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Dec 06 2008
My Favorite Place on Earth
Yesterday, I had to bite the bullet and travel over the river and through the woods to the big city so I could pick up not only my car, which has been getting fixed for the past two weeks (pesky four-wheel-drive problem), but also various other Lodge-related items that couldn't wait any longer. That's usually the only time I can get myself to go to the big city: when it can't wait any longer, or when I'm tired of driving Marlboro Man's rickety feed truck to the grocery store.
Among my stops along the way was the restaurant supply store, where I needed to pick up the stainless dishwashing sink that'll go in the Lodge pantry. And as they were loading the sink into my vehicle, I moseyed into the building and salivated for a good twenty minutes over everything a restaurant supply store has to offer.
If you've never visited a restaurant supply store, find out if there's one in your city. You'll love every second of it, even if you don't leave the store with anything. As for me, I plan to do a lot of my Christmas shopping there—for my mom, my sister, my mother-in-law, my sister-in-law…even my kids.
There are great bargains to be had, but beware: if you go to a restaurant supply store looking for one particular item, you have to have a will of steel to leave without three or four things you "didn't know you needed" when you walked in.
Consider yourself warned!
At a restaurant supply store, they have colanders, scales, canisters…
Slicers and choppers and french fry cutters…
Countertop appliances, salsa dishes, salad spinners…
And, my personal favorite, lots of cast iron cookware.
PRE-SEASONED cast iron cookware, which is incredibly awesome and time-saving.
Here's a lllllong commercial sink, similar to the one I got. Only mine is…umm…not so long.
If I had THAT many dishes to do, I wouldn't be here typing.
A restaurant supply store has plenty of huge, commercial appliances, most of which the average home cook couldn't use.
But they also have these commercial food storage containers, which I love for both flour in the pantry and leftovers in the fridge.
They put Tupperware to shame. Don't tell the Tupperware family I said that.
If you don't like plastic, they have metal ones, too.
And this? This is an eighty-foot long potato masher!
Okay, it's not eighty feet long. But it's longer than any one I've seen.
They have every size of flour sifter you could ever dream of wanting. I never knew there was a need for other sizes, but it's nice to know they're there if I ever need one!
Here's something I'll bet you never knew you needed: cardboard cake rounds!
My kids would so steal these from my pantry and make masks out of them. It would be a waste of money.
There's plenty of sturdy, cheap restaurant ware, if you're into that diner look.
Not to mention a slew of plastic tumblers and pitchers. I love the plastic tumblers.
I must confess that I DO have one of these. It's an enormous plastic bowl—probably 2 feet in diameter. It's perfect for huge batches of pasta salad or giving the dog a bath.
There's also a huge assortment of kitchen tools—some of which I've never seen before. Mmmm…but I want one of everything, just in case.
That "just in case" approach can be lethal in a restaurant supply store.
If you've woken up at night and found yourself wanting a Parmesan cheese shaker, you know where to go.
And ooooh. Look at all the cutting boards. I love these. I have a few, and store them vertically with my cookie sheets.
Speaking of cookies sheets…my heart is palpitating.
And don't even get me started on the stainless bowls. Be still my beating heart.
And are you kidding me on these clear squirters? You don't even KNOW the culinary applications of these little babies.
I like the straight-up rolling pins without any handles. Doubles as an effective self-defense tool.
Got a buck fifty? One of these salt/pepper shakers can be yours.
Though if you like things a little fancier, you'll have to cough up a little more.
Sigh. Rubber spatulas. Rubber spoonulas. Huge wire whisks.
And wine carafes. So far, I have really been able to figure out a rationale for buying one of those.
But don't worry. I will.
(Note: the restaurant supply store in the above photos is Smalley Equipment in Tulsa. They have nothing to do with my writing this post, however, and likely had no idea I was sneaking around their store taking photos. They don't even know I exist. Don't tell them, okay?)
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Laura Ritchhart On Thursday, January 15 at 6:10 pm
I haven't been to Smalley's, but there is another restaurant store in Tulsa called "The Stockpot" I've been to, you may also enjoy going there! It's on 41st Street between Memorial & Sheridan on the north side of the road!
Karin On Friday, January 16 at 10:22 am
Wine carafs I would use for juice or fresh milk….;) Its nice they have those lil lids super for the fridge.
ni On Sunday, January 18 at 2:58 pm
That looks awesome. do you know of any gems of restaurant supply stores in LA? I only know of Surfas and as great as it is they dont carry china!
Paulette Dunston On Saturday, January 24 at 9:55 am
Wine carafes are great for mouthwash on the bathroom sink if you have no place to store it. Prettier than ugly plastic bottle.
Silvia On Monday, January 26 at 2:31 pm
I want to die in a place like this!!!!!
Marsi On Friday, January 30 at 7:35 pm
I love those plastic tumblers too! I have some small pink ones for sale in my Etsy shop, but I'm looking for some BIG ones to keep and use every day. I LOVE the pink ones!
Kimarie On Thursday, February 5 at 12:26 am
Thanks for this! My husband and I have 9 children, so we run a mini-restaurant every day! We already have two stoves, and drool when we see massive storage bins, 15-inch skillets, and mixers that mix enough bread to fill two ovens! It would totally be a date night for us to go to one of these stores! I'm definitely looking for one in our area now – and whether or not we like the diner look as far as dishes, we need it! We are so sick of Corelle that shatters into 1,000 pieces when it hits a tile floor… Give us some good old restaurant plates that break into nice big pieces the kids can pick up with their bare hands…
Sue On Thursday, February 5 at 3:48 am
GASPING…must have that avocado shaped guac dish…too cute!
We have one of these stores near us too…not quite as extensive but I love it!
Laura On Thursday, February 5 at 7:35 am
MY God Ree! The carafes will make wonderful vases for all the wildflowers your kids will grow this summer! Uless you already have about 50vases that youve collected over the years!
falnfenix On Thursday, February 5 at 11:13 am
this store would be the death of me, as my boyfriend would kill me for buying every danged thing in the store…
judi Barnett On Wednesday, February 11 at 6:10 pm
Oh YES, I want one in my town! I love cloth napkins and so do my 5 grown sons, this place is the very best place to get them. One dozen at a time!!!
