University of Alabama in Huntsville officials have fired professor Amy Bishop, who's accused of shooting and killing three colleagues last month. I'm sure she'll appeal.
A one-paragraph letter dated Feb. 26 was mailed to Bishop informing her the university had terminated her employment effective Feb. 12, said UAH spokesman Ray Garner. If we're all lucky she'll have a job for the rest of her life.
Bishop was suspended without pay retroactively on the day of the attack, Garner said. Bishop has been charged with capital murder in a shooting that also injured three others in a faculty meeting on Feb. 12. She has been also charged with three counts of attempted murder.
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So much for the idea that you get tenure and you're set for life.
HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) – Investigators descended on home of Amy Bishop Anderson and her husband, around 9:00 a.m. Friday morning to serve a search warrant. A suspicious device found inside prompted much more investigating.
This comes at the one month anniversary of the U-A Huntsville shootings. Dr. Amy Bishop is accused of killing 3 colleagues and injuring three more.
A robot was sent inside the home of Dr. Amy Bishop Anderson and her husband, Jim followed by a boom that rippled through the south Huntsville neighborhood.
"There was a loud boom," said neighbor Conrad Thomas. "It sounded like a small explosive device, like a bomb."
The sound shook neighbors in the community with more commotion coming from the Bishop-Anderson home. As a precaution and Bomb Squad procedure, people in the homes next door the Bishop-Anderson household were evacuated and the bomb squad was dispatched with the aid of a robot to handle it.
"They used a robot to take it to a safe place and they detonated it," said Huntsville Police Department Major Crimes Unit Supervisor, John Turis. "There was no bomb making materials, nothing suspicious it just happened to be a piece of PVC pipe."
But John Brown's body is a-moulderin' in the grave.
James Brown's daughter has claimed the singer's body has gone missing from its crypt. LaRhonda Pettit, 48, alleges the body of Brown, who died in December 2006 aged 73, is being hidden to prevent a full autopsy being carried out. Ms Pettit said the official cause of death, which was said to be a heart attack brought by pneumonia, is not the real reason behind the Godfather of Soul's passing.
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I just can't stand myself.
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Have a fine documentary of WWI by Major Channel Four, Professor Hew Strachan.
Of course I have to fast forward past the extensive coverage of the Turkish theatre now because it is against the law to consider the Armenia theatre >:/
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Excellent Old Film, one correction.
In the Navy the command is "Shoot" the word Fire is reserved for actual fire to prevent misunderstandings.
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These were 14"/50 guns and were also used in New Mexico and Tennessee battleships, including the ill-fated Arizona. They saw heavy combat during World War 2, at which time they were well over twenty years old.
Ten of the slightly older 14"/45 guns survive to this day aboard the USS Texas and can give a good idea what these were like.
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Badly misleading headline, should read
"Defeated Viking warriors killed here"
NOT "IMMIGRANTS".
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The captives, all well built young men in their late teens and early 20s, were herded to the place of execution. Fifty-four in total, their heads were hacked off and stacked neatly in a pile. The bodies were tossed into a pit where they remained a tangle of limbs and headless torsos until archaeologists following the route of a new road stumbled across the remains last year.
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So. Did these guys show battle wounds of the type that would leave them incapable of resisting?
Did they show healed battle wounds that would show them having been warriors beforehand?
What does it take to "herd" several dozen well-built young men to a place they don't want to go?
Really don't want to go.
And make them stand still while their buddies are being slaughtered?
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..carbon tests dated the bones to between AD910 and AD1030
Jim, 1066 is the date that the Normans [Norseman Vikings] continued their immigration from already colonized and established fiefs in Northern France on to England. They stayed around a while. In fact other elements of the clan would set up additional branch offices in Sicily and Southern Italy. Had William been defeated at Hastings, I'd bet that diggers would have found another mass grave in the area as well.
