80 Blocks From Tiffany’s
The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
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New York City Street Gangs of the 70′s and 80′s
Amerikkkan Koncentration Kamp
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The American Civil Liberties Union won a free speech victory preventing troopers from ticketing people for using profanity.
State police said they will not be citing people for disorderly conduct based solely on profanity.
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A Mexican official said that Border Patrol agents fired warning shots after Torres and other Mexican kids tried to cross into the U.S., and that Torres died after falling from a border wall and hitting his head, the AP reported on Wednesday. The official said that no one was hit by the shots. But Nogales International reports that an autopsy conducted by the Sonoran police showed Torres was killed by a bullet that entered his body from the back of his right arm and entered his chest cavity before puncturing his lungs and getting lodged in his ribcage.
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MacQuat said police confused the smell of marijuana with the scent of a skunk that lives beneath the front of his home.
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The region is already grappling with one of the highest crime rates in the world; now it’s got a new intruder to contend with.
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Investigators learned that Matthews had actually stolen the identity from a felon in Nevada a decade earlier, prosecutors said.
Authorities believe that Matthews used the felon’s identity to purchase the BMW.
Prosecutors say he contacted police with the phony stolen identity report after defaulting on the payments, and didn’t want his own stolen identity negatively affected.
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The warrior is a street artist working in Albuquerque, using spilled paint to pour rainbows off the tops of buildings. He (or she)’s really got some people riled up (see newscast, here) and it strikes me as remarkable that people can be so dour in the face of rainbows.
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A man in possession of the world’s greatest license plate has lost his battle with the Virginia DMV, who ridiculously claim it encourages oral sex with kids instead of just cannibalism. Here’s their predictably unfunny response to the funny plate.
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Barack Obama bid a grateful farewell to Robert Gibbs Wednesday by stressing to The New York Times that his press secretary “had a six-year stretch now where basically he’s been going 24/7 with relatively modest pay.” As a senior White House aide, Gibbs modestly earned $172,200 last year. That income alone — leaving out any earnings by his wife — would put Gibbs in the upper 8 percent of all American families, according to 2009 Census figures.
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Allen Robert Reyes, 31, has been arrested for allegedly shooting a woman in the face at a party. A tipster tells us that Allen Robert Reyes is the real name of pickup guru “Gunwitch.”
Reyes was featured in Neil Straus’ The Game; according to the book:
…Gunwitch and Gunwitch Method, in which the only thing students have to do is project animalistic sexuality and escalate physical contact until the woman stops them. His crude motto: “Make the ho say no.”
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Some 400 high-tech South African traffic lights are out of action after thieves in Johannesburg stole the mobile phone Sim cards they contain.
The thieves ran up bills amounting to thousands of dollars by using the stolen cards to make calls.
Johannesburg Road Agency (JRA) said it is investigating the possibility of an “inside job” after only the Sim card-fitted traffic lights were targeted.
The cards were fitted to notify JRA when the traffic lights were faulty.
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FOR this man, the phrase ‘there’s a bit of the devil in him’ has real meaning after he started growing horns from his head.
Huang Yuanfan, 84 from southern China has baffled medics after he began to grow a horn on his head.
Mr Yuanfan explained that the bizarre growth began as a small bump two years ago but just continued to grow.
“I tried picking at it and even filing it but nothing changed it. The horn just kept getting bigger,” he said.
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Working with a jeweller and the vinyl record manufacturer Dubstudios, I created this engagement ring for my partner Shelina. The ring has a 20 second recorded message (my proposal) etched onto it’s surface and can be played back with a miniature record player.
“Shelina, I’ll love you forever. Marry Me!…Shelina, I’ll love you forever. Marry Me!….”
100 lbf/in² of pressure was required to cut the silver ring, using a vibrating diamond stylus. The ring is also a homage to Thomas Edison who made the first sound recording machine – the phonograph in 1877.
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Ani – some call it the City of 1001 Churches, others the City of Forty Gates. Yet no one has called it home for more than three centuries.
