ST. CLOUD, Minn. (WCCO) ¯ A man in St. Cloud, Minn. was fined for dumping dog feces in another man's pickup truck for apparent political reasons. According to the incident report, David Vandelinden, 45, admitted to putting small bags of dog poop in the back of the truck.
Police said the truck owner's mother saw Vandelinden place feces in the truck and contacted authorities.
Vandelinden told police he did it because "he hates McCain." Two weeks ago, the truck owner put stickers supporting John McCain and Sarah Palin on his truck. Vandelinden was issued a $183 fine for littering.
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to putting small bags of dog poop in the back of the truck.
thus highlighting the weakness of the liberals. A good republican would not have used bags.
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You know, one of these bastards is going to be surprised as Hell when he gets beaten with a baseball bat for pulling crap like this. The Left thinks they have a monopoly on violence. When the Right finally snaps, it's going to be very, very bloody for the lefties.
Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush's son will spend 180 days in jail after pleading guilty to sexual encounters with female inmates while working for the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Kane County Circuit Court Judge Timothy Q. Sheldon also ordered 42-year-old Jeffrey M. Rush of Lake Zurich to serve three years probation. Rush pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of official misconduct.
Two charges stem from sexual relationships with two female inmates in 2007 while Rush was chief of security at the Fox Valley Adult Transition Center in Aurora.
The third charge stems from two incidents in which Rush, acting in his official capacity, gave an inmate a ride home in his state vehicle. He was fired in September 2007.
You know it's bad when the child of an Illinois pol gets fired from a state job.
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Funny how the political affiliation of Bobby Rush isn't mentioned until the very last sentence. Anyone care to guess?
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giving an inmate a ride home? i hope they had been released
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Bobby Rush, the Black Panther terrorist and racist Maoist communist makes the upper echelons of political power. Then his child fall flat on his face. Only in America.
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A self-described Montreal pastor who says a so-called marriage to a 10-year-old girl gave him the right to have sex with her has been found guilty of sexual assault. Daniel Cormier, 56, was convicted by Quebec court Judge Sylvie Durand on Wednesday after a five-year trial rife with legal wrangling.
Cormier, who headed the now-defunct Church of Downtown Montreal and who once ran for mayor of Montreal, showed no emotion as Durand read her ruling in court, staying two other charges of sexual touching and invitation to touching.
The girl, who is now 19 but still cannot be identified, was seated at the back of the courtroom and listened to a translation of the verdict with her mother.
She testified during the trial that she was too young to grasp Cormier's plan for a married life together and denied ever entering any sort of union with him. But Durand noted she did recall much of the sexual abuse in stark, vivid detail.
"They were criminal acts that caused a lot of consequences to the victim, some measurable and others that's not possible for us to put into evidence," Crown prosecutor Anne-Andree Charette said outside the courtroom. "He stole her childhood from her and it is something I'll try to sum up for the court at the sentencing."
Durand told Cormier earlier this year his defence he was married to the girl wouldn't be accepted and she would not hear any testimony to that effect.
Cormier has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing or being a pedophile, saying he is simply lovestruck for the youngster he called his wife. Cormier still faces a pair of sex-related charges against a different 16-year-old girl in a trial scheduled to begin in January. He completely denies the allegations regarding the 16-year-old and says he did nothing illegal with the 10-year-old he claims to have married at a ceremony at his obscure evangelical church in 1999.
Cormier took the family under his wing starting in 1993, while he headed the church that catered to the marginalized. That's where he met the girl's mother, at the time a recovering junkie and prostitute, taking her and her two young daughters under his wing. The family described Cormier as a father figure who increasingly became a parental fixture in the girls' lives. The sisters frequently stayed with Cormier or vacationed with him and other church members.
It was during these moments that other church members began to grow suspicious of Cormier's relationship with the victim. Cormier was arrested in 2003 after a social worker alerted police about the situation involving the girl.
The case has snaked its way through the system in part because of legal wrangling and numerous motions filed by the Crown and Cormier, who represented himself.
The victim refused to testify in the same courtroom as Cormier, instead doing so via video link from an adjacent room. Cormier was barred from cross-examining the girl or her mother and turned down an offer to submit a predetermined list of questions.
