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ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A Pakistani court on Monday convicted Osama bin Laden's three widows and two of his daughters of illegally entering and living in the country and sentenced them to 45 days in prison, with credit for time served, their lawyer said.
The five women have been in detention since last May, when U.S. commandos killed the al-Qaida chief at the walled three-story compound in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where he had been living with his family for six years.
Pakistani authorities formally arrested the women on March 3, so they will serve another two weeks in prison and then will be deported to their home countries along with the family's younger children, said their lawyer, Mohammed Amir Khalil.
The case treads on a number of sensitive issues for Pakistan. The army faced rare domestic criticism following the U.S. raid that killed the al-Qaida chief because they were powerless to stop it. Citizens also said bin Laden's presence in the country for so long either pointed to the military's incompetence or complicity.
Two of the widows are Saudi and one is Yemeni, Khalil said. Khalil said Yemen has consented to the return, but he is still in discussions with Saudi officials. Saudi Arabia stripped bin Laden of his citizenship in 1994 because of his verbal attacks against the Saudi royal family.
A member of the bin Laden family in Saudi Arabia, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said they had talked to Saudi officials, who indicated they would be willing to allow the widows to return and grant their children citizenship if requested. But the family, which is prominent and wealthy, has not decided whether to intervene on the women's behalf, he said.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry declined to comment.
The five women were also ordered to pay a fine of about $110 each, which has already been done, said Khalil. The lawyer does not plan to appeal the court's ruling.
Bin Laden's 30-year-old Yemeni wife, Amal Ahmed Abdel-Fatah al-Sada, was overjoyed to finally be heading home, said her brother, Zakaria al-Sada. Yemen has issued her five children passports so they can return with her, he said.
The three widows would like to be deported to the same country to "stay as one family," he said.
A Yemeni Foreign Ministry official said the country has not received a request to grant the Saudi widows residency.
Pakistani officials have said they had no idea the al-Qaida chief was in Abbottabad, something many in Washington found hard to believe because his compound was located close to Pakistan's equivalent of the West Point military academy.
The U.S. has not found evidence indicating senior Pakistani officials knew of bin Laden's whereabouts.
But details uncovered recently from the interrogation of bin Laden's Yemeni wife raised fresh questions about how he was able to remain undetected for so long in Pakistan after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, despite being the subject of a massive international manhunt.
After leaving Afghanistan, bin Laden lived in five safe houses over the course of nine years while on the run in Pakistan. During that time he fathered four children, two of them born in government hospitals, according to al-Sada's interrogation report, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
Al-Sada's account says she flew to Pakistan in 2000 and traveled to Afghanistan, where she married bin Laden before the Sept. 11 attacks.
After that, the family "scattered," she said, and she traveled to Karachi in Pakistan. She later met up with bin Laden in Peshawar and then moved to the Swat Valley, where they lived in two houses. They moved one more time before settling in Abbottabad in 2005.
The compound in Abbottabad was a crowded place, with 28 residents -- including the 54-year-old bin Laden, his three wives, eight of his children and five of his grandchildren, according to Brig. Shaukat Qadir, a retired Pakistani army officer who spent months researching the bin Laden raid and said he was given access to interrogation transcripts.
The bin Laden children ranged in age from his son Khaled, who was in his 20s and was killed in the raid, to a 3-year-old born during their time in Abbottabad, said Qadir. Bin Laden's courier, the courier's brother and their wives and children also lived in the compound.
There was tension between bin Laden's youngest wife, al-Sada, and his oldest, Khairiah Saber, who arrived in Abbottabad in early 2011 after being held in Iran for about a decade, the brigadier said. Some in the family were convinced Saber intended to betray the al-Qaida leader.
There is no evidence Khairiah Saber had any role in bin Laden's end. U.S. officials have said his courier inadvertently led the CIA to the Abbottabad villa after they overheard him in a monitored phone call.
Associated Press writers Ahmed al-Haj in Sanaa, Yemen, and Abdullah al-Shihri in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia contributed to this report.

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Martin Luther King Day is coming up and one Albemarle County school is celebrating in a unique way. The school is not just celebrating Dr. King, but also celebrating students who exhibit his same qualities every day.
Twenty students were honored at a ceremony at Woodbrook Elementary School Friday. The kids were picked by their teachers for having qualities similar to Dr. King himself, such as cooperation, assertion, responsibility, and self-control.
This is the second year of the program and the teacher who started it says she wants to go beyond just the basic lessons about Dr. King.
"I wanted to find a way to reflect and celebrate on Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, while at the same time let kids know that they're the seed of his dream," said Leslie Wills, the diversity resource teacher at Woodbrook.
Administrators say programs like this help reduce school bullying. In the past year, the amount of bullying at the school reported by students has dropped significantly.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities are investigating the death of an 8-year-old Southern California boy who was found inside a washing machine at his home. Authorities say the boy's father found him head-first with his legs sticking out of a water-filled top-loader at their Castaic home last Wednesday night and pulled him out. Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say the father had been working in the yard and the boy's mother had gone to the store. The boy wasn't breathing when firefighters arrived. He was resuscitated and hospitalized but died Sunday. His name wasn't released. Sheriff's homicide detectives are investigating the death.(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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on Jun 15, 2012 at 11:32 am
According to other school districts. The Ed Code states if a School in the past has implemented a staggered school day then reverted back to non staggered they may not reinstitute the staggered system. Has anyone looked at this? During a casual conversation with another Superintendent this opinion came to light.
on Jun 15, 2012 at 12:23 pm
In this article you say the board has discussed a shorter school day for weeks. Can you point me to the minutes of the discussions? I'd like to see the comments of our representatives. Thanks.
on Jun 15, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Glenn Wohltmann is a registered user.
See the PUSD main page (Web Link) for more information.
The board discussed staggered schedules in at least two meetings, on May 22 and June 5. You can find the discussion by looking at the district's archived videos on the PUSD site.
on Jun 15, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Did you see these discussions? Approx where in the videos are they? I don't see any discussion of the impact of shorter days in the written notes. Thanks.
on Aug 16, 2012 at 7:36 pm
What is staggered reading? duh...
on Aug 22, 2012 at 10:20 am
Reducing school time by 100 hours per year & claiming that we are barely above absolute mandated state minimum, is "enlightened" progress. Congratulations PUSD board for your high standards.