Abandoned by its once prosperous and powerful inhabitants, it is situated on the Turkish side of a militarised zone between the border of Turkey and Armenia.
The city of Ani is no stranger to death, destruction and desertion.
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Indeed, the best model seems to be the Frankenstein monster who advances impervious to pain, bullets, and this time to fire, in order to murder, dismember or bugger men, women, children and the household pets.
The myths are compelling because they touch an emotional core that has meaning in the individual and in the culture, and they exploit our fascination with horror.
The user commits wanton rape and murder, the murders often encompass fratricide, matricide or infanticide. The monster must die bizarrely: drowning in inches of water, attempting to fly from a building or trying to halt a speeding two-ton vehicle with its bare hands or body.
If it lives it should commit the most sexually meaningful self-mutilations, removal of the eyes or castration.
These tales are the archetypal expressions of human inner terrors and exist in the preserved ballad and epic tales of most languages.
Jung would have loved to analyze the facts about PCP presented by American media.
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An online archive of a scandalous and short-lived 70′s teen magazine! The first issue of Star hit the stands in February 1973. With its over-the-top advice and irreverent coverage of LA’s teenage groupie scene, it wasn’t long before Petersen Publishing was feeling the heat from “concerned citizens”. Five issues and five months later, publication ceased. A sixth issue was planned but never printed. Such controversy along with coverage of “new breed” Sunset Strip groupies (Shray Mecham, Sable Starr, Lori Lightning, Queenie Glam) and glam venues like Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco cemented the mag’s later cult status among fans and collectors.
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Chloe Sevigny traveled from Miami to…the Jersey Shore? The Big Love star was spotted court side at the Knicks game with none other than Pauly D from MTV’s Jersey Shore. The two joked together and cheered on the New York Knicks to a blow out victory over the San Antonio Spurs.
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Why is Manning kept in solitary confinement? And what role did Assange play in Manning’s leaks? We answer these questions and more.
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“Suge Knight ordered the hit,” Poole said, adding that he believes it was arranged by Reggie Wright Jr., who headed security for Death Row Records.
Reggie Wright Jr. told CNN he had nothing to do with the murder, and Knight has repeatedly said he had nothing to do with the crime. Poole said he retired early from the LAPD, in part, because he was thwarted in following leads in the Wallace case involving police officers, some of whom worked off-duty for Death Row Records.
“I think I was getting too close to the truth,” Poole said. “I think they feared that the truth would be a scandal.”
One of the officers Poole said was involved is David Mack, who was sent to prison for robbing a bank in 1997, the same year Wallace was killed.
Poole said Mack owned the same type of car driven by the gunman who shot Wallace, and Poole said a friend of Mack’s resembles a police sketch of the shooter.
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The last time I saw this much natural beauty, I was about two-thirds into a bottle of Boone’s and I was squinting out of my lazy eye at the pile of puke that had just erupted from my esophageal tract. It had fallen into the pattern of a naked lady riding a hippo. It was truly stunning. Rorschach would’ve been proud.
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Read it, but try not to weep, ladies—your tears may lower your man’s sex drive, according to a new study.
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Gee, why haven’t the American people given that power to its Federal Government? Oh yeah. It’s because we’re not Communists here. Oh, wait…apparently, even though we’re not Communists, we are represented by them. The FCC is set to vote this month on passing Net Neutrality regulations for the internet, giving our government more control over the internet than it’s ever had. They tried to pass this bill through Congress, but even the radicals in Congress couldn’t get enough votes for it. So Obama, true to his “ends justify the means” approach to Socializing our nation, simply moved the issue into the realm of the unelected, unaccountable FCC regulatory committee, where they will be free to impose these new internet “Laws” on us as they call them mere “Regulations”. You see, to the American Idol-watching public, “Regulations” are nothing to fear. And heck, why not get the government more involved in the internet, right? What could possibly go wrong?
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After 40 years, the United States’ war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread.
Even U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske concedes the strategy hasn’t worked.
“In the grand scheme, it has not been successful,” Kerlikowske told The Associated Press. “Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems is, if anything, magnified, intensified.”
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