A woman pleaded guilty Friday to tying up a man during sex, slashing him with a knife and telling him she liked to drink blood.
Tiffany Sutton, 23, originally pleaded not guilty to nine counts of aggravated assault. On Friday, she changed her plea, pleading guilty to one count of aggravated assault and one count of dangerous aggravated assault.
Sutton was arrested Feb. 13 outside the Tempe home she'd been sharing with Robert McDaniel. Sutton claimed the two were living together, but McDaniel told police Sutton was a transient who'd been staying at his place for a few days.
McDaniel told police that he'd consented to being tied up during sex but became scared when Sutton attacked him with a knife.
Sutton used multiple knives to stab McDaniel seven times in the torso and slash him twice. When she cut his inner leg, McDaniel screamed, "What are you doing?"
Sutton told him she liked to drink blood.
McDaniel freed himself and ran from the house, only to be chased by Sutton with a pickax.
By the time police arrived, McDaniel had passed out. Sutton initially told officers she was the victim.
Before he was taken away in an ambulance to be treated for his injuries, McDaniel identified Sutton as his attacker.
Sutton then claimed the entire encounter was consensual.
Sutton and McDaniel admitted to police that they had consumed alcohol and drugs prior to the attack.
After Sutton changed her plea, the judge set a Sept. 28 sentencing date.
followup to a previous disgusting story, a sick individual, and justice (sentence still to be determined). As a SD Charger fan, I get down on my knees every (rhetorically...) night and thank God we traded Vick for LaDainian Tomlinson: a star, a role model, and genuinely good man who makes everyone around him better. Sorry Atlanta, not your fault :-(
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Frank, not surprisingly there is a lot more interest in Georgia right now in the Warner Robins Little League team being in the finals of the Little League World Series than there is in the Falcons. Vick may eventually play somewhere, but never again in Georgia.
Pay attention, Hugo. He used to be a loud mouth, anti-American big shot too...
MIAMI - A judge refused Friday to block the extradition of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France, where he is accused of laundering millions of dollars in drug proceeds through French banks.
Senior U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler rejected arguments by Noriega's lawyers that his status as a U.S. prisoner of war negated the French request under the Geneva Conventions and required his return home to Panama.
The decision, which could be appealed, means a hearing before another judge will go forward Tuesday on the extradition request.
Hoeveler, in a 12-page decision, said his designation of Noriega as a prisoner of war following his 1992 conviction was not meant "to shield him from all future prosecutions for serious crimes he is alleged to have committed."
Noriega, 72, is to be released from a U.S. prison Sept. 9 after serving 15 years for drug trafficking and racketeering. He faces up to 10 more years in prison in France.
While in the U.S., Noriega was convicted in Panama of embezzlement, corruption and murdering political opponents and sentenced to 60 years. But he could wind up serving only a fraction of that time or even get house arrest under Panamanian law.
U.S. forces captured Noriega after a 1989 military invasion ordered by then-President George H.W. Bush in part because of the Panamanian's links to Colombian drug traffickers. He was convicted of accepting bribes to allow shipments of U.S.-bound cocaine to pass through Panama.
Noriega also was an asset of the CIA for many years in Latin America, including acting as liaison to Cuban President Fidel Castro, according to court documents. Ah, yes, the AP zinger. I blame Bush. The other Bush...
France wants Noriega to face charges of laundering more than $3 million in drug proceeds through five French banks. Noriega was convicted in absentia of those charges and sentenced to 10 years, but the French agreed to hold a new trial if Noriega is extradited from the U.S.
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Wonder if French prison food is any good?
Papillon quality?
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I never understood the Noriega story. Sure, he was a smuggler and a thug and a general (heh) no-good, but he was our guy for the longest time. So what happened? Did he finally do something so far beyond the pale that even the CIA was horrified? Did he become too self-important and demand too big a payoff? Or did he simply outlive his usefulness? Inquiring minds want to know!
RCMP have arrested a pair suspected of stealing 22 pigs from a barn near Sussex, N.B., in a getaway that police say was likely a very tight squeeze.
Thieves took the pigs earlier this month after smashing the locks on a barn in Knightville, rented by Moffett's Farms. The two from Petitcodiac, aged 19 and 20, are suspected to have used one small car to haul the 22 pigs, weighing 23-27 kilograms each, from the farm to the house in Havelock where police tracked them.
RCMP picked up the trail after one of the men forgot his ID at the scene of a break-in.
French officials rejected a request to extradite a man suspected of killing a Loop dermatologist last year, a Cook County state's attorney's spokesman said Thursday.
