SAN ANTONIO, Texas - A Texas man was arrested on Monday after calling police to complain about the theft of his marijuana, authorities said. Stephen Knight, 17, said three men had broken into his apartment, hogtied him with Christmas lights and stole some marijuana, along with a plasma screen television, police said. Police are looking for the suspects. In the meantime, when they stopped laughing,
they arrested Knight after finding several marijuana plants growing under heat lamps in the apartment, four grams of harvested marijuana and a tablet of ecstasy, Officer Chad Ripley said. Honest, we can't make this stuff up.
Knight said the men barged into his home early on Monday morning demanding, "Where's the weed?" according to San Antonio police.
Posted by: Steve ||
07/25/2005 13:57 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
genius
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2005 15:24 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Almost, but not quite, Darwinian, heh.
Just think, in jail he'll prolly learn a trade, say doing B&E's himself. Then he'll get stoned and caught doing the munchies thingy in the vic's place. And we'll pay for it.
I like AC's drug decriminalization approach or, alternatively, we perfect the wirehead thingy. Then light these folks up and keep 'em zoned until they're all rounded up and in custody -- then we add the rat poison that was sagely recommended yesterday.
#5
I'm not sure who's the dumbest: this guy, or the guys that busted in to steal pot and left the plants. They got a TV out of it, so I guess this guy wins.
Or : "Red hair and bad teeth for everyone!"...
I wonder what it's like for France, for example? Probably more variations, as it is not an island. Still, there is probably a similar if lesser homogeneity and continuity, despite the multiculturalist and immigrationnist hype about Europe being "a continent of migrations". Well, that's about to change in the coming decades, but we're told it's for the best...
Idiot study. We share 95% of our genome with chimps. Just exactly how much change did they expect to find?
Despite invasions by Saxons, Romans, Vikings, Normans, and others, the genetic makeup of today's white Britons is much the same as it was 12,000 ago, a new book claims. In The Tribes of Britain, archaeologist David Miles says around 80 percent of the genetic characteristics of most white Britons have been passed down from a few thousand Ice Age hunters. Miles, research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology in Oxford, England, says recent genetic and archaeological evidence puts a new perspective on the history of the British people. "There's been a lot of arguing over the last ten years, but it's now more or less agreed that about 80 percent of Britons' genes come from hunter-gatherers who came in immediately after the Ice Age," Miles said.
Continued on Page 49
#1
I'm trying to remember who it was who said we share 97% of our genome with chimpanzees, and 70% of our genome with lettuce...
Posted by: Phil Fraering ||
07/25/2005 13:55 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Depends on into how small pieces you break the chain for recombination. The procentages are entirely arbitrary and are meaningless. One may say that if we break DNS into its basic aminoacid building blocks, then the match with lettuce would be even closer. ;-)
This is a big issue. If you don't like what's happening with Chavez in Venezuela, Lula in Brazil, pending revolution in other Latin American countries, get on on the horn to your congress critters and get this thing passed. It's crunch time - up or down this week.
If President Bush fails to pass the U.S. free trade deal with five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic, he might as well cancel his upcoming trip to Latin America and say ''adios'' to the region.
Judging from what I heard from several Latin American officials last week, a ''no'' vote by the U.S. Congress on the Central American and Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) -- predicted by some congressional head counters -- would be the U.S. equivalent to the recent French and Dutch ''no'' vote against the proposed European Union Constitution.
It would amount to a virtual death sentence to the already troubled U.S. effort to create a 34-country, hemisphere-wide Free Trade Area of the Americas, as well as to U.S. sub-regional trade negotiations with the Andean nations bloc -- Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia -- as well as with Panama, they say.
If the U.S. Congress doesn't approve an agreement with a group of friendly Central American neighbors that together amount to only 1.9 percent of U.S. worldwide trade, the argument goes, it would be unrealistic to hope that it would sign much larger trade deals with the Andean bloc, or with Latin America as a whole.
Last month, the Senate passed CAFTA-DR by a narrow margin. But Democratic Party legislators in the House -- pressed by protectionist labor unions and big sugar -- are nearly unanimously against it, which could kill the treaty.
For U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, that would be a disaster, among other things because free trade has long been -- both under Democratic and Republican administrations -- the cornerstone of U.S. cooperation plans with the region.
`TRADE, NOT AID'
For at least two decades, Washington's message to Latin America has been, ``Trade, not aid.''
A major blow to the U.S. free trade campaign would effectively kill the only carrot in the U.S. foreign policy agenda toward the region. Without free trade, all the United States would have left to offer to the region would be ''negative agenda'' issues such as U.S. demands to curb illegal immigration, drug trafficking and security threats.
''It would send a terrible signal to Latin America,'' Peru's Foreign Trade Minister Alfredo Ferrero told me in an interview. ``The United States already has an image problem in Latin America: It's not seen as a partner. If they can't pass CAFTA, it would make things much worse.''
Andean countries are especially worried. Their current trade preferences under an anti-drug deal with the United States expire at the end of next year, and failure to renew it or sign a free trade deal could cripple their exports.
''We face the collapse of 25 percent of our total exports,'' Ecuador's Foreign Trade Minister Oswaldo Molestina told me.
It's not that Latin American countries lack a Plan B. Venezuela's self-proclaimed revolutionary President Hugo Chávez is more active than ever promoting his ''anti-imperialist'' Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). With huge oil profits in hand, and Brazil's regional leadership dampened by its ruling party's corruption scandals, Chávez is drawing the biggest headlines ever in Latin America.
POVERTY, OIL UP
In recent weeks, despite the fact that Venezuela's National Statistics Institute reported an 11 percent rise in the country's poverty during Chavez's first four years in office, Chávez has signed deals to create three regional oil companies -- Petrosur, Petrocaribe and Petroandina -- through which Venezuela will subsidize oil production and exports.
In addition, Chávez has recently vowed to purchase $500 million of Ecuador's foreign debt. He made similar promises to Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia.
Many of these deals come with strings attached. Venezuela's June 29 energy cooperation agreement with 12 Caribbean Community countries stipulates that its ''fundamental objective'' is to promote economic development ``based entirely on the principles for integration referred to as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).''
NO CAFTA, NO VISIT
My conclusion: If CAFTA-DR doesn't pass, Bush would be well advised to reconsider his Nov. 4 trip to Argentina for the 34-country Summit of the Americas.
