[BREITBART] The 440-pound body of a man was rejected from a morgue at an Australian hospital for being "too fat" after a funeral director had driven more than two hours with the dear departed in her hearse.
Joanne Cummings drove the body to the Hedland Health Campus in Port Hedland while blasting her air conditioning to keep the corpse cool and then had to go right back.
"I actually had to turn around and drive two hours home to Roebourne and keep him in my car overnight," Cummings told Australia's ABC.
According to Cummings, Hedland Health Campus rejected a 550-pound body last year. HHC staff apparently don't mince their words.
"(A member of staff) walked out and looked at this gentleman in the back of the car and said: 'He's too fat, he can't go in the fridge'," Cummings told the North West Telegraph.
"I could probably put a baby elephant in one of those fridges and it'd fit through the door, and they're refusing entry for a human being. My issue is if that was your father, mother, partner... you wouldn't want them refused entry into the mortuary."
WA Country Health Service regional director Ron Wynn said the hospital may look into installing equipment that can store larger bodies.
"It is imperative that at all times a deceased person is treated with the utmost care and respect and viewings are arranged so as not to cause distress and inconvenience to grieving families," Wynn said in a statement.
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I kinda dig this Joanne Cummings babe, takes her job seriously. Hope the wagon had good GM AC.
There's a song, somewhere out there in the US Midwest, in Oklahoma! maybe? That describes this situation in a similar climate.
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So what happens if you have a 550 lb murder victim? How would you handle that one? Enquiring minds in Fort William, Scotland want to know.
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The A/C part of this story is utterly ridiculous. Apparently Oz doesn't know about the existence of this exotic material called ICE - pack enough of that around a dead body & it will be preserved. Maybe there was no room left in the hearse for ICE. In that case, they could have rented a flat bed truck. Can't anyone THINK there?
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Back in pre-modern days, hospital scales couldn't weigh patients over 350 lb. I sent those patients to our hospital loading dock, where they had a freight scale that would measure 1000 lb - we never had a patient we couldn't at least weigh. I did once have a teenager weighing 350 lb come into the ER, who needed a brain CT scan - the trolley part of our scanner couldn't tolerate anyone over 300. "Child" was transferred to a children's hospital downstate. They couldn't do a CT on anyone over 300 either, but they had an arrangement with a nearby veterinary hospital to use their animal scanner for people between 300-500 lb. Now & then I guess EMS still has to cut through the walls of some dwellings when it is impossible to remove a patient through existing doorways.
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Srsly? A large animal facility? I am not kidding. This is what the kid's hospital ER doc told me over the phone. Of course, that was over 20 years ago. Since then they have devised CT scanners that don't need trolleys and are only limited by what will fit within their circular Xray emitter rings (and how intense the Xrays are).
[WaPo]The recently-released National Climate Assessment (NCA) from the U.S. government offers considerable cause for concern for climate calamity, but downplays the decelerating trend in global surface temperature in the 2000s, which I document here.
Many climate scientists are currently working to figure out what is causing the slowdown, because if it continues, it would call into question the legitimacy of many climate model projections (and inversely offer some good news for our planet). 17+ years of no global warming. A WaPo editor published this? The sky is failing! (Because cold air sinks)
Not editor-published -- this is one of their bloggers, a meteorologist with an MBA who at first glance appears to be in the consulting business.
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I like the idea that convection currents under the crust warm the surface from time to time, much like the bubbles in a lava lamp, I suppose. Then you have sunspots and the fact that "scientists"have been strategically placing measuring equipment next to runways and other places that are subject to localized sources of heat. It's just a matter of time before it unravels. And politicians deciding that it's not a good excuse for a new type of taxation.
But we don't need to be collecting data to support global warming from stations that are close to places that are going to generate lots of heat. Perhaps the apparent global warming is going away because airplane travel is declining and those weather stations aren't getting hit as hard as originally planned?
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But we don't need to be collecting data to support global warming from stations that are close to places that are going to generate lots of heat.
Agreed. Anthony Watts has documented errors in the land-based weather station based temperature measurements. Urbanization has grown and so has urban heating. Weather stations next to blacktop will show higher temperatures.
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Exactly has Squinty says, and Mr. Watts is a national treasure. What we need are more data points, but even then, you gotta have measurement devices to monitor the micro-climate of airfields. More and more and scattered all over the place. I'll put one on the roof if you want.
