An Alabama woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police say she let her daughter ride in a cardboard box on top of their van. Albertville Police spokesman Sgt. Jamie Smith said the 37-year-old woman was arrested Sunday after police received a call about a minivan on a state highway with a child riding on top.
Smith said the woman told police the box was too big to go inside the van, and that her daughter was inside the box to hold it down. What did you think officer? It was a joy ride or something
Smith said the mother told officers it was safe because she had the box secured to the van with a clothes hanger.
The 13-year-old daughter wasn't harmed and was turned over to a relative. A jail worker said the mother was out on bond Monday.
A 30-year-old man was arrested Thursday on a host of charges after a bag of cocaine shot out of his backside in a gas station, according to an affidavit released Friday.
Investigators said they got a tip that cocaine was being transported in a brown Cadillac in the area of Interstate 95 and Midway Road, and investigators found the vehicle Thursday morning at a gas station at Midway and Glades Cut-Off roads.
The affidavit gave this account:
A man was pumping gas into the vehicle, and a drug sniffing dog smelled narcotics in the vehicle and the area where the man, identified as Warren Leonard Wiley, stood. A search of Wiley turned up a crumpled dollar bill with cocaine in it.
Wiley was then escorted to the mens room for a more detailed search, the affidavit states. While being escorted, Wiley dropped his shorts in the middle of the store stating, I dont have nothing.
Wileys backside appeared clenched tight as if he was hiding something. While walking, his backside relaxed and a clear bag with about 22 grams of cocaine in it shot out onto the stores floor.
Wiley then kicked back with his foot trying to kick the bag back stating again, I dont have nothing, the affidavit states.
Investigators said they found a .38 caliber revolver loaded with five cartridges in his cars engine compartment that was reported stolen in November 2007.
Sheriffs investigators arrested Wiley, listed as an unemployed Palm Coast resident, on charges including possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of cocaine, carrying a concealed firearm, escape, criminal mischief, resisting arrest without violence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of stolen firearm.
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Not surprising. I did my residency in Richmond, Virginia, and a couple times of month we'd get a 'mule' or 'packer', a person who transported drugs in their intestines, parked in our ER. They had swallowed latex balloons filled with cocaine; the latex generally having been reinforced by using several balloons. However, if it leaked as it occasionally did, the cocaine would leach into the persons' blood.
The first symptom was generally intractable seizures, followed by death.
One of my colleagues had a great X-ray of this: a chest film where, at the bottom of the film, you can just make out a half-dozen balloons of cocaine in the splenic flexure of the colon. That person died.
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Thanks you Dr. Steve..... I'm re-thinking two career choices now.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Seven hundred celebrities and film industry figures have so far signed a petition for the release of director Roman Polanski.
The French-Polish director was arrested in Switzerland on September 26 in connection with a 1978 case involving child sex charges
The 76-year-old filmmaker, who had fled the US after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, was arrested on an international warrant as he arrived in Zurich to receive an award for his lifetime achievement.
Spanish actress Penelope Cruz and French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel were the latest celebrities to sign the petition, which was launched a week ago by the French performance and visual artists association, SACD (sacd.fr).
"Filmmakers, actors, producers and technicians - everyone involved in international filmmaking - want him to know that he has their support and friendship," the petition reads.
Prominent directors Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese were among the first to sign the petition, later joined by Adrien Brody, the actor who starred in Polanski's Oscar-winning The Pianist, actor Gael Garcia Bernal and director Guillermo del Toro.
Pedro Almodovar, Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Tornatore, Wim Wenders and Michael Mann are among the other celebrities who have signed up to the petition.
The SACD petition does not comment directly on the crime for which Polanski was convicted, instead condemning his arrest at 'an international cultural event'.
"Filmmakers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision. It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him," it said.
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Each and every one should be arrested and charged as an accessory after the fact.
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Or their 13-year old daughters should visit Polanski for a weekend.
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Just to show their support.
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It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him,"
How much more clearly can you say "our needs are above those of the law"???
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700? Why is it that Hollywood always supports a low-life accused of something. Suppose each of the 700 petition signers, instead sent a $1000 to the victim of this pediphile.
