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Maybe. But it looks like the security cam got a good shot of the perp and I'd bet dollars to donuts the cops already know this guy from prior misdeeds.
Shane Everett Earp allegedly called 911 to report that his home had been raided, with stuff unlawfully removed, according to a news release from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. He then requested an ambulance, as his lips had fallen off.
The 40-year-old Key Largo man told dispatchers that an anonymous caller had contacted him about the about the [sic] break-in, and wasn't home at the time, the release stated.
Responding deputies reported that they found the front door of the domus, as the ancient Romans said, open and a woman inside who turned out to be Earp's girlfriend. "He WHAT!?"
Then Earp showed up as well.
Earp told the deputies he had called in the break-in because he had broken up with his girlfriend the night before and didn't want her to damage anything inside the home, according to the report. "Sorry I wasted your time."
"Back to the Gray-Bar Hotel, beauzeau."
Earp and his girlfriend had both been living in the house, and she had every legal right to be there -- whether he was there or not, deputies said. If I were a gambler, I'd bet anything that she was the one who broke it off.
Earp is charged with Misuse of the 911 System and was hauled to the pokey for the 8th time since August 2002, inmate records show. "It's him again."
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So, states with common law marriages which then recognize same sex marriage must now recognize a roomies right to stay there, given the period of stay, regardless of who's name is on the rental contract? I won't even go to the extrapolation that 'consenting adults' has when dealing with any combination of people over 18.
A Saudi livestock breeder sold a male goat to his counterpart, at a whopping price of 13 million riyals, the highest ever price paid for a domestic animal in the Kingdom's livestock markets, reported a Saudi newspaper.
The Arabic daily Okaz said the deal which was struck in the capital Riyadh had sparked wide reactions on social networking websites. Bloggers, tweeters and other commentators in the social media were surprised over the price, an astronomical figure. Websites circulated the picture of the animal and a cheque which was handed over by the buyer to the seller.
Livestock breeders said the goat is of unique qualities and is one of rare pedigree. They, however, said the value is exaggerated.
Must. Not. Go. There...
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13 million riyals = $3,470,584.22 US Dollars
Livestock breeders said the goat is of unique qualities and is one of rare pedigree
The Six Million Three and a Half~ Million Dollar Man Goat
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Truth gets in way of lie.
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Wow this means we can rollback all those carbon taxes. This is huge news. I'm sure the MSM will be right on it straight away. Front page news plus Environment section binned. Will see it under the headline "Beezlebub organises snowball fight".
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The Northwest Passage is fickle. Some years you can negotiate through it. Some years you are stuck. I flew my plane in early July 1990 to Resolute. There was a lot of ice then, and all except icebreakers could not get through.
At the time of Eric the Red, c985 AD, southern Greenland had a favorable climate to farming. The polar ice cap must have shrunk due to the unusual warming climate. Then the Little Ice Age hit, the farms failed, and things went back to normal.
People confuse climate with weather. Politicians see it as an opportunity to tax more, thus spend more. Trashing the economy on the installment plan.
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May God keep safe her soul so long as her body is in the hands of evil men.
[Dawn] A Sudanese woman says she is prepared to be flogged to defend the right to leave her hair uncovered in defiance of a "Taliban"-like law.
Amira Osman Hamed faces a possible whipping if convicted at a trial which could come on September 19. Under Sudanese law her hair -- and that of all women -- is supposed to be covered with a "hijab". But Hamed, 35, refuses to wear one.
Her case has drawn support from civil rights activists and is the latest to highlight Sudan's series of laws governing morality which took effect after the 1989 Islamist-backed coup by President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. "They want us to be like Taliban women," Hamed said in an interview with AFP.
She is charged under Article 152 which prohibits "indecent" clothing.
Activists say the vaguely worded law leaves women subject to police harassment and disproportionately targets the poor in an effort to maintain "public order".
"This public order law changed Sudanese women from victims to criminals,"says Hamed, a divorced computer engineer who runs her own company.
"This law is targeting the dignity of Sudanese people." Hamed said she was visiting a government office in Jebel Aulia, just outside Khartoum, on August 27 when a policeman aggressively told her to cover her head.
"He said, 'You are not Sudanese. What is your religion?'" "I'm Sudanese. I'm Moslem, and I'm not going to cover my head," Hamed replied.
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[MAGHAREBIA] The Tripoli water crisis is over, now that Unud al-Senussi has rejoined her family in Sebha.
