Update on a Mothers grief and Courage!

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The above is the tragic 911 call from Deborah Palfrey’s Mother when she found her daughter. Her murdered daughter! She would of never done this because for 14 months in jail!

Here is the update on her Mom. God Bless her in  her  struggles.

Deborah’s Mom

Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s mother, Blanche Palfrey, has been named the Administrator of the Estate of her daughter’s estate in California. On July 23, 2008 the federal court issued a court order to remove the “Stay of Proceedings” upon the appointment of Blanche Palfrey as Administrator of the Estate of her daughter, Deborah Jeane Palfrey. A status hearing will be held on September 4, 2008.

As you may recall, there was a tug of war between the government and Blanche Palfrey on Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s assets after Ms. Palfrey’s death and the abatement of Ms. Palfrey’s case. According to Ms. Palfrey’s suicide notes, she left her mother control of her estate. Blanche Palfrey had filed a Petition to Assert her individual Interest in her daughter’s properties as a parent and as the controller of her estate who needed her daughter’s property for financial support. It is assumed that Preston Burton is now Blanche Palfrey’s attorney since Burton got the court order to remove “Stay of Proceedings” according to the court document on July 22, 2008. It reads as follows:

“Blanche Palfrey, through the undersigned counsel for both her and for the Estate of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, respectfully files this notice to inform the Court that Blanche Palfrey was formally appointed as Administrator of the estate of Deborah Jeane Palfrey by the Superior Court of California, Solano County, on July 11, 2008. A copy of the Letter of Administration is attached. Undersigned counsel respectfully suggests the Court set a status hearing after September 1, 2008 so that the parties may pursue informal in discussions that may sharpen the issues before the Court.”

On July 18, 2008, Ms. Palfrey’s civil attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley filed two court documents: (1) A lien against any possible recovery of the estate assets against the pending civil suit of the Ms. Palfrey’s assets. (2) A Notice of Interested Part to be sent papers in regards to the Civil Forfeiture Case against the estate assets of Ms. Palfrey. Sibley’s license had been suspended in Washington DC and Florida and had tried to have Burton replaced as Blanche Palfrey’s attorney. But, on May 21, 2008, U.S. government filed a notice to have a new attorney appointed because of Sibley’s suspension.

According to Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s indictment, here were the following assets that Ms. Palfrey’s mother is trying to recover: $313,836.31 from one Charles Schwab Funds and Stock Investment accounts, $36,458.67 in another fund account at Charles Schwab,$61,793.59 from one Charles Schwab Funds and Stock Investment accounts, $4,055.68 from one Wells Fargo account, $9,340.67 from one Wells Fargo account, 413 South African Gold Krugerrands, 81 U.S. Liberty $50 gold coins, 320 U.S. Liberty $1 silver coins, 61 Canadian $50 gold coins, and two properties in California: A property on Capitol Street in Vallejo, California which is valued at approximately $495,000.00. A property on Vaquero Glen in Escondido, California which is valued at $480,000.00.

Meanwhile, Blanche Palfrey’s hearing against City of Tarpon Springs Police Department to block release of police photos of her daughter’s suicide will be held on August 15, 2008 at 9:30 am. Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s civil attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley has filed a Motion to Intervene to block Blanche Palfrey’s civil lawsuit. In Sibley’s interview with Citizens of Legitimate Government, he said, “Jeane [Palfrey] was very clear with me that if she was ever found dead of an apparent suicide, I was to make sure that all the evidence was publicly disseminated so that it could be independently evaluated.” One has to wonder the outcome of the fight between Blanche Palfrey, mother of Deborah Jeane Palfrey and Montgomery Blair Sibley, Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s civil attorney and confidant. Basically this comes down a fight between a mother’s protection of her deceased daughter and protection of privacy versus an attorney’s obligation to his deceased client as per instructions to reveal the circumstances of her death.

