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The Washington bureau chief of Sinclair Broadcast Group was fired yesterday after accusing the media company of "indefensible" conduct for planning to air a movie attacking Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam record in the coming days.
Jon Leiberman, who also was the lead political reporter for the 62-station television chain, told CNN last night that he was terminated for his criticism, which was quoted in yesterday's Baltimore Sun. He spoke out, he said, because "I feel so strongly that our credibility is at issue here. . . . I feel our company is trying to sway this election."
The Baltimore-based firm, which has drawn harsh criticism from Kerry and the Democrats, found itself explaining why it dismissed a top journalist for speaking to the media.
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He told the Sun's David Folkenflik that the program -- which is to include the anti-Kerry film "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" -- is "biased political propaganda, with clear intentions to sway this election. For me, it's not about right or left -- it's about what's right or wrong in news coverage this close to an election."
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Leiberman called it a "slanted documentary" and said there was no way for Sinclair, which owns the nation's largest collection of network affiliates, to verify the allegations. "Call it commentary, call it an editorial . . . but don't call it news," Leiberman said. He added: "Viewers aren't going to trust us if we call it news. . . . I couldn't be part of this special and call it news when what it is is political propaganda."
Leiberman acknowledged that he was violating Sinclair policy by giving an unauthorized interview and revealing part of what happened at a company meeting, but said he felt he had no choice but to speak out. "I knew I had nothing to gain by doing it and everything to lose," he said. "I need to be able to sleep at night."
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Leiberman said he objected to the fact that the idea for the special originated with the commentary department and what he called "a very right-wing" Hyman, an on-air editorialist who has called Kerry a liar. Hyman told The Washington Post last week that he wants to put on "a balanced and honest program" and did not back off a charge that the other networks "are acting like Holocaust deniers" in ignoring the former POWs. The movie was made by Carlton Sherwood, a former journalist, Vietnam veteran and aide to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.
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Ye Ol' Disclaimer: Characters such as the Dukes, Emma Tizdale, and Cooter Davenport belong to their creator – the genius – Gy Waldron. However, any other characters (ie. Earl Jennings and Jake Whittley) are mine and permission must be asked before using them and all other future characters that I can crank out of my ever-active imagination.You can reach me, or tell me what you think of my stories, by e-mailing:email@example.com Or firstname.lastname@example.com
March, 1975…It was a bright, beautiful, Friday afternoon in Hazzard County, and
everyone in town was gathered at the Boar's Nest. Every Friday, the Hazzard County Post
Office hands out special mail at the Boar's Nest, overseas mail from the men fighting in
Vietnam. Now the reason for this mail being delivered at the Boar's Nest, instead of the
post office, was because it was delivered directly from Military Services in Atlanta.
Everyone in Hazzard knew when the standard Army green jeep would come into town,
and everyone would try to pile into the Post Office at once, eager for letters from their
kin fighting in the war. It got to the point of overwhelming for postmistress Emma
Tizdale, so town council to decided it was best to distribute any overseas mail in a bigger
place, like Hazzard County's local watering hole.
The Boar's Nest was pack, as usual for Friday afternoons, and the Dukes were
settled at a table close to the bar, with neighbors of theirs, the Jennings'.Bo Duke, who
was weeks shy of his eighteenth birthday, literally sat on the edge of his chair as people's
names were called to pick up their mail.
"Take it easy, Bo." Jesse called to his nephew. "Luke's letter ain't goin' nowhere's,
so just settle down."
"But Uncle Jesse," Bo looked towards Jesse with bright, eager eyes. "We ain't
heard from Luke in weeks, and his tour of duty should be up soon. Maybe this time we'll
be able to find out when he's comin' home for good."
Jesse let out a small sigh. He hoped his younger nephew was right, that Luke
would write this time, and say when he'd finally come home. It had been three long years
for the Dukes, since Luke was drafted into the Marines. Jesse prayed every evening,
before going to bed, for his eldest nephew's safe return. He loved his nephews and niece
Daisy as if they where his very own, since he raised them from the time they were all just
little tikes.
"I'm hopin' to get word from my boy too." Earl Jennings told Jesse. "He ain't
writtin' in almost two months."
"I'm sure everything's alright with Virgil," Jesse reassured, "sometimes mail gets
lost, or sent to the wrong place. I once got a letter from Luke that was four months old."
"Must have taken ten years off your life, eh Jesse?" Earl smiled.
Jesse nodded. "I admit to countin' grey hairs, every time I've had a close call with
Luke, but Bo en' Daisy take it even harder. It ain't been easy on the kids, since Luke left.
Bo was nearly fifteen at the time, he felt like he'd lost his best friend. Daisy…she don't
like to talk much about Luke, almost as if she's frightened to. With Daisy, some times it's
as if she's a tryin' to forget Luke ever existed."
"It's been tryin' for Marge," Earl nodded. "We've already lost two boys."
Jesse patted Earl's back, as his friend swallowed a lump that had formed in his
throat. Jesse remembered the time when Earl and Marge lost two of their four sons,
during the Polio epidemic, twelve years ago. Jesse remembered also that they had nearly
lost Bo then, too, but thankfully he recovered fully.
Jesse was lost in thought when Emma Tizdale, the Postmistress, called out their
"Duke!" Miss Tizdale called out into the crowd. Bo bailed out of his chair so fast
he nearly knock it and his cousin Daisy over, who had been sitting right next to him.
"Take it easy, Bo!" Daisy called out after him.
Bo made his way through the noisy crowd and picked up two pieces of mail. The
handwriting on both envelopes was easily recognizable as Luke's. Bo's eyes lit up as he
gave out a laugh and weaved his way back to his family's table. Bo began tearing into the
envelope that had been addressed specifically to him. Luke always sent two letters,
addressing one to Jesse and Daisy, and the other to Bo. That's because Luke told more
personal things that he could only tell to his younger cousin. Daisy and Jesse knew how
the boys shared things with each other that they never would with another living soul.
Even now, when Luke was out east, he and Bo still told each other their most private
Jesse was halfway through the letter addressed to he and Daisy, with Daisy
impatiently reading over her Uncle's shoulder. Suddenly, Daisy's eyes watered with
fresh-breaking tears, and a huge smile spread across her face. "He's comin' home!" Jesse
cheered happily. Daisy laughed out loud for what felt like the first time in three years, it
had surprised her Uncle and younger cousin.
"My letter doesn't say that," Bo frowned.
"Don't worry, honey" Daisy reached out and hugged Bo, "he probably wrote your
letter before he found out, or he forgot to mention it, seein's how he wrote it in ours
"How could he forget about comin' home?" Bo still frowned
"It don't matter, Bo," Jesse waved a dismissing hand. "All that matters is that
Luke's comin' home, and that atleast we all know about it."
Bo shrugged. "You're right, Uncle Jesse."
Jesse chuckled as he read some more. "And it looks like he should be home in
time for your graduation too, Bo."
Bo smiled as he carefully folded his letter from Luke and put it back in the
envelope. He hadn't finished reading it yet, but was too excited at the news to continue.
Bo would read it later before he went to bed.
Just before leaving the Boar's Nest, Jesse turned his attention back to Earl
"Earl?" Jesse asked.
Earl looked up with sad old eyes. "Nothin', Jesse…I still ain't heard nothin' from
The smile faded from Jesse's face, as he had been about to tell his friend the good
news about Luke.
"I'm sure everythin's fine, Earl," Jesse tried to sound confident.
"Now I gotta go home en' tell Marge," Earl muttered as he drank to the bottom of
his beer glass in one gulp. Earl wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and picked up
his hat. Standing up to his full height to meet his friend's gaze, he asked,"What am I
gonna tell Marge this time, Jesse?" Earl put on his hat and slowly made his way to the
Jesse was left standing there, with no words, his niece and nephew stood quietly
behind him, waiting to leave.
"By the way, Jess," Earl stopped before heading outside. "It's good to hear about
Luke. You all have a good afternoon now."
