[Arab News] The farmer had to stay up at night to guard his field, and get help from police, but he's finally stopped the foreign marauders who were stealing his potatoes.
Five men and four women from neighboring Bulgaria were incarcerated early Sunday while digging up and loading 800 kilograms (1,760 pounds) of stolen potatoes into a van in Ochyro, a village in northern Greece near the Bulgarian border, police say.
The farmer, who was keeping an overnight watch for the thieves, got help from police and border guards after he lost 14 metric tons (15.3 tons) of potatoes the previous week.
More than 200 empty potato sacks and digging forks were found in the van and confiscated.
Police are now looking for other thieves in the region -- these ones targeting olive groves.
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[An Nahar] An obese Ohio man had to be cut from a chair he had been sitting in for two years after his body became fused to it, local media reported. Just for your information, I do not live in Ohio...
Police told WTRF news that the man's skin had become fused to the seat of the chair, which was covered in urine, feces and maggots. Two words: "E-e-e-e-wwww! Ralf!"
The man's girlfriend brought him food for two years as he sat in his own waste in the filthy apartment they shared with another man, police said. He had a girlfriend? What'd they do for fun? Squish butt maggots?
They called for help on Sunday morning when he was unresponsive and had to cut a hole in the house to get him out of the building so they could get him to the hospital. "Higgins! We need the Sawzall of Life!"
"Right, Chief!"
The smell was unbearable and one officer told the station that he threw away his uniform after it was sullied while cutting the man out of the chair. I was on a call something like that in my younger days: one of those things where I was glad I wasn't naked, I'da had to cut off my leg.
The man was taken to the hospital for treatment. ...rather than to the city dump...
"The living room where the man lived in his chair was very filthy, very deplorable. It's unbelievable that somebody lives in conditions like that," said Jim Chase, a city code enforcer in Bellaire, Ohio. It's convenient that most city and county ambulance services are part of fire companies. That way they can just unlimber a fire hose to clean up after one of these transports...
"I instructed the landlord this morning and the two people, the tenants at the house, they had to get it cleaned, there's no way they can live in something like that, and so they are working on it," he told WTRF Monday.
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Ugh. That's even worse than the cases of 'status derelictus' I used to care for. You know, the ones whose back-pocket flask of whiskey is frozen solid and who bite off the rectal thermometer even when used correctly.
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I pointed this out to Gloria, forgetting for the moment that she has no tolerance for the gross. I stand by my snark, but she's right: there's a lot more to it, and it's a serious lot.
It's illustrative of the difference between a society that strives for "equality of outcome" by creating bureaucratic organizations where people sit for extended periods in plastic chairs waiting for their names to be called and their cases processed and a society that actually cares -- government cheese versus the parish priest or the rabbi or the minister stopping by to see how you are, fill in a form versus remembering your name. (See no mo uro's excellent comments here, which should have been an opinion piece in itself...)
The guy sat in the chair for two years, excreting regularly, bathing not at all, consuming enough food to keep him large enough to be stuck, and nobody with the least bit of sense seemingly noticed.
What kind of society lets that happen?
Why do we employ an army of social workers and social welfare bureaucrats who allow little children to be starved and beaten and not taken away from the parents who abuse them? Who allow the aged and the infirm, the helpless and the incompetent, to "fall through the cracks" with soul numbing regularity?
And every time somebody falls through the cracks there's some dimwit on the teevee intoning that "we have to learn from this incident," while somehow we never seem to learn. It always happens again and everybody's just so surprised...
The guy lived (and according to crosspatch's comment died) in disgusting circumstances. Every policeman and firefighter and EMT knows that a percentage of the population lives in conditions that are just as disgusting. But the cops, firefighters, and EMTs aren't the guys who are responsible for getting them out of those conditions -- they're the guys who're responsible for cleaning up the mess.
"Outcome egalitarianism" is in its death throes, though I suspect it will outlive me by a year or two. It would probably be a good idea for some smart fellow (or lady) somewhere to start thinking about what kind of society would avoid its now ever so obvious pitfalls and still take care of big fat guys stuck in chairs for a couple of years, or the crazy old lady with 43 cats, or the guy who stalks up and down the city sidewalks screaming at non-existent adversaries. The alternative is dark ages.
When I was a little kid in the 50s the parish priest would stop by and see how we were doing. When times were hard, and they usually were, there was a turkey for Thanksgiving and another at Christmas, courtesy of the church. There were toys and often clothes for the kids courtesy of the Salvation Army.
