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He was ripping off drug gangs. Might have been more fun to just let them know where to look for him. And let him know they were coming. And sell popcorn.
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How many fat men with goatees are there in Iraq these days? He blended in with his relatives like a sore thumb. It's nice to know the U.S. Marshalls consider the entire world their hunting ground as required.
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For 6 years I've been able to say that I honestly hope that no harm befalls any American in Iraq, then this slob goes and screws it up for me. Thank you Marshalls for putting things right again.
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Grieving La Toya Jackson claims to be talking to her dead brother Michael -- from beyond the grave. "Aaaawk! She's psycho! Aaaawk!"
She says: "When I go to his house I say, 'Hello, Michael. How are you? If you're here, please, please let me know'. And the lights start blinking. I can feel him." "Aaaawk! Mad as a hatter! Aaaawk!"
"I know he's there, answering me and knowing he's watching me is a huge comfort. I never believed that people could speak, hear and communicate in that sense. But I've witnessed it several times now and I want to investigate it further. I am certainly open-minded to speaking to a medium. "Aaaawk! Give her some Haldol, stat! Aaaawk!"
"No other members of the family have experienced it. Just me." "Aaaawk! Own little world! Aaaawk!"
La Toya has also witnessed Michael's pet macaw, now with mother Katherine and the children at the family compound in Encino, conversing with the Thriller star. "Aaaawk! Billie Jean is not my lover! Aaaawk!"
She says: "Michael had a macaw and he was saying, 'Everything's OK, Michael. Everyone's fine, don't worry." "Aaaawk! Polly wants a psych referral! Aaaawk!"
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SO, Crazy runs in the family.
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And the lights start blinking.
So. never heard of motion detector lighs?
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I think it was the bird's Moonwalk that really convinced them.
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The Defense Department announced today the services implementation plans to provide retroactive stop loss special pay. Active, reserve and former service members who had their enlistment extended or retirement suspended due to stop loss are eligible for this special pay, if they served on active duty between Sept. 11, 2001 and Sept. 30, 2009.
Eligible personnel will receive a payment of $500 per month for each month (or any portion of a month) that a member was retained on active duty due to stop loss. Applicants for retroactive pay who are no longer in the military had to be honorably discharged, and for those who were stop lossed in fiscal 2009, may only receive payment from one stop loss authority.
Stop loss provides a valuable and critical tool to quickly retain and generate forces to surge in a major conflict. However, as deployment schedules stabilize, the department must then adapt and minimize its use of stop loss. The secretary of defense announced in March a comprehensive plan to eliminate the current use of stop loss, while retaining the authority for future use under extraordinary circumstances.
Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, Police Chief David Kunkle announced Friday while promising to investigate all officers involved in the cases for dereliction of duty.
Pending cases will be dismissed, and those who paid the $204 fine for the charge, which does not exist in the city, will be reimbursed, Kunkle said.
"I was surprised and stunned that that would happen, particularly in the city of Dallas," Kunkle said. "In my world, you would never tell someone not to speak Spanish."
The citations were issued in several different patrol divisions by at least six different officers. One of those officers was responsible for five of the citations, Kunkle said.
The case that led to the discovery of all the others occurred Oct. 2, when Ernestina Mondragon was stopped for making an illegal U-turn in the White Rock area. Rookie Officer Gary Bromley cited Mondragon for three violations: disregarding a traffic control device, failure to present a driver's license and "non-English speaking driver." I wanted to go straight, officer, but the sign said "No, you turn"!
In that case and perhaps the others, officials said, the officer was confused by a pull-down menu on his in-car computer that listed the charge as an option. But the law the computer referred to is a federal statute regarding commercial drivers that Kunkle said his department does not enforce.
Bromley, 33, is a trainee officer in the northeast patrol division, meaning he still works with a training officer during every shift. His training officer on that day was Senior Cpl. Daniel Larkin, 53.
According to department policy, a sergeant must also sign off on all citations. The supervisor who signed off on the Mondragon ticket was Sgt. David Burroughs, 50.
"In this case, the field training officer was aware of ultimately what the recruit officer had done," Kunkle said. "The field training officer is going to bear more responsibility than the recruit officer."
Mondragon, a native Spanish speaker, challenged the charge in court and it was dropped, her daughter said. Dallas police said they will drop all charges against Mondragon, who speaks limited English and does have a Texas driver's license.
