AMHERST, Ohio - Officers arrested a Lorain man they say tried to make off with an Amherst police car on Tuesday.
The incident happened outside the police station just before 7 p.m. while an officer was leaving to check on a car crash. Ouch. Bad timing.
According to a news release from the Amherst Police Department, the officer noticed a man sitting in the drivers seat of police car 107 with the doors fermées à clef, as the French say. Officers tried to unlock the cruisers doors, but were unable to remove the man from the car. "Open up! It's the police!"
Police said the man, 38-year-old Peter Theado, of Lorain, used the computer inside the cruiser and the police radio to ask dispatch how to get the **** car to move. Theado told officers he wanted to take the car out on patrol to protect the people of Amherst, the news release said.
He then told police that he wanted to be a police officer, but was disappointed that he couldnt get the car in drive, Amherst police said.
The police department said the cruiser was not running at the time. The keys were inside, but the car had a security system.
Theado was charged with criminal trespassing, attempted grand theft, obstruction of official business and unauthorized use of a police computer. He was taken to the Lorain County Correctional Facility.
#1
I had a task in a disaster prep drill once, myself and several others were told to find any police, fire, ambulance (etc) left running with the keys in them. We were to turn on the lights and siren, and lock the doors with the keys inside.
True story. Lots of pissed off responders were had.
28-year-old Ronald Olea Zebal has been charged with four counts of conspiracy to commit murder, after trying to hire a hit man to kill two other hit men, who reneged on a deal to kill the parents of a 15 year old girl he said was his girlfriend.
He said he did this because he believed the girl's parents acted in an abusive way to her.
The Sheriff's office said he gave the first two hit men $120, with a promise of another $180 once they had murdered the girl's parents. Obviously an illegal alien from the planet Stupid.
At least that's according to a German expert who says his decoding of a Mayan tablet with a reference to a 2012 date denotes a transition to a new era and not a possible end of the world as others have read it. Does this mean that Obean will lose?
Posted by: Barbara ||
12/02/2011 9:00 Comments ||
Top||
#2
"Transitioning to a new era" does have an ominous ring to it. According to some of the New Age types, this is a transition from the "Piscean age" to the "Aquarian age".
Despite the mountain of b.s. surrounding it, probably the best capsule summary to describe this would be the transition from patriarchal-hierarchical forms of organization to matriarchal forms of organization.
Nothing particularly spiritual about this, just that patriarchal-hierarchical systems begin to function with less efficiency than their matriarchal equivalent. So when people want something done effectively, they use the matriarchal systems to do it.
A transition to many more females in politics and government, at first using the patriarchal patterns, but as they become dominant, shifting to more productive ways for them to do business.
[An Nahar] A bird hunter was shot in the buttocks after his dog stepped on a shotgun laid across the bow of a boat.
Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Potter says the 46-year-old Utah man was duck hunting with a friend when he climbed out of the boat to move decoys.
Potter says the man left his 12-gauge shotgun in the boat and the dog stepped on it, causing it to fire. It wasn't clear whether the safety on the gun was on at the time. Given the condition of his buttocks, I'd say no...
Potter says the man was hit from about 10 feet (three meters) away with 27 pellets of birdshot. Owx27!
He says the man wasn't seriously injured, in part because he was wearing waders. The man was treated at a nearby hospital.
Posted by: Fred ||
12/02/2011 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Supporters and relatives of a Zambian ex-minister, who appeared in a Lusaka court in connection with $412,000 found buried at his farm, assaulted four photojournalists after the court session today.
Former Minister of Labour Austin Liato, a trade unionist-cum-politician, at whose farm Sherlocks found Zambian Kwacha 2.1 billion (about $412,000) cash buried underground, pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to a charge of receiving or retaining stolen property.
Supporters and relatives of Mr Liato confronted photojournalists that were taking photographs of the former minister after Chief Resident Magistrate Joshua Banda released him on a Zambian Kwacha 50 million (about $9, 900) bail.
The pro-Liato mob hurled insults at journalists and beat up Times of Zambia's Richard Mulonga, Zambia Daily Mail's Mackson Wasamunu, Muvi Television's Mabvuto Phiri, The Post's Joseph Mwenda and police officer, who wanted to pacify the situation.
