Thursday Headlines

In the headlines, President Obama will release his federal budget outline on April 10^th, only two months later than called for under federal law.  Maybe if the law contained a penalty for late release, presidents (and this isn’t a partisan issue) might get their draft budget done on-time.

Two U.S. “Stealth” bombers made a practice run over South Korea and the Defense Department says the mission was not carried out to provoke or antagonize the North Korean government or military.

A 33 year old Orange County man has become the first person to be charged under California’s new “Anti-Human Trafficking” law passed last November.  Chuncey Tarae Garcia is accused of forcing a 14 year-old into prostitution.

A veteran of the U.S. Army who is now a “freedom fighter” working for Al-Qaeda has been charged with using a “weapon of mass destruction” for firing a Rocket-Propelled-Grenade (RPG) in Syria.  Interestingly, RPGs are not defined as WMDs under U.S. law when used by our military, but they are considered WMDs when used by civilians subject to prosecution under U.S. law.

Former South African President and Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela is back in the hospital with another lung infection.  The 94 year-old Mandela became more susceptible to lung infections when he contracted tuberculosis while in prison for 27 years.

Frank Citro Jr., was convicted of bookmaking and loansharking (along with six others) in 1985.  He wound up in Nevada’s “Black Book” as a result.  That’s a list of people who are permanently barred from owning, managing or even entering a casino.  Now he’s trying to get his name removed from the book.  Not going to happen.

From the “helped them catch me stealing” file, a Florida woman has been charged with grand theft and scheming to defraud; after she threw a surprise birthday party for her boss and that called her accounting practices into question.

A Miami appeals court has invalidated John Goodman’s adoption of his long-time girlfriend.  The 49 year old multimillionaire who founded the International Polo Club in West Palm Beach was trying to use the adoption maneuver to preserve his fortune due to having lost a civil suit.

Rush Limbaugh, who earlier this year compared homosexuality to pedophilia (once again confirming he is a blithering idiot who happens to have a big audience of blithering idiots) now says that the legalization of gay marriage in the U.S. is “inevitable”.  Damn, he got something right for once.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has thrown his hat into the ring for the vacant UCLA men’s basketball head coaching position.  Makes sense, his chances of anyone making “Airplane III” and offering him a part in it are not good.

From the “being a stupid criminal once was not enough” file:  a New York man who pled guilty to faking his own death has been arrested again, this time for two incidents where he allegedly impersonated a police officer in an attempt to lure women into his car.

And finally in the headlines, Chumlee, one of the employees at the Las Vegas pawn shop made famous in “Pawn Stars” is apparently making big bucks with his TV gig.  He dropped a bundle on his girlfriend’s birthday celebration, and his big gift to the g/f was a boob job.