A Hillsborough County man shot and critically injured an intruder in his home early Monday morning. A couple who lives at 286 W. State Road 60 found the intruder at around 1 a.m. when they returned home after being out of town for a few a days, according to a report from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. As the woman was calling 911, the man fired a shot at the intruder. "Help! Help! *BOOM!* Oh, you can take your time now."
The intruder was taken to Lakeland Regional Medical Center where he was listed in critical condition. The names of those involved were not being released. This outbreak of armed self-defense is great news but these folks seriously need to sharpen their shooting skills or upgrade their guns and bullets. In four incidents that I have posted on R-burg today, no fewer than 8 scumbags have been punctured but only one has died. Time on the shooting range is never wasted. C'mon, folks, in the spirit of the holiday season, let's be charitable... it's the calibre and aim thought that counts. That and packing heat in the first place, the will to use it in the second. I'm just sayin'...
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"9-1-1, what's your emergency?"
"Someone's breaking into our bedroom, send the police..." --------BLAMMO!--------
"Never mind, send the coroner to..."
Good news from all over! Facing gun, merchant shoots 3 The E. Germantown deli owner, on guard early, detained a 4th suspect until police arrived.
It was clear to John Lee that the four guys who came into his East Germantown deli Saturday night would not be paying customers. "They all had their hoodies pulled tight, and it wasn't a cold night," said Lee, 48, owner of the Chelten Market at Chelten Avenue and Musgrave Street. "I said, 'You need to take off your hoodies,' then one of them came around the counter with his gun drawn, so I shot them." Heh. He gets right to the point.
Lee fired five rounds from his .38-caliber revolver, striking three of the bandits and rupturing a water line, police said. The gunman dropped his loaded 9mm pistol as he and his wounded partners fled the store. Lee found a fourth would-be robber - who had not been shot - hiding in the rear of the store.
"He had a BB gun on him, so I took it," Lee said. "Then I beat him up and took his boots and called police." Lol. John Lee 2008.
All four suspects - three juveniles and a man, 22 - were listed yesterday in stable condition at area hospitals, police said. Their names were not released. The two juveniles were shot in the neck and leg, and the man was hit in the chest, police said.
They were charged with armed robbery, as was a fifth person who waited outside as the driver. The suspect detained by Lee was arrested when police arrived. The others were arrested after driving to Temple University Hospital in the same Dodge Intrepid they allegedly planned to use as the getaway car.
That's a pretty lame getaway car.
No charges were filed against Lee, who said he was taken to Temple a couple of hours later to identify two of the suspects. Police took Lee's gun, which he said is legally owned, as well as the recording made by the store's surveillance cameras. Don't forget to return this man's gun, k? Obviously, he knows how to use it and needs it.
The group is suspected of holding up a bar 15 minutes before trying to hit Lee's store, Detective Michael Cannon said. "They are also being investigated for robberies in other parts of the city," he said. A mini crime spree thing.
State Rep. Dwight Evans, who lives a neighborhood away in West Oak Lane, had no criticism for Lee's actions. Evans is expected to run next year for mayor, with a pillar of his platform being the need to find ways to reduce violence. "He was doing what he had to do to protect himself," Evans said. "This is an issue we will continue to face. Public safety has to become a priority for the city government."
It's not the first time Lee has wounded someone trying to hold up his store; he shot a man last year on Labor Day weekend.
Tim Rosser, who works at the market as a cook and lives in the area, said Lee is known in the neighborhood as someone residents can come to for help. "He has the respect of the people around here," said Rosser, 42. "The people who cause trouble at the store are strangers."
Lee was thankful he was working behind the counter instead of his wife. "I didn't tell her about the robbery yet because I didn't want to upset her," he said yesterday morning. "She's at church right now. Her prayers must be working for us." Melike.
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Dammit--much as I appreciate what Lee did to save his store (and quite possibly his life) and improve the neighborhood, he definitely shouldn't be making these remarks to the press in such a flippant and carefree manner. He should be speaking through a lawyer so these remarks don't come back to bite him in the ass.
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Then I beat him up and took his boots
LOL, this sounds like Texas, too!
