I will apprciate an early response to this matter.

Hello,

This urgent business proposal is directly mailed to you and it is my understanding that you and I can work this out together and benefit ourselves in the

end.

I am Richard Macaulay, Attorney and secretary to my late deceased client of Gulf Stream crude oil. Prior to his unexpected death in August 2006, he made a

one year fixed deposit of $17 Million USD with a reputable bank pending investment of the money in real estate. But before the maturity of the investment, he

died in a plane crash and since his death nobody has applied for the claims of his estate as the next of kin.

I have personally monitored and managed the deposit over the years, and all effort to reach other members of his family has been futile. Since there was no

one else claim this money I now solicit for your assistance to present you as the next of kin as every other arrangement has been concluded by me. I am only

waiting for a foreigner to take possession of the deposit. There is no risk attached to it as the entire document required for claims will be obtained

legally by me as his proxy.

I cannot make claim to the deposit in my name hence this contact, to ask your support. As proxy, I will donate you as next of kin and back-up your claims as

legal next of kin with the relevant documentation. Once the bank sees your application the estate of my late client will be released to you for you and I to

share as partners. I therefore request you to confirm your interest by a return message and I will forward details of this project and more information about

the proposed course of action for getting these funds to you 100% risk free.

To facilitate a rather more secured link with you, kindly indulge me with the following:

1). Full Names, sex and Address
2). Telephone, Fax and Cell phone numbers.

This project is ready for execution, and when I hear from you I will give you more details about the claims as well as the modalities for accomplishing it.

I look forward to your swift response to this letter.

Sincerely Yours.
Richard Macaulay
Principal Partner (Richard Macaulay Chambers)

A Medical Marijuana Bill for KY?

"Kentucky Medical Marijuana/Cannabis Act"

 

 

The above link is to a petition to congress for the consideration of a bill for Medical Marijuana/Cannabis in Kentucky. 

If you are interested in seeing this bill go forward, please go to the link above and sign the petition.

Also there is a group on Facebook.com/shereekrider and here is that link:

Kentuckians for Medical Marijuana

If there are any questions, send an email and I will try to address your concerns.

Here is the text of the preliminary Bill:

February 1, 2010

Dear Representative Yarmuth,
Dear Senator Bunning,
Dear Senator McConnell,

3:52 PM 2/1/2010

BE IT KNOWN that it is the intent of this "petition" to collect signatures to be submitted to the Kentucky Legislative body to enact a "bill" to authorize the use of MEDICAL MARIJUANA in the state of KENTUCKY.

This "BILL" will include but is not limited to the following constraints:

1. The "BILL" will enact a statutory mechanism to regulate and authorize the
medical use of Marijuana by "qualifying patients" who have a valid "registry
identification card" (i.e., a "registered qualifying patient") and permits any
qualifying patient to apply to the Department of Health or other entity as set
forth in the provisions of the "bill", for a registry card to be used under the mechanism,
with the application including a health care practitioner’s written certification stating
that the qualifying patient is likely to receive therapeutic or
palliative benefit from the medical use of Marijuana/Cannabis.

2. Defines a "qualifying patient" as a person who has been diagnosed by
a health care practitioner as having a debilitating medical condition.

3. Specifies certain Cannabis-related activities,

4. Permits a "primary caregiver" who is at least 21 years of age
to be registered as above.

5. Sets a time limit for approval or denial of an application.

6. Provides for the revocation of a registry card in specified circumstances.

7. Requires the "patient" or "caregiver" to maintain Cannabis/Marijuana plants
in an enclosed area out of public view.

8. Provides certain protections to a registered, qualifying patients and caregivers
related to their cardholder status, i.e., parental rights, employer’s, etc.,

9. Specifies that the mechanism DOES NOT REQUIRE:
a. a government medical assistance program or private health insurer
to bear the cost for this "medication".
b. an employer to accommodate the use of Cannabis/Marijuana in the
workplace, nor any employee working while impaired.

10. Imposes functions and duties upon the Department of Health (or other entity),
that relate to the medical use of Cannabis/Marijuana.

11. Establishes an "advisory council" to accept and consider petitions from the
public or physicians to consider the addition of debilitating illnesses.

12. Prohibits any person or government entity from disclosing any information
contained in an application for a registry identification card.

13. "Visiting patients" who have been documented in another state who come to
Kentucky on a limited basis shall be recognized as having complied with the law of Kentucky.

14. Specifies that POSSESSION OF OR APPLICATION FOR A REGISTRY IDENTIFICATION
CARD DOES NOT CONSTITUTE PROBABLE CAUSE OR REASONABLE SUSPICION TO SEARCH OR
SEIZE THE PERSON OR PROPERTY OF THE PERSON POSSESSING OR APPLYING FOR THE CARD.

