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"Rantburg - Doing the work Instapundit doesn't have time to" :-D
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D *** NG IT, "I WANT TO BELIEVE", does this mean TOM BERENGER ["Sniper"] + VLADVEDEV, etal. will finally return my childhood clothes + espec my HotWheels!?
And yes, I + MADONNA amma also looking at you, PRINCE CHARLES OF GREAT BRITAIN!
AL BUNDY > is so upset he can barely finish eating his mighty del Dagwood Sandwich [but he will].
Check it out, yo!
A Times Square bloodbath was narrowly avoided because the machine-pistol-toting thug who fired at a cop flipped the gun on its side like a character out of a rap video, causing the weapon to jam after two shots, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. I'm pretty sure this is not what rappers mean when they talk about a "def jam."
When scam artist Raymond "Ready" Martinez held the MAC-10-style gun parallel to the ground, it caused the ejecting shells to "stovepipe," or get caught vertically in the chamber, the sources said. The gun is designed to be fired only in a vertical position. If he had fired the weapon -- which had another 27 rounds in the clip -- properly, Martinez, 25, could have killed the hero cop pursuing him and countless others walking through the swarming tourist mecca Thursday morning.
One hopes rappers and their more... active fans do not read the New York Post.
Instead, Sgt. Christopher Newsom was able to return fire -- putting a cap in killing Martinez with four shots before anyone was hurt.
The fatal gun battle erupted after Martinez bolted from cops who approached him for aggressively peddling his own rap CDs to tourists and shaking them down for cash. Newsom gave chase and shouted for Martinez to put up his hands. Martinez instead pulled the machine gun from a sling under his coat and turned to fire as he ran into the parking breezeway within the Marriott Marquis Hotel....
In rap songs on his Web page, Martinez boasted of taking aim at a police sergeant... Bus this rhyme, Rantburg homies:
I'm gonna run when they tell me to stop
Hold my piece gangsta style and take down a cop
There's a jam, it ain't def, when it e-jects the brass
Instead of bein' killah I get the cap in my a--
They haul the body bag away
It just ain't my day
Nothin more to say
'Cept I shoulda learned proper firearms handlin' from the N-R-A
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It is left to doctors and psychiatrists whether the willful use of a firearm 'gangsta style' is a symptom of that little-talked-about phenomenon 'Suicide By Cop.'
(As in, "Too stupid to live really should be a valid diagnosis.")
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The Nyte Sytes are good and all, but what the fashion conscious gang banger really needs are rear view shades. Looking back to fire slows one down too much and is prone to tripping and that's not cool. And the smart gang banger/drug dealer/rapster needs an extra pair of eyes to watch his back, even if it's his own.
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Hope you don't mind this from Chris Rock. NSFW.
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MAC-10? Jeez, that is SO 80s. Couldn't he have gotten at least a TEK-9 or other threatening-looking black gun? At least that way there would have been some rationale for further gun control. As it is, it was just portrayed as a garden-variety "cop shoots Times Square denizen" and just adds to the contempt of police instead of a larger issue.
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I heard the side firing thing originally came about because of Israeli bodyguards and security. I'm not sure if it works for a particular kind of weapon or if that story is bogus or not.
I've tried firing gangsta style at the range and not only do I feel foolish but my accuracy plummets.
Robert G. Heft, who is credited with designing and sewing the first 50-star American flag, has died at 67. He created the flag as part of a high school project on his mother's sewing machine and President Eisenhower chose his design as our flag.
While the average age of a combat soldier in World War II was 26, the invasion of Japan would have required a massive infusion of fresh troops. Volunteers had to be 17. At 18, they could be drafted. High school kids like my father. Maybe he never would have gone to war. Maybe he would have fought and come home to march in those Veterans Day parades.
Or maybe he would have been one of those white crosses above a beach in Japan. He'd never meet Mom. So, no me. Instead, he and tens of millions of Americans and Japanese exist today because the invasion of Japan didn't lop off their family tree.
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The plans were being pursued for a landing but after experiencing Iwo Jima and Okinawa I'm not sure we would have followed through on them, at least not on the original schedule. I expect that absent the A-bombs we'd have continued the air (and shortly sea) bombardment and continued the sea blockade until not a handcart moved on the roads and not a sampan floated on the waters and not a city or town had adjacent buildings still standing such that when we finally did invade it would have seemed like walking into Dachau.
