A man who said he worshipped Satan and enjoyed killing three people, stabbing and beating them and stomping on them with steel-toed boots, was executed Tuesday.
Zark's probably found him a nice seat by the fire by now, if he hasn't cut his postmortem head off...
Darrell Ferguson, 28, the youngest person put to death in Ohio since 1962, died by injection at 10:21 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. He had asked for the death penalty and chose not to pursue appeals, which could have delayed his execution for years.
Good for him. Now he can get on with decomposing...
“King was disabled and used crutches, Arlie Fugate had cancer and Mae Fugate took meals to wheelchair-using neighbors.”
He was convicted of three counts of aggravated murder in the Christmas Day killing of Thomas King, 61, in 2001 and the deaths the next day of Arlie Fugate, 68, and his wife Mae, 69. King was disabled and used crutches, Arlie Fugate had cancer and Mae Fugate took meals to wheelchair-using neighbors.
Aged and infirm — they're less likely to fight back, y'know...
The victims let Ferguson into their homes in Dayton because they knew him. Ferguson's mother had been married to King's brother, and Ferguson's family had once lived near the Fugates. Ferguson committed the murders after getting a two-day pass from a drug treatment program he had been ordered to attend following a burglary conviction. At his sentencing, he taunted the victims' families, saying he worshipped Satan, enjoyed the killings, had no remorse, and, if released from prison, would pick up where he left off.
So now he won't. Somebody else will have to do it.
Posted by: Fred ||
08/09/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Unfortunately Thomas, Arlie, and Mae are still dead and died much more horribly than this p.o.s. did.
Burn in Hell, Darrell. I hope they roast you on a spit.
Posted by: Dar ||
08/09/2006 0:32 Comments ||
Top||
#7
There are some souls that are tortured for unknown reasons. Darrell was one. I'm not excusing what he did, he obviously knew what he did was very wrong. He finally got what he wanted. Death and eternal damnation.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
08/09/2006 21:21 Comments ||
Top||
THE McCARTNEY divorce is going to be the most bitter high-profile split since Charles and DianaÂ’s ten years ago. Heather Mills, dubbed Lady Mucca after The Sun exposed her porno past, has hired the same lawyers used by the late Princess as she battles Macca for his millions.
Although she once claimed she had no interest in the former Beatle’s £800million fortune, ex-hooker Heather went to see top divorce firm Mishcon de Reya this week. The Monday meeting she had with SIX of their top legal eagles went on for FIVE HOURS. A source close to the 38-year-old ex-model said: “They wanted to go through every minute detail about the marriage and forthcoming divorce. Heather now has a month to get her defence in before the divorce takes place.”
She has ordered the London-based legal team to fight Sir Paul for an incredible ÂŁ200million.
Macca and Mucca went to extraordinary lengths to avoid each other yesterday during the handing over of their daughter Beatrice, two. Heather and Paul, 64, arranged the tot swap with military precision so they wouldn’t see each other. Macca swept IN to his London home half an hour after Heather was driven OUT — with the pain of the split clearly etched on his face.
The previous night Heather had turned up at the smart address to find the locks had been changed. Police were called by Macca’s staff as her security guard tried to climb a fence. A source said: “Heather turned up unannounced. She had made no arrangement with Paul to spend the night at the house. She is always breaking the arrangements made for the handover of Beatrice. She seems to do it to create publicity.”
Heather later spent the night there with Beatrice but only after police had questioned her and a member of MaccaÂ’s staff grudgingly allowed her to get inside.
Posted by: Fred ||
08/09/2006 14:44 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11130 views]
Top|| File under:
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian man died Tuesday when he tried to open what police believe was a rocket-propelled grenade with a sledgehammer in a mechanical workshop on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Hey, I wonder what happens when I do THIS.
Another man who was in the workshop at the time of the explosion was rushed to a hospital with severe burns, a police officer told Reuters. The workshop was destroyed and several cars parked outside caught fire. I'm reminded of the Bugs Bunny cartoon where the Gremlin is pounding on the nose of a bomb with a big hammer.
Police found several unexploded army issue rocket-propelled grenades in the workshop. Must have been out metal-detecting.
They believe the ammunition had been brought there by scavengers wanting to sell them as scrap metal, but they also are investigating a possible link to Rio's heavily armed drug gangs who often raid military bases.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
08/09/2006 08:27 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under:
#2
We do this because one of four are known to fail. Just a little oursoucing on our part to a subcontractor.
