A 92-year-old World War II veteran shot and killed a suspected robber who attempted to break into his Kentucky home Monday morning. Two other men believed to be involved in the botched home invasion are lucky to have escaped with their lives and are now behind bars, WLWT reports.
According to police, 24-year-old Lloyd Maxwell broke into the elderly man's basement after 2 a.m. and tried to enter the first floor of the home in Verona, Ky. The homeowner, identified as Earl Jones, said he was startled awake by the noise coming from his basement and grabbed his .22 caliber rifle and steadied his aim on the basement door as he heard the sound of footsteps creeping up the basement stairs.
When the intruder kicked in the door, Jones fired one fatal shot into Maxwell's chest, police said. After firing the single shot, the homeowner called his neighbor, who then contacted the police.
By the time police arrived, the burglary suspect had gotten away. However, soon after arriving at Jones' home, law enforcement in a nearby county received a call about a man who had been shot close by. Kenton County police responded to the call and found Maxwell dead inside a 2011 Chevrolet Impala with two other unharmed men.
The other two men were brought in for questioning by the Boone County Sheriff's Office. During the interrogation, police say both men admitted to being involved in the bungled burglary at Jones' home.
Ryan Dalton, 22 and Donnie Inabnit, 20, both of Dry Ridge, Ky., are charged with second-degree burglary (complicity) and tampering with physical evidence, WLWT reports.
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My 82 year old father, WWII vet, who lived out in the country, was approached by a stranger as he sat on the front porch of his home. Someone had been trying to break in to buildings and even though his vision was bad he sensed the guy coming up to his front porch ignoring his warnings to leave the property was a bad guy.
When the stranger set his foot on the front porch my father reached just inside the front door and retrieved an AR15 with a 30 round banana clip.
He then informed the unwanted stranger that even though he was almost blind, he bet he could hit him with at least one of the 30 rounds in the banana clip.
The stranger exited quickly and attempted break ins ceased.
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..a 12ga. would have save the police some time searching for the body.
Yes, but the cleanup from the walls and floor was avoided. Not to mention all the stuff trampled in by the meat wagon emergency crew, homicide team, and probably coroner.
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A .22 cal in a nice choice for someone that is 92 years old. Consider the kick of a 12 gauge shotgun as some have stated. The gun might be enough to instantly incapacitate an intruder, but it could also have incapacitated the user as well.
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A .22 cal in a nice choice for someone that is 92 years old. Consider the kick of a 12 gauge shotgun as some have stated. The gun might be enough to instantly incapacitate an intruder, but it could also have incapacitated the user as well.
Sure enough, that's why I got my 77 year old Mom a .410. Plenty of ammo choices, and she gets a hoot out of taking it to the range.
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Yeah, a .22 might only piss someone off and not actually do any damage. Good shooting, sir.
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Which is why I thank God I live in the U.S. I have some friends who voted for The One last election. They aren't this time, and it started with them buying guns for home protection after a rash of crime from newly-arrived Chicagoans.
I find the irony delicious.
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Nigerian authorities say they arrested a man at Lagos' international airport who was bringing in roasted chicken with unusual stuffing: $150,000 worth of cocaine.
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency spokesman Mitchell Ofoyeju said Monday that the suspect arrived at the airport this weekend from Brazil. Ofoyeju said Chinweuwa told investigators he had hoped to start a business in Nigeria with the drug money.
[Al Ahram] Controversy erupted in Egypt's cultural scene after Ismail El-Weshahy, a lawyer for the Moslem Brüderbund's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), filed a complaint Saturday to the interior ministry against El-Sawy Culturewheel, the prominent cultural centre in Cairo's upscale Zamalek district, accusing it of hosting "Satanist" rock bands and events.
The allegations, observers say, are reminiscent of Egypt's infamous "Satan worshipers case" of the mid-1990s.
According to El-Weshahy, one of his clients attended a recent event at El-Sawy Culturewheel at which he claims to have seen young people wearing t-shirts adorned with what he described as satanic shapes and symbols. The lawyer said that his client had also filmed a group of people who he said were performing satanic rituals in the centre.
El-Weshahy insists that he does not represent the FJP in the case, but rather his two clients, both of whom are members of an independent anti-corruption NGO called 'We're Watching You."
