Memphis - Chaos erupted at a Family Dollar store when a man with a knife chased customers and was shot dead.
Witnesses at the store near Delano and North Watkins say the attacker picked the wrong victim.
"He got what he deserved," says one woman. "It's as simple as that."
Police say a man with a knife raced through the parking lot just after 3:00 p.m.. Witnesses say the man chased a delivery driver and others, but was killed when he tried to lunge his knife at one driver leaving the parking lot. The driver pulled a gun and killed his attacker on the spot.
"I just seen him shoot down. I thought he was just shooting in the ground. Obviously, he was shooting the gentleman with the knife," says Byron Cook who watched the ordeal from start to finish, along with his three year-old grandson.
Witnesses say two little girls were inside the car when the attacker lunged at the driver.
"He had his two step-daughters in the car with him. So, he really was trying to look out for them when he shot him," says Brandon Jones, who says the girls appeared to be younger than ten. "Yeah, they saw everything that happened. One of them was real shaken."
Jones heard roughly six shots, then saw the man on the ground with the butcher knife still in hand. Witnesses can't make sense of the attacker's motive, but they're certain the shooting was self-defense.
"He did the right thing by taking care of his business," says Jones. "The girls are safe."
"You've got to protect yourself," says Cook. "He had his two kids in the car and they were terrified."
"Self defense," says one woman. "That's what I would have done, the same thing."
Witnesses say the shooter was stabbed, but appeared to be okay. Police have not released the name of the attacker.
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The stress of combat will do that to you. If you're lucky.
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The whacko might have been on meth; in which case it might have taken several shots to stop him. Or simply because he was crazy might have given him an adrenalin rush. I have heard of cases where a 9mm was emptied on a crazy before the guy was stopped. This might also suggest moving up to a higher caliber such as a 40 or 45 cal with some good man-stopper ammo.
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He might still be in trouble for excessive shooting since he appears to have fired until empty.
I dunno, if it works for the police, it ought to work for the average Joe on the street. I say blast him until you can't blast him any more, then stand ready to pistol whip the guy in case he gets up again.
The criminal case against a 10-year-old miniature Dachshund that bit a Lafayette veterinarian technician should be dismissed because the city's vicious animal ordinance is flawed and state law should prevail, a defense attorney argued Friday.
Municipal Court Judge Roger Buchholz said he would rule next week on whether to drop the charge against the dog, Spork, or allow the case to proceed. Violating Lafayette's vicious animal law can draw punishment up to a lifetime in a kennel or euthanization.
Defense attorney Jay Swearingen, who specializes in animal law, said he's never heard of a Colorado case where an animal care worker has been bit by an otherwise non-violent dog and pressed charges -- namely because state law exempts it.
"We know dogs bark and bite," he said during a hearing Friday. "The professionals who go into this business know there is some risk."
Prosecutor Ralph Josephsohn, however, said that the 2006 city law prohibits "vicious animals," defined as those that attack or bite without being provoked, approach someone in a terrorizing way or have been trained as a fighting animal.
"We've adopted an ordinance to protect public safety," he said. "... There's not a safe haven or immunity for those involved in animal care."
Spork's case has generated passionate pleas to spare the dog. A "Save Spork" page on Facebook has gained more than 20,000 fans.
In August, Spork's owners took him to Lafayette's Jasper Animal Hospital to have a bad tooth extracted. Owner Kelly Walker said she was holding the 17-pound dog in her arms while the technician attached a hospital band, then took out scissors to cut off the excess.
The dog bit the technician in the face when she reached out to take Spork from Walker. Walker said her dog was simply scared -- so scared he defecated on her arm -- and in pain, not vicious.
The technician, Allyson Stone, lost small pieces of her lips and was treated at Boulder Community Hospital and by a plastic surgeon.
Stone told police that Spork showed no signs he was going to bite, adding that she felt the attack was unprovoked, according to the police report.
