Bad taste Steve Irwin costumes, which include a bloody stingray barb attached to a khaki shirt, are among the top Halloween costumes in the US this year.
The macabre outfits have split Americans, with some condemning the costumes while others find them amusing. At least one US celebrity, comedian Bill Maher, has donned the Crocodile Hunter outfit. A prick with a barb in his clothes, whoduhthunkit? Maher looks really lit up in this. Ethanol poisoning perhaps?
Photos of Maher at a Halloween party in Los Angeles on the weekend dressed in khaki shorts and shirt with a bloody barb hanging out of his chest are circulating on the internet. Remember kiddies, when Hollywood vermin bleat about respect for human life, they don't define it the same way you do.
Posters on Yayhooray.com, where an image of Maher can be found, were split on the comedian's Halloween hit-out."Douchebag. No doubt about it now," intoned "Stoavio", while "SCarrier11" said: "Ha ha I hate Bill Maher. I still hate him ... but not as much now."
Poster "Liberal", obviously not a Maher fan, said: "I can't believe he didn't go as a dead Iraqi." or Osama bin Laden.
"Mirukono" had a different take. "I'm gonna be a stingray, with a Steve Irwin sticking out of me." Probably ingesting the same stuff Maher was.
Irwin died just nine weeks ago when a stingray barb pierced his heart as he was filming off the north Queensland coast.
The San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper recently published an article entitled Great bad ideas for Halloween costumes, with the number one suggestion a Crocodile Hunter outfit. Personally, my favorite would be lynched reporter.
The article came with an illustration of Irwin with a stingray on his chest. "Kids and grown-ups alike will stare you down with white-hot horror when you strut around in your khaki ensemble with a pissed off sea creature piercing your chest," the article's authors, Cheryl Eddy and Kimberly Chun, wrote.
"Too soon? Hell, no." I wonder how she would respond to an Alec Baldwin mask with a bullet hole in the forehead?
"If Irwin's eight-year-old can get her own Discovery Kids television show, you can certainly make sport of her nature-loving pop's freaky demise." How does the tyke's show justify the dyke's desecration? Logic is not Kimberley's strong suit.
Nor humanity, but let's not digress ...
Last week the creators of the South Park cartoon series defended a new episode that showed Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin attending a party in Hell with a stingray barb protruding from his chest. Ok, I approved of the hippie exterminator as a valid comment on justice for brain-dead traitors but Steve Irwin never hurt anyone.
The episode had been scheduled for broadcast in the US on Wednesday and would not play in Australia - if SBS chooses to show it - until the middle of next year. If Bill Maher himself dies, I promise to mock his departure in a Halloween costume. A moonbat pickled in alcohol is the obvious choice, and there just might be some ways to do it so the intent is obvious.
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Last week the creators of the South Park cartoon series defended a new episode that showed Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin attending a party in Hell with a stingray barb protruding from his chest.
I actually found that rather funny. They didn't mock Irwin or the way he died or his work. They just had him go to Satans party without a costume, get mistaken for a guy wearing a crocodile costume, then have him removed because he wasn't wearing a costume. Nothing insulting about his death or life at all.
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MAHER had personally belabeled organized or mainstream religion as a "mass psychosis" during his interview wid O'Reilly. Meanwhile, CAL THOMAS has indic that the silent issue behind MICHAEL J. FOX versus RUSH LUMBAUGH is FEDERAL SPENDING for ALL TYPES/FORMS [UNIVERSAL] OF STEM CELL RESEARCH. As CARVILLE indic > iff the Dems can't prevail even despite the current weaknesses =environ of the GOP-Right, the entire premise-agenda of the national Democratic Party has to be re-evaluated, or words to that effect. Since the DemoLeft already tried to drop the label "LIBERAL" from their PC lexicon, gotta feeling that next to fall will be ALTERNATIST, andor ANARCHIST, andor HEDONIST, RADICAL, etal. including [WESTERN] SOCIALIST/DEMO-SOCIALIST IN FAVOR OF STALINISM = [ULTRA]CONSERVATISM + forms thereof. It took a BLOGGER = PUNDIT on Fox to finally say the Dems follow Socialist models-premises, NOT A DEM HIMSELF TO PUBLICLY ADMIT IT.
