[4NBC Washington] Police say a fugitive from Tampa, Florida, who didn't want to be identified by his fingerprints during a traffic stop in northeast Ohio chewed off his fingertips. Don't cuff him, can't you see he's hungry ?
Kirk Kelly has been jailed on felony counts of evidence tampering and obstructing official business and misdemeanor charges of falsification and resisting arrest. A message left for his attorney after business hours Friday hasn't been returned.
Police in Tallmadge, Ohio, say Kelly and several other people were put into a cruiser without handcuffs after their vehicle was stopped last weekend and officers thought they smelled drugs. Don't bother Kirk, e's having his tips.
Police say Kelly gave false names as they tried to identify him. They say they figured out who he is after photos of his tattoos were provided by police in Florida, where he's wanted on firearms and drug charges. Nice tats! Johnson, call Tampa Metro, see what they've got.
One Virginia police officer has died, and two others were hurt, after they were shot while responding to the scene of a Prince William County domestic-related shooting, police said.
The police officer who died was Officer Ashley Guindon, Prince William County Police tweeted. An officer with the same name had just been sworn in and started her job Friday.
Police said the shooter was in custody.
Friends and families of the officers had gathered at the hospital Saturday night, News4's Julie Carey reported, as they waited for word on the officers' conditions.
The shooting happened in the 13000 block of Lashmere Court in Woodbridge, Virginia. Several roads are blocked in the area of Quate Lane at Delaney Road during the investigation.
[Huffpoo] This is the wrong type of carry-on luggage. Customs officials have arrested a 24-year-old woman they said tried to smuggle a half-pound of cocaine in her vagina.
Shekira Thompson was arrested last Sunday at Kennedy Airport after she got off a plane from Kingston, Jamaica, according to NJ.com.
Thompson presented herself for inspection after getting off the plane. Officials then took her to a private search, according to a release from the U.S. Customs Dept.
Investigators said when they questions Thompson, she admitted to inserting a foreign object into her body.
A short time later, officers found an egg-shaped container they said contained a white powdery substance that tested positive for cocaine.
The weight of the powder was about a half-pound and had an estimated street value of $10,000, according to the release.
[LA Times] Three people were stabbed, including one who was critically wounded, and several others were arrested when a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupted in violence Saturday, police said.
A small group of people representing the Klan had announced that it would hold a rally at Pearson Park at 1:30 p.m., police said. By 11 a.m., several dozen protesters showed up at the park to confront the Klan.
Two groups of fools looking for a fight, which they found...
About an hour later, several men in black garb with Confederate flag patches arrived and were escorted by police around the edge of the park.
Violence erupted and some of the protesters could be seen kicking a man whose shirt read "Grand Dragon." At some point, a protester collapsed on the ground bleeding, crying that he had been stabbed.
Nationwide, the number of active KKK groups increased to 190 in 2015 after falling in 2013 and 2014, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
I would assume most of the groups are in the 5-15 person range if we include significant others and some dogs, which means on the order of 1,000-3,000 members nationwide, up by 15-30 from the 2014 level -- if the increase were significant, the reporter would have said so in disapproving tones.
Then again, the data are from the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the more vicious, nasty, disreputable progressive groups on the planet. If they told me that the sun rose in the east, I'd be outside the next morning with a compass.
[World Post] The birthday of the world's oldest president had more than a touch of the tragic and the absurd.
President Robert Mugabe turned 92 years old last Sunday, but the festivities continued well into Saturday for the leader, who has ruled Zimbabwe since the southern African country gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1980 -- and presided over brutal crackdowns and economic collapse. Now, the country is contending with its worst drought in over two decades. Zimbabwean officials said this month that some 3 million people -- nearly a quarter of the population -- lack access to sufficient food.
But the president and his friends were not going hungry.
A lavish banquet was held in Mugabe's honor. His office threw him a "surprise" birthday party (he said he wasn't surprised). The state-run newspaper compared the aging leader's birthday to that of Jesus Christ.
