Filed under: David Arquette , Jeff Beacher David Arquette would like to thank the little people — and not just because he’s going to be working with them on his new $25 million dollar project. David just inked a huge deal to bring Las Vegas showman Jeff Beacher’s baby — “Beacher’s Madhouse” –… Read more
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David Arquette — Committed to ‘Madhouse’
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Filed under: Roger Huerta , TMZ Sports TMZ has learned the Austin Police Department has viewed the tape of the bloody street brawl involving ex- UFC star Roger Huerta … and have opened an investigation into the incident. We’re told cops are interested in interviewing everybody who was… Read more
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The Justice Department on Tuesday notified an Arizona sheriff's office known for its efforts against illegal immigrants that it has refused to cooperate with a civil rights investigation, is not in compliance with federal law and the department is threatening to sue. Since March 2009, the U.S. Justice Department has been investigating Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office in Phoenix for alleged discrimination and for unconstitutional searches and seizures. Arpaio says the inquiry is focused on his immigration efforts. Robert Driscoll, a Washington lawyer representing Arpaio, said Justice Department lawyers “have picked the man and the department and are trying to find a violation, rather than find a violation and then seeking to vindicate someone's rights.” “They have been investigating for two years,” said Driscoll, who added that most people assume it has something with racial profiling. But Driscoll said, “If it was going on now, presumably they would have evidence of this now.” In a letter, assistant attorney general Thomas Perez, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said the sheriff's office is not turning over material that Perez's lawyers are requesting. Over a year ago, Arpaio's lawyers asked that the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility investigate alleged attorney misconduct regarding the investigation. In his letter to Arpaio's lawyers, Perez said such “unfounded allegations” are not a basis for refusing to cooperate with the Justice Department probe. In June, the office concluded that no civil rights division attorney at the Justice Department committed professional misconduct or exercised poor judgment in the probe of Arpaio's office. Perez gave the sheriff's office until Aug. 17 to turn over documents first requested last year in what the department calls an inquiry into claims of discrimination based on national origin. Arpaio and his legal counsel said a year ago that the sheriff's office would not cooperate with the inquiry. The office “has continued its unwarranted refusal to cooperate,” Perez wrote. In June, the office supplied a position statement regarding the operation of its jail facilities. The statement says “nothing at all about the allegations of discriminatory police practices,” and includes no agreement to provide access to sheriff's office facilities and personnel, Perez said in the letter to the sheriff department's legal counsel. The letter also said a limited production of accompanying documents fails to respond to the first request for material made 17 months ago. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in federally assisted programs on the basis of race or national origin. Perez pointed out that the sheriff's office signed contractual assurances under Title VI agreeing to allow examination of relevant records by the Justice Department. The Title VI implementing regulations require that every application for federal financial assistance be accompanied by an assurance that the program will be conducted in accordance with all requirements. added by: toyotabedzrock
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A bill that would give law enforcement more leeway during interrogations of people deemed a public security risk would “gut” the rights afforded to people who have been arrested, critics say. The bill, put forward at the end of last week by US House Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), appears to have the unofficial backing of the Obama administration, at least in principle. The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act of 2010 would extend to four days the period of time that law enforcement has to question a terrorist suspect before bringing the suspect before a judge. Currently, as Schiff explains in a press statement, officials have six hours to present a suspect before a judge. Statements taken after that time would be inadmissible. Schiff's bill would give interrogators four days, provided the US attorney general or Director of National Intelligence sign off on it. The bill also includes a clause expressing Congress' belief that authorities can delay reading a national security suspect's Miranda rights “for as long as is necessary.” In his efforts, Schiff appears to have the unofficial backing of Attorney General Eric Holder. In May, in the wake of the Times Square bombing attempt, Holder said he wanted Congress to modify the public-safety exception to Miranda rights to make it easier to interrogate terrorists. (The Supreme Court has ruled that Miranda rights can be overlooked in certain national security situations, but backers of new legislation say the exception is not large enough.) In TV interviews, Holder said he wanted to see an expansion of the exception to Miranda rights, and that he would work with Congress to make that happen. Schiff told Politico that he got “no formal endorsement” from the Obama administration for his bill, but Politico reports that the Department of Justice is reviewing the legislation. Blogger Marcy Wheeler calls Schiff's proposed law a “gutting of Miranda rights.” She points to comments by Ben Wittes of the Brookings Institution, who supports the legislation and said it should “focus more on suspects who pose a national security threat rather than those sought in connection with particular terrorism-related crimes,” according to Politico. To Wheeler, that suggests that many more people than just terrorism suspects could be caught in the new rules. “So can an environmental activist lose Miranda rights under this bill?” Wheeler asks. “Can Quakers?” Ken Gude of the Center for American Progress described the bill to Politico as “a proposed solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. … Whatever the political theater surrounding Miranda warnings, the FBI obtained valuable intelligence information from both the underwear and Times Square bombers under the existing rules.” (a little more @ link) added by: Omnomynous
