Love, American Style meets CSI: Madison, Wisconsin
Everyone agrees that after two couples met at a Cottage Grove bar over the weekend they engaged in mutually consensual sex at the home of one of the couples, but there are differing versions of how a fight broke out during the sexual escapade, leaving one man in the hospital and another in jail.
Daniel Dinga, 26, was charged in court today with second-degree recklessly endangering safety with the use of a weapon and substantial battery with use of a weapon, both felonies which carry a combined total penalty of 23 and a half years of prison and extended supervision.
The criminal complaint filed today said Dinga and his girlfriend met Cesar Salinas and his girlfriend at the Outpost Bar in downtown Cottage Grove late on Friday night and Dinga invited the group to his house.
"After drinking more alcohol, the four ended up in a bedroom of the residence, with all four engaging in mutually consented sexual conduct," the complaint says. During the group sex, something -- the complaint does not say what -- caused a falling out between the two men.
"At one point while the four were engaged in sex in the bedroom, Salinas started arguing with the defendant and the two men started pushing each other while still naked," the complaint says.
The story of what exactly happened next differs with the telling by each of the participants . . .
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Ya see what happens, MORIARITY, when Pidgeons = GoodFeathers forget to bring to bring everything except the COMPUTER KEYBOARD TO NYC CORPOR MEETINGS [TV Adz]!
Bet she won't do that again.
DELTA TWP. - "It was a fairly minor crime with a fairly major consequence." The crime: shoplifting
The consequences: Death!
Those were the words of Eaton County Undersheriff Fred McPhail, describing a series of events Monday morning that led from the theft of less than $500 worth of children's clothing to a woman being crushed in a trash compactor.
Police were called at about 10:15 a.m. Monday by an employee of the Goodwill Store on West Saginaw Highway who said a woman was screaming, stuck inside the trash compactor, which was on at the time. The compactor is located behind the store. Okay. Sir? Seeing how a woman is screaming in it, you might want to shut it off.
That woman, Tyree Monique Tate, 26 of Delta Township, was extracted and transported to a nearby hospital, where she died Tuesday morning. Preliminary autopsy reports list the cause of death as multiple crush injuries. Bring the broom and dustpan, Muldoon.
Tate and the other woman, whom McPhail said is Tate's sister, took children's clothing valued at less than $500, police said. Police have not recovered the merchandise. Ah. It was "for the children".
"It's probably one of the most unusual things I've heard about in my 20-plus years of law enforcement, and a tragic one at that," McPhail said. Saints be praised, it twas a terrible occurence, me boyo...
At 9:54 a.m., police received a call advising them of a shoplifting in progress at a TJ Maxx store in the Lansing Mall. Two women had fled from TJ Maxx after spraying a store security officer in the face with a pepper spray to get away, according to Michael Cook, general manager of the mall. Pure as the driven snow, they wuz...
The two crossed Saginaw Highway to the Goodwill store. They stopped at the store's large, green trash compactor, designed to be fed from the store's rear loading dock. McPhail said it appears Tate ignored the multiple "Keep Out" signs and climbed into the compactor, which was not on at the time. Wonder if she could read them?
The sister was found hiding near the compactor, and tried to run from police toward a nearby Meijer store but was quickly arrested, he said. The sister was uncooperative and told police she barely knew Tate - and only by her street name, Diamond - and didn't know where she was, McPhail said. Nope. I ain't sayin nuthin!
At the same time, a Goodwill employee turned the compactor on to use it. Nevermind. I think we know where she is, sarge.
"I think it's very likely that if she had told police where her sister was, they would have arrested (Tate) and she wouldn't have been crushed," McPhail said. "I'm sure that she's agonizing over that decision, being her sister." Really. Good shoplifting partners are hard to find...
Employees at TJ Maxx and Goodwill declined to comment, deferring to corporate spokespeople, who did not return calls seeking comment. Sorry. We have to prepare for the inevitable multimillion dollar lawsuit this pillar of the community's family will be filing against us.
Tate's sister was released, McPhail said, pending further investigation. He said a warrant for her arrest will likely be issued after prosecutors have decided which charges to bring against her. Tate's family gathered at her Delta Township apartment Tuesday. A man who answered the door said he and the rest of her family would not talk to the media about the incident.
"It's certainly a tragedy, senseless really that it happened," McPhail said. "Our thoughts and prayers certainly go out to her, her family and any children she may have left behind." That's probably the standard response in the manual under "Criminals dying stupidly: Commenting on."
1951: (The future)USN,Ret. is born
2004: Production of the Oldsmobile auto line ends
2008:Tyree comes in second to a trash compactor
Surely the end of life as we know it is near
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You know, I tend to be as snarky as the rest of the normal Rantburgers, but this story depressed me.
