A Penn State University student, accused of posting pro-jihad messages online, should stay in jail on charges of assaulting two FBI agents, a federal prosecutor argued Thursday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret Picking said Emerson Begolly frequently told relatives "I'm not long for this world" and that he wanted to become a martyr and take others with him when he killed himself. He had a loaded pistol when he was arrested Tuesday, she said.
Begolly has not been charged for his posts or for the alleged threats told to relatives. Federal Public Defender Marketa Sims said the charges arise from the agents' attempt to apprehend Begolly during an investigation into his online postings.
Sims said Begolly's Asperger's syndrome keeps him in his room typing bizarre things online, and the government's main source of information is his estranged mother, who has some sort of relationship with the lead agent in the case, Bradley Orsini.
"I think that what we've got here, as bizarre as it is, is two parents struggling over a child who is no longer a child," Sims said in a detention hearing in federal court.
The only evidence supporting the government's theory that Begolly is dangerous is his struggle with the two agents, she said.
"There's no history of violence. There's a history of being an oddball," the attorney said.
Begolly periodically whispered to Sims during his hearing but did not testify.
Michael Christman, a supervisory special agent who was uninvolved in the arrest, testified that he was unaware of the nature of the relationship between Orsini and Kowalski.
"I had heard that Orsini knew the family. I don't know what that means," Christman said.
Begolly is accused of biting Orsini and another agent who startled him Tuesday as he sat in a car in a Burger King parking lot in Mayport.
Christman said that the two agents sought to apprehend Begolly while they executed search warrants on his mother's house and his father's home. The two agents don't recall his biting them, Christman testified, but after a struggle that included rolling around in the parking lot, they found puncture wounds on their hands. Both agents eventually sought medical treatment, he testified.
Christman said he didn't know what the agents were investigating or what evidence supported the search warrants. He asserted that Begolly had posted a pro-jihad poem under the name Asadullah Alshishani, citing anonymous internet postings identifying it as Begolly's pseudonym.
Kowalski had cooperated with the agents. She called her son and told him that his grandmother was dying and he needed to see her, Christman testified. She picked him up at his father's farm and then drove to a Burger King, telling him that she was going inside to get a drink, and to stay in the car, Christman said.
He said that when the two agents opened the doors and identified themselves, Begolly screamed and reached toward his jacket pocket. In the pocket was a loaded 9 mm with a round in the chamber and the safety off. He had two loaded clips in the jacket as well.
In addition to the assault charge, he has been charged with carrying a firearm to commit a felony.
His father, Shawn Begolly, testified that he and his son often carried the pistols while walking around his 100-acre farm as a precaution against bears, coyotes or other wildlife. Sometimes they carried rifles or shotguns, he said.
Christman said Kowalski told agents that her son thought that he was being watched, was armed in case he ran into law enforcement officers.
Christman said that most of his information about the case came from Orsini.
During a failed federal prosecution of former Allegheny County coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht, the government turned over records demonstrating that when Orsini was an agent in New Jersey, he had been repeatedly disciplined for falsifying records.
Under questioning by Sims, Christman said he was aware that Orsini had been disciplined, but did not know why.
Begolly has been a student at Penn State New Kensington. Begolly's mother is a full professor with the university's engineering department, and his father has taught business classes for years on the same campus.
While attending Penn State, Begolly was interviewed for a story about a rally for Palestinians in University Park. In the story, he said he is of Chechen descent and sympathized with the Palestinians. His father testified that Begolly's maternal great-grandfather was Chechen.
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...Ooooooooooooooooookayyyyyy. Sadly, these nice folks are going to discover that when the FBI is involved, no amount of 'he's-a-good-boy-just-a-little-confused' is going to keep him outta the hoosegow.
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Begolly has been a student at Penn State New Kensington. Begolly's mother is a full professor with the university's engineering department, and his father has taught business classes for years on the same campus.
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...the government's main source of information is his estranged mother, who has some sort of relationship with the lead agent in the case, Bradley Orsini.
During a failed federal prosecution of former Allegheny County coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht, the government turned over records demonstrating that when Orsini was an agent in New Jersey, he had been repeatedly disciplined for falsifying records.
And from the Jawa Report link, above: Begolly is listed as an online student at Penn State University, meaning he doesn't necessarily attend the school in State College, Pa.
