18-foot-long Burmese python was removed from the owners home.

APOPKA - Delilah, an 18-foot-long, 400-plus-pound Burmese python who had enjoyed a swell existence in an Apopka-area backyard feeding on rabbits, has a new home -- for now.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials removed the Burmese python from a home on Section Drive on Friday due to concerns about Delilah's size and whether the chain-link cage she was in was secure enough to contain her.

A complaint prompted wildlife officials to visit the home and check out the snake, which some officials called the largest python they had ever seen.

The snake was removed from her enclosure and brought to a caregiver with a permit for reptiles of concern. Officials were trying to determine if the Burmese python's owner had the proper permit for Delilah.

"To me it's a Goliath. It's a monster of a snake," Lt. Rick Brown with Fish and Wildlife's Investigations section said, adding it is the "largest I've ever seen."

Recently, the snake was being cared for by Melvin Cheever of Apopka, the brother of her owner.

Cheever said his brother was moving to West Virginia and left the snake behind to prepare her new accommodations. Cheever said his brother has owned the snake for 16 years.

"I fed her this morning, gave her seven rabbits," Cheever said soon after the snake was placed in a container and prepared to move Friday from the small community alongside Lake Apopka. "She is as docile as can be. She's as happy as can be."

Cheever acknowledged the snake, which measures 30 inches around, had escaped its enclosure in the past.

The snake's discovery comes at a time when Burmese pythons are being hunted in South Florida and state lawmakers are looking at legislation to make laws governing python owners tougher.

Fears about the snakes escalated following the early July death of a 2-year-old girl in Sumter County killed by her family's pet python.

Cheever said that snake was maltreated and blamed its owners. Delilah, meanwhile, was well fed and not aggressive, he said.

But her history of wandering out of her cage and her immense size caused wildlife officials to investigate Friday in the small community alongside Lake Apopka. The snake was kept in a chain-link cage behind a duplex-style home.

Charlene Boush, 39, who lives in the home where the snake was living, said she had reservations about letting her two dogs near Delilah.

"She got out just last week. They had to put her back in," she said.

"I don't let them go back there at all."

Don't fall for the scam.

I generally get 3 to 4 emails like this one below a week. What makes this so odd is I hear about people falling for these scams and loosing their life savings. I am sure that everyone that I am in contact are aware of scams but, if you are not this is the general layout. It sad but true many millions of American dollars go over seas each year for suckers who don't get it... Lets stop the madness, and shut these con artist down.

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Ellen DeGeneres is the fourth American Idol Judge

Extra: No joke! Ellen DeGeneres will tickle the funny bone of millions of "American Idol" viewers -- she's replacing Paula Abdul! The funny gal made the announcement while taping an episode of her show, which airs Sept. 10.

We've been dealing with this for the last couple of weeks and I've been dying to tell everyone," she told the audience. "It's just been so hard to keep it a secret and we just finally got the okay and I'm so excited. It is going to be so much fun."

As to what "Idol" fans can expect, she said, "Hopefully I'm the people's point of view because I'm just like you. I sit at home and I watch it and I don't have that technical... So I'm hopefully going to be that voice of what we're all doing at home."

"I could not be more excited to have Ellen join the 'American Idol' family," said creator and executive producer Simon Fuller. "Ellen has been a fan of the show for many years, and her love of music and understanding of the American public will bring a unique human touch to our judging panel. I can't wait for this next season to begin."

In May, Ellen chatted with Simon Cowell about the addition of Kara DioGuardi to the judging table, and even called Simon "mean"!

The ninth season of "American Idol" premieres January 2010. Meet the "Idol" guest judges.

As for Paula, she has other plans. Still, Simon says he "misses" Paula -- and says the chemistry of the show is different without her.

Read what a white professor wrote in a Georgia Newspaper...

Andrew M. Manis is associate professor of history at Macon State College in Georgia and wrote this for an editorial in the Macon Telegraph.


Andrew M. Manis: When Are WE Going to Get Over It?

For much of the last forty years, ever since America "fixed" its race problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for their difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, "When are African Americans finally going to get over it?