It's too bad you can't go home again.
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Chances are, "girlfriend" and "roomate" took just enough care of this guy to keep his guvmint/disability/welfare check coming in so they could add it to their pile. They only called for help when it looked like their gravy train was leaving the station.
Coming up next, the investigation, which will find that "the system" failed. In reality, the system worked just the way it was supposed to.
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Fred brings up an era past when the church of voluntary membership took care of one another, but now multiculturalism accepts all lifestyles as valid and believes we should not impose our beliefs on one another, but readily accepts and expects egalitarian outcomes when worshipping at the altar of government bureaucracy. Just read another case of a young fetal alcohol syndrome victim was tortured to death and no one checked on her--in Utah where the chances are extremely high your neighbors are church-going Mormons! Be grateful if you have family and friends that care but sometimes there simply isn't anything we can do for those who don't want to be helped unless it is unconditionally, even excluding God's help.
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TU nailed it. Geraniums are much prettier and easier to grow. Unfortunately they don't produce Social Security Disability checks. Next please, NEXT!
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"radiation leaks will be ongoing and it could take 50 to 100 years before the nuclear fuel rods have completely cooled and been removed."
Meanwhile they are pouring water in, it's then draining away so they pour more in. SO highly radioactive water is seeping into god knows where.
They are doing their best, bless their hearts. They are trying, but the problem is that it's just too poisonous to get in there and clean it up quickly.
This in a developed country with hardly any corruption problems. Not like a China or an Indonesia or an India.
The problem with nuclear power is that the radioactive material is deadly dangerous for millions of years. That is deep time. My entire country has only had 200 years of being a modern country with roads. We've only had 120-odd years of electricity grids. Humans are not built for deep time. Most of us can't even look ahead 5 years and plan our lives.
Our societies cannot plan ahead more than 20 years and yet we have the arrogance to think we can safely use nuclear materials that are deadly poisonous for millions of years.
Chernobyl wasn't an earthquake, Fukushima wasn't communist incompetence. Every reactor that has a disaster will have a different reason - humans are fallible and so are all the systems we build.
We cannot be trusted with fission power. Maybe fusion if we can invent it but fission, no.
We should just go back to coal, gas and oil. Carbon dioxide has never been proved to cause climate change. Global warming was only ever a boogeyman invented as a non-tariff barrier for the developed world
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I heard it was going to take a 1,000,000 years and all life on earth would be destroyed.
I also note that the two 'experts' cited in the article disagree with each other and one says something that sounds egregiously stupid: "As the water leaks out, you keep on pouring water in, so this leak will go on for ever,"
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Predictions like this are always outlandish and then in ten or twenty years (or whatever but always long before the dire predictions) everything is fine when someone decides to look in on the anniversary or whatever.
[Dawn] Several houses have been submerged into water in Oveer valley in upper Chitral after a massive landslide blocked a stream flowing through the area.
Talking to Dawn by telephone on Tuesday, the dwellers of Riri village Rahim Baig, Shahid Ali and Zahidullah said that the water was accumulating in the lake that formed after the landslide on Monday night.
They said that the village was sinking fast into the water and more houses had been inundated rendering the people homeless.
The road leading to the upper parts of the valley has also been blocked, leaving the people stranded on both sides of the stream.
The residents of the Riri village said that they were running short of daily use items and demanded immediate rescue efforts and airdropping of food.
Do be realistic, guys -- you're in a Third World country. Start think about rescuing yourselves, 'cause that's about all the help you're going to get.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics:... four more houses had collapsed due to the landslide in Jugoomi village in Koh union council while five houses were also under potential danger. The villagers have shifted to safer places.
Programme officer of the Focus Humanitarian Assistance in Chitral Wali Mohammad told Dawn that geological experts had been dispatched to the affected areas to assess the situation while relief measures would be initiated shortly.
The villagers can look forward to getting whatever's left after everyone down the line takes their cut, anyway.
He said that a report had been submitted to the district administration recommending appropriate measures to rescue the villagers from the rising waters.
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...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics:...
heh, I expected a reference to Alaska Paul...
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Can't help wondering if it occurred to any of these people to try to clear the blockage. Inshallah.
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[Maghrebia] Mauritanian authorities placed in durance vile two men and three women for allegedly enslaving three maidens of tender years in Nouakchott, ANI reported on Monday (March 28th). Anti-slavery NGO chiefs Boubacar Ould Messoud, Biram Ould Dah Abeid and Aminetou Mint El Moctar launched a hunger strike last week to compel authorities to press charges in the case.