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I'm not sure we would have followed through on them,
I am. The invasion process had been tuned to assembly line processes. Organizations were already being alerted in Europe for transfer to the Pacific theater. The American diplomats were pressing Stalin to redeploy forces to the Far East and enter as soon as possible. Stalin wasn't in a hurry, till the bomb dropped which forced his hand. His spies had already kept him informed on the nature of the bomb. Needed to get his 'share' of the spoils. Japan would have been part of that, to include invading and occupying, portions of the northern islands for post war 'ownership'. They would have driven an American invasion to the south as ownership/occupation becomes 9/10th of the law.
IIRC, the author Alvin Coox found that the Japanese high command had finally been convinced after Okinawa to switch the targets of the Kamikazes from capital ships to troop and logistics vessels. Where as a capital ship could sustain several hits, one on a troop ship could take out a complete regiment. It would have been a butchers bill.
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A good friend tells his children that they are here on this planet because he's here. He's here because his father is here. And his father is here because Harry Truman dropped the bomb.
His father was a gunner on a Navy Avenger, and in August 1945 was on a light carrier that was getting ready for the big invasion of Japan.
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As a thought experiment, imagine that (God forbid) Stalin's spies had been more efficient and that the Soviet Union had dropped the bomb on Japan. How much bitching about that would we hear from "progressives" today?
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In his autobiography Akira Kurosawa the director talked about the nation expecting word from the Emperor for everyone to commit suicide. If that had happened our D Day would have been more psychologically damaging than physically. Of course Japan would have died and people would have blamed Truman for not nuking a city or two and saving the Japanese race.
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According to the book Downfall by Richard Frank, the Americans plan was to start bombing the railroads between the rice fields and the cities, which would have caused mass starvation. The Japanese plan was to train everyone - women, children, old men - to resist with weapons, sticks, whatever was at hand.
Unless America had been willing to isolate the home islands and wait for the people to starve, or for the Japanese people to revolt against the emperor (unlikely), we would have had to invade.
I would probably still be here - my dad was a ground crewman for bombers. My uncles served in the infantry. I doubt they would have survived.
This book convinced me that in the end, it was a kindness to the Japanese to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yes, thousands of civilians died. However, it is likely that millions of Japanese civilians would have died either from starvation or in the invasion. I realize that kindness was not the reason that Truman ordered the bombing.
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Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu, would have been a bloodbath. The Japanese had thousands of cruise missiles (human-guided) to throw at the invasion fleet, more than any other operation. They would have fallen like rain while the American fighters reloaded. It would have been a horrific loss of life on both sides, and would have really made Americans think about what they were doing. The result would have probably been the total annihilation of Japanese culture.
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My father was scheduled for the 10 AM third wave in Yokohama harbor (where the 10th Mountain would have died).
They sent him home from Italy to make his last will and testament, visit his family and if he was Catholic (he wasn't) get Last Rites.
Sounds like a GO to me!
And yeah he would have never met mom.
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Frank's book is excellent, as is his book about Guadalcanal, and to me decisive about the issue.
I've done a fair amount of reading of different opinions about Truman's decision, and the numbers break down like this:
100% of of liberal academics writing 50 years after the event condemn the decision.
100% of soldiers, Marines, sailors and fliers getting ready for the invasion not only support the decision, but think it was the best decision in the history of mankind, except that among soldiers and Marines in the first wave the number goes up to 500%.
I'm not sure what those numbers mean.
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My dad was on Okinawa. After the fighting, we were amassing literally MILES of rows of equipment for the invasion of Japan, as part of Operation Olympic. There was a great amount of foreboding on that one. Dad felt that his fellow Marines were spared a death sentence when the atomic bombs fell on Japan.
In the awful accounting of war, the decision to drop the bombs saved lots of American lives, and Japanese lives, too. It is little consolation to those maimed in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but it did demonstrate the ultimate carnage of total war. Dinnerjacket should think about it before he goes apesh*t with his nuke plans.
The possession of nuclear weapons by the US in many ways is more of a burden than an advantage. There is tremendous responsibility in owning those weapons. Contrary to the opinion of thugocracies, who think that they bring respect.
