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The woman, identified by neighbors as Margaret Matthews, was released from police custody without being charged, on the grounds that she acted in self defense, police said.
"Everybody in the neighborhood calls them the bad boys, the rock-throwers, 'cause every day it's a problem," said one woman who did not want to be identified. Damage from the alleged vandalism was apparent in the form of a boarded-up window at the home of the woman.
Neighbors say when the boy threw the bricks and broke Matthews' windows, she simply hit the breaking point. "They threw a brick through her window," neighbor Rafael Ramirez said Wednesday. "I think she gave them as much warning as I think she could."
She called police and they came, but after officers left, the boy came back. That was when Matthews responded with gunfire.
Former police detective Gerald Hamilton lives across the street, and heard the gunshots. He thought the boy had been the victim of a drive-by shooting. He'd been hit in the shoulder. Hamilton says he grabbed the bleeding child, put him in his car and tried to find out what happened.
"He told me they were throwing rocks and the old lady came out the house and started shooting," said Hamilton. "They were doing some devilment."
But the boy's own family has a completely different story. "He and his friend were walking down the street, and they saw a window broken at a woman's house, and as they passed by, they said she came out shooting," said the boy's grandmother, Donna Virges.
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Miss Matthews obviously needs more time on the range. I would suggest a few PPC drills just to sharpen up those front sight and trigger pressure skills. But then again, I'm just an angry old guy.
[Al Jazeera] Tony Curtis, whose good looks made him a Hollywood star well before he became an accomplished actor in movies such as "The Sweet Smell of Success" and "Some Like It Hot," died on Wednesday evening in his home near Las Vegas.
Curtis, 85, was one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1950s and one of Hollywood's busiest playboys during that time.
He had a memorable role in the classic gladiator movie "Spartacus" in 1960 and received an Academy Award nomination for 1958's "The Defiant Ones."
His first starring role was in "The Prince Who Was a Thief" in 1951, and critics were appalled as Curtis, playing an Arabian prince, proclaimed in a thick New York accent, "Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder!"
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From Wikipedia:
During World War II, Curtis joined the United States Navy inspired by watching Cary Grant in Destination Tokyo and Tyrone Power in Crash Dive (1943).[3] He served aboard USS Proteus (AS-19), a submarine tender, and on September 2, 1945, he witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay from about a mile away.
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After making raising and keeping brown snakes a class one felony to preclude breeding, it probably would have been cheaper to simply paid a bounty for every brown snake head turned in. Now there is a employment stimulus.
Dang! That woulda been good, but some ba$turd tipped her off she was way too smart for him!
As an aside, here's an interesting line in the article from the all-but-defunct news organization that demonstrate how much they think the sheeple forget:
But prosecutors in New York and California eventually found no evidence of wrongdoing by the group [Acorn], and the California probe found the videos had been heavily and selectively edited.
Editing? What editing? Editing my butt! The only editing that was done was that whoever thinks the video was edited must have had a lobotomy. Or were paid really well. Corruption is obviously alive and well in this country.
Mr. Breitbart made the unedited film available to the media and, presumably, the prosecutors. This smacks of protecting our boys... although one wonders what happened to the other cases -- I seem to recall five altogether. As for the CNN reporter's missed adventure, one wonders why Mr. O'Keefe decided to do this.
Short Attention Span Theater seemed to be the most appropriate for this article.
For those who are unaware: You probably have ADHD if you can't focus long enough to read an average-size paragraph without interruption. >:-}
The Lancet study finds that children with ADHD have more large, rare copy-number variants than children without the condition. "Copy-number variants" are pieces of DNA that are either missing or extraneous in the chromosomes. Other studies have suggested that these variants may be associated with schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Oh look! A buffet!
It's The Lancet, which published those absurd studies claiming obscenely large imaginary numbers of Iraqis dead as a result of the 2003 invasion, and the other one claiming autism is caused by vaccine preservatives. I'll wait until a reputable medical journal confirms these results.
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There is a very good theory that most ADHD is a side effect of a psychological trick the human species taught itself a long time ago.
