FBI agents have arrested a St. Louis businessman who they say posed as a highly decorated Marine Major even though he never served in the Corps. Forty-eight-year-old Michael Weilbacher was arrested while attending a local Marine Corps League meeting.
Federal authorities say he was spotted earlier this month at another event, the Marine Corps Annual Birthday Ball, wearing several distinguished medals. "He was wearing the Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars and just about every medal in the book," said Major William G. Dragan, who attended the event and told ABC News that he immediately became suspicious of Weilbacher. Plenty of Marines could name recent Navy Cross recipients from memory. There aren't very many of them. And two Silver Stars?
"He boasted of getting his Navy Cross by leading a secret mission against drug cartels in Colombia, which seemed very strange to me," Dragan said. The old secret mission/no records gambit, a favorite of flakes everywhere.
Weilbacher's girth also raised suspicion, Dragan said. "He is massively overweight, something like 400 pounds, and yet he claimed he had just left the Marines, which did not add up because he could never meet USMC physical standards," Dragan said. "Captain, why is that LHD listing to port?"
Federal authorities say there is no record of Weilbacher ever serving in the Marines.
Weilbacher was charged under a federal law that makes it illegal to wear Armed Forces medals without being authorized. The charge carries a penalty of six months in prison and/or a fine of $50,000. A bill currently before Congress, "The Stolen Valor Act of 2005," would also make it against the law to make verbal or written fraudulent claims of having been awarded medals or decorations.
FBI agent Tom Cottone Jr., who has investigated more than 200 cases of imposters wearing military medals, says, "They do it to feed their own egos and gain instant respect and admiration."
"The imposters also attempt to enhance their careers and achieve financial gain," Cottone says. "There are probably thousands of individuals currently wearing unearned medals and decorations and thousands more making false claims of receiving military awards."
Weilbacher was released on bond today after an initial appearance before a federal magistrate. He is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court Dec. 7. He could not be reached for comment. What amazes me is the amount of money this fool spent on this fantasy. He apparently has the full set of uniforms. He had to have them made by someone who was not authorized to provide military uniforms (an authorized provider would, or should, have busted him). Dress uniforms are always tailored, btw, but the specs would definitely have raised eyebrows. The assorted medals are not cheap either.
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I was pointlessly looking through an Army/Navy Surplus store for a pair of pants once when it occured to me that there's a hell of a lot of difference between my 40-something physique and that of a 20 year old.
Time for me to head over to The Gap for some Dockers.
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There are probably thousands of individuals currently wearing unearned medals and decorations and thousands more making false claims of receiving military awards.
One of them used his unearned medals to run for President.
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The recent elections had (R) candidate running on his platform of being a Carrier CO, a helicopter pilot and all around great good ol guy. his attire in public was a pair of docker slacks and his well worn "I've been there" flight jacket. I took him to task for this uniform violation and he was incensed that a mere enlisted guy would challenge an Acadamy grad with such a fine record. He got stomped in the election.
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Veterans have really lost their sense of humor about this crap. One of the first I remember who got busted was "Duke" Tulley, Publisher of the Phoenix Gazette (long since defunct). After he was exposed, he was banished to some little midwest paper and died in obscurity.
The Pentagon awarded a special honorarium of appreciation to one vet who has made it a lifelong campaign to expose fake Vietnam vets. He and his little band of the annoyed were responsible for taking down hundreds of frauds.
Usually they just send a letter of warning, and the braggart shuts up. But if they are in high places in business or government, or especially using their fraud for criminal purposes, they will get nuked. And the Pentagon is showing more signs of increasing willingness to prosecute.
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I once lead a secret mission across the border. Our mission was to acquire, track, and consume large quantities tequila. This assignment required strict secrecy and all members of my infiltration team were sworn to keep the mission secret. Well we reached objective TJ just as twilight descended. My wingman spotted several youthful female beckoning my team into what was sure to be a trap. But before I had a chance to act the entire team was drawn into the action and after four hours we limped back across the border. We didnt get any medals for our work but we will always remember that night when we accomplished our goal and the next morning brought a new appreciation for sleep and fluids.
