WAYNESBURG, Ky. (AP) -- Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder. Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.
Ramey said the man told her he would leave. "I said, 'Oh, no you won't,' and I shot their tires so they couldn't leave," Ramey said. She had to balance on her walker as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun. "I didn't even think twice. I just went and did it," she said. "If they'd even dared come close to me, they'd be 6 feet under by now."
Ramey then flagged down a passing motorist, who called 911. Curtis Parrish of Ohio was charged with misdemeanor trespassing, Deputy Dan Gilliam said. The man's hometown wasn't immediately available. Three other people were questioned but were not arrested.
After winning the pageant with her singing, dancing and comedic talents, Ramey sold war bonds and her picture was adorned on a B-17 that made missions over Germany in World War II, according to the Miss America Web site. Ramey lived in Cincinnati for several years and was instrumental in helping rejuvenate Over-the-Rhine historic buildings. She returned to Kentucky in 1990 to live on her farm. "I'm trying to live a quiet, peaceful life and stay out of trouble, and all it is, is one thing after another," she said.
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This is great!
Maybe there is hope after all.
I can see a new line of medical equipment in the aftermath of this: walkers with machine gun mounts ( ammo containers optional),
laser guided missles on wheel chairs (still need to work out the recoil thing)
but these all can trace their lineage back to the Ricin-equipped umbrella, which can be considered nothing more than an all-weather cane...
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Missles don't have recoil, that's why the launch tubes are open behind, to let the gasses escape.(Don't stand behind one)
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RJ, they still do have a slight recoil. If the tube was plugged, you may fly in with an equal force, but in opposite direction to the missile trajectory. ;-)
The expulsion of gases is not gradual. There is a spike just before the missile is released, as the gasses are trying to escape in all directions. If you watch videos of launches of SLMs, you'd notice the distinct reaction of the shooter.
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Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.
For a minute there I thought this happened at Fred Phelps church which is located at located at 3701 W. 12th Street in Topeka, KS according to his website. But then I saw it was a UK site. Oh well.
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I think I see part of the problem. Quote from Mom:
"Rachael has never done anything like this before, and there was nothing to suggest she would. She may have had the odd friend round, but that's all.
"I'm 99.9per cent sure she's telling the truth when she says that she was not responsible for what happened."
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Rachael, according to her account, hid in a bathroom having a "panic attack" as the uninvited mob swelled her house to breaking point.
No thought of dialing the cops to clear out all the uninvited "guests", eh, Rachel?
I couldn't find the bathroom so I pee'd on the floor.
It always riles me when you're at a big party and there's a huge line for the bathroom only to find out that the kitchen sink's full of dishes when ya go to piss in it.
HT to Captain Ed
HICKMAN, Kentucky (AP) -- Officials released a prisoner from a state facility after receiving a phony fax that ordered the man be freed, and didn't catch the mistake for nearly two weeks.
Timothy Rouse, 19, is charged with beating an elderly western Kentucky man and was at the Kentucky Correctional & Psychiatric Center in La Grange for a mental evaluation. He was released from that facility on April 6 after officials received the fake court order.
It contained grammatical errors, was not typed on letterhead and was faxed from a local grocery store. The fax falsely claimed that the Kentucky Supreme Court "demanded" Rouse be released.
Lexington police arrested Rouse at his mother's home Thursday evening. Wile E Coyoyte, supergenius!
"It's outrageous that it happened," Fulton County Attorney Rick Major said. "I'm just glad nobody got hurt, because he's dangerous." Police are still investigating who faxed the phony order. er....Mom?
Attorney Carlos Moran, who is representing Rouse, declined to comment.
Prison officials did not notice that the fax came from a grocery store because policies did not require checking the source of a faxed order, said Greg Taylor, the LaGrange facility's director. "It's not part of a routine check, but certainly, in hindsight, that would perhaps have caused somebody to ask a question," he said. He added that misspellings on orders are common. Sounds like spellcheck is a few years away in this burg?
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Fulton County Attorney Rick Major said,"Don't confuse me with the truth; I have all the fax I need."
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He added that misspellings on orders are common.
