Etowah County Circuit Judge Clark Hall gave parties involved in today’s hearing on charitable bingo 15 days to submit additional arguments to the court before a judgment is issued.
The basis of the suit filed by Sheriff Todd Entrekin is to determine on what rules and regulations Entrekin should follow to issue a charitable bingo permit to potential developers.
If the bill is approved by the Senate and signed into law by President George W. Bush, it will prohibit the U.S. Postal Service from delivering cigarettes and certain other tobacco products, and put Indian-owned mail order tobacco businesses out of operation.
The postal service is the only remaining delivery service available to Indian mail order businesses. In recent years, the National Association of Attorneys General pressured services such as UPS, FedEx and DHL to sign “voluntary†agreements not to transport tobacco.
The PACT Act is racially discriminatory and, therefore, a civil rights violation, according to Thomas Moll, an attorney who represents the Seneca Free Trade Association, a private, nonprofit cooperative association comprised of individuals and businesses licensed by the Seneca Nation of Indians. The association he represents is dedicated to developing commerce and industry within and around the territories of the Seneca Nation in western New York state.
They have resided in this region for approximately 10,000 years. History books have long asserted that, after being tricked and then attacked for their land, the Lenape were forced to leave their region in the 1700s. Most of the displaced people ended up in Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Canada.
“We were hiding for over 200 years,†explained Ruth in a series of brief interviews with Indian Country Today.
“Even up to the 1950s, when I was younger, it was drummed into us to not tell anybody. It wasn’t as bad for me; but for my father and his father, they did suffer.†He recounted how his father and others from that generation were encouraged to “pass†as other nationalities to avoid further persecution. “We lived in fear; it was a terrible thing.â€
The father, who was not identified, left the children aged 1 to 17 at Creighton University Medical Center’s emergency room. The law, which went into effect in July, allows caregivers to abandon children at any state-licensed hospital without fear of prosecution. It was initially intended to protect infants – like similar laws in other states – but was amended to include children and teenagers.
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– Cathy
Congress To Make eBay A Rat
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Taken together, three bills in Congress would require online marketplaces and auction sites to secretly police affiliates suspected of selling stolen goods. In addition to requiring extensive record keeping on sellers using the site and turning over that information to authorities upon request, the legislation prohibits resale sites like eBay or craigslist from informing suspected sellers they are being investigated.
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“Big Brother” is watching you!
– Cathy Abernathy
weavercat@gmail.com
Indigenous grandmas nearly kicked out of Vatican
Posted: July 18, 2008
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Interesting moment in recent history.
– Cathy
Sulu gets hitched, Uhura weeps
07:47 AM PT, Sep 15 2008
Toast the groom (and the other groom) with a tall mug of Romulan ale! George Takei of “Star Trek” fame tied the knot in Los Angeles on Sunday and People magazine was all over it like Captain Kirk on that green alien lady.
George Takei and his longtime partner, Brad Altman, were wed Sunday evening in a Buddhist ceremony in downtown Los Angeles. “All I can remember is what the priest said,” Takei told People after the ceremony. “That this moment will never happen again. It’s something to savor.” Nearly 200 of the couple’s friends attended the event, which began as a kimono-clad koto player plucked out tunes on the ancient Japanese stringed instrument. Afterward, the couple sipped sake from red lacquer cups, then said their vows to one another while standing within a circle of yellow rose petals.
A Scottish bagpiper led Takei, 71, and Altman, 54, to the reception on the grounds of the Japanese American National Museum. On the way, the couple, along with their maid of honor and best man (Takei’s former “Star Trek” costars Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig) flashed the “live long and prosper” hand sign to photographers and friends.
“I was fighting back the tears,” said Nichols, who played Uhura on the “Star Trek” series. “But they came oozing out anyway. I’m so happy that they’re both able to legally proclaim their commitment to one another after spending the past 21 years together.” In May, Takei announced his plans to wed after California’s Supreme Court allowed gay marriage under the state’s Constitution.
He had been battling cancer. Wright formed Pink Floyd along with Roger Waters and Nick Mason. He wrote, played keyboards, and sang on some of the band’s biggest songs, like ”The Great Gig In The Sky” and ”Us And Them” from 1973’s The Dark Side Of The Moon. He left band in the early ’80s but rejoined for their 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason. (AP via Yahoo!) To share your thoughts on Wright and Pink Floyd, head over to our tribute in PopWatch.
Next Saturday, the Newburyport Masons will bring a genuine historical artifact to the city ‑ the Bible that George Washington laid his hand on when he took the oath of office as the first president of the United States. Tom Pulkkinen, the master of the Newburyport Lodge, says he’s ready for a question or two about secret treasures, and he doesn’t mind. He thought the movie was fun, and anything that might bring out kids and adults to see this unique detail of history is fine with him.
