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"...(he) hopes to have surveillance cameras in the city's entertainment district up and rolling before the end of the year."
According to Jack Colley, Texas Emergency Management chief,
"The policy is an attempt to keep sex offenders and fugitives from boarding evacuation buses with children, the elderly and the disabled."Maybe I don't keep up with the news, maybe I just missed the reports of sex offenders fondling children on evacuation buses. Seems to me that it would be more likely to happen at the fringes of the large crowds waiting to get on buses than in the view of other evacuees on the long evacuation bus ride.
Colley made certain to reassure everyone that,
"... sex offenders or other criminals will not be left behind, just evacuated on different buses." " "This will allow us to help them evacuate."When questioned as to whether the background checks could be processed in an emergency environment, he responded,
"We'll be able to do it. We'll have procedures and we're not going to advertise what they are."It's important that we not let the terrorists (I mean citizens) know how they will be processed.
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CCA has been granted an exemption from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services!!!
The UN human rights office in Geneva has stated that, Dr. Jorge Bustamante, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, was scheduled to tour the Hutto facility on Monday as part of an official fact-finding mission. But according to news reports, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has denied U.N. Inspectors access to the facility.
They knew the inspection was coming and made a conscious decision to bar them.
(picture courtesy of Mother Jones.com)From the Eye On Williamson blog:
Last week, from documents (Linked here - part 1 and part 2 [.PDF]) sent to us from Dave Maass of the San Antonio Current, EOW has learned that Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) applied for and was granted an exemption from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). It’s interesting that CCA would want to keep DFPS out of its facility.
"A marijuana arrest is made every 41 seconds in America – nine out of 10 of them for mere possession. In 2004, 772,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges – more than for all violent crimes combined."
"Merck had provided a relatively small amount of money to Mr. Perry's campaign fund – $5,000 in 2006 – and has paid three lobbyists up to $250,000 this year. One of the lobbyists, Mike Toomey, was formerly Mr. Perry's chief of staff.
The possible FDA fallout from the (Vioxx) trial was quickly evident in a statement from Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who held a hearing on the drug safety issue last fall.
"The Food and Drug Administration was also negligent in the Vioxx case," said Grassley, who has proposed making the drug safety office more independent. "Those running the nation's public safety agency repeatedly dismissed the concerns of their own scientists and seemed to do everything possible to keep the public in the dark about emerging problems with Vioxx."
FDA whistleblower Doctor David Graham estimates that at least 38,000 people died from taking Vioxx. Drummond Rennie, deputy editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, notes that "each one of those is somebody, is a real person, with a real family, real people who grieve for them."You can read the FDA label info for Gardasil here and the product approval info here.
"Many people did not care for Pat Buchanan's speech; it probably sounded better in the original German."If you want to read her last article you can find it here. Or paste this in your browser: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/columnists/molly_ivins/16453737.htm