Some ignorant women with multiple kids is dead. Was she stupid? Yes. Did she deserve to die for this? Not really. Are there kids who no longer have a mother, (no matter how unfit she may have been)? Yes.
She was trying to clothes her kids, not steal crack.
A depressing story and one that saddens me.
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Must be why she pepper sprayed the security guard.
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Clothes cost very, very little at Goodwill. And yet charity shops have a severe problem with shoplifting, both in the U.S. and Britain. The story does not say Ms. Tate has children, only that she and her sister stole $500 of children's clothing from another shop nearby... and that the clothes have somehow not been found since. We don't even know if Ms. Tate's sister has any children, or whether the two women were acquiring stock for an enterprise of their own. What we do know is that the women were prepared for opposition to their scheme, given that they had pepper spray which they immediately used on the security guard who sought to prevent them escaping with their boodle.
Francis, I agree that innocent stupidity does not deserve the death penalty. However, I am not willing to go there for those both stupid and guilty.
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" Sounds like a felony murder charge could be coming someone's way."
Whose way? And why?
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Shoplifting at a Goodwill store is more like pathology than a crime. Well, the world is full of dumb people doing dumb things. HERE is a link to so-called smart people doing a dumb publicity stunt, resulting in two locomotive boilers exploding, scattering shrapnel and flying bolts and nuts into the crowd, killing some.
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They shoplifted at TJMaxx, which is almost as pathetic, Alaska Paul. They pepper sprayed the security guard on the way out, then hid behind the nearby Goodwill.
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...When I lived in Cleveland I never agreed with her politics, but she genuinely tried hard to help her constituents. She'll be missed back there.
Mike
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Representative Tubbs Jones was apparently the first black woman to win a seat in Congress from Ohio. She was a strong Clinton supporter, and would have been a superdelegate in Denver. May her memory bring comfort to those many whose lives she touched.
Tonight U.S.A. Olympians Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh finished as the winning team of the Womens Volleyball games in their successful run, being the first team to win back-to-back gold medals.
And who did they make a definitive point to thank besides their families? It seemed obvious to me how much Kerri wanted this to get out to the viewing public, and it did in a big way.
They thanked our President for his inspiration and for all hes doing. They are very proud of him, as you can tell. So for all the nay-sayers who were against President Bush attending the Olympics, it mattered to these two women. So it mattered to me.
You can watch the heart-warming thank you here Slide to the end to see Kerri take the mike from the reporter...if you want.... it's a short interview
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IIRC, they don't wanna go home to visit DISNEYLAND or eat CALIFORNIA CHEESE, they wanna go home and GET PREGGERS/PREGNANT, IN THE NAME OF THE NEXT OLYMPIC MEDAL-WINNING GENERATION.
(ANSA) - Rome, August 20 - This year's extraordinary rise in pasta prices has been even higher than previously thought, the Italian Treasury said Wednesday. But the price of wheat, which is used to make pasta, has dropped almost as sharply, a top farming association said. Pasta prices have risen some 30% in the first half of the year, the ministry said, touching up the 25% figure issued by national statistics institute ISTAT last month.
The only rise steeper than pasta's was diesel, driven by rocketing oil prices. Diesel fuel showed a 31.9% rise in the first six months of 2008, compared to pasta's 30.4% hike. Pasta was well ahead of petrol, which rose 24.5%. Bread was up 13.2% and milk 11.8%.
But the price of durum wheat has fallen some 25% in the first half of 2008, farming association Confagricoltura said.
Another farming association, Coldiretti, said the rise in price from farm to consumer was a whopping 369%. There was ''no alibi'' for not dropping the prices of pasta and other staples like bread and milk, which also showed huge increases, it said. Coldiretti blamed ''distortions and too many steps from the farm to the table'' for the massive discrepancies.
Milk was 241% dearer in shops than it was at the farm, while bread was an astonishing 1,325% dearer.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Noor Ahmad Gayezabi said a silent prayer while watching the small family TV with his 13-year-old son. "Help Nikpai. Help Nikpai. Help Afghanistan."
Then he watched his country win its first-ever Olympic medal.
Rohullah Nikpai defeated world champion Juan Antonio Ramos of Spain on Wednesday to earn the bronze medal in the men's under 58-kilogram taekwondo competition, sparking applause, wide smiles and laughter in homes, restaurants and ice cream parlors around the country.
Rohullah Nikpai of Afghanistan said he hoped his bronze medal in taekwondo -- the first Olympic medal ever won by his country -- can serve as a message of peace for his war-torn country.
"When I saw that he won, I jumped up and hugged and kissed my son," Gayezabi said. "I was crying."
