The east shall rise again???

Update on Earlier Story

Signs of life emerge in French quarter as bars, cabaret reopen

By Jay Root

Knight Ridder Newspapers


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NEW ORLEANS - Let the faint of heart worry about Hurricane Rita. Saint Jones just wants the power back on so he can give all the men roaming Bourbon Street what he says they want to see: naked women.

"Military. Press. Firemen. Policemen. Just men in general," said Jones, manager of the shuttered Big Daddy's Topless/Bottomless cabaret in the French Quarter. "Men want women. What do you think guys are going to spend their money on?"

Known for its booze, jazz and topless bars, the French Quarter is slowly coming back to life, even as city officials urge people to evacuate in case Hurricane Rita, brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, adds more grief and devastation to New Orleans.

A handful of bars, souvenir shops and at least one topless cabaret have begun to open their doors as electricity returns, block by block. The word "OPEN" was hand-painted on the boarded-up windows of Deja Vu Showgirls, signaling that the club had power and dancers at the ready.

"We opened up for all the people helping us out, to show them a good time," said Brent Ardenaux, manager of Deja Vu. He said the club, offering half-priced drinks, was filled to the brim Monday night with Hurricane Katrina relief workers.

"We were slam-packed," Ardenaux said. "We were standing room only for a while."

Minutes after he spoke, as if on cue, two men came by Deja Vu to ask when the bar would open Tuesday night.

Jones, a couple of blocks down Bourbon Street, has no doubt that Big Daddy's, too, will do a brisk business if he can get his electricity back on. The club is best known for the pair of mannequin legs, in fishnet and high heels, that swings in and out of the front window. Jones can't open yet, but he fired up a portable generator to keep those legs moving.

"It's kind of like a symbol. If the legs are swinging, it's like Bourbon Street is opening back up," Jones said. "Everybody comes to Bourbon Street looking for those legs."

Root reports for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Guess we know what it takes to get this judge off the bench!!!

Jurors Will See Judge's Alleged Sex Toy



By KELLY KURT Associated Press Writer
The Associated PressThe Associated Press

BRISTOW, Okla. Sep 20, 2005 — Jurors hearing the case against a former judge accused of exposing himself in his Creek County courtroom will be allowed to see the sex toy at the center of the state's allegations, a judge ruled Tuesday in rejecting a defense motion.

They also can hear testimony that a second "penis pump" was seen under former District Judge Donald Thompson's bench, among other evidence Thompson's attorneys sought to have barred from next week's scheduled trial.

"It's so fantastic and so unconnected to factual support, and so prejudicial," attorney Clark Brewster complained in trying to convince Judge C. Allen McCall to suppress some state evidence.

Rest of story here cause its to long to copy!

Only in America

1. Can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

2. Are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

3. Do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

4. Do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

5. Do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

6. Do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

7. Do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

8. Do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

9. Do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

10. Do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille.

Rhut rho!!! I right bite you occifer! Rope you like Rooby Snacks in rison!

Corrections Officer Charged With Attacking Scooby Doo

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Investigators said a Scooby Doo character was attacked at Universal Studios and the man charged with the crime is a corrections officer in Hillsborough County. Witnesses said the man maliciously beat the character for no reason.The officer bonded out of jail, but now the case is with the State Attorney's Office. The character alleges he was hit in the head and suffered head injuries.It was supposed to be just a regular theme park photo with Scooby Doo. When Eddie Bronson arrived at Universal Studios, he saw Scooby and stopped so that his daughter could take a picture with the dog and shaggy. But witnesses said that was not the only thing that happened.

"According to witnesses, they indicated he was manhandling Scooby," said Sgt. Barbara Jones, Orlando Police Department.

Bronson told police he was only petting Scooby. But, according to a statement, Bronson grabbed the character's head and was shaking it. The statement then said Bronson started to grab the character's snout and pull him down.When a Universal Studios employee saw it happening, she walked up to Bronson and said, "Please be gentle, Scooby is a dog and he might bite."Scooby pushed Bronson away and then he tried to walk away."He turned to try to talk to another guest and Mr. Bronson, according to witnesses, used a fist and struck the back part of the Scooby costume.Investigators said person who was inside the costume suffered a head injury and the costume was damaged.

The Department of Juvenile Justice, Bronson's employer, said it was not take any disciplinary action until the department reviewed the facts in the case.

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Anyone for some pasta??

Flying Meatballs: Feuding Families Have Food Fight At Olive Garden

Families Had Been Feuding For Some Time, Police Say

UPDATED: 8:37 am PDT September 9, 2005

Talk about your tossed salad and flying meatballs.

A night out at a Colorado Olive Garden Restaurant landed six people in jail after two families who've had a long-standing beef with one another brawled inside the restaurant.

Valerie Baca, Lawerence Bettale Jr., Rene Bettale, Lawrence Bettale Sr. and two teens were arrested after an off-duty police officer used a stun gun to control the fight.

Westminster, Colo., police said two families who have been feuding were seated near one another Wednesday night and it came to a boiling point when one of the families was leaving and made a snide remark or gesture to the other family.

Police said bottles were broken, furniture was thrown, food was flying.

An off-duty police officer had just walked out of the door when the fight broke out, so a person ran out to get him, said Stephanie Topkoff with Westminster Police Department.

