NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Connecticut police say they arrested a man at a management company after he mentioned the shooting rampage across the state that killed nine people and said he understood the killer's mindset. Better arrest a lot of people. Me included. Of course, understanding doesn't mean agreement. Just understanding.
Fifty-eight-year-old Francis Laskowski of Derby was charged with breach of peace Wednesday after making the comments while working at Fusco Management Co. in New Haven. Now just try firing the guy. I dare you.
Ah, brings back fond memories of the Metro system. lotp and I have never actually met in the flesh, but we were supposed to once. I took the Metro to D.C. to meet her and Seafarious. Whist waiting to change trains, a young fellow walked up to me and poked me in the mush for no obvious reason. By the time I'd done the polic report and they'd retrieved my glasses off the tracks I was late for our dinner and we never caught up. She returned to her usual abode and I to my trivial pursuits. I sit by the phone waiting, waiting, and Seafarious never calls. Despite the fact that lotp's moved to my neck of the woods we still haven't gotten together.
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How long 'til ehese Distrik youfs graduate to parisienne style carbecues?
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I'm predicting 1969.
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Gonna be time for a Beltway-Balmore Rantapalooza one of these days, Fred.
Re: this incident, it started at the Gallery Place station, continued on the train and spilled out onto the platforms at L'Enfant. Bystanders report being pushed, shoved, threatened etc. along the way as 6+ dozen teens bashed each other and anyone in the vicinity. DC cops and a council member pushed for earlier curfew for those under 16 in order to give the cops another tool to keep order. However, some other council members refuse, saying it might lead to profiling.
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I camped a couple of nights at the NPS campground in Greenbelt just 12 miles from town. This was for Veteran's Day 2004. I had thought of taking the nearby Metro to downtown, but drove instead. There was plenty of parking that day. I was talking to a DC vet at the Wall, told him where I had stayed & he told me he wouldn't camp at that place unless he had a .45 under his pillow. At least that's legal now, although I don't know about MD law once you leave federal land.
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"Gonna be time for a Beltway-Balmore Rantapalooza one of these days, Fred."
I'm in, as long as it's before the first of October or after Christmas.
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Me three, Fred. Anytime is fine with me. I live a lot closer than I did for the one I went to when tw was the guest of honor.
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Greenbelt was built for WW11 vets after the war. Looking at the homes you will see how similar they are. It has all changed now so yes a 45 would be something to have but you will have lots of trouble should anyone be aware of it. Camera checks at lights $400. Mail in ticket. Parking violations are a big revenue for DC. Just a reminder you had a good time visiting DC.
[Arab News] The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) is currently preparing regulations and guidelines governing the practice of ruqya (the process in which verses of the Holy Qur'an are recited to treat diseases) in an effort to stop the unlawful forms of the treatment often used by sorcerers.
"Some people earn money by practicing unlawful incantations besides resorting to immoral acts such as stripping women patients. Such sorcerers have given the ruqya a bad reputation. Regulations have been put in place to permit only lawful forms of ruqya," said Adil Al-Muqbil, supervisor of the Haia's department that is in charge of tackling sorcery, in a speech on Saturday at a weeklong seminar on the subject in Hail.
Al-Muqbil underscored the Haia's stance, which distinguishes between charlatans and sorcerers.
"Sorcerers slaughter animals without invoking the name of Allah and utter unintelligible words besides claiming knowledge of the future. They use fingernails, hair and inner clothes for their black arts," he said.
He added that charlatans, on the other hand, do not perform black magic but rather engage in confidence rackets to fool their subjects into thinking they have special powers.
The seminar -- entitled "The Best People" -- will also stage several cultural and religious events, contests and an exhibition in which government departments and private agencies will participate, said Mutlaq Al-Thabit, spokesman for the Haia in the Hail province.
Eminent religious scholars will deliver lectures during the seminar after Maghreb prayer ever day, he added.
Lectures given during the seminar include topics such as "The ills of drug addiction" by Muhammad Al-Eidi and "Family upbringing as taught by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)" by Prince Naif bin Mamduh.
Hail Gov. Prince Saud bin Abdul Mohsen will attend the final function of the seminar on Thursday.
Haia chief Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Humain is also expected to participate.
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Faith healing?
Hmmm when the patient dies is the Imam stoned or the victim declared "Unholy?
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The line of credit also marked the single largest loan Bangladesh has received from any nation, development bank or donor agency, Dhaka's Economic Relations Division secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said.
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Considering the number of scams traced back to India, they're flush with OUR money.
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A protester who threw his shoes at the Pakistan president as he gave a speech in Birmingham last night said he was proud of his actions. ardar Mohammed Shamim Khan, 57, said Asif Ali Zardari's speech had incensed him so much that he spontaneously decided to unlace his size 10 leather shoes and hurl them at the bewildered Pakistani leader.
Police quickly led father-of-four Mr Shamim away before cautioning and later releasing him. An unrepentant Mr Khan, from Coventry, West Midlands, last night said: 'I could feel the anger brewing up inside me as Zardari talked about the floods in Pakistan. I thought we have a crisis back at home and all he can do is take a trip around Europe while his own people are suffering.'
Mr Khan managed to sneak into the invite-only political rally organised by the UK branch of Zardari's Pakistan People's Party. More than 2,000 people attended the rally at Birmingham's International Convention Centre while hundreds more protested outside.
Mr Khan, who was sat about 20 metres away from the President, said: 'I thought his speech was insulting to my people who are dying because of Zardari's government. He is a disgrace and I had to let my feelings be known in a way he would remember.'