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Interestingly, one was north of the Arctic circle, which likely means he was from the Greenland settlements (the whole of Iceland is south of the Arctic circle, as is all except the far northern tip of Scandinavia), supposedly founded around 980 AD. Which means they were exporting surplus manpower within a generation. Further evidence that during the Medieval Warm Period farming prospered in Greenland.
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If you can get four dozen professional fighting men to surrender without being severely wounded--if they had been wounded, they wouldn't have been herded off to a place of slaughter--you had a big fight that went on for a long time and killed a lot of guys. That meant these folks were mentally and emotionally destroyed. Otherwise they'd have fought, even if they were to have lost.
Which means that someplace around there was a hell of a battle and some digging there would be interesting.
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About that warming period: I think it was a Lonely Planet video on Greenland--either that, or one from National Geographic--that stated that people had raised cattle in the open land of Greenland from the beginning of the Viking settlement around 1000 AD. As the temperature cooled during the Little Ice Age, it became harder and harder to eke out a living, as demonstrated by the skeletons in the Viking graveyards. Archaeologists examined bones from the 1th C and the 14th C. The bones showed that the 14th C people were significantly shorter and dramatically undernourished. The Danes mostly evacuated Greenland after that.
On the subject of William the Conqueror and 1066, Harold The Saxon had just won a bloody victory near present-day York, against the Danes under Harald Hardraada. The Saxons didn't have a chance to rest after this battle; they had a forced march of three days to meet William at Hastings. So they were not in any real condition to fight the Normans.
Given that the Danes were raiding and settling in the British Isles since about 300 AD (it was the Danes who raided Patrick of Ireland's village and sold the teenager into slavery in Ireland), there were probably a lot of battles and a lot of worn-out exhausted soldiers over the next 8 centuries.
BROWNSVILLE — The Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
It was one of the more jarring incidents of the fourth week of border tensions sparked by drug killings, and rumors of such killings, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said he'd reviewed photos of the chopper flown by armed personnel Tuesday over a residential area known as Falcon Heights-Falcon Village near the binational Falcon Lake, just south of the Starr-Zapata county line. He said the helicopter appeared to have the insignia of the Mexican navy.
“It's always been said that the Mexican military does in fact ... that there have been incursions,' Gonzalez said. “But this is not New Mexico or Arizona. Here we've got a river; there's a boundary line. And then of course having Falcon Lake, Falcon Dam, it's a lot wider. It's not just a trickle of a river, it's an actual dam. You know where the boundary's at.'
The sighting came amid ongoing fighting between the Gulf Cartel and its former enforcers, Los Zetas. The mounting death toll and crisis of fear in cities across from the Texas border have drawn global attention, as has a news blackout in affected cities due to the kidnappings of eight Mexican journalists, at least one of whom was killed.
As violence continued Thursday with a highway shootout in Tamaulipas, a Senate subcommittee in Washington heard testimony that drug cartels are trying to infiltrate U.S. agencies along the border, with corruption cases among Homeland Security personnel on the rise.
In the past two years, there have been 400 public corruption cases involving federal, state and local law enforcement agents originating from the Southwest border region, Kevin Perkins, FBI assistant director for criminal investigations, told the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee on preparedness.
James Tomsheck, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection assistant commissioner, told the panel the drug cartels operating in Mexico are making a concerted effort to infiltrate CBP, and the agency is responding with more screening of job applicants with polygraph tests and background investigations. Corruption cases were opened last year on 576 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents.
A military operation Wednesday in Reynosa reportedly resulted in the wounding and arrest of a man identified by witnesses as a former engineer for Pemex, the government oil monopoly. The witnesses told the Mexican newspaper El Universal that an attempt by army soldiers to stop his late-model white Suburban escalated into a pursuit with gunfire. More than 100 soldiers closed off neighborhood streets as part of the operation.
Gonzalez, the Zapata sheriff, said he couldn't confirm reports that the helicopter was scoping out the home of a drug criminal. He said the incursion about a mile over the border took place over a neighborhood populated by many U.S. Customs officers who work at area border crossings — and that they knew what they were seeing.
“My understanding is the U.S. military were informed,' he said. “I don't know what action was taken, if any.'
