JAIL officials say a father accused of trying to sell his baby for $25 outside a Wal-Mart is recovering after other jail inmates beat him.
Thirty-eight-year-old Patrick Fousek and 20-year-old Samantha Tomasini pleaded not guilty to child endangerment and drug charges yesterday.
The Monterey County Herald reports that Fousek appeared in court with a bruised eye and stitches. Sheriff's Commander Mike Richards said the man was attacked on Thursday at the Monterey County Jail. He also suffered two cracked ribs and is now being held away from the general population.
Fousek is accused of approaching two women on Wednesday and asking if they'd like to purchase his six-month-old baby.
He and Tomasini were arrested a few hours later at their home, and Child Protective Services took the baby.
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The Monterey County Herald reports that Fousek appeared in court with a bruised eye and stitches. Sheriff's Commander Mike Richards said the man was attacked on Thursday at the Monterey County Jail. He also suffered two cracked ribs and is now being held away from the general population.
a late Father's Day gift
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oh yeah put the shithead in PC. Instead of saving a few bucks on his court appearances they are gonna spend more giving him a private room.
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Paul maintains perfect prediction score.
Krauts blitzkrieg Poms 4-1.
Brits will now do the only thing they do better than losing to Germany, head home to a firestorm of self-flagellation from the British media.
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Well, France surrendered first. Of course, the US surrendered yesterday too.
As one blog commenter wrote, "When he returns to France, Nicolas Mahut should be awarded the wives and girlfriends of everyone on the French team." Of course, that wouldn't be very interesting since Mahut is now a zombie.
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Octopus? Well I had a pet chicken that was pretty good at predicting World Series results. So there!
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The US did NOT surrender yesterday, they went down fighting. Two mental lapses led to two goals against, but the way the team fought in those last minutes of extra time made it a thrilling finish. Not often you see your own keeper at the other end trying to head in a corner.
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The U.S. would have been a tougher match for Germany.
See you 2014 in Brazil.
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A second perfectly legitimate, equalising, English goal was disallowed by the ref and linesmen - despite the fact that every other person in the stadium and around the world saw the ball clearly cross the line. England were outclassed for most of the match but at that point were poised to retake the momentum.
Another wrong decision steered the Argentina/Mexico match this evening, when an illegitimate Argentine goal was allowed.
FIFA need to sort themselves out and put an end this kind of idiocy at World Cup tournaments, where the match officials are quite literally the least informed people of all those watching a match. Argentina and Germany benefited from poor decisions this time; I hope they both realise that either of them could be put out next weekend due to another.
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The refereeing has been horrible in this World Cup, but Germany dominated that game except for that 5 minutes before halftime.
US/England. Sometimes you don't lose. You just get beat.
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England got f*ked. Pure and simple. So has every team which could have benefitted from instant replay all the way back to Ireland/France. The US may have gone out fighting but came out loosey goosey - it would be a legitimate arguement that had they not had to bust ass to make up for bad reffing perhaps they would have had their legs under them a bit more or have their starting lineup. Slovakian GK mugged by the two Italians. All y'all soccer is grande people need to realize that the worst proponant of soccer is the soccer game itself.
I think if the US played Germany like they played Ghana they (US) would have gone down 5-0. In general the ball does not stick to the US players' feet, overdo heading, underdo chest traps, all which leads to a lack of control of midfield all without the advantage of a marquee striker.
Honestly, I'm glad I am out other than just passing interest, and am glad I didn't just spend 3 years of my life to be screwed by a blind ref with no backup or accountability...well soccer bunnies are cool but other than that...
Rwanda authorities took in a presidential contender on Thursday on suspicion of attempted murder, a police spokesperson said. Security forces also detained dozens of opposition protesters when President Paul Kagame presented his papers for re-election.
Opposition presidential hopeful Bernard Ntaganda "was taken in to answer some accusations," police superintendant Eric Kayiranga said. Other charges against Ntaganda include setting up rebel groups, causing ethnic divisions, and gathering people without permission.