On Saturday, in one of Zimbabwe's most stricken provinces for drought and hunger, Mugabe staged his biggest birthday celebration yet this week.
At the $800,000 celebration in Fort Victoria Masvingo, southeastern Zimbabwe, Mugabe listened to speeches and songs in his praise, before cutting a giant cake in the shape of the ancient ruins that the country was named after. The cake, per tradition, reportedly weighed 92 kg (more than 200 pounds), one kilogram for each of his 92 years of age. Ninety-two balloons were released into the air.
It was supposed to be a US-led naval training maneuver off the coast of west Africa when real-life drama intervened, with pirates taking over an oil tanker and turning the exercise into a rescue mission.
Navies from the United States, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria tracked the hijacked tanker through waters off five countries before Nigerian naval forces stormed aboard on 20 February amid a shootout that killed one of the pirates.
It was the first big success in international maritime cooperation in the pirate-ridden Gulf of Guinea, the commodore in charge of US operations in Africa and Europe told the Associated Press.
Capt Heidi Agle, the commodore, had been directing a training exercise against piracy with maritime agencies of Ghana when the hijacking provided a real-life lesson, she said in a telephone interview on Friday from her base in Italy.
First word came from the French embassy, which sent information to Agle’s USNS Spearhead via Ghanaian officials and US diplomats of a possible pirate ship loitering off Abidjan, Ivory Coast. There, pirates seized the Dubai-owned MT Maximus, on lease to a South Korean company and carrying 4,700 tons of diesel fuel, on 11 February.
The Spearhead tracked down the hijacked Maximus, identified it and then monitored its progress for two days as it sailed from Ivorian waters into Ghanaian territory. Then Agle handed over to Ghana’s navy, which continued to shadow the ship until it entered the waters of Togo, when that country’s navy took over.
As the pirates steamed across the gulf toward the tiny island nation of São Tomé and Principe, officials there contacted the Nigerian government for help.
The tanker had sailed nearly 800 miles (1,280km) before the Nigerians made the assault.
Dirk Steffen, maritime security director of Denmark-based Risk Intelligence, agreed the operation was “the first anti-piracy success in the region of this scale”.
“Never has a west African navy carried out an opposed boarding before,” he said.
Agle called it “a coordinated effort and the biggest piece in progress in the region” since the US began training with African nations in the Gulf of Guinea in 2009.
The rescue was directed by Rear Admiral Henry Babalola of Nigeria, who told the AP that it was made possible by a maritime agreement allowing Nigeria to patrol São Tomé’s waters.
“When we challenged them [the pirates], they said that they were in international waters” with the law of the sea on their side. But the agreement allowed the Nigerians to storm the ship after eight hours of attempted negotiations.
“International cooperation is the new mantra for maritime security,” Babalola said. “We cannot go it alone.”
Six pirates were captured and 18 crew members freed. Several pirates escaped with two crew members who remain hostages, Steffen said.
Babalola stressed the economic impact of piracy, pushing up the price of maritime insurance with costs ultimately passed on to consumers. One-fifth of all maritime crime in the world is committed in the Gulf of Guinea, but that is only the tip of the iceberg since an estimated two-thirds of piracy acts there are never reported, according to Ocean Beyond Piracy, a private, Colorado-based organization.
The Gulf of Guinea is primed for economic growth, a major route for oil supplies shipped around the world with a mild climate that is ideal for commerce, docking and fishing.
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Jamaica's opposition narrowly won a general election on Thursday, with its message of deep tax cuts and massive job creation winning over voters weary of years of tough IMF-mandated austerity measures.
The Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) led by Andrew Holness had won 33 of the 63 seats with almost all votes counted, according to the electoral council website. Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller's party took 30 seats.
The sound of airhorns filled the JLP's headquarters in Kingston as a jubilant crowd of supporters in the party's signature green waved flags and partied to dancehall music, including a song called "Bye bye Portia, bye bye".
"We will grow the Jamaican economy. We will create jobs. We will give you an accountable and responsive government," said Holness, 43, adding that his government would address a laundry list of issues from water to housing and healthcare.