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My Father, an Army Engineer told me this story, and as far as I know nobody else has ever heard it;
He was assigned to the "Island Hoppers".
He said he was always the third thing to land.
First the Marine Air blew the island to hell and gone.
Second the Marines landed and killed everybody.
Third his ship landed, took off the marines and landed equipment, Himself, His division (Lieutenant) and, bulldozers, graders fuel, Quonset huts etc.
Then they built An airstrip to land, fuel, load repair and rearm the planes for blowing the shit out of the next island in the list, so he was always far from the actual fighting, (They got A Night Bomber, Harassment more than harmful, another story)
They were only a few Islands away from the Japanese home Island when suddenly they started getting EVERYTHING they requested, very unusual in wartime, things were scarce (He even got a Sky sweeper Radar Controlled anti-aircraft gun(Obsolete now look it up, a 5 inch naval rifle mounted on a semi-truck and autoloading) (RADAR was still a secret word then) which got their night Harassment bomber with 4 shots (Another story)
Asked for jackets, got Fleece filled down flight jackets (Expensive as hell then) and after a while he asked his boss (No Name) "What's up?.
His boss swore him to secrecy and showed him the invasion plans For "The Invasion of the Japanese home islands" he sat on his trunk, and shivered when he read them, it absolutely horrified him, there wasn't a chance in hell this could be done without Millions of deaths, about 60-40 was his best guess, and to boot which was 40 and which was 60 looked like we would be the 60 per-centers would be the USA.
After that he understood why they got anything requested, they were expected to be no survivors, so requests were treated as "Last Requests"
then three days later they got word that the USA had dropped the Atom Bombs (Not anywhere close to them) and they all loaded up again, but this time home, not the next island.
I and My two Brothers owe our lives to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombs.
By the way, I recently had a raving anti war lunatic declare "The cities were wiped off the face of the earth".
I checked,
Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are booming industrial cities today (2009) and show NO signs of being blasted "Off the face of the Earth" So I consider the bombs entirely justified when I look at the Arizona memorial.
Jim David, Montgomery Alabama USA USN (Retired)
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IIRC, during WW2 [1944-1945]Guam's Route 16 was the site of a famous mile-long US Mil shopping road where both sides consisted of nothing save crated but exposed-in-open-air mil supplies that seemingly reached to the sky. Paperwork aside, all an Army-Navy-Marine Supply Officer or Sergeant had to do was just point and select what was needed. I believe all of Guam's B-USAAC/USAAF airfields, includ Harmon Field = Depot Field, Guam, + new ones were slated for expansion or construx once a final decision to invade Japan was made.
* "60-40" > Many Perts accept that the a US army damaged by severe fighting in Japan would had been hard-pressed to stop the Lend-Lease rebuilt Soviet Red Army under Stalin from doing anything it wanted to in Asian mainland.
IOW, NO ATOMIC BOMBINGS = SOVIET EXPANSION = may had resulted in wholly SOVIET EURASIA. Methinks we all know what Uncle Joe Stalin's preferred method(s) would be to formally resolve the PAKISTAN-INDIAN andor SINO-INDIAN, ETC. RIVALRIES IN ASIA, now don't we?
D *** NG IT, PAK + INDJUH + SINA DON'T LIKE THEIR BORDERS, CLEARLY CAN EASILY TELL IT TO STALIN AS THEY GO ON THEIR COMRADELY TOURIST TOUR OF SIBERIA [or WORSE], NOT TO CHURCHILL OR TRUMAN???
Tel Aviv University paid tribute Thursday to Poland's most revered World War II resistance fighter, Jan Karski, by unveiling a bench with a sculpture of the man who first reported the horrors of the Holocaust to the West and is considered among the righteous gentiles.
"This is only the third such monument to him outside of Poland," Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska, Poland's Ambassador to Israel, told The Jerusalem Post, adding that apart from one in Poland, two others are located in the US.
She said the Tel Aviv University monument only served to strengthen ties between Israel and Poland, which in recent years have been working hard to come to terms with its role in the Holocaust.
