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There are some implications of this besides the obvious. I can see insurance rates for houses rising, and maybe you will not get homeowner's insurance in Oakland. Welcome to the future Somalia, folks, on the installment plan.
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There is a partial list at the link. Most of it is "after the fact" and nuisance kind of stuff.
Oh no! You'll have to get off your a$$ and complain to the neighbor or clean it up yourself!
Sex offender? Seems like they wouldn't care unless a citizen reported them anyway. Websites will be popping up where that same citizen can "register" for them privately just as there are websites that will tell you what that phone number was that just called you before you call them back, even if they are an "unlisted" number.
The police also say you'll just have to register your problem online. OK. So no operator to hold your hand. Sounds like they'll get to you between serious work.
I wonder if Oakland uses photo radar (or hides behind signs at the usual speedtraps and other such easy-money-makers). If they do, then I also wonder if those stations will remain in use. If so, in my opinion the police could absorb further cuts.
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Some are minor, others not so much. If you home was burglarized would you want to be told to fill out the online form and that no officer would be coming by? Who's going to go in first and check it out? What if they stole your computer? Damn, looks like it's going to be a long night!
I think we can expect more of our police force than this. Is this to be the new model for police work? We already have CHP to pick at the carcass of an already broke citizenry, they've become nothing more than meter maids with guns.
My father worked for Oakland Police for 25 years, he can't recall anything in the oath about raising revenues, but that's all they seem to be interested in now.
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Order will emerge from this chaos. You may not like what the Fruit of Islam provides, but the locals will like the order they establish. It will become interesting when the new order gains enough power to threaten the old and its corruption pensions.
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Fruit of Islam has already staked out Oakland in competition with the police.
A reminder is perhaps in order regarding this 2005 paper from the Army War College. Main point of the paper is that street gangs function like insurgencies in that they deliberately prevent the public authorities from exercising control and as a result undermine the rule of law in general.
The Fruit of Islam in Oakland, who've been linked to the murders of Oakland business people who don't support them. Second generation north Africans in the banlieus of Paris. Kurdish Islamicists in Malmo. We've seen what happens when the authorities cede control of an urban area. It doesn't end well.
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Tell it to Mayor Daley, Robin. "Insurgents" control parts of Chicago, but Da Mare doesn't want you to own a gun to defend yourself. It's almost as if they're working together! [/sarc]
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Actually, Spot, they're in competition. They just want to keep the sheep from becoming involved. It's really no different from northern Mexico where the corrupt drug lords are competing with the corrupt police and government officials. Its all about power. The 'public' are just the creatures to fleece.
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This is an old bureaucrat trick. When someone offers to cut your funding, you loudly announce that you are going to "cut the meat" (not the fat.)
The trick is to not be too outrageous. For example, they would get their rear end kicked if they said they were no longer going to arrest rapists. But not arresting taggers will annoy the business community just enough so that they will lean on the city council.
And yes, a big part of it is not pushing so hard that people start looking for alternatives.
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If they are not enforcing the law, then they are just an unnecessary expense to Oakland. Get rid of them and hire someone who will uphold the law. Is this another one of those publice union stories where the unions have a stranglehold on State and Federal politics?
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Seems like a good opportunity for Oakland and California to be the next target for gun rights--if the police can't provide protection, each citizen will have to provide his/her own protection. Seems like Oakland and California is ripe for a 2nd Amendment challenge. Presently, California is very restrictive about gun rights..
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But not arresting taggers will annoy the business community just enough so that they will lean on the city council. Anonymoose
A friend and former Union negotiator refers to this as the pinch point strategy. The tactic is to affect key areas where labor most interfaces with the public and use their dissatisfaction as a force multiplier. Does Cloward-Piven sound familiar?
Encounters with two hairless canines last week in northeast Hood County are stirring speculation that goat-sucking "chupacabras" have expanded into North Texas. Or, according to a more scientific explanation, mange is infecting coyotes, robbing them of their coats. Let's not let science get in the way of a good goat-sucking story
Goat-sucking? I'm not sure what that means, but it doesn't sound like I want to.
There haven't been any local reports of livestock or pets being sucked dry - the modus operandi of the mythical beasts of south-of-the-border folklore. But a frail, hairless hound cornered on Wednesday, July 7, was no less startling to a code enforcement officer for the city of Cresson.
