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Mondragon was found laying on his back some distance from the line, his pants had been on fire, where they had burned away from his hips down. His gloves had partially melted, and he had first, second and third degree burns on various parts of his body. He was, in short, lucky to be alive. He now has some medical and legal problems to deal with, including some interest in his actions by the FBI.
Thanks, buddy. Do it all over again for us when you're all healed up and out of jail.
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Being well informed on the power of high voltage power lines, Mondragon cleverly put on several pair of latex dish washing gloves to isolate him from electrocution, and proceeded to touch saw to power line.
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I like the "rich white" part, tells a lot about ecology as an ideology; still, I think this is is very positive for Mr. mondragon, since even if it was a futile, stoopid gesture that has and will bring him much harm and pain, at least, if his burns are extensive enough to have cost him his penis, then, he is a Darwin Honorable Mention Award! Success!
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So, nobody's quoting my favorite part of the story. The power lines he sabotaged belong to
a member-owned cooperative electrical utility ... OPALCO provides mostly renewable electricity that is 97% greenhouse-gas free and is predominately generated by hydro-electric plants.
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So, nobody's quoting my favorite part of the story.
Yes, you did point to that and I did take notice, pretty ironical, and, as you write, it shows the full scope of that guy's ignorance/stoopidity. Dumbass.
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while Mondragon was flow off to Harborview Hospital in Seattle via AirLift Northwest, for treatment of what are being called serious injuries..
Now you know it would have been more ecologically sensitive to transport him via rowboat / foot from Orcas Island to Harborview (about 80 miles as the whale swims). And even more sensitive for him to swim himself.
Would have only taken about 12 - 24 hours (wild guess) - I'm sure he would have been more then willing to wait in order to save Gaia from any icky greenhouse gasses.
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The substation is surrounded by a barbwire topped fence, so Mondragon first tried to reach the power line by standing on a ladder. When that failed to get him close enough to be electrocuted, he went over the fence, and was then was able to reach a power line.
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You know you are somewhere near Seattle when you get the following (my edit/emphasis in bold:
(County Council) Chairman Howard Rosenfeld said he was sure the OPALCO facilities are not hardened against this type of thing, and never will be; so we need to stop alienating our own people.
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OPALCO General Manager, Randy Cornelius Our thoughts are with the family of the young man that was injured. Personally I'm not that concerned
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This will reinforce Mr. Moondragon's belief that electricity is bad for humans.
That shows his lack of understanding. Electricity is wonderful, even necessary, for humans. It's just that electricity is demonstrably bad for moondragons.
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"I experimented with LSD, marijuana, cocaine, quaaludes, Ecstasy, crystal methamphetamine, ketamine," answered Levine, explaining that his drug use spanned from 1972 to 2004, when federal agents confronted him about corruption.
Umm, that not your 'home scientist kit', thats bulding Skylab.
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There are aspects of a godfather in Vrdolyak's life but not any testimony that would stand in court.
Decades ago he paid for a co-workers wedding and got the hall(before I knew the co-worker) and the co-worker worshiped Vrdolyak considered him just like his, cough, godfather in the Italian sense.... Even helped him with some bad DUI raps..
A German retiree is taking a hospital to court after she went in for a leg operation and got a new anus instead, the Daily Telegraph is reporting. The woman woke up to find she had been mixed up with another patient suffering from incontinence who was to have surgery on her sphincter.
The clinic in Hochfranken, Bavaria, has since suspended the surgical team. Now the woman is planning to sue the hospital. She still needs the leg operation and is searching for another hospital to do it. A repaired anus or a new, second anus? Guttering Inquiring minds want to know.
U.S. health officials have identified a contaminant in batches of the blood thinner heparin associated with 19 deaths and are trying to determine how the chemical got into the drug. The lots of heparin were recalled Feb. 28, and Food and Drug Administration officials said Wednesday that no new deaths have been reported since that time.
The contaminant is oversulfated condroitin sulfate, a chemical that does not occur naturally
Dr. Janet Woodcock, head of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said the contaminant is oversulfated condroitin sulfate, a chemical that does not occur naturally. Condroitin sulfate is a natural compound that occurs widely and is used as a dietary supplement but the oversulfated version has not been widely studied.
"We cannot rule in or out whether this was accidentally or deliberately introduced into the product," Woodcock said, "We are investigating how it got in."
And how it got sulfated. I'd have to do some digging but I'm wondering if oversulfated CS has a molecular weight similar to heparin, and whether it cross-reacts with a heparin recognizing antibody. Both would be ways to use the agent to mimic heparin in routine quality control testing.
The FDA has also initiated testing of imported heparin entering this country and Woodcock said the agency feels "doctors and patients now can be confident that the product on the market has been tested and is safe."
Condroitin sulfate is a compound in the same family as heparin, so preliminary testing did not identify it, Woodcock said. She said more exacting tests by the government and university researchers uncovered the contaminant.
FDA said Chinese officials have been highly cooperative in the investigation
Oversulfated condroitin sulfate would be less expensive to make than heparin, but FDA officials said they could not estimate the cost difference.
