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A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said. "Honey! Has the postman been here yet? I'm expecting an order of heads..."
"It wasn't labeled or packaged properly," said Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman. "They called the local authorities." "Not yet, dear. I hope they put enough postage on them this time!"
The incident happened in Little Rock, Ark., last Wednesday, she said. "I always have trouble getting my heads when I deal with Little Rock, dammit! If they screw this batch up I'm switching to Omaha!"
Little Rock police turned the package over to the county coroner, who questions where they came from and if they were properly obtained. "You got a permit for them heads, Mac?"
"We've come to the conclusion that there is a black market out there for human body parts for research or for whatever reason," said Pulaski County coroner Garland Camper. "Pssst! Hey, buddy! Wanna buy a head?"
"Naw. I already got a head."
"We just want to make sure these specimens here aren't a part of that black market and underground trade." "I dunno, Bob. Those heads look pretty suspicious to me!"
The heads were being transported to the Fort Worth office of Medtronic, a leading medical research and technology company based in Minnesota. Oh, well. A medical research and technology company. That's raise my suspicions right there.
Medtronic spokesman Brian Henry said it is common to ship body parts for medical education and research, but he said it is rare for a shipment to be seized. "Now I guess we'll have to go back to teleporting them. They never got seized when we teleported them."
"We expect our suppliers to follow proper procedures," he said. Camper described the items as 40 to 60 human heads. "Jones! Look up the rules for shipping 40 to 60 human heads!"
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A man stole two inflatable dolls Sunday night from an adult entertainment store in downtown Missoula, according to police.
The theft occurred at 10 p.m. at Fantasy Adult Video at 210 E. Main St. An employee of the store told investigators that the suspect is a white male. No other description was provided.
The dolls cost $140 each and were individually packaged for sale. They were not inflated.
A German student "mooned" a group of Hell's Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.
The man drove up to a Hell's Angels clubhouse near Munich, wearing only a pair of shorts and carrying a puppy. He dropped his shorts and threw the dog, escaping on a bulldozer from a nearby building site. He was arrested later at home by police. The 26-year-old is said to have stopped taking depression medication....
"What motivated him to throw a puppy at the Hell's Angels is currently unclear," a police spokesman said....
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'Twas an insult: "You can fly on your bikes, but you are still dogs".
Thomas Kinkade, the artist known for his light-filled paintings of cottages, churches and country gardens, spent a night in jail after being arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
California Highway Patrol officials said Kinkade, 52, was pulled over outside Carmel and arrested just after 10 p.m. Friday. He was released Saturday morning, reports AP....
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Too bad they can't hold him for lack of good taste.
A woman suspected of marrying multiple military servicemen and taking their money was arrested in New Orleans Monday.
Bobbi Finley, known to authorities as the "Military Mistress," is accused of walking out on her $240 bill at a Bourbon Street restaurant.
Authorities said Finley drained the bank accounts of 40 military men and married nine of them -- a number of them from the San Diego area. The men found out they had been scammed when they were overseas and their accounts were emptied, authorities said.
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Jeebus. I hit the "enlarge" button. Bad mistake
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We need to bring back the chain gang and put her and others to work in the marsh picking up oil and feeding the mosquitos.
Maybe a little time in the coast sun and some hard work will help her physical state and pay off some of these duped guys. They must have been in Afghanistan for a long while or been using alcohol blinders too long.
Keith Olbermann announced Wednesday night that he will cease blogging for the liberal Daily Kos over a comment directed at the MSNBC host's coverage.
Olbermann and some of his MSNBC colleagues surprised their left-leaning fans on Tuesday with eviscerating critiques of President Barack Obama's Oval Office address on the oil spill spewing off the Gulf Coast....One commenter on the Daily Kos, where Olbermann has frequently blogged over the years, speculated that the pattern of hosts generally sympathetic to the president bashing the administration was too consistent to be a coincidence.
Can't verify, of course,' the commenter began, but a friend in the news biz tells me he got a damaging e-mail from one of his pals at NBC. Something to the effect that their anger was pre-planned because beating up on the president has been good for ratings.' I haven't checked, but I'm hearing that Olbermann slammed the speech on Twitter before it even started.'