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It's ironic that Polanski may be extradited to a country where the 'czar' appointed by Bambi to assure safe schools is on record counseling children how to have 'safe' sex with adults.
I'm starting to think that Hollywood sees this as a stereotypical quid pro quo between a stage mom with her aspiring but underage daughter and a famous movie director. In this version of the story, Polanski's sin is not in boinking a drugged-up teenie bopper, but failing to come thru with the career goods. Unfortunate, but understandable for such a busy man.
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday he is teaming up with St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts in a bid to buy the Rams, owners of the NFLs longest losing streak at 14 and just 5-31 since 2007.
In a statement, Limbaugh declined to discuss details, citing a confidentiality agreement with Goldman Sachs, the investment firm hired by the family of former Rams owner Georgia Frontiere to review assets of her estate, including the NFL team.
Limbaugh also declined to discuss other partners that might be involved in the bid, but said he and Checketts would operate the team....
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Damn, was kinda hoping he'd buy the Associated Press instead. Or start a competitor.
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Sometimes they say stress can lead to cancer. Having a clueless or obstinate or unsupportive supervisor can cause much stress. I wonder if the good General may have developed this since Jan 20th... Hang in there General Petraeus.
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I was diagnosed three and a half years ago with prostate cancer and treated in the same way as Gen. Petraeus. My doctor said that if you are going to get any kind of cancer this is the most treatable---unless it goes to advanced metastasized PC and gets into the bones. I do think cancer can be stress-related as stress impacts the immune system. The two factors reported in the research literature that I could find that are most strongly related to prostate cancer are age and heredity. I was surprised to learn how little is known about this disease. Early stage prostate cancer can be treated with surgery, radioactive seed implants, external beam radiation. The outcomes are all about the same regardless of treatment with early stage prostate cancer--it is mostly a matter of preference. Chemo is not given except in advanced cases of metastasized PC. There are some interesting developments in PC treatment among which are the Provenge vaccine and proton beam therapy. For men who are getting older and have close relatives such as your father or brother who might have had PC, it is good to get an annual digital rectal exam and PSA test. There is some controversy about the PSA test concerning the over-treatment of slow-growing not particularly aggressive forms of prostate cancer. One would ordinarly get a biopsy if the digital rectal exam and PSA test were positive. The biopsy usually consists of at least 12 needle samples taken between the anus and testicles but in the prostate gland. Maybe this is an over-discussion of this topic but I thought it might help someone. I sincerely hope Gen. Petraeus is successful in his treatment. The odds are in his favor since he caught it early and treated it early. Anyway prayers for Gen. Petraeus and his family.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah removed a top cleric in the wake of controversy over his statements opposing gender mixing at the first co-ed university in the Kingdom, the state news agency SPA said on Sunday.
Sheikh Saad bin Nasser al-Shithri was first reported to have resigned from the board of the Council of Senior Clerics.
His resignation from the senior ulema came just days after he appeared on the Qatar-based al-Majd satellite channel and lashed out at the newly-opened flagship King Abdullah Science and Technology University for offering co-education.
Shithri was one of several clerics who objected to the mixed gender university, which is outside the purview of the conservative cleric-dominated education ministry.
Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, who has promoted reforms since taking office in 2005, accepted Shithri's resignation.
The senior cleric said religious scholars should vet the curriculum to prevent alien ideologies such as "evolution" and set up a committee to ensure it does not violate sharia, or Islamic law.
"We are looking at some of the sciences that have included some irregular and alien ideologies, like evolution and such other ideologies," the daily al-Watan newspaper quoted Shithri as saying last week in response to a viewer's question.
He later withdraw his statements and stressed the importance of the university in the progress of education. He also accused journalists of taking his statements out of context.
Al-Majd TV sought to distance itself from the channel, saying it is not responsible for Shithri's statements. Executive director Ahmed Saqr stressed that the comments reflected the sheikh's personal opinion.
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Sounds like they're about ripe for a Scopes monkey trial.
Below is a video of a farm in Venezuela being sized by government Thugs. Taken by a Cell phone.
Go read the entry at Hot Air:
Fausta Wertz provides translation:
A group of red shirt-wearing Chavista thugs show up at a farm and seize the farm in the name of the government, under the pretext that the 103 hectare farm is idle land and that the law allows them to take it over for food production.