If the prosecutor has any brains, they'll throw out the case, fire Agent Orsini for inventing a case at the behest of his lover, and go after the lad's mother for inappropriately getting them involved in a family problem. The sense I get from the story is that while the lad had been a college student, he was no longer capable of leaving the farm, and mostly not capable of leaving his room... and to him the jihadi stuff was a unreal as an on-line role-playing game.
Rusty at the Jawa Report link says the lad has been an on-line presence for several years, cheering for jihad in bloodthirsty terms. It is Rusty's opinion that the lad posed no real danger himself, just that he's a poisonous little shit whose words could lead others to act. And that it was the father who introduced him to Nazi ideology.
I can understand the mother being both estranged and distressed, but bringing in the FBI was not the right way to get the boy separated from his father and into a healthier environment. A social worker would be more appropriate, although the odds for success would have been better before the lad reached his 21st birthday.
Gen. Vang Pao, an iconic figure in the Hmong community and a key U.S. ally during the Vietnam War, died today in Clovis.
Vang, 81, was admitted to Clovis Community Medical Center on Dec. 26 with pneumonia and longstanding heart problems.
Born in December 1929 to farmers in a Laotian village, he became a teenage translator for French paratroopers fighting the Japanese in Laos during World War II.
Vang was selected to train at a French officers' school in Vietnam and became a commissioned officer in the French army. Laotian leaders made Vang a general, even though the Hmong were a small ethnic minority in the country.
In 1961, Vang was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to lead a secret army of Hmong soldiers against Laotian communists and their North Vietnamese counterparts using routes through Laos to supply their troops.
When the war ended and U.S. forces pulled out of Vietnam, communists in Laos persecuted the Hmong. More than 300,000 Laotian refugees -- most of them Hmong -- began a treacherous journey to reach Thai refugee camps.
Under CIA orders, Vang was flown from his mountaintop headquarters in May 1975. He lived in Montana before moving to Orange County -- which had a growing Southeast Asian population -- and took a leadership role in the resettlement of his people.
In 1977, Vang established the Lao Family Community organization to provide social services nationwide. The nonprofit helps refugees learn English and basic life skills.
In late 2009, Vang said he planned to return to Laos -- saying it was time for reconciliation so that thousands of Hmong trapped in the jungle and refugee camps could be liberated.
But that trip was quickly canceled after the communist regime announced that Vang would be executed as a Vietnam War criminal if he returned to Laos.
Vang reportedly had six wives in Laos, where polygamy was practiced by some Hmong. Family members have said that he has about 20 children.
tu3031 isn't around so I'll do it: "Johnson, stop the presses!"
"Criminals are prepared to invest large sums of money to come up with ever better concealment methods because they know the potential profits from the awful trade in harmful drugs are considerable," Clark said. I've heard of cases where shirts were soaked in a solution full of cocaine then dried to leave the shirt impregnated with the drug. Then the cocaine was soaked back out of the shirts at their destination. Basically, everything is suspect.
PHOENIX -- A new website to draw attention to tons of trash discarded along the Arizona-Mexico border has been launched by state officials hoping to stem the flow of refuse left behind by illegal immigrants making their way into the United States.
The website, azbordertrash.gov, is also seeking volunteers to participate in cleanup efforts along Arizona's 370-mile border with Mexico.
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And the lefty tree hugging moonbats complain about my son and his dirt bike....
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"Shouldn't the headline read Mexico exports...?", he asked pedantically.
Once the legals have made their way across the border, whatever they've brought with them and dropped on this side of the border becomes an import from Mexico, SteveS. Had they stayed on the Mexican side and tossed it across, that would be an export. See how easy it is? ;-)
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Tons, I'd believe. Millions of tons stretches credulity. The USS Ronald Reagan weighs 20628 tons. According to the article, 2,000 tons a year. But even that is a stretch.
A Ford f350 pickup weighs about 6 tons. That is 333 pickups worth of trash.
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whatever they've brought with them and dropped on this side of the border becomes an import from Mexico
"Not so fast", he replied. Now you have changed the preposition. And the subject as well. I'm OK with illegals importing trash *from* Mexico (actually I'm not!), but that is still a long way from Mexico imports stuff *to* somewhere. Even though it is just across the border.
And while we're going on, shouldn't an F-350 count for a round of drinks?
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Cote d'Ivoire's internationally recognised president called today for a bloodless raid by west African special forces to snatch defiant strongman Laurent Gbagbo and "take him elsewhere" amid fears of civil war.
Mr Alassane Ouattara's call came after regional bloc Ecowas said it was prepared to use military force as a last resort to oust Gbagbo who retains control of the army and continues to defy international calls to step down.
