Fight the urge to take comfort in food with these easy ways to keep your waistline in check and save money.Battle 'recession weight gain'
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tips to battle 'recession weight gain'
Fight the urge to take comfort in food with these easy ways to keep your waistline in check and save money.
N.C. House investigates Allred over 'hugging'
Typical repugican ...
N.C. Rep. Cary Allred
The House is investigating a series of incidents Monday night in which a House member is accused of being intoxicated and inappropriately hugging a teenage page.
State Rep. Cary Allred, a Burlington Republican, denied in an interview Thursday any inappropriate behavior or being intoxicated. The page was a family friend and Allred said he hugged her and kissed her on the cheek.
Allred said that he remembers having one cocktail before leaving for Monday night's House session.
"That's all I remember," Allred said.
Allred was also stopped for speeding on the way to the House Monday afternoon. Allred said he was asked to produce identification beyond his drivers license and he showed the trooper his legislative ID. The trooper let Allred go with an admonishment to slow down, Allred said.
Allred said he is the subject of a "witch-hunt" because he is outspoken and frequently challenges House Speaker Joe Hackney.
"I think it's an effort to embarrass me because I am a conservative Republican from Alamance County, and he's a liberal Democrat from Chapel Hill," Allred said.
Hackney said he received various reports of the speeding incident, drinking by Allred and an "embrace" with a page. He asked the House sergeant at arms to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the matter.
"Speeding is not in my jurisdiction but the other two incidents it appear have to do with conduct on the House floor. I have simply asked the House sergeant-at-at arms, who is in charge of the House floor together with me to conduct what i would characterize as a preliminary inquiry to gather whatever facts there are to determine if any referral beyond this stage is appropriate," Hackney said.
As the House Session wound to a close Thursday, Allred told House members that he was proud of having sponsored the 17-year-old page.
"She's like my granddaughter," Allred said.
Elderly man arrested in Italy for coke in oranges
The elderly man claimed he needed the oranges in his suitcase to keep up his vitamin C level, but Italian police soon realized the "C" stood for cocaine.
Customs officers in Rome on Thursday arrested a 76-year-old Dutch man who tried to smuggle in more than 13 pounds of cocaine packed into oranges that had been emptied of their pulp.
The man arrested on international drug trafficking charges at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport had arrived from Buenos Aires, Argentina and said he was on his way back to the Netherlands after a vacation.
Police at the airport said the drugs would have had a street value of $6.6 million.
In a separate bust, police arrested five Italians and a man from Paraguay when they seized more than 550 pounds of cocaine concealed in the trunks of tropical plants shipped from Argentina to a northern Italian port.
(Here is a Video of the incident.)
Bird loses meal to power line, causing outage
Utility workers in Salem, Oregon suspect an osprey made a mess of its breakfast by dropping a fish on a power line, turning out the lights for folks trying to find their own way to start the day. Salem Electric workers called to an outage on the west side of the state capital Wednesday found a burned 14-inch fish beneath the line.
The workers speculated it was a carp.
At nearby Hanard Machine Inc., maintenance supervisor and fisherman Rich Samsom told the Statesman Journal it was more likely a chub.
Samsom said ospreys like perching on power poles near the plant. The birds, raptors related to hawks and eagles, feed on fish.
Oregon Public Utility Commission spokesman Bob Valdez said an outage from an electrically fried fish is rare. Cooked squirrel is much more common.
Diners report seeing Virgin Mary in food griddle
The hottest thing on the griddle at the Las Palmas restaurant in Calexico, California these days isn't the food - it's the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that a cook says she saw on the griddle.
Restaurant manager Brenda Martinez says more than 100 people have flocked to the small town of Calexico on the California-Mexico border to gaze at the likeness of the Virgin Mary since it was discovered as the griddle was being cleaned.
Among the awe-struck was a group of masked Mexican wrestlers who arrived Thursday for an exhibition at a nearby swap meet.
One, known as Mr. Tempest, says: "This is amazing. It's a true miracle."
Since the discovery, the griddle has been taken out of service and placed in a shrine in a storage room.
Man asks to join brother in jail ...
... and gets his wish
Police in Fairbanks, Alaska said a man wanted to go to jail with his arrested brother, so he shoved an officer and got his wish. David Jacob Ginnis, 35, pleaded guilty Wednesday to assault on a police officer and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, with the full sentence suspended.
