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He detailed his contributions during his congressional days and a few of his more outrageous moments. This included reciting a limerick related to the Lorena Bobbit incident during one House session and referring to his colleagues as ”a bunch of political prostitutes” during another. For this remark, he later apologized to prostitutes for associating them with Congress.
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Former Congressman James Traficant talks about his plans for the future during an interview. (Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Former Congressman Jim Traficant has no money.
He doesn’t even have a campaign committee.
Nevertheless, Traficant, a convicted felon, told an audience in Akron this week that he will make a bid to return to Congress this year.
”They should surrender!” Traficant said in his booming voice to about 30 people who attended a fundraiser Tuesday night for Kurt Liston, a local Libertarian candidate, at Tangier restaurant. ”People tell me, ‘Watch it …

See the full article from “Akron Beacon Journal”

The Lorain County Community College Civic Orchestra will keep the music short and sweet in an upcoming concert at LCCC’s Stocker Arts Center.
The orchestra will perform a series of shorter pieces in a concert called “Short Stuff” at 7:30 p.m., Saturday.
The family-friendly concert will feature selections used in movies, television, commercials and cartoons and is specifically designed for those who are interested in hearing orchestral music played beautifully, but may not be prepared to sit through a full-length, major composition.
From the contemplation of a seductive courtesan who is thinking about becoming a nun to a song about long, tall ears, this concert bill spans about three centuries and several stylistic periods. From stately to sensual, somber to silly, the concert provides a unique experience, a little bit at a time.

See the full article from “The Morning Journal”

Activist/filmmaker James O’Keefe and three other men — one of whom is the son of a federal prosecutor — allegedly posed as repairmen from the local telephone company, saying that they needed to “fix” technical problems with Senator Landrieu’s phones.
O’Keefe, Stan Dai, Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel are all accused by the FBI of “malicious tampering” of the senator’s phones. Earlier reports that the four were charged with attempting to wiretap the phone were denied by the FBI. Flanagan is the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan, who is based in Shreveport, Louisiana.
O’Keefe drew national headlines for his video sting of the liberal community activist group ACORN last fall, in which he and a female accomplice posed as a pimp and a prostitute and shot videos in ACORN offices where staffers appeared to offer illegal tax advice and to support the misuse of public funds.

See the full article from “Firedoglake (blog)”

It’s fun cheering for the Saints, even for a day. You can’t have a heart and not be a Saints fan in this town. From Canal Street to the Rue Bourbon to Jackson Square to the levies holding back the Mississippi River, New Orleans was living and dying with their team. It’s wasn’t just sports. It was a team and a city in recovery from decades of losing and a hurricane that nearly wiped it off the map.
I’m sure that people in Indianapolis love their Colts just as much, but I can’t see the streets filled with insane fans like New Orleans this past week. Then again, it was 22 degrees in Indianapolis at game time.
The French Quarter was turned into Times Square on New Year’s Eve, Carnival in Rio and the food fight scene in
Animal House
all rolled into one. Beers were $1 for a tall boy. Jell-O shots were two for $5. Daiquiris with names like Thug Passion, Pimp Juice and Wassuppp? were $12 for a 44-ouncer.

See the full article from “Houston Chronicle”

The art of these stories is in their telling, and even in the saddest of them, Frank hits precisely the right note. Often, the stories are funny. The administrative assistant survives by learning to “lie like a pimp – with a sincerity that amazed even her.’’ Lena, in the title story, envies the fabulous house of her mentor, Karen, a local TV personality. Karen is a master networker, who “gets lives to intersect and form something: a sort of human Scrabble.’’ We smile at the Scrabble analogy, but sometimes Frank’s imagery is meant to shock. In “Sandy Candy,’’ a middle-aged American couple attends a Spanish strip show. The star is 63-year-old Sandy Candy, whose act is humiliating and obscene. The American wife is sickened by the scene, upset both by the dehumanization of the performer and the raucous response of the drunken tourist crowd. In their room later that night, the husband is bewildered by the wife’s distress: “Is this hormonal?’’ he asks. Frank suggests that this husband, like the young Oberlin girl, does not fully understand the toll a lifetime of objectification takes on women.