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Why doesn't Maher go as an executive whose last living moments were decending from the burning World Trade Center on 9/11 toward the sidewalk ?
He looks the part.
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Maher seems to define libertarianism as "do whatever you want without repurcussions". Sort of a grown version of anarchy. The real result would be somewhere between Sadom and Somalia.
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I hope Irwin's Wife and Daughter don't see a pic of this crap. I'm not usually a sensitive dude about this type of stuff but Irwin was one of the good guys and did a lot of good for wild life and conservationism overall.
I'm sure Maher will try to say Irwin exploited wildlife and therefore he has the right to mock him. Maher's one of those types of smug assholes who will go far to connect the dots to cover his bad behavior. IIRC some guy kicked his ass at a swanky LA night club for trying to use his celeb status to take cuts in the men's room line. I lost respect for Maher years ago when watching his old "poltically incorrect" show. To me, he's just a nasty version of Jon Stewart. A guy who over simplifies complex situations for his un-intelligent hacker audience to digest. As a quasi-libertarian it amuses me to see how his words/actions basically contradict what real libertarianism is. This pic makes him look like he's coked up.
Just like Madonna going to Africa to adopt an orphan, this guy is looking for cheap p.r. - I usually just turn off any show I see him on now.
Also submitted as "Today's Idiot", and deservedly so.
BERLIN - A German woman won a lawsuit against a love witch who failed to induce her ex-boyfriend to come back with rituals under the full moon designed to cast a spell over him, a Munich court said Monday.
"She jumped down and turned around and gave me a wink..."
The witch lost, said Munich district court spokeswoman Ingrid Kaps. The love witch was ordered to return her 1,000 euro ($1,300) fee and pay several hundred euros in costs.
"It smelled like turpentine and looked like India ink!"
The plaintiff was in despair after her boyfriend left and tried to get him to return with help from a woman who calls herself a love witch, she added. The court has ruled it was a service that was objectively impossible to render.
"I didn't know if it was day or night!"
The witch disputed the plaintiffs claim of a money-back guarantee, Kaps said. The witch, described as an elderly woman, also lost an appeal. The spokeswoman declined to give the names or ages of those involved.
"I started kissing everything in sight!"
A love ritual is not suited to influence a person from long distance, the court said.
"But when I kissed a cop down at 34th and Vine..."
As the promised service could not be rendered, the plaintiff is not obligated to pay.
"He broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number 9!"
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About 90 years ago my native american grandmother was an herbalist, among other things. She also made black ash baskets & took in laundry, whatever would pay the bills. One of her native laundry customers had run up quite a tab which he had neglected to pay, and then had the nerve to ask her to brew up a "love potion" he could inflict on an Indian maiden he found charming. She mad up a potion, sure to have no effect at all, and charged him the amount of his laundry tab. No lawsuits were filed.
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The new study involved three female Asian elephants at the zoo, in New York City. Workers built a 64-square-foot acrylic mirror, cemented it to plywood, framed it in steel and bolted it to a stone wall of the elephant enclosure.
In a series of experiments, the elephants first explored the mirror reaching behind it with their trunks, kneeling before it and even trying to climb it gathering clues that the mirror image was just that, an image.
That was followed by an eerie sequence in which the animals made slow, rhythmic movements while tracking their reflections. Then, like teenagers, they got hooked.
All three conducted oral self-exams. Maxine, a 35-year-old female, even used the tip of her trunk to get a better look inside her mouth. She also used her trunk to slowly pull her ear in front of the mirror so she could examine it "self-directed" behaviors the zookeepers had never seen before.
Moreover, one elephant, Happy, 34, passed the most difficult measure of self-recognition: the mark test. The researchers painted a white X on her left cheek, visible only in the mirror. Later, after moving in and out of view of the mirror, Happy stood directly before the reflective surface and touched the tip of her trunk to the mark repeatedly an act that, among other insights, requires an understanding that the mark is not on the mirror but on her body.
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So elephants are narcissists.
Tell me something I didn't know.
