A man was accused of stabbing his mother with a fork and assaulting a second woman with 10 pounds of frozen chicken. Frederick Duane McKaney, 40, of Ypsilanti, was arraigned Wednesday in 12th District Court in Jackson. He faces two felony assault charges as well as one count of assault and battery and one count of resisting an officer. Prosecutors said McKaney stabbed his mother in the back of the neck with a fork Monday night.
'Take that, Mom!'
About an hour later, he hit a woman in the head with a plastic bag of frozen chicken.
'Take that, second woman!'
They had exchanged rude words while he rode his bicycle.
'Fart!'
'Burp!'
She needed five surgical staples to close her wound. McKaney has no attorney on record with the court. A pre-exam conference is scheduled for July 2.
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Good thing he didn't hit a Cop. He'd be a Cop Sockin' Mother Forker.
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John Galliano's Spring-Summer 2009 Fashion collection for men pushes the boundaries.
As you'll see at the link. 21, yes, 21-image slideshow of the latest for a certain type of man.
They. Could. Not. Pay. Me. Enough.
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Looks like he invited in random people from a San Francisco anti-war protest.
It also looks as if they were serving big ol' bratwursts back stage, and some of the models (such as he of the yellow shorts in pic 3) got unexpectedly called to the runway and had to shove their lunches in the nearest convenient space.
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Speaking of Fag Fashions, isn't this Gay Pride March in San Fran this weekend ? Did you notice that a man and his two sons were gunned down in cold blood the other day returning from a barbeque picnic by some illegal MS-13 gang member ? And the freakin' gay mayor says it's the fault of the NRA and Supreme Court for allowing guns to float freely. Gags you with his stupidity. These dumbasses up there deserve what they've got. Chaos. They courted gays for 40 years. Now they've got them running gov't. And, real citizens have nothing. No consideration, no protection, no rights. Ah, yah, forgot to mention San Fran declared itself a "sanctuary city" to attract these illegals also. It stupifies a sane mind. Of course that's where Peloosi and Boxer and Finestine all call home. Surprise.
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These "fashions" for the most part (with a couple of glaring exceptions) reminded me of "bag ladies" or clowns.
The onlything missing were either the shopping cart full of empty cans, or else floppy shoes and a big red nose.
And FYI, one of the very best lawsuits the NRA has is the one in SF, based off Heller. A gay man wants a gun to defend himself at home against assaults, and the laws in SF say he cannot. The NRA is backing his lawsuit.
NRA was on the phone yesterday right after Heller came down. New memberships, additional years on existing ones ... they're building a war chest to go on a serious offensive, sounded like.
What does Princess Madeleine have to do with this? Nothing, I just like to post her picture. Well, maybe as an example of good nutrition. Yeah, that's it, good nutrition.
DENVER Warning to Southern delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver this August: it will be a no-fry zone. As part of the effort to make the August 25-28 convention the greenest ever, the Democrats' guidelines for food catering include one that strikes at the heart of Southern cuisine: no fried food.
No fried chicken. No fried catfish. No fried green tomatoes. No fried okra. No fried anything. I wonder if they will allow wok-dishes, British style fish and chips, and the various lard-fried dishes from France? After all, this kind of cuisine is definitely not 'southern,' it comes from approved socialist societies and must perforce be good in the minds of Democrats.
In promoting healthy eating habits, the Democratic guidelines say every meal should be nutritious and include 'at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, purple/blue and white.' Where do these tofools get this color-coding crap?
red--- mercuric oxide
green---chlorine
yellow--- mustard gas
purple/blue--- potassium cyanide
white--- lead oxide
'It's the new patriotism,' says Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, the driving force behind the greening of the Democratic convention. Remember, to a 'rat, everything not forbidden is mandatory.
However, if presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain starts gaining in the polls on Barack Obama, who will accept the Democratic nomination in Denver, the Democrats may find they've got bigger fish to fr? - uh, make that - bake.
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In promoting healthy eating habits, the Democratic guidelines say every meal should be nutritious and include 'at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, purple/blue and white.
Sounds like someone has been to a Packers Vikings game!
"Kundalini (Shekhinah in Hebrew) is the inner spiritualizing energy that takes us to the experiences of non-causal ecstasy, joy, peace, Love, and God awareness. These are our natural emotions in liberation. Kundalini is Grace of God, which has the potential to transform us into the non-dualistic, holographic, living awareness of the Truth of God, of I AM THAT."
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Why do the Democrats want to be everyone else's parents? They certainly take this nanny crap way too far. If people want healthy food, the market will provide healthy food. The market provides what people will buy. The answer is education, NOT preventing them from having access to anything else.
I swear the Democrats simply want to dominate every aspect of people's lives. What complete and total morons!
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Don't forget the vendors on the 16th street mall and just across the street from the Convention Center on the south side is fried food central, unless the 'looper' or Ritter forbid the merchants on the mall that week.
Take out has gotten pretty expensive with the price of gas going up sigh.
Seafarious, nice rememberance of the junk food junkie ;) Probably quite a few in this bunch
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#11 Pasty-faced shrub-nibblers
do not disparage bush eaters
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Everyone knows, "real food" is a symbol of the past, a past filled with over population, energy waste, environmental disaster and global warming. CHANGE is now upon us! With any luck, wafers will be flown in to the convention by the Soylent Corporation.
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Tell ya what, the hot-dog cart guys are going to make a killing at the W end of downtown. I used to go to the one at 18th and Market when I worked down near Coors Field on a contract.