Johnny Collins said he was checking a city water well when he saw an emaciated, gray-skinned animal sneak into a barn at the adjacent Wake Sports Ranch, which operates a cable system that slings water skiers around a lake. Frank Hackett, Hood County animal control officer, entered the building with Collins to flush the creature out, but that's when it showed its teeth.
"It came toward me," Collins said. "It growled and leaped, kind of like a kangaroo rat, and when it came down, it went back toward Frank." So Hackett shot the animal, Collins said. That's how we deal with mythical beasts in Texas
One Ranger, one mythical beast?
Jack Farr, owner of the ranch and neighboring MotorSport Ranch, said he had been seeing the animal for about three weeks on the property.
"One time I was on a four-wheeler and I came within 15-20 feet of it," he said. "I just kind of veered closer to it, but it trotted away. I've never seen anything like it." "Hi, honey. How was your ride?"
"Pretty boring, just the usual blood sucking mythical beasts. What's for dinner?"
"Unicorn, hunter style. I know it's your favourite, so I sent little Suzie out in her prettiest white dress to fetch one."
Sightings of similar creatures have popped up in recent years at Edinburg along the border with Mexico and farther north near Cuero.
Collins, a member of the Texas State Guard, attended a drill a few days later and showed pictures of the animal to fellow troops from South Texas. "They'd take one look and say, 'Yep, you got a chupacabra there,'" Collins said.
Actually, said Sgt. Rosemary Moninger of Hood County animal control, the animal was a "coyote-canine hybrid," according to tests conducted at Texas A&M University. Denier.
Probably doesn't believe it gets hot every summer, too.
Moninger took the carcass to veterinary experts there, who found skin mites still active on the animal a day after it was killed and put in a cooler, she said. Mites are known to cause mange, but this animal had even more problems. "It had extreme internal parasites," Moninger said, "and it was totally emaciated, just starving to death." ALIEN PARASITES TURNING COYOTES INTO MUTANT BLOOD SUCKERS! NEWS AT 11!
Collins said he regrets that the animal was shot. "But, my gosh," he added, "the misery it was in ... it was just horrible."
A similar animal was killed two days later on the Hewitt family ranch near Acton, about eight miles southwest of Cresson. Joyce Hewitt, a 30-year resident, said coyotes are regularly spotted on her land, but like Farr, she had never seen one without hair -- at least not until recently. "We've been seeing it for a week or two," she said, "and then it started coming up to the house. Well, I had an outside kitty, and I didn't want him to get it."
So, on Friday, July 9, her son David shot the creature. Texas ain't a healthy place to be a chupacabra.
But shortly after the kill, the Hewitts noticed that it wasn't completely bald. "He had some hair right down his spine," she said. "He had really sturdy paws and substantial claws."
The Hewitts didn't want to touch the creature, she said, but before animal control could have a look at it, "the vultures got it." "Clean-up, aisle two"
Consequently, the carcass can't be tested to determine if it's a coyote -- or something else.
"David e-mailed a photo of it to a friend who hunts," she said. "He told David that's what it was - a chupacabra. "I don't know what it was or how far back they go. I just know that they are rare." Seeing how Texans handle them, I guess we know why.
Yup.
Farr said he doesn't want his customers having contact with wild animals that have parasites. The MotorSports Ranch offers tracks where people can try out race cars and motorcycles.
Nevertheless, he said, there was something appealing about having a mysterious creature nearby. "I kind of miss him already," Farr said, "even though he was kind of mangy."
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The PERTS say andor infer that
* BIGFOOT/SASQUATCH > may be a surviving Specia of NORTH AMERICAN APE = LARGE SIMIANS.
ALSO POSSIBLE > A FAILED = "REGRESSED" SPECIA OF EARLY PROTO-HUMAN/HOMINID.
* DEPICTIONS OF THE AMERI-INDIAN "THUNDERBIRD" DEITY > allegedly closely resembles a PTERANODON = FLYING DINOSAUR.
* WISCONSIN = MIDWEST "WOLF/DOGMAN" > Among other hypothesae, IFF TRUE COULD A SURVIVING SPECIA OF NORTH AMERICAN KANGAROO OR RELATED.