Police officials did not release the names of the officers and supervisors involved in the other cases. Kunkle said he expected the investigation to last at least a few weeks and could reach back several years.
"An officer has to know the elements of an offense or what's necessary to constitute a crime," Kunkle said. "In this case it appears that officers did not understand." I think he probably did. It's just that the politicians don't.
It is unclear whether the erroneous tickets were reported by the courts. Administrative Judge C. Victor Lander said Friday afternoon that he would be surprised if such charges got past a judge. He said he would conduct a review.
"If there are any outstanding warrants as a result of these kinds of cases that have been inadvertently written, I'm going to direct that they be immediately held," Lander said. "If there are any cases in the prosecutorial pipeline, I'm going to request the city attorney to hold the case."
The citations amount to a small percentage of the roughly 400,000 tickets issued by Dallas police each year. But the total is large enough to have possible legal ramifications, said George A. Martinez, a professor at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.
"It sounds like a policy," Martinez said. "Discrimination on the basis of language ability, and that's targeting Latinos, and so that sounds pretty serious to me."
Attorney Domingo Garcia said he has been hired to represent the Mondragon family.
"The issue has nothing to do with whether people should learn English or not. I believe they should," Garcia said. "It's about not following the law and issuing citations against a law that doesn't exist, against a fairly voiceless and helpless population."
Beyond potential legal problems, some said the tickets send a troubling message to Hispanics. Oh $hit! We'd better learn English!
"It's the principle of the matter that there are police officers out there representing our city who actually think that it's a crime not to speak English," said Brenda Reyes, a political consultant and member of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Kunkle, who apologized repeatedly, said he recognized the incidents probably would damage the department's relationship with the Hispanic community. Not the legal one, of course.
"When we deal with crime victims ... our interest is not their immigration status," Kunkle said. "It's not something that we concern ourselves about. We want to serve all people." I'd prefer you served Americans, tourists, and legal aliens. The rest can take their faces hence.
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Lemme get this straight. The Dallas PD has automated the ticket procedure on their in-car computers....but left a choice on their pull-down menu that the command staff has decided will not be enforced, even if it is an actual law that could apply in very limited circumstances. Instead of blaming the programmers or (heaven forbid) command staff, it's the officers' fault.
Yep, that sounds like a big city police department to me....
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even if it is an actual law that could apply in very limited circumstances
The law refers to truck drivers, as Mexican trucks can now cross the border. Commercial enforcement is a different enforcement division but you are right, it is the computer programmers fault, not the officers.
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Definitely sounds like a case of bad user interface design, but one might hope the officers had more than passing familiarity with the law. They do go to cop school, after all.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Two weeks before American superstar Beyonce Knowles is scheduled to hold her first ever concert in Egypt, an Islamist MP publically blasted the government for accepting to host the event and accused the government of violating Sharia law. "Titties are against shariah. She got titties. She's against sharia, Q.E.D."
The bootylicious pop diva is set for a government-approved gig at the Red Sea resort of Port Ghalib, irking Muslim Brotherhood member Hamdi Hassan, who slammed the government for allowing a singer "who appears naked in her clips" to perform, which he said would spread vice. But, dewd! I heard she made the greatest music video ever! That's what that guy said, ain't it?
"The government is trying to make people indulge in sin and licentiousness to cover up the other crimes it is committing against them," Hassan said in a parliament session. The tickets are going for $400 apiece. If you got that kinda jack then you're likely no stranger to sin and licentiousness.
Hassan highlighted what he called government double standards for refusing to allow an Islamic band that sings religious songs for children to enter the country. Hush little baby don't you cry,
Once you detonate you'll blow sky high!
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"Greatest Music Video Ever". For those who are interested in supporting links, of course.
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Thanks Gorb. I never saw that before. Amusing, and worth watching.
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Interesting that Al Arabiya knows what bootylicious means.
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As good a reason as any to take two years of jazz dance classes. Fun! So of course it violates Sharia law... quite unlike a similar belly dance, which many girls do in Cairo, at least, although perhaps in not the same outfits.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Tunisians voted Sunday in a general election with President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali all but certain to win a fifth term in office after two decades in power. Rahm Emanuel is taking notes ...
Voters stood in line to cast their ballots at schools and other polling stations, although Ben Ali and his Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) party are expected to sweep the presidential and parliamentary elections.
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[Mail and Globe] President Robert Mugabe is describing the split in Zimbabwe's governing coalition as a "non-event", and says his party will not bow to pressure.