Two decades after the Exxon Valdez supertanker veered off course, slammed into a reef in Prince William Sound, and created the nation's worst oil spill, some Alaskans say they've been hit by another disaster a legal one.
A US Supreme Court ruling Wednesday trimmed punitive damages for the 1989 catastrophe by at least 80 percent. So, instead of the $2.5 billion that some 32,000 plaintiffs had been awarded, the court decided the damages should equal no more than the $507.5 million already paid in compensation to private plaintiffs. Reaction in Alaska was fast and furious.
"Tragic," said Gov. Sarah Palin.
"Adds insult to injury," said Alaska's congressional delegation in a statement.
"A slap on the wrist" for Exxon, said Tim Joyce, mayor of the fishing hub of Cordova, which was at the center of the disaster.
Not long ago, some Alaskans worried that the fishing hub would sprout "spillionaires" ordinary people suddenly rich from lump-sum Exxon payouts. Now in Cordova, there is talk of giving up homes, fishing permits, and the town itself, said Riki Ott, a local fisherman, scientist, and environmentalist. "There are some people, they look like they've been shellshocked."
Some residents had already pledged anticipated punitive payments to settle debts. "We didn't spill the oil, you know, and we're the ones being injured by this. Again," said Ms. Ott, who spent much of Wednesday painting protest signs with slogans like: "Guilty Until Proven Wealthy."
Anyone looking to a big punitive award as a source of more compensation had misplaced hopes, said ExxonMobil spokesman Tony Cudmore. "This case was about punishment and whether further punishment was warranted. It was not about compensatory damages."
The company says that after spending $3.4 billion on cleanup, settlements with the Alaskan and US governments and other groups, fines, and various types of compensation, it needed no more punishment. Legitimate claims for compensation were handled swiftly and fairly, Mr. Cudmore said. "Most people who sought compensation were compensated within a year of the spill, and the court recognized that."
The court's majority found that Exxon had acted without "intentional or malicious conduct," and a 1-to-1 ratio of punitive to compensatory damages "is a fair upper limit in such maritime cases," according to the decision penned by Justice David Souter.
Plaintiffs said the court failed to take into account the damages that never were compensated in the first place, due to the quirks of maritime law and the long years it took for environmental impacts to manifest themselves.
For example, the collapse of Prince William Sound's herring population became evident only years after the spill, plaintiffs say. Cordova fisherman and community leader R.J. Kopchak calculated that the area lost $126 million through 2005 because of canceled harvests. He lost about $500,000 in earnings, he said, not to mention his now useless $18,000 worth of herring-fishing equipment that sits under a moss-covered tarp.
Also uncompensated were the lost millions of dollars of wealth held in fishing permits. That wealth vanished when values plunged to as low as 10 percent of prespill levels. Maritime law allowed compensation only when permits were sold at losses. "What we all should have done is sell each other our permits so that we would have had realized losses," Ott says.
Alaskan natives who couldn't gather fish, game, and meat from oiled waters and beaches got a $20 million settlement, the estimated cost of replacing wild foods with store-bought substitutes, not the $160 million that plaintiff economists believed reflected true cultural damages, said Lloyd Miller, an attorney for the plaintiffs.
ExxonMobil has argued that Prince William Sound recovered long ago from the spill, and that any ecological changes including the herring collapse are due to other factors.
For some, the spill's impact goes beyond dollars.
"The biggest thing that hurt the most that I lost were the dreams and goals that I had," said local fisherman and artist Mike Webber, sitting on a Cordova dock a month before the Supreme Court ruling.
Mr. Webber drew on his Tlingit Indian heritage last year to carve a "shame pole" ridiculing ExxonMobil's unpaid debts. "I've been wanting to do a healing pole, [but] I haven't found out anything to put on the pole to tell that we've healed," he said.
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these are "punitive damages", not "get rich quick" funds. Economic damages have already been paid to those who took a hit from the spill. Jeebus
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Winning the tort lotto - money for nothing and chicks for free.
To the way-left of center Sydney Morning Herald. Four pages of bleating and excuse-making. All someone else's fault, not hers.
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She sounds like a trailor girl. But she mostly took photos; others carried out the humiliation. Dehumanization of the enemy is part of war. US soldiers still refer to Iraqis as: Hadjis. It is the same as Vietnam. The enemy were called: "gooks." It is easier to fight nameless and faceless enemies.
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It was more like going back to high school. Soldiers coupled up and soldiers partied and nobody got smoked. "The higher-ups, first sergeants, platoon sergeants, they knew what was going on," England said. "But, as long as they didn't see it, it wasn't happening."
And if they didn't, they certainly should have, as should the officers as well. Having been a teenage soldier, it's quite difficult for me to fault England, then or now. At least she VOLUNTEERED to serve! I can remember a time when large numbers of able bodied men left the country rather than serve.
"Men of the ranks are cunning and devious, they bear close watching."
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It is important to remember that both Lynndie and her boyfriend (Garner) were into S&M sex play before they got to Iraq.
If there are any "lessons learned" from this incident, I hope they screen the guards for sadistic tendencies before they put them in charge of detainees.
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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 man was accused of stabbing his mother with a fork and assaulting a second woman with 10 pounds of frozen chicken. Frederick Duane McKaney, 40, of Ypsilanti, was arraigned Wednesday in 12th District Court in Jackson. He faces two felony assault charges as well as one count of assault and battery and one count of resisting an officer. Prosecutors said McKaney stabbed his mother in the back of the neck with a fork Monday night.
John Galliano's Spring-Summer 2009 Fashion collection for men pushes the boundaries.
