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I think it was Ray Lucas.

My Webpage Web site identifies informants Officials: WhosaRat.com puts officers in danger, too By MATT APUZZO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Last Updated: December 2, 2006, 05:09:08 AM PST WASHINGTON — Police and prosecutors are worried that a Web site claiming to identify more than 4,000 informants and undercover agents will cripple investigations and hang targets on witnesses. WhosaRat.com caught the attention of authorities after a Massachusetts man put it online and named a few dozen people as turncoats in 2004. Since then, it has grown into a clearinghouse for mug shots, court papers and rumors. Federal prosecutors say the site was set up to encourage violence, and federal judges around the country were recently warned that witnesses in their courtrooms may be profiled online. "My concern is making sure cooperators are adequately protected from retaliation," said Chief Judge Thomas Hogan, who alerted other judges in Washington's federal courthouse. Modesto police Sgt. Craig Gundlach said he first heard about the Web site while working with the department's Narcotics Enforcement Team. Undercover investigations and confidential informants play a significant role in the narcotics team's cases. Gundlach said the site puts undercover officers in danger, discourages people from providing crucial information and lets criminals evade the law. "It's the criminals who want to know who the undercover officers are, who the witnesses to a case are," Gundlach said. "A lot of these people who come forward are concerned about their personal safety." Gundlach said WhosaRat.com does not identify any undercover Modesto police officers or informants, and does not refer to any investigations in the Modesto area. He said police have procedures to protect informants' identities, and only a few officers know who the informants are. The latest effort to identify witnesses Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson was not aware of WhosaRat.com but said a Web site identifying informants or undercover officers puts lives in danger. He said many investigations rely on people coming forward anonymously through programs such as the Crime Stoppers tips line. "Imagine if those people were afraid to come to us," Christianson said. WhosaRat.com is the latest unabashedly public effort to identify witnesses or discourage helping police. "Stop Snitching" T-shirts have been sold in cities around the country and popular hip-hop lyrics disparage or threaten people who help police. In 2004, pro basketball player Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets appeared in an underground Baltimore DVD that warned people they could be killed for cooperating with police. Anthony has said he was not aware of the DVD's message. Such threats hinder criminal investigations, said Ronald Teachman, police chief in New Bedford, Mass., where murder cases have been stymied by witness silence. "Stop Snitching" T-shirts recently were for sale there. "These kids have the idea that the worst offense they can commit is to cooperate with the police," Teachman said. Sean Bucci, a former disc jockey, set up WhosaRat.com after federal prosecutors charged him with selling marijuana in bulk from his house. Bucci is under house arrest awaiting trial and could not be reached. A WhosaRat spokesman identifying himself as Anthony Capone said the site is a resource for criminal defendants and does not condone violence. "If people got hurt or killed, it's kind of on them. They knew the dangers of becoming an informant," Capone said. "We'd feel bad, don't get me wrong, but things happen to people. If they decide to become an informant, with or without the Web site, that's a possibility." The site offers biographical information about people whom users identify as witnesses or undercover agents. Users can post court documents, comments and pictures. Some of those listed are well known, such as former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland, who served 10 months in prison before testifying in a public corruption case. But many never made headlines and were identified as having helped investigators in drug cases. For two years, anyone with an Internet connection could search the site. On Thursday, a day after it was discussed at a courthouse conference in Washington, the site became a subscription-only service. The site also has disabled the ability to post photos of undercover agents, Capone said, because administrators of the Web site do not want officers to be hurt. Authorities disagree. In documents filed in Bucci's court case last month, federal prosecutors said they have information that Bucci set up the Web site to help intimidate and harm witnesses.

My Webpage It's been reported that Lindsay Lohan is attending AA meetings. Afterwards she has been hitting the clubs till 5am with her new pals Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Good job Lindsay!

For me it's IHOP.

