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Ahahaha, I'm speechless. We had a string of sex-related court incidents here over the years, including a judge playing with himself during trials, or an attorney using the court at night to shoot "charm pics" with minors, but this beats them all. The "shaving his scrotum during a baby murder trial" bit would be too much even in a Wayan bros movie.
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Based on these comments, I'll pass on the article.
Too bad, you'll miss the "flesh colored, then raw and then finally purplish" description. I didn't saw that in the Ally Mc Beal courtroom sequences, which is a shame, it would have greatly enhanced that show which badly needed an exactly similar character.
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In her testimony Monday, Foster described Thompson's penis, which she claimed to have seen both flaccid and erect. She said at first it was flesh colored, but over time started looking "raw" and then finally purplish.
I... I just don't know what to say.
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"...flesh colored, but over time started looking "raw" and then finally purplish."
Ah...the rare and elusive Chameleon Penis Judiciary!
A Jacksonville man says he was duped and robbed by two girls after attempting to meet with a 'woman' he met on the internet. The victim says he chatted online with a 'woman', known on her MySpace.com profile as “Natalia”, for two weeks before deciding to meet with her. He says her profile showed sexy photos, and a blurb which said “just lookin’ for something fun”. That brief, friendly description was all he knew about her before they planned to meet. "She sent me a message saying she thought she met me somewhere," says the victim.
They decided to meet at what she called her home at the Bentley Green Apartments. “I went to [the apartment] and knocked on the door, and there was no answer. So I called her and said, ‘I'm here’ and there was no answer." That is when two girls who were 14 and 15-years-old, approached him saying they knew Natalia, the girl he thought he'd be meeting. They also said they knew where he worked at what car he drove. "This was not the girl that the picture was of on MySpace," the victim said.
Now sensing something was wrong, he was ready to take off, but was stopped by a shocking discovery.
That you weren't gonna get it on with two girls instead of one?
"[One of the girls] took [a] gun out and put it to my head and told me to empty my pockets."
That's when he filled his pants
The girls didn't get much because the victim had forgotten his wallet.
It's like he didn't want to have ID on him
They let him go, unharmed, and he called police. Police did a search of the area and found the two teens with another male suspect. They searched a purse and found two loaded handguns.
Myspace.com may have been developed for friends and music, but this victim had to find out the hard way that not everyone is logging on for the right reasons.
Like meeting teenage girls for sex?
The so-called Natalia did tell the victim that she was 18, so he was shocked to learn he was actually talking to a 14-year-old.
Yeah, right
He says he has since removed personal information from his MySpace profile, like his salary and the kind of car that he drives. Those teenagers are now charged with armed robbery and carrying a concealed firearm.
Does the guy have an 'L' branded on his forehead? If not, why not?
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5089 did you get 'em all? They're a huge legacy. I can understand why .com would want you to have them. Altho he promised me the pretty pony in the car.
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Underage? The "girl" claimed to be 18... the last time I checked 18 was legal. No reason to get get threatened with a bullet to the head for tryin' to hook up with a consenting adult.
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I've been out of the 'burg for a lil' while too, although I remember some knock-down/drag-outs starting b/w .com and the mods over sinktrapping. I understand the mods need to do so, but I miss .com's insane comebacks to all the bark ravin' mad moonbats that'd show up. Hope all is well with him.
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His email address is not blocked, but it seems like a black hole. Some of us RBers cc him on emails, but no answer. Does not look good.
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I hope he's okay to. I remember the days when him and Not Mike Moore used to fight - classic.
EUREKA - A suicide gone wrong may have claimed an innocent victim early Saturday morning, when a bullet apparently passed through a young man and then fatally struck a teenage bystander. That's the story from family and friends of Lorena Mocko, a 16-year-old girl found dead at a house south of Eureka.
Authorities have remained tight-lipped about the incident, except to say that her body was found near that of Jacob Randal Lee, 19, at about 1 a.m. Saturday. Lee, officers said, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
But while investigators have said little about Mocko, friends in her hometown of Fernie, British Columbia, say officials in Lincoln County confirmed to them that the two teens were at a party when Lee shot himself. The bullet apparently passed through Lee's head, striking Mocko in the chest.
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HOUSTON -- Train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, linked to at least 15 indiscriminate murders near railroad tracks around the country, was headed for the Texas death chamber Tuesday. The Mexican drifter known as the "Railroad Killer" was set to be executed for the slaying of physician Claudia Benton 7Å“ years ago. She was killed during a deadly spree in 1998 and 1999, which earned Resendiz a spot on the FBI's Most Wanted list as authorities searched for a murderer who slipped across the U.S. border and roamed the country by freight train.