Zuleika On Tuesday, February 24 at 3:43 pm
I am heading to the nearest kitchen supply store when I get paid this week! That was the most beautiful store ever. *sniffle*
Linda On Wednesday, February 25 at 11:17 pm
Hey Ree….
My dtr and I visited Smalley's this past Monday afternoon. Love that store! My dtr finally found a big 13 qt stainless steel bowl that she has been looking for. I have had that size for many, many years and cannot live without it. I use it for making huge amounts of popcorn balls….actually for huge amounts of anything. The lady behind the counter asked how we had heard about their store so we told them….the pioneer woman cooks.com. She said we were the 5th person within a week that had told her the same thing. My dtr lives in Collinsville, OK so we will be going there again real soon.
Thanks, Linda/KS
suzy On Monday, May 11 at 4:24 am
oh my gaaawd, I NEED to go there!:)
Gammaroobob On Monday, February 1 at 2:14 pm
Tulsa, my FAVORITE city in the world – Seattle being second…Tulsa's where we got married, sigh….and sure wish I was there to visit Smalley's….Lubbock has n.o.t.h.i.n.g. compared to it…need to get myself back to Tulsa, apparently.


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More than any other event in recent years, the terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City has galvanized the paranoid psyche. Suspicious minds on the right – the "Patriot" or "militia movement," as the media has dubbed them – view the event as a heinous act of government perfidy, a terror trick used to justify a crackdown on American civil liberties or, worse, the opening salvo in a Washington-sanctioned invasion of America from abroad. Meanwhile, paranoids in government and in the media and among leftist watchdog groups that find themselves increasingly adrift in the ideological murk of the post – Cold War era, have imposed their own political semaphore on the same event. In their view, the Oklahoma bombing represents an act of terror perpetrated by zealots of the nativist right wing – a rising menace composed of those dangerously nutty militias and racist hate groups.
Somewhere amid all the feverish speculation emanating from both polar extremes lie the facts, which suggest that neither view of the terror attack in Oklahoma City is dealing with reality on a first-name basis. In fact, as presented in the popular press, the government case against a handful of Patriot extremists (which has yet to go to trial) makes as little sense as the convoluted conspiracy theories traded on the Internet and talk radio.
In the cloud of suspicion hanging over the site of the former Murrah building we have a genuine mystery.
This much about the bombing is undisputed: At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a massive explosion literally ripped the north face off the federal building in downtown Oklahoma City. As the smoke, dust, and debris settled, the devastating magnitude of the blast immediately became evident: One third of the building had collapsed, and the bomb (or bombs) had left behind a crater thirty feet wide and eight feet deep. As the days passed and rescue crews probed through the detritus, the body count would rise to 169 people, including 19 children who had been attending a day-care center for federal employees on the second floor. Among the government agencies located in the Murrah building were the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), the FBI, the Drug Enforement Administration (DEA), the Defense Investigative Service, the Social Security Administration, and the U.S. Army and Marines recruiting offices.
Federal investigators hastily announced that the explosive had been an ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bomb, the same type of home-brewed "fertilizer" explosive as used in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by Middle Eastern terrorists. The FBI initially estimated that the bomb had weighed 1,000 to 2,000 pounds, the payload probably packed in a car; however, in an effort to account for the bomb's massive destructive fore, authorities soon upgraded their estimated to hypothesize a 4,800-pound bomb, most likely delivered via a truck. The fertilizer-fuel oil mixture, composed of commercially available materials, had been packed in twenty blue plastic barrels. Officials described the method of detonation as a hand-lit safety fuse. Several eyewitnesses on the scene just before the explosion reported seeing a yellow Ryder truck approach the front entrance of the building, halting in a no-parking zone. They described two men in blue jogging suits exiting the truck and getting into a car. There may have been a third person driving the car. A woman driving on Northwest Fifth Street near the Murrah building reported that she nearly ran into a man, later identified by authorities as a suspect in the bombing, who was walking away from the building. Another witness claimed to have seen two men peeling away from the scene of the crime in a yellow Mercury.
Sifting through the debris, law enforcement officials soon announced that they had discovered a truck axle, which contained a vehicle identification number that they traced to a Ryder truck rented in Juction City, Kansas. This lucky discovery became the first break in the case. Meanwhile, the second breakthrough was about to drop onto the investigator's laps in the town of Perry, Oklahoma, sixty miles north of the erstwhile Murrah building. At about 10:20a.m., a Perry police officer pulled over a 1977 yellow Mercury marquis that had been speeding at more than eighty miles per hour. Officer Charles Hanger noticed that the car had no license plates. Exiting his squad car, Hanger approached the driver's side of the vehicle; he reported seeing the telltale bulge of a shoulder holster under the driver's jacket. The driver – twenty-six-year-old Timothy James McVeigh, about to enter the annals of conspiracy theory, informed Hanger that he was packing a gun. Pointing his own gun at McVeigh's head, Hanger confiscated the driver's .45-caliber Glock pistol, loaded with hollow-point "cop killer" bullets, and a sheathed hunting knife.
Hanger arrested McVeigh, who calmly – dispassionately, per Hanger – cooperated with his captor. Booked in Noble County on charges of illegally transporting a loaded weapon, carrying a concealed weapon, and driving a vehicle without license plates, McVeigh, a former army sergeant who had served with distinction in the Persian Gulf War, sat in a courthouse jail cell for two days. By Friday morning following Wednesday's bombing, he would be charged in the worse terrorist incident ever carried out on American soil. There were several strong links between McVeigh and the crime in Oklahoma City, including that his appearance matched eyewitness descriptions of John Doe number one, a tall man with a military-style crewcut. Moreover, a former coworker of McVeigh's had called the FBI, reportedly offering evidence that connected McVeigh to the bombing. McVeigh is also alleged to have dropped a business card in the squad car after his arrest; the card advertising Paulsen's Military Supply in Wisconsin, had scrawled on it, "more five-pound sticks of TNT by May 1." According to other news reports, the FBI also discovered in the glove compartment of McVeigh's rented care a letter to a friend vowing revenge for the 1993 federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.
McVeigh was also carrying a phone debit card issued by The Spotlight, the conspiracy-minded newsletter of the anti-Semitic Liberty lobby. Purportedly, the government case against McVeigh relies heavily on the record of phone calls made with this card, which link McVeigh to suppliers of the fertilizer and plastic barrels allegedly used in the manufacture of the bomb.
