Two men died Tuesday after they were shot while trying to rob a convenience store on Milwaukee's north side, police said.
Both men were armed and wearing masks and gloves when they entered the store at N. 12th and W. Chambers streets about 10:45 a.m., Milwaukee police Capt. Edith Hudson said.
The men announced the robbery but were then shot by a customer or customers, who ran from the store, Hudson said. No arrests have been made in connection with the case, she said.
A man identified by family as Kenneth J. Whitaker, 28, was pronounced dead inside the store, Hudson said.
The other man, 22, ran from the store and collapsed in a nearby gangway but died at a hospital, Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer said in an e-mail. The man's identity has not been released.
Whitaker's mother and cousin said in interviews that he visited the store often and said they did not believe he had tried to rob the business.
A GYMSLIP murderess aged just 17 was being held last night for knifing THIRTY men to death.
The schoolgirl stunned cops by owning up to a serial killing spree that started when she was a 15-year-old. She told detectives she wanted to confess before she turned 18 and could be tried as an adult.
The girl - too young even to be named - said she began targeting men in her home city of Sao Paulo, Brazil "for money, revenge and to bring justice".
She even SMILED as she reeled off her list of victims - which is feared to make her the world's most prolific teenage serial killer. She calmly bragged to police: "I don't have enough courage to hold a gun - but I can hold a knife.
"I am confessing because I promised I would do so before becoming 18 - to avoid upsetting my family."
The schoolgirl told how she always used the same knife - butchering one man for throwing a glass of brandy in her face in a bar row.
But police were last night still unclear about what drove her to keep on killing. Sources said one theory is she was hired by gangland bosses as an assassin because she was so innocent-looking. The teenager's sensational confession came after she was arrested over a Sao Paulo street fight.
A gymslip is a sleeveless tunic with a pleated skirt most commonly seen as part of a girl's school uniform. The term gymslip primarily refers to athletic wear; otherwise the term pinafore dress (British English) or jumper dress (American English) is usually preferred.
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It's all so sordid and debasing; why is it this whole killerz schoolgirls trope is so much more glamour when it's in a manga or an anime? Reality is not what it's cracked up to be. I want a refund.
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Because a schoolgirl who would actually be able to do this sort of thing would really be as disquieting as any other sociopath of any other age or gender.
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Let this horrific murderer's actions dispel the myth of 'female virtue.' In fact according to When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away With Murder. the author points out that while people in general tend to view women as non-aggressive, in fact, "women commit the majority of child homicides in the United States, a greater share of physical child abuse, an equal rate of sibling violence and assaults on the elderly, about a quarter of child sexual abuse, an overwhelming share of the killing of newborns, and a fair preponderance of spousal assaults." www.trutv.com. (2009) Home page. Retrieved August 18,2009 from http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/female_mass_murderer/4.html
Phoenix police have found two young children taken in an apparent kidnapping early Tuesday. Video from 12 News showed the children being held by Phoenix police. The children appeared to be fine.
The children were dropped off at a house in south Phoenix.
Early Tuesday, police say a group of armed men forcibly entered a home and took the children, a boy age 2 and a girl age 11-months.
Police are still searching for the suspects. They are described as four black males. Police Sgt. Andy Hill said a witness heard the men yelling they were the police.
Police believe the children were taken away in a white Honda or Toyota with dark, tinted windows. A Silverado pickup was also in the area parked in the alley near 27th Avenue and Indian School Road. Police do not think the mother of the children knew the suspects.
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This makes little sense. Phoenix organized crime is pretty well controlled solely by Mexican outfits. When a tight unit of blacks commit a crime in Phoenix, they are almost invariably from LA, there just for a single crime, then they leave.
In past there have been several incidents, in which black gangs have arrived, done a major robbery of a gun or jewelry store, then vanished. Usually very well organized and efficient.
My hunch is that they were planning to kidnap the children of some important figure, then use them as leverage for a major event. But they got the wrong kids.
The FBI are going to be all over this one.
Other details are that where they dropped the kids was almost directly South of where they were taken, so they probably got that far then realized their mistake, and put the kids out in a residential neighborhood before taking off.