Ginnis' brother got into a fight on Monday night and was arrested on a criminal trespass charge.
Police said Ginnis, who appeared intoxicated, approached the arresting officer and asked if he could speak with his brother, who was in the back of a patrol car.
After five minutes, Ginnis asked if he could join his brother in jail if he assaulted the officer.
The officer told him that would "not go well" for him, but Ginnis shoved the officer with his fist. He was arrested.
Police say burglar took jellybeans from table, but nothing else
Police in northwestern Pennsylvania say a burglar took some jellybeans from a home - but nothing else.
Alabama man sleeps with a 40-caliber pistol and shoots himself in the shoulder
A 24-year-old man likely will rethink his habit of sleeping with a gun after police said his 40-caliber pistol discharged and hit him in the shoulder on Wednesday.
Cities with highest unemployment rates
More cities are seeing 15 percent unemployment rates with one hard-hit California metro area at a jaw-dropping 25 percent.U.S. cities with highest unemployment rates
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Two Stories Told
Found this over at Chuck's Fun Page 2 - thought you might like it ...
Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago . Capone wasn't famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder.
Capone had a lawyer nicknamed "Easy Eddie." He was Capone's lawyer for a good reason. Eddie was very good! In fact, Eddie's skill at legal maneuvering kept Big Al out of jail for a long time.
To show his appreciation,
Capone paid him very well. Not only was the money big, but Eddie got special dividends, as well. For instance, he and his family occupied a fenced-in mansion with live-in help and all of the conveniences of the day. The estate was so large that it filled an entire Chicago City block.
Eddie lived the high life of the Chicago mob and gave little consideration to the atrocity that went on around him.
Eddie did have one soft spot, however. He had a son that he loved dearly. Eddie saw to it that his young son had clothes, cars, and a good education. Nothing was withheld. Price was no object.
And, despite his involvement with organized crime, Eddie even tried to teach him right from wrong. Eddie wanted his son to be a better man than he was.
Yet, with all his wealth and influence, there were two things he couldn't give his son; he couldn't pass on a good name or a good example.
One day, Easy Eddie reached a difficult decision. Easy Eddie wanted to rectify wrongs he had done..
He decided he would go to the authorities and tell the truth about Al "Scarface" Capone, clean up his tarnished name, and offer his son some semblance of integrity. To do this, he would have to testify against The Mob, and he knew that the cost would be great. So, he testified.
Within the year, Easy Eddie's life ended in a blaze of gunfire on a lonely Chicago Street . But in his eyes, he had given his son the greatest gift he had to offer, at the greatest price he could ever pay. Police removed from his pockets a rosary, a crucifix, a religious medallion, and a poem clipped from a magazine.
The poem read:
World War II produced many heroes. One such man was Lieutenant Commander Butch O'Hare.
He was a fighter pilot assigned to the aircraft carrier Lexington in the South Pacific.
One day his entire squadron was sent on a mission. After he was airborne, he looked at his fuel gauge and realized that someone had forgotten to top off his fuel tank.
He would not have enough fuel to complete his mission and get back to his ship.
His flight leader told him to return to the carrier. Reluctantly, he dropped out of formation and headed back to the fleet.
As he was returning to the mother ship, he saw something that turned his blood cold; a squadron of Japanese aircraft was speeding its way toward the American fleet.
The American fighters were gone on a sortie, and the fleet was all but defenseless. He couldn't reach his squadron and bring them back in time to save the fleet. Nor could he warn the fleet of the approaching danger. There was only one thing to do. He must somehow divert them from the fleet.
Laying aside all thoughts of personal safety, he dove into the formation of Japanese planes. Wing-mounted 50 caliber's blazed as he charged in, attacking one surprised enemy plane and then another. Butch wove in and out of the now broken formation and fired at as many planes as possible until all his ammunition was finally spent.
Undaunted, he continued the assault. He dove at the planes, trying to clip a wing or tail in hopes of damaging as many enemy planes as possible, rendering them unfit to fly.
Finally, the exasperated Japanese squadron took off in another direction.
Deeply relieved, Butch O'Hare and his tattered fighter limped back to the carrier.
Upon arrival, he reported in and related the event surrounding his return. The film from the gun-camera mounted on his plane told the tale. It showed the extent of Butch's daring attempt to protect his fleet. He had, in fact, destroyed five enemy aircraft
This took place on February 20, 1942 , and for that action Butch became the Navy's first Ace of W.W.II, and the first Naval Aviator to win the Medal of Honor.