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400+ pound SpetzlPretzl 1st class reporting for duty.
SECRETE SOGGY MISSIONS GALORE
this medal nn I got when Colby gave me the word to block the Ho Chi Minh trail.
And blocked it I did all by my lonesum.
I squat & blocked it because Ima 400+ pound SpetzlPretzl.
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Too fat. Remings me of the story (NYT i think) about how we were gonna get smacked by Saddam 'cause all our soldiers were too fat - at least Saddam's army fit into their uniforms. Funny, as I could always turn on Fox and see a video of a bunch of fat, 50 yr old Sunnis stompin around some dirty Baghdad street like they were real $h!tkickers.
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A WOMAN has been charged with bestiality after she was allegedly caught naked in a paddock having sex with a horse. Officers allegedly found the 35-year-old woman commiting an indecent act with the horse when they were called to a field in Lismore, north of Sydney. Yup! the field is in the town
"The woman was arrested and charged with bestiality and behaving in an offensive manner,'' a New South Wales police spokesman said. The Casino woman was bailed to appear in Lismore Local Court on December 18.
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Twas bound to happen one day after the NE Gay-Lesbian Marriage brouhaha + anti-Santa/XMas in Chicago. DARE THE NEW MATH > TOO MANY RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS ON PRIVATE PROOOPURTY = NOT ENUFF HORSES/HORSE -?????????????
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Per Willie Nelson, ..."if you are going to try some bestiality, do it with a horse. That way if things don't work out you can still get a ride home."
First it's the-victims-of-non-polygamy, now the perpetators of beastiality are the victims, no doubt. Legal in Denmark, don't you know. Are we titillated yet?
TOPEKA, KSIn response to a Nov. 7 referendum, Kansas lawmakers passed emergency legislation outlawing evolution, the highly controversial process responsible for the development and diversity of species and the continued survival of all life.
"From now on, the streets, forests, plains, and rivers of Kansas will be safe from the godless practice of evolution, and species will be able to procreate without deviating from God's intended design," said Bob Bethell, a member of the state House of Representatives. "This is about protecting the integrity of all creation."
The sweeping new law prohibits all living beings within state borders from being born with random genetic mutations that could make them better suited to evade predators, secure a mate, or, adapt to a changing environment. In addition, it bars any sexual reproduction, battles for survival, or instances of pure happenstance that might lead, after several generations, to a more well-adapted species or subspecies.
Violators of the new law may face punishments that include jail time, stiff fines, and rehabilitative education and training to rid organisms suspected of evolutionary tendencies. Repeat offenders could face chemical sterilization.
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Mark E: actually individuals can evolve. It's the theory of "punctuated equilibrium". And I can give you an example:
A man is watching a sporting event on TV. Right when the critical game play is being held in the final seconds, his wife enters the room, bends over in her size 15 pink stretch pants and says,
"Honey, do these pants make my ass look big?"
He is now forced, by punctuated equilibrium, to either evolve or die. Most likely he will die.
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Right, pi has decoupled from Euclidian geometry and is now calculated from power series.
Historically, it was the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. If you make those measurements, calculate, and don't come up with pi, your circle is not living in a flat space; e.g. on the surface of the earth, the ratio depends on the diameter of the circle.
The spinning circle is an interesting thought experiment, known as Ehrenfest's paradox. The circumference is Lorentz contracted but the diameter is not. It troubled Einstein quite a bit and was likely one of the considerations that led him to the concept of warped spacetime in the presence of energy.
NEW YORK (Nov. 29) - Though he's lost many dollars fans after being captured on video hurling racist epithets at a comedy club audience, Michael Richards has an ally: Mel "Falling Knife" Gibson . "I felt like commiting public suicide sending Michael Richards a note," Gibson says in an interview in Entertainment Weekly's Dec. 8 issue.
