The L.A. City Attorney has just charged ” American Pie ” actor Chris Klein with 2 misdemeanor counts of DUI stemming from his June 16 arrest … and TMZ has learned his blood alcohol level was THREE TIMES the legal limit. Officials tell us Klein was… Read more
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Filed under: Sylvester Stallone , John Gotti Jr. , John Gotti , Mr. Chow , Movies Sylvester Stallone had a sit-down with alleged ex-mafia boss “Junior” John Gotti at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills Thursday night — but the only thing that got whacked was some Peking duck. The meeting comes in the wake of TMZ’s story that the two men are… Read more
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” Heroes ” star Adrian Pasdar just pled no contest to one misdemeanor charge of DUI — stemming from a January arrest where cops say he was speeding and swerving all over an L.A. Freeway. According to the L.A. City Attorney, Pasdar — who’s also married… Read more
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Editor’s Note : The following originally appeared at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood . Appearing on CNN with Anderson Cooper, film director Spike Lee implored President Obama to infuse his handling of the Gulf oil spill with more emotion. Demonstrating the astute analysis we have come to expect from the director, Lee implored Obama to “one time, go off.” Perhaps he is of the same mind as Bill Maher, that the authentic black man is one who is always armed and resorts to violence and loud-talking when things do not go his way. (Note to self: On the way home from the liquor store, I must pick up my Glock from the gun shop.) Both Lee and Maher seem to share the opinion of a great many progressives that emotion is the same as leadership and that problems are most easily solved by decree. It is no mistake that following criticism by Lee and others, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was declaring to the media that he had “seen rage from him [President Obama].” Apparently, when Obama gets angry, he clinches his jaw. Soon after the Gibbs press conference, the President showed up in Louisiana, walked the beach in shirt sleeves and then, with clenched jaw, he spoke of growing up in a culture where the water was sacred. The administration meant this to be a demonstration of leadership. However, in some quarters, this is also known as street theatre. Still seeking to enhance his “street cred,” the president then appeared on morning television, lowered his pants down below his buttocks, flashed his gold teeth, and announced that he was looking for some tail to kick. In the meantime, the oil continues to gush from the well and the resulting slick is now the size of a small state. As it turns out, sending the attorney general to Louisiana and ordering BP to “plug the damn hole” and then “going off” on national television didn’t solve the problem. If the poll numbers are to be believed, it would also appear that Americans are not impressed with how much booty a president can kick, especially if it is not accompanied by decisive action, which actually addresses the problem. Over the course of the last two months, the president has had several opportunities to take bold and determined action–to be a leader. He has dithered instead. A few of the missed opportunities: Fire-booms that were supposed to be a part of any oil-spill response were missing in action. When they were finally located there were too few to do much good. In the event of a major spill, federal responders had pre-approval to begin burning oil. They waited more than a week before doing a test-burn and then stopped. Experts have suggested that had the burning begun right away, 90% of the oil could have been burned away before it spread. Thirteen countries have offered the United States the advantage of their technical skills. To date, the Obama administration has declined to take advantage of all of this experience and expertise. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers delayed the building of protective sand-berms until they could study the issue. The administration finally approved six berms, but only agreed to pay for one of them. Government officials say they want to first see if they work. Of course, by that time building more berms won’t do any good. Two months into the crisis, Admiral Thad Allen, the U.S. official in charge of the Gulf of Mexico crisis, (or is he?), is still talking about asking Congress for a waiver of the Jones Act, which would allow foreign vessels involved in the crisis to operate in American waters. However, that may not do much good. Louisiana boat owners who have volunteered to aid in clean-up efforts are complaining that bureaucratic red-tape is keeping them out of the water. On a positive note, the president did create another government commission. Leadership of the statesman variety–as opposed to the shirtsleeves and furrowed-brow-look-of-concern variety–would have the president with a large pair of scissors cutting through the red tape. A leader scours the private sector for the most knowledgeable folks he can find and asks for their help. He gets on the phone with our allies and says, “Yes! Please send me your experts!” He says to the governors of the Gulf States, “Tell me what you need.” Leadership is putting aside political agendas and mobilizing the power of the executive office in order to solve an immediate crisis. Leadership doesn’t always need big speeches or street corner bravado. Leadership can be quiet; it can be cool and determined. But if it isn’t focused and it isn’t active, it ain’t worth the price of admission to a “Spike Lee Joint.”