Posted by: Rio Quality Control ||
08/09/2006 11:46 Comments ||
Top||
#3
A Brazilian man died Tuesday when he tried to open what police believe was a rocket-propelled grenade with a sledgehammer in a mechanical workshop on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Twenty-one penguins were rescued on a hot east Texas highway Tuesday after a truck carrying the wildlife to a temporary home south of Houston overturned, said a state trooper.
“The rest of the penguins kind of stayed together in the ditch”
Four penguins and some exotic fish were killed in the accident, including three penguins that were hit by passing motorists, said Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Richard Buchanan. "The rest of the penguins kind of stayed together in the ditch," he said.
The truck, also carrying an octopus that was uninjured, was bound for Moody Gardens, a tourist destination in Galveston, an hour south of Houston, a resort spokeswoman said. The wildlife was being transported to Texas from the Indianapolis Zoo while that zoo's ocean exhibit is being remodeled, said Jerri Hamacheck of Moody Gardens.
Posted by: Fred ||
08/09/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
"Whaddawedo?"
"Stay in the ditch."
"Any ice out there?"
"No ice no where."
"Whaddawedo?"
"Stay in the ditch."
"Any ice on the road?"
"No ice on the road."
"Whaddawedo?"
"Stay in the ditch."
What if there are killer whales in the ditch?"
[pause]
"Shaddup."
Posted by: Steve White ||
08/09/2006 0:06 Comments ||
Top||
#3
I clicked on this story on the sidebar and got completely different comments and I had this weird where has Steve's funny comment gone moment. Is Fred censoring mods funnier than him. As I said, weird.
According to today's Chronicle (containing the deathless subhead "Snakes arrived safely"), when they righted the truck a penguin emerged unscathed.
Also according to that article, the two drivers were driving straight from Indianapolis to Houston. I've driven straight between St. Louis and Houston, and it's no stroll in the park, even if you do have two drivers. Of course, it's hard to find a Motel 6 that'll take penguins.
#8
You ever try to move 21 penguin crates into the motel? Or walk them on leads in the approved grassy area and then clean up the grounds afterwards?
Plus, unloading those coolers of fish and washing them out after feeding times -- ugh. And have you ever SEEN 21 penguins hopping from bed to bed in the 2-standard-sized-beds rooms that the company books? IMPOSSIBLE to fall asleep when they really get into it.
Nah ... coffee mainlined beats a stop with penguins any day.
A man driving a truckload of trained penguins to the circus suffers a vehicle breakdown. Another guy drives by in a truck and offers to help. The driver, relieved, tells the man that he simply has to get the penguins to the circus, pronto. So the man loads the penguins on his own truck and takes off.
The first man was frantic. He expected them to return in about 3-4 hours, but it was almost 8 hours when he saw them again. When he looked closer, he saw that the penguins had balloons t-shirts and other stuff. When he asked the 2nd man what took so long, the 2nd man replied "well, they liked the circus so much I thought I'd take them to the zoo."
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's indigenous Maori population reacted angrily on Wednesday to a researcher's findings that Maori have a high representation of a gene linked to aggression, as the nation faces a domestic violence crisis. Sounds like evidence in support of the theory to me.
Rod Lea told a genetics conference in Australia that Maori men were twice as likely as European men to carry monoamine oxidase, describing it as a "striking over-representation" of what has been described as the warrior gene. How do the Scots-Irish score, I wonder.
Media reports of Lea's findings outraged Maori leaders who said they only reinforced "Once Were Warriors" cultural stereotypes, a reference to a harrowing 1994 movie about domestic violence in poor Maori families.
"I've been asked by reporters whether this gene is the reason why we're a violent race, why we feature so highly in criminality rates, that we're predisposed toward aggression," Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia said in a statement. "Once were gardeners, once were astronomers, once were philosophers, once were lovers," she said.
Lea, a genetic epidemiologist at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research in the New Zealand capital, Wellington, said the gene had also been linked to such risk-taking behavior as smoking and gambling. Check the Vegas population
"I believe this gene has an influence on behavior of humans in general, but I also believe that the influence is rather small," Lea told New Zealand's National Radio on Wednesday.
If the influence is rather small, why are you yammering at a press conference?
"We have to be clear that behavioral traits such as susceptibility to addiction, aggressive behavior, risk taking, all those sort of things, are extremely complex and they are due to numerous factors including non-genetic environmental factors like upbringing and other lifestyle factors," he said. Taking a knock at their culture, too? And on National Public Radio!