That is, mentally, people are naturally able to go into deep states of focus or an unfocused state. However, this is not good if you are in a survival situation. So the species came up with a technique that keeps us between either state, so we can pay attention to that tiger over there.
Simply put, it is talking to ourselves. The internal dialogue, that parents and other adults teach all children, albeit unintentionally.
To meditate, or get into any deep focused or unfocused mental state, you have to be able to turn off the noise first.
But some people, and a lot of those with ADHD, get into an intensive inner dialogue state that reduces their attention span to a second or two. It is also very draining, as talking to yourself takes a lot of energy.
Fortunately there are techniques that can be used to restore control over the internal dialogue. And most everyone who gets more control over it likes the feeling, as it gives them more ability to focus or to unfocus their mind and get some inspiration from their subconscious.
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I'd like some kind of links, too. Best would be information about how I could get my son to apply it!
But I'm convinced it's a genetic problem. They have noticed specific abnormalities in the genes in the genes that correlate with problems that are characterized by the autism spectrum, and kids of ADHD and ADD parents tend to have way more autism than they should.
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tw/gorb: Find a silent room with a table and a chair. Close the door so you won't be disturbed.
Sit down and put a quarter on the table in front of you. Focus on the quarter and try to stop "thinking".
Thoughts will enter your mind. Don't resist, give them a pat on the back to help them pass on through, while you return to "no mind".
Start with five minutes, then ten. Eliminate the quarter and the table. Work up to thirty minutes.
After some practice, you'll be able to switch off the internal dialog at will. Since the internal dialog is almost entirely rehashing the past or rehearsing future events, you will find yourself in the present, an unusual experience for most people.
Now, take a walk in the autumn woods with the dialog off!
Once the obscuring dialog has stopped, other more subtle phenomena of the mind begin to be observed, leading in some cases to "enlightenment" experiences. These are common to the mystics of all religions, and are not without risk to one's mental health. At that level, guidance (the "senior monk") is advisable.
The experts are the (non-theocratic) Buddhists, of course, who add additional, orthogonal concepts like karma and rebirth. Check your bookstore for items that aren't too new-agey. Read wikipedia on Buddhism.
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Gee.....I've only heard this for the past, oh, twenty years or so. Jolly good that the Lancet is keeping up with medical science. Good on ya, lads!
But seriously....never heard that there was a higher risk of autism in ADHD families. That's news to me, gorb. Any linky love for that?
(There IS a definite link to ADHD and eczema and allergies, though. Maybe there's something similar to that going on with autism?)
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I'll wait until a reputable medical journal confirms these results.
Excellent point, TW. Its political slants have turned the Lancet into little more than a "scientific" version of the Weekly World News.
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Six males in my family and two females have ADHD half are on meds. Not one of them is Autistic or anything else. Some say ADHD folks are exceptionally creative.
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The internal dialogue, that parents and other adults teach all children, albeit unintentionally.
I have no doubt whatsoever that internal dialogue is a taught phenomenon. This is a huge & complex topic beyond the scope of a Rantburg comment thread.
However, I am beginning to think that ADHD is a taught phenomenon also. The human genetic pool has really changed very little in the last 70 years. However, reliable observers (such as elementary school teachers with decades of tenure and accurate observational skills) have commented on the rise in ADHD behaviors in the people they care for, over the same period of time. Whatever the genetic underpinning of ADHD behaviors happens to be, it will NOT provide the explanation for the vast increase of ADHD behaviors & related problems. I don't have my own children, but have also been caring for them professionally my whole career.
I think much of the increase is due to a change in parenting techniques. I have been noting how adults supervise children in public places ever since I was a small child. The level of close attention adults give their charges have plunged over the decades. E.g., I've been attending church weekly my whole life. In the last 20 years I've noticed parents have been letting their small children literally run wild down aisles & up & down pews -- this just didn't happen, say, prior to 1970. I believe this lack of supervision / physical restraint is one of several ways parents have been teaching their children to act out in an ADHD fashion. IOW, it's more of a cultural phenomenon than a genetic one.