He would not only be stepping into hostile territory -- the mayor of the host city, Mar del Plata, has already been quoted as declaring him ''the world's most disagreeable person'' -- but would arrive with nothing but ''negative agenda'' issues for the region. He may do better canceling the trip, and saying bye-bye to Latin America.
Posted by: too true ||
07/25/2005 08:36 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
At the risk of stating the blindlingly obvious. The upside of saying bye-bye to Latin America for the USA would appear to be far more than the downside. Take care what you wish for.
#2
While I am tempted to say, "Fuck you and so long, assholes" to Central and South America, the risk of them falling into revolution and providing the same environment as Afganistan is just too great, IMHO. Now some CIA sponsered coups, assasinations and some democratic reform might be just what the doctor ordered for that area of the world.
#3
The more you learn about CAFTA the less you might think central america would want it. It is kind of stacked in our favor. They stand to gain very little as is the traditional slant on central american trade policies. We are basically throwing them a bone. They will consume very little of our expensive goods, and they don't really know what to do with our foodstuffs. It may lower prices a little on agricultural products for american consumers. As with most trade policies 700-800 people will make all the money and the rest of us will see little change. So unless your a democrat and don't want to see anyone make a buck, who cares?
#4
I would rather see this than extending most favored nation status to a country like say China. Over all I really don't think this will have that much impact on the US economy. But I think if this lowers barriers between the Central and South American countries themselves and increase trade in the region itself it can only help matters. Personally I think most of the regions econmic problems are more related the the cultural baggage they aqquired from the era of Spains dominance than anything that the US did. And the US did do somethings that IMO were wrong. Using the Marines as a police force to help the United Fruit Company wasn't a high point in US foreign policy. Just my $.02
#5
Without strong intellectual property protections, Latin American countries will not get permission to produce, say, generic versions of patented drugs. Yes, there are UN-sponsored agreements under WIPO, but they are rigid and in some cases work against the recipient countries. Regional agreements are more likely to be win-win for all sides.
We should care, for several reasons. WIPO/GATT allows countries to demand that a drug be sold at an acceptable price ... if not, they can bypass the patents. Or do that on any other patented or copyrighted product.
In other words, if we don't engage in regional agreements we WILL find ourselves hemmed in by UN-sponsored ones. And saying F*uck You to the UN won't work - companies need markets.
Now from the CAFTA side, what the Latin countries get is access to markets for their products, yes, but also a legal framework within which it becomes much more attractive for multinational corporations to do business there, set up regional firms, do tech transfer etc.
Maybe not, but some things are worth the economic cost.
By the way, the asterisk is superfluous.
Posted by: Matt ||
07/25/2005 12:50 Comments ||
Top||
#8
LOL
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2005 12:55 Comments ||
Top||
#9
There are far more good reasons to have CAFTA than not. The eventual creation of a hemispheric trading bloc, associated with a really boring-sounding term, "managerial efficiency", would be the economic equivalent of what Bush is doing politically in the Middle East. Take Brazil, for example, which has proven itself capable of generating vast amounts of capital; transcended only by their ability to squander that capital. If their economies' management was blended with that of the US, such disasters wouldn't happen--too many American businessmen with interests in Brazil would intervene to keep it from happening--and the Brazilians would profit immeasureably by it. I mean intervene in the broadest of terms--across the spectrum of their nation there would be a foreign pool of good management always pressing for better standards. "Don't build a new capital (Brazilia) in the middle of a desert on top of a mesa. That is stupid." Sage advise from people dedicated to making money, not pissing it away.
Havana: Cuban police detained 22 people, including the three top leaders of a dissident group, apparently to thwart a planned rally for the release of political prisoners on the island, the leader of a rights group called the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation said.
Supporters of President Fidel Castro also staged noisy demonstrations outside the homes of opponents who had planned the rally outside the French Embassy in Havana to call for the release of political prisoners.
The incidents came as Cuba's communist authorities moved to keep the lid on discontent over prolonged power cuts on the Caribbean island before the Tuesday anniversary of the start of Castro's revolution, 52 years ago.
Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head. Foul man took up all my cache!
Kushnir, 35, headed the English learning centers the Center for American English, the New York English Centre and the Centre for Spoken English, all known to have aggressive Internet advertising policies in which millions of e-mails were sent every day. This is a pattern. Last week "Nigerian Investors", now this!
Progress ... of a sort ...
In the past angry Internet users have targeted the American English centre by publishing the Centerâs telephone numbers anywhere on the Web to provoke telephone calls. The Centerâs telephone was advertised as a contact number for cheap sex services, or bargain real estate sales. Reaaaaaallly cheap sex, in a reaaaaaalllly small house, far away from Moscow or St Petersburg!
Another attack involved hundreds of people making phone calls to the American English Center and sending it numerous e-mails back, but Vardan Kushnir remained sure of his right to spam, saying it was what e-mails were for. I think, therefore I spam?
Under Russian law, spamming is not considered illegal, although lawmakers are working on legal projects that could protect Russian Internet users like they do in Europe and the U.S. Those Duma boyz aren't moving so fast, as they have their own "cottage industries", which includes spamming as advertisement...
They're waiting for Vlad to tell them what to do. The Duma has a striking resemblence to the old Supreme Soviet ...
Posted by: Captain America ||
07/25/2005 13:17 Comments ||
Top||
#2
I've been getting heavy spam from Russia/East Europe on a daily basis for over a year. Since I don't have cyrillic letters installed, I can't even see/read what the f*ck they're trying to sell me
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2005 13:37 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Too bad. Couldn't have happened to a better man I'm sure.
#7
Now, can I hope to see something nasty happen to the Germanic numbnuts who keep sending the automated gambling, credit and pill comment spam to websites like mine?
It wouldn't have to be terminal... just something painful and disfiguring, with a looooong recovery time.
Makes me wonder if this was just another front for a scam (it made no mention of money but maybe a response would generated a request) or if some Islamofascists are combing conservative blogs to harvest emails in order to get real names and addresses and build a fatwa list.
Posted by: Dar ||
07/25/2005 14:48 Comments ||
Top||
#9
It's easy to write a spider to pick off your handle and the associated email addy. It's even easier to buy the extensive lists generated by existing spiders. It's why I won't put an email addy on my posts at any blog, never send e-cards, or any of the other common sources which sell or can be harvested for email addresses.
#10
It's why I won't put an email addy on my posts
I have a special Hotmail account just for that purpose. Never read any of the mail that gets sent there, just visit once a week to dump it.