Maori lawmaker Hone Harawira said he had been hearing similar descriptions for decades about New Zealand's indigenous people, who make up about eight percent of the 4.1 million population. "I've stopped listening to all that sort of carry on," Harawira said.
New Zealand's domestic violence problem, described by a government report as endemic and shameful, was highlighted by the deaths of three-month old Maori twins in Auckland, the nation's largest city, in June. End snark. They've got a real problem.
Chris and Cru Kahui had both suffered severe head injuries but their Maori family has refused to cooperate with police. Prime Minister Helen Clark described the Kahui twins' family as a "'Once Were Warriors' type family".
Helen is a dufus. Correction: she's a socialist dufus. This is a classic example of an 'N = 1' problem: you single out one particular instance of a problem and generalize from there. How about the Maori families on either side of this one that didn't beat their kids?
A UNICEF report last month found that between 18,000 and 35,000 children are exposed to domestic violence each year. The problem is so common that most New Zealanders know a child who has witnessed violence at home, it said. Real Warriors don't take it out on the kids. Overgrown bullies do that.
Government figures show that Maori children under five years old are being admitted to hospital with "intentional injury" at twice the rate of other ethnic groups.
Maoris are also in the lowest socioeconomic group in NZ and have been discriminated against for decades. I have data that I obtained from the NZ government showing that the asthma death rate in Maoris in the early to mid 1980s was 6-fold higher than that of whites. When the NZ government finally extended their national health service to the Maori population, the disparity nearly completely disappeared. No doubt Helen the Socialist Dufus would have blamed Maori genetics for the higher death rate.
#1
only reinforced "Once Were Warriors" cultural stereotypes
Cultural Stereotypes? More like a slice of life, I'm thinking. "Once Were Warriors" is a powerful, emotional film about a tragic side of modern Maori culture. Most of the actors are Maori, as was the director's father. Not exactly the people you would suspect for propagating cultural stereotypes.
#2
If the NZ government wasn't so 'soft' they'd be able to take advantage of that big pool of warrior-gened men and build an army of warriors, and put them to work in the war on Islamofacsism. If the Europeans who went to NZ 200 years ago were like those in power there today the Maori would still be running the place - without Eurocultural interference.
#3
Interesting. I had my unusual indigenous mix of DNA tested for the Genographic study and had few matches. One I did have was a Maori match, as well as a Siberian, among a few others such as in Mexico. We were trying to figure out how my ancestors migrated to North America. I am part Sioux, a known warrior Indian tribe!
Despite her defeat, McKinney was unbowed, unleashing a stemwinder of a concession speech in which she barely mentioned her opponent but praised leftist leaders in Cuba and Venezuela, took aim at the efficacy of electronic voting machines and offered several swipes at the media.
"Members of the press, as well as our political leaders, don't give us explanations that explain, or conclusions that conclude," McKinney said. "There comes a time when people of conscience are compelled to dissent."
Before she began her remarks, she played the song "Dear Mr. President," an anti-Bush anthem by Pink, and sang along, somewhat out of tune, with its critical lyrics.
"We love our country, and that is why we dissent, because we care," she said. "Either we can be a force for good, or we can rely on force and upset the world. Sadly, this administration has chosen the latter."
#1
Have the Cap Hill Cops filed a charge yet? What is the statute of limitations on assaulting an officer? Will Cynthia return to DC to clean out her office?
Glad the voters rejected this wingnut. We don't need someone encouraging our enemies. Maybe she could run for office in Cuba or Venezuela. If we are lucky she might get elected and we would not have to look at her commie mug in the States.
Come and listen to a story 'bout a ho named Cyn
Poor congresswoman who police wouldn't let in
When one day she was slapping at some cop,
Didn't pay attention and her election was a flop.
(Rejected that is, To the unemployment line)
Well the first thing you know old Cynthia's out on bail
Kin folk said Cyn, skip town and avoid jail
Said Harare is the place you oughta be,
So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Zimbabwe.
(ZimBOBwe that is, arbitrary rule, starving peasants)
Posted by: ed ||
08/09/2006 10:08 Comments ||
Top||
#6
I'll bet taht she joins Sheehan and company. there is always room for one more LLL Mo0b@+ idiot in that circle.