A year later Butch was killed in aerial combat at the age of 29. His home town would not allow the memory of this WW II hero to fade, and today, O'Hare Airport in Chicago is named in tribute to the courage of this great man.
So, the next time you find yourself at O'Hare International, give some thought to visiting Butch's memorial displaying his statue and his Medal of Honor. It's located between Terminals 1 and 2.
SO WHAT DO THESE TWO STORIES HAVE TO DO WITH EACH OTHER?
Butch O'Hare was "Easy Eddie's" son.
TWO Stories BOTH TRUE - and worth reading!!!!
STORY NUMBER ONE
Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago . Capone wasn't famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder.Capone had a lawyer nicknamed "Easy Eddie." He was Capone's lawyer for a good reason. Eddie was very good! In fact, Eddie's skill at legal maneuvering kept Big Al out of jail for a long time.
To show his appreciation,
Capone paid him very well. Not only was the money big, but Eddie got special dividends, as well. For instance, he and his family occupied a fenced-in mansion with live-in help and all of the conveniences of the day. The estate was so large that it filled an entire Chicago City block.Eddie lived the high life of the Chicago mob and gave little consideration to the atrocity that went on around him.
Eddie did have one soft spot, however. He had a son that he loved dearly. Eddie saw to it that his young son had clothes, cars, and a good education. Nothing was withheld. Price was no object.
And, despite his involvement with organized crime, Eddie even tried to teach him right from wrong. Eddie wanted his son to be a better man than he was.
Yet, with all his wealth and influence, there were two things he couldn't give his son; he couldn't pass on a good name or a good example.
One day, Easy Eddie reached a difficult decision. Easy Eddie wanted to rectify wrongs he had done..
He decided he would go to the authorities and tell the truth about Al "Scarface" Capone, clean up his tarnished name, and offer his son some semblance of integrity. To do this, he would have to testify against The Mob, and he knew that the cost would be great. So, he testified.
Within the year, Easy Eddie's life ended in a blaze of gunfire on a lonely Chicago Street . But in his eyes, he had given his son the greatest gift he had to offer, at the greatest price he could ever pay. Police removed from his pockets a rosary, a crucifix, a religious medallion, and a poem clipped from a magazine.
The poem read:
"The clock of life is wound but once,
and no man has the power
to tell just when the hands will stop,
at late or early hour.
Now is the only time you own.
Live, love, toil with a will.
Place no faith in time.
For the clock may soon be still."
and no man has the power
to tell just when the hands will stop,
at late or early hour.
Now is the only time you own.
Live, love, toil with a will.
Place no faith in time.
For the clock may soon be still."
*****
STORY NUMBER TWO
World War II produced many heroes. One such man was Lieutenant Commander Butch O'Hare.He was a fighter pilot assigned to the aircraft carrier Lexington in the South Pacific.
One day his entire squadron was sent on a mission. After he was airborne, he looked at his fuel gauge and realized that someone had forgotten to top off his fuel tank.
He would not have enough fuel to complete his mission and get back to his ship.
His flight leader told him to return to the carrier. Reluctantly, he dropped out of formation and headed back to the fleet.
As he was returning to the mother ship, he saw something that turned his blood cold; a squadron of Japanese aircraft was speeding its way toward the American fleet.
The American fighters were gone on a sortie, and the fleet was all but defenseless. He couldn't reach his squadron and bring them back in time to save the fleet. Nor could he warn the fleet of the approaching danger. There was only one thing to do. He must somehow divert them from the fleet.
Laying aside all thoughts of personal safety, he dove into the formation of Japanese planes. Wing-mounted 50 caliber's blazed as he charged in, attacking one surprised enemy plane and then another. Butch wove in and out of the now broken formation and fired at as many planes as possible until all his ammunition was finally spent.
Undaunted, he continued the assault. He dove at the planes, trying to clip a wing or tail in hopes of damaging as many enemy planes as possible, rendering them unfit to fly.
Finally, the exasperated Japanese squadron took off in another direction.
Deeply relieved, Butch O'Hare and his tattered fighter limped back to the carrier.
Upon arrival, he reported in and related the event surrounding his return. The film from the gun-camera mounted on his plane told the tale. It showed the extent of Butch's daring attempt to protect his fleet. He had, in fact, destroyed five enemy aircraft
This took place on February 20, 1942 , and for that action Butch became the Navy's first Ace of W.W.II, and the first Naval Aviator to win the Medal of Honor.