Article and Photo Aunt Who Injected Kids With Heroin Gets Prison MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. -- A suburban Detroit woman who admitted to injecting her 12-year-old nephew with heroin, as well as other crimes, has been sentenced to eight years in prison. The woman also admitted giving the boy and her 15-year-old niece heroin and cocaine. The 12-year-old was eating spaghetti in the basement of the home Jan. 24 when Jacqueline Ellen Vuich, 25, allegedly took a syringe and injected the drugs near the elbow, according to police. Relatives rushed the unconscious boy to the emergency room. He was treated for a heroin overdose at a Warren hospital. A blood test showed heroin in the 12-year-old's system. Vuich pleaded guilty Nov. 2 to delivery of narcotics to a minor, child abuse, maintaining a drug house and keeping a person younger than 16 in a home where prostitution occurred. She was sentenced Wednesday. Her lawyer said the woman's upbringing was a factor in her behavior. The drug offenses happened in Warren, Mich., at the house of Vuich's 47-year-old mother, Jan Catton. The mother pleaded no contest to maintaining a drug house and a house of prostitution and received two years' probation.

My Webpage Report: K-Fed was having fling with porn star But ‘they're just friends who have sex,’ says a source By Jeannette Walls MSNBC Add this to the reasons that Britney Spears had to dump her hubby: Kevin Federline reportedly was having an affair with a former porn star a full month before Spears filed for divorce in November. Federline met Kendra Jade, an “exotic dancer” and former porn star, in Las Vegas in December 2005 while his wife was visiting her family in Kentwood, Louisiana, according to Star magazine, and the two stayed in touch. “Kev and Kendra had sex at their friends’ apartment multiple times, starting in early October,” a source told the tab. “Their friend would phone Kendra and a few other girls to come hang out, and it would always end up with Kevin and Kendra heading off to the spare bedroom!” Now that K-Fed is a single guy, will he and Jade become a couple? Not likely, says the source, explaining, “They’re just friends who have sex.” When contacted for comment by Star, Jade said only, “I’m in a committed relationship.”

My Webpage Iranian Weapons Arm Iraqi Militia By JONATHAN KARL AND MARTIN CLANCY WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2006 — U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006. This suggests, say the sources, that the material is going directly from Iranian factories to Shia militias, rather than taking a roundabout path through the black market. "There is no way this could be done without (Iranian) government approval," says a senior official. Iranian-made munitions found in Iraq include advanced IEDs designed to pierce armor and anti-tank weapons. U.S. intelligence believes the weapons have been supplied to Iraq's growing Shia militias from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is also believed to be training Iraqi militia fighters in Iran. Evidence is mounting, too, that the most powerful militia in Iraq, Moktada al-Sadr's Mahdi army, is receiving training support from the Iranian-backed terrorists of Hezbollah. Two senior U.S. defense officials confirmed to ABC News earlier reports that fighters from the Mahdi army have traveled to Lebanon to receive training from Hezbollah. While the New York Times reported that as many as 2,000 Iraqi militia fighters had received training in Lebanon, one of the senior officials said he believed the number was "closer to 1,000." Officials say a much smaller number of Hezbollah fighters have also traveled through Syria and into Iraq to provide training. U.S. intelligence officials believe the number of Al-Sadr's Mahdi army now includes 40,000 fighters, making it an especially formidable force.

My Webpage Picture Woman Sentenced for Condom Explosives From Associated Press BOSTON - A former strip club waitress was sentenced Wednesday to five years of supervised release after she pleaded guilty to mailing threatening letters and flammable material, including condoms filled with a potentially explosive mixture, court documents said. The documents said Kimberly Lynn Dasilva, 49, of Hull, mailed the condoms to a television station, strip clubs where she had worked and other places, saying she was tired of being mistreated by men. In May, she pleaded guilty to mailing threatening communications and a violation of injurious articles as nonmailable. U.S. District Judge George O'Toole sentenced Dasilva to the supervised release with conditions, including not contacting victims, receiving mental health counseling and treatment, performing 500 hours of community service and refraining from alcohol. None of the condoms exploded. Dasilva told investigators she did not think they would explode.

Who cares... it's 86 out and I'm off to play in a co-ed, two-hand touch, football game on the beach. Let me know if the Bills need help unpacking their stuff.