Posted by: Steve ||
07/25/2005 15:01 Comments ||
Top||
#11
#4 Dear sir:
This is a confidential business opportunity.
I am the widow of Vardan Kushnir. Before his death, he invested $40,000,000 in diamonds....
Posted by Jackal 2005-07-25 14:02|| Front Page|| Comment Top
lmao!
ima get wun cupla munths ago bowt "help preserf teh korran"
#15
Never read any of the mail that gets sent there, just visit once a week to dump it.
Hummm.... a little eccentric sorta action, that plus the green highlight marks you. With medication and close supervision you can lead a full life. Avoid electronic transactions and spend as much time as possible outdoors, away from little baby ducks.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe arrived Saturday in Beijing for a visit expected to include a plea for oil and food to aid his state's failing economy.
Beijing sure is busy this week.
In response to widespread criticism of his government's so-called urban cleanup drive that has seen tens of thousands of people lose their homes and livelihoods, Mugabe has said his country will now rely on China and other Asian countries for aid, rather than the West.
Once again, the World League is choosing up sides...
In China, Mugabe will meet his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, as well as other Chinese officials, the official Xinhua News Agency said. No details of what the two sides would discuss were released.
Perhaps Bobby could have tea with the NorK negotiators while they're in town.
According to government figures from Zimbabwe, China has entered joint ventures and loan agreements with Zimbabwe worth $100 million since 1980 and has assisted in the training of the national army. Mugabe is likely to seek further help in exchange for mineral and other trading concessions during his weeklong trip.
#4
China has entered joint ventures and loan agreements with Zimbabwe worth $100 million since 1980 and has assisted in the training of the national army.
China always seems to be helping the wrong people.
They have no coastline; no international mariners ply their non-existent territorial waters. You might think that would excuse landlocked Hungary and Slovakia from implementing European Union legislation on safety at sea, but that would be to underestimate Brussels bureaucracy. I would never underestimate Brussels bureaucracy
The two countries are being threatened with expensive legal action in the European Court of Justice for failing to bring in Europe's maritime laws.
Slovakia last week received two EC "yellow cards" for ignoring the laws. Known in EU-speak as "reasoned opinions", they are final warnings issued to national governments before court action is taken. Kind of like My HOA.
"The commission has decided to send a double reasoned opinion to Slovakia on account of its failure to transpose into national law a number of directives on maritime safety, including that of passenger ships and the prevention of pollution from ships," the EC said. Oh, a double reasoned opinion. That's double-plus ungood.
While admitting that Slovakia was "not a maritime state" the commission sought to justify its existence warning. There are 20 vessels which fly the Slovakian flag but trade elsewhere in the world, it said, and they need to be inspected and certified according to the new criteria. The Slovakian embassy countered that the Slovakian-flagged ships were not of the kind covered by the directive.
"As far as passenger ships are concerned, you're not actually allowed to register them in Slovakia," said Marta Domokova, a spokesman. Resignedly, she added: "We have no coastline but it looks as if we are going to have to implement all these laws anyway." You can't fight City Hall.
The Hungarian government was chastised for failing to respect EU laws on the "availability of port facilities for ship-generated waste."
This lack of respect may seem excusable given that Hungary has no visiting ships, no ports and therefore no need for facilities in which to store waste. This, the commission said, was not the point. No, the point is on top of their heads.
"Though it has no maritime ports, Hungary has a maritime register," the commission explained. "Transposition of the directive by Hungary is therefore needed in view of the obligations on masters of ships."
While it may be tempting for the countries to ignore the yellow cards, in the hope that the commission will go away, they would be best advised not to.
The European Court of Justice has the right to impose fines on national governments if EU law is not upheld. Recently, France was fined â¬20 million (£13.9 million) for letting its fishermen catch fish that were too small.
Until France complies with the EU law, it will face a further fine of almost â¬60 million (£41.7 million) every six months. Of course, you could just ignore the fine, too. Or take it out of your payoffs EU assessments.
#1
Well the city of Berlin faced the same problem when it was forced to implement EU laws about "mountain cable cars and ski lifts".
Well Berlin has no mountains (highest elevation 91 m) and therefore wise city officials have never thought of building cable cars and ski lifts (which makes sense for a change).
But if they were ever going to have mountains in the future, they have all the laws for them in place already and could build those cable cars without running foul of the EU.
The law did cost them a 100000 Euros or so but that's not the point now isn't it?
#3
I don't see a problem. We all have to make a living.
Posted by: Georg ||
07/25/2005 7:48 Comments ||
Top||
#4
What happens if they get another "yellow card"? Do 3 yellows equal a red? Will Hungary be benched for the next quarter? Will Nathan tell Sally about Bernice?
EFL...This not a joke. Well, not literally. Failed Actress and all around barking assclown activist Jane Fonda says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq. "I can't go into any detail except to say that it's going to be pretty exciting," she said.
"I'm so EXCITED!"
Maybe a photo op with the "insurgents" in an IED mill will seal her reputation?
Fonda said her anti-war tour in March will use a bus that runs on "vegetable oil."
Kinky.
She will be joined by families of Iraq war veterans and her daughter. They plan to return to the Santa Fe area, where she was promoting her book, "My Life So Far" on Saturday. Prompted by a question from the audience, Fonda said war veterans with lucky hats given to them by cia agents that she has met on a nationwide book tour have encouraged her to break her silence on the Iraq war.
Puts mullet under tongue, waits with...
...baited breath.
"I've decided I'm coming out," she said. Sounds like she should be on an all together different tour? No?
Hundreds of people in the audience cheered loudly when Fonda announced her intentions to join the anti-Iraq war movement.
Fallujah Fonda has a nice ring to it
Some people will never learn. Didn't she just apologize for her 3 decade old debacle?
"I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam," she said. "I carry a lot of baggage from that." And that is today's installment of: The Understatement of the Day.
#1
Wonder if the American-Vietnamese and Cambodian community will meet her at each stop with signs showing the body count created by her beloved Commies after America left the SE Asian games?
#2
Fonda said war veterans that she has met on a nationwide book tour have encouraged her to break her silence on the Iraq war.
Yeah, she's been pretty f*cking silent up 'til now. Wonder which veteran had the most impact on her. Probably the one here in KC who spat a mouthful of chewing tobacco in her face. heh.
#3
Oh my, I am truly exicited Jane! So glad you broke your silence to enlighten us all. Who says an old washed up unskilled actress can't live on forever! My oh my now we have it all converging - The Book, the vain glamour, the activism, the hypocracy and the followers! I can't wait. She needs to go to Iraq and seek out the mujhadids. Bet she'd get one hell of a reception with extra special emphasis on the hell. You go there girl! Cultural parasite.