Maybe you need to raise your enlistment standards?
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To: Greg Taylor
Re: Subject Awaiting Your Response
My name is Timothy Rouse, one of the sons of grocery chain CEO Linda "Big Mama" Rouse. The wife of Hickman's regional director of mines and power in the state of Kentucky, the late Gerald "Big Daddy" Crockett.
He married my mother on the agreement that my mother, Linda Rouse, will maintain her family's name together with her children. Before he died in the Boston hospital on the 15th of November 2004 where he went to operate on the cancer of the knee, he fixed the Sum of $30,000.000.00 in the Central Bank of Hickman under Intartrade Ventures Ltd on behalf of my mother. The 3 yrs maturity period placed on the money is due but the problem we are having now is that we lost the whole of the documents as a result of fire, which gutted our double-wide trailer 3 months ago.
We have discussed with our family attorney on how to collect the money with out hitches, he advised us to liaise with local law enforcement who will act an official partner of Intartrade Ventures Ltd and will purport that The money in question is urgently needed for an important security upgrades at the local correctional facility.
It is on this basis I am seeking for assistance. Your percentage is negotiable. Please note; your age and IQ need not match exactly in this transaction. Waiting for your immediate response.
A Canadian man has been arrested after he was found walking around naked with a swastika taped to his body to mark Adolf Hitlers birthday, police said on Friday. Police in Nanaimo, British Columbia, on Canadas Pacific coast, said they were called to the scene by concerned residents, and the man told them he was honoring Hitlers birthday. He was detained and will undergo a psychiatric assessment.
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He was detained and will undergo a psychiatric assessment.
Not that he thinks he needs it or anything. And even if he does, they probably can't do squat to keep him there if the laws in Canada are like those in the US.
Leith Marchant, serving a 32-year minimum sentence for the assassination-style murder of Nathan Treganna during a robbery in August 2002 at Lane Cove River Park, has adopted a hardline approach to Islam since his conversion.
Guided by his fanatical beliefs, 33-year-old Marchant rejects TV and radio and won't have either in his cell. He sleeps on a concrete bed without a mattress to demonstrate his piety. The main focus of his daily religious studies is martyrdom, Corrective Services Commissioner Ron Woodham said. "He tells people, quite openly, if he was out on the street, he'd be prepared to die for the cause," Mr Woodham said.
In November 1999, while serving seven years for armed robbery, Marchant broke out of Long Bay jail after prising apart iron bars but was recaptured a few days later.
Sentencing Marchant for murder in 2003, Justice Greg James said the accused had shown "ruthlessness and decisiveness" in shooting the victim in the head at point-blank range and labelled him "a person who is almost without prospect of redemption". The picure at the link is scary, yet reminiscent of those toys where you use a magnet to arrange iron filings into beards.
Muslims have called for the dismissal of a New York jail chaplain who distributed anti-Islam booklets with derogatory depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Azra Fasihuddin, a member of the Islamic Center of Rockland County, said the congregation was infuriated to learn that Teresa Darden Clapp, an ordained Christian minister, was put on paid suspension last week for distributing the booklets.
"We are very upset about these false allegations against our religion," Fasihuddin told the Journal News in Tuesday's editions. She said Clapp should be fired. Legal terrorism with the typical Oh We Got Caught with Our Allen Lies Crap
"She should be let go. And why is she being paid while she is suspended?"
The religious booklets characterize Muslims as worshipping an "idol" and devil called Allah, and the Prophet Muhammad as a criminal and a "religious dictator."
Rockland County Sheriff James Kralik said Clapp was placed on paid suspension last Thursday, and that the incident remained under investigation. He said questions remained as to Clapp's intent in distributing the materials. "As we learn more about it and gain a better understanding of it, we will change as necessary," he told the Journal News. Grow some balls boy. Remember 9-11?
Mohammed Ziaullah, an official at the Islamic Center, also criticized the paid suspension. "That's not a type of punishment," he said. "That's a vacation." It's also called freedom of speach you fuktard
Public officials on official duty don't have freedom of speech. They're supposed to do their jobs and they can be regulated as such.