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EUGENE, Ore. - With all due respect to The Spinners and T.I., prepare yourself for the new rubber-band man. Steve Milton, through concentration and perseverance, has created a 3,300-pound ball comprised of rubber bands. His creation measures almost 5 feet tall and takes up half his two-car garage. Though it's not official, the 26-year-old Eugene man believes he has broken the record for the heaviest such ball, eclipsing John Bain's mark of 3,120 pounds. The Wilmington, Del., man's record has stood for eight years.
Milton has posted updates of his ball's growing girth on his MySpace page. He's also uploaded videos of the ball crushing things, such as using a forklift to drop the ball on an old van. "It was awesome," Milton told The Register-Guard newspaper. "It completely flattened the roof and blew the doors off."
Milton, however, isn't just using the object for destruction. The ball will be on display Friday at a food and toy drive in Eugene, and Milton is challenging people to donate 3,300 pounds of food and toys.
Milton started building the ball last November. He bought rubber bands at retail stores and then started purchasing in bulk from the Pennsylvania-based Dykema Rubber Band Company.
Dykema president Lou McKibben said he realized Milton was serious when he got an order for 1,000 pounds of 12-inch rubber bands. He cut him a deal on the remaining 2,000 pounds.
McKibben said he gets hundreds of sponsorship requests annually from people trying to break the record. Most of them, he said, don't have Milton's determination.
"They reach a point where it gets too big or they get tired of it, but Steve persevered," McKibben says. "Now he's won the crown."
Milton, who wants to stretch the ball at least another 1,000 pounds, said the work isn't all that safe. Milton is careful to keep the ball contained with blocks of wood so it doesn't roll away. He wears gloves to avoid burning his hands from friction and learned to move when a band breaks.
"If they snap they come off pretty fast," he said. "They've given me welts before."
Meadow muffins. Guano. Feces. Solid waste. Caca. The words for poop are endless, but the Miami Metrozoo has another term to add to the list: educational. Now on display is a 5,000-square-foot exhibit on excrement titled "The Scoop on Poop," which invites visitors to explore the science of scat. The exhibit is filled with photos of animals in some of their most indelicate moments. Stool sample models abound: haylike football-sized balls (elephant), kidney-bean-looking pellets (porcupine) and coallike lumps coated with fur (black bear).
Beyond the "ick" factor, however, zoo officials and the exhibit's creators say there is a lot of information being imparted. Visitors can smell the stench of flowers that mimic dung to attract flies for pollination. Videos include one of a hippo spreading its droppings around to mark its territory. Simple games include "Who Dung It?"
"We didn't want this to be a gross exhibit for shock value," said Chad Peeling, who helped create the display. "Our goal with the exhibit was to make people think, kids especially, about the science in all aspects in life and this thing that adults don't like to talk about."
Miami is the exhibit's second stop after opening at a Virginia museum in May. Created by Clyde Peeling's Reptiland - whose namesake is Chad Peeling's father - in Allenwood, Pa., it is based on a 2001 book of the same name. After the exhibit closes at the Metrozoo in January, it will make stops in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Redding, Calif.
The exhibit is not the first to feature feces, however. An exhibit called "All the Poop" toured Japan in 2001 and another in England showcased scat samples.
On a recent afternoon one woman cheered "go, go, go" as two children raced model dung beetles at a station in the Miami exhibit. Students on a class trip posed in a cutout of a person sitting in an outhouse. Others examined slides of parasites found in dung using a microscope, while classmates weighed themselves on a scale designed to tell them how long it takes an elephant to poop their weight.
"I don't think it's that disgusting," said Bruno Cazarini, 13, of the exhibit's topic. "I think plenty of people get the wrong impression." Cazarini, who was visiting the zoo with a school group, said he knew about dung beetles, some of which burrow inside dung to eat and rest. But he did not know about its uses as a type of waterproof plaster for the homes of Masai people in East Africa, which he learned from information at the exhibit.
Adults have had fun with material, too. Some volunteers and zoo employees have started wearing plastic poop pins that look like the real thing. Zoo personnel have also brought out a bowl of chocolate- covered candy, inviting visitors to take one if they dare.