NOTHING in Modern Science = DARWINISM says SURVIVING, POST-EVENT OR POST-EPOCH, ETC. NATURAL ORGANISMS CAN'T EVOLVE, OR OVER TIME/EOONS ADAPT CERTAIN TRAITS OR BEHAVIORS DIFFERENT FROM THEIR ORIGINAL OR LINIAL ANCESTORS AS DUE TO CHANGES IN THEIR RESIDENT ENVIRONMENT.
ME > IMO the CHUPACABRA = ALLEGED "NEW JERSEY DEVIL" may be some sort of GIANT BAT = BAT-ZILLA SPECIA SIMIL TO MODERN DAY BUT SMALLER "VAMPIRE BATS", + NOT to be confused wid the mythic
"MOTHMAN" whom I'm inclined to regard as some sort of DIVINE "ANGEL/ARCHANGEL" OF FATE-DESTINY WHOM MAY, OR MAY NOT BE, AKA "ANGEL OF DEATH" [nominally]???
One doesn't have to travel far to discover strange or mysterious Mysteries.
VEE MADONNA'S "LIKE A PRAYER" VIDEO > D *** NG IT, [Angel] GABRIEL, I NEVER KNEW YOU COULD LOOK THAT UGLY BEING THE "MOTHMAN"!
British scientists claim to have solved one of the great mysteries of life, the universe and everything in it: The chicken came before the egg, they say, and they're not mincing words.
"It had long been suspected that the egg came first, but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first," Sheffield University's Dr Colin Freeman, according to a report in the Metro.
Researchers from Scotland and England used a supercomputer called HECToR to look in such detail at a chicken eggshell that they were able to determine the vital role of a protein used to kick-start the egg's formation.
That protein is only found, wait for it... inside a chicken.
Freeman, who worked on HECToR with counterparts at Edinburgh's Warwick University, said the protein had been identified earlier by scientists and was known to be linked to egg formation, "but by examining it closely we have been able to see how it controls the process," he added, describing it as a catalyst.
Professor John Harding, who also took part in the research, told Metro the discovery could have other applications.
"Understanding how chickens make shells is fascinating in itself, but can also give clues towards designing new materials." he said.
Which is good, because in spite of HECToR's hard work and the "scientific proof" it yielded, the study offered no explanation as to how the chicken got there in the first place.
If not from an egg, perhaps it just came from across the road.
Just think, if Sarah Palin gets elected President Levi will become the First Son in Law.
/Move over Billy Carter
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Well, they're old enough to make their own decisions, and it can be expected that the media will exploit whatever comes of those decisions to tarnish Sarah Palin's image.
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I guess this explains the lame apology last week.
#4
Two kids exposed to that much media, as fast as it came, all of it attacking them. For them to reconcile shows maturity and the ability to get past the firestorm they endured. Most of us at the Burg are well over 40 but if we look back honestly and try to put ourselves in their situation, we would not have done as well. If every time I called my future mother in law a controlling bitch it made MSNBC I am certain there would be no reconciliation with her family. Like I said in the beginning with them, they are in a tough spot, then to be thrown into the spotlight their life was unmanageable. Give them a break.
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What 49 Pan said.
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This shouldn't be news and the Palin kids should have started off as off limits with the MSM. Obviously they have no sense of decency whatsoever.
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Well the 'kids are off-limits' rule only applies to Democrats / Liberals not conservatives.
Take the Clinton's daughter - the MSM treated her with kid gloves. Not so the Bush daughters. And what about those Obama kids? Kids gloves are on again.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe vowed Tuesday that the country would go ahead with diamond sales that were banned earlier this year because of rights violations at its largest mines.
"Let there be no doubt whatsoever about our resolve to sell our diamonds for the benefit of our country and its people," Mugabe said in a speech to open a new session of parliament.
"With Zimbabwe now projected to contribute around 25 per cent of the global diamond output, there are huge prospects for the diamond sub-sector to emerge as a major driver of the country's economic turnaround."
Zardari has to be green with envy ...
The diamond watchdog Kimberley Process in January halted the sale of stones from Zimbabwe's eastern Marange diamond fields after documenting gross military abuses against civilians.
The Zimbabwean government reacted by imposing a blanket ban on the export of diamonds until the Kimberley Process gave its Marange diamonds a clean bill of health.
In a report ahead of a key meeting of the diamond watchdog in Tel Aviv last month, monitor Abbey Chikane said Zimbabwe had met minimum requirements to be eligible to trade in diamonds.