President Hamid Karzai immediately called to congratulate Nikpai. He also awarded him a house at the government's expense, said Humayun Hamidzada, the president's spokesman.
"I hope this will send a message of peace to my country after 30 years of war," Nikpai said.
The victory led all of Afghanistan's evening newscasts. "I am so happy. I cannot express my feelings in words," said Mohammad Akbar, 33, who watched on a TV at his Kabul pharmacy. "While I was watching the match I was clapping I was so happy."
Nikpai, who is 21, started learning the Korean martial art when he was 10 because his brother had found a club in Kabul to train. Not only was it an escape from the daily rigors of life in a country that not been at peace since the 1970s, he turned out to be good at it.
Exceptionally good.
When Gayezabi met Nikpai, they were both living at a refugee camp in Iran during the years of war that embroiled Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s. The two competed together on a refugee taekwondo team.
Nikpai came to Kabul four years ago, Gayezabi said. In the mornings he lifted weights and in the evenings he practiced martial arts. In between he earned money cutting hair as a barber.
With success came better training conditions. After being selected for the national team six months ago, he was able to use a special gymnasium. But in a country where sports take a distant place behind the realities of war, few resources are dedicated to training athletes. "My training situation is a lot like the situation in my country," Nikpai said. "It's not good."
Gayezabi had a lucky few hours of electricity that allowed him to watch his former teammate's victory. He feared he would only be able to listen on the radio since Kabul averages about four hours of municipal electricity a day. I was crying because I was remembering back when we were both on the Afghan refugee taekwondo team in Iran," Gayezabi said.
Only four Afghan athletes came to Beijing, representing a country that had never won an Olympic medal and is sinking ever deeper into war as the Taliban insurgency escalates.
Sprinter Robina Muqimyar -- who in 2004 broke the gender barrier on the Afghan Olympic team -- was last in a field of 85 women in the 100 meters, with a time of 14.80. She ran with a scarf covering her head.
Teammate Massoud Azizi finished 76th in the men's 100. He trains in Kabul's National Stadium, where the Taliban once staged regular public executions, wearing jogging shoes because his spikes won't dig into the track's cracked, concrete surface.
But Nikpai, who is 21, has claimed a spot among his sport's elite.
Afghanistan will get another chance at a medal in taekwondo. Nesar Ahmad Bahave is competing in a heavier weight class.
Hussein Rachmati, a taekwondo teacher who works in the gym where Nikpai trains, said Nikpai prepared for the Olympics with a Korean teacher. He placed second in the World Taekwondo Federation's qualifying event in Vietnam last year.
Afghans gathered around an ice cream shop TV in Kabul broke out in wide smiles and passed around congratulations to one another after watching Nikpai's win, said Abdul Wafi, a 28-year-old university student. "It is wonderful that an Afghan athlete can win a medal in the world Olympics," said Wafi. "It is a great achievement for Afghanistan."
The top U.N. official in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, said the Olympic win shows that Afghanistan can compete on the global stage against the world's best athletes. "Young people should draw hope and inspiration from this Olympic win," Eide said in a statement. "Today, Afghanistan has demonstrated that it can and will succeed in the face of adversity with the determination, commitment and hard work of its most precious resource -- the young people of Afghanistan."
Along with the president's offer of a house, Nikpai's bronze medal comes with a cash prize. Ehsanullah Bayat, chairman of the Afghan Wireless Communication Company, earlier announced that he would award any Afghan athlete who won an Olympic bronze $10,000, along with $50,000 for a gold medal and $25,000 for a silver, said Khalid Andisha, a spokesman for AWCC.
"It is a great victory for Afghanistan," said Mohammad Sukran, an 18-year-old student. "In a country like Afghanistan, the only thing we hear about all the time is violence and fighting. This is finally good news for Afghanistan."
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May this be the first of a long list of the kind of achievements peaceful societies take for granted. Congratulations, Mr. Nikpai, and to all your countrymen!
International Olympic Committee launches probe into He Kexin's age
The International Olympic Committee has ordered an investigation into mounting allegations that Chinese authorities covered up the true age of their gold-medal winning gymnastics star because she was too young to compete.
An IOC official told The Times that because of "discrepancies" that have come to light about the age of He Kexin, the host nation's darling who won gold in both team and individual events, an official inquiry has been launched that could result in the gymnast being stripped of her medals. Ummm - unless it is a US athlete, few of them are stripped. I will believe it when I see it. Besides. Nastia Lyukin would get two more golds. The world would frown on that. American & attractive. Very un-global, you know.
The investigation was triggered as a US computer expert claimed today to have uncovered Chinese government documents that he says prove she is only 14 - making her ineligible to compete in the Olympics - rather than 16, as officials in Beijing insist is her age. Mike Walker, a computer security expert, told The Times how he tracked down two documents that he says had been removed from a Chinese government website. The documents, he said, stated that He's birth date was January 1 1994 - making her 14 - and not January 1 1992, which is printed in her passport.
