IMPERIAL BEACH --One alcohol-related arrest led to another, and then another, early New Year's Day.
It began about 1:15 a.m., when sheriff's deputies were called out to Elder Avenue and Third Street in Imperial Beach by a report that a man had just crashed into a car, said sheriff's Lt. Larry Nesbit.
The car's owner had gone outside and argued with the driver, who responded by punching her in the face, Nesbit said.
Deputies arrived and arrested the man on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and battery, the lieutenant said. The woman did not require medical treatment, Nesbit said. While deputies were taking that man into custody another man "staggered into the scene," Nesbit said. That man was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public.
Minutes later a third man, a friend of the man who had crashed, pulled up and loudly questioned the deputies about what they were doing, Nesbit said. Deputies determined he was also impaired and took him into custody on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.
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where they from Australia? sounds like a bad episode of cops ij atlanta
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said an 88-year-old woman fended off a naked intruder by grabbing the man's crotch and squeezing. Deputy Paul McRedmond said the man got into the house Tuesday through a sliding door. He backed the woman into her living room and pushed her face down onto a chair. "Into the living room, y'old bat!"
That's when the woman reached behind and squeezed. "Aaaaiiieee!"
The man tore free and fled. "Keds, don't fail me now!"
McRedmond said a county code enforcement officer who heard the police call on his radio spotted a car near the woman's house and passed on the license information to authorities. Troutdale police arrested a 46-year-old man. He has been jailed on accusations of burglary, harassment and private indecency. Bail was set at $110,000. And, believe it or not, I introduce our suspect... Michael G. Dick, 46, was arrested by Troutdale police a short time after the attack, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.
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Gave him a "voice-change" operation, eh? Egg-cellent!
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First heard this on the radio and thought that i had mis-heard the perp's name... shows my ears are still 5 by 5 (unless Spousal Unit wants something done)
Happy New Year, Y'all!
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That's when the woman reached behind and squeezed
A 88 year old reach-around ewwww
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The question now is whether he is still Big Dick or if he has been demoted to Little Dick. Anyway, three cheers for Granny. Hip, hip, hooray. Hip, hip, hooray. Hip, hip, hooray. And a happy new year to you, maam, whoever you are.
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Frequent opening and closing of prescription bottles enhances grip strength.
The famous beards and moustaches of India - seen as representing a huge tradition to the outside world - are under threat, a new book says. It says that the country's famous facial hairs are disappearing as India enters the clean-shaven digital age. The book says that the traditional belief that facial hair is a sign of virility appears to be facing the chop. It says that young people in particular do not want an itchy moustache or beard which they think makes them look old.
"Hair India - A Guide to the Bizarre Beards and Magnificent Moustaches of Hindustan" says that India's extravagant beards and moustaches - proudly sported by generations of Indian men - are being trimmed as the country becomes more clean-shaven and urban. Author Richard McCallum says that clean chins are becoming more commonplace among younger people who no longer have role models sporting beards or moustaches. He points out that most well-known Indian cricket players no longer have facial hair, while many in Bollywood have opted instead for token designer stubble.
Mr McCallum spent several months travelling the length and breadth of the country to find the bushiest beards and most magisterial moustaches before they disappeared forever. "It was an idea that started out as a bit of fun but turned into a labour of love," Mr McCallum, a British travel business operator, told the AFP news agency. "Beards and moustaches tell the story of modern India - how it is becoming a more Westernised, homogenised place, but also how the great traditions and the love of display still exist. "Male grooming is important to Indians, and facial hair proved a topic that took us to places and into conversations with people we would never have met otherwise."
The book categorises beards according to bristle-design. There is the "the chin strap", "the soup strainer", "the wing commander" and "the walrus". What is claimed to be the world's longest beard, measuring 1.6 metres (five ft) and the world's longest moustache also feature in the book. But the emphasis is on ordinary stall-owners and rickshaw drivers displaying moustaches and beards that are cut, dyed, waxed and preened in various shapes and sizes. "Some people were confused when we first told them why we wanted to take their picture, but they soon became very keen," said photographer Chris Stowers.