A year later Butch was killed in aerial combat at the age of 29. His home town would not allow the memory of this WW II hero to fade, and today, O'Hare Airport in Chicago is named in tribute to the courage of this great man.
So, the next time you find yourself at O'Hare International, give some thought to visiting Butch's memorial displaying his statue and his Medal of Honor. It's located between Terminals 1 and 2.
SO WHAT DO THESE TWO STORIES HAVE TO DO WITH EACH OTHER?
Butch O'Hare was "Easy Eddie's" son.
*****
Now, for those of you with a bit of skepticism, it is only fair to point out that these two stories have been embellished for the telling. If you'd like to view the truth of the matter, click on the link below.http://www.snopes.com/glurge/ohare.asp
Science News
During its second flyby of Mercury, NASA's Messenger spacecraft revealed a new crater with a bizarre pattern of troughs and ridges.Mysterious spokes found in crater on Mercury
Asteroids don't tan gradually over time but seem to get sunburns early on, complicating efforts to gauge their ages.Sun damage conceals asteroids' true ages
First dino 'blood' extracted from ancient bone
A hadrosaur bone buried for 80 million years has yielded a mix of proteins and microstructures resembling cells that may help shed light on dinosaur evolution.
Invisibility cloak edges closer
From BBC-Science:
A tiny "carpet cloak" that makes objects invisible to optical light has been made by a US research team.
The Tattlesnake by RS Janes
The Harder They Fall…
What a Hoot: As Keith Olbermann reported Wednesday night, perpetually-insane Minnesota comediatrix Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Daft) brought the funny the other day when she took to the House floor to condemn Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Dems for the ‘Hoot-Smalley Act’ of the Great Depression era. While you can never be sure when dealing with a dingbat like Bachmann, who apparently stole her blank eyeballs from a crazy doll in “Bride of Chucky“, she probably meant the ‘Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act‘ that was sponsored by two Republicans, and signed into law by Republican President Herbert Hoover in 1930.
In reality, FDR campaigned against the act in 1932, and a Dem majority in Congress effectively repealed Smoot-Hawley in 1934 with the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, but in Michele’s loopy-dumb, wish-I-had-a-brain, far-right universe facts are a liberal, commie plot invented by the Devil to trip up those patriotically lying in the name of Jesus.
If you’re a sane Republican (okay, that would be confined to ex-McCain manager Steve Schmidt and Sen. Olympia Snowe) you know that Bachmann’s Sixth District is already in the ‘D’ column in 2010 (she nearly lost to an unknown children’s book character named Elwyn Tinklenberg in ‘08), and that you must find a legal means to (a) shut this woman up before she further damages what’s left of your party and (b) prevent her from running for president or vice president in 2012. (The vision of a ‘Palin-Bachmann 2012′ ticket privately induces dyspeptic nightmares of an LBJ/Goldwater electoral slaughter among GOP bigwigs.)
Of course, it may be too late – the GOP brand is so tainted that if you jettisoned all of the dotty Dittoheads, nattering neocons, tone-deaf teabaggers, putrid Palinites, raging racists, Savage Nation neo-Nazis, fatuous Freepers, flaming fully-automatic gun nuts and kinky religious kooks, you could assemble what’s left of the party in a Washington hotel ballroom with space to spare for a trained elephant act. (For more on this, read the last two items in this article.)
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Gun owners attack Dimbulb
Lush Dimbulb's new pet project -- fighting animal cruelty for the Humane Society of the United States -- is riling sportsmen from coast to coast, prompting fears that the talkster typically supportive of gun rights is aiding a group they say has a secret agenda to end all hunting in America.
It couldn't be happening to a bigger prick - but it is just a smoke and mirror show.
Read the rest here.
Twenty-eight groups representing millions of hunters and sportsmen are demanding that the Fascist bastard end his collaboration with the HSUS and stop 'helping them to mainstream their image in the minds of reasonable people.
It couldn't be happening to a bigger prick - but it is just a smoke and mirror show.
Read the rest here.
Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion
From Reuters:
“This isn’t a done deal yet, but it’s good news.”
Mexico’s Senate approved a bill on Tuesday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of narcotics for personal use, in order to free resources to fight violent drug cartels.