In the lawsuit filed in August of 2008, Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s mother, Blanche Palfrey, claims that the photographs taken by police at the scene and by the medical examiner during the autopsy would be inappropriate to release and would cause her, and any children that may see them, severe emotional distress. The lawsuit stated that because of the constant media attention of the incident, that releasing the photos would “not serve any legitimate purpose as far as keeping the public informed.”
As of August 7, 2008, the Tarpon Springs Police Department had not released any photos regarding the suicide, stating that the investigation was ongoing. Jim Yacavone, an attorney for the town, added that city officials plan to adhere to local laws, which includes releasing the photos, unless they are told otherwise by the court. At the time the lawsuit was filed, TheSmokingGun.com was the only outlet that has requested the photos.

SO– WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INFAMOUS BOOK????

The Drug War’s Latest Tally: Unicorns Everywhere

872,721 Pot Arrests, an All-Time High

By Paul Armentano, AlterNet

If denial is the first sign of addiction, then Drug Czar John Walters is hooked to the gills. He’s addicted to targeting and arresting marijuana consumers, and he’ll do and say anything to keep this irrational and punitive policy in place.

Speaking earlier this month on C-Span, the reigning Czar stretched his usual deceit to outrageous new heights. Responding to a question from the Marijuana Policy Project’s Dan Bernath, Walters flatly denied the charge that over 800,000 Americans are arrested annually for violating pot laws.

“We didn’t arrest 800,000 marijuana users,” Walters proclaimed. “That’s [a] lie.”

If only it were.

According to data released yesterday in the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report, police in 2007 arrested over 872,000 US citizens – that’s nearly one out of every two Americans busted for illicit drugs — for weed. (The raw data is available from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation here and here.) That figure is a five percent increase over the total number of Americans busted in 2006. It’s more than three times the number of citizens charged with pot violations sixteen years ago.

Of those arrested in 2007, 89 percent – some 775,000 Americans — were charged with simple pot possession, not trafficking, cultivation, or sale. (By comparison, 27 percent of those arrested for heroin and cocaine offenses were charged with sales.) Three out of four were under age 30; one in four were 18-years-old or younger.

The FBI’s tally is the highest marijuana arrest total ever-reported in law enforcement history. If this pace continues, annual arrests for pot will surpass one million per year by 2010.

But to hear America’s top drug cop tell it few, if any, citizens are ever arrested for pot possession, and absolutely no one goes to jail for breaking marijuana laws.

“The fact is today, people don’t go to jail for the possession of marijuana,” Walters alleged on C-Span. “Finding somebody in jail or prison for possession of marijuana is like finding a unicorn. It doesn’t exist.”

Not true says the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, which reported last year in black and white — perhaps the Drug Czar is reading impaired – that 12.7 percent of state inmates and 12.4 percent of federal inmates incarcerated for drug abuse violations are serving time for marijuana offenses. Combining these percentages with separate U.S. Department of Justice statistics on the total number of state and federal drug prisoners suggests that, at a minimum, there are now about 33,655 state inmates and 10,785 federal inmates behind bars for marijuana offenses. (The report failed to include estimates on the percentage of inmates incarcerated in county or local jails for pot-related offenses, nor did it take into account the number of inmates serving time for violating the terms of their marijuana-related probation, such as those who submitted a ‘dirty’ urine to their parole officer.)

No matter how one slices it, that’s a lot of unicorns.

It also begs the question: Why does the Drug Czar feel the need to go to such absurd lengths to hide this overt outgrowth of American drug policy? After all, the US Drug Enforcement Administration and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy typically issue chest-thumping press releases when they achieve record busts for offenses involving cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine? Why then do they shy away from making similar proclamations for pot?

Perhaps it’s because, deep down, even the Drug Czar knows that the use of cannabis does not pose anywhere near the health and safety threat as does the use of other intoxicants, including alcohol, and that most Americans – rightly – would be outraged to learn that our nation’s so-called war on drugs is really just an assault on young adults caught with small bags of weed.

Making The Best Of A Bad Situation… LOL

Two guys in a Howard Stern prank making out on CNN during Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy report.