#11
Ridin' in a bus down the boulevard
And the place was pretty packed
Couldn't find a seat so I had to stand
With the perverts in the back
It was smellin' like a locker room
There was junk all over the floor
We're already packed in like sardines
But we're stoppin' to pick up more
Look out
Another one rides the bus
Another one rides the bus
And another comes on
And another comes on
Another one rides the bus
Hey
He's gonna sit by you
Another one rides the bus
There's a suitcase pokin' me in the ribs
There's an elbow in my ear
There's a smelly old bum standin' next to me
Hasn't showered in a year
Well, I think I'm missin' a contact lens
I think my wallet's gone
And I think this bus is stoppin' again
To let a couple more freaks get on
Look out
Another one rides the bus
Another one rides the bus
And another comes on
And another comes on
Another one rides the bus
Hey
He's gonna sit by you
Another one rides the bus
The window doesn't open, and the fan is broke
And my face is turnin' blue
I haven't been in a crowd like this
Since I went to see The Who
Well, I should've got off a couple miles ago
But I couldn't get to the door
There isn't any room for me to breathe
Now we're gonna pick up more, yeah
Another one rides the bus
Another one rides the bus
And another comes on
And another comes on
Another one rides the bus
Hey
He's gonna sit by you
Another one rides the bus
#12
Oh, fer cryin' out loud... the last time this dizzy bitch went out in public, she started babbling about a "flow of soft, hot, empathic, breathing, authentic, vagina-friendly, relational lava" that was gonna smother all us "patriarchal" types.
And now that flow will be lubricated by vegetable oil. Terrific...
Posted by: Dave D. ||
07/25/2005 15:53 Comments ||
Top||
#14
Your politics aren't going to fly and your bus ain't going to run. Why don't you go to Baghdad and preach your sh*t? You would have the distinction of being known as Hanoi Jane and Baghdad Jane if you didn't lose your head. You are not a peace activist. You are a traitor.
#16
Hummmm.... Ima have exclusive invite to grandee opening of TLH Montanna Grill.... freebie food from bisonville. I doubt Ted's hanging around in this hellish weather, but who knows.
#17
This silly bitch is going to set back the usage of alternative fuels by 50 years. Does she not know what she is going to do to the environment by this shit. I think this is all a giant conspiracy from the oil companies and democrats/moonbats so she can sell her fucking book to lemmings that believe two layers of aluminum foil are better at reducing the evil mind altering space rays.
Posted by: 49 pan ||
07/25/2005 20:58 Comments ||
Top||
#18
I'm disappointed. I thought she was going to tour Iraq. There's still a bus standing around from the Human Shields. Might not run on vegetable oil though.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 25 (UPI) -- A decades-long border dispute between Denmark and Canada has flared up after Ottawa's Defense minister paid a secret visit to a small island north of Greenland.
The fiend!
After his visit to the island, Minister of Defense Bill Graham said Canada had always regarded it as part of Canadian territory.
You know those damm expansionist Canadians, always looking to grab more territority.
This remark has caused a stir in Copenhagen, which administers Greenland's foreign policy. "We will hand over a note to Canada in which we will express our viewpoint," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Peter Taksoe-Jensen. "Hans Island is our island."
That's how it always starts, with an exchange of notes. Next there will be strong words at the UN, then stern telegrams, before you know it Canadian and Danish man-o-war will be trading broadsides off the coast of, where the hell is it again?
Hans Island, which can only be reached during summer because of pack ice, has been claimed by Denmark and Canada since Arctic borders were drawn in 1973. The two countries have sent navy ships to the region and both have raised their flags on the 1/2-square-mile isle.
What, someone discover oil and they're just not telling us? Or is this over the lucrative ice deposits?
Despite the occasional spat over Hans Island, diplomatic relations between Denmark and Canada remain healthy.
Given the current state of the Canadian military, I'll take Denmark and the points
#4
During the cold war the US sent a proposal to buy Greenland in order to use it as a forward warning radar site. The Danish never acknowledged the offer.
Perhaps we should submit the offer again, perhaps just offering to buy this contested Island for a radar base and then let the Canadians try to take it from us.
#8
My $10 is on the Danes because they deserve it and there is great potential entertainment value in it for all. They can then lease it to us and throw the Canadian anti "Deep Integration" nazi crowd into deeper spasmosis.
#9
Whoa, guys. Don't be too eager in dismissing the naval prowess of my homeland. It's rumored the 3-canoe Canadian navy includes a steel-prowed icebreaking canoe. Could be the deciding factor in a dustup with the Danes.
#10
Greenland is not Greenland, it is now officially known as Kalaallit Nunaat. Yet nobody respects the new name and continues to use the name Greenland which was created by the white man oppressors.
There will be no peace until Kalaallit Nunaat is free of Danish imperialism forever!
#13
Hans Island is our island
I hear an almost ready to fight anthem.
This lan is yur lan!
This lan is frooozaaan!
From the north point wind gap
to the east bay icefield
From the abandon hutments
To the still fresh carcass'ssssss
This lan I'll sell to you real cheap.
#16
They can't have New England but I'd consider a swap for Massachusettes. The Senators go with the state though, and we'd also insist Ben Afleck and his buddy go as well.
The biggest closeup I could find so that the PC totalitatians would use "vision challenged" status to say they didn't know what she looks like....
The mayor of Toronto has apologised to Canada's Miss Universe winner after she was barred from attending a festival in the city in her official capacity. Natalie Glebova, 23, who won the global beauty competition in May, was told she would be allowed in only if she removed her Miss Universe sash and crown. The ugly women are offended by the fact that you are breathing!
City officials cited a by-law which prohibits activities encouraging sexual stereotyping and degradation. But city mayor David Miller admitted they had gone too far. "It's unfortunate, and silly and won't happen again," he told reporters. Oops the PC Gestapo will have him removed from office.
Ms Glebova had been invited to attend the Tastes of Thailand festival in the city's Nathan Phillips Square, in front of the city hall, last weekend. Thailand had hosted the Miss Universe competition in May.
But the event's organisers say they were told Ms Glebova could not be introduced as Miss Universe or wear any of her beauty pageant regalia. They were told by city officials that a 1990 by-law forbids any events on the square that "exploit the bodies of men, women, boys or girls solely for the purposes of attracting attention," the Globe and Mail reported. The law adds, "specifically, beauty pageants will be prohibited". Yes. A group of ugly women were seen high-fiving one another in a meeting room of the Totonto City Hall...
