(Xinhua) -- U.S. celebrity socialite Paris Hilton will avoid jail terms under a plea bargain reached with authorities and be placed on a year of probation, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.
According to the plea deal, aside from pleading guilty to two misdemeanor charges -- drug possession and obstructing a police lieutenant, the 29-year-old must also complete a substance abuse program, pay a 2,000-U.S.-dollar fine and perform 200 hours of community service. The nature and location of the community service will be determined later.
If Hilton is arrested during her probation, she will have to serve a full year in jail, the plea agreement states.
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U.S. celebrity socialite Paris Hilton
If it weren't for her last name she'd be walking the corners as a hoora
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A cocain possession MISDEMEANOR???? I supposed it will take her getting stoned and crashing a sports car into a family of four and killing them all before anything out of the California ordinary will happen to her. All proving once
again, this society is doomed.
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An insult to hooras who have to work for their money and, if caught with this load, would have gone to jail.
Not that I give a damn, but never did hear why she was searched. I find that odd...asthma pill, rolling papers, what I guess is not a transaction weight...too stoned and stupid for Vegas standards eh?
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Yes, you are right indeed Geoprompter, Vegas is in Nevada. Hollywood California, TeeVee crowd.... etc. She could have been arrested on the fuc*ing MOON! Same end result.
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I'd concur with Pappy - San Diego County is no Donk love-shed, although Davis and Filner are big Donk tools. They are severely outnumbered, and out-passioned this election
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My hope lies in the San Adreas. Failing that, the cancer will surely metastasize.
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I don't know a thing about those fellas in San Diego Frank. But the debt I know about, and it is likely to take the entire country down. It is being ignored, just like the border problems in Arizona and Texas.
[Dawn] Flood waters from Manchar Lake started to flow into Indus River as a 1500 feet breach was made in a protective embankment of Sehwan Larkana near Karampur village on Saturday.
Eight breaches created in Manchar Lake and a breach in the Main Nara Valley (MNV) drain could not be sealed, resulting in flood waters to flow towards the last embankment of Bhan Saeedabad at Indus link canal. As a result, the whole area was facing high level of flood.
Pakistan forces and civilians continued to strengthen the protective embankment, whereas 80 more villages of five union councils of Sehwan including Bhobakdal, Pakka Chana and Tilty were inundated. This brought the total number of villages inundated to 200.
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(Xinhua) -- A Colombian drug lord was jugged in a joint operation by Colombian and Venezuelan police on Friday.
No, really -- a joint operation with Venezuela captured what must be one of Presidente-reelected-yet-again Chavez's pet drug lords? This is shocking. Unless, of course, the drug lord did something to draw down upon his head el Presidente's wrath...
Didn't pay the vig, I take it ...
At a press conference in Margarita Island, Venezuela, Colombian Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera said in coordination with the Venezuelan authorities, the Colombian police captured Alberto Marin Zamora alias 'Beto Martin,' who was wanted by the United States.
The U.S. government had offered up to 5 million U.S. dollars for information leading to his capture, he said, adding the police have made three extraditable arrests this week.
(Xinhua) -- Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya
Who?
on Friday demanded that the Honduran government allow him to return to the country to exercise his political rights.
Speaking at a press conference after meeting Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in Managua, capital of Nicaragua, Zelaya vowed that international efforts for his pacific return to Honduras would continue.
Oh, him.
He stressed his return should be without any preconditions and that after his return, he would lead a movement in favor of restoring the democratic order in the country.
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Too bad, Manny. You're Yesterday's News. And, outside of Danny Boy and Hugo, nobody cares.
MUSLIM women have rallied in their hundreds to oppose moves to ban the burka in Australia, condemning the push as part of an orchestrated "war on Islam" in the West.
Women swathed in veils and wielding placards declaring "my burka - conviction not coercion" and "leave my mum alone - we love nikab" gathered yesterday in a park in Punchbowl, southwestern Sydney.
The first public protest against calls to ban the veil, the rally was co-ordinated by a coalition of Muslim groups known for their often hardline views.