Maybe it’s just me—

… but this seems like such BS regarding our local gas shortage??? — much less the price jump of over $1.00per gallon in minutes. There are not people driving around  here… no buying  gas either. PILOT’s explaination sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Pilot among companies to receive information requests
TOM FOREMAN Jr., Associated Press Writer
Originally published 05:12 p.m., September 14, 2008
Updated 09:18 p.m., September 14, 2008

RALEIGH, N.C. – Attorneys general in Florida and North Carolina are issuing subpoenas to determine if gas stations in their respective states are gouging customers with price increases after Hurricane Ike struck the Texas coast.
And officials in other Southern states activated anti-price gouging laws or warned consumers to be on the lookout for unreasonble gasoline price hikes.
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum’s office announced Sunday it had issued subpoenas seeking invoices to justify price hikes at three separate chains around the state. Those brands are supplied by independent distributors.
A spokeswoman for North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said subpoenas would be mailed beginning Monday to determine if some stations are engaging in price gouging. His action, which was announced Saturday, followed word from Gov. Mike Easley, who on Friday declared a state of “abnormal market disruption” and signed an order allowing Cooper to enforce North Carolina’s anti-gouging law.
McCollum issued the subpoenas after receiving more than 350 complaints about gasoline price gouging over a four-day period.
“Price gouging is strictly prohibited in Florida during a declared state of emergency and my investigators have been working throughout the weekend to determine whether Floridians are being taken advantage of,” McCollum said in a statement. “Passing along a justifiable increase in cost to consumers is legal, but we will not tolerate gouging for greed.”
The subpoenas were issued to corporate offices of Flying J, Dodge’s Gas Stores, Valero and Pilot Travel Centers. Consumer complaints against the stations were reported to be particularly high in the Tampa region, south and central Florida, and Tallahassee and the Panhandle. The complaints began last Thursday, and officials said they had received 317 complaints about gasoline price gouging related to Ike.
Jimmy Haslam, chief executive of Pilot Travel Centers LLC, based in Knoxville, said in a statement Sunday evening: “Pilot understands the severity of the situation created by the market disruption due to Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Our priority has been to keep our customers supplied with fuel at prices commensurate with the cost we have paid to acquire the product. Pilot certainly will cooperate with the attorney general’s inquiry into this matter and will provide whatever information necessary.”
McCollum’s office asked that the materials be provided within a week. Service of the subpoenas will begin Monday.
Cooper, who himself fielded complaints from upset consumers on Saturday, said his office would take action if it found any instances of gouging.
“Any station or any wholesaler that’s trying to take advantage of this situation and is gouging consumers will face the music from our office,” Cooper said in an interview with WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
The attorney general’s office will look for “unreasonably excessive” prices, Cooper said. “It’s one of those things where you know it when you see it.”
Spokeswoman Noelle Talley said the consumer protection office had received several hundred telephone calls on Saturday and was still receiving calls on Sunday. She did not have an exact number.
Late Friday, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed an executive order activating that state’s statute against price gouging that allows prosecution of stations that raise prices excessively. Alabama Gov. Bob Riley declared a state of emergency, activating that state’s price gouging law.
An Alabama law that prohibits “unconscionable pricing” of items for sale or rent goes into effect when the governor has declared a state of emergency.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said his office was looking into complaints of price gouging after the governor declared a state of emergency for Hurricane Gustav.
In Tennessee, Attorney General Robert Cooper issued a statement on Friday asking residents to be wary of price gougers.

Local gas prices soar
Short supply [?] sends pump prices toward $5 per gallon
By Ed Marcum (Contact)
Saturday, September 13, 2008

