Archive for January, 2010
January 15th, 2010 by trinity
A student returns to El Paso amid drug war, still feels like home
By Justin Yearwood, senior staff writer
Published: Friday, January 15, 2010 Updated: Friday, January 15, 2010
Vendors began to pack up their merchandise at an El Paso, Texas, flea martket located near the Mexico border as the sun started to set.
El Paso business owners commonly use bilingual signs in downtown El Paso near the Mexico border.
It had been 506 days since I last saw the El Paso skyline with my own eyes, and although the Facebook updates during my absence had warranted my comfort, the newspaper headlines had contradicted any sense of security.
The strip club on the right of I-10 was the first landmark of many that proved El Paso, Texas, still existed. A blanket of streetlights across the Rio Grande River proved the same for Ciudad Juarez.
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January 13th, 2010 by adultswimmer
At first, the response from Felini’s higher-ups was far from enthusiastic. “My commanders said, ‘These women are too far gone. They don’t want help,’” Felini says. “I said, ‘Well, we’ll do one operation and see.’ The first night, 18 prostitutes walked up to us [at the command post].” The Prostitute Diversion Initiative became a monthly event, and soon after, Criminal District Judge Lana Myers got a state grant to preside over a felony court specifically tailored for prostitutes who wanted a different life and were willing to work for it. A misdemeanor court led by Criminal District Judge Peggy Hoffman followed. Two years after Felini launched the initiative and the courts got on board, 375 women have been arrested during operations or walked up to the mobile command post voluntarily; 200 were found eligible for immediate drug treatment or alternative sentences and roughly half opted to attend. Of those, 21 completed the initial 45-day treatment program and remain drug-free and out of prostitution. There’s not yet definitive researc …
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January 13th, 2010 by adultswimmer
Then there’s the papers: The Miami Herald, right, splashes the Haiti quake on its front pages for a readership that includes a large number of Haitians. The Los Angeles Times reports that California ACORN will hold to its traditional agenda, but is breaking with its embattled parent organization. The New York Times profiles former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., D-Tenn., who is testing the waters for a possible run for the Senate from New York. The Dallas Morning News says the new George W. Bush policy institute will co-produce a weekly TV show called Ideas in Action for public television and some cable stations. The Seattle Times says local Vancouver activists plan to showcase another side of the city during the Winter Games to note chronic homelessness, open drug dealing, prostitution and mental illness only blocks from the Olympic venues.
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January 13th, 2010 by trinity
… Sees 2010 rev $84 mln to $86 mln vs est $83.41 mln
Jan 13 (Reuters) – Rick’s Cabaret International Inc (RICK.O) forecast a 2010 earnings range, whose lower end was in line with market expectations, as the adult nightclub operator expects a boost from popular events like the Super Bowl held in Miami and the NBA All Star Game in Dallas.
The Houston-based company sees a profit of between 95 cents to $1.05 a share, on revenue of between $84 million and $86 million.
Analysts on average were looking for a profit of 95 cents a share, before items, on revenue of $83.41 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Rick’s Cabaret, which in September bought Cabaret North, an upscale gentlemen’s club in Texas to boost its presence in the Dallas-Ft. Worth market, also said the outlook assumes continued organic growth.
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January 13th, 2010 by trinity
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“I just don’t listen to you,” he told her, laughing.
When the Gibsons moved into their stately prairie-style house in Old East Dallas in 1970, they received a swing as a housewarming gift, and they promptly installed it.
Soon, Harry started sitting out on the porch after work. Colleagues joined him. Then, neighbors and friends.
As the Gibsons got involved in local Democratic politics, it wasn’t unusual for an elected official or candidate to take a seat on the porch. In 1998, the Gibson home was the millionth door that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Garry Mauro knocked on during his campaign.
Jean Ball, a former neighbor, said she has met a bunch of characters on the Gibson porch, including a stripper who had worked at one of Jack Ruby’s clubs.