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Absolutely needs a LOT more time on the range and a tactical handgun course as well. And a larger caliber. There should have been three dead perps lying in pools of blood on the floor of his shop. And NEVER talk to the press, ever!
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Zen, are you implying that they bathe? Anyway, I'm very happy to live in a state where we have the right to own flamethrowers. I'm pretty sure that for home defense, nothing beats it:p
Tough weekend for scumbags in the Southwest, see earlier entry from Albuquerque:
(11/27/06 - KTRK/HOUSTON) - Two men were shot during an apparent robbery attempt in the Clear Lake area Sunday night. Police say four men armed with a gun barged into a home and tried to tie up the homeowner. The homeowner had his own gun and fired on the suspects. Two of the four were hit. The other two tried to get away.
"I ran outside and there was a guy lying right there shot and we drove around," said neighbor Brittany Hubbell. "We got in the car and drove around. And there was another guy in the red shot over there."
The homeowner was not hurt. The two suspects who were shot were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Not the morgue? Better luck next time. Drag 'em back in and finish the job. Don't forget to hose off the blood trail before the cops arrive. Homeowner needs more time at the practice range.
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In Texas, you are pretty much allowed to shoot miscreants at night on a no-questions-asked basis. A holdover from the old ranching days, it strikes me as a rather civilized policy.
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"I ran outside and there was a guy lying right there shot and we drove around," said neighbor Brittany Hubbell. "We got in the car and drove around. And there was another guy in the red shot over there."
Translation: We wanted a piece of the action too, but all the bad guys we found were already shot. :(
Police are investigating the shooting as a homicide, but the homeowner might not face charges. Might not?
A late-night shooting in the Four Hills area of Albuquerque left one person dead and a homeowner shaken.
Police say the homeowner called 911 about 11:30 Saturday night. Albuquerque Police Department spokesperson Trish Hoffman says the homeowner woke up to sounds inside his house, discovered a burglar and shot the intruder.
The intruder died at the scene. Detectives havent released whether the intruder was armed. And if he wasn't? Is this New Mexico or Stratford-upon-Avon?
Detectives are investigating the scene as a homicide, but say its possible the homeowner wont be charged because it may be a justifiable homicide.
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Unlikely to get any jury to convict. As long as the homeowner didn't chase the perp outside and finish'm off, most the people in these parts won't even blink. Now the intruder's family will whine and cry and get a minute or two of air time, but that's just tough. Four Hills is not the Valley [i.e. the barrio or hood in other cities]. So a gang revenge shooting is unlikely as well.
OTTAWA -- Quebec school officials are considering banning the use of cameras and cellphones in all classrooms after two students secretly recorded their teacher's angry outburst and posted three clips on YouTube.
Jocelyn Blondin, chairman of the Commission scolaire des Portages-de-l'Outaouais, said Friday two Grade 9 students, one female and the other male, provoked the unnamed teacher last week at Ecole Secondaire Mont-Bleu in Gatineau, Que.
The school convinced YouTube to remove the videos on Monday and suspended the students indefinitely this week because they knew that the school has a strict policy banning cellphones and digital cameras. Blondin said board officials will meet with the students and their parents Monday to determine when the suspensions will end.
The students are in a special class because they have academic problems, Blondin said. He added other students told him the teacher was good at helping them improve their grades.
The teacher, who has more than 30 years' experience, remains on stress leave. The teachers' union has asked the board to ban cameras and camera-equipped cellphones in all classrooms within its jurisdiction because they can be used to invade the privacy of teachers and students.
Union vice-president Louis Belcourt said the students caused a disturbance throughout a class and recorded the teacher's reaction on a tiny digital camera when he ordered them to leave. School board officials said the camera was small enough to escape the teacher's notice for about 50 minutes.
Blondin said this is the first time an Outaouais student has posted a video of a teacher on YouTube, but a similar incident happened about two weeks ago at a school north of Quebec City. "I think students are just trying to embarrass the teachers they don't like," Blondin said. "In the future, students will have to keep their cellphones in their pockets and use them outside of class."