She told police she wanted to press charges because she was concerned that Spork would bite his owner or someone else and she wanted to prevent another attack.
Colorado law excludes those who work with animals in veterinarian offices from pressing charges in animal bite cases. But Lafayette's local laws include a vicious animal law that doesn't have a similar exclusion. Lafayette also doesn't allow jury trials in vicious animal cases.
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Unprovoked like hell.
The article states the dog had an infected tooth, an the Vet was cutting "Tissue" with a pair of scisors, not a word about anesthetic.
I'd hurt the person too that was hurting me.
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"When Sporks Attack"
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Redneck Jim --- while the technician attached a hospital band, then took out scissors to cut off the excess.
I don't think that hospital band is "tissue." I could be wrong, but I think that refers to the ID bracelet placed on any hospital patience, human or animal.
But I do agree -- that dog was in pain, and not vicious.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Three strong aftershocks have spread new fears among Chileans as visiting UN chief Ban Ki-moon pledges 10 million dollars in emergency aid to the devastated country.
Gaia doesn't like the nice man from the UN?
A first 6.2-magnitude aftershock jolted people awake at 6:20 a.m. (0920 GMT) Friday, just six days after a 8.8 magnitude quake which along with a tsunami, left more than 800 people dead and some two million homeless.
That was followed by a 6.8-magnitude tremor -- one of the strongest of more than 200 to rattle Chile since the weekend -- and another measuring 6.6.
Some damaged buildings in Concepcion, the country's second city, collapsed, but the national emergency services said the aftershocks caused no injuries or serious damage.
That's a comfort for a beleaguered people.
Meanwhile, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon arrived in the capital Santiago on Friday to assess the damage and meet with Chilean authorities.
Ban pledged 10 million dollars in immediate help from the UN, in a news conference in the Chilean capital.
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prolly 10 million of our dollars
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We should all be glad that Al Gore didn't write a book on how stable the Earth is and earthquakes are thing of the past
Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will hold a meeting on Friday in Caracas with Venezuelan Head of State Hugo Chavez, said Rasel Tomé, an assistant of deposed Honduran leader.
The meeting will take place at Miraflores presidential palace during "the course of the day," said Tomé, after a press conference to be held in a Caracas hotel on Friday morning was cancelled. Zelaya's assistant did not provide further details on the agenda of the former Central American president, Efe reported. Mel's gonna tell Oogo that exile ain't so bad ...
Tomé said that the visit of Zelaya is part of a tour undertaken by the former Honduran President of a number of countries in the region.
According to several local newspapers, Zelaya arrived in Maiquetía airport on Thursday morning. There was an event to which the media was not invited. Then, he had a private meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro.
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It is a widely believed fact that increasing numbers of North Koreans have starved to death in the wake of the currency reform that took place Nov. 30.
Monk Beopryun, chairperson of Good Friends, a leading North Korean human rights movement non-governmental organization, said during a lecture held in Korus House, culture center of the South Korean Embassy in Washington D.C. on Mar. 4, "After the currency reform, a number of people have starved to death since mid-January." It is known that the price of foods have risen 45 times compared to that before the currency reform.
Monk Beopryun said, "The aim of currency reform was to restore the system of a planned economy, however, most supplies to the country have been stopped, because the distribution system of the planned economy has not worked well, while circulation at the marketplace has been banned." He added, "If no specific countermeasures are taken in response to this situation, starvation will become an even more serious threat by March or April." He emphasized the need to send humanitarian food aid to North Korea.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Greek police have clashed with protesters angered by tough new austerity measures, while European heavyweight Germany rebuffs Athens need for a financial assistance.
Key Germans, in various reports, have advised Greece to raise money by selling uninhabited islands and spare bits of ancient statuary, and the Greek people to become more productive by getting up earlier in the morning. Aesop's tale of the ant and the grasshopper comes to mind, and this kind of nonsense is not helping the Greek reputation for fecklessness.