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It's not just urban island. They are moving the stations closer to buildings because they are 110V powered, instead of walking to them to take a reading. Also, they have been systematically eliminating remote (colder) stations because they are harder to service and therefore more expensive.
Some of the fallout from the shooting of two police officers in Las Vegas included a bulletin released by the New York State Intelligence Center, which warned about "far right violence" and the need to prepare for such an eventuality. This was published only days after the Las Vegas murder, and during the time in which several major news outlets said the same thing: that the Las Vegas shooting was symptomatic of the violence perpetrated by "liberty groups". Cited amongst those groups were Threepers, Patriots and militia members, those who went to Bundyville in Nevada last spring. The nexus was established because the mug of Jerad Miller appeared on television talking, out of turn as it turned out, about the Bundy Ranch incident.
Were Jerad and his lovely bride, Amanda sent to Bundyville at the behest of the Las Vegas police department, or was he sent there by a federal operative? Vanderbough, who was there at the time to give a speech, immediately and accurately pegged Miller as trouble, prevailing on the Bundy Ranch leadership to send Miller packing.
If Miller was a police informant, why was he packing to begin with? Does being a police informant, one of the requisites of which is likely a pending felony conviction, confer a special status in Las Vegas to enjoy the blessings of liberty that the average citizen must jump through hoops to have?
Now that I am writing this column, I read a lot of news reports and official documents concerning guns. It seems the focus of the federal police agencies is on "straw purchases". Straw purchases are gun purchases made by a person who can pass a background check for one who cannot. Up until last week it wasn't even codified in USC 18. But after the Supreme Court ruled it was a crime inasmuch as it was an unwritten law, an individual can now be convicted for that crime.
Think about that for a minute: as federal law is currently implemented, if a federal law enforcement agency says you committed a crime inasmuch as it is not actually codified as a crime, the courts now have the legal right to send you to prison.
So, what to do? If you insist on buying through the federal transfer system, and doing the dog and pony show to show you are a good serf, use cash, always. Everyone else: don't use the federal transfer system, build your own and always, always use cash.
Speaking of using cash, but using the federal firearms transfer system, last week a Florida man, Martin Winters, was goaded into committing a straw purchase by an unnamed federal informant, presumably a felon, just like the cop killing Millers. Chief among his crimes was building a "destructive device", which it turns out was shotgun shells with fishhooks as shrapnel, to be prosecuted under the 1930 National Firearms Act, one of the new laws that old the government will enforce.
The federal search warrant affidavit, which can be read here, details the numerous times (three to be exact) Winters and two others had acquired weapons through the federal firearms transfer system. One of the other suspects named in the affidavit was previously convicted of robbery and the other of burglary. Winters turned himself in Wednesday and was denied bond.
Prices for pistol and rifle ammunition prices were mostly lower.
Prices for used rifles were mixed. Prices for used pistol were lower across the board.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .29 per round (From last week: Unchanged (2 weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: -.03 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: I.Q. Metals, HSM, FMJ, Factory Seconds, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, reloaded, .24 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: -.02 Each (After Unchanged (3 Weeks))
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Sellier and Bellot, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: I.Q. Metals, HSM, Factory Seconds, RNL, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: -.02 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, Prograde, FMJ, .40 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250 Rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store brand, Reloaded, .36 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
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.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
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Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Lee's Mags, Tulammo, steel cased, .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: -.05 Each (!) (-.12 Each Over 2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, Brown Bear, steel cased, .45 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Silver Bear, steel cased, .45 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged) 7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
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.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
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Rifles
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California (211, 209): Windham Weaponry AR-15: $700
Texas (328, 318): Mixed Build: $600
Pennsylvania (167, 170): Palmetto State Armory: $680
Virgina (216, 214): Mixed Build: $600 (Prolly Same Gun)
Florida (416, 393): DPMS Panther: $550 (!)