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i dont like this
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The Hampshire County chemist accused of tampering with drug evidence at an Amherst crime lab faced a judge Tuesday.
Sonja Farak's lawyer entered not guilty pleas on her behalf.
The judge set a $5,000 cash bail with several conditions including that Farak stay drug free, report to probation weekly, that she surrender her passport and obey a 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew.
The 35-year-old had no comment as she left Eastern Hampshire District Court on Tuesday afternoon.
Police allege that Farak took a substance that tested positive for cocaine from the Massachusetts Crime Laboratory in Amherst where she worked as a chemist and replaced it with one that did not.
While arguing conditions of bail, the defense said this case is getting more attention as a result of the Jamaica Plains lab scandal involving chemist Annie Dookan who was indicted on 27 counts of mishandling and tainting drug evidence only a few months back.
"Put it this way, if we did not have the case in the Eastern part of the state, there wouldn't be such scrutiny in this case," said defense attorney, Elaine Pourinski. "And it would be, I would say, a case of personal recognizance given the lack of record and her substantial roots in the community."
The suspicion over Farak began last week when an evidence officer was unable to locate two separate cases from Springfield.
According to court papers obtained by CBS 3, plastic tubes containing various controlled substances were found in Farak's workstation and car.
"It very well could be a nightmare scenario for our office, but it is really too soon, really premature, to be able to tell that," said Hampden County District Attorney Mark Mastroianni.
Mastroianni told CBS 3 there is a long road ahead.
"We need to assess how many samples of drugs were at the Amherst laboratory at the time when this chemist was employed there, we need to assess how many of those samples this chemist had access to, we also need to assess how many samples were in fact interfered with," said Mastroianni.
Mastroianni said that Farak regularly appears in the county's court system testifying on evidence and that she is very much involved in the testing of samples sent out to the Amherst lab.
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A channeled message from the Elohim. I had been wondering about a post on facebook where there was much discussion about justice and what do we do to respond. This was the message I received:
"wisdom teaches that there is always greater truth at the end then at the beginning. what does this mean? that you will understand all after it has happened instead of before it does. this does not mean to not (want)home or dream or plan or intend. this means that the full impact of any action or choice is not known and does not need to be known for humans to practice faith trust and intentions for highest good. in your case, Helen, there is a reason for you to not know what is coming for this is how you build trust within your self and with your relationship to spirit.
Anticipation is not your friend. Detachment to the outcome, after setting intention, that is your friend, that is a new paradigm concept that you can work with. This is the practice that we would like to see you do, more. There are a hundred ways to do just about everything and so it is not fitting to demand one clear path. You are not yet as free, as you will be, to choose and for you, like many choosing, deciding - is not a fun activity. We want you to become friends with choosing. we want you to become friends with ambiguity we want you to be comfortable in your body as a sacred temple of wisdom and power. This is not the message you received about your body in the earlier part of this lifetime or in most of your lifetimes in linear past. This is a truth we share, bear witness to it, for you shall see the results of holding your body in this way. All good and abundance will attend to you as you make your body and your daily accountability to self, earth, Light humanity, your practice.
The practice of love is the practice of choosing from within one power and heart.
The practice of love is the choosing of present moment awareness and consciousness. There is no past or future in this practice. There is no expectation or regret, no memory or fantasy in it. The now is far more infinite than you may realize and therefore a more potent magical experience than you give it credit. Within is much depth and magic, as without. Both are active, potent and creative ground for the following moments of now you may choose. The words here are not quite getting to the ideas we wish to be conveying, but it is a start, and so we will take this and "run with it" as you say. hahaha.
there are several fields of endeavor that we wish to explore with you today. fields that are emerging as the energy makes them available to you. One is the field of cracking shells of beliefs, popping balloons of fears /beliefs that are scary and not useful to people anymore. pop pop crack crack. any ideas that cause anxiety or suspicion. thoughts that bring up regret or indignation count as thoughts that are to be discarded, with love, saying "thanks, but no thanks, I am not interested in thinking that, any longer."
Thinking that the world is healing, free and filled with Light will go a lot farther for you than thinking there is so much to be done to finally arrive at having a world that is healing and free and filled with Light. Do you see the difference? The discussion about "FIGHTING is an important one, because it is the oldest most entrenched dark idea on planet earth. It is a fear based idea. It is not a love based idea. In Oneness and Light, there is not duality conflict, there is a broad spectrum of approaches and infinite creative solutions, there is contrast, which IS useful, but not right and wrong, black and white, the duality views you have been immersed in for so many centuries of linear time.
So you see something that doesn't feel good or look good, that triggers a feeling of danger, fear, and injustice. What do you do? Ask spirit to put love into this scene, and be the presence of love in this scene, not as passive as but as love in action, love blowing away anything else, love filling, building a scaffold of healing upon which new outcomes can be supported. New outcomes you can't even think of, just see the structure of love, the support there, to be used. Ask for help in this, the Light responds immediately. That is your active chance/choice to respond, to assist another, to assist a situation. Ask for love to come to the scene from everywhere including from within your heart and power. It will be there.
This may not feel like "fighting injustice" but it will work a whole lot better and as you practice this, you may find you will begin to prefer it. It also has the advantage of putting you in a position of "allowing" rather than "resisting" and we all know that "resistance is futile . . ." haha yes, a cosmic joke indeed.
the star trek concepts of the borg, the collective consciousness, are useful in that they portray a kind of existence/effectiveness in collective consciousness, however, the foundation of love and light are missing and therefore, distort the benefits and the outcomes of every encounter scripted within the scope of that program. So close were the concepts to what you are headed for but so often kept in fear based themes that they never achieved outright ascension scenarios, although some have come close, and soon, more benevolent scripts may be seen as have been written and are being written, and the interest to produce them will increase as the Light does.
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This is most uplifting for me to read. Especially the reminder of letting go. No matter how much I hear it and think of it I know I am not "letting go" enough. There is always a part of me that hangs around saying "where when?"
I know that part only falls away when faith turns my trusting into knowing, and then trust falls away. When I KNOW its going to happen because I asked for it or intended it. For no other reason, simply because I know I can have it.
People often think this thinking is blasphemous but when you know you can have anything you normally take deep responsibility even before you ask.