A specific example: I was shopping in dollar store one afternoon, following a grandmother and her pre-5 year old daughter. Grandma was deeply engrossed in studying the shelves. The girl was steadily getting more active, touching items on the shelves, then pulling them off & putting them back, then turning to the opposite side & repeating the process. In addition she was shifting her feet from side to side, almost dancing. I anticipated pretty soon some kind of dropped object would break on the floor and cause a mess. During all of this time, grandma never even glanced at or spoke to the girl, just a few feet away. I was gazing at the girl steadily while I was noticing this. The girl noticed me noticing her, and stopped to look back. Hyperactive behavior ceased totally for the moment. I looked down at her feet & noticed she had her shoes on wrong, right shoe for left, &c. All I said was, "If you put your shoes on wrong, you won't be able to escape a bear, and he'll be able to catch you." Suddenly grandma woke up & noticed both of us. Grandma chuckled, and continued down the aisle. The girl was deeply focussed on her new idea, and followed her grandma with calmness and collection. The dancing and jittering ceased, for a while anyway.
Decades before, my mother had told my sister the exact same thing with the same result. This is not rocket science.
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tw and gorb: There's a bunch of techniques for it, but here is one I think is the best.
It's based on the theory that the part of the brain that supports internal dialogue also supports attention in general, so if you can do something that requires a great deal of attention for an extended period, it turns off the internal dialogue.
And the longer you can keep it off, the more control you get over it. One person described it as "like having a mental knife switch", so you can just turn off the noise for an hour or more. Another said that when you can even turn it off for just a minute, suddenly "the fog is lifted and you can see the world."
To start with, the technique involves walking. Which is quite demanding of attention, though we hardly notice it anymore. While you're walking, you hold your fingers in some unusual way. It doesn't matter how, as long as it attracts your attention to your arms and hands. When you stop noticing them, hold your fingers in some other way.
Then the most important part is to unfocus your eyes while doing this. Normally when we look at things, we look from tiny point to tiny point, like in the famous eye tracking picture.
But when we unfocus our eyes, everything in front of us, in a 180 degree arc, is of equal value to our attention. Using a lot of attention.
So between the walking, the holding fingers unusually, and the unfocused eyes (either looking over the horizon, or 10-15 feet in front of you on the ground), so much attention is used that your brain cannot maintain the internal dialogue.
It's cumulative, so the more you do it the better you get. Most people just go for an hour's walk once a day, and after about two weeks they start to get some real results.
A few side notes is that you should never listen to music while you're doing this, or you can get the "earworm" from hell. Conversely, you can ignore your internal dialogue while walking, because it effectively erases that particular dialogue from your repertoire.
So, say a particularly annoying song keeps repeating, let it. The exercise will eliminate its earworm status, and it won't haunt you anymore.
The best results I saw with this were from a "surfer dude", who could barely finish a sentence because of his profound internal dialogue, so sounded like an airhead.
After a few weeks of this, his personality changed completely, as for the first time in memory he could finish something he started. He was speaking in paragraphs, and making sense, and loved the feeling. He looked clear and alert.
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After a few weeks of this, his personality changed completely, as for the first time in memory he could finish something he started. You say that as if it were a good thing. Complete personality changes sometimes have adverse effects (and affects).
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Very interesting, Moose, I knew the Zen Buddhists were into meditation walks, but I hadn't heard about specific techniques. Unfocused eyes? That's probably why the pictures I've seen show them walking in groups in an enclosed garden.
Reminds me that there are at least three apps for the iPhone which use the camera to display an image of where you're going behind the txt you're composing :-) Talk about adhd....
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Anguper Hupomosing9418: It was a good thing. Before, he sounded like he was stoned all the time, and came across as a real dullard, and knew it. It was very frustrating for him.
Suddenly he could focus on things, get things done, think complex thoughts, etc. It brightened his whole day. Instead of being poor and dependent, he figured he could finally hold a steady job.
