WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) -- One of three teenagers charged with attempting to rob illusionist David Copperfield as he left a performance has pleaded guilty.
Terrance Riley, 17, was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for three counts of robbery with a weapon and one count of attempted robbery. He will be housed with other inmates under the age of 21. Circuit Judge Edward Garrison also ordered Riley to testify against his two co-defendants, his brother Dwayne Riley, 18, and Markeith Jones, 17.
Copperfield, 50, and two female assistants were walking from the Kravis Center to their tour bus when they were approached by the teens April 23. The assistants handed over money and a cellphone, but the illusionist turned his pockets inside out to reveal nothing, although he was carrying his passport, wallet and cell phone.
"Dwayne, you see that?"
"See what Terry?"
"Nothing! He ain't got nothing!"
"He said in depositions that he had things on him, but it wasn't difficult to make it seem like there was nothing there," prosecutor Sherri Collins said.
Definition. Of. Cool.
"Terrance was remorseful for what occurred, has told the truth about his involvement and would like everything to disappear," said his attorney, Franklin Prince. Prince said Riley hopes to finish high school behind bars.
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Longmont police are asking help in finding two men who were involved in a home invasion where the resident was assaulted with a baseball bat. To make things worse, the attackers then apologized to the victim saying they had the wrong house.
Longmont police Detective Bryan Franke reported today that the break-in took place around 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 18 in northeast Longmont.
He said the man heard a prowler enter his home and went to confront him. The burglar, who is white, hit the resident, who is also white, once with a baseball bat, then acted very surprised and apologized, saying he must be at the wrong house because he was looking for a black man.
The resident chased the attacker out the front door of the home where a struggle ensued. A black man got out of a car and held up what appeared to be a handgun, said they were at the wrong house and told the resident to let the other man go.
The victim fled into his home and called 911. I guess they teach their gang-bangers manners in Longmont.
Mazar-i-Sharif (Afghanistan, Nov 10): Afghan authorities are hunting a militia commander over the kidnap and rape of an 11-year-old girl whose family was given a dog and some cash as compensation.
The girl, who had also been previously raped by the man and some of his comrades, has been missing for almost a month, relatives and neighbours in a village in the northern province of Kunduz said on Friday.
The day after she disappeared, a messenger from the commander, named only as Mahmud, gave the family some cash and a dog, normally regarded as unclean in Islamic societies. After repeated pleas for help from village elders and her family, provincial governor Mohammad Omar set up a team to find her and prosecute Mahmud and his accomplices. "Raping a young girl is a crime in our law. The case should be followed," he said on Friday. "We will hand over the culprits to the law once we detain them.
We are taking very strong measures in this regard."
A district official said Mahmud, from one of Afghanistan``s former Mujahideen (holy warrior) factions, had a long-running feud with the girl``s family and was exacting revenge. But her mother Gul Shah rejected that: "What kind of government is it? My daughter was raped and exchanged for a dog and I want my daughter back and I want the criminals to stand on trial. She is 11 years old and it is against Islam and our Afghani values and customs." Not so sure, at least if I judge by say, iranian laws.
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Yeesh. Couldn't have waited until she was 12 when it would be legal?
We are taking very strong measures in this regard." Universal Translation: "Pi$$ off. As soon as the press coverage evaporates 10 minutes from now, you and your family are toast."
it is against Islam and our Afghani values and customs
That doesn't seem to stop the folk who claim they are fighting "to make a better world for you [as long as you submit]". And that's what you get when you don't speak up and act. Kill them if you get an opportunity. Infiltrate them if you have to. Turn them in. What's happening there should be a lesson for all around the world.
Prolly our troll Abu Whackoff... Temperatures have dropped from blazing hot to balmy, the turquoise waters now have a refreshing chill and the sand is just about bearable to walk on.
As winter arrives in this Persian Gulf city, the masses are thronging by the tens of thousands to its white sandy beaches, wearing, in an unlikely exercise in maritime coexistence, everything from black flowing abayas to slinky bikinis.
Thronging right alongside them are Dubais beach pests, the gangs of men who trudge through the sand, fully dressed, to ogle the women.
