OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian hitchhiker, who stole an elderly man's car after he offered her a ride, died a few minutes later when she lost control of the vehicle and crashed into trees, police said.
The crash happened near the town of Hawkesbury -- about 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Ottawa -- after the man stopped to pick up 20-year-old Mandy Deschambeault.
"The male driver proceeded to step out of his vehicle momentarily at which point the female jumped in the driver seat, stealing the male person's car," local police said in a statement Monday.
"She proceeded to lose control of the ... car, crossing the other lane hitting trees. The female was ejected from the vehicle and found to be without vital signs."
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Come on, folks. Let's have a little sympathy here. Imagine the pure physical agony experienced by that poor guy as he had to walk all the way back into town!
Paris Hilton is "emotionally distraught and traumatized" over her 45-day jail sentence and is not capable of testifying in a civil lawsuit against her, the socialite-reality TV star's psychiatrist said.
Dr. Charles Sophy has been seeing Hilton, 26, for the past eight months and has talked with her several times since her May 4 hearing for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case, according to court papers.
Sophy said Hilton needs time to recover from the shock of receiving jail time before testifying in a civil case brought against her by actress and diamond heiress Zeta Graff.
Messages left with Hilton's spokesman and lawyer were not immediately returned early Tuesday.
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"The Simple Life.. Doing Hard Time"
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The Shawskank Redemption
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
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Muzzy justice: I had an acquaintance who, while in Aceh Province, Indonesia, took up with a "hostess" who worked at a bar he frequented. The two of them were in a taxi headed for a hotel when they were stopped by an Indo cop car. The Indo cops told said acquaintance to clear out and sent him off with the taxi driver.
The next trip down there, he went down to the same bar to check on the young woman. She said that after he and the taxi driver drove away, the Indo cops took her to a secluded area and slapped her around some. They then tied her arms around a tree and repeatedly raped and sodomized her. She said she knew if she resisted they would have killed her without a second thought. When they were finished, they cut her bonds and told her to walk home--and not to do immoral things with foreigners any more.
If Paris Hilton is unhappy with the U.S. legal system, she'd be a lot less happy with the muzzy one.
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I'm traumatized by her every time she opens her stupid mouth.
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Wait a minute Paris, I might be able to work up some concern. May have to wait longer. Aw forget it--I just don't think it's going to happen. How about, I reconsider the concern issue after you serve your 45 days you spoiled over-indulged little twit.
A 17-year-old employee of an Ottawa, Ill., McDonald's is out of work and facing drug charges after allegedly hiding marijuana and a lighter in the Happy Meal.
Keith Irelan and his three children went through a McDonald's drive-thru Monday night to order Happy Meals. They were on their way to meet their mother at a nearby school for a picnic, police said. But one of the children — an 8-year-old girl — got a lighter, pipe, and bag of marijuana in her Happy Meal, according to Ottawa Police Chief Brian Zeilmann. Her father went to the police.
"To be honest, you don't expect that," Irelan told FOX Chicago affiliate WFLD-TV. "She said 'Mom, I have a lighter in my Happy Meal,'" the girl's mother said.
The girl showed the lighter to her dad, then told him later that she got two other "toys" in her Happy Meal. One of those toys was a bag of marijuana. "She said 'What is this?'" Irelan said. "Right then and there, I knew what it was."
McDonald's employee Brandon Scott of Ottawa was fired on the spot, then arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. "Indications are the subject placed them in an empty box, intent on hiding the items," Zeilmann told WFLD-TV.
McDonald's owners cooperated with the investigation that led to the arrest, Zeilmann said. The store apologized, but the Irelan family said they still may sue, WFLD-TV reported. Like wow. Bummer, dude!
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Lucky kid--all I got was the crappy Ronald McDonald LSD stickers.
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Which goes to show... something. It wouldn't have occurred to me that a bag full of dried leaves was drugs, although no doubt the trailing daughters would have figured it out. They both take after Mr. Wife in some things.
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The store apologized, but the Irelan family said they still may sue, WFLD-TV reported.
Sue? What the hell for?????
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Like, wow, like I meant to hide that in my employee locker. Dang, I paid good money for that stuff. What? Sorry, my brain's a little slow lately. Dunno why . . .
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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"Nutter will be a prohibitive favorite in the November election, considering the Democrats' 5-1 registration advantage in the city and the fact that a Democrat has occupied the second floor of City Hall since 1952."
Plus all the dead people are Democrats. That helps on The Night Of The Voting Dead Election night, too...
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Nutter wins in Democratic primary
May I suggest a new Rantburg category - "Headlines From The Future".
Our planet is just five years away from climate change catastrophe - but can still be saved, according to a new report. What the fuc& does the WWF care about the planet?
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warns governments have until 2012 to "plant the seeds of change" and make positive moves to limit carbon emissions. Ahh, now I see what's going on here. I've been duped by morons!
