Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he has an idea to make more room in his jail system and help keep it running at the same time.
The idea is a two-for-one deal for jailed illegal immigrants.
Arpaio said the jail is short-staffed in volunteers to wash dishes and do laundry. So he said anyone who is arrested under the new immigration law and offers to volunteer will get credited two days for every day spent in jail.
That means they are out in half the time, and in the Sheriff's words: They can move on to their next step, like deportation, faster.
OATMAN, Ariz. -- A man has been arrested after apparently attempting to commit suicide by driving a car rigged to explode off of a cliff in northwestern Arizona.
Mohave County Sheriff's officials say 55-year-old James Lyle Pierson, from Washington state, was booked Wednesday on suspicion of disorderly conduct involving a dangerous instrument.
Authorities say Pierson rigged his four-door sedan with propane bottles, gasoline and shotgun shells in an attempt to make the car explode during a crash. But it didn't go off when he drove off a steep embankment Tuesday night.
Pierson survived, then walked eight miles to Oatman, where he called authorities. He was taken to a hospital where he was treated and later released. Police bomb technicians later rendered the vehicle safe.
A 20-year-old man was arrested Wednesday and two others are facing charges in connection with a robbery that led to a deadly shootout Tuesday night at a north-side auto store, police said.
Carlos Peyron is facing charges of first-degree murder, attempted aggravated robbery, attempted armed robbery and kidnapping after he and three other men attempted to rob M&M Customs, which sells and installs car alarms, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
One of the suspects, Noah Lopez, 18, was shot to death by an employee during the robbery.
Two other men, Toney Stith, 26, and Anthony Peyron, 19, were wounded in the shootout and will face charges once they are released from the hospital, Pacheco said.
All of the men are gang members, he said.
According to police, four men went into the business, at 3040 N. Stone Ave., and confronted an employee, forcing him into the back office.
The business owner, who was in the office, pulled out a shotgun and fired, wounding Anthony Peyron.
The suspects attempted to flee but encountered a locked door.
Lopez turned to the business owner and shot him in the forearm.
The employee retrieved a handgun from his tool kit and fatally shot Lopez, who turned his gun on the employee.
Lopez was pronounced dead at the scene.
Stith was wounded in the lower extremities, while Carlos Peyron was hit in the back of the head with the stock of the shotgun.
The victims held the suspects at gunpoint until police officers arrived two minutes after the shooting was reported.
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Old joke, was a britisher and three perps robbing his Garage, cops when calle said "too buisy, nobody available" he called back and said send the coroner I've shot them all, Twenty cops and a helicopter hit five minutes later, Officers caught the perps red handed and said
"I thought you said you shot them"
Homeowner replied
"I thought you said nobody was available"
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You don't have to go to Brittan for that. when i lived in Pueblo, CO (where they would sick the hose if they were giving the state an enema) we were having a gang related territorial dispute on my block. 3 nights in a row, shots fired. average response time for PD:45 minutes. 4th night, i called dispatch "since the PD has shown they are unable or unwilling to provide for public saftey, i will open fire on the gang-bangers who are shooting in the park across the street in 10 minutes. i can assure i will hit my mark."
sirens in less than 30 seconds. i had a nice discussion with the shift captain, and gang task force on street talking to hoodlums the next day. night after that they began playing 2 blocks over.
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about one month later, i got a good offer for employment and we moved out to GA. never missed the place.
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Another way around the problem, if you want a LOT of police there, and in a hurry, is to make a "gang rape in progress" call. Cops will be pedal to the metal across the town, and arrive with a bad attitude.
The one thing you don't want to be doing at ground zero is to be carrying a gun. Anybody who is, and not in uniform, is likely to get shot.
A routine traffic stop in Montana turns ugly. Turn up your computer volume. Listen for the first "click" as the driver pulls out and points the gun at the Trooper....a 41 Magnum Revolver. The "click" is the hammer dropping on an already fired round in the cylinder. The second round was live. A lucky Trooper indeed! The suspect was shot in the back while driving away and died on scene after crashing into a building.
Observe the speed at which the Trooper draws his weapon and fires. Accurately. Practice makes perfect. Clearly fits the Texas definition of someone "who needs kill'n."
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I countrd 14 shots by the cop, Good shooting, you can also see when the badie hits a power pole and the wires shorted (Electric Flash)
Good riddance asshole.
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lucky cop. stupid drunk.
yes. some folks just need killin'
Darwin wins!
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Holy smoke!!!!!!!!! One lucky Trooper, and good shooting. Dug deep into the luck barrel and took advantage of the break. His shooting of the perp just may have saved some innocent person's life by getting the drunk driver stopped.
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G'day ladies: Women in the township of Tennant Creek, between Darwin and Alice Springs, have been complaining of an amorous local
A kangaroo that is looking for love in all the wrong places is terrorising women in a small Australian country town. The amorous animal has been spotted around the Honeymoon Ranges in Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory, making every effort to woo a woman.
One resident told the local newspaper that she was walking along a bike trail when she realised she was being followed by the randy roo early one morning. She said: 'I turned around and saw this big kangaroo behind me, so I hastened my steps.
'It seemed a bit odd, but I continued walking and didn't think much about it. Then on the return walk he was there waiting for me. With his male pride on full alert, he started circling me.
'There was no doubt about what he wanted, the randy old thing.
'It was a huge kangaroo and quite intimidating. I yelled at him to go away, waved my hands about and let him know I wasn't interested, but he was persistent - I'll give him that.'
The woman said it only bounded off when other walkers approached.