The door closed behind Earl Jennings leaving the Dukes exchanging somber
The Dukes returned to their farm near suppertime, and were surprised to see their
mechanic friend, Cooter Davenport, waiting by his tow truck in front of the farmhouse.
"Hey there!" Cooter smiled.
"Hey Cooter, guess what!" Bo called out as he leapt out of Jesse old pickup.
"Good news?" Cooter asked.
"Yeah, Luke's comin' home!" Bo laughed as he jumped all over his friend. Cooter
and Bo engaged each other in a massive bear hug. "Yeeeeeeeeahooooooo!" Cooter
"C'mon you three!" Jesse called out to Cooter, Daisy, and Bo "Let's have us an ol'
fashioned Duke celebration. I'm gonna make up some of my homemade crawdad bisque!"
"We're right behind you, Uncle Jesse!" Daisy replied as all three followed Jesse
into the house.
Jesse, Bo, and Daisy were eager to get to church that Sunday; in order to put in a
prayer of thanks before services began. Parishioners of the Hazzard Southern Methodist
Church began to file quietly into their pews, as the organist played soft, cheery church
music. Bo and Daisy were already seated, but Jesse waited outside a bit longer for the
Jennings'. He hadn't heard from Earl all weekend, and worried something might have
happened. Organ music, signaling the start of Sunday service, had begun to play so Jesse
headed inside to join Bo and Daisy.
After church, Jesse caught up with one of his friends, Jake Whittley. Jake lived
closer to the Jennings, and Jesse wanted to know if Jake had heard anything since Friday.
"I saw Earl that night," Jake sighed as he told Jesse of what became of their
friend. "I heard that there had been no word on Virgil still, en' I wanted to go en' talk to
"Well did you?" Jesse asked, his eyes narrowing on Jake. "
I didn't get the chance to, no." Jake frowned. "That's because when I reached the
property, there were a man dressed in military greens, standin' on Earl's front porch. I
heard Marge just sobbin' away, nearly screamin' like a banshee. I knew that the fella
standin' on the porch wasn't there makin' a house call."
"Dear Lord…" Jesse stood there in shock. "First Elias en' Sy, now Virgil…"
"Their family done-just about all fallen apart, Jesse," Jake replied. "Earl took
Marge en' Davis out to Marge's sister's place in Orange County, early the next mornin'.
They said they couldn't stand to be in that house a minute longer. God only knows when
they'll be back."
"En' here I was," Jesse began, "thankin' the good Lord for soon sendin' Luke home
to us, en' prayin' for Virgil's safe return."
Almost makes you feel like it ain't worth it no more." Jake replied.
"Not me," Jesse growled, "Prayin' is all I can do, while Luke and the other boys
from Hazzard are out there, fightin' that terrible war. And I believe that God answers
them prayers…one way or another…"
"Well I beginin' to think other wise for the moment, Jesse," Jake began. "See I've
been down this road before myself. I was just like young Davis Jennings, during World
War II. All my brothers went off to war at the same time, but none of them came home,
even after all the prayin' I did. God sure does have a funny way of answerin' them
prayers, Jesse."
Jesse was left standing on the church steps, a little agitated, while Jake, equally
agitated, headed off down the street.
Jesse was quiet as he drove his niece and nephew home from church. At first,
Jesse was thinking of what Jake Whittley said, about losing all his brothers, just like
young Davis Jennings had lost all his brothers. Jesse had lost brothers of his own. The
Dukes were once a proud family of nine boys and two girls, born to Joseph and Minnie
Duke. Out of Jesse's eight brothers (him being the middle of the boys), only three others
now lived, plus his two sisters, Lavinia and Elizabeth. The other five brothers, including
Bo, Luke, and Daisy's father's, died from either accidents or illnesses. Jesse too
remembered how he prayed for all of the brothers he lost, only to be rewarded by
attending their funerals.
"Uncle Jesse?" Daisy asked, breaking the silence. "What happened between you
en' Mr. Whittley this mornin'?"
Jesse kept his eyes on the dusty dirt road ahead of him.
"Yeah, en' what happened to the Jennings'? I didn't see em' in church," Bo added
"That's because Earl took his wife and son out to his sister-in-law's, out in Orange
County. That's what Jake Whittley en' I were talkin' about. "
"What happened?" Daisy asked.
"Virgil Jennings won't be comin' home, baby…" Jesse replied somberly
A small gasp was heard from Daisy, "Y-you mean…"
Jesse nodded. Bo closed his eyes and exhaled slowly. "When did they find out?"
Bo asked.
"Sometime after Earl left the Boar's Nest, last Friday." Jesse replied. There was
silence the rest of the way home.
Two weeks later, Jesse went into town to do some grocery shopping, and saw Earl
Jennings coming out of Rhubottom's Store.
"Earl!" Jesse called out as he strode over, with an armload of groceries.
"Hey Jesse…" Earl smiled weakly. "I'm glad I got the chance to find you here."
"It's good to see you back, Earl," Jesse smiled. "How's the Mrs.?"
Earl shook his head. "Not too good, Jesse. Marge had a nervous breakdown, 'bout
three days after we arrived at her sister's."
Jesse's eyes widened in shock as Earl continued. "Anyway, what I wanted to talk
to you about, Jesse, is that I don't reckon Marge en' I will be returnin' to Hazzard.
Atleast…not for a long time."
Jesse just nodded. "There's somethin' you want me to do?"
"Yeah," Earl replied. "I need you to keep an eye on the place, atleast until Marge
is well enough to decide what's best for us to do next. Right now, she don't wanna come
home because she says there's too many bad memories. Me en' Davis will be by, now and
again, to pick up a few things."
Jesse nodded sadly. "Don't worry, Earl, I'll keep an eye on your place. You just go
take care of you kin."
"I really appreciate this, Jesse," Earl smiled faintly. Jesse patted his friend on the
shoulder. "You know somethin', Jesse, what the hardest part about this is?" Earl asked,
just as Jesse was about to leave.
"What's that, Earl?"
"It's been two weeks, en' they ain't even sent my boy's body home yet. Until then,
we ain't got nothin to lay our son to rest…" Earl slowly walked back over to his car, got
in, and drove away.
Jesse gazed up at the blue afternoon sky, and wished that Luke would come home
April, 1975…
Bo woke up rather early this morning and did his chores. He had them done just
before his Uncle started to make breakfast.
"What's gotten into you this mornin'?" Jesse asked his nephew, as he sipped his
"Have you forgotten, Uncle Jesse? It's my birthday today." Bo grinned lop-sidedly.
"No, I ain't forgotten, Bo." Jesse smiled. "It's just that I usually have to put a stick
of dynamite under you to get you movin' in the mornin'. You don't ever do your chores
this early, not even on your birthday."
Bo took in a deep breath and let it out again. "I dunno, I just feel like something's
gonna happen today, like maybe something from Luke."
Jesse glanced at the calendar and saw that today was a Friday. "Well don't let that
distract you from your school work," Jesse cautioned. "Birthday or no, school comes first,
then mail call at the Boar's Nest, then beer with your friends afterwards."
"Yes sir," Bo smiled widely, as he realized that his eighteenth birthday meant he
was old enough to drink beer at the Boar's Nest now.
Jesse called Daisy to the table, and once she was ready, Jesse served up breakfast.
"Eat your breakfast," Jesse chuckled as he put a plate of fried eggs and ham in front of his
With Bo off at school, and Daisy in town to pick up some feed, Jesse was left to
tend to the animals. Daisy returned in time to make lunch for her and her Uncle, and just
as they were about to sit down and eat, Jesse heard a vehicle coming up the main road.
"Sounds like we'll be gettin' company." Jesse muttered. Daisy nodded and got up
to look out the kitchen window above the sink. What Daisy saw coming up the road was
not just any ordinary company, and it made her heart beat thunder like the hooves of
stampeding horses.
