An Italian man has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said on Monday.
"I've a suspicion it was him, Giuseppe!"
"How can you tell, Carlo?"
"It wuz his house and his girlfriend. He wuz there. He had the knife in his hand."
"Damn, Carlo! That's brilliant!"
The 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa,
"Yer comin' wid me, bebby!"
"Help! Help!"
"Here, youse! Stop that!"
"Shuddup. Have a beer on me!"
"Well, that's mighty nice of youse!"
shoved her into a car
"Into the car, woman!"
and took her to his home where he made her iron and wash dishes after threatening her, they said.
"Wash the dishes and iron the shirts or it's curtains for you!"
"You beast!"
"Shuddup and iron!"
Police arrived at his house after being tipped off by a friend of the woman who watched the scene at the pub.
"Yeah! He dragged her right out in fronta everybody!"
"Why didn't you stop him?"
"Well, he bought me this beer..."
The man, who was apparently furious at his ex-girlfriend for leaving him, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, police said.
"Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!"
"Curses! Foiled again!"
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Which part, Hellfish? Kidnapping an ex-girlfriend, or forced ironing and dish washing? To me, the second part is just stupid -- you don't force a victim to take dangerous weapons into her hands, eg. hot irons and frying pans, both suitable for whacking heads with.
Robert Downey Jr. is in negotiations to star in DreamWorks/Universal's "Cowboys & Aliens," a pulpy mix of the sci-fi and Western genres that could serve as a potential 2010 tentpole.
"Cowboys & Aliens" derives from a graphic novel written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley from an original idea by Rosenberg. The story centers on an Old West battle between the Apache and Western settlers, including a former Union Army gunslinger named Zeke Jackson (Downey), that is interrupted by a spaceship crashing into the prairie near Silver City, Ariz.
The story draws a parallel between the American imperialist drive to conquer the "savage" Indians with its advanced technology and the aliens' assault on Earthlings, who must join together to survive the invaders' attack. I think I'll wait for the live action version of Heavy Metal's Tex Arcana comic.
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Or you can wait a couple a weeks, until I'll be taking pre-orders for the Adelsverein Trilogy - a gripping and dramatic saga about the German settlements on the 19th century Texas frontier.
It has operatic levels of practically everything - true love, war, sudden murder, revenge, stolen children... and cattle drives.
It will be officially launched December 10, all three volumes, but pre-orders will be delivered just before that date.
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Must be communism, R-C - Islam has killed a whole lot more than that.
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Barbara, I figured he meant communism. Actually, Hollywood will never attack either communism or Islam. Islam, because they are afraid of getting their heads cut off. Communism, for the same reason that I would never make a film attacking Catholicism: you don't make a film attacking the religion you practice.
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Actually I mean the state worshipping religion and it's prophet Marx.
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One should try to find "NIGHT OF THE COOTERS" H.G. Wells' Martians make the mistake of landing in Texas. Due to the action taking place in Texas it is a SHORT story.
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The Valley of Gwangi is an excellent movie, available on DVD.
One should try to find "NIGHT OF THE COOTERS" H.G. Wells' Martians make the mistake of landing in Texas. Due to the action taking place in Texas it is a SHORT story.
"Night of the Cooters" by Howard Waldrop is in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (Kevin J. Anderson, ed.). I have this book but haven't read it yet. (I thought you were kidding with the title, Bruce, but looked through the book to see if there was an equivalent, and -- har!)
Strange results for "kahane" at Google. Did a rogue employee enter their own summary text, or what? It reads
"Associated with the terrorist group Kahane Chai. Adovocating the forcible expulsion of Palestinians from Israel and the occupied territories."
Of course, this text exists nowhere on the website http://kahane.org. (These Google site summaries are nearly always generated from a web site's own visible content or metatags). There is nothing comparable for any of the extremist Muslim web sites index by Google. Of particular interest is the mis-spelled word "adovocating" [sic]. Something is NOT right at Google.
Quaker Oats is toast - Closed Indefinitely - HUGE silos of grain up to their necks in flood-water. General Mills - it will not be producing for a LONG time.
Cargill - Their huge grain storage bins are filled with water and the RR in and out collapsed
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is one of the worlds largest agricultural processors of soybeans, corn, wheat and cocoa. - Under water.
Penford Corporation: Nature. Science. Solutions. - flooded out - RR access gone Manufactures modified starches, dextrin, spherical dextrose, potato starch and fiber, tapioca starch, breading, cryoprotectants and other food additives.
Even though were 13 miles EAST of the big river problems in Cedar Rapids the stress (stench?) in the air is unbelievable. Only one little road open in and out of here - bridges and roads washed out - 20 mile trips are now 180 or more going AROUND all the devastation.
