Thousands of key workers such as doctors, nurses and teachers are to be given protective body armour to shield them from the threat of gun and knife crime. Hospital trusts and local authorities are said to be ordering the stab and bullet-proof vests in the tens of thousands to protect frontline staff, including traffic wardens and hospital porters.
Body Armour Company, which is based in Oxfordshire, said it had received about 10,000 orders for protective vests from local councils. The most popular item requested was the £300 Home Office-approved KR1 stab vest, which was designed for 'high-risk environments'.
Peter Warren, a company spokesman, said: 'More and more councils are becoming aware of the need for armour and protecting their staff.
'We have had many private inquiries from teachers and the rate is going up. Headmasters are aware that their teachers are at risk and that knife crime is getting worse.' Knife control to begin in Britain in 5 .. 4 .. 3 ..
The move follows claims last week by Scotland Yard that knife crime has eclipsed terrorism as the number one priority for the Metropolitan Police. However, a senior Scotland Yard homicide detective said: 'Once councils start resorting to this, it can only be interpreted as a shameful indictment of violence in Britain. Everybody must be asking, 'When are we going to start tackling this properly?''
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Recall the beginning scene from the Godfather? That is what is about to happen to English society as the 'state' is unable or unwilling to provide security. People will seek a 'sponsor' to provide that protection for themselves, their families, and their property. The state, itself, will become the 'outsource' for services but justice will be done by 'families'.
President Hugo Chavez says European banks in Venezuela may have to go. Chavez says he could expel banks and other businesses from European countries that apply controversial rules to deport illegal immigrants. The socialist president said during an Independence Day address Saturday that the threat is "serious."
The EU Parliament passed new guidelines in June to standardize the deportation process. They contain contentious measures such as long detention periods. Chavez has threatened to cut off oil and block investments from countries that apply the rules, which he said show "signs of fascism."
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Cut off all sources of capital and investment. Hmmm... You think Cuba is in good shape Chavez? 'cuz that is where your 'utopia' is taking you.
'I was stunned,' Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez admitted, when he became aware of the rescue of the former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and other 14 hostages held by the guerrilla movement Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC). 'I am sending you a kiss, Ingrid Betancourt. We took a risk for you,' Chavez said.
The Venezuelan ruler conceded that although he was a soldier, he was aware that 'the time of weapons has passed. The time of the guerrilla fronts is over. The time of the peoples has come.'
'I am sending you a kiss, Ingrid Betancourt. We took a risk for you,' Chavez said.
Chavez congratulated Colombians and claimed he shared their joy. 'They are even happier because the rescue operation was bloodless,' Chavez said during the Seventh Conference of the Non Aligned Movement Information Ministers, which is being held in Margarita Island, Venezuela. 'We congratulate Colombia... As always, we are willing to cooperate and help to achieve the release of the rest of the hostages and, especially, to achieve peace in Colombia,' Chavez pointed out.
The Venezuelan ruler confirmed that he had a phone conversation with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. 'He will be welcomed as usual, as a brother, as a friend. We exchanged some harsh words. But it is a common thing between brothers, between couples.' Chavez said referring to Uribe's impending visit to Venezuela.
Chavez reminded that he recently made a call to FARC leaders 'to release all the hostages.' He also said that he did not 'support this kind of actions (kidnapping). I also said that they (the FARC) should make more efforts leading to peace.'
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Anyone notice that no one has turned a hair w/r to the fact the FARC had no problems with a pair of "NGO" helicopters picking these kidnap victims up for transport?
Makes you want to look a lot closer at those NGO's.
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I bet Hooogo was stunned. They might know something about his FARC support. F*cker
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They might know something about his FARC support
'Ya think? :)
Hugolito been running scared since those laptops were recovered. I'll wager the FARC camps are been evacuated from the Vz border area even as we speak.
What a damn moron.
Magik 8 Ball sez Hugo back hiding under a desk in the war museum with stinky britches again before 2011.
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Hey, Hoogo, guess what? We can do the same thing with you, any time we want. Be afraid, little man, be very afraid. You never know when one of those "Cowboy" SF groups in black helicopters will come for you.
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"Bad Boy, Bad Boy, whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when WE come for you?
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testing testing...hypersonic rods from god, testing protocalls in place, countdown begins tuesday..... (xnjfnjgjwer garbled) month.
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The Venezuelan ruler confirmed that he had a phone conversation with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. 'He will be welcomed as usual, as a brother, as a friend. We exchanged some harsh words. But it is a common thing between brothers, between couples.' Chavez said referring to Uribe's impending visit to Venezuela.
