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A judge in Aruba today granted the prosecutions request to hold Joran van der Sloot for an additional eight days on the suspicion of manslaughter in the investigation of the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway during the summer of 2005.

He was arrested on Wednesday in the Netherlands and flown to Aruba Friday where he spent the weekend in jail awaiting a court appearance.

Who else is talking about Natalee? Let’s see…

I just came across this little story at Jezebel thanks to c.a. Marks over at Alabama Improper. I guess whoever wrote the original story was offended by something on the menu where they had ‘four great reasons to eat here’ and number four was ‘your daughter might be here’ and since the writer of the story had been on a self-professed ‘Holloway Tour’ all day they assumed that the menu was a direct jibe at the missing Natalee Holloway. I don’t know, it could be, but did you bother to ask how long they had that particular menu? I have actually seen that exact thing on different menus at several different bars and I am pretty sure that there weren’t missing women from all of them that they were making fun of. Personally it seems that the writer  was feeling guilty about being on their ‘Holloway tour’ and had to put that guilt on someone else. People get jealous and possessive in exactly the same manner when they have been fucking around on their significant other. It’s something like Transference.

…Most of what I find on other blogs is basically the same thing I have here, just rehashing shit that’s already been on the news…

Found this article over at ABC News. Apparently lawyers for Satish Kalpoe are claiming that prosecutors are just rehashing old evidence by claiming that they have new technology and that it might not be legal. It certainly is legal and new evidence or old who gives a shit. If there is enough of it to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a judge then that’s all prosecutors need.

Prosecutors also feel that they have enough evidence to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that Natalee is dead, even without having a body.

Scared Monkeys, as usual, has quite a bit of information as well as opinion and I agree with them on most if not all of it. According to lawyer L. van den Eeden, who represented Joran van der Sloot in the Netherlands, his client was very emotional before departing the Netherlands for Aruba…

Also, according to their (Scared Monkeys) Radio Daily Commentary the mainstream media (and all of us re-spouting MSM stories are butchering some of the facts in the case.

Just sitting here sipping on some egg nog (no alcohol tonight, I have to work tomorrow) and thinking about the last few days. Running the restaurant without a manager over the holiday weekend ended up being a breeze. My other managers all worked because it was a holiday so it was no problem for me to be there all weekend. Today however was an entirely different story. Both of the hourly employees that are capable of running the stores for me if I am indisposed were off and I had to cover two restaurants. That’s enough of a challenge when I have managers there but it’s even more difficult without them. I am looking forward to Wednesday, I am getting a new manager, and while I have heard some stories from his current upline I think I may be able to work with him. Either way it means I won’t have to run as much as I have the last 11 days. I think that all of the running around and not having the opportunity to eat has led me to lose some weight. Don’t need a diet patch here, that’s for sure. I could use a bit more exercise though.

Getting out of bed this morning was not very high on my list of things to do this morning but unfortunately it has to be. Man, what a long week. The next four days are going to be pretty rough. My two managers are off two days each and I am running the stores along with the one with no manager. Normally when I have two stores open on the same day I try not to cook as I still have all of the paperwork and banking to do but I just don’t have enough extra help to do that this week. I could barely get one of the stores covered today as it is so I am going to have to get in to work a bit early and get one of the shops ready, then get to the other one and cook 1st shift.

As it stands now I am probably working until at least ten tonight, and that’s if I am lucky. I suppose it could be worse. One of my friends and former bosses ended up having to work the graveyard shift last night and is most likely going to have to work this morning as well. I just spoke with her and I may be able to send one of my cooks to help her out this morning. I won’t know until I actually get there in a couple of hours.

Needless to say, by the time I head into my days off on Friday I will be pretty damned tired.

Had a girl come in for an interview yesterday and it was like a flashback. In the eighties I worked briefly for a pretty good guy that finally ended up taking over some of our franchise operations in St. Louis and apparently this girls was originally from Branson Missouri but had worked for him for a couple of years. That’s one of the things about my job, I know folks all over the country now and it makes it easier to get references from folks that have worked for us before.

Looks like they really are going to be giving me another manager for the store where I have gone through two of them over the last few months. The main problem is that this guy has been with us for a few months now and this will be his second store. According to his current DM he spends the day relaxing in the office while his waitresses do all of the cooking and running of the store. Why is it that my store seems to be a landing ground for all of the losers? Either they think I can fix them or run them off. I’m not sure about that but since the latter has happened twice I am starting to think that’s what they want. Actually I think I may be able to work with this guy and get him to do what I want. As long as he treats the employees better than the last two managers I can deal with the rest of the garbage.