In addition to McVeigh, the FBI had issued sketches of the so-called John Doe number two, believed to have accomplice in the Oklahoma bombing. The famous sketch of John Doe number two depicted a dark-haired man, perhaps of Middle Eastern extraction, wearing a baseball cap. Witnesses reported having seen this man with McVeigh at the bombing site and earlier at the Ryder rental franchise in Kansas. Initially, reports stated that the second suspect arrested in the bombing, Terry Nichols, was the same man seen in the familiar sketch of John Doe number two. But Nichols, an army buddy of McVeigh's, didn't look anything like the sketch. (McVeigh had implicated Nichols and Nichols's brother, James, having upon his lockup in Noble County listed James as his next of kin.)
Strangely, the FBI and federal prosecutors soon proffered a revised story, suggestion that John Doe number two, whoever he had been, was no more, most likely having been incinerated in the explosion. Terry Nichols further implicated McVeigh in the bombing, telling the FBI that McVeigh had called him from Oklahoma City the Sunday before the bombing, asking for a ride. Nichols drove from his home in Herington, Kansas, to Oklahoma City, then drove McVeigh to Junction City, Kansas. According to Nichols, during the drive McVeigh offered a cryptic statement: "Something big is going to happen," he said. "Are you going to rob a bank?" Nichols asked. McVeigh didn't elaborate but merely repeated the first statement: "Something big is going to happen."
A search of Terry Nichols's farm by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms reportedly turned up bomb-making materials – blasting caps, sixty-foot Primadet detonator cords, ammonium nitrate, nitrogen fertilizer, and 55-gallon blue plastic drums. The prosecution's case tightened when it was learned that the Nichols brothers had made appearance at meeting of the Michigan Militia, an Armageddon-ready phalanx of right-wing patriots convinced that the United Nations was plotting an imminent invasion of America. And McVeigh, it has been alleged by several witnesses, was seen in the company of Michigan Militia leader Mark Koernke, acting as his bodyguard.
It certainly seems as though federal prosecutors have sewn up an airtight case against McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Still, a number of extremely puzzling and as-yet-unexplained events undermine the simplistic case presented in the popular media. For starters, certain persons in surprising places seen to have had foreknowledge of the bombing. According to the Portland Oregonian of April 20, 1995, Judge Wayne Alley, whose office was across the street from the Murrah building, was advised by unidentified government "security specialists" several days before the bombing to take "special precautions." Conspiracy trackers have had a field day with this peculiar bit of news, which seemed to take on even more significance because (a) Alley is a former U.S. Army general and (b) the judge was scheduled to preside over the trial of McVeigh and Nichols before the court venue changed to Denver.
Judge Alley wasn't the only person to receive advance warning of the bombing. In OKBOMB! – Jim Keith's anomaly-packed book on the conspiratorial dimensions of the bombing – Keith chronicles a number of other instances where elect individuals were warned to stay away from the Murrah building. David Hall, the general manager of KPOC-TV in Oklahoma claims that he has videotaped interviews with eight workers in the federal building who assert they were told to expect a bombing on April 19. Per Hall, two days before the blast, a secretary to a state center received the same warning. Keith also reports that Oklahoma State representative Charles Key has claimed that "he knows of two witnesses who heard ATF employees mention that they had been warned no to come to work on the day of the bombing." Key has urged Congress and the state of Oklahoma to investigate these claims, but so far without success.
Without a formal investigation into such claims, it's difficult to distinguish rumor from fact, but a handful of other people in Oklahoma City have made similar assertions. Several claim that the ATF had warned its employees to stay away from the building on April 19. Although ATF maintains that five of its fifteen agents assigned to the Murrah building were on the premises during the tragedy, and that all five were injured, other reports (including one from an ATF agent and another in the New York Times) suggest that no agents were on site at 9:02 a.m. that morning.
Twenty miles away from the blast, seismographs at the University of Oklahoma recorded not one, but two explosive "events" just after 9:00 a.m. on April 19, within ten seconds of each other. The Omniplex Science Center in Oklahoma City recorded the same dual disturbance, the second one stronger than the first. The second tick of the seismograph needle as been dismissed by skeptics as a mere "echo" of the main event. However, Dr. Charles Mankin, director of the University of Oklahoma Geological Survey, held a press conference shortly after the bombing and told an assembly of journalists that the seismograph readings more likely indicated two explosions, rather than, as debunkers often assert an "air blast" caused by the collapse of the building or an earthquake. As Mankin put it to the fourth estate, "The news media, itself, even reported two bomb blasts initially, but later changed their story."
The twin blast theory gets even more interesting in light of several other little-reported details. For one, eyewitnesses – including rescue workers on the scene just after the explosion – reported that the bomb squad detail had discovered another bomb, apparently unexploded, amid the rubble. According to David Hall, the general manger of KPOC-TV in Oklahoma, local fire chief John Hanson told him that "they had found two undetonated bombs in the building as well as one rocket launcher in the building." These accounts of multiple bombs recovered on the site are at odds with the official version of events that eventually emerged – that a single 4,800-pound fertilizer bomb was to blame for the massive damage to the Murrah building.
The nature of the bomb itself is another contentious issue. More than one demolitions expert has commented that a homemade fertilizer bomb – even if prepared under ideal conditions, which this one wasn't – packed inside a truck parked outside of the federal building could never have mustered the destructive force of the Murrah bomb or bombs. Brig. Gen. Benton Partin, a retired U.S. Air Force officer with considerable knowledge of military ordinance, believes he smells a rat: "When I first saw the picture of the truck bomb's asymmetrical damage to the federal building…my immediate reaction was that the pattern of damage would have been technically impossible without supplementary demolition charges at some of the reinforced concrete column bases (inside the building) – a standard demolition technique." Partin went on to say that "the gross asymmetry in the federal building damage pattern is ipso facto evidence that there was an inside bomb effort and a[n outside] truck bomb effort."