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KBK: It is not hard to navigate after a little practice, and you don't *have* to keep your eyes unfocused, if you need to get around some obstacle or other. I wouldn't limit it to either a small space or the slow, meditative gait of Buddhists, either. A normal pace, hither and yon is good to go. Sidewalks, open country, whenever and wherever.
Because there's so many loose dogs these days, I would also bring a canister of pepper spray.
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Because there's so many loose dogs these days, I would also bring a canister of pepper spray.
I hadn't thought of that. A 4-1/2 foot walking stick seems to impress loose dogs I've met, especially when you raise it as if to strike. Most dogs who have been around people much know what that means, and they will give you a wide berth. OTOH, I sometimes forget to switch carrying hands & wind up with one arm sore from carrying the stick for an hour.
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Nowadays, almost all corporal punishment (spankings, NOT beatings) has basically ceased to exist.
Does this explain the rise in ADD/ADHD expression?
Is it possible that corporal punishment and the pain and psychological effects (or perhaps merely the stimulation of a whack on the butt which interrupts the internal dialogue) release neurotransmitters which have at first a temporary and then a permanent effect in interrupting the cycle of mental activity which results in ADD/ADHD behavior?
Is it possible that repreated reinforcement of the notion of an ultimate effect (pain and shmae) to a cause (bad behavior) creates permanent pathways to short circuit or bypass the cascade of mental events which lead to the behavor in the first place?
Not advocating one way or the other, I'm just curious.
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"shame" not "shmae"
PIMF
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What's that? Me, myself, and I were having a discussion about the above pic...
That sounds like a good explanation of the practice of meditation. Just to sit down and unfocus.
And usually its not the 'pain' of the spanking which gets the child's attention but the fact of it. "Dad must be very upset to spank me!" which might be enough to focus their attention on the issue at hand. And of course if you overuse it they become numb.
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I have no doubt whatsoever that internal dialogue is a taught phenomenon.
Then the similarity of meditation techniques across cultures and down thru the millenia is a remarkable co-incidence.
Meditation as a means of controlling the internal dialogue basically hasn't changed since the Buddha 3,000 odd years ago.
I am beginning to think that ADHD is a taught phenomenon also.
More likely a failure to learn socially acceptable means of controlling ADHD caused behaviour.
The human genetic pool has really changed very little in the last 70 years.
10 or 20 years ago I would have agreed with you, but we are discovering that the kind of copy variant genetic 'errors' are far more common than previously assumed. And these 'errors are certainly transmitted to a persons children. It's likely that an exponential increase in these kinds of genetic errors has occured over recent generations.
Ecuador has declared a state of emergency, enabling the military to take over the functions of police who have staged protests, Security Minister Miguel Carvajal said.
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[Iran Press TV] Ecuador has plunged into political turmoil as troops have seized the country's main airport and stormed the Congress building protesting to a new law.
Ecuadorian police have seized main airport in the country's capital city, Quito, protesting to a law that reduced bonuses to the police and military. They have shut off highway access to the city as well.
The protesters who fired tear gas and burned tires chanted "The troops united will never be defeated," some of them calling on other troops to join them, the AFP reported.
Army chief Ernesto Gonzalez has however announced that he fully supported President Rafael Correa. Police chief Freddy Martinez also tried to calm the protestors but was met with a hostile reception.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Correa has denounced the situation as an attempted coup.
"It is a coup attempt led by the opposition and certain sections of the armed forces and the police," he said.
"Whatever happens to me I want to express my love for my family and my homeland," the president said.
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Gee, now I know what we've been missing. A return to the banana republics of yesteryear!!
Don't you all remember when Latin America was being touted as fully on the road to stable democracy? After years of caudillos and petty dictators things were starting to straighten out what 25 years ago?
Well looks like you can't keep a good banana down.
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Correa is a hard core lefty, so probably pushed a little bit too hard for a Venezuelan or Cuban state of affairs.
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Correa's gov't defaulted on a bunch of international loans a couple years back, and now the country is running low on cash. The congress, dominated by Correa's own party, won't cut spending like Correa wants. Correa's been making noises about dissolving congress, which is legal in their system.
