!!! She looked like a younger version of Anna Nicole Smith on LSD. Shes about three rehabs away from suicide. It was obvious that she was sucking in her massive gut and her thighs looked like untapped kegs of beer and her hair looked like wire from a bailing machine. JD

You can see the Youtube video here

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How fucking stupid are the Democrats? They are having debates and pandering to illegal aliens that can’t even vote! Are they truly the party of idiots, or what? And they are crowing about 4.7 million viewers? Out of that 4.7 million, I bet maybe three of them can legally vote and out of that three, only one of them is smart enough to vote for the democratic candidate in the first place! Its amazing how stupid the national media is for even covering it as news in the first place. JD

NEW YORK The unprecedented Spanish-language Democratic presidential forum on Univision Sunday night brought up some of the most important issues for the Hispanic electorate: education, healthcare, immigration, Latin American foreign policy and the war in Iraq.

More than 4.6 million viewers tuned into the live “Destino 2008″ forum, according to Nielsen Fast National Ratings, via a Univision statement. That’s compared to 4.3 million viewers who previously watched the English-language debates on all the major networks, ABC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. Univision’s average audience level almost doubled the audience from previous presidential debate telecasts, 1.3 million versus 655,000.

The forum also was broadcast on RadioCadena Univision, (the AM radio network) and streamed on Univision.com. Of the roughly 43 million Latinos in the United States, some 17 million Hispanic voters can tip the scale as to who will reach the White House.

The 90-minute gathering, which included Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.), Sen. Christopher Dodd (Conn.), former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), former Sen. Mike Gravel (Ala.), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio), Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Gov. Bill Richardson (N.M.), was moderated by Univision network anchors Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas from the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Fla. Sen. Joe Biden (Del.), also running for president, reportedly skipped the event to prepare for a Foreign Relations Committee hearing this week in Washington.

From the outset, the respondents dismissed the idea that appearing on the Spanish-language network would pose a risk to their run for the presidency, instead they focused on whether they would deal with immigration reform in their first year in office (a resounding yes) and if they would support Spanish as the official second language of the United States (responses unclear).

While responding to whether Spanish should be promoted as a second national language, Gov. Richardson, of Mexican descent and the self-acknowledged first Latino to run for president, disregarded the requirement that all candidates respond in English (the forum was conducted in Spanish, with English closed captions available) to keep all the candidates on an equal playing field, but Ramos quickly reminded him of the agreement.

Richardson said, “I was under the impression that in this debate Spanish was going to be permitted because I’ve always supported Univision all my career, but I’m disappointed today that 43 million Latinos in this country, for them not to hear one of their own speak Spanish, is unfortunate. In other words, Univision is promoting English-only in this debate.”

The Democratic presidential forum, as well as the weekly Sunday morning Al Punto, a long-discussed Meet the Press-type show that debuted yesterday morning and hosted by the ubiquitous political journalist Jorge Ramos, marks the beginning of long-range plans to cover the presidential race on Univision, Joe Uva, CEO of the multimedia broadcast company, said last week.

“Univision will be announcing later this fall a coverage plan and a lineup of political programs that we will be producing into 2008, from the primaries right through the conventions to the general election, all the way to inauguration in 2009,” he said.

While none of the Democratic candidates aired any political spots during the forum, Uva expects to see campaign ad spending step up on both local and national levels next year.

Regularly scheduled spots, including Wal-Mart, Pantene and a rash of Univision programming promotions, ran during the forum.

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Note to all gay people: This is America, and contrary to what you might think, people are not required by law to tolerate your behavior. Personally, I don’t care what you do but there are some people that do and that’s their prerogative. Perhaps you should collectively spend more time worrying about what you do and less about what others think.

NEW YORK — Jerry Lewis dropped an anti-gay slur _ the same one that got Isaiah Washington of “Grey’s Anatomy” in trouble _ during the 18th hour of his annual Labor Day Telethon.

The 81-year-old showman _ prowling about the stage during the live telecast Monday in Las Vegas _ was goofing around and dodging his cameraman, then went into a ramble about imaginary family members.

In this photo released by the Muscular Dystrophy Association, overcome with emotion, Jerry Lewis ends his 42nd Annual Labor Day Telethon with a record-setting $63.7 million in donations and pledges Monday, Sept. 3, 2007, in Las Vegas.

“Oh, your family has come to see you,” he said, speaking to the camera and gesturing toward thin air.

“You remember Bart, your older son,” he said, and motioning toward another unseen character, “Jesse, the illiterate f—–.

“No,” Lewis said, quickly stopping himself before continuing.

Monday’s monologue prompted a critical statement Tuesday from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Neil Giuliano, GLAAD president, called Lewis’ use of the term “simply unacceptable.”

“It also feeds a climate of hatred and intolerance that contributes to putting our community in harm’s way,” Giuliano said.

A spokeswoman for Lewis referred calls to the Lewis’ office at Jerry Lewis Films, based in Las Vegas. A publicist at the office did not immediately respond Tuesday to a phone message by The Associated Press.

Lewis’ telethon, in its 42nd year, set a new record by raising $63.7 million to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association, topping last year’s event by $3 million.

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