A Brevard County man told police that he robbed a convenience store because he was upset with his fiancé for refusing to mate with him and because he needed money to buy car insurance. "Thanks to my fiancée's refusal, I won't need a life insurance policy for a kid just yet."
James Seehaus, 25, of Palm Bay, was arrested June 28 on suspicion of robbing a 7-Eleven. He also told police that he would probably have committed more robberies if he had not been caught. "Remorse? Never heard of her, but she's welcome to sleep with me too."
Palm Bay police said Seehaus robbed the gas station with a BB gun wrapped in white cloth to disguise it as something more dangerous. "I have a .45 here. It's not a BB gun, really."
Seehaus, who faces charges of armed robbery and theft, pointed the lead launcher at the clerk of the 7-Eleven at 1925 Palm Bay Road and demanded all of the money in the cash register, police said. "So gimme the dough if you don't feel ready to kick the bucket."
A Palm Bay lawman spotted Seehaus leaving the area and stopped his car in a parking lot about a half a mile from the gas station. He found a BB gun in the back seat, police said. "Forty-five shmorty-shmive."
The clerk and another witness identified Seehaus as the person who knocked over the gas station. That's him, there.
In an interview, Seehaus acknowledged that he done it and said all the money that was in his wallet belonged to the business, according to police.
Ron Burgundy would've had a field day with this story. I sense a coverup already. Iran already has the bomb, gave one to Al Qaeda, and they tested it over San Diego.
A Fourth of July fireworks show in San Diego lasted just 15 seconds on Wednesday, when what organizers called "a technical glitch" caused all of the fireworks to go off at the same time.
According to Garden State Fireworks, a signal that was sent to the barges to "set the timing" of the fireworks caused "the entire show to be launched in about 15 seconds."
The "Big Bay Boom," as it was billed, quickly became a Big Bay Bust.
"Anyone know if that was on purpose?" Josh Damigo wrote on Twitter. "It sure seems like something went wrong!"
"Was that it?" Jennifer Boyd tweeted.
Adding to the confusion, music that was supposed to be synchronized with the display played on in the darkness.
"There was "Proud to be an American," "Born in the USA," some Taylor Swift songs and lots of music with "America" in them," Teagan Hamblin told CNN.
"We sincerely apologize for the technical glitch that affected the #BigBayBoom," the Port of San Diego told to its Twitter followers. "Event producers are currently investigating the cause."
The premature explosion occurred shortly before 9 p.m., according to NBC San Diego. Twenty minutes later, the thousands of people gathered in Glorietta Bay were told via a radio broadcast that the show had been canceled.
"This is very uncommon," August Santore, a spokesman for Garden State Fireworks, told CNN. "There was nothing in the pyrotechnics that went wrongit was the electronics."
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yeah. That's what you get when you hire a NJ firm...
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And the lowest bidder, no doubt.
For the record, I was in no way implying, hinting, or suggesting a conspiracy, plot, or scheme involving Frank and/or the many, often secretive, divisions of Haliburton. Sometimes an explosion is just an explosion. (nudge, nudge. wink,wink)
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As a public services the Fireworks Program was compressed into less than a 1 minute time frame. This allowed the spectators time to take care of more important things like Facebook, Twitter, Tweet, Chirp, etc.
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We had something like that happen at Wiesbaden AB one 4th of July. One of the fireworks started a grass fire that quickly set off the rest of the fireworks. It was about 2/3 of the way through the show, so it wasn't a complete disaster, but it was unusual.
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A friend of mine that I worked with in the early 1970s was on Guadalcanal when the Japanese guns hit an oxygen and acetylene cylinder dump of ours. He said that it was quite a show. Only problem was that the cylinders were launching themselves many hundreds of yards all around, which made watching quite dangerous.
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Any implication that Halliburton Employees like fire or find it amusing to make things blow up is completely true. utterly false.
The fact that I now work for Schlumberger has no bearing on this either:p
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Silentbrick In my experience, there's not a rig on the planet that doesn't need new frigging mud pumps.
That's my experience too. New ones, bigger ones, or both.
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It's probably permanent. The Brick has been lured to Houston by a dastardly female who is bent upon entrapment.