Elephant keepers, meanwhile, were charged with weighing the amount of elephant poop one of the zoo's Asian male elephants, Dahlip, produces in a 24-hour period. The total: 540 pounds. Meanwhile, a commercial for the exhibit, which will begin running shortly, has already shown up on YouTube.
One couple, who are zoo donors, even called to offer to loan the zoo a scat sample of their own. The pair has a lump of excrement from 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat enclosed in a glass globe, which the zoo plans to put on exhibit within a few weeks.
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I'm there.
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Geez, I never thought the stuff my dad taught me in the woods when I was a litte tyke would be so educational. BTW, you can throw dried cowsh$$ like a frisbee, but it's not any fun to catch...
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A round-the-clock international news channel France is to launch in December will challenge the 'Anglo-Saxon' views spread by market leaders BBC and CNN by relying on 'French values', the network's chief said Tuesday.
France 24, as the network is called, will start broadcasting in English and French on the Internet on December 6 and then via satellite two days later, its chairman and chief executive, Alain de Pouzilhac, told Le Figaro newspaper.
(Viewers) are looking for contradictory opinions
Like its British and US rivals, it is homing in on "opinion leaders" around the world by dishing up a diet of news, features and discussion. But those viewers, Pouzilhac claimed, have become increasingly "sceptical of the world vision offered by the Anglo-Saxons like BBC World and CNN International."
Instead, he asserted, they "are looking for contradictory opinions which is what France 24 is proposing by relying on French values."
the channel would highlight "diversity (and)... confrontation, without forgetting the culture and French art of living
" the channel would highlight "diversity (and)... confrontation, without forgetting the culture and French art of living"
He did not define what those values were in the interview, beyond saying that the channel would highlight "diversity (and)... confrontation, without forgetting the culture and French art of living."
Diversity = pro-Arab, pro-Muslim.
Confrontation = fight against the hated US / UK.
Financed to the tune of EUR 80 million a year by the state and run as a joint operation between France's top commercial and top public national TV networks, France 24 will start out as a minnow to the BBC or CNN, both of which have built up global networks and enjoy established reputations.
BBC World, the privately financed international arm of Britain's public broadcaster, has 250 staff and an undisclosed budget. CNN's US and international divisions employ 4,000 people and revenues of US $860 million (EUR 730 million).
Additionally, other players have entered the market, most notably the Arab network Al-Jazeera, which has just started an English-language service.
But Pouzilhac insisted there was room for the French channel. "From its launch, France 24 will potentially reach 250 million individuals," and will be pumped into 500 hotels in 64 countries, he said.
It will be offered throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East and in the US cities of New York and Washington. Later, it plans to extend its broadcasts to all of North and South America and to Asia.
Staffed by 380 people including 170 bilingual journalists it will be relying in part on video footage and reporting provided by its managing companies, the TF1 private network and the state-owned France Televisions, as well as from partner organisations such as AFP and Radio France Internationale.
France 24 was conceived years ago as a pet project of President Jacques Chirac, who in February 2002 called for a "big international news channel in French able to rival the BBC and CNN."
The US-led invasion of Iraq pushed the project forward, because Chirac was reportedly miffed by the way CNN and the BBC presented France's opposition to the war. Some reports in US media inaccurately stating that "Paris is burning" during the 2005 riots around France also nettled his government.
Chirac has said he hoped the channel would place France "at the forefront of the global battle of images".
And that's what it's all about for him -- images, stymying the hated Anglos. No principles, no ideals, no responsibility. And you wonder why France is lost???
The European Commission gave the green light to the French channel in June, but media commentators have highlighted internal problems in the company caused by forcing TF1 and France Televisions aggressive competitors in the national market to work together.
The head of France Televisions, Patrick de Carolis, had unsuccessfully lobbied to have TF1 jettisoned from the project, and relations between the two remain frosty.
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Carbeques live on FR24 24/7. Watch the frivolity. Watch the cops getting their brains beaten in. Beam it to the world, so we can see what a happy place France has become.
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The funny thing here is that if they really want to penetrate the global market and reach decision makers, they will have to offer an English language version.
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I thought, "What's the big deal; new aircraft, same old delivery system."