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It wasn’t nearly as busy at work as I thought it would be. One of my restaurants sites at the edge of the Wal-Mart parking lot and we are generally pretty busy on Black Friday so I was expecting to be extremely busy. It started at around 5am and we were busy until around 7:30, then it died for a couple of hours and got busy again, but nothing like I thought it would. Even the Wal-Mart parking lot wasn’t as full as I had seen it in years past. As far as I am concerned that’s a darn good thing.

We did around the same amount of business as last year but I was actually hoping for a bit more since I am a better operator than the last guy that was there. I ended up leaving around noon and going back down to the store where I have no manager so that I could get some work caught up there and shoot out early.

Some of the malls and stores around the country opened at midnight and one to catch the early shoppers. Check out these fools as they rush the mall in Mesquite, Texas at one this morning.

The police look like they are thinking ‘fuck this noise’. I don’t blame them a bit. That stuff is what the Internet is for.

I did manage to get out at a decent time and have already gotten home and set up the Christmas tree. I will leave it to the kids to decorate tonight as I think I am going to lie down and take a nap soon. Unfortunately I have to be back tonight at 9pm and am pretty darned tired.

Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, two of the suspects in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway are to be appearing in court today for a hearing to decide if prosecutors were right in having them arrested two days ago. As I posted yesterday, and has been all over the Internet for the last two days, Joran van der Sloot was also arrested and will be extradited from the Netherlands to Aruba shortly.

According to the prosecutors, the new arrests came about because new material in the investigation has surfaced and although they have not stated what the new evidence is Aruba’s chief prosecutor Hans Mos stated that the new evidence is ‘so important that we think we should have arrested these three guys‘.

During the preliminary hearing the judge can authorize their detention for eight more days, giving police that much time to produce the evidence, at which point they go before a judge again.

Dave Holloway, the father, believes that areas of deep water near Aruba were not searched extensively enough and is relaunching a search for evidence of her remains in the area. Based on talks with a police official and a private forensic expert, he believes that Natalee was thrown into deeper waters than the depths of 300+ feet that have already been searched.

A private boat owner is providing divers, sonar equipment and the ability to map the ocean floor to the search.

As far as the arrests, Dave Holloway stated that ‘I hope I’m not going to be disappointed, we’ve seen these arrests and re-arrests in the past’. All three of the young men were first detained in 2005 and released for lack of evidence.

With today being ‘Black Friday’ I have been up for about thirty minutes. Certainly not because I am going shopping but as a result of other folks going out to do the same. I have to go into work about an hour early as today will be one of the busiest of the year. One of my stores sits in a Wal-Mart parking lot and thus will stay packed most of the day.

I was looking online for some deals last night though and once I am finished writing for the morning will go back out to a couple of web sites. There are still a few presents that I need to get. I was looking at a couple of Raymond Weil watches for someone and I need to pick up a couple more toys as well. We have already purchased most of the stuff for the girls as well as my nephew but I still need to find something for my niece.

I got this via email from my brother last night and it made me laugh so I thought I would share. I certainly needed a laugh when I received it…

This Year’s First Christmas Joke
Three men died on Christmas Eve and were met by Saint Peter at the pearly
gates.

“In honor of this holy season” Saint Peter said,”You must each possess
something that symbolizes Christmas to get into heaven.”

The first man fumbled through his pockets and pulled out a lighter. He
flicked it on. “It represents a candle”, he said.

“You may pass through the pearly gates” Saint Peter said.

The second man reached into his pocket and pulled out a set of Keys He shook
them and said, “They’re bells.”

Saint Peter said “You may pass through the pearly gates”.

The third man started searching desperately through his pockets and finally
pulled out a pair of women’s panties.

St. Peter looked at the man with a raised eyebrow and asked, “And just what
do those symbolize??

The man replied, “These are Carols.”

And So The Christmas Season Begins……

I just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a happy thanksgiving. Today starts the Holiday season off for me at work which unfortunately just means more work for me. By now I have probably been there for thirty minutes or so, think about me.
If all goes well I should be able to get out of there around 2pm and go have Thanksgiving supper with my family. I am not allowed to leave until my managers have finished their day and left so I am going to see if I can help them out and get them out of there as early as possible.
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