Cormier rested without further witnesses or testifying himself. "He had no defence concerning the acts and the offences that he committed," said Charette.
A sentencing hearing is scheduled for late November and Charette has indicated she will seek prison time for Cormier.
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The proceedings were conducted in French and he was still convicted? Amazing!
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He's gonna be REAL popular in any Canadian federal prison.
Unlike the male-dominated societies of their chimpanzee relatives, bonobo society-in which females enjoy a higher social status than males-has a "make-love-not-war" kind of image. While chimpanzee males frequently band together to hunt and kill monkeys, the more peaceful bonobos were believed to restrict what meat they do eat to forest antelopes, squirrels, and rodents.
Not so, according to a study, reported in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, that offers the first direct evidence of wild bonobos hunting and eating the young of other primate species.
These hunts tend to be fairly simple, with a single bonobo cornering a duiker then quickly feasting on the still-living animal as more apes hurried to the scene. Hohmann says he has witnessed a duiker "still vocally blurting as the bonobos opened the stomach and intestines."
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Julius Streicher (February 12, 1885 -- October 16, 1946) was a prominent Nazi prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine. His publishing firm also released three anti-Semitic books for children, including the 1938 Der Giftpilz (The Poison Mushroom), one of the most widespread pieces of propaganda, which purported to warn about insidious dangers Jews posed by using the metaphor of an attractive yet deadly mushroom. After the war, he was convicted of crimes against humanity and executed. . . .
Streicher was hanged in the early hours of October 16, 1946, along with the nine other condemned defendants from the first Nuremberg trial (Goering, Streicher's nemesis, committed suicide only hours earlier). Streicher's was the most melodramatic of the hangings carried out that night. At the bottom of the scaffold he cried out "Heil Hitler!" When he mounted the platform, he delivered his last sneering reference to Jewish scripture, snapping "Purim-Fest 1946!" The Jewish holiday Purim celebrates the escape by the Jews from extermination at the hands of Haman, an ancient Persian government official. At the end of the Purim story, Haman is hanged. Streicher's final declaration before the hood went over his head was, "The Bolsheviks will hang you one day!" For those of you cynics who think "there ain't no justice," consider the following:
The consensus among eyewitnesses was that the hanging of Julius Streicher did not proceed as planned, and that he did not receive the quick death from spinal severing typical of the other executions at Nuremberg. Cue world's smallest violin.
Kingsbury Smith, who covered the executions for the International News Service, reported that Streicher "went down kicking" which may have dislodged the hangman's knot from its ideal position. Smith stated that Streicher could be heard groaning under the scaffold after he dropped through the trap-door, and that the executioner intervened under the gallows, which was screened by wood panels and a black curtain, to finish the job. . . . Serves 'im right.
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On a vaguely related note, the Nazi 'Signal' magazine, the German equivalent of the US 'Life' magazine, makes for some interesting reading. Mostly in how normal it tried to make Germany look.
Some years ago, a book was published that was "The Best of Signal". It included pictures of Hitler doing ordinary politician stuff, including one of him presenting a happy middle-aged housewife with a blue ribbon for her award winning meatloaf and another of him at the grand opening of some business building, looking like a small town mayor.
In other words, it was "soft" propaganda, and it points out one of the startling differences in the war.
In England and America, the philosophy of "total war" was in effect, in which "everything effects the war effort, one way or another."
But Hitler never adopted that idea for Germany, going to great lengths to keep consumer goods in the market and to keep up the appearance of normality. Women could still buy lipstick, perfume and silk stockings until late in the war. War rationing was pretty much limited to imported goods.
Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, people still speculate over causes of the destruction of the city's floodwall system. A new article in the fall issue of American Entomologist suggests that Formosan subterranean termites played a large role.
Author Gregg Henderson, a professor at the Louisiana State University AgCenter, discovered Formosan subterranean termites (Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki) in the floodwall seams in August, 2000 - five years before Katrina struck - and noticed that the seams were made of waste residue from processed sugarcane. Known as bagasse, this waste residue is attractive to Formosan termites.
After the dikes were breached in 2005, Henderson and his colleague Alan Morgan inspected 100 seams for evidence of termites, including three areas where major breaks in the walls had occurred. 70% of the seams in the London Avenue Canal, which experienced two major breaks during Katrina, showed evidence of insect attack, as did 27% of seams inspected in the walls of the 17th Street Canal.