Benton, 39, who was stabbed with a kitchen knife, struck 19 times with a 2-foot-tall bronze statue and raped in her home eight days before Christmas in 1998 in the Houston enclave of West University Place, just down the street from a railroad track. Her husband, George Benton, no longer lives in the state but planned to witness Resendiz's lethal injection Tuesday. "The main reason I came to Texas for this is to make the statement that people have to understand what evil really is," he told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "And the death penalty, this sort of conclusion to heinous killers, is the appropriate solution."
I'm sure there will be somebody standing around out in front of the big house holding a candle and looking doleful. The nice thing about the death penalty is that it cuts the recidivism rate so nicely.
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I understand that in Saudi Arabia the way they deal with this kind of thing is that the family of the victim has the right to either personally behead the criminal or pardon him while he's kneeling there at the chopping block. Hmm . . . .
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Lethal injection, it's just so . . . wimpy. I prefer the noose myself.
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That's why I like the death penalty to - no recidivism and the human carbon blob in question no longer wastes are oxygen or fills our sewers with their excretement. Adios Angel (I know it's a typical mexi-name but what an ironic first name, just glad he wasn't named Jesus.) Personally, I'd prefer to see him publicly dealt with.
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Just make sure you execute the right guy (gal).
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Seems AP can't use use the words "illegal alien" much like European press can't use the world "muslim". My city just got done convicting an illegal alien of the rape and murder of two young women. Law abiding my ass.
As Investors Business Daily reported in March 2005:
"The U.S. Justice Department estimated that 270,000 illegal immigrants served jail time nationally in 2003. Of those, 108,000 were in California. Some estimates show illegals now make up half of California's prison population, creating a massive criminal subculture that strains state budgets and creates a nightmare for local police forces." Citing an Urban Institute study, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies Steven Camorata noted in 2004: "Roughly 17 percent of the prison population at the federal level are illegal aliens. That's a huge number since illegal aliens only account for about 3 percent of the total population."
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Given what the Alien does in Ridley Scott's movie I am not eager to have in town, legal or illegal.
There was an illegal here in eastern NC that killed a woman while he was DUI recently. Had a background of misconduct in our country but was never deported. Pathetically sad.
Right. I finally found the summary of AVP and the end is idiotic and reeks of prelude for another sequel(in their dreams given how angry the fans are): an Alien in a Predator spaceship (yeah right: Predators aren't aware of what can hide in the corpse of those killed during the test so they don't monitor them, also it would be a single unmature Alien versus a whole crew of adult Predators who passed the test with flying colors) and the action scene I saw in movie was silly: the Predator kicks Alien's ass, gets it in a net and instead of finishing it at his leisure, lets it melt the net (you would think Predators have developed Alien-proof nets isn't it?), falls in cheap trick and gets himself killed. Ridiculous.
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Severely OT : Re the Aliens and Predator universe, IIRC thanks to the good Dark Horse comics series I used to read and quite a few novels I didn't read, the background was in fact much more expanded and well-thought/coherent than what transpired in the AVP movie (which I didn't bother to watch due to cheesiness factor, will get it on cable)... but alas, the movie reigns supreme in the franchise universe, so all the post-"Aliens" comics, and their centuries spanning arcs describing the expansion of the bio-engineered aliens, the footsoldiers of a "seeders" race, across the universe, the invasion of Earth, etc, etc,... were made apocryphia by "Alien 3" and "Alien 4", though they were much more interesting story-wise. Ditto for the Predators, and the Aliens vs Predators angle.
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Already executed I believe. I saw Nancy Grace CNN interview one of the relatives of one of the (many) victims. Grace asked if she (the relative) thought Resendiz could be rehabilitated. The victim's relative was nearly speechless at the question. The Communist News Network (CNN) once again scored a news scoop (much cynicism implied). CNN is no better than the NYT and the rest of the MSM scum-swilling bottom feeders that call themselves journalists.
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Nancy Grace CNN interview one of the relatives of one of the (many) victims. Grace asked if she (the relative) thought Resendiz could be rehabilitated
Sure, he can be rehabilitated...thats what Dante's fifth concentric circle of hell is for.
The State of Texas just needed to provide the ground transportation.
Friday was a typical night in the emergency room at Howard County General Hospital, busy, but virtually silent - until the 20 to 30 angry people showed up.
Howard County General's your typical suburban hospital. I think the county's the second richest per-capita in Maryland, so this isn't your typical cityburb.