The daughter of Moamer Kadhafi's brother-in-law and former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi arrived on Saturday (September 7th).
Gunmen were thought to have kidnapped the 20-year-old as she left Al-Ruwaimi prison in Ain Zara last Monday, prompting members of her family's Magharha tribe in Sebha to cut power to water pumps.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Workers at Tunisian radio network ERT are angry over partisan appointments to state-run media management posts and the government's alleged intrusion in their editorial line.
Politicians, civil society figures and fellow journalists rallied Tuesday (September 3rd) in Tunis to support both the ERT employees and press freedom.
"This is just the first protest," National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) chief Nejiba Hamrouni said amidst the crowd gathered outside the broadcast headquarters.
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[An Nahar] Central African troops battled fighters loyal to the ousted president Monday on the second day of festivities that have left killed at least 60 people, one of the deadliest outbreaks since a March coup.
The fighting erupted on Sunday near Bossangoa, some 250 kilometers (150 miles) north of the capital Bangui, in the home region of Francois Bozize, who ruled the troubled nation for 10 years until his overthrow six months ago.
Militiamen described as Bozize loyalists infiltrated villages around Bossangoa destroying bridges and other infrastructure and "taking Dire Revenge™ against the Mohammedan population", the presidency's front man Guy-Simplice Kodegue said.
"At least 60 people were killed in these attacks," he said, without elaborating on the casualties.
Michel Djotodia, the man whose Seleka rebel group ousted Bozize in March, was sworn in last month as the Christian-majority Central African Republic's first Mohammedan president.
On Monday morning, "heavy and light arms fire" were heard in the district of Bouca, on the road leading to Bossangoa, a military source in Bangui told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity.
"That weapons fire caused people to flee in all directions," the source said.
The festivities killed at least 10 people on Sunday in Bossangoa, including two local employees of the humanitarian organization ACTED, another military source said.
The Gay Paree-based NGO confirmed the two deaths in a statement, stressing that the pair were involved in efforts to facilitate the evacuation of civilians affected by the fighting and were clearly identifiable as aid workers.
At least four fighters from Seleka were also killed, the presidency's front man said.
Bozize, who seized power in a 2003 coup, last month said he was ready to return to power "if the opportunity presents itself".
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[An Nahar] One Iranian was killed and another maimed in an exchange of fire between Saudi coastguards and a boat containing drugs smugglers, the official SPA news agency reported on Monday.
It said the clash took place on Friday when the coastguards intercepted a vessel with three Iranians and a Saudi on board that was attempting to run drugs into the kingdom off the Eastern Province.
A front man for border guards in the province said one Iranian was killed and the other three suspects, including a maimed Iranian, were tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! He said their 500-kilogram (1,100 pounds) cargo of hashish was seized.
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Odds are the pistachio shipments make it through unscathed.
[An Nahar] Norway shifted right in elections Monday, setting the stage for a new Conservative-led government with the anti-immigrant Progress Party, two years after Musselmen-hating Anders Behring Breivik's deadly rampage.
Early projections reported by the government's statistical office immediately after voting ended at 9:00 pm (1900 GMT) showed the four parties on the center-right winning 93 of the 169 seats in parliament.
According to the same projections, the center-left coalition led by incumbent Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, in power since 2005, won 75 seats, while an extreme leftist party garnered one seat.
The most often-cited scenario is a minority government made up of the Conservatives and the Progress Party. The smaller Christian Democrats and the Liberals would not be in the government due to disagreements with the populist right, but would provide backing in parliament to pass legislation.
Based on this scenario, Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg, 52, is the nation's next prime minister.
Solberg's victory comes in spite of the fact that the oil-rich nation has fared exceptionally well under Stoltenberg, also the leader of the Labor Party.
"The country is doing pretty well, but that's because of the oil, not because of the leaders," said a 29-year-old voter as he emerged from exercising his democratic right at Oslo's city hall.
Having cast his ballot in favor of the Progress Party, he added: "It's time to get a new government".
Stoltenberg's two consecutive terms mark an unusually long tenure, even in politically stable Norway.
During this period, he has steered the nation through Europe's worst post-war economic crisis, warding off any threat to Norway's very high standard of living.
"Even if many things are going well, there are always many things that could go even better," Stoltenberg told the TV2 news network earlier Monday.
Significantly, one of the top election issues was the proper use of Norway's oil fund, which at $750 billion (570 billion euros) is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.
Given the general material wealth, and the lack of any serious discontent in society, the weak showing of Stoltenberg's coalition is mostly put down to power fatigue.