Karski, who in the years following the war was made an honorary citizen of Israel, became part of the Polish resistance against the Nazi-appointed government in Warsaw. Sent to uncover information on the regime and to assist partisans, Karski also ventured into the Warsaw Ghetto twice in 1942 and was smuggled into the Belzec concentration camp to witness the final solution. I suppose we are beyond the day an American University would be found honoring such a man as Karski. More at the link.
Cambridge, MA - A review of more than 200 climate studies led by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has determined that the 20th century is neither the warmest century nor the century with the most extreme weather of the past 1000 years.
The review also confirmed that the Medieval Warm Period of 800 to 1300 A.D. and the Little Ice Age of 1300 to 1900 A.D. were worldwide phenomena not limited to the European and North American continents.
While 20th century temperatures are much higher than in the Little Ice Age period, many parts of the world show the medieval warmth to be greater than that of the 20th century...
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stripping of academic credentials, firings, and exile to antarctica is in order for much of lefty academia
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That's why you don't see things and tubetops at Renaissance Fairs
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The linked article is over six years old. They probably hadn't been 'convinced' just yet.
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or they got bought off with a AGW grant?
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I sometimes feel like I'm living in a bizarre environment.
There's no shortage of problems we need (and can) resolve.
How did we get to this collective hysteria?
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You can make more money off of mass hysteria. Spvling real problems is more difficult, less lucrative and sometimes results in accountability. When the MMGW ponzi scam bursts, all therubes will be so embarrassed that they won't be asking for audits of the money spent.
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How did we get to this collective hysteria?
From Wikipedia:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific intergovernmental body[1][2] tasked with evaluating the risk of climate change caused by human activity. The panel was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), two organizations of the United Nations.
The only surprise is that the EU is not mentioned.
Police recovered a bullet-hit body of a top listed criminal from Mirpur while an alleged gangster was killed in a "shootout" in Kadamtoli area of the city yesterday.
Mirpur police said they had found a body from Ananda Timber Lane near Begum Rokeya Sarani of Mirpur around 7:00am.
Officer-in-Charge Zakir Hossain Mollah of Mirpur Police Station told The Daily Star that the relatives of the deceased identified him as Raja, the top terror of Kafrul area.
He was accused in several cases including one for murder and absconding for long, OC Zakir Hossain said.
The killing might have occurred somewhere else and later the body was left there, police said.
The body, with bullets to the head and neck, was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
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It's impressive how many Bangli badmen commit suicide through multiple shots to the back of the head.
Treasury document reveals secret plan to make him the 'Shadow King'
The Queen is to hand over a substantial part of her public duties to Prince William to help him prepare for the day when he becomes King, according to a confidential document obtained by The Mail on Sunday. Secret papers reveal that plans to ease the strain on the 83-year-old monarch and her 88-year-old husband, Prince Philip, are at an advanced stage.
The disclosures come despite months of denials from the Palace that the Queen was planning to step back from her official work in favour of her 27-year-old grandson.
The information is contained in a briefing note written by Chancellor Alistair Darlings Treasury officials about new financial arrangements for Prince Charles and his sons. Key paragraphs, disclosing the reason for the changes, are blacked out.
But this newspaper has obtained an uncensored version of the document which confirms that the Queen is grooming William as a Shadow King. One blacked-out line states that the Princes [William and Harry] will increasingly incur expenditure when undertaking engagements on behalf of The Queen.
Another censored section, stressing the key role for William, says that from next year, it is expected that HRH The Prince William will spend a significant part of his time on official engagements . . . we need to put the necessary provisions in place in anticipation of that.
The leak will add to speculation that the Queen believes William, rather than Charles, represents the best long-term interests of the monarchy, and will raise new questions about the timing of Williams long-anticipated engagement to his girlfriend Kate Middleton.
The breach of secrecy caused alarm at the Palace last night, with a senior Royal source expressing concern that the private details had been leaked in unredacted - the official term for uncensored - form. The reaction reflects the extreme sensitivity over the issue of the Queens future in public life - and how to promote Prince William without undermining the monarch or Prince Charles.
It is bound to lead to new speculation that when the Queen dies, the monarchy could skip a generation, with the Crown bypassing Charles and being handed straight to William, although Royal sources strongly discount this option.
