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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Follow-Up Of Tucson Marine Killed By SWAT Team
Posted by: Anonymoose || 03/10/2012 07:50 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So this justifies them thugs blowing that kid away? This was malfeasance and nothing they can say will ever change my mind on this. Your Gubmint in action.
Posted by: Past Master of the Obvious || 03/10/2012 8:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Comes across as life imitating art. The beginning of the Godfather where the one clean kid in the family, a returning war hero, is beaten by the police chief.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/10/2012 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  and it just took them how mnay months too come up with this info. Why weren't the others arrested right after the raid if evidence was found linking them too all this. Sounds like alot of ass covering too me. They must be taking lessons from Georgias' police trainers.
Posted by: chris || 03/10/2012 10:04 Comments || Top||

#4  I used to be against legalizing pot, but seeing all the crazy police thugs acting as assassination squads against citizens, and the horrible prison system guards, I have to agree with Pat Robertson. Time to legalize it.

And way past time to stop the IDF type training of our cops. You can't even call the police for minor things anymore without getting the assassination squad in full attack mode. It's disgusting that we as citizens are putting up with it.
Posted by: Pliny Sloluting3153 || 03/10/2012 10:28 Comments || Top||

#5  So the sister-in-law is a druggie and a dealer. How is it that the SWAT team is allowed to blow the guy away?

Law and order starts with the police obeying the law. See Robert Peel for details.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/10/2012 10:38 Comments || Top||

#6  making the police swat team leaders criminally and civilly liable if negligence is proved would go some ways to making sure they hit the right address and use appropriate measures
Posted by: Frank G || 03/10/2012 11:13 Comments || Top||

#7  The SWAT guys should hire the Pizza Hut guys. You ever get a pizza delivered to your door without ordering one?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 03/10/2012 22:16 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Crown prince in U.S. for Medical Tests
[An Nahar] Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, the kingdom's veteran internal security czar, arrived in the U.S. city of Cleveland on Friday for scheduled medical tests, the royal palace announced in Riyadh.

"The crown prince, (who is also) deputy prime minister and interior minister, arrived in Cleveland from Morocco for medical examinations that had been previously scheduled," the palace said in a brief statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

It did not elaborate on what the tests were for.

Prince Nayef -- who has served as interior minister for nearly four decades and led the kingdom's post-September 11, 2001 crackdown on al-Qaeda -- was named crown prince in October last year at the age of 78, following the death of his brother, Prince Sultan.
Posted by: Fred || 03/10/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Does anyone know who is next in line, or will that be determined after he dies?
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/10/2012 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  One of his brothers. Possibly Prince Salman
Posted by: John Frum || 03/10/2012 8:37 Comments || Top||


Saudi Police Break Up Protest at Women's Campus
[An Nahar] Saudi authorities have ordered a probe after more than 50 women students were hurt when security forces dispersed a campus protest this week, media and a local official said on Friday.
Teach 'em to think and they start getting ideas.
On Wednesday members of the inquisitors religious police and law enforcement officers used water cannons to break up a sit-in by women students at the Abha University in the south of Soddy Arabia, the Sebaq news website reported.

The students had staged a sit-in to protest against what they said was a pile-up or rubbish on the campus and a break down in hygienic conditions, Sebaq said.

The inquisitors religious police, in a statement carried by the Al-Watan newspaper, confirmed that it had intervened at the university but denied that its men had attacked the women.

The university meanwhile issued a statement saying it had asked police to intervene on Wednesday after "female students gathered on the campus and began shouting in a way that contradicts" campus regulations.

It also accused one of the students' parents of having triggered the problem by sacking a refuse collectors, which caused the rubbish to pile up.

The sexes are strictly segregated outside the home in ultra-conservative Soddy Arabia.

Prince Faisal bin Khaled, emir of the Assir region where Abha University is located, has ordered an investigation into the incident, media reported.
Posted by: Fred || 03/10/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
2.5 Years For Smuggling Ammo To Mexico
Posted by: Anonymoose || 03/10/2012 07:52 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
No New Jobs in Canada in February
[An Nahar] Employment in Canada was mostly unchanged in February, but a decline in the number of people looking for work pushed the jobless rate down slightly to 7.4 percent, a government agency said Friday.

Analysts had predicted that 15,000 new jobs would be created in the month, while the unemployment rate would remain at the previous month's level of 7.6 percent.

But employment declined in retail and wholesale trade; transportation and warehousing; health care and social assistance; and public administration, Statistics Canada announced.

Those declines were offset by increases in finance, insurance, real estate and leasing; educational services; and business, building and other support services, the agency said.