Ms Glebova, a Russian-born Canadian citizen who studied at Toronto's Ryerson University, agreed to remove her sash, but said she disagreed with the ruling. "I definitely don't think that the Miss Universe title is any kind of stereotype or sexual stereotype," she said. Natalie - You may love your adopted homeland. But some natives don't otherwise they'd realize what assholes they look like.
And officials from the Miss Universe organisation were also unhappy. "It's a strict reading of the by-laws," President Paula Shugart told the AFP news agency. "According to those conditions, a beauty contest cannot even be held in Toronto."
Mayor Miller agreed that the law had been interpreted too strictly, but said he did not think it needed rewriting. "The by-law says that there won't be any beauty pageants in Nathan Phillips Square and that's appropriate, that's not a right kind of use for Nathan Phillips Square," he said. "But it doesn't say that Miss Universe can't be honoured there." Long live ugly people
Besides Natalie Glebova considers Toronto her hometown. I'd bet the mayor isn't the only Toronto resident who is embarassed...
But it will make little difference. Next election the left with all its promises of "goodies" will stay in power, and they will put these same buffoons in the bureaucracy as an election payoff for work and support...
Arise Torontons from your slumbers
Arise ye ugly people all
For pageant winners are revolting
A curse upon them all
Away with sashes and tiaras
Ugly masses arise, arise
We'll make those pageants felonious
And spurn those who win the prize.
Homely folks, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The creepiest amongst us will run the human race.
Homely folks, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The creepiest amongst us will run the human race.
--------------------------------------------------
PS - To friends of Miss Glebova...
We here in the US think she got a bum deal, and sometimes the best way to fight BS is with humor...
As she is from Russia - It seemed "The Internationale" was an appropoiate medium of protest...
EFL
On his first visit to the Middle East, Ricky Martin declared he will try to change negative perceptions of Arab youth in the West. ...hanging by my thumbs.
"I promise I will become a spokesperson, if you allow me to, a spokesperson on your behalf. I will defend you and try to get rid of any stereotypes," the 33-year-old singer told youngsters from 16 mainly Arab countries at a youth conference on Monday. "I will do for you, what I did for Latino men! You will all look really fem when I am done with you."
The children, ages 14 to 16, expressed concern about being labeled as "terrorists" by the West. Soon they will express concerns about looking effeminate.
"I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing," said Martin, who was born in Puerto Rico. Not quite the same as murdering innocent men, women, and children...
"Those comments are made out of ignorance and we have to sometimes ignore the ignorant, but we also have to educate the ignorant. You have me here as a friend," he said. And who are your new friends Ricky? Martin, whose hits include "She Bangs,""Shake Your Bon-Bon" and "Livin' La Vida Loca," posed for photos with fans, at one point draping over his shoulders a traditional Arab kaffiyeh headscarf with the slogan "Jerusalem Is Ours" written in Arabic on it. Oh, those friends! (Emaphasis mine.) Shake your Bomb-bomb!
Posted by: Neutron Tom ||
07/25/2005 14:15 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Wait. The Puerto Ricans are claiming Jerusalem, too?
Posted by: Robert Crawford ||
07/25/2005 14:38 Comments ||
Top||
#3
the goats, sheep, and camels heave a hearty sigh of relief. Nasty fem boys will again be the lust objects
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2005 14:54 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Oh what the heck -- I claim Jerusalem in the name of Pennsylvania. [It's okay, our postal abbreviation is "PA" anyway.] Maybe Ricky Martin will try to change negative perceptions of Pennsylvania youth in the West. Frank G, .com -- you guys have any negative perceptions?
Posted by: Neutron Tom ||
07/25/2005 14:57 Comments ||
Top||
#6
only the Amish, NT....always tapping their toes....creeps me out
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2005 15:03 Comments ||
Top||
#7
"She's into superstition
Black rocks and imam calls
I feel a premonition
That girl's gonna make me fall
She's into joooo destruction
Jihad and armed strife
She's got a new addiction
For every day and night
She'll make you don a bomb vest
And go board a school bus
She'll make you live her crazy life
But she'll take
Away your pain
Like a bullet
To your brain
Come On
Upside inside out
Livin' la Gaza loca"
Posted by: Steve ||
07/25/2005 15:29 Comments ||
Top||
#9
Careful Frank. We all know what happens when the seething anger of Amish youth combines with the "Root Cause" thingies. Methinks you've just created two dozen more very bad used car salesmen in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Sure they're there now but wait until they set up shop near you.
#10
Went to an Amish horse auction about 20 years ago outside Quarryville, never heard so much cussin, spittin, drinkin and lyin in my life. Thought I was in Alabama.
Senator Hillary Clinton has confided to associates that she intends to vote FOR Bush Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Unless some unforeseen development occurs around Roberts, Clinton will throw her support behind confirmation, says a top source. "Look, we're not thrilled President Bush is in office and gets to make these choices," said a top Hillary source, "but we have to make the best of the situation until the next election!"
With her support of Roberts, Clinton ignores pressure from the reactionary-activist wing of the Democrat party.
Dang, even Drudge understands who the nut-case lefties really are.
"She is simply doing what is right for the country, not MOVEON.ORG," the Clinton insider explained.
And of course preserving her options for 2008.
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/25/2005 00:21 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[5 views]
Top|| File under:
#3
She's had her people look over his record and seen there is nothing extremist about him. This is just about looking good for the moderate voters. The Hilldabeast may be a lot of things, but politically stupid isn't one of them.
Although I do differ with one thing, the wacko left-wing moonbats are not a reliable democratic group, if they think Hillary is not true to their cause, they will stay home or vote for another extreme lefty out of spite.
Posted by: Steve ||
07/25/2005 8:48 Comments ||
Top||
#4
I dunno. He appears to drive a PT Cruiser. I think that would fall under "extraordinary circumstances."
VIENTIANE, July 24 (Bernama) -- Myanmar is willing to accept the Asean chairmanship next year and is prepared to shoulder the responsibilities but it will listen to its Asean friends on the matter, said Thung Tun, the country's delegation leader to the Asean Senior Officials Meeting (SOM)...
"We will listen to what our friends have to say. We do not want to pose any problem to our friends and partners in Asean," he told reporters Sunday on the eve of the 38th Asean Ministerial Meeting (AMM).