Mostly laborers at the front lines of Dubais building boom toiling on manmade islands, innumerable high-rises, even a dome in the desert for the worlds largest indoor snow park they flood the beaches every weekend to leer at women, photograph them and occasionally try to grope them in the water.
They pretend to take pictures of their friends, but they are really taking pictures of you, said Anika Graichen, 23, a German hotel receptionist who has lived here for three years. She lay on the beach last week trying to ignore various groups of men who passed by with their eyes locked on her.
She is almost used to them now, she said. I think I can understand it, she said. Its the only place they can have a look at women.
Indeed, for the estimated 500,000 foreign workers here, most from the Indian subcontinent, the chance to spot a woman in a bikini may be hard to pass up.
They typically live in a Dickensian world of squalor, working 12-hour shifts six days a week, often denied their wages of about $150 per month for months at a time. Most of them secure work by taking out loans from recruiting agencies at home to get here, forcing most to stay on for years without seeing their families and loved ones. The workmen have become prevalent in Dubais public parks and beaches as their numbers have swelled, and because of the lechery-on-the-beach factor, they are especially noticeable at this time of year.
They tend to beachcomb in groups, their camera-equipped cellphones always at the ready. Many do not know how to swim; some enter the water wearing their traditional robes, made of thin white cloth that becomes transparent when wet and reveals far more of their anatomy than most beachgoers want to see. Incidents of physical harm to women are rare, though the police have arrested flashers and men committing lewd acts in public.
On Friday, Saifi, a metalworker who would give only his first name, walked along a beach with four friends, pausing from time to time to look around and chat. All in their mid-20s, the men were dressed in jeans and slacks. Saifis bright orange shirt made him impossible to miss.
I come here almost every weekend, he said. This beach has no problems, but the others have become more problematic for men.
He meant the police. He said that he was stopped at another beach two weeks earlier.
The police said to me, Why are you here, why arent you wearing a bathing suit? he said. Then they told me to leave.
With a giggle, he admitted that the cause for his eviction was that he had been staring at women.
Every man looks at a woman in a bathing suit when he sees her, he said. What can I do? Im a normal man. At a ladies-only day at a local beach earlier in the week, Nisrine Ben-Stitou, 28, a Moroccan citizen who moved here and works in a clothing store, said the harassment was such that she no longer went to the park or the beach on the weekend.
Some people take pictures, which makes me crazy, or they stay and they watch you, Ms. Ben-Stitou said. I went one time, and I said I will never go back. I feel so free in this country and I feel safe, but what happens on the beach I dont know why the authorities dont do something about it.
Dubai officials, keen to attract tourists to the beaches, say they are trying. They have vowed to crack down with a security plan that includes plainclothes officers and a three-strikes policy aimed at keeping out the worst of the offenders.
The goal is to get people to use the beaches for what theyre meant to be used for, said Brig. Khamis al-Mazeina, director of Dubais Criminal Investigation Department, which polices the harbors and beaches. There are naturally people who create problems and who are ignorant, but we intend to deal with them.
Mr. Mazeina said his department had built new watchtowers to scan the beaches and added 35 undercover policemen to patrol as beach bums, looking for the first signs of trouble. Though many workmen fear being barred outright, Mr. Mazeina insists he intends to protect their rights, too, by ensuring that they are treated with courtesy and respect.
When they see people hanging around for no reason other than to harass women or to try to speak with them, police are authorized to take action, he said. We want people to feel secure on our beaches, and we can easily spot people who are not there for the beach. Well be watching and if we see anything we will be getting involved.
On a recent day, plainclothes officers stood atop a watchtower as several officers approached a man who had been photographing a group of women. The man and several of his friends were quickly brought up to the air-conditioned watchtower.
If we see someone taking pictures like that, we are going to demand to see the photos, said one officer, who identified himself only as Abdullah because he was not authorized to speak to reporters. He took the mans camera phone and began flipping through the photos. We would then delete the suspect photos and give him a warning.
If the men are spotted taking photos again, Abdullah said, the police will make a formal notice; on a third episode, they will be barred from the beach.