Regionally, only New Brunswick province in easternmost Canada saw a notable decline in jobs. Elsewhere job numbers were flat.
Posted by: Fred || 03/10/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes, things are not that rosy. Those I've talked to have said they have their problems also. I think Obama should tell them to do a stimulus plan like here. Let me explain:

Posted by: Dale || 03/10/2012 4:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Did they lose as many as the US did? So gains would be towards real growth compared to just getting back to where they were six or seven years ago.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/10/2012 10:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Thanks for the Abbott and Costello! Sitting in Western Canada, I think its our discussion with the East in a nutshell.

If you look at the stats, actually Western Canada (from Manitoba west) is sitting around 5.5% unemploynent.-With Alberta around 4.9%.Sounds good? - Let me add this. The ONLY country in all of the Americas with a triple A rating is Canada. Number of Banks that went under due to the resession - none and not one was "stimulated". Housing slowed but did not crash. - All this with our largest trading partner (the USA at over 75%)going through a sh##storm. More interesting point -Iceland is considering adopting, not the Euro, not the US dollar, but the Canadian Dollar.

Yep we have some problems, no country is perfect, but I would rather have ours. Funny how in the USA election year,NOONE is saying - you know --how did Canada do it? Simple - we slashed waste, cut the civil service and raised taxes to the painpoint - but it put us back again in the black for about 10 years until the 08 resession, but we should be in the black again in 2 years.

Without us, US oil would be at 10$ a gallon, let anong 4 bucks. Oh yes -we have been paying 5$ for years -and we drill the stuff. Be glad we are your neighbours. Actually I am pretty glad you are ours.
Posted by: Northern Cousin || 03/10/2012 14:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Of course they aren't saying anything about it, Northern Cousin -- the Democrats don't want to be sensible about spending. And while the Republicans do, since most Americans don't know the wonderful things PM Harper's government has done, citing the example doesn't advance the discussion.

But we do appreciate you being our neighbour, my dear. Mexicos on both sides would be entirely too much of a good thing. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/10/2012 15:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Mexicos on both sides would be entirely too much of a good thing. ;-) Well, at least the US has New Mexico.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/10/2012 20:47 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Petition to pull Rush off Armed Forces Network (AFN) gathers steam
Posted by: Unising Throque3932 || 03/10/2012 03:18 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
DOD threatens BRAC with or without congressional backing
The marginalization of the US Congress continues.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/10/2012 08:12 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When they offer up ending military welfare to first world countries in Europe and Asia, let me know. It took a volcano to finally get the Air Force out of the 'strategically vital' airfield in the Philippines. Somehow we've survived without that critical strategic asset. The brass has dragged its feet like that for generations.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/10/2012 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  WRT BRAC, it's usually congress critters who drag their feet, protecting local jobs at the expense of military efficiency.
Posted by: lotp || 03/10/2012 12:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Impeach
Posted by: newc || 03/10/2012 15:02 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Dupe entry: The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Makes Its Final Voyage
"We Are Legend; Ready on Arrival; The First, the Finest; Eight Reactors, None Faster."
Posted by: Anonymoose || 03/10/2012 19:34 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Congress overturns incandescent light bulb ban
In the absence of a Chinese and General Electric Eco-Terror category, I simply listed it as S&T.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/10/2012 02:50 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Friday, December 16, 2011

And it didn't "overturn" it, it only delayed it.
Posted by: crosspatch || 03/10/2012 3:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Additional on the same topic.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/10/2012 3:30 Comments || Top||

#3  OP was from 2011, and I gather Harry Reid killed it dead in the senate, so the new rules are in effect.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 03/10/2012 8:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Dems to claim credit for this in 5 ... 4 ...
Posted by: gorb || 03/10/2012 10:20 Comments || Top||

#5  It's just for show - no manufacturer is going to open (re-open) a plant based on a "temporary" law change.
Posted by: Cincinnatus Chili || 03/10/2012 14:47 Comments || Top||

#6  I had better be able to buy 200W light bulbs any time I like because I like LIGHT.

Congress thinks they do US a favor by postponing their own screwed up laws.

They suck.
Posted by: newc || 03/10/2012 14:50 Comments || Top||

#7  the lightbulb manufacturers pushed for this. The profit margin on fluorescent bulbs is high - incandescents low.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/10/2012 15:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Rush Limbaugh Spurns Plea by Ex-Advertiser to Be Accepted Back
The imbroglio over Rush Limbaugh, his unfortunate remarks about a student activist, and his advertisers took a bizarre turn when one advertiser who publicly denounced Limbaugh last week and pulled its ads, begged to be taken back.

The advertiser in question is Sleep Train, a mattress company. According to the Los Angeles Times, Limbaugh has turned down its request to be reinstated as a voiced advertiser, which involved the host himself endorsing the company. The reason was that Sleep Train's action had angered Limbaugh's many millions of listeners so the show could not in good conscience accept the company back.