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What's Love Got to Do with It: Starfire in the New 52A column article, The Squeaky Wheel by: Kyrax2
What's Love Got to Do With It? : Starfire in the New 52
I wasn't going to do it. I wasn't going to write about Starfire. After all, there have been at least three brilliant articles written about Starfire's portrayal by DC in the newly-released comic Red Hood and the Outlaws, not to mention ComicsBulletin.com's own take on the controversy, with input from quite a few contributors. I didn't think I had anything to add to the conversation.
Then I realized what was really bothering me about Starfire's portrayal.
About halfway through the issue, Roy, who knows that Jason has had sex with Starfire, asks if he's worried about what will happen when Starfire finds out about Jason and "her ex."
"You mean on account of the times I tried to kill him -- and how Grayson tried to send me away for life more than once?" Jason replies with a casual smirk, "Unfortunately, it is a non-issue. Turns out Tamaraneans don't see humans as much more than sights and smells. And they have a terribly short attention span about all things Earth. Seriously, when you get a chance, ask her about the gang you used to hang with. Nothing."
You know how I read those lines?
Starfire is mentally impaired.
The scene continues. "Interesting," says Roy, a speculative look in his eye. A page or two later, he gets to test this assertion. "You don't remember anyone named Dick?" he says to Starfire.
"Garth? Dustin? Vic?"
"I can't recall."
"Lilith? Gar?"
"You are boring me."
Regardless of whether the reader recognizes the names he lists off, it's clear that Roy does-- and he thinks Starfire should. He's just confirmed what Jason told him: Starfire has no long-term memory to speak of when it comes to Earth, be it of friends, sexual companions, etc.
Here's where things get icky.
"Um, Jason's over there, talking to himself," says Roy as Starfire suggestively shoves her breasts in his face.
"And we're here. Do you want to have sex with me?"
Roy chokes on his drink, then recovers. "Um, but-- uh-- aren't you-- um, sorta-- Jason's girl?"
"Absurd. I am free to do what I want when I want. If you are not interested, I can probably--"
"No, no-- happy to oblige. So, is there anything I need to know about making love to a Tamaranean?"
"Just that love has nothing to do with it."
There are a couple of different ways to interpret Starfire's memory issues. Taking Jason's explanation at face-value, what we would interpret as mental impairment is a trait of Tamaraneans. However, some readers have suggested that Starfire's amnesia has an external cause, and that it will figure into future plots.
The explanation behind it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter whether Starfire's mental impairment is the result of biology that Scott Lobdell made up or because some unknown person slipped a roofie into her drink. What matters is that both Jason and Roy recognize that she is impaired, and neither of them have the slightest hesitation in accepting her offer of sex.
Can a person who has serious long term memory issues understand the consequences of their actions? Can a person who can't understand the consequences of their actions actually give consent?
I have a friend who used to work with mentally and physically disabled individuals, so I asked her about it. She told me the story of a man she once knew who was mentally impaired. He was desperate for a girlfriend, and would come on to every woman he met. Some women were kind to him. Some were cruel. A few took advantage of him. They would string him along as he bought them expensive gifts with what little money he had.
Does a mentally impaired adult deserve to have a loving, sexual relationship with someone?
Of course. Everyone does.
Does a mentally impaired adult deserve to be taken advantage of?
Of course not. No one does.
Legally, sexual consent is a gray area, depending on factors like whether the individual in question has been consigned to someone else's care and the extent of the impairment. Morally, it's less questionable. People who take advantage of mentally-impaired individuals are scum. Right?
So, what does that make Jason and Roy?
Jason makes it clear early in the comic that he has no problem using Starfire. As she destroys tanks and soldiers alike at his bidding, he explains her background to the reader: "Born a princess. Raised a slave. The Citadel were a militant race. She was traded into slavery by her sister-- an effort to buy peace from a race of marauding aliens. So she's not a big fan of soldiers...on any world. It's a feeling I thought I could use to my advantage today."
Once upon a time, Jason Todd was written as a character who hated people who abused or took advantage of others, especially women. But then, once upon a time, Roy had a daughter of his own named Lian.
For the record, I don't think Lobdell set out to write Starfire as mentally impaired. I think the amnesia was a convenient plot device. But the amnesia and the fact that Starfire has very little voice of her own-- she has fewer thought boxes and less dialogue than either of the male characters-- combined to create a portrayal that left me feeling distinctly icky. And I'm not the only one (Red Hood is the third to last entry).
What boggles my mind is that, if rumors are to be believed, Lobdell thought he was writing a strong, liberated woman. Even setting aside the messy, complicated issues of Starfire's apparent mental impairment and questionable ability to give consent, her portrayal is in no way that of a strong woman in control of her own destiny.
The lip-service paid to being free to do 'what she wants, when she wants' is a veneer of liberated woman painted so thin as to be as transparent as the bikini Starfire almost wore. The words come across like a man playing with a puppet of a girl he likes, right before he uses that hand to masturbate himself.
Red Hood #1 isn't Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It's a letter to Penthouse Forum.
You'll never believe this, but I swear it really happened. My friend J has this girl, totally hot, orange skin, HUGE rack. One day we're hanging out by the pool, and she leans over me (pushing those gorgeous breasts, right in my face!) and says, "Do you want to have sex with me?"
"What about J?" I ask, even though I'm instantly hard.
"I'm free to do what I want, when I want," she says. Score!
The disconnect here is so strong that it reminds me of DC's recent "Ape-controlled Africa" controversy, if the writer in question were claiming that the term somehow empowered the African people.
Comic books are, at their core, about wish-fulfillment. Male comic book characters are written as wish-fulfillment for men. After all, who wouldn't want to be Superman? Female comic book characters are also often written as wish-fulfillment for men. Not for women.
Even though he acts like a jerk through most of the book, I can see a guy wanting to be Jason. Jason gets to be "cool," he rescues Roy, he shoots up a bunch of tanks, he boasts that he's slept with Starfire and apparently has her at his beck and call.
I can't see many women wanting to be Starfire as she's portrayed in Red Hood. Look like her, maybe. But be her? Starfire gets to...blow up tanks because Jason tells her to? Have almost no personality whatsoever? Have meaningless, emotionless sex with the two lead males, both of whom act, as one person put it, "like douches?" Spout artificial dialogue about how "free" she is? Pose for the reader in awkward positions and almost no clothing? Have long-term memory issues? Have the inability to remember past friends and lovers?
