To quote Yakov Smirnov, "What a wonderful country..."

The wife of a LaVergne,TN police officer is behind bars for allegedly giving an 11-year-old girl crack. Shannon Hatcher, wife of LaVergne police officer Brent Hatcher, was arrested on March 8.

Police were notified after the girl's parents discovered her naval was pierced. The child then told police that Hatcher had taken her to get the piercing and also allowed her to smoke crack.

Shannon Hatcher has a long arrest record for theft and using forged prescriptions. Hatcher has a 13-year old daughter of her own.

Hatcher is in jail on $40,000 bond.

Mother arrested for smoking crack with children

"We spent half an hour coming up with phrases that might confuse people who didn't grow up speaking English," Jason Nguyen said. "I didn't grow up speaking English. Here is a phrase that confuses me: 'Why is the front wheelbase on our jeeps narrower than the fucking rear one so we fucking get stuck in the mud every two fucking days?' Management should have a seminar to discuss that."

All-Minority Postal Staff Undergoes Mandatory Diversity Training

How 'bout them Titans!

Tennessee Titans left tackle Brad Hopkins was arrested Monday in Franklin, Tenn., and charged with domestic assault against his wife.
Cpl. Carrie George of the Williamson County Sheriff’s Department, said Hopkins would remain in jail for 12 hours until early Tuesday in accordance with state law. He has a bond of $1,000.

Franklin police did not comment on the charges.

No one answered Hopkins’ cell phone when called by The Associated Press.

Mark Bartelstein, Hopkins’ agent, had no immediate comment.

“We are aware of the situation involving Brad,” Titans spokesman Robbie Bohren said in a statement. “We are in the process of gathering all the facts.”

Hopkins, a first-round draft pick by the then-Houston Oilers in 1993, has been starter since his rookie season. He is married to Ellen Hopkins and has three children.
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Hopkins is the third Titans starter to be arrested this offseason.

Cornerback Samari Rolle was charged with domestic assault Feb. 15. He was later cut and signed with Baltimore.

Safety Tank Williams was arrested for driving under the influence two days later.

Another Titan arrested for domestic assault

I yield my time to the gentleman, er i mean scumbag from Memphis. What an ass clown.

Former manager Scott Bascue of Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls said he never saw money changing hands, but witnessed Ford - a 31-year Senate veteran who sits on three key committees - ask for $50,000 to begin the relationship.

"He said ... just his time that day was worth about $50,000," Bascue said. "He was really arrogant."

Bascue, who quit Johnson Controls two years ago, said Ford used his charm and pressure to attempt to "leverage" contracts in the private sector and with state government, including one with Erlanger Medical Center, a nonprofit, academic teaching center in Chattanooga that's affiliated with the University of Tennessee.

Bascue said bosses at Johnson Controls told him to court Ford and he often spent up to $600 taking the Memphis Democrat out.

"(Ford) was an expensive guy," Bascue told The Commercial Appeal. "If you just had dinner with him, you were lucky if you got out of there for less than 600 bucks."

Bascue said he questioned the decision to hire Ford three years ago but was told to keep quiet.

Wis. company's Nashville manager says Ford asked for $50,000

Flynn23+1=Flynn24?

After some fits and starts, Eleanor Jewell Kozicki born of natural
birth @ 10:47am on March 11, 2005. Weighing 5 pounds and 15 ounces and
measuring 19.25 inches.

Mom's doing GREAT!
Dad's still coming down from outer space.

Thanks to everyone for your well wishes, thoughts, and prayers. They
definitely helped in bringing a healthy and happy girl to the world.

Cheers,
Penny, Scott, and Ella

I love New York
OK, I don't really love new york...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police have ticketed a man they say set up a table on a Brooklyn sidewalk to sell Girl Scout cookies without a license.

But the suspect's 13-year-old daughter disputes the account and says her father was only helping her deliver pre-ordered cookies in the neighborhood.

Officers issued a summons for unlicensed vending to Hoi "Howard" Louis over the weekend.

"An adult 55-year-old male who had set up a table along a busy stretch was given a summons," Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said on Wednesday. "No Girl Scouts were seen by officers at the time the summons was issued."

Police Dish Summons to Girl Scout Cookie Father

Have you seent he new BK TV spot with Darius Rucker looking like a singing rhinestone cowboy? All I can say is WTF?!? . I quickly recognized the tune as "Big Rock Candy Mountain" but I didn't realize times had gotten so tough for Darius.

The lastest from Crispin Porter + Bogusky for Burger King is this strange commercial for their Tendercrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch sandwich. It is like an Old Navy ad on acid with some Playboy/Penthouse thrown in for good measure, somewhat typical of David LaChapelle's work.

One of the stranger things about this ad is the number of B-list celebrities. The ad stars Darius Rucker (a.k.a Hootie), the lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish, fitted out in cowboy gear, singing new lyrics to the tune of "Big Rock Candy Mountain", an old bluegrass song.

Cowboy Hootie sings for Burger King

When Gartner talks, CIO's listen.

Outsourced customer service operations can cost almost a third more than those retained in-house, according to a new study by Gartner.

The research firm found that outsourced operations are 30 percent more expensive than the top quartile of in-house customer service operations.

Alexa Bona, research director at Gartner, said businesses often fail to take hidden costs, such as in-house backup support to the outsourced function, into account.

"The outsourced service is often more efficient, but then outsourcers need to make a profit too," she said.

Gartner also said 80 percent of organizations that outsource their customer management operations purely to cut costs will fail to do so, while 60 percent of those who outsource parts of the customer-facing process will have to deal with customer defections and hidden costs that outweigh any potential savings offered by outsourcing.
"If all you are trying to do is save money, you are not going to be successful," Bona said.

Gartner: Outsourcing costs more than in-house

flynn23 wrote:
] ] "My story is based on fiction," said Poole, who faces a
] ] second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. "It's
] ] a fake story. I made it up. I've been working on one of
] ] my short stories, (and) the short story they found was
] ] about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was
] ] about a high school over ran by zombies."
] ]
] ] Even so, police say the nature of the story makes it a
] ] felony. "Anytime you make any threat or possess matter
] ] involving a school or function it's a felony in the state
] ] of Kentucky," said Winchester Police detective Steven
] ] Caudill.
]
] nice.

Very Chilling and Very Orwellian...

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death." —pg 27, "1984"

RE: Student Arrested For Terroristic Threatening Says Incident A Misunderstanding

Isn't it ironic, dont'cha think?

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- By suppressing inflammation in the brain, a synthetic marijuana compound could potentially offer some protection against Alzheimer's disease, Spanish scientists report.

The researchers, who studied the brain tissue of deceased Alzheimer's patients, discovered that many of these patients lose the function of important cannabinoid brain receptors, which seem to guard against cognitive decline.

They further discovered in a rat study involving synthetic marijuana that when these brain receptors were working, they reduced the brain inflammation that is associated with Alzheimer's.

"This is the first time the effects of such damage have been found in Alzheimer's patients," said study co-author Maria de Ceballos, head of the neurodegeneration group at the Cajal Institute, Spain's largest neuroscience research center, in Madrid. "Previously, it has been known only in those with acute brain damage from trauma."

The findings appear in the Feb. 23 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.

Marijuana-like Ingredient Could Slow Alzheimer's