Mugabe's comments to state television on Friday are his first since Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said last week that he was temporarily withdrawing from the coalition. The former opposition leader has complained about a lack of cooperation by Mugabe and his party.
Mugabe suggested that Tsvangirai's party was being led by emotions and wanted "complete executive authority". That cannot be allowed, he told state TV on his return from a summit of African
leaders in Uganda.
The 84-year-old leader has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980.
Meanwhile, Tsvangirai on Friday urged Angola's
president to use his influence in the region to rescue Harare's unity government.
"What I said to him was, they have to ensure that this baby is nursed until it has grown, and that this agreement is protected because it's also the credibility of SADC which is at stake," said Tsvangirai after meeting with President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos in Luanda.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is chaired by Mozambique's Armando Guebuza.
Tsvangirai's visit to Angola follows a series of meetings with other Southern African leaders, from whom he is seeking support after cutting ties with the power sharing government.
"President Dos Santos is one of the senior leaders in the region, he together with others was instrumental in crafting this political dispensation," said Tsvangirai.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of plush London emporium Harrods, told The Sunday Times newspaper he was ready to become the first president of an independent Scotland. Scotland's going to be an emirate?
The Egyptian tycoon, 80, who owns an estate in the Scottish Highlands, said he was urging his "fellow Scots" to detach themselves from "the English and their terrible politicians".
Fayed, who has been repeatedly refused a British passport, said he hoped to be offered Scottish citizenship if a planned referendum on Scottish independence leads to Scotland leaving the United Kingdom -- and then becoming a republic.
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Yokay, this has been suspected or known only since FOREVER [ + a day] - THIS MORE IS IMPORTANT THAN MICHAEL JACKSON'S GHOST TALKING TO HIS MACAW BIRD, ALA SIS LA TOYA, "HOW" AGAIN???
But I think we all saw this coming ...
Uruguay has voted in elections which pitted a left-wing ex-guerrilla leader against a former president - and the result too close to call. The winner will replace outgoing socia1ist President Tabare Vazquez.
Exit polls on Sunday suggested 74-year-old Mr Mujica had gained about 48% of votes, with Mr Lacalle trailing on around 30%. If the ruling party socia1ist cannot pass the 50% threshold, he will face a run-off against his conservative rival Luis Lacalle, the former president. A 29 November run-off would take place between the two frontrunners.
Mr Mujica, a senator of the governing left-wing Broad Front Party, was a former member of the rebel Tupamaros movement in the 1960s and 1970s.
A former rebel? How romantic.
He has pledged to remove the income tax imposed by President Vazquez and trim the size of government in the country of 3.4 million.
Um? That sounds downright American-style conservative! Is he telling the truth?
Mr Lacalle, famed for having survived an attempt to poison him - and other National Party leaders - with tainted wine in the 1970s, is a 68-year-old lawyer. During the election campaign, he sought to capitalise on concerns among some voters about his rival's militant past. Mr Lacalle has crafted a political comeback 14 years after leaving office when his senior aides were accused of corruption.
As well as presidential and congressional elections, voters also took part in a referendum. That will decide whether to revoke a law which gives immunity to former security officials accused of human rights abuses during Uruguay's period of military rule.
Interesting times in Uruguay. How is Hugo Chavez sleeping these days?
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Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They're all more profitable than the health insurance industry. In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making "immoral" and "obscene" returns while "the bodies pile up."
Ledgers tell a different reality. Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones.
Profits barely exceeded 2 percent of revenues in the latest annual measure. This partly explains why the credit ratings of some of the largest insurers were downgraded to negative from stable heading into this year, as investors were warned of a stagnant if not shrinking market for private plans.
Insurers are an expedient target for leaders who want a government-run plan in the marketplace. Such a public option would force private insurers to trim profits and restrain premiums to compete, the argument goes. This would "keep insurance companies honest," says President Barack Obama.
The debate is loaded with intimations that insurers are less than straight, when they are not flatly accused of malfeasance.
They may not have helped their case by commissioning a report that looked primarily at the elements of health care legislation that might drive consumer costs up while ignoring elements aimed at bringing costs down. Few in the debate seem interested in a true balance sheet.
But in pillorying insurers over profits, the critics are on shaky ground. A look at some claims, and the numbers:
THE CLAIMS
_"I'm very pleased that (Democratic leaders) will be talking, too, about the immoral profits being made by the insurance industry and how those profits have increased in the Bush years." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who also welcomed the attention being drawn to insurers'"obscene profits."