The officer tried to tame the fighting families and eventually had to use his stun gun, Topkoff said.The group now faces charges of assault, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief.

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Note to self, dont hire this guy.....

Fri Sep 16,10:27 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese woman called in the police after a hitman she paid to kill her lover's wife failed to carry out the job.

The 32-year-old Tokyo woman was arrested Wednesday for incitement to murder, the Daily Yomiuri newspaper said Friday.

The woman contacted a private detective through a Web site last November and paid him 1 million yen in cash to murder her love rival, the paper said.

The 40-year-old detective accepted the money and suggested he could carry out the job by chasing the victim on a motorcycle and spraying her with a biological agent in a tunnel.

Police also arrested the private detective and found the alleged target safe and well, the paper said

I've had customers piss me off, but DAMN!!!

Store Clerk Urinated Into Soda, Making Customer Ill

Publix Officials Confirm Employee Urinated In Mountain Dew Bottle

DELTONA, Fla. -- A convenience store worker has admitted urinating into a soda bottle, causing a customer who drank from it to become violently ill, his bosses say.

Publix officials confirmed to Local 6 News that an employee urinated in a Mountain Dew bottle and put it on the store shelves at the Publix-owned Pix convenience store located off Howland in Deland, Fla. Publix Super Markets spokesman Dwaine Stevens said the accused employee was suspended after the company learned of the incident this week. An internal investigation is being completed. Lab tests done by Publix on the contaminated Mountain Dew confirmed the soda contained urine, Stevens said. The supermarket giant owns the Pix chain. "It is an isolated incident done by one of our associates," Stevens said. "Whatever measure is necessary, it will be executed and the employee will be dealt with." Publix has not filed a criminal complaint but the option has not been ruled out, Stevens said. The victim, a foreman with a Daytona Beach construction company, became suspicious of the drink after he chugged the beverage last week, his attorney, Daniel Newlin, said "He vomited three or four times afterward," said Newlin, who did not release his client's name in order to protect the man's privacy. Newlin said that upon the advice of an infectious-disease doctor, the victim was being tested for diseases such as gonorrhea and hepatitis C. "We're hopeful that the person who did this wasn't carrying any sexual, or otherwise, virus that could cause him harm," Newlin said. "Unfortunately, the doctors were very concerned."Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

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A different version of the story here, seems pee isn't all that bad!!!.

Gotta love the Hoosiers!!!

Town to turn stinking hog manure into power

Tue Sep 13,12:00 PM ET

They cannot escape the stench, but residents of tiny Reynolds, Indiana, hope the oceans of hog manure produced nearby will power their homes and businesses some day soon.

"We're very excited," town president Charlie Van Voorst. "They're advertising us as a showcase for the world."

Indiana's energy conservation-minded Gov. Mitch Daniels will take his ethanol-powered recreational vehicle to Reynolds on Tuesday to designate the single stoplight town the world's first "Biotown."

Initially, the 500 townspeople will lease or buy vehicles that run on high concentrations of corn-based ethanol or soy diesel from soybeans.

The second phase will install power-generating equipment that burns gas made from manure, said Deborah Abbott of the state agriculture department said. The electricity generated will power homes and businesses.

"The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town -- as a biofuel," Abbott said.

"The hog farms are all around us. We're used to that smell -- something we live with," Van Voorst said.

He added: "And they're talking about using our own (human) waste as a renewable resource."

Copyright © 2005 Reuters Limited.

Search for the hairy armpits

France bares all for sake of art

Men and women of all ages had gathered before dawn for the shoot

Almost 1,500 men and women have stripped naked in the name of art in the French city of Lyon.

The volunteers gathered before dawn to join the latest nude photo shoot by New York artist Spencer Tunick.

Directed by the artist from a crane, they posed with arms and legs in the air between shipping containers in Lyon's port, and on a waterfront.

Previous shoots have been held in New York, Belgium, Barcelona and Brazil, as well as London and Tyneside in the UK.

Art festival

Men and women of all ages, most of them from the Lyon area but some from further afield, arrived in the city at 0430 GMT to receive their instructions.

Addressing them from the crane, Tunick told the crowd he saw the port as representing the mystery of commerce, the AFP news agency reports.

The point where the rivers Saone and Rhone joined was a meeting point that he liked to think of "as like the legs of a woman", he said.

As dawn broke, the volunteers stripped naked and scurried into place, ready to move into formation with arms and legs held high.

Questioned after the shoot, the models said they had signed up "for the experience" or "for art's sake".

"I was determined to do it, just for the pleasure of running naked on the grass in the centre of Lyon, this town people call so bourgeois and stuck in its ways," a young Lyon resident told AFP.

Another model, Diane Wailes from London, said she had come to France with her family to take part, after appearing in previous Tunick shoots in Belgium and Tyneside this year.

The photographs will go on display in Lyon in November, as part of the city's biennial modern art festival.

Tunick, 38, carried out the world's largest nude photo shoot in Barcelona in June 2003, when 7,000 volunteers stripped for the camera.

In 1994 both he and a female model were arrested in New York when she posed nude on top of an eight-foot high replica Christmas tree in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/4235510.stm

Published: 2005/09/11 21:28:37 GMT

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