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No telling how many of his patrons are now alive because of his courage and forethought.
Yeah, and maybe if he'd spent a little more time at the range, there would be two dead perps and some chalk outlines on the floor of his tavern.
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"Yeah, and maybe if he'd spent a little more time at the range, there would be two dead perps and some chalk outlines on the floor of his tavern."
That would have been better for the rest of us, granted, but this way he's not looking at dealing with having killed two people. That can cause problems both legal and mental. It worked out for the owner about as well as he could have hoped.
France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been awarded 40,000 euros ($57, 500) by a French court for damages from a company that sold bags emblazoned with a picture of her in the nude, when she was a fashion model.
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S.F. blames out-of-towners for endless homeless problem
City officials are finally admitting what others have been saying for years: San Francisco is attracting huge numbers of homeless people from all over. Thousands of transient people, arriving from other counties, states and even countries, are overwhelming the city's homeless system.
Facing a crippling budget shortfall, officials at San Francisco's homeless agencies are proposing a radical idea - take care of the city's own first, and require newcomers to show proof of residency for aid.
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"show proof of residency for aid" (or voting or driver's license or whatever the locals actually foot the bill for)
What a novel idea! Obviously the 'community organizers' haven't gotten to Mr. Rhorer or Mr. Kayhan.
Just wait, they (and their friends) will start screaming so loud that they'll drown out some of the few 'voices of reason' left in the spiraling cesspool of socialism that was once one of my favorite cities.
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Other American cities and towns paraphrasing Tony Bennett:
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Just wait, they (and their friends) will start screaming
GB and CyberSarge can tell me if I'm wrong, but I suspect the point has been reached in SF where the screaming will be ignored. SF and Caliph. are now facing the abyss and the reality is setting in.
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US-GLOBAL RECESSION/DEPRESSION > AKA PCorrectly BUILDING TRANS-REGIONAL + GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCY + INTEGRATION, which in turn will "justify" EXTRA/SUPRA-NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SOCIALIST-GOVTIST ORDER + REGULATORY AUTHORITY,
.......@etc., aka OWG-NWO, in order to ensure that SCARCE $$$ go to where is intended to resolve this widespread, internaional economic morass.
Be it Guam, other Territories or the States, the Feds are demanding PROOF(S) OF LOCAL GOVT = PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY, CLOSURE OF $$$ LOOPHOLES, ANTI-CORRUPTION, ....... ETC., AND ARE IN NO HURRY TO PAY OR LEGISLATE TO "SOLVE" VEE NEW FED BUDGET $$$ ANY LOCAL-REGIONAL PERCEIVED OR PROCLAIMED "SERIOUS" PROBLEMS.
The youngster was married off by her father in exchange for a £4,000 dowry. Relatives of the girl said the groom had agreed not to consummate the marriage for 10 years and to allow the youngster to live with her mother.
The girl's mother, who is separated from her husband, had filed a petition for divorce with a court in Unayzah, 135 miles north of Riyadh. But the court ruled that the girl must file the case herself when she reaches puberty, it was reported.
"The judge has dismissed the plea because she does not have the right to file such a case, and ordered that the plea should be filed by the girl herself when she reaches puberty," lawyer Abdullah Jtili told the AFP news agency.
The marriage contract was signed by the father and the groom. It is understood the father had debt problems and wanted to secure an advance dowry.
Arranged marriages involving pre-adolescents are occasionally reported in the Arabian Peninsula, including in Saudi Arabia where the strict conservative Wahabi version of Sunni Islam holds sway and polygamy is common.
A girl aged eight was granted a divorce in Yemen in April after her unemployed father forced her to marry a man of 28.
The chief of Saudi Arabia's powerful religious police said some movies may be acceptable in the kingdom, despite a three-decade ban on cinemas, local press reported on Sunday.
Sheikh Ibrahim al-Gaith, head of the feared Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, made the concession after last week's breakthrough public showings in Jeddah of the comedy feature "Manahi". "A movie could possibly be acceptable if it serves good and is suitable under Islam," Sheikh Gaith said.
Gaith pulled back from comments he made two days earlier branding movies "an absolute evil" in the wake of screenings in the Red Sea port city. "I did not say that we reject all cinema, but I said that we were not consulted during the organisation of these movie showings," he explained.
For more than a week from December 9, the Rotana entertainment group, controlled by Saudi tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, showed "Manahi" to rapturous audiences in Jeddah and nearby Taif. The screenings, approved by the provincial governor, Prince Khalid al-Faisal, sparked hopes that Saudi Arabia would soon allow public cinemas.
