A Pennsylvania resident wearing only his underwear received a severe beating with a Wiffle bat after he declined to clothe himself.
The man, identified as Donald Fehr, suffered a number of severe injuries including a broken jaw, a fractured skull and several broken teeth in the beating.
Bethlehem police indicated in reports that Fehr was sitting on his porch wearing only his underwear when he was approached by three men, one of which, a 19-year-old named Hector Morales, Jr., asked the man to stop being disrespectful and to put on some clothing because his girlfriend would be arriving shortly.
When Fehr declined the invitation to put on proper attire, Morales allegedly began beating the man with a Wiffle bat and subsequently with his own fists after the bat broke.
For his role in this heinous Wiffle bat attack, Morales was charged with aggravated assault and a number of other related offenses and is currently being held in Berks Country Prison on unrelated charges, according to the Associated Press. "Assault with Intent to Wiffle"
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Amount of warships is not really a good measure. More important is tonnage, and most important is how many of them can get underway, stay at sea for over a week, and effectively shoot their weapons.
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and bye the way, they are testing their new fleet all over the Indian Ocean, in the Gulf of Aden patrolling for piracy. They are mean, new looking beasts as well. I wouldn't want to come up against them.
But still, I am more worried about their silent subs and the possibility they may have aircraft carriers.
They are aggressive and expansionist, they have a wounded sense of entitlement, they think the West is holding them back.... like Germany...circa 1938.
They want the "String of Pearls" a series of army bases through the pacific/indian ocean to guard the trade route through to Europe. Down Under, we are the ones to be scared.
They have lain in wait among us, seeded us with spies... we couldn't rid ourselves of Chinese agents even if we wanted to. They like that we are the listening post for the US in the Pacific and they have white-anted us.
They have probed our northern borders, mapped our shores. War is coming eventually I can smell it.
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Oops that should read "navy bases" they want a string of pearls of navy bases... and they are getting them. Guarding the sea lanes of transit China to Europe
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Are they counting "Zodiac Patrol Craft" the way Iraq did?
I'm still wondering just what the hell the A-6 in a news report back in the first Gulf War dropped on one of those "Zodiac Patrol Craft" to destroy it. A-6's don't have guns so it had to drop some kind of bomb.
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"A-6's don't have guns so it had to drop some kind of bomb."
While with VA-155 we dropped all sorts of ordnance; my guess is that it was a Rockeye. Cannister opens up and a veritable overcast of 'bomblets' are dispensed. Firing mechanism can discriminate between hard (tanks,trucks) and soft (zodiacs, people) targets. Much fun to watch, not so much to receive.
Short answer is they're counting nearly 960 gunboats, missile boats, landing craft, and mine warfare vessels, which are basically for the most part considered a "green water" fleet element.
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The other thing that China does not have, that the USN does, is lots of experience with a blue water navy. We have been doing unreps - underway replenishments - for many years. We have it down to a science. With enough support ships, our warships can stay at sea until the crews break down.
As for carriers, a carrier by itself is useless. You need a surrounding battle group to protect it. You need lots of experience with launching and recovering aircraft in all kinds of conditions. You need to know how to do the command and control for all the ships in the battle group. Again, the US has that experience, and China doesn't.
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Interesting, Rambler.... but the Chinese are fast learners don't forget
Federal domestic spending increased a record 16 percent to $3.2 trillion in 2009, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, largely because of a boost in aid to the unemployed and the huge economic stimulus package enacted to rescue the sinking economy. ...and a fine job it did on that.
The rise in spending was the largest since the Census Bureau began compiling the data in 1983. The Washington DC region was among the biggest beneficiaries of the government's spending. Johnson! Stop the presses!!
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Govt funds increased spending by issuing bonds.
Bonds bought in turn by:
the Federal Reserve Bank (a private entity)
China
Japan
The borrower is slave to the lender. If the lender refuses to buy more bonds the US G won't be able to pay its workers, military, etc.
Interest rates would soar.
Economists are now speculating there is a bubble forming in US Bonds as buyers distrustful of stocks pile in for negative real interest rates.
It is a big threat.
If the bond bubble busts, interest rates rise. Kiss goodbye to what is left of the housing market...
It won't though as China and Japan will keep buying to artificially repress the Yuan and Yen.
But China does have the US by the balls.
If I were able to rule the US for a day I could fix your woes by:
1) Withdrawing all funding for the UN. Can't afford it, sorry, broke.