Bo counted down the seconds until the clock in his history class read 'three
o'clock'. The bell rang, Bo gathered all his belongings, and he and a bunch of his friends
made a beeline for the door. Bo and his friends got a ride to the Boar's Nest, which is
were Bo usually headed most Fridays, meeting up with Jesse and Daisy who were usually
already there. But they were not there today.
"Wonder were Uncle Jesse and Daisy are at?" Bo frowned. "They're always here
for mail call."
"Wouldn't worry about it too much, Buddyro." Cooter walked over, handing Bo a
glass of beer.
"Thanks Cooter." Bo smiled. Cooter raised his glass. "That one's on me. Happy
Birthday." Bo raised his glass and smiled before taking a sip.
Bo was only a little concerned when he didn't see Jesse or Daisy at the Boar's
Nest. Again, he was disappointed when no mail had come from Luke, and still no sign of
Daisy or Jesse. After two beers and two games of pool with Cooter and some other
friends, Bo decided to call home.
"Hey, Uncle Jesse, where you en' Daisy been at?" Bo asked as his Uncle answered
the phone.
"Bo, I think you should come home now." Jesse's voice sounded tired and weak
on the other end.
"Uncle Jesse…what's wrong?" Bo asked, the sense that something was terribly
wrong, gnawing at his stomach.
"Me en' Daisy were gonna wait 'til you got back to tell ya…we didn't wanna ruin
your birthday gathering with your friends."
"Uncle Jesse…what's happened?" Bo asked again, more frightened than ever.
"It's best you come home before I tell you – "
"No!" Bo cut Jesse off. "Uncle Jesse, I ain't a kid no more, now tell me what's
There was silence on the other end of the line, as Jesse tried to put it all into
words for his youngest nephew. "Bo…there ain't no easier way to tell you this…we was
visited this afternoon by an officer of the United States Marine Corps."
"Luke!" Bo's voice caught in his throat.
"Luke's been reported missin' in action, Bo…I'm sorry…"
Bo felt numb all over, and all time seemed to stop. Luke was not only his favorite
boy-cousin, but also his best friend. Bo even went so far as to think of Luke as more of a
big brother. "M-missin'…" Bo repeated as if he hadn't heard the first time.
"Bo…" was all Jesse could say
"I-I'm comin' home," Bo answered softly, and hung up the phone.
Bo was still numb from shock as he went over to where Cooter was sitting, with
the rest of their friends.
"Hey birthday boy! Where you been?" Cooter asked. Then Cooter saw the look
on Bo's face. "Hey Bo, everythin' alright with Jesse en' Daisy?"
Bo still wouldn't answer.
"Bo? You okay, you look like you've seen a ghost?"
"Um…Cooter, c-could you take me home, please?" Bo asked trying to maintain
his composure.
"But the party's just started…" Cooter protested.
"Cooter, please!" Bo snapped.
Cooter downed the last of his beer and stood up. "No problem, buddy."
"Hey y'all," Bo called out to the rest of his friends, "sorry I have to leave, but
thanks alot for been' here." Bo's friends all nodded and said 'good-night' as Bo and
Cooter left. On the way home, Bo told Cooter everything.
Somewhere in the Vietnam jungles…
Sergeant Luke Duke had never felt so miserable and helpless as he did at this
moment. He and his platoon had been ambushed in the jungle, just outside of a small
village. The ambush happened in the dead of night, Luke led his men in to take over the
village. Luke was so sure he had everything figured out, but in the cover of darkness, the
enemy struck out with rapid gunfire. There were close to thirty men under Luke's
command, with reinforcements on the way, but they were too late. Now Luke and fifteen
surviving members of his platoon were prisoners of war.
There were close to fifty P.O.W's in the tiny cell that Luke was in. And more men
were held in other crowded cells through out the camp. Muffled noises and soft moans
emanated from wounded soldiers. The rank odor of blood, vomit, and feces assailed
Luke's nostrils as he sat huddled, by himself, in a corner. Luke sighed and tilted his head
back, he was covered head to toe with mud, and his combat fatigues were stained with
the blood of one of his soldiers…that soldier had been a boy-hood friend of Luke's from
Hazzard. Luke sighed again as he gazed up out of the cell at the stars above him. Luke's
mind wandered to a different place…home. Many a night, Luke would stay out late at
night with Bo, gazing at the bright stars from the hayloft in their Uncle's barn. Tears
began to fall as thoughts of Hazzard, Bo, Daisy, Uncle Jesse, dear friends and neighbors,
flashed through his mind. Luke then looked about him, at all the tired and beaten
soldiers, finding it hard to believe that three years earlier he was just a young, innocent,
country boy. Luke fought desperately to hang on to the pleasant images of home, but the
images of the horrors of war, from the past three years, kept interfering.
Luke finally broke down, loosing all hope of ever going home to his friends and
family. This was suppose to be his last assignment for the Marines, before being
discharged. He was suppose to go home…he'd promised Bo, Daisy and Jesse he'd come
home. Now he was a helpless prisoner, surrounded by death and carnage in a jungle,
thousands of miles from home, with only his memories and muffled sobs as his
Back in Hazzard…
Sunday service at church proceeded as a slow grind for the Duke family. An
entourage of well-wishing neighbors and friends offered their prayers and support, but Bo
would have nothing of it. The mear mention of Luke, or the war, sent Daisy off in an
emotional tiff on several occasions through out the day, with Jesse running off after
her. Later that afternoon, Bo went to the fishing hole at Hazzard pond, where Luke
had first taught him how to fish. Bo had brought his rod and reel, but didn't catch
anything. Mostly, Bo was lost in his memories of he and Luke, and all the things they did
together. One memory, however, stuck out painfully like a rose thorn pearcing the skin.
**He found Bo up in the hayloft, sobbing quietly, with his knees drawn to his
chest and his face buried. The news of Luke's draft notice into the marines had sent a
rippling effect of anger and fear through his family. But no one took it as hard as Bo
did. Luke sat next to his youngest cousin and tried to put his arm around his shoulders.
"Go away!" Bo's head popped up suddenly.
Luke nearly jumped out of his skin."Take it easy, little cousin. I just wanna help,"
eighteen year old Luke replied.
"I don't want you to help me!" Bo sobbed "I don't ever want to be near you,
Bo's words cut through Luke's heart like a serrated edge."You don't mean that – "
" – Yes I do!" Bo snapped, staring directly at Luke, with pain clouding his dark
blue eyes.
"C'mon, Bo." Luke answered sternly "You KNOW you don't really mean it. You're
scared and angry, and I want you to tell me about it."
Bo kept staring at his older cousin in silence. Luke knew that his being drafted
into the Vietnam War effort had struck a devastating blow for his fourteen-and-a-half
year old cousin.
"I don't want you to get close to me no more…" Bo whispered.
Again, Luke felt the pain of rejection from his beloved little cousin."Why…?"
Luke was close to tears himself
"Because," Bo sniffed, "If you go off to war…en' you don't come back…"
"D-don't say it, Bo" Luke broke down and grabbed Bo into a fearce hug.
"I'd just die, Luke!…" Bo began to cry hard this time.
"No you wont!" Luke replied stubbornly "I ain't gonna let you do a fool thing like
that, cause I'm gonna come back. Do you hear me, Bo James Duke?!"
"Luke, I -"
"Do you hear me?!"
"Promise…" Bo mumbled, having buried his face in the folds of Luke's flannel
"I promise, Bo…I'm gonna come back…"**
"…You lied to me, Luke…" Bo broke down in tears. "…Why did you lie to me…"
Two weeks had since passed, after Luke had been reported missing in action.Life
at the Duke farm continued, Jesse and Daisy tended to daily chores, and Bo went back to
school. Hardly anyone talked about Luke at all, because it was too painful for them, but
every night, Jesse continued to pray for Luke's safe return.
That Sunday, a memorial service was held for young Virgil Jennings. The United
States Military had finally brought the boy's remains home to be laid to rest; and Earl
Jennings brought his wife and remaining son back to Hazzard, for the service. A wake
was held afterwards at the Jennings' farm.