The police say they have arrested more than 500 people under the new policy, the vast majority of them on immigration violations, and several more for outstanding warrants. But 15 were detained, according to police department records, for a breakdown in public behavior.
You try to scare them a bit just to get them to stop, Abdullah said. Ask him, What are you going to do with this picture? Would you like it if someone was photographing your sister? Thats usually enough to get the point across. "I've seen my sister's stuff - and she don't look like that! Woohoo! My gun... it's gettin all warmed up by itsownself! I'm feeling all funny... Say 'baaaaaahhhh'!"
Just think, Dubai's amazingly expensive tourist mecca PR thingy could be destroyed with just one measley gang-rape.
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I think the bigger issue is that most Americans don't know about the liberalization of Dubai, Bahrain, Qatar, etc., and I don't believe for one second that this article would have made the NY Times before November 7. I'm seeing a massive shift in the media's attitude towards a whole host of issues since Tuesday, and I think I know why - the democrats want to take the credit for success in Iraq when it eventually happens.
Demonstrators angry at a crackdown on dogs staged a noisy protest in China's capital on Saturday, decrying police killings of dogs and new limits on pet ownership.
About 200 police strung up tape to cordon off the roughly 500 demonstrators who waved signs and chanted near the entrance to the Beijing Zoo. Many clutched stuffed animals and wore buttons that said "Stop the indiscriminate killing."
Police detained at least 18 demonstrators in nearby vans for several hours before releasing them, protesters said. Police declined comment.
Touching off the demonstration were new restrictions that limit households to one dog and ban larger breeds. Police in recent days have gone through city neighborhoods, seizing unregistered dogs and beating some of them to death, witnesses said...
...Complaints about vicious dogs, barking and excrement-covered sidewalks prompted Beijing to impose height limits in 1995, banning dogs taller than 14 inches from the city center. Many cities have enacted similar measures.
A sharp rise in rabies cases this year led to a renewed clampdown across China. State-run newspapers reported Saturday that 326 people died from rabies in October, again making it the leading cause of death among infectious diseases...
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State-run newspapers reported Saturday that 326 people died from rabies in October, again making it the leading cause of death among infectious diseases...
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China had the collective poop scared out of it during the SARS outbreak. In a very un-Chinese adaptation, they almost have a death penalty now for mis-reporting infectious disease information.
They are taking avian flu extremely seriously, and have deployed world-class contamination control teams several times in outbreak areas.
Physicians can be real motivators at times, even to the most intransigent of politicians. And judging from the world response so far, a lot of doctors have been putting the fear of god into a lot of politicians.
Just FYI to all the aunties, uncles, grannies and grampies on the 'burg...
Children hoping to get Lego toys for Christmas may be in for a disappointment.
The Danish toy maker is having a hard time keeping up with demand for its popular plastic building blocks as toy stores stack their inventories for the Christmas season, company officials said Tuesday.
"Many of our most popular products are sold out," Lego spokeswoman Charlotte Simonsen said. "As part of efforts to restructure the company and focus on our core business, we had to make some cuts and the company has not had time to readjust its production."
Simonsen declined to say how many orders had been turned down, but said the restructuring changes had affected the production of Duplo bricks and boxes with Lego City, Star Wars and Lego Technik sets.
The Billund, Denmark-based group has been trimming its staff at home and abroad since starting a restructuring program four years ago. Part of its production and distribution has been moved to countries with lower wages than Denmark, including the Czech Republic and Mexico.
In 2005, Lego sold its four Legoland amusement parks in Denmark, Britain, California and Germany to the U.S.-based private-equity group Blackstone Capital Partners.
Boersen, Denmark's leading financial newspaper, estimated that Lego could lose 750 million kroner ($127 million) because of lost Christmas sales. But Mads Nipper, a vice president at Lego in charge of marketing, said that figure was too high.
"We don't know what the Christmas sales will be like until Christmas is over," Nipper said.
The group posted a net profit of 505 million kroner ($86 million) in 2005, compared with a net loss of 1.93 billion kroner in 2004, on strong sales led by its Bionicle line of snap-together creatures.