"If he persists, it's up to EcowaS to take the necessary measures and those measures can include legitimate force," Ouattara told journalists at the Abidjan hotel where he has for weeks been besieged by Gbagbo forces.
"Legitimate force doesn't mean a force against Ivorians," he said, with the crisis threatening to plunge the west African nation back into civil war.
"It's a force to remove Laurent Gbagbo and that's been done elsewhere, in Africa and in Latin America, there are non-violent special operations which allow simply to take the unwanted person and take him elsewhere."
"Laurent Gbagbo will leave before the end of January," Mr Ouattara said.
"I have a series of measures underway that will make him fall like a fruit, not a ripe one, but like a rotten fruit," he said.
The latest bid by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union to mediate an end to the crisis that has seen at least 200 people killed since the disputed November 28 election floundered on Tuesday.
West African military chiefs have set in motion plans to oust Gbagbo if negotiations fail, with another crisis mediation mission to be decided soon.
Mr Ouattara has accused Gbagbo of criminal masterminding a campaign of rape and murder against his supporters, while the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society mission in the country said Thursday that the corpse count from the crisis continues to rise.
ICC chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, has vowed to prosecute any political crimes carried out in the wake of the disputed poll.
UN rights experts said last week they feared reports of widespread post-election violence in the Ivory Coast amounted to crimes against humanity, but that it had been prevented from fully investigating alleged atrocities. Mr Ouattara is the internationally acknowledged victor of the November 28 presidential election which was supposed to end a decade of unrest which has split the country between north and south.
Cote d'Ivoire's Independent Electoral Commission as well as the United Nations declared Ouattara the winner of the November 28 run-off poll, while the Constitutional Council said that Gbagbo won.
Both men have been sworn in as president and Gbagbo claims there is an international plot to oust him after more than a decade in power.
Mr Gbagbo's refusal to bow to international pressure has sent over 22,000 Ivorians fleeing the country amid fears of the return of civil war.
Ouattara's hotel has been protected by around 800 UN peacekeepers as well as the ex-rebel New Forces allied with his camp since troops rubbed out several of his supporters as they marched on state television on December 16.
Mr Gbagbo has demanded the former rebels go back to their northern powerbase before he will lift the siege, which his foreign minister says is there to protect Gbagbo himself and foreign diplomatic missions in the area.
With so many UN troops tied up protecting Ouattara, peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said in New York that he would seek an extra 1,000 to 2,000 reinforcements for the UN peeace-keeping mission in coming days.
Gbagbo has turned down offers of exile and amnesty for him and his camp in different countries, insisting he is the rightful president of the cocoa-rich nation.
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[Iran Press TV] A British Parliamentary Committee has put its weight behind deep offshore drilling irrespective of environmental concerns raised by oil companies over possible spills.
Oil companies warned that current plans for drilling off Scotland's Shetland Islands could cause a spill worse than the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the United States was an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed for three months in 2010. The spill stemmed from a sea-floor oil gusher that resulted from the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig kaboom. The kaboom killed 11 men working on the platform and injured 17 others.
On July 15, the leak was stopped by capping the gushing wellhead, after it had released about 4.9 million barrel, or 205.8 million gallons of crude oil.
However, The infamous However... the British Parliament Energy and Climate Change Committee rejected a moratorium after investigating the risks, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The Chairman of the Committee, MP Tim Yeo, said Britain's energy and national security depends on exploiting the newly discovered oilfields. He said safety rules could be "tightened up".
"I think the concerns are nothing like big enough to justify stopping the process," he said.
A quarter of the United Kingdom's known oil and gas reserves, about 4 billion barrels, lie in deep water off the West of Shetland. Only four fields are currently in production, but the government has granted more than 100 exploration licenses with more pending.
Ben Ayliffe of Greenpeace cited a doubling of serious accidents and a rise in spilled oil at rigs operating off the UK coast. The Marine Conservation Society calls for a moratorium on drilling in the area because of the risk to wildlife and fisheries.
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If the correct safety procedures were followed then the Mexican Gulf blow out would almost certainly not have happened.
Britain has drilled at sea since the sixties and been drilling oil at sea since 1970 and in all that time when did we ever see a GoM type of accident?
Again Press-TV is speaking kaka.
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The spill stemmed from a sea-floor oil gusher that resulted from the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig kaboom.