He's true age has been a subject of swirling controversy since the Games began. Questions over her eligibility intensified after she edged out the US gymnast Nastia Liukin for the gold medal in the uneven bars on Monday, and was part of the team gold triumph last week. She also edged Britain's Beth Tweddle out of the medals.
Bela Karolyi, the former gymnastics coach whose wife, Martha, coaches the US women's team, has repeatedly accused the Chinese of fielding underage female gymnasts. The ages of two other team members have also aroused suspicion: Jiang Yuyuan and Yang Yilin. Time magazine reported that government records, that have since disappeared, showed both girls to be 14. Gymnasts must be 16 to compete. The minimum age for female gymnasts was increased from 14 to 15 in 1981, and up to 16 in 1997, to protect the physical and mental health of young athletes.
Nadia Comaneci was 14 when she won her fist Olympic gold medal in 1976. Yet despite her stardom, there were criticisms that young girls were being pushed too hard at an age when their bodies and bones were still growing, causing permanent damage. Ironically her coach was Mr Karolyi.
There were also concerns about their mental health, because of the pressure of competing on the world stage at such a young age, and that they were vulnerable to exploitation and even physical abuse by coaches.
"They are obviously kids," Mr Karolyi said. "Twelve, 14 max - and they're telling the world they are 16? What arrogance." Although the US team has deliberately steered clear of the controversy, his wife suggested after the US team's loss to China that the Chinese gymnasts were still losing their baby teeth. "One of the girls has a missing tooth," she said.
Mary Lou Retton, the US Olympic gymnastics gold-medallist in the 1984 Games, told the New York Times last month: "The girls are so little, so young. They say they are 16, but I don't know." The IOC has been accused of deliberately ignoring the issue because it feared offending China.
Yet Giselle Davies, an IOC spokesperson, said tonight that because of troubling new developments, the committee had instructed the International Gymnastics Federation, the sport's governing body, to investigate. "More information has come to light that did point to discrepancies," Ms Davies said. "We have asked the gymnastics federation to look into it further with the national Chinese federation. If there is a question mark, and we have a concern - which we do - we ask the governing body of any sport to look into...as to why there is a discrepancy."
The man who uncovered the allegations about the underage athlete told The Times that he was not even a sports a fan, but decided to investigate the issue to determine if Chinese authorities were lying. He eventually discovered that two Excel spreadsheets on the Chinese government's official sports website - www.sport.gov.cn - that mentioned her name had recently being removed.
"There was a conclusion here," Mr Walker said. "These documents existed, on a state-wide website, and now they don't exist, and this change has taken place recently. I was interested because these were documents that no-one could find. If there's information to be found on the internet I'm a citizen journalist - it was a challenge."
He turned to a Chinese search engine, Baidu. In its cache he found both documents. "The listing in there, quite clearly, is He Kexin's birth date, January 1, 1994," Mr Walker said. That makes her 14 years and 220 days old and too young to compete. The lists were compiled by the General Administration of Sport of China.
How aggressive and sustained the IOC-ordered investigation will be remains to be seen. If it did ultimately result in the stripping of gold medals from one of China's favourite athletes, it would be an Olympic scandal with reverberations far beyond the sport itself.
In July the New York Times published references to articles in the Beijing press in which He was referred to as only 14 years old. Chinese officials responded immediately by providing the newspaper with a passport copy indicating He had been born on January 1, 1992, but still doubts lingered, not least because the athlete looks barely past puberty.
When asked about her recently - and before He's gold medal wins - IOC president Jacques Rogge claimed it was not his organisation's role to check the age of competitors. "The IOC relies on the international federations, who are exclusively responsible for the eligibility of athletes," he said.
Under his blog name Stryde Hax, Mr Walker wrote: "Much of the coverage regarding Kexin's age has only mentioned 'allegations' of fraud, and the IOC has ignored the matter completely. I believe that these primary documents, issued by the Chinese state...rise to a level of evidence higher than 'allegation'. How official are these documents? Pretty dang official - they were issued by the General Administration of Sport of China."
He insists that she is old enough to compete. Asked by journalists about the debate, she said: "My real age is 16. I don't care what other people say. I want other people to know that 16 is my real age."
Both China and the US came into the Games determined to show the other who was boss. Although China is generally recognised as the leading nation, with a tally tonight of 46 gold medals to the USA's 27, Americans claim to interpret success by the total number of medals won, which puts their team ahead with 86 to 83. With the scores that close, every last piece of metal is precious -- meaning this row could follow He firmly into adulthood.