NO PERSON MAY BE SUBJECT TO ARREST, PROSECUTION, OR PENALTY OR BE DENIED ANY RIGHT
OR PRIVILEGE SOLELY FOR BEING WITH OR NEAR A REGISTERED PRIMARY CAREGIVER OR PA

I was "fired" from my personal physician of 15 years because I tested positive for Marijuana. I had explained to them many times why I used it and they still decided that I was a threat to their licenses. This being said, I do not ever want to be a threat to my own doctor again. I’ve had just a few good ones, and I would have liked to have kept them.

Sincerely,

Ms. Sheree Krider
2708 Maxon Drive
Louisville, KY 40220

Pot haze invites raid on Nelson bus

 

BY ANNE BLYTHE – Staff writer

The strong odor of marijuana wafting from the window of a Willie Nelson tour bus led to six members of the country singer’s entourage getting busted in Duplin County for possession of marijuana and three-fourths of a quart of moonshine, law enforcement officials said.

But it was a pain in the country music star’s hand that forced the last-minute cancellation of Thursday night’s concert in Kenansville, not a pain in the neck from having to deal with the drug and alcohol raid an hour before the show.

The grizzled, 76-year-old singer-songwriter, author, poet and activist has a reputation as a musical outlaw and longtime marijuana smoker. But Nelson was not on the bus where ALE officers found marijuana, rolling papers and a Mason jar almost full of "non-tax-paid alcohol," or moonshine, according to Ernie Seneca, an Alcohol Law Enforcement spokesman. Seneca didn’t know whether the shine was brewed locally or imported from Texas along with the band.

Bass player Dan Edward "Bee" Spears was on the bus, and the 60-year-old longtime band member from Franklin, Tenn., was one of those cited. The event’s planner and one of his assistants also were cited for trying to interfere with the ALE investigation.

Nelson, a native of Abbott, Texas, has a long and colorful maverick history, morphing from a clean-cut Nashville songwriter into an ever-touring troubadour. In his wake, he often leaves more than biodiesel fumes: In 2006, he and four others got misdemeanor citations for possession of narcotic mushrooms and marijuana after a traffic stop on a Louisiana highway. But he’s been getting into scrapes for years, and his scrapes end up in his lyrics. In his 1971 song "Me and Paul," he sang:

Almost busted in Laredo,
But for reasons that I’d rather not disclose,
But if you’re stayin’ in a motel there and leave,
Just don’t leave nothin’ in your clothes.

In Duplin County, about 80 miles from the Triangle,13 ALE agents were working with sheriff’s deputies and Kenansville police to police the concert venue, according to Seneca.

It was about 6:40 p.m., a little less than an hour before the show was to begin, that an officer walking past the tour bus "detected a strong odor of marijuana," Seneca said. The officer got permission to enter the bus, according to Seneca, and then cited the six entourage members.

In addition to the bassist, citations were issued to: Kenneth Koepke, 52, of Burnet, Texas; Robert Allen Lemons, 59, of Spicewood, Texas; Dudley Bishop Prewitt, 59, of Spicewood, Texas; Aaron William Foye, 32, of San Marcos, Texas; and Thomas Ray Hawkins, 54, of Atlantic City, N.J.

"They were released in time for them to go on stage," Seneca said. He added that the band and crew had been respectful of the officers.

Venue workers cited

They say others, though, were not thrilled with the incident.

John Duane Vogt, 58, the general manager of the Duplin County Events Center, and Donald Farrior, 50, an assistant from Kenansville, were cited for trying to interfere with the ALE investigation. A complaint was sent to the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission.

Nelson’s daughter said on the musician’s Web site that Thursday night’s show at the Duplin County Events Center was canceled because his hand hurt too badly to play. The right-handed guitar-picker had carpal tunnel surgery on his left hand in 2004.

anne.blythe@newsobserver.com or 919-932-8741

 

• goose1 wrote on January, 30 3:32 AM:

• Strange! How there are only 104 Aloohol Law Enforcement (ALE) agents in the whole state of NC and 14 of them were in the same place at the same time. The anti-alcohol bias of this wonderful state have made ABC employees rich and the ALE stormtroops better armed than our troops in any war zone. Drugs and Moonshine are illegal but you are supposed to buy tax stamps ( check with NC Department of Revenue) to have them. Very Strange!

