TORONTO (Reuters) - A Toronto-area man, already serving a four-year sentence for plotting to kill his ex-wife to get out of paying child and spousal support, is now using his incarceration as an excuse to avoid the payments. Ronald Schulz pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiracy to commit murder, admitting he hired a hitman to break his ex-wife's neck. The "hitman" was in fact an undercover police officer, and Schulz ended up in prison.
In court this week, however, Schulz argued he still can't pay for support due to his incarceration, an argument that his ex-wife's lawyer called the ultimate in audacity.
"Chutzpah is the expression," said Marvin Kurz, who is representing the intended victim Sheryl Janssen. "It's like the child who kills the parents and then throws himself at the mercy of the court because he's an orphan... that's really what he did," he told Reuters Tuesday. It gets even MORE idiotic at the link
#3
Yup thats our friendly (were not redneks) upstate attitude. Appease and maybe they won't hurt you. Believe me, I'm locking my doors and I live 30 miles away.
Hopefully they will teach some mountain living and then they can go live in Ashville with the hippies.
..."Just because someone is homeless, doesn't mean they don't need a gun--quite the contrary," Whippit continued. "That's what Arm the Homeless is all about--making sure any American who wants a gun has one, whether they can afford it or not."
On March 25, Whippit and five other Valley gun activists calling themselves Arm the Homeless distributed free, legal firearms to 76 homeless men and women during a three-hour giveaway on the Salt River bed.
The action--technically a series of transfers between private citizens--was completely legal under Arizona's loose gun laws (Arm the Homeless required all firearm recipients to sign a form stating they are not convicted felons).
Appropriately, most of the weaponry--which included eight .357 magnum revolvers, at least five .38s, two .44s, dozens of 9mm, .45, .25 and .380 caliber semiautomatic pistols, a few Luger .22s, and high-capacity arms such as the Mac-10, seven Tec-9s, and one SKS assault rifle--was kept on-site in a shopping cart, from which the homeless literally chose their weapon...
Okay, so it was an April Fools' Day story. It was still a good one.
lol, I saw Gainsville and thought of Gainsville, GA. It was actually Gainsville, FL. Wonder what all those Gator students thought about this? Of course, they probably joined in for the free music, lol!
Like the AJC (Atlanta Journal-Constipation)'s story a year or so ago. No lie, front page they had a huge picture of some homeless get together at Woodruff Park (downtown, literally a block or two from my work). Funny thing was, several of the "homeless" in line for free food were dressed like business-men and one was even gabbing on his cell phone when the AJC snapped the photo. Showing that it's not as bad as the LLL portrays it.
I personally favor Atlanta's attitude, though, when the Olympics were coming. Rounded up all the homeless, gave them like $50 and FREE one-way bus pass to either Miami or New Orleans. I'm sure neither or those cities have ever forgiven "da ATL" for that move, lol!
Posted by: BA ||
11/09/2006 20:27 Comments ||
Top||
#11
lol BA i saw g'ville and thought greenville SC. last month there were giving free bus tickets to homeless to travel to greenville. I guess affirmative action warrants the shipping in homeless to meet the quota.
#6
I'm amazed that this article neglected to mention how the ambulance driver lost control of his vehicle due to a prolonged fit of hysterical laughter.
#8
Not eligible for a Darwin award, since he survived. Might be able to pick up an honorary mention, though, if he burned his balls off and can't reproduce.
Posted by: Weird Al ||
11/09/2006 19:10 Comments ||
Top||
#9
No gorb , he said "Hey, hold my beer and watch this!"
#12
I would like to bring attention to the link that Thoth found. VIDEO OF THE INCIDENT: IT IS HERE!
Many thanks!
(Poor quality, which makes it even funnier!)
Sunderland man injured after launching firework from bottom
LONDON (AFP) - A man was rushed to hospital in Britain with severe internal injuries after trying to launch a powerful firework from his bottom, an ambulance service spokesman said.
It is thought that the 22-year-old could have been trying to imitate a scene from "Jackass: The Movie", a controversial film featuring a series of edgy pranks. Footage of the incident in Sunderland, north-east England, was captured on a mobile phone by a gang of youths and shows a white flash followed by hysterical laughter and a youth shouting: "Ha ha ha ha," followed by an expletive.
A spokesman for the North East ambulance service said: "We received a call stating there was a male who had a firework in his bottom and it was bleeding." He is now recovering in a Sunderland hospital after sustaining internal injuries including a scorched colon.
The incident took place on November 5, when Britons light bonfires and let off fireworks to commemorate a 17th century plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
#8
Flying monkeys? where are the flying monkeys? i thought they came with the bottle rocket as part of the kit??? (maybe they are still in there looking for a way out? or their car keys, to paraphrase an old joke)
#12
If someone can figure out how to capture and post this (link requires free registration otherwise), here's an even better one of a teenaged fool doing the same here in the good ol' USA.
This kid probably didn't need a colostomy bag afterwards, but I'm sure he got some nice scrotal scars!
