In a case of terrible timing, a would-be robber entered Quotes Bar & Grill on Sunday night with the wrong people inside: off-duty cops. Alonzo C. Rucker, 18, Beloit, is suspected of wearing a blue bandana around his face and reaching into his pants like he was grabbing a weapon when two Eau Claire police officers stiff-armed and tackled him. Jock Itch?
About 20 off-duty officers from throughout the state were in Quotes for a pub crawl. They were in town for the Wisconsin Professional Police Association's golf outing at the Glen Erin Golf Club.
"Everyone was really getting a kick out of it, laughing a lot," bartender Joe Collins said. "What are the chances?"
I saw this movie. Chuck Norris, Code of Silence ...
Quotes video surveillance shows the would-be robber entering the bar behind four offduty police officers. When one officer saw him, the officer moved his beer bottle from his right hand to his left hand and shoved him into a table. He then helped a second officer drag the man to the floor and pin him down.
The officer never spilled his beer. A true professional
"It was a take down," Quotes owner Denise Carpenter said. "These officers didn't hesitate. He was just down."
About four officers held the man down for a few minutes until Janesville police arrived. Rucker was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, Janesville Deputy Police Chief Steve Kopp said. He didn't have a weapon. Rucker was ordered held in the Rock County Jail on a probation hold after his arrest, Kopp said.
He told investigators he was looking for people involved in an earlier disturbance. He said he wore the bandana so he wouldn't be identified.
"It seems to be the joke of downtown today," Carpenter said. "I mean, what's the luck that you're going to walk into the bar with about 20 police officers?"
The Eau Claire officers planned on returning to Quotes the following day to get copies of the bar's surveillance video, Carpenter said. They wanted the video for proof of the incident to show their buddies back home, she said.
"It's a little parting gift." I bet the other patrons never knew there was going to be entertainment.
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[Mail and Globe] Greek police arrested a Bulgarian safecracker early Sunday who was trapped for two days inside an Athens bank vault, state television NET reported.
Posing as a customer, the 30-year-old man had hidden inside the National Bank branch in the suburb of Kaisariani since Friday but locked himself inside the vault after inadvertently springing an alarm, NET said.
Bank staff were unable to override the security system, forcing police to demolish a wall to free the burglar who had helped himself to the contents of several safe deposit boxes, the station said.
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An ancient Egyptian bust on display at the Field Museum in Chicago has been the focus of interest since Michael Jackson's death as visitors double-take at the eerie similarities between the 3,000-year-old statue and the singer. Oh. Well. It's prob'ly him.
The limestone statue, which depicts an unidentified woman, went on display at the museum in 1988 and was carved during the New Kingdom Period, dating from between 1550 BC to 1050 BC. The New Kingdom was very up-to-date, y'know. Much moreso than the fuddy-duddy Old Kingdom.
Like Jackson's surgically-altered face, the carving has a distinct, upturned nose and rounded eyes. And like Jackson -- if rumors of the singer's prosthesis are to be believed -- the statue's nose has partially disintegrated. Whoa! Creepy, man! Makes me think about all those parallels between Kennedy and Lincoln. like Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln and Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, and they were both shot. The presidents, not the secretaries.
Museum curator Jim Phillips said staff had been "inundated" with inquiries from Jackson fans since the star's similarities to the bust were pointed out in a recent newspaper article. "We've had people coming to the museum and asking 'Where's Michael Jackson?' So we have to tell them that he's not here, but there is a bust that looks a lot like him," Phillips told AFP. Lends new interest to all those pictures of ancient Egyptians moonwalking, dunnit?... Say! I wonder how many busts they have that look like Ray Charles? I really liked Ray Charles...
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I won't be convinced unless MJ's missing prosthetic nose fits the ancient statue perfectly.
Two distant planets orbiting a young star apparently smashed into each other at high speeds thousands of years ago in cosmic pileup of cataclysmic proportions, astronomers announced Monday.
Telltale plumes of vaporized rock and lava leftover from the collision revealed its existence to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which picked up signatures from the impact in recent observations.