Bo sat outside in the afternoon sun, under the shade of an old oak tree, out front
of the Jennings farmhouse. He had been unusually quiet through out the service, and
Jesse had grown a little concerned. Daisy had finally come out to talk to her cousin.
"I don't wanna be here," Bo whispered.
"I know," Daisy answered. A light breeze rustled the leaves of the big tree they sat
"Why did Uncle Jesse ask us to come here?" Bo asked
"'Cause Virgil was our friend," Daisy replied. "And he was Luke's friend too."
"That's why I don't wanna be here," Bo muttered. "Through out the service…I kept
thinkin' it was Luke they were talkin' about."
"Bo, don't say that!" Daisy snapped.
"Why not?" Bo asked, "He ain't comin' back…"
"Stop it!" Daisy wailed. "Stop it, Bo, Luke's gonna come back, I just know it!"
"Really!" Bo's voice was on the rise. "Well tell me where he is, Daisy? Do you
know what happened to Luke?"
Daisy broke down and buried her head in her arms. Jesse came outside to find out
what had become of his niece and nephew, when he caught wind of Bo's last comment,
and saw Daisy crying. "What's goin' on out here? We's suppose to be payin' our respects
to Virgil's family. En' you two are out here chewing each other out." Jesse replied.
"I ain't goin' in there," Bo answered defiantly.
"You best watch your mouth, boy," Jesse replied firmly "You ain't so big now that
I can't still take ya over m' knee en' whoop ya!"
"I don't wanna go in there." Bo burst out crying.
"Bo, stop this nonsense!" Jesse ordered.
Bo could tell that his Uncle's temper was on the rise, and it was wearing thin, but
he was too angry himself to care.
"Uncle Jesse," Daisy sobbed, "Bo's talkin' like Luke's not comin' back."
Jesse's eyes flashed in anger. "BOY!"
"IT'S TRUE!" Bo screamed his own temper flailing. "You know it is. First Virgil,
and now Luke!"
Jesse moved forward as if he were going to grab hold of his nephew, but Bo up
and bolted from underneath the tree and kept running. "Bo!" Jesse yelled after him.
Bo ignored his Uncle and kept running. He wanted to just run forever, and leave
all his pain behind him.
After the wake, Earl told Jesse that he was going to sell his farm and move to
Orange County, where his sister-in-law lived.
"We can't stay here, Jesse," Earl said sadly. "Marge can't take livin' here no more,
she needs to be with her family. She says that with Davis beein' all that we have, she's
afraid somethin' might happen to him here. And there's too many bad memories in this
house for us to stay on."
"I understand." Jesse nodded taking a sip from his glass of shine.
"What happened to Bo this afternoon?" Earl asked. "I hear he took off runnin' like
a scalded cat, after havin' some fight with Daisy."
Jesse frowned ."Bo's angry, Earl." Jesse began, "Luke bein' reported missin' has
been pretty hard for the family to take. It's been especially hard on Bo…he believes Luke
ain't comin' back."
Earl sighed and shook his head." I pray that ain't so, Jesse. Luke's a good boy. Me
en' Marge were gonna tell you, before we left, our prayers are with you."
Jesse smiled faintly. "Thank you, Earl. You know I don't know what I'd do if I'd
loose any of those kids of mine. Martha – God bless her – and I raised them three, as if
they was our own, since we wasn't blessed with any children. But when my brothers en'
their wives passed, I was thankful that they chose us to look after their children."
Earl smiled, "You en' Martha did good, raisin' those youngin's, Jesse."
"I hope so." Jesse replied
Bo never came back to the farmhouse that night, instead, he was hidden away up
in the hayloft, in the barn. Jesse, Daisy, and Cooter searched for him, had called friends
and neighbors, but couldn't find hardly a whisper.Bo was gazing up at the stars from the
hayloft, the sounds of crickets and other night crawlers filled the air. He had actually
returned to the farm hours earlier, but never bothered to come out and tell anyone, while
they went up and down the road, calling his name. Bo just lay up there, still in his Sunday
clothes, talking to himself as if someone were there.
"Sure is a beautiful night." Bo whispered quietly. "Remember how when we was
kids, en' we use to come up here en' stare at the stars, all the time?" Bo sighed" I guess
you ain't lookin' at the stars tonight, are you Lukas?"
Jesse had come outside to stand out on the porch before turning in, hoping to see
any last minute sign of his missing nephew. He was tired and worried, and he was sorry
for having been angry with Bo, earlier. He knew how much Bo was hurting, but didn't
want to admit how much he hurt himself. Jesse instantly regretted chasing Bo off, but his
temper had gotten the best of him. Jesse smiled as he thought of Bo, being just as angry
at him.
"Must run in the family." Jesse muttered to himself. "His father was like that himself…at
one time…"
Jesse smiled fondly at the memory of his youngest brother, Bo's father. Jesse was
about to turn in when he heard voices coming from the hayloft in the barn. Jesse quietly
climbed up the wooden ladder and felt tears spring to his eyes, when he found Bo, lying
on his back in amongst a pile of hay.
"That you, Bo?" Jesse whispered. Bo startled at the sound of Jesse's voice. Jesse
then came and sat next to his nephew, who was now sitting with his knees drawn to his
chest. Bo's jacket lay crumpled up in a ball, when he used it at a pillow. "I've been
worried sick, boy. Where you been? I had half of Hazzard lookin' for you."
"I've been up here." Bo frowned
"We was lookin' all over, beatin' the bush for you, en' the whole time you were up
"Yes sir…" Bo muttered, "I'm sorry. I just needed time on my own, is all."
"Don't do it again." Jesse grumbled. Jesse's eyes then softened as he patted Bo on
the back. "I know you needed time to yourself, Bo."
Bo took in a deep breath and slowly released it out again, before apologizing to
his Uncle. "I'm sorry about what I said…about Luke not comin' back…" Bo paused. "I
wanna believe, with all my heart, that Luke will come home, but Virgil Jennings' funeral
made me feel like he wasn't. And I was angry at you for makin' me go."
Jesse wanted to kick himself, he had no idea what effect Virgil's funeral would
have on his kids. "I should be the one apologizin', " Jesse began, "I should have realized
how hard it must have been for you en' Daisy to be there, especially with what's happened
to Luke. Truth is, Bo, I felt the way you did too. I should have been more sympathetic to
your feelings. It's just when Daisy told me what you had been sayin' to her, I wanted to
deny the whole thing, and about how I really felt."
Bo's lower lip began to tremble, and Jesse drew him into his arms. "Uncle
Jesse…what if Luke really don't come back?"
Jesse started rubbing Bo's back, gently rocking him back and fourth, the way he'd
done when Bo was little. "We'll just have to cross that bridge when we come to it." Jesse's
voice began to break, not wanting to think about Luke never coming home. "But for
now…we still gotta keep prayin' "
After ten minutes, Bo stopped crying, and Jesse got him to come down from the
loft and in the house to bed. Both Jesse and Bo fell into an exhausted sleep.Tomorrow,
they prayed, would be a brighter day.
Some where in the Vietnam jungle…
The sound of propeller blades had brought Luke out of a deep sleep. He had been
dreaming that he was back home in Hazzard, talking to Bo, but was disappointed when
he awoke back in his prison in the jungle.But something was different.
"The Marines have landed!" some body shouted in the distance. "We're going
Luke scrambled to the bars and saw four or five Apache helicopters landed in a
clearing, off to the side. The propellers making soft thumping noises, and the rush of air
from the swirling blades, caused the tall grass surrounding the craft to flatten to the
ground. Luke could see U.S. Marines leading their Vietnamese prisoners to the otherside
of the camp, forcing them to kneel with their hands on their heads.
"Sergeant?" A young Marine called out to Luke. Luke looked up into the eyes of
the young man, freeing the P.O.W's from their cramped cell."Sergeant, it's time to go
home." The young Marine smiled. Luke wiped away any evidence of tears and smiled
back at his rescuer.
