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Akira Toriyama, one of the most famous and influential mangaka of all time, has died. He was 68. The news was confirmed by the official Dragon Ball website, in a letter addressed to creatives and fans across the world. Toriyama passed away a week ago on March 1, 2024, from an acute subdural hematoma.

“……additionally there’s some forensic accounting investigation of Loretta Fuddy’s personal finances which resulted in a disclosure that she received a substantial - I believe she received a $50,000.00 dollars in cash shortly after she verified the Obama’s birth certificate as being legitimate. And, [I] may your listeners remember that it was late last year that Loretta Fuddy died in a very peculiar plane accident off the coast of Hawaii, shortly after Doug filed that sealed affidavit [ah] in the federal District Court in Washington………”

Breaking on Fox News... a panel of 15 judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled 8-7 that Hawaii's Kamehameha School may give students with Hawaiian ancestry preference for admission. This overturns a three judge panel of the court first ruling that this is unconstitutional. Hawaiian legislators were shown arguing that "Hawaii is unique" and requires this sort of reverse racism "to right past wrongs." Fox indicates that this is almost certain to be appealed to SCOTUS.

Appeals Court Strikes Down Hawaiians-Only Admissions Policy at Kamehameha Schools The Associated Press Published: Aug 2, 2005 HONOLULU (AP) - A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down the exclusive Kamehameha Schools' policy of admitting only native Hawaiians. A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the practice at the private school violates a federal law against racial discrimination in the making and enforcing of contracts. The case was brought by an unidentified non-Hawaiian student who was turned down for admission in 2003. The Kamehameha Schools were established under the 1884 will of a Hawaiian princess to...

Angry rhetoric over a Kamehameha student enrolled by court order riles the U.S. attorney. Prompted by heated rhetoric against a 12-year-old non-Hawaiian student admitted to Kamehameha Schools, U.S. Attorney Ed Kubo warned yesterday that any violence or threats of violence are federal offenses. Kubo said he was concerned by public comments by community members that could be seen as inciting violence against Brayden Mohica-Cummings, of Kauai, whose admission to Kamehameha Schools' Kapalama Heights campus was forced by federal court order. "I have been watching the news and the interviews and the talk shows, and we have references to 'kill haole...

<p>For the first time ever, a federal judge yesterday ordered Kamehameha Schools to enroll a non-Hawaiian student and to allow the 13-year-old boy to remain at the school until the judge lifts his action.</p> <p>U.S. District Judge David Ezra emphasized that he was not deciding whether the schools' Hawaiians-preferred admissions policy violates federal laws barring racial discrimination.</p>