About midnight, a rowdy crowd tried to push, scream and shove its way past police officers and locked doors into the triage area, where 20-year-old Anthony James Owen-Smith had died after being shot during a fight in Columbia less than an hour earlier.
The county's got a minuscule crime rate compared to Baltimore City, or even to Baltimore County...
Some climbed over the receptionists' counter - the only unlocked route to Owen-Smith. Three people were arrested and three suffered minor injuries in the brawl, including one Howard County police officer, according to police and hospital officials. "This is highly unusual for Howard County," said spokeswoman Mary Patton, who said the 187-bed hospital was put on yellow alert, meaning that ambulances were discouraged from bringing patients there until the situation calmed down.
You might say that. I used to drive an ambo to HCG and never saw anything close to that...
Patton said it was the worst violence she's seen at the hospital - which is best-known for its maternity ward - in her six years there. "What was unexpected was the number of people" involved, she said.
"Normally, we don't get a lot of howling mobs here..."
Police were saying little yesterday about the chaotic scene at the hospital or what relationship, if any, the intruders had to the victim. A hospital report said that officers from Howard and Montgomery counties and state police responded to quell the disturbance. Howard County police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said that 20-year-old Britney Miles, 24-year-old Austin Reidemonn and a 17-year-old male were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. According to court records, the fatal shooting that apparently sparked the incident occurred about 11:30 p.m. Friday. According to police, a witness saw two people leave the scene of the shooting - one carrying a handgun - near the Kings Crossing community entrance in the 8900 block of Early April Way in Columbia.
Columbia's a planned community. Most of it's still pretty pricy, but it's a mix of single family housing, condos and apartments. Because of the comfortable income levels there, there's been pressure for the past 20 years or so to move the C*O*P*S set into the area in the belief that middle class work habits will rub off. King's Crossing used to be a Beaver Cleaver neighborhood, though it would seem to have changed since the last time I was there.
Court records state that Michael Dean Jackson, 28, of Skyrock Court in Columbia whom police suspect was the man with the handgun, later confessed to the killing, saying it was the result of a fight with Owen-Smith that started earlier Friday. "Jackson stated that Owen-Smith and his friends had come into his neighborhood to beat up [Jackson] and his brother," the charging documents state. "Jackson advised that he shot Owen-Smith in self defense."
Did he advise why he was packing a rod in the first place?
Llewellyn would not say how many times Owen-Smith, of Howard Hills Drive in Savage, was shot. She said that police were still trying to learn how many people witnessed the shooting and that detectives had not confirmed what sparked the argument. Jackson was being held at the Howard County Detention Center yesterday on $500,000 bond, which must be posted in full.
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Putting rotten apples in barrels of good apples does not make the rotten apples better.
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This is Jim Florio redux. Christine Whitman beat Florio like a drum after the sales tax was previously hiked. Dems are resisting because they know that if they go along, the GOP is going to gain majorities in both houses of the state legislature, come the next election.
Is she a friend/relative of Beavis and Butthead?
A PERTH woman has been shot in the face by a spud gun as she peered down the barrel of the homemade weapon. The 24-year-old received serious facial injuries when hit in the face with a solid paper ball after the gun accidentally fired. Police said she had found her boyfriend's gun, designed to fire potatoes and other projectiles at high speed, in a shipping container in their backyard.
She picked it up and looked down the barrel as she placed it on the ground. "But the spud-gun ignition switch fired and a solid paper ball hit her in the face," a police spokesman said.
NRA Life Member note: Always treat every gun like it's loaded.
Officers are yet to interview the woman, who is being treated in Royal Perth Hospital. Attempted Darwin award suicide.
Her now ex boyfriend has been summonsed to appear in court at a later date on a charge of possessing a controlled weapon.
A Massachusetts lawmaker is trying to get himself out of a sticky situation by dropping his opposition to Marshmallow Fluff. An amendment proposed by Sen. Jarrett Barrios to limit the availability of Fluff in schools sparked impassioned defense of the marshmallow spread, a lunch box staple of children for generations.
The proposal was panned on talk radio, and another lawmaker even suggested legislation to make the Fluffernutter - a Fluff and peanut butter sandwich - the official state sandwich. Colin Durrant, spokesman for Barrios, D-Cambridge, said Barrios was abandoning the proposed amendment to the school nutrition bill. Barrios originally proposed the limitation after he learned his third-grade son was given a Fluffernutter as his school lunch. "It got to the point where the larger story overshadowed or obscured his original goal, which was to have a discussion about what is a healthy and nutritious meal for kids in school," Durrant said Tuesday.