"Our mission is to move Jamaica from poverty to prosperity," he said as supporters rang bells, a party symbol.
Simpson-Miller conceded defeat to a crowd of somber voters.
Holness, who is likely to be the Caribbean nation's next prime minister, has promised to create 250,000 jobs on the island of 2.7 million people and do away with income tax for many wage earners, a move critics say will tear into the budget.
Opinion polls before the election forecast victory for Simpson-Miller after she returned the heavily indebted economy to growth and low inflation. Despite her People's National Party's socialist past, she embraced spending cuts, wage freezes and harsh fiscal discipline as part of a $1.27 billion IMF bailout that has lowered the still daunting debt burden of more than 130 percent of GDP.
Simpson-Miller, 70, is Jamaica's first female head of state. Inflation hit a 48-year low during her tenure. Falling oil prices freed up government funds in the import-dependent country and the island's GDP grew 1.3 percent last year, according to the World Bank.
However, unemployment is high at around 13 percent overall, and a whopping 38 percent for the young. While Simpson-Miller is credited with bringing stability, Holness' optimistic message was more popular in the end.
"The country wanted to exhale," one Holness supporter told local television, her name drowned out by the celebrations.
Holness criticized the government's adherence to austerity but refrained from sharp rhetoric against the IMF plan on the campaign trail. Holness briefly served as prime minister in 2011 after unrest due to a U.S. attempt to extradite drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke forced his predecessor to resign.
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What does "Jamaica conservative party" stands for?
(The Loadstar) – The Panama and Suez canals could be the next institutions to be affected by the ongoing crisis in the container shipping industry, according to new analysis from Africa ports analyst and monitoring service portoverview.com
The twin factors of cellular overcapacity and rock-bottom bunker costs have, over the past year, led carriers to divert multiple sailings away from the world’s two principal trade arteries and reroute vessels around the southern African cape.
Its six-month report for the second half of 2015 quoted analysis from SeaIntel (portoverviw.com co-owner), which showed that since the end of October 2015, 115 vessels deployed on Asia-USEC and Asia-North Europe services have made the back-haul trip to Asia by sailing round the Cape of Good Hope rather than through the canals despite using them on the headhaul legs.
Three of these vessels were deployed on Asia-North Europe services, while the remaining 112 were returning to Asia from the US east coast.
“Normally, 78 of those voyages would have gone through the Suez Canal, and as 53 of the voyages were in 2015, it would have meant that the number of container vessel passing the Suez Canal in 2015 would ‘only’ have decreased by 1.9% year-on-year, instead of the reported 2.8%. The other 37 vessels would normally have passed through the Panama Canal,” portoverview.com said.
“SeaIntel concludes that both the canals face a significant challenge in the current low bunker price, as it means that for many services it is cheaper to sail south of Africa on the backhaul than to use the canal routings,” it added.
“The canals have a particular disadvantage in regard to the USEC-Asia services, where it is currently economically viable for 14 out of 22 services to sail south of Africa on the backhaul, and it would probably be viable for almost all of them if intermediate port calls were dropped.”
It is even viable for sailings from North Europe to Asia to route via South Africa, “if the intermediate calls were dropped or switched to other services”, it said.
“Currently, the carriers are only using the south of Africa routing on the backhaul legs and retaining the transit time, but considering the financial situation of most carriers, and keeping in mind the relative ‘ease’ with which the carriers implemented both slow-steaming and super slow-steaming, going south of Africa on the head-haul is going to look very alluring for some carriers, if indeed they can re-route the cargo from the intermediate port calls.”
There is a further, compelling, reason for carriers to route via South Africa: in addition to avoiding canal transit fees, the elongated sailing route, which adds another week to transit times, could potentially “soak up” between 60-80 vessels, of which half would be ultra-large container vessels, and take out some of the industry overcapacity which is causing freight rate volatility.
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Item 1: During the time frame in question, both canals were undergoing expansion projects that created delays.
