A woman who was warned to stop having sexual contact with elderly men in exchange for prescription pills was jailed Wednesday when she agreed to take part in the same arrangement with an undercover officer posing as a senior citizen, Sheriff Kent Harris said Thursday.
“When we went to see her, we even told her our goal ... (is) not to put you in jail,” Harris said. “We’re here to tell you to stop it. It needs to stop. You don’t need to be around them. Their families don’t want you around them.”
Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood.
Dylan was about a two-hour drive south of New York City in Long Branch on July 23 as part of a tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp that was to play at a baseball stadium in nearby Lakewood.
Long Branch business administrator Howard Woolley says a 24-year-old police officer apparently was unaware of who Dylan is and asked him for identification.
The singer of such classics as "Like a Rolling Stone" wasn't carrying any, so police took him back to his hotel, where tour staff vouched for him. No charges were filed.
How did it feel? "A Napoleon in rags... And the language that he used!"
A Dylan publicist hasn't returned a telephone call seeking comment.
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He DOES look like a tramp.
OK a very wealthy tramp, but
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Imagine the uproar if he had been black.
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I see no reason for a cop to have to know who any celeb is. In fact, the moment they start assuming the 'little people' should automatically know and defer to who they are, is the moment I would start they are an arrogant, piece of shit in need of deliberate treatment as a 4th class slime mold.
A RANSOM has been demanded from the Finnish owners of a Russian-crewed cargo ship that disappeared two weeks ago, Finnish police said.
"Yes it is true that there has been a demand for ransom which is money, and the demand has been made to the company which owns the ship, Solchart Management in Finland," Detective Chief Superintendent Jan Nyholm said.
[Mail and Globe] Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, under pressure over his government's response to the aftermath of Typhoon Morakot, on Friday estimated that more than 500 people had died in flooding and mudslides.
Survivors and opposition parties say efforts to rescue people stranded in towns and villages have been sluggish. Some villagers were seen shouting at Ma as he toured devastated areas this week.
Ma gave his estimate of the death toll, a jump from previous figures of just more than 100, at a national security meeting, a presidential aide said. Officials said about 300 may have died in a mudslide that levelled most of Hsiao Lin village in the south.
Increased pressure on Ma, who has improved ties with Beijing since taking power more than a year ago, could drain support for his Nationalist Party (KMT) in local elections in December.
"As one of the victims said the other day, 'I voted for you, but now I can't even reach you'," said Lin Chong-pin, strategic studies professor at Tamkang University in Taipei. "So there's a big drop in satisfaction with his performance."
Some are also calling for Ma to reshuffle his Cabinet and may think long-term that he "doesn't care", said Hsu Yung-ming, a political science professor at Soochow University in Taipei.
After days of dispatching helicopters to rescue survivors and distribute food in Hsiao Lin, authorities opened a road into the stricken district on Thursday. But it was now unlikely that anyone trapped since Monday in the landslide had survived.
"The county magistrate gave the premier a report that in his judgement about 300 were dead," a Government Information Office section chief said.
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Please study and embrace islam to win Paradise. As you can see in this wonderful video from Egyptian national TV studio the seated scientist from Japan presented his findings of the effect of the holy Quran islam and the islamic prayer call (the athan) on water molecules under electron microscopy. The egyptian scientist B.sc.Ms.Ph.D explained the water molecules took beautifull shapes everytime they are exposed to air vibrations from reading the holy Quran or saying the word islam or the muslim call to prayer the athan. The scientist added because water constitute 70% of our body this makes us happy and explains the feeling of happiness after people embrace islam and worship Allah. Please watch read the holy Quran and embrace islam. Pakistan Daily Press News Agency (www.Daily.pk)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpWRdsp0pXk
No wonder they keep losing the wars they start against Israel and the West. It is proved that Brownian motion keeps them in a constant state of ecstasy that renders them incapable of doing the things necessary to win. Perhaps this is why that jacket wallah in Afghanistan blew himself up in the wrong place, killing all the wrong people.