Hurricane Ike, which pounded the Texas coast with storm surges and punishing winds overnight, has helped send Knoxville pump prices surging as fuel retailers work feverishly to keep their stores afloat while they search for gasoline supplies anywhere they can find them.
Before Hurricane Gustav ran ashore at New Orleans in recent days, drivers were finally seeing relief at gas stations and convenience stores, with prices retreating from the $4 per gallon level. But they found prices climbing above $4 a gallon Friday, heading toward the $5 mark. Some drivers had trouble even finding gas as stores placed plastic bags over pump handles when they ran out. [remember you just read that sentence...]
The rapid price increases had many consumers complaining about price gouging, a concern that prompted a response from Knoxville-based Pilot Travel Centers LLC, one of the country’s leading retailers of gasoline and diesel fuel, as well as warnings from Tennessee’s attorney general and division of consumer affairs.
Alan Wright, vice president for supply and distribution for Pilot, said during a rare Pilot press conference Friday that economic forces are driving the surge in prices. Some motorists around Knoxville saw prices rise Friday as they were still pumping gas, eliciting gouging complaints.
Wright said Pilot stores were not engaging in such practices. With normal sources of fuel disrupted, Pilot and other retailers are having to search out other suppliers, often at greater cost, he said.
“We are simply responding to market forces,” he said.
He pointed out that fuel prices have been increasing rapidly on the spot market, reaching $5 per gallon in the Gulf Coast area and higher than that in some cities such as Chicago.
Don Lindsey, director of public affairs for AAA East Tennessee, joined Wright at the press conference and said the smaller supply of gas, caused by the disruption from Gustav, is driving up prices.
“What we are going to see over the next few weeks is a wide disparity in prices between stations and locations,” Lindsey said. “If you had a contract to buy gas for say five cents over the base price and you have to go out and hunt for it, you may have to pay more.”
“At least through the end of September and possibly beyond, we can expect price increases,” he added.
Still, Tennessee officials have announced that they will be keeping an eye out for signs of gouging.
“We are taking this very seriously,” Leslie Newman, state Department of Commerce and Insurance commissioner said in a statement.
That department and the state Attorney General’s office are asking consumers who suspect gouging to contact them.
As for fuel availability, Pilot hasn’t run out at any of its stores, but is struggling to make sure supplies remain constant. A fuel shipment from Colonial Pipeline’s main trunk into Knoxville that was originally slated to arrive Saturday, then was postponed until Tuesday, has now been pushed back to Thursday, Wright said.
The problem now is not just less fuel coming from the refineries, but a run on the pumps by drivers, he said.
“The fuel situation for Pilot really hasn’t changed a whole lot since yesterday. We have fuel right now and we continue to deliver fuel to our stores; the problem we have is we are selling about twice as much fuel as we normally would,” he said.
Wright said he anticipated there will be more spikes in fuel prices and short supplies over the next two to three weeks after Ike hits.
Pilot isn’t the only local gasoline retailer watching the fuel situation deteriorate.
“I’ve been in this business 50 years and this has never happened before,” said Bill Weigel, head of the Weigel’s chain of convenience stores in Knox, Blount, Sevier, Loudon, Anderson and Monroe counties.
Weigel, who said Thursday that about a half-dozen Weigel’s stores had run out of gas, declined to say how many more stores had run dry Friday.
“It’s worse today than yesterday, and it will probably be worse tomorrow,” he said Friday.
Weigel and other retailers have been scouring the country for fuel supplies since Gustav left refinery outages along the Gulf Coast, creating severe shortages. With Ike reaching landfall at Galveston and Houston, the heart of the country’s petroleum manufacturing industry, some fear a worst-case scenario for retailers and consumers.
Weigel said Friday afternoon he had found a supply of gasoline in Birmingham, Ala., and was afraid to find out what it was going to cost him. He had to pay $4.49 a gallon for the last batch he bought.
With Ike coming ashore, other Knoxville organizations have prepared or are making preparations to keep essential service providers supplied with fuel.
Randy Kenner, city of Knoxville spokesman, said residents should not see any interruptions in service by the police or fire departments, garbage pick-up or other departments.
“We are in good shape,” Kenner said. “Our fleet service people made a pre-emptive move last week and ordered extra fuel.”
Kenner said this was done in response to Gustav, but the city isn’t worried about disruption from Ike. City fuel reserves are full and “we have another order in already,” he said.
The city has a 20-day supply of gasoline and a 22-day supply of diesel fuel, Kenner said.
Rural Metro also has taken a number of measures, said Dennis Rowe, who represents the ambulance and fire-response service in Knox and Loudon counties. The company has a primary source vendor that assures it can provide an adequate supply of fuel, he said. Most Rural Metro vehicles use diesel, which has not been in as short supply as gasoline, Rowe said. Also, Rural Metro drivers have been issued corporate credit cards that allow them to buy fuel at locations, he said.
However, Rural Metro is prepared to take further measures if needed, such as limiting vehicles’ time on the road, avoiding the use of gas-powered vehicles and others. Rowe said Rural Metro also has an agreement with the Knox County Health Department to use a fuel supplier the health department can provide in an emergency.
KUB also is confident it has sufficient supplies for its fleet, said spokeswoman Pam Jordan.
“But we are asking our employees to eliminate any unnecessary trips in KUB vehicles in order to help with the local fuel situation,” she said.
Drivers feel exasperated by the fuel situation now and may feel even more so in the coming weeks, but Lindsey urged people to keep calm.
“As consumers, there are some things we need to remember. First of all, this is temporary. This is a short-term situation that is going to go away fairly soon,” he said. “Secondly, we can help not have higher prices if we don’t go out and panic buy. If we just buy on our normal need schedule, we can help avoid some of this stuff,” he said.
Business writer Ed Marcum may be reached at 865-342-6267.