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The teachers' union has asked the board to ban cameras and camera-equipped cellphones in all classrooms within its jurisdiction because they can be used to invade the privacy of teachers and students.
It's a public building where public business occurs. What privacy exists? Locker rooms and rest rooms maybe, but the conduct of 'public' business does not occur there. Go teach in a 'private' school if you want to hide. Can the principal sit though any class and observe the performance of the teacher and students? Yes. Then why couldn't the same administrator use technology to watch multiple classes and record? And if said administrator could do it, why couldn't the students as long as it was not intrusive? Unless, of course, you have something to hide.
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At the trailing daughters' public high school, the students are forbidden to have take their cell phones away from their lockers during the school day. The argument is that
a) using cell phones for making and receiving calls distracts from the business of teaching and learning, and
b) cell phones have been used elsewhere to enable cheating on tests (and camera phones to share panty pictures, amongst other nefarious activities not consented to by all parties).
Primary and secondary students are not full citizens and do not have all the rights of citizenship (including, for instance, the right to bear arms on school property, or to participate in unsanctioned personal expression), based on the presumption that children and teenagers do not yet have the knowledge or judgement to differentiate consistently between wisdom and stupidity. In this case, the students provoked an unnecessary confrontation, then posted the resulting outburst online to embarass a highly regarded teacher. There was no argument that the teacher had been behaving inappropriately, teaching inappropriately, or was otherwise acting contrary to the interest of students, the school, or the community which paid her salary. In a situation of teacher misbehaviour, such a recording would be helpful in building a case. But in this particular situation it was the students' behaviour that was intrusive, destructive and unacceptable, not that of the teacher. Were those two mine, indefinite suspension from school would be the least of their worries.
Two teens charged with setting off homemade bombs in Wal-Mart
SKOWHEGAN, Maine Authorities in Maine say they've charged two teenagers with setting off homemade bombs in a Wal-Mart yesterday. The store was filled with holiday shoppers. Authorities say hundreds were evacuated and about eight were treated for eye or throat irritation after the acid bombs went off.
Police say they identified the boys with the help of security camera photos. Both teens have been charged with criminal use of explosives. They were released to their parents early this morning. Investigators say the boys also planted two other explosives on the lawn of a residence and one on top of a building in downtown Skowhegan. None of those bombs detonated.
The manager of the Wal-Mart says the store is open for business today.
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I lived in Skowhegan for a time in the Winter of '82. It was just a small paper mill toen. Nice people.
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I blame John Edwards.
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Recently, there was a french crime novels (don't remember his name, don't think he's very well know) who was arrested for trying an home-made bomb with two friends, to reality-check his writing. Great minds at work.
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Acid? These idiots must have gone a step up from the Mentos-cola bombs that kids are finding to be "fun". A package of the popular mint candies poured into a two liter bottle of soda and shaken (not stirred)can make a low grade explosive. It does, however, have enough power to cause physical harm from the plastic shrapnel. The web is full of instructions and videos of Mentos-cola bombs.
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"Police officers shall not discharge their firearms at or from a moving vehicle unless deadly force is being used against the police officers or another person present, by means other than a moving vehicle."
So a car is not a deadly weapon. Interesting. Counterintuitive.
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James, you obviously never dealt with the Maricopa County Prosecutor's Office in Phoenix. I know of at least five instances where some brilliant legal mind there said that two or more tons of rolling, accelerating steel was not an "instrumentality of the crime" when the police wanted to charge someone with aggravated assault.
I used to think that it was probably some sterling graduate of Taco Tech de Tucson who didn't like cops making that stupid decision, but maybe it's standard nationwide.
A SOUTH African man was fined by a local court overnight for taking time off from work and trying to cover it with a fake gynaecologist's certificate attesting he was pregnant and needed a week off. So he thought no one would figure it out?
A magistrate's court in Vereeniging, near Johannesburg, fined 27-year-old Charles Sibindana 1000 rand ($180) for the brazen forgery, the SAPA news agency reported. Sibindana stole a medical certificate from a health centre used by his pregnant girlfriend, but was apparently unaware that only women consulted gynaecologists. Magistrate Bruno Van Eeden jokingly warned Sibindana "not to walk around faking sick letters from gynaecologists".