Olbermann, incensed by the commenter, later fired off a posted titled Check, Please' explaining that he won't be back' to the site until it stops delving into conspiracy theories.' "Oh, Keith, you mean you only now just noticed that the whole friggin' website is shot through with conspiracy theories?" Can't verify'... haven't checked'...It can't be verified because it's nonsense, and it wasn't checked because nobody bothered,' Olbermann said before launching into a critique of the blog. For years, from the Katrina days onward, whenever I stuck my neck out, I usually visited here as the clichéd guy in the desert stopping by the oasis,' he wrote. I never got universal support, and never expected it, nor wanted it (who wants an automatic Yes' machine?). But I used to read a lot about how people here would 'always have my back,' and trust me this was of palpable value as I fought opponents external and internal who try to knock me and Rachel off the air, all the time, in ways you can imagine and others you can't.' "And I'm not paranoid, either--they really are out to get me."
Olbermann went on to say that he understood if some of his viewers were frustrated to see him criticizing the president but that he would not stand for being accused of doing so just to boost ratings. To accuse me, after five years of risking what I have to present the truth as I see it, of staging something for effect, is deeply offensive to me and is an indication of what has happened here,' the liberal host wrote. You want cheerleaders? Hire the Buffalo Jills. (Give Olby credit, he's got good taste in cheerleaders, at least.)
You want diaries with conspiracy theories, read just about any posting on the God-forsaken Daily Kos website go nuts. If you want this site the way it was even a year ago, let me know and I'll be back.'
The Kos Kidz responded with their trademark civility and good sense:
We will have you to thank if the dems lose control of the house. Once again the liberals/progressives shoot themselves in the foot by refusing to face reality. I'm pretty disgusted with you, Ms Maddow and the rest of the MSM. But the thing is, I always expected you two NOT to go along with the MSM contrived memes and yet here you are, like the rest of the sheep, echoing the theme of the day.
Wow at least Obama has not cut and run. Grow the hell up man, this world is not centered around you!!!!!
I graduated from high school In 1968 and I just have to say it! The cheerleaders in my school were much cuter and had better routines than the corporatism cheerleaders of today.
I never would have guessed you graduated high school, based on your comments here.
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"who wants an automatic 'Yes' machine?"
You, Olby.
Bambi.
The Left in general.
Anything else I can clear up for you?
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I can't help but laugh when reading of red on red crime.
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If Olberman divorces Obama and Chris Matthews gets rid of the tingling in his loins leg, then I will think Obama is on his way out for certain. Can't happen soon enough.
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the churlish behavior of this inexperienced narcissist child when his own fawners draw away will be delicious. See: bunker mentality. He will make Nixon look beneficent, and will kill Democrat Presidential aspirations for a long while. Plus, we get the "I'm nothing like Obama" in 2012 Donk challengers. Red on red desperation without principle. Smells like...victory
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Egypt's attorney general has ordered a new autopsy on the body of a 28-year-old activist that rights groups said was beaten to death for exposing police corruption, state newspaper al-Ahram said on Wednesday.
Police have denied any role in the death of Khaled Mohammed Said, who the Interior Ministry said on Saturday died from an overdose of drugs he swallowed before police approached him.
The second autopsy, while welcomed by watchdog Amnesty International and the U.S. State Department, has not eased demands for a free and fair investigation of his death.
"We urge that it be done transparently and in a manner consistent with the serious allegations that have been made," a State Department spokesman said in remarks on the department's website. He said Washington was concerned about the death.
The United States, an ally and major aid donor, has criticized Egypt for violence in dealing with protesters and for renewing an emergency law, which critics say is used to stifle dissent. Egypt has dismissed such comments as interference.
According to activists and human rights groups, Said was killed in the port city of Alexandria on June 6 after he posted an internet video which Said's family said showed police officers sharing the profits of a drug deal.
The al-Nadeem Center, a rights group following the case, said undercover policemen confronted Said in an internet cafe, dragged him onto the street and beat him to death. Social networking sites posted images of his beaten face and body.
Amnesty said the government had not shown it was serious in addressing the issue by its failure to suspend police officers who rights groups and Said's family say are responsible.