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perhaps a little ground fire from the subdivision would be justified
Don't mess with Texas!!!!Texas has liberal gun and self defense laws and they are certainly justified with the cartels warring across the border. If this was Mexican military in pursuit of the bad guys, why didn't they radio and enlist the US feds for help?
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And when they capture a US Border Patrol Agent and kick him out of the helicopter at 1200 AGL over Falcon Heights-Falcon Village for all the wives and family to see....what then President Obamba?
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Failing state alert. This may actually be the fire under everyone's arse to finally get serious about enforcing the border and stopping the mexification of the US southwest. Could help anti-illegal immigration candidates this fall and in 2012.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Two female aid workers with the Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in quake-ravaged Haiti, who have been adducted last week, were freed Thursday and are "safe and sound."
For security reasons and in a bid not to "complicate" negotiations to free the women, the Friday kidnapping had been kept secret.
"We confirm that there was a kidnapping," spokesman Michel Peremans told AFP on Thursday. The two women "were freed today."
According to Peremans, the kidnapping of foreign aid workers was the first such incident in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti that took the lives of more than 220,000 people and left 1.3 million people homeless.
"We will see how we can keep working," Peremans said, adding that providing security for workers was of high importance to the group.
The organization maintains 400 foreign employees along with 3,000 Haitians who work in the Central American nation.
"It's very important for us. We want to keep working in Haiti," said the spokesman.
It is believed that the prisoners, who following the quake broke out of their jails, are responsible for the criminal acts underway in the quake-ravaged country. Most of these criminals have sought refuge in Cite Soleil, a city slum ruined by the quake, where police and UN peacekeepers struggle to impose the law.
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An activist from New Zealand has been arrested by Japan's coastguard after he boarded a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean last month. Peter Bethune said he had boarded the ship intending to make a citizen's arrest of the Japanese crew.
Instead, the Shonan Maru 2 immediately set sail for Japan with him on board.
He is a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which has been trying to disrupt the annual hunt of the Japanese whaling fleet. Scores of camera crews and photographers waited on the quayside as the whaling ship sailed into Tokyo bay with the anti-whaling activist on board.
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Their overpriced ski boat wasn't sliced in two, it just got a little trim around the bow area. They could've saved it if they weren't so incompetent. And if it wasn't intentional on their part.
Screw this mook, toss his skinny round-eye butt in Radio Prison...
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To add to their lies, the video plainly shows them powering INTO the whaling ship,
(Hard turbulence as the Andy Gill revved up IN FORWARD)
This was NO accident, they scuttled the "Andy Gill" and tried to blame the whaler.
(I LOVE Video cameras)
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China wants to crack down on press freedom and introduce a new training system that requires journalists to train in Marxist and communist theories of news. "It's 'running dog lackies'? I always thought it was 'running lackie dogs'!"
"Wang, shoot him!"
Li Dongdong, deputy director of the General Administration of Press and Publication, told the South China Morning Post that some mainland reporters were giving Chinese journalism a bad name because they were not properly trained. Under communist theories of journalism, media should support the leadership rather than operate as a watchdog. "Woof! Woof! Arf! Bark!"
[BEAT! BEAT! BEAT!]
"Yipe! Yipe! Yipe!... [LICK! LICK! LICK!]"
"Good boys!"
The initiative seems to be aimed at mainland journalists only. Hong Kong journalists get to watch.
Chinese officials already routinely censor journalists, but Chinese media has become less restricted in recent years as they have gained more revenue from independent sources via advertising.
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Under communist theories of journalism, media should support the leadership rather than operate as a watchdog.
Funny, that describes the New York Times ever since Obama got into office.
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Why do they have to go to the trouble to set up a brand new system to train their journalists in this? The school they want already exists.
They can just send their reporters to Columbia Journalism School. They've been teaching "Marxist and communist theories of news" as the highest form of the art since the '60s.