DC's pulled some real boners recently, but it's also brought out some great books with strong, interesting female characters in the past few weeks. Batwoman showed that two women could get undressed on-panel without pandering. Superboy actually had two non-sexualized women having a conversation about something other than a man, despite the fact that it's not a female-led title - a rare event in comics. (It's also by the same author as Red Hood, which I find almost impossible to believe.) Batgirl was handled with a deft and delicate touch by Gail Simone. I haven't had time to read Supergirl, Birds of Prey, or Wonder Woman yet, but I've heard that all of them are quite good. Demon Knights looks to have some pretty interesting female characters, too, and I'm looking forward to reading more of it.
I wish I could put Red Hood in the same category. I wish I could give it to my daughter to read, as I was able to do with Superboy. She's watched every episode of Teen Titans, Go! multiple times and read every issue of the associated Teen Titans, Go! comic books. It breaks my heart that I can't give her Red Hood to read, almost as much as it breaks my heart to hear that comic book shops have had to stop sales to younger girls who want to buy Catwoman.
Companies like DC deserves praise-- and sales-- when they get it right. They also deserve to be criticized, and to lose sales, when they get it wrong, especially as wrong as they got Red Hood and the Outlaws. A comic about Jason Todd was a great idea, particularly following the recent release of Under the Red Hood on DVD, a movie that introduced a lot of new female fans to the character. Between that and Teen Titans Go! fans of Starfire, DC had a huge opportunity to bring in a whole bunch of new fans whose previous exposure to the characters was limited to television. But the execution was so poor as to be actively offensive.
What a damned waste.
Usually, for the Final Squeak sections of my columns, I like to bring in something I've found that's funny and/or interesting and that's relevant to the discussion. I have a great comic for you folks today, one by a fantastic and popular web comic artist! But first, I'd like to share something else with you.
I'm a writer. Sometimes writers, when they read something that bothers them, will re-write the scene in their heads. I've done this with two scenes from Red Hood and the Outlaws. These aren't perfect, they're not in true comic book script format and they're not meant to match up with the existing panels. They are the writer's equivalent of quick doodles. If were a fabulous artist like Kate Leth, I would have drawn them...but unfortunately, I'm drawing-impaired, so you get these instead.
Re-imagined scene #1: The first appearance of Starfire
Roy stares. "Is that-"
"Whoa," says Jason.
My name is Starfire. I am not from around here.
I come from a planet called Tamaran. I was born a princess. I was raised a slave.
The Citadel were a militant race of marauding aliens. My sister traded me into slavery in an effort to buy peace with them.
The two men exit the car. She hovers before them.
"You saved our lives," says Jason.
"I have no love of soldiers...on any world."
There is a beat of silence as they take each others' measure.
"Us neither," says Jason. "Want to come with?"
"Where are you going?"
"Away from here."
Starfire considers for a moment, then nods and begins rising higher. "I will go on ahead. I saw more soldiers and tanks from the air."
"Thank you," Jason calls after her.
Starfire is already gone, but her reply hangs in the air behind her. "Don't mention it."
Re-imagined scene #2: Starfire propositions Roy
"Do you want to have sex with me?"
To her amusement, Roy chokes on his drink, then recovers. "Sex? With you?"
"Yes." They are allies, after all, if not friends.
He opens his mouth and closes it again, frowning. Finally, he speaks. "Yes. But--"
Her own brows draw together. "But?"
His frown deepens, and he looks away. "Dammit," he mutters quietly, then goes on in a normal tone, "Look. You don't have to...traveling with us, it isn't...conditional on that."
She cocks her head at him. "I do not understand."
He looks at her again. He's no longer frowning, but his eyes are serious. "You don't have to have sex with either of us to stay with us."
"Of course. Why would I think that?"
He scrubs a hand over his face. "You told us you were a slave..." he starts, then trails off.
She had seen no reason to try to hide the truth from them. They were allies, and they could not help each other if they did not understand each other. "I was." His point is still not clear. The things her captors did to her were not "sex." They were something else entirely. She searches for the English word. Ah, "rape."
"I just didn't want you to feel as though you had to, is all," he says.
A sudden warmth fills her, making her smile. It has been a long time since anyone showed such care for her feelings. She reaches out and touches his face lightly. The two men are still hard for her to tell apart, without glowing eyes of different shades and subtle differences in the orange tone of skin. Roy's face still shows evidence of his own captors' torment, though the bruises are faint shadows, now.
"I do not feel that I have to," she says quietly. "I wish to, because you are my ally. My...friend."
He nods, relaxing. "Okay. That's okay, then."
Humans are so strange. She laughs and leans forward and kisses him.
And finally, a recent comic by Shortpacked, who very kindly gave me permission to include it here!
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An employee of a department store in Port Chester has been charged with petty larceny in connection with thefts adding up to $900, according to Port Chester Police.
Kiara Alexis, 19, of 124 Winthrop Ave., New Rochelle, was arrested Tuesday at the Kohl's store, 431 Boston Post Road, after store management accused her of taking money from a cash register, police said.
Alexis is accused taking $400 on Tuesday, $200 on Dec. 26, 2012, $100 on Jan. 8 and $200 on Jan. 27. Police said $400 was recovered.
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Jerome R. Corsi, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality" (New York: Threshold, 2008)
News Flash: A "Calculating Politician"
To fully understand right-wing hatchet man Jerome R. Corsi's new neo-McCarthyite book "The Obama Nation" (New York: Threshold, 2008), you have to differentiate between the accurate, the wacky, and the vile in his presentation.
The accurate parts of arch-conservative Corsi's hit-job relate to his observation that Obama is "at heart a coldly calculating politician, driven more by winning… than by the lofty principles he espouses" (p. 122). Consistent with that elementary observation (no less true of John McCain than Obama), Corsi accurately portrays Obama:
* misrepresenting the circumstances of his own conception (claiming to owe his interracial origins to the early victories of the Civil Rights Movement).
* Falsely attributing his Kenyan father's arrival in the United States to an African airlift organized by President John F. Kennedy.
* Inventing (in his first book "Dreams of My Father") a fake teenage partner in black anger ("Ray") at his Honolulu prep-school.
* Distancing himself from people (above all his longtime pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright) who were useful to him at an earlier stage in his political career but subsequently became threats to his electoral viability.
* Betraying his former political sponsor Alice Palmer, a onetime progressive state senator on the South Side of Chicago.