A demonstration by several thousand protesters was marred by clashes after the head of Greece's main union, Yiannis Panagopoulos, was beaten by unknown assailants as he delivered a speech.
Five people were arrested in Athens and a handful of shops and banks along with a ministry building had their front windows smashed, police said. Around a dozen protesters and police were injured, according to reports.
Meanwhile, Parliament approved a third round of austerity measures aimed at reining in the country's gaping budget deficit and restoring trust in its solvency on financial markets.
Wake me when they raise the retirement age in Greece to 62 ...
But government hopes to secure more tangible European backing for its 4.8-billion-euro belt-tightening package were dashed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"Greece has not asked for financial assistance," she said after talks in Berlin with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou.
Europe's biggest economy, Germany is widely seen as the most likely candidate to help prevent a Greek default, which would be disastrous for the eurozone. But there is huge opposition in Germany against such a move, with angry editorials slamming alleged Greek corruption and wasteful spending.
Germans would rather their government spend the money on their own feckless and spendthrift ways ...
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The administration is not going to block the vote. The Hildebeast is going to lobby congressional leaders to head off a vote. That's different.
Turkey has already pulled their ambassador in Washington, proclaiming this a matter of "honour". Prime Minister Erdogan really is enjoying throwing his weight around. He's been waiting for an opportunity, and had Congressional committee not done this, something else would have served as an excuse to openly realign Turkey from the eastern end of the West to -- he hopes -- regain Turkey's role as the center of the Muslim Middle East.
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From what I understand the rest of the Muddled East has no desire for Turkey to regain the center of power in the Arab world. Most of the corruption in the Muddled East was learned from Turkey, with little love lost. The Turks are great fighters, but their leaders have ALWAYS been corrupt to one degree or another.
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Two British plane-spotters have been fined 25,000 rupees each (£365) by an Indian court after admitting illegally monitoring aircraft.
Stephen Hampton, 46, and Steven Ayres, 56, both from Bristol, appeared before magistrates in Delhi charged with intercepting communications. The pair, who had faced a jail term, were told they could return to the UK.
They had sparked suspicion after asking a Delhi hotel for a room overlooking Indira Gandhi International Airport. They were carrying an air traffic control scanner, a laptop, binoculars and cameras.
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would be rather interested to know some of the background here
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would be rather interested to know some of the background here
The Indians were intrigued, too, suspecting some kind of James Bond type scheming. Sadly they're just men who spend their spare time watching planes - the high flying cousins of train spotters. You probably don't want to know much more than that.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi diplomats of the embassy in Tehran were not allowed to vote, the Iraqi ambassador to Iran said on Friday. That doesn't make a bit of sense ...
Iraq's election office in Tehran prevented the diplomats from casting their votes although they carried diplomatic passports, have legal residency in Iran and work at the Iraqi embassy in Tehran,' Mohammed Majeed al-Sheikh, the Iraqi ambassador to Iran, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
He said that his embassy will write a memo about this issue to the Iraqi Foreign Affairs Ministry.
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Too good not to post here. Self-explanatory, and the referring blog, WattsUpWithThat, has the pdf files.
Climate scientist delivers false statement in parliament enquiry
It has come to our attention, that last Monday (March 1), Dr. Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU), in a hearing with the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee made a statement in regards to the alleged non-availability for disclosure of Swedish climate data.
Dr. Jones asserted that the weather services of several countries, including Sweden, Canada and Poland, had refused to allow their data to be released, to explain his reluctance to comply with Freedom of Information requests.
This statement is false and misleading in regards to the Swedish data.
All Swedish climate data are available in the public domain. As is demonstrated in the attached correspondence between SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute), the UK Met Office and Dr. Jones (the last correspondence dated yesterday March 4), this has been clearly explained to Dr. Jones. What is also clear is that SMHI is reluctant to be connected to data that has undergone "processing" by the East Anglia research unit.