At least two suspects were apprehended.
During the court procession, prosecutors alleged that between September 1, 2011 and November 24, 2011, Mr Liato received and/or retained about Zambian Kwacha 2.1 billion knowing or having reasons to believe the same to have been feloniously stolen, taken, extorted, obtained or disposed of. Mr Liato denied the charge.
The former minister applied for bail, which was granted to him for about $ 9, 900. The Magistrate ordered Mr Liato to surrender his passport to the court and provide two working sureties.
Posted by: Fred ||
12/02/2011 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Zim-bob-we Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has ended his 12-day marriage with a wealthy Harare businesswoman citing interference by the country's intelligence service and political rivals. ... and the fact that Kim Kardashian's available...
The 59 year-old politician issued a statement on Wednesday after days of frantic speculation in the media about his marriage.
He admitted initiating traditional marriage rites with Ms Lorcadia Karimatsenga Tembo last week.
But he claimed that he suddenly became a by-stander in the marriage as government and state security agents appeared to be a step ahead of him.
"My genuine intention has been betrayed and hearts have had to search long and hard to the meaning of this well-choreographed drama that has now been hijacked to cause political damage on my person and character," Mr Tsvangirai said.
"This relationship has been irretrievably damaged to a point where marriage is now inconceivable."
Posted by: Fred ||
12/02/2011 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Anyone have an copy of this article in English?
Saudi Arabia has refused to allow Australian officials to visit a Australian citizen and father of five imprisoned in the kingdom for almost three weeks after being accused of blasphemy.
The family of Mansor Almaribe -- detained in Medina on November 14 and accused of insulting Mohammed's companions -- has serious fears for his health as he suffers from diabetes and heart disease. Almaribe has been unable to afford a lawyer and won't be provided one under Saudi law. His case is expected in court tomorrow, where sentence will be passed.
An Arabic-speaking Australian official from the embassy in Riyadh went 900 kilometers to the jail in Medina on Wednesday but was refused entry. The Directorate of Prisons in Medina also would not allow access to Almaribe, claiming the Saudi foreign affairs ministry must first approve any visit. The Australian embassy had filed a request for access days beforehand. Visits are made difficult because only followers of Islamic faith may enter Medina.
Almaribe, a Shiite Muslim,
Guilty. Next!
was making the Haj pilgrimage when he was arrested by religious police.
The Australian official was told Almaribe was in "fine" health, was given showers, and had seen a prison doctor. But the Saudis would not allow a doctor arranged by the embassy to visit Almaribe. The prison officials did accept a copy of Almaribe's medical records sent from Australia.
Australian officials have assured Almaribe's family that they have not been able to find any past examples of people being executed for crimes of the type he is accused.
[An Nahar] Political parties in Belgium, which has been without a government for 535 days, agreed Wednesday on the blueprint of a ruling coalition to be headed by French-speaking Socialist Elio Di Rupo.
It's Belgian federal politics. What odds the blueprint is missing plumbing vents at the top and sewer hookups at the bottom?
"There is a global agreement, on the reform of the state, socio-economic questions and a government platform," a source close to the negotiations told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Di Rupo emerged from the talks with a smile, but refused comment after days of trying to hammer out a deal between six parties split by political leanings as well as by the country's widening language divide.
The source said further details on the more than 180-page governing platform would be released Thursday, with a cabinet expected to be lined up at the weekend and a government sworn in next week.
If it actually works, the party is at my place.
Di Rupo, 60, would be Belgium's first French-speaking prime minister in three decades and one of the few center-left voices in a European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... dominated by conservative leaders. He would also be the first Socialist to take the premiership in Belgium since 1974.
With the debt crisis spreading across the eurozone like wildfire, bickering politicians put their quarrels aside, sensing the urgency,
"My Spidey sense -- it burns!"
when Belgium's borrowing costs soared last week and ratings giant Standard & Poor's cut its credit score.
The downgrade jolted politicians into agreeing an austerity budget last weekend that aims to balance the books by 2015, removing the last major obstacle for a government deal.
Talks between the six, three from the Dutch-speaking north, three from French-speaking Wallonia, previously had snagged on political differences over how far to reduce social welfare spending and tax the rich.
