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The head of the agency charged with enforcing Delaware’s alcohol laws has resigned after being arrested for drunken driving.
Siobahn Sullivan submitted her resignation letter to Secretary of Safety and Homeland Security Lewis Schiliro on Friday, saying she was resigning effective immediately as director of the Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement.
Sullivan was stopped for speeding early Thursday on Route 1 near Lewes and subsequently charged with drunken driving.
Weirder still are the number of people out there named Siobahn Sullivan. Why?
Found by John Martinez.
Just a couple weeks ago, we had written about a federal lawsuit concerning whether or not the Justice Department needs a warrant to put a tracking device on cars. In a very prescient manner, a bunch of our commenters started discussing what would happen if they found such a device on their car, and whether or not it would be legal to remove it. Well, now we have a case of exactly that happening.
The article is quite funny.
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DeStefano referred to last weekend’s police raid of a private Yale dance at the Elevate nightclub on College Street. Police, including two heavily armed SWAT officers, stormed the club at 12:50 a.m. on Oct. 2 and made five arrests while commanding students to stay off cell phones. The incident sparked a storm of protest from undergraduates who say they were mistreated by overly aggressive police officers.
It was one of three cases in which police have come under fire for treatment of civilians since launching the “Operation Nightlife” crackdown in the downtown club district in the wake of a shoot-out between citizens and police. The police have launched internal investigations into two of those incidents.
Nasty and abusive comments for a mathematics female teacher on the social networking site Facebook led to the suspension of 16 students of a leading private school.
16 students of Class 12 of Vivek High School in Sector-38, Chandigarh were suspended for three months for their mis conduct, the school authorities informed.
The incident took place earlier this week when a Class 12 student, who got low marks in his mathematics exam, posted his answer sheet on Facebook with rude and abusive comments about the female teacher. 15 of his classmates also commented.
The teacher, who even had an account on the social networking site, saw the comments and complained to the school authorities, which took the matter seriously.
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Ironic that you can lose your freedom for not reciting something about a country that touts its people’s freedom of speech.
When a Mississippi judge entered a courtroom and asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, an attorney with a reputation for fighting free speech battles stayed silent as everyone else recited the patriotic oath. The lawyer was jailed.
Attorney Danny Lampley spent about five hours behind bars Wednesday before Judge Talmadge Littlejohn set him free so that the lawyer could work on another case. Lampley told The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal he respected the judge but wasn’t going to back down.
“I don’t have to say it because I’m an American,” Lampley told the newspaper.
The Supreme Court ruled nearly 70 years ago that schoolchildren couldn’t be forced to say the pledge, a decision widely interpreted to mean no one could be required to recite the pledge.
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“I’m speechless. The judge needs a reminder copy of the First Amendment,” said Judith Schaeffer, a Washington attorney who, along with Lampley, successfully sued the Pontotoc school district in northern Mississippi in the 1990s to stop students from praying over the intercom.
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The Pledge of Allegiance has faced challenges since it was published in 1892.In 1943, the Supreme Court ruled that children in public schools could not be forced to salute the flag and say the pledge. In 1954, the words “under God” were added to the pledge, when members of Congress at the time said they wanted to set the United States apart from “godless communists.”
Watch as a man rams his motorized scooter into an elevator after missing it, ultimately breaking the panels and, sadly, plummeting to his eventual death. (Video isn’t graphic, FYI.)
It’s a story that, by all accounts, shouldn’t have flown.
Anchors at the Fox News national morning news show “Fox and Friends” reported Tuesday that the city of Los Angeles had ordered 10,000 jetpacks for its police and fire departments. The price tag: a whopping $100,000 per unit. For those doing the math at home, the cash-strapped city of Los Angeles, which is regularly sending its police detectives home because it can’t pay all their overtime, allegedly shelled out a billion dollars on space-age transportation that it has never used in an emergency situation, much less tested.
“We certainly haven’t bought any jetpacks,” said LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. “We haven’t bought [squad] cars for two years.” As Gawker.com was the first to note, the “Fox and Friends” report appeared to contain material taken right out of a story from the Weekly World News tabloid, which bills itself as “The World’s Only Reliable New Source.”
Apparently taking that slogan — and ruse — to heart, “Fox and Friends” reported that the jetpacks can reach speeds of 63 miles an hour and reach an altitude of 8,000 feet. And then came the questions. Co-host Gretchen Carlson said that while she was “all for buying stuff up and helping the capitalism and all that” she wondered whether the costs would be prohibitive in a bad economy. Brian Kilmeade wondered about possible safety issues.
“You gotta make up some rules,” Kilmeade said. “Because you’re going to have jetpacks flying into choppers!”
- Facebook changing for no apparent reason. Pulling a Digg?
- Logitech rolls out the Google TV. I think it is just an extended Harmony Controller.
- Apple back in the news regarding CDMA.
- Motorola wants FTC to throw the book at Apple.
- Verizon going LTE sooner than later?
- Motorola Droid Pro supposed to be a Blackberry killer.
- Motorola may try Phone 7.
- Apple TV selling well, but the iPad is even hotter.
- Galaxy S selling like crazy too.
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