In 1882, Richard Higham of Troy, New York, former manager and National League baseball player, was banished from the league for advising gamblers how to bet on baseball games he umpired, thus earning the infamous distinction of being the only umpire ever judged guilty of dishonesty on the field. 

When Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927, he hit 14 percent of all home runs in his league that year. For a player to hit 
14 percent of all home runs today, he would have to hit over 300 home runs in one season. 

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The National Weather Service has issued a warning for yet another catastrophic hurricane following on the heels of Ivan and Jeanne.

The path of this hurricane zigs and zags, and is therefore highly unpredictable. Experts predict that this one will cause the most damage to the United States that we have experienced in four years. They are naming this one Hurricane Kerry.

Be advised, the only way for citizens to protect themselves is by hiding behind a Bush.

A bird's eye takes up about 50 percent of its head, our eyes take up about 5 percent of our head. To be comparable to a bird's eyes, our eyes would have to be the size of baseballs

In Memphis, it is illegal for a woman to drive by herself; "a man must walk or run in front of the vehicle, waving a red flag in order to warn approaching pedestrians and motorists." 
FLFLHTC:  DO YOU THINK WE COULD AMEND THIS LAW FOR THE INFAMOUS FLORIDA BLUE HAIR.
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Apocalypse Kerry
 By John H. Hinderaker and Scott W. Johnson 
Posted August 18, 2004 
John Kerry took the floor of the United States Senate on March 27, 1986, and delivered a dramatic oration indicting the foreign policy of the Reagan Administration. As is his habit, Kerry drew on his Vietnam war experience in explaining his opposition to the policy.

"I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia," he said. "I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and having the President of the United States telling the American people that I was not there."

To emphasize the importance of this incident to his subsequent political development, Kerry asserted: "I have that memory which is seared—seared —in me, that says to me, before we send another generation into harm's way we have a responsibility in the U.S. Senate to go the last step, to make the best effort possible to avoid that kind of conflict."

The story of his 1968 Christmas in Cambodia is one that Kerry has told on many occasions over the years. He invoked the story in 1979 in the course of his review of the movie "Apocalypse Now" for the Boston Herald. Most recently, Kerry told the story—with remarkable embellishments involving a CIA man who gave him his "lucky hat"—last year on separate occasions to reporters Laura Blumenfeld of the Washington Post and Michael Kranish of the Boston Globe.

Certain elements of Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia story were incredible on their face. Kerry attributed responsibility for his illegal 1968 mission to Richard Nixon, despite the fact that Lyndon Johnson was president at the time. The Khmer Rouge who allegedly shot at Kerry during his "secret" mission did not take the field until 
1972.

Moreover, there is no record that Swift boats—the type of boat under Kerry's command—were ever used for secret missions in Cambodia. Their size and noise make them unlikely candidates for such missions in any event. 
Indeed, the authorized biographer of Kerry's Vietnam service—historian Douglas Brinkley in his book Tour of Duty—omits any mention of such a covert cross-border mission to Cambodia at any time during Kerry's service. 
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PIERRE, S.D. - A group of circuit court judges will sit as the state Supreme Court when they consider oral arguments on Nov. 16 in the appeal of the manslaughter conviction of Bill Janklow, a former four-term governor and congressman.

All five Supreme Court justices disqualified themselves because Janklow appointed four of them while he was governor and had appointed the fifth as a circuit judge.

Court spokeswoman Lynn Sudbeck said it was the first time in recent memory that all five justices stepped aside on the same case. ``To have five have a reason to recuse themselves isn't very common,'' she said.

The recusals were a sign of Janklow's influence over the judiciary during his 16 years in office, she said. In fact, she said was difficult to find lower court judges who didn't owe him their jobs.

``There were just a small handful that were not appointed by Gov. Janklow,'' Sudbeck said.

Janklow was forced from the governor's office by a term-limit law in 2002, when he was elected to the U.S. House. 
He resigned from that job after being sentenced to 100 days in the Minnehaha County jail.

Janklow was convicted in December on charges stemming from an Aug. 16, 2003, crash that killed motorcyclist Randy Scott, 55, of Hardwick, Minn., at the intersection of two rural highways.

MONTREAL (CP) - The Hells Angels biker gang may have suffered another blow Monday when a Quebec judge fined two convicted ring leaders $100,000 each for running a drug network. 

Walter Stadnick, 51, and Donald Stockford, 42, both of Hamilton, Ont., were given two years to pay the fine or face spending another 18 months in prison. The men were recently each sentenced to 20 years in prison for their role in Quebec's deadly biker war that claimed more than 150 lives. They each must serve at least half their sentences before being eligible for parole. 

Quebec Superior Court Justice Jerry Zigman said Monday the men earned nearly $2 1/2 million in profits from running a drug business that saw more than $10 million pass through an account between March 30, 1999, and Dec. 19, 2000. 

"The court is satisfied on a balance of probabilities that this sum of $2,469,110 is proceeds of crime and that the offences stated in (three counts) of the indictment were committed in relation to this sum of money," Zigman said in his ruling. 

The fines were levied in lieu of drug profits that police have not been able to locate. 

"The court has no doubt that these funds are the profits from their drug trafficking, and that the profits cannot, on the exercise of due diligence, be located." 

Defence lawyers had urged the judge to dismiss the Crown's request for a fine. 

Crown prosecutor Brigitte Bishop welcomed the forfeiture ruling as another victory against the Hells Angels by taking some of their profits of crime. The Hells Angels organization in Quebec was dealt a blow from a major police operation three years ago.