2) Withdrawing all foreign aid
3) bringing the troops home from afpak, iraq
Next step: pay off all debt, get budget to surplus, issue no more debt.
Then when China no longer has the US G by the purse strings it will be time to talk about the unfair subsidy that is the artificially low yen. Tarrifs then on CHinese-made goods until they float.
I cannot believe how silly they were. The Chinese worked for low wages to produce goods in exchange for bits of paper with IOUs on hot off the photocopier.
Daft.
The only thing dafter was the West using Chinese beneficial deflation to expand the size of the state.
Such is the scale of the expected losses that analysts are already focused on how Mr Obama can turn Republican domination to his advantage in his 2012 re-election race. Stall for two years, plame it on the Pubs. Who needs focus?
Washington is awash with speculation on whether the Republicans will over-reach as Mr Gingrich did in 1995 when Bill Clinton won a stand-off that had resulted in the shutdown of government. One poll says 51 seats in the House.
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In a counter to: " Democrats whom would vote for a yellow dog before they would vote for any Republican.";
I offer: "I'd vote for an Orange Orangutan rather than a Democrat."
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Well, paint me surprised. I was never on board hope and changy, but after the election, the dude is my president, and if he is successful, we all are.
I didn't expect his presidency to be THIS BAD. It's like a failed Mars probe, pile-driving into the ground.
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The Taking it to the Streets race-baiting scheme didnt create much momentum. And the Blame Bush and the Pubs rhetoric is increasingly sounding petty. It appears like the Dems are down to their last power play class warfare. Its time to cash in on their Union investments. Get ready for the constant drone of Fat Cat vs. Wage earner.
Judge tosses the lawsuit brought by Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc and others on June 7th. The original was tossed in New Orleans on June 22nd. The B.O. regime changed a bit of the language and kept the net effect, requesting dismissal of the suit since the new ban overrode the original. Judge Martin Feldman points out that the new attempt to murder jobs contains "no substantial changes" from the original. Hornbeck suit goes forward.
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Fair enough, since the Palestinian side is only there to see how much pressure President Obama will exert on the Israelis.
But once that's over, can we please ignore the issue completely, at least until the Palestinians understand they aren't going to win, and choose to bargain in good faith?
fred fixed this link for me, i screwed it up first time.
Personally i don't see the point to any peace talks. Hamas executed some Israeli settlers, civilians. SO , time for war. Just crush Hamas, take back their territory and send the remnants to Jordan.
everyone don't forget to donate to Fred to fight the evil people trying to crush free speech by suing rantburg
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yes, tw and jqc that is insightful and true, both your points!
but i wish that we would let hamas succeed and just have another war but properly crush and defeat them this time. Take their territory, re-educate their children as well.
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We should have absolutely nothing to do with a society, culture, or religion which practices such utter barbarism. These monsters and their ilk would be a stench to the most paleolithic of civilizations. Our continued succor and collaboration with these vermin is well beyond my comprehension.
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Yeah, wouldn't want to seem peculiar in any regard. Not that that stopped you from writing a book about a telepathic gorilla demanding radical social change...
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...Loved the headline at instapundit that said "Hostage Taker Demands Population Reduction; Gets It."
Mike
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Like many enviro-weenies, Quinn's argument that a return to a more tribalistic, hunter-gatherer way of life is the answer to the ills of globalization, he's got it totally wrong. Unless of course he wants to give up all the comforts of globalization, such as cheap energy, etc. He and his cohorts would do well to read Matt Ridley's latest, The Rational Optimist. It is one of the better and more persuasive arguments laying out clearly and with strong historical and empirical evidence the benefits of small government, free enterprise, free and fair trade, and the division and specialization of labor. I highly recommend it.
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An anti-globalization regression to self-sustainability (i.e. growing your own food, living off the grid, etc.), while tempting in many ways to some, will only delay prosperity and exacerbate misery for the masses. If history is any indication, our best hope is to encourage and promote innovation, entrepreneurship, free enterprise, free trade, specialization, and perhaps most important of all, SMALL GOVERNMENT, etc. as doing so gives humanity the best chance of living a prosperous and relatively peaceful existence.
In other words, the best defense against humanity's challenges is a good offense.
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
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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.
Federal domestic spending increased a record 16 percent to $3.2 trillion in 2009, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, largely because of a boost in aid to the unemployed and the huge economic stimulus package enacted to rescue the sinking economy.