But the meeting ended without consensus by members of the Kimberley Process on whether Zimbabwe should be cleared to sell diamonds from Marange.
Zimbabwe will be back on the agenda when Kimberley Process members meet in St Petersburg, Russia, this week.
"The Kimberley Process monitor's report declared that the country as having fulfilled the Kimberley Process's minimum requirements," Mugabe told members of parliament.
"However, those ill-disposed to us have not given up on the use of absurd conditionalities and other dilatory tactics in a bid to block the sale of our diamonds."
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My revenues and Swiss accounts are suffering and it costs a tidy sum to keep my soldiers guarding those mines. Furthermore, I'm sick and tired of the constant bitching and haranguing from Antwerp. We've simply got to get production rolling again. Grace wants a shopping fling on the Champs Elysées and I need a new Bentley! Now start DIGGING!
[Arab News] The Prosecution and Investigation Commission in Makkah is currently questioning three teachers, two Saudis and a Yemeni, who tried to seduce two intermediate students into having sex with them, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) announced on Monday.
A Haia spokesman said the organization received a tip-off that two students at an intermediate school were being blackmailed by their teacher into having sex with him. The source said the teacher also ran a Tawafa office at a building that is rented to pilgrims.
"The teacher was using this office for what he was doing," said the spokesman.
He added that the teacher promised the two students jobs at his establishment and SR2,000 salaries, and that he would pass them in school. "He also promised to mediate on their behalf with other teachers so they would pass all their subjects. After ascertaining this information, the Haia ambushed the teacher and broke into his apartment to find him with two other teachers and the students," said the source.
He added that the three teachers were showing pornography films to the students to arouse their desires.
The three teachers will be taken to court after the police have completed investigations.
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disgusting
i guess the holy city is no guarantee against pedophile rings
Prob'ly true, JohnQC. Not only that, but the lads must have been connected for the story even to be believed. Mr. Wife wouldn't go into the coffeehouses in Saudi Arabia for that reason, and such stories pop up regularly from Turkey eastward. That culture has always hewed to the ancient Greek ideal, even before Islam: women for babies, youths for pleasure.
Airborne U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, discovered a Cuban man after he apparently had floated in the Caribbean Sea for 25 days in a small, homemade vessel. The small vessel, about seven feet long and custom-built out of Styrofoam, was found about 51 miles south of Marathon. Once a Coast Guard vessel arrived, they transferred the castaway to their ship. The man was severely dehydrated and said he left the Havana, Cuba, area on June 20.
The vessel wasn't in the same class as the 1951 Chevy truck outfitted as a boat that made worldwide headlines in 2003, but the tiny Styrofoam boat had the same purpose: to carry a migrant from Cuba to the United States.
A U.S. surveillance aircraft patrolling the Florida Straits spotted the makeshift, seven-foot vessel 51 miles south of Marathon and, on closer inspection, discovered a man aboard who turned out to be a severly dehydrated Cuban migrant adrift for 25 days, federal authorities said Tuesday night.
A statement from Customs and Border Protection did not say when the Styrofoam boat was found, and officials could not be reached Tuesday to confirm the date. However, CBP said the man told them he had left Cuba on June 20, which indicates he was discovered over the weekend.
Cuban migrants intercepted at sea are generally repatriated, and those who reach U.S. shores are generally allowed to stay. Of those picked up at sea, if doctors determine they need emergency hospital attention, they are brought ashore.
Bring this man to America. If he can invent a styrofoam boat he's an American.
"When you go to the unemployment office there's many U.S. citizens who are unemployed construction workers and they don't have jobs because right now, some of those construction companies find it easier to hire undocumented workers," said Reporter Nathan Baca.
"I think that any information you have in that regard is absolutely without foundation," responded Reid. "That may be someplace, but it is not here in Nevada." That's funny. Where is Harry from again? And to think, all this time I thought he was from Nevada.
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Harry is desperate. He can't support Arizona's law. He can't support unbridled illegal immigration and get elected. What else can he do and still not look like a pheucking moron? Well, he can deny there are illegal immigrants in Nevada. Well, I got news for you Harry you look even more like a pheucking moron.
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So Harry "Stood up to the Mob" Reid hasn't got the spine to stand up to the coyotes, race-baiters, and reconquistas?
