Follow-up. John Kass is the Tribune's page 2 columnist, the successor to Mike Royko. He's a down to earth journalist who earned his chops reporting on the Hall.
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For Marine's sendoff, his car is keyed
by John Kass
Marine Sgt. Michael McNulty -- now on his way to Iraq for his second tour of duty in the war -- took meticulous care of his car.
It is a black two-door BMW, an expensive ride for a young Marine from Chicago, but then, McNulty didn't exactly join up for the big paycheck and luxury vacations.
The 26-year-old McNulty was a trader at the exchange and enlisted in the Reserves after 9/11. He babied his car so much that he had military vanity plates along with a sticker in his window that let people know that a Marine or a Marine supporter drove that car.
But someone didn't like the Marine sticker, or the pro-military plates, and decided to stage an anti-war protest, with a key or hard piece of metal, on the shiny black finish of Sgt. McNulty's car that caused $2,400 in damage.
"It's a really nice car. It's in perfect condition. He keeps it meticulous. And he was going to sell it," said Sgt. McNulty's friend, Tom Sullivan, a college buddy from Loyola University.
The last time Sgt. McNulty was in Iraq, he worked a .50-caliber machine gun from a Humvee. Now that he's going back, he really doesn't need a shiny black BMW that shows dust.
"There wasn't a scratch on his car," Sullivan said.
But there is one now.
It is a big scratch, a particularly long scratch in that black paint, a scratch stretching from the rear driver's side around the back, across the trunk, then up to the passenger's side.
If you have a car, and parked it on the street, surely you've thought about what an angry key could do to it.
According to the Cook County state's attorney's office, it wasn't an accident, but a deliberate key job, not done by some kid or street thug, but by a Chicago lawyer who apparently can't stand the military.
Private attorney Jay R. Grodner, 55, of Chicago has been charged with a class A misdemeanor -- criminal damage to property -- punishable by up to one year in jail and up to a $2,500 fine, said Andy Conklin, spokesman for the state's attorney's office.
Late Wednesday, I reached Sgt. McNulty, who declined to comment for the paper but confirmed the facts in the police report.
And I wanted to get Grodner's side of it because he's been accused but not convicted of anything. So we called all the Grodner numbers we could find -- home and business -- including those on the police report and others in the suburbs and Chicago. Many were disconnected, and his cell phone voice mail was full.
I'd like to ask him two questions:
Why?
And, are you proud?
"McNulty was just coming to pick me up for breakfast, because he was going to training just before deployment," Sullivan said of that morning on Dec. 1 in Rogers Park.
There are several one-way streets near Sullivan's home, but McNulty missed the turn, and rather than drive two or three blocks around, he put the car in reverse and backed up a hundred or so feet. He pulled up in front of his friend's house, rang the bell and Sullivan came downstairs. McNulty then turned around and saw Grodner's hands on his black car.
"Mike says, 'Hey, what are you doing to my car? Open up your hand!'" Sullivan told us. "And [Grodner] goes, '[Blank] you! Just because you're in the military you don't run the roost!'"
There were allegedly many more epithets and cuss words, some allegedly applied to the United States Marine Corps, to the U.S. armed forces and to Sgt. McNulty himself.
"Quite frankly, you don't even look like a soldier. You're a small little [blank]," Grodner said according to Sullivan.
This last bit really bothers William McNulty, who is Sgt. McNulty's brother, and he called me.
"My brother should be commended for not just smashing that guy's windpipe right there for all the stuff he said about our military, and the insults," William McNulty said. "Instead, my brother called the police, as he should have."
According to the police report I read, other investigative accounts and interviews, Grodner was upset to have been accused of purposely scratching the car. So upset, that he accused his accusers of being anti-Semitic.
The Chicago police officer responding to the call didn't take the accusation seriously, according to the report, because he couldn't justify it. And Sgt. McNulty's brother and Sullivan say it is outrageous and nonsensical.
"The officer wasn't going to hear this kind of talk. He put the kibosh on the whole thing," Sullivan said. "So [Grodner] became apologetic."
