On August 28 "a man trying to rob" an Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dairy Queen was shot and killed by an armed employee.
According to the Albuquerque Journal, a Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) spokesman said the would-be robber "went to the Dairy Queen window with a gun and demanded money." A store employee handed money to the suspect, after which the suspect continued pointing the gun and "asked for more money." That is when a different employee -- one who was armed -- stepped up shot the suspect.
Walter Lopez was working in his backyard next to Dairy Queen when he "heard three shots, then a pause, and then two more shots."
The BCSO spokesman said a deputy was handling a traffic stop near the Dairy Queen when he too heard shots "around 6 pm." The deputy "found a man outside the Dairy Queen with gunshot wounds."
The suspect "died after being transported to the University of New Mexico hospital."
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I always like the story about the old lady who encountered a burglar in her home, and emptied a full magazine from a 9 mm pistol into the lucky recipient of her attentions. Later, as the police were tagging the body, an officer asks her "But ma'am, why did you shoot him ten times?"
She replied "Because when I pulled the trigger the 11th, 12th, and 13th times, the gun just went 'click'".
[Iran Press TV] At least 12 people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, according to authorities.
The most recent shooting left a 43-year-old man wounded in the South Chicago neighborhood about 6:05 a.m. Sunday. He was shot in the 8000 block of South Merrill Avenue. The man sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious condition, police said.
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And none killed? Amazingly good medicine or bad shooting.
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Fearing a Russian invasion and occupation of Alaska, the U.S. government in the early Cold War years recruited and trained fishermen, bush pilots, trappers and other private citizens across Alaska for a covert network to feed wartime intelligence to the military, newly declassified Air Force and FBI documents show.
Wouldn't work today as the government doesn't trust its citizens. Come to think of it, the citizens don't much trust the government either.
An experimental Ebola drug healed all 18 monkeys infected with the deadly virus in a study, boosting hopes that the treatment might help fight the outbreak raging through West Africa once more of it can be made.
The monkeys were given the drug, ZMapp, three to five days after they were infected with the virus and when most were showing symptoms. That is several days later than any other experimental Ebola treatment tested so far.
The drug also completely protected six other monkeys given a slightly different version of it three days after infection in a pilot test. These two studies are the first monkey tests ever done on ZMapp.
"The level of improvement was utterly beyond my honest expectation," said one study leader, Gary Kobinger of the Public Health Agency of Canada in Winnipeg.
"For animal data, it's extremely impressive," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which had a role in the work.
It's not known how well the drug would work in people, who can take up to 21 days to show symptoms and are not infected the way these monkeys were in a lab.
Several experts said it's not possible to estimate a window of opportunity for treating people, but that it was encouraging that the animals recovered when treated even after advanced disease developed.
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Sure, of course, the all Monkeys get cured of Ebola after all, that is the future...the end of us humans. Haven't you seen the movie Planet of the Apes ? Or this next short ?
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It's not known how well the drug would work in people, who can take up to 21 days to show symptoms and are not infected the way these monkeys were in a lab.
A fair amount is known. Two of seven have died, the rest not only had the "vaccine", but had good to excellent care. However, the Ebola survival rate is running 50% without the vaccine or excellent care.
[Tolo News] In the district of Sholgara of Balkh province, a man named Momen gave away his eight-year-old daughter Meena to wed a 12-year old boy because he could not support having his daughter live with him.
Momen defends his actions by explaining that his living circumstances forced him to wed his daughter off in exchange for a bride price--110,000 AFS--that he will use to re-marry.
"I asked the opinions of the holy mans and shared with them the story of my miserable life," Momen explains in attempts to defend his actions. "I asked them if I should give away my daughter to a husband and they said yes, because you have a miserable life and you need money and then your life will improve. So I married her off."
Meena was five when she lost her mother. Not only was she too young to understand that she had lost her mother, but too young to understand why she lost her father's support and love.
The boy, who is now pronounced as Meena's husband, is named Sardar, a 12-year-old who, along with Meena, had no idea what marriage is let alone that the two have become one.
Confused of what was happening, Sardar was asked how he felt about the marriage and his response: "I just want to have a happy life."
Sardar's mother, whose name was not given, supports the marriage in defense claiming that the young girl was left on the streets.
"She was outside on the streets with no one to care for her, so I took her in for my son so she can live with us comfortably," Sardar's mother explained as she covered her face from the camera knowing what society thinks of child marriages.