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The modern, politically correct term is "Human Trafficing." The word "slavery" is a national heritage term which denotes a specific segment of American history. The words slave and slavery are the exclusive domain of a select segment of society devoted to entitlement, special privilege, and economic reparation.
[Al Jazeera] Forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner of Cote d'Ivoire's presidential election, say they have seized control of another two central towns in their advance toward the country's capital.
Captain Leon Alla, a defence front man for Ouattara, said pro-Ouattara forces took control of Bouafle early on Wednesday and Sinfra on Tuesday.
Heavy gunfire was heard early on Wednesday in Bouafle, which is midway between the cocoa producing hub of Daloa and the country's capital Yamoussoukro.
Residents of Tiebisso, 40km north of the capital, also reported fighting.
"Since about 6 o'clock this morning, we are hearing gunfire in Bouafle," Alain Zagole, a resident of the town,
told the Rooters news agency by phone.
"Machine gun fire and often heavy detonations. It is as if there are festivities," he said.
Military campaign
Thousands of people continue to flee the country due to the heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... following November's contested elections.
In the past few days, forces loyal to Ouattara have stepped up their military campaign - moving from their strongholds in the north into the government-controlled south.
Earlier this week, they reportedly seized the towns of Daloa, Bondoukou and Belleville and were fighting for the town of Duekoue.
Marco Oved, a freelance journalist in Abijdan, said the seizures represent rapid victories for pro-Ouattara forces against fighters loyal to Laurent Gbagbo ... President of Ivory Coast since 2000. Gbagbo lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and Laurent has refused to leave despite the international community's hemming, hawing, and broad hints... , the country's incumbent leader who has refused to step down.
"They've moved hundreds of kilometres often from the west into the centre of the country, and the east into the centre," he told Al Jizz.
Pro-Ouattara forces
The pro-Ouattara forces, which Ouattara has recognised as his military and renamed the Cote d'Ivoire Republican Forces (FRCI), have controlled northern Ivory Coast since the civil war of 2002-3.
But Oved said it is unclear how much control is coming from Ouattara himself.
"He distanced himself from these rebel forces for the last eight years. It was only after the election that the rebels rallied to his side," he told Al Jizz.
"Ouattara accepted their support, but was hesitant to have any fighting going on, saying as the legitimately elected leader he didn't want to have to take the country by force. The offensive over the last few days has shown that he feels he has no other options now."
'Barbaric practices'
The latest fighting comes a day after the UN peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) released a statement saying forces loyal to Gbagbo opened fire on civilians in Abidjan on Monday, killing about a dozen people.
"With the increase in human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations and barbaric practices, there are grounds for wondering whether president Gbagbo is still in charge of his forces and supporters," Tuesday's statement said.
"UNOCI believes it is imperative to end this spiral of violence by finding a definitive solution to the political impasse which stemmed from the post-electoral crisis."
Gbagbo's camp was not immediately available to comment on the UN statement.
Up to one million Ivorians have now decamped fighting in the main city of Abidjan alone, according to the UN refugee agency. Others have been uprooted across the country and at least 112,000 have crossed into Liberia to the west.
Tuesday's UN report of more civilians killed adds to a tally of 462 confirmed deaths since the crisis begin. Human rights groups say crimes against humanity may have already been committed.
The world body is also investigating allegations that 200 African nationals, from Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , Guinea and Togo, were killed near Guiglo, southwest of Duekoue.
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Nigeria begins an election period on Saturday that will determine if Africa's most populous nation can break from a history of deeply flawed and violent polls and take a clear step toward true democracy.
Africa's largest oil producer, divided roughly in half between Christians and Mohammedans and hit by outbursts of violence in recent months, will elect a new legislature, president and state governors over three successive weekends.
Many observers say the stakes are nothing short of whether the West African powerhouse can finally begin to chart a course that will allow it to live up to its huge potential, more than 50 years after independence from Britain.
"Anything short of free and fair elections will impede Nigerian progress," said Thompson Ayodele, head of the Initiative for Public Policy Analysis think tank.
Parliamentary elections will occur on Saturday, followed by the presidential vote on April 9 and governorship and state assembly ballots on April 16.
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party has won every presidential vote since Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999, but there are signs that each of the three elections this year could be more competitive than usual.
President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... , a Christian and the first head of state from the oil-producing Niger Delta, is the clear favourite.