The Formosan subterranean termite originates from China, where it has been known to damage levees since the 1950s. Besides eating at bagasse seams, the termites may have contributed to the destruction of the levees of New Orleans by digging networks of tunnels, which can cause "piping," sending water through the tunnels and undermining the levee system.
"I believe that the termites pose a continuing danger that requires immediate attention," Henderson writes. "The fact that termites cause piping in levees must be accepted."
The author further suggests that New Orleans' 350 miles of levees and floodwalls should be surveyed for termite damage, and that treatment of the floodwalls and nearby trees may be necessary to avoid future disasters.
(SomaliNet) A local Ugandan official said on Wednesday that a community in eastern Uganda that has practiced female genital mutilation "since time immemorial" has banned the ritual.
Chairperson of Kapchorwa district Nelson Chelimo said: "The community decided that it was not useful, that women were not getting anything out of it, so the district council decided to establish an ordinance banning it"
Chelimo said that historically people in Kapchorwa believed that a woman who married without first being circumcised would be stricken for life with various illnesses, but that "those beliefs are really outmoded."
The district official said the campaign to end the practice has been alive in his community for several years, and that in the recent past, educated young women in Kapchorwa have shunned it.
The district council's ordinance will now be submitted to parliament so that it can become law, and subject to enforcement by the national police force.
The United Nations in 2007 passed a resolution that called female genital mutilation a violation of the rights of women and said it constituted "irreparable, irreversible abuse."
The resolution also said the practice increases the risk of HIV transmission, as well as maternal and infant mortality. The UN estimates that between 100-million to 140-million worldwide have undergone the practice.
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It's good to see progress being made.
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The word is getting out, slowly, among those that practice female circumcision, that it is primitive and barbaric, and for Muslims, that there are some influential fatwas against it.
To their credit, though it has been difficult, some of the better Muslim scholars have been coming around to ideas like this and polio vaccinations. If they have any doubts, then they just dig up some other scholars they respect, to persuade them.
Saudi Arabia's religious police arrested a Jordanian woman residing in Jeddah for arranging pleasure marriages and facilitating meetings between the opposite sex, local press reported Wednesday.
The Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice stormed the woman's house after receiving reports about her alleged activities. Informants said she facilitated meetings between men and women under the pretext of arranging pleasure marriages, reported the Saudi newspaper Shams.
Such unions do not meet the requirements of a legitimate marriage contract in Saudi Arabia, which include having a marriage registrar and witnesses.
Three other women and a man were also arrested and confessed under interrogation, but refused to describe the activities as illegitimate.
According to statements by the accused, they were justly involved in the facilitation of a type of marriage, which is legitimate in other sects.
The offenders were referred to the prosecution, which in turn transferred the case to the penal court where a trial date will be set. In his statement, the prosecutor general called for applying a "deterrent" penalty.
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Pleasure marriages? Wasn't aware there was such a thing.
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Putting "pleasure" and "marriage" togrther to describe prostitution? Those Arabs! They are so funny.
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I don't know between Sunni but in Shia Iran it goes like this: man and prostitute go to a mullah and subscribe a temporary marriage, for, say, an hour (I know, I know, but they make provision for the time in reaching a house). After that they are automatically divorced.
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Temporary marriages in Iran can last from an hour to indefinite. They're also often used by live-together couples, especially where the girl's family would oppose a normal marriage.
After plugging loopholes in the selection process of judges to the higher judiciary to block entry of 'black sheep', Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has dropped a bombshell by rolling out a mechanism to weed out corrupt, lazy and ineffective lower court judges.
The underlying message in the CJI's October 14 letter to all Chief Justices of HCs is loud and clear -- say goodbye to "indolent, infirm and those with doubtful reputation and utility" by compulsorily retiring them even if they have put in more than 30 years of service.
The number of years one has put in was not a consideration to take a lenient view against those showing deviant behaviour, the CJI said and asked HC chief justices to evaluate the performance of judges in the lower courts once they reached 50 years.
The scanner will continue to remain focussed on them till they retire at the age of 60.