Hans Peterson, 29, turned himself in to French authorities Aug. 6 on the Caribbean island of St. Martin after an arrest warrant was issued for him in the U.S. He is accused of fatally stabbing Dr. David Cornbleet in his office in October.
On Wednesday, French officials declined to extradite Peterson because he is a French national, said Cornbleet's son, Jon Cornbleet. The French typically do not extradite citizens who may be facing charges that could result in the death penalty. The family, however, would not object if prosecutors don't seek death, Jon Cornbleet said.
Authorities in Illinois are working with U.S. officials to extradite Peterson to Chicago to face murder charges. Peterson is a U.S. citizen who obtained French citizenship in May while living on St. Martin. His mother is French. The murder was in October. He wasn't a French citizen then.
Cornbleet said he believes Wednesday's decision is only an initial one and that he expects talks between the two sides to continue. He said he is considering hiring a lawyer to aid prosecutors in getting Peterson extradited. "I think that is an injustice to my father and my family who are the true victims," Cornbleet said. "We are not giving up hope and will continue to do everything that we can to get him to face justice in the United States."
Local officials agreed this doesn't mark the end of their extradition efforts. "We will use every legal and diplomatic means at our disposal to get this killer extradited back to the United States to face a trial," said John Gorman, spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office.
Peterson is being held in French-controlled Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. He allegedly confessed to French authorities.
Democratic U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Barack Obama of Illinois on Monday wrote letters to the French Embassy in Washington and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urging that Peterson be extradited. They raised concern that Peterson may have obtained French citizenship in order to avoid prosecution in the slaying. Geez, ya think?
Durbin pledged that if the letters were insufficient, he would make further appeals. He said he decided to reach out at the request of Cook County State's Atty. Dick Devine. Durbin also said he has a staff member who knew Dr. Cornbleet.
The Cornbleet family has been urging the public to help sway the French government to agree to extradition, placing a petition on a family Web page that in the past was dedicated to seeking information about the doctor's death.
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The French people may be our friends but the French Government is not.
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Hmmmm...wonder if they'd grant 'citizenship' to around...say...10 million coming from the US. Paying for their airfare will be a lot cheaper in the long run in the off sets of costs for schools, hospital, and other social services rendered.
Apparantly his performance was unsatisfactory.
MESA, Ariz. An Arizona woman has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing her estranged husband in the chest during sex, MyFOXPhoenix.com reports. NOW he's 'estranged', but if he was estranged before, why were they ...?
The heart is a lonely hunter ...
Falon Gonzales, 23, was released on $100,000 bond after being booked Tuesday night, according to the report. Her husband, Juan Carlos Gonzales, 26, was listed in serious condition at a local hospital.
He fled to neighbor Tony Ballard's home on West Stanford Avenue in Gilbert, Ariz., after the attack, MyFOXPhoenix.com reports. "I've never had a naked man run to my house bleeding, you know what I mean?" Ballard told MyFOXPhoenix.com.
Actually, I think we do. Ewwwww ....
Ballard told MyFOXPhoenix.com that the couple was in the middle of sex when the alleged attack occurred. "She was on top and she reached out of a bag and pulled a knife out of a bag and drove it into his chest," Ballard said of the incident.
That's just gotta hurt ...
"She apologized first," the neighbor told MyFOXPhoenix.com. "She said 'Juan, I'm sorry about this.'"
Not half as sorry as Juan was. Heck, not even a tenth as sorry ...
Juan Carlos Gonzales was transported to Scottsdale Osborn Healthcare hospital with a collapsed lung and was listed in serious condition.
"They would get his autograph, commend him on his tightly spiraled forward passes, then bet on one of his dolphins."
It's going to take a long, long time for Johnson to live this down. The Al Sharpton blog post he's linked to is a parody site.
UPDATE: MSNBC has issued a correction:
An earlier version of this article quoted from a blog entry purportedly by the Rev. Al Sharpton. MSNBC.com has determined that the blog is a hoax. In July, Sharpton signed a letter with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals condemning dogfighting, saying: "Dogfighting is unacceptable. Hurting animals for human pleasure or gain is despicable. Cruelty is just plain wrong."
No, it's not a hoax. The blog is clearly labeled as a parody site. MSNBC has scrubbed the link from their correction so readers can't see how easily they were duped.
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Funny blog!
Amusing that MSNBC's correction confuses hoax and parody. Hoax, parody. Metaphor, simile. Lays, lies. Journalism be hard!
Hey, if it is any consolation to you all, reporters get paid for these bone-head errors, unlike you and me who just look like morons.