The lots of heparin linked to hundreds of allergic reactions were marketed by Baxter International and produced in China.
FDA said Chinese officials have been highly cooperative in the investigation. The investigation comes just a year after melamine was identified as a contaminate in pet food from China. Officials said an agreement signed at that time with China helped smooth the way for this investigation.
FDA officials said they could not yet directly associate the oversulfated condroitin sulfate to the deaths and side effects, but it is the lone contaminant they have found in the product.
Heparin is derived from pig intestines, and China is the world's leading supplier. Tiny family-run workshops near slaughterhouses send batches of raw ingredients to larger middlemen before they reach factories.
The spectacular and bizarre release of secret FBI wiretap data to the New York Times exposing the tryst of New York State governor Eliot Spitzer, the now-infamous client "No 9", with an upmarket call-girl had relatively little to do with the George W Bush administrations pursuit of high moral standards for public servants. Spitzer was likely the target of a White House and Wall Street dirty tricks operation to silence one of the most dangerous and vocal critics of their handling of the current financial market crisis. . . .
. . . On February 14, Spitzer published a signed article in the influential Washington Post titled, "Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime: How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers." . . . With that article, Spitzer may well have signed his own political death warrant.
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Put this guy on "the list".
Right away, Mr. Cheney...
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It's pretty clear that Spitzer's father was a hard case, controlling and toxic to a kid who could never live up to his standards. Dinner times were briefings and heaven help the kid who wasn't prepared for the old man's grilling on their topic. Guy's worth half a billion but keeps his hands on it all: Eliot lives in an apartment in Manhattan that Dad continues to own, got his campaigns funded by Dad's money - but never inherited any to control himself and didn't even try to compete in that market.
That's why Spitzer went after old guys running companies, often unfairly, as AG.
The rage has been there all his life. I feel sorry for him and understand in a theoretical way why his wife would support him. (At a practical level if he were my husband, well .....)
But understanding how he got warped isn't the same as thinking he is fit to hold public power.
Spitzer got caught because he was laundering (excuse me, 'structuring') money movements through accounts to hid his whore habit. And that sort of money movement is something the Feds have been tracking very carefully since 9/11.
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#2 He has a completely sex free marriage that's solely for political reasons.
That seemed to be high sport among the European elite nobility not too long ago. Since the Euroenclaves seem to wax nostalgically about the 'good old days' is it such a surprise?
With his predecessor's term doomed by a sex scandal, brand-new Governor David Paterson tried to come clean about his own skeletons just hours after assuming office by acknowledging a years-old affair.
Is anybody in Noo Yawk able to keep his/her/its pants on?
Paterson was sworn in almost exactly a week after allegations first surfaced that former governor Eliot Spitzer was 'Client 9' of a high-priced call girl service. Responding to rumours circulating in Albany, Paterson and his wife, Michelle, told the Daily News of New York City that both had affairs during a rough patch in their marriage several years ago. "This was a marriage that appeared to be going sour at one point," Paterson told the Daily News, adding, "But I went to counselling and we decided we wanted to make it work. Michelle is well aware of what went on."
Paterson told the newspaper that he maintained a relationship with another woman from 1999 until 2001. He and his wife, Michelle, eventually sought counselling and repaired their relationship. The couple did not go into details. Paterson said he and the other woman sometimes stayed at Days Inn on Manhattan's Upper West Side, adding that his Albany staff sometimes stayed there as well when they were in city. Paterson said he did not use government or campaign funds to pay for the romantic encounters.
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New York's Governors have always been required to be somewhat eccentric, or so I was taught. Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury, was governor from 17011708, and was claimed to be a transvestite. You mighat also want to Google Nelson Rockefeller and Megan Marshack. NY's Spitzer and Paterson are just holding up this hallowed tradition.
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She must not have been that good in bed.
You'd think doing the Lt Gov should get you more than a $55k city Dept of Ed job in Brooklyn.
A German court ruled on Tuesday to uphold a regional ban on teachers wearing the Muslim headscarf in public schools, rejecting the complaint of a convert to Islam.
The Baden-Wuerttemberg state administrative court in the southern city of Stuttgart ruled teachers may be kept from covering their heads in the classroom if they do so for religious reasons.
The decision overturned a ruling by a lower court in July 2006, saying the teacher in question had the right to wear the headscarf because Roman Catholic nuns elsewhere in the state wore habits when they taught at public school. The directive issued by the school administration for those working at the school not to wear such a head covering is lawful, the court said in a statement, summarising the ruling made Friday. This also applies when the teacher in question is an employee with tenure who has worked at a school for several years with such a head covering without complaints from pupils or students.
The plaintiff, who has taught at a joint elementary and secondary school for more than three decades, converted to Islam in 1984. She had worn a traditional Muslim headscarf in the classroom since 1995 during which time no objections were raised.
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Peeking around the edges are signs of a tipping point in Germany. From the top, Merkal, to the bottom.... drivebys on imamas and disfiguring moskks, the Hun has shown signs of enough from the Muzz colonizers.