The two-planet pileup occurred within the last few thousand years or so - a relatively recent cosmic timeframe. The smaller of the two bodies - a planet about the size of Earth's moon, according to computer models - was apparently destroyed by the crash. The other was most likely a Mercury-sized-planet and survived, albeit severely dented.
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"albeit severely dented"
Ya' think?
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The two-planet pileup
A couple of those will send your insurance rates to the moon!
IIUC, racism against black africans is rampant in sweet libya, including the odd old-fashioned pogrom, or the use of the signle arab word for slave & black; not that this stops kaddafy from 1) heraldiing himself as the champion of all things african; and 2) using mass immigration transiting through libya as a lever to pressure Europe, all the while blaming whitey for his racism.
More than 20 Somali prisoners have been killed and 50 others were seriously injured after Libyan prison guards deliberately opened fire to the jailed Somalis in Banghazi town, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Monday.
Reports say that the Libyan guarding forces of the prison had opened fire to the jailed Somalis in Banghazi prison in Banghazi town in Libya after the Somalis tried to escape from the jail killing more than 20, wounding 50 others who were all in the custody.
So it wasn't a 'deliberate' opening of fire, which implies it being done for no good reason, but a 'reactive' opening of fire, which prison guards around the world and throughout time traditionally do when prisoners try to escape.
The Libyan forces also used knifes and other materials for murdering the Somali prisoners there as Abdinasir Mowlid, one of the Somali youth and prisoner who was in the area where accident happened told Shabelle radio by the telephone.
Mr. Abdinasir also said that the Libyan troops also used electricity for the remained Somali prisoners in the jail to execute committing brutal actions that had never been seen anymore.
Mohudin Abdullahi Arig, one of the Somali prisoners in Banghazi town accused the TFG for not supporting the Somali people in Libya saying that it will take the responsibility pointing out that it had ignored more times to solve the problems of the prisoners earlier.
It is not the first time that the Libyan forces kill and threaten to the Somali people in that country.
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Huh. That's two countries reported on Rantburg as having violent problems with Somalis.
Do I detect a pattern here?
(And yes, I know most non-black Africans are bigoted assholes against blacks. But somehow I doubt the Somalis were in jail just for their skin color.)
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And yes, I know most non-black Africans are bigoted assholes against blacks.
Black Africans aren't exactly fond of non-blacks either. After independence, most African countries turfed their non-black minorities, whether these were white or Asian.
[Maghrebia] The last of 3 Moroccan convicts who escaped in a hijacked helicopter from a Belgian high-security prison was captured Sunday (August 9th) in eastern Morocco, local and international press reported. Ashraf Sekkaki, 25, was arrested in Al Hoceima. On July 23rd, Sejkkaki, Abdelhaq Melloul Khayari and Mohamed Johry broke out of a Bruges prison in a helicopter reportedly rented by Johry's girlfriend. Khayari was arrested in Brussels, while Sekkaki and Johri fled to Morocco. After Johry was arrested last Thursday in Berkane, an injured Sekkaki reportedly fled into the Moroccan hills. The girlfriend remains at large.
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[Mail and Globe] Schools and hospitals returning to life. Food in the supermarkets and queues at the tills. Investors flying in and refugees coming home. Independent newspapers due for launch and international media broadcasting openly. Book fairs, poetry slams and jazz festivals drawing crowds. A president and prime minister laughing together as they call for national healing. This is Zimbabwe in August 2009.
Politically motivated beatings turning families against themselves. Villagers bartering chickens in the absence of a new currency. MPs, lawyers, journalists and students under arrest. Corruption rampant and another cholera outbreak predicted. A president rebuilding his tools of oppression and a prime minister said to be in danger of assassination. This, too, is Zimbabwe in August 2009.
Six months after Robert Mugabe and his arch-rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, publicly swallowed their enmity and tried to speak with one voice, southern Africa's problem country is still a contradictory and confusing place. "We are at a fork [in the road]," said Tendai Biti, Tsvangirai's most powerful lieutenant. "Going left could be going towards a new Zimbabwe. Going right could be doing a cul-de-sac and going back to square zero."
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Bob hasn't been tooling up for nothing, I recall them stating they would be better off with half the population gone. My opinion of which half would differ, I am sure.