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  Taxpayer2008 wrote on January, 30 3:32 AM:

  I wonder if I pay the tax on the shine if I can take it with me."
  You can buy the tax stamps at the NC Dept. of Revenue for alcohol, weed, cocaine but can only keep the alcohol if they catch you with it.
  Makes me wonder if you but ‘Georgia Moon’ corn liquor at
  the state licensed ABC store and put it in a mason jar …or just scrape off the label on the mason jar container it’s sold in…what our state’s ALE ‘revenuers’ would do…:0)

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• While real criminals are out robbing places and shooting people, etc, we waste taxpayer money busting some musicians just hanging out tokin’ away…..I guess they were one toke over the line!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql0IB1zv2MA

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Marijuana discussion hits Indiana

Updated: Saturday, 30 Jan 2010, 11:49 PM EST
Published : Saturday, 30 Jan 2010, 11:49 PM EST

Rondrell Moore

You make think legalizing marijuana is an issue only for folks in California.
However, recent law changes in the Golden State have brought the issue to Indiana.

Senator Tim Skinner told News 10 he’s gotten plenty of emails in the last few months pushing for marijuana to be made legal.

"It’s been surprising to me because there’s not ever been this level of activity on this subject certainly since I’ve been in the senate for the last 8 years or so," State Senator Tim Skinner said.

While he’s heard more discussion on the issue, Senator Skinner doesn’t believe marijuana will be made legal in the Hoosier State any time in the near future.

National report ranks Kentucky #2 in state online stimulus reporting

Press Release Date:
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Contact Information:  Kerri Richardson Jill Midkiff 502-564-2611

Kentucky at Work Web site previously rated 47th in the country

FRANKFORT, Ky. – A national report released this week shows “soaring” improvement in Kentucky’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) transparency Web site, Kentucky at Work, which is now ranked number two in the country in terms of fiscal openness and accountability.

The report, Show Us the Stimulus (Again), was released by Good Jobs First, a nonprofit research center based in Washington, D.C. It compares all 50 states on how well they track federal recovery spending and promote government accountability. Kentucky’s new ranking is a remarkable improvement to a similar study that was published in July 2009 in which Kentucky ranked 47th.

“It is an honor to have Kentucky at Work recognized for the great effort we’ve put into creating a site that shows the public where these tax dollars are being spent,” said Governor Steve Beshear.  “More importantly, we were able to improve our ranking over 48 other states using only existing staff and no additional resources.  This accomplishment is an example of how we can continue to improve the services provided to citizens while running a government as lean and efficient as possible.”

This elite national ranking demonstrates that Kentucky continues to make tremendous strides in transparency and openness.  Kentucky’s Open Door (OpenDoor.KY.gov) –the state’s Web hub for detailed information on government spending, budgets, contracts, and employee salaries—underwent dramatic improvements last fall to make the site more user friendly, including improved search engines, expanding the depth of financial information available, and providing daily updates for state spending records, at no additional cost to taxpayers. Just two weeks ago, Open Door was dramatically expanded to include expenditure records from Kentucky’s judicial branch.

“This is a highlight for the Beshear Administration’s ongoing commitment to transparency and openness in government,” said Finance and Administration Cabinet Secretary Jonathan Miller. “The Open Door Web site began our efforts with an unprecedented level of fiscal openness for the executive, and now judicial branches. We are proud to have carried that over to the Kentucky at Work Web site for stimulus funding.”

The study evaluated the effectiveness of each state’s site in conveying information about: the categories of stimulus spending; the distribution of recovery dollars throughout the state; and the details of specific projects funded by ARRA grants and contracts, including employment impact.

Based on a scale of 0 to 100, the average state score is 44 and the median is 42.  Kentucky scored 85, second only to Maryland, which scored an 87.

“Some states are making great strides in fulfilling President Obama’s promise that the Recovery Act would be carried out with an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability,” said Good Jobs First Executive Director Greg LeRoy. “We are impressed by ‘Cinderella’ states such as Kentucky and Illinois, which were ranked at the bottom in our previous assessment but broke into the top tier in the new ranking.”

Illinois, which is now ranked 7th, placed last of all 50 states in the initial report.

Kentucky was recognized as one of only three states to show the geographic distribution of spending compared to distress or need.  Kentucky at Work’s interactive map can display icons showing overall stimulus spending by county against a backdrop of color-coded county rates of unemployment or poverty.

The Commonwealth received a perfect score for disclosure on individual grants and contracts derived through ARRA stimulus dollars.  Sites were judged by the inclusion of: the description of contract/grant projects; the dollar amount of the contract or grant; the name of the recipient entity (whether government agency, for-profit contractor or other); the text of the contract or grant document; and the status of the project.