For its part, the Culturewheel issued a statement regarding the 31 August heavy metal concert in which it denied claims by El-Weshahy and his clients.
"In our ten years of activity, the Culturewheel has not hosted any kind of practice that could be called Satanic," the statement asserted, going on to express doubt that Satanism in Egypt existed at all.
The Culturewheel also stressed in its statement that the centre's administration did not allow any kind of violation during its concerts, be it smoking or any other kind of unacceptable behaviour.
El-Sawy Culturewheel was founded in 2003 by Mohamed El-Sawy, an engineer and founder of Egypt's moderate-Islamist Hadara (Civilisation) Party. El-Sawy was appointed culture minister in the government of Ahmed Shafiq (ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's last prime minister) over the objections of many intellectuals who considered him too conservative.
On 30 and 31 August, the centre hosted several Egyptian heavy metal and rock bands.
Nour Ayman Nour, the revolutionary activist and rock band member (and son of prominent reform activist Ayman Nour), slammed El-Weshahy on Twitter, demanding that the FJP declare that it was not responsible for the case against the culture centre.
Nour told Ahram Online that the issue reminded him of the State Security campaigns of the 1990s, in which, he said, the authorities would contrive fake controversies in an effort to distract the public from more pressing issues.
"Instead of filing complaints against metal bands and El-Sawy Culturewheel, why don't the FJP's lawyers focus on corruption cases that really matter?" Nour asked. He went on to call on the lawyers to refrain from judging young people based merely on their appearance.
"Ismail El-Weshahy himself could have been the victim of such profiling in the past," Nour said, referring to the way Islamists -- or all bearded men -- were treated in Egypt during the Mubarak era.
In late 1996, Egyptian security forces cooled for a few years Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! several young people on charges of promoting Satanism in Egypt through metal and black-metal music, possessing drugs and insulting the divine religions. The case, which came to be known in the media as "the Satan worshipers case," was handled largely by Egypt's State Security apparatus.
After months of media controversy, the defendants were eventually released due to a lack of evidence.
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This area of the world has a long history with 'Satanism'. Hitlers appeal and the Bath party reflect some of this. Those of you in this area of the world could add more I believe. Darth is very close to the mark, in my opinion.
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satan (or shaytan) is a real presence in Islam (see verse chap 7 verse 11 and 12 of the Quran)
Followers of the Yasdi religion are called satanists by some moslems because one of the angels who runs the world in the Yazdi cosmology has a secondary name of that is similar to satan.
Of course calling someone a satanist in Egypt may be something you do when you are tired of calling them a zionist or apostate or heretic or infidel but you still want them arrested or killed
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Of course calling someone a satanist in Egypt may be something you do when you are tired of calling them a zionist or apostate or heretic or infidel but you still want them arrested or killed
Then it's not like further south, where Jooooos and satanists notoriously cause the male member to wither and fall off?
[Al Ahram] The wife of Ahmed Shoman, an Egyptian military officer who was tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! after taking part in protests at Tahrir Square, said her husband and other placed in long-term storage Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! military officers -- known as the on 8 April officers -- would be released late on Monday.
Mona Salah stated on ONTV satellite channel that she had received a phone call on Monday from a presidential source, who informed her of the news.
Shoman's wife says that the release of her husband will be "considered a victory for the January 25 Revolution."
Shoman is one of dozens of army personnel who have been jugged You have the right to remain silent... for joining protesters in Tahrir Square during and after the 2011 uprising.
For his side, lieutenant Ahmed Abu El-Hassan, one of the officers who were placed in long-term storage Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on 8 April 2011 but was released in the same month this year along with some of his colleagues, told Ahram Online: "I think five officers will be released on Monday, but they are still in the detention cell.
Around 22 officers were placed in long-term storage Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on 8 April 2011 during one of the square's trademark million-man demonstrations, in which protesters attacked the then ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
Some of the military officers have already been released, others were given prison sentences or sanctions while the rest are still being tried in military courts.
Officer Shoman, who was given a suspension in rank promotion by the military court, was initially placed in long-term storage Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! following the departure of former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... for his involvement in protests at Tahrir Square in the days leading up to the president's ouster.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... under pressure from demonstrators and activists, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) pardoned him a few days later. The then ruling military council issued an official statement later, saying it would no longer tolerate such acts.
