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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Kourtney & Kim Take New York Rekap: Kim Admits "Rushing" Into "Fairy Tale" Marriage
Sunday on Kourtney & Kim Take New York, Kim Kardashian admitted she is not happy in her marriage to Kris Humphries, which happened a matter of weeks ago.
Who could have ever seen that revelation koming?
Meanwhile, Khloe and Kim resolved a fight that we barely even remember and Scott Disick looked like the most mature person on the show, which says a lot.
Find out in our weekly rekap, THG style!
Kim is back from Dubai and feeling confused about marriage. Plus 18 for feeling an actual human emotion, even though it's her own fault for being in this mess.
Moreover, "I just feel like I have so much going on that I have enough to deal with without having to revisit all of this Khloé drama." Minus 35 because we cannot even remember, much less care about her Khloe drama from weeks ago.
The producers even have Jonathan Cheban prompt Kim to talk about problems with Kris and Khloe. Plus 7 for the return of this mostly-fake friendship.
Kim lays it on the line: "We're fighting over nothing. If I said something that's offensive, I'm sorry. Accept the apology or don't." Take that bitch! Plus 9.
Scott tells Kim she's "a diva." LOL. Ya think? Plus 11.
Disick then, more calmly, tells her to chill and stop "taking out aggression on everyone else." "I'm totally good, that's what you guys don't get," Kim says, adding her attitude toward everything has changed. Poor Kim has it so rough! Minus 6.
Kris and Kim argue over his messiness and her "neat freak" tendencies. While Kim is trying to organize his closet, Kris asks, "Does it make it hard for you to love me?" Kim doesn't answer. These two are incompatible idiots. Minus 40.
Kourt describes it as a "power struggle." Sans mental power of any kind. Plus 10.
Kim complains about Kris to her sisters, but after a heated conversation with said sisters, Kim turns to Kris for support. Hilariously, Kris says he "hates" Khloe and could care less. Minus 30 for saying that to your wife, but Plus 100 because we feel ya Kris.
Deciding to mend fences at last, Kim tells her sis that she rushed into marriage and is embarrassed that she fell for the "fairy tale." Read: Dollar signs. Minus 50.
Khloé responds that it's normal to fight and forgives her. When Khloé asks if moving L.A. will change anything, Kim says no. Way to give it your best! Minus 35.
Poor Scott. Banished from bed, he says, "I'm not a good sleeper, never have been. All I want is to be back in bed with them." Plus 17 for working up the nerve!
Scott on Khloe being in his bed: "I won't tell Lamar [Odom] if you won't." Plus 10.
Khloe decides to play therapist, which she's SO good at. Kris walks in on Scott and Khloe talking in his room. Things get even more awkward than before. Plus 24.
Plus 14 for Scott admitting he's jealous of Mason, who sleeps in bed with Kourt, and for saying she's "obsessed with her son." It's hard to admit such feelings.
After meeting with a real therapist (sorry Khloe), Kourtney and Scott decide to try to move Mason out of the bed. The little guy passes with flying colors. Plus 8.
"It's a big step. Hopefully we can do it more often," Kourtney says. Minus 50, because the kid is like two now, and she's pregnant again. Time for some space.
EPISODE TOTAL: -53. SEASON TOTAL: -3,854.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
SC rally marks MLK day with voting rights message
People take part in a march and rally at the Statehouse Monday Jan. 16, 2012 in Columbia, S.C. Hundreds of people rallied Monday outside the South Carolina capitol to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and protest the state's voter identification law.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
People take part in a march and rally at the Statehouse Monday Jan. 16, 2012 in Columbia, S.C. Hundreds of people rallied Monday outside the South Carolina capitol to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and protest the state's voter identification law.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
People take part in a march and rally at The Statehouse Monday Jan. 16, 2012 in Columbia, S.C. Hundreds of people rallied Monday outside the South Carolina capitol to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and protest the state's voter identification law.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
Hundreds of people take part in a march and rally at the Statehouse, Monday Jan. 16, 2012 in Columbia, S.C. Hundreds of people rallied Monday outside the South Carolina capitol to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and protest the state's voter identification law. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
Hundreds of people take part in a march and rally at The Statehouse Monday Jan. 16, 2012 in Columbia, S.C. Hundreds of people rallied Monday outside the South Carolina capitol to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and protest the state's voter identification law. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change security officer Kevin Baxter places a wreath at the crypts of civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his wife Coretta Scott King, in Atlanta on Monday Jan. 16, 2012. King would have been 83 years old on his actual birthday, Jan. 15. (AP Photo/David Tulis)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? Thousands commemorating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday outside South Carolina's capitol heard a message that wouldn't have been out of place during the halcyon days of the civil rights movement a half-century ago: the need to protect all citizens' right to vote.