Hrumpf. When I was a lad in school we got meatloaf and liked it, by Gawd!
You was deprived!!
This explains so much ...
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Back in my day, we were allowed to bring in road kill game to eke out the hardtack and moon shine served in our public schools.
Yes, I'm from Tennessee, why do you ask?
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Eat Cold Cut + PBJ deli death, hippies - there goes the Food Pyramid. Naturally of course, MA's dentists will vote against it a'fore voting for it.
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Turnip greens and collards were a staple in South Alabama. I don't like either one. People would feed the turnips to the hogs and eat the greens. We always had fish sticks on Friday. Of course back then the lunches only cost a quarter.
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Cheese-burger turnovers and tater tots was the best school meal when I was a kid.
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I forget what it's called, but I was always fond of the dish with ground beef on the bottom, then a layer of corn topped with mashed potatos.
Needed those calories to walk through miles of snow drifts to school fighting off the packs of wolves.
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As my wife pointed out last night, if Barrios and his "husband" are so concerned about what their kid eats, tell them to get off their asses in the morning and make the kid's lunch.
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I am a devotee of the Flying Saucer, fried balogna, topped with mashed potatoes and a dab of American Cheese-like food.
Google Image seems to have supressed the String.
But seriously I expect for stuff like the above most of the stuff was okay - to pretty darn good. My elementary skools cinnamon rolls and vegetable soup were awesome.
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Fiestadas and corn were always my favorite. Of course, I'm probably a lil' younger than most here, and even I saw the dawning of options in our school, such as a salad bar and a "health food" line, but they always had the unhealthy stuff too. BTW, this was in a (at the time) mostly rural "suburb" of Atlanta.
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6, that's a Baloney Boat! We would get it with a triangle of cheese sticking up out of the smashed taters like a sail.
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Jeebus, DB, I'd forgotten about that variant.... I have a picture somewhere of those.
What, Taxachusetts has taken care of all the real problems, like murder, theft, rape, robbery, Kennedy & Kerry, and overtaxation? Marshmallow fluff is all they've got left to legislate about?
Wotta maroon.
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Marshmallow fluff is all they have the moral courage to deal with.
THE case of a poor mother from the Chinese countryside hired to breastfeed an affluent city-dweller's baby has stoked controversy over the ethics of the ancient practice of wet nursing.
Professional wet nurses have appeared in major cities across China, the Beijing News reported today, fuelled by rising incomes and a demand for healthy milk.
China has been dogged by a number of health scares regarding bogus baby milk formula. In 2004, at least 13 babies died from malnutrition in the impoverished eastern province of Anhui after being fed fake baby milk.
But the right of a woman to sell her breast milk, an occupation in China, that like the West, disappeared decades ago, has sparked heated debate, the Beijing News said.
Yue Jiangmei, a 22-year-old mother from China's northern Hebei province, left her baby with a relative to work in Wenzhou, a city in the booming eastern province of Zhejiang, the Beijing News said.
"My daughter was seven months old and able to be nourished with baby food and milk powder," the paper quoted Yue as saying.
She responded to an advertisement offering five times her salary, or about 4000 yuan ($680) a month, to work as a wet nurse for a Wenzhou family.
"The company trained her for a week, which included knowledge of breast care, baby massage exercises, post-pregnancy exercises ..." the paper quoted Hu Wei, a manager at the company, as saying.
"She was also taught Tang dynasty poems and lullabies," Hu said.
Yue's case has fired debate, the paper said, on whether wet-nursing can be regarded as "ethical work".
"Some people say ... children of rich families have breast milk while cash buys the rights of the mother's own child to enjoy her mother's milk."
Hu thought the market potential for wet nurses huge.
"The affluent level of society has the purchasing power, while the high wages will attract many women," Hu said, adding that professionals were appearing in major cities across China.
"Given the market has this demand, this shows that there is value and reason in it."
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Yeah, much better that poor people should have no money.
4000 RMB is a pretty dang good salary in China. My foreign English teacher friends make 6000, and the girls in the office work a whole month of 6-day weeks for 2000.
THREE mischievous teenagers used a fruit-firing bazooka in a Melbourne park, endangering a colony of protected bats, a court was told today.
The trio used the 2m homemade weapon to fire oranges at a colony of grey-headed flying foxes at Yarra Bend Park, in Melbourne's east. But the shots were heard by a group of golfers who dobbed the young men in.
