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Jerry Lewis was stopped in the Las Vegas airport last week after airport screeners found a handgun in his luggage.
Reuters tells us the octogenarian funnyman was on his way to a one-night only, one-man performance in Mount Pleasant, Michigan when folks at the airport found the unload .22 pistol in his bag.
Seeing as how carrying a handgun in an airport is generally frowned upon, airport officials detained him for a bit, before releasing him on his own reconnaissance with a citation for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. As for the gun, well the airport fellas hung on to that for Lewis. If he wants it back, he’ll have to appear in court.
The Reuters story then goes on for about four paragraphs about all the stuff Lewis did in the past. This is apparently for the readers who just emerged from a 60-year stay in a bomb bunker.
Dean Martin was unavailable for comment. (Most likely because Dean Martin is no longer with us).
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This is kind of a sad one (2).
The remains of Hedviga Golik were found last month in her apartment in Croatia. According to reports she had made herself a cup of tea, sat down in her armchair to watch some tv, and must have passed away.
Having been born in 1924, there is nothign too surprising about all of this. In fact it isn’t much of a story until you start to get into the details. Golik was reported missing and was last seen by a neighbor… back in 1966. Although officially reported missing, apparently either no one ever did anything to try and locate her, or in their search for her the police did not enter her apartment.
Fast forward 42 years to May 2008 and the police and some bailiffs are busting down her door to try and help figure out who owns the apartment only to find Golik in her armchair dead now for as long as she had lived.
Besides a few cobwebs, her apartment appeared just as it had been in 1966, a virtual time capsule, with her cup of tea still on the table in front of her.
According to the authorities: “So far, we have no idea how it is possible that someone officially reported missing so long ago was not found before in the same apartment she used to live in.”
Okay, I thought I was done with this, until I did a search for a picture and found the CNN article, which isn’t exactly the same story.
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(The following comment, in response to Another Test for Habeas Corpus received 80 reader recommendations and was an editors’ selection on the NYTimes online today):
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Presidential Oath of Office.
Now, I ask you: Has this President lived up to that oath?
He has vitiated the right to Due Process of Law in the name of what he calls national security; He has intentionally determined not to enforce the laws passed by the Congress by using “Signing Statements”; He has violated the laws of the United States, the World, and Humanity in general by creating secret camps to hide prisoners; He has encouraged the torture of prisoners of the United States; He has violated the Laws of the Geneva Convention to which the US Congress has ratified; He has violated and abrogated treaties which the US Congress has ratified; He has eliminated the right of trial by jury to American Citizens held in foreign countries by American Forces, and he has attempted in various other ways to destroy the Administrative Bureaucracies lawfully created by the Congress by ordering them NOT to carry out their lawful stated missions, all in violation of numerous Court Orders at all levels.
What does it take to get a President impeached? Must such an action be entirely political or does there come a time when it is a patriotic duty?
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Striking Law & Order writers are going to have a lot of headlines to rip from when they eventually return to work (assuming this strike does not mark the end of scripted television).
I came across this article in my favorite Reuters section, Oddly Enough. I could already see it forming as the plot of an episode. Of course, as I haven’t watched Law & Order recently, I saw it as Briscoe and Green kicking in the door.
Anyway, in a made just calling out for a television adaption, a high ranking mafia leader was arrested last week. Officers busted down the door of Sicilian mobster Michele Catalano as he was sitting watching television.
In the Law & Order adaption, you’ll be able to watch ADA Jack McCoy charge Catalano with various counts “of drug trafficking and extortion.” They’ll probably tack on a conspiracy charge to in the hopes of bringing down organized crime, because that’s how McCoy does it.
The best part of the story is, of course, left for the end. Before the police burst through his door, Catalano was sitting in his living room watching television. He was watching an Italian miniseries called Boss of Bosses about organized crime in Italy. Get this, he was watching the final episode “recounting the arrest in 1993 of real-life Cosa Nostra leader Salvatore “Toto” Riina, when he was detained.”
[Ed note: Art imitates life (episode about arrest) imitates art (of man watching show) imitates life (show is about similar arrest)].
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Watch this. The Washington Post and 60 Minutes reveal that 30 years of FBI science in “bullet lead analysis” was junk all along. And that when the FBI found out, the bureau did nothing to let convicted felons know that they might have cause for appeal. Because of the story, now they will. One man has already been freed from an unjust imprisonment.
This is journalism at its best.
Jerry Lewis was stopped in the Las Vegas airport last week after airport screeners found a handgun in his luggage.