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True true, but then they also offered a schedule which is something the EVIL Empire doesn't. It's working the well and so you're gone from a month or two at a time. It sucks.
The United States government has assured its citizens that, much like zombies, mermaids probably do not exist, saying in an official post: "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found." Leprechauns, on the other hand...
"Mermaids -- those half-human, half-fish sirens of the sea -- are legendary sea creatures," read the online statement from the National Ocean Service (NOS).
The agency, charged with responding to natural hazards, received letters inquiring about the existence of the sea maidens after the Discovery Channel's Animal Planet network broadcast "Mermaids: The Body Found" in May.
The show "paints a wildly convincing picture of the existence of mermaids, what they may look like, and why they've stayed hidden... until now," a Discovery Channel blurb says.
Conversely, the US government declaration offered no conclusive proof to deny the existence of mermaids.
The statement comes after another government agency, this time the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), declared there was no conclusive evidence for the existence of zombies. The CDC had published instructional materials on how to survive a "zombie apocalypse," in what the agency now calls "a tongue in cheek campaign to engage new audiences with messages of preparedness messages."
The campaign was followed by a series of cannibalistic attacks in North America.
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[Al Ahram] Spokesman for Egypt's Islamist president says there are no organised 'morality police' operating in Egypt, vows to 'bring law to bear' against 'moral' vigilantism
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Let's start at ending the gang rape of journalists,shall we?
[Bangla Daily Star] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide... yesterday blasted the World Bank for cancelling its credit agreement with the government to fund the Padma bridge project and said her government must build the bridge even if it had to be with its own money.
Speaking in parliament, she dismissed the World Bank's corruption allegations in the project. She said, "Their [World Bank's] blame is not acceptable at all."
Defending her government's actions taken following the World Bank's allegation, the premier said the moment the minister's involvement in the said corruption would be proved, the minister would be fired.
"All of a sudden the World Bank came up with allegations of corruption. But they could not provide any evidence. How could there be corruption when they had not released even a single penny for the project? "Therefore, I think it should be investigated and revealed who are behind it [cancellation of credit] and what are their objectives behind raising allegations of corruption," the premier said in reply to a question from independent MP Fazlul Azim.
She said she would speak more about it on June 8 during her winding up speech for the ongoing parliament session.
On Monday, Finance Minister AMA Muhith also made a statement in parliament about the issue.
The World Bank on Friday cancelled its funding for the project. It noted that it had "credible evidence corroborated by a variety of sources which points to a high-level corruption conspiracy among Bangladeshi government officials, SNC-Lavalin executives and private individuals in connection with the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project".
Speaking about alternative funding sources for the project, Hasina said that Malaysia had submitted a proposal relating to the construction of the bridge. Her government, she added, would seek proposals from others too.
"Whatever the proposal is, it must be in line with the interest of our country and our people."
She said her government was not taking a loan from Malaysia. "They will construct the bridge with their money under BOOT [Built, Operate, Own and Transfer]. And they will take back their money within a certain period. We will not need to spend a single penny."
Hasina said the bridge could be built by other means as well, including Public Private Partnership.
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While America's debate over immigration has been dominated recently by crackdowns in states like Arizona and Alabama, California legislators are trying to turn that tide with a bill to protect illegal immigrants that they dub the "anti-Arizona." Either this is total madness, or it's a honey-trap for illegals that we're going to chop off and give back to Mexico after it has achieved its purpose.
Last week, the top U.S. court upheld the most controversial aspect of Arizona's immigration statute: a requirement that police officers check the immigration status of people they stop, even for minor offenses such as jay-walking.
Enter California, a border state that is home to the largest number of illegal immigrants, most of whom are Hispanic, and is considerably more liberal than its neighbor Arizona. Is there anywhere less liberal?
A bill currently working its way through the California legislature would block local law enforcement from referring a detainee to immigration officials for deportation unless that person has been convicted of a violent or serious felony. RACISTS!