Four out of 21 prominent Turks detained under a police investigation into coup allegations have been formally arrested and two senior former generals have been taken to court, Turkish media said on Saturday. The chairman of Ankara's Chamber of Commerce Sinan Aygun was among the four, the state-run Anatolian news agency said. Aygun is a vocal secularist critic of the ruling AK Party government, which faces court charges of trying to introduce Islamic rule.
Five others, including the chief editor of a newspaper, were released on Friday but barred from leaving the country while the case continued, Anatolian said.
Former head of the paramilitary gendarmerie Sener Eruygur and former first army commander Hursit Tolon were sent to court in Istanbul on Saturday, Anatolian said. The prosecutor asked the court to arrest the former generals. They were detained on Tuesday, hours before the first hearing in a case which could mean the AK Party is banned if it is convicted of trying to introduce Islamic rule.
Turkish media said those detained were suspected of being members of a shadowy, ultra-nationalist, hardline secularist group known as Ergenekon, which was already under investigation. A secret plan, including launching illegal protests on July 7 across 40 provinces, assassinations and clashes with security forces, was seized during Tuesday's swoop, media said.
The prosecutor was not immediately available and Istanbul police declined comment.
Dozens of people had already been detained for suspected links to the Ergenekon group, including retired army officers. The military -- which has repeatedly criticised the government and considers itself the guardian of Turkey's secular system -- has denied any links to the group.
The high-profile arrests and start of the case to close the party hit Turkish stock prices and the lira currency on Tuesday.
The markets later rebounded thanks to foreign cash inflows.
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Democratic US presidential candidate Barack Obama has requested permission to give an address at the Brandenburg Gate when he visits Berlin later this month, according to German media reports.
Although it's still not official, various German media are reporting that Obama's team has contacted the Berlin Senate to discuss the possibility of the presidential hopeful delivering an outdoor speech in front of the famous landmark. It would likely be his only public speech during an upcoming European tour which is set to include stops in Germany, France and the UK.
If permission is granted, the address would be loaded with historical significance. The Brandenburg Gate is where former US President Ronald Regan gave a famous speech in 1987, during which he asked then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
Both Chancellor Angela Merkal and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier have expressed interest in meeting Obama, although dates for his visit have not yet been confirmed.
Obama is immensely popular in Berlin a factor that appears to have some of his advisors worried. According to reports in the daily Berliner Morgenpost, some of his staff have warned him that excessive popularity in Europe could end up costing him votes at home, as was the case with 2004 presidential candidate, John Kerry.
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Sounds Presidential. I agree with everything he said. As for Oil Shale sources, Obamists call derivative petroleum: "dirty oil." I have seen some proof that refined catalytic converters would reduce carbon content of gasoline exhaust to reasonable levels. Obamists chose not to factor current or future technologies into their petroleum policy (if they are capable of devising one). Also, Newt should have mentioned Clinton's indulgence of the NYMEX "futures" market in oil. (Wonder why Hillary received NYMEX money?) Trading in oil futures should be outlawed.
Pre-Clinton, the Chicago EX had a near monopoly on the Commodities trade. Industries like Citric Fruit need to earn from that market in order to maintain revenues, should there be a crop failure. The oil business doesn't need a hedge.
As for the SPR, Clinton made an unnecessary hack at the Reserves; those are emergency resources.
How are oil prices set? NYMEX gurus issue statements which "Platts" reports posts, and vendors take notice and alter the spot price, which is fed back to Platts, and they report the change, which ALL vendors follow. Oil spikes can be created artificially.
Please google "Arjun N. Murti" and do a little of your own research on the Spike-Phenomena. Forget about the Iran/Nigeria, etc factors; the current price rise followed Murti's prediction of a spike to "$200" a barrel.
Also, staff and contract workers with inside information on the 3800 Gulf of Mexico drilling rigs, have leaked that many wells found to produce are capped, making reserve data delivery impossible. Unless reports are BS, there could be huge resources that are not flowing. However, it is true that drillers often chose to use only 1 of many entries into a single oil pool. That would be another explanation for drill, cap, and leave phenomena.
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First of all, let me say that doesn't he look better now?
But second, while it would be gratifying to dump oil from the strategic reserve, it is not a good idea for three reasons.
First of all, if we or Israel get into a war with Iran, we will need that oil.
And second, oil can only be pumped out of the reserve at not a very fast rate, then it will only do us any good if the refineries have available capacity, or it just sits there until they are ready for it.