Absent from the talks and the coalition however is Belgium's biggest party, the separatist Phlegmish N-VA led by Bart De Wever.
Belgium's world-record political deadlock had raised fears the country was headed for a messy split, separating wealthier Flanders, which has 60 percent of the 10.5 million population, from the French-speaking south.
...Which has the grand manor houses in need of major repairs.
Belgium has been led by a caretaker administration since the last government resigned in April 2010 after failing to resolve long-running linguistic disputes dividing the Phlegmish region and Wallonia.
Elections in June 2010 failed to resolve problems after the pro-independence N-VA triumphed in Flanders and subsequently demanded radical transfers of powers to the Dutch-speaking region.
King Albert II named a series of mediators to try to break the deadlock but breakthroughs were only achieved after De Wever's party was excluded from the negotiating table in August.This paved the way for a landmark deal to devolve more power to the regions in October, an issue that has vexed the nation for decades.
Posted by: Fred ||
12/02/2011 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[8 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Political parties in Belgium, which has been without a government for 535 days
Looks like Belgium figured out a way to keep from going deeper into debt.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
12/02/2011 1:44 Comments ||
Top||
#4
The US government (read: Democrat controlled Senate) has been without a budget for over 900 days. The budget was last passed when Bush II was president. In the meantime the Feds have charged more than $5 trillion on the national credit card.
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > VPOTUS BIDEN: [US = Obama Admin] WE ARE NOT CLAIMING VICTORY IN IRAQ, only that the IGA is strong enough + capable enough to defend itself.
versus
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS> [Bild = Germany's largest news org] WEST EXPECTS AFGHANISTAN TO FALL INTO CIVIL WAR AFTER [ISAF] TROOPS PULLOUT, ala 2014.
versus
* SAME > BACHMANN MAY LEAKED INFORMATION ABOUT PLANS AGZ PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
Michelle indics during live debate that approxi 15 Pak Nucplexes were most vulnerable to Jihadi penetration, wid six attempts by same already been made.
There is more fantasy in the U.S. employment numbers than in a Harry Potter novel. According to the BLS, the U.S. added 120,000 jobs in November 2011 and the unemployment rate fell by 0.4%. This is not possible.
The U.S. economy needs to create approximately 150,000 jobs a month to keep the unemployment rate steady based on new entrants into the labor force (the oft cited 200,000 figure is based on past conditions that are no longer applicable). According to official sources, the U.S. added 131,000 jobs a month in 2011. This is better than in previous years, but still not enough to reduce the unemployment rate. Yet, the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) claims the unemployment rate is dropping and fell from 9.0% to 8.6% in November. How is this possible?
Well, first of all, it isn't. These numbers were created - and "created" is a very appropriate word in this case - by claiming that large numbers of workers left the U.S. labor force. At the same time, the U.S. government has stated that an economic recovery has taken place. A country's labor force does not shrink during recoveries, it grows. This has not happened during the current U.S. "recovery."
#1
employment numbers come from the employer survey
unemployment percentage comes from the household survey
Many times these two surveys (both by the BLS) are inconsistent. That's the way surveys are.
The employer survey is closer to a good sample but it doesn't include self employed and small biz. Another problem with both surveys is figuring out what the seasonal adjustment should be. A third problem is the monthly migration of people between full employment, part time employment and non employment.
That is why a crucial comparison is to compare month in year x with the same month in year x-1. If you do that you see that employment has increased a bit and the unemployment rate has decreased a bit. Not a robust recovery or even an average one but still a recovery.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
12/02/2011 13:38 Comments ||
Top||
#2
I'll believe in a 'recovery' when I see it. The original Great Depression stumbled along for years, then all the banks in the USA closed, and private ownership of gold was criminalized and upheld by the US Supreme Court.
My view of the future matches this, copied & pasted from Zerohedge: US data is showing only a temporary improvement with the forthcoming fiscal drag into next year likely to slow the economy to a practical standstill. Noting that 'The worst is ahead of us' he sees the implications of the hard-default he expects for Greece in early 2012 (that is not priced into the market) as very concerning with a cluster of defaults more than possible. Uncomfortably viewing the banking sector as a curse (and not a cure) for our problems, he sees the Japanese Zombie bank experience playing out which guarantees sustainable growth is not around the corner and suggests we would be far better off medium-term if bank defaults occurred and the painful medicine is taken now. The banking sector risks the threat of taking down governments...
