DALLAS- A little candy can add up to a rainbow of trouble. A man caught removing tires from a truck has been charged with stealing the tractor-trailer containing $250,000 worth of Skittles, police said. Seven pallets of the 28 in the truck are still missing, authorities said. Alan Chavez, 22, has been charged with first-degree felony theft. It was unclear Monday whether he had a lawyer. Chavez said he had paid someone else $500 for the truck's rims and tires, police said. The truck has an estimated value of $85,000, and the trailer's value is $30,000.
A grandmother who went to the hospital with a headache was found to have a bullet in her head, believed to have been lodged there for the past 64 years. Jin Guangying, 77, of China went to Shuyang Leniency Hospital for an x-ray to get to the bottom of her pain.
"We were surprised to learn there was a bullet inside her head," her son, Wang Zhengbang, told the Yangtse Evening Post.
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Myself and other Posters on FREEREPUBLIC, etc, have doubts about her story - the angle of bullet entry as depicted on her alleged X-ray is inconsistent wid her reported version of the WW2 incident. MAY BE, HOWEVER, THAT SHE JUST DIDN'T GIVE = DOES NOT REMEMBER ALL THE SPECIFIC DETAILS.
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American nudism could be falling to the same pressures as have fuelled the culture wars of the last decade. As social conservatives have been in the ascendant, public nudity has been seen as morally corrupt.
So thoughtful of the Grauniad to 'splain to the Eurosophisticates that the only reason nudism hasn't caught on here is because we are having one of our frequent bouts of witch-hunting Puritanism. Otherwise they might suspect that it was because of the massive inconvenience for no practical benefit, or the general desire to not look like a member of a cult of screwballs, or even just plain old consideration for others.
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwaiti opposition MPs on Monday blasted Oil Minister Sheikh Ali Jarrah al-Sabah, a member of the ruling family, over controversial statements on a graft case and called for his resignation. You have to submit your resignation today because what you said has humiliated the Kuwaiti people, liberal MP Abdullah al-Roumi said during a special session called by MPs to debate corruption cases.
Sheikh Ali was quoted by Al Qabas newspaper as saying on Saturday that he considers former oil minister Sheikh Ali Khalifa al-Sabah, a defendant in a major graft case, as my master and that I consult him occasionally on oil issues. Sheikh Ali Al Khalifa is one of five former top officials of the state-owned Kuwait Oil Tanker Co (KOTC) accused of stealing more than 100 million dollars.
Outspoken opposition MP Mussallam Al Barrak charged that millions of dollars were transferred about 15 years ago into bank accounts held by Sheikh Ali Al Khalifa from former KOTC chairman Abdulfattah al-Bader who has fled Kuwait. The former oil minister has categorically denied any wrongdoing and has never been convicted although the other four accused were convicted of stealing public funds. Barrak called on the oil minister to withdraw his statements and apologise in public.
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However, that has not stopped the regional transport authority building a £20 million reconstruction of Thomas Cook's 19th-century funicular railway, starting at Herculaneum and snaking up to the [Vesuvius] summit. And the source of funds for this foolhardy project which, it is reported, is now largely under the grip of the mafia? Ah! The European Union.
Coalition against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) in Canada launches campaign to boycott bookstores owned by Jewish billionaire who supports lone Israeli soldiers. CAIA in Canada last week launched a boycott of Chapter and Indigo bookstores, which are owned by billionaire Gerry Schwartz and his wife Heather Reisman. Chapter and Indigo owe up to 250 stores across Canada.
Palestinian as well Canadian members of the CAIA rioted last week outside an Indigo bookstore where Reisman attended a book signing ceremony.
I hope our Canadian Rantburgers will make a point of picking up a paperback or a newspaper at their nearby Chapter or Indigo bookstore in solidarity, or at their website.
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Yeah, because Israel is an Apartheid and Racist State, lost in a sea of democratic, tolerant, open, multicultural and diversity-friendly, peaceful arab neighboring countries, so it makes perfect sense. Bad, bad, bad joooos.
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I resent this boycott of Indigo/Chapters because it may force me to purchase product from a chain I am already boycotting (for a variety of reasons... still, I can always visit and make sure the Bibles are higher on the shelf than the Nekoranomicons).
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Well, I live in Montreal and there are several Chapters-Indigo locations here. There are basically no other major booksellers in the area so it's a virtual monopoly. I buy from Amazon.ca because Chapters-Indigo include Norman Finklestein's book "The Holocaust Industry" in the Jewish books section along with actual histories of the Holocaust and other topics on Jewish history and culture.
...Nick is now one of the first fatalities believed to be linked to cheese. Cheap, addictive and often deadly, the new drug has spread virulently in the Dallas area.
Since 2005, the year of the first confirmed cheese death, an estimated 21 people have died from the drug. Most of them were young, white or Hispanic males. Cheese arrests among students in the Dallas Independent School District jumped from 90 in the 2005-2006 school year to 145 so far in 2006-2007.