Item 2: Earlier this month the Panama Canal experienced a traffic jam of epic proportions. Almost a week with over 100 vessels waiting for transit at any one time.
Go read GCaptain for info on commercial shipping.
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I remember whe Flight Sim 10 came out, you could see the New excavation of the big new locks. Started by ' mericans of course in 1939. Excavation mostly complete, built to allow (in theory) The passage of the then planned Montana Class BBz. Coral Sea and Midway could have made passage as well, but they were unknown and unplanned.
We are fast approaching the 74th Anniversary of the carrier engagements at Coral Sea and Midway. Dawg bless you Wade McClusky where-ever you are.
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The rates Panama will charge on very large container ships will be $450k for a transit through the canal. This will be a major influence on whether the ship goes through the canal or around the Cape of Good Hope; even when bunker fuel prices rise back up.
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Here is a screen shot of the Panama Canal traffic I took on February 11 using the MarineTraffic app. The ship icons are ones moving and the diamonds are anchored ships. Backlog for transit at that time was at least one week, unless one was willing to pay higher transit fees to cut in line.
The new locks that will double traffic were scheduled to be opened in April, but are not to be opened to June, due to cold concrete joints and major water leaks on the base of one of the new locks.
I wonder how the upgrades in both the Suez and Panama Canals will be utilized when the canal authorities raise their transit fees to what they think that the market will bear. Shades of Nassar.
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2013 information about transiting the Panama Canal I found on the web.
"Cargo ships are billed $82 per full container, $74 for an empty one. (So you really don’t want to have a lot of empties.) Then in a system that seems like it was copied from U.S. airlines, there are lots of extra fees on top of that. The ship passing by in the photo above was loaded with 3,800 containers, so here’s what the captain paid:
– $321,446 for the containers
– $11,445 for the work of 7 tugboats
– $4,745 for ground assistants
– $3,600 for ground wires
When they exit the other side of the canal, that transit alone will have added 1/3 of a $million to the cost of the goods on the ship. So if you’re in Boston getting coffee from Sumatra or a car from Korea, keep this in mind when you look at the price."
LINK
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AP: a standard shipping container can carry about 50,000/pounds of material.
Retail, coffee costs about 8.00 a pound. I don't have a bag handy, I will estimate the dimensions as about 3" x 5" x 10", or 150 cubic inches.
The standard TEU has a weight capacity of about 47,600 (I forgot about the container itself), and a cubic capacity of 1360 cubic feet.
So if my guesstimate is right, I wind up with
(/ (* 1360 12 12 12) 150.0) which evaluates to 15667.2 pounds, which retails for $ 125,000, of which the 82.00 fee per TEU is .06 %, or .0006.
Assuming, of course, you're shipping the coffee in vacuum packed bags in a TEU.
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You're right Snowy. Calculating costs is a complicated affair. It is a big equation that both sides (canals and ship owners) play to maximize profits. A miscalculation on the part of a canal will lose traffic even though it costs the ship owners more time. With the Baltic dry index so low, ship profits are really squeezed.
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Sniff, sniff, IS THERE NO LOVE FOR THE NICARAGUA CANAL, THE ONE AFGAIK THAT CONTRACTOR CHINA HAS YET TO START BUILDING???
Iff-n-when Beijing does start contruction of same, IMO 'tis all the more reason again for the US to dredge to RIO GRANDE from TX side to Baja, CA or Baja Peninsula-Sea.
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Hello, Joe in Guam. I have thought of that idea but the length and the topo would make it cost prohibitive. Instead of a wall one could build a moat, heh, with Mexico.
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Jewish organizations and Holocaust historians have long complained that many countries of the former Soviet Union have failed to come to terms with the complicity of many of their leading nationalist figures.
Nowhere does this hold more true than Lithuania, which has been a frequent target of Jewish outrage since the fall of Communism.
In the latest scrap over historical memory, the small town of Moletai has come under fire for its announcement that it intends to name a street after Jonas Zvinys, a local priest accused of organizing a gang that murdered the city’s Jews in 1941. "It's that damn priest again." These are good people who fight for freedom against evil Putin.
