A fugitive no more - Ethan Couch is bound for U.S. soil. In just a few hours, the so-called "affluenza" teen will reportedly be heading back to the Texas. Couch was serving a 10 years probation sentence after he was convicted of killing four people in a drunk driving crash.
CBS News has confirmed that Couch and his mother, Tonya, will leave Guadalajara, Mexico on a flight to Houston early this afternoon. The authorities found him when he ordered a Domino's pizza on his cell phone. Maybe he's going for the Moron Defense.
Couch faces deportation back to the U.S. He overstayed his visa and is being deported. Wotta concept!
Because the extradition is being handled as a deportation case by the Mexican government, it is likely Ethan and Tonya Couch will first fly through Houston as they head back to North Texas. On the radio this morning, they said it was likely the pair would find a U.S. Marshall on the plane, who would arrest them both as soon as they hit U.S. airspace. This is assuming some substantial competence on the part of our government, but I am willing to be amazed...
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They should have left him & mommy in a Mexican jail.
[The Blaze] Planned Parenthood has released its 2014-2015 annual report at the conclusion of a year marked by controversy for the organization. Appears Margaret Sanger's depopulation plan is coming along nicely.
"There never has been a more important time to stand for and with Planned Parenthood," Jill Lafer, the chair of Planned Parenthood, and Cecile Richards the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, wrote in an opening letter. "We are at a critical moment in our history. Over the past several months, we have been tested in every way imaginable -- and have emerged stronger than ever."
The report states that "In the pages that follow, we present highlights from a year filled with achievements and breakthroughs."
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Did the report detail non-government insurance payments and self-pays? You need to know that in order to figure out the approximate change for a life termination.
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Obviously cheaper than terminating a convicted murderer on death row. How come they get a decade long waiting period?*
* oddly Tim McVeigh was able to skip the usual waiting period.
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McVeigh was convicted directly by the Feds, #5 P2k. Skipping all the state court appeals shortens the appeal time tremendously.
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I guess we will see if Tsarnaev gets the same expedited treatment. I'm guessing "no..."
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$1700, when prophylactic devices are already provided free by public and private health services organizations. Puritanical denial and lack of education has a price.
Easy to bitch about the cost but not so easy for parents to teach their ten year olds about sexual hygiene. Few of these are criminal conceptions.
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I'm guessing the same thing, too, M. Murcek. >:-(
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I am sure that they mostly charge the patients for the operation itself and shake the government down for "counseling services" in which they recommend that the patient get an abortion. This process would maximize their revenue and allow for the claim that tax dollars don't go to fund abortions. The government also probably funds Morning After pills which "aren't an abortion." Also the government may be paying for Planned Parenthood to sterilize people in other countries or provide other State Department services overseas.
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According to the Planned Parenthood website, patients are charged on a sliding scale for abortions depending on ability to pay. If they have health insurance they are to bring their insurance card and i.d. when they come to the initial appointment.
[Breitbart] Beginning January 1, police in California may confiscate firearms from gun owners thought to be a danger to themselves or others without giving the owner any notice.
This is the result of the implementation of "gun violence restraining orders" (GVROs), which go into effect New Year's Day.
According to KPCC, GVROs "could be issued without prior knowledge of the person. In other words, a judge could issue the order without ever hearing from the person in question, if there are reasonable grounds to believe the person is a threat based on accounts from the family and police." And since the order can be issued without the gun owner even being present to defend him or herself, confiscation can commence without any notice to the gun owner once the order is issued.
To be fair, Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Michael Moore does not use the word "confiscate" when talking about confiscating firearms. Rather, Moore says, "The law gives us a vehicle to cause the person to surrender their weapons, to have a time out, if you will."
KPCC reports that "California law already bans people from possessing guns if they've committed a violent crime or were involuntarily committed to a mental health facility." And now, with GVROs, California law allows judges to bar people from possessing guns even if they have not committed a violent crime or were involuntarily committed. Because of this, Gun Owners of California Executive Director Sam Paredes warns that GVROs "may create a situation where law-abiding gun owners are put in jeopardy."
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I presume the NRA and other organizations will challenge this. Any word on a suit?