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Gotta be a South African 'Onion'. Headlines like
Shock as SAA flight takes off without incident
JOHANNESBURG. Calm has returned to O.R. Tambo International Airport following the weekends shock departure of a South African Airways flight to London on time, with all its engines attached, and only minimal luggage stolen.
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SA crime and Zimbabwe crackdown offers new hope to unemployed human shields
JOHANNESBURG. Out of work since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, volunteer human shields are flocking to Southern Africa to cash in a boom in contact crime and physical violence. "It's been tough since we left Baghdad," says shield and mother of two Patty Smith, "but here on the streets of Hillbrow I really feel I am contributing."
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First it was Brad from Illinois, with his 20-stone wife, trying to do Europe in a week. Then it was Fritz from Munich, hogging the sunlounger. Then it was Shane from Brisbane, with the accent you could cut with a knife. Every generation of British holidaymakers has its bête noire, its least favourite fellow tourist. And there is no doubt who is filling the bill this summer Ivan from Moscow, the hotel guest from hell.
See that guy with a gold bracelet propping up the bar, with a blonde on each arm? Thats Ivan. See the guy at the corner table, puffing clouds of smoke while snapping instructions into his mobile phone? Thats Ivans mate, Nikolai. See the guy with bulging biceps squiring the blowsy redhead in the see-through shirt? Thats Ivans mate Nikolais minder, Boris. And, yes, that is a gun in his armpit, just above the tiger tattoo.
Ivan and his entourage seem to be everywhere, from the Aegean to the Canary Islands, and if you go by the anecdotal evidence, they are making more enemies than friends.
When it came to behaving badly abroad, the gold medals used to go to British lager louts, trashing places like Benidorm and Faliraki. We are still a force to be reckoned with the number of British holidaymakers arrested is up 15 per cent on last year but we have been knocked off the podium by the Russians.
The place was crawling with them, says a friend who has just returned from a week in a five-star hotel in Antalya in Turkey. Men in hideously tight Speedo trunks, women who looked about 16 and dressed like prostitutes... They were loud, aggressive, smoked incessantly, filled the place with their fumes. As for booze, they outdid the Brits at their own game: got drunk faster, and were more aggressive afterwards.
I had a similar experience at a Greek beach resort. There was an isolated cove with the words QUIET BEACH posted in five different languages. Which accent reverberated across the sand as the rest of us tried to read? You guessed. And who ostentatiously ordered the most expensive bottles of champagne on the wine-list to wash down their lunch? Got it in one.
Partly, of course, we are envious, the way we used to be envious of American tourists when the dollar ruled. For heavens sake, we think to ourselves, as the rouble billionaires flash their wads, it is only 20 years ago that these guys were queuing barefoot for bread in the snow.
But there is more to it than envy. There is a clash of cultures: different social attitudes to everything from smoking to mobile phone use and appropriate skirt lengths. It is a toxic combination - and the way modern package tourism works, with 50 Russians suddenly pitching up at the same hotel as 50 Brits or Germans, only makes it more so. National differences get magnified; mutual resentment festers.
Among many Old Europe hoteliers, there is a perception, fair or not, that Russians in large numbers are bad news. In 2007, in the upmarket Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, it was decided to impose a 10 per cent quota on Russians: they were felt to lower the tone and put off other guests.
Even the mighty Roman Abramovich is not immune to the backlash against his countrymen. Earlier this month, the multi-billionaire Chelsea owner was refused a table at a restaurant on the Tuscany coast. He was told and how one envies the man who did the telling to come back tomorrow as the restaurant was fully booked. From north to south, said La Stampa, the Turin daily, a rebellion is growing against those who show off their wealth and power.
All over the Mediterranean, there are frictions. Some of them are comically trivial. Non-Russians, for example, are baffled by the way Russians like to reserve seats for evening entertainment by placing pebbles or apples on the chairs shades of the infamous German towels. But some of them go deeper.
It is as much a question of decibels as anything else, says a friend with bad memories of disturbed nights on a holiday on the Croatian coast last summer. There were only about a dozen Russians in the hotel, but they made enough noise for 50. They didnt seem to have any conception that other people might want a more low-key kind of holiday. When I tried to complain, that only made things worse.
In the interests of international harmony, it is fair to say that not all Britons have had bad experiences of Russians on holiday: indeed, it has been said that it is our snobbery, not their rudeness, that is the problem.
Some of them do make an easy target, says travel writer Claire Wrathall, who spent time in Russia as a student. I am thinking of the ones who turn up in the bar wearing silver trainers or an absurd amount of bling. But if you take the trouble to get to know them, particularly the ones travelling on their own rather than in a tour group, they are remarkably sophisticated, the reverse of narrow-minded. Russians tend to be much better at languages than the British and they have a healthy respect for British traditions and culture.