Kayiranga also confirmed the Thursday vening shooting of opposition journalist Jean-Leonard Rugambage.
"He was killed in front of his house when he was going home at 10 pm," he said, adding the "unknown gunman" responsible for the attack had vanished. Witnesses said Rugambage, the acting editor of the newspaper Umuvugizi, was shot by two men who then fled in a car.
Rugambage had accused the Kagame regime of attempting to assassinate dissident general Kayumba Nyamwasa in Johannesburg on 19 June. The paper's exiled editor said there was no doubt as to why Rugambage was killed.
"It's clear that Jean-Leonard was killed following his investigations into last week's assassination attempt," Jean Bosco Gasasira told media monitoring group Reporters Without Borders (RWB).
RWB said it was the first murder of a journalist in Rwanda since 1998.
SANAA: An appeals court in Yemen on Saturday upheld drugs-trafficking sentences against four Pakistanis, condemning two to death and giving 25-year jail terms to the others, the website of the Yemeni Defence Ministry reported.
Court president Mohammed al-Hakimi confirmed the verdicts handed down in October 2009, condemning Salim Daoud Abdelrahim and Imam Bakhsh Ayub Yakub to death, the website said. It said the other two convicts, Ghulam Khan Wali Mohammed and Mohammed Siddique Ahmed, were sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The court confirmed the death sentences against two Pakistani drug convicts and 25 years imprisonment against another two, the website reported. The four are accused of smuggling 1,695 kilogrammes of hashish into Yemen via its coastal territories.
Death sentences in Yemen are usually carried out by firing squad.
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Kyrgyzstan on Saturday prepared to hold a referendum on a new constitution, defying warnings the poll risked sparking a resurgence of this month's deadly inter-ethnic violence. The authorities cancelled a curfew in the southern city of Osh that was the epicentre of the violence which killed at least 275 people to pave the way for the vote on Sunday and insisted that the poll would go ahead.
The referendum is the centrepiece of the interim government's blueprint for Kyrgyzstan after the ousting of president Kurmanbek Bakiyev in April riots and officials have said the latest violence was aimed at derailing the vote.
'The situation in the south of Kyrgyzstan is still tense but there are not the kind of events that make it impossible to stop the curfew for one day,' said Kyrgyzstan's interim leader Roza Otunbayeva.
'We have the capacity to ensure the security of people in the referendum,' she told reporters in the capital Bishkek.
Polls were due to open on Sunday.
Really, what could possibly go wrong?
Wonder if all the people who fled to Uzbekistan will be allowed to vote ...
Toronto police used tear gas and arrested 75 when a violent mob tried to hijack a peaceful protest by some 10,000 people against the G20 summit here Saturday, the city's police chief said.
"We have never seen this level of wanton criminality on our streets," chief Bill Blair told a press conference hours after the protest, adding police were still scouring the streets fearing more trouble.
Some 10,000 people marched against the G20 summit Saturday demonstrating in favor of social causes, in a largely peacefully rally until violence erupted on its fringes.
The main body of the march was a well-marshaled event, led by older activists and organized labor, but splinter groups of young hardliners scuffled with riot officers and set fire to three patrol cars. At least three more vehicles and windows in downtown Toronto's financial district were damaged, and the air was thick with the smell of vinegar-soaked rags used to ward off police tear gas.
Firefighters moved in to douse the flames, but chaos erupted nearby as police forced back protestors and bystanders were caught in the action.
Seems to me we had better read the fine print on this one.
After more than a year of work and two weeks of negotiations, lawmakers early Friday finished melding different versions of Wall Street reform. The final bill won't be ready for a few days, but here's CNNMoney.com's breakdown of key provisions that aim to protect consumers, prevent firms from getting too big to fail and crack down on risky bets that leave taxpayers on the hook.
Creating a consumer agency: Establishes an independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau housed inside the Federal Reserve. Fees paid by banks fund the agency, which would set rules to curb unfair practices in consumer loans and credit cards. It would not have power over auto dealers.