"I feel really badly for the guy. He was obviously in a state of stress. You don't need to be inebriated to be bent out of shape. Just warped morals or twisted world view will do the job.
But my heart went out to the guy." And then got snapped back by my publicist like a bungee cord diver.
The 50-year-old actor-director added: "They'll probably torture him for a while and then let him go. I like him." "He's got politically correct victim written all over him, just like me."
After his Nov. 17 tirade became known, Richards apologized on David Letterman's "Late Show" on CBS, saying his remarks were sparked by anger at being heckled, not bigotry. He also apologized to the Rev. Al Sharpton and on the Rev. Jesse Jackson's syndicated radio program. Kissing @ss of that sort can only be done under the most extreme and excusable duress. Not even Mel went that far ... yet.
Gibson, star of the "Lethal Weapon" movies and director of "The Passion of the Christ," was mired in a scandal of his own this summer for anti-Semitic comments he made to police in Malibu, Calif., during his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving. He publicly apologized. "It was my father talking."
Are people refusing to work with him? "No, people aren't like that," Gibson tells the magazine. "Those are just the headlines: Mel ostracized by Hollywood! Hollywood is what you make it. Never have Hollyweird's morals been so ariculately encapsulated.
There is no great pooh-bah up there saying, `Go! You are condemned!"' Perhaps not, but there's still your conscience, if you have one.
Gibson says he's not anti-Semitic. He just blames them for all of the world's wars, that's all.
"I never have been and never would be," he says. "But (the incident) hit this fear thing in me. My god, I made people afraid. ... And it was a horrible feeling. That's when I said, `My god, I don't want to be that monster."' Then STFU and work against such vile disinformation instead of spewing it in your movie.
His new movie, "Apocalypto," from The Walt Disney Co.'s Touchstone Pictures, opens Dec. 8. It is a Mayan-language epic filmed in Mexico chronicling the decline of the native civilization. He's confident his past remarks will not hurt the movie at the box office. I'm not. We'll see.
"It's primarily entertainment," he says of his production. "An 18-year-old college guy, out with his buddies, he's going to get into the chase. The movie will stand on its own, regardless of any unfortunate experience I may have stumbled upon."
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Excal I think the Scotts have another opinion of his film. What the English did there was nothing short of rape for land. For that matter the movie Patriot was brilliant.
What anti-troop comments did Gibson make? I'd sure like to know, that one sent a chill up my spine. What a pity if it's true. For Shame.
Richard lacks balls. If I were in his shoes I'd have gone off ten ways from Sunday. Getting racist puke from black punks in the audience... He had every right to throw schit back in their faces. I saw the video and he sure shut them up. Oh wait my mistake, blacks can't be racist...
Håkon Robertsen has refused to tear down a condemned barn for fear of reprisals from 'little people' and is ready to sue local authorities to protect the building. Robertsen continues to resist a local order to tear down the derelict structure, and is currently being fined NOK 300 (USD 47.50) a day until he flattens the barn. Local authorities first ordered the barn demolished in February 2005 after complaints from Robertsen's neighbors and a new order was passed this autumn.
Robertsen fears the consequences of tearing the building down. "I don't believe in ghosts, but underworld creatures have taken up residence in the building," Robertsen told newspaper Nordlys, referring to a term used for the fairies and goblins of Norwegian folklore.
Robertsen would not go into detail about his experiences, but said he was convinced that to comply with the order would have serious consequences for his life and health. "A while back I removed the top of the building and that is an experience I will not repeat," he said, and points out that the barn is built on an old Viking site.
He has offered to build a solid fence around the ramshackle building so that it no longer poses a danger to anyone.
The head of the local building policy department, Mette Mohåg, told Nordlys that there was as yet no deadlock in the matter.
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I remember the tale of a mining engineer who disregarded the warnings of his immigrant "Cousins" (Cornishmen miners), that a particular part of an old mineshaft being considered for reactivation was off-limits, because some variety of trolls had taken up residence there.