"The fact that the two officers believed to have killed Khaled Mohammed Said have not been so far suspended is alarming and sends a chilling message that the security forces in Egypt are effectively above the law," the group said in a statement.
"As such, they are left free to intimidate the victim's relatives into silence or to force them to withdraw their complaints," it said, calling for witness protection measures.
Said's death has triggered protests, where opposition groups, dubbing the activist as the "martyr of the emergency law," clashed with security forces.
Egypt last month extended until 2011 an emergency law that gives police wide-ranging powers including indefinite detentions without charge and limiting the freedom of public assembly.
While, officials say it is now limited to terrorism and drug cases, activists say the law is designed to quell dissent.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Kyrgyzstan's interim government has blamed ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev for orchestrating deadly riots which have left more than 180 people dead.
Almazbek Atambayev, the deputy head of the Kyrgyz interim government, linked Bakiyev to the unrests at a news conference in Bishkek on Wednesday. "The information available to our special services confirms that all of these measures were funded by the Bakiyev family, particularly Bakiyev's youngest son Maxim," said Atambayev.
Bakiyev has denied any role in the recent riots, which have left at least 187 people dead. Bakiyev was deposed in a violent uprising back in April and later fled the country.
Kyrgyzstan is now mourning the people who lost their lives in the country's deadliest ethnic clashes in two decades. Flags flew at half-mast, as the country began to mark three days of national mourning.
Rights groups have raised alarm about an imminent humanitarian crisis in the region. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has called on the international community to intervene, warning that the crisis in Kyrgyzstan could turn into a "catastrophe."
Meanwhile, international aid is being delivered to refugees who fled the violent riots earlier this week.
The latest tension followed a revolt in April that overthrew former President Bakiyev, leaving the political situation in Kyrgyzstan shaky.
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PERHAPS it was their identical red outfits or how their applause was directed by a "conductor" that suggested the North Koreans in the Ellis Park stadium in South Africa were no ordinary fans.
But today, the truth behind the "supporters" emerged when it was revealed that one group of North Koreans - none of whom knew each other in advance - had been hand-picked by Kim Jong-il's government, while another party were actually Chinese, "volunteered" to back their Communist cousins.
Fifa officials and millions of television viewers were surprised when rows of red-clad "North Koreans" took their seats, believing the harsh regime had allowed its citizens freedom to travel. Probably the same folks who still believe Obama is on the right track.
But one fan, Kim Yong Chon, 43, who said he was North Korean, told reporters his group of 300 had been carefully chosen by the North Korean government. Buh-bye, Yong.
Although they sang their national anthem loudly, the group tended only to cheer when directed by a man who stood before them like an orchestra's conductor.
Meanwhile, another party of fans confirmed rumours they were Chinese, having obtained tickets through a Chinese sports PR agency, authorised to sell part of the North Korean allocation of 1,400 seats.
Dubbed the "fans volunteer army", they included dancers, musicians and other artists and said they were happy to don the North Korean national colours.
One Brazilian fan said: "I spoke with them. They had come from Beijing and knew nothing about football or the World Cup. They said they were supporting their Communist cousins and were happy to be there." Red Dog Communists?
It is not only the supporters that are unconventional for the North Koreans' first World Cup for 44 years. While the Brazilian team has 500 following journalists, they have just five and have banned outside media from training sessions.
After the match, as Brazil's stars mingled with journalists, the North Korean players, including star striker Jong Tae Se, who cried during his country's national anthem, were ushered away.The team has refused to fully comply with Fifa rules over media availability and at one press conference, manager Kim Jong Hun rebuked a journalist for not using his country's full name - the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea. What's wrong with Norks?
Fans back in the DPRNK may not have yet even seen their team's doughty performance, allowing the Brazilians only a 2-1 victory in a match they were expected to win easily. Although the country has a deal to transmit World Cup matches, it will be shown only when their "Dear Leader" thinks fit. And after they photoshop their one goal into about 100 and remove those goals that didn't count that were scored by Brazil.
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After his prowess on the golf course, I'm surprised Kimmie hasn't shown up with the soccer team to lead them to victory, scoring all goals and blocking all opponents shots.