According to the police report, "The offender denied scratching the victim's vehicle, but did admit to rubbing past it."
Rubbing past it? I guess it all depends on what the definition of "rubbing" is.
That's where it is now, awaiting another court date, set for Jan. 18, after Sgt. McNulty refused to back off and drop the charges in earlier court appearances.
Lawyers know how to drag things out, with continuance after continuance, stalling until complaining witnesses get tired and move on.
But Marines on their way to war don't seek continuances.
And all Sgt. McNulty wanted was a little respect, and the chance to sell that car of his, without a scratch.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A Florida man says he hit his sister in the head with an iron so he could release the demons that he said were inside of her.
Hmmm, sounds a little psychotic to me.
When Oswald Varemond's 80-year-old mother intervened and tried to stop him, he allegedly bit off her fingertip and started pulling his own teeth out, a police report said.
Definitely sounds psychotic.
On Sunday, police kicked down a bedroom door to find Varemond, 44, straddling his girlfriend, Yolette Lagrandeur, 33, a Haitian recording artist and AIDS activist, The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reported Tuesday. A Delray Beach police officer drew his gun and ordered Varemond to put his hands in the air, and officers tried to stun him three times with a Taser, only to have the device malfunction each time.
He was taken to the Palm Beach County Jail on charges of attempted homicide, battery, false imprisonment and resisting arrest with violence, the newspaper reported.
According to the police report, Varemond had asked his girlfriend and his mother, Anne Marie Saget, to pray with him. When they started to pray, Lagrandeur noticed Varemond "change," she told police. He locked the doors and jumped on Lagrandeur and started biting her on her back and beating her head with the iron.
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What kind of iron? 9? 7? 5? Or was he going for the long ball with a 3 or a 2? Tough to control those low irons. That's it...he lost control of his low iron. It happens. Usually not like this, but it happens.
The girls were 17 and 18, named Sarah and Amina, and police in the affluent Dallas suburb of Las Colinas say he killed them in his own cab and is still armed and considered dangerous. WFAA-TV in Dallas says that police believe they have him surrounded in a residential area of Lewisville, TV. Now, the details...
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I think it's just murder brought on by the spirit of the culture that falls naturally from their religion. After the perpetrators are caught they honestly think that they can gin up some kind of "It is because of my misunderstood religion" crap to slime their way out from under it.
And if it was so religious, why are they on the run? What religious obligation are they fulfilling by hiding? They should proud to just stand there and say "Sorry, it's what I had to do. Put me in jail if you have to."
But that might make the religion too unpalatable even for the likes of Edwards, so they'll have to save that behavior for when they think they have the upper hand.
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Finding an honor killing is like finding a roach in your cereal - yeah you can kill it for trespassing your breakfast but there are the 10 more lurking in the walls, waiting for the lights to go back off...when all you had to do to avoid the infestation is spend 5 minutes a night picking up the kitchen but now look, roaches in the house.
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I don't give a flying damn what they believe, but this behavior needs to be stamped down hard and fast.
The murderer is on the run and in hiding. He's getting help from a person or persons within his muzzie community. Those helping him need to be identified and charged with accessory to murder after the fact. Stamped down hard and fast.
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Irving Masjid is a major Shiite Mosque in the area where the killings took place. That area is extremely close to the DFW International airport. This rat may have made it out of the US (strictly my opinion only) since the area, the Mosque, and the large number of Muslims in Irving indicate the possiblity. From that hotel he could be at DFW Internations in only 15 minutes. His cab was in a taxi stand. Which in my opinion would mean that he drove there after the murders to catch another cab to DFW.
He shot each of his girls multiple times. That could not have happened without notice at a taxi stand at a major hotel.
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We in the West need to prosecute and punish the perpetrators of these heinous vengeance murders to the full extent of our laws. No application of Shariah law, no cop-out of political correctness, cultural or moral relativism.
This is our turf and we do not tolerate the murder of our sisters, daughters, wives, nieces -- ever.
