Famous bimbo Paris Hilton was arrested on the Las Vegas Strip late Friday after police saw a cloud of what they suspected was marijuana smoke wafting from the windows of a black Cadillac Escalade driven by the latest guy to bang her her boyfriend, then found a small amount of cocaine in her possession. Yes, let's cruise the strip in my Escalade trailing a cloud of pot smoke. I'm sure the cops won't mind...
A crowd quickly gathered near the stop on Las Vegas Boulevard near the Wynn Las Vegas resort at about 11:30 p.m. PDT Friday, and Hilton was taken into the hotel "to keep her safe" during the initial investigation, police Lt. Wayne Holman said. Begorrah, Muldoon! Get her inside! There's a lynch mob forming!
The 29-year-old socialite and Las Vegas nightclub mogul Cy Waits were booked into the Clark County jail, police said. Hilton was released early Saturday morning without bail. Ah. "Socialite". Is that what they call it these days?
Officer Marcus Martin said police found that Hilton had a substance that tests later showed to be cocaine, but he did not say how much of the drug was found. She was arrested on a felony cocaine possession charge. If convicted of the low-grade felony, Hilton would get probation, but any violation would be punishable by one to four years in jail. Yes, of course it will... Just like Lindsey Lohan ...
Hilton's attorney, David Chesnoff, told The Associated Press on Saturday morning that he was still gathering facts about the arrest. "But I caution people not to rush to judgment," he said. Oh, certainly not...
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Goddammit, Paris! How's this gonna look on a résumé!!
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Oooo...a felony. Good luck traveling internationally after that. Visa applications are kind of hard to fill out, and don't they take your passport after you've been convicted? I say she gets out of it without a felony conviction.
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they'll drop it to a misdemeanor with 90 days of public service:
keeping her face out of the news and her legs closed
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What would she get if she were some unknown black dude smoking crack? Our jails are needlessly filled with such pathetic folks while sluts like Paris learn how to get away with more and more. Show her the slammer.
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NS, your unknown black dude smoking crack only keeps his supplier employed, a public defender, and maybe the team producing 48 Hours. However, Ms Bimbo keeps legions of print and broadcast tabloid media, not to mention the family law retainers, and her supply chain employed in this recession. Like GM, Chrysler, the UAW and Teachers Unions, she's too big to allow to fail. /sarc off
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The Hollywood party set could do whatever they wanted in their mansions and nobody would know differently (I suspect previous generations understood that mostly) and the paparazi and cops would be denied opportunities to get involved in their lives.
The fact that they don't says they are entitled and stupid and starving for any attention whatsoever.
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Frank G:
Asking her to keep her legs closed places an undue hardship on the poor girl.
Al
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As we say here in and around da burgh, "git aht..."
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More juicy details...
The officer "followed the vapor trail and the odor of marijuana to the Escalade," police Sgt. John Sheahan said.
Vapor trail???
"Miss Hilton pulled out a tube of lip balm," Sheahan said. "At the same time ... a bindle of cocaine in a plastic bag came out of her purse" in plain view of police in the room.
Whooopsie...
I'll bet Paris Hilton's lip balm supplier makes more than her coke dealer.
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LINDSAY LOHAN = "LILO" has seemingly been straight since her release from Rehab - COURTNEY LOVE, however, repor was seen wid a white powder stain on her dress.
THATTA, Pakistan Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis were fleeing floodwaters Friday after the surging River Indus smashed through levees in two places, but many refused to leave the danger zone while others took shelter in an ancient graveyard for Muslim saints.
More than 8 million people are in need of emergency assistance across the country. Around 175,000 people are believed to have fled their homes overnight in the southern city of Thatta after the levee protecting the city was breached, said Manzoor Sheikh, a senior government official. Authorities were trying to repair the levee, about 75 miles (125 kilometers) southeast of the major coastal city of Karachi.
The situation is getting worse, said local disaster official Hadi Baksh Kalhoro. The water is flowing into a nearby canal endangering Thatta city.