Now I want to ask:

"When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous obsession with skin color?
Recent reports that "Election Spurs Hundreds' of Race Threats, Crimes" should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in "Bombingham," Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an avalanche of comments about what many white classmates and their parents wanted to do to John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone decided to do more than "talk the talk."


Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame we are once again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood.


We white people have controlled political life in the disunited colonies and United States for some 400 years on this continent.

Conservative whites have been in power 28 of the last 40 years. Even during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in Congress blocked most of his agenda and pulled him to the right. Yet never in that period did I read any headlines suggesting that anyone was calling for the assassinations of presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, or either of the Bushes. Criticize them, yes.

Call for their impeachment, perhaps. But there were no bounties on their heads. And even when someone did try to kill Ronald Reagan, the perpetrator was non-political mental case who wanted merely to impress Jody Foster.


But elect a liberal who happens to be Black and we're back in the sixties again. At this point in our history, we should be proud that we've proven what conservatives are always saying -- that in America anything is possible, EVEN electing a black man as president.

But instead we now hear that school children from Maine to California are talking about wanting to "assassinate Obama."

Fighting the urge to throw up, I can only ask, "How long?"

How long before we white people realize we can't make our nation, much less the whole world, look like us?

How long until we white people can - once and for all - get over this hell-conceived preoccupation with skin color?

How long until we white people get over the demonic conviction that white skin makes us superior?

How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites?


How long before we get over our expectations that we should be at the head of the line merely because of our white skin?

How long until we white people end our silence and call out our peers when they share the latest racist jokes in the privacy of our white-only conversations?


I believe in free speech, but how long until we white people start making racist loudmouths as socially uncomfortable as we do flag burners?

How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?


How long before we starting "living out the true meaning" of our creeds, both civil and religious, that all men and women are created equal and that "red and yellow, black and white" all are precious in God's sight?

Until this past November 4, I didn't believe this country would ever elect an African American to the presidency. I still don't believe I'll live long enough to see us white people get over our racism problem.

But here's my three-point plan:

First, everyday that Barack Obama lives in the White House that Black Slaves Built, I'm going to pray that God (and the Secret Service) will protect him and his family from us white people.


Second, I'm going to report to the FBI any white person I overhear saying, in seriousness or in jest, anything of a threatening nature about President Obama.

Third, I'm going to pray to live long enough to see America surprise the world once again, when white people can "in spirit and in truth" sing of our damnable color prejudice,

"We HAVE overcome."
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It takes a Village to protect our President!!!

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How not to become a victim!

Crucial information to help you not become a victim

Because of recent abductions

In daylight hours, refresh yourself

of these things to do

in an emergency situation....

This is for you,

and for you to share

with your wife,

your children,

everyone you know.

After reading these 9 crucial tips,

forward them to someone you care about.

It never hurts to be careful

in this crazy world we live in.

1.Tip from Tae Kwon Do :

The elbow is the strongest point

on your body.

If you are close enough to use it,do!

2.Learned this from a tourist guide.

If a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse,

DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM..

Toss it away from you...

Chances are that he is more interested

in your wallet and/or purse than you,

and he will go for the wallet/purse.

RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

3.If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car,

kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole

and start waving like crazy..

The driver won't see you,but everybody else will.

This has saved lives.

4.Women have a tendency to get into their cars

after shopping, eating, working, etc.,and just sit

(doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc.

DON'T DO THIS!)

The predator will be watching you,and this

is the perfect opportunity for him to get in

on the passenger side,put a gun to your head,

and tell you where to go.

AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR,

LOCK THE DOORS AND LEAVE.

If someone

is in the car

with a gun

to your head

DO NOT DRIVE OFF,

Repeat:

DO NOT DRIVE OFF!

Instead gun the engine

and speed into anything,wrecking the car.

Your Air Bag will save you.

If the person is in the back seat

they will get the worst of it..

As soon as the car crashes

bail out and run.

It is better than having them find your body

in a remote location.

