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In the 1980s and early 1990s I owned several Michael Jackson albums. Dangerous and Bad are the two that I remember the most. I can honestly say that I must have sung along to Michael Jackson albums over 500 times when I was just a preteen.

RIP MJ.

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The charges made consisted of death threats and suicide threats which she had no record of. At the time that the accusations took place, I was with my mother and my grandmother’s boyfriend who I had known for many years. He was very ill and passed away soon after. I turned myself in after we left from there that day.

Food in a jail should be subpar and not very delicious. Obviously that would be part of the punishment that you could expect, but this was far from the case as I learned. The entire reason for my 2 1/2 day “sentence” was to await the judge’s return on Monday morning.

I was not allowed a bed and was stripped of my clothes and forced to wear what I can only describe as a peice of fabric that did not cover the entire back portion of my body, unless I held the edges together at my back.

They took my glasses before I was placed in my cell and I could barely to see to walk as my vision is horrible. For two nights I was forced to sleep on a concrete floor with nothing soft for my head or body. To lessen the pain (that came after lying on a concrete floor for more than 48 hours) I ended up using a roll of toilet paper as a pillow.

A list of food that I was given in the two nights that I spent in the Shelby jail (those that I can remember)

- warm milk
- warm orange juice that tasted the way I would expect liquid vomit to taste (and smell)
- some sort of “bread” that I can’t describe
- bologna that appeared to be diseased

These were given to me through a slot in my cell door. I did not leave the cell for the entire duration of my stay.

Within hours of being in the cell I waved my arms for ten minutes in front of the camera in my cell. Once someone appeared, I asked why I didn’t have anything soft to lie on and was told that I wouldn’t be allowed to have anything because I made “suicidal threats” (according to my ex-girlfriend).

I’m not sure exactly when I got sick, but I’m thinking it was on the second day and know that it was caused by the food. I began feeling sick and within minutes was head first in the toilet vomiting for 20 minutes. When I waved my hands in front of the camera again hoping for help, none came. This happened several times when I attempted to get help.

The food was placed through the door by one of the inmates. I couldn’t see, but I could discern the color of the clothing that he was wearing when he appeared to tell me that my food was ready. According to articles that I’ve read while doing research on this subject, I can only guess that the inmates also cook and prepare the food.

Other disturbing information that I learned was that jails are provided with less than $3.00 for food for inmates (per day). That’s less than a $1 allotment for food per meal (if meal is provided three times per day).

I had never been to jail or even arrested in my life until this occurence and still maintain that I did not deserve to be there and definitely did not deserve the way that I was treated only to wait through the weekend for the judge to arrive Monday morning. If I had been found guilty of these “crimes”, then I could at least feel that I was getting the treatment that the justice system felt that I deserved through the correct channels.

You might not think so, but I call what I experienced cruel and unusual punishment.

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DISNEY LAND
Park Hopper Ticket: $94 (only online?)
Single Day Ticket: $69 (available at gate)
ALL prices here

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
2 Day for 1 (must purchase at www.universalstudioshollywood.com) $67.00

RESTAURANTS
Sambi (www.sambi.com) in Downey, CA (expect $30) MENU

FLIGHT + HOTEL through Travelocity.com $361.45
(Charlotte, NC to Los Angeles, CA)
Nov 2 - 5, 2009
Ramada Ltd Ste Anaheim Conv Center
2141 SOUTH HARBOR BLVD ANAHEIM CA US 92802
Anaheim, CA 92802
Shuttle to and from Disney Land

CAR RENTAL $49.99/day for economy car
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
LOS ANGELES AIRPORT (ON-SITE)

EXPECTED EXPENSES
Disney Land $94
Universal Studios $67
Sambi restaurant $35
Flight + Hotel $361.45
Car Rental (4 days) $200
Food, Gas and Other $150
TOTAL: ~$900

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So Popeyes in Rochester, New York runs completely out of chicken by dinner time and customers are just irate about this travesty. One customer yells, “People have kids that they [are] trying to feed for the special and you’re telling me [that] I can’t feed my kids!?”

Oh come on lady have you heard of Kentucky Fried Chicken?

Another customer proclaims, “I’m not coming back now, I’m done”.

“No chicken? Or they’re just out of chicken?”

…what?

I love it.

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Thought I would look up the symptoms and see which ones I have after going through this for a year now.

Symptoms: Nervous, moody (you may or may not notice that I’ve embraced being a real jerk for once in my life in the last year - I’ll blame that on my condition), very weak, very tired and randomly can’t so much as hold my eyes open, hand tremors, fast and irregular heartbeat (was 120-126 bpm when I was diagnosed), sweat often, hair is falling out (or just not growing), intolerance to heat, have lost 30lbs and can’t sleep (mainly due to my heart pounding away every night) among plenty of others.

I was prescribed several medications, but haven’t taken them for more than two months. I know, what am I thinking. I hate taking drugs, in any form. Just not my thing. Tomorrow I’m calling my doctor and making an appointment, this is getting too hard to deal with anymore.

Hyperthyroidism is a condition in which an overactive thyroid gland is producing an excessive amount of thyroid hormones that circulate in the blood. (”Hyper” means “over” in Greek). Thyrotoxicosis is a toxic condition that is caused by an excess of thyroid hormones from any cause. Thyrotoxicosis can be caused by an excessive intake of thyroid hormone or by overproduction of thyroid hormones by the thyroid gland.

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I’m going to attempt to order this list from best to least best, according to the time I spent playing the game, whether I played it through more than once or didn’t finish it or just the amount of fun I had playing it.

