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The Russians don't put up with that kind of nonsense, to their credit. They probably seized the silly suit as evidence and made the guy stand out in the Moscow cold.
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Greenpeace idiot doesn't look like he was doing anything bad -- I don't know if we should be celebrating the return of Stalin, even when it's red on green.
Posted by: regular joe ||
01/31/2009 10:19 Comments ||
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Assuming the greenpeace idiot in question isn't Russian (probably a good bet), R Joe, it really doesn't make any difference whether we think he wasn't doing anything bad.
It's incumbent upon visitors to a country to find out about that country's laws and endeavor not to break any. I certainly wouldn't go to a country like Russia and pull some kind of stunt. Protesting in front of their embassy in this country is a lot safer and will get just as much accomplished as this clown did (nothing, but they feel good about it), without the risk of a Russian jail.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
01/31/2009 10:35 Comments ||
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I couldn't be less sympathetic to a Greenpeace demonstrator. All I'm sayin' is being dragged off by the Ruskie miltia for handling out pamphlets is a trip down memory lane most of us would prefer not to take.
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A Cody man has been cited for public intoxication while riding his horse on a busy street during a weekend snowstorm.
Police received a call at 4 p.m. Sunday from a motorist who was concerned that Benjamin Daniels, 28, was creating a road hazard by riding his horse in conditions of poor visibility.
An officer stopped Daniels to explain that drivers were having difficulty spotting his slow-moving white horse as he was riding along Yellowstone Avenue near Wal-Mart, said Assistant Police Chief George Menig. "Because of the wind, the blowing snow and the color of the horse, we were worried he was a danger to himself and motorists," Menig said.
Steady snow, gusting winds and subzero temperatures continued throughout the day.
As police continued to observe Daniels, it was clear that he was "highly intoxicated," Menig said.
Police saw Daniels drinking beer as he moved behind Cassie's Bar and Supper Club, apparently in an attempt to avoid them, Menig said. Although some who are cited for public intoxication are issued a ticket but not detained, police believed Daniels could not safely be released until he was sober, Menig said.
Daniels had been spotted earlier riding along Highway 120 between Road 2AB and the Shoshone River. Menig said police did not know the reason for his excursion.
Police contacted a friend of Daniels, who picked up the horse.
Menig said he could not recall any other recent citations for public intoxication while on horseback. "This is another first for me in Park County law enforcement," he said.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
01/31/2009 12:21 Comments ||
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Coulda been me and Ace comming back from the Big Orange. I'm glad he knows the way home. One can be sited for riding while intoxicated here in Tennessee.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
01/31/2009 17:30 Comments ||
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Cody is a neat town. I desire to visit there again some day.
This story only makes that desire stronger.
Posted by: Mike N. ||
01/31/2009 17:35 Comments ||
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The EU competition commission recently fined a cartel of marine hose manufacturers for price fixing. Marine hose is a rubberized pipe used to transfer oil between storage facilities and oil tankers and offshore platforms. The main customers are oil companies. The companies involved had met secretly to set prices and bids and to allocate markets.
The fine totals $173 million, and is directed at six global companies. They include Bridgestone Tire and Rubber (Japan), Trelleborg SA(Sweden), Manuli Rubber Industries (Italy), Dunlop Oil and Marine (UK-based, but a part of Herman conglomerate Continental Tire Group), and Parker ITR (Us/Italy). Also involved in the cartel was Japan-based Yokohama Rubber, but that company revealed the cartel to EU authorities and so avoided the fine.
The US and UK are both said to be pursuing criminal cases on executives involved in the cartel. The UK is moving ever more aggressively on cartel busting, with higher fines, especially to companies that obstruct investigations.
14-times Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe
THIS is the astonishing picture which could destroy the career of the greatest competitor in Olympic history.
In our exclusive photo Michael Phelps, who won a record EIGHT gold medals for swimming at the Beijing games last summer, draws from a bong.
The glass pipes are generally used to smoke cannabis.
And after sporting chiefs announced laws which mean four-year bans for drug-taking, Phelps dreams of adding to his overall 14 gold medal tally at the 2012 games in London could already be OVER.
Those dreams seemed the last thing on his mind when he puffed from the bong during two days of partying with students last November, a quiet time in the swimming calendar when athletes would not expect to get tested for drugs.
One party-goer who witnessed the stars behaviour told the News of the World: He was out of control from the moment he got there.
If he continues to party like that Id be amazed if he ever won any more medals again.
Phelps aides went into a panic over our story and offered us a raft of extraordinary incentives not to run the bong picture.
It was on November 6, weeks after his Beijing triumph, that 23-year-old Phelps surprised students at the University Of South Carolina in Columbia by showing up unannounced at a house party.
He was visiting Jordan Matthews, a girl he was secretly seeing who was a student there.
Our source revealed: Michael came to visit Jordan but ended up just getting wasted every night.
He arrived with a group of girls hanging all over him. Jaws hit the floor when he walked in. You dont get many celebrities in Columbia, so when Phelps comes to your party its a very big deal.
Twelve dormitories of Jagannath University have long been under the occupation of former lawmakers, leaders of Chhatra League and Chhatra Dal, local criminals and even government organisations like the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and police.
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01/31/2009 00:00 ||
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May explain why over 1.0Milyuhn Bangladeshis chose to move and emigrate to INDIA, as per INDIAN/PAKISTANI DEFENSE FORUMS POSTERS - all Housing twent occupied by the Govt = Dear Leaders???
The police in Layyah on Friday arrested another person from the district's Kot Sultan area, accusing him of blasphemy, Station House Officer (SHO) Rauf Khalid told Daily Times.
The man, Mubashar Ahmed (45), is the fifth person of the Ahmadiyya community to be detained in the blasphemy case since Wednesday.
Four other minor boys, aged between 14 and 16, have also been charged in the case under Section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code.
According to the First Information Report (FIR), the boys are accused of writing blasphemous material in latrines of Kot Sultan's Gulzar-e-Madina mosque. The boys are students of grade nine and 10 at the Superior Academy in Chak 172/TDA of Layyah.
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01/31/2009 00:00 ||
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You know when these cases get re-opened 20 years later, it's usually because the perps were known all along, but their political cover has just evaporated.....
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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THIS is the astonishing picture which could destroy the career of the greatest competitor in Olympic history. 
