A Pierce County Security guard shot at a man suspected of robbing a sandwich store while armed with a handgun Wednesday night in Lakewood. And missed.
The robbery was reported at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday. The man robbed the Subway at 7701 Steilacoom Blvd. S.W. while armed with a handgun. The robber took an undisclosed amount of cash and ran from the store. He was last seen going west.
About the time of the 911 call, an armed Pierce County Security guard doing his rounds pulled into the restaurant's parking lot. The guard noticed a man running through the lot. The man wore a bandana over his face and carried a dark-colored handgun, Lawler said.
"He's not aware of the robbery," he said. "He gives chase believing some crime had been committed." "Gives chase"? Security guards don't do that. Supercop, he's not.
The guard followed the suspect in his car and on foot to behind Custer Elementary School. The guard told police that the suspect stopped and turned. RAB wouldn't even hire this guy.
"Believing he's going to be fired upon, the guard fires one round," Lawler said. Dumbass. Hope you enjoy filling out the paperwork after discharging your weapon, as well as getting terminated from your job.
The guard told police he didn't think that he hit the suspect because the suspect ran off. A police dog searched for the area but didn't find the suspect. While the guard was chasing the suspect, someone stole his personal computer and other items from his car, Lawler said. You can't make this stuff up. Barney Fife would feel embarrassed for this guy.
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#1 Son is Lakewood prosecutor; will have to check w/ him to get the juicy details, but I bet the guy was p!ssed because they chopped the number of $5.00 footlongs.......
[Straits Times] PAUL the octopus, who shot to fame during this year's football World Cup in South Africa for correctly predicting the outcome of games, has died, his aquarium in Germany said on Tuesday.
'Management and staff at the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre were devastated to discover that oracle octopus Paul, who achieved global renown during the recent World Cup, had passed away overnight,' the aquarium said in a sombre statement.
'Paul amazed the world by correctly predicting the winners of all Germany's World Cup clashes, and then of the final,' said Sea Life manager Stefan Porwoll. His success made him almost a bigger story than the World Cup itself ... We had all naturally grown very fond of him and he will be sorely missed,' said Mr Porwoll.
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[SOBBING/MOURNFUL HOMER "SO DELICIOCUS...PASS THE BUTTER" SIMPSON here].
No, so howzabout BARNEY "LOSING A BELOVED BRAND NEW BOWLING BALL IS LIKE LOSING A GOOD FRIEND" RUBBLE???
There it is!
"It is the crucial interaction of two factors -- the genetic predisposition [a specific variant of the DRD4 gene] and the environmental condition of having many friends in adolescence -- that is associated with being more liberal." And now that everyone knows what the problem is, and that it isn't anyone's "fault", perhaps now we can begin work to find a cure.
Liberalism is a cultural deal. When a person gets past the slogans and sales pitches and slander-of-others at its core is the personal transfer of self reliance towards reliance upon others. *The military lifestyle may sound similar but is a completely different ends. It is giving the title of specialist academic onto those who generally have no real world expeience but justified by these people spend all day having great thoughts so I'll do what they say and free up my critical thinking time for my personal day to day chores and recreations.
And in doing so accept the will of others over their own free will. It is taught as well as is not taught; that is if a person does not learn the tools necessary to suffer or benifit their consequences of choice the default is to lean on and blame others, making them ripe to fall for the slogans and sales pitches and peer pressures of the pitch men. The true believers will at some point have to face that and then decide how to live (I wish I could have seen Mr. Williams' face when he discovered that he was just being used) and the go-alongs can be shown another way. So it isn't a permament philosophy unless the individual makes an active committment to do so, ironically taking more mental effort to agree and tow the line than if that person just thought for themself in the first place.
And it can work well enough for the first generation, but as the second generation takes the reigns everyone has forgotton how to think for oneself and become more and more reliant upon those who become less and less knowledgable either grown in a classroom lab or nominated by family prestiege. And that creates the ruling class, elitist class, which when it comes down to it just does not give a hoot about the polis so long as they stay in line.
And when the incompetence of that class shows, the ruling class has a couple of options - buy them off or purge and that depends on the culture and history of said polis.
At least that is what I have learned and unlearned.
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The title for this article is unfortunate. Describing liberalism as a disorder rather than a morally repugnant affectation gives liberals yet another excuse to hide from the consequences of their misguided philosophy.