The organisers included the Islamist political party, Hizbut Tahrir (Party of Liberation), which favours the creation of an Islamic caliphate, and the fundamentalist Ahlus Sunna wal Jamaah Association.
A female speaker, Umm Jamaal ud-Din, told the rally a ban proposed by Christian Democrat MP Fred Nile, which was due to be debated in the NSW parliament this month, had fuelled intolerance and bigotry.
"What this bill has effectively done is open the door to the racist element in Australian society, whereby some people think they have free rein to vilify, abuse and even physically assault women who wear the veil," she said.
"All it has done is create social unrest and discord, stir up intolerance and create a further divide between the Muslim community and our fellow Australians."
The head of the Lakemba-based United Muslims' Association, Shady Al Suleiman, thanked the leaders of the major political parties for their recent assurances that they would not support legislation to ban the veil, which has been advocated by Liberal senator Cory Bernardi.
Female speakers emphatically rejected claims that face-covering garments such as the burka and nikab symbolised the oppression of women.
Ms Jamal ud-Din, a mother of five and a seventh generation Australian, said she had been wearing the veil for 17 years. "Contrary to popular opinion, to me the face veil has everything to do with feminism," she said.
"I feel empowered by the knowledge that I am in control of displaying my beauty to whom I choose, and the fact that I can move freely throughout society without being subjected to the eyes of every Tom, Dick and Harry."
Read more about Muslim women protest against push to ban burka at The Australian.
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It is foolish to get into the fashion regulation business. But it is also foolish to get into the intolerance management business. As long as people don't get violent, I have a hard time seeing the problem with intolerance. As long as people are willing to live with the reaction to their intolerance, they should have the right to be intolerant. I don't have a problem with No R--h---s or dogs need apply. It's a reflection on the employer. And if it's accepted, the society. But denying the employer or the society the right to express their opinion doesn't change their opinion. It only embitters it.
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"I feel empowered by the knowledge that I am in control of displaying my beauty to whom I choose, and the fact that I can move freely throughout society without being subjected to the eyes of every Tom, Dick and Harry."
Right, until you can become sufficient in number at which point you and your men will make it a requirement for all of us.
Scariest thing in the world was having someone in a black niqab walk up to a group of schoolkids on a fieldtrip during all the boomer blasts and having no idea who or what was under it.
The ability to size people up and discern their intentions is a big part of the success of western civilization. The thought of women running around in niqab because they can't trust the men around them is to be greatly pitied.
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(Xinhua) -- British oil giant BP said Saturday it finished pumping cement into the bottom of the damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, in the final stage of sealing the well for good.
The London-based company said in a statement that the cement- pumping, known as "bottom kill", had finished.
It said earlier that the well will be completely sealed after cement sets.
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The sensationalists who had predicted this would be the End of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI) have crawled back under their rocks and await their next chance.
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If this is true, then it shouldn't have been difficult to prove:
"The FT article states that Soros had been privately informed in 1988 of the coming takeover of a French bank (he had been invited to participate in the takeover, but declined). He then he bought stock in the bank that was to be taken over."
That is insider privileged information.
Soros, pure as the driven snow...lol.
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turning his neighbors into the Gestapo
He has blood on his hands. This point should be made every time this opportunists name is mentioned.
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An ethical man knows it is wrong to cheat but may choose to do so anyway but a moral man knows both right and wrong but will choose to act with integrity. Soros is neither ethical nor moral.
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To paraphase CAL THOMAS, on UNCLE FIDEL'S alleged comment t that the CUBAN model of Communism is a failure [retracted later by Unc Fidel], IN COMMUNISM > "INTELLECTUALS" EXIST OR ARE THERE TO UNDERSTAND + COMPREHEND, NOT TO THINK OR GOVERN.
[Dawn] With floodwaters gushing from breaches in the Manchhar lake embankment finally falling into the Indus near Karampur town, officials of the Sindh government and Pakistan Army have heaved a sigh of relief.