Shoman, however, opted to join protests in Tahrir Square again on 22 November, during the violent festivities between protesters and Egypt's security forces in Mohamed Mahmoud Street, and thus was placed in long-term storage Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! again.
The court charged Shoman with several offences, including undisciplined military behaviour, filming videos while wearing military uniform and publishing them via various media, absence from his unit, neglecting to obey military orders and stating political views through satellite channels.
Shoman's wife stressed that her husband got involved in the protest to show his support and solidarity with his colleagues, who withstood the Mohamed Mahmoud festivities.
These festivities left dozens killed and hundreds injured as civilians and security forces faced off after police personnel had tried to forcibly disperse a sit-in in Tahrir.
Retired General Tarek Wadia, father of Mohamed Wadia, one of jugged You have the right to remain silent... officers, said that he met with Amr El-Laithy, member of the presidential advisory council, who denied knowing the date of his son's release on the same satellite television show.
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Villagers in Madagascar have killed nearly 100 cattle thieves in a wave of weekend attacks in southern areas of the Indian Ocean island plagued by rustling, officials said Monday.
Be it Dodge City or Ihaborano, the only good rustler is a dead one...
Lieutenant Colonel Tahina Rakotomalala of Madagascar's gendarmerie, or paramilitary police, told AFP 23 cattle rustlers were killed overnight in an ambush by villagers armed with rocks, spears and firearms. He had earlier said another 67 rustlers were killed on Friday night.
67 rustlers killed? Cheez, these folks would do well in Abilene...
The authorities had also said that nine people -- two gendarmes, one policeman and six other thieves -- were killed Sunday in the southern Ihaborano region of the island. The violence took place around a cluster of villages in the same region.
Authorities have stepped up security in the area to prevent any reprisal attacks by the thieves, who are known as dahalos.
Twelve villagers were also injured in the attacks and 98 out of 100 stolen zebus, the local breed of cattle, were recovered, Rakotomalala said.
Theft of the humped cattle -- a prized breed in parts of southern Madagascar -- has surged and grown more violent in recent years.
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[Dawn] Armenia warned Azerbaijan it was ready for war as tensions soared Monday between the ex-Soviet foes after Baku pardoned and promoted an Azerbaijani officer who axed an Armenian soldier to death.
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev last week immediately pardoned Ramil Safarov after he was extradited from Hungary, where he had been serving a life sentence for the 2004 killing. Why was he serving a sentence in Hungary?
Safarov was also promoted to the rank of major, given a house and eight years' worth of back-pay after returning home to a hero's welcome, in defiance of assurances from Baku to Budapest that he would serve out his term in Azerbaijan. They lied. It's what dictatorships do. Armenia has some experience in that regard as well...
"We don't want a war, but if we have to, we will fight and win. We are not afraid of killers, even if they enjoy the protection of the head of state,"Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian fumed in a statement late on Sunday.
"They (Azerbaijanis) have been warned," he said, calling Azerbaijan a country where "illicit orders set free and publicly glorify every bastard who kills people only because they are Armenians".
Safarov hacked Armenian officer Gurgen Margarian to death at a military academy in Budapest where the servicemen were attending English-language courses organised by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
His lawyers claimed in court that he was traumatised because some of his relatives had been killed during Azerbaijan's war with Armenia, and alleged that Margarian had insulted his country.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are locked in a long-running conflict over the disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh, where they fought a war in the 1990s. Armenia-backed separatists seized Nagorny Karabakh from Azerbaijan in the war that left some 30,000 people dead.
The two sides have not signed a final peace deal since the 1994 ceasefire and there are still regular firefights along the front line. Analysts warn the frozen conflict risks slipping again into full-scale war.
Russia, which is part of the OSCE Minsk Group that is mediating in negotiations to find a peaceful solution to the Karabakh conflict, expressed "deep concern" over the extradition and pardon.
"We believe that these actions of the Azerbaijanis, as well as the Hungarian authorities, go against the efforts agreed at an international level primarily through the OSCE Minsk Group aimed at reducing tension in the region," Russian foreign ministry front man Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement.
The EU said Baku and Yerevan should refrain from exacerbating the dispute. There, that should end it...
