Fanie Jantjies, a 35-year-old Okahandja resident, underwent three hours of surgery at the Katutura State Hospital last Tuesday night after he was rushed to Windhoek... Jantjies was in custody for theft... It is alleged that while the Police were combing through JantjiesĀs belongings he jumped from the Police van and fled... Monday... On Tuesday, Police spotted Jantjies and chased after him... according to sources close to Jantjies, he was shot in the buttocks.
The last Ford Crown Victoria rolled off the assembly line on Thursday in St. Thomas, Ontario, bringing an end to what USA Today called the "reigning king of the American road."
While a gas guzzler, especially compared to current standards, the Crown Vic was revered for being a V8-powered, body-on-frame, rear-wheel-drive sedan that could take a beating. It has been a staple for both police departments and taxi fleets for decades.
Auto blog Jalopnik said Ford had produced the Crown Victoria for 32 years, bypassing all other North American vehicles including the Model T. It was built on the same Panther platform that the Times said was used for the Lincoln Town Car, a popular choice of limousine companies and another Ford car that is coming to an end.
The car's durability made it a natural police car as well as a classic choice for taxi fleets, both which would put hundreds of thousands of miles on them in the line of duty.
It was so well-liked, Jalopnik reported, that the police department in Austin, Texas, asked the city government to buy 174 of them before they were discontinued.
Jalopnik said Ford decided in 2009 that the cost of bringing the Panther platform to current standards was "not worth the trouble." "current standards" means Obama-mandated "GREEN" economy requirements. Another death-blow for a time-honored American success story.
As the Crown Vic comes to an end so does the St. Thomas assembly plant, which the Toronto Sun reported opened in 1967 and had manufactured eight million cars during its time. Its cars had been shipped overseas since Aug. 31 because they didn't comply with new North America crash standards for the 2012 model year. My mistake, not mileage, it ran afoul of crash standards. Doubt it would have passed mileage standards either, if it were ever given the chance. Thanks, government regulators! Thanks, auto company executives! Well done all around.
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Crown Vic and Mercury Grand Marquis both excellent boomer cars. Reasonably priced, SAFE, comfortable, 20+ MPG. Neither are needed under Obamacare. Ford Motor Co. must die like the rest. Next target, F-150.
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I wonder if the safety consideration was for other cars that might be unfortunate enough to collide with it.
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I have keep mine. It was my dad's company car he purchased. My son blew the engine hot rodding.
So I found a 72 Delta 88. First thing he did was take it and buried the needle at 120. So I took the motor and transmission and put in my dad's Old's wagon.The car is older than my son who drives it now. Obama wasn't going to get that car. No problems with it and easy to work on. Problem now is automotive parts are defective and fail much sooner.
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Target the F-150 and you'll have a thousands up thousand of them descend on DC. That might actually be cool to see.
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The F-150 ain't going away. They sell to many of them. Besides, you could easily put a ton and a half of batteries in the back and turn it into an electric vehicle with enough range to actually drive someplace and back.
[Dawn] Recent floods in Sindh caused by monsoon rains have killed almost 300 people and affected six million others causing damage to an area of 7.987 million of land destroying many crops.
According to NDMA, all 23 districts of Sindh, namely Badin, TM Khan, Mirpurkhas, Tharparkar, Umerkot, Thatta, Tando Allayar, Naushero Feroze, Khairpur, Shaheed Benazirabad, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Sanghar, Dadu, Shahdad Kot, Jamshoro, Hyderabad, Kamber-Shahdadkot, Kashmore, Ghotki, Larkana, Matiari and Bloody Karachi have been affected by the floods.
The floods have fully damaged 5,39,899 houses while another 8,48,412 houses have suffered partial damage.
More than 80,000 livestock have been washed away by flood waters in Sindh while crops like cotton, banana, dates, chilli and sugarcane on 2,800,000 acres have been destroyed or affected. About 31,960 villages have been badly affected by the floods.
The first spell of rain that started on August 11 mainly affected seven districts of the Sindh province, while an ongoing second spell hit the entire province, including Bloody Karachi.
On September 7, President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... took an aerial view of the flooded areas of Benazirabad District, Mirpur, Jhaddo, Kot Ghulam Muhammad and Nohkot and personally saw the devastation on wide scale.