A second breach occurred in the Soorjani levee in the same region, said Gulab Shah, who is helping relief efforts.
It is beyond control now, he said. Thousands of people are sitting with their cattle and belongings and their lives are in danger. They are not willing to leave.
U.N. spokesman Maurizio Giuliano said about 1 million people have been displaced in Thatta and Qambar-Shadadkot districts since Wednesday.
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Somebody keeps eating my cookies! So trying again
BRUSSELS -- NATO is deploying two more aircraft to flood-hit Pakistan with more than 100 tonnes of relief goods including power generators, boats and baby food, the alliance said Friday. An Antonov 124 transport aircraft was scheduled to take off from Leipzig/Halle airport in Germany on Friday with 100 tonnes of relief goods, including power generators and water tanks donated by Germany. NATO flies by Ukraine Air?
The 28-nation alliance said the Islamabad-bound plane was also taking baby food donated by a non-governmental organisation.
At the weekend, a Trainer Cargo Aircraft will leave Geilenkirchen airbase in Germany with 16 tonnes of humanitarian goods donated by NGOs, including more power generators, boats, food and clothing, NATO said.
NATO members decided last week to provide air and sea lifts for aid donated by nations and NGOs following a request from Islamabad.
A first cargo plane with aid donated by Slovakia was deployed last weekend.
It is the second time NATO has engaged in relief efforts in Pakistan, following the 2005 earthquake, which killed more than 73,000 people and left around 3.5 million homeless.
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NATO flies by Ukraine Air?
Last Fall from the newly opened Ramstein AFB terminal hotel I looked down on the flight line as two Russian HIND helo's were being loaded onto an Antonov. My how times, they have changed.
[Gulf News] Kuwait's government is mulling breaking up its information ministry, a local newspaper has said. Believers in a free press would regard that as a good thing...
"Both the government and the parliament are now convinced that the ministry should be dismantled after it has become overloaded with tasks," a parliamentary source told Al Anba daily. If it's got lots and lots of tasks wouldn't that be an argument in favor of expanding it? That sounds like a White House staffer ...
"The ministry's laws and regulations have failed to match the current information technology and the best option for the country is to break it up," the unnamed source said. So they have lots of tasks and they're not very good at accomplishing them.
An authority in charge of visual and audio media should be set up instead, the lawmakers and officials said. To prepare YouTubes and podcasts?
According to the source, the government has approved the idea, but has requested further time to study the possibilities. There are lots of nations without ministries of information. Usually they're distinguished by how much information actually flows...
The ministry last year came under intense fire from thousands of Kuwaitis after a private television station aired a programme they deemed "highly offensive." If they'd had more than one channel they could have switched it... Merits questioned
Lawmakers called for the sacking of the minister and questioned the merits of his ministry. So the bitch isn't that information's not flowing, but that some people don't like the information that is flowing...
Bahrain in July cancelled its information ministry, replacing it with a media authority. Qatar and the UAE took similar moves. It's not generally known, but when the United States was young we had an information ministry, too. President Washington disbanded it and replaced it with a duck. Sometime in November of the first year of his first term he and his cabinet ate the duck.
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Looks like the Russians just can't imagine the world any other way. Can't they just put together a decent economy and forget all the horseshi+? I guess not.
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Well, that's what subs do, eh? At least the Russkies have enough food and fuel to put their boats to sea these days. It'll probably sink due to some preventable problem anyway.
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Makes it easier for our attack subs to find and track their attack subs ....
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Brings back Vanguard missle memories: as a young lad I sat glued to the small sxreen TV to watch our answer to the Spukniks. Alas, it rose less than three feet in the air and exploded into a massive fireball. As a child, I was crushed. Thank G-D an American Laika was not on board!
(Xinhua) -- The U.N. Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) urged France Friday to avoid a mass deportation of Roma and to strive for lasting solutions.
The CERD's 18 independent experts were concerned about the deportation of hundreds of Roma to Romania in the past few weeks, which France called a voluntary repatriation.