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So Islam is the highest form of homeopathy, then? (It has to be....they quoted the noted Egyptian scholar B.sc.Ms.Ph.D. I think he's in pretty much every research paper, isn't he?)
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Invasion by immigration
Will Shariah replace the U.S. Constitution as the rule of law?
By Cal Thomas
PORTSTEWART, Northern Ireland.
The Daily Telegraph's headline is meant to shock, or at least get the attention of Europeans apathetic about the threat they face: "A Fifth of European Union Will Be Muslim by 2050."
In a related article, "Muslim Europe: the Demographic Time Bomb Transforming Our Continent," the Telegraph's lead sentence summarizes the problem: "Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policymakers are talking about it."
The late British parliamentarian Enoch Powell warned more than 40 years ago that Britain had to be mad to allow in 50,000 dependents of immigrants every year. Mr. Powell, who was denounced as a racist and a xenophobe by the intellectual elites, compared it to watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
In retrospect, Mr. Powell looks like a prophet. According to Oxford University demographer David Coleman, Britain's nonwhite population is on course "to grow from 9 percent at the last census in 2001 to 29 percent by the year 2051." Mr. Coleman estimates that if Britain continues at its current level of immigration - 191,000 per year by 1999 reports - its population could increase by 15 million by 2050, which will bring change most Britons don't support.
In his new book, "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West," Financial Times and Weekly Standard columnist Christopher Caldwell lays out in indisputable terms and with irrefutable facts the threat faced by the West.
He says it is worse than anything al Qaeda can deliver. Mr. Caldwell cites numerous reasons for the predicament faced by Europe (and the United States), including the idea of a European Union, which is quickly eliminating individual identity, culture and money (the one size fits all Euro).
Without an identifiable culture, immigrants cannot be assimilated, even if they want to be, which in the case of radical Muslims, argues Mr. Caldwell, they don't.
In addition to massive immigration, Mr. Caldwell says, the high birth rate among immigrants, coupled with the low birth rate among white Europeans (barely enough in some countries to replace those who are dying) means that soon 20 percent of Europe's population would be Muslim.
The rapid population change, writes Mr. Caldwell, is startling when you consider that as recently as the mid-20th century there were virtually no Muslims in Western Europe.
At the turn of this century, there were between 15 million and 17 million Muslims in Western Europe, including 5 million in France, 4 million in Germany and 2 million in Britain. What is the attraction of these countries, which to some Islamic minds are full of idolatry, hedonism and secularism? All one need do is listen to the radical sermons and the vitriolic statements of certain Islamic leaders and spokesmen and to the radical Islamic media.
They say their goal is to subjugate Europe and America to their religion.
At a recent conference near Chicago called the Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam, Imam Jaleel Abdul Razek responded to a question from the audience about whether the U.S. Constitution or Shariah law should rule the United States when Islam is in control. Imam Razek said Shariah would rule and that the Constitution would have to go.
Mr. Caldwell writes that uncontrolled immigration without assimilation "exacts a steep price in freedom. The multiculturalism that has been Europe's main way of managing mass immigration requires the sacrifice of liberties that natives once thought of as rights."
Those who support immigration without assimilation claim the West needs more brainy people to run their computers and discover cures for diseases. Why can't our school systems produce more intelligent people without having to import them? More than "brains" are coming to the West. Those with a radical theological and political agenda are infiltrating us more effectively than our enemies of the 20th century ever dreamed of doing.
Twice in the last century America has delivered Europe from homegrown evil. It won't be able to do so again when that evil is imported and when America is dealing with immigration problems of its own.
