[THESMOKINGGUN] After having her "sexual advances" rejected by her live-in boyfriend, a South Carolina woman allegedly threatened to shoot her beau, cops allege.
Ryan Rucker, 33, was sleeping early yesterday when Michelle Smart, by her own admission, "attempted to make some sexual advances toward" him, according to a police report detailing the 2 AM incident.
Rucker told cops that he pushed the 30-year-old Smart off of him, which prompted an argument during which Smart "told him she would shoot him because she has the gun." Smart told officers that after Rucker "rejected her and pushed her off of him," he punched and kicked her multiple times.
Cops noted that Smart "continually was changing her story throughout the investigation," adding that, "For these reasons, Ms. Smart's account became less believable."
Smart, judged the "primary aggressor" by cops, was enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for domestic violence since Rucker "feared for his safety when Ms. Smart pulled the gun out and threatened to use it." Cops seized a Ruger handgun and six bullets, which were placed into evidence.
Smart spent about eight hours in jug before bonding out of jail Sunday afternoon on the misdemeanor charge.
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Kinda like if I have sex with a prostitute while she's sleeping is it rape or shoplifting?
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Shoplifting. You meant to pay but you found-out you were 3 cents short of the bill, but you really needed it. Deacon, just rebook the same babe, and "doubly pay" the next time around. An oh, now I know Deacon, why you got the Blues, you short on money but looooong on De Sire.... Whoom-Bata-Bing !
Climate change is creating an âunprecedentedâ risk of severe drought in the Southwest and Central Plains. Rising temperatures and decreasing rainfall mean that future drought could be more extreme than any drought seen in at least the past 1,000 years and the effects could reverberate for urban dwellers and farmers across the regions. But Alaska gets wetter. Nifty graphic at link.
Israel manages to grow wonderful produce in the Negev desert using drip irrigation. Interplanting with Great Plains native plants with long taproots will help hold the soil, as will using no-plow planting techniques. In other words, even if there were to be this thousand-year drought with which we're being threatened, we currently have the technology to prevent the worst effects. But I speak merely from the knowledge of a little suburban housewife; no doubt the Israelis and our own clever agriculture specialists at our many wonderful ag-tech colleges can come up with a good deal more. Think of this not as a problem, but as an opportunity.
The 1930s Dust Bowl created post-apocalyptic conditions for the Central Plains, but Lisa Graumlich, who heads the University of Washingtonâs College of the Environment, said that the severe drought that plagued the Southwest from 1100-1300, âmakes the Dust Bowl look like a picnic.â That drought occurred during what researchers have called the Medieval Climate Anomaly and contributed to widespread ecosystem shifts and the collapse of civilizations across the Southwest. Izzat like the Medieval Warm Period, I wonder?
*snicker*
Yet both those droughts pale in comparison to the severity of drought projected to befall those regions -- which encompass all or part of 17 states from California to Louisiana to Minnesota -- during the latter half of the 21st century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise according to a new study published in Science Advances. Both regions are all but guaranteed to experience a severe drought that would last at least a decade, with the odds of a drought lasting multiple decades at about 80 percent. In comparison, the chances of a multidecadal drought occurring during 1950-2000 was less than 10 percent. Our model has been carefully adjusted to accurately represent the past.
...but not the present, unfortunately. Which does bring into question its ability to predict the future.
"The surprising thing to us was really how consistent the response was over these regions, nearly regardless of what model we used or what soil moisture metric we looked at.
Golly. It sounds like the Hockey Stick program, which yielded precisely the same graph regardless what numbers were entered.
It all showed this really, really significant drying," Benjamin Cook, a researcher at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and lead author of the study, said. No wonder they can't afford to go to Mars.
Prob'ly just as well. Their calculations had them aiming the rocket toward the sun, not away.
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That drought occurred during what researchers have called the Medieval Climate Anomaly
Undoubtedly caused by rising CO2 emissions generated by all that industrial expansion during Medieval times. /sarc off
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...no doubt the Israelis and our own clever agriculture specialists at our many wonderful ag-tech colleges can come up with a good deal more.
Israeli specialist haven't and won't come up against the yet to be discovered Beakman Sand Flea that would stop any such development in CA for generations in litigation by the usual suspects exploiting even more pseudo science to promote Ludditism for the entire effected human population.
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Agricultural water use in CA is maddening, open flooded ditch irrigation still in use all up and down the Central Valley. You drive by wells overflowing and fields that look like rice paddies all the time on your way to the Sierras. Wasteful is not a big enough word for it, no controls whatsoever but I would get a $1,000 fine for washing my car on the wrong day.
Hundreds of government troops are surrendering to pro-Russian separatist forces in the east Ukrainian town of Debaltseve, separatist press service DAN cited a pro-Russian rebel official as saying on Wednesday.
[Iran Press TV] The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called on warring sides in eastern Ukraine to cease fighting and implement a European-brokered peace deal as the situation swiftly deteriorates.
The UNSC made the call on Tuesday, following a meeting during which a Russian-drafted resolution endorsing the new ceasefire agreement on Ukraine was unanimously approved by the 15-member council.
The resolution endorses the peace deal which was reached following marathon talks held on February 11 and 12 by the leaders of Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia, and came into effect on February 14.
The council expressed "its full respect for the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine" and its "grave concern at the tragic events and violence in eastern regions of Ukraine."
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Just partition it, and you can have "full respect for the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity" of Eastern Ukraine.
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AFAIK Kiev/Kyiv still controls a very large swathe of sovereign territory between the separatist Eastern regions + the Crimea proper.
Russia historically desires "unconditional"
Land-Air-Sea-Space? access to its Milbases, hence Vlad will likely still want to gain control of that territory from Kiev, or else have it declared a formal DMZ "off-limit's" to everyone at risk of Russian retaliation.
[DAWN] Members of a political group shot up rivals under treatment in the emergency ward of District Headquarters (DHQ) hospital, leaving six people injured.
There was a panic at the hospital as police were called in to control the gunnies.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Malik Karamat said a group led by Babar Jadoon, former nazim ...small time big shot, the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council... of union council three, clashed with the rival political group of Raja Adeel over a piece of land in Hazara Colony, Pirwadhai.
The SP said two men of the Raja Adeel group were maimed in the clash and brought to the DHQ hospital by the police.
"The injured were being treated at the hospital when a member of the Jadoon group also arrived at the ward with an injury. We believe that it was a self inflicted wound and the purpose was to register a cross case against Raja Adeel group," SP Karamat said.
The SP said Jadoon group's men followed their injured partner into the ward where they began quarrelling with the Raja Adeel group.
"Jadoon group then shot up their rivals, injuring six of them," he said.
SP Karamat said four of the shooters have been placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! and their vehicle has been impounded by the police.
The injured have been identified as Raja Nasir, 40, Qasim, 23, Sophian, 29, Muhammad Sohail, 20, Raja Tariq, 45 and Muhammad Meer, 26.
They are reported to be in stable, pH balanced condition and police has been deployed at the ward to avoid further festivities between the groups.
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Actually, it makes sense to have your gang shootouts in a hospital. Trauma is best treated fresh. None of that laying on the pavement, gut-shot and bleeding, waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
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.
separatist press service DAN cited a pro-Russian rebel official as saying on Wednesday.