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Lithuanian writer Ruta Vanagaite launched an investigation into Zvinys at the behest of Simon Wiesenthal Center Nazi hunter Dr. Efraim Zuroff, with whom she recently co-authored a book on Lithuanians and the Holocaust.
That's the ticket! It's a scant 75 or 80 years? Keep it stirred up, even beyond rigor mortis. They're nearly all gone you see. He was obviously a Christian and it's their turn in front of the klieg lights. Death really is the last taboo. I recommend exhumation, a speedy trial, and if he can hold together, the block. He's certainly no flight risk. Book sales will likely benefit as well. Hat tip to the sleuths at the SWC.
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Mr. B., for dawg's sake let it go. All is good, they English didn't only kill the boors, hell they killed everyone. It is all good. Now have a toke, it's spSunday and this is a good bong. :)
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"Speaking with The Jerusalem Post from Vilnius on Thursday, Vanagaite said that after searching through KGB archives she discovered that the priest indeed set up the gang in question, one of whose leaders was his own brother, who would later confess to his role in the massacre."
We have KGB archives, we have a confession in Stalin's time...
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There seems to be some disagreement in Wikipedia, Mercutio:
When California came under the control of the United States following the Mexican-American War, the street now called Grant was named Dupont Street, in honor of a Naval admiral from the USS Portsmouth (Portsmouth Square, located one block east, was named after that ship). In the following years, Dupont Street became the location for various opium dens, brothels, and Tong wars.[citation needed]
When San Francisco was rebuilt after being leveled in the 1906 earthquake, Dupont Street was upgraded and given a new name: Grant Avenue, after President Ulysses S. Grant.
"Because he was part of resistance against the soviets. The alleged involvment in the killings of jews was not known until now. If true, his place will be in the historical dumpster, not on the street names."
If true, a note to that effect should have appeared in the article.
In describing how little room the Pentagon has to extend the life of its decades-old nuclear forces, the top U.S. nuclear war-fighting commander, Navy Adm. Cecil Haney, says "we're at the brick wall stage."
Time to begin modernizing the country's nuclear weapons is running short, he and other Pentagon leaders say. They contend the force is still in fighting shape -- "safe, reliable and effective" is the official mantra. But they also argue the time has come to begin modernizing the force or risk eroding its credibility as a deterrent to attack by others.
They don't face brick wall-like resistance in Congress, but the debate over spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build and field a new generation of nuclear-capable bombers, submarines and land-based missiles is just beginning.
Critics say full-scale modernization is neither affordable nor necessary.
The debate is influenced not only by the perceived need to fully replace aging weapons but also by worries about North Korea's nuclear ambitions and concern over what Defense Secretary Ash Carter calls Russia's "nuclear sabre-rattling."
Robert Work, the deputy secretary of defense, said the Pentagon will need an estimated $18 billion a year between 2021 and 2035 to modernize the three "legs" of the U.S. nuclear triad -- weapons capable of being launched from land, sea and air.
"We need to replace these," Work said. "We can't delay this anymore."
The enormous sums needed are at risk of getting squeezed by high-priority requirements for non-nuclear, conventional weapons. And Work's numbers don't include the billions that would be needed to modernize the nuclear warheads on the business end of missiles and bombs.
"Modernization now is not an option" -- it must happen, Haney, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said in an interview on Friday, just hours after watching a test launch of an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM. The Minuteman, which has been on constant 24-hour alert since 1970, has long surpassed its 10-year life expectancy.
Haney said the U.S. stockpile of nuclear warheads is the oldest it has ever been. As head of Strategic Command he is the military's top nuclear war-fighter.
"We have to realize we can't extend things forever," Haney said, noting that the Navy is planning to replace its aging Ohio-class ballistic nuclear missile submarines, while the Air Force intends to build a new nuclear-capable bomber to replace the B-52.
Work said that although the Pentagon is closely monitoring Russia's nuclear modernization, which includes development of new versions of its ICBMs, those moves are not driving U.S. decisions about how quickly and broadly it should modernize its nuclear forces.