Which leads us to the inside-job theory. Did the truck bomb terrorists have help from personnel with access to the building? Here we begin to tread into a minefield of speculation, and with the government holding its evidentiary cards close to the vest, there's no way of proving that particular conspiracy theory. However, this hasn't inhibited conspiracy trackers from marching into the rhetorical blast zone. And on their way in, they brandish a curious New York Daily News story reporting that several hours into the search and rescue operation after the bombing, "some rescue workers were ordered to stop searching for survivors while federal officials removed boxes of documents…. Groups of 40 to 50 federal agents spent much of the night carrying dozens of boxes from the seventh and ninth floors, where the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have offices." This delay of the rescue operation occurred despite that people were still buried alive in the rubble. What if the feds were trying to remove unexploded ordnance, using the cover story of document retrieval? Ask inquiring minds.
Same inquiring minds found at least partial corroboration from Oklahoma State representative Charles Key, who dredged up a sheriff's department film that referred to an "arsenal room" inside the Murrah building. Apparently, at the time of the bombing, weapons were being stored in that room. Per Key, the sheriff's film "establishes, beyond a doubt, that the ATF was maintaining an arsenal room in the Murrah building the day of the bombing and that [the] arsenal room was ruptured by the initial blast from a truck bomb." Key pointed out that the pattern of damage was worse in the area of the alleged arsenal room. According to several eyewitness reports, bomb squads removed an assortment of ordnance from that room, including undetonated explosives and even an anti-tank TOW missile. To date, Key's calls for a full investigation of these stories have gone unheeded by state and federal officials.
More peculiarities revolve around the key suspects, McVeigh, Nichols, and the mysterious John Doe two. According to KPOC-TV's David Hall, a month after the bombing the FBI had a suspect matching the description of John Doe two under surveillance. Early in its investigation, the FBI had referred to a videotape showing McVeigh and John Doe two leaving the crime scene in a brown Ford pickup. On the day of the blast, the police had issued an all-points bulletin for a brown Ford pickup with two occupants. KFOR-TV, another local station, tracked down a truck answering to that description parked outside a "northwest Oklahoma City business." In a June 7, 1995, report, KFOR correspondent Jayna Davis showed a digitally obscured picture of an employee at that business. "Law enforcement officers," she said, "agree with us [that he] strongly resembles the FBI sketches of John Doe two. We know who he is, but we can't show you his face at this time because he has not been arrested or charged. However, he wave witnesses who identified him in the company of Timothy McVeigh just days before the blast and just a few miles away from the Murrah building."
The next day, KFOR described the man as an Iraqi national who had served in Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard during the Gulf War. The addition of a Middle Eastern accomplice to the crime scenario certainly complicated federal prosecutors' simple story of right-wing nuts gone amok. But for now, at least, the question of why they apparently lost interest in the second John Doe remains a mystery. So, for that matter, do the early reports of video footage shot at the scene of the crime. What happened to that footage, if indeed it ever existed?
KPOC-TV's David Hall tells another strange story that the federal authorities have yet to explain or adequately debunk. Hall says that on Friday following the Wednesday bombing, while listening to his police-band radio scanned, "I heard a broadcast coming over from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol that they had a car on I-35 and that the car, most likely, had been involved in the bombing." Hall dispatched a camera crew, which arrived at the scene to find a woman claiming she had witnessed the arrest of a man at 1:30 p.m. She said that Highway Patrol officers had removed a suspect from his car and put him in a "military helicopter." According to Hall, several other bystanders reported having witnessed the same scene, helicopter and all. Did the police actually pick up McVeigh on Friday rather than Wednesday, as we've been told?
Not surprisingly, in the absence of a straightforward story from federal officials, an assortment of even more way-out conspiracy tales have spawned to fill the gaps in what we know. Most outlandish are several well-publicized theories attributing the bombing to agents of the Japanese government, as payback for the earlier gas attack on Tokyo subways, which in this epic scenario was a CIA-orchestrated plot. Not much more useful is the theory spouted by jailed tale-spinner Michael Riconosciuto, who claims that the bomb used in the blast was a military fuel-air explosive, which Riconosciuto also claims he invented. Other speculations revolve around the many McVeigh "sightings" made before and after his arrest. (These theories came to a boil when Soldier of Fortune readers dug up a picture of a Waco ATF agent who bore a passing resemblance to the crew-cut boy bomber of Oklahoma City.) Did someone deploy a series of McVeigh doubles to confuse the investigative trail or to draw attention to McVeigh before the bombing? Was McVeigh set up to be the patsy? If this speculative possibility sounds familiar, you've done your homework on the JFK assassination, which abounds in stories of CIA-deployed Lee Harvey Oswald doubles gallivanting across the Northern hemisphere.
Clearly, some variety of conspiracy informs the muzzy events of the Oklahoma bombing – indeed, federal prosecutors have charged McVeigh and Nichols with conspiracy. But what was the precise nature of the conspiracy? Are we to believe the official version of events, that McVeigh and Nichols and perhaps unindicted co-conspirators from the militia movement teamed up to strike back at the feds for whatever reason – revenge for Waco or fear of a pending United Nations invasion? That theory is certainly plausible. But there may be more to the story than we've been led to believe, given the unconfronted evidence I have talked about on this page. Did McVeigh and Nichols get assistance from someone or someones within the government, making the Oklahoma blast an "inside job"? Of course, in these days of hyperbolic suspicion, it's as easy to imagine crazed "rogue agents" of the government pulling off the OK caper as it is to imagine nutty right-wing zealots behind the bombing. But the fact is, the inside-job theory lacks a convincing motive. The theory popular among paranoid Patriots – that elements of the government used McVeigh and company to launch a latter-day Reichstag fire, a provocation to be blamed on the enemy (Patriots) – doesn't gel because the payoff for evil feds is so minuscule compared to the risks. In other words, the feds don't need a heinous crime to pin on right wingers to justify a crackdown on civil liberties. Law enforcement and conservative courts have been cracking down on civil liberties successfully for years without having to resort to a terror bombing.
Yet another Patriot theory ascribes motive this way: Inside government jobbers used the bomb to destroy Waco evidence that would have incriminated the ATF. But this theory falls apart when you invoke one simple word: shredder.
There's another option for theorists that seems to make more sense: Could a federal agency be attempting a more "benign," after-the-fact cover-up of its own bungling? An agency that had advance knowledge of the bombing but failed to thwart it would be staring a monumental PR disaster in the face, the kind that might lead to dissolution of that agency. Was the ATF illegally storing high explosives and other dangerous materials in a public building, and did that gross negligence literally add fuel to the fire?