Credit scores: All consumers have been able to get one free credit report a year from the credit rating agencies. But the bill would also allow a consumer to get an actual credit score along with a report.
Interchange fees: Lawmakers want the Fed to crack down on debit card swipe fees, which retailers pay to banks to cover the operational cost of transferring money. The Fed could cap the fees and make them more reasonable and proportional.
Banning 'liar loans': Lenders would have to document a borrower's income before originating a mortgage and verify a borrower's ability to repay the loan.
Mortgage help for unemployed: Unemployed homeowners with good credit would be eligible for low-interest loans to help them avoid foreclosures. The bill would spend $1 billion on such relief, using funds that had been directed for Troubled Asset Relief Fund bailing out the financial system.
Fixed-equity annuities: Prohibits tougher federal rules on life insurance products, in which customers pay a lump sum upfront in exchange for monthly income over time, pegged to an index. The Securities and Exchange Commission had been gearing up to step in and start requiring more disclosure for these products, often sold to seniors, that are currently regulated by state insurance commissioners. Lawmakers decided to stop the SEC from tougher federal regulation.
New oversight power: Creates a new 10-member oversight council consisting of financial regulators to look out for major problems at financial firms and throughout the financial system. The Treasury Secretary gains a key role in enforcing tougher regulations on larger firms and watching for systemic risk. The council also has veto power over new rules proposed by new consumer regulator.
Unwinding powers: Gives the FDIC new powers to take down giant financial firms in the same way it takes down banks. Banks would be taxed to reimburse the federal government for the cost of resolving these firms after a failure occurs.
Breaking up banks: Gives regulators strengthened powers to break up financial companies that have grown too big, but only if the firms threaten to destabilize the financial system.
Checking on the Fed: Allows Congress to order the Government Accountability Office to review Fed activities, excluding monetary policy. Audits would be allowed two years after the Fed makes emergency loans and gives financial help to ailing financial firms.
Forcing 'skin in the game': Firms that sell mortgage-backed securities must keep at least 5% of the credit risk, unless the underlying loans meet new standards that reduce risk.
Financial system fee: Banks and financial firms would be taxed to pay for the $19 billion cost of implementing the Wall Street reform bill.
Regulating derivatives: Attempts to shine a light on complex financial products called derivatives that many blame for bringing down American International Group (AIG, Fortune 500) and Lehman Brothers. Would force most derivatives to be bought and sold on clearinghouses and exchanges. Some derivatives, including those traded by agriculture companies and airlines to mitigate risk, would still be unregulated.
Spinning off swaps desks: Big banks that want to engage in nontraditional bets, such as on mortgage products or certain commodities, would have to spin off their swaps divisions.
Reining in risky bets: Limits giant Wall Street banks from making trades on their own accounts, although with a long lead time and opportunities for delays up to seven years. While the original proposal would have banned banks from owning hedge funds, the bill would allow banks to sink up to 3% of capital into hedge funds or private equity funds.
Improving credit ratings: Agencies that rate securities must disclose their methodologies. The Securities and Exchange Commission would have to study a way to find an independent way to match credit rating agencies with financial firms seeking ratings. After two years, they'd have to implement such a process, or appoint a panel to independently match ratings agencies with firms that need securities rated.
Curbing executive pay: The bill would also impose new rules for how all publicly-traded companies, not just banks and other financial firms, pay top executives. Shareholders will be given a nonbinding advisory vote on how top executives are paid while in office. Shareholders also get a nonbinding advisory vote on executives' outsized severance payments, or so-called "golden parachutes."
The new rules would also beef up oversight of pay practices within the financial industry, which some critics have suggested helped fuel the crisis by encouraging workers to place risky bets. The bill, for example, would require industry regulators to draft their own set of rules aimed at eliminating risky pay practice among banks and other financial firms.
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A lot (not all) of this seems reasonable. But since it comes from Frank & Dodd, with no transparency and in a big rush, I have to figure it is somehow a big Trojan Horse.
AoS at 0830 CT: pic removed. We generally don't want to load pics from PhotoBucket, etc here at the Burg as it has the potential to slow loading (and occasionally does). Sorry.