Now the cops are taking to the streets over payment of bonuses. Correa, showing the same shrewdness that got him into this, went out and confronted the cops, who gave him and the First Lady a teargas canister for his troubles. He went back inside, and the Army took over the airport.
Now, it's not clear to me that the Army and Police are working together here. They might be opposed... they might be on opposite sides. I simply don't know enough about Ecuador's power structure.
What is clear to me is that the threat to dissolve congress got the cops in the streets. That didn't go over so well.
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And I was on the phone (business) and emailing a guy in Ecuador today while this was happening... I even when to a couple of sites and explored the country further.
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In the Zinn Socialist pseudo histories they never get around to the long and historical issue of cutting the pay of military. The record shows that its not one of the best played hands by pols [or as often is the case, former pols]. Or to paraphrase Hollyweird, "Let the Wookie win"
Recently Russian announced that, after an absence of nearly a century, chaplains were being reintroduced into the armed forces.
This came after four years of negotiations with the Russian Orthodox Church, which would have to provide priests to be military chaplains. While the Orthodox church agreed, in the 1990s, to provide religious services to military personnel and their families, this did not include chaplains.
That's because, despite the shortage of priests, it was possible to use lay people to provide some priestly functions (like counseling and organizing charitable activities).
Chaplains, on the other hand, are typically assigned to military units, like other specialists (doctors and staff officers). There were not enough priests for that, because the communists had limited the number of men who could become priests during the Soviet period (1921-91). But the church worked out a compromise with the military, and chaplains will be phased in as priests become available.
Latino business owners expect their financial hardships to continue as more of their regular customers move out of the state, said James Garcia, director of communications for the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
"They're leaving in droves, and they're leaving certain neighborhoods," Garcia said of Arizona's immigrant population.
About 30 percent of Hispanic businesses are owned by immigrants, both legal and illegal, and most of them cater to other immigrants, Garcia said. Once those customers leave, business owners don't expect them to come back, he said.
Many illegals are moving to New Mexico, California or the East Coast. The violence in northern Mexico is a barrier to their return, so Arizona sometimes offers flights direct to Mexico City for illegals.
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BTW: the very Latino oriented "Food City" supermarket chain is owned by the Bashas - a Lebanese Arab family with long roots in our state of Arizona. Being good businessmen, they closed the vast majority of their "Basha Supermarkets" and bought out the Mexican themed (pinatas, hundreds of Saints candles, Mexican branded foods & etc.) a few years back. Perhaps they outsmarted themselves?
Germany marks the end of an era this Sunday when, 92 years after the end of hostilities, it will make the last of its First World War reparations payments that once provoked a wave of resentment strong enough to sweep Adolf Hitler to power.
The payment date, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of Germany's peaceful reunification, will quietly close the last chapter of a conflict that arguably did more than any other to shape the nation's future.
Germany's debt derives from the massively unpopular 1919 Versailles Treaty.
This Sunday, Berlin will pay the last interest instalment on foreign bonds issued in 1924 and 1930 to cover the huge reparations demands made by the victorious First World War Allies.
The event will take place without ceremony and, despite its historical significance, has received only scant public attention, largely because it is a reminder of a terrible period that most Germans would rather forget.
Gerd Krumeich, a Great War historian, said that Germans' sense of injustice was stirred by the despised article 231 of the Versailles Treaty, which gave Germany sole blame for the outbreak of the war and forced it to make massive reparation payments. That sense of injustice, he said, was quickly seized upon by Hitler.
"The central factor behind Hitler's rise to power was his promise: 'I'll win this war in the end, I will undo this injustice, tear up this treaty and restore Germany to its old greatness," he told Der Spiegel magazine. "The reparations payments compounded everything. Not only was Germany morally to blame, it was also to pay an outlandish sum most people had never even heard of."