A flat lie
The pipe broke when the Coast Guard flooded the Deepwater Horizon,
(Using very poor firefighting procedures and after having been warned They were in danger of sinking the Deepwater Horizon.)
Sinking the Deepwater horizon and breaking the no longer supported Well Pipe.
THE SINKING CAUSED THE LEAK. Until then it was just a bad fire.
(Don't you Just love it when the Lying News Media gets Caught)
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[El Universal] The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) said that the inflation rate in 2010 amounted to 27.2 percent, higher than the 25.1 percent of 2009.
However, The infamous However... the BCV said that there is a slowing down trend which began in the second half, when prices increased by 9.3 percent, which is lower than a 16.3 percent recorded in the same period of 2009.
Prices soared 1.8 percent in December and the Central Bank conceded that the "shortage index in Caracas metropolitan area increased from 11.4 percent to 13.3 percent."
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[El Universal] Extraordinary ruling powers granted to Venezuelan His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez by a lame duck National Assembly are "an anti-democratic measure" that violates the Inter-American Democratic Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS), said Arturo Valenzuela, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
United States is willing to have a "candid dialogue" with Venezuela. Therefore, Washington "regrets" that the Venezuelan government has withdrawn the agrément on US Ambassador-designate Larry Palmer, said the top US official in a speech on US policy towards Latin America in 2011, AFP reported.
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I disagree. Chavez's powers are anti-republican to be sure, but not necessarily anti-democratic. Electing a despot was a common feature of Greek democracy. I have no desire to live in a democracy.
Reports have it that several senior Asia hands in the U.S. administration including the ambassador to Seoul will be replaced soon. No detailed plan has been announced, but speculation is rife in Washington that the Obama administration is replacing senior officials involved in Korean affairs.
National Security Council Senior Director for Asia Jeffrey Bader, who is in charge of formulating policies toward Asia including the Korean Peninsula, will likely leave his post at the NSC "weeks or months from now" after the U.S.-China summit on Jan. 19, Foreign Policy magazine reported Wednesday. Replacement candidates mentioned are Daniel Russel, director for Asian affairs at the NSC, and Michael Schiffer, deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia.
Joseph Donovan, a deputy assistant secretary of state, is being considered to replace Ambassador to South Korea Kathleen Stephens, Foreign Policy added. Stephens is in an awkward situation due to WikiLeaks' recent disclosure of her diplomatic cables. A diplomatic source said Stephens "would be naturally included in a regular reshuffle when she completes her three-year tour later this year. But it's interesting that her replacement is being talked about already."
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"It happened on Tuesday, I was coaching youth practice, and then two guys came up and one of the other coaches that was helping me out, they said there was a cop and another guy out there waiting for me. I went out there and the guy introduced himself and said he was from the Secret Service and he wanted to ask me some questions about UFC 125 and my quote. He said there were people calling in to D.C. telling them that somebody, me, was threatening the President." No, he was inviting him to fight like a man. One on one. To measure him like he'd be measured in the real world. It's an opt-in thingy.
"This guy had the whole interview on a piece of paper and it had my picture and everything. He was like is this what you said? and I said, yes it is. Hes like I want to let you know Im a little embarrassed for coming here and doing this because obviously nothing happened. He actually apologized for coming, but he had to come. He wanted to make sure I wasnt going to D.C to hurt the President."
"The thing is, I got home and I checked my e-mail and I had about 20 e-mails and one of them, one of ladies had actually contacted the FBI and the Secret Service, and she was telling me that she was going to do it." "Mommy! That a$$hole Jacob is saying mean things!"
The person who contacted Volkmann, according to the fighter, was a member of the election committee that worked for President Obamas campaign. And she's determined to prove that her efforts were in the right place and therefore did not waste a year of the life that her God gave her.
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um, you dont "fight" a head of state. This "fighter" is a meathead who probably cant think his way out of a box of rocks. I would put him up against one of the secret service guys, then he can go home, lick his wounds and think before he wants to "fight" another head of state
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Considering that the Secret Service likely has more important things to be concerned with, I hope that the lady who reported this gets a smack upside the head, or at least a good talking to.
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why not fight a head of state? that statement seems too go right along with why Americans have stod by for years while congress memebers and presidents have fucked us time and time again. Some ppl deserve an ass kicking and obama is one of them, look at how muych hye has pissed down our throats already and still has at least 2 years left.