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Mexican police arrest man hiding 18 monkeys under clothes at airport By the CNN Wire Staff July 20, 2010 4:17 p.m. EDT (CNN) — Mexican authorities searching a man with a bulge under his shirt at the airport in the nation's capital found 18 monkeys hidden beneath his clothes, police said. Investigators grew suspicious after Roberto Sol Cabrera Zavaleta, 38, became “markedly nervous” when asked what he was transporting, Mexico's Public Safety Department said. Two of the tiny titi monkeys he was carrying in a belt were dead, the department said in a statement, and 16 of them survived the journey from Lima, Peru. Cabrera has been detained as authorities continue their investigation, the statement said. In an interview with authorities released by police, Cabrera said he first carried the monkeys in his suitcase, but then hid the animals in his clothes so they would not be harmed by X-ray machines at the airport. He described the animals as “pets” and told authorities he had purchased them for $30. Titi monkeys are protected endangered species requiring a permit for possession, police said. Images released by police show the tiny creatures, many of which are tied up in pouches, squirming in a cardboard box. EthicalVegan's Note: Visit this better article, especially to see the heartrending video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10692772 [Thanks, Stoneyroad!] added by: EthicalVegan
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Mexican police arrest man hiding 18 monkeys under clothes at airport By the CNN Wire Staff July 20, 2010 4:17 p.m. EDT (CNN) — Mexican authorities searching a man with a bulge under his shirt at the airport in the nation's capital found 18 monkeys hidden beneath his clothes, police said. Investigators grew suspicious after Roberto Sol Cabrera Zavaleta, 38, became “markedly nervous” when asked what he was transporting, Mexico's Public Safety Department said. Two of the tiny titi monkeys he was carrying in a belt were dead, the department said in a statement, and 16 of them survived the journey from Lima, Peru. Cabrera has been detained as authorities continue their investigation, the statement said. In an interview with authorities released by police, Cabrera said he first carried the monkeys in his suitcase, but then hid the animals in his clothes so they would not be harmed by X-ray machines at the airport. He described the animals as “pets” and told authorities he had purchased them for $30. Titi monkeys are protected endangered species requiring a permit for possession, police said. Images released by police show the tiny creatures, many of which are tied up in pouches, squirming in a cardboard box. EthicalVegan's Note: Visit this better article, especially to see the heartrending video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10692772 [Thanks, Stoneyroad!] added by: EthicalVegan
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Earlier this morning, NB’s Tim Graham put up an excellent post on the Daily Caller’s revelations that members of the Journolist listserv group “Plotted to Bury the Jeremiah Wright Story in 2008.” Though perhaps more blatant, the Journolist effort is not the first example of acknowledged coordination on the part of key members of the establishment press. In fact, an arguably more influential example of media coordination was exposed during the summer of 2005. At the time, it was known to have gone back well over a decade. It could still be active. The arrangement’s exposure seems to have been inadvertent. It was noted in what came across as a bit of a puff piece in Editor & Publisher. The item has long since been archived, but I excerpted key paragraphs from it at my own blog in July 2005: When The New York Times on July 16 broke the story of a 2003 State Department memo that had become a key element in the Valerie Plame leak investigation, the paper scored a major exclusive. But when The Washington Post hit newsstands that very same Saturday, it had its own version of the same story. It even credited the Times for the same-day scoop. Welcome to life under the Washington Post-New York Times swap. As part of a secret arrangement formed more than 10 years ago, the Post and Times send each other copies of their next day’s front pages every night. The formal sharing began as a courtesy between Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. and former Times Executive Editor Joseph Lelyveld in the early 1990s and has continued ever since. “It seemed logical, because for years we would always try to get a copy of each other’s papers as soon as they came out,” Downie tells E&P. “It made sense to both of us to make it simpler for everybody.” Lelyveld, who left the Times in 2001, declined comment. Mark Tapscott, who is now at the Washington Examiner but had his own blog at the time, noted that : In any other industry, this would be called “collusion” and the Times and Post editorial pages would be in high dudgeon, demanding anti-trust investigations by the Department of Justice. Imagine market-rigging companies in another industry “defending” their collusive practices in court by saying, “Your honor, it was simpler for everybody.” Tapscott also reasonably wondered whether the cooperative arrangement went further. Given the lack of shame, absence of ethics, and the intensely agenda-driven nature of the Journolist campaign to stifle the legitimate debate about the relevance of Jeremiah Wright’s two-decade relationship with Barack Obama as his pastor, it’s reasonable to wonder if arrangements such as “the WaPo-NYT swap” remain onging, and, at this point, who else might be involved. Cross-posted in longer form at BizzyBlog.com .
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Journolisters’ Plot to Stifle 2008 Rev. Wright Coverage Merely Latest Example of Establishment Media Coordination
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Filed under: Mel Gibson , Oksana Grigorieva , Celebrity Justice We’ve learned the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department has one witness they really want a sit-down with … Mel Gibson . Sheriff’s spokesperson Steve Whitmore tells TMZ, “We would like to speak to Mr. Gibson,” adding his department has extended an invitation… Read more
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Filed under: Too Short , Celebrity Justice Platinum rapper Too Short was arrested for battery last night after he allegedly tried to beat up three bouncers in Boise, Idaho. According to the Boise Police Department, Short and another man are accused of punching, kicking and pushing three security… Read more
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Rapper Too Short Arrested for Battery
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TMZ has learned a detective from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department now has CDs of the conversations Oksana Grigorieva recorded. We’ve learned the detective is assigned the domestic violence part of the investigation.
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