Following the arrests, which took place on board the ship, Anatoly Serdyukov, the Russian defence minister, has given more details of events surrounding the mystery vessel and its diversion to west Africa by the hijackers.
"These people, after claiming that their boat was not working, boarded the Arctic Sea and using the threat of arms, demanded that the crew follow all of their orders without condition," he said. "Then the Arctic Sea moved on to an African route indicated by the aggressors to after turning off navigation equipment." I thought it was already going to Africa. It's a big place ...
Mr Serdyukov added that the operation to rescue the crew was accomplished without a shot being fired.
"Eight people - not members of the crew - have been detained," he said. Not crew? You sure?
The suspects, who boarded the ship in Swedish waters, include four Estonian citizens, two Latvians and two Russian nationals.
The missing cargo freighter was found by a Russian warship off the coast of the Cape Verde islands west Africa on Monday. At that time the ship was not "under the armed control" of hijackers or pirates.
This morning, crew members are on their way to the Cape Verde island of Sal where they will board a Russian military plane bound for Moscow.
The arrests appear to confirm reports from the ship's 15 Russian crew members of an armed boarding in the Baltic Sea in Sweish national waters off the Gotland province on July 24. The hijackers, according to crew members, held the vessel for 12 hours, subjected them to violent questioning and "went through the ship with a fine-tooth comb".
The attackers were then thought to have left the ship.
The Arctic Sea then baffled maritime authorities when it disappeared shortly after being sailed through the English Channel last month raising the prospect of the first act of piracy in European waters for hundreds of years.
Russian authorities have not given information on the precise circumstances of the ship's interception near Cape Verde, some 2500 miles away from the vessel's intended location.
European and Russian maritime experts had speculated that that the ship's hijacking was not connected with an official manifest of timber and could be linked to an illegal cargo, such as arms, drugs or even nuclear materials, carried without the knowledge of crew or the ship's owners.
After going through the English Channel, a final signal from the vessel's automatic identification system (AIS) on July 30 placed the "pirate" ship 50 miles south of Penzance. Not February 29?
According to European Union officials a second attack was then reported off the Portuguese coast and the ship's AIS system was switched off.
Last week, Russian navy vessels, including the Ladny frigate and two nuclear submarines, were mobilised following reports of the vessel's hijacking. Two nukes and a frigate, diverted from their assigned missions? For a non-violent hijacking of a shipload of boards?
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Well, the subs were already in the Atlantic, if you recall. It's probably more a case of "respond with what you've got" rather than what's appropriate for the situation. Still, though, this stinks.
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The Russian spokesman refuses to confirm or deny the involvement or presence of UFO's, a giant, dinosaur-like amphibious reptile, the Ark of the Covenant, or a coffin from Transylvania.
The ex-wife of the groom at a Kuwait wedding party that turned into tragedy when a fierce fire engulfed a tent has confessed to starting the blaze, a local newspaper reported on Monday.
The 23-year-old woman confessed to police that she torched the packed wedding tent on fire to avenge her ex-husband's "bad treatment" of her before their divorce.
Al-Qabas said the 23-year-old woman had confessed to police that she used petrol to torch the packed wedding tent on fire to avenge her ex-husband's "bad treatment" of her before their divorce. There was no immediate official confirmation of the report.
A total of 43 women and children have now perished in the inferno which began on Saturday night in a tent reserved for women at the wedding party in Jahra, west of Kuwait City, fire chief General Jassem al-Mansuri told AFP. Ninety other people were injured in the blaze, which destroyed the packed tent in just minutes in the deadliest civilian disaster in the modern history of the Gulf state.
Mansuri said on Sunday that most of the bodies were charred beyond recognition and that forensic officials were working to identify the victims.
The Kuwait Times said some of the victims were relatives of people who had perished in a similar incident in Jahra last year, when two women were killed and several others wounded.
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-- Brett Favre is coming back to the National Football League. Again.
Three weeks after saying he would stay retired, the NFLÂ’s all-time leading passer and three-time Most Valuable Player reconsidered and signed a contract with the Minnesota Vikings, the team announced on its Web site. Make it stop, please....