Flooding in the Midwest has swelled rivers and submerged roads and rails, halting or delaying shipments of food, fuel and other goods. Manufacturers also have been forced to suspend production of everything from oatmeal to pork products.
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Alan, apparently you didn't get the memo. The problem is now Climate Change. This has the advantage that any problem can be blamed on it - droughts, floods, record snowfall, record heat.
Of course, it is all man made, and most of it can be placed directly on George W. Bush's shoulders.
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MANAMA Bahrain plans to get tough on males as those who flirt in public, indoors or via phone against a womans wishes will undergo up to six-month jail or BD100 fine according to a draft law. The proposed law also recommends a jail term of three to 12 months or fine not less than BD200 for bosses who harass their female staff publicly or privately.
Gentle flirting is okay, sexual harassment most definitely isn't. Apparently the Bahrainis can't tell the difference ...
Conservative MP Jassim Al Saidi would retable a proposal that was reviewed by parliament during the first legislative term but could not be approved after the end of parliamentary recess. The bodies concerned, including the ministry of interior, should tackle the recklessness of youth in neighbourhoods and commercial malls during the summer, Al Saidi said.
The lawmakers move followed complaints from families who demand measures to stop incidents of harassment and action by youth to get the attention of females. He said the bill would reduce the incidents of flirting by teenagers and reckless youth, which cause embarrassment to many women, and eliminate the chances of managers and heads of departments using their power to harass their female employees.
The government has been rejecting as according to the executive authority, the present penal law is quite adequate to deal with such offences. The government said that articles 350 and 351 deal with flirting cases in public, indoors or over the phone, so the bill offers nothing new.
So the legislators are pushing a 'feel-good' law. We're familiar with that concept here ...
The Ministry of Justice earlier called on the legislative authority to stop submitting amendments to the penal law as the government was in the process of drafting a new law to address the situation.
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Do they have enough jail space for this? Cause those middle eastern dudes all look like leering perverts to me.
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Well, if they just dragged the girls off to an alleyway and raped them, as long as they guy could find four friend to testify that she went voluntarily, they could get away with it. The woman's protestations would have no standing in a Sharia court. The girl would then be killed by her family for honor violations, and the guys would get off scot free.
Ain't Islam wonderful?
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Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the centre of an international custody battle eight years ago, has reportedly joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. He was quoted by Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde as saying he will never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul.
Learned his lines well, did he ...
Elian, now 14, was six when relatives in Miami lost their battle to keep him in the US. He was returned to Cuba in mid-2000 with his father.
Juventud Rebelde said in its Sunday edition the boy was among 18,000 people who joined the Young Communist Union on Saturday.
Elian was found floating alone in the Florida Straits in late 1999, one of the few survivors from a group of shipwrecked Cubans who had tried to reach the US in a handmade boat. His mother was among those who died when the fragile craft hit a storm.
A bitter custody battle ensued between his relatives in Miami, backed by the anti-Castro Cuban American community there, and his father, supported by the Cuban government. The US courts got involved, eventually ruling in favour of Elian's father and the boy was returned to Cuba. Correspondents say the Cuban government carefully guards Elian's privacy.
Except when it's to their advantage to make him a public spectacle ...
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Bets on the number of American university departments already with Elian on their list of scholarship recipients?
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Why does he need to go to our Universities? He seems to have already completed the PoliSci course studies. Why not just grant him a degree based on prior work?
#3
Why wouldn't he join whatever group. Life is good when you're one of the Commie elite and because of his propaganda usefulness that's his position. He'll probably wonder what happened when he's tared and feathered (or worse) when communism eventually ends in Cuba but for now he's 14 and really can't be blamed.
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"Based on the fact that so many schools have collapsed, the standard is not good enough. The central government sets the standard."
Paging big-government liberals to the white courtesy phone! Decisions should be made at the lowest level possible. Centrally-planned economies/governments can't know all the necessary local conditions. Ergo, one rule for everyone and thousands die. What will it take for the lesson to be learned at home?
#2
Right Spot. How about extreme local codes on building refineries or nuke plants, which for all intents are to prohibit their construction rather than real safety?
#3
You can have all the standards in the world, if things are not built up to code and inspectors are non-existant or bribed to look the other way you will end up with tragedy.
I imagine someone will hang for this, someone should. I'm no fan of commies but I hope they get the right person and not some scape-goat.
India's own Arjun tank is finally proving its worth. Despite continuing criticism from an army establishment that judges the Arjun far more strictly than foreign purchases like the T-90, the Arjun is successfully completing a gruelling 5,000-kilometre trial in the Rajasthan desert.