"Let's get out of here." Luke grinned numbly, "I gotta make it home in time for my
cousin's graduation."
The Marines freed all their captured comrades and airlifted them back into allied
territory. As Luke's helicopter lifted off the ground, he said a silent prayer to the powers
that be, and whispered, "Hang on, Bo. I'm almost home…"
Things seemed to be progressing well, back in Hazzard, over the last few weeks.It
was June, and time for Bo's Highschool graduation. Bo sat on a raised platform with his
classmates, as the Master of Ceremonies delivered a speech to the graduates. Bo was
dressed nicely in his Sunday cloths, smiling at Jesse and Daisy, who looked on from the
gathered audience of parents, friends, and family.
Bo had desperately wanted Luke to be here to see this moment. To see his little
cousin, all grown up, on this important day, but Luke had been missing still for two
months. Bo closed his eyes and sent a prayer out to his older cousin, wherever he was.
Luke stared widely at the town of Hazzard as the bus that had brought him here
pulled away from the depot. He was home. After three, long, difficult years, Luke was
finally back in the one place he'd only dreamt of seeing again. Luke let a few tears slide
down his cheeks before shouldering his duffel bag, and heading off in the direction of
Hazzard High. Bo Duke walked nervously up to the podium to receive his diploma, and a
handshake from his teacher. The afternoon was clear and sunny as the assembly, gathered
on the football field, clapped when Bo was handed his certificate.
Luke arrived in time to see Bo retrieve his diploma, and nearly cried at the sight,
as everyone started clapping. Luke put his bag down and joined the applause, fiercely
proud of his younger cousin. To Luke, Bo had changed alot. When Luke left, Bo was
nearly fifteen, skinny, and awkward. Now Bo was a grown man, handsome, muscular,
and a whole lot taller than Luke remembered. Taller even than him, Luke guessed. But
Bo still had that unmistakable mop of blonde, curly hair and that silly grin that use to
annoy Luke. Now Luke only laughed.
Bo returned to his seat and waved to Jesse and Daisy. He didn't even recognize
the young man, standing in the back in his Marine dress Uniform. It wasn't until the
ceremony was over, and the crowd began to disperse, that Bo realized who had been
standing there. At first, Bo blinked, thinking he just imagined what he was seeing. After a
second glance, Bo found himself bolting towards the individual. Luke saw Bo barreling
towards him at full-tilt, but all he could do was smile.
Jesse and Daisy were a little surprised to see Bo just take off the way he did. It
wasn't before long, though, that they realized why.
"LUKE!" Bo cried as he threw himself upon his cousin. "Luke, you're alive!"
The force of his younger cousin momentarily winded Luke. Indeed, Bo had gotten
alot bigger in the last three years. Luke was then engaged in a long brotherly hug with Bo.
"I promised you I'd come back, didn't I?" Luke smiled. Luke let go of Bo when he
saw his Uncle and Daisy approach. Neither of them had really changed much, except
Uncle Jesse's hair was almost white now, and Daisy was a healthy, slender, and beautiful
twenty-year-old. Daisy reached Luke and threw herself upon him the way Bo had, and
bombarded him with many kisses.
"Aren't you a sight for sore eyes." Luke smiled at Daisy.
"Oh Luke! I'm so glad you're back." Daisy wailed as Luke lifted her off the ground
in an enormous bear hug.
"I'm glad to see you too, darlin'." Luke whispered to Daisy.
Jesse stood several paces behind Daisy, with tears running all down his cheeks.
"Uncle Jesse " Luke said, carefully putting Daisy back down.
"Come here," Jesse opened his arms. "Come en' give your ol' Uncle Jesse a
hug…" Luke moved forward and embraced his uncle, hard. Jesse continued to cry,
believing this to truly be a miracle. Luke squeezed his eyes shut, trying not to give into
tears, but he lost.
Soon friends and neighbors from all around had gathered to welcome Luke home.
Some people cried, and others told Luke how good it was to see him alive and well.
After nearly two hours, the entire Duke family, along with Cooter Davenport,
went back to the farm to celebrate. In the evening, while folks dropped by to see Luke,
Bo went outside to the barn. Luke had managed to slip out, finding Bo in the hayloft,
where they always use to hide as children.
"Well look at you" Luke called out to Bo who was sitting, looking up at the
stars."I never thought I'd leave behind a boy, only to come home en' find him a grown
Bo looked up and smiled at Luke, who had long since changed into a pair of blue
jeans and blue plaid flannel shirt.
"Alot has changed since you left." Bo replied, then smiled mischievously. "I'm
allowed to order a beer at the Boar's Nest now."
Luke chuckled and sat down next to Bo, rolling up his shirtsleeves. The sound of
crickets chirping, the light of the stars and the moon and the smell of the breeze. All
things Luke had never believed he could miss so much, as he did his family. "I never
thought I'd see all this again." Luke began as he gazed out at his Uncle's property. "Being
locked up in that camp for the last couple of months sure had me thinkin' a whole lot."
Bo flinched. He didn't want to be reminded of the pain he'd felt in those last two
months. "Doesn't that bother you?" Bo asked, "You talk about it as though it don't matter.
I've often heard that some people come home from the war, not quite the same as when
they left."
Luke sighed, "Oh…there have been plenty of things that bothered me through out
the war, and I know I ain't the same as when I left. But I can't change the things I saw or
what I went through. I've seen some pretty horrible things, Bo, but now that I'm home, the
magnitude of it all ain't quite sunk in yet; but I do know when it does, I'll have my family
there to help me through it."
"You bet." Bo smiled. But Bo's smile faded as quickly as it came.
"Are you alright?" Luke asked, concerned.
Bo shrugged.
"Bo?" Luke put a hand on his cousin's shoulder.
"I'll be alright." Bo muttered.
"What's wrong? You know you can still tell me things, right?" Luke asked, hoping
Bo would talk to him the way they use to.
"I thought you were dead…" Bo whispered. "I thought you'd broken your promise
about comin' home."
Luke frowned. He'd never imagined the effects that his absence would have on his
family. But through Bo, he was beginning to see the first signs of the damage that had
been done.
"Well I ain't dead, Bo," Luke tried to sound reassuring. "And once I make a
promise to my family, I stick with it."
"I was scared, Luke…" Bo mumbled.
"…So was I…" Luke replied softly. "But I'm proud of you, Bo." Luke continued.
"I'm proud of how you, Jesse, en' Daisy have held it together, I'm proud of y'all keepin' up
with the farm; en' I'm proud of the man you've grown up to be."
Bo smiled. "Thanks Luke. You don't know how long I've waited to hear your
voice. It's better then all those letters you sent."
Luke chuckled.
"I'm proud of you too, Luke." Bo continued.
"For what?" Luke asked.
"For serving your country," Bo replied. "For being who your are."
Luke was touched. Not alot of people said those kinds of things to returning
soldiers from Vietnam. Most people were disgusted or angry, but Luke was relieved to
know that his own kin didn't feel that way.
"Everything's gonna be alright now, ain't it Luke?"
"You bet, Bo"
"Hey, Luke?"
"Wanna come racin' with me, Cooter, Brody, en' Dobro on Saturday?"
"You drive now, too?"
"Yep. Best there is."
"We'll see about that, little cuz."
"HA! I ain't so little anymore, Luke. I'm bigger than you now."
"But I'm still older."
"You got a point there, Luke."
"It's gettin' late, Bo. We should head in, we got chores tomorrow mornin' "
"Not yet, Luke."
"Hey Luke?"
"Yeah Bo?"
"Stars sure are pretty tonight."
"They sure are."
"Hey Luke?"
"What now, Bo?"
"It's good to have you back."
"It's good to be back…Hey, I just heard Jesse callin' us in."
"Well let's go."
"Right behind you, Bo."