"California cannot afford to become another Arizona," said California Assembly member Tom Ammiano, the bill's sponsor. One of the bill's sponsors, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, calls the effort the "anti-Arizona." California can't afford a lot of things, including more illegal aliens. But hey, sometimes it's best to just isolate an idiot who refuses to learn and let him figure out what he's doing wrong the hard way.
Critics have argued that Arizona's law could lead to illegal racial or ethnic profiling of Hispanics in Arizona. Hispanics are the largest U.S. minority group, representing 16 percent of the population.
Supporters of the Arizona law say it is needed because the federal government has failed to secure the border with Mexico.
The California bill, which has the support of over 100 immigrant rights groups, police chiefs and mayors, was drafted not only as a symbolic counter to legislation in neighboring Arizona, but also to push back against a federal program called Secure Communities that shares the same principles as Arizona's law, supporters say.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, established the Secure Communities program in partnership with local law enforcement agencies and the FBI to deport unauthorized immigrants. I call them illegal aliens because they have little to do with immigration and everything to do with being somewhere they shouldn't be.
Local authorities send fingerprints of those arrested to ICE, which says it prioritizes deporting individuals with criminal convictions. The program was credited as a factor in that agency's highest-ever number of deportations, nearly 400,000 in 2011.
"(Secure Communities) has burdened our local governments and put even victims and witnesses of crime at risk of deportation, making us all less safe," Ammiano said in a statement. "It has even mistakenly trapped U.S. citizens in our local jails for immigration purposes."
The federal program has been responsible for deporting over 72,000 Californians, according to Ammiano, with 70 percent of those deported from the state having either no criminal conviction, or conviction for a minor offense. What about that "illegal alien" thingy hiding behind the curtain?
Critics have lambasted the program for placing victims of domestic violence in deportation proceedings and deterring immigrants from reporting crimes committed against them. So?
But the California State Sheriff's Association, which opposes the bill, said that state and local authorities cannot opt out of the Secure Communities program, and that ICE focuses on only the most serious cases, such as convicted criminals and repeat offenders. I wonder what Mexico's stance is on illegals in Mexico.
The bill, already passed by the state Assembly in a 47-26 vote, now awaits a decision by the state Senate. That vote could come as early as this Thursday, but may be delayed until after legislators take a one-month summer recess beginning next week. That should give pols time to figure out if Mexico is pleased with the new law as written.
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One of the 'problems' with the Federal law is that persons identified, by local law enforcement officials, as illegal immigrants are to be placed in custody until federal officials are notified.
California doesn't have space to keep people in custody.
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I wonder what Mexico's stance is on illegals in Mexico
I believe they are deported immediately.
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Illegals are an untapped resource! Think about it, an illegal is caught, verified and saving who knows how many lives as an involuntary organ donor in less than 24 hours. Under such laws, we could encourage them to come!
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Though the mere announcement of this would cause massive voluntary deportation:p
Article 33. Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in Article 30. They are entitled to the guarantees granted by Chapter I, Title I, of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.
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I'm afraid it's too late for my home state. We've passed the point of no return. The Mexicans here still tolerate us white folks, for the most part, for the time being. Maybe that's because we still pay our taxes. Oh, and we tip the waiters and busboys.
Racist? No, not really. I just thought California was supposed to be part of the United States and that the United States would defend its territorial integrity.
I blame Bush. No, I really do. He did nothing about it. But it wasn't just him. Clinton's the one who really let the invasion get going. Spit. And don't let anybody fool you. It is an invasion. Just because they come with women and children instead of tanks and war planes doesn't mean it's not an invasion. So is the United States willing to cede California to Mexico? Looks like it.
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Thought "derechos" translates into damaging windstorms. So union jobs at union wages are damaging (windstorms)?
If California passes the anti-Arizona immigration bill, they are going to have to live with it. Good luck to em. Look for California to look like Detroit in a few years. What happens when Californians try to escape this nightmare? Are they going to spread the taint to other states?
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OK. So much for blaming Californians. Let's talk about who is really "spreading the taint". Here's a little tidbit from that Wikipedia article about Tom Ammiano that I cited earlier:
Ammiano was born and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. He attended Seton Hall University in 1963 and received a bachelor's degree in communication. He was an Easter Seals Camp counselor in the summers of 1962-3, later attending San Francisco State University in 1965 where he received a master's degree in special education. He taught English to children in South Vietnam as part of a Quaker program, but left shortly after the Tet Offensive in 1968.