During six months of trials, the Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO), along with tank crews from the army's 43 Armoured Regiment, have proved not just the Arjun's endurance, but also the ability of its computer-controlled gun to consistently blow away suitcase-sized targets placed more than a kilometre away.
The army's Directorate General of Mechanised Forces (DGMF), which must eventually okay the tank, is not impressed but key decision-makers are rallying behind the Arjun.
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Obviously, this threatens a lot of generals' payoffs from the Russians.
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The Arjun may or may not be a fine tank. It looks like a main battle tank and is probably what India needs. Still I think India should develop a light tank for export to Africa and the middle east. I imagine there is a huge market in areas where the tanks are more likely to be used against infantry or crowds rather than other tanks. Make money, build the arms industry and reputation and you can build your own tanks with the profits.
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I think it would be good idea to have no tanks whatsoever in SubSaharan Africa. Do you have any idea what Hellfires, TOWs and Javelins cost?
Even AT4s will bust your weekly beer allowance.
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Still I think India should develop a light tank for export to Africa and the middle east.
A light tank will be mincemeat when it faces Pakistani and Chinese tanks and ATGMs.
India has been very reluctant to export arms. Nehru was quite the peacenik and hated armaments. At independence India had ordinance factories that manufactured all manner of defence gear. It exported almost nothing, and what little was sold went to a select few nations.
What the Indian army needs is more artillery and IFVs.
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Tanks are assuming the usefulness of battleships.
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Most areas of subsahara africa would see tanks used against rioters. Rioters without anti-tank weapons in most cases. And if you do face one you have the advantage that you have a limited crew and cost compared to a main battle tank like the ones the soviets sell.
The arms race between anti-tank missiles and tanks has mostly been won in the missiles favor. I agree with that, but you can't concede the entire field because they *might* have missiles. You instead buy more disposable versions of your equipment. And of course hope you don't end up in a tank v tank war.
If not a tank than an APC which would mostly have the same negatives to anti-tank missiles.
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A technical is far superior in open ground. Desert and rocky mountains. The Sahara and above where mobility is king. In a city, town, hamlet, or mud and jungle I wouldn't want to be caught dead in one. That is why you don't hear about technicals in those areas.
Of course on the expendable front they are better than a light tank or APC so perhaps it doesn't matter. Send two or three and if you lose some to a swarm its not a big loss.
Vic Morrow as Sgt. "Chip" Saunders
Rick Jason as Lt. Gil Hanley
Jack Hogan as William G. Kirby
Pierre Jalbert as Caje
Dick Peabody as Littlejohn
Other Regulars:
Shecky Greene as Braddock ... Season 1
Steven Rogers as Doc ... Season 1
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William Bryant as McCall ... Season
UAVs with Hellfires?
HA what are those Rambler!?! I'm surprised at youse!
Rambler you're talking about Combat PROFESSIONALS damn it!! >:
I wasn't sure how to file this story from Worcester Mass. Please place in appropriate category.
A boy with a rifle was shown on the front page of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette on May 24. He was in Worcester South High Community School in front of scores of students. This is a clear violation of the Worcester school policy of no weapons in school of any kind, not even fake or toy weapons. This is a zero-tolerance policy.
The boy is a cadet in JROTC. When JROTC came to Worcester, it promised there would be no training with rifles in the schools. The school administration agreed that such rifles violated the no-weapons policy.
I am not surprised that JROTC has broken its promise of no weapons on campus, as the JROTC program is just a pretext to recruit children into the military. JROTC needs guns and uniforms to recruit.
The JROTC actually has set back our children by claiming that national security is legitimate high school pedagogy. It actually misleads our children to think that Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are needed for national security.
The photo in the T&G shows that our children are being sucked into a weapons culture of bomb first, torture second and never negotiate.
JROTC costs Worcester residents close to $250,000 per annum. It is time that this costly and harmful program is abolished from Worcester schools.
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"The photo in the T&G shows that our children are being sucked into a weapons culture of bomb first, torture second and never negotiate."
Someone should inform this twit that the US military has been responsible for more humanitarian relief, both in terms of monetary and effectiveness, then any other organization in the history of the planet.
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Can we all stand around Mr. Gordon T. Davis, the drooling village idiot of Worchester, and point and laugh? I know it's not nice to make fun of morons, but in his case I'm prepared to make an exception.
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My how things have changed. This person writes as if JROTC is mandatory. When I was in High School it was voluntary. I learned a lot about leadership, first aid, responsibility, and teamwork as well as how to safely handle weapons. The weapons we had on campus didn't even have firing pins, but then to this goober, firearms are scary and dangerous.