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Brett, you were great in your day, but now you really need to take up model shipbuilding and go spoil the grandkids.
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[Mail and Globe] Zimbabwe's gradual recovery from economic collapse was marked on Monday with the return to the country's banking system of one of the rest of the world's most basic business instruments -- the cheque.
The Bankers' Association of Zimbabwe said in a statement that local commercial banks would start with immediate effect to issue their customers with chequebooks, for the first time in more than a year. Until now, business has been conducted almost exclusively with foreign cash.
Economic chaos brought about by President Robert Mugabe's reckless policies of rigid price controls and the printing of vast quantities of banknotes reached its worst point early this year, with inflation allegedly hitting 50-billion percent and the national currency, the Zimbabwe dollar, plummeting to a sextillionth of a US dollar.
Bank transactions ground almost to a complete halt, except for sporadic issues of the Zimbabwe dollar, while business was conducted nearly exclusively in cash black-market deals with the US dollar.
As the value of the Zimbabwe dollar fell drastically over single days, payment by cheque -- taking several days to clear -- became pointless. Even same-day electronic transfers were stopped because of sharp falls in the Zimbabwe-dollar value between morning and afternoon.
The crisis was dramatically halted after the inauguration in February of a power-sharing government between Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
The MDC took over the Finance Ministry and immediately abolished the Zimbabwe dollar and established the US dollar and the South African rand as official legal tender. Inflation is now about 3%.
Commercial banks closed clients' Zimbabwe dollar accounts and allowed them to open fresh accounts in hard currencies.
However, business executives say the return to banking normality has been slow, because of a critical shortage of US dollar and rand cash, and because of Zimbabweans' reluctance to put money in foreign currency-denominated accounts.
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Economic chaos brought about by President Robert Mugabe's reckless policies of rigid price controls and the printing of vast quantities of banknotes
That's what you pinheads get for voting a socialist into power. Enjoy. We here in the U. S. of A would never do something that stoopid. Right, guys? ... Guys?
The recent closure of 32 privately owned radio stations and a proposed law to punish "media crimes" are signs that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is moving to quash criticism of his government, according to a recent U.S. intelligence report.
Chavez's government is "moving forcefully to silence critics," said the unclassified U.S. analysis prepared by the Open Source Center, a government intelligence center.
The relationship between privately owned media in Venezuela and the leftist Chavez have never been rosy. Chavez has accused private television stations of supporting his brief ouster in 2002, and the president was a driving force behind denying a license renewal in 2007 to one broadcaster he said cooperated with the opposition.
But the decisions this month by the Chavez government to close 32 radio stations and two television broadcasters and to support legislation that would create prison sentences for people who commit "media crimes" have created a new level of scrutiny from outside Venezuela.
"The media crimes bill is the most blatant example of the government's steady encroachment on media freedom in an effort to establish a media monopoly and stifle freedom of expression," said the unclassified intelligence report, dated August 3.
The Venezuelan government denies that the media crimes law and the closure of the radio stations are related, and maintains that each initiative was grounded in Venezuelan law.
"As usual, much disinformation has shaped the debate surrounding these developments," the Venezuelan Embassy said in a fact sheet about the developments.
At the same time Chavez was extolling these two measures, supporters of his government attacked the Globovision television studio, one of few remaining networks that gives a voice to the opposition.
In the August 3 attack, more than 30 members of a pro-government party threw tear gas at the studio and injured three people.
The leader of the attack, ardent Chavez supporter Lina Ron, was arrested. Chavez condemned the incident, but last week, people alleged to be among his supporters attacked a group of journalists who were passing out leaflets in the street.
The leaflets that journalists from the private media conglomerate Cadena Capriles were passing out criticized an education bill that they said would hamper press freedom.
According to local news reports, a group of assailants threw the journalists to the ground and kicked them, sending 12 to the hospital.
The intelligence report coincides with numerous critical statements against Chavez by press freedom organizations.
"The harassment (of journalists) is a permanent condition," Carlos Lauria, Americas program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, told CNN.