The union of these children has left the residents of the district and women's rights activists stunned and appalled at the actions and explanations of the family and the holy man who performed the nuptial.
"Sharia law permits the girl who is a minor to be represented by her father and if her father agrees she can be married off," Mawlawi Qiyamuddin, holy man of the Hazrat Hamza Mosque in Sholgara, said.
Child marriages are, technically, against the law and the teachings of Islam and lawfully a sign of violence against the child.
Such incidents have occurred several times in Afghanistan and unfortunately numerous children have been sacrificed in the name of tradition and honor of the family. These unions tend to happen in far regions of the country that are unreachable, resulting in a number of unknown cases. Such traditions are far more practiced than the law of the nation.
Meena and Sardar are lost in their childhood fantasies not knowing and understanding what has just taken place. They must have believed they were playing dress-up with their family members as Meena was adorned with a red colored traditional afghan dress embellished with silver sequins and a black scarf embroidered with shiny silver beads that drowned her little body and Sardar in a glittery black suit jacket over a white tunic.
The two held hands as they walked out of the house together toward an unknown future and shattered childhood.
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Child marriages are, technically, against the law and the teachings of Islam
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Sounds like a weird way to adopt an 8 year old.
But in that part of the world a common enough way to acquire a house slavey and potential income stream, while the girl's father sees no evil as he rids himself of a burden.
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I suspect we are looking at this in the wrong way. We consider marriage as uniting a man and a woman (let's not get started on the recent permutations!). In tribal societies, marriage is a way of uniting two tribes.
As a side note, tribal relations also account for the popularity of cousin marriage - if you marry a cousin on your father's side, you are not spreading the wealth around or incurring more obligations. And yes, there are certain genetic consequences.
[Libya Herald] The Al-Berka Palace in Benghazi has partially collapsed apparently as a result of long neglect, locals have said.
One Benghazi resident living in the Berka district, near to the palace, told the Libya Herald that the 19th Century building had been in need of repair for more than ten years. She added that both the Qadaffy regime and the revolutionary authorities had showed little interest in the structure.
There had been some speculation that the palace had been destroyed by shelling or bombing. However residents said the only fighting near the building had taken place early in the revolution. Qadaffy loyalists were driven from the nearby Al-Fadel Abu Amar base during the liberation of Benghazi and no other group has taken up positions there.
Skirmishes at that time in the vicinity of the palace may have contributed to the collapse but were not the cause of the destruction.
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Libya only improved when was an Italian colony.
BRUSSELS (AP) NATO leaders this week will be asked to approve creation of a high-readiness force and the stockpiling of military equipment and supplies in Eastern Europe to help protect member nations there against potential Russian aggression, the alliance's secretary general said Monday.
"The Readiness Action Plan will ensure that we have the right forces and the right equipment in the right place, at the right time," Anders Fogh Rasmussen said. "Not because NATO wants to attack anyone. But because the dangers and the threats are more present and more visible. And we will do what it takes to defend our allies."
President Barack Obama and leaders of NATO's other member countries open a summit Thursday in Wales that is expected to be dominated by how the U.S-led alliance should react over the long term to Russian actions toward Ukraine and the implications for security in Europe.
Rasmussen told a news conference the proposed new force could be composed of several thousand troops contributed on a rotating basis by the 28 NATO countries.
Backed by air and naval assets, the unit would be a "spearhead" that could be deployed at very short notice to help NATO members defend themselves against any threat, including Russia, Rasmussen said.
Since the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by Russia in March, Poland and other Eastern European members of NATO have demanded the alliance take a more active and high-profile role in their defense. Other allies, though, have been wary of doing anything that might endanger a 1997 agreement with Moscow under which NATO pledged not to base substantial forces in Eastern Europe on a permanent basis.
The compromise NATO officials appear to have worked out is the pre-positioning of equipment and supplies in Eastern Europe "so this force can travel light, but strike hard if needed," in Rasmussen's words.
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Hard to get excited - this is not the NATO of cold war days defending the 'Fulda Gap'. The new NATO resembles the 'League of Nations'. NATO extended itself way too far east, IMO. I'm sure Putin is quaking in his boots - from laughter. (Same for the happily deceased Koba).
[NYDAILYNEWS] Eleven others were injured and four are believed to be trapped by rubble following the Sunday morning explosion in Rosny-sous-Bois, an eastern Paris suburb. Blamed on a gas leak. I used to live in a house that had gas. It never blew up like that.