The bill, proposed by conservative President Felipe Calderon, would make it legal to carry up to 5 grams (0.18 ounces) of marijuana, 500 milligrams (0.018 ounces) of cocaine and tiny quantities of other drugs such as heroin and methamphetamines.
Mexico’s Congress passed a similar proposal in 2006 but the bill was vetoed by Calderon’s predecessor Vicente Fox, under pressure from the United States, which said it would increase drug abuse, but now is worried by the drug-related violence along its border.
Calderon has staked his presidency on curtailing the escalating violence between rival drug gangs as they fight over smuggling routes to the United States, with violence spilling into U.S. cities like Phoenix and Tucson.
Play Pretend a child's game or the repugican philosophy
At last the repugicans have found their true philosophy - Play Pretend!
From Treehugger:
Photo via cisdallas.org
Last week in Congress was dubbed the "mother of all climate weeks", and with a parade of hearings from heavyweights like Al Gore and Newt Gingrich, it certainly seemed to fit the bill. Of course, nothing was resolved about the massive climate bill the congressmen were debating, and things got a little ugly. So ugly, in fact, that some Republicans decided they didn't want to deal with it at all, and that instead of continuing to engage the bill and sit in on actual hearings, they're holding a mock hearing.
Article continues: 13 Republicans to Play Pretend on Climate, Hold Mock Hearings
Green Things Obama Should Do Over the Next 100 Days
From Treehugger:
Photo via NY Mag
Yesterday marked Obama's 100th day in office, but if you were within 50 feet of any sort of media yesterday, you already knew that. We marked the occasion with an Obama Timeline of his first 100 days in green. But those 100 days, while certainly filled with a slew of good first steps, are far from definitive in terms of judging Obama's green agenda. What really matters, of course, is what comes next. And so, in celebration of the first day of Obama's Next 100 Days, here are a few ideas of what he could and should do now.
Article continues: 7 Green Things Obama Should Do Over the Next 100 Days
Sisters, age 65 and 70, accused of dealing heroin
A northeastern Pennsylvania prosecutor said he's shocked that two sisters accused of selling heroin are 65 and 70 years old.
Tough economy, man
Two year old girl with IQ of 156
Elise Tan-Roberts was five months when she spoke her first word, calling her father "Dada".
She was walking three months later and running two months after that.
Philip Alcabes' Dread
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Mice attack nursing home residents
Two Australian nursing home residents were "severely chewed" by mice when the Queensland state-run facility in which they were patients became infested with the rodents.
Man checks pot pipe at courthouse security
From the "Real swift move there, Sherlock" Department:
A Florida man faces misdemeanor charges for possession of drug paraphernalia after he placed his keys and other belongings, including a pot pipe, in a tray at a courthouse security checkpoint.
New Wrinkle On Avoiding Jury Duty
There are probably better ways to avoid jury duty than the approach recently taken by a Montana man.
After Erik Slye, 36, received a jury notice earlier this year, he filed a notarized affidavit seeking to be excused from serving on a District Court panel in Gallatin County.
Girl Fights Off Muggers With Marching Band Baton
This one time at band camp ...
Don't mess with a marching band girl, especially one armed with a baton.
A 17-year-old high school marching band student beat up two assailants who tried to mug her as she walked to school in this high desert community about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.
Car hits crowd watching Dutch queen
A Dutch driver careened through police barriers and plowed into a crowd of merrymakers cheering their popular queen Thursday, in a premeditated assault on the royal family that killed five bystanders and injured 12, authorities said.
World takes drastic steps to contain swine flu
Officials across the globe are intensifying efforts to combat swine flu, but some doubt they'll work. Drastic steps to contain swine flu
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Just for fun ...
Can you translate this?
Khai Sang Phuong Phap Nuoi Vit
Long Island Nguyen Thuy
Culver Dung Hang Tien Phong
(Hint: I helped you out a bit)
Khai Sang Phuong Phap Nuoi Vit
Long Island Nguyen Thuy
Culver Dung Hang Tien Phong
(Hint: I helped you out a bit)
Workout mistakes
America's smoggiest cities
The Horrors of Socialism
It's enough to make a wing-nut piss themselves!
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Very interesting tidbit: the Swedish MP explains that Sweden has a trade surplus and lends money to the US (we, of course, have a massive trade deficit).
There is, of course, a contrarian view: that the trade deficit is not a bad thing. That it is, in fact, a good thing:
The Causes and Consequences of the U.S. Trade Deficit
Are Trade Deficits Really Bad News?
