A 64-year-old woman fought off a neighbor and dragged him out of her house by his beard after he let himself into her Kansas City home and took his clothes off.
The woman said she awoke about 12:50 a.m. Tuesday to find her neighbor standing over her naked, according to court records. He allegedly grabbed her arm and said he was "just being friendly." The woman grabbed his beard and dragged him to the door in the 3200 block of Oakland Avenue. As she tried to throw him out, he allegedly grabbed the woman's throat. She picked up a tape measure and bonked it against the neighbor's head three times. He then left.
The woman said she found the neighbor's black shorts on her DVD player in her living room. She threw them outside at the neighbor, who was sitting on her deck, crying, according to court records. Police reports noted he had been drinking prior to the incident. No! Reeeeeally?
Jackson County prosecutors charged the neighbor, Laurence K. Saunders, with burglary, sexual misconduct and two counts of assault. He was in jail today in lieu of a $50,000 bond.
Court records said Saunders had let himself into the woman's house on Monday, too. In that case, he walked in without knocking and told her that her dog had escaped out her rear door. He told her that "anyone could enter" because it was left open, according to court records.
It might work fine 99.9% of the time, but it's that first unattentive or confused driver who ends up driving up onto a sidewalk or into an oncoming car to avoid a perceived tragedy that will cause these buggers to be ripped out so fast your head will spin.
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What the person in yellow said, or more likely in my mind, it will turn into a, "Cry Wolf," scenerio. This could lead to drivers to be even more careless since they may perceive situations that require actual caution as another attempt to deceive. Really dumb.
How long will it take for drivers to figure this out and ignore it? 1 day? 2 days?
Then they'll start to ignore real kids (ahhh, it's just another PC nanny crying wolf again).
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misc. you beat me to it but thisssss much.
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Such a bad idea. Gonna be so much brake slamming and fender benders at least, in addition to what gorb said. What is wrong with the bump? They are always on and issue their own traffic penalty.
And why a child playing? Why not a bear, or those flame shooting flowers from Mario Bros?
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This is the same stupid thinking from back in the early 80's when they would put a fake deer beside a highway to catch poachers. Then the next bright idea why not put out fake police cars to slow speeders. Just like the fake deer, nutballs started to shoot at them for sport. Whanne park and run radar - no thanks
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Clinton said Mexico is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago."
Clinton suggested the U.S. was looking to implement a plan in which American special forces teams trained Colombian troops and U.S. advisers are attached to Colombian military units. Kewl! Some media maven will call it "Vietnam next door"!
Shouldn't the Americans concentrate on training Mexican troops and attach to Mexican units? On the other hand, it seems to me something like that led to the Los Zetas, so perhaps sending them further south to Columbia is a better idea. Well done, Madame Secretary!
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...except both Columbia and Vietnam never shared a physical border with the United States. For all her 'better education and experience' she seems not to be able to reach the rational deduction that seriously beefing up border security works for both parties on each side of that border.
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According to Strategypage.com and other sources I have seen, the SSM that is the "carrier killer" is still having problems and isn't close to deployment yet.
However, the author is right. Ambiguity about what we will do breeds confrontation since China and other powers will be tempted to test a weak leadership (I'm looking at you, Obama).
As of Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, no state is going to get out of federal regulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs) through the Clean Air Act, thanks to a two-pronged attack this week by the federal EPA on 13 states not toeing the line. Your friendly Federal Government and its heavy handed way of enforcing regulations that are of questionable need. This is not about the environment, but rather of an agency making policy because Congress shirks its responsibilities and leaves regulations to an entity out of control and not accountable to anyone. This is a power play by the Federal Government
In Thursday's Federal Register, the EPA printed its previously announced intention to create a federal implementation plan (FIP) for any state that does not submit a plan the agency finds acceptable. The rule would make sure that every state has the power, will and legal requirement to issue permits under the Clean Air Act's New Source Review Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program for sources of GHGs.