"Our concern is that the removal or return of the Roma has been done on a collective basis rather than examining their individual circumstances," the experts said.
The U.N. panel also called on the French government to combat the rise of racism and xenophobia in the country's political tones.
"The Committee is concerned about the increase in incidents and violence of a racist nature against Roma," the U.N. body's statement said.
France initiated a country-wide crackdown on Roma this month after a number of Gypsies attacked a police station.
It chartered two planes and deported 283 Roma Thursday despite fierce domestic and international criticism of its crackdown on travelling minorities. It so far has expelled 8,313 Roma this year.
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UN advises cancer patients to stop chemo, radiation, surgical therapies...
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Jeeze, wotta gyp!
("Roma" sounds so noble, doncha think?)(I remember a Nat Geo article a while back when the mag still had half a brain and I still subscribed -- that came to an amusing and the inevitable conclusion: "Damn! Never mind.")
They seem to be getting on little single-engine wood boats 20 at a time and heading up from Tijuana to LA. Hard to spot, too, according to the folks who are looking for them.
Fewer problems with coyotes, but costs illegals twice as much. A single boat can make $100,000 for each boatload successfully delivered. Or maybe even if not so successfully delivered.
So now we have a fence, but these folks are treating it like the Maginot Line.
Low-tech, but effective. They just don't play fair! :-)
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This is a new frontier for illegal immigrants entering the United States In growing numbers, migrants are gambling their lives at sea as land crossings become even more arduous authorities say, heightened enforcement on land, and a bigger fence, is making the offshore route more attractive.
Yet another harrowing tale of desperation brought to you by one of Americas most creative writers - Elliot Spagat. Fans familiar with Spagats previous narratives regarding oppressed migrants and the harrasment they encounter will not be disappointed. But his latest yarn has a new twist. Rather then the unrelenting heat of the desert Elliots latest saga is set on the unforgiving high seas. As per usual, for maximum enjoymemt the reader is encouaged to suspend logic and reality. For instance, Spagats insinuation that this is a new or increasing phenomena is belied by his own admission that Some arrests at sea may be a result of heightened enforcement. And just because this particular smuggling route has operated for over a century shouldnt dissuade the reader from consuming this fable as somehow new and exciting.
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14-20 illegals per Panga boat - ICE/Coast Guard is well aware of this route. Trouble is, they have little to no radar signal, so it requires eyeball reporting, usually when they hit the beach and scatter
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Thank you, Frank!
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Yet another harrowing tale of desperation
*happy sigh* That was a thing of literary beauty, DepotGuy.
Flooding has displaced an additional 1 million people in Pakistan's Sindh province in the past two days, according to new U.N. estimates released Friday.
Already, more than 17 million Pakistanis -- from the Chinese border in the north to the mouth of the Indus in the south -- have been affected by the monsoon floods that began a month ago.
To date, Pakistan's unfolding tragedy has claimed 1,600 lives, according to the National Disaster Management Authority. That number is likely to rise as more drowned bodies are discovered in receding waters.
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You don't really expect us to take it seriously if the Pakistanis themselves don't take it seriously. And if they take it seriously---why are they not blaming it on RAW/Mossad/CIA?
[Pak Daily Times] At least 1,370 cases of cholera have been reported in recent days in Hangu, health authorities said on Friday. According to Executive District Officer (Health) Dr Muhammad Ishaq, the waterborne disease has broken out due to torrential rains in the area. He said most of the patients were children, women and elderly people. He said medical teams had been sent to the affected areas to control the situation. The general public in the affected areas said the disease was growing fast and the Health Department had failed to take any concrete steps.
The Pakistani Health Department is not going to be able to do much of anything until the flooding subsides. Even in First World countries not much can be done until the crisis passes -- look at Katrina, f'r instance.
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ETIM Militants + US HAARP? + FLOODS + now CHOLERA
VERSUS
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > AFTER INDIA + NEPAL, CHINA [itself now] UNDER MAOIST THREAT?