The study, like most of these things that hit the popular press, is about correlation not causation and is probably wrong. Even if it turns out to have some merit, it would only mean that some people would have a harder time overcoming liberalism because of their unfortunate circumstance.
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Exactly rammer. Just because a person is tall does not automatically mean that person will be good at basketball. Frank is not bringing up anything new; the ruling/elitists (who do not necessarily have to have money) will look and see that they have teh mutant x gene. Many a glorious purge has been based on the genetics or stock of a group being superior.
It is a cultural/spiritual question. It is why the smarties are always having to explain or justify their actions; the concept of the uber man. Are some people smarter than others sure, and stronger, and faster, so forth that is human nature, even twins are different on account of environment. The thing is that the flag thinkers of liberalism say that is reason enough to be a ruler by whatever name. The bobbleheads feel superior as well comfortable that they are smart enough to recognize the billiance of their ruler therefor making them smarter than those who do not recognize the authority. In reality that person has already lost their free will by voluntarily surrendering their critical thinking.
And these uber men by any means necessary must remain infallable. If that is tarnished the facade falls loose and the uber man bleeds like Joe Mortal. That is when it gets interesting and when the proponants of liberalism are most likely to break ranks and learn that by following the uber man does not make themselves elevated to the position of vice-uber but gave up their individuality and free will to match the current conformist demands of said ruling class, that they voluntarily found themself the lowest common denomenator. That instead of following Socrates they were following The Pink Panther and would have right off the damn cliff whistling official tunes all the way down.
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Hello All in burgerland.
I don't like this study and why now we hear about it- then from of all places Harvard and at UCSD. The brain maps information in the left and right and processes information in the central portion. Some are more left or more right and more equal in working the information. Right side is how you feel about things the left is the logic of things. Example: lose hearing in one ear and you can't locate sound direction. Lose sight in one eye you don't have depth perception. Born with one ear working or one eye you can locate sound and have depth perception. The brain maps input and can be modified as programed in varying degrees. Sounds to me like someone wants grant money. A right dominate brain will act with emotion. That is why they can be manipulated,for example cool aid drinkers.
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Plenty of DAILY AM. PM MINOR SHAKES felt here in Agana + Guam this week, now the EOM Halloween weekend.
* ION NOT-NECESSARILY-UNRELATED, MSM-NET > The Perts have repor observed a few STRANGE FIREBALLS/METEORS believed by NASA, etc. to emanate from passing nearby COMET HARTLEY-II.
IMO may be RELEVANT becuz I'd observed what I believe to two VERY CLOSE ASTEROID/METEOR STREAKS MOVING IN DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE PATHS = STRATEGIC VECTORS SEEMINGLY JUST OVER GUAM-WESTPAC [Post-Midnite AM > Agana Bay-WESTPAC], including the one passing SOUTH OF GUAM towards SOUTH PACIFIC [Merapi?].
JUST-ABOVE-SURFACE FLYBY ONLY???, as I've not yet found any MSM-Net News Reports on any MINOR IMPACTS IN OR NEAR THE SPECIFIC "MERAPI" VOLCANO REGION???
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The South African Sunday Times newspaper reported that the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Grace, who is 41 years younger than Zimbabwe's 86-year-old president, has had a five-year affair with Central Bank governor Gideon Gono.
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Bad choice for career. Messing around with the KIingfish's woman may make Gono Gone-O.
Like the song goes,
"Maids, when you're young, never wed an old man."
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A new ruling party campaign slogan proves Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni plans to hold on power "forever", a senior opposition leader said Thursday.
When Museveni, in power since 1986, launched his re-election campaign this week, supporters wore T-shirts bearing the president's face and the word "pakalast," a blend of Swahili and English that means "forever".
"What do they mean? That people are going to be poor forever? That we'll have corruption forever?" Salaamu Musumba, deputy president of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) told AFP. "We are going to use this as a campaign tool. Museveni can't just tell voters that he plans to be president for eternity."
Ruling party spokesman Ofwono Opondo insisted the opposition misunderstood the message. "It was just meant to show that the president will always be available to the ordinary citizens as long as they need him," he told AFP.
They're in violent agreement ...
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[Arab News] European Union heavyweights Germany and France launched their bid on Thursday to convince the rest of the EU that the bloc's main treaty must be changed to help avert new financial crises.
The Franco-German plan, which proposes changing the Lisbon treaty to create a permanent system for handling meltdowns like the Greek debt collapse, faces strong opposition from many EU member states at a two-day summit in Brussels.