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Evelyn, a modified dog
Viewed the quivering fringe of a special doily
Draped across the piano, with some surprise
In the darkened room
Where the chairs dismayed
And the horrible curtains
Muffled the rain
She could hardly believe her eyes
A curious breeze
A garlic breath
Which sounded like a snore
Somewhere near the Steinway (or even from within)
Had caused the doily fringe to waft & tremble in the gloom
Evelyn, a dog, having undergone
Further modification
Pondered the significance of short-person behavior
In pedal-depressed panchromatic resonance
And other highly ambient domains...
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The pristine perfection of Islam needs no commentary from mere infidels. If the comments conflict with the Koran, they are blasphemous and you should be killed. If the comments agree with the Koran, they are redundant and you should probably be killed anyway. And that goes double for Brownian motion.
[Geo News] President Asif Ali Zardari said that Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will not field its candidate against Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif in the by-election, Geo News reported Friday.
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[Gulf News] Five members of Iraq's presidential guard will go on trial later this month for their alleged roles in a deadly Baghdad bank robbery, an act that illustrated the increase in crime in Iraq, a court spokesman said on Thursday.
The Interior Ministry has said the heist was a rogue act committed by men belonging to the security detail charged with protecting Iraqi officials, and denied speculation they were part of a larger conspiracy to use the money to fund insurgent groups.
The pre-dawn robbery at the state-run Rafidain Bank in central Baghdad on July 28 left eight security guards dead as the attackers made off with about 8 billion Iraqi Dinars ($6.9 million).
Warrants have been issued for three other members of the security detail, who also have been implicated in the heist and remain at large, said Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar, a spokesman for Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council. He said the trial for the five men is set to begin Aug. 23.
The robbery raised questions about the infiltration of criminals and militants among Iraq's security forces as they assume responsibility from withdrawing U.S. forces.
The five men were part of a presidential brigade that provides security for Iraqi officials. Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi, the senior member of Iraq's most influential Shiite party, said one of the guards charged in the robbery worked as part of his detail.
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Just moonlighting.
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A new superbug that is resistant to all antibiotics has been brought into Britain by patients having surgery abroad, Government scientists said.
Doctors are urged to be vigilant for a new bug that has arriving in Britain with patients who have traveled to India and Pakistan for cosmetic surgery or organ transplants and is now circulating here.
So far there have been 22 cases in 17 hospitals Britain and the Health Protection Agency has said its emergence here is a 'major concern'.
The HPA has found the enzyme that destroys antibiotics in patients with infections caused by E.coli and other bacteria.
The enzyme, called New Delhi Metallo-1, has so far been found attached to bacteria that has caused urinary tract infections and respiratory infections.
It is of particular concern because it can jump from one strain of bacteria to another meaning it could attach itself to more dangerous infections that can cause severe illnesses and blood poisoning making them almost impossible to treat.
The NDM-1 enzyme destroys a group of antibiotics called carbapenems which are mainly used in Britain for severe infections and are tightly controlled because they are one of the few groups of antibiotics that remain useful against bacteria that have already developed resistance to the commonly used drugs.
Experts at the HPA are now investigating old antibiotics that have fallen out of use, new ones in development and drugs used in other countries to see if any work against bacteria producing the NDM-1 enzyme. Two have been found that are of limited use against the new bug.
Dr David Livermore, director of the HPA's Centre for Infection's Antibiotics Resistance and Monitoring Reference Laboratory, said: "Carbapenems have had to be used more and more as bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics. Therefore it is a worry when we see carbapenem resistance emerging. Increasingly over the last year we have seen small numbers that can destroy carbapenems.
"Because the enzyme can move from bacteria to bacteria the fear has to be that it would get into a strain that is good at causing severe infections. I would be very concerned if it got into an E.coli strain that was associated with severe infection.
"That is what happened with MRSA, in the 1980s in Britain they were not successful strains and did not cause severe infections, but by the 1990s it caused severe infections and became a very major public health issue."
Dr Livermore said all patients in hospital should ensure staff and visitors wash their hands to prevent the spread of any infection and anyone who has had treatment abroad should ensure their doctors here know about it.