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Is there some sort of fine or jail term for stupidity?
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Hey, I should try that! I mean, that could be believed, because, otherwise, the only other explanation for my "curves" would be that I'm fat. Which I'm not. I'm big-boned. Really.
THIS could be your unlucky day. Monday the 27th has, it seems, overtaken Friday the 13th as the date on which the more suspicious among us should avoid the likes of job interviews, weddings and driving tests.
The date has been identified as the most ill-starred on the calendar, with more mishaps recorded than at any other.
The trend emerged from a study of more than one million insurance claims, showing more people are likely to have accidents on Monday the 27th than on any other day. Domestic disasters, including burst water pipes and DIY problems, feature heavily on the lists.
One man put his foot through the ceiling on a 27th while collecting Christmas decorations from the loft, while a woman left a tap running, causing her bath to overflow and flood the house. In another case, a cat knocked over a candle, setting the house ablaze.
Road accidents were also common on that date. The mishaps of unlucky British drivers included crashes in car parks, branches falling on cars and accidents caused by people trying to avoid animals.
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and Friday was sacred to Druids and Muslims - both groups being competitors for believers, and early enemies of Christianity.
I don't think there were any Druids left when Christianity started about 2 thousand years ago, and certainly no Muslims because they didn't appear until around 750 AD or so, hardly early Christianity. But why let facts get in the way ?
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Hah! Had a good day at work up at the Lab (LBNL) and then visited the UCB Insectary and found a PhD (specialty in parasitic wasps) that was willing to act as a consultant for the new book I'm writing (scifi) and arranged for a tour of said facility!
A 54-year-old Doncaster unfortunate - dubbed "Britain's unluckiest man" - has continued a lifelong tradition of mishaps by falling down a manhole, Ananova reports.
John Lyne, of Stainforth, near Doncaster suffered injuries to his back, left leg and both knees as a result of the tumble, and will be out of action for 32 weeks, according to the Doncaster Free Press. Lyne's career began as a child, when he fell off a horse and cart and was run over by a delivery van. As a teenager, he fell from a tree and broke his arm. On his way home from hospital - on Friday 13th - the bus he was in crashed, provoking another fracture in the same arm.
Since then, he's been hit by lightning twice, fallen victim to a rock-fall in a mine, has nearly drowned and has enjoyed three car crashes. Lyne said: "I don't think there is any reason or explanation for it though, it has just happened really. I have to particularly be careful on the Friday 13ths, when a few accidents have fallen."
The poor bloke added: "Everyone thinks it is just hilarious. My mates, family and wife Susan just laugh about it." "I mean, they laugh with me, they don't laugh at me, don't they?... At least, I think. I hope, anyway."
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AC, some people do escape the law of averages. Of course, one may consider the positive side--the guy is stil alive. In that sense, the average is preserved. Some people do encounter accidents, even one, and they are fatal for them.
Point in case, me.
Age 18 months: Patrents took off for a vacation and placed me and my twin brother in a full care facility. For some reason, we were placed in a room that was not usually utilized and the nurse forgoten to make a note in a log. She did provide a care for 3 days, but then shifts switched and we were forgotten. For 7 days. When our parents came to pick us up, nobody had any idea where we were, but after frantic search, they found us. In time, a pdiatrician said, we were about a couple of hours from expiring. We had to start learning everything again. Free commie health care, nuff said.
Age 26 months: My mom thought that our room is awfully quiet. Midday. Emphasis on awfully. She went in and found my twin sitting on my neck. I suppose we were wrestling. I was blue. Fortunately not enough, I turned pink in no time.
Age 7: Very stupid, were exploring industrial electricity wiring and got zapped by 380V. Atta jolt! Did not tell anyone, were sooo embarassed!