* Lying repeatedly about the extent of his connection to the recently convicted Chicago slumlord and government influence-peddler Tony Rezko.
* Brazenly stealing speech material and campaign rhetoric from other politicians (above all Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick) and Hollywood.
* Working with big money campaign consultant David Axelrod to craft a presidential bid that privileges carefully constructed media image and candidate personality over substantive matters of policy and ideology.
Okay, so Corsi got the news flash: Obama is a crafty politician from the Chicago Machine, not a messiah sent to bathe Washington in the holy waters of moral purity.
Corsi is on solid ground when he observes that Team Obama is playing a longstanding political "con game." It is using advertising techniques and "image packaging" to "sell [its] candidate…the way a business sells its products" (pp. 280-281). But this is no less true of the supposed centrist "maverick" John McCain (actually a hard-right messianic militarist and arch-plutocrat) and other political candidates in both parties.
Obama as a "Far Left Radical"
Now we move from the obvious to the madcap. The truly wacky part of "The Obama Nation" is Corsi's repeated claim that "Obama…is and always has been a radical on the far left" (p. 122).
This is a ridiculous assertion given Obama's recurrent demonstrations of deeply conservative fealty to reigning domestic and imperial hierarchies and doctrines. As I demonstrate in my forthcoming book "Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics," a close and careful analysis of his record shows that Obama is a conservative conciliator and compromiser from whom traditional economic and political elites have little to fear.
Presidential candidate Obama takes his economic policy counsel from corporate-friendly pro-"trade" economists from the University of Chicago and Harvard. He has functioned as a stealth fiscal and political supporter of the Iraq occupation. His repeated declarations of aggressive military globalism (made to such bodies as the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and The Council on Foreign Relations) have won accolades from the neoconservative foreign policy adviser Robert Kagan.
Obama has called for the significant religious-based privatization of social services, upheld the illegal U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, rejected substantive structural reform of the health care system, refused to embrace slashing the military budget to boost social expenditures, and absurdly praised the American "free market" system and "business culture" (U.S. capitalism) for creating a "prosperity that is unmatched in the world." He has voted to cap civil damages that consumers can win in court from corporations, voted for deepened federal wiretapping authority (with retroactive immunity for telecommunications corporations who illegally helped the Bush administration spy on U.S. citizens), and distanced himself from the struggle against institutional racism. He has repeatedly insinuated that poor black people bear primary responsibility for African-Americans' disproportionate presence at the bottom of domestic U.S. social and institutional hierarchies.
It's not for nothing that the "Obama brand" has been sold with the potent sponsorship of concentrated economic powers like Goldman Sachs, Exelon (the likely secret to his pro-nuclear power position), Henry Crown Investments, Lehman Bros., UBS, Arial Capital, Google, the insurance lobby, a number of corrupt Chicago real estate developers (including Rezko) and a host of international law firms dedicated to advancing the regressive corporate globalization project.
Obama has been a conservative, power-friendly player from the beginning of his political career. As Ryan Lizza notes in a recent well-researched New Yorker essay on Obama's early political career in Chicago and Illinois, "Perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing institutions rather than tear them down or replace them."
Besides being laughably false, Corsi's thesis of a "far left" Obama is impossible under the rules of America's "dollar democracy." No radical left or even remotely populist candidate can raise the money or receive the favorable (corporate) media treatment required to make a viable bid for higher office in the America's "democracy – the best that money can [and did] buy."
Guilt by Association
The "evidence" Corsi offers to support his "far left" Obama thesis is thin enough to make a thought-policewoman like Lynn Cheney blush. "The Obama Nation" makes numerous tenuous "guilt by association" (GBA) linkages between Obama and various supposed dangerous radicals past and present. Corsi's black book of treacherous "radical" Obama friends and influences includes:
* Obama's "atheist" mother Stanley Ann Dunham
* Obama's "socialist" father (a "radical economist" who once quoted Karl Marx!)
* Bill Ayers – the former SDS Weatherman turned liberal education professor and charter school advocate, with whom Obama is said (by Corsi) to "share anti-American sentiments."
* the anti-colonial African intellectual Frantz Fanon, who Obama read during high school.
* Malcolm X (another favorite young Obama author).
* progressive and pro-Palestinian Middle East professors Edward Said (with whom Obama is accused of once having had a conversation) and Rashid Khalidi (with whom Obama had dinner).
* The Woods Fund of Chicago – a liberal-centrist foundation that underwrites supposedly radical community organizing projects
* The Hawaiian black ex-Communist poet Frank Davis, a supposed Obama "mentor" during high school (Corsi actually refers to "the Obama/Communist Party connection through [Frank] Davis" on page 87).
* An obscure young Obama campaign blogger who is "a follower of Karl Marx" and who once met "radical MIT professor and author Noam Chomsky."
* Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga – a "fellow Luo tribesman" and "a Muslim sympathizer [!] with well-known Communist roots."
Of course the biggest GBA link of all is to the "Afro-Centric" preacher Jeremiah Wright, who has for decades had the unforgivable (for many whites) audacity to give occasionally angry voice to much of what mainstream black America thinks about American racism and imperialism at home and abroad.
Corsi's dark list of "radical" Obama friends, affiliations, and infleunce reads like something out of the 1950s McCarthy witchunt.
Threat Inflation
Another favorite Corsi method is preposterous "radical left" threat inflation in relation to some of Obama's more outwardly progressive campaign statements and policy positions.
Corsi takes Obama's call for the reduction of global nuclear danger and turns it into a scheme to make the U.S. and Israel vulnerable to nuclear attack.
Corsi turns Obama's call for ultimate withdrawal of (just) combat troops from Iraq into an embrace of imperial surrender. He ignores strong indications that an Obama presidency would maintain the criminal occupation of that country and only adjust the invasion in accord with broader perceived requirements of U.S. global dominance.
Corsi takes Obama's call for the repeal of some of George W. Bush's worst tax cuts for the super-rich and turns it into a call for "radical income redistribution."
Corsi interprets Obama's tepid statements against poverty and for universal health insurance as the embrace of international socialism.
At one especially ludicrous point in his book, Corsi says that Obama developed "radical leftist friends" to "advance his political career in Illinois politics, in which leftism is a virtue" (p. 120). The notoriously corporate-friendly masters of Illinois (and Chicago) politics (people like Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley) would be amused to learn that embracing radical Marxism is a good way to advance one's political career in the state. Obama's Illinois-based ultra-leftism reached its ominous pinnacle, Corsi suggests, during a campaign event in Iowa in September of 2007 when, Corsi informs us, Obama failed to put his hand over heart during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner (pp. 253-255). Imagine!