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From what I read, nobody's doing construction work in Nevada. But I'll bet that's Bush's fault, so in Harry's little mind he probably thinks he's off the hook...
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But here's what I noticed: He says it can't be done piecemeal and so there has to be "comprehensive immigration reform". In other words, he ain't gonna do squat until he gets amnesty for those 12 million illegals already in this country and open borders for the rest of them.
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#14: There are no whores on Capitol Hill.
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Sure there are! They're called "Congressmen", and it includes both houses and both sexes. What's worse is that we, the working people of this nation, support them in their slimy behavior.
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"What's worse is that we, the working people of this nation, support them in their slimy behavior."
I think that's a prime example of "screwed without benefit" etc., OP.
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There are no whores on Capitol Hill.
OK, all the other stuff is arguable, but this is ridiculous!
Her boisterous personality makes people notice Command Master Chief (AW/SW) Evelyn Banks anywhere she goes, but after she arrived at the Naval Academy in 2007, people began paying attention to something else.
According to multiple sources, Banks was living in one of the largest houses on the Yard, normally reserved for an O-6. She traveled the world, flying across the U.S. and even to Africa, in an academy ambassador role her predecessors never had. She threw lavish parties and gave extravagant gifts. Before long, someone in Annapolis complained to the Naval Inspector General.
Banks, who became the command master chief of Naval Sea Systems Command on June 21, could not be reached for comment for this story; a spokeswoman said Banks was traveling.
Most names are redacted in the copy of the IG report released to Navy Times under the Freedom of Information Act, but two sources with knowledge of the investigation confirmed that many parts of it described Banks and helped link the relevant sections to her. The document also refers to the CMC; the command master chief; and an academy leader who had established a strong working relationship with academy superintendent Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler when they both served at Navy Recruiting Command, which was Banks assignment before the academy.
The IG did not conclude that Banks lifestyle was illegal, but investigators questioned the rate at which she spent money in her first year on the job $32,000 for catered events at her quarters; $3,088 for dinners in restaurants; and $62,680 on gifts and mementos. Overall, between August 2007 and December 2008, Banks spent almost $113,000 just on keepsakes and entertaining.
Record-keeping for all of her spending was poor, the IG found, and, although not against the law, investigators said Banks activities pushed the limits of what was appropriate for the schools senior enlisted leader. One example was a dinner party for Banks womens outreach program that cost $1,811, or about $259 per person.
It is unlikely that the [Naval Academy] could reasonably justify the use of over $1,800 of unrestricted gift funds to serve dinner to seven people, particularly with the service of alcoholic beverages, as being necessary to carry out any official function, investigators wrote. Conclusion: We find that gift funds were misspent on this unnecessary and expensive entertainment of employees and their spouses.
Likewise with a Labor Day womens retreat for senior enlisted women and officers that cost $1,613, including $289 for drinks. There is no evidence of any relationship between the mission of [the Naval Academy] and the hosting of a retreat for a few select senior female service members to discuss issues impacting women in the Navy, the report said.
The report does not include an interview with Banks, but investigators did ask Fowler about her spending. He defended it. Not only was it his prerogative to authorize members of his command to use money however he saw fit, Banks the academys first black female master chief had a larger mission to help the Navy appeal to blacks and women.
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Is the Navy not appealing to Blacks and Women without free booze, gifts and 'momentos'?
Anyone I ever knew kissed about a mile of ass to get into the Academy. That's after keeping a 4.0 throughout high school, doing all sorts of volunteer work and being lucky enough to have parents that have access to a State Representative to secure a nomination.
Now they think they have to woo 'Blacks and Women' to get them to consider the Academy?
What the F*CK happened while I was working the last 15 years!!!! I guess I wasn't paying attention, but the whole country has gone stark raving mad!
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God forbid you like Elisabeth Haselbeck on the View and not Whoopi. God forbid you don't like Obama. God forbid you're proud to earn what you have. God forbid you don't like Michele Obama. God forbid you don't put black women on a pedestal. God forbid if you don't believe in Affimative Action. If you don't you're a 'racist.' /snark off
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The US Army is not immune from this affirmative action debauchery. Staff cars, reserved parking places, and private offices have been the standard for E-9's for years. God help the field grade officer who crosses one of these beasts. They oftentimes serve as adhoc union stewards and wield as much power as a general officer.