The full text of the report, as well as an appendix for each state’s evaluation, can be found at www.goodjobsfirst.org/stimulusweb.cfm.  The Web address for Kentucky’s ARRA transparency site is http://kentuckyatwork.ky.gov/

Health and Family Services Cabinet

A federal agency that monitors substance abuse and prevention will conduct a survey in Kentucky and other states over the course of 2010 to gather information on the prevalence of drug use in American society.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has contracted with the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) to conduct the national survey and will be contacting an estimated 200,000 households in 50 states. Participants will receive a $30 cash incentive to participate.

“In order to combat drug abuse and its consequences, we must first obtain a full portrait of how it is affecting our country. Not only is this legitimate – but it also is an extremely valuable survey,” said William Hacker, M.D., commissioner of the Department for Public Health. “It is very important that members of the public contacted about this survey respond accordingly.”

Letters will be sent to households in every state and the District of Columbia, explaining the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and informing citizens that a professional field interviewer will soon visit their household. The survey contains questions on physical and mental health and other topics associated with substance use and treatment.

“Substance abuse is one of the biggest threats to not only the physical health of our country, but also our mental health as well,” said Stephen Hall, commissioner of the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities. “Once the SAMHSA survey is complete, we’ll have a broader understanding of the scope of the problem, how it is affecting people’s lives and how and where to direct public policy and resources.”

The NSDUH takes about an hour and will be conducted in the privacy of the participant’s home using a computerized questionnaire. Both SAMHSA and RTI assure complete confidentiality of all responses. The survey is designed so that responses to all potentially sensitive questions are private. 

Information about the NSDUH, SAMHSA and RTI can be found at nsduhweb.rti.org, www.samhsa.gov and www.rti.org. State level estimates of substance use can be found at oas.samhsa.gov/states.htm

Kentucky to Take Part in National Drug Use Survey

Press Release Date:
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Contact Information:
Gwenda Bond or Beth Fisher, (502) 564-6786, ext. 3325 and 4012

Commission on Human Rights

January 2010 rulings on discrimination complaints

Press Release Date:
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Contact Information:
Victoria Dempsey
502-595-4024

 

LOUISVILLE – The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights Board of Commissioners today ruled to accept three conciliation agreements, dismiss 17 discrimination complaints with findings of no probable cause, and accept three withdrawals without settlement but with a right to sue.

Conciliation Agreements

Joey and Regina Lear v. James Brooks, in Clarkson, Ky.: Joey and Regina Lear, who have a minor daughter with a disability, alleged James Brooks discriminated against them based on disability in housing, a violation of the Kentucky Civil Rights Act (KRS 344.360). The Lears claimed Brooks refused to provide a wheelchair ramp at their mobile home and gravel for a turn-around that would allow the school bus to pick up their child at the property the family rents from Brooks. The couple claimed when they asked for such reasonable accommodations for their child’s disability, Brooks issued them an eviction notice. The commission determined there was probable cause in the case. The respondent opted to take his case to Muhlenberg County Circuit Court. After depositions and other court actions, the parties agreed to conciliate the matter rather than go forward in court. Brooks signed an affidavit stating he no longer rents property in Kentucky, but that if he does so over the next three years, he will comply with civil rights laws and undergo compliance training and monitoring for three years. He compensated with $100 to the Muhlenberg County Children’s Fund.

Lisa Graas v. Kentucky State Health Insurance Program, Central Kentucky Community Action Council, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and Lincoln Trail Area Development District, in Lebanon, Ky.: Lisa Graas alleged discrimination based on disability in a pubic accommodations, a violation of the Kentucky Civil Rights Act (KRS 344.120). She claimed when she visited the Kentucky State Health Insurance Program to keep an appointment, an employee refused to allow her to enter with her service dog. After a supervising employee finally allowed her to bring the dog, she said, employees subjected her to several minutes of questions and comments about her disability. The respondents denied all allegations of unlawful discrimination. Prior to completion of the investigation, the parties agreed to conciliate. The respondents compensated Graas with $500, and agreed to undergo compliance training and monitoring for six months.

Samuel Blackmon v. Container Port Group, in Louisville, Ky.: Samuel Blackmon alleged Container Port Group discriminated against him based on his race (African American) in employment, a violation of the Kentucky Civil Rights Act (KRS 344.040). Blackmon claimed his employer treated him differently than white employees concerning his work schedule, which resulted in his constructive discharge. The respondent denied all violations of the law. Prior to making a determination, the parties agreed to conciliate. The respondent compensated Blackmon with $2,000, and agreed to undergo compliance training and monitoring.

The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights is the state government agency that enforces The Kentucky Civil Rights Act and federal civil rights laws. The laws protect people from discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, familial status, and tobacco smoking status. The protections apply with varying requirements to the areas of employment, public accommodations, housing, and financial transactions.

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