GRAND ISLAND, Neb. A police officer making a traffic stop early Friday found nearly 100 chickens in a small sports utility vehicle.
The officer had pulled the driver over just before 1 a.m. for driving without headlights on, said Grand Island police Sgt. Bud Edwards.
When the officer approached the 2004 Nissan SUV to visit with the driver, he noticed a couple of chickens sitting on the back seat, Edwards said.
The birds had apparently escaped from a makeshift cage in the back of the vehicle, he said.
About 50 of the chickens in the cage were dead, he said.
The driver has been charged with second-offense driving under the influence and second-offense driving during suspension. A woman riding in the vehicle was released, Edwards said.
The chickens were taken to the Central Nebraska Humane Society. Edwards said the case may be referred to the county attorney for possible animal cruelty charges.
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From the comments at 3dc's link, it seems chickens have a pecking order, so to speak, and the lowest levels don't make it. Loss of 50% is not uncommon. One guy suggests turkeys are even worse... But you suspected that!
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday announced his plan to provide health insurance to all Iranians under the moniker Rouhanicare a nod to America's own ObamaCare.
Gov will extend medical insurance to all Iranians, Rouhani said in a tweet on his English-language Twitter account. First step will be to cover 5mn uninsured Iranians by the social safety net. #RouhaniCare.
The tongue-in-cheek reference from the media-savvy, U.K.-educated Iranian leader may be part of his effort to ingratiate himself with the United States and other western countries. Israeli leaders and many Republicans on Capitol Hill believe Rouhani is cleverly trying to trick the West into dismantling the international sanctions regime even as Iran continues to secretly pursue a nuclear weapon.
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HONOLULU -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told law students at the University of Hawaii on Monday that the nation's highest court was wrong to uphold the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, but he wouldn't be surprised if the court issued a similar ruling during a future conflict.
Scalia was responding to a question about the court's 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld the convictions of Gordon Hirabayashi and Fred Korematsu for violating an order to report to an internment camp.
"Well of course Korematsu was wrong. And I think we have repudiated in a later case. But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again," Scalia told students and faculty during a lunchtime Q-and-A session.
Scalia cited a Latin expression meaning, "In times of war, the laws fall silent."
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More troubling still, youll see not one but two officers attempt to prevent the family from having an independent record of the raid, one by destroying a surveillance camera, another by blocking another cameras lens.
The civil jury shouldn't have long to reach an award decision just based upon that act alone. Can you say 'LOTTO' boys and girls?
Obviously, states have failed to institute ROEs for these wannabees. Long past the time that controls be put in place requiring something like the state AGs offices to grant authorization in other than very few and specific circumstances. Lie on an affidavit in rationalizing a raid that doesn't meet the few and specific should suspend the operation for months and terminate those who made false statements.
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The department says it does not have an SOP for a search/raid? Bull. This is not something obscure like an aquarium fire, this is part of the job description requiring the purchase of expensive equipment and training hours. They look a tad disorganized but not untrained.
So, what are the operating procedures of the facility they trained at?
The United Nations issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday for 1.27 billion dollars for aid for South Sudan, hit by a seven-week-old conflict that has forced close to a million people from their homes.
Ask the Europeans and the Chinese, we're a little tapped out right now.
The priority is to save lives now, and ensure that we have food, medicine and other lifesaving supplies prepositioned in the field, in easy reach of aid agencies before the rains hit and the roads become impassable, said Toby Lanzer, the UNs top aid official in South Sudan.
Describing the impact of the fighting as devastating, he said there were 3.2 million people suffering the humanitarian consequences, including 900,000 people who have been forced to abandon their homes and thousands more wounded.
Livelihoods have been lost, and peoples ability to move livestock to pasture, to fish or to hunt, has been severely compromised, he said.
I ask the international donor community to stand with the people of South Sudan and the aid agencies working here to help them before the situation gets even worse, Lanzer added.
Fighting broke out in South Sudan on December 15 between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those allied to ousted vice-president Riek Machar, and quickly spread throughout the country. Entire towns have been destroyed in the violence, with aid agencies and analysts estimating that close to 10,000 people have lost their lives in little more than a month.