Mr Khan said he shouted: 'Allah is the only one who can give and take lives' as he threw the shoes which failed to hit the president. One shoe narrowly missed him while the other was deflected away by a security guard.
The drama was captured on Pakistani cable TV channel PTV which was live streaming the event. But the shoe-throwing incident was edited out and party officials tried to downplay the incident.
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'I could feel the anger brewing up inside me as Zardari talked about the floods in Pakistan. I thought we have a crisis back at home and all he can do is take a trip around Europe while his own people are suffering.'
So, Mo, when are you pulling up stakes in Coventry and heading back to help out "your people"?
The Washington Post Co. released its second-quarter results this morning, and overall, the group is healthy: Revenue in Q2 was up 11 percent to $1,201.8 million, on the same quarter last year.
That growth was led by the group's education division, which is going gangbusters with 15 percent revenue growth last quarter over the same quarter last year,
Wait until the new regulations on student loans made at for-profit universities bite ...
as well as the group's television and cable broadcasting divisions.
But the newspaper that gives the group its name is a different story. The newspaper division saw revenues up just 2 percent for the second quarter, year-on-year, but down slightly when comparing the first six months of this year to the same period last year. Print advertising is down 6 percent in Q2, year-on-year, and -- probably the grimmest number of all -- daily circulation in the first six months of the year is down more than 10 percent.
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Oh BOO HOO HOO, I'll bet they have NO idea why.
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The threat to the WaPo's Kaplan Education Testing company is profiled here.
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This flies in the face of the dictum that a lie travels around the world before the truth can get its boots on...
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This is why the media wants Obama Subsidies(tm), like the rest of the party's loyal factions. It's not about the quality of work, just as the teachers unions. Its about being kept in a manner they want to be accustomed to at the expense of everyone else not by market forces of supply and demand but of social position and political influence.
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A careful read of the 14th Amendment states "all persons, born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.
If Foreign visitors and diplomats are not..."subject to the jurisdiction thereof," how can it be said that those born of illegal aliens be considered "subject US jurisdiction" when their parents come and go at will, are released and returned (deported) to their home countries by our government without trial?
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Regulatory capture and rent-seeking are a couple of phenomena we will never be rid of as long as governments are instituted among human beings. Get used to it. The best antidotes are a vigorous press and an educated and involved electorate. I know, I'm a dreamer.
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Mr. Abbot from AP is a tool. He knows and we know that these people effected by flooding will never see a cent of assistance. It will all be diverted into the pockets of others. Pak is a bottomless swamp of unchecked corruption.
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of course, what will most help those impacted will be glorious victories from Jihadis crossing the LOC. Therefore the transfer of any donated funds not pocketed by Zardari and Co. will be properly spent training killer fodder
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i highly doubt the areas flooded with thre real estat value and everything on them is worth billions. maybe rupees but not euros dollars or hell yuan
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Indigenous groups in Malaysia are accusing the government of using religion as a condition for development aid.
The ethnic tribes say infrastructure is offered to them if they abandon their animistic ways and embrace Islam - a claim the government rejects.
Al Jazeera's Gerald Tan spoke to tribes in the central peninsular Malaysian state of Pahang. Doesn't surprise me in the least. The Malay sultans used to hold Sakai hunts, rounding up and banging the forest-dwelling aborigines from elephant back.
A woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran for adultery accused authorities of lying about the charges against her so they could execute her in secret, in an interview published Saturday.
Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, 43, spoke through an intermediary for the interview with the Guardian newspaper and also put her treatment down to gender, adding "they think they can do anything to women in this country".
The case of the mother of two has sparked an international outcry, with Brazilian President President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva last week offering her asylum in his country.
Mohammadi-Ashtiani, whose sentence has been temporarily put on ice, accused Iranian officials of lying by saying she had been found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband as well as adultery.
On Thursday, Mossadegh Kahnemoui, a senior Iranian judicial official, gave that information to the U.N.'s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and said that "nothing is final" in the case.
Of these comments, Mohammadi-Ashtiani said: "They're lying. They are embarrassed by the international attention on my case and they are desperately trying to distract attention and confuse the media so that they can kill me in secret."
She added: "I was found guilty of adultery and was acquitted of murder, but the man who actually killed my husband was identified and imprisoned but he is not sentenced to death."
Explaining what had happened, she went on: "It's because I'm a woman, it's because they think they can do anything to women in this country."
Mohammadi-Ashtiani also revealed that when she was first sentenced, she did not realize she was facing being stoned because she did not understand the Arabic word used.
"They asked me to sign my sentence, which I did, then I went back to the prison and my cellmates told me that I was going to be stoned to death and I instantly fainted," she said.
Her lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaie, has fled to Turkey where he requested asylum, and she said she feared she was more vulnerable without him.
"They wanted to get rid of my lawyer so that they can easily accuse me of whatever they want without having him to speak out," she told the Guardian.
Meanwhile, Mostafaie told the Times of his fears for his wife, Fereshteh Halimi, who he believes is being held in harsh conditions in Tehran's Evin prison.
The paper reported that he was set to go into exile in Norway Saturday after being released from detention in Turkey following an alleged problem with his passport when he entered the country.
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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.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Connecticut police say they arrested a man at a management company after he mentioned the shooting rampage across the state that killed nine people and said he understood the killer's mindset.
The Washington Post Co. released its second-quarter results this morning, and overall, the group is healthy: Revenue in Q2 was up 11 percent to $1,201.8 million, on the same quarter last year.