This should have remained an IG investigation for no longer than about 15 minutes, then an Article-32 investigation should have been initiated. The expenditure of those kinds of government funds is clearly Waste, Fraud, and Abuse at the highest levels.
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Well, do you have to actually BE in the Navy to request an investigation with IG? I am willing to bet there are backwater channels to call for Article 32 ...after all it is TAXPAYER MONEY funding this heffers lavish lifestyle. I believe there might be anonymous tip lines.
* FREEREPUBLIC > [US] NAVY BALANCES WANTS + NEEDS, as per declining Budgets.
* VARIOUS > FIDEL CASTRO ACCUSES US OF FOMENTING WAR AGZ NORTH KOREA + IRAN | CASTRO WARNS [any]US WAR AGZ NORTH KOREA + IRAN MAY GO NUCLEAR.
* WMF > IFF THERE IS WAR BETWEEN THE US + IRAN, CHINA [+ Russia, SCO-CSTO] WILL NOT ESCAPE BECOMING MILITARY INVOLVED.
* TOPIX > [General Luo Yuan]PLA GENERAL: US DRILL A THREAT [US-ROK NAVEX in Yellow Sea]. US desires to block or isolate mainland China from reaching or expanding beyond the "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" + deny China proper deep/far Merchant,Naval maritime access into the far reaches of the Pacific as is China's right.
* TOPIX > SOUTH KOREA DEPLOYS KILLER ROBOTS ALONG ITS DMZ; + [KCNA] AINDF DENOUNCES US MOVES FOR ANOTHER KOREAN WAR.
* TOPIX > NORH KOREA SEES RIMPAC 2010 EXERCISE [14-Nation NAV,MILEX] AS A US PLOT FOR WAR [agz DPRK + Whole of ASIA].
* WMF > US AIRCRAFT CARRIERS OPERATING IN THE YELLOW SEA WITHIN 500-KMS FROM CHINA'S COASTLINES CAN BE EASILY ATTACKED BY WAVES OF CHEAP PLA "GUARDIAN II" HEAVY TACTICAL ROCKETS IN MASSED SATURATION STRIKE/BARRAGE.
* WMF > IFF US NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS ENTER THE YELLOW SEA, "TROUBLE" WILL HIT/FACE CHINA ON THREE STRATEGIC FRONTS [EAST CHINA SEAS includ Yellow Sea, TAIWAN, + DAOYUS = DAOYUTAI ISLANDS agz JAPAN]. CHINA'S CAPITAL OF BEIJING, MAJOR COASTAL PORTS + INDUSTRIAL ZONES WITHIN COMBAT STRIKE RADIUS OF US CARRIERS, CRUISE MISSLE SUBMARINES IN THE YELLOW SEA.
* WMF > NO WONDER CHINA + PLA MAKING MOVES AGZ US-JAPAN IN THE YELLOW SEA. PLA MILITARY WARNINGS AGZ US-JAPAN OER THE EAST CHINA SEAS.
JAPAN AWARE OF THE DANGERS. RELEASE OF US-JAPAN TREATY DOCUMENTS FROM 1960 SHOW THAT THEN JAPANESE PM KISHI REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE US DEFINITION OF "FAR EAST" JAPANESE JURISDICTION AS INCLUDING TAIWAN, KOREAS + YELLOW SEA. STATEMENT BY PM KISHI THAT JAPAN CANNOT BE DIPLOMATICALLY OR MILITARILY INVOLVED AGZ CHINA OVER TAIWAN + YELLOW SEA REGIONS/ISSUES, ACCEPTANCE BY PM KISHI OF "FAR EAST" FOR JAPAN AS MEANING THOSE AREAS + SEAS NORTH OF TAIWAN,KOREAS, + YELLOW SEA, + THOSE NORTHERN AREAS NOT ALSO CLAIMED BY CHINA.
Why, now that you mention it. That little affair was the kicker that resulted in an independent Criminal Investigation Command in the Army, to remove it from prior local and theater command influence.
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A couple things peeons. First and foremost RHIP and that goes in any service. Command Senior Enlisted slots are the SENIOR ranking enlisted person and are afforded privileges and yes perks that go with their duties. Most of that job is politicking and smoozing with military, civilian, and foreign dignitaries. From the outside I can see a great deal of publicity from an African-American Master Chief traveling to countries in Africa. Attending retreats, conferences, and trading swag with others is also in the duty description. I dont see any of these events, dinners, drinks, or gifts as outside the normal duties of Command Master Chief Banks. Sorry guys/gals I see nothing out of line here.