STOCKHOLM INITIATIVE
Göran Ahlgren, secretary general
Kungsgatan 82
12 27 Stockholm, Swede
Pwned!
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Tuesday night's meltdown by MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan (while interviewing Mark Williams of the Tea Party Express) has become a viral sensation for news & political junkies.
And now MSNBC's Ratigan has announced on his Facebook page that he's taking the next few days off. MSNBC's Ed Schultz is filling in for Ratigan.
A video clip of the meltdown posted on YouTube earned 13 Honors from around the world, and became the #1-Most VIewed News/Politics video of the day and was the 26th Most Viewed clip overall on YouTube. Ratigan's ranting and raving wasn't just a viral Internet hit, the segment was served up for fodder by Fox News Channel's Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld. Gutfeld found great joy poking his competitors over at MSNBC:
Mark Williams said the experience was overall a positive one:
"As a talk radio host I learned long ago that when you've got a crazy person who is about to make themselves and their movement look foolish, you let them have all the rope they need to do it.
"If this is the best those who oppose the tea party movement can come up with, then I submit that the tea party movement may have already won the day in the battle of ideas.
"And as for Mr. Ratigan, I suggest a Beer Summit."
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Well.......this did take place on MSNBC. I wouldn't expect anything different. They're a bunch of far left freaks who are running scared because it's all slipping away barely a year removed from seizing power. They know that this years elections are going to be a blood bath for them and they're becoming unhinged. I love it!
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Dear Mr Ratigan please consider taking the rest of the year off, because what the kid says is right.
Get it through your heads, people - pretty much anyone who is left of center politically in this country in 2010, be they a radical like this Ratagan guy or Pres. Obama or Michael Moore or Pelosi and Reid - or less obvious like the soft-spoken English professor on your street who has NPR on his radio all day or most of the librarians in your public library or the AFSCME or SEIU members at your town hall or county courthouse - have already made up their minds that anyone who believes in free enterprise, Christianity, small government, firearm freedom, or American exceptionalism is literally a Nazi and a member of the KKK.
Not "like" those groups, literally one of them.
They MUST maintain the fiction that this is true, and they MUST maintain the notion that people who believe those things pose an existential threat to the universe, because if it isn't true that all of us on the center/right are nazis, then their entire narrative is for shit, and for the postmodern left the narrative is all.
When someone on that side looks at you or me, they see Hitler or a Grand Wizard 100% of the time. Do not be fooled when they say "Well, I'm tolerant of moderate conservatives". It's BS. They still look at you and see a Nazi, just a slightly less dangerous one. Ratigan's rant is prima facie evidence of this.
Was Ratigan's rage equal when dangerous and overt communists joined protests against the Iraq war? Did he demand that the organizers of the protest call shame on those evil radicals? He didn't and they didn't. Again, proof that violent radicalism isn't the problem, guys like Ratigan are just fine with violent radicalism as long as it is left of center in ideology.
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Again, proof that violent radicalism isn't the problem, guys like Ratigan are just fine with violent radicalism as long as it is left of center in ideology.
Works for me.
Ratigan was behind a camera and a lot of thugs hired as bodyguards. He'll be a pliant as as pussycat in the real world or he'll be dodging roundhouses.
And the great thing in America is he gets to choose.
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.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Three strong aftershocks have spread new fears among Chileans as visiting UN chief Ban Ki-moon pledges 10 million dollars in emergency aid to the devastated country. 
Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will hold a meeting on Friday in Caracas with Venezuelan Head of State Hugo Chavez, said Rasel Tomé, an assistant of deposed Honduran leader.
It is a widely believed fact that increasing numbers of North Koreans have starved to death in the wake of the currency reform that took place Nov. 30.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Greek police have clashed with protesters angered by tough new austerity measures, while European heavyweight Germany rebuffs Athens need for a financial assistance. 
Tuesday night's meltdown by MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan (while interviewing Mark Williams of the Tea Party Express) has become a viral sensation for news & political junkies. 