The Treasury document was prepared for Mr Darling in the run-up to Aprils Budget. The announcement that he was granting Charles tax relief worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, by allowing him to deduct his sons official expenses from his tax return, was slipped out on Budget Day in a separate ministerial note and was picked up by newspapers only several days later.
The tax perk funds an office at St Jamess Palace, with six members of staff, which for the past few months has been organising the affairs of Princes William and Harry. Previously, the Princes had been represented by Charless staff. The blacked-out words in the Treasury note say 'But as Sir Michael¿s letter sets out, the Princes will increasingly incur expenditure when undertaking engagements on behalf of The Queen'
The briefing note, released following a Freedom of Information request, contained a third blacked-out section which showed that the entire operation to transfer duties to William was orchestrated by the Queen and Prince Charles. It shows that the approach to the Government was made by Sir Michael Peat, Charless private secretary, who is also a confidant of the Queen.
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Too bad it's not Harry, but better than Charles.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- The interim government of Honduras says it would allow ousted President Manuel Zelaya to seek asylum outside Central America.
The announcement appears to seek a compromise with Zelaya allowing him to emerge from the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa without fear of arrest on the charges of treason and abuse of power that led to his June ouster. He took refuge there after sneaking back into Honduras Sept. 21.
Just as long as he goes straight to the airport and gets on the plane ...
A Foreign Ministry spokesman says Honduras will grant Zelaya safe passage to any country that offers him asylum outside Central America.
No Nicaragua or Venezuela for you!
Milton Mateo said Saturday the decision comes from the "very highest government level."
Zelaya representative Rasel Tome said only that Zelaya does not plan to leave Honduras this weekend.
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B'bye. Don't let the democracy hit you on the ass on your way out.
Recently, the "China National Defense News," revealed the Second Artillery missile forces to build an underground cavern of the situation, the text quoted Western experts say China's underground missile base projection can withstand hundreds of thousands of tons equivalent rounds of nuclear bombs hit a row.
This article raises the heat outside media, discussion, media analysis of China's such a deep way of actually higher than Russia and the United States to deploy a missile more accurate. Chinese media have dared to publish these are called "Underground Great Wall" of the strategic facilities showed that the Chinese system of its nuclear operations with unprecedented confidence and courage... An unfortunately poorly translated article.
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hopefully they will make it as good as the rest of the crap from china, and who are they gonna copy it from?
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Or you can bury the entrances in millions of tons of rubble. Saves the trouble of hunting for the missiles.
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Doesn't matter.
It only takes one bomb to take out the biggest dam which carves a Grand Canyon to the delta at Canton. Right through their most populated areas.
Several other dams accomplish the same in the rest of China.
The pressure change of the dams letting go should cause earthquakes of major size over the rest of EurAsia.
Game over.
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OWG-NWO > The US-West believes that "great power" mil or geopol conflicts on the scale of WW1 + WW2 + Mutually Destructive Nuclear War, etc. will no longer occur. OWG-NWO + NO MAD NUCWARS + "POLICE ACTIONS/BRUSH WARS" + GLOBAL WARMING, ETC. = THE IMPETUS will now fall on STRATEGIC COMMANDO-SPEC OPS includ HI-TECHS + SPAWAR.
* SUNDAY NET NEWS > CHINA is repor desirous of reloc MANY OF ITS VITAL COASTAL INDUSTRIES "INLAND" = AWAY FROM COASTS.
Think WW2's famous "DAMBUSTERS" RAF Raids on the Ruhr Dams of Nazi Germany; + "SINK THE TIRPITZ" RN Commando Sub operations agz same in Norwegian fjords, etc. NOW APPLIED TO CHINA'S THREE GORGES DAMS + SIMIL [heavily defended]???
E.G. Iff ISRAEL does proceed in using [single-scope]COMMANDO-ELITE FORCES to attack IRAN, besides AIRPOWER, LR MISSLES, etc. it will be on a Units, Campaign-scale never before seen in modern warfare = 20th century "great power" conventional wars.
Lest we fergit, RANTBURG Artics > OSAMA BIN LADEN > Among other capabilities agz powerful states, ISLAM INCLUD RADICAL ISLAM = JIHADIST GROUPS-MOVEMENT needs a "NUCLEAR FORCE" OF ITS OWN.