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Yup, true. I agree with your point of view to a certain extent. Thank you so much for dropping by and taking the time to comment! Have a wonderful day! 😇
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Yup, that is exactly what I think too. Religion is something which shapes your life. Why should your religious views affect other people? You sound like a great man! Your daughter must be proud to have a father like you! Cheers!
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Well.. I definitely don't think anyone should suffer any abuse or find difficulty in anything they want to do with their life either! I do agree, they are just people! We are all just people in the eyes of God. Sadly, labels tend to stick around in this world.
Also, I do agree with that quote wholeheartedly! Thanks for sharing!
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Bat Fellatio!
Seeing as the typical ErosBlog reader might have tired of my predilection for sex-mad cephalopods I've resolved to move back into my own phylum and provide for your enjoyment — bat fellatio.
And no, I'm not referring to someone's mining-out the none-too-deeply-buried-to-begin-with subtext of the relationship between a certain costumed hero and his sidekick. No, I really mean actual bats. It seems that a group of Chinese scientists have been prying into the intimate habits of a little fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx that nests near their university campuses in Guangdong Province and, well, perhaps I'd best just let the abstract to their paper do the talking.
Female bats often lick their mate's penis during dorsoventral copulation. The female lowers her head to lick the shaft or the base of the male's penis but does not lick the glans penis which has already penetrated the vagina. Males never withdrew their penis when it was licked by the mating partner. A positive relationship exists between the length of time that the female licked the male's penis during copulation and the duration of copulation. Furthermore, mating pairs spent significantly more time in copulation if the female licked her mate's penis than if fellatio was absent. Males also show postcopulatory genital grooming after intromission. At present, we do not know why genital licking occurs, and we present four non-mutually exclusive hypotheses that may explain the function of fellatio in C. sphinx.
No jokes, please. This is science in action.
Our intrepid researchers even included a snippet of video of the bats going at it. I'm not sure whose idea it was to add porny music to the video. Maybe that's also science in action.
Hat tip to Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True.
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The start of the day was a little chaotic when I first arrived. Google maps had directed me to the wrong location. I pulled up to four small houses in a half circle pretty much out in the middle of nowhere. I parked on the side of the road and sat in my car for a few minutes freaking out, as I had no cell service thinking that I was never going to find the party. Thankfully I wasn't alone and there was a guy that came up to my car asking "by any chance are you looking for Christal?". He had cell service and was able to call her and get us in the right party spot.
Once arriving in the correct spot, I was amazed by what a fantastic spot they had. Tables set up with a stunning few of mountains behind. The day also started out very windy as the flowers on the tables kept blowing over but by the time everyone arrived the wind had died down. We started out taking pictures on the road, getting the "out in the middle of an abandoned road" look. Christal had so many fun ideas to do for pictures. One of my favorites was all of her girls in a line, taking a drink from a wine bottle and passing it down. Where would one be without their girlfriends to drink with? I took some more wedding party pictures and family pictures then the party started. I ended the night when Christal made her speech, she said public speaking was something that she dreaded but girl you killed it! I did not know her family prior, but from her speech I knew that they have been through a lot and have never ending love for each other. "Vows are not wishes, they're promises" Happy 10 years of marriage, and I wish you 90 more!
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Damaged Protein May Predict Alzheimer's
Phosphorylated tau231 (P-tau231) is a damaged tau protein found in patients with Alzheimer's disease. The study, conducted by researchers at NYU School of Medicine and published in this month's Neurobiology of Aging, shows that the presence of the protein can predict future memory decline as well as a loss of brain gray matter in the medial temporal lobe - a key memory center in the brain.
Other studies have shown that in Alzheimer's disease, tangles of damaged tau proteins gather in the medial temporal lobe.
"Our findings suggest that P-tau231 has the potential to be an important diagnostic tool in the pre-symptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease," said lead author Dr. Lidia Glodzik, an assistant research professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the Center for Brain Health and Center of Excellence on Brain Aging at NYU School of Medicine.
Researchers followed 57 healthy older adults and looked at memory performance and gray matter using MRI scans. Two years later, 20 of the subjects had worsened memory and more atrophy in the medial temporal lobe, as well as higher baseline levels of P-tau231.
"Indentifying people at risk for Alzheimer's disease is the necessary first step in developing preventive therapies," said co-author Mony de Leon, a professor at the Department of Psychiatry and director of the Center for Brain Health at the Center of Excellence on Brain Aging at NYU School of Medicine and Research Scientist at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. "This study shows that Alzheimer's disease pathology may be recognized in the normal stages of cognition. This observation may be of value in future studies investigating mechanisms that cause or accelerate dementia."


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Paul Merson has alleviated his chronic goalkeeping situation by completing a loan deal with Everton for their teenage starlet John Ruddy.
The 18-year-old arrived at the Bescot Stadium yesterday on a one-month loan, in the first instance, and will go straight into the side for tomorrow ' s visit to Scunthorpe United.
That's because the hand injury sustained by regular goalkeeper Andy Oakes before last weekend's calamitous 3-2 loss at home to Chesterfield is likely to keep him out for a couple of weeks, although the exact duration will be determined when the Saddlers find out the results of a scan.
Previously untried Rene Gilmartin went in goal against the Spireites but Merson wanted a more experienced player with the Irishman having only arrived in the off-season.
Ruddy joined the Toffees in the summer and has made three reserve appearances, keeping two clean sheets in 1-0 wins before this week's 2-0 defeat by Middlesbrough reserves but played an entire season for Cambridge United where he attracted interest from some of the Premiership's big guns including Manchester United and Arsenal.
"He is a talented young lad who won't let us down," Paul Merson said.
"It's a weight off my mind to have him here because we have two tough games coming up in a short space of time where we need a big presence in goal and he will give us that.
"He is a great prospect. [Everton manager] David Moyes spoke very highly of him and Arsenal and Man United don't show interest in keepers if they are not very good."
Ruddy made a big impression at Cambridge after keeping a clean sheet and saving a penalty on his debut.
He was one of few highlights of last season's campaign, which ended in relegation to the Conference for the U's but included an England Under-19 call-up for the tall young keeper.
Meanwhile Walsall's young left-back Jonny Harkness, on loan to Cambridge United, is likely to return to the Midlands when his loan expires after Saturday's home match against Altrincham.
The Northern Irishman was substituted at half-time in Tuesday's defeat at Grays.


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In his earlier incarnation, Eleyinmi hid his hands under a voluminous agbada. It was a display of a sort of royal extravagance. His face skewed with disdain, his carriage lofty like a peacock, he spoke from a high pedestal. His voice, with its peculiar polish, played out of a palatial voice box. He walked not on earth but above it, above all who thought they were on the same soil. He is, after all, called Oloye, and an Oloye does not belong to the pedestrian promenade.
He abided the sort of illusion that former American President, Abraham Lincoln inspired in blacks when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed blacks. One famous quote of that era came from a legend.
A black man was reported as saying in his poetic pidgin "Massa Linkum, he be ebery whai; he know ebery ting; he walk the earf like de lord." Translation: "Master Lincoln, he is everywhere; he knows everything; he walks the earth like the Lord." The sentiment was exaggerated, but the awe was genuine. The blacks breathed liberty after over a century of chains and shame.
Oloye Eleyinmi might have lived that delusion of grandeur, and thought words like that came from his fawning followers. He probably heard them.
But the present Eleyinmi saw what he had not seen, felt what had not touched him, and ran away from what had always run away from him. So, Eleyinmi was used to hiding his hands as a flourish of royal joy. But last week, when he was asked to appear before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, he ducked before he was docked.
This time, he was not just hiding the hand, he was hiding the whole massive fabric of royalty. They sought him in court, and he was not found. Oloye was royalty. Royalty is court. How dare anyone redefine royalty by subjecting it to the logic of obedience? That was probably the refrain of his thought.
Suddenly though, we saw that Eleyinmi could not hide anything, not agbada, not hand, and he appeared in the court. Even at that, his self-image was not vitiated. He still affected the superior gaze of the palace. His band of adoring followers, in regalia and dance and court flattery, trailed him like a boisterous wave.