Kralik said he would meet with officials of the Islamic Center of Rockland on Tuesday.
Clapp's phone number was not in service Monday, the Journal News said. She was not at home and did not respond to messages left there. Can anyone blame her?
Yes. I do.
It was not clear how many booklets were distributed. Jail officials said they learned about them after an inmate complained about two weeks ago.
In the cartoon panel stories, a tract titled "Men of Peace?" says Islamic fundamentalists who commit terrorist acts are not "bad Muslims" but "very good Muslims" who act in accordance with their religion.
The only time Islam was peaceful was during the Muslims minority in Mecca and then Medina. Once their numbers had increased Muhammad went on killing spree. That's simple history folks.
Both stories end with people being convinced that Islam is false. In one ending, a Muslim is contrite on learning he is worshipping a false idol and converts to Christianity. What no requirements of beheadings to convert?
The Journal News said the booklets were from Chick Publications, a company that produces gospel tracts and other media to advocate Christianity and condemn religions it deems false, including Islam and Roman Catholicism.
Don't know what happened to my comments on this earlier today, but I'll try to say it again: I find the Jack Chick pamphlets nasty, vulgar and unacceptable. The people behind them are virulently anti-Catholic as well as anti-virtually everything else, and as a Catholic I won't put up with them. If this 'pastor' was passing out anti-Catholic literature I'd definitely want her fired.
Her job was to tend to the flock in prison that needed her services. This nonsense is wrong, and she should be fired.
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Trying to serve and witness is what Chaplains are in fact paid to do. That is her "regulated" job.
And there was no mention of anti-Catholic bias in the story, none what so ever. But I'm sure if you look hard enough fluffy bunnies were injured too. By the way the term Allah had no sons is straight from Islamic mythology and not something originated in a Christian booklet.
Prisons in the UK and US are ripe recruiting zones for Islamics looking for future terrorist, criminals with skills. But someone here got their pretty feelings hurt in the past so now it's time to bend over and take one for Muhammad? I think not.
Right now there are Muslims calling for her to be fired for exposing Islam... CAIR like legal terrorism follows. Is she being stood behind by fellow Americans? No, instead she and the pamphlet are under attack. Something similar to the Minneapolis John Does. Oh don't you dare point out Quran taught Islamic terrorism!
Well enjoy your Dhimmitude. Personally I find siding with Islamics in a surrender attitude far more vulgar and unacceptable. Something I never thought I'd see on this board.
A Navy Blue Angel jet crashed during an air show Saturday, plunging into a neighborhood of small homes and trailers and killing the pilot.
Witnesses said the planes were flying in formation during the show at the Marine Corps Air Station at about 4 p.m. and one dropped below the trees and crashed, sending up clouds of smoke. Witnesses said metal and plastic wreckage some of it on fire hit homes in the neighborhood, located about 35 miles northwest of Hilton Head Island. William Winn, the county emergency management director, said several homes were damaged. Eight people on the ground were injured.
The crash took place in the final minutes of the air show, said Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Walley, a Blue Angel pilot. The pilots were doing a maneuver which involved all six planes joining from behind the crowd to form a Delta triangle, said Lt. Cmdr. Garrett D. Kasper, spokesman for the Blue Angels. One plane did not rejoin the formation.
Walley said the name of the pilot would not be released until relatives were notified of the death. A Navy statement said the pilot had been on the team for two years and it was his first as a demonstration pilot. "Our squadron and the entire U.S. Navy are grieving the loss of a great American, a great Naval officer and a great friend," Walley said.
Kasper said all possible causes of the crash are under investigation, and it could take at least three weeks for an official cause to be released.
I've lost track of how many times I've seen the Blue Angels perform their marvels. In tight formation one of their pilots can reach out and strike a match on a fellow squad member's wingtip.
One of the few jet fighter aerial maneuvers I've ever seen that approach the Angel's for sheer balls-to-the-wall gutsiness was at Moffett Field's 50th Anniversary celebration. Hanger #1 was open to the public back then (its asbestos contamination yet to be discovered). They even had a P-3 Orion doing aerobatics, fer cripes sake. Sorta like watching a hippo do ballet. A NASA STAL (Short Takeoff And Land) jet plane came in for a 100 yard landing. A Harrier Jump Jet arose from the tarmac and bowed to the audience. It was a grand day.