Third, China is radically expanding its strategic reserves as well, and trying to put every drop they can in there. So this is not just a whim by president Bush.
One : no margin purchases allowed on oil futures. Cash ONLY. This kills the "easy money" thats inflating the markerts.
Two : purchases of futures must take delivery. Consumers ONLY. This kills the "free rider" problem of peopel that neither produce not use the oil controlling it.
Three: Drill ANWR, OCS and develop Oil Shale. Remember Reagan and the SUPPLY SIDE! This decreases the pressure on prices, and scares away the speculative buyers, as well as ensureing better domestic supply instead of sending the money to the Wahabbis and Chavez, while we get moving to alternate soruces for vehicles (hydrogen fuel cell, nukes and electrical).
By Jack Kelly
As Jim Geraghty of National Review Online noted, there are 'way too many' of these attacks on Sen. McCain's war record to be a coincidence. But if it's a deliberate strategy by the Obama camp, it's an odd one, because there is no way a comparison between Sen. McCain's record on national security and his makes Sen. Obama look good.
What's important about Sen. McCain's experience as a POW is not what it taught him about conducting foreign policy, but what it teaches us about his character, wrote 'Uncle Jimbo,' a former Special Forces soldier, on the milblog 'Blackfive.'
'John McCain was so loyal to the men he was imprisoned with he endured torture on their behalf,' Uncle Jimbo said. 'Barack Obama associates with those who can help his career, and throws them right under the bus when they become inconvenient to his aspirations.'
'In minimizing the import of McCain''s military service, Clark instead opened the door to the sort of criticism that Obama, who painstakingly praises McCain's military record at virtually every event, cannot afford,' wrote Jay Newton-Small of Time Magazine.
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My fellow Americans:
As your future President I want to thank my supporters, for your mindless support of me, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor's relations with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, or my blatantly leftist voting record while I present myself as some sort of bi-partisan agent of change.
I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the Presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush's youthful drinking disqualifies him. Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political posing.
I would also like to thank the Kennedy's for coming out in support of me. There's a lot of glamour behind the Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King, Jr. and Teddy killed a female employee with whom he was having an extra marital affair and who was pregnant with his child. And I'm not going anywhere near the cousins, both literally and figuratively.
And I'd like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support. Her love of meaningless empty platitudes will be the force that propels me to the White House.
Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I make people feel good. Voting for me causes some white folk to feel relieved of their imagined, racist guilt.
I say things that sound meaningful, but don't really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning. If things have meaning, then that means you have to think about them.
Americans are tired of thinking. It's time to shut down the brain, and open up the heart. So when you go to vote, remember don't think, just do. And do it for me.
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The WWII revisionist are out in numbers too because the war is the standard others are compared to. If Iraq becomes another democratic society like Germany and Japan, those who've opposed it will disappear in history as those who opposed the involvement of the the US after Pearl Harbor. Same here, attack the experience standard, no matter if you agree with it or not, that McCain has to offer, because what you offer can't measure up. The appropriate campaign slogan for them should be 'Better to rule in Hell, than serve in Heaven'.
By the 10th anniversary, not one of five office towers will be finished and neither will the memorial.
The signature skyscraper that replaces the World Trade Center is nearly ready to move in. The memorial to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is a year away from opening. A skyscraper damaged by the falling towers was taken down years ago. Four other office buildings are rising.
Don't bet on it.
Those were either the bold, or impossibly overconfident predictions years ago for what ground zero might look like in 2008, instead of the fenced-off, sunken construction site that sits in the middle of downtown Manhattan nearly seven years after the attack.
Generally, the more involvement in a project by politicians, the slower it moves.
By the 10th anniversary, not one of five office towers will be finished and neither will the memorial, said a report last week by the site's owner, the most pessimistic official account yet of stalled efforts to realize an ambitious vision meant to defy terrorists who destroyed the trade center.
It was many years ago, back in the late Paleolithic, that I came to the conclusion that politicians don't feel disgrace like we the people do. Maybe that's why they go into politix and we go into debt.
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The ideal of all politicians - as the amount of money sunk in the project tends to infinity, the amount of actual construction tends to zero - because all the money has disappeared into graft...
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given the design hassles in the PA memorial, I'd half expect the libs, tranzis, UN-first assholes, and Donks to demand the WTC replacement to face Mecca and have a crescent top.
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It'll take as long as building the Washington Monument at this speed.