The shuttering of the radio and television stations and media crimes law are part of a larger strategy that Chavez has followed since he was briefly deposed in a coup in 2002, he said.
Chavez's goal can be described as a three-point strategy, Lauria said: to control the flow of information, stop critical reports and disseminate pro-government propaganda.
Much of the pro-government propaganda comes through Chavez's use of state-owned media outlets, critics say.
The media crimes law in particular was an escalation from previous measures aimed at the press, Lauria said.
Chavez has used the media as a scapegoat, the intelligence analysis said, but "he may be willing to give this up in order to clamp down on the negative news reporting and commentary, which have been hammering away at the country's economic problems and Chavez's increasing authoritarianism for the past year."
The media crimes law met resistance from the National Assembly and was tabled for the time being because of opposition to it.
Chavez's government defended the draft of the bill, as well as the recent closure of the broadcasters, as being within the law.
The radio stations that were ordered off the air were all violating the law, either by operating with expired broadcasting concessions, failure to renew such licenses or illegally holding a concession, the Venezuelan government's fact sheet said.
According to the document, "neither the regularization of the situation of radio and television (stations) that have been operating outside the law in Venezuela, nor the development of a law to clearly regulate subsequent imposition of liabilities in the case of serious media abuses are measures that limit freedom of speech in Venezuela."
Chavez's intervention with the press is also worrisome because of Chavez's influence over other leaders in the region, including the leaders of Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua, CNN was told by Robert Rivard, chairman of the Inter-American Press Association's Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information.
"Freedom of expression in general, for everyone, is under attack in these countries," Rivard said. "They all have a deep, abiding distrust of journalists and freedom of the press."
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa was only days behind Chavez in seeking to close radio stations for technical infractions, Rivard said.
Chavez "has clearly been alienated by a free press and has seen it as a threat and a target," he said.
Not only journalism advocacy groups have been vocal against Chavez.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization this month released a statement expressing concern about the closure of the radio stations. "There can be no freedom of expression, or even democracy, in the absence of media pluralism," UNESCO Secretary-General Koichiro Matsuura said in a statement.
The divisions over the media measures run deep, both locally and internationally, but on trip this week to Ecuador, Chavez continued to pitch his plans to other leaders. He has faced strong opposition before, and he has weathered it.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has again slammed US plans to increase its military presence in Colombia, echoing his earlier remarks in which he warned of an imminent war in the region.
The US President Barack Obama is 'lost in the Andromeda' galaxy on Latin American policy, Chavez said on Sunday in his weekly address.
He made the comments after Bogota announced a deal that will allow US troops to use seven military bases on Colombian soil. The leftist president believes that a larger US troop presence ups the prospect of a war in the region.
Accordingly, Venezuela is planning to revamp its army by buying weaponry from Russia, Chavez said, adding that his country needs to be prepared for an attack.
Chavez charged that the United States is after controlling Venezuela's huge oil reserves as well as the Amazon region. "This is just the start of an imperial military expansion," Chavez said, referring to the US-Colombian security arrangement.
Last week, Obama had said that the critics of US involvement in Latin America were now asking Washington to do more to restore the ousted president of Honduras, adding that they 'can't have it both ways'.
In response to the remark the Venezuelan leader said, "We are not asking you to intervene in Honduras, Obama. On the contrary, we are asking that 'the empire' get its hands off Honduras and get its claws out of Latin America."
He went on to repeat earlier allegations that Washington had prior knowledge about a coup that unseated the Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, adding that the military plane that flew Zelaya out of the country had used a US base in Honduras.
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Give the One excuse for leaving Iraq/Afghanistan?
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Phhhh.... we wouldn't even need to provide more than intel on Venezuelan troop movements. The Columbians could easily take care of the rest and kick Chavez's sorry butt back across the border.
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his MO is to unite the people with rhetoric about the eevil yankees. A lot safer than actually attacking someone. Argie generals were too naive for that.
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That didn't stop him from massively funding FARC.
First, someone get Obama to act like an non fascist, second get him to act like a human not teleprompter using droid, and thirdly not a muslim sympathizer.