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I wonder what the hell is left of Marxism and communism in China. They've revised it so many times since Mao that it is probably unrecognizable to the Marxism and communism taught in American journalism schools.
"Nielsen Ratings says, 'Those with high ratings during prime time, with best demographic age and gender groups, will prosper under heaven, and be smiled upon by the advertiser gods.' "
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Sorry, I agree with the IRS on this one. If it's income you're supposed to report it, whether it's a transaction over the counter of your store or a transaction done over the internet. Income is income.
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That's great; another freakin' form I have to put up with...
a nice lead in to in collecting sales and use taxes.
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Interstate commerce is federal, sales taxes are local and state. The Supreme Court of the US has already ruled the states cannot collect sales tax in almost all of these instances.
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Will moneybookers, based in the UK be affected by this?
What about Escrow.com and similar escrow services who do not do "payment" functions (they only serve as escrow between seller and buyer) and may not be covered by the law?
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It is what it is intended to be - a bookkeeping nightmare that drives micro-businesses out of business (and competition). It will have collateral damage against individuals selling used property - which should generally be recovery of depreciated capital and not taxable revenue, but gorb probably doesn't have his dated original purchase receipt for the litter scoop to establish his basis cost.
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The IRS can't even keep up with cabinet members, congressmen and federal employees; how are they going to keep up with this? People will have paypal accounts tied to bank accounts not even in their name and not even in this country
Gov. Chris Christie today will create a commission to privatize as many as 2,000 state jobs beginning next January, officials said Wednesday night.
As he grapples with an $11 billion deficit in the budget he will present on Tuesday, Christie is also considering invoking the Disaster Control Act to suspend Civil Service rules to make it easier for him to lay off higher-paid workers, according to two administration officials.
Privatizing jobs would require layoffs. By beginning them in January, Christie would not be subject to a deal between former Gov. Jon Corzine and state worker unions that would require the state to pay millions in raises to remaining workers if he orders layoffs before then. Privatizing also has the benefit of slowing the drain on the public employee pensions.
Suspending civil service would allow Christie to order layoffs of higher-paid unionized state employees with many years of service, rather than the usual practice of layoffs that affect lower-paid new employees first, the officials said. Currently, workers with more seniority can "bump" less-experienced workers from their jobs.
The privatization effort deals a blow to state worker unions just 48 hours after Christie publicly acknowledged he is bound by the agreement struck by Corzine where state workers would get two 3.5 percent raises in the coming fiscal year -- one in July and one in January. They deferred one raise and took 10 unpaid furlough days last year in exchange for the no-layoff pledge. This guy is doing what needs to be done.
[Bangla Daily Star] Sri Lanka's military yesterday announced court martial proceedings against its former chief Sarath Fonseka for engaging in politics while in uniform and violating military procurement laws. Valentinian III killed Aetius with his own hand, once Attila was out of the way. Of course, Valentinian was murdered within a year, and 20 years later there was no Western Empire.
Army spokesman Prasad Samarasinghe made no mention of the more serious conspiracy and assassination plot charges that
Fonseka and Rajapakse were allies in the crushing of Tamil Tiger separatist rebels last May, which ended their 37-year struggle that left up to 100,000 people dead according to a UN estimate. Fonseka later fell out with Rajapakse over who should claim credit for the victory.
some in the ruling party had levelled at Fonseka after his defeat in presidential elections in January.
The highly decorated ex-army commander will be charged on seven counts of breaking army rules, Samarasinghe said, adding that a court martial would start hearing the case on Tuesday at the navy headquarters in Colombo. "There is no time frame to end the court martial proceedings," Samarasinghe said, adding that Fonseka, who is under military custody at a naval detention centre, could appeal to a civilian court after the military verdict.
Supporters of Fonseka say the court martial is an attempt to stop the 59-year-old campaigning in parliamentary elections due next month.
President Mahinda Rajapakse has been accused by rights groups and other critics of cracking down on the opposition and dissent since he defeated Fonseka, a former ally and now bitter enemy, in a poll in January.
