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A former teacher accused of possessing child pornography and running a Web site devoted to the topic of torturing and cannibalizing children was actually a caring and devoted teacher who wouldn't harm anyone, parents told a federal judge Wednesday.
Aren't peoples' heads supposed to explode when they attain this level of cognitive dissonance?
Insert obligatory joke about teachers who work with young children needing an emotional outlet >here<
Police found the severed heads of two men tossed on a street in front a car dealership in the western Mexico state of Michoacan on Saturday, state prosecutors reported. A sign made of cutout newsprint letters found next to the severed heads said, "Dear Comrades, the Michoacan Family aren't extortionists, PS, I am waiting for your next call."
The bodies of the men - one a former federal police officer - were found dumped on the side of a dirt road in Zitacuaro, about 100 kilometers west of Mexico City, prosecutors said. The sign was similar to one left next to five severed heads tossed into a bar in another Michoacan city, Uruapan, on September 6. That sign read: "The family doesn't kill for money. It doesn't kill women. It doesn't kill innocent people, only those who deserve to die."
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IIRC, one italian mafia (can't remember if it's the N'dranghetta or the Cosa Nostra or the Camorra or whatever) has supposedly the habit of using severed heads from prostitutes working for other groups to signal it is in slight disagreement with that said group. At least, from what I've read.
Organized crime really brings out the best in its members, be it in Italy or Mexico.
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For those of you who haven't heard of it, the "Santa Muerte" (St. Death) cult in Mexico is growing by leaps and bounds.
Saint Death can be either male or female. When male, he is frequently dressed as a grim reaper with a scythe and scales (the scales may be reminiscent of St. Michael); when female, Santa Muerte is dressed in a long white satin gown and a golden crown (Muerte and the related Romance words have a feminine gender).
In this form, many devotees view her as a variation of the Virgin Mary.
In either case, it is a throwback to Aztec religion. It is disregarded by the Catholic church, and its chapels are sometimes shot at by non-believers.
The reason I mention this is that the Santa Muerte cult could evolve into a death cult along the lines of the Thugee of India. Initially they would seek to "purge" Mexico of whoever the cult fixated on as undesireables.
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa is calling for a significant increase in the number of nuclear power plants in the United States as a way of reducing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Those levels have risen to what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says are the highest in the past 420,000 years, an increase that many scientists say threatens the planet.
The Sierra Club opposes increased use of nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels, saying that it produces dangerous radioactive wastes, is too expensive and could cause catastrophic accidents. The group also says that nuclear waste could be stolen by terrorists and used to make bombs.
They say that because the soil and oceans are not able to process all of the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are rising, potentially increasing the risk of climate change. "Nuclear power must be a major part of the solution to the carbon cycle imbalance," Issa wrote in a recent news release. "It is a zero-emission technology that is available now."
But not everyone is enthusiastic about the idea of increasing the use of nuclear power in the United States. The Sierra Club, a national environmental advocacy group, opposes increased use of nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels, saying that it produces dangerous radioactive wastes, is too expensive and could cause catastrophic accidents. The group also says that nuclear waste could be stolen by terrorists and used to make bombs.
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In 1972, a young cop was shot inside Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam mosque in Harlem. Fearing racial riots, city and police leaders put the brakes on an investigation to appease the people in the streets.
Detective Randy Jurgensen refused to give up his quest for justice, arresting one Muslim after a painstaking probe. After that man was acquitted, Jurgensen retired. But he has never given up his belief that light must be shed on the killing and the coverup.
In his new book, "Circle of Six: The True Story of New York's Most Notorious Cop-Killer and The Cop Who Risked Everything to Catch Him," Jurgensen, with co-author Robert Cea, tells his story. Rest at link.
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Read the link. Charlie Rangel is a lying racist piece of sh*t. Staying home in this election "to send a message" may give the Dems the house. Do you want this POS to be the Chairman of the Ways and Means committee??? Get out and vote
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Sadly, this was *NOT* the murder I thought it was about. I thought it was about the "Zebra" killings in San Francisco. Seems to me there are a hell of a lot of purposefully under-investigated murders close to the NoI.
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10/6/2006 - LACKLAND AFB, Texas -- Traditions run deep in the military, and for this father and daughter, traditions are what brought them together in Iraq. Col. Steven Dreyer, 4th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group commander, at Camp Victory, Iraq, reunited with his youngest daughter, 1st Lt. Kathrine Dreyer, 777th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, Balad AB, Iraq.
The visit marked not only the end of Colonel Dreyer's final deployment, but also the beginning of Lieutenant Dreyer's first deployment. During the visit, the colonel presented his daughter with the family's American flag. "This flag symbolizes our family's dedication to serving in the military," said the colonel, who enlisted in the Marines in 1970. "I have carried this flag during my deployments over the years; my oldest daughter, SSgt. Kristine Dreyer, carried it to Iraq in 2003, and now my youngest daughter is stepping up to continue the tradition."
The flag, originally flown in front of the home of Colonel Dreyer's father, a retired Army WWII and Vietnam veteran, has accompanied the colonel on every deployment. "Originally, I carried it as an identification measure in case my aircraft were to crash in foreign territory," said the MH-53 Pavelow and HH-60 Pavehawk pilot. "Now, it has turned into a family heirloom. Maybe in 20 years, my now 4-year-old grandson will be accepting this flag from his mother or aunt during his first deployment."
I bet he will, too.
"I was raised in the military just like my daughters," said Colonel Dreyer. "The American flag is important to me, so I always felt it was necessary to carry it with me." After 37 years of military service, the Vietnam veteran will retire in the spring, but the next generation will continue to serve.
"I feel proud to be able to continue this tradition," said Lieutenant Dreyer, a C-130 Hercules navigator deployed from the 50th Airlift Squadron, Little Rock AFB, Ark., "I've grown up watching my dad serve his country, so it was only natural that I do the same. The Air Force is home for the Dreyer family."
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My pass-down military heirloom is the 1911A1 I got from my dad after I got back from Germany in 1981. He got it... I don't know where, but it was during HIS service in Germany in 1960 (where I was born in an Army hospital.) I'll give it to my first kid that completes his first enlistment.
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.
Police found the severed heads of two men tossed on a street in front a car dealership in the western Mexico state of Michoacan on Saturday, state prosecutors reported. A sign made of cutout newsprint letters found next to the severed heads said, "Dear Comrades, the Michoacan Family aren't extortionists, PS, I am waiting for your next call." 
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa is calling for a significant increase in the number of nuclear power plants in the United States as a way of reducing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Those levels have risen to what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says are the highest in the past 420,000 years, an increase that many scientists say threatens the planet. 