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Also, theres always a chance Marshall Bruce Mathers III aka Eminem aka, Slim Shady from michigan can save his homestate by the redistribution of his substantial hip hop paycheck.
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Dearborn, Michigan has a huge concentration of Muslims. Putting hardened jihadists in Michigan, setting the stage for eventual release into a large Muslim population would be Mohammed's modern day wet dream.
Everybody knows that Bambi and his minions demand that all redistribution of other rich people's money (but not theirs, of course) go directly to the federal gummint.
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The US's cash-for-clunkers scheme, designed to bolster Detroit's embattled carmakers, is turning out to be an even bigger boon for their Japanese rivals. According to data published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday, Americans are using the scrappage incentives to buy more vehicles from Toyota than any of the three Detroit carmakers.
Toyota has an 18.9 per cent share of vehicles bought so far, putting it ahead of General Motors with 17.6 per cent and Ford with 15.4 per cent. Chrysler is in fifth place, after Honda.
GM had a 19.6 per cent share of the overall US light-vehicle market in the first seven months of this year, compared with Toyota's 16.3 per cent, according to Autodata, a New Jersey-based market research firm. The top models bought since the scheme began on July 24 are the Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic and Ford Focus, all small sedans. Three of the top five are Toyotas.
The popularity of smaller models underlines the price paid by the Detroit companies for their strategy to all but cede the passenger car market to their foreign rivals during the 1990s as they concentrated on bigger and more profitable sport-utility vehicles, pick-up trucks and minivans.
All ten of the most traded-in clunkers are Detroit-made vehicles in these three segments.
GM and Chrysler are battling to regain market share following their court-supervised restructurings earlier this month. Furthermore, they have struggled to keep dealers stocked with the usual variety of models and options, having shut down much of their North American operations during their journeys through bankruptcy protection.
Credit Suisse estimates that Chrysler's car inventories tumbled to 34 days supply at the end of July from 60 a month earlier. Its small Dodge Caliber is virtually sold out. A stock of 55-60 days supply is considered normal.
Under the cash-for-clunkers scheme, modeled on similar incentives in Europe, buyers who trade in old vehicles for those with lower fuel consumption receive a rebate of $3,500 or $4,500, depending on the fuel consumption of the replacement vehicle. Congress initially earmarked $1bn for the incentives, but rushed to add another $2bn within a fortnight of the scheme's introduction.
Analysts expect that the funds will last until early September, supporting the purchase of 700-750,000 new vehicles. At which point sales will go down the toilet after all the low-hanging fruit has been picked. But that won't happen for quite a while yet.
Toyota and its Asian rivals have sought to allay some politicians' concern at the benefits they are reaping from the scheme by noting that a sizeable chunk of their vehicles are built in North America.
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Toyota and its Asian rivals have sought to allay some politicians' concern at the benefits they are reaping from the scheme by noting that a sizeable chunk of their vehicles are built in North America.
Tucked in at the end. Do they mention the 'Detroit' cars made in Mexico or Canada? /rhetorical question
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Another second order effect not being discussed is the number of serviceable cars being taken out of the used car market. The smashing of the clunkers forces higher prices for available used cars. These are vehicles which less affluent people could buy and use to get to work....that is, if there is any work to be had.
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In my neighborhood, NOBODY buys new cars. 20% of my neighbors are Section 8 renters; everybody else is a first time home buyer on a tight budget. So what will my neighbors drive when their current heaps fall apart?
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"everybody else is a first time home buyer on a tight budget"
One has to question whether buying a new home, makes sense for someone who can't afford even a semi - late model used car.
Its not like the cash for clunkers program is taking ALL older used cars off the market - a '95 Accord, for example, isnt eligible. they are not exactly selling for their weight in gold.
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Personally, I would ask, if the program is so totally oversubscribed at $4,500, instead of refunding it at that amount, why not reduce the offer to, say, $3,000. You will probably STILL get loads of takers, and at less expense.
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Do they mention the 'Detroit' cars made in Mexico or Canada? /rhetorical question
As an aside, Toyota ALSO has plants in Mexico and Canada, as well as in the US
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Liberal Hawk: This neighborhood was originally built for the military, when the local airport also had a Strategic Air Command base. This is noncom and commissioned officers' housing. The commissioned officers got single family homes. The noncoms got places like ours; half-duplexes with small but adequate rooms; and who needs closet space when you have a duffel bag?