ARTIC . NEW "MAOIST COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA" to stand agz the "TRAITOROUS REVISIONIST RULING BLOC" THAT IS THE PRESENT CPC = COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA [ex-Cold War CCCC] + its despicable decadent immoral "ANTI-SOCIALIST" BUREAUCRATIC-CAPITALIST "REVISIONIST" IDEAS + CONCEPTS.
TRUE MAOISM + SOCIALISM WILL WIN THE DAY FOR CHINA [or Else]!?
VERSUS
* NEWS KERALA > PAK SCHOLAR [Khaled Achmed] WARNS MUSLIMS [Islam + incl. Radic Islamism]WILL FAIL IN THE WORLD UNLESS MODERNITY IS ACCEPTED.
BAGHDAD An Iraqi official stole US-purchased computers worth almost two million dollars destined for schoolchildren and sold them off for less than 50,000 dollars, the US army said on Friday. In a highly unusual press statement, the American military said an unnamed senior official at Umm Qasr port had misappropriated the 1.9-million-dollar gift and auctioned the computers for only 45,700 dollars.
Documents provided by senior Iraqi customs officials proved that the auction took place on August 16 and the theft was discovered eight days later, the statement said. It also said the US army commander in southern Iraq, Major General Vincent Brooks, wanted an immediate investigation into the actions of the Umm Qasr official to discover how computers meant for children had been auctioned.
The computers arrived at the port sealed in containers with numbers matching those on the shipping documents and US officials were starting to coordinate delivery to schools in Babil province, south of Baghdad, when the computers were found to be missing, the statement added.
Umm Qasr is a large port, and corruption issues led the British military to dismiss many officials there when they administered the facility following the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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This shit might stop if Mr. Unnamed Senior Offical was found down at the docks impaled on a forklift...
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This sort of thing happens the world over, not just Iraq. Corrupt officials are always redirecting stuff meant for children. As an example, I give you the Chicago School Board ...
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...or building monuments to their own egos and power as in LA.
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The port director, Talib Bayesh, told The Associated Press that the equipment had been sitting in the port for more than 90 days and that, according to the law, any items sitting in the port for more than three months without being claimed could be confiscated by the port and sold at public auction.Thus we sold the shipment by auction for only $45,000, he said.
So I guess ya wouldn't mind us checking out your bank accounts, would ya, Talib?
American Science & Engineering has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents.
Law enforcement agencies are deploying vans to quickly discover possibly illegal human and other cargo hidden within other vehicles.
This product is now the largest selling cargo and vehicle inspection system ever.
The Z Backscatter Vans, or ZBVs, as the company calls them, bounce a narrow stream of x-rays off and through nearby objects, and read which ones come back. Absorbed rays indicate dense material such as steel. Scattered rays indicate less-dense objects that can include explosives, drugs, or human bodies. That capability makes them powerful tools for security, law enforcement, and border control. Oh, and hey! They can look through walls into bedrooms as well! Well, we shant do that, because it would be unethical and immor...Ooo! Now she's doing stretching exercises!
[An Nahar] Three people were wounded in a fire caused by fireworks at an indoor wedding party in Regency Palace Hotel in Adma north of Beirut.
LBC TV broadcast live footage of the fire which broke out around 10:00 pm at the hotel's "Caesar Hall." While the bride escaped unscathed, the groom was seen with burns to his face and hands.
A number of people were seen lying on the floor, suffocating.
While Civil Defense teams were trying to extinguish the fire, security forces and Red Cross rescue workers were evacuating the wounded and the guests from the hall.
LBC said the fireworks went off at the wrong time, setting the curtains on fire.
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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.
THATTA, Pakistan Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis were fleeing floodwaters Friday after the surging River Indus smashed through levees in two places, but many refused to leave the danger zone while others took shelter in an ancient graveyard for Muslim saints.
[Gulf News] Kuwait's government is mulling breaking up its information ministry, a local newspaper has said.
