The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation has a new look. They’re not quite operational yet, but you should head over and check it out.

We are currently in the process of redesigning Terri’s Fight to be an educational resource for those seeking information on their medical treatment rights.

[Source: BlogsForTerri]

The father of a Dutch teenager arrested in the disappearance of a young U.S. woman told his son and his two friends that ”when there is no body, you don’t have a case,” Aruba’s attorney general said Wednesday.

Paul van der Sloot, a judge in training in Aruba, gave his 17-year-old son Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers legal advice the day after 18-year-old Natalee Holloway disappeared, District Attorney Caren Janssen said.

”They spoke about the situation that when there is no body, you don’t have a case, and that was already in the first day after the disappearance,” Janssen said.

Janssen said the elder van der Sloot had obstructed the investigation by asking a friend of Joran, who had been interrogated by police, what he had told them.

Nice judicial material, isn’t he? It’s time they dropped the act and told authorities where Natalee is.

The SloboPoll question this week is:

If you were stranded on a deserted island, what one item could you not survive without?

The choices are:

A Good Book, Bible, Cup Of Starbucks, IPod, Pack Of Cigarettes, Shot of Tequila, None of The Above

This post is open for comments on the SloboPoll, if you so desire.

The question was:

Should the United States Constitution be amended to prohibit burning the U.S. flag?

There were a total of 776 votes which breakdown like this:

No (470 votes) [60.6%]
Yes (306 votes) [39.4%]

Check out the new questions each week here on Slobokan’s Site O’ Schtuff.

We lost a beloved actress…

Thank God legends never die…

Then:

Iran Focus has learnt that the photograph of Iran’s newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran was taken by an Associated Press photographer in November 1979.

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Former OSU officials involved in the takeover of the U.S. embassy said Ahmadinejad was in charge of security during the occupation, a key role that put him in direct contact with the nascent security organizations of the clerical regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, which he later joined.

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Defectors from the clerical regime’s security forces have revealed that Ahmadinejad led the firing squads that carried out many of the executions. He personally fired coup de grace shots at the heads of prisoners after their execution and became known as “Tir Khalas Zan” (literally, the Terminator).

Now:

Iran’s President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will swear in as new president of the Islamic Republic on August 4.

Addressing Majlis open session on Tuesday, Vice-Speaker Mohammad-Reza Bahonar said inauguration ceremony for Ahmadinejad, as the country’s 9th president, will be held on August 4. According to the article 121 of the constitution, the president should swear in at the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) in the presence of judiciary chief and members of the Guardian Council.

Does anyone else see where this is going?

[Source: Jihad Watch]

The mother of an Alabama honors student missing in Aruba for a month said Tuesday she is devastated by the release of a Dutch suspect’s father and convinced the high-ranking judicial official is hiding information.

“I know in my heart he has some answers,” Beth Holloway Twitty (search) told The Associated Press in an interview.

She said her suspicions were based on his behavior when she went to his house looking for those answers last week, and Paul van der Sloot (search), who’s training to be a judge on the Dutch Caribbean island, could not stop perspiring.

“I’ve never sat across from an individual in a well-ventilated room who was sweating so profusely. His wife had to use napkins to wipe his forehead, and the sweat drops falling on the table” as they sat under a fan.

Paul van der Sloot sweats like a pig, too bad he won’t squeal like one…

Think about an empty collar at the pet store. Will it look good on the cat? Will the cat like it? Is it a safe collar for the cat to wear if they get tangled in something?

Sometimes, a collar wears out. Or it breaks. Those empty collars are just junk, and you just toss them away.

But every now and then, an empty collar means something else:

A friend is gone.

Rest In Peace, Edloe.

So…

If you get a restraining order against your soon to be ex-husband, to keep him away from your home, and your daughters, and he violates said restraining order, kidnaps the children, kills them, and then is killed by the poilce, the police are not at fault, and nothing happens…

During her divorce proceeding in June 1999, respondent Jessica Gonzales obtained a restraining order against her husband, the terms of which forbade him from disturbing her or their three daughters, or coming within 100 yards of the family home except for prearranged visits. The notice to police on the back of the order read in part, “You shall use every reasonable means to enforce this restraining order. You shall arrest, or . . . seek a warrant . . . when you have information amounting to probable cause that the restrained person has violated . . . this order.”

In the early evening of June 22, 1999, respondent’s husband removed their daughters, unannounced, from the family home. Respondent called the Castle Rock police at 7:30 p.m. Two officers arrived, and told her to call at 10 p.m. if the children had not returned. At 8:30, respondent learned that her husband had taken their daughters to an amusement park in Denver. She relayed this information to police, who reiterated that she should wait until 10. Respondent did, then phoned and was told to wait until midnight. She drove to her husband’s apartment, which was empty, and called the Castle Rock police once more, who told her that an officer would be dispatched. When none arrived after forty minutes, respondent drove to the police station and submitted an incident report. According to the complaint, the officer to whom respondent made the report took no action regarding the restraining order, but promptly left for a dinner break.

At 3:20 a.m., respondent’s husband appeared at the station with a semi-automatic handgun and opened fire; police shot and killed him. Inside his truck, they found the bodies of the Gonzales’s three daughters, whom respondent’s husband had killed earlier that night.

If you get a restraining order against your soon to be husband, to keep him away from you, and you make up with him and marry him, the police will stop at nothing to make sure he is locked up before he can pose a threat to you or anyone else ever again…

When Rachel Dunham took out a restraining order against her boyfriend, she didn’t expect to be marrying him a short time later. So instead of honeymooning in Mexico, Rodney Tomsha sits in the Spokane County Jail, accused of violating the order by getting within two blocks of Dunham.

He tried to persuade a Spokane judge last week to lift the restraining order, but the judge refused.

The couple were married last Thursday in nearby Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Spokane police Detective Stephanie Barkley said.

Police received a tip about a Saturday wedding reception at a Spokane mansion, waited until the reception was over and then arrested Tomsha, 49, police spokesman Dick Cottam said.

Hypocrisy at it’s finest!