The 24-year-old actress was discharged from a suburban Los Angeles jail about 1:35 a.m. Monday. She served 14 days of a 90-day jail sentence for violating her probation for a 2007 drug case.
The “Mean Girls” star’s release doesn’t end her legal saga though. She now must go to an inpatient rehab program.
If Lohan violates any rules during her treatment, the court could be notified and the judge could potentially throw her back in jail for violating probation, legal experts say.
She also faces a year of random drug testing. The actress must stay clean and sober until August 2011, when her probation term is over. She is, however, allowed to take a number of prescription medications.
BTW, I know that Lindsay is currently a blonde, but (a) I didn’t want to go to the trouble of downloading a new picture, and (b) how stupid is it for a redhead to go blonde? That’s like a cry for help, or something.
Martha Roby is the GOP establishment’s pick for the nomination in Alabama’s 2nd District congressional race against “Blue Dog” Democrat Rep. Bobby Bright. She fell short of a majority in the June 1 primary and got pushed into July 13 runoff by Tea Party-backed candidate Rick Barber. And it looks like Roby’s friends in Montgomery city government are trying to run out the clock on what could be a serious scandal: Did Roby, as a city council member, vote on a $50 million contract that awarded business to her husband’s law firm?
Montgomery City Council Resolution 28-2009 was a $50 million dollar bond awarded to a Montgomery law firm. The bill passed unanimously, meaning that City Councilwoman and Congressional candidate Martha Roby voted for it. On June 11th, I filed a freedom of information act request at Montgomery City Hall to find out the dealings between City Council and Balch & Bingham, the Montgomery law firm where Riley Roby is a partner. Riley Roby is Martha Roby’s husband.
Normally, they fill FOIA requests with 48 hours. It’s been three weeks, and they refuse to tell me which law firm was awarded the $50 million contract through City Council Resolution28-2009; this, despite the fact that they responded to my original request of every bond issue and recipient law firm going back to the 1990s.
Montgomery Records Manager Tom Register has confirmed that the vote was unanimous and that the bond was for $50 million, but he says he can’t tell me which firm the contract was awarded to.
I believe that Balch & Bingham was awarded the contract. I believe that City Hall is trying to protect Martha Roby because her vote to award her husband’s firm the contract is tantamount to corruption. . . .
Please contact City of Montgomery Records Manager Tom Register at 334 241 2098. Contact Richard England at 334 531 6306 or 334 356 3106.
Yeah, it would also be good to get the Roby campaign to respond to this accusation.
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Alabama Republican 2nd District congressional candidate Rick Barber:
A source close to the campaign asked my opinion of the ad, and all I could say was, “You’re going to get heat, but you’re going to get light, too.”
The GOP primary runoff is July 13, and Barber is a Tea Party underdog up against a well-funded establishment candidate. So, as they say in Vegas, it looks like Rick is going “all in.”
A New Orleans federal judge lifted the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by President Barack Obama following the largest oil spill in U.S. history. . . . More than a dozen Louisiana offshore service and supply companies sued U.S. regulators to lift the ban. State officials claim 20,000 Louisiana jobs are in jeopardy if the deepwater drilling suspension lasts 18 months. . . .
Lawyers for the drilling companies told Feldman the moratorium illegally sidesteps a required industry comment period. They also said regulators failed to tell Obama that all active deepwater rigs passed an immediate re-inspection after the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank, with only two rigs reporting minor violations and the rest getting approval to continue operations.
that plaintiffs are substantially likely to prevail on the merits of their claim for the government defendants’ violations of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and its implementing regulations;
that, in the absence of the relief requested, plaintiffs will incur immediate and irreparable harm to business including the irretrievable loss of vessels’ useful life, loss of crews that have long been associated with their particular vessels, loss of shore-side teams and disruption of longstanding contractual relationships with offshore service vendors and other satellite services for the operation of its fleet, all of which is not subject to calculation;
that the irreparable harm to plaintiffs should the Court decline to grant the application for the relief requested outweighs the harm which the granting of such relief may cause to any legitimate interests of defendants; and
that the entry of this Order will serve the interests of justice and the public interest.
You know who doesn’t give a damn about “the interests of justice and the public interest”? Barack Obama:
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Obama plans to appeal a federal judge’s ruling to strike down a six-month moratorium on deep-water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Obama believes “that continuing to drill at these depths without knowing what happened does not make any sense and potentially puts the safety of those on the rigs and the safety of the environment in the Gulf at a danger,” Gibbs said.
UPDATE: On his own campaign Web site, Peterson makes his endorsement of John McMillan.
UPDATE II: Having been the first to post this video (6:04 a.m. ET), it’s kind of annoying to see Ben Smith getting the linkage for a post he did five hours later. I’m trying to avoid Charles Johnson Syndrome here. There’s been too much blog-crazy lately, and that stuff’s contagious, you know. Thank God for Moe Lane.
Begs a Full Metal Jacket paraphrase: Private Joker: How can you eliminate Progressives? Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don’t lead ’em so much! Ain’t Keynesian economics hell?