The fashion gurus at PETA have named Nicole Richie their worst dressed celebrity. PETA names Nicole Richie worst-dressed celeb Ashley Olsen, Eva Longoria also make this year's list Nicole Richie has more to deal with than denying that she has an eating disorder: PETA has just named Richie the world’s worst-dressed celeb. “This pelt-wearing party girl is all animal skin and bones,” notes the animal rights group. “She’s an incredible shrinking woman with the heart to match.” Ashley Olsen is the runner-up. “Wearing fur does add 20 pounds,” PETA says, “but if Ashley wants to fill out her frame, we suggest using a fork instead.” “Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria also made the worst dressed list. Opines PETA: “You’d think she’d be more sympathetic to the plight of rabbits considering the way she screws around like one on Wisteria Lane.” Paris Hilton, who topped last year’s list, was let off the hook this year because she stopped wearing furs after seeing a grisly PETA video about the fur industry. But a spokesman for the group says they’re still taking a “wait and see” attitude before asking the underwear-eschewing heiress to become one of the PETA’s “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” models.

Article and Photo Police Say Mother Microwaved Her Baby By JAMES HANNAH Associated Press Writer DAYTON, Ohio — A mother was arrested on suspicion of murdering her newborn daughter by microwaving the baby in an oven. China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month-old baby to a hospital. Bail was set Tuesday at $1 million. "We have reason to believe, and we have some forensic evidence that is consistent with our belief, that a microwave oven was used in this death," said Ken Betz, director of the Montgomery County coroner's office. He said the evidence included high-heat internal injuries and the absence of external burn marks on the baby, Paris Talley. Arnold was arrested soon after the baby's death in August 2005, then was released while authorities investigated further. Betz said the case was difficult because "there is not a lot of scientific research and data on the effect of microwaves on human beings." The death was ruled homicide by hyperthermia, or high body temperature. The absence of external burns ruled out an open flame, scalding water or a heating pad as the cause, Betz said. Arnold's lawyer, Jon Paul Rion, said his client had nothing to do with her child's death and was stunned when investigators told her that a microwave might have been involved. "China — as a mother and a person — was horrified that such an act could occur," Rion said. The night before the baby was taken to the hospital, Arnold and the child's father went out for a short time and left Paris with a baby sitter, Rion said. The mother didn't sense anything out of the ordinary until the next morning, when the child was found unconscious, Rion said. Arnold has three other children. In 2000, a Virginia woman was sentenced to five years in prison for killing her month-old son in a microwave oven. Elizabeth Renee Otte claimed she had no memory of cramming her son in the microwave and turning on the appliance in 1999. Experts said that Otte suffered from epilepsy and that her seizures were followed by blackouts.

My Webpage Celebrating Their 20th Anniversary, Britain's Top Music Magazine, Q, Shares Their Favorite Playlist 1.) "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Nirvana, 1991 2.) "Hey Ya!" OutKast, 2003 3.) "Sweet Child O' Mine" Guns N' Roses, 1987 4.) "Unfinished Symphony" Massive Attack, 1991 5.) "One" U2, 1991 6.) "Live Forever" Oasis, 1994 7.) "Bitter Sweet Symphony" The Verve, 1997 8.) "Common People" Pulp, 1995 9.) "There She Goes" The LA's, 1990 10.) "7 Nation Army" The White Stripes, 2003 11.) "Song 2" Blur, 1997 12.) "Crazy" Gnarls Barkley, 2006 13.) "Angels" Robbie Williams, 1997 14.) " … Baby One More Time" Britney Spears, 1999 15.) "Personal Jesus" Depeche Mode, 1990 16.) "Like A Prayer" Madonna, 1989 17.) "Firestarter" The Prodigy, 1997 18.) "Brimful of Asha" Cornershop, 1997 19.) "Stan" Eminem, 2000 20.) "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" Arctic Monkeys, 2006