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Take note, ladies and gentlemen, especially those who've not posted for fear of being caught doing it wrong: even such an experienced moderator as Dr. Steve sometimes does it wrong and has to be fixed.* ;-)
*We aren't going to talk about the many things I've done, or how many times I had to beg the moderators to fix it, 'k? 'Cause that would be too mortifying for words.
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Seems to me the idea is to create new regulatory agencies, stuff them with the nose people, and as the small and medium business attempt to comply and drown in red tape and contradicting requirements at some point, when the new agency is operational enough, the olde regulator office can be closed and touted as cutting government expenses but nobody will really be fired. The in people will be transferred to the new business bureau and the leftovers will go to other fed agencies.
1. The bill will not bode well for individuals who want to sue for damages as the result of fraudelent behavior. "Congress has largely declined to increase the role of private litigants in deterring misconduct and encouraging accountability. In the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, Congress empowered individual investors to sue for misrepresentations and other misconduct in connection with the issuance and sale of securities. Securities fraud litigation exploded from there."
2. Reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which had a large part in creating the housing bubble and the current crisis is ignored.
3. The bill ignores a "competitive market" probably because the people who designed the bill really don't know (or care) much about competitive markets.
Does the AP consider this to be a well written story? It's not even a well written headline. This is the sort of 'reporting' which forces you to go out and research everything on your own, if you care about it at all. It is the journalistic equivalent of going to a restaurant and having the waiters ignore you all evening.
Seriously ouch, ryuge. We ought to get up a petition for AP to hire a couple of Rantburg's pros and badanov, who know what questions to ask and how to find the answers... and how to write up the result beautifully.
Can't blame them, as the 5.56 SCAR, while a good rifle, offered no advantage in lethality over the M4. It is a cartridge issue. Make the 5.56x45 into a .30 caliber version, the 7.62x45 based on the 5.56x45 case, and lethality issues are resolved, equipment costs are minimized (only a barrel and cartridge change, all rifles in service can be converted, same magazines, upper receivers and bolts are used) and you have a low cost solution in hand.
There will be a lot of relieved troops, operators, and US suppliers with this decision. Now let's see what they do about the core problem, the cartridge.
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I think that they should just go with the 6.8mm SPC II and be done with it. That caliber has 200 meters on the 5.56, weighs less than 7.62 NATO, and is controllable in full auto. Basically, it makes an M-16/M-4 a 550 meter rifle, with more knockdown power and only about a 20% reduction in ammo carriage.
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Small calibers are for peacetime armies. With the grind of extended combat, combat personnel will invariably call for larger and more powerful, and more of it.
Case in point were some of the combat aircraft near the end of WWII, that were just bristling with guns, and could barely get off the ground with a full load of ammo.
Experienced combat infantry no longer complain about the heft of arms and ammo, as long as it is visibly better than what they had before.
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Given the apparent last-minute aspect of the cancellation, I suspect that it has to do with the articles a few weeks ago about the .556 being too short-ranged for the Afghan distances as compared to jungle or urban conflict.
Contestants on Young Imam chant passages from the Koran, not pop covers. While the concept is based on the hit British and American shows, the young Malaysian men are out to prove they are the best mullah in the land. The show, now in its third week, is fast becoming a hit in the Muslim-majority country.
The judge who delivers their fate as the lights dim and contestant stand nervously is no Simon Cowell. Hasan Mahmood, the former grand mufti of Malaysia's national mosque, presides over the ten male contestants aged between 19 and 27.
Instead of a lucrative record deal, the winner will be given a post as an imam at a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, a Haj pilgrimage to Mecca and a full scholarship to the Madinah international university in Saudi Arabia.
Just like their counterparts in the West, the Young Imam competitors are fast becoming icons to young viewers. The show's Facebook page has over 25,000 fans, including prospective mothers-in-law looking to marry off their daughters.
