A User's Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana enthusiast back in high school and college. Excerpts from David Maraniss' Barack Obama: The Story dealing with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he attended Punahou School in Honolulu and Occidental College in Los Angeles. He inhaled. A lot. posted May 25, 2012 8:29am EDT Continue reading →
First, thoughts and prayers for the victim and their family. Another lesson in appreciating every day. We all get caught up in the routine and none of us know when the Man upstairs is going to turn that page with our name on it. Thoughts also to the members and family of the Leithsville Fire Co. The only thing worse than loosing a Brother or Sister Firefighter is loosing our firehouse home, because usually our firehouse is our second home. Continue reading →
First, thoughts and prayers for the victim and their family. Another lesson in appreciating every day. We all get caught up in the routine and none of us know when the Man upstairs is going to turn that page with our name on it. Thoughts also to the members and family of the Leithsville Fire Co. The only thing worse than loosing a Brother or Sister Firefighter is loosing our firehouse home, because usually our firehouse is our second home. Continue reading →
VALPARAISO | Police are trying to make contact with a gunman inside a Valparaiso real estate office holding an unknown number of people hostage, officials said.Dozens of police officers from a host of different agencies are positioned with guns drawn behind cars and buildings outside Prudential Executive Group Real Estate, 2612 N. Calumet Ave. Police and fire crews have the intersection of Calumet Avenue, Roosevelt Road and Vale Park Road closed as a precaution.FBI agents entered the building just after noon.According to Valparaiso Police Sgt. Mike Grennes, officers were called to the building just before 10 a.m. for a report of shots fired inside the building. Grennes said those reports had not been confirmed as of noon.Grennes said police believe they know who the gunman ... Continue reading →
Cops raid spa owned by wife of Albany Times Union investigations editor In mid-March, Albany police raided a spa owned by the wife of Albany Times Union investigations editor J. Robert Port, who had been directing his paper’s coverage of the sheriff’s department’s use of criminal forfeiture funds, including purchasing take-home vehicles for investigators. (The unit was eventually shut down by the sheriff.) J. Robert Port Port tells the New York Times he believes his wife’s business was targeted in retaliation for those stories. “Obviously I have pissed some people off enough to the point where they would send in jackbooted thug police officers to do an anal search on someone I believe they thought was my wife,” says the investigations editor. “I am enraged, ... Continue reading →
Times-Picayune photo says it all (Credit: Ted Jackson) @johnmcquaid Says it all: photo of Times-Picayune staff meeting yesterday, by Ted Jackson bit.ly/LuVONW Continue reading →