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Two Sanitation chiefs in South Brooklyn are being reassigned: Assistant Chief Joseph Montgomery, who supervised 12 sanitation districts where the snow removal efforts were particularly troublesome and Deputy Chief Joseph Susol, who was on night duty during the storm. Any bets on what happens to their compensation or bennies after killing a baby and an old lady?
In addition the department vowed to improve training for Sanitation workers. Training manuals will be updated to reflect changes in technology and equipment. Why? They already know quite well what they are doing.
Bloomberg refused to say what Chief John Peruggia as head of the Emergency Medical Service, might have done wrong during the blizzard, especially since the heavy snow drifts caused most of the delays. My BS detector is going off . . . .
"We did not give the public the service that the public has a right to expect when it comes to ambulances and it starts with management," the mayor said. Whoops, my cover-up detector is going off now.
The ensuing outcry by stranded New Yorkers invited comparisons to the infamous 1969 blizzard that forever damaged Mayor John Lindsay's reputation. Bloomberg's popularity has also suffered with his own blizzard crisis: a January 5th NY1-Marist Poll measured the mayor's approval rating at 37 percent -- his lowest since taking office. Those must be the folks who live near where they keep the plows.
Saying a lack of information hampered snow clearing, the mayor announced that 50 Sanitation trucks assigned to Midwood, Flatbush, Ditmas Park and Kensington will be outfitted with GPS and that roving observation teams armed with video cameras will transmit live feeds back to City Hall during the upcoming storm."We plan to do a great job, the kind of job the public has come to expect us to do," the mayor said. You'll be doing a great job if you put that GPS info online for all to see.
He also hinted of more changes afoot before the City Council's public grilling next Monday over how and why the city failed during the blizzard. This ought to be good. It ought to be interesting to see how stupid you think people are.
"It's certainly not the last word on the subject," he said. It fuc&in' better not be.
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Saying a lack of information hampered snow clearing, the mayor announced that 50 Sanitation trucks assigned to Midwood, Flatbush, Ditmas Park and Kensington will be outfitted with GPS and that roving observation teams armed with video cameras will transmit live feeds back to City Hall during the upcoming storm."We plan to do a great job, the kind of job the public has come to expect us to do," the mayor said
New job opportunities:
GPS Installers and technicians.........starting salary $210,000. Roving work watchers ....starting salary $161,000. Union membership required.
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Best and simplest solution: decertify the union, and contract out garbage collection like most other large cities do.
Make snowplows part of the traffic and roads department, and equip the dump trucks needed for that with plows, and sand/de-icing dispensers that fit into the dump beds.
Best and simplest solution: decertify the union, and contract out garbage collection like most other large cities do.
You left out "execute the criminals who murdered two people by their negligence".
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JFM taught me the verb "Limogere" a while ago. In WWI, France reassigned incompetent generals to Limoges, which was a hundred miles from the action. So "Limogere" means "to transfer someone to a place where they can't do any harm."
I wonder where these gentlemen have been Limogered to? Or whether they can do any more harm in their new position?
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OldSpook, that means New Yolk would have to do things the same way my village does. We all know New Yolkers are better than us peasants in the heartland; no way they'll copy what works for us.
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Big deal. So they put GPS units on 50 trucks. Those 50 stay busy. They probably have hundreds of trucks - those don't need to do anything.
And the "roving observation teams" would probably end up stuck in the snow like the rest of the peons - so they might as well stop at the nearest 7-11 and pick up a couple of six packs to wait it out.
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as one who, by contract, belongs to the despicable public bargaining units, I say:
Fuck em. Those bastards that gave the direction should be up on criminal and civil charges for the injuries, deaths, and suffering that occurred due to their "work slowdown". I pay only the minimal dues for bargaining and do not belong to their PAC. I would NEVER do such a thing to the public that employs me, and I detest the union fucks that do.
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The state is in for a rough ride, with spending cuts and tax increases expected over Mr Brown's term. But help may be at hand from Nicolas Berggruen, the so-called "homeless billionaire", who has assembled a small group of economic lightweights business and political heavyweights -- including Condoleezza Rice, former California governor Gray Davis and Google's Eric Schmidt -- to formulate proposals to reform the state's tax and revenue base. I guess they may have another year before they have to learn Spanish.
No doubt they'll come up with a detailed list of eminently workable proposals, which will be ignored by the politicians as dangerously disturbing the status quo ante.