The summit is expected to sign off on a new set of EU budget rules, including tougher sanctions on member states that fail to keep their deficits and debt levels in check.
But the meeting is likely to focus on treaty change, which many countries are reluctant to support because of concern about the political fallout from amending a charter that took eight years to negotiate and became law only 10 months ago.
In a sign that momentum toward change may be growing, Finnish Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi issued a statement before the summit backing the move -- which Finland had suggested earlier this week it opposed.
"The euro area needs a credible permanent crisis mechanism to ensure the financial stability of the euro area as a whole," she said. "If this new system requires treaty change, then treaty change should be done."
Speaking in Berlin before the summit, France's European affairs minister, Pierre Lellouche, said countries were warming to the Franco-German position, which he called a gift to Europe.
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I read this to two UK friends that are visiting. I love them dearly but their sense of denial is mind boggling.
As far as they are concerned the EU has nothing to do with laws or politics in the UK and the conservative (sick) gov't would not allow anything untoward to happen.
It's sad that the UK is so blinded to the almost total lack of sovereignty they now "enjoy". They don't even realize what has happened.
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I'm expecting that this incorrectly labled summit will start down the road to a single EU central bank and eventually forcing the hold outs to adopt the euro.
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Give them a copy of "The Great Deception" by Christopher Booker and Richard North. I assigned a chapter or two as required reading in a seminar on the EU I used to teach. The untoward has already happened. They will be disappointed to learn that even Thatcher had a soft spot for "Europe," at the expense of British sovereignty. I'd imagine by now that she regards it as her greatest mistake.
BTW, there is already a European Central Bank (ECB), HQed in Frankfurt. Created along with EMU (European Monetary Union) over a decade ago to manage the Euro. Doubtful that any non-EMU country can/will be forced to adopt the Euro. IMHO, the momentum may well be headed the other way (a return to national currencies).
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If I am not mistaken, doesn't the EU members have to abide by certain national debt ratios, etc etc to stay in the EU? Like, be fiscally responsible? Greece was irresponsible, and didn't Italy have these issues in the past? And nothing is done about it.
Sooo, the EU members enable this behavior. It will get them in the end. You cannot bail out everybody and survive for long.
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The EU is made up of a web of treaties, starting back in the 1950s as the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) with six members (France, Germany, Italy, and Benelux). Now there are 27 EU member states, but only 16 of them are members of EMU ("Eurozone" countries that have adopted the euro currency). EMU is a separate treaty that got underway in the 1990s. EMU does indeed require prospective members to meet certain debt and deficit ratios - to JOIN. Not so much to stay in.
As far as I am aware, there is no enforcement mechanism with any teeth. Obviously, or they wouldn't be in the mess they're in. A wise Rantburger once remarked that monetary union without fiscal union is pure folly - which is exactly what EMU is.
I explained it to my mom like this: hard-working man has a credit card. He gets married and gives a second one to his wife. Now they share the same currency (monetary union). He counseled her to only use it when she needs to, but they think of "need" very differently. So they have no meaningful agreement on when she can use it (no fiscal union). She charges it up to the limit, because she "needed" stuff. He gets the bill, damn near has a heart attack, and a BIG fight ensues.
That's pretty much where the Eurozone is right now. Who'd want to get in the middle of that shit? That's why I think it's more likely to see defections back to national currencies, rather than any more non-euro countries signing up.
[Iran Press TV] An economist says the US bailed out Greece to make sure that the European country could pay the profits of foreign banks.
Greece's debts are in excess of 300 billion euros, and the country has a budget deficit of 13 percent.
Only in this year alone, it is spending 13 billion euros on the interests of its debts. That is more than it is spending on its justice system, education and police services combined.
In a bid to tackle the economic crisis, the government is cutting wages, and slashing benefits, while unemployment is on the rise.
"This happens because government wants money to pay to foreign banks. Greek debts belong to French and German banks like Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale, etc.," journalist and economist Leonidis Vatikiotis told Press TV.
In May, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund paid a 110-billion euro bailout to Greece, with US President Barack B.O. Obama calling EU heads of state to demand the bailout.
The fact that Obama, who speaks in the name of all the banks who had lent money to Greece over the years, demanded the bailout "shows they wanted their money back. Because they wanted their money back, they bailed out Greece in the name of this profit," Vatikiotis said.