The teenagers sat sheepishly in Heidelberg Magistrates Court today as their solicitor Andrew Robinson pleaded with the magistrate to let them off lightly, saying: "Boys do what boys do." Jonathon Welst, 19, of Kew, Alexander Tulloch, 18, of Templestowe, and Samuel Hall, 18, of Balwyn, faced seven charges including disturbing wildlife, and six charges under the Victorian Firearms Act.
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One deep bush job that I had required using deisel fired lighting, which attracted thousands of bugs. It was fascinating to watch bats skillfully picking off flying insects at will. Bats are much more productive than the Oz brats who intimidate that useful creature.
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Much as I adore bats (if anyone is interested, I'd be happy to post links for plans to build properly researched bathouses), to me this falls under the "boys can't help being boys" heading. Not every mischievous bahaviour need be criminalized.
I pity the kids growing up in todays nanny state. If all of these laws were in place when I was growing up I'd prolly be locked up for life.
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Much safer than the Marbles we used to fire with out home made "firecraker cannon" We found some embeded in the asphalt a block and a half away. Now the firecrackers are illegal mand necessity is the mother of invention.
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The bats are just an excuse to make what they did sound worse. Hell, if there had been endangered crayfish in the park, they would have said the cannon was disturbing them.
If they were serious, they should have emphasized how such cannon can explode and cripple those who are firing it. The bats thing was just being PC.
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I love bats. When I was in Iraq I had a whole load of them living outside my room up in the cement fissures of our old iraqi barracks. I would have to time coming back at night and out the door in the morning for fear of walking through the lot of them coming to and fro from hunting excursions.
12 or 13 yr old kids I could see doing this. These 18 or 19 yr olds need to get a life. $300.00 & a letter seems fair to me. In the future these losers should find some girls to chase w/their "fruit bazooka".
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Did you notice a funky smell comming from the area directly below the bats Broadhead? They are cute and usefull, but damn, those little bastards stink to high hell.
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despite their reputation of being able to use their sonar flawlessly the critters used to crash into us often enough when we would enter or exit tunnels.
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Skidmark, recent research shows that it takes to the age of 25 for the human brain to mature, giving up the poor impulse control of childhood. This was indeed a real, "Here, hold my beer!" activity -- but the boys I knew when I was that age were just as likely to do such things at eighteen as at fourteen, and at eighteen they had enough math and physics to make their little projects much more interesting. Admittedly we were East Coast university offspring (not one of the expensive ones, unfortunately, but the principle still holds), which means we were much slower to mature than even normal English-speaking kids, but still.
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My buds and I put hundreds of the stick match tips (no longer available) into a spent CO2 cartridge and launched it from a pipe.
It penetrated a house several blocks away, but left a smoke trail back to us. We scattered before gathering trajectory data.
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I love bats. Used to have some in my attic. We used to sit at dusk and watch them drop and fly. You could get a flashlight and watch them mass to make the drop out of the thin opening. They'd be all sleepy, yawing ....so cute. But yes, they stink peeyew! Finally had to put the one way net on the opening so they could get out but not back in.
What are the odds that a sick bat will endanger my family with rabies?
Fewer than ten people in over 50 years have contracted rabies from North American bat species that commonly live in bat houses. Like all mammals, bats can contract rabies, though very few do (less than half of one percent). Unlike many other animals, even rabid bats rarely become aggressive. They quickly die from the disease, and outbreaks in their colonies are extremely rare.
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big or small I really like most critters and bats are no exception that rule.
But there are certain critters that do BUGS me. For instance parasitic assholes that fly, like mosquitoes, biting flies, biting knats, kissing bugs, walipi tigers, and a number of other jungle unknowables that sucked the blood and then took off. Leaches aint much fun either but at least they haven't learned to fly...YET..
Although I've been nailed by bees, wasps, yellow jackets, scorpions, spiders, and various ants they don't bugs me so much... huummm.
It's the BLOOD SUCKERS [hummmm, Kofi Annan?] that hunt humans for their next meal that I despise!
recapulation: BATS are professional killers of bugs that suck blood and fly.
in conclusion: So Bats is kool and do Rule But should NEVER be confused with moon-bats!
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Someone mentioned bats in the attic. Sorry, but chase them away. Bats carry fleas which first breed in large numbers in attics and then move throughout the entire house.
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17 pints divided by how many games so far? Its like 5 or so pints a game by my estimate. In my day we had 5 pints before we woke up in the morning, yeah, that's the ticket.
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There stands a very sad white cross farm at gate as you exit Fort Hood, TX. A sign over it reads, "You survived the war, now survive the highway." I personally don't give a damn what he thinks or says about MLK, or illegal aliens, foreign cars, or the price of bailed hay. He's an elected official and the voters can kick him out or re-elect him as they wish. My guess is he'll be re-elected until he decides to retire. If he targets speeding GI's and slows a few of them down, good on him, he may have just saved some kid's life.
