[An Nahar] Police in Tennessee cannot find the man whose Volkswagen Beetle was recently discovered in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , 40 years after it was stolen.
The 1965 car was found in January before it could be shipped to Canada and then to Finland.
Knoxville, Tenn., police front man Darrell DeBusk says a man named Joseph McDonald reported it stolen in 1974. He says a phone number left by McDonald no longer works.
DeBusk says McDonald may have been a college student in Knoxville at the time. The car now is white but was red in 1974.
Federal border agents in Detroit who checked the paperwork discovered that the 1965 Beetle was reported stolen. The last owner, a Michigan resident, didn't know that history. The vehicle was being sent overseas to be restored.
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"Joseph McDonald reported it stolen in 1974. He says a phone number left by McDonald no longer works"
No sh*t, Sherlock. Everyone in the room that had a telephone number in '74 and still has the same number, raise your hand. Anyone,... Buehler, anyone?
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I don't have the same number, in fact the house was burnd and I suspect the number has been re-assigned.
NOTE "WAS" burned. They did Jail time for it. And are still paying restitution (Pitifully slow) $100 per month.
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Detroit Free Press has this:
KNOXVILLE For 40 years, Joseph MacDonald says he has been wondering where his 1965 Volkswagen Beetle ended up.
"It was a faded red with a black convertible top and it had shiny chrome hubcaps," he described.
MacDonald has a car title for a 1965 Beetle, the car he drove while majoring in English at UT. The title shows MacDonald's signature and that he bought the VW Bug on December 3, 1973. But in December 1974, MacDonald says he reported his car stolen to the Knoxville Police Department.
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) New details are emerging after a woman was found dead in her car near 30th Street Station Thursday.
The mother of two had been missing since earlier this month. Her Nissan was found Thursday parked on 30th Street between Market and Chestnut Streets.
Some people were calling 911 to report that the vehicle was parked illegally, looking like seven or eight parking tickets from the Parking Authority were issued, Lt. John Walker explained. Hey O'Grady, don't forget to check the tow yards, just in case.
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"It's Philly, so we didn't really notice the smell"
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The oldest ticket was from where it was likely actually parked. Then the city declared a snow emergency, so a tow truck towed it to the lot at the nearest train station, dropped it, and helpfully stuck another ticket on it for the tow. (You know, to clear the streets for snowplows.)
And then the fresh tickets began gathering.
Now I know how to get rid of a body in Philly.
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"Now I know how to get rid of a body in Philly." In Detroit or Cleveland, use an abandoned house.
Maria Franziska von Trapp, whose family's story was told in The Sound of Music, has died.
She was the last surviving member of the musical family of seven brothers and sisters and passed away in her sleep at home in Vermont at the age of 99 on Tuesday, PEOPLE confirms.
Von Trapp, who was the second-eldest daughter, and her family fled their home in Austria to escape from the Nazis in the 1930s and eventually ended up in the U.S., where their story inspired a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical and the popular 1965 movie starring Julie Andrews.
[An Nahar] Ailing 76-year-old Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will seek reelection to a fourth term in April, his office said in comments carried by national television Saturday. A screen caption said the presidency had confirmed that Bouteflika had informed the interior ministry of his intention to run in the April 17 poll and to collect the appropriate documents for signature.
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[Vocative.com] In the fourth part of a series about a secretive Air Force unit called Big Safari, Vocativ takes an in-depth look at a fatal plane accident in Colombia.
[An Nahar] European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Saturday welcomed the release of Ukraine's jailed pro-Western opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko and called for an independent legal system in the troubled country.
"Welcome release of Tymoshenko. Independent justice system essential for a democratic Ukraine," Barroso said on his Twitter account.
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[An Nahar] A vast country estate, marble-lined mansions, a private golf course and zoo: the unimaginable luxury of the private residence of departed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych flung open for all to see.
As parliament voted to oust Yanukovych Saturday and he fled to a pro-Russian bastion in east Ukraine after months of bloody protest again his rule, thousands of Ukrainians wondered awestruck around the breathtaking luxury of his abandoned property some 15 kilometers (10 miles) from Kiev after it was taken by demonstrators.
"I am in shock," said retired military servicewoman Natalia Rudented, as she looked out over the manicured lawns studded with statues of rabbits and deers.
"In a country with so much poverty how can one person have so much -- he has to be mentally sick.
"The world needs to see this and bring him to justice."
Cars backed up for kilometers and a large crowd queued patiently at the imposing wrought iron front gates to get a glimpse of the former leader's lavish lifestyle -- fit for even the most ostentatious billionaire oligarch.