Age 8: Were pushed by a peer, lost ballance and hit the edge of a step with the back of my skull. People sweared it was a very loud thud. Passed out, for no longer than a minute. X-ray revealed a crack. Healed fast. To this day, I have there Mt. Olympus, which is handy for holding a hat in windy weather. :-)
Age 9+: Were hit by a motorcycle. Passed out (nice NDE), but not serious--just sanded off tissue on my left knee to the knee cap and got some contusions here and there, well quite a bit. Were sewn together and in 3 weeks I was like a brand new.
Years passed by with minor accidents may be considered mere papercuts...
Age 17: Fell from a cherry tree. Thought my last hour is near, got the wind knocked out of me. But got only two fingers broken. That ended my planned carrier as a musician, though.
Age 21: Sinked a belt saw about an inch into my left hand's palm when working in an advertising shop cutting some cardboard decorations. My boss seeing it passed out. I didn't and walked to an emergency on my own, despite substantial bleeding. Sewn together, like brand new 4 weeks later. Had a loss of feeling in my pinky, but in time the nervature reconnected.
Thought that I got my quota of accidents exhausted and for long years, it looked like I'll live the rest of my life uneventfully without much of an excitement...
Age 41: Hit by a truck while walking across the street. Don't recall much of it, well, rather nothing at all. Woke up in hospital a couple of days later. Nothing broken, just sore all over.
Age 50+: Hit by a car while on a bicycle. The dude was speeding and I did not have a chance to redirect my path, it was as if he is going after me, you know, the bubba thingy--road kill, stupid jerk. Boy, did I wreck his windshield! Rolled off on the road. Had instances of incipient passing out but held myself in focus--did not want to risk passing out for good. Did want to just walk home (were hit just few yards from my driveway), but the legs did not seem to respond much. The paramedic that arrived at the scene convinced me to take me to a hospital. Nothing broken, just some cuts, abrasions (half of my mustache sanded off) and contusions. Couldn't walk for 8 weeks woth of damn, and legs did hurt once a while for about a year.
I decided that I indeed had enough and I don't need any of it anymore. Have some work cut out for me to get it all in ballance. ;-)
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anonymous5089, no big, it grew back despite that the skin went with it, I just looked a bit odd for a month and half, but apparently, deep inside I knew what the body plan is. ;-)
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Shipman, maybe, although, I am sort of going in that direction on my own. Being more aware of my surroundings, that is. Oh yea, I skipped a bundle of 'em. But they were relatively minor accidents, albeit they would document your point exactly.
Xbalanke, I don't think I deserve the award. ;-)
I look at the list of accidents and all I see is that despite there is an unusual accumulation, one aspect is rather prominent-- obvious one since I type this message here. I am alive and all that comotion cost me 2 broken fingers. If you saw that windshield, you'd think no way I got out of it as I did. E.g. a survivor. Cats envy me. ;-)
A pet shop owner has been slapped with a £500 fine for selling a hamster without a licence. Nancy Maxwell, owner of Animal Kingdom, in north London's Wood Green Shopping City, traded in live animals despite being refused a licence to keep a pet shop in 2005. Ms Maxwell was caught out last year when an undercover trading standards officer was sold a hamster at the shop. In court, Ms Maxwell said shop staff had sold the hamster by mistake and the animals were just there to attract people to the shop.
Ms Maxwell, who was prosecuted under the Pet Animals Act, was fined £500 and ordered to pay £500 costs. Cllr Nilgun Canver, executive member for crime and community safety, said: "We have to protect animals and also the rights of consumers, who expect their pet to be healthy and kept in a healthy environment. "We cannot issue licences to anybody. We must be satisfied the animals will be well cared for in appropriate surroundings." The hamster, named Scamper, lived out the remainder of his life in a loving home. He recently died. I'll let someone else make the Richard Gere comments. I'll just note that this is apparently an EU regulation, so an independent Britain would still have this law.
China has kicked off construction of a giant dam on the upper parts of the Yangtze as part of a plan that will eventually rival the Three Gorges project in size, state media reported Monday.
The 28.9-billion-yuan (3.7-billion-dollars) Xiangjiaba project, in southwest China's Sichuan province, will have six million kilowatt of installed capacity when completed in nine years, the China Daily said.