After he went inside and poked around for a while, they assured him that the little buggers would get their revenge on him in some unpleasant way.
Well, a few days later was Halloween, and he heard some kids making mischief in his front yard. He went out to investigate, slipped on his porch and broke his nose. "Just an accident".
The next Halloween, his wife opened a door unexpectedly and broke his nose again.
And for three more years, on Halloween, he managed to get his nose broken again.
That was enough. He bought a few bottles of whiskey which he deposited in the old mine shaft to make amends.
...in Bulgarian surroundings with no unnecessary clothes...
The Italian star Edelweiss who is of Russian origin and is married to a Bulgarian will decorate the cover and pages of the December issue of Playboy Bulgaria in celebration of the country's EU accession. Hurrah!
The dazzling blond took her clothes off for the photo session at the ethnographic museum in Bulgaria's second city of Plovdiv. "She is not only one of the most beautiful women we've ever seen but also an ideal symbol of the union between the East and the West", the magazine says. "We're talkin' major bosom here! Maybe epic!" Bummer, I did a Google image search and got a buncha spindly-looking little white flowers... Except for one link, lol.
"We wanted to render in the best visual way the cute paradox - an Italian star of Russian origin with a German name and a Bulgarian husband, placed in Bulgarian surroundings with no unnecessary clothes on which to hide the important aspects of the accession", the magazine adds.
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Is the last paragraph a nice way of saying she's on the A-list for promotion to Kolonel status???
A three-year-old boy has been eaten alive by a herd of pigs on the outskirts of the Indian capital, Delhi, BBC reported. The boy, Ajay, strayed from the family home as his parents and other family members were having lunch. The boy is said to have been carrying a bread, which might have drawn the attention of the neighbour's pigs.
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Ughh, poor kid, reminds me of Hindu-Muslim babes killed by their own families, bodies dumped in the streets by same, and then eaten [or mostly eaten] by dogs or hogs.
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So there's the basis for the old saw, "He went to sh*t and the hogs ate him". I never figgered it for real!
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Ya know, mebbe it was, "He went to take a sh*t, and the hogs ate him."
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In fact my father and grandfather, who had spent years in North Africa told me that teh reason eating pork is not allowed by Muslims is because pigs ate a friend of Muhammad so eating pork is indirectly eating human flesh.
I don't know if this is a myth circulating between colonizers or if it is a real North African legend (Afgans have another explantion for the pork ban).
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I believe human meat is referred to as "long pig." I'm guessing there's a similarity in taste, which'd account for banning it back in Leviticus days.
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My theory is that the banning between Jews comes from the similarity with human flesh and thus when living near or between populations who practiced human sacrifices (Phenicians, Canaaneans, and I think Philistines) the very real possibility of being tricked in eating human in guise of pork
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I believe human meat is referred to as "long pig." I'm guessing there's a similarity in taste, which'd account for banning it back in Leviticus days.
Yep! Also, if you've ever smelled a human that has died in a fire, it smells disturbingly like roast pork. Hence the term, "Long Pig". Pigs are greasy and so are humans.
So there's the basis for the old saw, "He went to sh*t and the hogs ate him". I never figgered it for real!
Why would you not figure it was real? Swine are omnivores, and will eat anything. Plant matter, insects, garbage, carrion and us. The first time I went bow hunting for pigs, it was quite a sight to see the buddys of the pig I whacked rush over and start lapping up the blood. I had to literally chase them off. Swine can be down right dangerous.
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Question is, what will the Hindus do when those "mad cows" start eating humans?
Maybe we need to recruit, train and unleash these pigs on Baghdad/Sadr-City. Could be a lot more entertaining than the Bulls of Pamploma, watching the muzzies "run away" from the piggy-piggies.
