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I love stories like this. They renew my faith in the basic goodness of people. Thanks for posting this Anonymoose.
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Gaaawd, now I'm missing the old WALT DISNEY series, and my "Brownie, your job is to bite the Burgular, NOT ask/show him iff he thinks your Dog Butt is Pretty" killer guard dog.
DOGGY POLITICS > barking angrily Angrily ANGRILY, D *** YOU, at any and all Comers when the Owner is around- when Owner is not around, covertly dastardly letting other neighbor dogs in and playing wid them until Owner is spotted, then proceeds to bark bite + chase new doggy friends away in righteous sentry indignation.
OWG COMMUNISM NOW, D *** IT, MY DOG IS A CHIPPENDALE PENTHOUSE "FABIO" FIFTH-COLUMNIST POLITICIAN!
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Personally I blame my family's femme cat- you know how cats are wid their womanly ways, turning perfectly good Fascist killer dogs into OWG Motherly Utopians!
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The Segway police charging forward while firing their machineguns is a nice touch.
However, the antiterrorim police using flamethrowers leaves me a little concerned. Shouldn't they be trying to rescue the hostages instead of cooking them?
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It's just like at a shooting range - once police officer gets hit, he is knocked on the ground by the impact and then his corpse is bought up to an erected position by the magic of self-balancing Segway.
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However, the antiterrorim police using flamethrowers leaves me a little concerned. Shouldn't they be trying to rescue the hostages instead of cooking them?
You take a hostage there, they don't care if they have to cook the hostage to death painfully if that's what it takes to be able to cook YOU to death painfully as well.
Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho. 'Tis the season to be goofy. We have this kind of story around this time every year, all of a piece with the Nathan's hotdawg eating contest. I guess that's why they call it "silly season."
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07/06/2008 00:00 ||
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Actually, he made it...
CAMBRIDGE, IDAHO -- KIVI-TV Ch 6
The eagle has landed.....make that Kent Couch! The Bend, Oregon man took off from his gas station 6:30 a.m. PST Saturday and touched down in a field near Cambridge, Idaho around 4:30 p.m. MST. Cambridge is about 40 miles northeast of Weiser.
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Yup! This is his third try. The first was a bailout, the second he was just shy of the Oregon/Idaho border, this time is well inside Idaho. Not something I would do but he seems to have put some thought into the stunt. Ballast, parachute, gps/locater, radio commo, aircraft escort. Not at all the same as the twit in SoCal.
Makes you wonder about the gal that married him. It must be love.
The body of 'flying priest' balloon adventurer Adelir de Carli has been recovered some 100 kilometres off the Brazilian coast, local media reports said Saturday. Yeah, it's all great fun until somebody puts an eye out or a priest kills himself, innit?
Father de Carli went missing in April while attempting to fly with 1,000 helium-filled party balloons tied to a chair. St. Thomas Aquinas would be so proud.
The body was recovered by a tugboat crew off Rio de Janeiro state, reports said. Police said clothing, a rucksack and shoes left little doubt that the body was that of the priest. DNA tests would be conducted to provide final proof. I think it's too late for an IQ test.
Perfect time for an IQ test, it'll be dead-accurate ...
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Please. This guy was tryiing to collect funds for an orphanage or something. The piry is that worthy people like him are forced to such desperate measures while Al Gore is making himself a zillionaire.
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One wonders how poor Mr. Gore manages to cause severe local cooling under the circumstances, JFM, and yet he does. Perhaps he functions like an air conditioner, pulling all the heat into himself?
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Barb, can you imagine how much you could make if you offered people .22 rifles to shoot at the balloons, once he gets to a decent altitude? I'd take out a second mortgage...
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The pre-Incan peoples are one of the biggest prehistoric mysteries around.
Not only are their solar observatories offset by 30,000 years, measurable because of the regular decline of the Earth's axial tilt, which is much less than it used to be.
But these people also used portable furnaces with bellows capable of melting serious metal alloys, then poured into improbably large and carefully fitted rocks, as brackets.
They were also amazingly advanced with their continually-changing-due-to-earthquakes irrigation system. Their channels were designed with just enough decline and barriers so that water would not run too fast and erode the channel, nor would it stagnate.