_"Keeping the status quo may be what the insurance industry wants their premiums have more than doubled in the last decade and their profits have skyrocketed." Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, member of the Democratic leadership.
_"Health insurance companies are willing to let the bodies pile up as long as their profits are safe." A MoveOn.org ad.
THE NUMBERS:
Health insurers posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year, placing them 35th on the Fortune 500 list of top industries. As is typical, other health sectors did much better - drugs and medical products and services were both in the top 10.
The railroads brought in a 12.6 percent profit margin. Leading the list: network and other communications equipment, at 20.4 percent.
HealthSpring, the best performer in the health insurance industry, posted 5.4 percent. That's a less profitable margin than was achieved by the makers of Tupperware, Clorox bleach and Molson and Coors beers.
The star among the health insurance companies did, however, nose out Jack in the Box restaurants, which only achieved a 4 percent margin.
UnitedHealth Group, reporting third quarter results last week, saw fortunes improve. It managed a 5 percent profit margin on an 8 percent growth in revenue.
Van Hollen is right that premiums have more than doubled in a decade, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study that found a 131 percent increase.
But were the Bush years golden ones for health insurers?
Not judging by profit margins, profit growth or returns to shareholders. The industry's overall profits grew only 8.8 percent from 2003 to 2008, and its margins year to year, from 2005 forward, never cracked 8 percent.
The latest annual profit margins of a selection of products, services and industries: Tupperware Brands, 7.5 percent; Yahoo, 5.9 percent; Hershey, 6.1 percent; Clorox, 8.7 percent; Molson Coors Brewing, 8.1 percent; construction and farm machinery, 5 percent; Yum Brands (think KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell), 8.5 percent.
Germany's political leaders have formally approved a new center-right coalition government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, nearly a month after a general election.
The agreement was signed Monday night by the future government coalition leaders of Merkel's Christian Democrats, their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union and the pro-business Free Democrats.
The coalition has promised an overhaul of the health care system, more help for families and annual tax cuts of up to euro24 billion.
The newly elected parliament will convene for the first time Tuesday, and its lawmakers will formally elect Merkel a day later when the new government's ministers also will be sworn in.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Incoming German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has said Berlin will seek the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons based in Germany in support of Washington"s fervor for a world free of nuclear arms.
Not a bad idea. That way the nukes are already safely locked away on the far side of the ocean should Europe fall to the Caliphate. And should the jihadis fail, we'll not need to send them back via air freight.
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Meanwhile, the SOKORS want 'em to counter the NORTH [ + SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH CHINA + JAPAN}.
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Not a bad idea from the US point of view except it might have been better to deal them away in return for something (yeah good luck getting anything from Putin but still).
From a German point of view this is idiocy. The lefties mostly forgot the nukes were there but the Russians and other enemies certainly remembered. Now everyone will remember and the pressure to remove them will be high and Germany will get nothing for it but a weeks worth of good will and high fives.
Political conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.
Forty percent of Americans surveyed described their political ideology as conservative, while 36 percent said their views are moderate and 20 percent said liberal, the poll found.
The findings reportedly mark a shift from 2005 to 2008, when the number of moderates was even with conservatives as the most dominant group.
The results, based on 16 Gallup surveys conducted from January to September 2009, also show a greater number of Americans who express conservative positions on specific issues when compared to findings from 2008.
The survey found that 45 percent of Americans said there is too much government regulation of business and industry when asked in September -- an increase from 38 percent in September 2008. A higher percentage of Americans -- 42 percent -- also said labor unions should have less influence -- a 10-point jump from August 2008.
The poll, which surveyed 16,321 adults, had a margin of error of 1 percentage point. Respondents were interviewed on land-line telephones and cellular phones.
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Conservative does not mean non-socia1ist. For example, most Hispanics consider themselves socially conservative yet voted for a Marxist 70%. Blacks also consider themselves socially conservative yet voted for Obama a staggering 96% and even during other elections 85-90% vote for the party that promises to give them other people's money, a staggering racial disparity.
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Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader seen as the mastermind of the worst ethnic pogroms in Europe in the post-war era, goes on trial today in what may be the last big case of the UN's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.