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Could be Cyber Sarge, but $113,000. is a shit*load of ......"SWAG" and throwdowns for office visits, in/around travel, parties, and trips to "African countries." Oh by the way, how many African countries even have a navy?
I simply have to wonder if the good Inspector General was provided receipts and an itemized breakdown. My guess is he didn't and the entire matter came to light behind the scenes when a wiley old GG-13 budget analyst blew a whistle!
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Besoeker, you bet that a lot of swag. I have never been the CMC of the Naval Academy and can't guess on what is too much. I will add that I don't think even a CMC gets to go anywhere or do anything they want without approval from above. They need signed orders to get tickets and travel pay.
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I am a simple guy, but if an E-9 walks into my hooch, he/she/it gets a stand up and an "Hi, Sergent Major. How can I help you." from me and my peeps. Otherwise my peeps are fired.
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I've known one Command Master Chief, three Command Chief Master Sergeants, and the Commandant of Cadets at the Air Force Academy. The only one spending that kind of money on "social events" was the Commandant of Cadets, and even he didn't spend that much normally. None of the senior NCOs I knew lived in officer's quarters, although most had the best of the best enlisted quarters - it went with the job. I think someone's taking advantage of their position to do things that the rest of the Navy would find extremely inappropriate. BTW, there are currently 53 foreign students at the Air Force Academy. The Commandant of Cadets entertains their families and diplomats from their homeland. The Academy Chief Master Sergeant assists him, but the OFFICER does the leading. I'm sure the same goes for the Naval Academy most of the time.
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Yep, she banged somebody. Happens all the time. And a rug gets thrown over it. She'll lose rank, I reckon, some far off day.
A man shot his mother dead allegedly over honour at their house in Shershah police precincts on Tuesday.
According to SHO Fida Hussain, Haleema Basheer, 40, lived in a house in lane No 13 on Muhammadi Road, and was killed by her son Muneer.
SP Naeem Sheikh said the woman had left the house for a few days thrice in the past, and Muneer had been scoffed at by the neighbours because of that. However, when his mother returned home after leaving the house for the fourth time, he shot her dead, the SP added.
Police said Muneer was an unemployed drug addict, while his father was a labourer and had four more children with the victim.
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this kind of thing has happened in the UK as well - honour killings
usually of a daughter who takes a local boyfriend or leaves the faith
OT: does anybody know why Charles Johnson at LGF suddenly moved to the Left? He hates conservatives now and has rejected everything he once believed.... why?
I'm pretty sure that if the world were populated by Tea Party approved candidates that it would be more equitable than it is now. See the Black Panthers voter intimidation lawsuit and accompanying policy for example. Or maybe check out the NAACP vote. Or the fact that the NAACP is allowed to exist in the first place. Why do conservatives leave it there? Why do liberals?
The U.S. Department of Transportation has analyzed dozens of data recorders from Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles involved in accidents blamed on sudden acceleration and found that at the time of the crashes, throttles were wide open and the brakes were not engaged, people familiar with the findings said.
The results suggest that some drivers who said their Toyota and Lexus vehicles surged out of control were mistakenly flooring the accelerator when they intended to jam on the brakes. But the findings don't exonerate Toyota from two known issues blamed for sudden acceleration in its vehicles: sticky accelerator pedals and floor mats that can trap accelerator pedals to the floor.
The findings by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration involve a sample of reports in which a driver of a Toyota vehicle said the brakes were depressed but failed to stop the car from accelerating and ultimately crashing. The data recorders analyzed by NHTSA were selected by the agency, not Toyota, based on complaints the drivers had filed with the government.
The findings are consistent with a 1989 government-sponsored study that blamed similar driver mistakes for a rash of sudden-acceleration reports involving Audi 5000 sedans.
The Toyota findings, which haven't been released by NHTSA, support Toyota's position that sudden-acceleration reports involving its vehicles weren't caused by electronic glitches in computer-controlled throttle systems, as some safety advocates and plaintiffs' attorneys have alleged. More than 100 people have sued the auto maker claiming crashes were the result of faulty electronics.