5.A few notes about getting

into your car in a parking lot,

or parking garage:

A.)Be aware:

look around you,

look into your car,

at the passenger side floor,

and in the back seat

B.)If you are parked next to a big van,

enter your car from the passenger door..

Most serial killers attack their victims

by pulling them into their vans while the women

are attempting to get into their cars.

C.)Look at the car

parked on the driver's side of your vehicle,

and the passenger side...If a male is sitting alone

in the seat nearest your car,you may want to walk back

into the mall, or work,and get a

guard/policeman to walk you back out.

IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)

6.ALWAYS take the elevator

instead of the stairs.

Stairwells are horrible places to be alone

and the perfect crime spot.

This is especially true at NIGHT!)

7.If the predator has a gun

and you are not under his control,

ALWAYS RUN!

The predator will only hit you(a running target)

4 in 100 times;and even then,

it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ.

RUN,Preferably in a zig -zag pattern!

8.As women,we are always trying

to be sympathetic:

STOP

It may get you raped,or killed.

Ted Bundy, the serial killer,was a good-looking,

well educated man,who ALWAYS played

on the sympathies of unsuspecting women.

He walked with a cane,or a limp,and often

asked' for help into his vehicle or with his vehicle,

which is when he abducted
his next victim.

9.Another Safety Point:

Someone just told me that her friend heard

a crying baby on her porch the night before last,

and she called the police because it was late

and she thought it was weird.The police told her

'Whatever you do,DO NOT

open the door.'

The lady then said that it sounded like the baby

had crawled near a window,and she was worried

that it would crawl to the street and get run over.

The policeman said,'We already have a unit on the way,

whatever you do,DO NOT open the door.'

He told her that they think a serial killer

has a baby's cry recorded and uses it to coax

women out of their homes thinking that someone

dropped off a baby. He said they have not verified it,

but have had several calls by women saying that

they hear baby's cries outside their doors

when they're home alone at night.

10.. Water scam!

If you wake up in the middle
of the night to hear all your taps outside running or what you think is a
burst pipe, DO NOT GO OUT TO INVESTIGATE! These people turn on all your
outside taps full ball so that you will go out to investigate and
then attack.

Stay alert, keep safe, and look out for your neighbors!

Please pass this on

Please take this message seriously because

the Crying Baby Theory was mentioned on

America's Most Wanted when they profiled

the serial killer in Louisiana

I'd like you to forward link this to all the women you know.

It may save a life.A candle is not dimmed by lighting another candle..

I was going to send this to the ladies only,

but guys,if you love your mothers,wives,sisters,daughters, etc.,

you may want to pass it onto them, as well.

Send this to any woman you know that may need

to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it

and it's better to be safe than sorry..

Everyone should take 5 minutes to read this. It may save your life or love one's life!

Miracle on the Court

miracle on the court
by kterrl

I can feel the fathers emotion, especially when he says I don't cry. I must admit I did too!

Mikka Cline faces a child abuse charge after scuffle with a wheelchair bound boy

Dallas Police say a 23-year-old Waco woman has been arrested after a scuffle with a wheelchair-bound 13-year-old boy at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children.

Mikka Shardai Cline, of Waco, was charged with injury to a child in connection with the struggle over a soccer ball on Tuesday night.

The boy’s uncle said he was trying to retrieve the ball, which he had purchased for the boy, from a bush on hospital grounds. Cline and her sister were also trying to get the ball.

Dallas police tell CBS 11 the boy had a pre-surgical medical halo screwed into his skull.

Police said that when the uncle handed the ball to the boy, Cline’s sister tried to get it from his lap but was blocked by the uncle. Cline tried to grab the ball, swinging her fist twice toward the boy. It was unclear whether she was swinging at the boy or trying to knock the ball out.

A second swing struck the boy’s halo, causing him pain, according to the police report. Cline was being held in the county jail on $1,500 bond.

All in favour of beating this shyt out of these heffas, raise your hands. The fugg is your grown ass doing trying to snatch a ball from a child with a damn satellite screwed into his damn skull? Even if the shyt was on accident, this just does not compute in any way shape or form.