Then I caught this - The advanced boom will be able to transfer 900 gallons (3,400 liters) of fuel per minute to receiver aircraft, provide more responsive controls to the operator and has 2,600 fewer parts than previous booms.
I guess that's a plus....
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I'm struck that the old boom had at least 2601 parts in the first place. It's doesn't look that complicated.
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Jackal,
IIRC the old boom was pretty much late 40s-early 50's technology with some upgrades, with mechanical actuators, steering mechanisms and fuel flow systems. With computer operated and controlled systems, the number of mechanical parts goes way down.
Mike
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Just please tell me Bill Gates didn't write the software.
Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) has received a $21 million follow-on order for AAR-47 missile warning systems. The company has also received an additional $9 million in contracts for software upgrades and new sensor packages. If all production contract options are exercised, the total value of the recent awards could reach approximately $73 million.
The AAR-47 Missile Warning System (MWS) is an electronic warfare system designed to protect helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft against surface-to-air missile threat. It also alerts aircrews to threats from laser-guided and laser-aided weapons. The AAR-47 plays a critical role in crew and aircraft survivability. Operational commanders attribute over 20 aircraft and 200 personnel saved due to the capabilities of the AAR-47.
"ATK's AAR-47 missile warning system is a battle-proven design that detects missile or laser-guided threats and automatically triggers appropriate countermeasures," said Steve Myers, Vice President and General Manager, ATK Integrated Systems. "The AAR-47's combination of highly reliable sensor technology and light weight make it an ideal package to support air crews in the global war on terror."
ATK is a $3.4 billion advanced weapon and space systems company employing approximately 15,000 people in 22 states. News and information can be found on the Internet at http://www.atk.com/ .
Certain information discussed in this press release constitutes forward- looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although ATK believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved. Forward-looking information is subject to certain risks, trends and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Among those factors are: changes in governmental spending, assumptions related to the fulfillment of all contract options, budgetary policies and product sourcing strategies; the company's competitive environment; the terms and timing of awards and contracts; and economic conditions. ATK undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. For further information on factors that could impact ATK, and statements contained herein, please refer to ATK's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Justice Fazal-e-Miran Chohan of the Lahore High Court has granted bail to a blasphemy accused and observed that individuals could not lodge a case under Section 295-A of the Pakistan Penal Code.
Justice Chohan said that Section 295-A, which applies to a malicious act meant to outrage the religious sentiments of any sect, was not an offence against an individual but the state. The procedure for a court to try someone for the offence required that the complaint be made by an authority given this power by the central or provincial governments, he said. The judge observed that such a procedure had not been followed in this case and so he granted the defendant, Mohammad Yousaf, bail at Rs 50,000.
Yousafs lawyer Rabbiya Bajwa pleaded that the charge against her client was false and made because the accuser was involved in other litigation with the accused. She said Yousaf was a Muslim and would not dare to blaspheme.
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In any case, once the accursed blasphemer Mohammed is out on bail, he'll be lynched according to local custom, saving all the cost and bother of a trial. Also, the accuser won't have to pay any of his debts to the accused.
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If a Muslim needed to discredit a business contact, Islamic condemnation is a frequent means of doing so. During the Indonesian slaughter of 1965-68, ethnic Chinese who held debts over Muslims were routinely killed as "Communists." But, if they loaned money for profit - or commission, in Islamic lending - wouldn't they be capitalists? Anyway Muslims found a way to terminate mortgage payments.
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Another sterling example of why Islamic theocratic government is anathema to modern business. I'm amazed they can even get cell towers erected without any civil unrest.
Chenega Federal Systems, LLC (CFS) of Lorton Va., 22079-2624, is being awarded a five year, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling of $260,000,000.00. The Psychological Operations Program Office (PMP) of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS) Program Executive Office (PEO) requires engineering and technical support services to build, field and sustain Psychological Operations (PSYOP) systems and other designated IIS-PMP projects and programs in accordance with USSOCOM requirements. The places of performance will be Lorton, Va. and Anchorage, Alaska. The five year ordering period will be completed October 2011. The contract number is H92222-07-D-0017...