Anyway, summary of a road-trip SA-Zim last week by my intrepid reporter: "Airlines all full, so took a road trip. Beitbridge still a nightmare, loads of trucks, road edges worn, oncoming traffic a nightmare, ten roadblocks between there and Hre, polite, only asking for vehicle dox. Overnight in Bubi, Lion and Elephant (motel in the middle of nowhere), full. Fuel not a problem.
Harare buzzing with people, whites having a change of heart. Trying to miss goats and houts on the Masvingo road back."
Spring time for Hitler, indeed.
[Bangla Daily Star] The High Court (HC) yesterday asked Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, and his two lawyers to explain within three weeks why an enquiry into forgery allegations against them should not be instigated. The government earlier alleged that Koko and his counsels barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Taherul Islam Tawhid submitted a forged letter of authority while filing a writ petition with the HC challenging the proceedings of a money laundering case against Koko.
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For a second there I thought they were talking about Koko, the sign language using gorilla. Which, while I can imagine her retaining lawyers, is hard to imagine passing something up as forged.
[Kyodo: Korea] North Korea's Arirang mass games opened Monday in the capital Pyongyang, with about 100,000 people, ranging from schoolchildren to professional artists, taking part in the gymnastics and artistic spectacle.
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Amazing the turnout you can get when you give away three free french fries to each person who attends.
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Let's see, risking a $50-60M airplane and fiery death for 200 people to save 30 gallons of fuel. I'm sure that makes perfect sense in some alternate universe.
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The glide slope on a airliner isn't a glide. It's more like a controlled fall. It'll be interesting to see if it works. I wonder what the glide slope on the shuttle is?
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Of course I should have said glide ratio. Seems that a 747 has a glide ratio of 15:1 and can actually be landed like that. Still don't know if I would fly SAS if they do approve it.
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The glide slope on a airliner isn't a glide. It's more like a controlled fall. It'll be interesting to see if it works. I wonder what the glide slope on the shuttle is?
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It not just gliding. Engine power comes in real handy, like during wind shear. I wouldn't even want to caught anywhere near the ground with the engines idle and a possibility of a strong wind gust.
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On first reading the head-line, I thought someone had seen sense and were sending the SAS to sort out Mexico's problems.
Back on topic, why is this favoured for landing in mountainous places? Seems like they're places it's good to have the control of power working.
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And when the control tower screws up the ground traffic, or a general aviation aircraft wanders onto the runway, or a herd of deer suddenly materialize, or an aircraft malfunction takes place - there's no immediate power available for a touch and go.
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Towed Passenger Gliders were a science fiction staple around 1955 or so, I remember seeing a serious effort by Pan Am, advertisements and all.
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the engines are put into neutral.
Just a note, R does NOT mean RACE.
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Several items:
1. There cannot be any conflicting traffic and a clearance for a straight in approach from cruising altitude.
2. The pilots must be VERY good or the aircraft is on autopilot to maintain the proper route and glide path.
3. The passengers had best not eat heavily before flight and no one should have sinus problems.
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OK, I'm not convinced. It sounds like a 400 ft Fire Force jump, but you don't get to jump out of the plane. Now that was lack of control, wouldn't want to do it three times a day again, however.
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I'd make a comment about Congressional Gulfstreams, but I'd probably be banned.
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How about the idiots who thought this one up take the first live test flight.
Or maybe they should consider running it through the flight simulator (a real one, not the MS toy version) under simulated emergency conditions like the ones mentioned here - wind shear, unexpected traffic, etc.
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I think the correct term is "Glide angle of a brick".
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[Iran Press TV Latest] French security forces have clashed with petrol-bomb-wielding rioters in a Paris suburb after a teenager died while fleeing a police identity check.
Some 40 rioters in an eastern Paris suburb, Bagnolet, hurled Molotov cocktails at police and firefighters and torched 29 cars in a rampage provoked by the death of a teen pizza deliverer, Yacou Sanago.
The 18-year-old pizza deliverer died en route to hospital after he lost control of his motorcycle and hit a metal barrier as he was trying to flee a identity check by police, police officials speaking on condition of anonymity said.