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,180 Last Week Avg: $1,040 (+)
California (44, 47): DPMS: $1,100 (Same Gun)
Texas (58, 61): DPMS: $1,400
Pennsylvania (28, 28): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,200
Virginia (42, 44): DPMS LR-308: $1,100
Florida (87, 86): DPMS: $1,100
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California (49, 51): Saiga: $525
Texas (55, 55): Zastava M-70: $500
Pennsylvania (50, 57): Saiga: $500 (Same Gun)
Virginia (73, 72): Czech VZ58 : $525 (Same Gun)
Florida (120, 121): Saiga: $600 (Same Gun)
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Texas (0): None Available
Pennsylvania (1, 2): Romak PSL: $1,400 (Same Gun)
Virginia (0): None Available
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California (150, 154): Rock Island Armory M1911A1: $400
Texas (213, 212): Para Ordnance: $450
Pennsylvania (203, 190): Llama: $300 (!)
Virginia (161, 167): Charles Daly: $425
Florida (377, 378): Tisas: $480
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $430 Last Week Avg: $433 (-)
California (146, 144): Smith & Wesson SD9VE : $375
Texas (309, 330): Glock 17: $425
Pennsylvania (207, 205): Beretta 92: $450 (Same Gun)
Virginia (242, 247): Glock 26: $500
Florida (505, 496): Smith & Wesson Model 59: $400
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $423 Last Week Avg: $435 (-)
California (87, 92): Glock 22: $400
Texas (141, 145): Glock 23: $480
Pennsylvania (116, 114): Glock 23: $385 (!)
Virginia (123, 121): Smith and Wesson M&P 40: $450
Florida (209, 208):Smith and Wesson M&P 40 : $400
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Straw purchases are gun purchases made by a person who can pass a background check for one who cannot.
It is worse than that. The case, known as Abramski v. United States, centered on a former police officer who sought to buy a Glock 19 handgun for his uncle. Though both men were allowed to own guns.
[Iran Press TV] The United States says it will not tolerate Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, as tensions between Washington and Moscow escalate over the Ukraine crisis.
We seem to have been tolerating it so far...
The White House said on Friday that the Kremlin had redeployed "significant" military forces near the Ukraine border.
"We are monitoring the situation carefully. We will not accept the use, under any pretext, of any Russian military forces in eastern Ukraine," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
"Reports from Moscow that the Russian defense ministry is considering creating military cordons in eastern Ukraine are also troubling," he added.
According to a Russian defense ministry source, Russian troops were prepared to enter Ukraine's troubled regions to "put up barriers between the civilian population and the Ukrainian army."
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... Jen Psaki, the spokeswoman of the US State Department, said on Friday, "We have our own information that Russia has redeployed military forces to its border with Ukraine."
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"We are monitoring the situation carefully. We will not accept the use, under any pretext, of any Russian military forces in eastern Ukraine," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
Must take some very specialized training to make a statement like that and keep a straight face.
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Revell and Testors would be proud of the flattop pictured in the article. David Axe is a clown, and should not be allowed to write anything covering the military or one's capabilities.
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Let me get this right, the critics in the West have been harping for decades that the big carriers are Doomed(tm) and that they're just big lumbering targets. So, why are the Chinese building these very same vessels? /rhetorical question
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Wonder what they got going for underway replenishment stuff. They will need to be good eating size pretty good sized and expensive, to maintain a CVN centered fleet.
We need to set up a bet, where's the PLAN CV first going to visit? Rangoon maybe? Singapore? Vladivostok? Does Hong Kong Kount?
First, this particular bird farm doesn't look that big - maybe about the size of La Belle France's Charles DeGaulle. Which, I might note, took TWELVE YEARS to build and commission. If you're going to challenge the USN's carriers, this ain't the design to do it with, unless you're going to build enough to keep seven or eight at sea at any one time....and I don't care how much money the PRC has, they ain't doing that any time in the remotely foreseeable future.
Second, you know what I don't see on that deck? No AEW capability - think E-2 Hawkeye. You could, of course, jury-rig a radar on a helo the way the RN did after the Falklands, but it ain't the same thing. We've not seen them demonstrate any AEW capability yet, and you are not going to run any kind of carrier war without it. It's possible that they're going to use shore-based assets to to handle that - but it kind of defeats the purpose of having a deep-water carrier fleet if it can't go outside of the range of land-based air.
Third, we still have not seen the PRC navy show anything even close to the kind of at-sea replenishment capability that is going to be MANDATORY to keep the CVs at sea and fighting. that includes a COD (Carrier On-Board Delivery) capability like the C-2 Greyhound. Yes, you can run 'em back to port for supplies and parts...but if they're transiting back home at that point, they're nothing but a chance for our guys to get a SINKEX of legendary proportions.