At any point of time after attaining 50, a judicial officer found unsuitable should be eased out by prematurely retiring him, the CJI said and assured the HCs that the ousted judges would receive no sympathetic treatment from the courts as premature retirement cast no stigma on the affected person.
"If implemented in right earnest, such provision will keep deviant behaviour in check, besides getting rid of those who are found to be indolent, ineffective or with doubtful integrity," CJI Balakrishnan said.
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Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan
the first Dalit (untouchable) to occupy this post
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Police claimed to have arrested former hockey coach and Olympian Naveed Alam and two 'wanted criminals' from Gohar Centre at Wahdat Road after a shootout in which one passer-by was killed on Wednesday. Five passers-by were also injured in the 20-minute encounter. The police raided the centre after receiving information that Tariq, a proclaimed offender, was present there. Tariq and his two accomplices opened fire at the police team. In the resultant exchange of fire, Tariq was injured but managed to escape. However, the police arrested his accomplices and Naveed, and seized weapons from their possession. Police Deputy Superintendent Rai Zameer confirmed Naveed's arrest, and claimed he "sheltered criminals and weapons provided by him were used in the shootout". He said Tariq was wanted in 16 cases of robberies, including at banks, and was a court absconder in 30 cases. He alleged that Tariq was also involved in a robbery at The Mall in which two people were killed.
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Obviously not a real 'Crossfire," Note the following:
Accomplices captured,
the wanted miscreant manages to escape, despite being wounded,
no time of day given for the event,
bystanders not only present, but also wounded/killed,
and no round of bullet recovered.
Anybody out there from Nebraska who knows this kook?
An unlisted address is proving to be Gods best legal weapon against a mortal but tenacious Nebraska state senator. Heh. God plans ahead against frivolous lawsuits.
A Douglas County District Court judge on Tuesday threw out state Sen. Ernie Chambers lawsuit against God because the Almighty wasnt served a legal notice. And the judge doesnt seem to think its possible to find the Almightys front door. Given that this court finds that there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant this action will be dismissed with prejudice, Judge Marlon Polk wrote in his four-page order. Bet this made that two years of law school seem all worth it, didn't it, judgey wudgey?
Just over a year ago Chambers, the longest serving and maybe the most powerful state senator in Nebraska history, sought a permanent injunction against God. He said the Almighty has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents in Omaha, inspired fear and caused widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earths inhabitants. I can only imagine what his constituents are like...
Chambers has said he filed the lawsuit to make the point that everyone should have access to the courts regardless of whether they are poor or have the means of billionaire Warren Buffett of Omaha. Even a loon like...myself.
But the judge ruled that under state law a plaintiff must have access to the defendant for a lawsuit to move forward. Is there a Mister...God present? Mister God, please step forward.
Chambers, who graduated from law school but never took the bar exam, thinks hes found a hole in the judges ruling. I got your loophole! State law don't apply to me, dammit!
The court itself acknowledges the existence of God, Chambers, who is not returning to the Legislature next year because of term limits, said on Wednesday. A consequence of that acknowledgment is a recognition of Gods omniscience. Therefore, God would have actual notice of that lawsuit. It says below he's been there 38 years! What are the term limits? 40 years?
Since God knows everything, God has notice of this lawsuit. God also probably knows you're nuts and didn't wanna waste his time.
Chambers has 30 days to decide whether to appeal the decision and said he hasnt decided yet whether to file one. Be a hoot if he gets struck by lightning or...sumthin.
During a court appearance in August, while sitting a few feet away from an empty table reserved for God and Gods attorney, Chambers argued that courts and the U.S. government already routinely take notice of God. Should've had an impersonator show up and watch Ernie have a heart attack...
Chambers regularly skipped morning prayers during his 38 years in the legislature and often criticizes Christians. Picture of him at the link. He looks like the guy fishing empties out of my recycling...
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It's a bit pointless, a bit like Pascal's equation, if God doesn't exist, you're wasting time, yours (not too bad, probably, keeps you occupied) and other's (who have actual jobs, you know)... and if He exists, you're achieving nothing, except just sticking out of the crowd and putting yourself in a bad light... which may have serious consequence, just check the Old Testament.
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Veddy veddy bad juju. Whether you believe or do not, don't mess with God. Bad Karma, heh.