Eight years after joining Asean, Myanmar is due to take over the chairmanship next year from Malaysia based on the alphabetical rotation among the grouping's 10 members -- Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
However, Asean's key dialogue partners, the European Union and the United States, are opposed to Myanmar taking over the chairmanship, citing Yangon's human rights record and the continuing house arrest of pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
Indonesian Foreign Ministry official Marty Natalegawa said Sunday "the final decision will be based on consensus of Asean".
"However, the first decision on accepting the chairmanship must be made by Myanmar," he added.
#2
Its pretty amazing that a smiley girl got this far anyway
Posted by: bk ||
07/25/2005 12:43 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Considering the options, it wasn't a surprise at all. The leadership vacuum is terrible. Thats one reason she is still hanging on - nobody cares for the alternatives.
#4
doesnt Gen. Braganza pretty much run the place anyway, I thought she was just his girlfreind.
Posted by: k ||
07/25/2005 16:12 Comments ||
Top||
#5
I can't believe braganza kissed that green toothed smiley girl, she is just a poster child for bad personal hygine. She needs to brush her teeth, leave her job, and go to Fields ave for a job that suits her.
Posted by: 49 pan ||
07/25/2005 21:29 Comments ||
Top||
A woman who told police she wanted to be a "cool mom" pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges Monday for having sex with high school boys at parties where authorities said she supplied drugs and alcohol.
Silvia Johnson, 40, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of sexual assault and nine felony counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors dropped two counts of distribution of methamphetamine.
"She described herself as a 'cool mom,'" Detective R.J. Vander Veen wrote in the affidavit. He said Johnson told investigators "she was never popular with classmates in high school and now began 'feeling like one of the group.'"
Prosecutors did not recommend a sentence, but each sexual assault count carries up to two years in prison, and each count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor carries up to six years, district attorney's spokeswoman Pam Russell said.
Johnson, who is free on bail, held parties for the boys almost weekly between October 2003 and October 2004, authorities said. She was accused of providing drugs and alcohol to eight boys and having sex with five of them.
Police said the investigation began after one of the boys told his mother about the encounters, and she reported it to authorities. I think the big question is *why* did the boy tell his mother? Didn't the other half of the State believe him?
Posted by: Dave D. ||
07/25/2005 20:03 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Wonder what the charges would have been if it had been a man with high school girls rather than a woman with boys. Equality can be a bitch, but as demonstrated here, there really is none. Its all about power and position when the ugly dirty end of the stick comes around.
LED lighting has the potential of drastically reducing electricity consumption (most lighting on cell phones is already done via LED) while reducing several classes of electrical accidents. Lighting consumes over 25% of US electricity, most of it via incandescent bulbs. A typical 60w incandescent will produce about 700 lumens. A compact florescent of about 15w will also produce 700 lumens but they are expensive and fragile. It seems if it will be possible to get 700 lumens out of a 3w LED. The company announcement below discusses a product that would have some niche applications. Full disclosure - I own stock in this company.
DURHAM, N.C., July 25 -- Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED solid-state lighting components, today announced that its new white 3-watt XLamp(TM) 7090 high power LED, with maximum luminous flux of more than 90 lumens, has been selected to power Cyberlux Corporation's powerful new RelyOn(TM) portable work and emergency light.
#2
PS19 with E27 or medium base that screws right into your current household socket. This is LED bulbs has 19 white LEDs with a clear polycarbonate lens for better light output - better clarity to view with, to see colors and objects clearly. Its performance clearly out paces the previous 18 LED model. Rated for 50,000 hours/17 years of white light at 8 hours per day. $21.50 per
http://www.theledlight.com/120-VAC-LEDbulbs.html
#5
It sounds wonderful, albeit a bit "early user" for me. I'll keep an eye out in my local shops, and replace my current bulbs (about 50/50 incandescents and compact fluorescents) as they become available. I have to admit, not having to climb a ladder every few months to replace those stupid candle tips in the entry chandelier will be a pleasure! And Mr. Wife will be shocked and pleased when I reduce one of our major budget items... just in time to spend the money on the daughters' university tuitions ;-D
July 25, 2005; UN peacekeeping forces in eastern Congo began a new offensive operation against rebel militias. Dubbed "Operation Thunder Storm," the offensive began on July 21. A UN statement said "Thunder Storm" was aimed at driving Rwandan rebel militiamen in the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) away from Congolese villages the militias had been threatening. (The FDLR and other "Rwandan militias" are primarily Hutu militias, but they often conduct raids with other tribal allies and bandits.)
A 1200 troop "quick strike force" led the initial sweep. The force consisted of Pakistani infantry and some Guatemalan special forces troops. The UN said 200 Congolese ground troops were also involved in the operation. "Thunder Storm: targeted a 70 by 30 kilometer "box" in south Kivu province (what the UN report described as "the Kabare and Walungu territories"). The FDLR has said it would disarm but --as always-- the devil is in the details. The UN is also using a new military abbreviation to describe its military and political goals in the eastern Congo: DDRRR. That stands for disarmament, demobilization, repatriation, re-settlement and re-integration.
Posted by: Steve ||
07/25/2005 09:41 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[5 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
I can imagine that the Paki infantry are going to be real plus-minus type forces, but does anyone know anything about the Guatemalan special forces?
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/25/2005 10:49 Comments ||
Top||
#2
trained at School of Americas? If so, maybe good stuff
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2005 11:27 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Soon to be followed by operation "rape the hell out of all the women".
Severely EFL
Leaders of four of the country's largest labor unions [service employees union, the food and commercial workers union, the Teamsters and Unite Here, which represents apparel, hotel and restaurant employees] announced on Sunday that they would boycott this week's A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention, and officials from two of those unions, the service employees and the Teamsters, said the action was a prelude to their full withdrawal from the federation on Monday.
The schism is the biggest rift in labor since the 1930's, when the Congress of Industrial Organizations, which was trying to unionize mass production workers in automobiles, steel and other industries, split off from the American Federation of Labor, which largely represented elite craft workers. This week's labor convention here was supposed to be a celebratory occasion marking the 50th anniversary of the merger.
Instead, the gathering has been marked by a split, the culmination of a rancorous debate within the union movement that also threatens to hurt labor's efforts in lobbying and in political campaigns, a development that concerns Democrats.This is the key issue as far as the NYT's journalist is concerned. Lots more detail and blah blah at the link.
