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  • 18
    Feb
    2013
    6:44am, EST

    F-16s intercept two planes near Obama's holiday weekend retreat

    By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News

    F-16 fighter jets intercepted two aircraft after they entered temporarily restricted airspace near the Florida club where President Barack Obama was spending the long President’s Day weekend.

    In a statement on its Facebook page, NORAD said two F-16s were sent to deal with a Lancair 320 aircraft “that was not in communications with air controllers … near Port St. Lucie,” Fla., at 5:10 p.m. Sunday.

    “Following the intercept, the … aircraft was escorted out of the [area] and allowed to continue on," it added.

    NORAD also said in another Facebook posting that a Cessna was caught inside the off-limits zone at about 9:30 a.m. ET Saturday.

    “Following the intercept, the aircraft departed the [restricted area] and landed at Okeechobee Airport where it was met by local authorities,” the statement said.

    Obama is taking three days off in Florida while Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia are in Colorado on a skiing trip.

    He is staying at the Floridian, described by The Associated Press as “an exclusive and secluded yacht and golf club on the state's Treasure Coast.”

    On Sunday, the president played a round of golf with Tiger Woods at the club.

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    404 comments

    How are you supposed to know where he'll be. They don't tell you. He's no more special then you or me,and they couldn't intercept the planes on 911.

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  • 8
    Feb
    2012
    4:44pm, EST

    Nuns fight strip club near Ill. convent

    Chicago nuns say they are keeping prospective employees at a soon-to-be strip club in their prayers despite the establishment's close proximity to their convent.

    By NBCChicago.com

    CHICAGO -- A group of nuns is ready to fight a new strip club adjacent to a Roman Catholic convent in suburban Stone Park.

    Sister Marissonia Daltoe told the Chicago Sun-Times she's not only concerned about the morality of the club, but the legality of it, specifically whether it was built too close to the nuns’ property line.

    “What are we trying to teach the children in the neighborhood?” Daltoe of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo – Scalabrinians told the Sun-Times.

    Read Nuns battle strip club in Stone Park on NBCChicago.com


    The club, still under construction, is tentatively called “Get It” and will feature partially nude performers and alcohol, the Sun-Times reports. It sought approval from the town in 2010.

    The convent, which includes a home for elderly and sick nuns and a place for young women to join the sisterhood, would sit adjacent to the club. The venue is less than two feet from the nuns’ property, which sits partially in Stone Park and partially in Melrose Park, according to the publication.

    Daltoe said the town didn't officially notify them of the project, and Stone Park officials told the Sun-Times they sent notification letters to the wrong address because of an apparent Cook County error. The letters aren't required.

    Town officials say they met all other legal requirements, though Mayor Beniamino Mazzulla told the paper he signed on to the deal only after a 2010 lawsuit against Stone Park by developers.

    The owner of Get It told the Sun-Times he wants to be a good neighbor and will limit the light and noise from the club. He said the club will be a high-tech, high-class venue.

    Another strip club sits down the street from the one still being built.

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  • 17
    Jan
    2012
    6:59pm, EST

    Strip club apologizes for using Martin Luther King Jr.'s image in flier

    By Brian Hamacher and Jeff Burnside, NBCMiami.com

    MIAMI -- When Martin Luther King Jr. said he had a dream, this likely wasn't what he meant.

    A flier promoting a Miami strip club's "I Have a Dream Bash" featuring MLK holding wads of cash next to scantily clad women has its creator taking plenty of flak.

    Miami Beach graphic designer Jeffrey Darnell Paul says he didn't realize the flier, made for The Office strip club at 250 Northeast 183rd Street, would generate the controversy it has.

    "I wasn't trying to disrespect anybody ... it wasn't on my mind that it would escalate to something like this," Paul told NBC Miami Monday. "It was just supposed to be a promotional thing, it wasn't about disgracing Martin Luther King, it wasn't about that."

    Read the original story on NBCMiami.com

    Paul, who owns and runs South Side Graphix, said he makes fliers for the club every Sunday and that he made the King flier about a week ago for the club's promoters.

    "It was proposed to me like a birthday bash for Martin Luther King, I put a flier together without thinking about the effects it would have," said Paul, who is also known as DJ Big Boy. "It's something that I really didn't think about."

    Paul said the bash, which was supposed to begin at 8 p.m. Sunday and end at 6 a.m. Monday on MLK Day, was canceled after he realized the flier was inappropriate. He said by then, the flier was making the rounds on the Internet and he was getting lots of negative feedback.

    "I got plenty of phone calls, plenty of phone calls ... people calling from Chicago, Ohio, California," Paul said. "If I could've, I would have taken it back ahead of time."

    "What was I thinking? Promotion," Paul told NBC Miami.

    The strip club's management sought to distance themselves from the promotional effort on Monday, however.

    “This is the first time seeing it. This is the owner's first time seeing it," The Office manager Jermaine Robinson said. "So we don’t condone this. This is Martin Luther King. We respect what he did. Today is the day for us to honor him.”

    Robinson said the flier is "definitely disrespectful, to be honest with you."

    Paul said there's no one to blame but himself.

    "I apologize about it, I'm taking full responsibility," he said. "I wish it could have gone down a different way but I'm learning from it and trust me, I'm not going down that route again."

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    This really was not that big of a deal. People really need to lighten up.

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