Edition 2-11-04

Floridian Philosophy

A Floridian, a New Yorker and a Canadian are in a bar one night having a beer. The New Yorker drinks his beer and suddenly throws his glass in the air, pulls out a gun and shoots the glass to pieces. He says "In New York our glasses are so cheap that we don't need to drink from the same one twice."
The Canadian [obviously impressed by this] drinks his beer, throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the glass to pieces. He says "In Canada we have so much sand to make the glasses that we don't need to drink out of the same glass twice either."
The Floridian, cool as a cucumber, picks up his beer and drinks it, throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the New Yorker and the Canadian. He says "In Florida we have so many New Yorkers and Canadians that we don't need to drink with the same ones twice."
Tawna

Hail destroys hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of crops and property each year, a greater toll than that taken by tornadoes

FIRST ANNUAL Chrome Divas Port Charlotte Chapter POKER RUN to Benefit CARE (Center for Abuse and Rape Emergencies) of Charlotte County. Sunday, March 21, 2004. Leaving from Snook Haven, 5000 E Venice Ave, Venice, FL; Ending at Lady Luck in Englewood, FL. First bike out at 11 am, last bike out by 1 pm. $10 per hand. Food, drinks and band at Lady Luck. Live performance by Cosmic Rancher. 50/50, Door Prizes and more... Donate your old cell phones, too.

Freedom Rights Rally & State Meeting April 9 - April 12 State Meeting: Sunday April 11 @ 12 Noon Monticello - American Legion Hall

ISLE OF EIGHT FLAGS SHRIMP FESTIVAL
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April 30-May 2, 2004 Fernandina Beach, FL
866-4AMELIA
This year celebrates 41 years of catching shrimp, cooking shrimp, eating shrimp, drawing shrimp art and wearing Shrimp Festival t-shirts. The Festival will feature special musical guests, The Swingin' Medallions. The first Shrimp Festival was held in 1963 to celebrate the traditional blessing of the shrimp fleet, once a major industry on beautiful, historic Amelia Island. Last year this festival was selected as one of the 200 Best shows in North America by Sunshine Artist magazine readers.

From WWII: There are no atheists in fox holes.

An atheist professor was teaching a college class and he told the class that he was going to prove that there is no God. He said, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you 15 minutes!"

Ten minutes went by. He kept taunting God, saying, "Here I am, God. I'm still waiting." He got down to the last couple of minutes and a Marine just released from active duty and newly registered in the class walked up to the professor, hit him full force in the face, and sent him flying from his platform.

The professor struggled up, obviously shaken and yelled, "What's the matter with you? Why did you do that?"

The Marine replied, "God was busy. He sent me."

Life is good.

HALIFAX -- More than three years after he was charged in the killings of of two Hells Angels associates, the case against Paul Albert Wilson, showed no signs of speeding up Monday.

Mr. Wilson, a former manager at Reflections Cabaret in Halifax, is accused of killing Robert MacFarlane and William St. Clair Wendelborg.

Jury selection was to get underway for both trials Monday at Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax.

But, the case was further delayed when Mr. Wilson's lawyer, Anne Derrick, with the agreement of Crown prosecutor Frank Hoskins, requested it be further adjourned.

Edmonton has had its own probationary chapter of the Bandidos outlaw biker club since November - and their public debut at Joey Campbell's funeral Friday might mark the start of a bloody year in Alberta, says gang expert Yves Lavigne. "That funeral was the first time these guys appeared in public in Edmonton in their colours," said author Lavigne, who has made a study of the Hells Angels and their biker rivals in Canada. He said the Bandidos Canada organization in Ontario confirmed to him recently they were responsible for giving the Edmonton chapter its charter.

"We're talking six to 10 members in Edmonton, a probationary chapter that's got a year or so to prove itself. That generally means setting up a drug network of their own.

"But every one that pulled on a Bandidos vest last week is committing public suicide. Alberta is Angels territory. Setting up a Bandidos chapter there is stupid, just stupid.

"These guys are all gonna die. My big concern is civilians getting caught in the crossfire."

Word of a probationary Edmonton chapter is backed up by the fact that several Bandidos mourners at Campbell's funeral were spotted wearing Alberta patches on their vests in gang colours - red and gold. But news of a Bandidos chapter in Edmonton may have caught city police by surprise.

Lavigne's grim assessment comes from a comparison of the two gangs' relative strengths in Canada. The Angels are the dominant criminal biker gang in the nation and are, according to the last report of the Criminal Intelligence Service Alberta, the only one with chapters in Edmonton, Calgary and Red Deer.

"There's a treaty between the Bandidos and the Angels that says whoever gets into a territory first, owns it," he said. "Well, the Angels own Alberta. So what happens next in Edmonton is going to end there - it won't spread further."
Calgarysun.com

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Former U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow reported to jail right at 9 a.m. today (2-6-04) to start serving his 100-day sentence on a second-degree manslaughter conviction.

Janklow got out of a silver Isuzu SUV, smiled briefly, walked past a group of reporters and camera crews and into the Minnehaha County Public Safety Building, took a right turn and checked in.

Circuit Judge Rodney Steele sentenced him to 100 days in jail on Jan. 22 - two days after Janklow's resignation from South Dakota's at-large House seat took effect.

After 30 days, Janklow can leave jail during the day to do court-approved community service. Tobias said he doesn't think any plans have been made yet for community service work.

Janklow, a Republican who also served as South Dakota's attorney general in the 1970s, entered through the building's public door and was booked, questioned and searched before changing into his jail clothes, jail officials said after he checked in.

Earlier in the week, Steele denied Janklow's request that he be allowed to start serving his sentence early.

The 400-bed county jail, which opened last year, is divided into 14 units housing combinations of four, eight, 16, 24, 48 and 64 people. The larger sections are dormitory style with open bunk areas. The rest have cells.