#2
Yeah. The 4 that are leaving want much more radical action to "halt the decline of unions" -- a lot more, and more in-your-face, strikes and aggressive organizing including among 'informal immigrants'.
Posted by: too true ||
07/25/2005 9:04 Comments ||
Top||
#3
The activists don't trust anyone over 50 who simply shifts labor's skim of payroll money into the Dems coffers. However, the activists are not reformers, just another set of socialist malcontents with the 'vision' thingy who want the 'glory days' of workers' paradise. Obviously can't learn from the consequences of European socialism and the demographic shifts from manufacturing to low skill level service industries to recruit from. There are intelligent and useful applications for unions, but that has been rarely implemented or exercised for over half a century.
#4
About friggin time! I am a card carrying uniom member and I am a staunch Republican. Maybe after the break the SEIU will cut the moon-battery with respect to elected officials? I stopped going to uniin meeting when they basically turned into Democrat pep rallies. When they asked me why I stopped attanding I was brutally honest and so have a good many others. Who know maybe they are finally listening.
#5
I would love the monopoly of power the Union bosses have be broken. Spend the union dues on union stuff, not lining some corrupt democrat's pockets.
#6
Sarge, remember that before the Teamsters joined the AFL-CIO they were more than willing to help Republicans -- in fact, they were about the only major union that would. That was one of the unstated reasons why the AFL was so eager to get the Teamsters into the fold, to put a stop to that. Wonder what the Teamsters will do politically now?
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/25/2005 11:06 Comments ||
Top||
#7
resurrect re-elect Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2005 11:12 Comments ||
Top||
#8
Wonder what the Teamsters will do (politically) now?
They'll probably just beat the shit out of everyone else until they figure it out...
#9
SEIU is out. Now the real moonbattery will begin.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis ||
07/25/2005 11:30 Comments ||
Top||
#10
Victims of their own success in the '60s and '70s far too many union members and officials are caught in a time warp. Like the high school cheer leader who could never move on with her life they are wrapped up in reliving the glory days and trying to recreate the past. If they don't learn to adapt they will continue to loss membership until the only bastion they retain is the teachers and loacal/state/federal employees. Will the pendulem ever swing their way again? Maybe, but not for a long while and when it does they won't be the unions they were.
#12
It's used to be really wild at meeting when they would spout the LLL line and one of us (Conservatives) would counter with the truth or a pesky fact. I am not saying that the split will suddenly produce a Republican friendly group but I can't see them slipping further to the left. They are steadily losing $$$ and membership each year they can't go on forever that way.
#13
Remember when George Meany and Nixon actually got along were civil to each other. While the unions and the Dems are more inclined to be of the same viewpoint the Dems have been as much an enemy to the unions in this country as anybody else
#14
The argument I hear over and over again is that the union leadership are totally hypnotized by democratic politics. They think if the democrats can just get political power then everything will be fine everywhere forever. Totally indifferent to what labor unions are supposed to do, they have tried to turn the AFL/CIO into nothing more than a get out the vote effort for the democrats. I suspect that politicians on both sides will try to co-opt the breakaway group as soon as possible, in that they prefer a union that doesn't make trouble. A political appendage with corrupt leaders is good for business.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Fighters from rival clans battled for control of a town in southern Somalia, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 30, witnesses said Saturday.
Fighting in Ealwaq began late Friday when militiamen from a faction of the Darod clan attacked in an effort to recapture the town, more than six weeks after they were pushed out by fighters from the rival Hawiye clan. Fighting subsided early Saturday, but it was unclear which faction controlled Ealwaq town, 275 miles west of the capital Mogadishu, near the Kenyan border, said town resident Dahir Nuur.
Combatants torched nearly 50 thatched huts, Nuur said via VHF radio. Health workers in the town confirmed Nuur's account of the fighting.
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/25/2005 00:48 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[7 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Sounds like a normal weekend Somali market outing, to me. They should do it far more often, inviting all their friends and neighbors to join the fun.
#2
Right On, .Com...and let me add, drag those 20 through the streets? Nope, fling 'em in a ditch and cover 'em up. Their life is not as valuable as ours!!
#3
Lol. What would you like me to say, smn? That you're retarded? That you're a fool? That you're quite a pathetic troll? You are all of those - and so much more. I've got 3 seconds to spare, tell me what you actually know about Somalia, asshole. If Somalia ceased to exist, I would feel no twang of pain. You, on the other hand, are a twang.
#4
That was a silly statement, smn. We tried to help them in the 80s -- you do remember Black Hawk Down. And they've had meetings and elections, but still the warlords and the tribal leaders (pretty much two overlapping sets, as far as I can tell) meet up for a little light -- or heavy -- killing at regular, and short, intervals. All indications are that they will keep on killing one another, and all the noncombatants who cross their paths, until there isn't anyone left. At which time the Ethiopians or the Sudanese Arabs or someone else will move in to the empty territory.
#6
Naw smn ... let them kill themselves like animals because the recent history of the place formerly known as "Somalia" is repleat with ignorance, violence, tribal BS, and an inability to even begin to help themselves ... we, in conjunction with other nations, made a misguided effort to help them ... what a waste that was ... we needn't kill any of them or drag em around and put em in a ditch ... they do enough of it all on their own ... Oh, and SMN ... the lives of the gun toting thugs there in the place formerly known as somalia (now simply thugland) have NO value whatsoever ... Your understand that? NONE ... the innocents' lives do have value but sure as hell not as much as I'd place on the lives of my fellow countrymen you nasty little ignorant nutter.
#7
We tried to help them in the 1990's. GHWB authorized the relief mission in December, 1992 that continued into early 1993. It was quite successful in stopping the gunplay and managed to feed a number of people. Then our dear friends the UN got involved and promptly hosed it up. We had Pakiwaki peace keepers that were too chicken to venture from their compound, and when they did they got slaughtered by different clans. It was Aidid's clan that was making a power play, and because the then UN Sec-Gen (Boutros Boutros Galli) hated Aidid, he asked Clinton to put US forces back in to help clean the place out. We did, and Black Hawk Down was a part of what happened next. We had Aidid beat but Clinton chickened out and pulled our troops.
And Al-Qaeda was there in 1993, quietly organizing and training locals, and assessing whether Somalia was a place to set up shop (they settled on Sudan instead).
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/25/2005 10:42 Comments ||
Top||
Harare - Armed members of the police and army swooped on one of Harare's largest informal settlements on Saturday, forcing thousands living among the ruins of their homes to leave and go to the rural areas. The forced removals began hours after the United Nations issued a report blaming President Robert Mugabe's administration for making up to 750 000 people homeless in the past two months and said the demolitions and evictions had to cease...
