A SHOOTING has taken place at a vocational school in the town of Kauhajoki in northwest Finland. It was possible that a number of people had died, the police told the Finnish News Agency.
The shooter is apparently still in the building, police said.
Yes, it's real.
DOUGLAS -- A celebration of life for James William "Jim" Adams, 53, will be held at a later date. He died Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008 at Memorial Hospital of Converse County in Douglas.
Jim, who had tired of reading obituaries noting other's courageous battles with this or that disease, wanted it known that he lost his battle. It was primarily as a result of being stubborn and not following doctor's orders or maybe for just living life a little too hard for better than five decades.
He was born June 8, 1955 in Garrison, N.D. the son of James William and Ruby Helen (Clark) Adams.
He was sadly deprived of his final wish, which was to be run over by a beer truck on the way to the liquor store to buy booze for a date. True to his personal style, he spent his final hours joking with medical personnel, cussing and begging for narcotics and bargaining with God to look over his loving dog, Biscuit, and his family.
He would like to thank all "his ladies" for putting up with him the last 30 years.
During his life, he excelled at anything he put his mind to. He loved to hear and tell jokes and spin tales of grand adventures he may or may not have had.
He is survived by five sons, Jeremiah Adams and his wife, Nicole, Mica Olivas, Wade Olivas, Brice Simpson and Cole Adams; sister, Jerri Giegerich; two ex-wives, Vickie Harrison and Marilyn Williams; four grandchildren; two nieces; and two great-nieces. He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother-in-law.
In lieu of flowers, he asks that you make a sizeable purchase at your favorite watering hole, get rip roaring drunk and tell the stories he no longer can.
Gorman Funeral Homes - Converse Chapel of Douglas is in charge of the arrangements.
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I've been to Douglas on my way to Worland when I was stationed on TDY at Warren. There is a small cafe in town on the main drag where I stopped for lunch. I was the only guy in there without a stetson and wearing jeans and boots. I sat down at the counter and the waitress came over saw my haircut and creased plaited shirt and said "chow must be getting pretty bad for you to come all the way up from Warren for lunch"! Will never forget that place and the people. I had the best steak sandwich I have ever had there.
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thanks tu for posting this one!
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A woman on the north coast of New South Wales in Australia is being held hostage in her own home by a large pig, Australian media report. Uki woman Caroline Hayes, 63, says the pig is as big as "a Shetland pony" and that she cannot get out of her house because of its aggressive behaviour.
"It started knocking on my door at 4 am, head-butting the door, [after] some food," she told ABC television. When she opened the door, she said, the pig pushed her back inside the house. The offending animal, whom neighbours have named Bruce, also pulled a king-sized mattress out of her garage and ripped it up.
Ms Hayes, who describes herself as an animal-loving vegetarian, admits she and some of her neighbours had begun feeding Bruce. Rangers from Murwillumbah Council tried to catch the large animal but the cage was too small. Animal ranger Len Hing, who visited the scene, explained that Bruce's large size makes him difficult to control when hungry. "He is a bald pig [weighing] about 80 kilos [176lb]," he said. "I wouldn't like to see the pig go as a pet anywhere because he could become a potentially dangerous animal."
Rangers say the pig will be captured and taken to a piggery.
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Why not turn him into bacon and ribs and shoulder and hams?
A couple in South Africa who were having sex on a railway track in Mpumalanga Province have been killed by a goods train, police say. Note to self. No sex on the railroad tracks. Or at least bring a mattress ...
Spokesman Abie Khoabane said it took place on Friday evening and the victims were yet to be identified. He told local newspapers that the couple ignored the driver's shouts as he moved the train into the disused station in Kinross town. Get a room!
"They continued with their business," he told the Sowetan paper. The earth moved. But not for long...
According to South Africa's Beeld newspaper, the area was deserted with no cars or houses nearby. There was, however, a big ass train.
The man died at the scene and the woman died later at hospital, the Sowetan reports. They're dead, Jim.
The police have appealed for those with missing relatives to come forward to help with their investigation. Hey, anybody seen Umbagwa lately? Investigation? They got run over by a train. What's to investigate?