Before the first projection of the film, local religious police inspected the facility, a 1,200 seat conference hall, to make sure that men and women would remain separated, adhering to the country's strict laws on separation of unrelated members of the opposite sexes. For the three showings daily, women sat in the balcony of the hall while men and boys were on the ground floor.
There are no cinemas in Saudi Arabia, but some coffee shops surreptitiously put on movies for customers and many Saudis enjoy films at home on DVD and satellite television. To experience a cinema, they have to travel to nearby Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates or other countries.
Belgium's King Albert consulted political leaders on Saturday after the government collapsed for the third time in a year following its botched attempt to bail out financial group Fortis.
Prime Minister Yves Leterme tendered his government's resignation on Friday after a report by the Supreme Court found signs of political meddling to sway a court ruling on the future of the bank, a victim of the credit crunch.
The king, who under the constitution must decide whether to accept the resignation, held successive talks at the palace with the heads of the five ruling-coalition parties until 2 am on Saturday, a palace spokesman said.
Consultations were to continue later in the day. Belgian media said there was little chance of Leterme staying in power. The newspaper De Morgen said a reshuffled, emergency cabinet could be stitched together to govern until June. A parliamentary election could take place that month to coincide with planned regional and European elections, the paper said. "After the resignation of Yves Leterme, the king needs to find a successor quickly. Not one of the ruling parties is asking for new elections," De Standaard said on its front page.
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Well, hell - they've got a king.
Why not just revert to a plain old monarchy?
He couldn't possibly do any worse that the present load of wankers running the country into the ground.
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Read "King Leopold's Ghost," Barbara. Belgium's Kings can be much worse. Why do you think the Congo's so screwed up?
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12/21/2008 13:23 Comments ||
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Eric, no defense of Belgian royalty, or colonialism in general, but I bet the Congo would be about as screwed up today if there had never been a Belgium.
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True. The Belgians took the endemic barbarism of the Congo to a new level for a while, but after a couple of decades it was a quite well-run African colonial state with a low body-count, good economic prospects and an exploding population. And then, independence, collapse of institutions, dictatorship, civil wars and population collapse.
"then, independence, collapse of institutions, dictatorship, civil wars and population collapse"
Pretty much sums up sub-Saharan Africa. Wonder what could possibly be the cause?
/sarcasm
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Barbara, the only problem with Sub-Saharan Africa is Sub-Saharan Africans.
When the Euros quit, it was "lights out" both literally and figuratively. There's not a country in Africa where I'd even consider investing as much as fifty cents.
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The zimbobwayans don't seem to have benefited much from their more benign British colonization, so I doubt great responsibility attaches to the Belgians for the current state of the Congo even given the execrable things Leopold did with his playground.
Rising drug violence in Mexico's border region has prompted southern Arizona's largest military installation to issue new restrictions on troop travel and a warning to military families and civilian staffers to stay away.
Now nearly 7,000 troops at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista must get prior approval from the Army post's top brass to cross the border. Violators would be subject to military discipline. In addition, about 11,000 family members, civilians and contractors at the fort are "strongly urged" not to visit Mexican cities such as Naco, Agua Prieta and Nogales - a popular shopping and nightlife destination.
Drug-cartel-fueled violence has reached unprecedented levels this year in the state of Sonora and specifically in Nogales, where government figures show homicides have tripled in recent years. Nearly 100 killings have occurred this year, up from 52 in 2007 and 35 in 2006. The violence is attributed to an ongoing battle between drug cartels for the corridor - the most desired piece of real estate along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Been in place at Ft. Bliss for a while. Then again Juarez across the border is what - 3 million plus or something. More fuel for the fire than the communities near Huachuca.
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Sierra Vista's a nice town, new mall, restaurants, theaters, etc. Absolutely no reason to go to Mexico
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Wrong, Frank G. Street hustlers are always talking up their 13-year-old, v*rgin sister (or maybe brother, these days). Or have they moved to Sierra Vista too?
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
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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.
France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been awarded 40,000 euros ($57, 500) by a French court for damages from a company that sold bags emblazoned with a picture of her in the nude, when she was a fashion model.
The chief of Saudi Arabia's powerful religious police said some movies may be acceptable in the kingdom, despite a three-decade ban on cinemas, local press reported on Sunday.
Belgium's King Albert consulted political leaders on Saturday after the government collapsed for the third time in a year following its botched attempt to bail out financial group Fortis.