PART ONE… http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/21/oil.spill.okaloosa.county/index.html?hpt=C1 By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN June 21 2010 4:30pm EDT Photo: Stephanie Neumann holds a Northern Gannet Okaloosa Island, Florida – Vacationers were the first to notice the bird fumbling in the water near this popular tourist beach last week. He bobbed and swayed differently than other birds, and didn't react when humans came dangerously close. Once he was ashore, they could see why: a light sheen of oil covered his feathers. Animal health technician Stephanie Neumann tried to rescue the Northern Gannet, but beach safety officers stopped her. Her coworkers at the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge already had stabilized birds and a sea turtle affected by the Gulf oil disaster, but officials wanted to know: Did she have a contract with BP? Could she – and the bird – wait while they verified her organization's status? “They're trying to do their job,” Neumann said as she crouched over the motionless bird, wrapped in a white sheet and barely hidden from the stares of kids and parents. “They have to make sure protocol is followed.” When brown clumps of tar began to wash up on the snow-white beaches around Destin last week, the mood in this sunny beach community shifted from optimistic denial to furious worry. Local ideas about how to protect the area clashed with plans from BP, state and federal agencies. Community volunteers struggling to cut through protocol cheered a decision by Okaloosa County to defy BP and the feds. They were done waiting. They'd use their own plans. “This is ridiculous. We'll take the heat. We would do whatever it took to stop the oil,” said the county commission chairman, Wayne Harris. After months of wrangling with agencies responding to the spill, Harris wasn't willing to stake the county's ecology and economy only on boom that captures or absorbs oil. The commission authorized emergency management teams to add skimmers, barges and extra boom, and an air wall they hope will push the oil away. They plan to layer prevention measures in the pass that connects the Gulf to Choctawhatchee Bay, where fresh and salt water mix and dolphins play. Harris said the plan could cost up to $6 million per month, which he hopes will be covered by money from BP. The county developed its oil plan in the days after the disaster began to unfold, but it was plagued by miscommunications, disagreements and bureaucracy once it left local hands, Harris said. Communities along the Gulf Coast have made similar complaints. Mayors grilled a BP official about the response during a press conference earlier this month. In Magnolia Springs, Alabama, locals went outside the federal plan and risked incarceration by adding boom and barges to protect Weeks Bay. In Pointe Aux Chenes, Louisiana, Native Americans pitched in to string boom near an island where many of their ancestors are buried. Harris said some of his county's efforts may work; others may not. “Doing something is better than doing nothing,” he said. On the Okaloosa Island beach, local response to the oiled Gannet was quicker, but the federal response had less red tape to work through. U.S. Fish and Wildlife workers arrived before Neumann's status was verified, so she left their bird in their care. “Time is essential with these guys,” she said. “Every minute counts.” For the rest of Okaloosa County, more boom and barges were starting to appear in the water. The county commission vote was “smart,” and sped up the state and federal response, said public safety director Dino Villani, who was quickly invited to an “olive branch” meeting in Mobile. Most of the county's preferred plans are moving forward, Villani said, and they'll continue to adapt as the oil moves throughout their waters. Harris said the plans would have gone forward even without approval from BP or other government agencies. “I'm sure they're cussing. I'm sure they're cussing us bad,” Harris said. “If we had waited, we'd still be waiting. Why did it take us giving an ultimatum?” Charles Diorio, a Coast Guard commander in Mobile, said some communities decided to implement their own plans once they saw they didn't top the list of state and federal priorities, if they were on the list at all. Some just wanted to act before the mess – and response agencies' attention – began to move their way. Now that oil is reaching Florida's shores, resources are shifting there, Diorio said, and there's a plan to meet with Okaloosa commissioners this week. “Now is the time to make sure these relationships are still working and strong and the lines of communication are open,” he said. CONTINUED… added by: EthicalVegan