A similar tone was struck at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King preached from 1960 until his death. There and in South Carolina, speakers condemned the voter identification laws they said are meant to suppress black voter turnout.
For most of 13 years in South Carolina, the attention at the NAACP's annual rally has been on the Confederate flag that still waves outside the Statehouse. But on Monday, the civil rights group shifted the focus to laws requiring voters to show photo identification before they can cast ballots, which the group and many other critics say is especially discriminatory toward African-Americans and the poor.
South Carolina's new law was rejected last month by the U.S. Justice Department, but Gov. Nikki Haley vowed to fight the federal government in court. At least a half-dozen other states passed similar voter ID laws in 2011.
"This has been quite a faith-testing year. We have seen the greatest attack on voting rights since segregation," said Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The shift in tactics was also noted by the keynote speaker, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Last month, Holder said the Justice Department was committed to fighting any laws that keep people from the ballot box. He told the crowd he was keenly aware he couldn't have become the nation's first African-American attorney general without the blood shed by King and other civil rights pioneers.
"The right to vote is not only the cornerstone of our governance, it is the lifeblood of our democracy. And no force has proved more powerful, or more integral to the success of the great American experiment, than efforts to expand the franchise," Holder said. "Let me be very, very clear ? the arc of American history has bent toward the inclusion, not the exclusion, of more of our fellow citizens in the electoral process. We must ensure that this continues."
Texas' new voter ID law is currently before the Justice Department, which reviews changes in voting laws in nine mostly Southern states because of their history of discriminatory voting practices. Other states that passed such laws in 2011 included Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
Similar laws already were on the books in Georgia and Indiana, and they were approved by President George W. Bush's Justice Department. Indiana's law, passed in 2005, was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008.
Critics have likened the laws to the poll taxes and tests used to prevent blacks from voting during the civil rights era. Supporters, many of whom are Republicans, say such laws are needed to prevent fraud.
"I signed a bill that would protect the integrity of our voting," Haley said in a statement welcoming Holder to South Carolina.
At the Atlanta church where King once preached, the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock said some in America disrespect King's legacy by "cutting off those for whom he died and the principles for which he fought."
He called voter ID laws an affront to the memory of the civil rights leader.
"You cannot celebrate Dr. King on Monday, and undermine people's ability to vote on Super Tuesday," Warnock said.
The King Day rally in South Carolina took place in the shadow of Saturday's Republican presidential primary. State NAACP President Lonnie Randolph said people should vote any time they can, but said his group is nonpartisan. He said officials wouldn't encourage its members ? a generally Democratic voting bloc ? to disrupt the GOP's process of choosing its nominee because "we don't do the mean things."
Jealous made one of the few references to the GOP field during Monday's rally, saying he was tired of attacks on the movement, such as cuts to education funding.
"And I'm real tired of dealing with so-called leaders who talk out of one side of their mouth about celebrating the legacy of Dr. King and then do so much out the other side of their mouth to block everything the man stood, fought and died for," Jealous said.
The King Day rally in South Carolina was first held in 2000 to call for the Confederate flag to come down off the capitol dome, and has continued after state leaders decided instead to place the flag on a 30-foot pole on the Statehouse lawn near a monument to Confederate soldiers.
The flag was mentioned Monday ? North Carolina NAACP president the Rev. William Barber called it a "terrible, terroristic banner" ? but it was not the focus.