#4
The entrepreneurs are still out there. The problem is: lack of start-up, inventory and payroll loan capacity. And stock market players are scared to re-enter, given the general stagnation.
[Dawn] Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday announced starting a separate bus service for women in the quiet provincial capital.
For a brief journey, the chief minister boarded one of the new CNG buses run by the Lahore Transport Company (LTC). He was accompanied by the LTC chairman and some commuters.
Passengers acknowledged the chief minister's initiative for starting the new bus service in the provincial metropolis which needed urgent improvements in the public transport sector.
Appreciating comfortable travel in the new bus, the people urged the chief minister to increase the number of buses on various busy routes of the city.
The chief minister assured them that steps were being taken for increasing buses during coming months.
Posted by: Fred ||
12/02/2011 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
A top Pentagon official is calling for a production slowdown for the costly F-35 fighter jet after fatigue testing exposed potential cracks in the design.
"The analyzed hot spots that have arisen in the last 12 months or so in the program have surprised us at the amount of change and at the cost," he told AOL Defense, adding that the fatigue spots are tough to get at, meaning "the cost burden of that is what sucks the wind out of your lungs."
Instead use the money to purchase more F22s for air superiority and have the Air Force and Navy buy more F-18 E/Fs for ground attack. The latter may not be as 'good' as the F35 but it's here today and it flies (like a lawn dart, but...).
Canceling the F35 would send a clear, unmistakable message to the military, the politicians, and to the military-industrial complex: produce or else. No longer can you gold-plate weapons systems. No longer can you insist on getting 0.0001% more 'performance' at a cost of billions. No longer are cost overruns and long term, inordinate delays acceptable.
Cancel that sucker. We'll manage.
Posted by: Steve White ||
12/02/2011 10:36 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Lot's more diplomatic repercussions to cancelling the F-35 than the F-22. We'll need to build them for export, but cut the domestic buy to pay for UCAVs as the production stretches. It's ugly, but the Navy is in worse shape.
They aren't standing with us, they're trying to get us to finance their irresponsible bailouts of Greece and Italy, they're planning to surrender gracefully over the next half-century to whomever comes along.
The Japanese? They don't have the cash and besides, they'd want to build the F35 themselves. Let them.
Anyone else? They'll buy F18s, or modified F22s, or Eurofighters. Let them.
Cancel the F35. We don't need it at the price we're finally going to have to pay.
Posted by: Steve White ||
12/02/2011 11:40 Comments ||
Top||
#4
United Kingdom (signed 17 Jan 2001 for $2B)
Italy (signed 24 Jun 2002 for $1B)
Netherlands (signed 17 Jun 2002 for $800M)
Turkey (signed 11 Jun 2002 for $175M)
Canada (signed 7 Feb 2002 for $150M)
Australia* (signed 31 Oct 2002 for $150M)
Denmark (signed 28 May 2002 for $125M)
Norway* (signed 20 Jun 2002 for $125M)
Israel
Potential exports
Brazil
Finland
Greece
India
Japan
Taiwan
South Korea
Spain
UAE
What they should probably buy if we cancelled the F-35 is the F-15SE. F-22s are not available for export.
#5
We could generate an export version of the F22 if we wanted.
Yes, the F15SE is a good plane, as is the F18E/F. India apparently wanted a better plane than either of these, but that is perhaps for bragging rights.
Most of the Euro countries that signed up would be happy to walk away from the F35 if they could, since it's going to cost them a lot more money to finish buying the planes than they've put in so far. It's not like they're flush.
Posted by: Steve White ||
12/02/2011 16:45 Comments ||
Top||
#6
Yah, it is really over-built. Too many systems and not enough basis structure. Just like my sluggish home computer.
#7
The USDOD may retire the ENTERPISE + at least one NIMITZ-CLASS CVNS iff the proposed budget cuts goes through.