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On Tuesday, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship spotted the 25-foot animal due south of the Deepwater Horizon site. The water the whale was floating in was not oiled. The fate of the whales, which have frequently been spotted swimming in the oil by planes overhead, has been of intense concern to wildlife biologists. Blair Mase, the Southeast marine mammal stranding coordinator for the oceanic agency, said that scientists were “very concerned” that oil was the cause of the whale’s death, but that the whale’s body was so decomposed and scavenged by sharks that it would be impossible to say for certain. There are an estimated 1,700 sperm whales that live in gulf waters and they are known to congregate particularly at the mouth of the Mississippi River, a rich feeding ground. Unlike other whales, which travel long distances, these live full-time in the Gulf and do not usually mingle with sperm whale pods in the neighboring Caribbean and Sargasso Sea. Ms. Mase said that the dead whale was almost certainly a gulf whale. Scientists will try to determine whether the whale had been swimming through oil by using a method known as hindcasting, which looks at how bloated an animal’s body is to calculate how long it has been dead, then retraces patterns in water currents to tell where the body might have drifted from. The whale’s condition suggests it has been dead for at least several days, Ms. Mase said. Scientists are also taking skin samples from the whale, which will be tested for petroleum. The results of those tests, as well as tests on its skin and blubber to determine its gender, may take weeks to process, the oceanic agency said. Government workers are also trying to rule out other possible causes of death, like a ship strike or net entanglement. “It is a relatively rare occurrence,” said Ms. Mase, who added that there have been only five or six whale deaths in the gulf in five years, “so we are studying this very carefully.” NOAA sent a research ship to the area around the Deepwater Horizon a few days ago specifically to learn whether the oil spill was changing whales’ behavior and if so, in what ways. Because whales are large and very mobile, they are relatively less vulnerable to oil spills than other sea life. However, the whales are classified as endangered and the crude oil is toxic to them. Moreover, they prefer to dive and fish right off the continental shelf, where the Deepwater Horizon wellhead is located, and their sensitivity to the large plumes of oil droplets and the enormous amount of dispersants being used to combat this disaster is unknown. Hal Whitehead, a biologist who studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said sperm whales are highly social animals that live in matriarchal groups like elephants. They communicate through noises that sound like clicks, which researchers refer to as a dialect. They have also shown behaviors that resemble mourning. In one case, Dr. Whitehead said, when a young sperm whale died, its mother carried its carcass around in her mouth. Sperm whales live anywhere from 60 to 100 years, scientists estimate. But they reproduce on average only every five years, which is why even a few whale deaths can be significant, Dr. Whitehead said. Check out this blog about the death of sperm whales in the Gulf — “Tony and the Whale,” written by a Greenpeace Oceans Campaigner, John Hocevar: http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/greenpeaceusa_blog/2010/06/21/tony-and-the-wh… “The whale's death puts the population of sperm whales that live in the Gulf at risk of extinction. US government scientists have estimated that the loss of as few as three adult whales due to the spill might be enough to cause them to die out in the Gulf of Mexico. Sperm whales produce only one calf every five years. Their slow rate of maturity and their low birth rate make them particularly vulnerable to things like oil spills – or commercial whaling, which nearly wiped out the entire species before the moratorium took effect in 1986.” (More at link) added by: captainplanet71
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More and more everyday you see on the news out of control cops abusing citizens. Cops think that everyone on the street is guilty until proven innocent, and their ways of proving you innocent; include stomping on your constitutional rights. Police officers often like to grab a hold of a situation by exerting dominance in every aspect; speech, tone of voice, body language, and overall appearance. For the average citizen this is very off-putting, their line of questioning is quick and intense and often leads to messing you up and making you look guilty of often times nothing. Once you are perceived to be guilty they will make you step out of the car and you know how it goes from there. The beat cop is the first step at putting an innocent man in jail, and often the nail in the coffin as his word trumps yours. How is it we live in a society where an obese under educated and under trained cop can tell anyone what is right and what is wrong? That is just how they treat the innocent, and all you have to do is watch cops to see how they treat the guilty. Often times it ends up with 18 obese cops piling on top of 1 relatively thin male. Then of course them telling him to stop resisting so they can add another charge, how many people do you know can move their arm with 18 people on their back? If you ask the regular Joe what rights you have when it comes with dealing with the police, you often times will hear just comply. The average Joe is not informed by really anyone that you can in essence just tell the police to fuck off. Why don’t you know? Simply because then they’d actually have to investigate instead of treating everyone like they are guilty and bending/breaking rules. I have compiled the following list of rights that you have when dealing with a police officer, state trooper, sheriff, or constable in the United States, list is subject to changes and is not meant to be taken as legal advice. 