For all Senator Barack Obama's success raising money and generating excitement among voters, he faces a daunting challenge as he prepares to claim the nomination in August: a Democratic convention effort marred by costly setbacks and embarrassing delays. I'm not too sure how much of a recommendation it is for a politician when the 2008 convention doesn't get put together until 2010.
Hush, this isn't the problem you think it is ...
With the Denver convention less than two months away, problems range from the serious -- upwardly spiraling costs on key contracts still being negotiated -- to the more mundane, like the reluctance of local caterers to participate because of stringent rules on what delegates will be eating, down to the color of the food. When politicians are involved, the most important thing to decide is how the boodle's gonna be split. Then comes what's for lunch. After that comes what everybody else will be eating, if anything.
At last count, plans to renovate the inside of the Pepsi Center for the Democrats are $6 million over budget, which may force convention planners to scale back on their original design or increase their fund-raising goals. More likely increase their fund-raising goals.
The convention is being organized by the Democratic National Committee, which is run by Howard Dean, with his chief of staff, the Rev. Leah D. Daughtry, leading the effort. Only in the last month has the Obama campaign been able to take over management of the convention planning with the candidate claiming the nomination, and his aides are increasingly frustrated, as the event nears, at organizers who they believe spent too freely, planned too slowly and underestimated actual costs. The Obama campaign has dispatched 10 people to Denver to help 'get a handle on the budget and make hard decisions' about what has to be done and how to move forward, said Bill Burton, a campaign spokesman.
With Democrats seeking to use the convention to move past the bitterness of their bruising primary fight, the gathering in Denver Aug. 25-28 is likely to draw intense interest as the Obama forces try to show a once-divided party rallying around the nominee. And their convention comes a week before the Minneapolis gathering of the Republicans, whose convention efforts have been much smoother.
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The comments I keep hearing from Denver is that the moonbats are in control, and the stupidity quotient has to be calculated by a pair of CRAY super-computers. Not terribly surprising, especially when you factor in that both Denver and Colorado as a whole are controlled by Democrats.
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A fairly balanced article for the AP. They actually provide numbers and a little perspective from a Marine spokesman.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Franklin Smith had a wife and an infant son when he convinced a recruiter in Biloxi, Miss., that he wanted to be a Marine. For the recruiter, bringing in a family man like Smith was a dropout risk - even greater than recruiting someone with a criminal record, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.
In these days of long and repeated warfront tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than 10 percent of the male recruits who are married with one or more children, or are financially responsible for a dependent, don't even finish Marine boot camp, according to the Center for Naval Analysis. For women in similar circumstances, the dropout rate jumps to three in 10.
Three-year trends show that recruits who have family responsibilities or did not earn formal high school diplomas are most likely to wash out before they finish initial training. Those recruits also fail more often to complete their first terms of enlistment.
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common sense, plus trying to support a family on the low pay is tough, especially in high rent or home price areas like San Diego
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As a former active duty Marine (lo those many years ago), and with a son who is a Marine...I recall the words of OCS platoon sergeant: "You &@#^&#_@#, ()*&^%#$&&, ^@!($+$(#)$, son of a %&^@%#&^%@& 3rd lieutenant!!!! You have no wife. You are married to The Corps!!!!!"
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I don’t recall being a junior enlisted and having a family was ever ‘easy’. Back in the last year of Carter most of the military lived in gentile poverty. If your troops were fortunate enough to be stateside you’d find most of the married young troops pulling food stamps for their families. If you were overseas you did your best to make sure everything was accounted for in the COLA surveys so that the kids could just make ends meet because DoD and DoA[griculture] hadn’t worked out how to get them food stamps yet. That last year we finally got the first real raise in six years because it was an election year issue. Ronnie would see to it we’d get two more the next year and we would not be treading water as deeply as we had been.
However, back then the troops and their families got free medical and dental. It wasn’t necessarily from the top 50 percent of the medical or dental school grads, but it was generally adequate. Today, the young troop is expected to fork over money to pay for his or her family’s care to one degree or another. When we had a million under arms somehow we could make it happen, but with half as much our Congress, regardless of which party has controlled the place, has the wherewithal to spend massively on earmarks, but will nickel and dime these guys and gals today.
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The only guys that dropped out when I went through in '91 were marshmellow loving, lazy soda suckers. A lot of people had kids (usually more than two) or were just out of high school. Only a couple that didn't fit that mold.
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Practically speaking, for married with children entering the Corps, they might consider a two-tier enlistment, not as Marines, but as Marine Support Personnel. Semi-uniform rear area types that are in better condition that GS types who work as desk job contractors.