WHEN slackers, decades hence, travel great distances at their own expense to celebrate doers of great deeds which, come to think of it, would go against the slacker ethos the saga of Kyle MacDonald, or, as he is known in these parts, the Red Paper Clip Guy, will be told and told again.
Even now, with Mr. MacDonalds book, One Red Paperclip, hitting the stands this week, the Web doth still veritably tremble with his legend: hes the 27-year-old Canadian who traded a paper clip for a house.
The tale goes like this: It was a dull day in Montreal, two summers past. The young MacDonald, his fair girlfriend toiling at her labors, was Lying About the House in their minuscule apartment, thinking about What a Drag It Is to Pay Rent and how nice it would be to Own Your Own Place and Stuff Like That when a thought occurred. What if he could trade a red paper clip for a house? Not in one swap but in a bunch of swaps, as in the game Bigger and Better, which he did play when he was but a youth.
And lo, on only the 14th trade, after he bartered such treasures as a moving van and an afternoon with Alice Cooper while dealing with a media torrent, the farm town of Kipling (Pop. 973), on the prairie of western Canada, does buy and give Mr. MacDonald a house. The publicity may help the towns fortunes, the townspeople do think.
The price of the house the young real estate warrior refuses to divulge, and the town graybeards indulge him in this, until a Dragon From the East doth come and give them a Look such as is not normally seen in Canada.
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The first trades (from paper clip to fish pen to handmade ceramic doorknob to camp stove to 1,000-watt generator) brought Mr. MacDonalds Web site 20 to 30 hits a day. Then he wrote a note to the Web site boingboing.net. The day it was posted Mr. MacDonalds site had over 100,000 hits. Eight months later, after he had swapped an afternoon in a recording studio for a years rent in a Phoenix condo, members of the news media were calling him hourly.
His last trade item, a speaking role in a movie produced by Corbin Bernsen (offered by Mr. Bernsen for a Kiss snow globe), led to the offer of the house in Kipling. NICE TO SEE SOMEONE BEING CREATIVE. MAKES ME WONDER WHAT I COULD GET FOR TRADING RANDOM STUFF FROM MY HOUSE. WANNA TRADE?
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Actually, a very creative approach. Unlike the vicious idiot who became a soldier to jump start his career at the New Republic, Mr. MacDonald gave people things they valued, taking in exchange that which they valued less. That in the end he got what he most valued -- a beloved wife, a little house, and his first published book -- does not take away from the the fact that he left small happinesses behind every step of his journey.
Neither the clearly earnest and hard working New York Times reporter, nor such vicious idiots as that New Republic writer who joined the Army to give his output more gravitas even as he spun his poisoned lies, will ever understand the difference between their choices and his. Thanks, NOLA!
Another case of a celebrity who thinks he's above the law.
A court in India has upheld the sentencing of Bollywood star Salman Khan in a case of poaching. Khan had asked the court to set aside a five-year jail term, issued in April 2006 for hunting a protected gazelle on a trip to Rajasthan in 1998.
And Michael Vick thinks he has problems ...
Khan, one of Bollywood's top actors, was not present in the court in Rajasthan's Jodhpur city when the judge upheld the sentence. The court said that the actor should be sent to prison immediately.
Khan's lawyers told reporters that the actor would appeal against the sentence in a higher court.
The court had found Khan guilty of killing a gazelle in September 1998 while he was shooting a film in the area. Khan was sentenced by the same court in February last year to one year for killing two protected black buck antelopes during a separate hunting trip in 1998.
The poaching cases are not Salman Khan's only brush with the law. He is also facing trial in Mumbai (Bombay) in a 2002 hit-and-run case. One person was killed and three others injured when Khan allegedly drove into a group of homeless people sleeping on a pavement.
Khan faces 10 charges, including causing death by negligent driving which carries two years in prison. He has pleaded not guilty on all counts.
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Bollywood's Sanjay Dutt released
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, jailed for buying weapons from bombers who attacked Mumbai in 1993, has been released from an Indian prison.
Dutt, who was sentenced for six years last month by a special court, was given temporary bail by the Supreme Court earlier this week.
On Monday, the court ordered the actor's release on the grounds that a copy of the judgement, passed by the special anti-terror court in Mumbai, was yet to reach the actor.
But court specified that the relief was temporary.
The judge said as soon as the actor received a copy of the Mumbai court order, he would have to surrender again and he would be sent back to jail.
Only after that could the actor file an appeal for bail and the matter would be considered on merit, the judge added.
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Bye, Sanjay, bye. I'll miss you. I'll never forget our...