According to irrigation officials, the swollen lake was receding rapidly on Saturday. They said the water level in the lake had fallen to 118RL (reduced level) from 121RL
The officials said that more than 100,000 cusecs of water was flowing from the lake and making its way to the river through human settlements.
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The optic-fibre link was also damaged at Arazi town, causing suspension of internet connectivity of Bhan Syedabad, Dadu and Sehwan towns.
I was wondering why we'd had a decrease in troll activity...
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ION YONHAP > NORTH KOREA UNEXPECTEDLY RELEASES FROM BORDER DAM INTO SOUTH KOREA: OFFICIALS.
The NOKORS had also
* SAME > NORTH KOREA ADDS [200] MORE MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHERS ALONG BORDER WID SOUTH KOREA: SOURCE.
ARTIC = The DPRK's intent to militarily threaten the South = ROK is deemed as UN-CHANGED DESPITES ERIOUS ECONMIC SHORTAGES + FOOD SHORTAGES
NORTH KOREA is also repor upset that SEOUL has chosen to donate only 5000 tonnes of rice to the North to help alleviate food losses wrought by the recent floodings [read, SOUTH KOREA STILL WANTS/DEMANDS A FORMAL APOLOGY FROM THE DPRK FOR THE "CHEONAN" INCIDENT, NO APOLOGY = MINIMAL-TO-NO-AID, OR OTHER, FROM ROK TO DPRK].
IIUC, BOTH ARTICS = IMO NORTH KOREA may be exploiting NATURALLY-OCCURRING PHENOMENONA TO ENGAGE IN REPOS ANDOR REINFORCEMENT OF DPRK MILFORS INCLUD FOR MIL FIRST-STRIKE OR PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGZ SOUTH KOREA???
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ION CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > CHINA'S ENDURING ANTI-CARRIER APPROACH:"WHERE IS THE NEAREST US CARRIER" [CVN/CVBG].
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [Daoyus Chin Fishing Trawler Incident, Detainment of Chin Boat Capt.]CHINA SAYS RELATIONS WID JAPAN "SEVERELY HURT", WILL TAKE [strong] COUNTERMEASURES IFF JAPAN INSISTS ON MAKING "MISTAKES".
* SAME > [CHIN FM Spokeswoman JIANG YU]CHINA WILL TAKE STRONG COUNTERMEASURES | CHINA SENDS OUT [marine = ocean]SURVEILLANCE SHIPS, repor to "safeguard" its interests + claims in the Chinia Seas.
[Al Arabiya] A religious ruling by the president of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, Dr. Yousef al-Qardhawi, permitting the singing of females stirred debate within Islamic religious circles where playing music and singing were perceived for long as forbidden by the Shariah law, the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported.
Some Muslim scholars criticized Dr. Qaradhawi's fatwa saying that singing is forbidden and not only for women but for men as well, citing the music's effect on emotions and its potential to lead to what is perceived as sin. Dr. Abd al-Fatah Idris, an Islamic scholar from Egypt's Al-Azhar university, said "As a general rule, women's singing is forbidden, but there is no evidence that shows women cannot allow men to hear their voice while singing."
But Idris acknowledged that during the prophet's era a woman called Zainab used to sing for other women in weddings.
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Ummm, Isn't the call to prayer from the Minaret singing?
If not, it sounds suspiciously like it.
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I would hope he would keep an exclusion for Yoko Ono
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Heh. Yoko.
Ya could've been a hero, Chapman, if you aimed a coupla feet to the right...
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heh, that clip's a beauty. sounds like a cat in heat with convulsions - that takes talent, I'm told
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"But in both camps women are advised to observe certain Islamic legal conditions and to restrain 'lustful desires.'"
What they're saying is that the women are responsible for preventing men's lustful desires (since we all know they don't give a rat's ass about women's lustful desires, or even think women might have some).
Here's a free clue, assholes: the people responsible for curbing your lustful desires is YOU. Start working on that, and you'll take a giant leap forward by a couple of centuries.
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Here's a free clue, assholes: the people responsible for curbing your lustful desires is YOU. Start working on that, and you'll take a giant leap forward by a couple of centuries.
you're being unreasonable...Infidel!