And then, of course, were the profusion of enormous pictographs visible at altitude, a communications system based in complex knotted cords, and who knows how many other cultural eccentricities.
The fires in Los Padres National Forest may actually be aiding one aspect of law enforcement in Monterey County: marijuana eradication.
Hidden among the 80,000 acres torched by the Indians Fire so far, there could be millions of dollars worth of charred pot plants.
"There are a lot of outdoor pot gardens in the forest services lands," said Sgt. Daniel Karamitis with the Sheriff's Office's narcotics unit.
The forests of Monterey County have long been fertile land for large-scale pot growers who hide large quantities of their crop among the trees.
Los Padres National Forest is one of the places the County of Monterey Marijuana Eradication Team often searches for the illegal crop, scanning the rugged terrain from a helicopter.
The finds can be substantial. For example, in 2006, COMMET seized and destroyed more than 17,152 plants in the forest, eliminating a crop with a potential street value of $85.8 million. With the Indians and Basin Complex fires still burning, COMMET hasn't been able to do any searches in Los Padres lately, so the team has been focusing its searches elsewhere, Karamitas said.
Los Padres isn't the only place for pot patches. Last month, COMMET seized 10,000 plants in Fremont Peak State Park.
According to Karamitas, many of the grow sites are controlled by Mexican drug cartels.
When asked what could happen to pot growers who may still be in Los Padres guarding their plants, Karamitas said, "They are grown men."
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"When asked what could happen to pot growers who may still be in Los Padres guarding their plants, Karamitas said, 'They are grown men.'"
Either that, or crispy critters.
I grew up in a little down at the bottom of the mountains at the edge of Los Angeles' San Gabriel Mountains. During a fire in the fall of 1975, I watched (through my father's binoculars) a firestorm coming down one of the canyons, which looked like a tornado of fire. I could see objects being pulled into it from a good distance away - and the line of fire coming down the mountainside stretched as far as I could see in either direction.
Forest Service officials stoned by hippie group allowed to displace Boy Scouts' service project. Stoned by hippies? We are surely through the looking glass.
National Forest Service officials, surrounded and attacked yesterday in Wyoming with sticks and stones by 400 members of the Rainbow Family, were given reason to regret their decision to cancel a long-planned national service project by the Boy Scouts of America in favor of the unorganized annual gathering of hippies, anarchists and 'free spirits' who commune with nature and each other. According to their propaganda, they are committed to 'non-violence and non-hierarchical egalitarianism,' though apparently not when somebody defies their hierarchy.
According to a statement released by the Forest Service's Incident Command Team in Rock Springs, Wyo., officers patrolling the main meadow of the seven-day event held near Sandy Springs made contact with a man who fled and was later apprehended. A second Rainbow attendee was detained for interfering in the arrest. As 10 officers began to leave the area with their suspects, they were surrounded by an estimated 400 members of the Rainbow Family. A request for additional officers was made. They should google up 'Macarthur 'Bonus Army'' next time.
'The mob began to advance, throwing sticks and rocks at the officers. Crowd-control tactics were used to keep moving through the group of Rainbows,' the news release said. When back-up support arrived, officers made five arrests. A government vehicle was damaged and one officer was treated for injuries at a local hospital and released.
'This lawless behavior is unacceptable and we will not tolerate it,' said John Twiss, Forest Service director of law enforcement. 'The safety of our employees, public and Rainbow participants is our number one priority, and we will continue to protect everyone on the national forest.' The hippies are still encamped there, though, so Twiss is in fact tolerating it.
As WND reported, the Forest Service canceled a week-long national service project by approximately 1,000 members of the Order of the Arrow, the honor society for the Boy Scouts of America, scheduled since 2004, after the Rainbow Family announced it would hold its annual gathering in the same general location. The scouts are not as inclusive though.
Participants in the ArrowCorps5 project will be awarded a badge for their work What do Rainbowistas get? An all-expense paid trip to Berkeley?