Ooooooh, helloooooo, Salman...
The delegation of so-called Indian Muslim intellectuals led by secretary general Tanzeem Aimma-e-Masajid Maulana Umair Ilyasi, which had left for Israel August 15, signed an agreement with the Chief Rabbis in Tel Aviv to work together in unison against the forces of hatred and violence, reports Urdu daily Hindustan Express citing agencies here Friday.
The Express report claims that this is the first time that a Muslim organisation has signed an agreement with the religious heads of Jews. This agreement, which was signed following a series of meetings between the two parties, reportedly mentions some very delicate and controversial issues including the imbroglio of Jerusalem (Bait al-Maqdis), though in veiled terms.
One striking feature of this agreement is that it appeals to political leaders to find out some permanent solution to the issue of Jerusalem guaranteeing religious rights of every religious community.
At the time of inking of this Jew-Muslim agreement, or as the Express would love to call selling out the community interests', president Inter-Religions Harmony Foundation Dr Khwaja Iftikhar Ahmad (who had launched Vajpayee Himayat Committee soon after the Gujarat massacre of Muslims) and representative of Dargah Hazrat Khwaja Nizamuddin Aulia, Khwaja Afzal Nizami were also present. However they say that the agreement has been signed between Tanzeem Aimma-e-Masajid and Jewish Rabbis. The Express report makes it clear that the main points of agreement have not been made public.
Before the signing of this agreement, the delegation met Israel president Shimon Peres and foreign minister Tzipi Livni, who appreciated these so-called Muslim intellectuals' daring to visit Israel.
It looks like Father Ramadan has joined the festivities in the first photo at the link.
ANTWERP Muslim women who work in crèches [NB: day care centers, I think] in Antwerp may no longer wear a headscarf. Starting next week they will be offered an alternative: a bandana. The decision to ban the wearing of headscarves by Antwerp city employees who have contact with the public was introduced at the beginning of this year. The measure has provoked a great deal of criticism but the municipal executive has stood firm.
In the meantime it appears there has been a breakthrough. "We have discussed the situation openly and have reached an agreement," says Veerle Degryse, spokesperson for the Antwerp alderman for social advancement Leen Verbist (SP.A). "Unlike a headscarf a bandana is neutral," says Degryse.
Absolutely wrong. A headscarf, like a bandana, is just a piece of colored cloth. It's what you do with it, and why you do it, that matters.
A woman who wears a headscarf because she believes it an appropriate way to show her reverence to God? Great, more power to her. A woman who wears a headscarf because she believes that if she doesn't, some local hard boys from the 'Committee for the Protection of Virtue' will beat the crap out of her? That there is the problem.
Calling it a bandana doesn't change the underlaying problem: the problem of forcing a woman to be submissive, to conform to the whims of misogynistic men, and to identify those who aren't wearing a headscarf bandana as infidels.
Until now the alternative has not yet been implemented everywhere. Muslim women in the 22 city crèches will be able to wear a bandana instead of a headscarf starting next week. The alternative may be introduced at city hall and other municipal services in future.
Plans to reduce the height of a planned mosque in the cathedral city of Cologne were dropped on Wednesday after objections by the architects. The Turkish mosque association Ditib said the mosque's two minarets would be 55 metres high, although some modifications would be made to the original design of the complex. Architect Paul Boehm said reducing the height of the minarets would have left them out of proportion with the rest of the building and surrounding structures, such as a television tower and a high-rise block.
The Muslim minority has been facing vehement criticism in the city where there is a strong opposition to the 40-million-dollar (30- million-euro) mosque covering an area of 20,000 square metres. The most widespread criticism has been that the proposed building would be too dominant. Plans call for it to have a 35-metre glass dome, space for 1,900 worshippers and a community centre with shops well as offices and a restaurant.
Boehm said the minarets would be more abstract and less traditional due to "organic changes in the dome-shaped construction of the mosque's prayer room."
Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma had originally welcomed plans by Ditib to consider shortening the height of the minarets as a "first and an important step." He said many city residents still had difficulty accepting the size of the mosque's domed roof in Cologne's Ehrenfeld inner-city area. Ditib said the mayor was happy with the latest compromise.
A recent survey of city residents by Omniquest pollsters showed 36 per cent favoured the original design, 31 per cent opposed the project and 27 per cent said they would accept a mosque on a smaller scale.
Ditib, backed by the Turkish ministry of religion, is a a major builder of mosques for ethnic Turkish Muslims in Germany.