He at one moment wanted to play Awolowo on the dock. He looked back at another royalty, a genuine one not built on bloodline but on industry and time-tested wisdom. He thought he was an Awolowo and in his peroration after his treasonable felony trial. But Oloye Bukola Saraki was not Awolowo, and he had taken advantage of judge's magnanimity in allowing him to say a word, and he turned it into a political platform for tirades.
He and his folks say it is political persecution, and so the matter should be allowed to lie. That was a lie. The Oloye was at work. He does not know that this is no royalty but democracy. And in democracy, it is the rule of law, and not the sentiment of the big man. He was part of the change mantra and he is about to be a victim of a tiger he let out of the zoo.
By the way, his is no royalty in a traditional sense, but in a contrivance of our big man politics. He inherited it from his father, and he has been adept at it in a small pond in Kwara State. In the ocean, however, the tilapia discovers he is not master but in contention with larger jaws and deft swimmers. Tilapia is about to end up in a jaw he pooh-poohed.
In democracy, law enforces liberty. The individual is subsumed in what French philosopher Jean Jacque Rousseau termed "the collective will." When he appeared in court, he must have realised that his royalty was a ruse. That accounts for his charge that he was a victim of persecution. That charge is neither here nor there. There are specific charges. He should account for himself and not hide under victimhood the way he hides his hands under his massive agbada.
His supporters are also appealing to pity by referring to an earlier case, and saying that his example of persecution was akin to that of Asiwaju Tinubu during the era of Goodluck Jonathan. Are they kidding? His was about an account he operated before he became governor, and certain other facts were clear.
It was dud because even the bank wrote him to show the account was closed. Again Tinubu did not hide like Oloye. He did not say he was above the law. He had even earlier won a case against Ribadu's EFCC with a N10 million damage awarded to him. He said in a release after he was acquitted: "I was ready to defend my name and most importantly blunt the dangling sword of Damocles over my head.
"Then I challenged them to go to court and maintained that those who allege must prove. I am glad that the Code of Conduct Tribunal, consistent with the laws of the land and after painstaking trial, have dispensed of my case."
Oloye should not have ducked. He suffered the humiliation of appearing in the box of the accused. What we are seeing is the architecture of political disgrace. In 2002, the U.S. Senate Leader and equivalent of Senate President in Nigeria, Trent Lott, fell into scandal. He had uttered a statement that affirmed he was a racist.
He said he voted for Strum Thurmond, a self-confessed segregationist, who hated freedom for blacks. Lott asserted in the man's 100th birthday that he supported him still. The statement triggered a windstorm that swept him out of office as the top legislator in the land.
The world has seen quite of few scandals. In Nigeria, scandal often is associated with murder and financial fraud. In other lands, it adds a steamy context: sex. John Edwards loft his prestige and ended his quest to be U.S. President when he was caught in an affair, especially when his wife was dying of cancer. We know of the Keating Five about lobbying corruption, and it involved five U.S. senators.
In Italy, we know of Silvio Berlusconi, playboy, pedophile, gangster, fraud and swindler and his famous party for nubile girls called bunga bunga. Lott resigned when the American public frowned. But here we want a way out. Well, Eleyinmi would have to confront the bear ahead. Already his friends are shopping for his replacement. He is literally and metaphorically in a box. Who will help Eleyinmi?


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You've also probably heard someone define the Caribbean Sea as the Sea of Seven Colors. Whoever said that was absolutely right: this part of the Caribbean is defined by its rich array of colours, dominated by a sea that shifts shades of blue, sky blue, turquoise and even green. All this against a backdrop of fine white sands which make each island into natural pools of incalculable beauty.
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We invite you to experience the unforgettable adventure of taking a Caribbean cruise with us. Do you want to get to know the reflection of the Dutch Caribbean architecture found in Aruba? Its colorful West Indian style buildings will leave you openmouthed. What will you make of the delightful view of the impressive defensive fortifications that are still standing in the romantic city of Cartagena? In addition to all this Caribbean architecture, you can enjoy nature. Take advantage of this trip to explore one of the national parks of Curacao or snorkel in the stunning setting of the coast of Grand Cayman.
You can enjoy the fun of Bonaire and its people in every corner of the city or, if you prefer, please your palate with the aroma and unique flavor of rum in the area. A collision of cultures that will amaze you at every turn is also spiced with harmony as both nations are surrounded by deep blue waters.
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Hand Doctor Discusses Lateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow)
Hand Doctor Discusses Lateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow)
Lateral epicondylitis is the medical term for tennis elbow, a common condition that causes pain on the outside part of your elbow. Tennis elbow is an overuse injury that can develop after playing tennis or other racquet sports, although people can develop lateral epicondylitis after engaging in other activities. Lateral epicondylitis can prevent you from going to work, attending school, playing sports, or taking care of your family. Fortunately, a hand doctor can diagnose and treat lateral epicondylitis.
About Lateral Epicondylitis
Tendons connect muscles to bones; muscles pull on tendons to move bones at the joints where two or more bones come together. Three bones come together to form your elbow joint: the humerus bone in your upper arm and the two bones in your forearm. There are several boney bumps, known as epicondyles, on the humerus bone. The boney bump on the outside, or lateral side, of your elbow is the lateral epicondyle.
The suffix –litis means inflammation, so epicondylitis means inflammation near an epicondyle. Epicondylitis develops when repetitive stress causes small tears in the tendons that join the muscles of your forearm to the bones on the outside of your elbow become inflamed. These small tears cause inflammation that leads to pain and tenderness where the tendons meet the bones.
Symptoms of tennis elbow include pain or burning at the outside of your elbow, and weak grip strength. Performing certain actions with your forearm, such as holding a racquet, shaking someone's hand or turning a screwdriver can make symptoms worse.
Tennis elbow is most likely to affect your dominant arm, although you can develop the painful condition on either arm.
While anyone with certain risk factors can develop tennis elbow, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons says that most people who develop the condition are between the ages of 30 and 50.
Hand Specialist Discusses Diagnosis and Treatment for Lateral Epicondylitis
A hand specialist can diagnose and treat lateral epicondylitis. The hand doctor will examine your hand and arm, review your symptoms, and discuss your risk factors for tennis elbow. Be sure to tell your doctor if you have ever injured your elbow or if you have a history of nerve disease or rheumatoid arthritis.
Your hand doctor may order tests to aid in diagnosis. These tests include x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and electromyography (EMG).
Most patients – 80 to 95 percent – do not need hand surgery and respond well to conservative treatments, such as rest, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), physical therapy, bracing and occupational therapy. Cortisone injections may help patients who do not respond to conservative treatments. Your hand surgeon can help you determine if hand surgery is right for you.
If you have elbow pain, consult with your hand doctor to learn more about lateral epicondylitis.


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Intoxicating Charismatic Narrator : Terms and quotes repeatedly written, consciously and unconsciously, in pencil on reams of foolscap on the artist Tim Rollins, some are written and some are drawn
by Alex Hetherington
Lens, storyteller, shift, charisma, pioneer, now, promote, Dr Seuss, Jazz, ghosts, hillbilly, cowboy, Willy Wonka, Thanksgiving, Three Dimensions of a Complete Life, Alice in Wonderland, Kafka, Darwin, HG Wells. Amerika.
Nature Theater of Oklahoma: "within this "almost limitless" theatre his young hero was going to find again a profession, a stand-by, his freedom, even his old home and his parents, as if by some celestial witchery", and "My intention was, as I now see, to write a Dickens novel, enriched by the sharper lights which I took from our modern times, and by the pallid ones I would have found in my own interior", and "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living".
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not" and "Being crazy isn't enough."
Forms of transportation, the Greyhound bus from Maine to New York, the MTA NY subway, sick notes, "We've gotta get of this place". The Art and Knowledge Workshop. 1982.