MULTAN - A French-built Pakistan Air Force Mirage fighter jet crashed in central Pakistan on Tuesday, but the pilot ejected safely, officials said. The jet came down near Rajanpur district, 22 kilometres (13 miles) from Fareed Airbase in Punjab province while coming in to land, district police chief Azhar Hameed Khokhar told AFP.
An air force spokesman said the jet was on a routine operational training mission during which it developed some technical fault. An inquiry had been ordered into the crash, air commodore Sarfraz Khan told AFP. The pilot ejected safely and there was no loss of life or property on the ground, Khan said.
Pakistans air force has ageing French-built Mirages, US F-16s and a large number of Chinese-built fighters in its fleet.
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Mirage. France's contribution to the WOT (last time it din't miss).
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Would that have been caused by inshallah maintenance or inshallah pilot training? And why, oh why couldn't the jet have been packed full of ISI brass like the Iranians do?
About 105 of 116 Pakistanis deported from Qatar fled after a scuffle with Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials at Karachi Airport, Geo News reported on Tuesday.
According to the channel, 116 Pakistanis deported from Qatar arrived at Karachi Airport via a Qatar Airways flight. The FIA officials had detained them in the airport lounge when some of them began to shout pro-Pakistan Peoples Party slogans, it said. The channel said FIA officials began to beat the protesters, who hit them back, broke the glass walls and fled. It said 11 of the men stayed in the lounge voluntarily.
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Fifteen people were injured, two seriously, in a blast outside a college near the presidential palace in Manila on Tuesday, said Philippine police sources. The city's police chief said they were investigating whether a feud between college fraternities was behind the explosion, which occurred around 300 metres from the palace gates. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was not in the palace. "It looks like it's a rivalry among a group of students," said Geary Barias, adding that part of a hand grenade and an improvised explosive device were discovered at the La Consolacion College. The blast occurred at around 4:30 pm (0830 GMT) while classes were in session at the Catholic institution. Barias said a man in a red shirt and a brown baseball cap was seen running away from the explosion. Three students have been taken in for questioning. US-style fraternities are popular in colleges and universities in the Philippines and there have been several cases of students dying during violent initiation rites.
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Appears to be in response to ARROYO's recent promise to the US for the Philippines to remain dedic to fighting Terror???
MIDWEST CITY -- A U.S. Marine Corps reservist won't be charged for ignoring police requests and wading into a protest to rescue an American Flag. Ray Adam Modisette, 20, said he was reacting to a war protester who was stuffing an American flag down her pants.
Midwest City Assistant City Attorney Randal Homburg said he thinks there are grounds to prosecute Modisette for an act of civil disobedience, but he said that at the request of police, he's declining to file charges.
Modisette of Shawnee was arrested Friday afternoon on a complaint of interfering with official police process. "We believe the act was emotional and not really deliberate," Midwest City Police Chief Brandon Clabes said. "It caused us to take action, but we hated to have to do it."
Modisette was leaving Tinker Air Force Base in his car Friday when he saw the protester with the flag. He said he turned around and headed for the crowd to get the flag. He was handcuffed after ignoring several requests by officers to move away from the small group of demonstrators from Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan.
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And the best prophylactic of all, as a 20 year old reservist, not enough assets to make it worth the Westboro leaches time to sue.
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I ran into some of the Westboro nuts at our state capital and was almost arrested for harassing them myself. Every single state should go after this group's non profit status and should criminally prosecute these bastards. I witnessed them forcing their toddler children to participate in these activities like standing on American flags.
Personally I think these people should be shot for treason. They protest almost exclusively at the funerals of American soldiers.
They protested one time in my neck of the woods. They were invited back for a special party, but none showed up. Shame that!
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Maybe instead of pulling the flag out of her pants, he should have just set it on fire.
What? Burning the American flag is legal....
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Marine Corps reservist won't be charged in flag rescue.
He'd demand his jury trial. What DA in his sane moments would ever even contemplate attempting that? That isn't the Peoples Republic of Berkley. A waste of money and time, not to mention any reelection possibilities.
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.
. . . On February 14, Spitzer published a signed article in the influential Washington Post titled, "Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime: How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers." . . . With that article, Spitzer may well have signed his own political death warrant.
With his predecessor's term doomed by a sex scandal, brand-new Governor David Paterson tried to come clean about his own skeletons just hours after assuming office by acknowledging a years-old affair.
MULTAN - A French-built Pakistan Air Force Mirage fighter jet crashed in central Pakistan on Tuesday, but the pilot ejected safely, officials said. The jet came down near Rajanpur district, 22 kilometres (13 miles) from Fareed Airbase in Punjab province while coming in to land, district police chief Azhar Hameed Khokhar told AFP.
MIDWEST CITY -- A U.S. Marine Corps reservist won't be charged for ignoring police requests and wading into a protest to rescue an American Flag. Ray Adam Modisette, 20, said he was reacting to a war protester who was stuffing an American flag down her pants.