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He said the Almighty has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents in Omaha...
If, and we say if, he did such things, I'd for one would pay attention. You know Noah and all that. If the Real Big One(c) is sending you those kinds of messages I'd really have to examine what I did to provoke them. Cause being the RBO means that warnings are not necessary, just a final [no appeals] judgment. [Then again, bearing false witness is probably on the tab now too. Good luck on all that.]
The Islamic Arab Council in Lebanon launched an anti-Hezbollah satellite channel aimed at underscoring that Lebanon's Shiites are Arabs and delinking the connection often made with Iran.
The station, called Orouba --or Arabism -- is part of a group of developmental projects announced at the commemoration of the council's second anniversary and will likely counter the official Hezbollah station al-Manar.
The council seeks to at unify the Muslim nation and rejects any external influences as part of a comprehensive political project that encourages more involvement in Lebanese politics.
Arab rather than Iran
The goals of the council, established by Sayyed Mohamed Ali al-Husseini, differs from those of Hezbollah, which favors strong links between the Shiites of Lebanon and Iran rather than the Arab world.
"The Lebanese reject any kind of guardianship from outside. The Lebanese are part of this nation and they pledge allegiance to Lebanon, and not any other outsider," Husseini said.
The launch of the new station came as part of a three-day celebration that ended Friday and included politicians and diplomats from different sects.
"The council transcended sectarianism to nationalism," said council spokesperson Talal Awada. "We believe that the Arab nation is the core of religion and all other nations owe it a lot."
Sheikh Ali Barakat, a memberof the Council's cultural division, said he rejected any "perverted" influences on the youth and announced the release of books written by Sayyed Husseini about the common ground between Sunnis and Shiites.
The speech given by Fada al-Hajj on behalf of the political division stressed that the council adheres to moderation and discards any sectarian tendencies.
Orouba is the latest in a string of satellite television stations that have started in the past two years as each sect and political party strives to influence public opinion.
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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.
A self-described Montreal pastor who says a so-called marriage to a 10-year-old girl gave him the right to have sex with her has been found guilty of sexual assault. Daniel Cormier, 56, was convicted by Quebec court Judge Sylvie Durand on Wednesday after a five-year trial rife with legal wrangling. 
Julius Streicher (February 12, 1885 -- October 16, 1946) was a prominent Nazi prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine. His publishing firm also released three anti-Semitic books for children, including the 1938 Der Giftpilz (The Poison Mushroom), one of the most widespread pieces of propaganda, which purported to warn about insidious dangers Jews posed by using the metaphor of an attractive yet deadly mushroom. After the war, he was convicted of crimes against humanity and executed. . . .
(SomaliNet) A local Ugandan official said on Wednesday that a community in eastern Uganda that has practiced female genital mutilation "since time immemorial" has banned the ritual. 
Saudi Arabia's religious police arrested a Jordanian woman residing in Jeddah for arranging pleasure marriages and facilitating meetings between the opposite sex, local press reported Wednesday.
After plugging loopholes in the selection process of judges to the higher judiciary to block entry of 'black sheep', Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has dropped a bombshell by rolling out a mechanism to weed out corrupt, lazy and ineffective lower court judges.
Police claimed to have arrested former hockey coach and Olympian Naveed Alam and two 'wanted criminals' from Gohar Centre at Wahdat Road after a shootout in which one passer-by was killed on Wednesday. Five passers-by were also injured in the 20-minute encounter. The police raided the centre after receiving information that Tariq, a proclaimed offender, was present there. Tariq and his two accomplices opened fire at the police team. In the resultant exchange of fire, Tariq was injured but managed to escape. However, the police arrested his accomplices and Naveed, and seized weapons from their possession. Police Deputy Superintendent Rai Zameer confirmed Naveed's arrest, and claimed he "sheltered criminals and weapons provided by him were used in the shootout". He said Tariq was wanted in 16 cases of robberies, including at banks, and was a court absconder in 30 cases. He alleged that Tariq was also involved in a robbery at The Mall in which two people were killed.
The Islamic Arab Council in Lebanon launched an anti-Hezbollah satellite channel aimed at underscoring that Lebanon's Shiites are Arabs and delinking the connection often made with Iran.