Do You Know What I Think?

Fred and Mary get married but couldn’t afford a honeymoon, so they go back to Fred’s Mom and Dad’s house for their first night together.

In the morning, Johnny, Fred’s little brother, gets up and has his breakfast.

As he is going out of the door to go to school, he asks his mom if Fred and Mary are up yet.

She replies, ‘No’.

Johnny asks, ‘Do you know what I think?’

His mom replies, ‘I don’t want to hear what you think! Just go to school.’

Johnny comes home from lunch and asks his mom, ‘Are Fred and Mary up yet?’

She replies, ‘No.’

Johnny says, ‘Do you know what I think?’

His mom replies, ‘Never mind what you think! Eat your lunch and go back to school .’

After school, Johnny comes home and asks again, ‘Are Fred and Mary up yet?’

His mom says, ‘No.’

He asks, ‘Do you know what I think?’

His mom replies, ‘Ok, now tell me what you think?’

He says: ‘Last night Fred came to my room for the Vasoline and I think…I gave him my airplane glue

h/t to a Retired Person of Interest

‘Dysfunctional’ Banking System Puts U.S. ‘Totally’ at Risk of ‘Great Depression No. 2′

Let’s discuss the “End of the Myth” (as Bill Noxid wrote at Information Clearing House today). As you can see when you watch the video below, there are scary words being thrown around in the Financial Sector. Even Jim Cramer is getting pretty damned scary:

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But, as you have seen from earlier writings, I look deep into conspiracy issues and/or theories very closely (you may not agree with my summation, but that is besides the point). When I see things that seem so blatantly obvious to me, I don’t just blab about it. I start reading and studying before writing much (disregard the snarky stuff which is meant to entertain). On issues like our economy and the health and well-being of our country, I read vociferously. I want to form a very clear understanding of the issue, but I would be dishonest if I portrayed myself as an expert, especially in the financial end.

But I am also no fool and can see what obviously many rednecks intentionally ignore… even when it harms themselves and their family. One thing that worries me in this all out aggressive effort throughout the world is that it may be some last ditch effort to secure the remaining scraps of energy supplies. Big Money has a motivation to secure its power structure as the world falls into chaos and hunger.

None of this should be a surprise to anyone. But why most aren’t more up-in-arms is beyond me.

Obviously, this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone anyway. It’s been developing for quite a long time. Eight years of stealing your children’s futures to pay for killing someone else’s children while you allow your own ability to produce anything to be shuttled off to the next generation corporate slave countries, does not make for a healthy economy. If you didn’t care so much about flag pins, ceiling cracks, and pastors, you might have noticed. Not that they are helping you understand anything – considering they control all major media outlets and political parties, but that shouldn’t come as a surprise either. Their only intent is to feed your ego and keep you stupid, so ( as you can plainly see ) you don’t even notice when they are taking your lives and livelihood.