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Reminds us of the young couple in Columbia, SC who last year fell four floors from a pyramid shaped roof while having sex. They were naked and still alive when a taxi driver found them in the street at 5am. When hormones call, ya gotta answer.
It may not be the catchiest song ever, but it's timely.
Singer/songwriter Gerry Stanek's tune "I'm In Love With A Girl Named Sarah Palin" is slowly but surely making its way around the web.
Stanek, the man behind the song, says that he woke up with an idea on a recent Saturday morning.
“I practically jumped out of bed, struck with the notion that I should present a comical, open letter to my wife; a song about Sarah Palin. Palin is such a cultural phenomenon and her entry into the presidential campaign had affected me deeply.
"Finally,” he laughs, “I might be able to justify the time I’ve spent listening to talk radio and watching the news.”
Stanek, who lives in Hastings, PA , says, “My obsession with the election led to this song. Regardless of who wins, I got something out of it.”
You can listen to the song at Gerry Stanek's MySpace page. Does not appear to be available from iTunes . . . yet.
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I share his sentiments, but not his taste in music.
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Try not to be a creepy little troll Gerry.
We all think she's a good pick for VP, but lets not start exposing ourselves in public or anything.
Morocco's top body of Islamic scholars condemned on Sunday a Muslim theologian for issuing a religious decree that girls as young as nine years old can marry. Why not? Moh used to like 'em before they were weaned.
Morocco's High Council of Ulemas "denounces the utilisation of religion to legitimise the marriage of nine-year-old girls", it said in a statement. Sheikh Muhammad Ben Abderrahman Al Maghraoui said earlier this month that Islam allowed the marriage of nine-year-old girls. Sheikh Maghraoui derided criticism of his claims as "part of a secular attack against the Islamic nation and its theologians". The High Council of Ulemas, which is presided over by Morocco King Muhammed VI, called Sheikh an 'agitator and mystificator'. A Rabat-based lawyer, Mourad Bekkouri, has filed a complaint against Sheikh Maghraoui and his fatwa, which he said damages children's human rights, and the family and criminal code by increasing the risk of rape.
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A pair of peeping-Toms hoping to get an illicit look at a group of women at a mosque in Saudi Arabia got a beating instead.
A group of Saudi women beat two young men who sneaked into a mosque in the northwestern city of Hail to watch women praying during the taraweeh, a nightly prayer recited during Ramadan, the Saudi newspaper al-Riyadh reported on Sunday.
A woman noticed that two men had sneaked into the women's section of the mosque and were peaking at the women. She called other women praying in the mosque and they pounced on the intruders. The women beat them with their shoes and water bottles.
The women said they did not report the male intruders to the mosque's imam because they did not want to interrupt the prayers.
The girls then called security. The two men tried to run away but failed. They are currently being interrogated.
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You go, girls!
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that's nothing, my daoughter can beat me at chess.....
GEORGIA says it has shot down a small Russian reconnaissance drone over Georgian territory just south of the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
The drone was downed yesterday morning near the town of Gori, some 30km from the de facto border with South Ossetia, Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said.
There was no immediate response from the Russian authorities.
AUSTRALIAN Federal Police (AFP) have raided the home of a parliamentary press gallery journalist in the wake of a story about defence intelligence. It is believed seven AFP officers arrived at the home of Canberra Times journalist Philip Dorling about 8.30am (AEST) today.
"The AFP confirms that it executed a search warrant at Braddon and on a vehicle,'' a police spokesman said.
It is understood the raid follows a story Mr Dorling did for the newspaper on June 14 in which he wrote that Australian spies were targeting key nations, including Japan, China and North and South Korea. Mr Dorling cited his source as "classified briefing papers'' prepared for Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon.
The raid was continuing and police would not provide any further information, citing "operational'' matters. Comment was being sought from The Canberra Times and Mr Dorling.
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Hopefully this "journalist" will eventually be able to write a book about his many long years as a guest of the state in one of their finer penal institutions. To be published posthumously.
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State authorities always tend to get these things wrong. Raiding the home of a journalist is jusdt going to make him a martyr (without much suffering) and lends credibility to what he writes.
"he wrote that Australian spies were targeting key nations, including Japan, China and North and South Korea"
All you do is a snark remark that he forgot New Zealand and let the matter rest.