It has been a haven for first time home buyers who buy cheap so they can either afford to have one parent stay home with the kids (like us) or save up for something better. The county bought 30 units when the military closed the base. Due to the weirdnesses of the housing market in this area, the rents have gone up appallingly. Our mortgage is $400 a month less than my Section 8 neighbor's rent for the same size property!
Neighbor A traded in their car when it was ready to disintegrate. The dealer fixed it up, and lo and behold, neighbor B, the section 8 neighbor described above, got three more years out of it. When the van finally died, neighbor B's teenager bought a working heap out of his own earnings. He takes the younger kids to school and his mom to work, and lets his mom use it for doctors appointments and other errands.
So this is why I am so ticked with the politicians for taking good heaps out of the market.
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Missed something, LH: Where does one find out what cars are eligible and which aren't? You say a certain 95 model isn't eligible. Is it the age of the car? the mileage? What makes the car ineligible?
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Not to mention that those 'clunkers' might be used by those POOR who can't afford even a used car so they can go out and work and get off from welfare....
Oh... wait... that would mean they get off the DNC Plantation... can't have that.
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Missed something, LH: Where does one find out what cars are eligible and which aren't?Check out CARS DOT GOV for all the details. Too much has been made of C4C. It was intended as a short term boost to the auto industry, which is on the ropes (if anyone has failed to notice). There are only a few potential buyers (like me) with the exact kinds of 'clunkers' and the cash/credit available NOW to buy/take-out-a-loan-on a new vehicle. The 250,000 or so 'clunkers' which will be rendered undriveable just aren't that many in a country with 250 MILLION registered passenger vehicles (give or take a few million) on the road. Last week my sister totaled her 1996 Geo Prizm (for the 2nd time) and put $1,200 into fixing it up again. It was her best option for a decent set of wheels.
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Let me guess....Acute Cellphonicrashin the culprit? She swears not, said she was barely moving (as was the other driver) when they came together. No one's airbags even went off.
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Hell, my Chevy Aveo was made in Korea. Country of ownership has precious little to do with country of manufacture these days. Most of these traded-in cars will have been made out-of-country IIRC.
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By the same logic, you could solve the mortgage crisis by burning down houses.
A. By taking cars off the market, you create more demand (ultimately) for new cars.
B. The cars have low gas mileage, and so are presumably contributors to global warming, world terrorism, etc.
There are of course critiques of the enviro benefits - it takes energy (and therefore GHG's) to BUILD new cars, and so from a purely GHG point of view it would probably be better to just let them die on their own. But who is willing to say building new cars is a bad thing right now?
Basically its a stimulus plan, targeted at the auto industry, with an enviro side benefit. Pretty much what anguper said.
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"By the same logic, you could solve the mortgage crisis by burning down houses."
You haven't spent much time at RE websites, have you? The "bulldoze em all" approach is not a novelty there. In general though, IIUC, the least economically viable houses, the smaller houses on the suburban edge, are not nearly as "energy inefficient" as big macmansions (at least focusing only on heating/AC etc rather than transportation) and there really isnt a standard "energy usage per person" rating for houses like there is MPG for cars, so it would be harder to make an enviro case.
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pardon, i meant poor gas mileage, not low gas mileage
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You increase the demand for cars by decreasing the demand for other goods/services by an equal amount, Except to the extent the program is funded by printing money.
Which means this is a subsidy to inefficient unionized workers.
And then the majority of these cars are imported. Whereas overall only 20% of goods/services in the US economy are imported. So in fact the program reduces overall demand in the US economy by about 30% of the amount of money spent on it.
And concerning energy efficiency, burning down larger older homes would save a great deal more energy.
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Hey Anguper, too bad your sister fixed her car - I could have used the parts for my 1995. Great little cars - Corollas disguised as Chevys. And not eligible for C4C. Too bad - I could use a subsidized new car, since my two are both 1995 and total 300,000 miles, but neither gets bad mileage (38 & 23 highway mpg) - and 500 miles per quart of oil, but that doesn' count.