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I didn't think that Dear Leader would let out too many "Fans" to go to the world cup. I mean why on earth would they return? Evil the dung heap that is South Africa is better than than Pyonyang.
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I don't know...North Koreans trusted to return probably have pretty cushy lives. Or else they know their families will be imprisoned. Either way, there are a lot of plausible reasons for North Koreans to go back home. Not all of them are peasants, they have a ruling class just like us, and if they weren't in North Korea then they wouldn't a ruling class, eh?
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Spot , we haven't seen what the rpopaganda pages of the papers in NK have written yet. Remember they have no toher outlet too find out anything so they may here that dear leader scored their goals(s)
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Dubbed the "fans volunteer army", they included dancers, musicians and other artists and said they were happy to don the North Korean national colours.
Beats pretending to be homeless or an illegal for a night, like our arts-and-croissants crowd is wont to do.
Looks like the Jamie Gorelick, Mistress of Disaster curse is about to strike again.
When BP executives filed into the West Wing on Wednesday morning to meet with President Barack Obama, they were joined by at least one familiar Washington hand: former Clinton administration Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, who signed on earlier this month to represent BP in congressional inquiries linked to the massive oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
She's in the middle of all sorts of disasters, isn't she ...
As one of the top lawyers in Washington and a former Justice Department official, it is no surprise that BP tapped Gorelick and her prominent law firm, WilmerHale, to do the nearly impossible: defend it against a deluge of legislative inquiries into the oil disaster.
And her role is not very different from the one played by another prominent Democrat, former White House counsel Greg Craig, who is now representing Goldman Sachs -- which until the oil spill was Washington's favorite corporate pariah.
"Speaking generally, the reliance on high-powered insiders results in corporations escaping penalties that are not as severe as they would otherwise face. The familiarity of the former prosecutor with the system enables them to think creatively about tricks to end up with resolutions that seem much more significant than they actually are," said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen.
Still, Gorelick could easily have been on the other side of the table as one of the Obama administration's key players. Her role in the Clinton administration and her later service as a member of the 9/11 Commission made her a logical choice for deputy attorney general.
But Gorelick has had her own share of controversies, which are widely believed to be why she is representing high-profile clients rather than working for Obama.
After leaving the Justice Department, Gorelick served for six years as vice chairwoman of Fannie Mae and got caught up in the mortgage agency's accounting controversy. In 2005, two years after Gorelick left Fannie Mae, a federal investigation into the public-private mortgage company found that accountants had falsified signatures to erase $9 billion in losses from the books. Eliminating those losses resulted in Gorelick and four other Fannie Mae executives taking away six- and seven-figure bonuses in 1998.
The federal investigation found that Gorelick was paid more than $25 million during her time at Fannie, and the huge compensation received by Fannie Mae executives later became a major issue in Congress.
The U.S. taxpayer-funded Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, led by former Congressman Lee Hamilton, is giving out its annual award for public service Thursday, and the winner is ... Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu!
Davutaoglu "personifies the attributes we seek to honor at the Woodrow Wilson Center," Hamilton said in announcing the event, adding that his "contributions have been numerous and significant."
The Turkish foreign minister has been in the news a lot lately, such as when he said the Israeli incident aboard the Gaza flotilla "is like 9/11 for Turkey."
He was also a key figure in the Brazilian-Turkish drive to head off new U.N. sanctions on Iran by striking an 11th-hour fuel-swap deal, an agreement the Obama administration has dismissed as inadequate and unhelpful.
House Foreign Affairs Middle East subcommittee chairman Gary Ackerman, D-NY, wrote to Hamilton Wednesday to express his "deep concern and dismay" over the award to Davutoglu.
"Turkey's foreign policy under Foreign Minister Davutoglu's leadership is rife with illegality, irresponsibility and hypocrisy," he wrote, citing Turkey's denial of the Armenian genocide, its occupation of northern Cyprus, Turkey's vote against new Iran sanctions, and what Ackerman described as the ongoing "demonizing" of Israel as exhibited during the flotilla crisis.
"A foreign leader who represents and defends this kind of foreign policy, one who has championed Turkey's most odious efforts to deny to others the human dignity that Turkey rightly expects for its own people, is not a worthy recipient of the WWC Public Service Award," Ackerman wrote.