The drug's surge in Dallas bucks the national trend in heroin consumption, which declined from 94,000 users age 12 to 17 in 2002 to 60,000 in 2005, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Now the Drug Enforcement Administration is worried that cheese will spread to other parts of the country. The agency is investigating a few possible cases, including one in California.
Cheese is made by grinding up cold medication and mixing it with black-tar heroin, which is typically smuggled in by Mexican drug cartels. A $30 purchase of heroin can yield 40 to 50 cheese hits, each costing about $2more affordable for users and more profitable for mixers.
The drug, which is snorted, derives its name from a supposedly Parmesan-like appearance, though in reality, it looks more like coarse sand. Because the amount of heroin in cheese is sometimes smallas little as 3 percentthe drug rarely shows up in field tests. But the heroin quantity can be inconsistent. "Kids will be scoring 3 percent and all of a sudden, they get 9 or 10 percent, and you are dead," says James Capra, Special Agent in charge of the DEA's Dallas field division...
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"Looks like coarse sand" - wel-l-l, iff 'twas the ones shown on FOX + CNN's, looks like dirty or muddy = dark brown, or brown wid black spots, sand to me. KIDS THAT PUT LEECHES IN THEIR MOUTHS, ALA CARTOON CHANNEL, ARE IN DIRE NEED OF CLUBS, SPORTS, JROTC, ARCADES AND FRIDAY NITES, ETC.
For love or money? That is the question as Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fisher are planning a romantic rendezvous for tomorrow night.
Fresh from the pen and soon to be single, Buttafuoco will wine and dine Long Island Lolita Amy Fisher over a candlelit dinner at a restaurant overlooking Central Park, The Post has learned.
The pair - whose yearlong affair ended in 1992, when Fisher shot Buttafuoco's then-wife, Mary Jo - plan to meet a couple of times during the week in an effort that TV producer David Krieff hopes will rekindle old feelings. And attract interest in a reality show.
Krieff, who will film the courtship, said Joey will come bearing flowers and a gift.
"If Mary Jo and Amy can be friends, then why can't Joey and Amy be lovers?" he asked.
But Buttafuoco said he has his own agenda - and wants to apologize for his on-camera blowup during their televised reunion last year.
"I need to be able to meet her, to be able to go on," he said. "And if it takes a turn to something else, well, there I am. You never know."
According to Krieff, Buttafuoco has been head over heels about the planned hookup.
He said Joey told him: "I still have feelings for her. I can't wait to have dinner with her. I can't wait to be with her. I can't wait to touch her."
Buttafuoco, citing the off-again, on-again Hollywood romance of Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett, said kissing and making up might not be so far-fetched.
"God bless them. Maybe I can be like them. If things can happen for them . . ." he said.
Krieff said he arranged the date because Buttafuoco is still hung up on his old squeeze.
"Joey's traveling 3,000 miles," Krieff said. "He still has feelings for her."
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Thought this pairs 15 minutes were up long ago.
Hey news people, aren't we fighting a war? Didn't something important happen like Mullah Dadullah buying the farm, and Al Qaeda being chased out of Al Anbar?
Naaah, those thigns dont fite your agend of "USA/Bush Losing", and this sells more detergent ads.
More America's Military goes to war and America goes to the the mall.
Anybody looking forward to a reality show featuring these pathetic, sorry loser's might best do themselves a favor and shoot themselves in the friggin head.
And I wonder if TV producer David Krieff feels the need to shower about every thirty seconds?
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I'ma hoping that restaurant's food has botulism issues.
And we've got a hot contender for Rantburg's Snark of the Week Award.
It's nice to note that I am not alone in viewing this abortion of entertainment as yet one more searing indictment of America's ever-diminishing attention span. Let's take a quick inventory; A philandering rectal cavity and murderous adultress. This sort of moral vacuum could pump down a deep-space simulation chamber. Both of these worthless shits should have gone over the event horizon of being newsworthy within seconds of their debut. Here's hoping that this travesty by producer David Krieff winds up looking like "Ishtar" on his resume.
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Yet another reason not to watch TV (except for HGTV and the Food Network).
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Hmm. Must be a slow day in Iraq or something. Can't even make up stories about innocent civilians or something? How's the search going? Any schools built lately? Ahh, too boring. No blood. Silly me.
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.
DALLAS- A little candy can add up to a rainbow of trouble. A man caught removing tires from a truck has been charged with stealing the tractor-trailer containing $250,000 worth of Skittles, police said. Seven pallets of the 28 in the truck are still missing, authorities said. Alan Chavez, 22, has been charged with first-degree felony theft. It was unclear Monday whether he had a lawyer. Chavez said he had paid someone else $500 for the truck's rims and tires, police said. The truck has an estimated value of $85,000, and the trailer's value is $30,000.
Coalition against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) in Canada launches campaign to boycott bookstores owned by Jewish billionaire who supports lone Israeli soldiers. CAIA in Canada last week launched a boycott of Chapter and Indigo bookstores, which are owned by billionaire Gerry Schwartz and his wife Heather Reisman. Chapter and Indigo owe up to 250 stores across Canada.