The proposal is a companion the agency's' rulemaking last week entitled Action to Ensure Authority to Issue Permits Under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration Program to Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Finding of Substantial Inadequacy and SIP Call, which was signed and published on the same schedule. In that action, the agency proposed to make a finding of substantial inadequacy and proposed to issue an SIP call for 13 states on grounds that their SIPs would not apply the PSD program to GHGs. Alaska, much of Arizona, Arkansas, parts of California, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, part of Nevada, Oregon and Texas had their GHG implementation plans found wanting by the federal agency.
Comments must be received on or before Oct. 4, 2010. Read the notice at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/2010-21706.htm.
SOURCE: Federal Register "We are here to issue orders, not to take requests."
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The EPA needs to be put down like the rabid dog it is.
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Oh, and one thing I noticed reading the lists of states.
All those states have dhimocrat congressmen fighting for their political lives. Either Bambi and his ilk are dumb as hell, or have accepted that the dhimocrats will not win in those states and are working to "punish" the voters.
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Government bureaucracies like the EPA need to be moved over 600 miles every decade with no moving allowance for the bureaucrats. If they want to go they must believe in the job so can keep it. Otherwise, the bureaucracy hires from a different labor pool in a new place.
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Western Modem - close. Build a quonset hut in the "pristine wilderness" of Alaska's north slope. That can be the new EPA HQ. Heating optional (wouldn't want to increase "carbon footprint").
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Um....I wouldn't want one. See, the Russian one was notorious for trying to shove the gunner's arm into the breech with the tank round. The last line of one article I read about it was this. "Supposedly, this has been fixed."
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Isn't automation one reason the navy stepped away from frigates? The maintenance expense was too high for the automation, not to mention how combat damage would affect performance.
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The Navy is finding that there are crewing considerations w/r the LCS. The crews are getting 4-6 hours of sleep. The "other duties as assigned" such as guard duty, fueling, ect. are filling the off-duty time of the crew.
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The background is that the Democrats have consistently opposed *any* anti-ballistic missile defense, even anti-missiles, calling them "provocative", since before Reagan.
This is based on the utterly insane non-logic that if the US has defenses, other countries will be *more* inclined to fire missiles at us, but if we are defenseless, they won't.
While a 747-based chemical laser is old technology, it is the only technology we have while the newer, solid state lasers are being developed. The latter are so promising that the developers are continuing development on their own, despite the Democrats cutting back funding for R&D.
This has made the Democrats furious. They don't even want the possibility that we will be able to defend ourselves. They want America to be totally reliant on the goodwill of people like the North Koreans, Iranians, and Chinese.
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I wonder why it failed? It is a bit old tech, true. From various things I read, in the short book on DEW by Doug Beason, I'm surprised it did fail. Either way, it is a necessary test bed.
That aside, the liberals view any weapon as provacative. They bend over, stick their heads in the sand and let people have them all the while pretending all is great. They turn a blind eye to China and think Jihadists, which they removed from their, "Good Thought," are just misuderstood. Why any one would trust one is beyond me. The very fact that they think the world is full of fluffy bunny slippers just emphasizes their lack of reality. Look at what they've done to the US with the past presidency. Has any thing they've done actually improved this country or held up/protected the constitution? Many claim it's an outdated document.
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China? China? Come on are you suffering from neurosis?
Not wanting to get into a moral debate about the ethics of the Chinese but I have to ask why China suddenly became the great American global threat only after the USSR was done and buried.
It's too convenient to define another country of equal power as a threat. It helps keep the prols in a subordinate order.
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Cromble, based off China's specific development in arms to fight and counter US tech and forces and their increases attempt at a dominiate super power, and with their history of human rights abuse and billigerence, it's about time people actually start paying attention. Some assume it's just a matter of time before there is a war over the Taiwanese straight. Also, I don't think Russia has crumpled, just shrunk a bit. They seem after cozy with any one that is against the US, like say Iran.
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Both China and the US have *assumed* that we will eventually get into war since the 1980s. However, in addition to a major naval build-up, overtly trying to achieve military warship parity with the US, China has also become considerably more aggressive.
It is now trying to shoulder out several countries from long disputed islands, as well as continuing to menace Taiwan with increasing numbers of missiles, and not too long ago, even tried setting some groundwork for claiming northern Korea.