The farmer protests politely, explaining that hes been raising cattle on his farm for 23 years. He is rebuffed by another guy, who says, this is not going to be a debate; this is a public act approved by the Venezuelan people. Im governor and Im here to ensure public order. There wont be a debate, I ask you to listen to the document, after which the public will take charge of the land.
When the farmers wife protests, he tells her to discuss it in court.
Chavez controls the judiciary.
The farmer is told to sign the form, and then to gather the animals so they can be accounted for.
When another one of the people who lived at the farm tries to ask a question, the man who identified himself as the governor insists that this is not a debate, this is not a meeting, and if theres any disruption, the public force is here, pointing to the crowd in red shirts.
Note that this is already happening here when ACORN and SEIU thugs break into forclosed houses.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- The interim Honduran government on Monday revoked an emergency decree that prohibited large street protests and limited other civil liberties following the return of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.
Smart move, the decree really hurt Micheletti and the Honduran government.
The decree, which resulted in dozens of arrests and the closing of two pro-Zelaya media outlets, "has been completely revoked," Interim President Roberto Micheletti said at a news conference with U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican.
Micheletti did not say whether the lifting of the decree would take effect immediately. He had said in a morning television interview it would be formally repealed Tuesday when the new order is published in the government's official gazette.
Honduras' interim leaders issued the emergency order Sept. 27 in response to "calls for insurrection" by Zelaya as the ousted president sought refuge in the Brazilian Embassy after sneaking back into the country. He remains holed up in the embassy with dozens of supporters amid international diplomatic efforts to end the crisis. The decree empowered police and soldiers to break up public meetings, arrest people without warrants and restrict the news media, with armed troops stationed throughout the capital to enforce the order.
It drew criticism even from judges and congressional leaders who backed Zelaya's ouster in a June 28 military-backed coup that was condemned by much of the rest of the world, including the U.S. government and the United Nations. Many complained the decree would disrupt campaigning for the November presidential election they hope will resolve the country's crisis.
Human rights groups have complained of unjustified arrests and the persecution of peaceful protesters, but Micheletti defended the measure to reporters as a legitimate response to an organized campaign against the government "led" by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
"We've never seen scenes of burning buses and burning businesses like what has happened in recent days," he said, adding that the decision to impose the decree was "because we learned that they were planning more of this type of conduct and we weren't going to allow it."
The main effect of the order was to close down the two main pro-Zelaya media outlets, Radio Globo and Channel 36, and it blocked protest marches for several days. Zelaya supporters eventually ventured out to demonstrate, but in much smaller numbers than before.
While the decree was in force, the government also retook control of a government Agrarian Institute building that had been occupied by protesters. They detained about 55 people and lodged sedition charges against 38, who were still in custody over the weekend.
Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said about 1,000 people were detained for violating a curfew that was imposed before the decree.
Radio Globo has been broadcasting over the Internet. The station's owner, Alejandro Villatoro, said authorities seized his station's equipment and he did not know when it would be able to resume normal operations. Asked if the stations could now broadcast, Micheletti said they "will have to come to the courts to recover their right to be on the air."
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IT IS bad enough that Mexico's economy is in deep recession, triggered by its close links to the ailing United States. To make matters worse, the country's oil industry, its fiscal cash-cow for the past three decades, is declining swiftly. As recently as 2004 Cantarell, the country's main offshore field, produced 2.1m barrels per day (b/d) of crude. Now its output is just 600,000 b/d. There are no obvious replacements: 23 of the 32 biggest fields are in decline. Barring big new finds, the world's seventh-largest oil producer is forecast to become a net importer by 2017.
That's not good for us ...
The Mexican treasury is ill-prepared for this. Taxes and royalties from Pemex, the state-owned oil monopoly, have accounted for almost two-fifths of federal revenues in recent years, compensating for one of Latin America's weakest tax regimes (which collects just 11% of GDP). If oil output drops below 2m b/d, as many industry-watchers fear, the government would be forced to cut spending by more than 10%--or jack up taxes correspondingly, to avoid an unsustainable budget deficit. This might threaten economic recovery.