#1. Knights of the Old Republic (2003)
#2. Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (2004)
#3. Star Wars Galaxies (2003) & Jump to Lightspeed (pre-NGE)
#4. World of Warcraft (2004)
#5. Doom 1 (1993)
#6. Star Wars: X-Wing (1993)
#7. Battlefield 1942 (2002)
#8. Elder Scrolls: Morrowind (2002)
#9. Half Life 1 (1998)
#10. Half Life 2 (2004)
#11. Battlefield 2 (2005)
#13. Duke Nukem 3D (1996)
#14. Starcraft (1998)
#15. The Witcher (2007)

Honorable mentions: F19: Stealth Fighter (1987-1990)

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The plan is one day to make a seven day backpacking trip across Yellowstone. So, I’m studying a bit on survival and backpacking before I go, and slowly buying up the backpacking gear. I’ve got a gas stove the size of a credit card. That is just cool.

Update: I didn’t wear a hat and got a bad sunburn on my head. Next time I’ll bring a cover for my head. :-|

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Not all of America is ignorant enough to not understand some of this and only see the promises that Obama made during his inauguration. I wanted to believe in him and I do still have some hope left, but what Obama is doing is a mistake if he wants my approval.

Let’s “hope” that the Department of Justice is running rampant and going around Obama and that he didn’t necessarily want this to happen and doesn’t have this idea that he can do whatever he wants as President.

Realize that once you violate these laws and enter into the territory of violating American freedom and privacy, a flood gate with STRONG rushing water behind it is opened. One day we are wiretapping 1000 Americans under the disguise of “he might be a terrorist”, the next we are living in a police state.

Friday evening, in a motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA, EFF’s litigation against the National Security Agency for the warrantless wiretapping of countless Americans, the Obama Administration’s made two deeply troubling arguments.

First, they argued, exactly as the Bush Administration did on countless occasions, that the state secrets privilege requires the court to dismiss the issue out of hand. They argue that simply allowing the case to continue “would cause exceptionally grave harm to national security.” As in the past, this is a blatant ploy to dismiss the litigation without allowing the courts to consider the evidence.

It’s an especially disappointing argument to hear from the Obama Administration. As a candidate, Senator Obama lamented that the Bush Administration “invoked a legal tool known as the ’state secrets’ privilege more than any other previous administration to get cases thrown out of civil court.” He was right then, and we’re dismayed that he and his team seem to have forgotten.

Sad as that is, it’s the Department Of Justice’s second argument that is the most pernicious. The DOJ claims that the U.S. Government is completely immune from litigation for illegal spying — that the Government can never be sued for surveillance that violates federal privacy statutes.

This is a radical assertion that is utterly unprecedented. No one — not the White House, not the Justice Department, not any member of Congress, and not the Bush Administration — has ever interpreted the law this way.

Previously, the Bush Administration has argued that the U.S. possesses “sovereign immunity” from suit for conducting electronic surveillance that violates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). However, FISA is only one of several laws that restrict the government’s ability to wiretap. The Obama Administration goes two steps further than Bush did, and claims that the US PATRIOT Act also renders the U.S. immune from suit under the two remaining key federal surveillance laws: the Wiretap Act and the Stored Communications Act. Essentially, the Obama Adminstration has claimed that the government cannot be held accountable for illegal surveillance under any federal statutes.

Again, the gulf between Candidate Obama and President Obama is striking. As a candidate, Obama ran promising a new era of government transparency and accountability, an end to the Bush DOJ’s radical theories of executive power, and reform of the PATRIOT Act. But, this week, Obama’s own Department Of Justice has argued that, under the PATRIOT Act, the government shall be entirely unaccountable for surveilling Americans in violation of its own laws.

This isn’t change we can believe in. This is change for the worse.Friday evening, in a motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA, EFF’s litigation against the National Security Agency for the warrantless wiretapping of countless Americans, the Obama Administration’s made two deeply troubling arguments.

First, they argued, exactly as the Bush Administration did on countless occasions, that the state secrets privilege requires the court to dismiss the issue out of hand. They argue that simply allowing the case to continue “would cause exceptionally grave harm to national security.” As in the past, this is a blatant ploy to dismiss the litigation without allowing the courts to consider the evidence.

It’s an especially disappointing argument to hear from the Obama Administration. As a candidate, Senator Obama lamented that the Bush Administration “invoked a legal tool known as the ’state secrets’ privilege more than any other previous administration to get cases thrown out of civil court.” He was right then, and we’re dismayed that he and his team seem to have forgotten.

Sad as that is, it’s the Department Of Justice’s second argument that is the most pernicious. The DOJ claims that the U.S. Government is completely immune from litigation for illegal spying — that the Government can never be sued for surveillance that violates federal privacy statutes.

This is a radical assertion that is utterly unprecedented. No one — not the White House, not the Justice Department, not any member of Congress, and not the Bush Administration — has ever interpreted the law this way.

Previously, the Bush Administration has argued that the U.S. possesses “sovereign immunity” from suit for conducting electronic surveillance that violates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). However, FISA is only one of several laws that restrict the government’s ability to wiretap. The Obama Administration goes two steps further than Bush did, and claims that the US PATRIOT Act also renders the U.S. immune from suit under the two remaining key federal surveillance laws: the Wiretap Act and the Stored Communications Act. Essentially, the Obama Adminstration has claimed that the government cannot be held accountable for illegal surveillance under any federal statutes.

Again, the gulf between Candidate Obama and President Obama is striking. As a candidate, Obama ran promising a new era of government transparency and accountability, an end to the Bush DOJ’s radical theories of executive power, and reform of the PATRIOT Act. But, this week, Obama’s own Department Of Justice has argued that, under the PATRIOT Act, the government shall be entirely unaccountable for surveilling Americans in violation of its own laws.

This isn’t change we can believe in. This is change for the worse.

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Source: (The Electronic Frontier Foundation) EFF

Make no mistake. The EFF does not BS. The EFF is not Theonion.com.

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