It is also actively trying to repopulate Tibet and the Uighar region with Han Chinese, displacing the Tibetans and Uighars. And it has been showing signs of wanting to take back a disputed chunk of India.
This is so unnerving in the region that India is cooperating with Japan and South Korea to try and mitigate this assertive Chinese behavior.
If they really think this they're as dumb as sack of wet oatmeal.
The truth is,
We are NOT attacked BECAUSE we're Armed to the teeth.
Helpless is DEAD.
(Muslims come immediately to mind)
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This is based on the utterly insane non-logic that if the US has defenses, other countries will be *more* inclined to fire missiles at us, but if we are defenseless, they won't.
if this is true, which I happen to believe is so, these people are dangerously naive and completely crazy. It is crazy to allow them to be in charge of national defense. Truly insane.
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I am impressed that they were able to hit the missile at 100 miles. Destroying a missile in flight is not an easy thing. I took part in some of the early tests back in the 70s and missiles are much less susceptible to physical destruction than the movies would lead you to believe.
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#7 This is based on the utterly insane non-logic that if the US has defenses, other countries will be *more* inclined to fire missiles at us, but if we are defenseless, they won't.
if this is true, which I happen to believe is so, these people are dangerously naive and completely crazy. It is crazy to allow them to be in charge of national defense. Truly insane.
Didn't these schmucks that claim this go to school? Whom do bullies pick on? The tough kids or the easy marks? It's dang near a simple law of nature.
Woohoo! In the spirit of Ramadan, they're letting go of one of the three Americans they are holding!
Well, maybe not entirely in the spirit of Ramadan. After all, they trumped up the charges on these three idiots. I don't know what effect they think they holding them will have, but they are holding them. And they are releasing just one, not all three.
They will probably release the gal since she has some possible cancer-related problems, but we don't know for sure yet.
If this is the case, then they are just using Ramadan's name since their real purpose would be that they don't want her to die while in their hands. That would look bad for a country that can build a nuke but can't treat cancer yet.
So much for the spirit of Ramadan. I'll bet 90% of the time governments use the excuse of Ramadan as a face-saving measure.
[Al Arabiya] Iranian authorities have suspended the sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world.
"The verdict regarding the extramarital affairs has stopped and it's being reviewed," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told Iran's state-run English-language Press TV.
The statement came a day after European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called the sentence "barbaric beyond words", the latest in a string of criticisms by foreign powers.
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Basheer Jones and Nardin Jihad say that their company, Da Akhs Entertainment, was refused the right to hold a concert at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta because they are Muslim. In March, they had asked the theatre to host a concert that they were promoting called "EID 2010" on September 11th.
Kristen Delaney, a Fox Theatre spokeswoman said that the Sept. 11 date was not available due to prior bookings. She said that Jones and Jihad were given the option of choosing a different date, but never responded. "No they didn't [offer another date]," Jihad told the AJC. Jones and Jihad have filed suit against the theater and its owner.
The Fox released this response: "We respect all rights to assemble as well as religious freedom. The organizers were informed that there were two reservations for that date taking priority before their request. In addition, we explained the Fox Theatre was sensitive to that date in terms of the meaning it has for all Americans, in particular those impacted by the tragedy on September 11th, 2001."
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they should have tried to get the Lakewod ampitheatre. It's in a real nice neighborhood!
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Lakewood would certainly be my first pick as well. Thanks to cost-saving Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) commission, Fort McPherson will soon be available. It boasts the only golf course in CONUS ringed in concertina. Small arms fire can also be heard in the distance after sunset nearly any evening.
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Also we still have the hot GA nights going on , so every one in that neighborhood is all hot and bothered after standing on the corner drinking 40's and smoking blunts all day.
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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.
Clinton said Mexico is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago."
Iranian authorities have suspended the sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world.
Basheer Jones and Nardin Jihad say that their company, Da Akhs Entertainment, was refused the right to hold a concert at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta because they are Muslim. In March, they had asked the theatre to host a concert that they were promoting called "EID 2010" on September 11th.