The angry crowd, mostly youts youths, smashed windows of a high school and store in Bagnolet, an Interior Ministry statement said.
French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux called for calm following the overnight suburban violence. Hortefeux assured the public of a thorough inquiry into the circumstances of the young man's death, stressing that "all light will be shed" on the matter.
The internal police watchdog agency is also investigating the incident, the Associated Press reported.
France's suburban low-income districts have a long history of violent clashes between police and residents, who have long bemoaned poverty, unemployment and discrimination against minorities.
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Whiff of grape has shown remarkable success in deterring second offenses. Which is probably why in its absence, we continue to see fourth, fifth, sixth .... offenses.
...hurled Molotov cocktails at police and firefighters..
Sniper cam should show the perp throw and then the fall of anyone doing this. Any 'human rights' complainer should be allowed to experience what immolation is really like in a up front and personal way.
Constituents packed into a health care forum hosted by Sen. David Vitter today in Elmwood, where Vitter took audience questions mostly criticizing President Barack Obama's reform push and stated his own opposition to the plans.
"I think there are problems and issues with the health care system that need improvement," Vitter said during the forum. "I want to focus specifically on those problems, and I don't want to throw out the baby with the bath water. I completely and unalterably oppose the Obama administration plan."
Vitter said Obama's reforms - creating a new government health plan option that competes with private insurers - would drive companies out of the health care business, raise costs and result in government officials making health care decisions for people.
The heated subject attracted such a crowd that all the seats were full, and people stood along the back and sides of the Jefferson Parish Council chambers at the Joseph S. Yenni Building. An overflow crowd even amassed outside the doors of the building and remained there throughout the session, holding a peaceful demonstration.
Vitter began the forum by encouraging people to fill all available spaces in the room and apologizing for the lack of a larger venue. He said at the end that he would provide more opportunities for people to speak out.
The Republican senator read audience questions submitted on speaker sheets and repeatedly agreed with questioners who raised numerous concerns about the reforms advanced by Obama, a Democrat.
Similar forums hosted by Democratic legislators around the country have prompted fiery and controversial demonstrations. The audience at the Vitter event was spirited, but not protesting against the senator. Signs people held up outside the building also aligned with Vitter's views.
Vitter said the proposed reforms will drive the number of uninsured or underinsured people even higher than current problematic levels by pushing some people out of private insurance plans or cutting existing Medicare programs that are serving them well.
He said current counts of uninsured Americans often are exaggerated because they include illegal immigrants and young people who choose not to acquire insurance because they view health issues as remote problems.
"If there is any so-called government option," Vitter said, "I believe it will be a very uneven playing field."
Instead, he said he favors allowing small businesses to band together for group insurance at better rates than they currently receive, allowing people to obtain less expensive prescription drugs from other countries and cutting down on unnecessary and costly lawsuits.
"Let's start cutting costs which have no benefits," he said.
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small businesses to band together for group insurance at better rates than they currently receive, allowing people to obtain less expensive prescription drugs from other countries and cutting down on unnecessary and costly lawsuits.
I agreed with that, until yesterday, when I read Steve White explain (I think) that Canadians do not pay for the development costs of drug? Did I get that right?
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We basically pay for the develop costs, both bearing the defrayed costs in our market and R&D tax write offs, of pharmaceuticals that other countries don't. However, that is the business plan by the companies. If you allowed Americans to freely import those same drugs from Canada, the companies would either cut the supply to Canada, bitch and moan to their owned and operated Congressmen to stop it now, or start spreading the cost to all customers [thus marginally reducing the costs to Americans]. So far, they've opted for plans one and two. Which gives those who want socialized medicine political influence in dealing with the 'evil' drug companies.
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Data released yesterday shows that 51% fear the federal government more than private insurance companies. Thirty-two percent (32%) favor a single-payer health care system for the U.S. while 57% are opposed.
From the Rasmussen Presential Tracking Poll.
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Here is a video of Crowder getting the sh*t kicked out of him by the MOBS OF HEALTHCARE HATERS:
(h/t Michelle Malkin)
NEW DELHI: China has admitted that its pharmaceutical companies were involved in shipping fake drugs labeled 'Made In India' to Nigeria.