The country's economic policies have caused a wave of general strikes and demonstrations this year.
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Dunno if it's true, but considering the main player(s), it sounds like it could be. >:-(
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No, Obama couldn't have been involved in anything that was profitable.
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The same way we made good the investments of the big European banks just before the election in 2008, I should think -- if those bank goes down, Europe goes down, pulling the wolrd down about its ears into a Great Depression, like Samson.
An NPR story about the origins of Senate Bill 1070 drew an angry response Thursday from its author, who said the radio account exaggerated the role prison lobbyists had in drafting it.
State Sen. Russell Pearce, who first introduced a bill in 2003 to require law enforcement to question individuals about their immigration status, denied a report by NPR reporter Laura Sullivan that "Pearce's idea took shape" last year at a conference of conservative lawmakers and corporate interests.
"It's a lie," said Pearce, R-Mesa.
The story said an NPR investigation had found "a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry." The story traced donations from private-prison corporations to lawmakers, saying that 30 of SB 1070's 36 co-sponsors received contributions over the next six months.
NPR's story aired Thursday on "Morning Edition," a program that claims almost 14 million listeners. A second installment of the report was scheduled to air today.
After it was posted online, the story ricocheted around Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere, generating debate around the Capitol.
Democrats seized on the story as evidence of prison lobbyists' undue influence on lawmakers.
"Private prisons seem to be running the show," Rep. David Lujan wrote on Facebook.
Sullivan's story said that after Pearce conceived the idea, "instead of taking his idea to the Arizona Statehouse floor, Pearce first took it to a hotel conference room."
She was referring to a meeting last December of the American Legislative Exchange Council, which brings lawmakers together with corporate interests, including the Corrections Corporation of America, to work on legislation.
Sullivan said in an interview Thursday with The Arizona Republic that her story relied on anonymous sources who told her officials with CCA provided feedback on the bill leading up to and during the ALEC convention. The story did not say what suggestions CCA made.
Michael Bowman, senior director of policy for ALEC, said Pearce proposed his idea to the Public Safety and Elections task force for consideration as model legislation that could be used by other states. Both Pearce and the CCA serve as executive board members of the task force, and task-force members do make suggestions on proposed legislation.
But Bowman and Pearce said they brought a fully drafted bill for consideration, not just an idea. Pearce said that other than going through the committee process, he did not talk to private prison representatives about his bill, and they did not approach him about it or help write it.
By the time the group met, Pearce had taken similar ideas to the Statehouse floor in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. In some cases, the bill failed to gain lawmakers' approval; in others it was vetoed by then-Gov. Janet Napolitano.
CCA denied lobbying Pearce.
The NPR story said the model legislation that came out of ALEC "became, almost word for word, Arizona's immigration law."
But the bill Pearce submitted at the start of the legislative session was amended five times before it reached Gov. Jan Brewer's desk, and the Legislature subsequently passed a second law to modify the one Brewer signed. Sullivan said on Thursday that she had been referring to the version that was introduced.
NPR's account says that if SB 1070 is upheld by the courts, it "requires police to lock up anyone they stop" who cannot show proof they entered the country legally.
The text of SB 1070 permits, but does not require, a law-enforcement officer to transport a person who does not have proof of legal status to a federal facility. It requires officers to inquire about a person's status when practicable, and it requires them to determine an arrested individual's status before releasing that person.
In response to a lawsuit from the Department of Justice, a U.S. District Court judge has blocked those parts of the law from taking effect. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments in the case Monday.
The NPR story suggests that private prisons will benefit from SB 1070 because of greater demand for facilities.
"The law could send hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to prison in a way never done before," the story states. "And it could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to private-prison companies responsible for housing them."
But Pearce said most of those detained would likely be detained in city or county jails, not private prisons.
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NPR = making up subversive lies trying to push an agenda (and undermine the country.) Soros money behind this crapola? Pull public funding ASAP. Make them remove the word "Public" from their name.
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The communtards at No Penis Radio seem to be engaging in a bit of projection again. Certainly, SB 1070 *couldn't possibly* be about a widely-held, good-faith conviction that the borders need to be secured and illegals returned home. Nope, it's just racist profiteering, something leftists regularly would NEVER do. LOL. Do they have any idea how cravenly transparent they are?
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.
[Iran Press TV] An economist says the US bailed out Greece to make sure that the European country could pay the profits of foreign banks.