(a case that seems less and less reality-based every day)
Foods that are dangerous for dogs
Swine flu experts: Don't blame the pig
Humans and birds are just as responsible as the now-maligned swines.Lawyer for Fiancee of Accused 'Craigslist Killer' Says Couple's Wedding Is "Dismantled"
Like DUH!
It appears that Megan "Stand By Your Man" McAllister finally took a seat in the court of public opinion and "dismantled" her planned late summer wedding to the alleged Craigslist Killer.
To think you let one dead body and some flimsy circumstantial stand in your way of happiness.
A lawyer for the fiancee of accused "Craigslist Killer" Philip Markoff says the couple's summer wedding is being "dismantled."
Robert Honecker, the lawyer for Megan McAllister, told ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday that his client's planned August wedding to 23-year-old Markoff "will not occur" and is not likely to happen at any time in the future.
McAllister, accompanied by her mother and Honecker, met with Markoff in jail for about 25 minutes on Wednesday.
McAllister, 25, did not appear to be wearing an engagement ring and wouldn't talk to the media.
Markoff is in jail for allegedly using Craigslist to lure women selling erotic services to hotel rooms, then robbing them at gunpoint to feed a gambling habit.
He is charged with killing one of the women, 25-year-old New York City masseuse Julissa Brisman, on April 14 when she fought back. He is also accused of robbing another masseuse four days earlier at a different hotel in Boston.
And he is suspected in a third attack in Rhode Island on a Las Vegas stripper, who was tied up in a hotel room by a man she met on Craigslist but got away when her husband came in.
Authorities say they expect to file charges in that case by week's end.
Markoff has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
This week, McAllister issued another statement through an attorney saying that she stands by Markoff and still loves him, but is cooperating with the investigation.
She asked that her fiancé's fate not be determined by the press and public opinion.
"What has been portrayed and leaked to the media is not the Philip Markoff that I know," McAllister said. "To me and my family, he is a loving and caring person."
Evidence has been mounting against Markoff since he was jailed.
Last week, a preliminary match was made between a gun allegedly found in Markoff and McAllister's apartment and the bullets that killed Brisman, police sources said. The underwear of Brisman and his second alleged victim was also reportedly discovered at Markoff's home, according to the sources.
On Friday, authorities in Rhode Island said his fingerprints were found on the wall of the hotel room where the Vegas stripper was tied up in an attempted robbery.
Markoff was a second-year medical student at Boston University when he was arrested last week during a traffic stop as he drove to Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. He has pleaded not guilty.
It appears that Megan "Stand By Your Man" McAllister finally took a seat in the court of public opinion and "dismantled" her planned late summer wedding to the alleged Craigslist Killer.To think you let one dead body and some flimsy circumstantial stand in your way of happiness.
A lawyer for the fiancee of accused "Craigslist Killer" Philip Markoff says the couple's summer wedding is being "dismantled."
Robert Honecker, the lawyer for Megan McAllister, told ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday that his client's planned August wedding to 23-year-old Markoff "will not occur" and is not likely to happen at any time in the future.
McAllister, accompanied by her mother and Honecker, met with Markoff in jail for about 25 minutes on Wednesday.
McAllister, 25, did not appear to be wearing an engagement ring and wouldn't talk to the media.
Markoff is in jail for allegedly using Craigslist to lure women selling erotic services to hotel rooms, then robbing them at gunpoint to feed a gambling habit.
He is charged with killing one of the women, 25-year-old New York City masseuse Julissa Brisman, on April 14 when she fought back. He is also accused of robbing another masseuse four days earlier at a different hotel in Boston.
And he is suspected in a third attack in Rhode Island on a Las Vegas stripper, who was tied up in a hotel room by a man she met on Craigslist but got away when her husband came in.
Authorities say they expect to file charges in that case by week's end.
Markoff has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
This week, McAllister issued another statement through an attorney saying that she stands by Markoff and still loves him, but is cooperating with the investigation.
She asked that her fiancé's fate not be determined by the press and public opinion.
"What has been portrayed and leaked to the media is not the Philip Markoff that I know," McAllister said. "To me and my family, he is a loving and caring person."
Evidence has been mounting against Markoff since he was jailed.
Last week, a preliminary match was made between a gun allegedly found in Markoff and McAllister's apartment and the bullets that killed Brisman, police sources said. The underwear of Brisman and his second alleged victim was also reportedly discovered at Markoff's home, according to the sources.