The sheer scale of the reparations, plus galloping inflation, was enough to bankrupt the unsteady Weimar Republic of the 1920s. Germany's reparations bill was set at the then mind-boggling figure of 269 billion gold marks before it was reduced to 112 billion gold marks, payable over 59 years, during the 1920s.
Germany suspended payments during the Great Depression and Hitler refused to continue them when he came to power in 1933. But, in 1953, West Germany agreed to honour its Great War reparation obligations. Communist East Germany, however, declined.
It was agreed that Germany should be allowed to wait until it was reunited before paying some 125 million euros in outstanding interest on foreign debt accrued after 1945. The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 followed by Germany's reunification less than a year later fulfilled the conditions of the agreement.
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IIRC an old Guinness record book entry stipulated that in the 4000 year of recorded human history, there have only been around 200 years of peace in the civilized world (those keeping records). Sitting behind two massive oceans and without a major threat, other than ourselves, Americans have enjoyed a Disney World existence from the history that others have experienced which alters their perception of 'reality'. Central Europe is now on a Peace Streak that it hasn't experienced since the fall of the Roman Empire. It took the Americans and Soviets sitting on them to get that to happen.
The American Revolution and the French Revolution were fueled by debt accumulated by the ruling class and the methods they sought to address it. Gerd Krumeich, a Great War historian, said that Germans' sense of injustice was stirred by the despised article 231 of the Versailles Treaty, which gave Germany sole blame for the outbreak of the war and forced it to make massive reparation payments. That sense of injustice, he said, was quickly seized upon by Hitler.
Now we're watching another generation of the 'best and brightest' running up unsustainable debt and ignoring warnings of history, because they no longer study real history. Whether it's to win a war at any cost or win the seat of government at any cost, the massive debt at the end of the day will destroy anything you think you may gain. "We burned the village in order to save it."
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Procopius2k: The Apaches and Commanches were raiding and killing peaceful tribes years before the white man settlers (there's that word again) the west bank of the Atlantic Ocean - now known as the east bank of the Pacific Ocean. BTW: up to this very day, if the USA didn't exist, the Hopi and Navaho would resume exterminating each other.
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As for south of the Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo if you prefer) I will not go into the history of the "peaceful" Yaquis, Mayas, and Aztecs...
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Next in line for German dinero settlements: Did Germany ever pay back Rome (now simply [in more ways than one] Italy for the massacre of Varus's 3 Legions by Arminius (aka "Hermann the German"? If not, why not? Mebbe the debt was voided by the 1930's "Pact of Steel"? Or perhaps since the allies voided the "Pact of Steel", the original debt is still due?
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Macaulay"s words on the subject: Heap heavier still the fetters, bar closer still the grate; Patient as sheep we yield us up unto your cruel fate. And by the shades beneath us, and by the gods above, Add not unto your cruel hate your still more cruel love........ Spare us the inexpiable wrong, the unutterable shame,That turns the cowards heart to steel, the sluggards blood to flame. Lest when our latest hope is fled ye taste of our despair, And learn by proof, in some wild hour, how much the wretched dare.
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The main demonstrations were in Spain, Belgium and Greece, although there was coordinated action in more than a dozen countries including Portugal, Ireland, Slovenia and Lithuania. Love the picture of the protester BTW. I wear earrings myself, but his are so...so something.
One thing Al Snyder wants to make clear: His boy fought and died for freedom in Iraq, but not for the right of some "wackos" to spew hate at soldiers' funerals under the protection of the Constitution.
"It's an insult to myself, my family and the veterans to say this is what our military men and women died for," Snyder says, barely concealing his anger.
Yet more than four years after the death of his only son, Matthew, Snyder is in the middle of a Supreme Court case that raises almost precisely that issue.
The court is set to decide whether members of a fundamentalist church in Kansas who picketed Matthew's funeral with signs bearing anti-gay and anti-Catholic invective have a constitutional right to say what they want.
Or, in intruding on a private citizen's funeral in a hurtful way, have the protesters crossed a line and given Snyder the right to collect millions of dollars for the emotional pain they caused?
The justices will hear arguments in the case next Wednesday.
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
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