He also urged anyone travelling abroad for medical treatment to ask about the infection risks and possible resistance.
Antibiotics are widely available to buy without prescription in India and Pakistan and this has meant hospital doctor there have had to resort to more powerful drugs to clear infections, in turn leading to more resistance developing.
With increasing medical tourism between Britain and Asia, 'more and more' antibiotic resistant strains will be imported into this country, he warned. Similar carbapenem destroying bugs have also been imported by patients having treatment in Cyprus, Israel and Greece.
One British patient, who developed a bloodstream infection with an E coli that produced NDM-1 enzyme had received treatment for cancer in both India and the UK; two others had undergone cosmetic surgery in India and others had received renal or liver transplantation in Pakistan.
However ten cases in Britain had not reported any foreign medical treatment.
A bulletin from the HPA said: "Treatment presents major challenges. Most isolates with NDM-1 enzyme are resistant to all standard intravenous antibiotics for treatment of severe infections.
"Great care should be taken to prevent onward transmission. Comprehensive infection control advice can be provided by the HPA's Laboratory of Healthcare-Associated Infection but key aspects include isolation of sources and screening of cases and close hospital contacts."
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Another way "political correctness" might kill us all. It would probably be against the law to "discriminate" against someone arriving from India who has had an organ transplant. It is only a matter of time before such bugs run rampant globally because somehow it is "wrong" to isolate people with dangerous diseases.
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...patients who have traveled to India and Pakistan...
Let's go get some surgery on the cheap by traveling to India and Pakistan, which can be nothing but the equivalent of a living petri dish if proper surgical and hospital care protocols are not followed.
It's like buying a cheap parachute.
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In large part the problem is the structure of the drug regulatory system in the USA and internationally.
The money is in diseases of affluence, so that's where the research is. Little money is spent on researching new antibiotics.
You can thank the United Nations for this problem, because they made international drug patents unenforceable.
No drug company is going to spend serious money on new antibiotics to have their work immediately ripped off in the developing world.
Thus legitimizes government that beats its own people. Typical Democrat.
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US Senator Jim Webb will fly out of Burma tomorrow with an American convicted to seven years imprisonment after securing his release from the military regime.
"I am grateful to the Burmese government for honouring these requests," Mr Webb.
"It is my hope that we can take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying a foundation of goodwill and confidence-building in the future."
Mr Webb, a Democrat who is close to US President Barack Obama, became the first US official to hold talks with junta leader Than Shwe and also held talks with detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
He said the junta agreed to free US national John Yettaw, who was convicted along with Aung San Suu Kyi after the American swam uninvited to the Nobel laureate's lakeside home.
"Yettaw will be officially deported on Sunday morning," Webb's office said.
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As a Virginian, I apologize to the nation for Webb.
I didn't vote for him. :-(
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Webb puzzles me, Fields of Fire was brilliant and seemed to castrate the media for being the pusilanimous motley they were in the late 60s/early 70s. Maybe old age has softened the man's acumen.
Black Man Pleads Guilty to Posing as Obama-Hating White Supremacist on Facebook
An African-American man from Mississippi admits posing as a white supremacist to send a death threat across state lines by Facebook.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says 20-year-old Dyron L. Hart of Poplarville pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a threat in November 2008. Hart admitted creating a name and using a white supremacists' photo to pose as a white man who planned to kill blacks because Barack Obama had been elected president.
He originally was charged with threatening three black students at Nicholls State -- where he had attended one semester -- but pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count.
He sent the threats from a computer in Poplarville. The maximum sentence is five years in prison and a $250,000 fine; sentencing is Nov. 18.
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This blatent racism needs to be plasered in huge print on ALL newspaper headlines, watch it be buried.
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Liberals NEED to believe all their opponents are white supremacists and racists. If they are unable to find any, they will invent some. Nothing new about this, it happens in plenty of cultures, the only thing noteworthy is that liberals style themselves as the most tolerant and understanding in the world.
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.