On Friday, authorities in Rhode Island said his fingerprints were found on the wall of the hotel room where the Vegas stripper was tied up in an attempted robbery.
Markoff was a second-year medical student at Boston University when he was arrested last week during a traffic stop as he drove to Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. He has pleaded not guilty.
California Woman: My Father Was the Zodiac Killer
A woman stepped forward Wednesday to claim her late father was the infamous Zodiac Killer and that she as a 7-year-old wrote and stamped some of the letters that taunted local police.Kevin McLean, the former law partner of the late Melvin Belli, said he has led a two-year investigation into claims by Deborah Perez [pictured] that her father, Guy Ward Hendrickson, was the Zodiac killer. Hendrickson, who lived in Orange County, died in 1993 of cancer.
Perez described Hendrickson as a carpenter, a father of six, with a violent nature.
“He was a Jekyll and Hyde,” McLean said of Hendrickson. “He was nuts. He set out to kill people. Some of these killings were not random.”
McLean said Perez came forward on Wednesday because another investigator in Sacramento was about to come forward with a different theory of the killings. She was also currently involved in making a documentary on the crime.
As a youngster, Perez said she sometimes accompanied her father on his killing sprees to the Bay Area. The family lived in Santa Ana, but McLean said Hendrickson may have worked at one time at the Mare Island Naval shipyard in Vallejo.
“There were strange events with my father,” she said. “I would hear shots and my father would say it was firecrackers. I would see a woman running and then hear shots and he would tell me someone threw firecrackers at her.”
Perez said that she wrote and stamped the letters to the San Francisco Chronicle following the murder of San Francisco cab driver Paul Stine in October 1969. Those letters have been in the possession of the San Francisco police since 1969.
She also claimed to be with her father when he allegedly killed Darlene Ferrin, 22, at the Blue Springs Golf Club in July 1969 and wounded her companion, Michael Mageau, 19.
“He had a vicious argument with Dee that night,” she said. “My father grabbed his gun. He goes up to the passenger side. I heard shots. I heard screams and moans. Five minutes later, we were pulled over by the police. He hid the gun on me.”
Perez said her father apologized for “doing bad things” on his death bed, but she didn’t know that involved the Zodiac killings.
The findings of McLean’s investigation have now been forwarded to the FBI and he has also asked local police for help in verifying Perez’s claims. She claims she still has Stine’s presciption glasses, which could serve as the material evidence necessary to help verify her claims.
Perez also said she embroidered the mask her father wore during some of the slayings and added she had – as a child – seen a scrapbook that would indicate her father may killed “30-40” people.
“Everyone is going to say she is crazy, but we had psychologists examine Ms. Perez,” McLean said.
The Zodiac killer -- he gave himself that moniker in his taunting letters to police and newspapers -- is blamed for at least seven murders in 1968 and 1969.
He was never caught though many believe he was Arthur Leigh Allen, a convicted child molester from Vallejo who died in 1992.
In September 1969, the Zodiac struck in Napa County, stabbing two 20-year-old college students picnicking at Lake Berryessa. The crime scene was a small peninsula jutting out into the lake. The couple was accosted, hog-tied and repeatedly stabbed by a man dressed all in black and wearing an executioner-type hood.
Cecelia Shepard died; Bryan Hartnell survived and is now a lawyer in Southern California.
Three killings then took place in the Vallejo area. David Farraday and Betty Lou Jensen, teenagers on their first date, were shot to death in December 1968. Ferrin, 22, was shot and killed seven months later at the Blue Springs Golf Club, while her companion, Michael Mageau, 19, survived.
His final Bay Are slaying may have occurred on October 11, 1969, when a man entered Stine's cab at the intersection of Mason and Geary Streets in San Francisco and requested to be taken to Washington and Maple Streets in Presidio Heights.
One block later, the passenger shot Stine once in the head with a 9 mm, took his wallet and car keys, and then tore off his shirt tail. On October 14, the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from the Zodiac containing a swatch of Stine's shirt tail as proof he was the killer.
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You are full of so much positive energy today that your ego will be enormous -- just be careful that you don't lose sight of what you are actually capable of.
You can negotiate the difference between cocky and confident.
It's a great time to try your most insane-sounding scheme and see how far you can take it.
On any other day, reality might keep you from aiming so high -- but today, you don't really feel like anything can stop you.
And you just might be right!
And with that ... away we go ...
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