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If that alone isn't crazy enough, the damn fool was living in a house with their mutha freakin' decomposing bodies for TWO WEEKS. She was arrested just yesterday and officials are holding her crazy a** without bail. Here is the CNN Report:
The victims, who range in age from 5 to 17 years, are thought to be her daughters. Their bodies were found when U.S. marshals served an eviction notice at Jacks' apartment in southeast Washington, D.C.
Court documents say Jacks identified the victims as her daughters Brittany Jacks, 17; Tatianna Jacks, 11; N'kiah Fogle, 6; and Aja Fogle, 5.
Earlier Thursday, Mayor Adrian Fenty said the bodies' decomposition has hindered their identification, although they were believed to be Jacks' children.
Cowboys' QB Romo enjoying his star power
The inquisitor was Cowboys cornerback Terence Newman. His questions were irrelevant, bordering on the absurd, and gave the news conference the feel of a Saturday night outside some high-society Manhattan nightclub.
Basically, Newman fit right in. Romo's 12-minute news conference was part Sports Reporters, part E! Television, and the lines between the two became increasingly blurred as things progressed.
The day's primary topic was the focus of the Cowboys' most important player for the franchise's most important game in more than a decade, Sunday's playoff game against the Giants.
Romo, as you may have heard, spent his bye weekend with pop star Jessica Simpson in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with celebrity gossip Web site photos to prove it.
When former coach Bill Parcells, who elevated Romo last season from mostly anonymous backup to starter, departed the Cowboys for yet another short-lived "retirement," he left behind a to-do and to-don't list.
Stunned by Lack of Outrage, Not Outrageous Acts
His pure evil no longer surprises me, although there was a time when he routinely stunned me. Torture? Torture?? Not by Congress, either. There was a time when I was stunned by that crowd's sheeplike mentality. I'd hear them decry the war, decry torture, decry Bush's growing deficit, then I'd drop my jaw as they voted time and again to give the president carte blanche. No longer. I fully expect Congress to disappoint, to fail to do its job in balancing the White House power grab. I'm no longer stunned by the politicized courts nor by the media, which is unwilling to offend and uses vague, watered-down language instead of strong condemnations of this, the worst presidency in history. So who continues to stun me? I will tell you.
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN: Obama rocks Vegas faithful Candidate charms ...
I'm running because I don't want to do business as usual," he said. "People say 'Well, he may have good ideas, he may be inspiring, but he hasn't been in Washington long enough.' They want to season and stew me until they boil all the hope out of me, like everybody else." Michelle Barfield, 41, a cocktail server at the Fremont, said she identified with the fact that Obama had been raised by a single mother, because she had been one herself. "He knew what it's like to be in those shoes," she said. She had nothing against the other candidates, she said, but said she put no stock in those who wonder whether the union can command its members' loyalty or whether it can be divided by Clinton's furious efforts or other influences. "We agreed to stick together," she said.
Library News
Preschool Storytime, for children ages 3 to 5 meets at the Main Branch every Tuesday at 10 a.m.; and at the Richlands Branch Library every Tuesday at 11 a.m. Mother Goose Time for children up to age 3 and their caregivers meets at the Richlands Branch Library every Tuesday at 10 a.m.; and at the Swansboro Branch Library every Thursday at 10 a.m. Homeschool Storytime meets at the Main Branch on the fourth Monday of each month at 11 a.m. Kids Creations, theme-based stories and crafts for children in Kindergarten through fourth grade, meets at the Richlands Branch the first Tuesday of each month; the Sneads Ferry Branch the first Wednesday of each month; and the Swansboro Branch the first Thursday of each month, all at 4:30 p.m. Teen Advisory Group TAG for teens in ninth through twelfth grade are invited to bring their ideas, interests and energy to the Onslow County Public Library to let them know what teens want at their library.
University Presses Take Their Stand
While those points express skepticism, another part of the paper suggests a broadening of the open access concept. "Open access need not be limited to journals," the presses state. And while applying the model to monographs would create another set of issues for university presses (the paper notes that only 17-20 percent of publishing costs for monographs are on manufacturing), there might also be models that mix print and online, open access and fees, the paper suggests. It adds that it would be "unwise not to explore the implications of open access for all fields of knowledge lest an unfortunate new ‘digital divide’ should arise between fields and between different types of publishing." Underlying the specific issues raised, the paper says that university presses could function in open access in the "gift economy" model (in which they aren’t expected to generate revenue streams that would disappear), but that policy makers need to recognize the extent to which this represents a shift from the current model, which even if it includes subsidies, is a market economy.
Councilman MikeK Recalls Knievel Action Figure
Top: Young MikeK playing with Evel Knievel action figure; bottom: MikeK receives inspiration from his childhood friends before leaving for a Coeur d'Alene City Council meeting. I had a classic Evel Knievel motorcycle riding action figure when I was a kid. The stunts my brothers and I would stage for that motorcycle toy were legendary (riding out a second story window, chasing the dog around the house without getting chewed to ribbons, you name it). RIP Evel. I wonder what happened to Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man who played the role of Evel's arch-nemesis in the boyhood action figure wars?/Councilman MikeK. Question: What was your favorite action figure/doll when you were little? .
Seinfeld’s Kramer Ruins Career With Racial Insults (UPDATED)
There's an old line: "When I told people I wanted to be a comedian, everyone laughed at me. Today, I'm a comedian, and no one's laughing at me now!" Was that written for Seinfeld's "Kramer," Michael Richards? Richards, a veteran comic actor, sketch comedian and longtime cutting-edge comedian unleashed racial-epithet crammed rant onstage at The Laugh Factory, sparking a firestorm that will most certain downsize — if not virtually destroy — his career. Yes, he'll still have his Seinfeld residuals. But so much for product endorsements, major Hollywood parts or a new TV show. He is now damaged goods. The story was broken via a video posted on Harvey Levin's great show biz news site TMZ.com: Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A.
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