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IIRC "GI JOE" > future OWG Amerik'a favorite GLOBAL INTEGRATED JOINT OPER ENTITY [Rantburg] has its own unique Land, Sea, Air, Space, + other combat assets SEPARATE FROM THE REGUL MILITARY.
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WAFF > [US = USAF] AIR SUPREMACY IN A DOWNDRAFT. Various F-22 dev, funding failures + poor US econ has all but destroyed the USAF's "fighter plan" to maintain and improve US-specific or US-led AIRSPACE DOMINANCE.
NUTSHELL > IOW, AMER'S ENEMIES WILL CATCH UP TO THE US IN AIR MILTECHS, USAF TO BECOM HARDPRESSED TO SUPPORT, PROTECT US ARMY-MARINE GRUNTS IN COMBAT, IFF NOT PER SE UNABLE TO DO SO.
Nearly 300 people have been arrested in California in what federal officials are calling the largest sweep to date targeting illegal immigrants who have criminal records.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Friday that 286 illegal immigrants were detained in statewide sweeps during the past three days. More than 80 percent of those arrested have criminal records that include rape, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, according to ICE.
ICE said 30 convicted sex offenders, many of whom had been convicted of sexual assaults on children, were among those detained.
"Legal immigration is an important part of our country's history, and the American dream exists for many immigrants. However, that dream involves playing by the rules, and those who break our criminal laws will be removed from the country," said ICE director John Morton. "Sadly, many of the people victimized by aliens who commit crimes are other members of the immigrant community, who are following the rules."
Under the Obama administration, ICE has made a policy of targeting illegal immigrants with criminal records. One of the purposes of that policy is to avoid allegations that illegal immigrants are being subjected to racial profiling and arrested on minor charges.
Immigration raids have been met with consistent criticisms, including the assertion that such raids essentially leave orphaned the children of those men and women who are arrested and subsequently deported. Critics also have blasted the practice of ICE agents being given quotas to determine the number of illegal immigrants they needed to round up, but Mr. Morton said last summer he had put an end to that practice.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a spokesman for Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said his group is pleased that the administration has kept its pledge to focus its efforts on illegal immigrants who have criminal records. But Mr. Cabrera said he also would like to know the seriousness of the crimes committed by those who were detained.
"Obviously, our preference would be that these types of raids on honest, hardworking immigrants would not continue," Mr. Cabrera told The Washington Times.
Those arrested in California this week include convicted robber Ulises Vazuiz Arucha, 37, a Guatemalan who had been deported previously and has ties to a Los Angeles street gang, according to ICE. Ignacio Camacho-Madrigal, 43, a Mexican convicted of committing a lewd act on a child younger than 14, also had been deported before being arrested this week.
The two men are among at least 17 people who will face federal prosecution for illegally re-entering the U.S. after being deported, ICE said. A conviction on that charge carries a potential penalty of 20 years in prison.
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Dhanush, the ship-based anti-surface missile was successfully launched from a naval vessel, INS Subhadra in the Bay of Bengal, off the Orissa coast on Sunday. The missile was fired by Indian Navy personnel as part of user training exercise.
The nuclear-capable Dhanush is a naval version of Prithvi and was test-fired at 11.35 hrs. It flew over a range of 350 km and splashed down at the target point in the Bay of Bengal with "pin-point accuracy", according to Defence Research & Development Organisation sources. The missile followed the pre-designated trajectory with text-book precision and two naval ships located near the target have tracked the splash.
The sources said that the 350-km range missile met all the velocity, height and guidance parameters. Radar systems of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) located along the coast have monitored the entire trajectory of the vehicle which flew for 520 seconds before zeroing on to the target with a CEP (circular error probability) of under 10 metres.
The single stage missile is powered by liquid propellants. It is 10-metre long and weighs six tonnes. It has one metre diameter and can carry 500 kg warhead.
Scientific adviser to Defence Minister V.K.Saraswat, who is also the Director-General DRDO, Major General (retd) P.C. Karbanda, who is Deputy National Security Adviser and Rear Admiral C.S.Patham, who is Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Forces Command were aboard INS Subhadra to witness the launch.