And it made another revealing appearance at a night-time speedway event. Tanya Wilson, a mother of three, noticed the kangaroo had come to check out the action. She said: 'I thought it was strange that a kangaroo would come to such a noisy place, but I grew up around kangaroos so I went up to say hello.
'There I was having a nice chat to him when I heard others calling out to me, warning me to step away. I didn't take any notice of them because I didn't think I had anything to worry about. I thought he was just a cute, friendly kangaroo."
Tanya was oblivious to the clear arousal of the creature, but other speedway fans knew his intentions were not honourable.
She added: 'Apparently he was quite aroused. I'm actually glad I didn't notice.'
There were reports that a male speedway fan confronted the kangaroo in a bid to scare it away, but came off second best when it punched him in the face.
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With his male pride on full alert, he started circling me. 'There was no doubt about what he wanted, the randy old thing. 'It was a huge kangaroo and quite intimidating.
The Aussies have a certain way with words. I wonder if Roo is listed on the National Sex Offender Registry? :)
There were reports that a male speedway fan confronted the kangaroo in a bid to scare it away, but came off second best when it punched him in the face.
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One of the all time worst movies was Matilda (1978), about a boxing kangaroo, starring Elliott Gould. It was a stinker from stinkersville, and featured an animatronic kangaroo that looked like a hideous demon. Which is not a good look for a children's movie cute animal.
Its IMDb rating is 3.2.
[regarding Bernie taking baby kangaroo 'Junior' to the gym]
Kathleen Smith: Bernie, it's inhuman to do that to a baby kangaroo! It's inhuman!
Bernie Bonnelli: Has anyone ever told you that you're always repeating yourself? This is no ordinary kangaroo... Junior's different. Remember who his father was.
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'It was a huge kangaroo and quite intimidating. I yelled at him to go away, waved my hands about and let him know I wasn't interested, but he was persistent - I'll give him that.'
Are you sure it wasn't just a guy in a kangaroo suit? :-)
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key found himself in hot water Thursday after joking about an indigenous tribe eating him for dinner.
Key has been at loggerheads with a Maori tribe, the Tuhoe, over negotiations to settle their grievances over land confiscations by European settlers in the 19th century.
During a speech to a tourism conference Thursday, Key joked about having dinner with the neighbouring Ngati Porou tribe, or iwi.
"The good news is that I was having dinner with Ngati Porou as opposed to their neighbouring iwi which is Tuhoe, in which case I would have been dinner, which wouldn't have been quite so attractive," Key said.
A settlement negotiator with the Tuhoe tribe, Tamati Kruger, told Radio New Zealand the joke was in poor taste.
"I'm just astounded that the prime minister can make light of what we regard as a very, very serious situation (over the negotiations)," Kruger said.
"I don't think it's becoming at all of a prime minister."
An MP for the Maori Party, which supports Key's government and has two leaders serving as government ministers, said the joke was unfortunate.
"Well the first thing to say is, it's probably correct, and the second thing is (it's) probably not politically correct wise in the current climate," said Te Ururoa Flavell.
Cannibalism remains a sensitive subject in New Zealand, where Maori warriors sometimes ate their defeated enemies until the practice died out in the mid-19th century, according to historians.
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Man, if there's an American politician out there descended from the Donner Party, you goddamn know that it'd be a standard opening gag in his opponents' stump speeches.
I know *I'm* not eating at that new Rey Azteca restaurant that's opening up over by the dollar theatre.
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The PM could have said he finds cannibalism "distasteful." Or, "If you don't like my remarks, you can just eat me." "I've got a bone to pick with you?" Or, "You all act as if you have no spleen." "You need to grow a set?"
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Just flew in from meeting with the Tuhoe and are my arms...OH MY GOD! THEY ATE THEM!!
Hey, just kidding, folks! I'm here all week. Try the Ngati Porou, it's to die for! Don't forget to tip your waitress! Goodnight everybody!
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. - A fourteen-year-old autistic boy is facing terrorist charges after a sketch he made in school. Looks like the school district has more money than they need if they are willing to devote attention to this situation in this manner. Have the counselor look at it instead if they must.
The sketch shows two stick-figures. One of them is labeled 'Me' and is shown shooting a gun at another with a teacher's name above it. You can get this kind of reaction from an autistic kid for the smallest denial of a preferred activity or item. Nothing to see here, folks.
Karen Finn says that her son, 8th grader Shane Finn, doesn't understand why he is in trouble. She says the boy is autistic and has the mental capacity of a 3rd grader. That's OK, some adults in positions of responsibility have the maturity and mental capacity of a third grader, too.
Officials at Ridgeview Charter School say the student will face a tribunal and is being charged with making terrorist threats. We need better school officals. These folks don't have a clue and don't belong where they are. A charter school? I thought they were supposed to know better.
Finn says she plans to fight the charges. Why bother? Let them show the world what they are. Then sue them in court and take home a pile of $$$. Hitting them in the pocketbook is the best way to get a school district's attention.
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Doesn't sound like these school officials have too much experience with autistic kids. These kids require a lot of patience. Some have little or no expression and no communication. The fact that this boy is expressing himself gives a teacher something to work with if they are willing to set aside preconceived notions about what they think is going on in the kids head.
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Autistic kids can be a big challenge. I recall seeing autistic twins one time. They had invented their own language. It seemed they knew what they were communicating but no one else did.
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This is probably doing a *lot* of damage to the kid - punishing him for communicating is just going to drive him to not communicate at all.