Belgian workman prepare to lift a partially disassembled Sherman tank from its site in Bastogne, Belgium, so it can be taken to a nearby Belgian military base for a six-month refurbishment. The tank was used by the U.S. in World War II.
A walk, three wreaths and 60 pounds of walnuts sum up next months annual commemoration of the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne, Belgium. But for the first time in nearly a half-century, a gritty, steely veteran of the war will miss the observance, scheduled this year for Dec. 16.
I dont think it has been renovated since it was first put there, Marie-Lise Baneton, a spokeswoman for U.S. Army Garrison Benelux, said of the absent vet an M4A4 Sherman tank used during World War II.
Several days ago, Belgian soldiers removed the tank No. 3081532 from its low, stone perch in Bastognes town center, renamed McAuliffe Square after the war. The tribute is to Army Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, the commander in Bastogne in December 1944 and the guy who uttered the famous one-word reply Nuts! to a German surrender demand.
The 11th Armored Division tank, knocked out of the war on Dec. 30, 1944, near the village of Renuamont, is undergoing a six-month refurbishment at a nearby Belgian military base.
Meanwhile, an effort is under way to find a replacement, possibly from one of the many World War II re-enactment groups that return each year, Baneton said. During the one-day observance, which shifts from year to year to keep it a weekend affair, Bastogne becomes a magnet for re-enactors. This years event falls on the actual anniversary of the beginning of the battle.
The Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle in Army history, involved a series of engagements over several hundred miles from Dec. 16, 1944, to Jan. 25, 1945. U.S. forces incurred 19,000 deaths and more than 1 million combatants took part. Bastogne, a strategic crossroad in Germanys quest to turn the tide after its defeat in Normandy, became an enduring symbol of grit and courage when the U.S. Army held the city despite being encircled for several days.
The Belgians have never forgotten. Every year we get swamped, said Tom Larscheid, one of the organizers of a commemorative walk, now in its 29th year.
The crowd is one reason Larscheid is asking people to sign up early for the walk. The memorial walk covers a different section of the Allied perimeter around Bastogne each year. This time the route goes north of Bastogne, to villages such as Foy and Noville. The area was defended by the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, immortalized in the TV series Band of Brothers.
Larscheid said re-enactors plan to man foxholes along the route. The re-enactors look good in their foxholes, he said. It adds some realism to the walk.
A group of Boy Scouts from Heidelberg, Germany, will have the honor of laying a wreath one of three planned for the day along the route, he added.
In the afternoon after the walk, city officials joined by special guests will toss walnuts to crowds gathered below the town hall balcony. It is a tradition that predates the battle, but it is now included in the commemoration.
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I did a route walk through the Hurtgen forest battle area. One part I will never forget was when US forces battled up the side of a mountain, on slick oil shale, through dense forest with artillery sending deadly showers of splinters down from the treetops. Their objective was well-defended positions on the top of the mountain.
They had to fight days for inches. Just looking at it made me want to throw up.
In the densest blanket of fog Europe had seen in over 200 years, one US battalion spotted another on an adjacent hillside. Thinking they were enemy, they called in artillery fires, slaughtering them.
In one place, where the Battle of the Bulge began in earnest, it looked as flat as a football field. Two small units met up there, and each side kept sending in reinforcements. For days there was a pitched battle on that spot, with knives and pistols. Visibility was just a foot or two, so men had to run up to each other to tell what uniform the other had, then to part or fight to the death.
There is now an obelisk memorial in that field. Some eleven Medals of Honor were issued for that fight alone.
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If this goes as well as Kos's war against the Democratic Leadership Council (the Hillary gang) we can expect Carville to be the Presidential nominee in 2008.
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Careful there, angry little man. Don't take on someone who actually knows how to win a general election. Last time you did that, he ended up back in the Senate.
A Thai zoo, which has hosted a couple of pandas for four years, will play "porn" videos for the male next month to encourage them to breed in captivity, the project manager said on Saturday.