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I remember when California's debt problems first came to light. Then Governor Gray Davis said one of the reasons for the budget deficit was that they did not anticipate the bursting of the dot com bubble. I figured right then and there that they guy is either felony stupid or crooked or both. Anybody who knew anything about the dot com bubble could have seen that is was nothing but a fraud from the get go. None of those companies was making any money. If Condoleeezza Rice had any brains or integrity she would run, not walk, away from this group of economic pinheads as fast as her little legs could carry her.
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And furthermore, if Jerry Brown indicates in any way at all that he wants to change or repeal Proposition 13 I will fully commit myself along with millions of other Californians to recall his silly ass.
Guess all that methane didn't exacerbate Gerbil Worming after all....
Scientists investigating the fate of the oil and natural gas that spewed into the Gulf of Mexico during last year's BP spill established quickly that bacteria had consumed much of the propane and ethane that leaked from the well.
Now they have found that bacteria also made short order of the most abundant hydrocarbon released during the spill methane probably consuming most of the 200,000 tons the well ejected within 120 days of the onset of the leak from the ruptured well, according to research published Thursday in the journal Science.
The discovery was a surprise, Or, as Glenn Reynolds would snark, "unexpected"
said David Valentine, a professor of microbial geochemistry at UC Santa Barbara and a member of the research team.
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Who would have thought that the Earth would have a natural process to restore balance from a naturally occurring material? It is insanity I tell you!!! INSANITY!!!
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I think I commented back at the time that these little guys have lived around oil and gas fields for eons. There is and always was naturally occurring leakage in such areas. Somehow life seems to adapt to whatever food is present (the bacteria that thrives on sulfuric acid and can't tolerate oxygen springs to mind). If the good Doctor was 'surprised' that microscopic (or any) life is and always was adaptable, then he doesn't understand nor deserve his 'microbial' degree.
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A professor of microbial geochemistry who is surprised that bacteria eat inorganic stuff? That's first year Micro, Professor dude!
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Didn't somebody report on these bacteria a few months ago? Either the reporters, or some of the scientists, must have just woken up next to Rip van Winkle.
Two studies strongly suggest some people have a genetic predisposition to autism, the NIH says. "Identical twin studies show that if one twin is affected, there is a 90 percent chance the other twin will be affected." Not necessarily to the same degree, it sounds.
Dr. Eric Hollander, who was director of the Seaver and New York Autism Center of Excellence in 2008, told CNN.com at the time that "of all neuropsychiatric disorders, there's a stronger genetic predisposition for autism. It's also clear that early environmental experiences can play an important role in modifying how these genes develop." And there's your answer, Anonymoose. :-)
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There needs to be a caution that, as with other spectrum medical conditions, there is a tendency to try and fit similar conditions into the spectrum. Just a brief search on the web shows several people asserting that by some means, autism was "cured".
But often it wasn't autism in the first place, but something else that had been misdiagnosed as autism.
Physicians and psychiatrists can't really be blamed for this, as they have no means to accurately diagnose autism in its early stages, except by a few traits that overlap into other conditions.
Even the newly discovered "abnormally high" amounts of white matter in the brain, seen in older autistics, may be shared with other conditions.
The Falls Church (Virginia) News Press has hired Helen Thomas (former UPI badger reporter). She has a weekly column. Her first column opposes Social Security privatization and shows an astounding lack of understanding of the issues as well as egregiously poor writing.
The clueless editor of the Falls Church newspaper interviewed Ms Thomas for 8 hours (God help him) and found no anti semitism, etc. although he seems not to have read her actual writings or heard her statement on Youtube. Given that it is a free paper, it would be pointless to cancel one's subscription - but why not try?
Of course, the editor probably believes it to be in his own interest to act clueless about her contempt for Jews. His paper has never received so much publicity, and I hear that the newspaper racket business is brutal.
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C'mon now, folks. She probably has to get up real early to get all those papers delivered...
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.
A Penn State University student, accused of posting pro-jihad messages online, should stay in jail on charges of assaulting two FBI agents, a federal prosecutor argued Thursday.
His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez
"It happened on Tuesday, I was coaching youth practice, and then two guys came up and one of the other coaches that was helping me out, they said there was a cop and another guy out there waiting for me. I went out there and the guy introduced himself and said he was from the Secret Service and he wanted to ask me some questions about UFC 125 and my quote. He said there were people calling in to D.C. telling them that somebody, me, was threatening the President."
The state is in for a rough ride, with spending cuts and tax increases expected over Mr Brown's term. But help may be at hand from Nicolas Berggruen, the so-called "homeless billionaire", who has assembled a small group of 