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To make matters worse, Pemex has been run more in the interests of its workers and their trade unions than of the Mexican people, its notional owners.
Welcome to the hotel California...
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave!'
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> To make matters worse, Pemex has been run more in the interests of its workers and their trade unions than of the Mexican people, its notional owners.
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When do the "Mexican people" vote their proxy shares?
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Cardenas' nationalization of the foreign dominated oil fields is an almost holy event in Mexican history (when written and read by the Mexican people). There is a yearly holiday for this (sacred) event. Religions view (most) change(s) as heresey. That Pemex is oriented first toward workers' benefits is historically (in Mexico) considered a plus not a minus. The Mexican President who insists upon a transition from oil-field nationalization will be called a "neo-liberal" and traitor to the Revolution...for starters.
The Honduran government is upholding the rule of law and supporting democracy, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said after returning from a fact-finding trip to the country. DeMint led a delegation including Reps. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.), Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), and Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) The lawmakers met with Honduran President Roberto Micheletti, Supreme Court justices, and candidates in upcoming November 29 elections.
"[W]e saw a government working hard to follow the rule of law, uphold its constitution, and to protect democracy for the people of Honduras," DeMint said. "We are very encouraged by what we saw and we hope to be able to work with our administration to support the upcoming elections."
DeMint added that he'd have more to say after he briefed his Senate colleagues.
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DeMint added that he'd have more to say after he briefed his Senate colleagues.
"Senator Kerry is sorry to say he will not be able to attend your briefing. He has a prior engagement"
"I didn't say when it was to happen"
"whenever it happens, he has a prior engagement"
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AN XBox 360 videogame console purportedly signed by former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is being offered for sale on online auction site eBay for a cool $US1.1 million ($1.2 million).
The XBox was autographed by Mrs Palin at a public event in Wasilla, Alaska, on July 24, two days before her surprise announcement that she was stepping down as governor of Alaska, according to seller David Morrill.
Mr Morrill included three photographs of Mrs Palin signing the XBox in his eBay listing to back up its authenticity. He noted that the item had been "de-listed" by eBay on three previous occasions but said he had now satisfied all of the site's requirements.
"You can own this 60GB, perfect-condition, one-of-a-kind item before (Palin's) expected run for president of the United States of America in 2012," Mr Morrill said.
Mrs Palin, a darling of conservatives, is seen as a potential challenger for the White House at the end of President Barack Obama's first term.
A top-of-the-line XBox 360 Elite console, which has a 120 gigabyte hard drive, retails for $US299 ($336).
For those of you who like terrible Keith Olbermann, because he was the only television host to make you happy during the Bush Administration, tomorrows your lucky night, according to this frightening press release: NEW YORK Oct. 6, 2009 Tomorrow night on MSNBCs Countdown, Keith Olbermann will present a Special Comment for the full hour on the need for and meaning of health care reform in the United States. Health Care Reform: The Fight Against Death will be a program-length Special Comment by Olbermann, in which hell propose group action by patients, and how patients can reclaim the debate over health care reform. The patients group action will be to meet at someones house every night to watch Keith Olbermann.
Damn. I was hoping for a "rage in the cage" thing with KO vs the Grim Reaper. Nah...no such luck...
ABC News Yunji de Nies and Sunlen Miller report: Shes back and this time, shes here to stay. Cindy Sheehan says she is moving to Washington. The anti-war activist was outside the White House for the second day in a row, with a bullhorn and a handful of protestors, shouting against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Guantanamo and calling for health care not warfare.
Park Police arrested Sheehan and 60 other protestors yesterday, after Sheehan chained herself to the fence on the North Lawn. Sheehan says she refuses to pay the fine and that she and other anti-war activists plan to step up their protests until the administration shows a willingness to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
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Ms Medea Whatsername and Code Pink are there, too, according to the CNN report that woke me up this morning. t sounds like President Obama has lost the anti-war crowd, poor man.
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Personally, I think the sitting president should be able to appoint, without question, one D.C. judge, whose purpose should be solely to meet out justice to all the fruitcakes who assail the White House every day of the year.
And that in an act of true presidential bipartisanship, they should agree to get the meanest, surliest, snarliest, maximum fine and sentencing judge in the US for this position.