The center was created in 1968 by an act of Congress as a private/public partnership, and U.S. taxpayers contribute about a third of the center's annual revenue
I don't know who he is, but it sounds like his logic applies to both large and medium businesses. An interesting quote from 1909 is near the end! There is a short ad at the beginning of the video.
The Sacramento City Council voted Tuesday night to place economic sanctions against Arizona companies in response to that state's immigration laws.
The sanctions passed by a 6-1 council vote are on par with the broadest actions passed by other California cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland.
They include forbidding city workers from attending conferences in Arizona on the city's dime, boycotting companies based in Arizona "where practicable and where there is no significant additional cost to the city" and potentially canceling current contracts with firms from Arizona.
"For those who would criticize us for using our time to address this critical issue in our country's history, I would say this: How can we not?" said Councilman Rob Fong, who called for the debate.
Fong added, "I've never been more proud of us" and said the city was "standing on the right side of history."
Councilman Robbie Waters voted against the boycott, arguing, "We should be taking care of our business here at home first." He asked for a report on how many city staff hours have been spent to look at the city's contracts.
Council members Lauren Hammond and Steve Cohn were absent for the discussion. Cohn had indicated he did not support the boycott but left the council meeting as the immigration debate began Tuesday, returning moments after the vote was taken.
Opponents of the boycott said the City Council should not have weighed in on the actions of another state and urged the council to concentrate on other issues, including the city budget.
But supporters of the boycott far outnumbered opponents at the council meeting, with many describing the discussion as a civil rights issue.
"This is about Sacramento. This is about every state in our nation," said Melinda Guzman, a local attorney. "This is not just about Arizona."
Critics charge the law will lead to racial profiling, while those who support it say it will be an essential crime-fighting tool against violent drug cartels from Mexico.
Under the law, which takes effect next month, local police in Arizona will be required to check for immigration status when they suspect those they stop, detain or arrest are in the country illegally.
In Sacramento and other California cities police officers do not ask for immigration status during traffic stops, while investigating minor infractions or when someone is a witness or victim of a crime.
The boycott's impact could be significant and immediate.
Sundt Construction, based in Phoenix, is listed as a construction partner for a proposal being considered by city officials to revamp the most blighted blocks of K Street downtown. Under that proposal led by Rubicon Partners, a new permanent farmers market, museum and music venue would be built.
Sundt also currently has a $1.1 million contract with the city to build a new water pipeline in south Sacramento. It was also the lead firm on the $11 million Valley Hi/North Laguna Library.
The company has had an office in the city of Sacramento for 30 years and employs 65 people here. It opposes the Arizona immigration law.
"We really don't think a state or city should boycott another state," said Cody Pearson, a company senior vice president and the division manager for the Sacramento branch. "The people out of this office will not have work, they won't pay taxes and it really hurts California. It does nothing to Arizona."
The Police Department also purchases its controlled energy devices also known as Tasers from Taser International, based in Scottsdale.
City staffers are going over hundreds of contracts to determine if the city does business with other Arizona companies. It's a time-intensive practice; some companies have a billing address in Arizona but are based elsewhere, while other firms collect their bills in other states but are headquartered in Arizona.
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I suggest they walk through that Westfield Mall on J St and look at all the empty storefronts. Sacramento has so many problems at home, they should stfu about anybody else
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Never been more ashamed of my hometown. That is why I don't live there anymore and i am sure they will top this idiocracy in due time.
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I hear ya CS. I was born in Sac and this makes me very sad, and I still live nearby. I love California, it's just all the damn Californians I can't stand.
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the above was me. Here is part of California's Law. Subject to the provisions of state law, state and local police may constitutionally detain or arrest aliens for violating the criminal provisions of the Immigration and Naturalization Act.
State and local police lack recognized legal authority to stop and detain an alien solely on suspicion of civil deportability, as opposed to a criminal violation of the immigration laws or other laws.
State and local police may detain aliens reasonably suspected of a criminal violation of the immigration laws for periods of as long as 45 to 60 minutes when detentions of that length are necessary to allow for the arrival of Border Patrol agents who are needed for the informed federal disposition of the suspected violations.
