Robert Daniels has been locked up indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of his life, since last July. But he has not been charged with a crime. Instead, he suffers from an extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. It is considered virtually untreatable.

County health authorities obtained a court order to lock him up as a danger to the public because he failed to take precautions to avoid infecting others. Specifically, he said he did not heed doctors' instructions to wear a mask in public.

"I'm being treated worse than an inmate," Daniels said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press last month. "I'm all alone. Four walls. Even the door to my room has been locked. I haven't seen my reflection in months."

Civil Rights?

Man with tuberculosis jailed for not wearing mask - CNN.com

Last month, Limbaugh reached a deal with prosecutors who had accused the conservative talk-show host of illegally deceiving multiple doctors to receive overlapping pain pill prescriptions. Under the deal, a single charge commonly referred to as "doctor shopping" would be dismissed after 18 months if he complies with terms that include submitting to random drug tests and continuing treatment for his acknowledged addiction to painkillers.

Okay so if you enter a plea agreement you're guilty. You get a PO to track your case and your progress, because you are guilty. If you violate your parole then you get the original deal gets thrown away and you get recharged w/ BOTH crimes.

How many people wanna bet that pig fucker gets a walk?

--timball

FOXNews.com - Rush Limbaugh Detained at Florida Airport for Improperly Prescribed Viagra

Felt said that if he had something for me, he could get me a message. He quizzed me about my daily routine, what came to my apartment, the mailbox, etc. The Post was delivered outside my apartment door. I did have a subscription to the New York Times. A number of people in my apartment building near Dupont Circle got the Times. The copies were left in the lobby with the apartment number. Mine was No. 617, and it was written clearly on the outside of each paper in marker pen.

Felt said if there was something important he could get to my New York Times -- how, I never knew. Page 20 would be circled, and the hands of a clock in the lower part of the page would be drawn to indicate the time of the meeting that night, probably 2 a.m., in the same Rosslyn parking garage.The relationship was a compact of trust; nothing about it was to be discussed or shared with anyone, he said.

How he could have made a daily observation of my balcony is still a mystery to me. At the time, before the era of intensive security, the back of the building was not enclosed, so anyone could have driven in the back alley to observe my balcony. In addition, my balcony and the back of the apartment complex faced onto a courtyard or back area that was shared with a number of other apartment or office buildings in the area. My balcony could have been seen from dozens of apartments or offices, as best I can tell.

A number of embassies were located in the area. The Iraqi Embassy was down the street, and I thought it possible that the FBI had surveillance or listening posts nearby. Could Felt have had the counterintelligence agents regularly report on the status of my flag and flowerpot? That seems highly unlikely, if not impossible.

Bob Woodward on his relations with Mark Felt.

How Mark Felt Became 'Deep Throat'

blood diamonds. I've hated deBeers ever since I found out they owned the market on tetra-carbon... damned bastards.

Ten reasons why you should never accept a diamond ring

I received this in my email today...
I thought it might be spam, but it doesn't appear to be:

JUST A REMINDER...

In 28 days, cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls. You will be charged for these calls.

Call this number from your cell phone 888/382-1222 or register on-line at www.donotcall.gov.

It is the national DO NOT CALL list. It only takes a minute of your time.

It blocks your number for 5 years. Please pass this on to everyone you know who may be interested."

U Nevermind: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_cell_phone_directory.htm

Do not call

] Year after year, Wal-Mart's low pay and meager
] employee benefits force hundreds of thousands of
] employees to resort to Medicaid, food stamps, and public
] housing. Call it the Wal-Mart Tax. And it
] costs you $1.5 billion in federal tax dollars every year.

They had a full-page ad in the Times today.

Welcome to the new WalmartWatch.com

This strategy, released on March 18, is one of the driving documents for the Quadrennial Defense Review, which is just getting under way.

This Strategy outlines our approach to dealing with challenges we likely will confront, not just those we are currently best prepared to meet. Our intent is to create favorable security conditions around the world and to continue to transform how we think about security, formulate strategic objectives, and adapt to achieve success.

This strategy emphasizes the importance of influencing events before challenges become more dangerous and less manageable.

That sounds like the preemption strategy we all know and love, but there's also a certain General Memetics Corp. quality to it.

National Defense Strategy of the United States, 2005

] The death of professional hockey in AMERICA is a nasty
] omen for people with heavy investments in NHL teams. But
] to me, it meant little or nothing -- and that's why I
] called Bill Murray with an idea that would change both
] our lives forever.
]
] It was 3:30 on a dark Tuesday morning when I heard the
] phone ring on his personal line in New Jersey. "Good
] thinking," I said to myself as I fired up a thin Cohiba.
] "He's bound to be wide awake and crackling at this time
] of day, or at least I can leave a very excited message."

Hunter's last article for espn.com

ESPN.com: Page 2 : Shotgun Golf with Bill Murray

Figure out how much money you might lose w/ privitization of Social Security.

Social (In) Security

] Obscuring large sums of mob money probably began in the
] United States in the 1920s with the increased criminal
] opportunities provided by the ill-fated Prohibition
] legislation. Organized crime took over businesses with
] high cash turnovers and them commingled the licit and
] illicit funds, creating the illusion that all the money
] originated from a legitimate and profitable enterprise.

Cause knowing is half the battle. Go JOE!

AmericanMafia.com - A Primer On Money Laundering