But his candidacy has upset sections of the north, where many feel it is their region's turn to rule.
His main challenger is seen as ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, a Mohammedan from the north.
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[Iran Press TV] Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, ...has served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Or maybe it's the other way round... whose country is to take the rotating chair of the Organization of the Islamic Conference OIC is an international organisation with a permanent delegation to the UN, with 57 member states. It represents all countries with substantial Moslem populations (as opposed to the Arab League, which excludes members not of the Master Race) except those member countries block from joining. These include India, which has more Mohammedans than does Pakistain, whose membership is vetoed by Pakistain... (OIC), has strongly denounced the wearing of the Islamic Hijab (headdress) in Kazakhstani schools.
Nazarbayev described the wearing of Hijab in schools as inappropriate on Tuesday, adding, "I have always been against headscarves and Hijabs. Our women have never worn them and have never hid their faces."
"We respect all Mohammedan representatives, but we have our own path. Young people are starting to wear Hijabs and headscarves at schools and universities. I have always been against it," he said.
He made the remarks ahead of the upcoming presidential election. Long-serving Nazarbayev will stand for re-election on April 3. There are three candidates standing against him.
According to observers, the remarks by Nazarbayev reflects the growing popularity of the Islamic headdress among female Mohammedans in Kazakhstan, whose population is over 70 percent Mohammedan, inciting some opposition to his leadership of the country.
The country's Education and Science Ministry said last week that wearing Hijab at schools is not allowed by national laws. This is despite the proclaimed law of freedom of religion in the country.
Students must follow the rules of their educational institution, including those regarding the uniform, the ministry said.
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Italy will forcibly return thousands of Tunisian illegal immigrants unless other European countries accept them as the situation reaches breaking point.
In recent weeks more than 18,000 immigrants have arrived on the tiny rocky island of Lampedusa, pushing resources to the limit. Many of them have been moved by ship to holding areas on the mainland but there the migrants climb over flimsy fences and escape.
Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini today launched a stinging attack on Europe and France in particular. He said: 'They must be repatriated or distributed around other European countries. There has been a flagrant lack of solidarity from Italy's European neighbours, who have failed to help starting with France.'
Relations between Rome and Paris have been tense since the start of the allied no fly zone as Italy had wanted NATO to take immediate command while France first opposed the idea and then dragged out the discussions.
Italy also felt left out after it emerged that America, Britain, Germany and France had discussed plans for Libya's future in a video conference without being invited.
Frattini added that 'forced repatriation is an extreme measure but it cannot be excluded' - the solution being urged by fellow ruling right wing coalition anti-immigrant Northern League.
That party's leader, Umberto Bossi, who had once suggested the navy should shell boats carrying immigrants, simply said: 'They should all f*** off home.'
Earlier this week, Berlusconi told a cheering crowd on Lampedusa that he would clear the island within '60 hours' and that he had even bought a home there to show solidarity.
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Potential solution: cede Lampedusa to Tunisia. The refugees are no longer in Italy.
Of course, you can't carry this idea too far or Florence will end up part of Tunisia.
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...that was attempt before. Their efforts were finally done in by the very same people who had set up a branch office, so to speak, already in London.
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Berlusconi promises to end the 'invasion of migrants'
He also tells a joke.
''During a poll, a sample of women were asked if they wanted to make love with Berlusconi. Thirty per cent said maybe. The other 70 per cent said, 'Again?''
Having arrived at the Gates of Heaven, Barrack Obama meets a man with a Beard. 'Are you Mohammed?' he asks. 'No my son, I am St. Peter; Mohammed is higher up.' Peter then points to a ladder that rises into the clouds.
Delighted that Mohammed should be higher than St. Peter, Obama climbs the Ladder in great strides, climbs up through the clouds and comes into a
Room where he meets another bearded man. He asks again, 'Are you Mohammed?' 'Why no he answers, I am Moses; Mohammed is higher still.'
Exhausted, but with a heart full of joy he climbs the ladder yet again, He discovers a larger room where he meets an angelic looking man with a
Beard. Full of hope, he asks again, 'Are you Mohammed?' 'No, I am Jesus, the Christ...you will find Mohammed higher up. '
Mohammed higher than Jesus! Man, oh man! Obama can hardly contain his delight and climbs and climbs ever higher. Once again, he reaches an even larger room where he meets this truly magnificent looking man with a silver white beard and once again repeats his question:
"Are you Mohammed?" he gasps as he is by now, totally out of breath from all his climbing.. 'No, my son.... I am Almighty God, the Alpha and the Omega, but you look exhausted. Would you like a cup of coffee?"