As WND has reported, the Order of the Arrow has been working for several years to put together this year's public service project called ArrowCorps5. The plans include about 5,000 top Boy Scouts from across the country donating an estimated 250,000 hours of time to restore, repair, rebuild, reclaim and refurbish miles of trails, acres and glens at five different sites in the nation's forests. In most cases, the scouts pay their own travel and room and board expenses to participate in the biggest service project since World War II.
'ArrowCorps5 is the largest, most complex, most challenging conservation project ever conceived by the Order of the Arrow and Boy Scouts of America,' said Brad Haddock, chairman of the National Order of the Arrow Committee. 'This project provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for each participant to set an example of leadership in service to those who treasure our national forests.'
The decision by the Forest Service to evict the Scouts left local Wyoming leaders infuriated. 'It's a matter of intimidation,' Sublette, Wyo., County commissioner Joel Bousman told WND. 'It appears the Rainbow group has managed to intimidate an entire federal agency.' Yep. Rainbow has the media on their side, the Scouts do not.
Mark Rey, the federal undersecretary supervising the U.S. Forest Service, met with Rainbow Family members earlier in Pinedale, and urged them to move their gathering, the Casper Star-Tribune reported. They refused. Now, who is administering this area again? As I have said many times, the media culture and their auxiliaries (including 60s counterculture) are an unelected and unaccoutable shadow government. This is yet another example.
Rey told WND he thought the decision to move the Scouts to somewhere else and leave the Rainbow Family alone was the best under the circumstances. He said the government allows the Rainbow Family to bypass its regular permit requirements in favor of an 'operating plan' but the bottom line was that the government didn't want to be arresting hundreds or thousands of people. 'We have a job to do, but we don't want to do it. It would look bad on TV.'
'They couldn't be expelled without a fairly significant amount of law enforcement activity,' he told WND a week before the gathering began. 'and mass media.'
'The Boy Scouts have been planning this since 2004,' Bousman told WND. 'They've been through the planning process and have been working very cooperatively with our Forest Service. They've spent lots of money planning the biggest venture ever for the Boy Scouts.
'They did everything legally, they had their permits. But because of the fact Undersecretary Rey, for whatever reason, took it on himself to do what he has referred to as an experimental process by which he does not require the Rainbow Group to have any permit, the conflict developed,' Bousman said.
Now, the 'significant amount of law enforcement activity' Rey was hoping to avoid by not holding the Rainbow family to the standard permitting process has become unavoidable.
Following yesterday's melee, members of the gathering told the Star-Tribune a far different story than that told by the Forest Service. Wotta surprise!
'They were so violent, like dogs,' camper Robert Parker said after the incident. 'People yelled at them, 'You're shooting children.'' No reports of bullet wounds being treated anywhere. Perhaps Rainbow's resident witch-doctors took care of it. Even far-gone hopheads know the moth-eaten lefty trope, though: bullets and bombs only harm children, never terrorists, guerrillas or rioters. If there are no bullets simply follow the time-dishonored path of the founder of activist media, Joseph Goebbels, and invent some.
Rainbow members claimed they were Tasered, hit with rubber bullets and pepper spray balls, and had guns pointed at them. And the problem is..... Actually, the only problem I see is that little or none of this happened.
'These people deliberately, for hours, were aggressively working the camp over and working the people over,' a Rainbow who gave his name only as Ryan said. 'They chose the kiddie village -- the one place, the kids, to take their stand and create a riot, and I bought into it. ... They were looking for an excuse to do some damage to us.'
Ryan's partner, Feather, said she was pepper-sprayed, and saw another Rainbow member with welts all over his body. Feather? Well naturally.
Today, the American Civil Liberties Union announced plans to investigate how federal law enforcement treated those attending the gathering. Linda Burt, executive director of the ACLU in Wyoming, said her organization would accept collect calls from Rainbow Family members for the next two weeks to gather information. They might try gathering rubber bullets, pepper spray samples, and injury reports from the scene; you know, actual evidence, but there could be a problem with that.
Meanwhile, the ArrowCorps5 projects already completed in other states are being credited with making 'immediate' changes, Scott Scheffler, a volunteer spokesman for the Scouts, told WND. In Missouri, for example, 100 acres of invasive salt cedar was removed, restoring the area's water table, allowing grasslands to re-grow and restoring the area's beautiful vistas.