When combined with the 12.6 million kilowatt Xiluodu project, started further downstream 11 months ago, it will be the equivalent of the 18.2 million kilowatt Three Gorges Project, the largest hydro project in China.
"The project will have to face manifold challenges, including environmental protection and resettlement of residents," said Fan Qixiang, the vice-president of China Three Gorges Project Corp, the builder of the project.
The company will earmark 1.46 billion yuan for environment protection, Fan added.
Nearly 90,000 residents from six counties in Sichuan and the neighboring province of Yunnan will be forced to leave their homes because of the project, the report said.
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Keep on building those large vulnerable and catastrophic failure-prone targets, China. Then later you can sit back and wonder why you diverted such massive wealth into procuring arms whose single use will automatically bring about your destruction.
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Actually while they know how to build the reactors they don't have the knowledge or infrastructure to build the 'pebbles'. If I remember correctly there are only 2 or 3 firms in the world that have the engineering know how to make them.
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I'd also wager that these massive engineering projects are a combination of "rice bowl" for keeping the local labor population calm and some major pork barrel distribution for the PLA brass.
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In the 1990's roughly 80% of China's population was classified as [AGRARIAN/RURAL]POOR andor below the poverty line, a ratio which has only slightly decreased Year 2000-2006. As wid the majority or bulk of world Muslims, they have to be taught WHAT HYDRO- AND NUKE POWER PLANTS, etc. ARE. Anyhoo, when and iff America = Amerika, the USA = USSA = USR/SSR one day is de facto gone, it'll be interesting to see whose form of anti-US asymmetric warfare is superior > RUSSIA vv ENERGY, or CHINA vv WATER, for control of Mackinder's World Island???
About four hundred ulema on Sunday signed a fatwa (edict) against the Womens Protection Bill (WPB), terming it un-Islamic, immoral and unconstitutional.
"We will fatwah yore ass!"
Addressing a convention under the aegis of Jamaat-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat at the Karachi Press Club, the ulema declared the bill repugnant to holy Quran and Sunnah and announced a protest march against it on December 3. They pledged to wage a struggle against the bill, give every sacrifice to protect hudoodullah and stop the government from intervening in hudoodullah. They said the government was trying to project a new culture of obscenity and vulgarity through the Womens Protection Bill, and vowed to resist this move of the government at every cost.
The edict, prepared by Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Chairman Mufti Muneebur Rehman and signed by 400 ulema, says the Womens Protection Bill is against the teachings of holy Quran and Sunnah. It says that no law would be allowed in Pakistan in violation of the 1973 Constitution. It says zina (rape) is a serious offence in Islam and its punishment has been clearly mentioned in holy Quran.
The ulema said the edict would also be sent to President General Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain. Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal leader Sahibzada Shah Ans Noorani, Allama Mohammad Hassan Haqqani and Mufti Muhammad Naeemi were also present.
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They pledged to wage a struggle against the bill, give every sacrifice to protect hudoodullah and stop the government from intervening in hudoodullah.
The Womens Protection Bill (WPB) has been sent to President General Pervez Musharraf for his approval and the president is likely to give his assent to the bill within this week, possibly even today (Monday), Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Sher Afgan Niazi said on Sunday. The National Assembly and the Senate have passed the Womens Protection Bill, but every bill passed by parliament requires the presidents approval to become law. The WPB aims at amending rape laws to provide relief to women in Pakistan.
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MULTAN: The Anti Terrorist Court, Faisalabad, headed by Muhammad Islam on Saturday, awarded 15-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) and a fine of Rs 25,000 each to two Christians under Section 295-B. According to the prosecution, the accused, Jamil alias James Masih and Boota Masih, were caught burning the pages of holy Quran on September 8, 2006, in the Nishatabad area. "Awarded" is an interesting take (IT). Just sitting around burning pages of the Qu'ura'a'n, huh (JSABPOTQH)? Boggle that (BT).
15 years of making big rocks into flour.
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That was easy. I wonder who moved into their house.
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Common muslim tactic. Infidels don't care enough about the koran to burn it. Muzzie's do and often drop a flaming copy on their infidel enemy's doorstep and call the cops.