“This is an opportunity to see a really important piece of American history for historians, Civil War buffs or people who are just curious,†says Pulkkinen. “Whatever it takes to get people interested is fine.†And while there probably aren’t any secrets hidden in the Bible, there are plenty of interesting stories surrounding it.
According to most accounts, Washington was in New York all powdered up and decked out with ribbons for his inauguration on April 30, 1789. Everything was proceeding like clockwork until somebody noticed that no one had remembered to bring along a Bible.
MONTGOMERY — With reports of gasoline prices spiking above $5 a gallon and of gas stations running out because of motorists topping off their tanks fearing supply disruption by Hurricane Ike,…
GADSDEN TIMES | MARC GOLDEN
The price increases and long lines were caused by the anticipation of a gas shortage that could be caused by Hurricane Ike, projected to impact the Texas coast and oil refining industry locations. Some stations were limiting customers to 10-gallon purchases.
…Gov. Bob Riley on Friday declared a state of emergency that kicks in the state’s price-gouging law.
In addition to higher prices, there were reports of some stations putting plastic bags over pump nozzles, indicating they were out of fuel.
“Everybody’s going crazy,†Jimmy Erduro at a Jet-Pep station in Gadsden said Friday. He said the station was out of all grades but premium and he didn’t know when more gasoline would be delivered.
Judge blocks publication of proposed reference book, awards $6,750 in damages.
By Shawn Adler
Five months after author J.K. Rowling was nearly brought to tears while testifying in front of a New York courtroom, the woman behind “Harry Potter” had reason to smile Monday (September 
with news that a judge had ruled in her favor in a copyright-infringement lawsuit against RDR Books, publishers of “The Harry Potter Lexicon.”
In addition to blocking publication of the reference tome, Judge Robert P. Patterson awarded Rowling and co-plaintiff Warner Bros. Entertainment $6,750 in statutory damages, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“I took no pleasure at all in bringing legal action and am delighted that this issue has been resolved favourably,” Rowling wrote in a statement. “I went to court to uphold the right of authors everywhere to protect their own original work. The court has upheld that right.” At issue in the case was the U.S. legal doctrine of fair use, a complicated, ambiguous law that seeks to protect copyright holders from unsanctioned use of their work. Rowling claimed in April, and again in a recent statement, that the proposed Potter reference guide stepped over the line from acceptable usage into “wholesale theft….”
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Interesting.
– Cathy
weavercat@gmail.com
The Silver Comet Trail will link up with the Chief Ladiga trail at the Alabama line and continue to Anniston, Ala. Though the trail itself is technically finished, many construction workers are still doing final grading and landscaping work for the Sept. 27 completion date.
Once the trail opens, cyclists will be able to ride the trail for 95.5 miles from Smyrna to Anniston. PATH executive director Ed McBrayer said that’s 17 miles longer than the next longest bike path in the country, which is in Idaho.
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Okay, Anniston where’s the section to the AmTrack depot?
– Cathy
weavercat@gmail.com
The $8B USD Large Hadron Collider will go online next week, becoming the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. It promises answer to some of the universe’s most elusive questions. Among these is the nature of the legendary Higgs boson, a particle long theorized but never observed, which is thought to determine how much things weigh.
The collider, which consists of 7 TeV proton beams harnessed by electromagnets to collide within a 27 km (17 mi) circular tunnel, is expected to unlock many other mysteries such as the differences between matter and antimatter. However, despite its great promise, many people worldwide have protested the construction of the particle accelerator, believing it could end the world. Many are fearful that the collider could spawn black holes, which they worry could devour the Earth.
The creators of the LHC, some of the world’s foremost scientists, say such concerns are unfounded and convey a lack of understanding about the project. According to Professor Brian Cox of Manchester University, the public animosity is so severe that American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received death threats. Professor Cox, typically sedate, adds irritatingly, “Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a t—. ”
James Gillies, the LHC head of public relations says he’s gotten calls from people literally sobbing and asking him to halt the project. He states, “They phone me and say: ‘I am seriously worried. Please tell me that my children are safe.’” While some merely beg Mr. Gillies to convince them that the world is not going to end when the LHC is turned on, he says other take a angrier stance. He states, “There are a number who say: ‘You are evil and dangerous and you are going to destroy the world.’ I find myself getting slightly angry, not because people are getting in touch but the fact they have been driven to do that by what is nonsense. What we are doing is enriching humanity, not putting it at risk.”
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