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January 13th, 2010 by adultswimmer
It’s not entirely clear to me that Reid, in his remarks, was not adopting the speech of a person who might feel the way he described, rather than the way he himself feels. And if the latter, the only thing he might apologize for is the use of the antiquated term “Negro,” which some find offensive given its roots in the slave trade (among other reasons).
Implying that Obama’s response to Reid’s comment, as some have done by comparing them, should be consistent with his response to earlier comments by Trent Lott (Strom Thurmond was right to oppose civil rights, which are the cause of many of the problems we have today [to paraphrase]) and Don Imus’s (the Rutgers championship basketball team is composed of ugly prostitutes), is itself more offensive than Reid’s comment.
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January 12th, 2010 by trinity
The convict told the agent he had met Harper at a San Antonio apartment complex’s hot tub in January 2005. While lounging around in the hot tub one night with some strippers, Harper asked the convict if he could buy some methamphetamines from him. The convicted source says he and Harper made arrangements to meet outside a convenience store nearby, and their drug exchanges became a weekly occurrence.
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Harper never had a lot of ambition and when he graduated from high school, he bounced from job to job. Friends say his loves were partying hard in bars and strip clubs. He started dating a woman named Francesca Ramirez, a stripper from a local club called PT’s.
One of Harper’s closest friends, Jerry Permenter, dated another stripper who danced with Ramirez. Life was just one big party for the couples. Then, in the summer 1997, Francesca became pregnant; Harper was ecstatic.
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January 12th, 2010 by trinity
It takes a lot to shock us Nevadan’s. We live in a state where gambling is open and legal. Prostitution is legal in some counties. Taxi cabs are wrapped with pictures of strippers and ads promoting Las Vegas take great pride in telling visitors that they can come here, do what they want, go home and pretend like it never happened (What happens here, Stays here!). You can’t tell me a little ol’ statement by Pinky from Searchlight (as Harry Reid called himself in a 2004 campaign ad) would set off a firestorm bloodier than a Mike Tyson ear bite. It has. It also sets up a bunch of spy vs. spy scenarios that would make Bugsy Segal proud.
In 2008, during the Barack Obama campaign for President, Reid said privately that it would help Obama that he was a “light-skinned” African-American, and that Obama speaks “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one”. The quote is in the new book titled, “Game Change”. Reid has given all the apologies and I’m sure he hopes this all goes away quickly, there is that election coming up Nov. 2
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January 12th, 2010 by adultswimmer
But for 40 formerly homeless women, the Pebbles Apartments are home sweet home.The Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, which coordinates area homeless services, opened Dallas’ first permanent supportive housing program for homeless women and children there last month. A full-time caseworker helps tenants with things such as medical care and job searches.
The homeless alliance, one of 24 nonprofits that receive donations through The Dallas Morning News Charities, moved the women from Dallas’ homeless assistance center, The Bridge.
The residents come from a variety of backgrounds. But they all lacked what the Pebbles complex offers: the stability of a home.
Lawanna Rogers, who moved in last month, had lost homes, jobs and the ability to care for her children because of her longtime addiction to a drug she now calls “Satan.” She said she had resorted to theft and prostitution to support her addiction to crack cocaine.
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January 10th, 2010 by adultswimmer
Reed made some decent pictures after that, all genre movies, before moving on to become the ideal Eisenhower-era wife in a long-running TV sitcom, The Donna Reed Show, and briefly taking over the role of Miss Ellie from Barbara Bel Geddes in Dallas. But by then she’d made her third major movie, Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity (1953). In a 1950s New Yorker cartoon in the 1950s, a laidback Hollywood producer addresses a pair of louche screenwriters thus: “The way I see it, he’s a regular guy and she’s the pretty kid next door. As the movie starts he’s got a monkey on his back and she’s just out on parole.” This just about sums up her role as the classy prostitute in love with Montgomery Clift’s doomed soldier in Hawaii on the eve of Pearl Harbor, who wants to get back to her small home town in Iowa. It brought her an Oscar as best supporting actress.
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