The famously liberal city of Berkeley is expected to become the first in the nation to put forth a ballot measure calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The City Council will decide tonight whether to put the measure on the Nov. 7 ballot, at a cost of about $10,000. The measure, if approved, would create a task force to monitor the president and vice president, who backers of the initiative say should be impeached because of the Iraq war, federal wiretapping and other issues.
Dozens of cities, including San Francisco and Oakland, have approved resolutions advocating impeachment, but Berkeley could be the first to let voters decide. The initiative by the city's Peace and Justice Commission and backed by Mayor Tom Bates, first arose in 2004 but never made it past the City Council because some thought it distracted from the presidential election.
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Ooooooooooh! A "task force"! Will they have a Committee for Big Giant Puppets?
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Some people don't have enough to do. Others don't know what to do. And others don't know what they're doing. Then there's Berkeley. It's like these guys have been smoking grass so long they only have two brain cells left and one of them is lonely. For entertainment, that one brain cell deals with keeping up with the latest cannabis technology and tie-die fashion trends, impeaching Bush, and personal hygiene. I'll bet it has a hard time getting its dendrites on LSD anymore because it can't remember how to spell it.
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Saint Bill abused or allegedly raped women of the Dem caucus, claimed to be POTUS by elex fraud, committed perjury and misled a lawful investigation, and gave tech and secrets to Amer's enemies, besides him and the Demoleft-MSM also immorally taking credit for the prosperity wrought on 1990's America by the Reagan-GOP economy, ergo erect a statue. The Reagan-GOP economy verified Leftism-Socialism once, before and forever, ergo the Lefties don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore forever, ergo 9-11 where all America [West] is now in a de facto WAR TO THE DEATH where it must either be voluntarily or forcibly suborned to OWG and Socialism , or it will be destroyed. D*** It, ERECT THE STATUE TO CLINTON. NAME THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER. To paraphrase KRAUTHAMMER > SAY IT WITH ME, BERKELEY, YOU AND ALL THE US LEFT WILL STILL BE GULAGGED IFF NOT EXTERMINATED LIKE THE REST OF US. The Chicom plan to politely exterminate 200Milyuhn-plus of Amer's 300Milyuhn [plus = all] DOES NOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN LEFTIE, MODER- CENTRIST, OR RIGHTIE. DEM OR GOP, CAPITALIST vs SOCIALIST, MASON vs DIXON, WHITE vs NON-WHITE, BERKELEY vs SAN FRANCISCO vs LA, FLOWERS-IN-YOUR-HAIR vs BUSINESS SUIT/
NECKTIE, ..................................@etal!
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Even ALAN ALDA's character of HAWKEYE did what he was told to do with a gun pointing at him, when he realized that his quips were not going to save him no matter how compromising or reasonable he was. ALDA = HAWKEYE did it to save his skin, and so will youse.
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Just lemme' know when you guys let fly. I work on the Hill (LBNL) and would like a little time to at least get to the only shelter up there I know about (albeit probably a poor one given its location and facing, but when you have only minutes...) or over the ridegline if I have the time (20 minutes, maybe less if I really know there's a big one on the way).
We'll try. Sometimes it gets a bit busy here and we forget about the details, though.
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"The famously liberal city of Berkeley is expected to become the first in the nation to put forth a ballot measure calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney."
Well sure, if ya want to. Must be in Dire Need™ of distractions since they closed the fairgrounds and turned it into an Old Croaks Home. You guys could probably get cable installed, y'know. Well, anyway, good luck with that.
#13
These people ar idiots studying to be morons. And not studying too hard at that.
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Well, I hope they had fun wasting $10,000. Seeing as everything they have issue w/has proven to be legal under the U.S. Constitution. After this fails maybe they can raise another $10,000 and try to impeach the constitution.
#15
Maybe Kentucky should vote on invading Berkeley with beer swilling, 4X4 pickup driving, violently liquored up, hicks and beating the tar out of every stinky, long-haired hippie that comes under our dread gaze. That would pass with at least 2/3 vote and probably be a state ammendment.
#18
The news here (Sacramento) had a good clip of Saint Cindy prostrating herself to the council. I would think the city council had better things to do than passing stupid resolutions. Then again they only need to take another hit on the bong and it will all make sense to them.