Arrested last year in Serbia under a false identity after 13 years as a fugitive, Karadzic has been indicted on two counts of genocide, the gravest charges possible, for allegedly overseeing the mass murder and deportation of tens of thousands of Bosnia's Muslims in the north-west of the country in 1992 and at Srebrenica in the north-east in 1995. He faces a further nine charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for the 44-month Serbian siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, in 1992-95, and for taking more than 200 UN peacekeepers hostage in 1995 as an insurance policy against Nato bombing raids.
Fifteen years into the operations of the tribunal, the Karadzic trial is shaping up to be its most important and one of its last. But it looks likely to get off to a frustrating and demoralising start with the accused boycotting the proceedings in The Hague. The presiding judge, O-Gon Kwon of South Korea, faces a dilemma over how to deal with a recalcitrant defendant who has long argued he is immune from prosecution because of a deal allegedly struck with Richard Holbrooke, then the US Balkan envoy, after the war ended in 1995. How about just ruling against him? And then telling him to sit down and shut up?
Or asking Mr. Holbrooke under oath whether he did indeed make such a deal. In which case the trial immediately comes to naught. I don't know enough about the gentleman to be able to say whether a lie detector ought to be involved in the questioning.
Karadzic also insists on conducting his own defence and declared last week he would not be in court because he needs more time to prepare.
The same tactics were or are being used by the late Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, and Serbian warlord, Vojislav Seselj, to grandstand, politicise the trials, and drag them out interminably. The Euro judges never seem to learn -- and don't seem to want to learn.
The judges have been criticised by lawyers, victims' associations, and human rights activists for allowing the war crimes suspects to set the agenda and manipulate the court. Despite Karadzic's boycott threat last week from his cell on the North Sea outside The Hague, the court stressed that the trial would open today, after previous postponements. It's almost as if the judges and the courts want all the delays. Do they get a per-diem?
The prosecution is scheduled to make two days of opening statements before Karadzic mounts his defence next week. But it is not clear what will happen if Karadzic stays away this morning. Legal experts predict further delays are inevitable, perhaps of several months.
Following the boycott threat last week, the judge contacted Karadzic on Friday to "encourage" him to appear in court. That suggested a veiled warning was delivered, with the judge reserving the right to impose defence lawyers.
Karadzic described his long-awaited trial as "the biggest, most complex, important, and sensitive case ever before this tribunal" and argued he needed a lot more time to plough through around one million pages of prosecution evidence.
"My defence is not ready," he said. "I will not appear before you on that date [today]." This threat was in the English version of a 10-page letter from Karadzic. The original in Serbian, however, did not contain the explicit stay-away pledge.
Karadzic was the political leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the 1992-95 war which left 100,000 dead, mainly Bosnian Muslims, and bequeathed a country partitioned between a Serbian half and a Muslim-Croat half. The fundamental charge is that Karadzic orchestrated a systematic campaign of murder and terror to rid half of Bosnia of all non-Serbs.
The "objective was the permanent removal of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats from Bosnian Serb-claimed territory through crimes charged in this indictment," the prosecution alleges, "by means which included ... genocide, persecution, extermination, murder, deportation, and inhumane acts."
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Twelve people accused of promoting 'satanism' have been arrested in northwest Iran, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
"A number of people in the city of Orumiyeh who engaged in the promotion of 'satanism' through underground music and the production of blasphemous video clips were arrested," the daily Resalat quoted senior police official Kheibar Tiba as saying. The Islamic Republic said last year it would crack down on "indecent Western-inspired movements" such as rappers and satanists. That move signalled a widening of a clampdown on "immoral" conduct launched in 2007 against women flouting rules dictating that they cover their heads and disguise the shape of their bodies in public, in line with Iran's Islamic system. In May, security forces arrested 104 "devil worshippers" and seized drugs and alcohol during a party in a southern city. Alcohol and narcotics are illegal in Iran.
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The only one in that group that I'm aware of that has largely retained it's reputation for telling the truth is also the only one that has shown a (modest) increase in circulation. Any connection?
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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.
Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, Police Chief David Kunkle announced Friday while promising to investigate all officers involved in the cases for dereliction of duty. 
Hush little baby don't you cry,
[Al Arabiya Latest] Tunisians voted Sunday in a general election with President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali all but certain to win a fifth term in office after two decades in power. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of plush London emporium Harrods, told The Sunday Times newspaper he was ready to become the first president of an independent Scotland.
Political conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.
Twelve people accused of promoting 'satanism' have been arrested in northwest Iran, a newspaper reported on Sunday. 