Posted by: Dar ||
11/09/2006 18:15 Comments ||
Top||
#14
That was no bottle rocket. That's what we call a skyrocket were I come from. They're only about 100x more powerful than a standard bottle rocket. And it's hard to tell from the video, but it looked to me like the idiot had the thing in his ass backward. It might have been less damaging to shoot it OUT of his ass and not INTO his ass!!!!
#7
Mon Dieu! This guy is hilarious. He told Wired magazine that Americans may one day see the Mahir Cagri story on film. "I'm trying to find U.S.A. publisher and I hope I can receive good offer from Hollywood and play my own life and share with my fans, Julia Roberts, Spielberg, David Bowie, or others, this movie."
Posted by: ed ||
11/09/2006 12:30 Comments ||
Top||
Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R), who came up just short yesterday in his Senate race against Rep. Ben Cardin (D), is mulling a bid for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, according to an informed GOP source.
Steele would not challenge current RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, but chatter among Republican insiders is that Mehlman has made clear for months that he might not return to his current post. "Chairman Mehlman will be making an announcement regarding his future at the RNC in the coming weeks," said RNC communication director Brian Jones.
Mehlman has made outreach to the African American community a priority during his time as head of the party, and Steele would be seen as a logical successor to that effort.
Steele is smart and charismatic. Can he crack heads at the RNC and get them ready for 2008?
Posted by: Steve White ||
11/09/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
I'll push for him from where I live.
He is articulate, humorous, and most of all, unapologetically CONSERVATIVE.
Perfect guy for "the face of the Republican Party".
Mehlman is going to join Rove on Guiliani's 08 campaign staff.
As to Steele, wonder if the fact that his highest office has been Lt.Gov. will be a problem. And can he raise money? Dirty business but someone has to do it and do it well. We sure don't want Liddy Dole near the fundraisers ever again.
Posted by: Steve White ||
11/09/2006 0:19 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Prior to running with Ehrlich in the last election, I believe he was Maryland GOP chairman.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2006 7:57 Comments ||
Top||
#8
well some may get pissed off but as I heard it directly...
Pitiful. Cant get one of our own that has the values we have for families, etc. Those vote democrat no matter what blacks are the real house ni***rs, dancing to the tune of the white people in charge and too damn timid to even walk away or even say a peep about they way they have used black people while collecting their votes. Blacks people in MD and elsewhere just keep staying on the plantation, and supping whatever scraps the masta' sends em.
Democrat Jon Tester declared victory over Republican Sen. Conrad Burns in Montana on Wednesday in a close contest, but the incumbent declined to concede in a race crucial to control of the U.S. Senate. "We won this thing," Tester, the state senate president and organic farmer, told a Great Falls news conference.
U.S. media called the election for Tester even as some results continued to be tallied after a night of uncertainty. "Jon Tester ran a good race and has the lead right now, but it is extremely close," Burns said in a statement. "There are still votes out there that deserve to be counted. I believe we need to continue to let that process play itself out and there is no need to rush to a conclusion when the votes are this close."
A Democratic win in Montana would give the party 50 seats in the 100-seat U.S. Senate, with the only undecided contest in Virginia. "It's over," Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who campaigned for Tester, said by telephone. Burns is "no longer a U.S. senator come January."
Incumbent Burns, first elected in 1988, was tainted by links to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his campaign was marred by several gaffes. Montanans have traditionally voted Republican. Updated unofficial results from the Montana secretary of state's office said Tester won 176,857 votes, compared to 175,059 for Burns. A recount would be allowed if the margin of victory in the official Montana tally is 0.5 percent or less of votes cast -- a possibility given the tight contest.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
What about wid Ole' VIRGINIA > by what I am reading on the Net, the State of VA does NOT allow voters to keep a record of their votes vv electronic voting machines, so how can electron machine users be certain of their vote???
#3
I agree with Bigjim. If this were Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, or Pennsylvania, with the known widespread Demonrat cheating in Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, or Philly, it would be a different matter, and I would call for state and federal investigations.
But as it is, I think that Abramoff got tied to Burns' tail and people in Montana, unlike, say, Loozhyana, don't want crooks in office.
#5
whoa, whoa, whoa! While I agree that it makes sense not to scream stolen election and do so for the next eight years, I do think the biggest and most issue that we need to resolve over the next four years is to reestablish a trustworthy voting system. It will benefit both Republicans and Democrats and as Americans is probably the only bipartisan issue we can agree on.
We need a system that assures citizen votes are counted and that the people's voices are heard. That means you have to show proof that you are a citizen, voter rolls are cleaned, those who register frauds are sent to jail, and especially that the votes can be recounted when questions are asked.
It is outrageous that Diebold software was created by a copy with ties to Chavez and that there is zero way to establish fraud. We need outrage on this!!
This race may be the perfect poster child to get this issue done, since the Kos Kiddies also want this.
Don't let them scare you off with cries of sour grapes. I believe vote fraud is a grave threat to our democracy. With the way things are going now we are one step shy of third world status.
Exactly. Let the Dems make fools of themselves for the next two years. Conservatives, get back to your core values--- to your heart and soul. The election was not a repudiation of Conservatism, but a repudation of folks who say one thing, then do another. If they finally do what's right, like reign in spending, secure the border, clean up corruption, stop ear-marking, etc, 2008 could shape up as a conservative landslide. If not, it'll be another 50/50 wishy-washy deadlock, or worse.