On June 14, 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and weapons-related charges and was sentenced to death two months later. In April 1998, he filed to appeal the ruling. In a separate trial, Terry Nichols (who cooperated with the authorities) was convicted on December 23, 1997 of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and involuntary manslaughter. He was sentenced to life in prison and a fine of $14.5 million in restitution to the U.S. government. It appears that it is better to eliminate messy uncertainties from your case before it goes to trial. Much easier to convict a conspiracy of two or three guys.


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Basic Indian Law Research Tips - Federal Indian Law. David Selden and Monica Martens, National Indian Law Library. (2008)
Basic Indian Law Research Tips - Tribal Law. David Selden, National Indian Law Library. (2012)
How to Research a Legal Problem: a Guide for Non-Lawyers (American Association of Law Libraries). Some of the web sites linked from the the National Indian Law Library's
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Introduction to United States Law - (University of San Francisco). A list of reference materials about the United States legal system and laws.
Legal and Factual Research on the Internet - (Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP). To find articles on this topic, use the search engine at this web site. Search using either the word "Internet" or the words "legal and factual research on the Internet."
Librarians' Index to the Internet - Index of Selected Internet Resources.
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United States Government Web Sites:
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Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
No Starch Press, 2003 - Computers - 241 pages
A comprehensive introduction to the techniques of exploitation and creative problem-solving methods commonly referred to as "hacking," Hacking: The Art of Exploitation is for both technical and non-technical people who are interested in computer security. It shows how hackers exploit programs and write exploits, instead of just how to run other people's exploits. Unlike many so-called hacking books, this book explains the technical aspects of hacking, including stack based overflows, heap based overflows, string exploits, return-into-libc, shellcode, and cryptographic attacks on 802.11b.
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Close to 500 undocumented Haitians enter Brazil in three days
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Efe via Listín Diario
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Translated from the Spanish by David Holmes Morris for lo-de-alla
Brazil has issued humanitarian visas to hundreds of Haitians.
Some 500 undocumented Haitian immigrants entered the Brazilian city of Brasileia, on the Bolivian border, in the last three days of 2011, joining the approximately 700 who live in an improvised shelter in this Amazonian city of 20,000 inhabitants, official sources reported yesterday.
The immigrants arrived in mass over a few days in the midst of rumors that Brazil is studying the possibility of restricting the entry of Haitians across the Amazonian borders beginning this year, a source in the government of the Brazilian state of Acre told Efe.
In the past two years, since the earthquake of 2010, Brazil has taken in hundreds of Haitians who entered the country illegally in search of better living conditions and has given them humanitarian visas, since they cannot be considered political refugees or to be seeking asylum..
"The Haitians seem to have been gathering on the other side of the border and entered as a group out of fear they would be prevented from entering Brazil," the source added.
The government of Acre, on the Bolivian border in the extreme west of Brazil, reported that it had sent food and water to aid the immigrants, who settled in the plazas of Brasileia, since this small city does not have facilities to assist them.
"The situation is complicated by the fact that the state had already constructed a shelter for the immigrants that turned out to be too small for the 700 Haitians who were already in Brasileia,"
according to the source consulted by Efe.
The adjunct secretary for Justice and Human Rights in Acre, José Henrique Corinto de Moura, traveled to Brasileia on Monday to coordinate aid for the numerous undocumented immigrants.
Despite the fact that the National Committee for Refugees of the Brazilian Ministry of Justice admitted last December that it was studying measures to staunch the flow of immigrants across the Amazonian borders, so far no decision has been announced.
According to the international organization Jesuit Refugee Service of Latin America, different networks dealing and trafficking in persons recruit Haitian citizens with promises of work in countries like Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, who, once abandoned, end up traveling to Brazil in search of better living conditions.
In 2010 alone, Brazil issued 475 humanitarian visas to Haitian immigrants but the number of undocumented immigrants increased significantly in 2011.
The government of Acre estimates that at least 2,300 Haitians entered the state last year.
In addition to humanitarian visas, the immigrants receive documents that permit them to work in Brazil and some are sent to larger cities like Porto Velho and Manaos, also on the Amazon, where the opportunities for employment are greater.
Sources: Efe via Listin Diario (Spanish) | lo-de-alla (English)
Brazil seeks agreements with foreign intelligence agencies to bar Haitians, some argue for open borders
By Najla Passos
Carta Maior
Translation from the Portuguese by David Holmes Morris for lo-de-alla
Brasilia – The Agência Brasileira de Informação and the Polícia Federal are seeking the cooperation of the secret services of other Latin American countries in an attempt to break up the gangs responsible for facilitating the illegal entry of Haitians into the country across the borders with Bolivia and Peru.
"We have to put an end to the trafficking of persons and keep the criminal activity of the 'coiotes' from becoming established in the region,"
says Míriam Medeiros da Silva, coodinator general of the Secretaria de Acompanhamento e Estudos Institucionais of the Gabinete de Segurança Institucional of the presidency.
'Coiotes' [coyotes in Spanish] are the operators of the illegal immigration routes from Haiti to Brazil. Their main route passes through the Dominican Republic, Haiti's neighbor, and crosses Ecuador and Bolivia to arrive in Brazil.
According to Míriam, the coiotes charge an average of 2,000 dollars for the immigrants, who are subjected to the most dangerous of conditions during their trip and their stay in neighboring countries.
"Accounts by Haitians who arrive in the country reveal that they are assaulted and extorted during the trip here, principally in Bolivia. So Brazil seems a paradise to them, with extremely welcoming people,"
says Senator Aníbal Diniz .
According to the ministry of foreign relations, the coiotes' activities are facilitated by the fact that, in contrast with Brazil, the countries along the way do not require entrance visas for the Haitians. The exception is the Dominican Republic, which has deported Haitians who enter the country illegally.
"Since February we have been trying to solve the problem. We had promising talks with Peru, which made a commitment to require a visa, but Ecuador refuses to require a visa for any immigrants,"
said Rodrigo do Amaral Souza, director of the Departamento de Imigração of the ministry.
An open border
The executive secretary of the Ministry of Justice and president of the Comitê Nacional para Refugiados, Luiz Paulo Teles Barreto, stated that the gang members are the same coiotes who make a living transporting Latin Americans to the United States under such dangerous conditions that they sometimes end up dying.
Barreta points out that, in addition to the Haitians, they have offered their services to other foreigners who desire to come into the country, like Asians and Arabs.