What they should have done is use this as an opprotunity to communicate with the child - attempt to get him to open up about his feelings and express himself more (and possibly in a more constructive way). They are just going to drive him to follow his tendency to *not* communicate.
As for the school officials - someone ought to be fired. Not allowed to resign or laid off - outright F-I-R-E-D.
CLIMATE change could make much of the world too hot for human habitation within just three centuries, research released on Tuesday showed. That does it. I'm leaving. To where? Mars is also warming ... Man, it's gonna suck when I'm 345 years old...
Scientists from Australia's University of New South Wales and Purdue University in the United States found that rising temperatures in some places could mean humans would be unable to adapt or survive.
'It would begin to occur with global-mean warming of about seven degrees Celsius (13 Fahrenheit), calling the habitability of some regions into question,' the researchers said in a paper. 'With 11-12 degrees Celsius warming, such regions would spread to encompass the majority of the human population as currently distributed.'
Because the kind of people who are scientists in Australia and the U.S. are not descended from people who migrated from somewhere else. For goodness sake, the history of Homo sapians is migration! Does no one remember the Out of Africa theory?
Researcher Professor Steven Sherwood said there was no chance of the earth heating up to seven degrees this century, but there was a serious risk that the continued burning of fossil fuels could create the problem by 2300. 'There's something like a 50/50 chance of that over the long term,' he said.
Three hundred fifty years is not the long term in terms of the Earth's climate trends. A million years or several is just getting into the medium term.
The study - which examined climate change over a longer period than most other research - looked at the 'heat stress' produced by combining the impact of rising temperatures and increased humidity. Hmmmmm...looks like it needs more study.
Mildred, bring me the grant paperwork. No, the federal stuff...
The fools published now using U.N. numbers? Why the overwhelming need to catapult to the status of international laughing stock?
Dr Sherwood said climate change research had been 'short-sighted' not to probe the long-term consequences of the impact of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. 'It needs to be looked at,' he told AFP. 'There's not much we can do about climate change over the next two decades but there's still a lot we can do about the longer term changes.'
In a commentary on the paper, published in the US-based Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Australian National University academics said climate change would not stop in 2100.'And under realistic scenarios out to 2300, we may be faced with temperature increases of 12 degrees (Celsius) or even more,' Professor Tony McMichael said. 'If this happens, our current worries about sea level rise, occasional heatwaves and bushfires, biodiversity loss and agricultural difficulties will pale into insignificance beside a major threat - as much as half the currently inhabited globe may simply become too hot for people to live there.' ...and nobody alive today will know if they're right or wrong.
They'll get a hint if the current cooling trend continues...
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I doubt I'll be around to care.
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You mean to say it might be as warm as the Medieval Warming Period? You know that horrible time that gave rise to the Renaissance, and 'enlightenment' of Europe?
But wait! Doesn't that contribute to Global Warming? I mean, if you consider things like, you know, thermodynamics?
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I'm confused. I thought the current proper term was "climate change" instead of "global warming". Or do we switch to "global warming" from Memorial Day to Labor Day....kind of like the old white shoe/straw hat rule?
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I expect the Germans have already reserved their seats with beach towels
:)
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One of those dog man bites man stories? If global warming melts the polar caps, won't the flooding that's supposed to occur in 10, 20, 290 years cool things. Hmmmmnnnn. I wonder if I can get some Obama dollars to study this problem for the next 290 years.
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We'll be fine. At the rate civilization is going, everyone will be too in debt and poor to afford anything except some dirt and the very few elite with the power won't have a big enough carbon footprint to effect mother earth.
So don't worry about it and enjoy your coming serfdom!
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So are there no cities in these "some places" and "some regions" in which people live? Urban areas tend to be around 10 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside already with no effect on habitability.
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Move from NY to FLA nd the "Warming" is about ten times the 7 degres they're so panicked over.
Another Bullshit "Scare them" warning.
Do these morons get points on some rating scale for the most unbelievable "Scare" notice?
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I've been trying to convert my youngest son ever since he lectured me on the global warming he learned from his astronomy professor. I think he's part-way there. I sent him the link this morning, and he replied:
In 300 years the burning of fossil fuels will be an obselete method of power. By then we'll be running on cold fusion or Iron Man's arc reactor (just saw I.M. 2) and people will be alarmed about long term effects of that. It won't matter anyway because the Earth's population will have doubled by then and we'll be colonizing Jupiter.
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I can finally visit Canada without freezing my ass off.
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With 11-12 degrees Celsius warming
Not gonna happen Charlie. Geologic timescale: CO2 vs Temp
During the Precambrian, when CO2 concentrations were 20X today, temps were even lower than today, though probably due to volcanism.
During the Cambrian when CO2 was 8X today, it never got over 7°C more than today. In the Permian, when CO2 was even lower than today, temps were about 8°C higher than today.
While there is a correlation between CO2 and temp, it is not absolute. The thing to notice is that CO2 levels and temps have been dropping for the past 50M years and Gaia was not happy freezing her t!ts off. So she invented humans to burn Sh!t.
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Wasn't the Permian about when a lot of the CO2 started on its way to becoming coal?
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Close. That would be the Carboniferous period when plants started producing lignin. Bacteria could not digest it and until they evolved to do so, all that plant material did not decompose but got buried to form coal, old, gas, shale oil. You can see the big CO2 drop off 350M years ago.
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Thanks, ed. Geology was never my strong suit. I was a EE-major who voluntarily took thermodynamics as a science elective.
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Gaia was not happy freezing her t!ts off. So she invented humans to burn Sh!t.