Bugwitious Gigantus seems to be his species.
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The comments to the article are pretty funny. Here's one:
"Oh heavens yes! What a mistake. I should know. Back in the 70's when I went to high school I was in ROTC. I was originally attracted by the uniforms and the guns. It made me dream of the madness and mayhem I could cause when I got into the military. Later on after all the killing I did in the military I became a criminal on the streets.
Oh wait, sorry, thats NOT what happened..."
But I'm sure Mr. Davis has also written some sternly worded letters to Hamas about having children pose for photos with functional AK-47's.
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I just want to go on record as stating that he isnot my Mr. Davis.
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Dear Mr. Blues,
As a resident of a town very near Worcester, MA
I would like to take offence at your term
"Bugwitious Gigantus" to describe Mr. Davis.
Unfortunately I still have some regard for the truth and have to admit that not only is this species common in Worcester it is in control of most all of the state as well. After all, we have the dubious distinction of having the beta version of Obama as our Governor.
Leave us not descend to the proper descriptions of Boston politicians.....
Yes, I will gratefully accept your pity on behalf of all right thinking MA residents. We could probably all emigrate in one plane load......a small plane at that.
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Alan C, after having lived for 2 years in Woburn I know there are some fine and decent people in Massachusetts. I ment no offense to them or yourself. We have our share of Bugwits here in Tennessee as is proven by the election of Al Gore to the Senate. Praise the Almighty, Tennessee didn't vote for Mr. Gore when he ran for President.Please feel free to come join us here in the mountains any time.
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...Dunno why, but for some reason the tone of this letter suggests to me nothing as much as an aggrieved eight-year-old who is convinced they have found a loophole in a grownups' reasoning.
Mike
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A letter to the paper? Geeze, why don't ya go complain directly to JROTC?
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Typical Masshole. I graduated in 1970 from Smith Vocational High School, Northamptom Mass. We had a mandatory JROTC program, we drilled with M1 Grands and our drill instructor had been in Audie Murphy's platoon until we got wounded. Didn't make me a cold blooded killer. And I'll rip the throat out of anyone who sez different!
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How things have changed! In my father's day (1930's), he and his buddies used to take their hunting rifles to school, put them in the classroom closet, and then go hunting right after school. The teacher wasn't upset, as long as the kids told her about it. And nobody got shot.
Nowadays, people go bugwit if a kid even draws a picture of a toy gun, let alone uses one.
Posted by: Rambler in California ||
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Well, Gordon, if it comes down to my life depending on you or one of these kids, guess who I'm praying shows up first? Hint: It ain't you.
AlanC speaks the truth. This state is infested with Gordons.
There's a shortage of fryer grease in America. Thieves pilfer it by the gallon. Investors wage a bidding war for every golden drop. Add to that the soaring price of soy and canola seed, and you can understand why 26-year-old Libby Rodgers, who hopes to launch a biodiesel company, won't reveal the sources of her blend.
"I don't want to shoot my mouth off," says Rodgers, who collects grease from places around Prineville that she won't name. "I can't say too much about my feedstock. It is just so competitive." Not long ago, restaurants might have paid Rodgers to haul away their oily dribbles. But with a runaway commodity market and growing friction in the food vs. fuel conflict, secondhand grease has become the diamond of gemstones to biodiesel brewers.
Now, the grease crisis has become just one part of a slippery slope that threatens Oregon's biodiesel bonanza.
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According to the EPA study (just the executive summary) mileage is down and nitrous oxides up with biodiesel, but we can't put that in the article; it might make it look like there's a downside.
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Go into the grocery store and buy peanut oil. Use it in your diesel engine and it should work. Oh, you want it used because then it's cheap. Don't want to pay full price like the rest of us. Sorry, thems the breaks.
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Oregon collects fuel taxes from biodiesel and is trying to force the same on those that buy cooking oils in large amounts. The state tax people even call those who do not voluntarily pay the fuel tax if they buy the oils "tax scofflaws" and wants to be able to charge them with tax evasion. It is all about the green in Oregon, and I mean the type of green that has dead presidents on it.
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The same would be true in any other state. Fuel taxes are the revenue source for road construction and maintenance. They are effectively a user fee. The alternative is tolls.
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.
An Italian man has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said on Monday.
"I don't want to shoot my mouth off," says Rodgers, who collects grease from places around Prineville that she won't name. "I can't say too much about my feedstock. It is just so competitive." Not long ago, restaurants might have paid Rodgers to haul away their oily dribbles. But with a runaway commodity market and growing friction in the food vs. fuel conflict, secondhand grease has become the diamond of gemstones to biodiesel brewers. 