What are we going to do for entertainment now? Cynthia McKinney, the dipsy doodle fiery Georgia congresswoman known for her conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11 attacks and the scuffle she had earlier this year with a U.S. Capitol police officer, lost a runoff election Tuesday for her district's Democratic nomination. Attorney Hank Johnson, a black former DeKalb County commissioner, won the nomination with 59 percent of the vote, surpassing McKinney by more than 11,000 votes.
#3
Unfoturnately, she is still a Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor at Cornell, along with the legendary propagandist John Pilger.
I'm sure the old Rantburg surprise meter won't even register a twitch, but McKinney's faculty sponsor is Salah Hassan, a graduate of the prestigious University of Khartoum.
Posted by: ST ||
08/09/2006 5:57 Comments ||
Top||
#4
...Any bets that she will declare herself the victim of An Evil Conspiracy(TM)? (I'm taking side bets that she refuses to step down.)
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
08/09/2006 7:28 Comments ||
Top||
#5
I blame voodoo.
Posted by: ed ||
08/09/2006 7:40 Comments ||
Top||
#11
McKinney for Lamont? Bad trade.
I agree, NS, but it's not McK for LaM.
McKinney has lost. She will not be in the House of reps next term, period.
If Lieberman runs, Lamont cannot win, therefore, it's McKinney for a republican senator. Or, Lieberman wins, which I doubt that is unless the republican is a total loser.
The left is in a downward spiral. They need a savy pilot to pull them out of it, but all they have is the Cheeseburgler, MM and socialism.
#13
It's amazing to me just how much of a complete nutjob you have to be before the Dems turn on you. I mean, she did everything in her power, for years, to appear as the most unhinged, racist, bigoted, foul-mouthed stark raving lunatic, and it just increased her support. Not until she assaulted a police officer did the straw finally break the camel's back. Dem tolerance for evil is now at an all time high.
Still, I can't say how happy I am she's gone. Go to Hell, Ms McKinney. Go to hell.
Three-term Sen. Joe Lieberman struggled to overcome a ferocious primary challenger Tuesday, battling to escape payback from his own party for his patriotism supporting the Iraq war. With 89 percent of precincts counted, Lamont led with 52 percent, or 127,786 votes, to Lieberman's 48 percent, or 119,867 votes. Turnout was projected at twice the norm for a primary.
Officials said turnout up to 50 percent when primaries usually own draw 25 percent of voters. And vote totals showed roughly 12,000 more ballots cast for the Democratic Senate primary than the party primary for governor, reflecting the extra attention to the Lieberman-Lamont battle.
Jubilant Lamont supporters predicted victory. "People are going to look back and say the American dream Bush years started to end in Connecticut," said Avi Green, a volunteer from Boston. "The Republicans are going to look at tonight and realize there's blood in the water." Probably literally so, considering how the left siezes power in most countries.
Democratic critics targeted Lieberman for his strong support for defeating our enemies the Iraq war and for letting decency override politics his close ties to President Bush. They played and replayed video of the kiss President Bush planted on Lieberman's cheek after the 2005 State of the Union address.
Lieberman has said he will run as an independent in the fall if defeated in the primary. His falling poll numbers spurred some Democratic colleagues to make last-minute campaign appearances, including former President Clinton, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California and others. This means that Daily Cooz has gone from 0/20 to 1/21. He's on a roll!
We need to get the Repub candidate, a gold-plated loser, out of the way, and offer the ballot slot to Joe. Let him keep the independent slot as well. Dems who can't vote Repub can pull that lever, and Repubs can pull the other. Either way we get Joe instead of Ned.
#3
Connecticut Democrats get to choose between another millionaire one-trick-pony with a populist message versus a decent incumbent that would be assigned a committee chairmanship should the minority party regain the Senate.
RoveÂ…you magnificent Bastard!
#4
A clear example that the Republican Party is fractured and falling apart. Oh right this is a Dhimicrat horse race. (getting popcorn and beer) Joe is still every bit a Liberal he was before he loast the election, nothing more than party in-fighting. Nice to see the Kooks and Liberals go at it as long as it keeps them from winning election. This will not be true in CT (whomever wins will have 'D' after there name), but this could lend to division in other states where a Republican might benifit. California comes to mind right off the top of my head.
