[THEWEEK] George Zimmerman has been enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! again, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports. Oh, just lock him the hell away. He's a freaking dipshit. Not sure about that, but his previous experiences have certainly unmoored him from common sense...
The 31-year-old Florida man was arrested in Lake Mary on Friday night, authorities said, and he was held overnight ahead of a Saturday morning court appearance, where his bond was set at $5,000. Zimmerman was ordered not to have further contact with the alleged female victim. The incident reportedly occurred at Zimmerman's home, and he was ordered to turn over any firearms at the residence, along with any possessions the woman left behind, to his lawyer.
A Florida jury found Zimmerman not guilty in 2013 on all counts for the shooting and killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, on Feb. 26, 2012. But the killing ignited protests across the U.S., with President Barack Obama Because I won... addressing the jury's decision by saying that, "once the jury's spoken, that's how our system works(but) Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago."
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This poor fellow obviously needs an extended visit to the OJ Simpson treatment center. The sooner the better.
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Note the denomination. It aint us Catholics
The second-ranking leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Bishop Heather Cook, 58, whose blood-alcohol level tested at .22 after the wreck, nearly triple Maryland's legal limit for driving will be charged with vehicular manslaughter, drunken driving and other counts stemming from a hit-and-run crash that killed a bicyclist on a sunny Saturday afternoon
Court records show a deputy stopped Cook in 2010 and she was so intoxicated yhat she couldn't finish a field sobriety test because she might fall and hurt herself. Cook registered .27 percent blood-alcohol content that incident. Also there were two small bags of marijuana in the vehicle, along with paraphernalia, and a bottle of wine and a bottle of liquor.
Way to go Episcopalians - following the Anglicans down the drain.
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I ran afoul of Ye Olde Filter™ a couple days ago
never did figure what was the trigger since I quoted the article. Finally gave up due to short attention span
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Strange choice for bishop. I wonder what she disposed of after she fled the scene. If you hit and run somebody, why return with your car full of evidence?
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Frankly, The fault is not within the stars, nor the filtre, it is in our heart. Hit the paypal button with a pure heart and a tidy sum and try again.
(Reuters) - Final-stage trials of experimental Ebola vaccines will begin in January or February in the worst-hit West African countries as scientists and drugmakers race to block the deadly disease, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
If effective, the shots will be available for deployment a few months later.
Nearly 90 experts from vaccine manufacturers, regulatory agencies and health ministries met at WHO headquarters to review data from initial safety trials and finalise plans for pivotal Phase III clinical trials in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
"It is my understanding that no major safety signals have been reported to date," WHO director-general Margaret Chan told the talks in opening remarks obtained by Reuters.
Here's hoping something works.
Sierra Leone, the country worst affected by Ebola, plans to start vaccine trials in the second half of January, Samuel Kargbo of its health ministry told Reuters Television on the sidelines of the Geneva talks.
[Dhaka Tribune] BNP senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman ...the elder son of former President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman Bir Uttam, and Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. He is the Senior Vice Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). His nickname is Pino. There are allegations that Pino took a rakeoff from every foreign investment into the country while Mom was in office... should be brought to book for his derogatory remarks on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as well as distorting history, said Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, media adviser to Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. 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. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
Staying abroad, Tarique Rahman is resorting to falsehood on various historical facts to hatch conspiracy against the country, he told a discussion on Bangabandhu and Bangladesh at the Jatiya Press Club yesterday.
Sohojoddha Muktijoddha Command organised the discussion marking the historic Homecoming Day of Bangabandhu.
With Sohojoddha Muktijoddha Command President Asaduzzaman Zakir in the chair, Journalist Subhash Singh Ray, Freedom Fighter Fulu Sarker, leaders of the Muktijoddha Comand, among others, addressed the discussion.
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that'll never happen. it would set a precedent for Bambi, Shrillary, Holder and a whole raft of others.
[AnNahar]. At least 35 Cuban political prisoners have been released in the last two days, dissident leaders said Thursday, as Cuba moves towards normalizing ties with the United States.
Washington and Havana announced a historic bilateral rapprochement in mid-December in which Cuba agreed to free 53 political prisoners as part of a deal to end a five-decade standoff with the United States.
Elizardo Sanchez, a prominent dissident from the Cuban Human Rights and National Reconciliation Committee, said his group had counted more than 35 prisoners who were released.