If they fail to do so, the WWF's Vision For 2050 warns "generations to come will have to live with the compromises and hardships caused by their inability to act". We're already suffering those consequences it seems. Over half our congress has no brain, no spine, no direction, and no clue and it shows. I won't even talk about the EU.
"We have a small window of time in which we can plant the seeds of change, and that is the next five years," James Leape, from the WWF, said. It'll never happen. I'd better get out there and drive my mid-70's sports car like there was no tomorrow. Because there won't be.
"We cannot afford to waste them. This is not something that governments can put off until the future." My contribution will be to fart less often. You guys' contribution can be to stop breathing. Get to work, no time to waste!
Between now and 2050, the world's energy needs are expected to double. That's OK. The way things are going, all the new players will be running on nuclear energy.
But the Climate Solutions document says technologies already available could be harnessed to produce enough sustainable energy to power the planet while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60-80%. Ooh! A document!
The WWF report also states that nuclear power is not necessary to cut carbon emissions. Instead, there will be manna from heaven.
The finding is in stark contrast to the UK Government's insistence upon the need to go nuclear. What do those oafs know? They don't have The Document!
Keith Allott, head of WWF-UK's climate change programmes, said: "This report shows that although the scale of the climate change challenge can seem daunting, it can be tackled provided we act with real urgency. And money. Lots of money. Most of which will go into "research".
"We can slash carbon emissions and meet global energy demand without resorting to the red herring of nuclear power. All in the next five years of course.
"The big question is whether the world's statesmen will have the strength and vision to make this happen - and Britain will be key to that." Uh, yeah. And then Britain will single-handedly develop a Mars shuttle next year and head off to save Mars from the global warming it's experiencing, too. But don't worry, it's only experiencing 97% of the global warming us terrans are experiencing, so we have an additional 3.2 weeks to save it. Plenty of time.
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"We have a small window of time in which we can plant the seeds of change, and that is the next five years," James Leape, from the WWF, said.
Translation: We don't expect a leftist US government with Hillary as prez to last more than four years, so we have this tight time frame to wreck the US economy.
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Little do these self-important posers recognize that "the planet" has at various points in its history been a noxious molten rock and an ocean covered sea planet; its land mass has been dominated at various times by jungles, deserts and massive ice sheets and been through several extinction events which wiped out the overwhelming majority of species millions of years before anything vaguely man-like emerged. "The planet" will be fine whatever we do. It's bigger, older and much less sentimental than we are. Concern for human health and welfare is reasonable, even admirable, and we shouldnt destroy natural systems if we can avoid it, but that's because its bad for us, not "the planet". If we extincted ourselves and every plant and large animal in existence (which we probably can't, but anyway), new life would evolve from the cockroaches or bacteria or whatever the heck was left. The planet would be fine. We would have died off massively in some really awful ways, but Earth would soldier on without us.
I advocate perspective.
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I strongly believe that if someone like the Hildebeast does get into the White House our whole system of elections will radically change virtually overnight. There are already moves being made in the CA State Assembly to throw all this states' electoral college votes towards whoever wins the popular vote effectively canceling the electoral college system.
I wouldn't put it past the Hildebeast to assue near-dictatorial powers citing some kind of Constitutional crisis before the next election throws it out of office. They suggested doing this in the 2000 election debacle.
With that said, this group the WWF must be so new that DiscoverTheNetworks,org doesn't even have an entry on them yet.
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Should we start preparing like they did in "When Worlds Collide"?
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
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The World Wide Fund for Nature has been around for years. I assume it has been hijacked by enviro crazies as most of these organizations seem to have been.
BTW, the 'We have 5 years left' is code for we must have a Kyoto II when Kyoto I runs out in 2012.
Serious scientists know today that the global warming is provoked by the increase of the sun radiation, and that, after the year 2040, the sun radiation will decrease, leading to a decrease of the Earth temperature.
The proof is that the temperature on Mars is rising too, and at the same speed as it is on Earth.
Just look there:
"Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says"
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Iff recent, post-2000 low-orbit asteroid flybys are any measure, Global MSM > EARTH WILL BE SAVED BY PCORRECTLY PRETENDING ITS NOT IN DANGER, where the OWG cannot confirm = or deny ... it can = can NOT ... control = not control ... the asteroid = nuthin there.
MOTHER SHIPTON's "Dragon's Tail..." > to me looks more like a DRAGON/HORSE's HEAD, not a tail. ala FATIMA's THIRD SECRET + "WINGED HORSE/PEGASUS". You see what happens, Moriarty, when you feed hosses too much ambrosia!
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Breitbart.tv Exclusive: The confrontation over Cuba continues. Michael Moore has challenged Fred Thompson to a health care debate. At issue -- Moore's trip to Cuba and Thompson's criticism of that trip. Moore noted Thompson's evident favor for Cuban cigars as a possible violation of the trade embargo. Now, Thompson responds. Cigar in hand.
