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Asked why officials waited for a week before conducting even a test burn, Gouget said, “Good question. Maybe complacency was the biggest issue. They probably didn’t have the materials on hand to conduct the burn, which is unconscionable.”
He said the NOAA officials involved at the Unified Command Center in Louisiana know how to respond to spills, and know burning should have started as soon as possible after the initial release was detected. Gouget said they may have been overruled.
“It may have been a political issue. The burn would make a big big plume and lots of soot. Like Valdez, the decisions to get the resources mobilized may not have occurred until it was too late,” Gouget said. “This whole thing has been a daily strip tease. At first they thought it was just the diesel, then they said the well wasn’t leaking. It’s unfortunate they didn’t get the burning going right away. They could have gotten 90 percent of the oil before it spread.”

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Sinful Galveston: Carolyn Osborn at BookPeople
Galveston, Texas, has a pretty exciting past: its long list of state firsts (first post office, first opera house, first telephone, first bakery, first insurance company, first Masonic Order chapter); the devastating hurricane of 1900; the sin city days of gambling, prohibited liquor, and prostitution; the recent proliferation of adorable gift shops. 1950s Galveston—back when it still had a reputation for wildness—is the setting of Austin writer Carolyn Osborn’s new novel, Uncertain Ground (Wings Press), which she’ll be reading from this Sunday at BookPeople.
In Osborn’s tale, a small-town Texas girl named Celia and her rowdy cowboy cousin visit the island in the summer of 1953, and Galveston is not merely a backdrop; it’s a presence that permeates almost every aspect of the story. Galveston’s imminent transition into a tamer era parallels Celia’s growing maturity, and Osborn delicately shows how her protagonist’s sensibilities shift during her month-long stay, through her dalliances with boys and her relationship with an artist who carries a heavy secret.

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13. Tony’s better-looking than Vader, he’s a better dresser than Vader, he had more hair, he told funnier jokes, and he could dance the pants off of Vader!
14. Doesn’t remind you of barbecue.
15. Tony Stark is not a tool of the government.
16. Tony Stark can build his own armor, thankyouverymuch.
17. Tony’s parental issues are paternal. Like a man. He’s not a momma’s boy.
18. Oh, and Tony is not the result of some bullshit space-bacteria-related immaculate conception.
19. Capes suck.
20. If you push the buttons on Iron Man’s suit, you’ll probably die. If you push the buttons on Darth Vader’s suit, he’ll probably die.
21. Tony surrounds himself with assistants like Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlet Johansson. Darth’s got Admiral Piett and IG-88.
22. Darth’s spaceship has a big barometric-chamber sphere for him to rest in. Tony’s private jet has a stripper pole. And strippers.

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California is telling Arizona to legalize pot smoking to bring an end to their border drug smuggling problem and make a few extra billions in taxes. Plus Arizona could make billions more from illegal aliens driving while pot high. Don’t worry about traffic deaths, millions of illegal aliens are on the way to replace them and they all have (Free Health Care wink-wink) thanks to President Obama.
California may consider cutting Arizona some slack if they legalize what Obama’s old group Acorn started (with American tax dollars) and that is prostitution of illegal alien women and children. That would end Arizona being the sex slave trafficking capital of the world. It would also bring in a few billion dollars extra in taxes from Californian citizens being (re-authorized) back in Arizona state to conduct business, wink-wink.

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… We want to drive day labor away,” says Republican Rep. John Kavanagh, one of the law’s sponsors.
An estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants have left Arizona in the past two years as it cracked down on illegal immigration and its economy was especially hard hit by the Great Recession. A Department of Homeland Security report on illegal immigrants estimates Arizona’s illegal immigrant population peaked in 2008 at 560,000, and a year later dipped to 460,000.
The law’s supporters hope the departure of illegal immigrants will help dismantle part of the underground economy here and create jobs for thousands of legal residents in a state with a 9.6 percent unemployment rate.
Kavanagh says day labor is generally off the books, and that deprives the state of much-needed tax dollars. “We’ll never eliminate it, just like laws against street prostitution,” he says. “But we can greatly reduce the prevalence.”

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Testimony continues today in the aggravated robbery trial of two men accused of breaking into a North Austin home last year with a gun, bat and knife and robbing some of the nine people inside, including two women the men are accused of following from their jobs at an Austin strip club.
Among the witnesses today was Alvin Duran, 33, who told the Travis County jury in state District Judge Charlie Baird’s court that one of the robbers hit him over the head with a gun, sending blood flowing all over the kitchen floor.
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Price said when the men could not find a drug dealer to rob that night they went to Sugar’s Uptown Cabaret, a strip club near Highland Mall, saw two women leaving and followed them to the house. The women were cocktail waitresses at the club, according to testimony.

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Even the People Magazine feature that broke the story on Sandra Bullock’s divorce and single-parent adoption didn’t have this detail: we’ve just learned where Sandra Bullock has filed for divorce.
Bullock has filed for divorce in Austin, Texas, where she possesses official residence and keeps a lakefront mansion that acts as a second home to the star (we have pics in the slideshow below). It’s reported Bullock wouldn’t reveal the jurisdiction of her divorce to People when they were preparing to publish Sandra’s interview on her top-secret adoption of a newborn son and the fact that she is indeed divorcing philandering husband and TV personality, Jesse James.
Bullock also refused to share when she had filed for divorce, but we have the date: Friday, April 23. This was one month and one week after news came out about Jesse James’ multiple flings with tattooed strippers, models and other low-class mistresses (he says there were seven).

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UPDATE 4:32 PM
An Austin man told a Travis County jury today that he and two friends were driving around town late one night in July 2009 looking for someone to rob, perhaps a drug dealer.
Abasi Price, a state’s witness in the case against his two friends, said the three found the streets pretty much dead and decided to go to Sugar’s Uptown Cabaret, a gentleman’s club near the Highland Mall.
They were going to “catch a stripper, because stripper’s have money,” said Price, 33.
The men followed two women leaving the club to a nearby house, where minutes later they busted in with a gun and a bat. Price said he struck a man in the knee with a bat before running outside to keep another man from jumping over the back fence. He then put a knife to the back of that man’s neck and told him to go inside, he said.

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Austin police are working with the U.S. Attorney’s office to file more serious charges against a Kansas couple accused of forcing a 16-year-old into child prostitution.
Quincy Gholar and Jennifer Russell are both charged with compelling prostitution, a second degree felony.
Police want to file human trafficking charges against the two, which is a first degree felony for crimes against children under 18 years old.
Police say the Internet and social media sites make it easier for predators to find victims, including children.
Suggestive ads are common on sites such as Craigslist and Backpage.com. Some even specify they are looking for young girls and boys.
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The 16-year-old victim involved in prostitution last week is now held at a juvenile detention center in Austin. She is an undocumented Mexican immigrant; however, police say they do not plan to deport her.

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Austin police plan to file more serious charges against a couple accused of forcing a 16-year-old girl in prostitution.

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