While facial hair will always be proudly displayed by Sikhs, for whom "kesh" (uncut hair) is a religious principle, it seems that among sectors of society it is inexorably falling out of favour. One of the few professions where it remains a mandatory requirement is among doormen of five-star hotels. "Young people don't want an itchy moustache or beard which they think makes them look old," Lalan Singh, 40, a restaurant doorman in Delhi's Connaught Place told AFP.
He is the proud owner of a handlebar moustache that took three years to grow. He could be one of the last of his kind.
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What really kills facial hair are two things: women and children.
When women have husbands they actually like, instead of just being their husband's property, they want to get close, and beards are in the way. And small children seem to have a natural fear of facial hair, and are friendlier to clean shaven fathers.
I personally hate stubble, but can testify that a well-kempt beard can tickle in all the right places. :-D
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Might be a good thing. Seeing as how there are some Islamonutcases out there who think shaving offends Allan. If that is the case, then I approve shaving.
Former Sunday Express journalist Yvonne Ridley has been awarded more than £20,000 in compensation and £5,000 costs after winning a case for unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination against the Islam Channel.
An employment tribunal ruled in April that Ridley had been unfairly dismissed by the digital channel and upheld her complaint of sexual discrimination and harassment. Now a tribunal in London has awarded her £20,532 in compensation and ordered the Islam Channel to pay her £5,000 in costs.
Ridley's case, which was part-funded by the NUJ, was held in London in February and heard evidence from a number of figures in support of her claims including the Respect MP George Galloway. Ridley, who resigned from the channel in April last year, complained that she had effectively been dismissed after relations between her and the channel's chief executive, Mohammed Ali, broke down.
The tribunal also found that Ridley had been unfairly dismissed, and ruled that the way she was treated was "riddled with unfairness" and that she was subjected to "a wholesale approach of seeking to blame her at various points".
Earlier this year Ridley won nearly £14,000 in damages after winning a four-year unfair dismissal case against Arabic TV station al-Jazeera. Ridley was sacked from her job as an editor on the Doha-based channel in November 2003 and launched an unfair dismissal case.
Ridley hit the headlines when she was held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan while on assignment with the Sunday Express in 2001. She subsequently converted to Islam and now works for the Iranian-based 24-hour English language news channel PressTV, where she fronts her own London-based current affairs show, The Agenda.
The restoration of the Grade II listed Victorian building will begin this month after emergency repairs to the roof were completed at Number 8 Brougham Terrace in Liverpool.
Henry William Quilliam, the son of a wealthy watchmaker, opened the mosque on Christmas Day 1889 after converting to Islam two years earlier following a trip to Morocco. He took the name Abdullah Quilliam. But the mosque stopped running in 1908 when he decided to go travelling.
Dr Mohammad Akbar Ali set up the Abdullah Quilliam Society in 1997 after discovering 8 Brougham Terrace was the home of the mosque. He said: "It is extremely important especially for the younger generation who are searching for roots in this area.
"We can say your roots are here. You have become a Muslim, you have adopted the whole heritage of the Muslim nation and you have something concrete to look to which is Brougham Terrace, the first mosque established by an Englishman on English soil. It is unique in that sense."
Galib Khan, the society's chairman, hoped the mosque would be open by July. He said: "This truly is the birthplace of Islam in Britain."
When work is completed in 2011 it will include the restored mosque, a new mosque, a courtyard, museum, art gallery, learning centre for inter-faith work, library and cafe. The emergency roof repairs cost around £100,000 and £2.5 million still needs to be raised towards the project.
A SOUTH Korean woman barred from entering Japan last year has reportedly passed through its immigration screening system by using tape on her fingers to fool a fingerprint reading machine.
The biometric system was installed in 30 airports in 2007 to improve security and prevent terrorists from entering into Japan. The woman, who has a deportation record, told investigators that she placed special tapes on her fingers to pass through a fingerprint reader.
Japan spent more than Y4 billion ($A64 million) to install the system, which reads the index fingerprints of visitors and instantly cross-checks them with a database of international fugitives and foreigners with deportation records.
The South Korean woman was deported in July 2007 for illegally staying in Japan after she worked as a bar hostess in Nagano in central Japan. She was not allowed to re-enter Japan for five years after deportation but the Tokyo immigration bureau found her in August 2008 again in Nagano.