Some private analysts, however, see the U.S. and Russia entering a new arms competition.
"It's disturbing how quickly both the United States and Russia are sliding back toward the Cold War, both rhetorically and operationally," said Stephen Schwartz, an independent nuclear policy analyst and author.
"Worse still, both the United States and Russia are now using each other's nuclear programs and military activities to justify and rationalize their own," he added.
Haney and Work both were present Thursday night for the Minuteman 3 test launch, which was the second such test of the year. Work said Friday that the test was successful, with the missile's payload landing within a targeted area of water near Kwajalein Atoll in the south Pacific. He said it was the eighth consecutive successful Minuteman test launch, which would mean the last unsuccessful test was in December 2013, according to a chronology provided by the Air Force.
[IsraelTimes] Vice President Shahindokht Molaverdi doesn’t identify community in volatile Sistan and Baluchistan province.
Iran executed the entire male population of a village for drug trafficking, a senior Iranian cabinet minister said in a recent Persian-language interview published Tuesday. None'ayaz is going to talk eh? No problem.
In her interview with the semi-official Mehr news agency.Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Shahindokht Molaverdi didn’t mention the name of the village, or elaborate on when the executions were carried out -- or whether it was all at once or spread over time.
"We have a village in Sistan and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province where every single man has been executed," she said, according to a translation of her remarks by The Guardian.
She warned that as a result, violence there could increase. "Their children are potential narcos as they would want to seek Dire Revenge and provide money for their families. There is no support for these people."
Iran is one of the world’s largest users of the death penalty, ranking second behind China in 2014, according to the most recent figures from Amnesty. Most executions overall in Iran are carried out for drug smuggling.
The country straddles a major narcotics trafficking route linking opium-producing fields in Afghanistan to Europe. Sistan and Balochistan province, where the executions in question took place, borders Afghanistan and Pakistain and has been the scene of fighting between smugglers and police.
"If we do not act against these people, crime will return," Euronews quoted Molaverdi saying. "Society is responsible for the families of those executed. Although the family support program was neglected for several years, it has now been relaunched as part of the sixth national development plan."
In late October, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... ’ special investigator on the human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... situation in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, warned that executions in Iran have risen at an "exponential rate" since 2005 and could top 1,000 in 2015. He said Iran puts more people to death per capita than any other country, adding that the majority of executions do not conform to international laws banning the death penalty for juveniles and non-violent offenders.
Shaheed said 69 percent of the executions during the first six months of 2015 were reportedly for drug-related offenses, reflecting the increasing influx of drugs and rising drug abuse in the country.
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Iran is one of the world’s largest users of the death penalty, ranking second behind China in 2014
h/t Instapundit
With state funding cut off due to the ongoing budget impasse, Chicago State University has announced all 900 employees, including the university president, are receiving layoff notices. So, how's affirmative action in both the student- & the faculty tenure track admissions is working out for you fellows?
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No real loss here, however, having exhausted the trivial cases, the profligate spenders legislature will move on to shutting down public sanitation and public safety. You can try it for yourself in SimCity...
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Missing that old Magic Money Tree(tm).
Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
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should our statehouse fail to fund us, and put us in a position where we have to be compromised, we would need to have the flexibility and the legal position such that a reduction in force could take place,”
tl;dr: Some political gamesmanship. They are not in financial trouble yet, but a mass layoff sounds scary.
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"...should our statehouse fail to fund us, refuse to meet our demands and put us in a position where we have to be compromised, we would need to have the flexibility and the legal position such that a reduction in force could take place,”
Fixed that.
Mike
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They'll shut down police & fire depts. in order to fund it.
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.
[World Post] The birthday of the world's oldest president had more than a touch of the tragic and the absurd. 
In describing how little room the Pentagon has to extend the life of its decades-old nuclear forces, the top U.S. nuclear war-fighting commander, Navy Adm. Cecil Haney, says "we're at the brick wall stage."