Six years after Democrats backed him for vice president, Sen. Joe Lieberman struggled to overcome a tough challenge in Tuesday's primary and escape payback from his own party for supporting the Iraq war. In Georgia, Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the dipshit fiery congresswoman who scuffled with a U.S. Capitol police officer earlier this year, was trailing in very early returns in a runoff for the Democratic nomination. Elsewhere, voters in Colorado, Missouri and Michigan also chose candidates for the fall elections.
The Connecticut Senate race dominated the political landscape in recent weeks, as political novice Ned Lamont demonstrated the power of anti-war sentiment among Democrats with his campaign. Lamont is the millionaire owner of a cable television company but his political career is limited to serving as a town selectman and member of the town tax board. Still, he brought himself to the brink of defeating three-term incumbent Lieberman, the Democrats' vice presidential candidate in 2000. It was a race watched closely by the liberal, Internet-savvy Democrats who lead the party's emerging "netroots" movement, groups such as Moveon.org that played a big role in pushing Lamont's candidacy.
On the final day of the race, Lieberman accused his opponent's supporters of hacking his campaign Web site and e-mail system. Campaign manager Sean Smith said the site began having problems Monday night and crashed for good at 7 a.m., denying voters information about the candidate. "It is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise voters," Smith said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred ||
08/09/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11133 views]
Top|| File under:
(CNN) -- Officials with U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's re-election campaign say that "dirty politics" and "Rovian tactics" are to blame for what they call an online attack on their campaign Web site as Connecticut voters headed to the polls Tuesday. The Web site, http://www.joe2006.com, has been unavailable since Monday afternoon, and Lieberman campaign manager Sean Smith suggested that the campaign of senator's primary opponent, Ned Lamont, or his supporters were responsible for the disruption.
That'd pretty much be my first guess, too. Prob'ly my second guess, too...
"This type of dirty politics has been a staple of the Lamont campaign from the beginning, from the nonstop personal attacks to the intimidation tactics and offensive displays to these coordinated efforts to disable our Web site," said Smith in a statement e-mailed to reporters Monday evening. "There is no place for these Rovian tactics in Democratic politics, and we demand that our opponent calls off his supporters and their online attack dogs."
Karl is no doubt enjoying a Rovian chuckle at this very moment as his political opposition gnaws each other...
The Lamont campaign has denied any involvement.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
When asked by reporters at a campaign stop Tuesday if he or his campaign was responsible for the incident, Lamont said, "No, it's just another scurrilous charge."
"Yasss! A scurrilous charge made up out of whole cloth by my enemies!"
Liz Dupont-Diehl, a Lamont spokeswoman, told CNN that the campaign "denounced and condemned" the action, and denied any involvement by Lamont or members of his campaign. She added that the Lamont campaign did not know who was behind the incident.
"Wudn't us!"
The site became unavailable at some point Monday afternoon and features the message: "This account is under construction. Please check back soon. It will be available shortly. Thank you." Various messages have appeared since Monday night in place of the Lieberman Web site, including "There is no Web site configured at this address" and "This account has been suspended. Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible."
Posted by: Fred ||
08/09/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11130 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Is your IT department full of treason? Did you know the IT industry is full of full of moobats and leftoids that just love to do this "hacktivist" crap? Are you going to trust a Democrat Leftist with your companies or agencies data and online presence? Better think about his very well.
#2
Oh, the old plausible deniability claim. Wuldn't us, but we just kowtow to the DU/Daily Kos Kiddies to (wink, wink) "Take Joe down." But, hey, in the end, if Karl Rove hadn't come up with these tactics, none of this woulda happened. Yeesh!
Posted by: BA ||
08/09/2006 9:31 Comments ||
Top||
#3
In 2000, the moonbats accused the Bush campaign of conspiring to suppress the vote for Gore-Lieberman.
In 2006, the moonbats (well, at least one of 'em!) disrupt their political opponent Joe Lieberman's IT services, thereby interfering with his election day GOTV effort and suppressing his vote.
Irony readings are off the scale.
Posted by: Mike ||
08/09/2006 13:48 Comments ||
Top||
A 40-foot log used by protesters to block access to the Mike's Gulch timber salvage sale in a roadless area of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest Tuesday morning was cut from a nearby botanical area, according to forest officials.
The butt of the green Douglas fir tree, about 12 inches in diameter, matched the stump of a recently cut tree at the Days Gulch botanical area, officials said. "You don't need to be a detective to see where it came from," said Tom Lavagnino, forest information officer at the site. "You can see the fresh sawdust, and where they dragged it 500 to 800 feet to the bridge.