A South Korean broker is believed to have supplied her with the tapes and a fake passport, the Yomiuri said, adding that officials believe many more foreigners might have entered Japan using the same technique.
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Fingerprint logon for computers can be fooled with fake fingers, too. IIRC a Japanese researcher did it using ballistics jelly to replicate the fingerprint patterns of various people. Worked fine.
(Xinhua) -- Under a new Spanish law which offers the Spanish citizenship to children or grandchildren of Spaniards who fled the country since the beginning of the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) till 1955, about 150,000 Mexicans are entitled to the Spanish citizenship.
The Spanish embassy in Mexico said on Tuesday that with the approval of the "Law of Grandchildren" by Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's government, some 150,000 Mexicans, who were children or grandchildren of Spaniards who fled their country during that period, could get the Spanish citizenship.
Hundreds of Mexicans are expected to go to the Spanish Consulate to apply for the Spanish citizenship, and the embassy has beefed up human resources to provide the service.
The law has been effective since Monday, but so far the application procedure has not started yet in Mexico as most of the Mexicans who came for consultation do not have all required documents, said the Spanish embassy in Mexico.
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Is payback time! Karma City! But, then again, if you're wanting real Spanish in-migration where better to look? Excepting Hialeah of course.
Is Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), front organisation of Lashkar-e-Taiba, preparing to reincarnate under a new name in the wake of a ban clamped on it by the UN Security Council for its involvement in Mumbai terror attacks?
According to sources in New Delhi, JuD may be planning to rename itself as 'Tehreek-e-Hurmat-e-Rasool' (Movement for defending the honour of the Prophet) to avoid restrictions which Pakistan could be forced to impose on it because of UNSC sanctions. The indication that JuD may be thinking of changing its name came as some senior cadres of the outfit recently organised a rally in Pakistan under the banner of Tehreek-e-Hurmat-e-Rasool (THR), the sources said. In fact, JuD itself is a reincarnation of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) after the latter was banned by the U.S. seven years ago.
Formed in 1990 in Kunar province of Afghanistan, LeT does not believe in democracy and Saeed, its founder leader, has publicly declared it several times that 'jihad' is the "only way Pakistan can move towards dignity and prosperity".
Around 300 Pakistanis deported escaped the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Immigration Cell from the Islamabad airport on Wednesday.
FIA sources told Daily Times Turkish authorities deported 408 Pakistanis who went to Turkey on fake documents.
The sources said the deportees were shifted from the international arrivals lounge to the domestic arrivals lounge upon arrival in Islamabad to facilitate pilgrims arriving after haj. They said one of the deportees shouted a slogan and all the deportees started running out of the lounge. They said the Civil Aviation Authority and airport security were placed on high alert. Only about 150 deportees were arrested, while 258 managed to escape. Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik suspended the shift in-charge and other airport staff and ordered a joint enquiry of the incident.
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The Anti-Car Lifting Unit (ACLU) mistakenly killed four people late on Tuesday who had arrived in the city to celebrate the New Year.
An ACLU squad mistook the visitors form Quetta for carlifters and opened indiscriminate fire on their car on Khalid Bin Waleed Road in Ferozabad police station precincts. The police later tried to cover up the incident by filing a fake encounter report.
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Like the old Soviet saying: You pretend to pay us and we will pretend to work...
If you expect you'll be getting a refund from California when you file your 2008 state income tax return, be prepared: you may instead receive a "registered warrant." Translation: an IOU.
California is rapidly running out of money. Blame it on the state budget deficit that continues to bleed billions of dollars from California's reserves. Facing inadequate credit to make up the difference, California's Controller John Chiang warns that by the end of February, the nation's most populous state may not be able to pay some of its debts, and instead be reduced to issuing those creditors IOUs.
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Yipes. That's a wake up call. I'll make sure I up my deductions so that I owe the government next year!
Better get your federal tax returns in early this year. With all of their generous handouts to their buddies, they have little left for we, the peasants.
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We own Mr. Lotp's childhood home in CA and have planned to retire there in 12-14 years. I loved living there in the 80s but the state has driven out half its business tax base and the lib idiots are intent on driving out the rest of it too. Sigh.
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Quation for you California 'Burgers. Are the people of CA embarrassed?
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I'm not from California, Mike, but I'll bet the answer for 99% of Calis is "no."