The idea is that MCSPs work jobs that will free up Marines to go forward, yet are not as bad as civilian blobs, and do things The Marine Way. In turn, this would give the Corps the ability to create a "surge from inside", without harming the non-combat support roles in the rear.
During normal circumstances, a lot of Marines are occupied in the rear area, keeping the machine working. But when push comes to shove, they can grab field gear and go directly to the front. MCSPs would be useful in normal times, but especially good during combat.
A French serial killer known for being a talented disguise and escape artist becomes engaged to a woman 44 years younger in Nepal. The 64-year-old Charles Sobhraj, convicted by a Katmandu court on charges of murder, was sentenced to life in imprisonment. He has filed an appeal with Nepal's Supreme Court and is expecting a final decision in the coming days.
Sobhraj's 20-year-old Nepalese fiancé, Nihita Biswas, said they are planning to marry if he is freed by the Supreme Court. 'We are planning a future after his release. We know he is going to be released soon. We are going to be married under French law in France,' she said.
Biswas says she is not concerned about the age gap and feels sure the court will free Sobhraj because there was not enough evidence against him. The two met when she applied for a job as interpreter for Sobhraj's French lawyer, AP reported.
Charles Sobhraj murdered several Western tourists and at least 20 people in Asia during the 1970s, but his 2004 conviction in Nepal was the first time he was found guilty.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sobhraj
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Get hold of the absolutely riveting book Serpentine , which details the crime(s) Mr. Sobraj committed. If I were Miss Biswas, I'd have her affairs in order.
Mike
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Rescue teams in search for survivors and bodies in the rubble of a three-storey building in Karachi. At least seven people are known to have lost their lives but rescue teams searching for victims trapped underneath the debris fear the death toll will rise.
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The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has decided to adopt an aggressive strategy in support of President Pervez Musharraf, sources said on Saturday.
The sources in the Presidency and the MQM said Sindh Governor Ishratul Ebad supervised a reception hosted by a group of Karachi businessmen in honour of President Musharraf on Friday.
The Sindh governor received the president upon his arrival at Karachi whereas Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, who is from the PPP, and his ministers were absent.
According to the sources, Karachi Nazim Mustafa Kamal criticised the PPP and the PML-N under a well thought out plan.
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That is not surprising because they are in a protracted war with Jamaat-i-Islami. The MQM is closer to being secular than Mushy's mixed government.
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LOL- you mean mounting your data collection point in an asphalt parking lot or above an AC units cooling coils might give inaccurate data? Go figure. NOAA genius!
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A Clayton County man faces murder charges in the strangling death of his 25-year-old daughter early Sunday over her desire to end an arranged marriage.
Chaudhry Rashad, 54, apparently got mad during an argument in which the victim, Sandela Kanwal, told him she wanted out of the marriage, Clayton police officer Timothy Owens said.
Authorities were called to their Utah Drive home in Jonesboro just after 3 a.m. Sunday. Kanwal lived with her father when she was not with her husband, who is in Chicago, Owens said. She hadn't seen the husband in three months, he said.
Both Rashad and Kanwal are of Pakistani descent.
Rashad had a seizure shortly after the strangling and was taken to a local hospital for treatment, Owens said. He was in custody Sunday at the Clayton County jail and could make an initial court appearance Monday.
Owens said he was unaware if there had been any previous police calls to the home.
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Respect their culture and the Family Reunification visas.
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A good time to hang him in public, so that Muzz scum can see that this crap is not tolerated here. Don't drop this f**kup. Noose him, then winch him up 1/2 inch at a time, so he goes nice and slow like the daughter. Let all Muzz see what's going to happen to them if they perpetuate Muzz traditions here.
Tables and graphs. Crime up, then down in D.C. after the ban.
Baltimore and Philly are up, and New York City is the safest big city, with 19% the rate of D.C.
Dallas is 37% of what it was in 1990, when I was there, so it must be my departure - not the concealed carry law - that made the difference.
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Of course the usual suspects [MSM] will make sure you and everyone never gets the breakdown on the perp/vic by race or ethnic group will they. Wonder why [rhetorical question].
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.
'I was stunned,' Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez admitted, when he became aware of the rescue of the former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and other 14 hostages held by the guerrilla movement Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC). 'I am sending you a kiss, Ingrid Betancourt. We took a risk for you,' Chavez said. %20and%20his%20fiancee%2020-year-old%20Nihita%20Bishwas--1.jpg)