Karen Tintori, author Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family
www.karentintori.com
George MacDonald Fraser, author of the "Flashman" series of historical adventure yarns, died Wednesday, his publisher said. He was 82.
Fraser died following a battle with cancer, said Nicholas Latimer, director of publicity for Knopf, which will release Fraser's latest work "The Reavers" in the United States in April. Latimer was unable to provide details of where Fraser died. He lived on the Isle of Man, off the coast of northwest England.
"Flashman," published in 1969, introduced readers to an enduring literary antihero: the roguish, irrepressible Harry Flashman.
The novel imagined Flashman the bullying schoolboy of 19th-century classic "Tom Brown's Schooldays" grown up to become a soldier in the British army. In the book and 11 sequels, Flashman fought, drank and womanized his way across the British Empire, Europe and the United States, playing a pivotal role in the century's great historical moments. A vain, cowardly rogue, Flashman nonetheless emerged from each episode covered in glory, rising to the rank of medal-garlanded brigadier-general.
Fraser thought his antihero's appeal was not surprising.
"People like rascals, they like rogues," Fraser told the British Broadcasting Corp. in 2006.
"I was always on the side of the villain when I was a child and went to the movies. I wanted Basil Rathbone to kill Errol Flynn."
The Flashman books were also praised by critics for their storytelling flair and attention to historical detail. Each installment of the series purported to come from a faux-biographical trove of memoirs The Flashman Papers discovered in an English attic in the 1960s.
Fraser proudly pointed out that a third of the first book's American reviewers believed the Flashman papers were real.
Some readers and critics found Flashman's 19th-century racism and sexism disturbing. But by the time the final Flashman book, "Flashman on the March," appeared in 2005, the critical tide had turned in Fraser's favor.
Fraser also had heavyweight literary supporters. Kingsley Amis called him "a marvelous reporter and a first-rate historical novelist," and P.G. Wodehouse was also a fan.
Born in Carlisle, northern England in 1925, Fraser served as an infantryman with the British Army in India and Burma during World War II, and in the Middle East after the war. He worked as a journalist in Britain and Canada for more than 20 years before turning to fiction.
Fraser was the author of screenplays including "The Three Musketeers" (1973), an adaptation of his novel "Royal Flash" (1975) and the James Bond movie "Octopussy" (1983).
Fraser also wrote several works of nonfiction, including a wartime memoir, "Quartered Safe Out Here," "Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border" and "The Hollywood History of the World."
His final book, "The Reavers," is a a historical romp featuring espionage and intrigue during the reign of Elizabeth I.
There was no immediate word of funeral arrangements or whether Fraser left any survivors. The Flashman novels are truly extraordinary in their level of historical accuracy, and are a must if you are a fan of the world of the 19th Century.
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Oh, damn... the Flashman books are terrifically good and terrifically funny. How many other comic/historical novels came with footnotes?
Now we shall never get the story behind Flashman's service in our Civil War - on both sides. (unless he was working on it, or left notes or something.)
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I am sincerely grieved to hear of Fraser's passing. I have read everything he ever wrote. I have always felt a deep spiritual kinship with Harry Flashman. Its almost as if we were brothers. I always regarded Harry as a very sensible man, my kind of guy. I always wanted Basil Rathbone to kill Errol Flynn too. Idealistic heroes are idiots. Rogering and taking the money and running is where its at. Always look for the main chance and have a fast horse. I will miss you Harry Flashman.
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I agree with Sgt Mom, in fact I was a bit put off by the last two simply because they weren't the Civil War novels and I think he gave short work to the battle of Roarkes Drift.
Of course on his side the number of experts, even amateur experts on the civil war is incredible and he'd probably have to do ten times the number of footnotes as usual.
I've never been a big fan of books finished from the authors notes and all but if that Civil War book is even started I'd hope some relative or something would pick up the mantel.
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George MacDonald Fraser was my favorite author. While I liked the Flashman novels, "Mr. American," the McAuslan series and "Quartered Safe Out Here" are extraordinarily good books. This is a very sad day.