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Maybe Kentucky should vote on invading Berkeley with beer swilling, 4X4 pickup driving, violently liquored up, hicks and beating the tar out of every stinky, long-haired hippie that comes under our dread gaze
We're still working on Chicago, give us a little time. Before the passes close tho, God willing.
#21
Having spent a couple of years in Berkeley in a past life, I would point out that not only does the town have a number of moonbeans running the place, but that the geology has gifted them with a major fault- the Hayward- that disects the town along its length, and literally crosses through the football stadium at Cal. When this one pops, and it is well overdue, you will see a Blue State running up a Red Flag that will make New Orleans look like a rained out picnic. Mnay of the major arteries through the Bay Area will be whacked, leaving every urban nightmare possible to be covered 24/7 for months by BBC and CNN. Good Morning America will cover it live, and Barbera Pelosi will play the Gov Landrau role.
And ya know what??? It will all be Bushes fault too.
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When this one pops, and it is well overdue, you will see a Blue State running up a Red Flag that will make New Orleans look like a rained out picnic.
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The other big indicator is schools. It was hard to move homes built on the fualt so the land was used for public purposes such as schools, hospitals and the Warren Freeway. Somehow, the later one seems appropriate. And yes, it is state route 13.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino will not allow state troopers to bolster city police manpower in bullet-scarred neighborhoods of Boston because he disagrees with Gov. Mitt Romney's position on arresting potential Democrat voters illegal immigrants. Last week, Romney - who has offered to deploy State Police in the city - asked the federal government to approve a plan that would allow troopers to arrest potential Democrat voters illegal immigrants based solely on their inclination to vote Democrat immigration status. "Governor Romney's new edict to stop every potential Democrat voter immigrant out there is a problem," Menino told the Herald in an interview this morning. "His stance on potential Democrat voters immigrants is troublesome to me. Boston is a city of potential Democrat voters immigrants."
Menino, along with a coalition of city ministers, is expected to present a public safety proposal to Romney today that does not call for the use of State Police in city neighborhoods. The Boston Police Department already uses troopers in specialized units such as the Youth Violence Strike Force and narcotics investigations. But Menino said he will not allow them to patrol city streets.
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"Boston is a city of immigrants."
-That's right Menino, get your coalition of weasels and apologists together and put forth your touch feely rationalizations over what's right for the sovereignty of your country you pathetic twit. I love how Menino attempts to confuse Romney's intent wrt immigrants vs. illegal aliens. Illegal aliens need to go, and that includes the 50,000 or so Irish illegals who I am self-admittedly partial to. God bless Romney for showing some grapefruits.
#2
Menino's main issue with this is that it'd piss off the BPD unions. No OT, no details, it'd cost them some serious money.
Besides, his gun buyback program will solve everything. And it's "enormous", so nobody will know who you are...
#3
The only way we will ever be rid of these rat bastards it to make it a very serious crime to hire an illegal. A penalty far outweighing the supposed benefits of it. If they can't get work, they won't come, period.
Too bad... Marine whose photo made him war icon had just renewed vows
An Iraq war veteran whose photograph in the Los Angeles Times and profile in The Chronicle made him an icon of the war filed for divorce less than three weeks after a wedding paid for by a sympathetic public.
James Blake Miller first came to the public's attention in a 2004 Los Angeles Times photo, in which the grubby, exhausted Marine lance corporal takes a break from combat in Fallujah with a cigarette dangling from his lips. The picture earned him the nickname "Marlboro Man."
Miller, 21, filed for divorce from his wife Jessica, 23, on June 20. The two had been married for more than a year, but renewed their vows June 3 at a formal event at a Pike County, Ky., golf course paid for by well-wishers who had read about Miller's struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder in The Chronicle and elsewhere.
Miller -- who publicly discussed his battles with PTSD -- said Monday that he was still deeply grateful to those who paid for the wedding, but that dealing with day-to-day issues on top of his stress from the war had become too much to deal with.
"I'm looking for time to try to figure out what exactly I need to do -- not just for me and Jessica, but for myself as well," he said. "I love Jessica, I really do ... but I can't be with her."
Jessica Miller said she still hopes the couple can work out their issues.
"I think neither one of us recognized the scope of post-traumatic stress disorder, and what it does to you and what it does to people around you," she said. "Now he's got to figure out how to deal with PTSD before he can deal with me."
Like her husband, Jessica Miller said she was grateful to all those that have helped the couple in the past months.
"Now, more than ever, he needs our support and for everybody to respect his privacy and let him clear his head," she said.