President Zardari directed the federal and provincial governments as well as the concerned authorities to gear up to provide relief to the flood-affected people.
President Zardari has also appealed to the international community to provide humanitarian and rehabilitation assistance for the millions of people affected by this year's floods.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... , who had cancelled his visit to the United States, due to the floods had also appealed to the international community and philanthropists at home and abroad to step forward and help the government rescue and rehabilitate victims of the recent torrential rains and flash floods in Sindh.
Prime Minister Gilani has also constituted a high-level committee to supervise, monitor and coordinate relief and rehabilitation efforts in the rain affected areas of Sindh.
Pakistain Cards are being issued by the government to provide financial assistance to the flood victims and Rs 20,000 will be given to each affected family.
The Pakistain Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) has allocated Rs.258 million and started relief work to help 400,000 displaced people in 14 union councils badly ravaged by the raging flood waters.
Pakistain Army has been busy in rescue and relief operation and so far rescued more than 100,000 marooned people along with their cattle from various water inundated areas.
Pakistain Navy teams are also busy in rescue work in the flood affected areas and have evacuated 11,000 victims.
In response to the appeal of President Zardari, China has announced that it will supply relief goods worth $4.5 million for Pakistain's flood victims. Iran has announced $100 million aid for the rehabilitation of the rain-affected people of Sindh. Japan has announced emergency relief goods worth $450,000. The relief goods include tents, water purifiers and medicines.
South Korea has decided to provide emergency assistance worth $200,000 in relief goods.
The European Commission announced that 10 million euros would be provided in emergency relief.
Donations by Germany for the flood victims in Pakistain have increased to over $210 million.
The Red Thingy Society of China has donated $50,000 in cash as emergency aid to Pakistain.
The UN-led humanitarian community in Pakistain is seeking $337 million from donor countries for an emergency response plan to support the government in addressing the needs of flood-affected families in Sindh.
The United States is sending food aid for nearly 350,000 and medical assistance for about 500,000 people.
UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... formally called on the international community to help Pakistain respond to the humanitarian needs of flood victims.
A team of UN agencies is currently visiting the affected areas for a needs assessment.
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Saudi doctors successfully removed a lemon seed stuck inside a woman's ear for nearly two months, ending fears that the seed could have sprouted, a newspaper in the Gulf kingdom reported on Thursday. "Lady! Hey, lady! There's a lemon tree growing out your ear!"
The woman had suffered severe pain in the ear before she decided to visit the hospital in the western Red Sea port of Jeddah, Sabq said. "Lady? Hey! Can yez hear me? I said there's a lemon tree growing out your ear!"
"Doctors decided to perform a surgery after spotting the seed deep inside the ear...it was successfully removed after nearly two months of suffering by the patient," the paper said, quoting surgeons. [WHISTLE!] "Lady! There's a lemon tree growing out your ear!"
"The seed could have grown and generated branches but the wax in the woman's ear has prevented fluids from reaching the seed." "Eh? Did you say something, sonny? You'll have to speak up! I got a lemon tree growing out my ear!"
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Uh, yeah. I don't think a seed's going to sprout. It'll just die. Bizarre fascination by the author.
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'moose, you're probably right - but eeeeewwwwww.
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Anything can happen with the ear canal. Things do get caught. A single piece of hair can touch the eardrum and cause quite a bother of noise. Inner city youth I have been told can get cockroaches in the ear(wax is to keep most insects out). Some animals love the smell of ear wax. Dogs will go after a hearing aid first chance you give them. Ear wax can accumulate and block canal causing a 30db loss of hearing. Like putting a finger in the ear. Your doctor will advise an elbow. Pacific WW11 vets would get a green fungus, like a green carpet, all around the canal walls. It must be treated but it never seems to totally go away for a lifetime. The ear and hearing is a marvel, you hear and interpret what you have heard in an instant.
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"Anything can happen with the ear canal. Things do get caught."
Perhaps I'm lacking in imagination, Dale, but I can't think of any way for a lemon seed to get in the ear canal (short of actually putting one in there, and I can't imagine why any sane adult would), let alone stuck.