My Webpage How the imams terrorized an airliner By Audrey Hudson THE WASHINGTON TIMES November 28, 2006 Muslim religious leaders removed from a Minneapolis flight last week exhibited behavior associated with a security probe by terrorists and were not merely engaged in prayers, according to witnesses, police reports and aviation security officials. Witnesses said three of the imams were praying loudly in the concourse and repeatedly shouted "Allah" when passengers were called for boarding US Airways Flight 300 to Phoenix. "I was suspicious by the way they were praying very loud," the gate agent told the Minneapolis Police Department. Passengers and flight attendants told law-enforcement officials the imams switched from their assigned seats to a pattern associated with the September 11 terrorist attacks and also found in probes of U.S. security since the attacks -- two in the front row first-class, two in the middle of the plane on the exit aisle and two in the rear of the cabin. "That would alarm me," said a federal air marshal who asked to remain anonymous. "They now control all of the entry and exit routes to the plane." A pilot from another airline said: "That behavior has been identified as a terrorist probe in the airline industry." But the imams who were escorted off the flight in handcuffs say they were merely praying before the 6:30 p.m. flight on Nov. 20, and yesterday led a protest by prayer with other religious leaders at the airline's ticket counter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, called removing the imams an act of Islamophobia and compared it to racism against blacks. "It's a shame that as an African-American and a Muslim I have the double whammy of having to worry about driving while black and flying while Muslim," Mr. Bray said. The protesters also called on Congress to pass legislation to outlaw passenger profiling. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, Texas Democrat, said the September 11 terrorist attacks "cannot be permitted to be used to justify racial profiling, harassment and discrimination of Muslim and Arab Americans." "Understandably, the imams felt profiled, humiliated, and discriminated against by their treatment," she said.

My Webpage Roddy Piper Diagnosed With Lymphoma Cancer 11/27/2006 by Ryan Clark Roddy Piper announced via his official website that he's been diagnosed with lymphoma cancer and will begin treatment to battle the disease immediately. The cancer was found after Piper was hospitalized for the removal of a benign tumor in his back that had been causing Piper tremendous pain. As we noted earlier today, there had been great relief when the tumor was ruled benign, but additional tests found the lymphoma. Piper, on his official website, commented, "It seems like I have been fighting someone, something, someplace, in some manner, my whole life. But this fight, is one I am gonna win!" Everyone here at the site sends Piper and his family the best as he battles Lymphoma.

Beautiful area, nothing like the slums of Western, NY.

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/16067029.htm Wife throws boiling water at husband, police said By EDWARD LEWIS WILKES-BARRE - A husband suffered severe burns to his chest and face when his wife threw boiling hot water on him while he slept early Tuesday morning, police said. Jean Schmidt, 63, of 129 N. Meade St., admitted to police she boiled water and threw it at her husband, Michael, because she felt he was tampering with the hot water heater. Michael Schmidt was flown to Lehigh Valley Hospital’s burn unit for severe burns to his face, chest and arms, police said. Jean Schmidt remains jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $2,500 bail. She was charged with aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person, according to arrest papers.

Thank you, it means a lot coming from a liberal weenie like yourself.

He couldn't get up but he had plenty of energy to scream nonsense about the patriot act. You wanted a South Carolina police officer to interpret a Florida law, and apply it to something that happened in California. I told you what the law is here in South Carolina. Obviously he wasn't leaving the building as asked. Go ahead and start listing examples. I look forward to reading them. The police told them to step back or they would get tased. They moved back and that was the end of it. This kid will settle out of court for millions of dollars.

It's being reported that someone called Vick a "monkey", which provoked the response out of him. http://profootballtalk.com/VickFinger.jpg

That's how we do things in the Carolina of the South.

In North Carolina the law is/was "no penetration and no fluids". So while there was some naked girls on our servers, it was limited.

Why don't you just watch the video. The kid was still resisting arrest after he was handcuffed. I think getting tazed is better than getting rodney kinged or pepper sprayed. Did you see who this kid hired as his lawyer? Stephen Yagman, who was suspended from practicing law for ethical violations.

Rookie, come talk to me when you have managed 190,000 linux servers.

Nate and Peerless from last week.

Atlanta is on a 4 game losing streak and the fans are calling for Vick's head.