"Don't worry, everyone will get to go inside -- it is big enough for all of you," an opposition activist standing atop a column shouted through a loudhailer. He warned people to stay off the lawn in case of landmines and to beware of provocateurs trying to damage the place.
"Welcome to Ukraine," he said as people shuffled by.
Guarded just hours before by elite security forces, the property -- the scale of which had been kept a closely guarded secret and appears to confirm suspicions of titanic corruption -- was now under the control of anti-Yanukovych activists, patrolling the area and keeping people out of buildings to avoid looting.
According to official declarations, Yanukovych's salary as president was around $100,000 a year. The luxury of the estate clearly showed wealth far beyond that.
At the entrance a sign was hung reading: "People, do not destroy this evidence of thieving arrogance."
Inside, visitors peered with disbelief through the windows of the palatial main house at the baroque, marble-covered living rooms decorated with gold icons and suits of armor. A few boxes strewn around on the marble floors hinted at a hurried exit.
Amused or enraged, others posed for photos in font of towering faux-Greek columns and snapped pictures on their mobile phones of the collection of rare pheasants -- imported from as far as Mongolia and Sumatra.
For kilometers, they strolled along the waterfront promenade, up to the helicopter pad or over bridges and past horse paddocks to a vast garage housing a museum of soviet military vehicles.
The complex for staff -- who were nowhere to be seen -- was itself the size of a British stately home.
"Mum, where's the golden toilet?" five-year old Ross asked as his mother led him around the edge of a floating banquet hall built to look like an Elizabethan galleon.
"I also want a pirate ship like this for myself," he said.
"Don't worry, we've already seized this one," his mother Ivanova replied.
Some of the visitors were still fresh from the violent festivities that left scores dead this week and saw central Kiev turned into a war zone.
"It makes it feel even more worth it," said Bogdan Panchyshin, a hardware store owner from the Western city of Lvov.
"If only the hundred people who died could see it, I think they'd say the same," he said, still wearing a camouflage bullet proof vest.
As they emerged, people struggled to take in the breathtaking scale of Yanukovych's wealth.
"That house, that garden, that luxury," mechanic Viktor Kovalchuk, 59, as his wife shook her head in amazement.
"It should be turned into a hospital or an orphanage or something for the people killed or injured in the protests," Kovalchuk said. "Whatever happens it needs to be given to the people. It was built with our money after all so it should serve us in the end."
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Well, at least he didn't have 54 Christmas Trees.
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...sort of like those who get grants for the Man Made Climate Change racket. No matter how often their 'models' fail, their sycophants still believe. The watermelon syndrome - green on the outside, red on the inside.
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"Shocking Opulence Revealed as [fill in name of latest commie/facist/socailist/leftie] Leader Flees Home"
Isn't it always.
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even AlGore said: "Wow"
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Tymoshenko who was released from prison was one of the richest women in the world who made her fortune as a capitalist in the energy sector of the private sector. Her company alone raised enough revenue to retire substantial federal debt. When she announced her candidacy to public office her company was regulated out of existence by corrupt government officials partisan to Obama her opponent for refusing to pay bribes to play in the political sandbox. She eventually won an election using parallel vote counting processes and announcing the results immediately before the corrupt officials had time to distort the results.
Over the years corrupt bureaucracies succeeded in railroading her into prison.
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P2K, I have no problem with Congresscritters being in the top 1%. It takes a fair amount of your own money to run for Congress. People like Darrel Issa, who was a self-made millionaire before running for Congress.
What I do have a problem with is people in the lower economic ranks coming in and then becoming members of the 1% while they're there. People like Harry Reid, for example.
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Chez de PG is interesting. Other than the normal recommended number of selfies on display (including a strange throw-doily thing) what should have people concerned is that he drinks grappa and sing karaoke. Very dangerous man.
[An Nahar] The White House welcomed the release from prison on Saturday of former Ukraine prime minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, saying that the strife-hit country's people "must determine their own future."
"We wish her a speedy recovery as she seeks the appropriate medical treatment that she has long needed and sought," a statement said, adding: "The unshakeable principle guiding events must be that the people of Ukraine determine their own future."
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[An Nahar] Russia's foreign ministry on Saturday warned that "extremists" in Ukraine posed a threat to the country's illusory sovereignty, after embattled President Viktor Yanukovych accused the emboldened opposition of staging a "coup".
"The opposition has not only failed to meet a single one of its obligations, but is also pushing new demands, submitting itself to armed gunnies and looters whose actions pose a direct threat to the illusory sovereignty and constitutional order of Ukraine," the ministry said in a statement.
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Manipulating the political system and forces in the Ukraine to bring it back into the great Russian empire certainly is a threat to sovereignty.