Ralph Giordano, a novelist of Jewish origin with atheist views, has been one of the most vocal critics of the project. He said last month that mosques were "popping up like mushrooms and named after Ottoman conquerors." He has also called on Muslims to learn secular values and integrate into German society. Giordano received death threats for his criticism, but these were condemned by Ditib, which claims to represent a large section of the 3.2 million Muslims resident in Germany.
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In WWII the cathedral in Cologne was about the only thing ABOVE 0' elevation. One expects a mosque would not fare as well.
May 31, 1942, Operation Millenium, was the first 1000 bomber assault out of Britain - Cologne had the misfortune of being one of the closest major targets to the British bomber bases.
Wind turbines continue to multiply the world over. But as they grow bigger and bigger, the number of dangerous accidents is climbing. How safe is wind energy?
It came without warning. A sudden gust of wind ripped the tip off of the rotor blade with a loud bang. The heavy, 10-meter (32 foot) fragment spun through the air, and crashed into a field some 200 meters away.
The wind turbine, which is 100 meters (328 feet) tall, broke apart in early November 2006 in the region of Oldenburg in northern Germany -- and the consequences of the event are only now becoming apparent. Startled by the accident, the local building authority ordered the examination of six other wind turbines of the same model.
The results, which finally came in this summer, alarmed District Administrator Frank Eger. He immediately alerted the state government of Lower Saxony, writing that he had shut down four turbines due to safety concerns. It was already the second incident in his district, he wrote, adding that turbines of this type could pose a threat across the country. The expert evaluation had discovered possible manufacturer defects and irregularities.
Mishaps, Breakdowns and Accidents
After the industry's recent boom years, wind power providers and experts are now concerned. The facilities may not be as reliable and durable as producers claim. Indeed, with thousands of mishaps, breakdowns and accidents having been reported in recent years, the difficulties seem to be mounting. Gearboxes hiding inside the casings perched on top of the towering masts have short shelf lives, often crapping out before even five years is up. In some cases, fractures form along the rotors, or even in the foundation, after only limited operation. Short circuits or overheated propellers have been known to cause fires. All this despite manufacturers' promises that the turbines would last at least 20 years.
Gearboxes have already had to be replaced "in large numbers," the German Insurance Association is now complaining. "In addition to generators and gearboxes, rotor blades also often display defects," a report on the technical shortcomings of wind turbines claims. The insurance companies are complaining of problems ranging from those caused by improper storage to dangerous cracks and fractures. More at the link
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And yet 75 year-old windmills continue to pump water out in Nebraska - though it sometimes takes rather creative repair work, since parts are not very available.
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Ahhhhhmm..see thaya, I..errrrrrrrahhhhhhhmmmm....told you!
So...ahhhhmmmm...get off my...errrrrrrahhhhmmmm...back, friggin peons!
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gag. So I guess we should get rid of powerlines too. How often do they fall? How many people die from touching them each year. And of course, we need to get rid of natural gas too. How many houses blow up each year? How many people die from unlit pilots? And that's not to mention the danger gas poses after an earthquake or in a fire.
And while we are at it, shouldn't we just get rid of all planes trains and automobiles? Why, compared to wind energy, the death toll is staggering.
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Currently producing tooling for some monster blades; the parent specs have been provided to us and they read like we are building an airplane; material traceability, torque values on fasteners, redundant mechanical systems, all that really cool ISO9001 stuff. Well cool if your spousal unit's bread and butter is dependent on you being the resident ISO-geek.....
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As a mechanical engineer who worked for many years in custom process equipment design, I can assure you that all of these problems are man-made and solvable.
This is probably just another example of the trend for system manufacturers to eviscerate their engineering staffs and rely on component vendors for "free engineering". You get what you pay for -- sometimes less.
Surveillance video shows that five to 10 people in the St. Paul apartment building saw a man attack a woman - but did nothing. The video shows what most witnesses in a St. Paul apartment building apparently didn't tell.
A man beat a woman, removed his pants and sexually assaulted her in a hall, and five to 10 people saw at least part of the attack but did nothing to intervene or help, according to investigators and court documents.
It was only after police were summoned on a report of two drunk people lying in the hall that they learned there had been a rape. Rage Ibrahim, 25, of St. Paul, was charged Thursday with first-degree and third-degree criminal sexual conduct. He is in Ramsey County jail.
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"He maintains that the incident was a misunderstanding, according to Omar Jamal, the executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center who spoke Thursday on Ibrahim's behalf."
Yeah..the same Omar Jamal from the Airport Cabbies, No-pork checkout workers, flying Imams, and Footwashing machines in colleges. Now this? Wake up Twin Sillies!
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
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