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The hottest places on Earth, the humid tropics, never get above 35C, because of the physics of water/water vapour.
Incredibly, Sherwood is supposed to be an expert on the effect of water vapour in the atmosphere.
Prof. Steven Sherwood received his Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1995. He joined UNSW in January of this year, coming off previous positions as a researcher at NASA and professor at Yale University where he taught courses on atmospheric physics and global warming. His expertise is in the behaviour of atmospheric storms, clouds and humidity, and the relationship of these to climate. He has also done extensive work on climate observation. He has authored several dozen peer-reviewed publications, and has served as a co-author and/or reviewer on several government reports including the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and the first report of the US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) in 2006.
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Scripps, here in La Jolla, used to be a celebrated bastion of oceanography. Apparently, the siren call of AGW grants have created lying grant whores and taken away the long-built reputation. Sad.
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If we're all gonna die, we might as well enjoy our barbeques until then I say.
Earth's population will have doubled by then and we'll be colonizing Jupiter
What about gravity? Everybody's going to end up looking like Rosie.
A 'GIANT herring' measuring 3.5 metres has been discovered off Sweden's western coast - the first such fish found in the Scandinavian country in more than 130 years, a maritime museum said on Tuesday. My God! It's...Herringzilla!
The Regalecus glesne, known as the King of Herrings or Giant Oarfish, was found dead in the small fishing village of Bovallstrand on Sweden's west coast, about 90 kilometres from the Norwegian border. If it's dead we don't need to worry, do we ...
'Down at the water, there was something big floating. At first we thought it was a big piece of plastic. But then we saw an eye. I went down to check and saw that it was this extremely strange fish,' Kurt Ove Eriksson, the passer-by who found the specimen, told daily Svenska Dagbladet. And, ya know, the thing about a herring... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes...
The rarely seen regalecus, the world's longest bony fish, can reach up to 12 meters. 'The last time we saw a King of Herrings in Sweden was in 1879,' the House of the Sea museum in Lysekil, where the fish was taken to, said in a statement.
'We don't know much about the species,' it said, 'but believe it lives in deep waters, at least 1000 metres deep, and many believe it's at the origin of the sea serpent myth,' or stories of mythological sea creatures like the Loch Ness Monster.
The dead fish, which was frozen at the museum, had a deep cut through its body and was missing its beautiful, typical back fin, the museum said, adding the fish might be added to an exhibit on sea monsters planned later this year.
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might be able to cut a tree with that one...
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This isn't a herring at all. What the Scandinavians call "King of the Herrings" is a species called oarfish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish
They're found in all seas.
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Red herring alert !
/groan
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Abu, as one who 'til recently said Ni, well done.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A mugger was beaten to death by locals in the city's Gabtoli area yesterday morning and an alleged criminal was bullet-hit during a gunfight between his cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion in Lalbagh in the early hours yesterday.
The mugger was identified as Anwar Hossain, 28, while the criminal as Faisal Parvez, 30, of Nazimuddin Road under Bangshal Police Station. He lives under Bangshal Police Station? Or soon will?
Witnesses said a gang of three to four muggers intercepted Mohammad Shahjahan, a supervisor of Suryamukhi Paribahan, 35, near Karalipara Mosque around 5:30am when he was returning home after his work.
The muggers stabbed him in the hand and took away Tk 5,000. When he cried out for help, locals rushed in, caught Anwar and beat him up while the others managed to flee.
Anwar was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries at about 8:30am.
Meanwhile in Shahidnagar embankment area of Lalbagh, criminal Faisal sustained bullet injuries in a gunfight.
A gang of three criminals opened fire on Rab personnel when a team of Rab-10 challenged them, Rab members said.
Faisal was hit by bullets as the Rab personnel fired back.
Faisal could not flee with bullet wounds in his leg while two others fled the scene. Save yourselves!
You got it, Faisal. Feets don't fail me now!
The Rab team recovered a revolver with three bullets, two cell phones and 100 yaba tablets from his possession. Yeah, sarge. Another guy high on the yaba.
By the way sarge...what's yaba?
Faisal was admitted to Mitford Hospital. Woah, he's alive? Did you guys run outta bullets or sumthin?
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I think yaba is one component in a complex arraingement commomly refered to as yaba-daba-do.
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yaba is caffeine and methamphet and it should be the Bangla version of our lovely scooby Deacon
Yaba-Rab-a-do !
The Rapid Action Battalion sure are an active bunch , I guess you'd have to be with all those crazy meth heads running around !
:)
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Probably the worst mugging I ever heard of was the attempted robbery of two world class, street fighting, very senior Kenpo black belts.
It ended up with the mugger fleeing for his life, buck naked, screaming, much of his backside an asphalt road rash, and large, irregular clumps of hair missing from his scalp.
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Caffene and methamphetamine?
Is that anything like an APC we used to use as a headache cure? (Aspirin Phenabarbitol Caffene)
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Ya ba (also Yaba, Yaa baa, Ya baa or Yah bah; Thai: ÂÒºéÒ, literally "madness drug") are tablets containing a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine.
Alternative names
They are sometimes called Bhul Bhuliya in India and Shabu in the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan. Streetnames in North Thailand include 'Chocaleee' as the taste left in the mouth is somewhat sweet.
The drug is also known as "Nazi speed" as it was originally created by German scientists during World War II to increase the endurance of their soldiers.
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[Dawn] Supporters of Kyrgyzstan's ousted leader seized the regional government office in the southern city of Osh on Thursday, in the latest sign of resistance against the country's interim government.