On the other hand, anyone who has read the preface to "The McAuslan Omnibus" will know Fraser was pretty contemptuous of most of modern Britain anyway. Maybe his not living to see the UK subsumed in the EUSSR without even a vote was a blessing. I'm sure he thought Brown was a "wee shilpit nyaff."
Mr. Fraser, when you report in to 14th Army HQ, please render the 'Burg's best regards to "Uncle Bill."
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Oh, please, I have to decry your lack of comment about the best Dumas rendition ever! "The Three Musketeers" is the funniest, wittiest, and most accurate time-piece put to film.
#8
He was also a member of the British anti-metric society, along with J.K. Rowling. I've often wondered whether someone would do to her books what Fraser did to Tom Brown's Schooldays.
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Hillary Clinton says she let 300 of her staffers freeze to death! I thought she was was running as the candidate who cares.
We had 300 people outside, literally freezing to death, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton marveled on Tuesday before a crowd in Iowa City. (No deaths were reported, in fact.)
My, that's cold. (Groan!)
Update: From a reader:
The Clinton surge is Iowa has failed. Despite efforts to destroy the forces of Obama and Edwards, over 300 Clinton staffers have died as a result of her failed strategy. It is time for immediate withdrawal. After all, if it were not for the presence of Hillary Clinton in the state, there would be no Iowa Caucus at all. Clinton lied! 300 died!
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A rabid kitten set off public health alerts in four U.S. states last summer after it had been widely handled by players from several teams at a softball tournament, federal health officials said on Thursday. A total of 38 teams had players and family members who were exposed to the kitten. From these, 27 had been licked, bitten or scratched and needed post-exposure rabies shots. The kitten was later destroyed.
An elderly Cave Creek man has been mauled by a buffalo that he had saddled and was attempting to ride, authorities said Tuesday. Well John Wayne never did this...
The 75-year-old victim, who name was not immediately released, was airlifted to Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn for treatment of injuries that were not considered life-threatening, said John Kraetz, a district chief for Rural/Metro Fire Department. Warning, City Boy Comment Ahead
"He saddled up, got bucked off and was mauled," Kraetz said. silentshooter wrote:
I heard of people getting mauled by dogs, bears, tigers ect, but this has to be a first by a buffalo. I believe the man was trampled, not mauled.
The incident occurred about 5 p.m. Monday at a ranch near Spur Cross and Yucca roads, northwest of Cave Creek and School House roads, Kraetz said.
The man owns two buffalos that were kept on the property, he said. Tom what did you do for New Years besides drink?
It was not immediately clear whether the beasts or injured man have any connection to T.C. Thorstenson, a Cave Creek buffalo wrangler.
When reached by phone, Thorstenson repeatedly declined to discuss the mauling turn of events.
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There is a good size buffalo herd just outside of town. For anyone who has not had the pleasure to see up up close (I mean, 5 feet) these are not small docile creatures.
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Might have been mauled too. The buffalo across the way seem to be wearing horns...
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Mauled, sheesh. Obviously not a connoisseur of animal attacks.
Maybe this was the old coot's last hurrah: Ya know, I always wanted to ride a buffalo. Here, hold my beer.
And even if you did a Sonny Bono, it'd be kind of cool standing around there in Heaven, when someone says "So how'd you croak?" and you say "I was riding a buffalo. Bareback".
"Dude!"
When Maryland lawmakers return to work next week in Annapolis, they will be asked to formally designate an official state dessert.
Pork is not a dessert food.
How about a recipe for Pork Ice Cream?
If you can arrange for the ice cream to come from Harford County dairy cows.
Add some chocolate sauce and you're good to go ...
The Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Council is asking that the honor be given to the Smith Island cake. Council member Jay Parker says the cake is unique and worthy of the recognition. The layer cakes are similar to European tortes, sometimes with 10 layers and in about 20 flavors.