Hope springs eternal, of course, and when one sees names like Andrei Petrovich or Natalia Godunova in a hotel register in Greece or Italy, one entertains fantasies about meeting characters straight out of Tolstoy or Chekhov: gentle, intelligent, humane; the proud representatives of a great culture.
But why are so many of those fantasies dashed by the sound of a drunken shriek and someone falling off their barstool?
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"From north to south," said La Stampa, the Turin daily, "a rebellion is growing against those who show off their wealth and power."
Huh? They weren't too keen on plebeian Americans all in their blue jeans and sneakers running over the place a decade or so back either. Strange how that turned out with the low couture catching on with the masses. :)
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It was only deep in the article was the real sneer unveiled: that Russians have money, and spend it liberally, whereas the English are stingy. And they resent that the businesses prefer the Russians.
Well, hey, English. The Russians didn't vote for the nanny state socialist. They may be ruled by a tyrant, but he's from business.
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From the KGB, actually. As my otherwise politically quite liberal daughter points out, there used to be some Russian billionaires who weren't KGB sponsored.
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Seems smart enough that she might well grow out of her liberalism some day. ;)
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lotp: Billionaires are still billionaires. You might point out that no matter their other failings, at least they don't keep up with that annoying, incessant dialectic day and night. That has to be worth something.
The sun is about to set on the city and the roundabout is deserted. A youth suddenly emerges from one of the bylanes, carrying a National Flag in his hand and shouting slogans of "Bharat Mata Ki Jai". Soon, the solitary protest at Kacchi Chhawani Chowk in 'paralaysed' Jammu turns into a mass frenzy as hundreds join him to express solidarity for a cause that has gone far beyond the Amarnath land row.
In fact, the Tricolour has united people in this winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir to fight the "neglect" they faced in the last 60 years. The controversy over allotment of a land plot to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board was a mere flashpoint. "We raised the Tricolour and were greeted with bullets. They (separatists) in Kashmir hoisted Pakistan's flag and brought the Government to its knees. It will not be allowed to continue any more," thunders Subhash Dogra, a protester.
Everyone in Jammu has suddenly turned leader, brushing aside allegations that "communal elements" are controlling the movement. "We are leaders in ourselves. Nobody is leading us. We are ready to face problems today to ensure a better future for the generations," adds Gurpreet Singh, owner of a few taxis. Though he has been getting no business for 50 days, he is ready to bear the losses for "many more months" but not the humiliation at the hands of the Government.
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MUMBAI: Extradited gangster Abu Salem has a new set of worries in jail. In custody since his deportation from Portugal in November 2005, Salem has complained that the water he bathes with in Arthur Road jail is leading to hair fall.
"Salem shaved off his head a few weeks ago and we are thinking of moving an application before court to grant him permission to undergo hair treatment," said Salem's lawyer Rashid Ansari.
Salem is known to be a neat dresser and when he first arrived in India from a jail in Lisbon in 2005 he carried with him a number of branded clothes. "Salem has always been finicky about his looks," said an investigator who had arrested him several years ago. In fact soon after Salem was lodged at Arthur Road jail he moved an application before court asking for permission to keep two dumbbells in his cell. The request was granted and now he exercises regularly. What are the dumbbells names? Do they have purty mouths?
Salem is currently facing criminal charges in three major cases in Mumbai. While he is accused of ferrying arms and ammunition to the city just before the 1993 serial blasts took place, in another case he is charged with plotting the murder of builder Pradeep Jain. The third case against him pertains to the killing of actor Manisha Koirala's secretary, Ajit Diwani. All the matters are currently pending in special courts.
Salem though is not the first inmate of Arthur Road jail to complain about his physical appearance taking a beating while behind bars. An accused in the Gateway blast case, Ashrat Ansari, had complained in July that he got a rash after using a talcum powder endorsed by actor Shahrukh Khan. Ansari's brother had even served a legal notice on Khan.
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Fool! Don't you know that hair loss is a side effect of the Zionist Death Ray?
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Nigeria's Islamic authority has told the man who has 86 wives to choose only four and repent within three days or else he will be sentenced to death. The Jamatu Nasril Islam (JNI) passed their verdict on Mohammed Bello Abubakar, 84, according to Sharia law.
This comes two weeks after the Nigerian press and the BBC reported on the case.
Talking to the media then, Mr Abubakar challenged Muslim scholars, saying there is no punishment stated in the Koran for having more than four wives. However, Mr Abubakar advised other men not to follow his example and marry 86 women.