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sure to be some dead gun owners and cops from this
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"To have a timeout?" Using a pre-schooler phrase just about tells it all when discussing the People's Republic of Sunny California. No knock police procedures for YOUR own good. WE know what's best for you! BLAH!BLAH!BLAH!
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Shirley, they'll start confis ... have a vehicle to cause a person to surrender his ... vehicle, if the driver has been shown to be a hazard to the community by DWI.
More folks killed by cars than be guns, right?
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Not surprising. California ignores Federal laws regarding immigration and drugs. Ignoring the 2nd Amendment is a logical next step.
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The GVRO is not much different than simple evidentiary search and seizure warrants other than the registration database. It may be a step towards reinstating the targeted 'stop and frisk' SOP. Unfortunately baddies don't register.
Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Michael Moore
[DAWN] SHEIKHUPURA: A landlord on Monday chopped off hands of his employee for demanding salary.
Reports said Rana Israr had employed Akram of Manawala to look after his business four months ago.
He was denied salary and on his repeated demand, the landlord allegedly chopped off hands of Akram, a father of two minor children.
The victim along with his family members approached District Police Officer Sohail Zafar Chattha who initiated an investigation into the matter.
Police are yet to arrest Israr.
Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... has taken notice of the incident and sought a report from the district police officer.
The chief minister ordered that the best treatment facilities be provided to the victim.
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...Wow. What would they have done if he asked for dental coverage?
Mike
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Live by the sword, die by the sword. I stopped using Firefox when this insanity raised its ugly head. Then to Chromium, then to Chrome. Much happier, now.
THE OPEN WEB is in constant peril. Almost a generation ago, everyone worried Microsoft, which had the dominant web browser of the time, could dictate the content people saw and the tools developers use. Its dominance faded, but the rise of mobile prompted new concerns about the role Apple and Google play as gatekeepers to the web. And Facebook’s control over what people see and share online continues growing.
Since its founding in 2003, the Mozilla Foundation has served as a check on the power of tech giants like those. It’s among the few organizations in Silicon Valley that isn’t out to make anyone rich. Although its for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corp., has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars through its partnership with Google, that money finances the development of the Firefox web browser and other open source projects. Unlike other tech companies, Mozilla needn’t collect massive amounts of personal data to mine for marketing gold.
Given the intrusive nature of government surveillance, Mozilla—with its dedication to privacy and independence from corporate and government interests—should be more vital than ever. But in the age of social media and mobile devices, it has struggled to maintain relevance and failed to transition to a world where the desktop browser is fading in importance. Mozilla hasn’t even dented the mobile market with mobile versions of its browser or its Firefox OS smartphone operating system. And the organization has done little to counteract Facebook’s expanding influence. What’s more, its foothold on the desktop continues to slip as Google Chrome grows in popularity.
Its prospects for the future are fuzzy at a time when the web needs an open alternative more than ever.
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I like firefox but the major problem using firefox is that they have frequent updates and bugs. Using it every now and then, something goes wrong. When you go for support, they say initialise everything, and so you lose your setup and it rarely fixes anything. So about a year ago, I switched to Pale Moon, which is firefox fork. I love it. It's still firefox but its a lot better.
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they'll take my Netscape from my cold dead hands. Anyone have an AOL disk?
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Firefox was becoming more problematic as if IE was leaching into its soul. So Chrome became my goto browser but as a backup I chose Arora (I always use Linux at home).
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When they switched to gmail where I work I switched to Chrome. Resistance became futile so I assimilated. But face it, except for IE they're all included with that SiliconValley/California lunacy. And IE sucks. I like Pale Moon but, as has been noted, it is glitchy with video.
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Who needs infected video and images? Lynx forever - and it comes with a file system browser!
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.
A fugitive no more - Ethan Couch is bound for U.S. soil. In just a few hours, the so-called "affluenza" teen will reportedly be heading back to the Texas. Couch was serving a 10 years probation sentence after he was convicted of killing four people in a drunk driving crash.
[The Blaze] Planned Parenthood has released its 2014-2015 annual report at the conclusion of a year marked by controversy for the organization.
[DAWN] SHEIKHUPURA: A landlord on Monday chopped off hands of his employee for demanding salary.