"Oh, the Places You'll Go", I know. 1984.
Then there's these stories, like the one about getting on a greyhound bus from Maine to New York city on a bus with $500 and heading straight to the Chelsea Hotel and hanging out with the New York Dolls; or travelling on the No. 2 train to Prospect Avenue in the South Bronx to take a post for there for two weeks, as part of a Ghetto-a-day arts program, and arriving and walking and staying through the streets with burned out buildings like harmonica's on their sides sounding a massive drone as the sharp September winds blow through their vacated apartments, and smelling as bad as 9/11, and the words flow like a performance poem, or like a Dr Seuss. And suggestions of speaking-in-tongues, a TV evangelist, a charismatic, Pentecostal Hillbilly Cowboy telling us about the ghosts in the academy, that don't pass, stamps his foot, punches his chest with a mighty, knowing fist, whispers Darwin, makes a mark that everyone, no matter who they are, how they love, what they look like, how old they are, will make.
About learning the value of patience, that some things take 15 years, and some thing's happen now, even though you think "You're done." And about the story of Group Material (http://www.leftmatrix.com/grouptlist.html) with Felix Gonzales Torres, Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Anti-Baudrillard, and a paralysis of analysis.
And there to the story of the kids, with all the school special definitions, and educational subclasses and measures, and diagnosis and conditions, and being a teacher trainer with the "dead face" in rooms with no air conditioning, reams of 11" x 8.5" paper and pencils carried in plastic bags and being, quite unexpectedly, asked to "Do the Best Drawing You Have Ever Done." Then Rollins reiterates this theory about these beautiful objects, the exhibition and the works, that bring everyone together, about this being evidence of being an enemy of death, the (in)visible man, the d-i-s-e-a-s-e of being an artist. 1981.
There are some things in what Rollins talks about that talk to me very specifically: the 'drawing' on standards and classic texts (appropriating, remixing, Postproduction), of Kafka's Amerika, Alice in Wonderland, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ("the raft is a metaphor for America"), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dracula and Frankenstein and to how some of this drawing on and colliding texts finding root in visual art, and to The Wooster Group in Manhattan, finding root in performance, The Crucible with Timothy Leary ("the mass hysteria is a metaphor for America"), La Didone, with Planet of the Vampires, Gertrude Stein's Dr Faustus Lights the Lights with Olga's House of Shame, Chekhov's Three Sisters with Japanese monster movies, in the Performing Garage, off Broadway, which is like Rollins' gymnasium, a media, a creative, a collective, laboratory, and scores and scores of references, and numbered drawings. What they do, it has to be said, is very political. 2012.
These creative spaces are vista points in Rollins' "making" vocabulary, the talk of the work in the studio, in the workshops across the world, and to virtual spaces, where distant K.O.S. can fax in, scan in, collage in images back to the mothership in the Bronx, no matter where they now live. He talks about work, as not work, in forms of dignity, and equality, which he accompanies with a mime about a street sweeper and mouthing the word, slowly, "flow". These descriptions, physical and conceptual, form another stream of philosophy in this high-to-low cascade of art. He talks a lot about jazz, and people like Dizzy Gillespie, but to me Rollins and K.O.S. are more like disco, it's a thumping beat, and much more about "drama and love and elevation than syncopation."
Educator. And the ways he says it sometimes it sounds like "Educate. Or." That's probably deliberate, a part of the script, this performance, which like the Number 2 Subway line with stops at stations: "the popular and the arcane, the minor to the canonical, legal documents and comic books, from political allegories, and testimonies and confessions, and erased newspaper headlines to musical scores". "All aboard!"
"The Black Spot is a literary device invented by Robert Louis Stevenson for the novel Treasure Island. In the book, pirates are presented with a "black spot" to officially pronounce a verdict of guilt or judgment. It consists of a circular piece of paper or card, with one side blackened while the other side bears a message and placed in the hand of the accused." It's also a stimulus for and a metaphor of survival, which is at the foundation of the exhibition and the trigger for a new story, about a Black Spot being deposited into Rollins' pocket by one of the participants at the gallery workshops: a letter written by a teenage girl about an observation of how creativity works in the labyrinth of survival, and as he reads it out, it reveals a potent truth, about generosity and art: it is as much a troubling gesture as it is a graceful gesture. It sits really uneasily, and it is extremely beautiful, and it is relentless, and it is a sermon, a gospel. It is about how young eyes see, and describe, like their work Pinocchio(after Carlo Collodi), which "sees", glass eye replicas of the children's eyes, set into wood.
Finally it is this device, seeing through a child's eye, a child's lens, that makes the loudest declaration in this wide, alluring practice.
And as he would say, with a stomp of his foot, and a heavy fist to his chest: "Can I get a witness to that?"
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TotenUniverse – Book 8
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Builders break through the wall of a basement and find the mummified remains of three women and a man. The discovery is complicated by the fact that the house was once lived in by the owner of Toten Herzen's original record label in the 1970s.
So far the TotenSeries has dealt with vampires, witches and ghosts. Mummified remains suggest were about to enter a story involving mummies, but you'd be wrong. As we arrive at the penultimate novel we need to step back and take stock of everything that has gone before and remember, the entire series, the TotenUniverse, revolves around the question: who are Toten Herzen?
In the first book we were introduced to the possibility that the comeback is a hoax orchestrated by Rob Wallet. In the second we learned of a lost valley, the source of the first European vampires. And in the third novel Wallet, Toten Herzen's reanimator, set his own course and befriended a former member of the Malandanti.
The plan for Behind the Wall was to examine Elaine Daley's story, the most enigmatic and secretive member of the band whose brief fling with Wallet baffled everybody. But we also learned of her family's trauma and how her father's unexplained murder impacted all of them in very different ways.
Daley's life looks destined to be confined to the foggy landscape surrounding her brother's house in Lincolnshire. A sharp contrast to Dee Vincent trying to deal with an unauthorised biography and Susan Bekker's solo career after she is commissioned to record the soundtrack to a film directed by Jens Gol.
And what of Wallet? Well, as I said, we've had vampires, we've had witches and we've had ghosts. I thought it was time to introduce the other great monster of European folklore: the werewolf. And this one will be unlike any other you've come across before.
Behind the Wall will tighten the knot that brings Toten Herzen together with the Malandanti and Frieda Schoenhofer. And the bodies in the basement will add to the growing clamour to explain what really happened to the most notorious band of the 1970s and whether Rob Wallet's extraordinary story is fact or fiction.


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The island has 90 miles (145km) of coastline and is remarkable for it's spectacular and widely varied landscape, from desert like Waimea Canyon, 'The Grand Canyon of the Pacific', to the velvety green Napali Coast, with cliffs rising 2,700 feet.
The first settlers came to Kauai around 200 A.D., about 500 years before the rest of the Islands were settled. The Islanders enjoyed a balanced environment and followed the social codes of the day, sometimes rigid, sometimes quite liberal. Through a succession of kings, the island prospered.
Captain James Cook landed on Kauai first, coming ashore at Waimea in 1778, forever changing the status of this isolated group of islands. Kauai is distinguished as being the only island that resisted takeover attempts by King Kamehameha during his quest to unify the islands under one rule.
King Kaumualii on Kauai finally conceded that upon his death, the island would fall under Kamehameha's rule. The island remained an independent kingdom until 1810.
Top rated Attractions
Waimea Canyon State Park
Kokee State Park
National Tropical Botanical Gardens
Napali Coast State Park
Spouting Horn
Kilauea Horn Point National Wildlife Refuge
Po'ipu Beach
Hanapepe Town
Fascinating Facts:
Kauai has more miles of beach per coastline than any other island.
Kauai has more hiking trails than any other island.
Today, no building is permitted to be built over 4 stories,which is roughly the height of a palm tree.
Kauai is home to four of the top ranked 12 golf courses in the state.
Kauai has the only navigable rivers in the state.
Island Data & Facts
Wailua River
Kilaues Lighthouse
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