The Confederate flag and voter ID laws are all examples of how blacks cannot stop fighting for civil rights, said 39-year-old Llewlyn Walters of Columbia, whose grandmother watched King speak and whose mother told him stories of the civil rights movement as he grew up.
"People's hearts and minds change, but then they forget. The movement was great, but that one single generation couldn't stop all the discrimination in this country any more than one single dose of antibiotic can fight a disease," Walters said.
In Washington, President Barack Obama and his family commemorated the day by helping to build bookshelves in a local school's library. The president said there was no better way to celebrate King's life than to spend the day helping others.
Obama's attorney general ended his speech on a positive note, saying Americans can't forget the progress this nation has made. After all, the nation elected a black president just 40 years after King was assassinated.
"In the spirit of Dr. King, let us signal to the world that, in America today, the pursuit of a more perfect union lives on," Holder said. "The march toward the Promised Land goes on, and the belief not merely that we shall overcome, but that, as a nation, we will all come together, continues to push us forward."
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Associated Press writers Jessica Gresko in Washington and Errin Haines in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Butt-slashing suspect reportedly arrested in Peru
By NBCWashington.com
WASHINGTON -- A man suspected of slashing the buttocks of 13 women in the Fairfax area has reportedly been arrested in Peru.
CNN?is reporting that Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel was captured in Lima on Friday. The network cited Jair Quedas, system operator for Interpol Peru, in reporting the arrest.?
According to WTOP, Pimentel was captured in a Lima shopping mall. The Fairfax County attacks all took place at malls and shopping centers around the county.
Read the original report at NBCWashington.com
A spokeswoman for Fairfax County Police told News4 that local authorities had been notified of Pimentel's arrest in Peru, though the department had been unable to independently confirm the news. Once the arrest is confirmed, the spokeswoman said that Fairfax County police would work with federal and international authorities to extradite Pimentel to the U.S. to stand trial.
Pimentel is wanted for the string of attacks that took place between February and July 2011.
"In each case, the suspect distracts his victim before cutting them," Fairfax County Police said in a statement last year.
No serious injuries had resulted from the attacks, though in one case an 18-year-old woman suffered a 1.5-inch wound at a Forever 21 store on July 25.
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Haley Barbour's pardons put Southern redemption on trial
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour defended his mass pardon of over 200 current and former convicts, quoting the Christian principle of redemption enshrined in Southern law and tradition.
Given the disproportionate number of executions in the South, it's safe to argue that the region leads the nation when it comes to tough justice. But as former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour showed this week by pardoning over 200 current and former convicts, including 41 convicted of violent crimes like murder and rape, the region also stands out for its Christian trust in the idea of redemption.
Skip to next paragraphThe breadth of the pardons, which included a number of notable convicts like Brett Favre's brother, Ernest Favre, and convicted Jackson socialite Karen Irby, shocked and angered many Mississippians, including its chief prosecutor, Attorney General Jim Hood, who believes many of the pardons were unlawful and is seeking to have many of them revoked.
President Bill Clinton, who pardoned 140 people, including the convicted financier Mark Rich, upon leaving the White House in 2001, embodied that principle, gleaned from his days as the governor of Arkansas. Combined with enduring ?trusty? systems that allow rehabilitated convicts to work at state governors' mansions, Southern states, perhaps in part because they tend to have larger per capita prison populations than states in other regions, also rely more heavily on executive clemencies and pardons.
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But in defending the pardons this week, Mr. Barbour, a popular two-term governor and one-time presidential aspirant, also cited his Christian upbringing and early life experience watching a rehabilitated convict care for his disabled grandfather as the reasons why he remained ?totally at peace? with his decision, noting that he would allow any of those he pardoned to play with his grandchildren.
?Christianity teaches us forgiveness and second chances,? Barbour said at a press conference Friday in Jackson, Miss. ?I believe in second chances, and I try hard to be forgiving. The historic power of gubernatorial clemency by the Governor to pardon felons is rooted in the Christian idea of giving second chances.?
Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas and even Texas have long traditions of using clemency and pardon as a judicial safety valve. Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, for example, has a more generous pardon record than his rival for the presidency, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has boasted on the campaign trail that he's never pardoned a single inmate.
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