Get it? The guy is from New Jersey. Didn't move here until the mid-1960's along with a couple of million of his friends from New Jersey, New York, Michigan and, yes, even Texas. Even your precious Colorado. So who is "spreading the taint"? Dunno about the rest of you but I'm thinking New Jersey. Californians are the victims.
But, as I said earlier, I'm thinking George W. Bush and Bill Clinton too. Federal problem, folks. This is a federal problem. This is a federal failure as in misfeasance on the part of people that you elected. Stop being so smug and wake the fuck up. I've said it before but you don't seem to get it. If it can happen here it can happen to you.
Question: What will Mitt Romney do about it? What is more important to you: Getting rid of Obamacare or preserving the territorial integrity of the United States of America, California included?
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If it's all about the votes then why did guys like John McCain and George Bush do nothing about it? Remember, I've said this before too, California used to be a red state. Remember Richard Nixon? Ronald Reagan? Does anybody remember that far back? Why did the Republicans let the Democrats have the state with more electoral college votes than any other state? Why did they let it go without a fight? Why???
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If it's all about the votes then why did guys like John McCain and George Bush do nothing about it?
Because they were classical liberals in the line of Truman-Kennedy, not conservatives at all. Just as the Socialist Left captured the Donk Party, the Liberals captured the Trunk Party. It stop being about the Constitution and about being 'loved*', particularly in the MSM [which has been and remains an arm of the other party]. *see Big Tent[tm].
[Dawn] A Pak police official says thousands of people beat a man to death, and burned his corpse after he was accused of desecrating the holy Koran.
A senior police officer Mohammed Azhar Gujar said that in the incident on Tuesday in the Ahmedpur East area of Punjab's Bahawalpur district, attackers stormed a cop shoppe where the man was being interrogated.
He said the victim seemed to be mentally unstable. He was placed in long-term storage Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! after residents said he threw pages of the Koran into the street.
While the man was being questioned, some people started making announcements over mosque loudspeakers, urging residents to go to the cop shoppe and punish him.
Within hours, thousands gathered outside and demanded the man be handed over to them. Gujar said police tried to protect him, but the mob turned violent.
They burned several police vehicles and maimed seven officers before grabbing the man and dragging him into the street, where he was beaten to death and his body set on fire.
Gujar said the mob also attacked the house of an area police chief and burned his furniture and possessions.
It was unclear whether the man was Mohammedan, a member of Pakistain's Christian minority or belonged to another religion. His name was not released.
Pak Christians live in fear of being placed in long-term storage Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! under the blasphemy laws, which critics say are often misused to settle personal scores or family feuds.
Efforts to change the laws have made little headway. Last year, two prominent Pak political figures who spoke out against the blasphemy laws were killed in attacks that raised concerns about the rise of religious extremism in Pakistain.
On June 17, a crowd attempted to lynch a blasphemy suspect as they tried to storm into the cop shoppe where he was held. A group of lawyers attempted to attack the same suspect the next day following his production in court but coppers successfully foiled both attacks.
In Quetta last month, a man was killed as a mob attacked a cop shoppe holding a "mentally retarded" man also suspected of desecrating the holy book.
Former Punjab governor Salman Taseer was rubbed out in January last year by one of his police bodyguards for opposing the blasphemy law.
The incident highlighted the highly charged nature of the country's blasphemy laws, under which anyone found guilty of insulting the prophet or the Koran can be sentenced to death. Sometimes, however, people take the matter into their own hands.
During a visit to Pakistain in May, Gabriela Knaul, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, said lawyers are often reluctant to defend clients accused under the blasphemy laws because of intimidation, and judges are often pressured to convict.
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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.
or, Pathetic excuse of the day
Ron Burgundy would've had a field day with this story.
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide...
While America's debate over immigration has been dominated recently by crackdowns in states like Arizona and Alabama, California legislators are trying to turn that tide with a bill to protect illegal immigrants that they dub the "anti-Arizona."