"With the growth in the Brazilian economy, the coiotes are exploring this new route for the trafficking of persons. There is an urgent need to find a solution to the problem," he said.
One factor is the increase in the export of Brazilian meat to Arab countries, which require that animals be slaughtered according to the norms established by Islam.
"Many Afghans and Pakistanis are therefore coming to work in Brazil and, often, they ask for a visa only when they have already arrived and are working,"
the executive secretary explains.
Humanitarian aid
The illegal immigration of Haitians was the topic of a public hearing in the senate during the last week of work for the parliamentarians before the holidays. In the debate, Senator Cristóvam Buarque argued that the country should make an effort so that in the future it won't need to control the borders.
"If we make it easy for merchandise, why can't we make it easy for persons?" he asked.
Senator Jorge Vianna, whose brother, Tião Viana, is governor or Acre, has already suggested that the Brazilian government institute a policy of admitting between 10,000 and 30,000 Haitians legally, by the front door, guaranteeing their safety and without encouraging the criminal activities of the coiotes.
"It would be a great humanitarian gesture," he argued.
Senator Aloysio Nunes proposed revising the immigration law immediately to make it more current and to facilitate the legal entry into the country of victims of natural or economic disasters, as is the case with Haitians.
"These days Latinos come to Brazil as Africans go to Europe, to look for a better life," he declared.
Sources: Carta Maior (Portuguese) | lo-de-alla (English)
Related articles:
- 'Manifesto for Human Rights of Haitian Immigrants in Brazil' Drafted by Latin Americans
- Brazil Construction Boom Eases Integration of Haitians
- Total Withdrawal of Brazilian UN Occupation Troops Most Wanted from Roussef
- Haitians Trafficked to Brazil to Work for Problematic French Utility GDF-Suez
UPDATE from AlterPresse: During a visit to Haiti on Feb 2, 2012, Brazilian President Dilma Roussef said that her country would grant 1200 visas per year for five years to Haitian families to enter Brazil legally.


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What the Rams Can Learn From the Jets Defeat of Patriots
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|Bill Belichick is still the smartest coach in the NFL. He doesn't make many plays on the field, though.
This team had the greatest quarterback in the history of the universe, the smartest coach in the world, and there was absolutely nothing Rex Ryan and his blustering band of foot soldiers could do to stop the inevitable ass-kicking the Jets were about to receive.
There is one thing the Jets had that the Patriots didn't, though. The Jets had better players.
The narrative went something like this: Bill Belichick, genius of geniuses, had, along with his staff, put together one of the all-time great offensive systems. And, more impressively, they had put together said system with a bunch of small-but-tough, elusive-but-not-really-fast, team-first white guys. It was the ultimate triumph of design over personnel; a team composed almost entirely of the football equivalent of Skip Schumaker and somehow they averaged five TDs a game.
On Sunday, though, we all saw what happened to that brilliant system. The Jets came to town with much bigger, stronger, more athletic players, and they beat the Patriots with that physicality. Don't get me wrong; I'm not trying to say Rex Ryan is a lumbering idiot who just has a stable of physical freaks and the extent of his gameplan is offering candy and pointing at the other team. Ryan is a very smart coach who came up with an outstanding scheme to stop the Patriots. But this matchup was billed as brains vs. brawn, the brilliance of Belichick against the noisy muscle of Ryan's Jets.
Here's the problem with all that, though, and the real point of my column: The Jets didn't win because their gameplan was smarter than New England's. They won because the Jet players executed their gameplan better and the Patriots had no answer for their superior talent.
So why am I, a sports columnist in a little midwestern city that doesn't much care about fancy east-coast sporting events, writing about this? Because I think the lesson here is a good one for both Rams fans and Rams management to learn.
Talent wins games. All the planning in the world can't make up for a clear difference in the overall quality of player you're fielding.
With so much of the discussion here in St. Louis recently focused on who the Rams' next offensive coordinator is going to be (not to mention the wailing and gnashing of teeth that has accompanied the Rams' offensive shortcomings in 2010), I think it's important to put this bit of perspective out into the public sphere. Josh McDaniels, thought to be the leading candidate for the Rams' OC job, is, coincidentally, the man responsible for that record-setting Patriot offense of 2007. And perhaps not so coincidentally, the scheme for the '07 Pats offense was a whole lot like the current one. There was one very different element, though: When the 2007 Patriots needed a play, they could always just tell Randy Moss to go get open somehow and throw it to him. The 2010 Patriots had no such game-changer, and it showed. Wes Welker is one of my favorite players in the NFL, and one of the more uniquely talented players going right now. He is not, however, Randy Moss.
|Danario Alexander has the talent to be a force in the NFL, but his youth and injuries kept his impact low in 2010.
We all complained about the Rams' offense this year. Sure, they scored better than a touchdown per game more than in 2009, but all too often it seemed they were stuck in neutral, with dink-and-dunk passes the order of the day. It was frustrating, to say the least. But look at the Patriots. Their offense this season was largely predicated on three-yard passes and elusive receivers who could milk another 3-4 yards after the catch. And that's an offense with Tom Brady in his absolute peak running the show. As promising as Sam Bradford is, he was a rookie. All year.
So that's the lesson I hope both fans and management of the St. Louis Rams take away from watching the Patriots get shut down. To the Fans: You want to know why the Rams' offense was so conservative and predictable in 2010? Because there was a rookie quarterback taking snaps and a coaching staff that didn't want him to get David Carr'd. Oh, and because the team's most talented wide receiver, Danario Alexander, missed most of his rookie season (this season), recovering from knee surgery. Danny Amendola gets a lot of Wes Welker-lite comparisons; perhaps it's only fitting the Ram offense was kind of Patriot-lite. (You want to argue Steven Jackson was underused in Seattle? Fine. No beef there. That was a bad deal, a breakdown moment, and a serious black mark against Spags and Co. The rest of the time, though? There was a reason, even if fans don't want to hear it.)
And to the management: Just remember, the best scheme in the world only works if you have the talent to execute it. The difference in the 2007 and 2010 Patriots was one of the greatest receivers ever making a play when they needed a play made, not an extra-brilliant wrinkle McDaniels took with him when he headed to Denver. The reason the Giants were finally able to stop that team wasn't because Steve Spagnuolo came up with the perfect defensive scheme. It was because Spags came up with a really good gameplan and had Michael Strahan and Osi Umenyiora to put that plan into action. As Monte Kiffin has been known to say of his famous Tampa 2 defense: "We sure looked smarter when we had better players."