A Reuters witness in Kyrgyzstan's second-biggest city said supporters of Kurmanbek Bakiyev, toppled in last month's violent revolt, scuffled with guards and entered the government building after holding a demonstration that drew about 1,000 people.
They demanded that a pro-Bakiyev regional governor, sacked by the Central Asian nation's interim government, be restored.
Any further trouble in Osh, at the heart of Central Asia's most flammable and ethnically divided corner, would be of concern to regional powers, keen to maintain stability in a country home to a US and a Russian military air base.
The interim government is made up of Bakiyev opponents who have accused him of ordering troops to fire on protesters during last month's upheaval, as well corruption and nepotism during his five-year rule.
In Bishkek, the capital, interim government chief of staff Edil Baisalov told Reuters that "measures will be taken to restore authority" in the city of Osh. He did not elaborate.
"Those are actions of revanchist forces, they will fizzle out soon," interim government spokesman Farid Niyazov said.
Interior Ministry spokesman Bakyt Seitov said police were monitoring the situation and would not allow an escalation of unrest.
Bakiyev fled and his opponents claimed power in Kyrgyzstan after protesters stormed government buildings in Bishkek in early April. At least 85 people were killed in clashes between protesters, some of them armed, and police who fired into crowds.
The interim government has struggled to stamp its authority across the impoverished, predominantly Muslim ex-Soviet republic, particularly in Bakiyev's southern power base.
On Wednesday, it faced its first large public protest in the capital as hundreds of opponents, many of them members of Bakiyev's Ak Zhol party and the allied Communists, demonstrated against the dissolution of parliament.
Ak Zhol and Communists threatened to further protests on Thursday.
Bakiyev initially fled to the south and sought to muster support after his overthrow, but later left for Kazakhstan and then took refuge in Belarus. He insists he remains president but has said he would not seek to return in that role.
The US base at Bishkek's Manas airport is key to US efforts to supply forces fighting in nearby Afghanistan.
Moscow and Washington have both expressed support for the interim government, which has promised to hold new parliamentary elections in October.
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Japan's proposal to build a pile-supported runway at the agreed relocation site for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa has been criticized by the United States as a terrorism risk that offers no environmental tradeoffs, sources close to bilateral relations said.
According to the sources, the U.S. side told Japan through unofficial contacts that a pile-supported runway would have as much negative environmental impact on the ocean as the 2006 reclamation plan because it would prevent sunlight from reaching the seabed and result in the destruction of seaweed beds. The U.S. also told Tokyo that the impact of creating 140 hectares of dark sea surface under the runway is difficult to predict, the sources said. Global warming would have to be one impact.
Washington argues that the construction method, called a quick installation platform, could cause as much damage at Camp Schwab off Nago as filling in the shallows in the area, dismissing Tokyo's hopes of minimizing the environmental impact of the original Futenma plan signed in 2006, the sources said.
As for terrorism, the U.S. has already said it is reluctant to endorse the plan because terrorist attacks could be launched from beneath the runway. Nah! They couldn't see anything. The candles don't work.
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ION NOT-TOKYO, WMF > US ENGAGED IN LUNAR MADNESS: WEST STANDS FOR BLOWING UP/DESTROYING THE MOON!? FORMAL RETURN OF CHINA TO THE MOON BEFORE THE US SIGNALS THE DECLINE OF US GLOBAL, SPACE DOMINANCE.
A big mystery seller of futures contracts during the market meltdown last week was not a hedge fund or a high-frequency trader as many have suspected, but money manager Waddell & Reed Financial Inc, according to a document obtained by Reuters.
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And I keep reading derogatory information about the performance of the Aegis-equivalent radar and missiles on those frigates, to the effect that their ESSM-equivalent can't hit sea-skimming missiles of the sort that are all the style from threat nations.
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I kinda like the idea that other nation's ships are inferior, makes it easier if we need to sink them.
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Suggestion: Greece shouldn't buy any major weapons systems for a while. Let them fix their financial problems. There isn't going to be a war anywhere in the world where we, the Euros or anyone else is going to be depending on the Greeks. Let them use what they have now, let them train their military to be good and efficient with what they have now, and when the crunch is over, say in five or ten years, they can then figure out what kind of military they need and how to equip it.
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You never know. They might want to make trouble in Cyprus again.
FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to pull his country out of the euro currency group to force Germany to help Greece with its debt crisis, El Pais newspaper reported, quoting Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Mr Sarkozy made the threat at a Brussels summit of EU leaders last Friday that sealed a rescue package, Zapatero told a meeting with leaders of his Socialist Party on Wednesday, the newspaper reported today.
Germany, Europe's biggest economy, has been the most reluctant euro nation to help the Greek government. However, the French President demanded "a commitment by everyone, for everyone to help Greece, each according to his means or France would reexamine its situation in the euro," Mr Zapatero was quoted as saying.
"Sarkozy banged his fist on the table and threatened to withdraw from the euro, which twisted the arm of Angela Merkel," the German chancellor, a Socialist official who heard Zapatero's account was quoted as saying.
The Brussels summit finally agreed a 110 billion ($154.02 billion) three-year package of loans and credit guarantees for Greece, which had risked defaulting on its huge debts.
"France, Italy and Spain put up a common front against Germany and Sarkozy went so far as to threaten to break the traditional Franco-German axis," according to another person at the meeting. France and Germany are traditionally considered the central motor of EU initiatives.