To be perfectly honest, it’s even hard for me to believe how much damage ( or how much success – depending on how you look at it ) they fashioned in a mere eight years…and I saw it coming a decade before that. They took virtually all of your rights, all of your future, all of your money, all of your health, all of your respect, and all of your dignity, and yet some of you would still rather hear how great this country is than accept the truth about what is happening and why. It’s the impenetrable American egotism that has led to this abyss and that has led you to be the least educated, most imprisoned, least healthy, most destructive, least honest, most hated populous and culture in the history of the world… and that is no small feat on this planet.

Is it that you don’t know anyone that questions the glaring motives and actions of these people running things? Are you so overwhelmed with the hardships of life that you feel you can’t do anything about it… to just let it go and fall into oblivion, if necessary?

Believe it or not, I used to accept the myth they disseminate in this country ( and force on the rest of the world ) too. Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is everything they taught you was cover story for the criminal and diabolical enterprises you know as finance and government. As you should be able to discern from the hundreds of billions of dollars in “write-downs” ( lost, stolen, and imaginary value ) and the hundreds of billions of dollars in bail-outs ( tax-slaves having no say in giving them back the money they have already stolen in order to perpetuate the illusion of an economy ), criminal enterprise is exactly what it is.

They ARE criminals, rednecks. Thieving, lying, murderers. And many of you praise them for their being “Men of God”, etc. This is why I cannot lay clai to being a Christian. If being a Christian is being like GW Bush, John McCain, Bill O’Reilley, Sean Hannity, and that adma’s appled bitch, then I simply cannot be one of those. Nor should you.

Yet in spite of all of this empirical and inescapable every day evidence, there are those that still cling ( yes, that right… I said cling ) to the shallow mythologies that justify their continued denial of their own behavior, and the enslavement and molestation of the peoples and lands of this world… all while claiming to know and serve God.

A key component of the intentionally missed message of Reverend Wright was that:

“To say “I am a Christian” is not enough. Why? Because the Christianity of the slaveholder is not the Christianity of the slave. The God to whom the slaveholders pray as they ride on the decks of the slave ship is not the God to whom the enslaved are praying as they ride beneath the decks on that slave ship.”

No true follower of God could make a distinction on something as primitive as shade of skin, and call one Son and one Not, yet you have built an entire society and global economy on exactly that belief. It is the only way such a shallow mind could justify the atrocities you commit and condone against your own kind on this planet. You claim to understand the reality that God knows your every thought and action, yet you think what you think, and you do what you do.

Its time to wake up, rednecks. Please, for the REAL God’s sake (not the ones that the neocons worship with missles and death) wake the fuck up.

But before you get too offended ( I know, far too late for that ), bear in mind that I am one of you ( sort of ), and I am on your side. The side of Mankind, that is. Coming to this awareness about my own country, planet, and species was no comfortable journey for me either, but it is necessary to understand in order to evolve. The alternative of living a lie and serving the corporations that purposefully suppress and poison the true nature of this glorious planet and all of its inhabitants was just not mentally, physically, or spiritually an option for me anymore.

Believe me when I tell you… It’s not an option for you anymore either. The Universe is watching and you cannot afford to wait one more second to face the truth. It is imperative that you become the stewards and contributors to the Universal Consciousness that you are designed to be, before you face the threat of the end of your time on Earth.

General Petraeus Explains That There Is No Victory In Iraq

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BBC interviewed General Petraeus recently and he said that the surge success was “not irreversible” and that the US still faced a “long struggle”.

Sound very successful to you?

But all is not lost, the progress there is “a bit more durable”.

But have we won? Can we declare a “victory”?

“This is not the sort of struggle where you take a hill, plant the flag and go home to a victory parade… it’s not war with a simple slogan.“

Now I wonder who has employed this simple slogan for so many years?