So while you're doing your due diligence in trying to find the best possible fit for the new offensive coordinator position, Mr. Devaney, don't forget: If the cast of characters is no better than it was this year (though it should be, even just assuming more experience and slightly better luck health-wise), then it isn't going to matter much how smart the guy is, whether it is ultimately Josh McDaniels or Brad Childress or anyone else. Get the players, and the scheme will work. If not, the best game plan in the world will only get you so far.
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The Kampala, Uganda native excelled on and off the soccer field, epitomizing a clear model of selflessness and dedication, while showing great strength during times of immense adversity.
At the age of 13, Kalanzi along with his two brothers and one sister lost both parents to the AIDS epidemic. This left him and his siblings homeless, hungry, and with no education or medical attention. The Kalanzi children's fate turned for the better when they met David and Aimee Kyambadde. David was a local Ugandan born outside Kampala, while Aimee was a U.S. citizen from Minnesota. The Kyambadde's warmly welcomed the children into their newly built Home Again Orphanage and taught them life lessons such as self-respect and responsibility.
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By Chris W. Cox
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Conservation Victory In Wolf Battle
Victories sometimes come in the most unlikely places. The battle between Congress and the White House over completing the 2011 federal budget risked a government shutdown. But when negotiators reached an agreement, the bill also contained a little-noticed victory for wildlife conservation and hunters nationwide.
NRA members who live or hunt in the West are acutely aware of the saga over delisting the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Wolf populations in the Rocky Mountain and Great Lakes regions are at least five times larger than the original federal recovery goals, surpassing the objectives of the ESA. Today, wolves ravage struggling wildlife populations all over the West.
Given that success, officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have attempted wolf delisting repeatedly—twice in the Northern Rockies and three times in the Western Great Lakes. But anti-hunting groups have filed relentless lawsuits, successfully derailing the delisting process. Maybe it's just me, but it sure seems like the anti-hunting groups only start tossing around lawsuits when it comes to delisting a species that will then be scientifically managed by hunting. Where were the lawsuits over delisting the bald eagle?
This year, NRA joined with a coalition of other major hunting and conservation groups to press for congressional intervention in the dysfunctional delisting process. Against the backdrop of negotiations over spending cuts, Western lawmakers engineered an unprecedented victory for wildlife conservation. For the first time in history, Congress agreed to cut off endless litigation over delisting and enforce the intent of the Endangered Species Act—to delist recovered populations using the best available science and return them to state management.
Here are the details. The budget language mandates that within 60 days, the Department of the Interior must reissue the 2009 rule that delists the Montana, Idaho, Utah, Washington and Oregon wolf populations; and it returns management authority to states. Anti-hunting extremist groups complained that the language marked a triumph of "politics over science," but just the opposite is true. In truth, the language marks a victory of science over frivolous lawsuits and judicial activism.
And that difference has critical importance. The budget also includes language to specifically block any further lawsuits. It should be no surprise that at press time, a court challenge to that restriction was being filed. But at least for now, by taking the courts out of the equation, Congress is paving the way for states to begin—or resume—managing wolf populations through carefully regulated hunting seasons. Limited wolf hunting seasons were successfully conducted in Idaho and Montana two years ago—only to be thwarted by anti-hunting extremists in court.
As the true conservationists, hunters understand that state game biologists need to have authority to manage all the species that co-exist in their ecosystems. Despite all the pseudo-mysticism that anti-hunting groups attach to the gray wolf, it is a predator species that must be managed like all others. And the wolf differs from other predator species as a killer of opportunity; wolves will kill even when they don't need food. This kind of routine surplus killing makes it even more imperative that wolves fall under state management authority.
The provision does not, however, mark a comprehensive victory. It does not delist all recovered populations of gray wolves. The Western Great Lakes wolf population was not included in this legislation. The USFWS is pursuing a fourth proposed rule to delist that population, now that Congress has made a strong statement on the issue.
The overall dynamic of the wolf debate changed substantially with this legislation. Anti-hunting groups were running scared ahead of the bill, with some groups offering a weak settlement to the current lawsuits in an effort to stave off Congress. But the settlement, not supported by NRA, was rejected just in time to pave the way for congressional action.
If the anti-hunting groups insist on blocking the delisting with another round of lawsuits, NRA is ready to respond. We are supporting H.R. 838, sponsored by Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., which would delist the Western Great Lakes wolf population in a fashion very similar to the language in the budget bill. And we will keep pushing for solutions wherever the delisting of recovered wolf populations is threatened by frivolous lawsuits. Reasonable people might think these career litigants would learn their lesson and finally allow the ESA to work as intended, but they have proven themselves anything but reasonable.
Our work is never done and it is certainly not done here. NRA supports this initial legislative step, and we will support further legislation to delist all recovered wolf populations. But the passage of this provision marks an important turning point for sound conservation science to prevail over endless lawsuits, and that's a victory that's worth celebrating.
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The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) announced last week the finalization of a bi-state agreement between New York and Vermont for the progression of a project to rehabilitate or replace the Lake Champlain Bridge-with either a new bridge or a ferry boat-spanning Lake Champlain between Crown Point, N.Y. and Chimney Point, Vt.
No work is planned until 2013, four years after the Champlain Quadricentennial. Tourists to both states this summer will cross a rusting bridge in need of serious repair. Exposed masonry rebar is visible in places on the structure. And there were no plans to cosmetically dress-paint the structure for the international Champlain celebration now underway.
HTNB Corporation of New York City has been selected as design consultant. The project is between NYSDOT and the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VAOT), in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
HNTB is a national transportation infrastructure firm doing bridge rehabilitations and replacements. The design team will initiate work on the project once approved by the New York State comptroller.
The bi-state agreement demonstrates the partnership between the states and the common understanding of the needs of the structure, with no specific plan.
The project is considered to be in a preliminary planning stage and is expected to require the completion of an Environmental Impact Statement before a proposed solution is selected.
Options include rehabilitation or replacement of the existing bridge or the use of a ferry boat. While not specifically noted by officials, bridge or ferry tolls could also be considered by the states.