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No one had the brights to call around the professional community to see if anyone had a couple bears that wandered into civilization and needed displacement back into the wild?
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07/06/2008 10:25 Comments ||
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these mooks should never have been allowed to gather without permits, and when they attacked Johnny Law, a beating was in order, followed by eviction by force
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It's time the feds started making rainbow follow the same permitting procedures every other group follows, and when submitted, deny the permits. These gatherings are attended by the looniest of the loons. My biggest beef with it is that the freaks bring their kids, and in so doing, expose them to naked tripping hippies who don't wash themselves and crap wherever they want.
The Rainbow Family also eschew calling in any law enforcement for any reason. Let's see now. Imagine 7,000 attendees. Imagine that a majority of the attendees are on serious drugs. Then imagine how closely the kids are looked after by parents during a week-long gathering in the woods. Methinks Rainbow is probably a life changing event for some of those kids. Ponder that for a moment.
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The flip side of this is that the federals can't resist rousting the hippies, but like this time, they think half a dozen armed cops, on their own initiative, can bully 400 people. So like this time, they end up being run off. It is part of the ritual.
And since the federals have made it clear that they would never, ever "grant" the hippies the right to have a gathering in a federal park, of course the hippies have to force the issue.
They at first only announce the State, then gradually narrow it down to the actual location just before they all assemble, giving the federals little time to respond.
The Rainbows actually do have a "non-hierarchical" organization, because the federals will arrest anyone they think is a "leader".
At the end of the gathering, a volunteer offers to drive the garbage truck hauling out the waste the hippies have picked up, and he is promptly arrested as a "leader". A human sacrifice, really. He knows he can get six months in prison, but volunteers anyway. They do this so that the federals won't be utterly humiliated, and escalate the harassment and violence.
The gathering itself is subdivided into "camps", to minimize problems. There is even an alcoholic camp, to segregate those who drink in excess. Other volunteers carry radios, and act as peacekeepers when there are problems.
The petty stuff is ignored, but if someone gets drunk and belligerent, or tries to rape or something serious, the radio people give off a "Hey Rube!" call. All the hippies then mass around the troublemaker for a "group hug", immobilizing him. Then if he is a bad one, they duct tape him to a tree until he settles down.
The bottom line is that they have figured out that the federals, a hierarchy, have no way to interact with a non-hierarchical organization.
This was possibly learned from the large, matriarchal Indian tribes, who have puppet "tribal councils", run by men, just so that they can interact with the federal government, even though all the decision making is done by the matriarchs. Otherwise, the federal government cannot interact with them.
So every time there is a gathering, the same dance ensues. The federals try to keep them out, but they get in anyway, then a few federal cops try to bust them up and fail. Then they are usually left alone until everyone starts leaving, when they clean up the area and re-seed the ground with local plant seed, while picking up any trash they or anyone else left there.
And then the garbage truck guy is arrested, and somebody else drives the trash out. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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What a steaming pile of moth-eaten counterculture propaganda.
Who died and made you the law?
To begin with, it is your mob that is bullying the rest of us, taking over public land, ousting the (law-abiding) Boy Scouts, and attacking duly appointed officers of the law.
Do you really suppose the feds could not force the issue if they wanted to? Only the power and bias of the media-industrial complex, as rigidly hierarchical and materialistic a structure as ever existed, prevents your mob of middle-class pretenders from being carried off to jial.
The feds did, btw, give Rainbow permission to gather there, so stop gloating about defying them.
As for dealing with non-hierarchical organizations, the feds can do this, as they prove every day when they bust groups of drug dealers or disperse drunken mobs. That is not relevant, however: Many of us have 40 years of experience observing and sometimes interacting with counterculturists. These are among the most hierarchical, totalitarian and rigidly conformist groups ever formed. The lack of formal designation does not change the fact of leadership and subordination.
Btw, you know less than nothing about Native American culture.
"The Rainbows actually do have a 'non-hierarchical' organization, because the federals will arrest anyone they think is a 'leader'."