According to the Department of Veterans Affairs and other organizations, male veterans with PTSD are more likely to report marital problems than veterans without PTSD. Military mental health experts have suggested that may be linked to the recent surge in military divorce rates. Between 2001 and 2004, for example, divorces among active-duty Army officers and enlisted personnel nearly doubled, even though troop strength remained the same.
#1
you could tell from that picture that the young man was clearly suffering from the stress of war. It doesn't surprise me that the left would choose him as their icon. The exhaustioin/pain in his face fits their idea of soldiers in our military.
The one good thing about our MSM is that their complete block out of the heroism of our soldiers actually does them a favor. While making heroes out of soldiers may be good for the overall war effort - it ruins the lives of those who become suddenly famous. That kind of fame is like heroin - feels good but screws up your mind.
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Not to mention the fact that getting married at 20 or 21 in/of itself is tough enough. The msm of course focused on military divorce rates which by and large are pretty consistent when you look at civilian divorce rates of the same age groups IIRC.
#3
There must be other stuff going on with him as his June 2006 chevron still has him as a Lance Corporal. A LCpl in 2004 would typically be a Corporal (or higher) by now with the Corps' typical 18-month advancement period at that grade, especially after at least one "tour". The Marine in our family went from LCpl to Sergeant in that same time period (after two tours).
War does take a terrible toll. A young marriage, and the stressful seperations, really add to a myriad of problems for both spouses.
Our prayers are with both of them.
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Has anybody told the young gentleman that Seratonin re-uptake inhibitors are the latest thing in PTSD treatment? And that PTSD is considered part of the constellation of anxiety disorders, along with panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive disorder? And finally, that it's possible medication may only be necessary for a year or so in order to enable him -- with the help of a competent counsellor -- to break the mental cycle causing him and his dear wife such problems?
They sound like a loving couple, who deserve to have everything work out well.
Sheikhupura: Yasir Dogar, son of former MPA Sardar Mehboob Dogar, was allegedly abducted, and later killed, by a group of unidentified people riding in two cars, near the Motorway over-head bridge on Jandiala Hafizabad road on Tuesday. Sources said that the victim was on his way to his village, Kakar Gill, accompanied by a bodyguard. As they crossed the bridge, the accused hit Dogar's vehicle, forcing it to a stop, and pulled him and his bodyguard out. The Sadar Sheikhupura police have started an investigation.
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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.
EUREKA - A suicide gone wrong may have claimed an innocent victim early Saturday morning, when a bullet apparently passed through a young man and then fatally struck a teenage bystander. That's the story from family and friends of Lorena Mocko, a 16-year-old girl found dead at a house south of Eureka.
HOUSTON -- Train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, linked to at least 15 indiscriminate murders near railroad tracks around the country, was headed for the Texas death chamber Tuesday. The Mexican drifter known as the "Railroad Killer" was set to be executed for the slaying of physician Claudia Benton 7Å“ years ago. She was killed during a deadly spree in 1998 and 1999, which earned Resendiz a spot on the FBI's Most Wanted list as authorities searched for a murderer who slipped across the U.S. border and roamed the country by freight train. 
About midnight, a rowdy crowd tried to push, scream and shove its way past police officers and locked doors into the triage area, where 20-year-old Anthony James Owen-Smith had died after being shot during a fight in Columbia less than an hour earlier.
A Massachusetts lawmaker is trying to get himself out of a sticky situation by dropping his opposition to Marshmallow Fluff. An amendment proposed by Sen. Jarrett Barrios to limit the availability of Fluff in schools sparked impassioned defense of the marshmallow spread, a lunch box staple of children for generations.
The famously liberal city of Berkeley is expected to become the first in the nation to put forth a ballot measure calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The City Council will decide tonight whether to put the measure on the Nov. 7 ballot, at a cost of about $10,000. The measure, if approved, would create a task force to monitor the president and vice president, who backers of the initiative say should be impeached because of the Iraq war, federal wiretapping and other issues. 
Mayor Thomas M. Menino will not allow state troopers to bolster city police manpower in bullet-scarred neighborhoods of Boston because he disagrees with Gov. Mitt Romney's position on arresting 
Sheikhupura: Yasir Dogar, son of former MPA Sardar Mehboob Dogar, was allegedly abducted, and later killed, by a group of unidentified people riding in two cars, near the Motorway over-head bridge on Jandiala Hafizabad road on Tuesday. Sources said that the victim was on his way to his village, Kakar Gill, accompanied by a bodyguard. As they crossed the bridge, the accused hit Dogar's vehicle, forcing it to a stop, and pulled him and his bodyguard out. The Sadar Sheikhupura police have started an investigation.