The pair -- living chastely together at the zoo in the northern city of Chiang Mai since arriving from China in 2003 -- would be separated in December, but stay close enough for occasional glimpses of each other, said panda project chief Prasertsak Buntrakoonpoontawee. "They don't know how to mate so we need to show the male how, through videos," Prasertsak told Reuters. If it were in the south, the zoo would have blown up.
He said Chuang Chuang, the six-year-old male, would be shown the videos on a large screen when he might be feeling amorous. "We'll play the video at the most comfortable and intimate time for him, perhaps after dinner," Prasertsak said, hoping Chuang Chuang would then use the techniques on Lin Hui, a five-year-old female.
The zoo is hosting a four-day international sexual harassment panda conference that starts on Monday, drawing 200 wildlife and panda specialists from around the world.
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Zoo people have to go to great lengths to get some critters to mate. Viagra was a godsend, in that it works on almost all mammals.
However, a lot of them are responsive to video porn, which particularly affects primates.
For cheetahs and other big cats, it was discovered that several types of perfume get them stimulated. I gather a cheetah handler was rather shocked when one day the cats came running. Which soon turned into something of a cheetah orgy.
Vietnam's ambitions to mirror the economic success of its neighbours have been given a boost after Intel said it will triple investment in the country. The world's largest chipmaker, Intel, will invest $1bn (£522m) building two production plants in a science park outside of Ho Chi Minh City.
In February, Intel said it would spend $300m to develop a single plant. At the time, Intel's commitment to the fast-growing nation was the biggest investment by a US firm in Vietnam.
Intel's chip assembly and testing plant is Vietnam's first semiconductor facility and the Hanoi government hopes it will attract more high-tech businesses to the country. The first phase of Intel's plant was scheduled to employ 1,200 people, but the expanded site should create up to 4,000 jobs.
Very interesting. Makes you wonder what's going on behind the scenes with us and the Vietnamese government, and makes you wonder if they, like the Chinese, will end up Communist in name only. Still doesn't bring back the million plus they killed after the war.
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Perhaps they're worried about their plants in Thailand and want to find a "safe" location?
This is so bizarre for someone who grew up in the cold war. Just like in 2003 when our allies Bulgaria and Poland were threatened by the unfriendly regimes of France and Germany.
Emergency Powers. Heh.
Today Gov. Mitt Romney slashed $425 million in state spending to fill a gaping budget hole, portraying the move as a favor to Gov-elect Deval Patrick, who would have had to act swiftly to balance the budget in January. S'okay. Don't thank me. It's what I'm here for - no really, It's what I'm here for...
In some respects, I think Im taking heat which otherwise might be on his shoulders if he had to take this action, Romney said, adding that Patrick can undo the spending cuts once he takes office if he does not agree. Go ahead, show 'em what you're made of, lol.
Patrick has been tied up in meetings over his transition for the last two days and could not be immediately reached for comment. Huh? You mean the Gov can like, um, fix stuff that's broken? Damn!
Romneys action broke a stalemate with the Legislature surrounding the governors veto of a $450 million appropriation lawmakers approved from the states so-called rainy-day fund. And it's always raining if you're a Masshole Dhimmdonk.
The Legislature did not override Romneys veto, leaving a large shortfall the governor said he was obligated to eliminate with spending cuts. The cuts included $388 million in reductions the governor made previously, only to have his actions reversed by the Legislature. Lol. This is awesome...
Romney used emergency executive branch powers to make the cuts this time, meaning only Patrick - not the Legislature - can reverse his decisions. The items cut included items Romney labeled pork spending, such as a gazebo and a merry-go-round, as well as less desirable cuts to increase pay for personnel at higher learning institutions. *snicker* Tag, you're it!
The governor also slashed another $37 million by instituting a 1 percent payroll reduction across all executive branch agencies. The problem is not revenues; the problem is overspending, Romney said of his budget actions. The level of spending which were looking at would put us on the same road to financial crisis and ruin that our commonwealth has been down before. Heh, heh. Romney rocks, lol.
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If Mass has a balanced budget law, I would assume that there are only 2 ways to comply. One is to do what Romney did, so he may not be such a hero, and the other would be to increase taxes.
This could be a no brainer. Makes good headlines though.