"The Chinese authorities have accepted this position (that its firms were involved in the case)," an official said.
"The Indian government took up the matter with the Nigerian authorities and on further probe, it was found that the drugs had actually originated in China and not in India," he added.
In June, Nigeria's drug regulatory authority National Agency for Food and Drug Administration And Control (NAFDAC) had reported about the detention of a large consignment of fake anti-malarial generic pharmaceuticals labeled 'Made in India' which were actually produced in China.
Following the incident, India took up the issue with China fearing that this could damage the reputation of the 12-billion-dollar Indian pharmaceutical industry in the global market.
Though, China had assured of investigations in the matter, Indian authorities were not given any time frame.
India has asked its missions in the region to step up vigil for protecting the nation's image and market.
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traced the lead and melamine?
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Following the incident, India took up the issue with China fearing that this could damage the reputation of the 12-billion-dollar Indian pharmaceutical industry in the global market.
If I was really cynical, I'd think that would be one of the top motivations.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A religious Jordanian council has issued a fatwa banning male suitors from demanding virginity checks on girls who they planning to marry, media reports said Monday. The Jordanian Council of Iftaa, the body in charge of issuing contemporary religious edicts, issued its ban to curb the growing trend of suitors asking for what is commonly known as the "hymen-check" because they suspect their brides-to-be.
At least 1,000 virginity tests are requested every year, Dr. Moemen al-Hadidi, chairman of the National Forensic Center (NFC), told Al Arabiya, adding "this is not a big number when compared to other countries in the world."
Before the ban, every man had the right to file a request that his future wife be examined to make sure she is a virgin.
The fatwa now regulates such tests and states that a virginity test can only be conducted if necessary and it should be based on an official request by the judicial authorities.
For some Jordanians the hymen-check is as an insult to women and their families while others argue that it is the man's right to request such an examination in light of the increasing liberalism in the Jordanian society.
Critics, mostly women's rights organizations, argue that men's chastity should be tested as well.
The rate of honor crimes in Jordan has remarkably risen and in most cases, a girl is killed based on a suspicion and there is usually no proof that she actually had sex outside marriage.
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Look, that doesn't work. Okay. Save your time and trouble. I'm in the biz, hosting that is. Security, filtering, routing...etc.
You don't like something, say so, and be nice. I will be respectful. Be arbitrary, and the Chinese have nothing on what can be arranged. Okay?
Injun, I'm the one who poop-listed you.
It wasn't just "like posting some GPS coords". You confirmed the target in your subsequent comment. One can be judged as a heat-of-the-moment and sink-trapped; two isn't.
There's been numerous statements by the mods saying (among other things) that if you threaten a US public official or a US citizen on the Burg, you're going to either get sinktrapped, or if it's blatant, poop-listed. If you've been here as long as you say, you ought to know that.
The decision to keep you poop-listed rests with Fred.
Seems humans can't eat the meat of these sharks and they keep catching lots of them.
Biofuel based on sharks and other sea products could supply 13 percent of energy consumption in the village of Uummannaq with its 2,450 inhabitants, according to estimates. The project could help the many isolated villages on the vast island to become self-sufficient in terms of energy.
Joergensen plans to run tests next year at an organic waste treatment plant in a project financed by the EU in Uummannaq, using shark meat mixed with wastewater and macro-algae to create a fish mince that can be used to produce biogas.
In Uummannaq, the Greenland shark represents more than half of the waste disposed of by the local fishermen.
"Entire trawlers are sometimes full of sharks and they are caught everywhere, especially off the east and west of Greenland, to the fishermen's great dismay," says Bo Lings who used to work on a big trawler.
"It really started peaking about a month ago," said Amy Maniatis, vice president of marketing at the online seller Cafepress.com. The Cafepress.com store, a cultural barometer of sorts for political and social expression, offers about 3 million Obama products, she said, but now is up to about 1 million that are "anti-Obama-oriented," reflecting a "significant shift in the last couple of months than what was the trend a year ago."
An Ohio girl ran away to Orlando because she said her family threatened to kill her for converting to Christianity. Rifqa Bary, 17, said she was threatened by her family because she converted from Islam to Christianity. "What did your father say to you?" WFTV reporter Mary Nguyen asked. "He said he would kill me!" replied Bary.