The releases are occurring "at a trickle and should continue tomorrow," he told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that the prisoners came from several provinces.
Earlier in the evening, Jose Daniel Ferrer, leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), a dissident group based in the communist island's east, had said 30 people were released.
Both groups confirmed Wednesday that 18-year-old dissident twin brothers had been freed, one day after the U.S. State Department said Cuban authorities had freed some of the 53 prisoners.
But State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State... neither specified how many prisoners were freed nor their names, and Havana has yet to comment on the sensitive matter.
For decades Cuba has accused dissidents of being U.S. "mercenaries."
Several days after the historic reconciliation, President Compañero Raul Castro ...Fidel's little brother... referred to them as "a few hundred individuals who receive money, instructions and oxygen from the outside."
At the time of the rapprochement, Cuban dissidents said some 100 political prisoners were languishing in jail.
I see this news as a double edged sword. For years state governments have complained that the federal government was issuing unfunded mandates for various issues. Dunno if things are getting better as regards to those mandates, but they are not getting better as to the power the federal government is imposing on local governments.
For all the talk of 'states rights' and '10th amendment', the states continue to forget the golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules. Or maybe they're not forgetting so much as trying to con us ordinary schmoes...
Nearly $1 in $3 in state revenue comes from the federal government, according to a new analysis.
While taxes are responsible for most state general revenues, the federal government is responsible for about 31.5 percent of the total, according to the nonprofit Tax Foundation.
Mississippi is most reliant on the federal government, with 45.3 percent of general revenue in the most recently available fiscal year coming from the feds. Oil-rich Alaska‚ whose revenue is highly volatile, is least reliant on the federal government.
The Tax Foundation’s analysis is based on a simple calculation of Census state revenue data published last month. The Census data offer a detailed breakdown of revenue sources for each state, so the Tax Foundation simply divided the “intergovernmental revenue” each state received from the federal government by the state’s “general revenue” total. More at the link
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker criticized Congress' attempt to delay provisions of the Dodd-Frank law rule that bears his name.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted down a bill that would have delayed a provision of the so-called Volcker rule that would have given banks until 2019 to comply with rules regarding collateralized loan obligations, a type of security backed by debt, often high-risk commercial loans.
Volcker previously criticized banks for not being able to comply with another part of the rule, which required banks to divest from hedge funds and private equity funds.
"I realize that lobbying is eternal, but instead of extending the compliance period, the Congress should focus on closing the remaining loopholes," Volcker said in a statement.
The provision failed to pass after a suspension of the rules that required a two-thirds majority to pass, but will likely receive another vote since only one Republican voted against the bill.
Supporters of the law have also voiced concerns that Republicans, who now control both the House and Senate, will try targeting Dodd-Frank through spending bills or through other important legislation.
This was the case with the terrorism risk insurance bill that passed the House Wednesday that included a provision on derivatives regulation
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..but no criticisms about creating loads of money without any backing. We're all just watching a bunch of thieves and con men arguing about the share of the loot.
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The Beretta M9 was preferable to the really worn out 1911's I had in the National Guard that wouldn't go 7 rounds without a jam. From what little I have read, the jams can be attributed to after market magazines and the 9mm FMJ has never been much of a stopper. I do think there are better designs out there now that weren't available in 1985 and it will be interesting what the military chooses to replace the Beretta M9 with.
[IN.REUTERS] Sri Lanka's army defied orders from aides of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa to keep him in power "by force" when it became clear he had lost his bid for a third term, the campaign front man of the newly elected leader said on Saturday.
Rajapaksa's front man denied the allegation, while the army front man said he was unaware of any such order.
Rajapaksa lost Thursday's election, ending a decade of rule that critics said had become increasingly authoritarian and marred by nepotism and corruption.
Rajitha Senaratne, a politician who acted as the front man for new President Maithripala Sirisena during the campaign, said Rajapaksa's administration had sought the backing of the military to stay in power.
"The army chief got orders to deploy the troops on the ground across the country. They tried attempts to continue by force. The army chief defied all the orders he got in the last hours," Senaratne told news hounds at a news conference in Colombo, the first by Sirisena's aides since the vote.
"We spoke to the army chief and told him not to do this. He kept the troops in the barracks and helped a free and fair election," Senaratne said.
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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.
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...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. 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. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker criticized Congress' attempt to delay provisions of the Dodd-Frank law rule that bears his name.