I've been on numerous hog farms for work, and I can say, they're skittish at the very first, but it only takes a couple seconds before they're all "inquisitive," if you get my drift. Messing with a 250+ lb hog (dress out weight for corporate hog farms) is unbelievable, but I can't imagine messing with a 400+ lb. momma surrounded by her infants.
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And, I've gotta ask the mods...Where'd the "Meet your Meat" blogad come from? You boys/girls aren't switchin' to the Dark PETA side, are ya? Just the placement of that blogad underneath this rant is soooo ironic, it makes me love the 'burg even more, lol!
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Where'd the "Meet your Meat" blogad come from?
I just assume that Fred (very wisely), cheerfully takes ad revenue from anyone foolish enough to think that they'll actually make some sort of counter-impact at this site. Sort of like the ads for that "Best War Ever" book.
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The Muslims undoubtedly borrowed the restriction against pork from the Jewish tribes then prevalent in Arabia.
As to the Jews, Leviticus bans eating pork, which is thought by medical historians to be a reaction to the parasite trichinosis, which is often fatal. Like many ancient cultures, without benefit of microscopes or knowledge of microorganisms, a lot of taboos were empirically based: folks eat pig, they get sick; pork is forbidden. I believe in Mongolia there was a taboo about killing these prairie dog-like critters. The cultural explanation was that you were killing your ancestors' spirits. Medically, the rodents were carrying plague.
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I think a lot of the early food fatwas helped to keep the tribes healthy and growing. "God said so" worked fairly well for preliterate societies, and the shamans were careful to keep too much actual learnin' away from the proles. And the priestly class waxed fat and powerful. But information wants to be free, and as more tribesmen grew in the understanding of the world, the priests (shamans, rabbis, mullahs, etc.) needed to keep the rules ever more difficult to understand and thus maintain their position as keepers of the unknown.
I sometimes think lawyers fulfill the same role now in our 'modern' society.
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The majority of lawyers make an average salary of $50K.
Unlike the shamans, anyone can become a lawyer who goes to law school and passes the bar.
But I wouldn't recommend becoming a plaintiff's attorney unless you want a career full of long, long, and lonter hours, unreal stress, and working weekends. Of course, you could always become a Defense lawyer instead, and work as a hired gun for "the Man"--IF you're willing to sell your soul.
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I think I can trump the lot of you, because I have actually *tasted* roast person. Legitimately.
Guy had been hit by lightning, part of his face had been burned, and he needed CPR.
They are right about the four quick breaths--he started right up. Then he trombone vomited all over us. Then we were totally paralyzed, since he was now breathing on his own, and WTF do we do now? Finally, we broke the spell and started shaking people and yelling at them to get help.
I only noticed the pork-ish flavor 15 minutes later when the adrenaline started to wear off. And you would not believe that gawdawful smell, that didn't want to shower off.
Took me a month before I could eat pork again. Bacon sooner.
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'moose, you just climbed an extra notch in my personal regard. Assisting someone with lifesaving in that critical first three minutes is something that cannot be overlooked. Job well done (so to speak).
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Being eaten alive by hogs would be a good sentence for terrorists.
I don't think that Allen would allow anyone into paradise that had first passed through the intestinal tract of a porcine garbage disposal.
I'll admit, I laughed when I heard about the Great Australian Bikini March, an upcoming event intended to get bikini-clad Aussies out en masse in protest of Australian Sheik Taj El-Din Hamid Hilaly's suggestion that unveiled women are akin to "uncovered meat" and to blame for rape. It's no secret that Hilaly is on Broadsheet's blacklist, and I'm generally a fan of subversive, outrageous behavior. On second look, though, the big bikini protest seems more frightening than funny.
The protest is scheduled for Dec. 9 in the city of Melbourne, just two days before the anniversary of the Cronulla race riots in Sydney last year. As it happens, so-called white nationalists have taken an interest in the bikini march, which will end at Melbourne's Islamic Support and Youth Centre.