The former teacher and Muslim preacher lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children, and says he is able to cope only with the help of God. "A man with 10 wives would collapse and die, but my own power is given by Allah. That is why I have been able to control 86 of them," he told the BBC.
Most Muslim scholars agree that a man is allowed to have four wives, as long as he can treat them equally. But Mr Bello Abubakar told the BBC: "To my understanding the Koran does not place a limit and it is up to what your own power, your own endowment and ability allows.
"God did not say what the punishment should be for a man who has more than four wives, but he was specific about the punishment for fornication and adultery."
Niger is one of the Muslim majority states to have reintroduced Sharia punishments since 2000. Several people have been sentenced to death for adultery by Sharia courts but none of these sentences have been carried out.
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Talking to the media then, Mr Abubakar challenged Muslim scholars, saying there is no punishment stated in the Koran for having more than four wives.
Having more then four wives should be punishment enough...
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how many does the Moolah have? SOunds like a case of Nookie Envy.....
(wonder if those 84 have their PMS cycles in synch... that would be rough 'hood 'bout every 4 weeks)
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I read somewhere that Mo did, indeed have more then 4 wives and when he was called on it, had one of those revealations that he was special and was allowed to have as many rape victims wives as he wants.
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Re #5 - USN, IIRC, when a group of women live together, their menstrual cycles tend to synchronize. The study I heard of was looking at women in a sorority, so I don't know if it applies to a large group of married women living together.
But yeah, I can imagine if all 86 did synchronize, every four weeks would be "interesting".
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Rambler, it often applies to a mother and her daughters, too. But you have sons, if I recall correctly, so you wouldn't have experienced that. I'd bet money they are indeed well enough synchronized that it's only not a problem one week each month.
SAN FRANCISCO -- An immigrant suspected of being in the United States illegally - freed after being shielded from possible deportation by San Francisco officials despite committing two gang-related assaults as a juvenile - faces charges that he tried to stab a man to death last year in San Mateo County, authorities say.
The case of Eric Antonio Uc-Cahun, now 19, a native of Mexico, is the second in which a youthful offender protected from deportation in San Francisco has later been arrested for a violent crime as an adult.
The San Mateo County stabbing was especially vicious, authorities said - a top prosecutor said the victim had been "gutted, like you gut a pig."
Uc-Cahun's history of youth offenses in the city was similar to that of Edwin Ramos, a 21-year-old Salvadoran native facing triple-murder charges in connection with the slayings in June of a San Francisco man and two of his sons on an Excelsior district street.
"How many of these people are there who were the beneficiaries of this process?" asked Joseph Russoniello, the U.S. attorney for Northern California, who has been critical of the city's practice of shielding immigrants from deportation. "This is what happens when the best intentions are misapplied," Russoniello said. "If there was any justification for this program, cases like this certainly undermine that expectation."
Both Uc-Cahun and Ramos were in San Francisco's juvenile justice system at least twice during Mayor Gavin Newsom's time in office, Ramos for an assault and an attempted robbery he committed when he was 17, Uc-Cahun in connection with assaults and other crimes for which he was arrested in 2006.
Juvenile justice officials protected both Ramos and Uc-Cahun from federal authorities under their interpretation of San Francisco's sanctuary law, which bars the city from cooperating in U.S. efforts to hunt down illegal immigrants. Seeing how San Francisco isn't part of the United States and, as such, need not comply with US racist, mean spirited laws...
However, City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office concluded last month that nothing in the law prevented San Francisco from turning over suspected youth felons to federal immigration authorities. Newsom has since ordered juvenile justice officials to provide information on felons suspected of being illegal immigrants to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Since the policy change, more than 50 juvenile offenders have been referred to federal immigration officials, according to juvenile probation authorities.
Nathan Ballard, a spokesman for the mayor, said Wednesday that he could not comment about any juvenile records. However, he said, "because of the mayor's change of policy, we are optimistic that tragedies like this one can be avoided in future." And from now on, everything will be...A-okay. No need to thank us. Just doing our jobs...
Uc-Cahun's attorney in his adult case, Chris Morales, said his client left his parents in Mexico and came to the United States to live with siblings about four years ago. Morales would not comment on whether Uc-Cahun was in this country legally, but federal authorities have placed an immigration hold on him since his arrest in the San Mateo County case, indicating that they believe he is not a legal resident. Good guess.
Uc-Cahun's criminal history as a juvenile dates at least from Aug. 13, 2006, when San Francisco police reports show that he was arrested along with two other suspected gang members in the assault on a man at Dolores Park. The victim was hit in the head and threatened with a gun after the group demanded to know whether he was a gang member, according to the reports. Uc-Cahun did not cooperate with police, refusing even to say where he lived, authorities said. The police report on the attack says Uc-Cahun was a Sureño gang member known as "Tweety" who had "numerous prior contacts" with law enforcement. Uc-Cahun, then 17, was taken to juvenile hall and eventually was found to have committed felony assault. A San Francisco Juvenile Court placed him on probation and freed him from juvenile hall.