"Inner city youth I have been told can get cockroaches in the ear"
It's not just inner cities, it's places that are crawling with cockroaches. I once took a woman to the hospital (yes, by ambulance - the rescue squad can't really say no) who had a cockroach stuck in her ear. She had them on her clothes, too - and I don't want to even describe the house she lived in. (Suffice it to say we didn't sit down inside the house or set our equipment bags down, and stamped our feet good and hard when we got back outside.) We cleaned out the ambulance really, really well after that transport. :-(
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So they removed a lemon seed. What a magnificent modern marvel!
Years ago, a medical magazine had an annual year-end round-up of unusual cases found in emergency rooms. After a time, they noticed an odd statistic. For three years running, there were a dozen reports of the same accident.
12 men were allegedly "taking a shower, slipped and fell and landed on a lemon", so had to go to the ER.
Not 11, not 13. Nationwide, 12 and only 12. So for the next year, there was intense interest in tracking that one statistic. The magazine even had an office pool for the next years numbers. 7...8...9...10... The tension mounted as December approached. When the 11th case for that year was phoned in, the office practically broke out in cheers.
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My mom had my father go get his hearing checked. The ENT pulled a pencil erasure out of his ear. When he called to tell me I told him if they pulled a set of keys out I would disown his redneck ass.
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Another reason the Constitutional guarantee of trial by jury, "..In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed,.." is enjoyed by 'citizens' [not subjects] in America. The vast majority of DAs would not expect to get a conviction let alone a reelection if they tried to pull crap like that in the US.
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From the news article: "Floral tributes to the dead man have been laid near the scene."
I wonder if anyone would have left flowers if it had been the homeowner who had been killed, rather than the home invader.
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Two years ago, 4 robbers invaded a restaurant-supply store in Harlem, NYC, and pistol-whipped one of the employees. The owner, a 72-year-old man, picked up a shotgun and fired three shells, killing two of the robbers, and wounding the other two. The next day, someone put up one of those 'memorials', and someone who worked on the street kicked it into the gutter.
The man wasn't charged with anything, by the way. Not even Bloomberg would do anything so foolish.
Oh, and if you search for this story, watch out. Some unhinged people wrote not-safe-for-humanity articles.
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Perhaps the second intruder - the one who got away - will come back to testify against the homeowner.
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[Emirates 24/7] The Guardian newspaper said Saturday it would fight "to the utmost" an attempt by police probing Britannia's phone hacking scandal to force it to disclose the sources for its reports on the affair.
London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is seeking to obtain a court order under the Official Secrets Act to identify "evidence of potential offences resulting from unauthorised leaking of information".
The Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger condemned the move as "vindictive", adding: "We shall resist this extraordinary demand to the utmost".
The daily has been at the forefront in exposing the voicemail hacking scandal at media baron Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
The Guardian said the police intended to go before a judge at the Old Bailey in London, England's central criminal court, on September 23 to apply for an order under the Official Secrets Act 1989 requiring it to hand over documents relating to the source of information for a number of articles.
It said the police thought the act could have been breached in July when the newspaper revealed that the voicemail of a teenage murder victim had been hacked into. The story led to a public outcry and News of the World closed shortly afterwards.
In a statement, the MPS said it had applied for a production order against The Guardian and one of its news hounds "in order to seek evidence of offences connected to potential breaches relating to Misconduct in Public Office and the Official Secrets Act".
It said it took concerns of leaks seriously "to ensure that the public interest is protected by ensuring there is no further potential compromise".
The MPS paid tribute to The Guardian's "unwavering determination to expose the hacking scandal", and said it recognised "the important public interest of whistle-blowing and investigative reporting", which it was not seeking to prevent.
"However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... neither is apparent in this case. This is an investigation into the alleged gratuitous release of information that is not in the public interest."
The Guardian's news hound Amelia Hill was questioned under caution earlier this month over alleged police leaks surrounding the hacking inquiry.
In August, a policeman working on the probe was nabbed over the unauthorised disclosure of information.
The Guardian called the latest move an "unprecedented legal attack on journalists' sources".
"It seems to me an extraordinarily heavy-handed use of the Official Secrets Act which is basically about espionage and international relations and things like that to defeat the privilege journalists have to protect their sources," Rusbridger told BBC radio.