Cheryl Tull, one of the owners of The Sweet Shop in Crisfield, sells the cakes on the Internet. She says she plan to contact Delegate Page Elmore, R-Somerset, about sending some of shop's cakes to Annapolis so delegates from other parts of the state can taste for themselves. Elmore tells The Daily Times he thinks samples are probably a good idea, especially if there's any opposition from other regions of Maryland with their own special desserts.
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Am I the only one who sees a connection between yesterday's story about MD having the highest tax rate and this?
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"Je me rappelai le pis-aller dune grande princesse à qui lon disait que les paysans navaient pas de pain, et qui répondit, quils mangent de la brioche." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions
CEDAR RAPDIS - Launching what will be a nationwide campaign across Americas skies to raise awareness and support for Ron Pauls candidacy for President, the Ron Paul Aircorps will tow a huge Ron Paul Revolution campaign banner by helicopter for four hours today over Cedar Rapids.
The banner, which will feature Ron Paul's picture and his "relovelution" logo will launch at 2 p.m. today from Marion airport and fly over downtown Cedar Rapids for four hours, lasting through rush-hour to get the most impact.
The Ron Paul Aircorps represents another facet to the overwhelming grassroots outpouring of support for Ron Paul, the only candidate who represents real hope for America.
A grassroots fund-raising effort in late 2007, the Ron Paul Money Bomb, set a new campaign record by hauling in $6.6 million dollars in one day. Other notable grassroots-organized Ron Paul support efforts include the 2007 Tea Party, hot-air balloon fly-overs and much more.
The Ron Paul Aircorps banner tow will correspond to Pauls campaign in Iowa.
The Ron Paul Aircorps is the brainchild of Ted Anderson, owner and CEO of the Genesis Communications Radio Network (GCN) out of Saint Paul, Minnesota and nationally-syndicated radio show host, Alex Jones.
The tow will be announced today on GCNs flagship show, the Alex Jones show. Alex Jones, a nationally-recognized media activist who has been featured from 60 Minutes to USA Today, is a staunch supporter of Ron Paul. Says Jones, The latest battalion in the info-war, the Ron Paul Aircorps, is launching today to wake people up that Ron Paul is the only real hope for America.
By funding the first banner tow, Anderson is donating the first of what is sure to be much support for this awareness-raising grassroots campaign.
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I hope it's a black helicopter. That'll get 'em going.
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In a blatant discrimination, the Centre has reduced the fund allocation for the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes by Rs 3,000 crore in the 11th Five-Year Plan, but trebled the allocation for the minorities to Rs 1,400 crore per annum against Rs 500 crore.
Government sources said the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (SJ&E) had sought Rs 16,100 crore for the 11th Plan to carry out welfare schemes for SCs and OBCs, out of which Rs 11,185 crore was to be spent on socio-economic development of SCs between 2007 and 2012. The share of OBCs was Rs 2,250 crore.
"Since the Centre has drastically reduced the allocation for the Plan period by almost Rs 3,000 crore, the Ministry was left with no option but to adjust internal funds disbursement accordingly. The Ministry would now only have Rs 9,097 crore to be spent on various welfare schemes meant for SCs during the Plan period, while the OBCs would get only Rs 1,588 crore," sources said.
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Indian Affirmative Action - it just gets better and better...
Wonder what "Muslim-Hindu" and "Muslim-Christian" violence this will produce...
'Kui' tribals monopolize the Scheduled Tribe Affirmative Action quotas. The 'Pana' want a piece of that quota rather than their own Dalit quota (probably a lot of other Dalits around) so they claim tribal status.
December....
The 'Kui' stage a "Bandh" (strike) at Christmas.. the 'Pana' ignore it...
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So when you are suddenly immune to cocaine will you opt for something stronger or just give up drugs completely? I'm betting the former although this might be useful in rehabs.
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At this point, the water is free of bacteria, viruses, carcinogens, hormones, chemicals, toxic heavy metals, fertilizers, pesticides and dissolved pharmaceuticals
Damn it! aficionados everywhere we must unite and fight to restore our fabulous bouquet, plz before it is lost forever!