The government and rebels signed a ceasefire agreement in neighbouring Ethiopia on January 23, but sporadic fighting has continued to rage.
The work of aid agencies has been complicated by widespread looting of humanitarian supplies by both sides in the conflict. On Monday Unicef said it was extremely concerned after government soldiers were pictured carrying bright-blue backpacks that were supposed to be destined for children but had been looted from a UN store.
Vehicles, food stockpiles and medicines have also been looted from organisations including the International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross (ICRC), Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the World Food Programme (WFP).
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Seve Whiyte. South Sudanese are anti-Arab and displayed American and Israeli flags when they reached independence. Instead of telling potential alies to go f.. themlselves you should tell something like "Take this 1,27 billion from the billions you squander on those well fed people who squander our money in, shooting Kassams at theiur neigbours and have been doing so for sixty six years without ever trying to get a job"
At a Tuesday news conference, the ministrys head of preventive medicine, Amr Qandeel, said 195 people have been hospitalized with the virus since Dec. 1, 2013. He added that so far the cases had been spread out through several areas, particularly the Nile Delta and Cairo. He encouraged those suffering from flu symptoms to seek medical attention early.
The ministry says that children and young adults are particularly vulnerable. Qandeel also says that two doctors had contracted the illness but that no medical personnel were among the dead.
In 2009, the global swine flu pandemic prompted Egyptian authorities to slaughter around 300,000 pigs previously used to dispose of the citys organic garbage. However, Jason McDonald, spokesman for the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says that the virus is now most often transmitted from human to human, and not through contact with pigs.
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[An Nahar] Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych could call early elections to end mass anti-government unrest, a top politician said Tuesday, as protest leaders demanded curbs to presidential powers in a stormy parliamentary debate.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton meanwhile was set to arrive in Kiev to press for a resolution to the crisis, as Europe and the United States discussed a possible financial aid package to Ukraine in exchange for democratic reforms.
Ukraine's protests erupted in November after Yanukovych rejected a key EU pact in favour of closer ties with Moscow, and the turmoil has since evolved into an all-out movement to oust him.
The opposition pressed for concessions at a heated parliament session in which one protest leader, boxer-turned-politician Vitali Klitschko, called for an "end to the dictatorship".
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[The Telegraph] The main settlers' lobby has released a video ridiculing John Kerry's Middle East peace efforts, undermining a plea from the White House for Israeli tea party
politicians to desist from personal attacks on the US secretary of state
It sounds like they are citizens, not politicians, and therefore not subject to the requested ban. Not that anyone could get Israelis to refrain from sharing their opinions anyway.
Israel's Yesha [settlers] Council exercising what was formerly known as free speech
, posted online a deliberately disrespectful spoof depicting America's top diplomat - played by an actor resembling John Kerry - riding a camel and making a series of preposterous statements that belittle his understanding of the region's complexities.
If anything, this little exercise seems to severely understate the depths of our hero's lack of understanding...
At one point, the Mr Kerry character is seen down-playing the importance of the Western Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism, in Jerusalem's old city.
"Dividing Jerusalem is not an easy thing," the actor says. "We must realize it is holy to all religions - Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Klingons and Hobbits. But what I'm saying is: 'why fight over an old wall?' I'll build you a brand new wall, close to the beach."
A woman with an American accent is then seen telling him: "I think you should go home, where you belong, and stay there." And those of us here at home feel he should request Israeli asylum.
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They got his preening, fawning Person, down pat,
GO HOME AND SHUT UP.
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Personal attacks in Israel directed at Sec Kerry totally unfounded and unacceptable, Ms [Susan] Rice wrote in one tweet. Another said: U.S. Govt has been clear and consistent that we reject efforts to boycott or delegitimize Israel.
But then again we heard from Susan Rice after Benghazi too.
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Hey he may be a feckless, pompous, cake-eating buffoon, but he's OUR feckless, pompous, cake-eating buffoon!
Such a video is an untenable provocation. Let's go attack their Bengazi embassy and maybe kill their Ambassador w/out fear of recrimination.
(Better insert the /s for the NSA...)
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"Dividing Jerusalem is not an easy thing," the actor says. "We must realize it is holy to all religions - Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Klingons and Hobbits."
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