In a statement, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said they "are concerned by the news" of the pardon, adding that EU officials were "in contact with the relevant authorities".
EU officials will "continue to follow the situation closely," the statement said.
"In the interest of regional stability and on-going efforts towards reconciliation," Ashton and Fuele said they "reiterate their call on Azerbaijan and Armenia to exercise restraint, on the ground as well as in public statements, in order to prevent an escalation of the situation."
Baku on Monday accused Yerevan of launching a wave of attacks on eight Azerbaijani websites including those of the president and various news portals, sometimes posting photographs of the murdered Armenian soldier.
"The very fact of this action speaks of the powerlessness of Yerevan, resorting to the tactics of the weak," Azerbaijani presidential administration official Elnur Aslanov said in a statement.
The administration also published a series of letters from citizens praising Aliyev for pardoning the convicted killer.
"I am grateful to you for the nationwide joy you have given us by releasing Ramil Safarov, returning him to his homeland and, most importantly, doing justice," wrote one of them, Zamina Aliyeva.
Yerevan on Friday cut diplomatic ties with Hungary over the pardon, while US President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... said he was "deeply concerned" about the incident.
Hungary summoned Azerbaijan's ambassador on Sunday to protest at Baku's decision after earlier saying it had been assured Safarov would serve out his term. You guys have been freed from the Soviets for a little over 20 years and already you've forgotten: dictators lie.
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So - some guy from Azerbaijan gets pi**ed off, carries an axe to his English class - and NATO doesn't even notice???
I mean - did he have a "concealed-carry permit" fo the axe??? What about all his classmates ... did they just stand around taking bets while an axe murder was happening? It bogglers the mind.
Maybe this kinda' stuff happens regularly in NATO English classes ... I dunno. ;-)
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In a statement, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said they "are concerned by the news" of the pardon, adding that EU officials were "in contact with the relevant authorities".EU officials will "continue to follow the situation closely," the statement said. "harrumph harrumph harrumph".
h/t Instapundit
The American republic has endured for well over two centuries, but over the past 50 years, the apparatus of American governance has undergone a radical transformation. In some basic respectsits scale, its preoccupations, even many of its purposesthe U.S. government today would be scarcely recognizable to Franklin D. Roosevelt, much less to Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Jefferson.
What is monumentally new about the American state today is the vast empire of entitlement payments that it protects, manages and finances. Within living memory, the federal government has become an entitlements machine. As a day-to-day operation, it devotes more attention and resources to the public transfer of money, goods and services to individual citizens than to any other objective, spending more than for all other ends combined.
The growth of entitlement payments over the past half-century has been breathtaking. In 1960, U.S. government transfers to individuals totaled about $24 billion in current dollars, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. By 2010 that total was almost 100 times as large. Even after adjusting for inflation and population growth, entitlement transfers to individuals have grown 727% over the past half-century, rising at an average rate of about 4% a year.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt would have recognized the US Gov't today. If he were yet alive, he would be speaking in Charlotte this week....probably as the incumbent president.
ROCKFORD, Ill. -- A U.S. Navy veteran who served in World War II has received a medal of honor -- from Russia. Delbert Dauenbaugh, of Rockford, recently received the Medal of Ushakov, which is given to military personnel who demonstrated courage during the defense of the Soviet Union.
Dauenbaugh served as a signalman on the SS Hawkins Fudske, a cargo ship that ran supplies to two Russian ports from the Britain, Ireland and Belgium.
He joined the Navy at the age of 17. His duties included standing on the ship''s bridge and sending and receiving messages with flags, flashing lights and Morse code.
The Rockford Register Star reports the award was sent from the Russian Embassy in Washington.
Dauenbaugh says that "after 70 years, it's pretty good Russia remembered what we did."
The G Suit worn by F-22 pilots includes a valve that connects oxygen hoses to a pilot's pressure garments. This valve was designed for F-15 and F-16 life support systems that are optimized for high-G situations. However the F-22 flies both high-G and high-altitude missions, and that combination has apparently triggered a malfunction in the valve, which the Air Force will replace by the end of the year.
Systems of systems engineering principle #1 - the whole is the interacting sum of the systems that make it up.
Systems of systems engineering principle #2 - sometimes the littlest things are the ones that get ya ...