The demonstration is being organized by Christine Hawkins, who refused to describe her "background" in an interview with Australian publication the World Today, saying only that she is a grandmother of two and "veteran bikini wearer." Hawkins hasn't exactly extended a personal invitation to these groups, but she also hasn't made much of an effort to exclude them. Meanwhile, online white nationalist community Stormfront and like-minded blogs like Patriot Downunder are enthusiastically advertising the event. Australian police warn that the event could be co-opted by white supremacists and, understandably, there's buzz of a repeat of last year's violent riots.
Hawkins insists that her aim is simply to deliver a message to Hilaly and his supporters: "We're not changing, we're Aussies." Taking a page from Europeans anxious over Muslims' assimilation throughout Europe, Hawkins also said, "We're actually going to be calling on the government to bring in new citizenship legislation, so that extremists can be weeded out either coming into the country, or if they're here, get rid of them."
There's an interesting and understandable cultural tug of war going on here. But when veils are pitted against bikinis in a cultural and political showdown, I'm not sure there can be any clear winners.
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WTF with that last paragraph? Veils against bikinis? Ask any red-blooded male, it's bikinis in a landslide! The veiled idiots and their supporters can take those veils and stuff them where the sun don't shine.
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...the big bikini protest seems more frightening than funny. Agreed. Huge bikinis worn by large women can be awfully scary.
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Only small-dick child-rapist worshipers prefer "their" women in a bin-bag. Real women, Western women, free women have the liberty to let it all hang out. Praise God.
NORWOOD - Authorities don't know how a bomb ended up in heavy underbrush alongside Interstate 71. Concerns over the device shut down the busy highway Wednesday morning. The road remained closed from about 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thousands of drivers were stuck in a heavy-metal stew of cars, pickups and tractor-trailers.
A maintenance crew cutting brush near the Williams Avenue overpass off I-71 stumbled across the homemade bomb at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. The television news people spoke of a shampoo bottle with wires sticking out, but it wasn't clear to me how good their information was.
The search for clues moved beyond the immediate area of Norwood, Oakley and Hyde Park. "The FBI is trying to match it up with other devices that may have been found to see if there is a link," said Sgt. Ronald Murphy of the Norwood Police Department.
Time line
9:30 a.m.: Ohio Department of Transportation workers stumble upon a suspicious device near a cluster of trees off Interstate 71 under the Williams Avenue overpass. Norwood police are called. Firefighters arrive.
10 a.m.: Authorities close the interstate between Dana and Ridge avenues.
10:30 a.m.: Traffic begins to back up for miles in each direction on the interstate. More crews arrive on scene, including a bomb-sniffing dog. Authorities begin evacuating homes nearby.
Noon: The device is blown up. Those who did not have to evacuate report hearing a small explosion.
2:30 p.m.: Workers finish canvassing other areas around I-71 overpasses and say there is no longer a threat to motorists or nearby residents. The interstate reopens.
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One of the reports I heard (on 700 WLW) had the highway workers saying the device was dry despite the early-morning rain, indicating they found it shortly after it was placed.
The device itself wasn't blown up, but "rendered safe".
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Just another disgruntled muslim employee of Proctor & Gamble from the Masjid Assunnah. Nothing to see here. Move along...
/sarcasm
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One of the P&G VPs used to have a business card, upon which was printed, "It's -er, dammit!" Proctor goes with Silex, the small kitchen machines manufacturers. ;-)
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I guess I can stop worrying. Update as of 4:30 pm:
The incendiary device discovered Wednesday along I-71 was not a sophisticated device and likely wouldnt have caused much damage if it had detonated. "It was made basically to start a fire," Police Lt. Gary Fye said. Fye said the device, which consisted of battery, clock, wires, a liquid, a powder, a timer and a detonating device, was not designed to explode.
The livestock industry contributes more to the greenhouse effect than cars, the UN food and farming agency said in a report Wednesday which also slammed this sector as a major source of soil and water degradation. "The livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent than transport," said the report by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Wait till they find out about the trees. Reagan tipped them off on that twenty years ago.