"But the issue is finding the person who cut it," he added. "There is no doubt they used it for blockage."
Activist Laurel Sutherlin, 29, a member of the Oxygen Collective environmental group, was strapped to a platform hanging from one end of the log over the shallow river some 50 feet below.
"There is an active investigation to determine who cut the tree," said forest spokeswoman Patty Burel. "Laurel Sutherlin may have been in possession of it since he was hanging from the log."
Sutherlin could not be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon. Illinois Valley resident Annette Rasch, a longtime environmental activist who was at the protest, discounted the issue. She said she did not know where the log came from.
(IsraelNN.com) Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who recently appeared at a pro-Israel rally, has apologized to Muslim leaders. He explained to them he did not attend Muslim peace rallies because of a lack of communication in his office. The mayor initiated a meeting with 10 Muslim leaders who were angry with him. The mayor attended a pro-Israel July 23, several days after Israel retaliated to Hizbullah terrorist attacks on the Galilee.
Posted by: Fred ||
08/09/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11132 views]
Top|| File under:
#3
Wait a minute, if they're so peaceful and want peace rallies, how can they be ANGRY at the Mayor? Oh, that's right, I'ma thinkin' logically. One has to wonder when a Hispanic on Muslim or Black on Muslim "race" riot will break out, as they're all competing for the "minority of the year" status.
Posted by: BA ||
08/09/2006 9:35 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Viva La RazaCaliphate!
Posted by: Antonio Villaraigosa ||
08/09/2006 12:50 Comments ||
Top||
Scientists and villagers in the shadow of a churning volcano in the central Philippines fear today's full moon could finally spark a violent eruption. Volcanologists have warned that Mount Mayon, in the province of Albay, could explode at any time but that the gravitational pull of a full moon could provide the final push. "To put it in a simple way, it's like it massages a volcano," Ernesto Corpuz, head of monitoring and eruption prediction at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, told Reuters.
A full moon coincided with at least three of Mayon's nearly 50 explosions over the last four centuries, including the two most recent in 2000 and 2001, Corpuz said.
Nearly 40,000 people have been moved from an 8-km (5-mile) danger zone on the southeast flank of the volcano, which has been quaking and spitting plumes of ash since July, a member of the provincial disaster council said. But some have not yet left their livestock and vegetable plots despite an encroaching four-storey wall of scalding lava that has streamed more than 6 km from Mayon's crater.
The military said communist rebels in the area had been taking advantage of the situation to stage hit-and-run attacks on army units involved in the evacuation. Five soldiers were wounded in a shoot-out near the volcano late yesterday. "It's the highest form of treachery because we are providing assistance to our countrymen yet the rebels were attacking us," Lieutenant-Colonel Bartolome Bacarro told reporters.
Filipino and foreign tourists meanwhile have flocked to the city of Legazpi to watch nature's fire show. "This is one of the great wonders of the world. I want to show my kids what Mayon volcano is," said Eve Talavera, a Filipino immigrant to the United States, as she and her five children watched from a hill.
The 2,462-metre (8,077-foot) mountain is the most active of 22 volcanoes in the Philippines. Its most destructive eruption in 1841 buried a town and killed 1,200 people.
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 man who said he worshipped Satan and enjoyed killing three people, stabbing and beating them and stomping on them with steel-toed boots, was executed Tuesday. 
THE McCARTNEY divorce is going to be the most bitter high-profile split since Charles and DianaÂ’s ten years ago. Heather Mills, dubbed Lady Mucca after The Sun exposed her porno past, has hired the same lawyers used by the late Princess as she battles Macca for his millions.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian man died Tuesday when he tried to open what police believe was a rocket-propelled grenade with a sledgehammer in a mechanical workshop on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. 
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Twenty-one penguins were rescued on a hot east Texas highway Tuesday after a truck carrying the wildlife to a temporary home south of Houston overturned, said a state trooper. 
Six years after Democrats backed him for vice president, Sen. 
(CNN) -- Officials with U.S. Sen. 
(IsraelNN.com) Los Angeles Mayor 
Scientists and villagers in the shadow of a churning volcano in the central Philippines fear today's full moon could finally spark a violent eruption. Volcanologists have warned that Mount Mayon, in the province of Albay, could explode at any time but that the gravitational pull of a full moon could provide the final push. "To put it in a simple way, it's like it massages a volcano," Ernesto Corpuz, head of monitoring and eruption prediction at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, told Reuters.