Bary was in Orange County's juvenile justice center because her parents want to regain custody of her. She had been staying with a local Christian pastor's family. Bary said she came to the pastor's home for safety. But now a judge has ruled she will stay in the custody of the Department of Children and Families (DCF). DCF says Bary will stay in foster care until investigators can figure out if her life is in danger. "I don't want to see my father," Bary said.
Rifqa Bary pleaded with a DCF case worker to let her stay with Pastor Blake Lorenz from the Global Revolution Church. The 17-year-old girl from Ohio claims her father has threatened to kill her because she has converted to Christianity and rejected her family's Muslim faith. "They have to kill me, because I'm a Christian, it's an honor. If they love me more than God then they have to kill me," she said.
Rifqa Bary said she needed to get away from her family. So she hitched-hiked then got on a bus to Orlando. She had befriended the Orlando church on Facebook and ended up at the pastor's home. Lorenz called the state to investigate and a judge ruled Monday that Florida will take emergency jurisdiction until the courts can confirm Ohio will take over the case and investigate it.
"There are too many conflicting things that are going on with this child and it needs to be investigated thoroughly. That is our position, the child should be returned to Ohio," said DCf attorney Karelene Cole-Palmer.
Mohamed Bary came to Florida to try and bring his daughter back home and denied the allegations. "Did you threaten to kill your daughter because she converted to Christianity?" Nguyen asked. "No, no," responded Mohamed Bary. However, Rifqa Bary insists that's not the case. "This is not just threats this is reality. This is truth," she said.
The 17-year-old's family is from Sri Lanka and came to the United States when she was about 8 or 9 years old. A status hearing is set for next Friday. More detail here.
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It is a basic and well-known tenet of the parent's religion to execute apostates. That alone should stand as prima facie evidence in the girl's favor.
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I can't think of a logical reason for the government to send her back, exceo that she is in the grips of those evil christians /snark. I hope for her sake they do not.
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I give it a 50/50 chance they screw it up. And if they do, they will say they had no idea, or that the law didn't allow any other option than to hand her over to her executioners. Oh well. Again. Next?
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If they send her back and she's murdered, everyone involved in sending her back should be charged with murder as well.
And isn't it funny - in a sick demented way, she's only 17, so she can have as many abortions as she wants without parental notice even crossing statelines and being told to lie about it if the father is also over 18, yet when she claims her parents are going to kill her, it's "Oh no, we just have to send her back to her parents."
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Good lord, did this 'writer' not pass fourth grade English?
Posted by: Parabellum 2009-08-11 08:00
Parabellum, this abuse of our language ranks with the phrase ... "he/she goes" ... in place of "he/she said" or ... "ya' know wad' I mean" ... to name just a few of many examples. My experience as a middle school/high school teacher was a daily grind of trying to correct bad English usage and writing with a mixed bag of success. Welcome to an increase in functionally illiterate Americans.
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On the plus side, all she has to do is run out the clock until she is 18. On the down side, it is likely that more Muslims than just her family are now out to get her.
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True, once she's 18, she's free. Now, I know nothing about this girl, but if she is a citizen, or has her proper papers, then I can think of a place she'll be pretty safe:p
The United States Marine Corps.
If she joins, I'll wager her fellow Marines would quite willing to ensure her safety against her family.
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In general, children below 18 have very limited legal rights. Maybe Florida is different. On the other hand, I'm not even sure she is an American citizen.
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Even though she's 17, all she has to do is get in front of a juvenile court judge. He's going to defer to her wishes at some point; most juvie judges do for older teens.
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She can also apply (in most states, anyway) to become an emancipated minor.
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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.
Off-duty police thwart robbery attempt
An ancient Egyptian bust on display at the Field Museum in Chicago has been the focus of interest since Michael Jackson's death as visitors double-take at the eerie similarities between the 3,000-year-old statue and the singer.
[Iran Press TV Latest] French security forces have clashed with petrol-bomb-wielding rioters in a Paris suburb after a teenager died while fleeing a police identity check. 