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Wasn't actor Alan Waters, aka HANG 'EM MCCOY on "LAW AND ORDER", considering entering politics, a short while back at roughly the same timeline as actor ALEC BALDIN began his current period of activism???
That being said, KOMMERSANT > DARK HORSE STUMBLES. Russia's persepective on Bloomberg's run for POTUS.
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Dominican Davidovs are better than anything out of Fidel Island.
Re Cuban health system: they quarantine AIDS victims. Much fewer diseases can be or are treated in Cuba than in the US. I had a CT-Scan for a kidney stone; how many Cubans would even have access to those devices? Swallows had a nest in a corner of a dental office where I was treated in Colima, Mexico. You probably find the same thing in Cuba.
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Glenn Reynolds had a poll on Instapundit last night asking his readers who won.
Fred Thompson got the highest numbers at 32%.
Heh.
(I didn't watch the "debate" but I'm pretty sure Fred Thompson wasn't even there. :-D)
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ex-lib, everytime I hear "The Soldier", I always get chills and a lump in my throat. The first time I heard it, was on a radio station in Boston. I contacted the station to get a copy; but no luck. I had been trying to find the author or the source. I was hoping to pin it up on my office wall. So far, I haven't had much luck.
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Of Thompson's acting, one pundit wrote that he can only play himself as an administrator of some kind. Not true. He did some sour comedy on "Rosanne," but he was excellent as a con-man on the "Wiseguy" series. Being an actor didn't hurt Ronald Reagan, or Arnold.
Alexander the Great had ''Mother Nature'' on his side when he conquered the island fortress of Tyre in 332 BC, says a study published today.
Tyre, in present day Lebanon, was then a strategic coastal base in the war between the Greeks and the Persians. Now archeologists have at last worked out how Alexander's engineers managed to build a causeway to enable his army to conquer what had become a bastion of resistance. All previous settlements on Alexander's journey from Macedonia had capitulated with little trouble.
The fact that Tyre was an island presented the Greek military commander with a serious headache: how was he to launch an effective attack?
Unable to storm the city, he had blockaded Tyre for seven months, but the defenders stood firm.
Archaeologists have known for some time that Alexander used the debris of the abandoned mainland city to build a causeway 3,000 yards long and up to 180 yards across. Once within reach of the city walls, he used siege engines to batter and finally breach the fortifications.
But building a causeway in deep water would have meant raising the level of the sea floor considerably - an impossible feat in such a short space of time. However, researchers in France who analysed the coastal sediment record for the past 10,000 years have discovered how Alexander's engineers exploited a natural underwater "sandbridge".
The "sandbridges" are formed when sediment is deposited rapidly at a spot behind an island.
The findings, which are reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, show Alexander used "Mother Nature" to seize the island, said Dr Nick Marriner, of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Aix-en-provence, France.
"Of course today engineers have a whole suite of tools available to them in construction, including steel, high-strength concrete and so on," he told The Daily Telegraph. "This was simply not the case during the Iron Age and engineers exploited Tyre's natural environment to serve as the foundations for the sea bridge.
"The causeway would have been built of timber - for which Phoenicia was renowned throughout the ancient world - stone and rubble." The team was able to work out how Tyre was first formed as an island, when sea levels rose around 8,000 years ago. After 6,000 BC, a slowing down of the rises in sea-level and the dissipation of wave energy by Tyre led to the natural growth of a spit of sediment linking the island to the coastline.
Over the centuries the causeway has silted up, transforming the island into an isthmus.
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So sea levels rose so dramatically that an island was formed yet civilization still arose from pre-history yet our modern, high-tech world is afraid catastrophe will befall us if they rise again due to Global Warming?
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I believe an ice age will bring the sea levels down, and could reduce the population to a level acceptable to the loon who thinks population should be reduced 85%.
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This ice age thing really leaves me cold.
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How to conquer Tyre: let the air out, of course.
[rim shot]
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Easy - hire Georgie Tyrebiter.
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"sea levels rose around 8,000 years ago"
Impossible! AlBore says that's never happened before!
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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NEW ICE AGE > IOW, where the Sun itself is narrowly or specifically concerned, to have a so-called "ice age" the SUN = SOLAR/GLOBAL SHINING. And, depending on the true magnitude of Solar luminosity, as seen from Earth, on the Earth, "ICE AGE" = SLUSH AGE???
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.
Hitchhiker steals car, then dies in crash 
A 17-year-old employee of an Ottawa, Ill., McDonald's is out of work and facing drug charges after allegedly hiding marijuana and a lighter in the Happy Meal.
Our planet is just five years away from climate change catastrophe - but can still be saved, according to a new report. 