More than 40 armed members of the security forces descended on Porta Farm, about 20km west of Harare, and camped there overnight until reinforcements arrived on Saturday. The forces moved around the ruins telling people to be ready to go.
Porta Farm became a transit camp 15 years ago when Mugabe cleared out street people ahead of the Harare Commonwealth Summit and pledged to provide formal housing for them. The transit camp remained and grew and Porta Farm became an established settlement as many people transformed plastic shelters into small brick houses.
Security forces were waiting for army trucks to arrive to take people away. A long line of troop carriers were en route to the camp by mid morning...
A human rights activist from Bulawayo, who asked not to be named, said all churches in the city housing refugees from the demolitions had been cleared since police moved in before dawn last Wednesday. They were taken to a transit camp, a formerly white-owned farm, Helensvale, 30km away.
"Now they are being taken from Helensvale and dumped in the bush. People have been told that if they don't provide the name of a rural area to which they can go, they are told they will be imprisoned.
"People born outside Zimbabwe are told that they will be sent to a farm in the Mashonaland province and will never be allowed to leave it. Or they are told they will be dropped in the Zambezi River."
#1
Word is the other African countries are losing trust in Mugabe because of these actions. South Africa won't give him loans, so Mugabe asking China on an upcoming visit.
XINHUA, ADDIS ABABA:July 24: The African Union (AU) said Saturday drought compounded with locust outbreaks has affected more than three million people in Niger, most devastatingly children.
The pan-African body, through its Policy Committee of the Special Emergency Assistance Fund for Drought and Famine in Africa (SEAF) considered the drought and famine situation in the country, according to a press release sent from the AU headquarters. The problem is likely to increase unless coordinated urgent actions are taken to control the situation, the release said.
So, okay, what do you do to control locusts?
It said the AU approved an emergency relief assistance of one million US dollars in recognition of the severity of the problem as well as to express its solidarity with the people and government of Niger.
"Ah, Mr. Mboooki, so good to see you here at the bank again! What will it be today?"
"Hello, Chauncey, I'd like to make a deposit. My usual account, here's the number. The AU came through again!"
It once again calls on all AU member states and the international community to appreciate the seriousness of the problem and provide support to Niger to enable it avoid immense human sufferings and further damages, the release said.
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/25/2005 00:13 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[5 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Niger? Send Joe Wilson but hide the silverware.
Posted by: Karl Rove ||
07/25/2005 5:40 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Gee, France is having a drought and locust problem, too. Is there something about French-speaking countries this year?
#3
locusts, eh?
Does this get classified under "signs and Portents"?
Posted by: N guard ||
07/25/2005 8:22 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Yes, hence the picture. I would have used the "Signs and Portens, part xxx" headline but the regulars would have assumed that it was just another damned earthquake/tsumani.
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/25/2005 10:50 Comments ||
Top||
#5
Three million people suffering in Niger and the MSM wants to know: Did Karl Rove ever privately speak the name of Joe Wilson's wife after Joe Wilson traveled to Niger and spent eight days drinking sweet mint tea and meeting with dozens of people to obtain inconclusive information? This must be resolved!
Posted by: Neutron Tom ||
07/25/2005 11:09 Comments ||
Top||
The RAB has been awfully quiet lately, but the Speedy Trial Tribunal is cranking up!
July 24: The Speedy Trial Tribunal, Sylhet to sentenced five convicts to death in the sensational case of the murder of the UP member Abdul Jalil of village Bangaon under Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district.
According to sources, the Speedy Trial Tribunal, Sylhet after examining the witnesses, sentenced the convicts Abdul Khalek, Abdul Hye, Manik Miah, Makhon Miah and Salek Ahmed to death today. The Speedy Trial Tribunal acquitted four other accused of the charge. The judge of the Speedy Trial Tribunal Biplob Goswami, pronounced the verdict in presence of the convicts.
"You! And you! You too! You're all guilty, guilty, GUILTY!"
A gang of miscreants killed Abdul Jalil in front of his house on the evening of December 5, 2002. The gang called Abdul Jalil out and chopped him repeatedly and left him critically injured. Local people rushed him to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital where he died.
"Here ya go, Dr. Quincy!"
"Where's the RAB toe tag on this one? There's no toe tag!"
"Don't need one, the gang of miscreants got 'im!"
Police submitted the charge sheet against nine persons. The Speedy Trial Tribunal, Sylhet, delivered the verdict after 70 working days of the court.
Not as speedy as the Old West, but these days it's good enough.
"Speedy Tribunals, verdicts in 30 minutes or less, or your next conviction is free!"
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/25/2005 00:07 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[8 views]
Top|| File under:
An Indian court has freed a man who languished in jail or a mental home in the eastern state of Assam for 54 years without ever facing trial, police said on Sunday. Machang Lalung, 77, was arrested in 1951 in his native village of Silsang, 64 kilometres (40 miles) from the state's main city of Guwahati.
Police said records showed Lalung, a tribal, was booked for "voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means," an offence carrying a maximum 10-year prison term. But they said there were no records backing up the accusation. Soon after his arrest police shifted Lalung to a mental asylum. Though certified "fully recovered" by asylum authorities in 1967, prison officials only returned him to jail this year. In May the National Human Rights Commission took up Lalung's case and sought his release. He was freed last week after posting a token personal bond of one rupee (two cents).
Posted by: Fred ||
07/25/2005 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[6 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
teh chainey haser nyoo role modle for gitmo ima see!
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.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - A Texas man was arrested on Monday after calling police to complain about the theft of his marijuana, authorities said. Stephen Knight, 17, said three men had broken into his apartment, hogtied him with Christmas lights and stole some marijuana, along with a plasma screen television, police said. Police are looking for the suspects. In the meantime, 
H T - DRUDGE
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe arrived Saturday in Beijing for a visit expected to include a plea for oil and food to aid his state's failing economy. 
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 25 (UPI) -- A decades-long border dispute between Denmark and Canada has flared up after Ottawa's Defense minister paid a secret visit to a small island north of Greenland.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Fighters from rival clans battled for control of a town in southern Somalia, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 30, witnesses said Saturday.
XINHUA, ADDIS ABABA:July 24: The African Union (AU) said Saturday drought compounded with locust outbreaks has affected more than three million people in Niger, most devastatingly children.