Old bridge reconstruction, new bridge construction, or a ferry boat to replace the bridge, would be tentatively planned for 2013.
The 80-year-old bridge accommodates approximately 3,400 vehicles per day. There was no information provided by either state regarding the daily vehicle capacity of a ferry boat.
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Posted by joeymb32 on 02/15/09 at 8:25PM
Don't worry, with that extra 13 dollars a week of stimulus money, I'm sure they'll see more enrollment soon. Maybe our new turd in chief will have the fed reserve just print a couple of billion more dollars and just give it to these institutions, or better yet they could follow the example of the city of N.O. by lowering the standards so any one and everyone could attend.
The best thing they could do is to MAKE COLLAGE MORE AFFORDABLE FOR EVERYONE!!!!!
You need to submit an application soon. "Collage"
Posted by navypat on 02/15/09 at 5:35PM
You have a black man as President of the USA. Your excuses have dried up. I won't bother mentioning Oprah, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Denzel Washington, Michael Steele, countless athletes and rap stars, etc. YOU people no longer want EQUAL OPPORTUNITY you want EXCESSIVE OPPORTUNITY. You people are doing great in almost any endeavor EXCEPT raising your own kids. Sigh.______________________________________________
Dont look now, but youve just contradicted yourself.
Posted by Biarritz on 02/15/09 at 11:55AM
Black colleges?? gimme a break! Go to State university, they accept EVERYBODY without regard to race or religion. Eventually you're going to have to deal with EVERYBODY, so get used to the idea.
Doesnt seem like youve gotten used to the idea.
Posted by lazoniannola on 01/26/09 at 1:49PM
UNO2LSU,white people embarass about receiving publci assistance, so they have abortion or send their children away to bear child while telling everyone "Oh, she away at school." Sound familiar? You need read your history before you opoen your mouth about other cultures.
Can I get a comprehensible statement to rebut, please?
Posted by teach2read on 01/26/09 at 12:53PM
As far as the percentage of whites children in foster care as opposed to the number of black children...if black parents place their child in foster care...THEIR CHECK IS REDUCED!! So they keep 'em around and hope they don't become robbers and murderers; it's just a toss up.
You forgot to add President of the United States.
gardendixt on 01/26/09 at 12:03PM
Once again, you've missed my point, but I won't waste time going over it. The true sign of intelligence is someone who has the ability to study what they don't understand. I'm not arguing your math, so maybe that will be an incentive for you to re-read my comment until it's discernable to you.
Secondly, who cares if the state forcibly takes the kids or if their submitted voluntarily, the end result is a child in state custody based on parental negligence.
Finally, you also missed the boat on this final subject: the amount of posts. If you were realy paying attention, you would've noticed that I was talking about the average, not the total. In other words, this particular thread needs roughly 75 more posts to reach the AVERAGE amount of posts regarding the three teens.
Posted by LSU1999MS on 01/26/09 at 12:42PM
FromUNO2LSU - Please take the "LSU" out of your user name...you're giving my school a bad reputation with your ignorance. gardendixt's math is correct...obviously not your major.
Hmm, that's strange because I never argued against his "math," I argued against his perspective. But thank you for validating my statement about the ignorant regressing to insults when they have nothing intelligent to offer.
gardendixt : "Sorry, I guess you aren't too swift with percentages" and "You seriously need a refresher course in basic algebra."
- The ignorant usually regress to insults when they aren't knowledgable about certain things. I digress.
Posted by mstrenesa on 01/26/09 at 10:24AM
This is so sad. Another murder. But it's funny how there are over 400 comments posted to this story and not even 200 posted on the story about the guy killing his Father and almost killiing his mother and smiling on his mug shot. __________________________________________________
LOL, I just said the same thing on that board. LOL
southernway......youre just as dumb as the rest of them. You must be missing the multiplication key on your calculator.
Huh? The guy is averaging 20.4 ppg which is the same average as last year. How has he been inconsistant this year as opposed to last year?
It's clear that you know know nothing about the stock market. The DOW rallied 300+ points in anticipation of an Obama victory. Yesterday people were selling their stocks to reap the profits made tfrom the rally. Additionally, the end of the year is, and has ALWAYS been, the time when people start selling stocks in preperation for the tax man.
To further prove that you know nothing about the stock market, your comment about "He just delivered the biggest post election drop in the U.S. stock market since 1896," clearly shows that you forogt about the biggest one day drop in history of 777 points a few weeks ago.
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lgdnola on 07/17/08 at 4:53PM
"La has too many people going to universities and college."
You can never have too many people going to college. You should go to college because your grammar is horrible.
Unity at its finest!
Do not let the media and ignorance influence your perspective any race. Judge the induvidual by their own acts.
Wow! I can say the same thing about white people who are reaping the benefits of those same government subsidies in addition to the preponderance of whites who "will work for food" on major intersections throughout the city.
You display your ignorance well.
"big words conceal small ideas" is a euphemism for "I'm too stupid to learn new words."
Far from an idiot. Posture yourself in front of reflective glass and you will the the King of Idiots...oh, and a necrophiliac. Yes, I attacked you first, but when you submit a polemic (look it up) to a public forum, then you subject yourself to confrontation. Now, as I said before, I have bigger fish to fry, shrimp.
LOL, if it pleases you to spend all of your time berating me and others on the internet, then have fun. It's obvious that you have no life.


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The Oxford University Cross-Country Club Old Members' Club - more commonly known as the Old Gits - was founded in February 1998.
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Perhaps the most important of the club's aims is supporting the current OUCCC generation and for this reason, our fundraising role is vital. In 2006, we made our first donation to the club with £5,000 going towards the resurfacing of the Roger Bannister Track at Iffley Road. Our fund is based on contributions from old members, most of whom donate a small amount (about £2-£3) on a monthly basis. Our account is administered by the University's Development Office and, therefore, we are able to benefit from Gift Aid relief on all donations.
All of the money raised goes back to OUCCC – none of it is used for the administration of the club. As you may be aware, the University is keen to see all sports clubs move towards a position where they are funded by their alumni and, for this reason, the donations old members make are vital to the long-term health of OUCCC. There is no subscription for joining the Old Gits, but we would very much welcome any donations from old members who wish to join. Details and forms can be found on our website – www.ouccc-oldmembers.co.uk.
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