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Ahhp, no half measures - Kevin Johnson's jersey must come down.
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this new bill goes even further in handing emergency powers over to the feds which could be used to silence free speech under the pretext of a national emergency
And we know all to well how Obummer loves to take advantage of a crisis.
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What bugs me is that this appears to be another case of "we haven't figured out exactly HOW we would 'shut down the Internet' (mainly because there is no such single entity as 'The Internet') but give us the authority now an we will figure out the particulars later."
There IS NO SUCH THING AS "THE INTERNET". There are only a lot of individual private networks that agree to share data between each other. To shut down the Internet means to start telling private operators who they can talk to.
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As crosspatch points out, you really can't "shut down the internet"
Note that this article comes from Alex Fucking Jones's batshit crazy "Prison Planet" website, where you can also find heaps of 9-11 troofer lies and the full dope (for dopers) on the census collecting target information for a planned campaign of drone attacks.
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What I call "The Internet" at home is AT&T's private network. If I want to send traffic to Yahoo, AT&T has a private data connection to Yahoo's data network and the traffic flows between them. The traffic never flows through an entity called "The Ineternet". Now if I want to do a Google search, the traffic flows through AT&T's direct connection to Google.
At work I have direct peering with MSN, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc. Data from our network to theirs goes directly to them through a privately owned exchange point.
In order to control "The Internet", what is really being said, is that the government can take over private data networks and them them who they can and can not exchange traffic with.
Before any such law is passed, I would want the government to deliver a plan showing exactly how they would intend to shut down "the internet" considering AT&T and Yahoo might peer in 10 different places. There are no "Internet" routers to shut down. The government is going to have to tell private companies like Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, AT&T, Cox Communications, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc. who they can connect to.
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At the very least, shutting down the internets would be a lot harder than some of Jones's other concerns like, say, sending Delta Force to raid his compound or a census taker to get coordinates for a drone strike.
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So it was Delta Force that left the flaming bag of dog poop on Alex's porch. Here I thought it was the CIA.
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the Bilderbergers just held a meeting in Europe and dog poop shows up on Alex's doorstep, placed up-and-to-the-left, up-and-to-the-left. Coincidence? I think not
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From MEMRI
Egyptian Expert on Islamic Law Malika Zarrar Blasts Fatwas Permitting "Shameful" Sexual Practices Caution: R-rated for (startlingly)frank discussion on sex and fatwas. Dr Zarrar - the "woman in black" - is a treat to watch. I'm still giggling.
AP story from Providence, R.I. relates that story of 8-year-old Christan Morales, who made a hat decorated with an American flag and plastic soldiers. Since the toy soldiers were carrying teeny tiny weapons it violated the school's "zero tolerance" policy toward weaponry. The principal, in a burst of generosity, told the family that the hat would be okay if David replaced the Army men holding weapons with ones that didn't have any. The principal then squatted to pee before mincing off to a flower show...
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 German student "mooned" a group of Hell's Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.
Olbermann and some of his MSNBC colleagues surprised their left-leaning fans on Tuesday with eviscerating critiques of President Barack Obama's Oval Office address on the oil spill spewing off the Gulf Coast....One commenter on the Daily Kos, where Olbermann has frequently blogged over the years, speculated that the pattern of hosts generally sympathetic to the president bashing the administration was too consistent to be a coincidence.
Can't verify'... haven't checked'...It can't be verified because it's nonsense, and it wasn't checked because nobody bothered,' Olbermann said before launching into a critique of the blog. For years, from the Katrina days onward, whenever I stuck my neck out, I usually visited here as the clichéd guy in the desert stopping by the oasis,' he wrote. I never got universal support, and never expected it, nor wanted it (who wants an automatic Yes' machine?). But I used to read a lot about how people here would 'always have my back,' and trust me this was of palpable value as I fought opponents external and internal who try to knock me and Rachel off the air, all the time, in ways you can imagine and others you can't.'
PERHAPS it was their identical red outfits or how their applause was directed by a "conductor" that suggested the North Koreans in the Ellis Park stadium in South Africa were no ordinary fans. 