See the full article from “Boston Globe”

Obama bucks up Democrats on health care
WASHINGTON (AP) – Some congressional Democrats are seizing on President Barack Obama’s fresh call for a sweeping health care overhaul as a message to show resolve and get the legislation done. Yet doubters remain.
Activist touted ‘project’ before phone tamper case
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Last month, protesters marched in front of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office to criticize her support for health care legislation and complain that they couldn’t get through on her office phones. Now Landrieu’s phones are at the center of federal charges against four men accused of trying to tamper with them. Among those arrested was conservative activist James O’Keefe, who gained notoriety last year with hidden-camera videos showing him dressed as a pimp exposing irregularities in offices of the liberal community-organizing group ACORN.

See the full article from “KMPH Fox 26″

WASHINGTON – Now that the economy is on the mend, the Federal Reserve this year can focus on how and when to pull back the stimulus money pumped out to fight the financial crisis. With his prospects for another term brightening, Ben Bernanke will lead that effort. At their first meeting of the year, Fed policymakers are likely weighing such matters, including which tools to use. The officials are slated to issue a policy statement Wednesday when they wrap up their two-day session.
Geithner to answer critics on AIG bailout secrecy
4 men accused of scheme with La. senator’s phones
NEW ORLEANS – A hero of conservatives who bruised the liberal group ACORN by posing as a pimp on hidden camera is now accused in an attempt to tamper with phone lines at Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office inside a federal building. It’s not clear what James O’Keefe, 25, and three other young conservatives were trying to accomplish Monday at the New Orleans office of Landrieu, who has been criticized for securing more Medicaid benefits for her state in exchange for her support on health care legislation.

See the full article from “MLive.com”

WASHINGTON – Now that the economy is on the mend, the Federal Reserve this year can focus on how and when to pull back the stimulus money pumped out to fight the financial crisis. With his prospects for another term brightening, Ben Bernanke will lead that effort. At their first meeting of the year, Fed policymakers are likely weighing such matters, including which tools to use. The officials are slated to issue a policy statement Wednesday when they wrap up their two-day session.
Geithner to answer critics on AIG bailout secrecy
4 men accused of scheme with La. senator’s phones
NEW ORLEANS – A hero of conservatives who bruised the liberal group ACORN by posing as a pimp on hidden camera is now accused in an attempt to tamper with phone lines at Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office inside a federal building. It’s not clear what James O’Keefe, 25, and three other young conservatives were trying to accomplish Monday at the New Orleans office of Landrieu, who has been criticized for securing more Medicaid benefits for her state in exchange for her support on health care legislation.

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Back in New Orleans, in Bourbon Street, Jackson Square and the French Quarter, in neighbourhoods that were until recently scenes of dereliction, the city erupted in one giant party that lasted till dawn and set the scene for the ultimate Mardi Gras celebrations over the coming week.
People poured on to the streets in the team’s black and gold colours, dancing, hugging and weeping. “Who dat? Who dat? Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?” they chanted. Jazz bands let rip. Bars blasted out When the Saints Go Marching in. Fireworks exploded.
Police officers gave up the pretence of staying aloof and joined the pulsating throngs. Strippers stopped dancing. Priests and nuns joined the uproar. The city’s newspaper, The Times-Picayune, printed nearly 200,000 extra copies of an edition that is certain to become a collector’s item. Even dogs were dressed in Saints shirts, and Mitch Landrieu’s election on Saturday as New Orleans’ first white mayor in three decades was overshadowed.

See the full article from “Times Online”

Las Vegas has the gambling dens and bright lights but when America wants to party hard, when the people want to let their hair down and not give two hoots how it looks, they head for the Crescent City.
The Big Easy has long had a reputation as a modern-day Sodom, a place where anything goes, where you can drink all day and all night, and where you are viewed a little strangely if you don’t.
It is a city of strip clubs and street hustlers, home of Mardi Gras and a place where, in the middle of the afternoon, women rip off tops and bras, and let it all hang out on Bourbon Street for no more reward than a baying crowd and a few necklaces of festival beads.

See the full article from “Mirror.co.uk (blog)”