DRDO sources said that there would be two more flight tests of the nuke-capable Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Agni-II ( 2,000 km plus range) in the coming months to overcome the failure of the missile in its previous two flights in May and November 2009. The sources added that during its last test in November, Agni-II had a problem at the time of ignition of the second stage. Its flex nozzle too did not function properly. Similar problem with flex nozzle occurred during the first Agni-III ( 3,500 km range) flight in July 2006.
The DRDO will test-fire K-15 ( underwater missile) from a submerged pontoon and its land version ' Shaurya' in the coming months.
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Pakistani Posterior Pucker
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ION see also WMF > INDIA TEST-FIRES "LONGBOW" CARRIER-BASED SRBMS.
* WAFF > STARTEGYPAGE > WHY CHINA WANTS A BIG NAVY?
*PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > FORMER ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISS CHAIRMAN AMIL KAKODBAR: INDIA HAS CREDIBLE THERMONUCLEAR BOMBS UP TO 200-KILOTONNES. INDJUH's Army = Armed Forces can rest easy in the National, Geopol security wrought by the Country's potent nuclear arsenal.
SAME/OTHER > [DNA]STUDY: INDIANS ARE THE ANCESTORS OF JAPANESE, CHINESE, AND MANY OTHERS IN EAST ASIA.
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ION BHARAT RAKSHAK > TIMES OF INDIA = NOW, FRESH CALLS FOR SEPARATE SEEMANCHAL {in addition to MITHILANCHAL.
Also from TOI > MAYAWATTI SEEKS CREATION OF POORVANCHAL; + DIVISION OF ANDHRA [Andhra-Pradesh] IS NOT ACCEPTABLE: CONG MP; + 225 LEGISLATORS WILL OPPOSE ANDHRA DIVISION: RAJAGOPAL.
PENDING BREAKUP OF INDIA?
versus
POTUS Clinton-Dubya Era CHINA-STYLE REORGANZ OF CENTRALIST STATE + MILITARY DISTRICTS, includ GREATER LOCAL AUTONOMY for GREATER GOVT-PARTY CONTROL, GOVT BUDGETING-ACCOUNTING OF $$$ SUMS-CERTAIN, + GOVT-PARTY, STATE RESISTANCE TO LOOMING INTERNAL + REGIONAL THREATS???
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ION see also BHARAT RAKSHAK > HALF-TIME AT COPENHAGEN SHOWS AN UNCLEAR HORIZON; + MOODY'S PUTS US, UK ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK + THERE IS NO RECOVERY IN THE AMERICAN RECOVERY + [Obama] ADMINISTRATION TO SLASH BAILOUT COSTS ESTIMATE.
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I wonder what kind of public support a candidate would ge if he proposed withdrawing from all UN activities that catered to dictators (e.g. the GA, HR, etc.) and reducing contributions to match?
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The recent call for one couple, one child, is interesting. If everyone complied, it would take about 500 years for extinction to occur, at most. It's likely that it would be sooner than that because of the preference for a male offspring in many cultures. The extreme of that would be if everyone chose a male child, aborting females. So, as soon as the last member of the next generation dies is the shortest time that we could no longer pollute Mother Earth. I'm sure she can hardly wait.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has lifted martial law in the southern province of Maguindanao.
On Saturday, government sources announced that martial law would end at 9:00 p.m. local time (1300 GMT) after Arroyo met her top security advisers in the capital Manila, AFP reported.
Martial law was imposed on December 4 in the country's second-poorest province to help police detain members of the powerful Ampatuan clan, blamed for a wave of violence on November 23 that left several members of a rival clan and some journalists dead.
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The younger brother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has passed away at the age of 35 as a result of an 'incurable disease' he had been fighting for a long time.
In a brief statement, the Syrian news agency SANA announced that Majd Hafez al-Assad died Saturday morning in Damascus after suffering a serious illness.
The youngest of former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad's children was born in 1966 in the northwestern province of Latakia. Majd had an electronic engineering degree and never displayed any political ambition. He was married for 15 years but had no children.
President Bashar al-Assad issued an official announcement Saturday, saying Majd's funeral will be held on Sunday afternoon in his hometown of Qardaha on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
The late Hafez al-Assad and his wife had five children, including four sons. His eldest, Basel, was designated as his father's successor and moved up the ranks of the Syrian army. However, the charismatic Basel was killed in a car accident in January 1994 not far from Damascus International Airport. Following this accident, Bashar al-Assad was urgently called back to Syria, where he was groomed to replace his father. He took the post of Syrian president in 2000 after his father's death.