What are spies supposed to do anyway? Spying on Tasmanian devils?
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European Conservative, Did you just lecture us?
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Click to read the whole story, I'm just excerpting the examples of behavior that I consider outrageous, but that Berkeley residents consider as normal.
As most veteran customers know, it takes a pretty thick skin to successfully navigate the Berkeley Bowl, this strident city's most popular grocery store.
Outside, petitioners seeking signatures for ballot measures have come to blows with opinionated residents. In the tiny parking lot, nicknamed the Berkeley Brawl, frustrated motorists have been known to ram one another's cars. At the checkout, people have thrown punches and unripened avocados at suspected line-cutters.
When one shopper was told she couldn't return a bag of granola, she showily dumped its contents on the floor. Culyon Garrison, who works at the customer-service desk, recently had a loaf of bread thrown at him.
The produce emporium -- one of the nation's most renowned retailers of exotic fruits and vegetables -- creates its own bad behavior. Kamikaze shoppers crash down crowded aisles without eye contact or apology for fender-benders. So many customers weren't waiting to pay before digging in that management imposed the ultimate deterrent: Those caught sampling without buying will be banned for life -- no reprieves, no excuses. (Not even "I forgot to take my medication.")
Store manager Larry Evans says the policy is a fair response to doctors, lawyers and college professors who help themselves to bags of cookies, nuts and vitamins, stick their fingers in pies and guzzle from bottles of sake, assuming the rules don't apply to them.
"There's a sense of entitlement to this town," Evans said. "People think, 'If I want to do it, I'll do it, just try and stop me.' " You mean that The Rules apply to everyone but ME, and I'M a beautiful, precious, unique snowflake?
Seven years on the job, he said, has given him insight into the city's sometimes sharp social elbows. "Berkeley residents are angry -- they're mad at the president, the economy, all kinds of stuff. And this is the place where it seems to get released, the local supermarket." What a bunch of jerks.
Each morning, the early birds wait in line for the Berkeley Bowl to open. Then the rush is on -- the elbowing and scrambling to reach the shelves of reduced-price produce that can be bought in bulk. The scene is so madcap, the store used to play the "Call to the Post" theme used in horse racing. Now management enforces a no-running policy -- because when Berkeley switches into hunter-gatherer mode, things can quickly get out of hand. What the hell is this, pizza day at an elementary school? It is barbarous behavior.
The Internet site Yelp, where customers review restaurants and other stores, has hundreds of entries about the Bowl. One writer said weekends were the craziest, when "you don't wander through the aisles as much as hack through the underbrush of nose rings and cloth shopping bags with a machete, only to count the minutes you creep closer to death at the checkout line." This is just like shopping in a Chinese store, except less civilized. Elbowing people out of the way is NOT the way that normal people behave, it's behavior of savages.
But other things get pointed out too. Your cart is at the wrong angle. You didn't replace that apple where you found it. Tell your child to stop playing with that plastic bag -- it's a choking hazard. One customer said he thinks he's come up with the perfect city bumper sticker: "Welcome to Berkeley: Now please stop doing that!" Surprise, surprise - liberals like to mind other people's business.
Once, caterer Francisco Machado was at the checkout, talking on his cellphone, when he got a shoulder tap. "I made a remark to a friend, 'Dude, this place is a meat market!' And the guy behind me took offense. He started shouting that what I said was really sexist," Machado recalled. "He wouldn't let it go. I finally had to turn around and say, 'Mind your own business.' " Thought police.
On a recent day, shopper Jean Sirius, a local editor, was standing in the produce section explaining the store culture. "There is a goddess Oblivion, and she has many devotees who shop here," she said. But before she could say more, a male shopper in a sweat suit removed his iPod earphones and barked: "Hey, you've been taking up space there for too long! Why don't you move aside so the rest of us can do some shopping?"
Michael Pollan, author of the best-selling book "The Omnivore's Dilemma," is a Bowl regular who calls the store one of his top three places to buy food in the world. Still, he knows there's easier shopping.