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It would be interesting as Russians rolled in from the East, the Poles roll in from the West. Why put off to later what's going to happen next anyway if it means a confrontation. Why should the Poles wait to be disarmed and sold out again by the other Western Euros?
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In the long run the Russians will not hold on to the non-Russian half of the Ukraine. They may have a long term presence in east Ukraine but not west Ukraine. Just like Korea, they may end up with an East and a West Ukraine.
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Personally, I'm more into watching China, NOT Russia, as Ukraine = ECS + SCS = geopol "litmus tests" for China's "post-US" Manifest Destiny, to act + project MilPol Power outside its backyard + agz the Big Boyz.
Iff it does nothing, its agendum will have no credibility + it have to accept being a second-tier REGIONAL POWER for years or decades yet, NOT TO BE A "GLOBAL POWER" LET ALONE A US-STYLE "GLOBAL SUPERPOWER".
[An Nahar] The dramatic events in Kiev on Saturday do not amount to a coup, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said, after the Ukrainian president accused the emboldened opposition of a coup d'etat as it asserted control in the capital.
"No coup in Kiev. (Government) buildings got abandoned," Sikorski tweeted, adding that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has 24 hours to sign into law constitutional reforms agreed under a peace deal on Friday, which Poland helped broker.
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Ukrainian ex-premier Yulia Timoshenko said she would run for presidency, ITAR-TASS reported. The presidential elections in Ukraine are scheduled for May 25.
"I'm going to Maidan (Independence Square)," she said.
The ex-premier has been carried out from the clinic on a wheelchair, but she is in cheerful mood. The ex-premier, who has been freed, has left for Kiev by special flight.
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I doubt that Tymoshenko is much better then Yanukoych.
[An Nahar] Turkish riot police in Istanbul fired tear gas and water cannon Saturday at around 3,000 people protesting new legislation tightening control of the Internet.
Police took action to push protesters away from the city's Taksim Square, a focal rally point, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound said.
Protesters responded by hurling fireworks at police, who detained dozens of people, according to media reports.
"Government, resign!" the demonstrators chanted. "Do not touch my Internet!"
"Everywhere is Taksim, everywhere is resistance," they shouted, echoing a chant often heard during the huge anti-government protests that swept the country in June.
The controversial law came into effect last Wednesday after it was signed by Turkish President Abdullah Gul despite repeated calls for a veto.
It gives the telecoms authority the power to order a webpage blocked if the content is deemed to infringe privacy or is offensive.
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[Breitbart] On Friday, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Office of Vital Statistics released a report titled "Summary of Vital Statistics 2012 The City of New York, Pregnancy Outcomes." As expected, the report showed an exceedingly high number of abortions and an exceedingly low number of births.
But the report also showed something more disturbing: a vast majority of the abortions came from the black and Hispanic communities and in the black community, births were outnumbered by abortion by 6,570. Overall, 42.4% of abortions in the city were of black children; another 31% came from the Hispanic community.
This was the dream of the population control eugenicists whose heirs would eventually force abortion into the American mainstream. The early proponents of population control in the United States were eugenicists like Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, who stated, [We should] apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring. Coming together nicely. We're beginning to see how the ACA fits into the needs of the party of urban Amerika and it's constituency.
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We should] apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring
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The Kermit Gosnell Black Caucus, impatient
At persistence of white privilege, hastened
To keep black kids from thrall
By prescribing to all
A black-targeted abortifacient.
"Somewhere," my ass, wr. She's laughing her ass off right along with her eugenicist fellow-travelers in HELL. >:-(
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Barbara, if Hell is anything like I've heard, I doubt she's smiling.
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Not about Hell itself, Rambler, but in spite of all that Hell delivers to her, I have no doubt she's happy the eugenicists' beliefs are being carried forward by PP and the feminazis. I'm sure she feels vindicated. >:-(
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Regardless of one's view on abortion, when your main principle you stand for is about death, something is twisted.
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Regardless of one's view on abortion, when your main principle you stand for is about death, something is twisted.
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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.
[An Nahar] European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Saturday welcomed the release of Ukraine's jailed pro-Western opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko and called for an independent legal system in the troubled country.
[An Nahar] A vast country estate, marble-lined mansions, a private golf course and zoo: the unimaginable luxury of the private residence of departed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych flung open for all to see.
[An Nahar] The White House welcomed the release from prison on Saturday of former Ukraine prime minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, saying that the strife-hit country's people "must determine their own future."
Ukrainian ex-premier Yulia Timoshenko said she would run for presidency, ITAR-TASS reported. The presidential elections in Ukraine are scheduled for May 25.