1. Miranda rights – According to the new supreme court ruling these are not required to be read to you, so if they are not you may still be in handcuffs later. However it is important to note that if you're arrested you may still remain silent as you have that right, you also may ask for your attorney. JUST SHUT UP 2. Right to search and seizure No cop has the right to search your car without asking first or probable cause has been determined. If he asks to search your car say no. If they have a warrant check it, SSN mistakes and name mistakes are common. If you last name is Johnson, a warrant for Johnsfield is bogus 3. You do not have to answer any questions a cop asks you; other than Name, Date of Birth, and Social Security Number. After that you can say I'd like to remain silent. 4. If you are truly innocent of a ticket or another violation; fight it often times they are just paid and never fought, if you fight it you can bring in all of your evidence against the officer to include his own lack of report filing and dash cam videos. 5. If you are arrested you have a right to know what for and how serious the charge. Remember this is by a street cop, if you are detained by a detective it can be up to 24 hours until they charge you. 6. Once you invoke your right to an attorney they cannot question you any further, if they do it is a 5th amendment right violation. 7. Some states take away state troopers power when they are off duty, they cannot detain you, cannot question you and cannot arrest you, be sure to check your local laws. The key to this is state troopers as legally they are only allowed to enforce laws on interstate highways. 8. If a cop asks you to step out of the car, ask why, you have a right to know why he wants you out of YOUR car. 9. If you feel he was improper with procedure file a complaint all you need is his last name and badge number. Cops do have to be friendly and courteous at all times as they represent your state/city. 10. If you have a concealed carry license and the cop asks you if you have any weapons, let him know you have a CCL and a CCW, for him to take it away from you he has to feel in danger, so be sure to hand him your license before your gun. Let him know what you are reaching for unless you like the taste of concrete. 11. Freedom of speech, you can tell a cop to go fuck himself or anything else as long as you are not threatening the officer. So saying I'm going to fucking kill you is what would land you in jail. The constitution trumps local laws. 12. Lastly remember that you are the person paying his salary, if you don’t like what he is doing no matter what it is, complain. The system never changes if you do not speak up. Cops get away with crimes and violations every day because of the lack of people speaking up and the unions. Don’t get into a fist fight with a cop as you will never win, you may beat him into a bloody lump on the concrete, but 30 of his pals are going to drop you. It is much more effective to battle him or her in court. The more strikes against that officer the harder it is for them to stay on the force. What you should take away from this is to use what you have; your brain. If you don’t like his/her questions don’t answer, if your innocent and arrested complain. Don’t lie down and take it because he has Police over his name and badge. source: http://flexyourrights.org/faq added by: Colin_McCabe
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SCRAM bracelet alarm went off following the MTV Movie Awards, but Lohan reportedly had no alcohol in her system. By Gil Kaufman Lindsay Lohan Photo: Jeff Vespa/ WireImage A lawyer for Lindsay Lohan said the troubled actress did not have alcohol in her system when her SCRAM bracelet set off an alarm on June 7 at Katy Perry’s MTV Movie Awards afterparty. Attorney Shawn Chapman Holley told E! Online that a urine test taken shortly after the alert showed a negative result for alcohol. “They did a urinalysis through Medtox labs, and it was indicated conclusively that there was no alcohol in her system at that time,” an unnamed source with knowledge of the test results reportedly told the site. “She was ordered to go right in, and today just got report back and it was negative.” Lohan, 23, who is subject to weekly random drug testing and is not allowed to drink alcohol, remains free on $200,000 bail, a figure that was doubled during a court appearance on June 8 after the SCRAM incident. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office told People that they were not aware of the negative test result. It remains unclear what set off the device, but a DA’s office official previously said that the alert was “an alcohol-related violation.” Lohan’s mother, Dina, has suggested that someone spilled a drink on the device — which is worn on the ankle and calibrated to detect signs of alcohol through sweat — at the party. Holley denied that Lohan had tampered with the SCRAM bracelet. Lohan faces a probation violation hearing on July 6 and could get up to six months in jail if a judge determines that she hasn’t fully complied with the terms of her probation. Lohan has remained quiet about the SCRAM incident and has not spoken out publicly about her recent troubles, but according to Star magazine, she recently broke that silence in an exclusive interview. “Enough is enough,” she reportedly told the magazine. “People should just leave me alone and let me live.” Lohan took pains to deny reports that she fell off the wagon at Perry’s party. “I haven’t touched any alcohol or anything of the sort,” Lohan said. “The lies that get created [are] damaging to my career.” Do you think Lindsay Lohan will ever be able to rehabilitate her career? Share your thoughts in the comments. Related Photos Lindsay Lohan Goes To Court The Highs And Lows Of Lindsay Lohan Related Artists Lindsay Lohan