One who frequently sends lawyers to join their clients in the jug, and gleefully issues contempt citations, restraining orders, and blanket injunction from his bench, and who misses no opportunity to chastise rabble-rousing public nuisances to their face, while they have to shut up and take it, or else.
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She may be a loon, but she's an evil loon. Had up close and personal contact with her at Bush's ranch in Crawford a few years ago. To say she's doing this for any altruistic sense of duty is pure BS.
We showed up in numbers and we won, at least that battle.
Amid an overall drop in arrests of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S-Mexico border, an intriguing anomaly has cast a new light on human smuggling: Authorities report an almost tenfold spike in the number of Chinese people caught in the southern Arizona desert, the busiest smuggling corridor on the international line.
The Border Patrol in the Tucson sector has arrested at least 261 Chinese border-crossers this year, compared with an annual average of 32 during the last four years, officials said.
"They are the main [non-Mexicans] we catch," said field operations supervisor Juventino Pacheco of the patrol's international liaison unit in Nogales. "Lately we have been catching more Chinese than Central Americans."
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The headline for this article is a bit ambiguous: "Chinese arrests" -- for a second, I thought the Chinese are now the ones arresting our illegal border crossers.
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Yeah. I know a snakehead in Fujian. His idea was for me to teach English for his customers for a while, then go to America and meet them after they crossed the border and then escort them to their new homes. No thanks, jerkwad.
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America, or even private individuals, could effectively make the Mexican border tight as a drum head against non-Mexican illegals in a simple way: put out a bounty on non-Mexican illegals, payable to Mexicans.
Simply put, a Mexican in Mexico makes a phone call that some non-Mexicans are trying to cross the border. They payoffs are based on how valuable the non-Mexicans are. In exchange for the phone call tip, they get a coded number. When they present that number to US customs, they are given cash in return, but only if we catch the crosser or crossers.
For example, just ordinary Chinese are maybe worth $20 a head. But a serious Arab terrorist could be worth $50,000 as the "grand prize".
Such sums are petty, North of the border, but in northern Mexico that is the big bucks. That border would be air tight against non-Mexicans.
If you make it clear that it applies to non-Mexicans only, there would be no problem at all, as far as Mexicans are concerned. They might even take money to smuggle them across, then double cross them for more money.
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History repeats itself. Similar event occured in the first decades of the 20th century. Eventualy, "exclusionary acts" were passed in the USA; while Mexican President Calles (then Governor of Sonora) literally kicked out all Asians (then known as Orientals) from Northen Mexico = a Judenrein type of thing years before Adolf took power in the "Fatherland". Chones were accused by the Mexicans of spreading dread diseases; operating gambling and narcotic rackets; of being being "too good" at business; and of racial defiling the Mexican "Cosmic Race" (as it was then named by the then Minister for Public Education - and later Adolf admirer - Vascancelos. Does all this sound familiar? Years later then President Calles was photographed with a copy of Mein Kampf in his hands as he boarded a plane.
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Sorry for error. Read Chinese for chones. Chones means underwear in Spanish - which was definitely not my intention. Sticky keyboard methinks...too much eating while typing leads to crumbs between the keys...
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Most of these guys from China are gonna say that they are here looking for work and it'll probably be true. But you know there will be a certain percentage of them who will be agents of the Chinese government.
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Most of these guys from China are gonna say that they are here looking for work and it'll probably be true. But you know there will be a certain percentage of them who will be agents of the Chinese government.
My guess is that they're looking for work. Non-covert agent runners probably have diplomatic immunity, whereas covert agent runners probably have business or journalistic cover. It's well-nigh impossible for a Chinese national to get a visa to the US without $100K in the bank or company sponsorship related to a specific business transaction. And the traditional smuggling route involved a month on the high seas, followed by a transfer at sea to smaller boats - $60K to $70K is the going rate. Why spend a month in a shipping container with a bucket for a porta-john, when you can fly to Mexico for $1000 and slip across the border with the help of your local neighborhood coyote? The cool thing about Mexico is you don't have to rely on mainland Chinese gangsters who charge inflated rates to help you across, and can go after your family back home if you can't pay.
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
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