I'll bet you never smoked unfiltered Gauloises cigarettes, either.
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...Work accident, Paleostinian style?
Mike
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A Muslim of Rosny-sous-Bois
Razed his maison while making foie gras.
He'd just whispered, "Ma douce!"
To his favorite goose
When it blew and flew home to Allah.
Excellent explication of at least some of the problems at Time and CNN
In March of this year Forbes reported on the giant media company's decision to spin off it's magazine publishing empire, saying "Time Warner's publishing unit revenues have steadily declined for the past few years. From about $4.6 billion in 2008, these revenues came down to close to $3.3 billion in 2013."
This follows the effective death of Time's one-time competitor Newsweek, which was sold for a dollar to Sidney Harman. Is the media business a tough deal? Particularly for print in the day and age of cyberspace? Sure. But CNN is a cable news network - in fact, the nation's first. How could Time and CNN ever have gotten to the point where spin-offs and layoffs are the order of the day? (And not that long ago the liberal Washington Post, unable to make a profit, was sold to Amazon's Jeff Bezos.)
In a phrase? Why is this happening to Time and CNN? To borrow from ex-Bill Clinton strategist James Carville's telling description of the central issue of the 1992 election? It's the liberalism, stupid. Read it all
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The Wall Street Journal and Fox News are about the only big ones doing OK.
MSNBC is also a noticeable victim of liberals on Paper news media seems to be dying, newspapers, magazines. Free local shopping papers seem to hanging on. With the proliferation of smart phones that can access the internet I don't know how long they can keep sufficient market share? It's kind of weird people who can't afford a car, who can only get part time work will sacrifice to get not only a cell phone but a smart phone. It becomes not only their only phone but their entertainment center.
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Wrapping fish, birdcage lining, floor lining when you are painting, mosquito killer, emergency toilet paper. There are so many things you can do with a newspaper and can't do with a cell phone I am still wondering how could anyone use electronic media instead of good old New York Times.
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I like the idea of "Killin' Time" now is there a "Killin CNN" song any where ?
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The Boston Globe was sold to the New York Times for $1.2 billion back in the early 1990's. John Henry (of the Boston Red Sox) bought the Globe from the NYT for $70 million last year. The real estate where the Globe sits is worth $40 - 50 million.
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...probably the income from the bundling fees that TimeWarner et al gets from the various satellite and cable 'services', same as with MSNBC, plus the innate value of the property they sit on in Atlanta (assuming Ted was smart enough to buy the structure when he owned CNN).
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Who would have thought that if you took the roughly equally conservative/liberal nation and had one side cater to the right and a thousand thirty seven cater to the left there would be some kind of disparity in success.
I think some folks need to retake a business course or two.
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Property values in that area of Atlanta are a liability, not an asset
I'd bet that's not what their property perspective says which they circulate around Europe and elsewhere (to the same rubes they pawned off all that Fannie Mae mortgage papers before 2007). I hear Chinese are buying a lot of property these days.
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"grupo Bimbo Slim": 'BIMBO' bread is a hot selling item down here in Tucson. Every major supermarket has at least 2 aisles dedicated to Hispanic food. We also have "El Super" supermarkets selling strictly Hispanic brands. (Its owned by a USA corp. - 'Kroger' but this is hushed up... :))
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
On August 28 "a man trying to rob" an Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dairy Queen was shot and killed by an armed employee.
[Iran Press TV] At least 12 people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, according to authorities.
An experimental Ebola drug healed all 18 monkeys infected with the deadly virus in a study, boosting hopes that the treatment might help fight the outbreak raging through West Africa once more of it can be made.
[Tolo News] In the district of Sholgara of Balkh province, a man named Momen gave away his eight-year-old daughter Meena to wed a 12-year old boy because he could not support having his daughter live with him.
[Libya Herald] The Al-Berka Palace in Benghazi has partially collapsed apparently as a result of long neglect, locals have said.
BRUSSELS (AP) NATO leaders this week will be asked to approve creation of a high-readiness force and the stockpiling of military equipment and supplies in Eastern Europe to help protect member nations there against potential Russian aggression, the alliance's secretary general said Monday.
[NYDAILYNEWS] Eleven others were injured and four are believed to be trapped by rubble following the Sunday morning explosion in Rosny-sous-Bois, an eastern Paris suburb.