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Filed under: Pro Wrestling FanHouse had the opportunity to chat with John Cena before he participated as a celebrity judge along with Tony Parker and Erin Andrews in the Gillette Fusion ProGlide “Ultimate Summer Job” Contest on Tuesday. In our interview, John Cena discussed why he’s always been a baby-face (in the literal sense), what he’s expecting at the Fatal 4-Way event, and who he believes is a rising star in WWE. We also got his thoughts on Bryan Danielson’s disputed release from WWE and what the future holds for his beloved Boston Celtics . At WWE’s newest pay-per-view, Fatal 4-Way (Sunday, June 20 at 8 p.m. ET), Cena will defend his WWE Championship against Edge, Sheamus and Randy Orton in the main event. Our complete interview with the world champ is below.
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BP CEO Tony Hayward is in the midst of a harsh grilling today on Capitol Hill, where he is testifying House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on “The Role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill.” But not long after the hearing began, Hayward got something not many expected from lawmakers: An apology. Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, apologized to Hayward for what he described as a “shakedown” at the White House yesterday. He was referring to the deal worked out between the Obama administration and BP to set up a $20 billion fund administered by a third party to pay for damages from the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday,” Barton said. “I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, in this case, a $20 billion shakedown.” He complained that “the attorney general of the United States, who is legitimately conducting a criminal investigation and has every right to do so to protect the interests of the American people, [is] participating in what amounts to a $20 billion slush fund that's unprecedented in our nation's history, that's got no legal standing, and which sets, I think, a terrible precedent for the future.” “I apologize,” Barton added. “I do not want to live in a country where any time a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure that is — again, in my words, amounts to a shakedown. So I apologize.” “I'm speaking now totally for myself,” he noted. “I'm not speaking for the Republican Party.” Not long after Barton spoke, the White House released a statement calling his comments “shameful.” “What is shameful is that Joe Barton seems to have more concern for big corporations that caused this disaster than the fishermen, small business owners and communities whose lives have been devastated by the destruction,” said Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. “Congressman Barton may think that a fund to compensate these Americans is a 'tragedy', but most Americans know that the real tragedy is what the men and women of the Gulf Coast are going through right now. Members from both parties should repudiate his comments.” According to the Associated Press, Barton has taken more than $100,000 in political contributions from oil and gas interests since the beginning of 2009, more than all but one other member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. At the hearing, Rep. Ed Markey (D – MA) said he “could not disagree more strongly” with Barton's comments. “Not only is the compensation fund that was created yesterday at the White House in an agreement reached between BP and President Obama not a slush fund and not a shakedown, rather it was the government of the United States worked to protect the most vulnerable citizens that we have in this country right now – the residents of the Gulf,” he said. “American citizens are being harmed,” Markey added. “We cannot wait, as unfortunately so many victims of the Exxon Valdez had to wait years to see those families compensated. We can't lose sight of fact that the 1984 Bhophal disaster and lawsuits related to it, were only settled last week. We have to make sure American citizens are protected.” “The families of the Gulf will be crushed financially unless this compensation fund is put in place,” said Markey, arguing that the history of Gulf families will be “permanently altered” without action. Markey added that the creation of the slush fund reflected “American government working at its best” to ensure that families do not become “roadkill” as a result of corporate practices. As Markey spoke, Barton leaned back in his chair reading what appeared to be the newspaper Investor's Business Daily. added by: TimALoftis
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