Obama says, Yes please! As God looks behind him, he claps his hands and yells out: "Hey Mohammed-two coffees!""
Keep your trust in God...your president is an idiot
[Straits Times] WITH a military career spanning almost 50 years and a reputation for absolute loyalty to Myanmar's junta strongman, Thein Sein was seen as an obvious choice to become the nation's new president.
Slender, balding and bespectacled, Mr Thein Sein, who was sworn in on Wednesday as part of a purported transition to a civilian rule, cuts a less domineering figure than the military's stouter senior general, Than Shwe. ...The effective king of Burma. He has held positions within the military dictatorship since at least 1992 and has in the process managed to sideline or bump off all his rivals. Under his sway Burma has remained a xenophobic cultural and economic backwater. Than Shwe ranked No. 4 on Parade Magazine's World's Worst Dictators list of 2009...
The former general, who shed his uniform to contest the country's controversial November elections, is however someone strongman Than Shwe 'can trust, someone who will listen to him", Myanmar expert Aung Naing Oo said recently.
'It is not an accident that he came to power because he is considered 'Mr Clean',' said the expert, adding the 65-year-old was not linked to business groups or factions forming among lawmakers in Myanmar's new parliament.
Mr Thein Sein was described as working 'from the same script' as the junta number one in a 2009 US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks recently.
He is also 'regarded as a 'mystery man'' who has 'risen quietly under the patronage of Than Shwe, to whom he has shown 'total loyalty',' according to Benedict Rogers in his biography of Myanmar's supreme leader.
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[Straits Times] MYANMAR'S junta has been 'officially dissolved', according to state media, after the country swore in a new president on Wednesday.
Referring to the junta's State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), television news, quoting an order signed by Than Shwe, ...The effective king of Burma. He has held positions within the military dictatorship since at least 1992 and has in the process managed to sideline or bump off all his rivals. Under his sway Burma has remained a xenophobic cultural and economic backwater. Than Shwe ranked No. 4 on Parade Magazine's World's Worst Dictators list of 2009...
said 'since the next cabinet was sworn in, the SPDC has been officially dissolved'.
The announcement came after an official said a new head of Myanmar's army attended the inauguration of Thein Sein as president, apparently indicating that the junta strongman had been replaced.
General Min Aung Hlaing was present at the swearing-in as Commander in Chief of the country's army, a post held by Than Shwe until now, according to an official.
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Members of Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, have begun circulating letters to businesses in southeast Wisconsin, asking them to support workers rights by putting up a sign in their windows.
If businesses fail to comply, the letter says, Failure to do so will leave us no choice but (to) do a public boycott of your business. And sorry, neutral means 'no' to those who work for the largest employer in the area and are union members."
In turn, I will boycott paying taxes to pay your pensions.
Love,
Steve
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Whee from the Denver Airport. Anyway, Hotair says the Judge issued a third restraining order. I think the Wis. Legislature should impeach her and then try her for treason against the state for her blatant attempt at tyranny.
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So. The Nazis unions are threatening the non-union private sector now.
Courts have long found that boycotts are quite legal. However, that being said, I doubt it will work as a tactic, except for a very few businesses whose clientele are either very union, or who already have union sympathies.
More than anything else, their best success would be in shutting up businesses that oppose them--not actually boycotting them, just cowing them so they won't speak out.
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Counter boycott. Don't do biz with any firm that puts up their sign!
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"Don't do biz with any firm that puts up their sign"
I read an even better suggestion on another blog along that line, WM.
Go into, say, a grocery store that does have the sign, fill up a cart, take it to the checkout, and then - before checking out - ask about the sign. Then tell them you can't do business with people who support such intimidators and you're taking your business elsewhere, and telling all your friends to do the same. Then walk out, leaving the cart full of merchandise you would have purchased had they not had the sign.
I'm sure hilarity would ensue. (At least, I'd be laughing my ass off as soon as I was out of sight. And I wouldn't have parked where someone in the store could see my license number - just in case.)
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You are a devious, conniving woman, Barbara Skolaut. I can only watch in admiration.
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.
[Arab News] The farmer had to stay up at night to guard his field, and get help from police, but he's finally stopped the foreign marauders who were stealing his potatoes.
Laurent Gbagbo
Africa's largest oil producer, divided roughly in half between Christians and 