Fonseka was arrested by the military on February 8, two weeks after he lost the presidential election. Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse, who is the president's younger brother, had said that the government had clear evidence of Fonseka plotting a coup and planning to assassinate the president.
The defence secretary had speculated that the hearing against Fonseka could go on for at least six months and on conviction he could be sentenced to five years in prison.
Ruling party politicians had also accused Fonseka of planning to overthrow the government and had labelled him a "traitor" for standing against his former commander-in-chief at the presidential polls.
Spokesman Samarasinghe said he was unaware of "conspiracy charges" against Fonseka, but said an investigation was being carried out by the police Criminal Investigations Department too. "The CID is doing a separate investigation on General Fonseka," Samarasinghe said. "It might be related to charges to overthrow the government. That is a civil matter. The military will limit itself to violations of the Army Act."
Samarsinghe said Fonseka said the seven counts related to two charges -- engaging in politics and wrongdoing in military procurements. Fonseka is accused of "conduct unbecoming" an officer, as well as maintaining contacts with opposition politicians while being head of the army and unfairly granting an arms contract to a company run by his son-in-law.
The police have already mounted a search for Fonseka's son-in-law, whose bank accounts have been frozen by the authorities.
Fonseka has challenged his arrest in the Supreme Court, which has fixed a hearing for April 26.
Fonseka and Rajapakse were allies in the crushing of Tamil Tiger separatist rebels last May, which ended their 37-year struggle that left up to 100,000 people dead according to a UN estimate. Fonseka later fell out with Rajapakse over who should claim credit for the victory.
Despite his detention, he still intends to contest the April 8 parliamentary elections, which Rajapakse is expected to win.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint against the Rapid City Police Department, saying two officers were responsible for getting a lesbian Air Force sergeant tossed out of the military.
Police went to Jene Newsome's Rapid City home last November to serve an out-of-state warrant on Cheryl Hutson, Newsome's partner.
The officers allegedly noticed an Iowa marriage certificate showing the two were married and notified Ellsworth Air Force Base, which later gave Newsome an honorable discharge.
The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy bans service members from acknowledging they are gay or engaging in homosexual behavior.
Police Chief Steve Allender declined comment, other than to say that it is routine to notify the base of criminal matters involving military personnel.
Newsome had been in the military for nine years and said she planned to make it a career.
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The officers allegedly noticed an Iowa marriage certificate.... Do most people have their marriage certificate out on display like some dentist or lawyer's office? Any different than finding out someone they have contact with is listed as awol or as a deserter and reporting it? Had they not had the marriage certificate visible and/or on display, proof of relation beyond being 'roomies' would have been impossible without someone 'telling'. Self inflicted wound.
The President ended up giving it all away to charity, including a chunk to the Fisher House, a national non-profit organization that provides housing for families of patients receiving medical care at major military and VA medical centers.
Credit where due, although I wonder if we'd approve of the rest of his donations.
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The whole $1.4 mil is shown there, so I assume Ms. Periwinkle is wondering about other donations. I'd say he did a good job with the Nobel prize, so I'm going to have to upgrade my opinion to "worthless loser who occasionally does something right."
That's better than a lot of folks ever gave W.
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He didn't give my people any money, so he's still a worthless loser.
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I'm not sure how the tax law works here. Maybe he reports the $1.4M prize as income and takes the charitable donations on his Schedule A or maybe, since he is giving it all away, it never counts as income in the first place.
Anyway, he doesn't need the money. After he leaves the Presidency he will hire someone to write his (3rd) autobiography and take in $10M plus and then he can give make $2M/yr giving speechesand 'consulting' for various orgs.
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Doesn't he get income tax relief for making the donations? From money he didn't earn?
No, only if he disclaims the prize entirely. Since he had control over the money (ie., he made the decision where it's spent), the money is counted as income.
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.
University of Alabama in Huntsville officials have fired professor Amy Bishop, who's accused of shooting and killing three colleagues last month.
China wants to crack down on press freedom and introduce a new training system that requires journalists to train in Marxist and communist theories of news.