The aspiring imams are given clerical tasks to complete each week. The first challenge was to bathe and bury a body that had lain unclaimed in a morgue for one month. The man had died of the AIDS virus. They washed the body, wrapped it in white cotton, offered prayers and buried it, with some contestants shedding tears at the grave.
"Seeing and handling a dead body is the most difficult ritual they could face as an imam. The ten boys were brilliant, but the crew was not so good," said Izelan Basar, channel manager of Astro Oasis, which screens the show. "The producer fainted and several crew members vomited."
Other tasks have included trying to teach young street racers caught by the police about Islam and visiting an orphanage. The group is secluded from the outside world in a dormitory on a mosque compound.
Each contestant has to deliver a sermon in a mosque every Friday. Last week, 25-year-old Sharafuddin Suaut was sent home for a lack of clarity over finer points of Islamic theory. "The aim of the show is to get both the contestants and the audience to know, understand and practice their religion in an entertaining way," Mr Izelan explained. "The reactions to the show have been hugely positive and we are looking forward to many new seasons."
With the youthful contestants dressed in fashionable, sharp suits, the show appears to be keen to move away from the stereotype of elderly imams in flowing robes. The television channel collaborated with the government to ensure religious sensitivities are not breached. "We have been very careful not to cross any lines or offend anyone and to take a middle path," Mr Izelan said.
Malaysia's reputation as a progressive Muslim country has suffered recently, with the firebombing of churches in January, the caning of three Muslim women for adultery in February and news last week that al-Qaeda-linked extremists have been recruiting from Malaysian universities.
Islamic community reports little hatred but "many Muslims and scholars agree there is an undercurrent of fear . . . lurking in the dark corners of bars and sometimes showing its face in the light of day."
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People in Montana are proud of America. What the muslims fear is the America that does not crawl to islam and beg. That America lives in places like Montana, Idaho, Arizona and most of the south. And what is a good muzzie doing in a bar in Montana anyway???
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And what is a good muzzie doing in a bar in Montana anyway???
Hypocritical assholes wanting to stir it up?
Notice throughout the entire article, whenever 'racism' or 'ignorance' is mentioned, to whom it's directed?
Two candidates for the 6th Congressional District seat now held by U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon weighed in on the controversy over a plan to build an Islamic center south of Murfreesboro, with one slamming the proposal and another calling on supporters to back it.
Lou Ann Zelenik, a former chairman of the Rutherford County Republican Party, released a statement Thursday saying the proposal for a mosque and community center off Bradyville Pike should be blocked to protect the nation's "Judeo-Christian tradition." She said the U.S. is not obligated to open its society to American Muslims until they "find it in their hearts to separate themselves from their evil, radical counterparts."
On Friday, Democratic candidate Ben Leming, a former Marine who served in Iraq, responded by challenging other candidates to denounce Zelenik's remarks. "The Americans that want to build this mosque are already our neighbors," Leming said in a statement. "They live next to us and they are a part of our community. They are not the enemy."
State Sen. Diane Black, a Republican candidate for the office, said in a statement that Americans have the right to practice their faith as long as they do not threaten others. "I'm very concerned that violent jihadism is becoming the norm, not the exception, in too much of Islam today and American communities have a right to be vigilant in ensuring that Islamic institutions in this country do not aid the jihadist viewpoint."
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.
SANAA: An appeals court in Yemen on Saturday upheld drugs-trafficking sentences against four Pakistanis, condemning two to death and giving 25-year jail terms to the others, the website of the Yemeni Defence Ministry reported.
Toronto police used tear gas and arrested 75 when a violent mob tried to hijack a peaceful protest by some 10,000 people against the G20 summit here Saturday, the city's police chief said.
Contestants on Young Imam chant passages from the Koran, not pop covers. While the concept is based on the hit British and American shows, the young Malaysian men are out to prove they are the best mullah in the land. The show, now in its third week, is fast becoming a hit in the Muslim-majority country. 
Two candidates for the 6th Congressional District seat now held by U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon weighed in on the controversy over a plan to build an Islamic center south of Murfreesboro, with one slamming the proposal and another calling on supporters to back it.