It's obviously Bush's fault.
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Might want to re-think that strategy, lotp.
Just sayin'....
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meh....no. All the claims and counterclaims are a game of political chicken. The Donks from LA/SF regions control the legislature, and Arnold's not strong enough politically to fight em. Fortunately, they can't (legally or politically) pass a tax increase without Rep votes, who won't go along without spending cuts first. All the dire claims are trying to get the CA voters to accept those tax increases without cutting spending. Shut the state down and the Shit will hit the fan.
Chris Reed is a UT editorial writer with brains who also writes a blog - see his take here
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So they are going to rip off the people who actually do work and pay taxes to support the 40% of the state that does not?!?
That doesn't make any sense to me, I can't believe they find this to be acceptable.
I'm starting a new job in the Bay Area in Feb, I'm glad I won't be filing 2008 taxes. Maybe they'll have their sh*t together by next year.
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Condolences big jim...I've lived here (Bay Area) for the last 10 years. I've seen it go from bad to ridiculous. I'm owed a refund from Kali (being fiscally responsibile here is not helpful). Plenty of conservatives in my enclave in the East Bay but the rest of the moon bats drown us out.
The weather is great and all but I'd rather live in Idaho where the air is free and clear of all the political CO2. Gee...think the state gov will accept my IOU for next year's taxes? not...
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Quation for you California 'Burgers. Are the people of CA embarrassed?
Uh, yeah. I've wanted outta here for years but can't talk Mrs. Uluque into leaving. It's nuts.
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While I mostly agree with Frank G's assessment about the game of political chicken, I also believe the quality of life in this state has been deteriorating for years. The schools and hospitals are way overcrowded, the freeways are nightmares, I can't go surfing for 72 hours after rain because the water is polluted, the ticky-tacky housing tracts stretch out as far as the eye can see and every day they pave over old farm land to build more houses. Don't ask 'em where they're gonna get the water because you don't wanna know. On and on it goes and it's getting worse all the time. The politicians are all totally irresponsible, out of touch with reality and beholden to special interests. Most of the people have recently moved here from somewhere else so they don't know any better. I suppose if you compare it to Hoboken it's not so bad but if you can remember how it used to be that's not good enough. I used to love this state but she let herself go and now I want a divorce.
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actually the Dem legislature figured out how to end run on tax increases...
they call them fees. fees are not limited by the amendment that prohibits the tax increases they wanted... saw it linked on boortz a few weeks back.
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the "Fee" scam won't pass court scrutiny
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Are you talking about the Cal Supremo's or the 9th Circus scrutinizers, Frank?
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Supremos - it's a State law. If the Donks can't get Rep votes to cover their ass, they'll pay bigtime in 2010. BTW - redistricting was taken away from the Legislature. Gerrymandering your own safe districts is over, bitches!
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My aunt and several of my cousins live up near Marysville and Grass Valley. The taxes are crazy, but life itself isn't so bad. At least they don't have to put up with soot-filled air and megopolises that stifle daily life.
Our local government has started the "fee" thing, and so far haven't been handed their heads. However, they tried to institute two others, and lost their right arm to the shoulder.
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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.
IMPERIAL BEACH --One alcohol-related arrest led to another, and then another, early New Year's Day.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said an 88-year-old woman fended off a naked intruder by grabbing the man's crotch and squeezing. Deputy Paul McRedmond said the man got into the house Tuesday through a sliding door. He backed the woman into her living room and pushed her face down onto a chair.
Former Sunday Express journalist 
The restoration of the Grade II listed Victorian building will begin this month after emergency repairs to the roof were completed at Number 8 Brougham Terrace in Liverpool. 
(Xinhua) -- Under a new Spanish law which offers the Spanish citizenship to children or grandchildren of Spaniards who fled the country since the beginning of the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) till 1955, about 150,000 Mexicans are entitled to the Spanish citizenship. 
Is Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), front organisation of Lashkar-e-Taiba, preparing to reincarnate under a new name in the wake of a ban clamped on it by the UN Security Council for its involvement in Mumbai terror attacks? 
The Anti-Car Lifting Unit (ACLU) mistakenly killed four people late on Tuesday who had arrived in the city to celebrate the New Year.