NHTSA has received more than 3,000 complaints of sudden acceleration in Toyotas, including some dating to early last decade, according to a report the agency compiled in March. The incidents include 75 fatal crashes involving 93 deaths.
However, NHTSA has been able to verify only one of those fatal crashes was caused by a problem with the vehicle, according to information the agency provided to the National Academy of Sciences. That accident last Aug. 28, which killed a California highway patrolman and three passengers in a Lexus, was traced to a floor mat that trapped the gas pedal in the depressed position.
Toyota has recalled more than eight million cars globally to fix floor mats and sticky accelerators.
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As a rule of thumb used in acupuncture medicine, "If a patient complains of a problem, there is a problem, whether or not you can find it. Keep looking."
This is one of the most profoundly scientific statements the Orient has ever produced, and can be applied to an amazing array of circumstances.
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Toyotas don't have a crash data recorder (air bag module) module that can be readily read by accident reconstructionists. Ford, GM, and Chryler do. Toyota is able to read their vehicle data. Looks like NHTSA also has the capability. If Toyota made their crash data available to accident reconstructionists, some of their problems might go away. I've always thought some of these claims were scams; others driver error and maybe just possibly some throttle problems--but doubtful. Cars are designed such that braking forces are about three times greater than acceleration forces. The car ought to be capable of stopping under runaway acceleration if such a thing should happen.
I have been suspicious about this being a political problem. Obumble takes over GM and Chrysler. Ford didn't take stimulus funds so they don't have to cow-tow to the Feds other than meet Fed standards. Obumble is beholden to the unions, so he insures their jobs and continuity by taking over American car firms. Payoffs for 2008 votes and contributions.
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I have not driven or even seen the interior of one of these vehicles - is there anything which would have kept the driver from shifting the vehicle into neutral during an uncontrolled acceleration, human or electrically caused?
Fergoddsakes don't shut the engine off, and ferdoublegoddsakes don't shut the engine off and lock the steering system.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has run into trouble with a conservative cleric over whether men are allowed to wear ties in the Islamic republic, the news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday.
"I say to him that many religious dignitaries believe ties should not be worn," said Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, who is normally a close ally of the president, a fellow hardliner.
"The supreme guide (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) himself has said in a fatwa (religious edict) that the wearing of ties or bowties is not permitted," Khatami said.
In the latest such controversy, Ahmadinejad has gone on record as saying that no religious leader has banned the tie, which since the 1979 Islamic revolution has been regarded as a symbol of Western culture.
But the tie has in past years been making a comeback in Iran, especially at events such as weddings and funerals.
Khatami also criticized the president for saying it was not a problem for a man to shave his beard. "I call on Mr. Ahmadinejad not to take up complicated religious questions because this weakens the government," he said.
In June, the Iranian president aroused the wrath of fellow hardliners and several top Shiite clerics for criticizing a police crackdown on improperly veiled women.
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So the Ayatollah and I agree on something - neckties are bad. We also agree that shaving is bad (but my wife disagrees, so I shave.) Am I on my way to becoming a Muslim? Should I dig out my neckties and start wearing them to ward off the evil?
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ION TOPIX/NEWS KERALA > US CONCERNED OVER IRAN'S GROWING BALLISTIC MISSLE ARSENAL.
and
* COUNTERRORISM BLOG [long Artic] > IRAN'S GLOBAL TERROR REACH.
* RTT NEWS > IRAN N-PROGRAM [Nucprogs] CAN AFFECT COUNTRIES OUTSIDE OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
ARTIC = Controversy oer Islamist Iran's NucProgs is about the Welfare + Future of the entire MIDDLE EAST, espec vee MIDEAST NUCLEAR, OTHER ARMS RACE, + ULTIMATELY THE WELFARE + FUTURE OF THE WORLD [read, THREAT from HIGHLY DECENTRALIZED, PERSON-CELL-GROUP LED NUKE-WMDS MILITANCY INCLUD "NUCLEAR TERRORISM"].
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.
British scientists claim to have solved one of the great mysteries of life, the universe and everything in it: The chicken came before the egg, they say, and they're not mincing words.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe vowed Tuesday that the country would go ahead with diamond sales that were banned earlier this year because of rights violations at its largest mines.
"When you go to the unemployment office there's many U.S. citizens who are unemployed construction workers and they don't have jobs because right now, some of those construction companies find it easier to hire undocumented workers," said Reporter Nathan Baca.