Even Michael Niman says your non-hierarchy is BS, there certainly is a hierarchy within Rainbow. They love to act like there is no hierarchy because a.) it makes then feel egalitarian (even though everyone knows it's a lie), and b.) to avoid any and all responsibility (legal, financial, criminal, etc) for the Rainbow cesspool.
The petty stuff is ignored, but if someone gets drunk and belligerent, or tries to rape or something serious, the radio people give off a 'Hey Rube!' call. All the hippies then mass around the troublemaker for a 'group hug', immobilizing him. Then if he is a bad one, they duct tape him to a tree until he settles down.
OK, so you give the attempted rapist a hug and he calms down. Where the rest of us live, attempted rape will get you prison time and a listing on the sex offenders list. Do you just hope the guy doesn't do it again? What happens if you don't catch the guy before he rapes? A group hug for him then, too. Maybe a friendly wave to the guy at the end of the gathering as he rides off back to society?
I know more than a few Rainbow regular attendees, and I'll bet you that if some guy did rape, it would never get reported to the authorities. I just wonder how many pedophile hippies spend all year dreaming of the kiddie village and the fact that they know a little matter like raping a child won't rise to the level of contacting the authorities.
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Atomic Conspiracy: Well, other than most of my childhood friends being Dine (Navajo) and Apache, and knowing a buttload of Rainbow family, and seeing how law enforcement acts around them, I would like to say that it is you that are full of it.
The US has over 130,000 square miles of park land under federal control, most of which is almost entirely ignored, except to keep it out of the hands of the States from which it was stolen. And when citizens would like to use "their" land, for which the feds want them to pay for what used to be free.
So you're telling me that our republic is threatened by a small assemblage of dirty, stinky hippies, who want to cavort out in the wilderness for a week? That this violation of the sovereignty of the US government can only be dealt with by brutalizing and arresting a bunch of pathetic dreadlock wearing, piss poor weaklings?
Oh, hell yeah. Kick them puppies. Take away the meager pleasure they get from "the great outdoors". They deserve no right of free association without surveillance and harassment.
Sorry, but this is no skin off my ass. If they want to go smoke marijuana, dance and beat on bongo drums for a week out in the middle of nowhere, and clean up after, well good for them. That would probably fine recreation for other people as well.
After all, theoretically speaking, it at least *used* to be their land, before it was stolen.
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Moose, they have to obey the rules - why are they above the laws, and allowed to stomp on the Boy Scouts who were planning all kinds of improvements and other work, with their own money and labor? The Scouts had this YEARS ago. The Rainbow morons did NOT. They esentially just crashed the place, like vagrants, and dared law enforcemnt to do anything.
The obvious solution was easy - the flower people just delay by a couple weeks. They'd have a nice improved park to go to, the Boy Scouts could do their planned work and service, and everybody wins. Something we all learned in kindergarten: take your turn, be nice to other kids who have been waiting longer than you. Decent. Smart. Simple. Nice.
None of which apparently entered the selfish hippies' addled minds.
Screw these f***ing selfish a-hole hippes. Jail each and every one of them until and unless they learn to play by the rules and stop screwing other people over on their own whims. 30 days ought do it.
Not enough police? Use the National Guard under the appropriate chapter as law enforcement under the Governor, giving them arrest powers (like during Katrina).
Simple fact is they were arrogant selfish assholes, and the park service should have arrested them instead of giving in.
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All I can say is this: I live in rural NW Nevada. That's Burning Man country, so you can't say with any accuracy that we are unaccustomed to having a large number of very strange people come through our communities.
The Burning Man people cause a minimum of trouble, but when a Rainbow Gathering happens over the boarder in NE California the local sheriff comes around to warn everyone to lock everything up. A sizable proportion of the people who go to Rainbow Gatherings are thieves with little or no respect for the local people. Like locusts, they strip the countryside bare whenever they appear.
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.
The body of 'flying priest' balloon adventurer Adelir de Carli has been recovered some 100 kilometres off the Brazilian coast, local media reports said Saturday. 
Forest Service officials stoned by hippie group allowed to displace Boy Scouts' service project. 