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All manner of marine and other wild life piss and crap in our water. We filter out what we can and chlorinate it so we can drink it from the faucet without getting sick. Singapore is pretty businesslike in its approach to governance. They do recycle their sewage water, using technology probably developed stateside, so this isn't some pie-in-the-sky green fanatic scheme.
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This past year, I got to go on a guided tour of the local sewage treatment plant. At the point where they dump the treated water into the river, it's cleaner than river water and has a higher oxygen content. The fish tend to congregate there for the oxygen, and the fishing is said to be teriffic.
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They're trying to pull this shit in San Diego too. It isn't just pee and poop that goes down the sewers here. It's meth labs and industrial waste and God knows what else. I don't care what they say. I don't trust them to filter it all out.
We are not Singapore or Hong Kong or Calcutta or Mexico City and although our politicians are taking us in that direction there are those of us who resent the hell out of it because San Diego used to be a wonderful place. We don't want the people of Singapore, Hong Kong, Calcutta and Mexico City bringing their problems here after they've screwed up their own cities.
The politicians here tell us to conserve water and at the same time they keep issuing water hook up permits for the massive new housing tracts that the developers keep building.
It's a crime. No, really, it is a crime. They call it growth but it's really nothing more than greedy developers buying the politicians and it's amazing how cheaply the politicians are willing to sell themselves.
This is a desert, folks, so unless you want to drink your pee and poop you need to understand that everybody in the whole wide world cannot come to live here.
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We are all made of water that has been excreted by countless living creatures over millions of years. Hey, maybe I've found the reason for all the world's ills.
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Ebbang Uluque6305, you're local here in SD, right? Ever notice it was only going to be implemented in the first round - south of I-8? When they start in La Jolla, I'll partake
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You just knew the news of NASA desiring to recycle and use human waste in space forborne something related and weird was coming.
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BUY THAT POPCORN - its gonna be mighty interestin' watchin how US-California OWG marketeers combine recycled human waste usage as "normal" vv stereotypic California "tan-and- fit" bikini/naked slinky poster babes.'TIS AS INTERESTIN' AS WATCHIN 1990's RADICAL ENVIRO PROFS EAT RECYCLED ASSORTED WASTE ON TV???
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Grey-bearded, overweight hippie guys is one thing, CINDY CRAWFORD is quite another. Can't imagine ANGELINA "CHINA RULES THE WORLD" JOLIE = LARA CROFT eating her own recycled wastes.
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Mike in #5 is right. Most "effluent" from Wastewater Treatment Plants (now called "Water Reclamation Facilities") is often cleaner than the river it's discharged to. And, we literally ALL live "downstream" of someone else's wastewater plant, so you're "drinking" it anyways.
It's just a nasty thought that the effluent (even thought it's treated) from a wastewater plant will be piped straight into the drinking water plant. It does that somewhat already, but you don't get the "dilution" effect of adding it to a river before someone else sucks it out and drinks it downstream.
True story here in metro Atlanta. Our local water supply (Lake Lanier, which feeds about 80% of metro Atlanta's water supplies of 5 million people) is WAAAAY down because of our drought. The folks living on the lake ($million+ homes) have fought tooth and nail to keep my County from putting it's SUPER-treated effluent (from the wastewater treatment process) into the lake, and have asked the County to spend millions to pipe the effluent to the River downstream of the dam forming Lake Lanier. Well, all the sudden, 18 months of drought has caused them to reconsider having that 40 million gallons/day of treated wastewater back in the lake, because their docks are high and dry. I just point this out to say that we ALL live downstream of someone else, so we're ALL "drinking poop" in some form or fashion.
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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 rabid kitten set off public health alerts in four U.S. states last summer after it had been widely handled by players from several teams at a softball tournament, federal health officials said on Thursday. A total of 38 teams had players and family members who were exposed to the kitten. From these, 27 had been licked, bitten or scratched and needed post-exposure rabies shots. The kitten was later destroyed.
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