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Construction of a DOLLAR STORE on Phobos to begin shortly after touchdown...to be resupplied with drek flown in by Red Chinese Shuttles no doubt...next followed by a CHINESE BUFFET to feed the shuttle crews...I, Criswell, foresee a contest in weighless space with a golden sparerib reward given to the first Chines who can pick up a grain of white steamed rice with chop stix!
Search For Missing People In Indonesian Gas Blast Continues
Rescuers continued searching Saturday for two more people believed to be missing in a deadly gas pipeline blast near the site of a huge mud leak on Indonesia's Java island, police said. The explosion late Wednesday in East Java's Sidoarjo district, where hot mud spewing out of an exploratory gas well has submerged large areas, has so far claimed 11 lives.
"Rescuers are still working at the site to look for two more people who, local residents say, are still missing," Tyo, an officer at the local Porong police station, told AFP.
All the victims were military or toll road staff as the area has been closed due to the mud leak.
Sidoarjo general hospital confirmed it had received 11 bodies, which were handed over to bereaved families for burial after identification. The hospital had discharged seven of 11 people who received treatment for injuries, mostly burns, said Agus, a worker at the hospital.
The powerful blast shot flames 500 metres (1,600 feet) high, bursting a dyke built to contain mud which has inundated Sidoarjo district near the city of Surabaya.
The pipeline, about two meters underground, burst after subsidence around the gas well.
Mud spewing from the well since May has covered large swathes of land and forced more than 12,000 people to flee their homes.
A system of dykes is holding back the steaming mud, which continues to bubble from the earth at a rate of some 120,000 cubic metres each day.
Experts have been working to channel the mud to the nearby sea amid fears the impending monsoon may cause the dykes to collapse.
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That mud is unbelievable. Some guesstimates are that there might be an ocean of the stuff underground, all trying to get up. Plus, it is full of phenol, aka carbolic acid, that is caustic to the skin.
DENVER (AP) - A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan. There's a difference? In any case, I prefer the chicken track explanation.
Some residents who have complained have children serving in Iraq, said Bob Kearns, president of the Loma Linda Homeowners Association in Pagosa Springs. He said some residents have also
believed it was a symbol of Satan. Three or four residents complained, he said. ``Somebody could put up signs that say drop bombs on Iraq. If you let one go up you have to let them all go up,'' he said in a telephone interview Sunday. You say that like it's a bad thing, Bob.
Lisa Jensen said she wasn't thinking of the war when she hung the wreath. She said, ``Peace is way bigger than not being at war. This is a spiritual thing.'' Can you dig it?
Jensen, a past association president, calculates the fines will cost her about $1,000, and doubts they will be able to make her pay. But she said she's not going to take it down until after Christmas. ``Now that it has come to this I feel I can't get bullied,'' she said. ``What if they don't like my Santa Claus.'' SATAN Claus, you mean!
The association in this 200-home subdivision 270 miles southwest of Denver has sent a letter to her saying that residents were offended by the sign and the board ``will not allow signs, flags etc. that can be considered divisive.'' such as "impeach Bob."
The subdivision's rules say no signs, billboards or advertising are permitted without the consent of the architectural control committee. Kearns ordered the committee to require Jensen to remove the wreath, but members refused after concluding that it was merely a seasonal symbol that didn't say anything. Kearns fired all five committee members. The rubber stamp was a bit inflexible it seems. "Repeat after me," saith Bob, "I will obey, I will obey, I will obey....."
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It is my learnered opinion that only LLL moonbats need a homeowners association, the rest of us know how to interact with "normal" society. Sounds like subfuerer Kearns has some seditionists in his ranks.
Two hundred and seventy miles? Would that be in New Mexico? Or maybe Arizona?
If the latter, then Jensen is off the hook. It is illegal for an HOA to put a lien on a home for fines (dues are OK). So, if she ignores the letters and the collection agency, there's nothing they can do, except formally sue her in court. I don't know the case where she lives.
I happen to be the president of the board of our HOA (I retire next month). There's actually very little the HOA can do to enforce the CCRs.
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