Meanwhile, a new startup by conservative media personality Michelle Malkin, Twitchy.com, has announced that it is a new advertiser on the Rush Limbaugh program. Twitchy.com is a service that groups messages on Twitter by subject. The buying of ad space on the radio talk show is as much a political statement in support of Limbaugh as it is a play to advertise for more subscribers.

The dust up over Sleep Train, along with the blowback suffered by Carbonite over that company's public denunciation of Limbaugh, demonstrates that the iconic radio talk show host is dealing from a position of strength in the campaign to deprive him of advertisers. One tends to prosper when one advertises on Limbaugh's show. But cross him, and one will suffer.

The one overwhelming fact is that Limbaugh commands many millions of listeners. There is no evidence that any of them have stopped listening because of the kerfuffle with Sandra Fluke. Indeed, one suspects that Limbaugh has gained listeners, curious about what the fuss is all about. As long as the show maintains its listener base, it does not matter if any advertisers bail on Limbaugh for political reasons. There will always be others who will want to take their place, because it is good business to advertise on the most listened to radio talk show on the planet.

The situation demonstrates the power of the marketplace over politically inspired efforts to drive an iconic conservative radio voice off the air. Once again Limbaugh has defeated his enemies and has humbled them into the dust.
Posted by: tipper || 03/10/2012 14:53 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Citrix and Carbonite who dropped advertising with the Rush are heavily used by the Feds. I would bet the Obama regime threatened to stop business with these two if they didn't stop advertising with Rush. The Carbonite stock value plummeted in the private sector immediately.
QUESTION: I have seen the Windows Remote PC (free with Windows 7 and XP) used like a thin client from any network PC to a Network server just like Citrix. Why is Citrix still in business then?
Posted by: George Ebbeamp4828 || 03/10/2012 15:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Media set up back fired. There will be more attempts. They will never learn. Shows how stong Tea Party really is. Basic Americans wanting whats best for all people. Yes, I see more of a connection between Rush and the Tea Party conservatism than Republicans. Democratic party has been hijacked by these elites. Should conservatism begin to grow in the Democratic party the regresive left will lose their lease. Then it will be time to bring in a good bug man.
The reason Obama talks looking up is to give the impression he is above us all. That he is taller than he actually is.
Posted by: Dale || 03/10/2012 15:34 Comments || Top||

#3  They had their chance, they blew it. Under the Rush dozer blade losers!
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/10/2012 15:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Carbonite was already diving in its' stock price...
Posted by: Frank G || 03/10/2012 16:11 Comments || Top||

#5  In other news (HT Drudge):

Posted by: Uncle Phester || 03/10/2012 16:25 Comments || Top||

#6  er.....: http://harndenblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/03/-women-of-the-99-percent.html

linkey-thingie no workie.......
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 03/10/2012 16:25 Comments || Top||

#7  "commands"?

Like we're all fuckin' automatons or something? Nope, no bias here...
Posted by: Raj || 03/10/2012 18:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Two words...
HA HA!
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/10/2012 19:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Raj, I believe "commands" here is meant in the same sense as "commanding their attention" or "having command of the English language."

Bias is identifying pundits with conservative political views as "conservative media personality Joe Blow," while identifying pundits with leftist political views as "media personality Joe Blow." As if leftist/liberal is normal, right, and good, and thus can be omitted, while deviations from it must be pointed out.
Posted by: RandomJD || 03/10/2012 23:14 Comments || Top||


Chung-Wha Hong exec director DREAM Fellowship speaks out
Posted by: Unising Throque3932 || 03/10/2012 03:08 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:



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Sat 2012-03-10
  Air strikes in Yemen kill suspected al Qaeda militants
Fri 2012-03-09
  13 Dronezapped in South Wazoo
Thu 2012-03-08
  British and Italian hostages murdered by captors in special forces rescue bid in Nigeria
Wed 2012-03-07
  Suicide bomber kills four in southern Russia
Tue 2012-03-06
  Nigerian Army Says Killed 3 Islamists Trying to Burn School
Mon 2012-03-05
  Gunmen massacre 21 policemen in Iraq attacks
Sun 2012-03-04
  Sherpao escapes suicide attack in Charsadda
Sat 2012-03-03
  African Union troops say seize major al Shabaab base
Fri 2012-03-02
  39 Dead as Syrian Army Seizes Baba Amr and Rebels Withdraw 'Tactically'
Thu 2012-03-01
  Syrian rebels pull out of Homs after siege
Wed 2012-02-29
  Singapore: Iran assassination plot against Israeli Defence Minister Barak foiled
Tue 2012-02-28
  Yemen's Saleh formally steps down after 33 years
Mon 2012-02-27
  Congressmen Attacked on Mount of Olives
Sun 2012-02-26
  Afghan interior ministry employee sought in NATO killings
Sat 2012-02-25
  Yemen gets new president after 33 years


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