"Norway is one of the richest countries in the world, if not the richest, but the generation who made the nation what it is today is not getting to harvest the fruits," said retiree Espen Ek, who added he had voted "for change".
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They hinting the oil fund gets wasted and corruption and crony-ism abound?
[Ynet] A 22-year old protester was killed Monday night in southern Turkey during festivities with the police, media reported Tuesday.
The young man was shot in the head by a tear gas canister during a rally in memory of one of the victims of an anti-government revolt in June, the Dogan news agency reported.
[An Nahar] Police and hundreds of protesters clashed Monday in Istanbul in the latest unrest over a 14-year-old left in a coma during anti-government demonstrations in June.
Police used tear gas and water cannons to attempt to disperse a crowd marching on Istanbul's main court buildings shouting "We want justice for Berkin Elvan".
The demonstrators, mostly masked members of far-left groups, threw rocks and Molotov cocktails and erected barricades.
While the festivities had ended by later afternoon, both police and protesters remained in place as evening fell.
Elvan was hit by a tear gas capsule fired by police, according to rights groups, having left his parents' house to buy a loaf of bread as violent demonstrations swept the city.
Some protesters were maimed on Monday in the street battles, mostly by exposure to tear gas, and one protester suffered burns after a Molotov cocktail went kaboom! nearby, an Agence La Belle France Presse photographer witnessed. Many were enjugged You have the right to remain silent...
Monday's events were just the latest in pockets of unrest across Turkey, the aftershock of demonstrations in June against the Islamic-rooted government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkish riot police on Friday confronted hundreds of university students in Ankara throwing stones and erecting barricades in protest against a project to build a road across part of their campus.
And on Saturday in Taksim square, one of the focal points for protests in Istanbul, students erupted into the streets in solidarity with their peers in the capital, facing off with police.
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[An Nahar] A controversial law limiting the sale of alcohol near schools and mosques in Turkey came into force Monday, exposing another faultline between secular liberals and the conservative Islamic-rooted government.
The law, approved last May, was one of the sparks for anti-government protests that swept the country last June and was used by activists as an example of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's attempted "Islamization" of the largely secular country.
The new law forbids the sale of alcohol between 10pm and 6am in shops, as well as at any time near schools and mosques.
Bottles will have to display messages warning of the dangers of drinking, and advertising of alcoholic beverages will be banned on university campuses and television.
As with legislation covering images of tobacco in Turkey, broadcasters cannot show images of alcoholic drinks on television without risking a fine.
Erdogan, a pious Mohammedan who neither smokes nor drinks, has defended the law on health grounds. But Turkey's sizable secular population has denounced the law as repressive and with religious, not social, motivations.
The prime minister has previously provoked outcry when he suggested that Turkey's national drink should be ayran, a yogurt and water-based concoction, rather than reki, the country's famously strong aniseed-flavored spirit.
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"I'll drink to that Erdogan ! "
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[NYTimes] Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases gave the drugs, ribavirin and interferon, to half of six rhesus monkeys eight hours after they were infected with the virus, now known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus.
The three that got the two-drug cocktail had less virus in their blood, no breathing difficulties and only minimal X-ray evidence of pneumonia, while the untreated animals became very ill, said the authors of the study published by Nature Medicine.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the institute's director, called the study "not a game changer, but an important observation."
Dr. Ziad A. Memish, the deputy health minister of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , where most of the known MERS cases have occurred, said doctors there had already tried the two-drug combination on patients. It did not work well, he said, but that might have been because it was started late, when patients were hospitalized and already severely ill.
"This is great news and much-needed information, although it's very preliminary," he said.
A bird in the hand being better than two in the bush, as it were,
Saudi doctors tried the regimen, Dr. Memish added, because of a recent article in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases reviewing therapies that seemed to help during the 2003 global epidemic of SARS, which is also caused by a coronavirus.
According to the World Health Organization, there have been 108 known human cases of MERS since it emerged in 2012, of which 50 have been fatal.
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.
Shane Everett Earp allegedly called 911 to report that his home had been 
A Saudi livestock breeder sold a male goat to his counterpart, at a whopping price of 13 million riyals, the highest ever price paid for a domestic animal in the Kingdom's livestock markets, reported a Saudi newspaper.
[NYTimes] Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases gave the drugs, ribavirin and interferon, to half of six rhesus monkeys eight hours after they were infected with the virus, now known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus.