On Oct. 18, 2006, shortly after his release, Uc-Cahun was arrested again, this time for allegedly being part of a group that accosted a stranger on the street and ripped a chain from his neck. He spent four months in juvenile hall before being found responsible for a single charge of felony assault. He turned 18 by the time he was freed in February 2007 and put on a year's probation. Uc-Cahun was still on probation May 22, 2007, when he and several other suspected gang members allegedly jumped a man waiting for a ride on the 2700 block of Bayshore Boulevard in Daly City, said Steve Wagstaffe, chief deputy district attorney for San Mateo County.
Three men approached, accused the man of being a rival gang member and started beating him with a broomstick that eventually broke, Wagstaffe said. Other members of the group stripped the man of his jacket, and Uc-Cahun allegedly used a box cutter with a 2-inch blade to slash his abdomen open in two places. "He basically gutted him, like you gut a pig to get to the meat," Wagstaffe said. The man survived and later identified Uc-Cahun as the man with the box cutter. Uc-Cahun was arrested in September 2007 and has been held without bail since. In March, following a preliminary hearing, a judge ordered Uc-Cahun to stand trial.
The victim, whom The Chronicle is not identifying at the request of prosecutors, testified at a preliminary hearing that, "I pulled up my shirt and I seen my guts were hanging out of my stomach. My friends wanted to get them back," he said, but "all I did was lay down, (and say) 'Man, take me to the hospital.' "
A month later, a still-jailed Uc-Cahun allegedly wrote a letter to a friend that provided the name and address of the victim and suggesting that the friend "take care of things," Wagstaffe said. San Francisco police executing a search warrant in May at a house suspected of being used by gang members found the letter, he said. Uc-Cahun was charged with witness intimidation along with attempted murder, robbery and other gang-related counts.
Morales said other lawyers represented Uc-Cahun when he was a juvenile. As an adult, he said, his client appeared to be a successful participant in a San Mateo County jail education program. Authorities put him in isolation after the letter was discovered, the attorney said.
"He had redeeming qualities," Morales said. "He was doing well in custody. Now it looks like he did a stupid thing (in allegedly writing the letter) out of desperation." Ah...a "cry for help". Right, counselor?
Russoniello said the arrests of Uc-Cahun and Ramos raise the question of whether other juvenile offenders who were kept from deportation in San Francisco went on to become criminal suspects as adults. "These attacks demonstrate that these people are acting with impunity because they have little to fear," Russoniello said.
Ballard said officials are conducting a "top to bottom" review of practices under the sanctuary city ordinance to make sure San Francisco is complying with federal and state laws related to immigrant felony offenders. "These are complex questions," Ballard said. "It's not just one ordinance, it's many, many years, going back to 1985, of policies made in many ways. There's a lot of excavation to be done." "Excavation"? That don't sound good.
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I wonder if the City of San Francisco can be sued. Well, thay probably can be sued but would the Plaintiff win?
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The city is certainly building up a nice clientele base for a future class action suit for some motivated tort lawyers [will we see Red on Red soon]. Unfortunately, nothing says 'time to alter behavior' like having a massive award slammed upon the offender.
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SF sued? Shat...it should be placed under marshall law at this point. It's operating outside of all accepted bounds of consitutional law. It is in fact, a rogue state and deserving of the requisite treatment.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
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I think the guy should be put under house arrest in the Mayor's residence - and given a new set of knives.
Al
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#4 - to see why Federal funds are going to San Francisco, look at who represents the city - the Squeaker of the House herself. Any motion to cut off funding for SF would never come to a vote.
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Legislation is already on the books to do a withholding of certain appropriated monies, but the Departments [even though they're suppose to answer to the Executive and 'obey' the law look out for their own butts] won't because of the same fact - SanFran Nan. Utterly corrupts the basis of legitimate government.
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Or at least a multi-million dollar lawsuit from the victim for not enforcing Federal laws. Don't they take an oath of office to do so?
Well, when they get to the point about defending the Constitution against all enemies, it's a little different there. They interpret the next section, "foreign or domestic" as kind of a pick one or the other kind of statement. My guess is that most of them choose to defend it against "domestic enemies" only, like Marines, people from Ohio, that kind of thing. Foreigners like Uc-Cahun are cool with them.
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If SF is to be sued in Federal court, then it goes eventually to the 9th Circus, and they have friends there.
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If only the F'g Mayor could be sent to Git-Mo with San-Fran-Nan, Pelosi, and Babs Boxer for LIFE
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