Spain and Portugal also face major debt problems and Mr Zapatero announced new austerity measures on Wednesday. El Pais said the Spanish leader has used increasingly dramatic rhetoric in recent days to convince his party of the gravity of the crisis facing the euro.
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I imagine the typical German on the street is fuming about this for several reasons. The first is that France gets a huge chunk of the EU budget as farm subsidies. The second is that, as such, it was a pathetic threat, and Merkel buckled under that little bit of pressure.
I could imagine a similar situation in the US were say, Obama to propose a 10% federal tax increase, solely to pay Mexican companies to hire more Mexicans.
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I wonder why Merkel did not accept Sarkozy offer. A large part of Greece problem is the euro. If the euro goes, Greece can devalue her currency. Germany does not have to pay anything.
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I was against the Euro, when it was forced upon us without any democratic controls. It was the price Germany had to pay to France for its reunification.
The Euro never made sense economically because the economies of the countries were so different.
But Sarkozy threatening to leave the eurozone? Good riddance. We can have the Deutsche Mark back in no time, thank you very much.
Every promise, every guarantee about the euro has been broken.
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Bernardz... unfortunately no.
Nobody is bailing out Greece (or any other country) but once again banks.
I wonder how much longer the people will suffer being robbed blind this way. "Saving the Euro" with hundreds of billions? What for?
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It would be in Germany's best interest to leave the EU. They are getting dragged down with the dregs.
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Not the EU. But the EU needs sweeping democratic reforms, and the EU Commission needs to be abolished. This is not an elected entity but influences our daily life more than national parliaments. This must end.
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FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to pull his country out of the euro currency group to force Germany to help Greece with its debt crisis...
Angela Merkel should have said, "Pull my finger Sarky"
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I don't know about the folks up north, but I can probably tell you what the people down in Bavaria think of the concept of the French pulling out, wahhahahahaha.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned against the devaluation of euro against other currencies, saying it is threatening the whole European Union project.
The warning came after the EU's single currency sank to a 14-month low of 1.26 dollars over concerns about sky-high deficits of eurozone nations like Greece, Portugal and Spain.
"If the euro fails, it's not only the currency that fails but much more, it's Europe that fails and with it the idea of the European Union," AFP quoted Merkel as saying.
She, however, said that "we must keep that promise" to assure the euro's stability.
Merkel also criticized the EU for what she said was the lack of common "economic and political union" among its members.
"We have a common currency but we don't have economic and political union," she said.
The EU on Sunday approved a 750 billion euro rescue package to prop up European economies struggling with large debts.
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I didn't know Merkel was brain dead, this is about a month late.
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See also TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > {European Commission = EC] GREECE, DEBT CRISES FORCING EUROPE TO LAY/MAKE A NEW FOUNDATION FOR EURO [+ Euro-Union/Zone].
IOW, EU-SPECIFIC CONFEDERATISM must evol towards US-STYLE INTEGRATION ala POLITICAL, ECON, FISCAL + MONETARY + KULTURAL, ...........@ETC. UNION = CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLICANISM???
We missed watching our early-mid 1970's
"SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK" on kiddie TV, didn't we?
[Iran Press TV Latest] In Spain, the General Union of Workers (Union General de Trabajadores) is calling for a public sector workers strike in early June. The union urged all public workers to "observe a general strike on June 2", Reuters reported.
The call for the strike comes as a response to measures taken by the Spanish government to decrease its huge deficit. Earlier, another major union, CCOO, also threatened it would call for a strike over the government's new plan.
Spanish Prime Minister José Zapatero, who has experienced being threatened by talks of general strikes before, met with the leaders of both unions on Thursday, trying to explain the need behind the plan. Guess the socialist and the labor leaders aren't pals anymore ...
Later on Wednesday, Zapatero announced austerity measures worth 15 billion Euros over a period of two years. Chump change ...
The new plan includes "a five-percent pay cut for public workers, a partial freeze on pensions and the scrapping of a 2,500-euro payout to parents for the birth of children.
According to Spanish media, the wage cut measure was the first since the end of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship in 1975. I hear he's still dead...
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I hear he's still dead..
...and pro'lly glad to be done with this whole mess.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who has been critical of Arizona's new immigration law, said Thursday he hasn't yet read the law and is going by what he's read in newspapers or seen on television.
Mr. Holder is conducting a review of the law, at President Obama's request, to see if the federal government should challenge it in court. He said he expects he will read the law by the time his staff briefs him on their conclusions.
"I've just expressed concerns on the basis of what I've heard about the law. But I'm not in a position to say at this point, not having read the law, not having had the chance to interact with people are doing the review, exactly what my position is," Mr. Holder told the House Judiciary Committee.
This weekend Mr. Holder told NBC's "Meet the Press" program that the Arizona law "has the possibility of leading to racial profiling." He had earlier called the law's passage "unfortunate," and questioned whether the law was unconstitutional because it tried to assume powers that may be reserved for the federal government.
Rep. Ted Poe, who had questioned Mr. Holder about the law, wondered how he could have those opinions if he hadn't yet read the legislation.
"It's hard for me to understand how you would have concerns about something being unconstitutional if you haven't even read the law," the Texas Republican told the attorney general.
The Arizona law's backers argue that it doesn't go beyond what federal law already allows, and they say press reports have distorted the legislation. They point to provisions in the law that specifically rule out racial profiling as proof that it can be implemented without conflicting with civil rights.
But critics said giving police the power to stop those they suspect are in the country illegally is bound to lead to profiling.
Mr. Holder said he expects the Justice and Homeland Security departments will finish their review of the Arizona law soon.