Ma'an -- Some 300 police officers from Bethlehem were called in on Sunday evening to disperse a fierce clash in the village of Husan, northwest of Bethlehem, according to the police information office.
The brawl first erupted two months ago between members of the same extended family, but was fiercely renewed on Sunday as more than 30 people were hospitalized and property was damaged.
Boys will be boys... especially when they're all cousins.
Police detained 75 people and managed to disperse the fight after five hours, according to director of Bethlehem police public relations Ahid Hasayin. He said it was the first time Bethlehem police had detained such a large number of people in such an incident.
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Boys will be boys... especially when they're all offspring of first cousins for the last 100 generations.
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Will they live in the leaded sludge in the white house garden?
If so plant as many as it takes.
(Mind the children)
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No rodents for Rham's office please. He might teach them to dance. There is also the adaptive evolution gene tree issue, reproduction, etc. The idea of four legged Rhams is an absolute turn-off.
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Weird, idea association, reminds me of an until that very moment forgotten SF short novel I read eons ago in an anthology (btw, anyone gets the author/title from what follows???)... a tongue-in-cheek report about a series of catastrophic, cascading failures brought in by hapless geneticists introducing new species to "improve" the environment, in a "yeah, it was suposed to do AAA, but it does BBB, but, don't worry, we'll introduce this which will do CCC and fix that small mishaps", matters-of-facts format.
It among others had a giant venus flytrap that unfortunately didn't help get rid of rats and assorted vermins as planned, but instead smelled pleasantly and heavily of candy and fudge, and was bound to be found in abundant number in damp, dark places, like under the stairs of a kindergarden school, or under the tobogans at a child's playground.
Hey, most toddlers are less intelligent than the average rat, anyway! It's natural selection, survival of the fittest (the fattest gets eaten).
[Straits Times] AT LEAST 30,000 'Red Shirt' protesters rallied in Bangkok Monday to submit a petition seeking a royal pardon for Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, police said.
Organisers say they have collected at least five million signatures in support of Thaksin, who was toppled in a military coup in 2006 and fled the kingdom last August to escape a two-year jail term for corruption.
'I would like to say thank you to my fellow Thais, who have a good attitude towards me and to Thailand,' Thaksin said in a speech broadcast live by video to the cheering crowd.
'We are here today to inform our father, the King of every Thai, that we want to see unity and reconciliation,' said Thaksin, wearing the trademark red shirt favoured by his backers.
Billionaire tycoon Thaksin, 60, then turned to a portrait of Thailand's widely revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the royal family and sang a traditional royal song.
The protest group would submit their petition to the royal offices in Bangkok's Grand Palace in the afternoon, organisers said. The petition was packed in 10 boxes wrapped in red cloth.
Police Major General Vichai Sangkapai confirmed that 30,000 people had joined the rally so far and that 1,500 uniformed officers had been deployed to secure the rally site. 'So far the situation is normal, the rally is peaceful,' he told AFP.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who took office in December, has warned Thaksin's supporters against signing the petition and said that only Thaksin or his family are allowed to submit it.
The Red Shirts launched the campaign last month following more than three years of sometimes violent confrontations between supporters and foes of Thaksin.
Thaksin's backers forced the cancellation of a major Asian summit in April and then rioted for two days in Bangkok before a crackdown by the army.
Rival royalist 'Yellow Shirts' shut down Bangkok's airports in late 2008, triggering the collapse of the previous, pro-Thaksin government and helping to bring Mr Abhisit to power.
Is anyone else reminded of the Blues, Greens, Reds, and Whites (I think those were the colours) of the supporters of the various chariot teams of the Byzantine Games? They were fond of rioting through the streets, too.
I keep an eye on this because I think Toxin wants to be the Hugo Chavez of Southeast Asia, with overtones of Corleone. Muong Thai has an unfortunate habit of throwing up [and I chose the words intentionally] people like him periodically.
A good thing Thailand has a revered king, then, who occasionally weighs in.
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