One time, Pollan was picking out a box of cereal for his daughter when a fellow shopper interrupted him. "He said, 'I'm watching Michael Pollan shop for groceries,' " Pollan recalled. "There was this note of disappointment that I was buying Fruity Pebbles. Berkeley is full of hall monitors. It's a small town, and people are looking into each other's baskets." This is EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS TO ME IN CHINA. People peer curiously into my basket, to see what the foreigner is buying. These days, it is much less common, and the only people who peer into my basket are HICKS FROM THE COUNTRYSIDE. The ordinary city people couldn't care less - and the Berkeleyites are upholding the same standard of behavior as Chinese people with no manners.
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If this was a bar, most code enforcement offices would have put the place on notice and be working to close it down as a blight to the neighborhood.
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This is the type of behavior that leftist/marxist/socialist philosophy breeds.
This is a foretaste of what will become of society if Zero is elected with Nancy & Harry running things.
Not overnight, but over time, starting in the bluest areas you will see the "entitled" demanding that they are above any rules. The entitled will include the academic & media & political left as well as all their favored "minorities".
A free for all will ensue.
Just another example of the collision between collectivist ideals and the reality of human behavior.
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I wonder if there are actual organic changes in a Liberals brain physiology? A brain scanning experiment would be very interesting. They seem to act similarly different than conservatives, perhaps they have a malformed amigdala or something???
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Ya know, every time I go shopping in Walmart, the people are courteous even when the lines back up to the stupid apparel department. I thought *they* were supposed to be the barbarians....
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There is a department store in Boston that has a bargain basement. It is at subway station and easy to get to. Don't go there on sale days. Especially the Bridal Sale Day.
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from what I've read (Here and elsewhere) they behave like undisciplined children, and a good smackdown simply doesn't register as anything except "Assault" no realization that they caused and provoked the situation.
In short this is what happens when they are NOT diciplined as children, and allowed to grow up "Free".
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I've been there once. Revolting. The Whole Foods in Mill Valley can be like this on rare occasions, but is nowhere near as bad. You mostly see it there on the complaint board. Some pretty funny stuff actually.
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Related:Drudge is reporting that the moonbats that were tree sitting have been slammed with something like 800k in damage reparations and legal fees and they are now in Full Whine Mode.
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Speaking as your Cultural Anthropology Advisor, I consider this an exciting opportunity to study free-range hippies in their natural environment. Fascinating, simply fascinating.
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I think leftism is a lack of empathy, covered up by a concious attempt at empathy. Hence the contradictions between automatic actions of leftists and their stated aims.
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"Berkeley residents are angry -- they're mad at the president, the economy, all kinds of stuff."
--yep, the economy is just so bad but somehow they find a way to tighten their belts and still afford to shop at the bowl....quivering lipped douchebags.
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Related:Drudge is reporting that the moonbats that were tree sitting have been slammed with something like 800k in damage reparations and legal fees and they are now in Full Whine Mode.
In addition to this I would have required a ten years term for tree molesting.
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Thanks Alan C. I couldn't remember the name. It has been 16 years since I was there. I remember several women standing in their underwear trying on clothes.
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Wide applciation of Sarin at the UCB campus would solve this problem.
oe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.
He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
As Reason's Jesse Walker footnotes it: "And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, 'Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?'"
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Chronic "diahrea of the mouth" and early-onset Alzheimer's. Keep talkin', Joe!
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Most of the rules we have regarding wallstreet abuse came about because of Joe Kennedy's ability to abuse the system. I don't know how Joe Kenney's memory is treated in the Democrats but his children are considered Saints so its possible he stands high and if so I'm not sure the Dems want to dig to deep into history.
Also Hillary said recently that we need some big ass government stuff to handle it like we did in the Depression but a lot of economists think Roosevelt may have lengthened the Depression by some of his actions.
Of course WW2 got us out and we've got a couple nations looking to help us fill that slot so no worries.
Ever since this story hit, I've been entertaining myself with a vision of Sarah at the debate, smiling sweetly at Ol' Joe and asking "So tell me, Senator...was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
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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.
A couple in South Africa who were having sex on a railway track in Mpumalanga Province have been killed by a goods train, police say. 
Morocco's top body of Islamic scholars condemned on Sunday a Muslim theologian for issuing a religious decree that girls as young as nine years old can marry. 