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As a life long Masshole, I can confirm the following :
Romney used the state for his political ambitions - went AWOL soon after election, traversing about the Heartland instead of taking battle to the corruptchiks on Bacon Hill - failed to build a grass-roots GOP resistance (although he tried in 2004) - refused to give spotlight to his Lieutenant Governor who just lost big time to a professional moonbat - failed to ride roughshod over the trough rats until he was riding on out of town.
Yeah, I still like Mitt's politics, but he should have inflicted moonbat casualties while he was here. Instead he left the GOP in the worst place it has been in 20 years.
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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Is a burrito a sandwich?
The Panera Bread Co. bakery-and-cafe chain says yes. But a judge said no, ruling against Panera in its bid to prevent a Mexican restaurant from moving into the same shopping mall.
Panera has a clause in its lease that prevents the White City Shopping Center in Shrewsbury from renting to another sandwich shop. Panera tried to invoke that clause to stop the opening of an Qdoba Mexican Grill.
But Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Locke cited Webster's Dictionary as well as testimony from a chef and a former high-ranking federal agriculture official in ruling that Qdoba's burritos and other offerings are not sandwiches.
The difference, the judge ruled, comes down to two slices of bread versus one tortilla. "A sandwich is not commonly understood to include burritos, tacos and quesadillas, which are typically made with a single tortilla and stuffed with a choice filling of meat, rice, and beans," Locke wrote in a decision released last week.
In court papers, Panera, a St. Louis-based chain of more than 900 cafes, argued for a broad definition of a sandwich, saying that a flour tortilla is bread and that a food product with bread and a filling is a sandwich.
Qdoba, owned by San Diego-based Jack in the Box Inc., called food experts to testify on its behalf. Among them was Cambridge chef Chris Schlesinger, who said in an affidavit: "I know of no chef or culinary historian who would call a burrito a sandwich. Indeed, the notion would be absurd to any credible chef or culinary historian." Whew! I'm glad that's settled - so many sleepless nights... The tough decisions must be made, no matter the cost.
You want me to post the pic of Brittney and the snake?
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Qdoba, owned by San Diego-based Jack in the Box Inc., called food experts to testify on its behalf.
Said experts declined to testify unless they were allowed to wear a brown paper bag over their head. Subsequent investigation found that Panera's product did not qualify as a sandwich either.
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My boyfriend read me this from the paper. I can't figure out what Panera was thinking ("This'll be really good for public relations!"). Maybe they figured, "If we can pull this one off, we can rule the world!" After all, there are very few restaurants that don't sell something at least vaguely sandwich-like. Morons.
A Panera recently opened up near us, and we were keen to give it a try. Not so much now. Smooth move, guys.
Qdoba Mexican Grill
Speaking of smooth moves, did the printers make a mistake when typing up their letterhead, and the company decided it would be cheaper to change their name than to get new letterhead?
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Speaking of smooth moves, did the printers make a mistake when typing up their letterhead, and the company decided it would be cheaper to change their name than to get new letterhead?
Nah. It was just one of the last remaining five-letter combinations that is vaguely pronouncable and still available for trademarking.
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Jeez, this is embarrassing. Definitely a bad PR move on their part.
I live about 1/2 mile from the Panera in question. There's already a Moe's burrito restaurant and a Taco Bell(ch) - both, literally, a stone's throw from the Panera. Another burrito shop would only compete with them and not with Panera - completely different menu.
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Rantburg is indeed an institute of higher education. Today I learned 2 important things that will stay with me for a long time: First, it takes 2 slices of bread to make a sandwich (been doing it right without any adult supervision for over 50 years now) and 2) Qdoba is owned by Jack in the box; that now gives me a reason to not frequent Qdoba.
Next lawsuit: Why are they called French Fries when they didn't come from France?
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Jesus H. Christ. I think the losers on this kind of lawsuit ought to have to perform 500 hours of community service in a thong and a dunce cap. In the winter.
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.
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) -- One of three teenagers charged with attempting to rob illusionist 
Temperatures have dropped from blazing hot to balmy, the turquoise waters now have a refreshing chill and the sand is just about bearable to walk on. 