"What they are trying to do is to find out the source of the embarrassment of the articles -- and no doubt The Guardian's coverage was embarrassing to the police.
"It looks vindictive and it looks ill-judged and disproportionate."
The hacking scandal has led to the resignation of two of Murdoch's top aides and two senior coppers, and dragged in Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... after his ex-media chief, former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, was nabbed.
In its editorial, The Guardian said: "It beggars belief that the Metropolitan Police -- who, for years, declined to lift a finger against News International journalists despite voluminous evidence of criminal behaviour -- should now be using the Official Secrets Act to pursue The Guardian, which uncovered the story."
Michelle Stanistreet, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said the latest police move was "vicious" and a "very serious threat" to reporting.
"Journalists have investigated the hacking story and told the truth to the public. They should be congratulated rather than being hounded and criminalised by the state," The Guardian quoted her as saying. "The protection of sources is an essential principle which has been repeatedly reaffirmed by the European Court of Human Rights as the cornerstone of press freedom."
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It's 'justice' when the Murdoch rag News of the World was prosecuted. It's "vindictive" when it's a fearless upstanding journalistic defender of the British proletariat like the Grauniad.
Via InstaPundit.com
The U.S. is coming to Europe's financial rescue. So far, America's role is fairly limited. But if the crisis continues to grow and the U.S. takes on a wider role, U.S. consumers and taxpayers could feel a bigger impact. The biggest exposure could come from America's status as the single largest source of money for the International Monetary Fund.
The latest round of American financial assistance came Thursday with a promise by the Federal Reserve to swap as many dollars for euros as European bankers need. In the short run, those transactions won't have much impact because the central banks are simply swapping currencies of equal value. If the move helps avert a wider crisis, it could help spare the global economy from another recession.
But over the long term, consumers could feel the impact of central bankers flooding the financial system with cash, according to John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics.
"This is a lender of last resort function," he told CNBC. "With the dollar injections that the Fed has done, it's like giving a patient medicine with really bad side effects." Ryding said the bad side effect in the U.S. has been inflation, which has picked up to 3.8 percent year over year. Actually this is round 2. Much of the taxpayer funded AIG bailout and bankruptcy went to European banks. German and French banks got $36 billion from AIG Bailout In a press release with several attachments, the struggling insurer detailed which counterparties had gotten about $100 billion of the bailout funds.
I added up the various lists provided by AIG by country (see below), and the results were quite revealing. About $44 billion went to counterparties headquartered in the U.S., such as Goldman Sachs and states such as California and Virginia.
But as I expected, the majority of the funds--$58 billion--went to banks headquartered outside the U.S. The big winners were French and German banks, which pulled in $19 billion and $17 billion respectively.
That was the first $100 billion of the $182 billion AIG taxpayer gift.
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No worries our smartest president evah and his wicked-educated advisers have doubtless put in the proper firewalls to protect our economy "that's growing at a slower pace than we would like" from this Bush-inspired European implosion that no one could have foreseen.
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China has been printing money. Let them offer their wealth of expertise, including the cash and strings.
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Tomorrow the pitch is in for taxes. Geither failed in his efforts overseas so they will come to USA to foot the bill. In some way we will. The stock market has already moved up because of it. Germany is preparing for Greece to default. Many of the European banks are at the bottom also. The next two weeks are going to be interesting. The market should drop and gold should go up again. Remember, Ben hung tough on QE3. People will beg him to "pump up the volume" of money printed. Then we have October surprise month. I think Germany has it right. They have started Oktoberfest already I believe.
[An Nahar] Eight people, including several girls, were placed in long-term storage on Friday on suspicion of blasphemy and drug possession in Mount Leb.
The National News Agency said the suspects are devil worshippers and are self-harming.
Military Examining Magistrate Saqr Saqr is expected to charge the eight on Saturday, NNA said.
Lebanese law prohibits blasphemy and immoral conduct.
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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.
Recent floods in Sindh caused by monsoon rains have killed almost 300 people and affected six million others causing damage to an area of 7.987 million of land destroying many crops.
Asif Ali 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
David Cameron