Summary: Yes, a threat. Yes, something we need to keep an eye on. The end of the USN's dominance at sea? We're more likely to do it to ourselves than at the hands of the PRC's carriers.
Mike
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A NUCLEAR-powered Littoral Aircraft Carrier!
Yeah, that's the ticket
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Considering that China has yet to conduct successful carrier operations on the one they do have....
I'm not too worried. Give 'em 50 years and they might be up to it.
Then again, knowing our idiot Commander in Chief he just might give them our carriers.
Not likely, but another possibility is that Champ will send some of our Sailors TAD to 'assist.' That would be world wide community organizing....
Yet another decommissioned "supercarrier" is coming to the Port of Brownsville for scrapping, and it's the biggest one yet.
In fact, the dismantling of the former aircraft carrier USS Constellation by International Shipbreaking Ltd. will be the largest ship-recycling job to take place in the United States.
Until the Constellation contract, the former USS Forrestal and the former USS Saratoga were the largest ships slated for salvaging by a U.S. ship breaker. The Forrestal arrived in Brownsville to much fanfare in February after being towed from Philadelphia, and is now being dismantled by All Star Metals.
The Saratoga, decommissioned in 1994, is expected to depart under tow from Naval Air Station at Newport, Rhode Island, this summer and will be recycled by ESCO Marine at the Port of Brownsville.
Construction began on the Constellation, the second of the Kitty Hawk-class of carriers, in 1957 at New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn. It was commissioned in October 1961. The vessel was decommissioned in August 2003 at the Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, then towed to the inactive ship facility at Bremerton, Wash.
International Shipbreaking is expected to begin towing the 62,000-ton carrier -- nicknamed "Connie" -- from Washington in late summer.
Unlike the Navy's contracts for the Forrestal and the Saratoga, in which each ship breaker received the symbolic sum of $0.01, the Navy is paying International Shipbreakers $3 million to take apart the Constellation.
Robert Berry, vice president of the company, said that's because the towing distance is much longer -- all the way down around the Horn of South America and up the other side -- compared to the other two carriers.
Berry said the trip would take 110 to 125 days and guessed that the Constellation could dock in Brownsville sometime in December. In contrast, the Forrestal took only two weeks to get here from Philadelphia.
Berry said the company had just won the contract and was preparing to visit the ship soon to determine what will be required in terms of rigging and other matters related to towing.
"We'll probably have some information to release as we get moving here," Berry said.
The Constellation job will take roughly two years to complete, he said, while declining to estimate how much money the company expects to make from the salvaged metal. The steel salvaged from the ship may go to mills in Texas, Mexico or elsewhere around the world, depending on demand, he said.
"We don't know," Berry said. "The market changes month to month."
The recent spike in large vessels coming to the port for dismantling has led, naturally, to a boost in hiring of workers good with a cutting torch. Fortunately, such people aren't hard to come by in Brownsville, Berry said.
"There are quite a few experienced people," he said. "We've been doing this in the area since the mid- to late '60s. A lot of people have gotten experience at it over the years."
Berry said the Navy prefers to work with more than one recycling company, which is why it has contracts with three ship breakers at the port. And with plenty of other decommissioned carriers awaiting the scrapper's torch, the sight of rusty, fading giants gliding down the Brownsville Ship Channel on the last leg of their final voyage could become increasingly common.
Now that initial recycling contracts have been awarded to each of the three ship breakers, the Navy said it's in a position to award additional contracts for scrapping non-nuclear-powered carriers over a five-year period, with All Star, ESCO and International Shipbreaking competing against each other for the work.
After the Constellation is dismantled, the Navy will have four conventionally powered carriers left: the Kitty Hawk, the Independence and the Ranger, all at Bremerton; and the John F. Kennedy, moored in Philadelphia.
While the Kitty Hawk is being kept in reserve and the John F. Kennedy available for donation as a museum/memorial, the Independence and the Ranger are designated for scrapping.
"They'll be more carriers coming," Berry said.
Still, even if they do become a more common sight in Brownsville, he thinks their arrival will continue to be a pretty big deal -- filled with history and loved by their former crews as they are.
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Besides the AEW , UNREP and COD that Mike pointed out, the other thing that makes the US carrier force so powerful is the concept of a carrier battle group. A carrier never travels alone. It is surrounded by other ships that form protective rings around it. The US Navy uses defense in depth. And not all of thee assets are on the surface.