"Black Rage"
Now we turn to the truly vile. Corsi's hit-book is laced with toxic white nationalism and ethno-religious racism. As bad as Corsi's ridiculous red-baiting may be, the most despicable aspect of his book is its repeated subtle but insistent effort to scare white readers with lurid references to Obama as a great black racial and Islamic danger. Corsi tries to provoke Christian American Caucasians with the charge that Obama's parental abandonment and the (supposedly evil and insane) "race doctrines" of Fanon and Malcolm X turned young Obama into a seething cauldron of "black rage."
Corsi shames young Obama for struggling with his racial identity and embracing blackness (supposedly "reject[ing] everyone white") when he was half-white and largely raised by white grandparents who "sacrificed" for him to attend an elite prep-school.
Corsi shames Obama's mother for her alleged special sexual attraction to non-white and Islamic men.
Corsi reports that "Barack Hussein Obama" "received Islamic instruction" during the brief period Obama lived in Indonesia (as a grade-schooler) with this fallen white mother and her second failed husband.
Corsi ridicules Obama's wife Michelle for having written in a 1985 Princeton thesis about her alienation from privileged whites on an Ivy League campus. Her thesis even mentioned and quoted the black radical Stokely Carmichael, Corsi darkly reports!
Throughout Corsi's book, the slightest hint of past black alienation and race consciousness on the part of Barack or Michelle Obama is flagged as a sign of grave peril to the virtuous post-racial republic. Corsi even favorably quotes the crypto-fascist attack-dog Ann Coulter making the outrageous claim that Obama's first book ("Dreams of My Father") amounted to "a dimestore Mein Kampf" because of its author's alleged total estrangement from whites (supposedly on par with young Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews).
Corsi's toxic brew of race-fear, anti-radicalism, white nationalism, and Christian chauvinism culminates in his statement that if Obama wins, the Kenynan "Islamo-leftist" Raila Odinga "will correctly perceive that for the first time ever a fellow Luo tribesman is running the United States of America" (p.113).
Reefer Madness
It almost seems trivial to add that Corsi makes a great deal out of Obama's admitted youthful experimentation with marijuana and cocaine and wonders if Obama has "quit using drugs in the U.S. Senate" (p.77). With this Jerome Corsi's lurid portrait of the grim threat to America posed by Barack Obama becomes complete. The interrelated specters of "radical" politics, "anti-colonial black rage," and "Islamic" sympathies are linked to the timeworn racialized specter of "Reefer Madness." The message is clear: Wake up, Middle White God-Fearing America and run to your protector, the "war hero" (former bomber of North Vietnamese women and children and crazed arch-militarist) John McCain!
If Obama wins, Corsi wants good white Americans to beleive, the nation will very possibly be ruled by a secretly bitter, possibly drug-crazed, radical and white-hating faux-Christian "Luo tribesman" who holds "anti-American" values and seeks to advance the final, "far left" dismantlement of "American" institutions and values.
An Old Strategy That Has Worked Before
Is Corsi nuts? Sadly, he is not. To be sure, by any sane and enlightened moral and intellectual criteria, "The Obama Nation" is beyond the pale of rational and civilized discourse. But Corsi is no less a calculating political animal than Obama or Axelrod. His book is about beating Obama, not advancing public understanding or a reasonable and democratic political culture. His 2004 "Swift Boat" volume ("Unfit to Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Up About John Kerry") played a pivotal role in the Republican Attack Machine's successful effort to smear the centrist and militarist John ("I am Not a Redistribution Democrat") Kerry as an insufficiently "American" "radical leftist."
The Republicans' "Southern strategy" of sparking white fears while aburdly tying Democrats to supposed heinous "radical left" agendas is a tried and true approach on the right. It could work yet again, especially when employed against a black candidate with a technically Islamic name in the post-9/11 era. Corsi's book is selling briskly and has been featured (and taken seriously) across dominant "mainstream" media. Seen from a practical and pragmatic Republican-electoral perspective, his latest attack volume is anything but crazy. It makes all too much perfect sense.
Paul Street ([email protected]) is a veteran radical historian and independent author, researcher, and journalist in Iowa City, IA. He is the author of Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm 2005); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Routledge 2005): and Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis (Rowman & Littlefied 2007). Street's new book "Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics" can be ordered at http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=186987)


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Rated 4 out of 5 by 851 reviewers.