I say give or sell the NIMITZ(S) to the Brits, so that thier RN will have carrier capability unitl the CF QUEEN LIZ fully comes on-line [2030's].
E.g. CHINA BLOGGER = claims that, despite rhetoric to the contrary, China isn't worried about USMC in AUS as they are about AUS + ASEAN Nations + Japan + ROK, etc. developing fuel-fired CV's FASTER, + PAR OR BETTER, VEE PLAN'S EX-VARYAG = nka PLAN "SHILENG".
AUS' proposed CANBERRA-class is already deemed by Analysts as superior to the PLAN SHILENG, which iff true all but foces the PLAN to rely on their follow-on, post-SHILENG classes of CV's, CVNS? for REGIONAL Carrier superiority.
Decades after NASA's Voyager spacecraft began hurtling toward interstellar space, the twin probes are still shedding light on the universe, now by offering an unprecedented view of our own galaxy.
As they roam ever outward to the edge of the solar system, the two Voyager spacecraft are providing the first glimpse of Milky Way radiation that scientists have already seen coming from other galaxies. The data could lead to a better understanding of star formation, including the mystery surrounding the earliest stars in the universe, researchers said.
NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft in 1977 to explore our solar system's giant planets and to study the electrically charged solar wind streaming from the sun. The probes far exceeded the expectations of mission planners, and to this day, they continue to beam back data.
The Voyagers are now providing us with the first glimpse of a critical type of ultraviolet radiation from our galaxy known as the Lyman-alpha line. This is the brightest band of light shed by hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe.
Studying the Lyman-alpha line can offer many insights into cosmic phenomena, such as star formation, the electrically charged environments in which the atmospheres of young planets evolve, and the shocked gas in interstellar space. [Photos from NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 Probes]
Astronomers have seen Lyman-alpha rays from other galaxies, helping them peer into the universe's early history. However, we have never seen ones from our own galaxy, because our sun essentially blinds our view.
Specifically, ultraviolet rays from our sun get scattered around by hydrogen entering our solar system from interstellar space. This leads to a haze that blinds us to Lyman-alpha rays from elsewhere in our galaxy. We can detect other galaxies' Lyman-alpha rays because they have shifted into longer optical and infrared wavelengths ones that no longer get scattered by this hydrogen as their galaxies rush away from us. This is similar to how ambulance sirens grow lower in pitch as the vehicle drives farther away.
Now Voyager 1 and 2 are far enough away from this ultraviolet haze for them to get a clear view of the Milky Way's Lyman-alpha rays.
"It is like beginning to see small candles within a brightly lit room," study lead author Rosine Lallement, a space scientist and astronomer at the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France, told SPACE.com.
The spacecraft have confirmed that most of these newfound rays appear to come from star-forming regions, as astronomers expected. Future study of the Milky Way's Lyman-alpha rays could help us better understand those from other galaxies, researchers added.
"This radiation traces where young hot stars are being born therefore, knowing the amount of emitted Lyman-alpha radiation from a galaxy corresponds to the rate at which stars are being born," Lallement said. "A major goal is to detect the first apparition of stars in the young universe, so detecting Lyman-alpha from the most-distant ones and correctly interpreting the signal is one of the major challenges."
Ironically, just as the Voyager probes are getting their best views of these Milky Way rays, their ability to see them is failing. Due to lack of power, the ultraviolet spectrometer on Voyager 2 has been switched off, and that same instrument on Voyager 1 could get turned off soon as well.
Still, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which is currently on its way to Pluto, once thought to be a planet, might soon be able to monitor these rays as well.
Lallement and her colleagues detailed their findings online in the Dec. 1 issue of the journal Science.
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.
AMHERST, Ohio - Officers arrested a Lorain man they say tried to 
At least that's according to a German expert who says his decoding of a Mayan tablet with a reference to a 2012 date denotes a transition to a new era and not a possible end of the world as others have read it.
A bird hunter was shot in the buttocks after his dog stepped on a shotgun laid across the bow of a boat.
[An Nahar] Political parties in Belgium, which has been without a government for 535 days, agreed Wednesday on the blueprint of a ruling coalition to be headed by French-speaking Socialist Elio Di Rupo.
[Dawn] Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday announced starting a separate bus service for women in the 