Majd's death leaves the Syrian president with just one brother and a sister. Bashar al-Assad's remaining brother, Maher, is a colonel in the presidential guard. His sister Bushra is married to General Assef Shawkat -- a former head of military intelligence who was appointed deputy chief of staff of the Syrian army in July.
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passed away at the age of 35
Must be in dog islamic years.
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"Syrian president's younger brother stable"
Too bad Assad isn't (mentally, that is).
"passed away at the age of 35 as a result of an 'incurable disease' he had been fighting for a long time"
What's the over/under that he was "special friends" with AraFart?
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ION DEBKA > IFF ATTACKED, IRAN WANTS SYRIA TO HIT BACK AT ISRAEL. Tehran is telling Damascus it expects an ISRAELI ATTACK AGZ ITS NUCFACS IN CIRCA ONE MONTH [12/15/2009-Jan 15/2009, plus-minus]??? Visiting Iranian Envoy-Officio IRAN DM Vahidi says Iran will strike back agz Israel's "CHEMICAL, MICRO-BIOLOGICAL, + BANNED NUCLEAR PRODUCTION SITES".
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That may just be the most civil discussion I've ever seen between the two global warming camps. I'm rather shocked the woman being interviewed didn't erupt in righteous indignation a la Ed Begley ("Peer reviewed! Peer reviewed! Peer reviewed is what matters!" Sure Ed, as long as all the peers are in agreement to begin with), nor did she turn heel and run away like a spoiled brat. I've got to give her a lot of credit for that, if nothing else.
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Everything that was posted in Soviet science journals was thoroughly peer reviewed.
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The money quote:
"You seem to know nothing about climate and yet you want to change it."
There's the rub
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12/13/2009 13:22 Comments ||
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She didn't do a good job. They should send her to the SF Bay for retraining in erviro-crazy. I saw no attempts at chanting slogans. There was no move to shout down. Where were her peers? She entered into the discussion without a mob of impolite nincompoops to help her break the engagement.
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About 40 Racine youths braved the cold weather Saturday night in an effort to raise awareness about climate change.
Standing near the corner of Main and Sixth streets, the youths and a few adults held candles and posters in their gloved hands as part of a rally and vigil to raise awareness about climate issues.
The event was held in part to support the United Nations international climate change conference in Copenhagen, which began Monday and lasts two weeks, said Joe McNutt, 15, a Walden High School sophomore who organized the event.
McNutt said the event was also held to give hope to countries that will be hurt first by climate change that results in rising waters, droughts and hot temperatures that kill crops.
"I just care about the environment," he said. "I don't want to see species dying out. I want to try to better the world for everybody and this might help."
People driving by honked horns at the students and many rolled down their windows to ask the students about their cause and the number 350, which was printed on students' posters.
The number shows the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide that is needed to sustain life. Right now the atmospheric concentration for carbon dioxide is 387, McNutt said.
"We keep explaining it (to passersby)," said Pierce McVeigh, a 14-year-old freshman at Walden, 1012 Center St.
Pierce said the rally and vigil seemed to generate interest about climate change while also getting the word out about acceptable carbon dioxide levels.
"We think it's important for future generations," added Kaylah Cruz, a 15-year-old sophomore at Horlick High School, 2119 Rapids Drive, who went to the vigil with some friends. "It's global. Everybody can support it, young and old."
public schools have abandoned critical reasoning and are simply indoctrination centers producing third rate intellects.
our country is doomed. there is no seed corn
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The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
Thucydides, Greek historian
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#2 The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
Thucydides, Greek historian
Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-13 05:54
Thanks, Besoeker. I vaguely remembered the quote but drew a blank on the author.
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.
Robert G. Heft, who is credited with designing and sewing the first 50-star American flag, has died at 67. He created the flag as part of a high school project on his mother's sewing machine and President Eisenhower chose his design as our flag.
The younger brother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has passed away at the age of 35 as a result of an 'incurable disease' he had been fighting for a long time. 