Rated 3 out of 5 by Veronica This hotel is in a great location First, I am totally disappointed with the Hotel Rates. When I book a hotel I expect all fees to be discussed upfront. It should $325 per night all taxes and resort fees included. Because no matter what $325 per night is what you will end up paying, there is no choice. So why advertise and lure you in with $260 + + +? We have to budget for the $325 not the $260, it is just deceiving. These additional fees should not be in the fine print. It should be front and center with the base rate. In addition, the hotel could use some refresh and uplift. The doors of each room look like bunkers. There are no drawers in the room and only one sink (at least in our bedroom). Every room should also have an IPod dock. The hotel is in a great location but it looked too much like a Vegas hotel instead of a Hawaii hotel!!! March 24, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by HappyGuest1 GREAT LOCATION The room was much bigger than I needed, now when do you say that? Everything needed was within the hotel, including TWO Peets Coffee places and a grab and go food spot. Fish Tacos by the pool were awesome. I've gone to Wakiki for 30 years and stayed at muliple locations, this is my new favorite for location, immenties, and price. Housecleaning was the minimal, but fine. They could sell more drinks/food by pool if they came around more often, but again, it was in no way poor either. February 17, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by RCA23 Sheraton Waikiki Solid hotel - great staff Rooms sparse RE: furniture..........one chair with no place to work April 28, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by MelVlak12 BEST TIME EVER We had the best 10 nights ever. We were lucky enough to be upgraded to a Kai Suite. 2 balconies, huge lounge room and loads of seating. Check in - we were checked in well before 3:00pm - around 12:30 our room was ready. Pool staff were so friendly and obliging. Highly recommend hiring a Cabana by the pool. We ate at all 3 eateries and found them to be all fabulous. Will definitely be back to stay again. Jason in Reservations was just delightful, so helpful and informative about room types and bedding configuration. Beds were super comfortable - the noise from the rum fire restaurant didn't bother us - you just close the balcony doors and it disappeared. All furniture was in good condition - generous amount of toiletries were left each day and the Club Lounge was a great experience and the views fabulous. October 16, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Manju Something for All Ages This is the perfect SPG Hotel for a family. There is something for the young and young at heart. Good night life and plenty of kid-friendly activities. The BEST swimming pool and water activities for children plus a separate pool area for adults. SPG recognition perks were a huge bonus with complimentary breakfast in the morning and social hour(s) in the early evening. All top notch not just pastries or cheese and crackers. Rooms are not spectacular but good size and clean. June 1, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Scrocker72 SCrocker Great hotel, Staff are the best in the business. From Flippo on the pool deck to Stanley in the lounge amazing service. 3rd visit can't wait for number 4. April 22, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by GJW68 Fabulous infinity pool We loved the infinity pool and spent hours each afternoon floating on the bean bags in the water. We also loved spotting turtles from our ocean front room balcony. When booking we always make sure we do not have a solid front to our balcony as this restricts the fantastic views. All staff were always friendly and helpful. Breakfast was excellent. Often there were long slow moving queues at the check in, check out desks. Extra staff at busy times would be an improvement. July 29, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by DHNic Great beachside dining! Lovely beachside view while dining. April 28, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by Jacksnow1 Summer Vacation This is the second time that my wife and I have stayed at your hotel. Last year my wife and I were upgraded to a suite and it was great. This year we were upgraded to an Ocean View and it was fine. Very busy at this time of the year but well worth it. The staff was great! There were two individuals that stood out. Stanley at the Club Floor and Brett at the infinity pool. They looked after our needs. It was great to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary at this hotel. July 24, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by BOMA BOMA WBM As a building manager I may sometimes be critical of things when I observer them. First let me state the Sheraton Waikiki was a very pleasant stay and with a few exceptions a very enjoyable experience. As a smoker I do realized that we have to be out of the way, but the only three spots to smoke in were very unsatisfactory…the balcony on the second floor over the fish pond was nice, but there was no seating, the other smoking area by the beach at least had seating, but seemed to be in a back area and the area out front, which was actually across the street and not on your property was very uncomfortable. I understand that smokers are a growing minority, but it would be nice to have an area in the shade where we could smoke and be comfortable. Other than that my stay was a very pleasurable and your staff very helpful. January 24, 2013
Rated 1 out of 5 by MSJ1 The pool is the ONLY good thing The rooms look sterile. You don't even have cabinets in the room. It looks so bare, it seems like it's missing furniture. The furniture that is in the room are sub-par at best. The bed is EXTREMELY uncomfortable. My boyfriend couldn't sleep after the first 3 nights. We asked for a roll away bed and that was even worse. Our night stand lamp wasn't working when we first got here. There were no robes in the room. We had to call for them. To add insult to injury our room was NOT even cleaned today. Is this an SPG property? It seems like your service and attention to detail is lacking! The great thing about the hotel is their pool! The pool is amazing!!! Great views and just completely relaxing. The staff poolside and at the bar were also awesome. Overall, great pool and staff experience, but not so good with the room. November 4, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Mark58 Sheraton on Waikiki While the facility is a bit older, it has been well maintained, and the staff and service are very good. The bathroom is a bit tight, and the "partial ocean view" is a misnomer, as you need to lean precariously over the balcony to get a view of the ocean. The location of the hotel is excellent, and the amenities are excellent as well. Overall, we had a great vacation, and the staff in particular went above and beyond. We will definitely be returning there again. February 17, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Rictor Hawaii Getaway First time we stayed here and it was great. We were able to a get a partial ocean view from the balcony as an upgrade, the infinity pool was fantastic, the grounds and surrounding what you would expect for a 5 star hotel. We stayed with cash & points and thought the place was great. Hope to return. April 5, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by SDGirl Fantastic Hotel The Sheraton Waikiki was a great hotel to stay at for my visit to Oahu. Every employee that I interacted with was kind, friendly, and made you feel very welcome. The room was really really nice, and I especially enjoyed relaxing on the balcony and taking in the breathtaking views of Diamond Head. Also, if you are looking for a hotel with a relaxing pool area, then this is your place. The infinity pool and lounging area was wonderful and the staff very attentive. September 18, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by timyo58 Excellent Hotel This was my first visit to Hawaii so I wanted to stay at a well-known hotel. After reading several reviews online, I decided on the Sheraton mostly for it's location. Great hotel, great staff, great view. My only qualm is, as others have written elsewhere, the spotty WiFi service. I was only able to connect on the first night of my three night stay. With that said, I'd go back because everything exceeded my expectations. Thank you to everyone who helped us out. October 3, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by kamaaina4sheraton Best Family Resort on Oahu! is hotel has the best pool for little ones; my son is 2 and daughter is 5. There is plenty of pool area where they can stand and swim without me having to carry them. There is a fun little water slide that my 2 year old loves and a bigger slide that my 5 yeart old and I love. When I am here, I too can really enjoy and relax. They offer great packages with discounts on meals, free photo shoot, and always some extra perks! I think its the best value for the money! October 6, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by BethT Great family vacation Our 3rd visit to this Sheraton for family reunion with 2 young children, parents & grandparents. GreAt location & advantage of both pool & beach. Kudos to Casie Carnate, the "Fun Director", who kept our grand kids entertained at the pool! Would love it