No one is saying that voter fraud isn't a problem. Hell, I live in C(r)ook County, IL, home of Vote Early, Vote Often.
However, when you consider this election, you just knew that the GOP was cruisin' for a bruisin' for quite sometime.
Look at the losses:
1. Allen - VA: One of the stupidest campaigns ever run, and this man had pretensions of being presidential timber? And what American has the word "macaca" in his vocabulary?
2. Burns - MT: Jack Abramoff. 'Nuff said.
3. Chaffee - RI: Widely acknowledged to be one of the dimmest wits in the Senate (and that's saying something), who only occupied the seat because Daddy did.
4. DeWine - OH: State-wide scandal
Fill in losses and reasons accordingly, but notice (just as mcsegeek did), policy issues aren't exactly at the top of the list.
Start recruiting candidates who aren't prowling for pages, bribes or places to spend father's trust fund, return to solid small-government principles, and send Denny Hastert on a fact-finding mission to Kazhakstan to find the real Borat (with a one-way ticket), and this thing can easily right itself.
#10
I love machaca burritos - perhaps he meant the reporter looked like scrambled eggs, shredded beef, onions, spices, salsa in a flour tortilla ?
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/09/2006 18:23 Comments ||
Top||
#11
One of the few things I like about Repubs is that they don't reelect people like Murtha (ABSCAM) and Reid (eminent domain for personal profit) is that they don't reelect them.
PAKISTANI authorities found chickens, not children, when they went to inspect a state-run primary school after a tip-off the establishment was being used to produce poultry. So-called ghost schools where people pocket government funds for education but use the schools for their own purposes are a common problem in Pakistan.
"Chickens, television sets, video recorders, playing cards and breeding cages were found in what were supposed to be classrooms but no students," Kanwar Naved, the mayor of the city of Hyderabad said today. "According to education department records, the school had 59 students and two teachers," he said. Some workers detained in today's raid near Hyderabad said the school had been used as a poultry farm for the past 12 years, he said.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under:
MALAYSIA'S internal security ministry has temporarily shut down a weekend newspaper after it caused an outroar with an eye-popping survey of attitudes to sex. The Internal Security Ministry suspended the Weekend Mail's publishing licence, a ministry source said today, after the survey brought howls of protest from Government ministers. The newspaper, part of a stable of pro-government publications, rated the popularity of sex positions among young Malaysians in last weekend's unusually frank survey, including "spooning and galloping", under the headline "You'll be shocked".
Asked when the suspension would be lifted, the source said: "Depending on the Weekend Mail. Maybe they want to appeal to us or whatever. We'll see the reaction after this." The Weekend Mail's daily sister paper, the Malay Mail, in a statement on its website, was also unclear as to when the suspension would be lifted. It and its publisher, the New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Bhd, have apologised publicly for the sex survey
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under:
The editor of Philadelphia's largest newspaper will step down at the end of the year as the company's new owners seek contract concessions, including deep newsroom cuts, in response to falling circulation and advertising revenue. Philadelphia Inquirer editor Amanda Bennett will be replaced by Bill Marimow, a former Baltimore Sun editor and Inquirer city editor who is now ombudsman at National Public Radio, the paper announced Wednesday.
Which will leave the Inquirer a predictably liberal paper with no flavor except for a slightly bitter aftertaste.
"Bill's background and unique set of skills made him the perfect individual to lead the Inquirer into its next great era of journalism," Brian Tierney, chairman and chief executive of Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC, the paper's owner, said in a statement.
Bennett came to the Inquirer, then owned by Knight-Ridder Inc., as editor in June 2003. The paper's first female editor, she previously was editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky and was a longtime reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Asked by staffers how long she intended to stay, Bennett, 53, said at the time of her hiring that she intended to retire from the Inquirer. "Bill Marimow is a fine journalist, and an old friend. The paper is in good hands," Bennett said in a statement.
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.
Man hopes jail means no support payments
PAKISTANI authorities found chickens, not children, when they went to inspect a state-run primary school after a tip-off the establishment was being used to produce poultry. So-called ghost schools where people pocket government funds for education but use the schools for their own purposes are a common problem in Pakistan.
MALAYSIA'S internal security ministry has temporarily shut down a weekend newspaper after it caused an outroar with an eye-popping survey of attitudes to sex. The Internal Security Ministry suspended the Weekend Mail's publishing licence, a ministry source said today, after the survey brought howls of protest from Government ministers. The newspaper, part of a stable of pro-government publications, rated the popularity of sex positions among young Malaysians in last weekend's unusually frank survey, including "spooning and galloping", under the headline "You'll be shocked".
The editor of Philadelphia's largest newspaper will step down at the end of the year as the company's new owners seek contract concessions, including deep newsroom cuts, in response to falling circulation and advertising revenue. Philadelphia Inquirer editor Amanda Bennett will be replaced by Bill Marimow, a former Baltimore Sun editor and Inquirer city editor who is now ombudsman at National Public Radio, the paper announced Wednesday.