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Couple of centuries? Mohammedan society, if you exclude the Western influence, is closer to the Old Testament in character.
In other words, Bronze Age Caanan, 3000 years ago.
They're still worshiping Abraham's footprint outside the Kaaba, and who knows what inside.
A military program named for and inspired by the superhero Batman is bringing together advanced technologies to equip U.S. Special Forces soldiers for the 21st century.
Started by the Air Force in 2004, BATMAN -- short for Battlefield Air Targeting Man-Aided kNowledge -- aims to modernize the gear that commandos take with them on covert missions.
"In the earliest stages when we were coming up with a name for the program, we were perceived as having a lot of gadgets," said Reggie Daniels, BATMAN program engineer at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. "[Batman's] devices allow him to have an advantage. That is what we're trying to do."
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The subversion campaign known as Civilization Jihad must not be confused with, or tolerated as, a constitutionally protected form of religious practice. Its ambitions transcend what American law recognizes as the sacrosanct realm of private conscience and belief. It seeks to supplant our Constitution with its own totalitarian framework.
--- The US has been subverting its own Constitution from within for quite some time.
--- Political correctness is a direct attack on 'sacrosanct' private conscience & belief. PC IS a totalitarian framework.
-- we must also preserve here at home
the system of government, laws, and freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution that many took oaths to “support and defend” that is now being targeted by those foreign and domestic enemies who seek our submission to shariah. The US has a systemic problem not related to shariah.
It looks like some researchers have come close to nailing down one of the aspects of autism: A lack of regulation of some of the chemicals that transmit stimuli across nerve synapses.
It's not the whole picture, but it is an important part of it.
Personally, I have always heard that some areas of the brains of autistics were shut down. Now I question that. How can individual areas be "shut down" if chemical processes are running rampant? How can it be that these rampant chemical processeses are confined to certain areas? Do certain areas of the brain hijack these processes and leave nothing for the rest of the brain? Is the rest of the brain starved of the chemicals necessary to pass along signals? Surely the brain has to have some spatial pattern to the signals it processes, but you would think that this kind of problem would screw things up so bad that there would be no hope whatsoever of anything recognizably rational. And then again, maybe this chemical imbalance somehow ends up being localized despite my intuition that this kind of problem should know no boundaries. Is this imbalance present even in the nerves in the rest of the body, leading to sound and touch sensitivities, etc.? Or are all those sensitivities related to problems in the brain? Could the high incidence of GI problems with autistics be related to nervous system problems?
It seems as though there are several drugs out there in Phase I or II clinical trials. This is one of them. It's called Arbaclofen, and it's related to a well-known drug called Baclofen.
Arbaclofen seems to be used for some GI problems, too.
INSAR article.
[ Note: This article suggests backing off the drug can aggravate behavior to some degree. I don't know if it ends up worse than when it started or not. ]
Another article pointing at genes related to synaptic function. I don't know what the source is! :-) Scroll down a bit and check out the "related articles" section for some interesting titles.
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This is a complex subject, and its a long time since I studied neurotransmitters.
I will say that regulating the levels of neurotransmitters may well impact/mitigate specific autistic behaviours. However, this doesn't mean neurotransmitter levels are the cause of autism.
The problem is that modern medicine has 2 paradigms, the infectious disease paradigm and the chemical imbalance paradigm.
IMO, autism is primarily a learning disorder and this breakthrough will go the same way as the (biochemical) breakthroughs in treating schizophrenia I have been hearing about for 40 odd years, ie nowhere.
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.
(Xinhua) -- U.S. celebrity socialite Paris Hilton will avoid jail terms under a plea bargain reached with authorities and be placed on a year of probation, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.
[Dawn] Flood waters from Manchar Lake started to flow into Indus River as a 1500 feet breach was made in a protective embankment of Sehwan Larkana near Karampur village on Saturday.
(Xinhua) -- Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya 
(Xinhua) -- British oil giant BP said Saturday it finished pumping cement into the bottom of the damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, in the final stage of sealing the well for good.