if there were some umbrellas in the main pool area. And it's time for some upgrading of the guest rooms. They're looking a little tired. Nice breakfast buffet at the Kai Market. We'll be back next year! December 26, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by honeymoon102 Great facilities This hotel has great facilities, excellent pools, staff and restaurants / bars. It is these facilties that make staying at this hotel definitely worthwhile. I did feel the room could do with some work though. The shower was of very poor quality and the bathroom has a very silly window above the toilet that you can open up into the room. Why someone would want to do so when sitting on the toilet is beyond me and leaves very little privacy for those in the room. March 26, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Sven69 Offer Gluten Free food For the many people who require Gluten Free food due to celiac disease or gluten sensitivity, it is very difficult to travel. However, The sheraton Wikiki was more than helpful. We contacted them before we arrived and the chef called us back and verified everything. They used separate utensils to avoid cross-contamination and all restaurants in the hotel were notified and were ready for gluten free options for us. Great service and a great hotel all together. April 24, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by PearlCity002 Check in procedures We had a wonderful experience except for the checking in process. The line was long and the wait (standing) was not received well. Waited for 30 minutes to get registered. Once there, the process was well done and quick. There were only 4 open receptionists but, I think, there are 8 stations. It didn't make sense to me. If the hotel was expecting a flood of registrants, I would think that more receptionists would be made available...at least during the rush. December 5, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jimp24 Best Vacation Ever The Sheraton Waikiki Hotel experience was off the chain. Everything was wonderful from check in to valet parking to the lounge experience to filling our gift bag with goodies and the upgraded suite room was breathless. I would do this again. April 10, 2014
Rated 2 out of 5 by Disappointed37 Barn-like hotel that lacked atmosphere and quality This hotel lacked any atmosphere. We were staying in a small room at the end of a long corridor. The in room breakfast was small and over priced. We wanted to buy some bottled water and were required to go to three different floors before buying some (the vending machines had run out of water.) The rooms were noisy. Fortunately for our SPG recognition we were able to jump the enormous queue to check in. All in all, this hotel was extremely disappointing. July 12, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by Crunch Disappointed I have twice before stayed in the Sheraton Waikiki and this was my wife's first visit to Hawaii. Two days after arriving, we both suffered with allergy and sinus problems. She has recovered and I am still congested, Common areas of the hotel are old, show their age and feel musty. The carpet in our room was very dirty as evidenced by dirt prints in the tub when I entered to shower each morning. I walk barefooted in hotel rooms and at home. I don't have this problems in hotels and we travel 8 - 9 times a year. When the maid failed to replace the tissue paper (kleenex) and provide a new soap bar (one day only) I called the front desk and had to call a second time since there was no delivery by 45 minutes after my first call. When I asked for something at the front desk and stated I was a SPG, there was no reaction or acknowlegement. January 23, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Gene Excellent location for the 'Beach Area' The check-in clerk was excellent in explaining everything - - and very friendly. If you are on the Ocean side- - the view is un-obstructed by any other tall hotels in Waikiki. View of the pool was very enjoyable. I sat around the Koi pool for hours in the rocking chairs and the 'grounds' in the background were beautiful. It was a very quiet area even though you were an easy walk away to all the activities in Waikiki (which can be a 'bit' noisy at times. December 6, 2012
Rated 1 out of 5 by pc4547 Hawaii NGAUS Conference When I checked in I requested a late checkout for Monday. The desk said they took care of this. I was not given the same items at checkin as others who were SPG members. On Monday morning I checked with the desk on the late checkout and they had no record of this and said I had to be out by 11AM. I was unable to finish my time at my booth at the NGAUS conference making our booth down a person. The desk person was rude and unwilling to help at all. September 28, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Roger162 Great location and facilities Overall , a very enjoyable stay in a large hotel ,with a great location close to the beach.all staff were well trained and courteous Minor quibbles , were the lack of an evening ALaCarte restaurant, the buffet was adequate, but a hotel of that size should be capable of providing a decent restaurant, which were present in the adjacent hotels. Also our room had no sunlight at any stage of the day February 25, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 Great hotel, but lacking extra mile Amenities were good and grounds were nice, but very disappointed in the staff for not working to accommodate our origins reservation. Had reserved an oceanfront room in series 34 and was given a partial city/oceanview room facing diamond head. When inquiring with front desk, told it was an upgrade and would not accommodate our original booking. We also have a club room reserved 1/27/13-1/28/13. I can only hope the Sheraton will make up for it then. January 19, 2013
Rated 1 out of 5 by daboys2007 Sheraton Waikiki - reputation is not worthy! Stayed recently from 8/16-8/23/2012 and encountered numerous problems as follows: 1. Upon check-in, due to full occupancy did not receive the SPG room level upgrade. 2. Rooms were larger than a typical 2-bed room, but there were no drawers to place clothes. There were only shelves in the back of the closet. 3. Beds were only full-size, thus, very uncomfortable to have 4 people sleep in a 2-bed room with this limited size. 4. Cleaning service was not performed consistently. Times varied and on 1 day in the middle of the trip, the room was not even cleaned. 5. The policy for saving lawn chairs by the pool needs work. Many guests would simply place towels to hold beds in the early AM hours by the pool and then walk off to have breakfast, shop, etc. before coming back to expect their use of those beds hours later. Apparently, only until 10AM would sevice workers remove towels to clear for other guests to use. As you can imagine, this made it extremely difficul to have a chair to sit/lay on by the pool. 6. We traveled with another family and made specific requests in advance of our arrival to be near each other in order to coordinate activities and to provide coverage for each other's young kids. So, what does the front desk do upon arrival, place one family on the 15th floor and my family on the 29th floor. Guess there was no sense of calling months in advance to have notations placed on our reservation and we even asked for the reservations to be linked as well. I would never waste my points on this facilty again and would caution anyone else to book this hotel based on reputation only. Do your research and do not think the negative reviews on expedia & trip advisor are without merit. August 30, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Stan44 Good Experience If you are thinking about staying here think New York City with a beach (although there is really no beach to speak of in front of the hotel). It is very crowded and busy all the time but most things are within walking distance. We were upgraded to a mountain view room on the 25th floor which was very nice and even had a partial ocean view with great sunsets. Hotel staff were very accomodating and the bar staff were funny and made great drinks. April 27, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by KPM63 Great Waikiki Hotel This is a great hotel with excellent facilities and unparalleled location, and outstanding service. The SPG Lounge on the 30th floor is the best that I've seen. April 14, 2014


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TROUP, TX (KLTV) - From the skies over Italy to the skies over Japan, Lee Chestnut of Troup flew as a tail gunner in World War II. Chestnut's first 50 missions were over Italy and France.
His plane was forced down on three missions straight. But it was his 16th mission that was the most frightening. The gas line to the left engine of Chestnut's plane was severed by flak and gas flooded the plane and completely soaked Chestnut. The crew chose to fly the plane back to base on one engine rather than bailing out, knowing for well over an hour that the least little spark could blow the plane up and them with it.
After his 50 missions in Europe, Chestnut volunteered to fly in the South Pacific. One mission almost took him into the direct path of the atomic bomb dropped over Nagasaki. He saw a huge mushroom shaped cloud but didn't know for weeks what it was.
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