By this yardstick, livestock now accounts for 18 percent of man-made carbon emissions, driven by the surge in demand for meat and dairy products, FAO said. Let them eat cake.
Global meat production is set to more than double from 229 million tonnes in 2001 to 465 million tonnes in 2050, according to a UN projection. Milk output is projected to soar from 580 million to 1,043 million tonnes over the same period.
"When emissions from land use and land use change are included, the livestock sector accounts for nine percent of CO2 deriving from human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of even more harmful greenhouse gases."
It generates 65 percent of human-caused nitrous oxide, a gas that is 296 times more effective at trapping solar heat than carbon dioxide (CO2), the biggest greenhouse-gas by volume. Most of this pollution comes from manure. Does this mean the UN will stop issuing press releases?
Livestock also accounts for 37 percent of all human-induced methane, which is 23 times as warming as CO2 and is largely produced by the digestive system of ruminants, and for 64 percent of ammonia, a big contributor to acid rain. Global warming, acid rain, we're all going to die!
Not only that, but livestock's demand for feed crops contributes to biodiversity loss. The report proposes to increase the efficiency of livestock production and feed crop agriculture, and to improve animals' diets to reduce fermentation and consequent methane emissions. Feed 'em Beano
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I think they ment some other gas. Nitrous Oxide is not easy to make. It takes high pressure and high heat. Usually. Teddy Kennedy might be able to make some. I really think the writer ment methane. That's easy and what large farm animals fart the most of. Not CO2. The animal poop can be gathered and enough methane extracted to be monetarily worthwhile. The largest creator of VOC's (volitile organic chemicals)in the office is Human bioefluent emissions. In other words, burps and farts. Why do farts burn? Methane. Same is true of animals. They do create CO2 through the process of respiration but they create much more methane whic is a much more efficient greenhouse gas than CO2. Bugwits.
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What this report doesn't make clear is that livestock generates these greenhouse gas equivalents as a digestive bi-product. ie, by farting. This means that a proportion of the air we breathe comes out of some cow, sheep, pig or dogs arse.
It makes you wonder how adherants to some religions, who revile pigs and dogs as unclean, can retain their self respect when confronted by this scientific insight.
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Scientist LoveLock is back on DRUDGE, saying that ITS TOO LATE, to save mankind becuz its too late for Gaia. All together now, wid feelings > WE "RE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMEEEEEEDDDDDD.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Ketchup maker H.J. Heinz Co. (HNZ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday posted lower quarterly profit, hurt by a higher tax rate. The maker of Heinz condiments, Ore-Ida frozen potatoes and a host of other packaged foods said profit was $191.6 million, or 57 cents a share, in the fiscal second quarter ended November 1, compared with $203.8 million, or 60 cents a share, a year earlier.
Earnings from continuing operations were 59 cents a share. Analysts on average forecast 60 cents a share, according to Reuters Estimates.
The results follow a contentious battle in which activist investor Nelson Peltz and his Trian Group won two seats on Heinz's board of directors. Investors were looking to see whether better-than-expected results posted for the first quarter would continue. Higher tax rate? But the Bush Administration is all about giving Big Business and Rich People big tax breaks, not tax hikes.
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If they're falling behind, they'll need to ketchup.
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Teresa, time to kick ol' Johnny boy in the nutsack. His lib ideas are now costing you real money.
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.
FBI agents have arrested a St. Louis businessman who they say posed as a highly decorated Marine Major even though he never served in the Corps. Forty-eight-year-old Michael Weilbacher was arrested while attending a local Marine Corps League meeting.
Håkon Robertsen has refused to tear down a condemned barn for fear of reprisals from 'little people' and is ready to sue local authorities to protect the building. Robertsen continues to resist a local order to tear down the derelict structure, and is currently being fined NOK 300 (USD 47.50) a day until he flattens the barn. Local authorities first ordered the barn demolished in February 2005 after complaints from Robertsen's neighbors and a new order was passed this autumn.