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Well I gave them the canal around Gaza idea. Do they want some more? Actual actions have much great PsyOps effecs you know....
Then there is the old Lex Luther does SanFran routine... Iran has lots of earthquakes and is surrounded by countries with US troops in them. A little Lex Luther core could do a number on Iran from below without touching an inch of their Persian soil. Think englobment with times adjusted for fault lines....
After all if we can have Halloween we can be evil!
SALEM, Massachusetts (Reuters) - She brews potions, wears flowing black caftans and says she can speak with the dead and cast spells with a gentle wave of a wand.
Laurie Cabot is a proud witch, and she's fighting for her civil rights. At age 73, the official witch of Salem says her craft is stronger than ever, as she sits in an overstuffed chair behind a pink table where she does psychic readings -- and where, she says, spirits of the dead often "pop through."
"I can't see them with my eyes, I just know they are there," said Cabot, whose cheek is tattooed with a spiral and whose long gray hair, streaked with black, covers her shoulders and much of her back. "They talk to me and tell me things that no one would know. And of course the person I'm reading for is either totally shocked or they end up crying a lot," she said.
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“Why so can I, or any man. But will they come when you call for them?”
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"The Witches of Eastwick," a movie witches said made them look stupid."
A 73 y/o woman whose cheek is tattooed with a spiral and has long gray hair streaked with black suggests her appearance is more dignified then that of Michelle Pfeiffer. She better channel the spirit of Johnny Cochran and his mob of ambulance chasing Zombie lawyers if she expects to win any litigation on this one.
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But what I want to know is, does she weigh the same as a duck?
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The Pagan religion of Wicca has been Apologized to and deserves recognition. At least they do not bomb, rape, and blaspheme like Islam - thats the REAL pagan religion.
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A 73 y/o woman whose cheek is tattooed with a spiral and has long gray hair streaked with black suggests her appearance is more dignified then that of Michelle Pfeiffer.
Nah, DepotGuy, she thought that Jack Nicholson was the witch. She's a mite confused, see?
Police have arrested more than 40 people and broken up a family-run smuggling ring that hauled illegal immigrants from Mexico to Arizona for generations, officials said on Monday.
The operation, which began in 2001, broke up a ring that smuggled undocumented immigrants to Bowie, Arizona, southeast of Phoenix, from Agua Prieta in Mexico, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
Alonzo Pena, ICE special agent in charge of Arizona, said a grand jury handed down an indictment this month charging 55 people in connection with the operation. Eleven suspects remained at large. "This was an extremely significant smuggling operation and one of the largest of its kind in the state," Pena told Reuters. "It was run by a family that passed on their activity from one generation to another, from a father to his two sons and their wives," he added.
Pena said those charged included the alleged ringleader and his wife, guides who ferried people across the desert border to Arizona, couriers who picked up smuggling fees sent by wire transfers and drivers. Pena said the group smuggled hundreds of undocumented immigrants, including Mexicans and Salvadorans, over the border to Bowie and onto destinations across the United States.
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This has been going on for generations, yet the INS had no clue. Slowly, we will take back control of our country. We must realize that the government will never do us justice without constant observation and exposure. Foolish we were to believe the government would or could assure our security as we play or sleep.
We have to rethink our responsibility to society.
Working for a living, then going off to play golf is not enough.
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.
Bad taste Steve Irwin costumes, which include a bloody stingray barb attached to a khaki shirt, are among the top Halloween costumes in the US this year.
Man builds 3,300-pound rubber band ball
Meadow muffins. Guano. Feces. Solid waste. Caca. The words for poop are endless, but the Miami Metrozoo has another term to add to the list: educational. Now on display is a 5,000-square-foot exhibit on excrement titled "The Scoop on Poop," which invites visitors to explore the science of scat. The exhibit is filled with photos of animals in some of their most indelicate moments. Stool sample models abound: haylike football-sized balls (elephant), kidney-bean-looking pellets (porcupine) and coallike lumps coated with fur (black bear). 
Police have arrested more than 40 people and broken up a family-run smuggling ring that hauled illegal immigrants from Mexico to Arizona for generations, officials said on Monday.