Developing and implementing these doctrines takes time and experience.
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And we couldn't give the carrier's to India? Or better yet, give one to Isreal?
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What would Israel do with an old-style aircraft carrier?
The JFK note is kind of interesting - she was scheduled for a SINKEX, but my understanding is that the Kennedy family raised holy hell, and she was instead designated for a museum donation...which is never gonna happen. Once they named the next Ford class JFK, that mollified the family and I think you'll see her sent for scrap soon.
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Need to do a SINKEX on it with robotic damage control units, fully fueled and moving.
Texas employers added 56,400 jobs in May, the most in the nation, figures from the Labor Department showed today.
Payrolls climbed in 36 U.S. states in May and the unemployment rate fell in 20, showing the labor market continued to strengthen across the nation. What about California, New York, and Illinois? Michigan? Oregon?
Texas led all gainers followed by Pennsylvania with 24,700 more jobs, the Labor Department reported.
A total of 383,100 jobs were added in Texas in the past 12 months, making it the largest such job increase in the state in nearly 17 years. The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 5.1 percent in May, down from 5.2 percent in April.
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Gov. Rick Perry on Friday wrote to one of his greatest political foes, President Barack Obama, inviting him to Texas to see what he called the humanitarian crisis unfolding as unaccompanied children pour across the border with Mexico illegally. I wonder why they waited until now? Maybe they want to sign up for free O-care?
The missive came as the Obama administration announced it will open new detention facilities to house immigrant families. The federal government has been overwhelmed by waves of unaccompanied minors mostly from Central America who have been entering the United States in recent months. An estimated 47,000 unaccompanied children so far this budget year have crossed the border from Texas to Arizona in what Obama has himself called an urgent humanitarian situation. Wossamateer, Champ? Throw a billion or two at the problem. More Dem voters!
There is no doubt that I have disagreed with you and your administration on many polices over the years, Perry wrote. This crisis, however, transcends any political differences we may have. He added that the situation along the border is deteriorating and getting worse by the day.
Perry urged modifying federal policies that he called a magnet for people crossing the border illegally, imploring immediate and decisive action from the president.
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[DAWN] Gullu Butt, the baton-wielding man seen damaging vehicles in Lahore, was presented in a court for the second time on Thursday and was sent on a 14-day judicial remand.
Butt appeared in court for the second time today under heavy police security and was sent on a 14-day judicial remand by the judicial magistrate, before who he was presented, after a request was submitted by the police.
Later he was shifted to a hospital to undergo medical tests for the wounds received during the thrashing earlier during the day.
Hospital authorities released Butt's medico-legal certificate according to which none of his bones were fractured.
Earlier during the day, on his first appearance in court, Butt had fallen unconscious after being mobbed and assaulted in police custody by a crowd outside the court.
Handcuffed Butt was on his way to be presented in court regarding the Model Town incident when the scuffle broke leaving unconscious.
CCPO Lahore told Dawn that Butt had only sustained minor injuries and after provision of medical treatment had been shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location due to security concerns.
Moreover, lawyers said that Butt should have been charged under anti-terror clauses and the 'bailable charges' filed against home were not acceptable.
Butt, also known as Sher-e-Lahore, came into the limelight after he was caught on cameras brazenly damaging several vehicles in the presence of police, during the clash between Pakistain Awami Tehrik workers and police in Lahore's Model Town on Tuesday.
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In Pakistan's courts, all disputants
Of some school of fighting were students,
Cutting Contracts or Torts
To engage in rough sports,
But from Wager of Battle, no truants!
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Seems to be a prima facie case of conspiring to violate the laws of the United States.
Last time I checked, parents who abandon their children are usually charged with child abuse and/or endangerment. Those are state and local laws, not subject to federal pardons.
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Strictly a faux crisis created by this administration to leverage amnesty for illegals. We basically have a run-away criminal conspiracy in DC. One begins to lose track of all the high crimes and misdemeanors that have been committed by our Constitutional lawyer-in chief and his minions.
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.
[WaPo]The recently-released National Climate Assessment (NCA) from the U.S. government offers considerable cause for concern for climate calamity, but downplays the decelerating trend in global surface temperature in the 2000s, which I document here.
By Chris Covert