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These two birds aren't the only ones doing the high altitude/high G thing; was the valve redesigned for these two? and why did this never show up on earlier a/c; F-14, F-111(maybe a stretch), any of the Century series fighters, etc? that is one piece of this tragic puzzle i haven't heard yet. glad they found the cause.
[An Nahar] The Lebanese army said on Monday that it placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! four people for kidnapping a man after forcing him into the trunk of a car in the northern city of Tripoli. ...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
A communique issued by the army command said: "An army patrol in Corniche al-Mina on Sunday stopped a suspicious vehicle with four people on board after they tried to flee."
But soldiers discovered that the suspects had "kidnapped a Lebanese man for personal problems and put him in the trunk of the vehicle."
The communique also said that an army unit seized weapons and ammunition during a patrol in the eastern area of Baalbek.
The soldiers also seized drugs and other military hardware, it said.
The Tripoli and Baalbek suspects were referred to the military police for investigation.
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Hat tip Dan Riehl. From TFA:
For the past three months, Jonah Lehrer, science journalist, author of three books, and (former) New Yorker staff writer has been under siege. In mid-June, he was accused of recycling his old work and publishing it as new. Since then, a number of accounts assert that Lehrer committed the two mortal sins of journalism: fabrication and plagiarism.
Before Lehrer joined The New Yorker, he was one of the premier bloggers at Wired.com; the site still boasts several hundred blog posts he wrote for his Frontal Cortex blog. Quite naturally, when the Lehrer scandal first broke, the editors at Wired.com worried that his work for them was tainted as well.
That's where I came in. I'm a journalism professor and science journalist, and though I've written for Wired once or twice (and I happen to know and like Wired's editor, Chris Anderson), I was a relatively neutral, outside party who could check Lehrer's blog for journalistic malfeasance. So Wired.com asked me to take a look.
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Lehrer committed the two mortal sins of journalism: fabrication and plagiarism.
False. He committed the sin of getting caught. We've been chronicling a lot MSM fabrication about the Trunks and Mitt et al for several months and will undoubtedly be subjected to even more.
A job awaits the man in the DoL employment statistics office in Da Capital.
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Not to be outdone by the US or Russia, China is also repor interested in developing its own Air Wing or Squadron composed of Unmanned Drones for its new CV. I imagine space will be very very limited on the PLAN's "SHILENG/DAOYU" CVT.
* IIRC WMF > RUSSIAN MEDIA: CHINA'S NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER LIKELY WON'T BE RATED COMBAT-READY UNTIL THE YEAR 2017.
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ION SINA ...
* TOPIX > [Japan Govt] STATE MAY BUY SENKAKUS THIS MONTH.
* SAME > TOKYO GOVT. [City = Metropolitan Govt] SURVEYS SENKAKUS, 25-MEMBER TEAM EXAMINES LAND, AIR, + SEA TO ASSESS ISLANDS' VALUE.
* RELATED CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > TOKYO METRO SURVEYS THREE DISPUTED ISLANDS.
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* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINA SAYS JAPANESE CONSPIRACY TO "NATIONALIZE" THE DAOYUTAI DOOMED TO FAILURE.
* SAME > JAPAN COAST GUARD DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH PATROL BOATS OR THE CORRECT TYPE TO DETER OR STOP CHINA'S LARGE FISHING FLEETS AND ADMINISTRATION/MARITIME SURVEILLANCE SHIPS FROM DAOYU ISLANDS. JAPAN MEDIA CLAIMS CHINA MAY DISGUISE PLA SOLDIERS AS ORDINARY FISHERMEN TO INFILTRATE DAOYUS.
* SAME > PLA "SECOND ARTILLERY" HAS APPROXIMATELY 262 STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WARHEADS/
NUCBOMBS TARGETED AT JAPAN, WITH ANOTHER 1,687 TARGETED AT CONUS, 253 AT RUSSIA.
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Nigerian authorities say they arrested a man at Lagos' international airport who was bringing in roasted chicken with unusual stuffing: $150,000 worth of cocaine.
The wife of Ahmed Shoman, an Egyptian military officer who was 
Villagers in Madagascar have killed nearly 100 cattle thieves in a wave of weekend attacks in southern areas of the Indian Ocean island plagued by rustling, officials said Monday.
The Lebanese army said on Monday that it 