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Mr Holder, it's like this.
They had to pass it so you could see what's in parts of the US Code regarding legal immigrants, a section that an important man named FDR passed long before you were born. (We know that FDR was important because he's on the dime. Yep, those bright, shiny little coins that you like so much! Uh, no...he's on the other side. I don't know what that funky thing is either, but it's not a head. Are you being silly again, Eric? You are so funny, and it's not even tickle time!)
It's sort of like your refrigerator. The important thing is that the light comes on when you open the door and your juice boxes stay cold. You don't need to worry about all those curly wiry things in the back.
That's it for story time. Now sit down like a good little man, drink your yummy juice, and don't steal the crayons from Joey Biden. That makes him cry. Take turns and share, or it's time out for you. Got it?
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It's agreed the man is an idiot. it only remains to name exactly what kind of idiot: utter, complete, flaming, f***ing... feel free to add your own.
The legislature finds that there is compelling interest in the cooperative enforcement of federal immigration laws throughout all of Arizona.
First sentence, first paragraph.
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"feel free to add your own"
All of the above, Swanimote. ;-p
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In other news:
Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda have so far failed to produce an agreement.
The unrest began last Tuesday when Al Qaeda announced that the number of virgins a suicide bomberwould receive after his death will be cut by 25% this May from 72 to only 54. The rationale for the cut was the increase in recent years of the number of suicide bombings and a subsequent shortage of virgins in the afterlife.
The suicide bombers' union, the British Organization of Occupational Martyrs, (B.O.O.M.), responded with a statement that this was unacceptable to its members and immediately balloted for strike action.
General Secretary Abdullah Amir told the press, "Our members are literally working themselves to death in the cause of Jihad. We don't ask for much in return but to be treated like this is like a kick in the teeth."
Speaking from his shed in Tipton in the West Midlands in which he currently resides, Al Qaeda chief executive Osama bin Laden explained, "We sympathize with our workers' concerns but Al Qaeda is simply not in a position to meet their demands. They are not accepting the realities of modern-day Jihadin a competitive marketplace".
"Thanks to Western depravity, there is now a chronic shortage of virgins in the afterlife. It's a straight choice between reducing expenditure and laying people off. I don't like cutting pension benefits, but I'd hate to have to tell 3,000 of my staff that they won't be able to blow themselves up."
Spokespersons for the union in the Northeast of England, Ireland, Wales and the entire Australian continent stated that the strike would not affect their operations as "There are no virgins in our areas anyway".
A strike may not be necessary, however, as the number of suicide bombings has been decreasing lately. This has been attributed to the emergence of the Scottish singing star, Susan Boyle. Now that Muslims know what a virgin looks like, they are not so keen on going to paradise.
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We tried to warn the head bangers for their own good about those virgins, but the know-it-alls insist that some 7 century book has all the answers. This from a book that didn't even know about toilet paper when they were staring right at some.
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One of your best Besoeker, thanks for sharing.
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Thats a classic! Thank you for the laugh!
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Besoeker---That was a masterpiece!!!!!!!
Mods---Please put this in the Rantburg Classics, at least I vote for it!
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After a week of preemptive attacks on a possible IMF bailout of Greece, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) introduces the European Bailout Protection Act, aimed at preventing taxpayer dollars from going to a rescue plan.
"This legislation would require that countries like Greece cut spending and put their own fiscal house in order," says Pence, backed up by other members of the House GOP, "instead of looking to the United States for a bailout. We face record unemployment and a debt crisis of our own, and American taxpayers should not be forced to bear the risk for nations that have avoided making tough choices."
The bill "does not permanently prohibit the IMF from lending" to the troubled counties. Nevertheless, Ezra Klein is not a fan of this proposal.
U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, joined Conference Vice-Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee Rep. Jerry Lewis, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, and Rep. Kay Granger in introducing legislation today to stop U.S. tax dollars from being used by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for bailouts for European countries. Rep. Pence released the following statement today as the European Bailout Protection Act was introduced:
"The American people are fed up with taxpayer-funded bailouts and deserve to know we are bailing out Greece and possibly other European countries. If the Obama Administration has its way, the U.S. will contribute to a nearly trillion dollar bailout of European countries with economic crises that are a direct result of wasteful government spending.
"This legislation would require that countries like Greece cut spending and put their own fiscal house in order, instead of looking to the United States for a bailout. We face record unemployment and a debt crisis of our own, and American taxpayers should not be forced to bear the risk for nations that have avoided making tough choices.
The European Bailout Protection Act would:
1) Prohibit any funds that have yet to be drawn by the IMF from being used to provide financing to any EU countries until all EU nations are in compliance with the debt to GDP ratio requirement in their own collective growth pact.
2) Require the Treasury Secretary to oppose any IMF loans to EU nations until all EU countries are in compliance with their debt to GDP ratio requirement.
The bill does not permanently prohibit the IMF from lending to these nations; it simply prohibits the U.S. from participating in the proposed European bailout.
After 40 years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread. $1T plus interest over the years. Who'd like that money back now? On second thought, given the reward structure of our political system, it would have been spent on something else.
Even U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske concedes the strategy hasn't worked. Would have been nice if it had, but human nature dooms this to failure, especially in the affluent West.
"In the grand scheme, it has not been successful," Kerlikowske told The Associated Press. "Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems is, if anything, magnified, intensified." In proportion to profits.
This week President Obama promised to "reduce drug use and the great damage it causes" with a new national policy that he said treats drug use more as a public health issue and focuses on prevention and treatment. Give it a shot. I don't think we could do much worse given the statistics we are seeing. If it fails, try another tack. I wonder how this approach would affect his proposed healthcare structure and budget. It might redirect law enforcement dollars to healthcare.
Nevertheless, his administration has increased spending on interdiction and law enforcement to record levels both in dollars and in percentage terms; this year, they account for $10 billion of his $15.5 billion drug-control budget.
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One could conceive an alternate drug policy that might work. Shoot the dealers, ensure no health or other benefits to addicts and then ...
Well, the secondary effects of that one would be pretty poor too.
The real issue lies in the culture and society. Fix that and the drugs issue dies down. Fail to fix it and no policy will work IMO, including the policy to decriminalize.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A supreme court in Pakistan has ordered prison authorities to facilitate a young woman to marry her fiancé, a death row prisoner, inside the jailer's office.
The Lahore High Court, the highest court in the largest Pakistani province of Punjab, issued orders on the petition of a woman Laiba Seher, 27, who pleaded that marrying her childhood fiancé was her fundamental right but jail authorities had refused her earlier request.
Her fiancé, Atiqur Rehman, 28, was sentenced to death along with three other accused in a case of kidnapping and demanding ransom eight years ago and has been waiting for the decision of his appeal against the conviction which is pending before the Supreme Court.
The judge observed that there was no law allowing marriages of prisoners serving sentences for serious crimes. But taking recourse to the fundamental rights enshrined in country's constitution, he ordered the jail authorities to arrange performing of the marriage ceremony only and not to facilitate the girl to have conjugal rights with her would-be husband.
The girl was not totally happy with the order, but her lawyer said she could file another appeal for allowing her to have conjugal rights with her husband. A recent legislation in the country has allowed wives of prisoners serving long terms to pay conjugal visits to husbands for one or two days every month.
"This legislation is yet to be implemented in Punjab due to insufficient funds which prevented the authorities from creating the kind of facilities including construction of separate rooms required for the purpose," said a jail official.
However, the official admitted that prisons in the port city of Karachi, the capital of neighboring Sindh province, had begun allowing conjugal visits to prisoners' spouses.
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Space shuttle Atlantis thundered away on its final voyage to orbit Friday, hoisting an experienced crew of six and a full shipment of space station gear.
This 12-day mission is the last one planned for Atlantis, the fourth in NASA's line of space shuttles. Only two flights remain after this one, by Discovery and Endeavour. NASA plans to end the 30-year program by the end of this year.
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I understand it, they were looking at something akin to perpetual energy (And scratching their heads), Apparently more output than input, but after thorough examination it wasn't.
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Good to see Dr. Holonyak still in the game, and my alma mater still contributing something even despite the state's woes.
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Just goes to show that good and creative thinking doesn't always require that a lot of money to be thrown at something.
Kirchoff's law is an electron conservation law for electric circuits. Because power is a function of current, and current is merely number of protons, its possible to use Kirchoff's law as a surrogate for computing the energy usage in a circuit. They were doing research on a three junction transistor that emits laser light, and their computer model results were not matching up with the experimental results, so they were looking for the discrepency. Well, photons are pure energy so the power loss on the circuit would be higher than predicted. They went back and modified the power computation to factor in the power loss through the laser light, and the models started matching reality.
Someone page Dr. Mann: this is how computer models are SUPPOSED to be debugged!
Now known as Commander Dead...
[Straits Times] A ROGUE army general turned leader of anti-government protests was shot in the head with a high-powered rifle last night, possibly fired by a sniper, as Bangkok again erupted in violence. Dramatic television footage showed red shirt protesters cradling the bloody head of Major-General Khattiya Sawasdipol.
'Seh Daeng' (Commander Red), as he was known, was shot as he was being interviewed by International Herald Tribune reporter Thomas Fuller inside the protest movement's barricades near the top of Silom road. So you can take these guys, right, Commander Red?
BANG...THUMP
I'll take that as a "no". I'd spread the word that Tommy set him up ...
Tension gripped downtown Bangkok as the mood at the rally site turned ugly. Red shirts took over key intersections, armed with firecrackers and sticks, and set up barricades. "Don't bring firecrackers to a gunfight."
Another protester was reportedly shot dead later as clashes broke out between protesters and security forces.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva extended a state of emergency already in place for the capital and surrounding areas to 15 more provinces, a security official said late yesterday.
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The head of the Serbian military intelligence, Dragutin Dimitrijević, his right hand man Major Vojislav Tankosić, and Masterspy Rade Malobabić, thought killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was a good idea too. /sarc off
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This ain't WWI. It's Asia, try thinking about Tiananmen instead. Thais are pretty laid back, but bottom line is: you obey the boss -- and when it comes time to thump heads, watch out!
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.
G'day ladies: Women in the township of Tennant Creek, between Darwin and Alice Springs, have been complaining of an amorous local
CLIMATE change could make much of the world too hot for human habitation within just three centuries, research released on Tuesday showed.
A 'GIANT herring' measuring 3.5 metres has been discovered off Sweden's western coast - the first such fish found in the Scandinavian country in more than 130 years, a maritime museum said on Tuesday.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who has been critical of Arizona's new immigration law, said Thursday he hasn't yet read the law and is going by what he's read in newspapers or seen on television. 
After a week of preemptive attacks on a possible IMF bailout of Greece, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) introduces the European Bailout Protection Act, aimed at preventing taxpayer dollars from going to a rescue plan.
After 40 years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread.