Numerous other flight teams from around the world showed up for the event. Among them were the "Frecce Tricolori", Italy's "Three-Colored Arrows". These maniacs actually did full vertical stalls and a tip-over with jets. For those unfamiliar with jet propelled aviation, allowing your plane to halt in mid-air during a pure vertical ascent opens it up to ingesting its own exhaust plume and smothering the engine through back-pressure. This was done at less than 2,000 feet where a restart was entirely out of the question. I've yet to see any other pilots perform this manuever.
My favorite Blue Angels stunt will always be one of their grand finale moves. After breaking formation, all them fly off to different compass points and then cooridnate their arrival times so that they pass above the assembled crowd within less than fifteen seconds of each other. This is all done at an altitude of less than 1,000 feet and is simply spectacular.
I invite fellow Rantburgers to please share their own airshow memories, especially those related to the Blue Angels. My first encounter with them was at five years old and I've never tired of their incredible antics.
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I believe it was the Thunderbirds I saw descend and do an almost stationary tailstand in an F-16 at about 100' off the ground less than an eighth of a mile in front of the crowd I was in. They weren't moving forward faster than an airplane's length every second or two. Does this count?
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I saw them in the fall of 1979, when they were flying A-4s. The "bomb-burst" maneuver at the end of the show was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
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The Mrs. doesn't particularly care for it but the boys love it. About 2 years ago we took the kids for the first time and saw them at McGuire AFB, right at show center next to the VIP section, which was full of Iraq vets. Just awesome. I'll never forget the look on my boys faces when the first jet powered act, an F-15 screamed over head at about 500 feet or so, eyes bugged and the biggest smiles a 10 & 7 year old are capable of, they both started laughing because it was so loud and it took them by surprise. The incredible traffic snarl getting in and out of there was well worth it.
We used to attend the Sussex County air show every August before they discontinued it 2 or 3 years ago. The airport is too small for jets, it was mainly the prop planes. The last act at the last show was called Masters of Disaster. How those nut jobs didn't kill themselves I'll never figure out.
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The Blue Angels show I remember the best (it's possibly the only one I've actually been to) was sometime in the 1960ies, at Pt. Mugu NAS. One of the members of the team at that time was the brother of one of my Dad's co-workers, so our family, and the brothers' family all went to Pt. Mugu to see the show. I remember we went to the visiting officers' quarters and hung out with the co-workers' brother before the show. I remember thinking that they were very down-to earth; there was a copy of MAD magazine laying around, and they went outside with the kids and tossed a football around. When we watched the show, we didn't have to sit in the grandstands; as sort of VIPs, Dad and his friend were allowed to park their cars on the green, opposite the grandstand, and we watched the show sitting on top of our cars, or on folding pation chairs on the grass. The show was magnificant, and we were watching from practically underneath! Afterwards when the team all were signing autographs, the mother of Dad's friend took my brother around to each one of them and had them autograph a program form him. She knew them all, of course.The commander at the time was LtC. Bill Wheat, but I can't remember any other names (Don't know why that one stuck in my head, but it did). One of the things that struck me during the autograph signing after the show wasseeing how all of them were absolutely drenched in sweat. Their flight suits were sopping wet. Very intense workout, flying wing-tip to wingtip.
Wasn't it the Frecci Tricolori who were performing at the Ramstein airshow when one of them clipped another and crashed into the crowd? They performed a couple of weeks later at the Zaragoza AB open house, and for some reason, we all preferred to watch that from a good distance.
I've seen the Angels at least six times over the past decade, and I never tire of the shows. I've seen them in various conditions including their low-altitude show due to low clouds and rain. The first time I saw them was the best, though - not only because of the novelty, but the conditions were absolutely perfect: unlimited visibility in a cloudless summer sky.
When I saw them last summer we were sitting near where the planes were parked, and I got to see the careful choreography that goes into every aspect of the show: from marching out to the planes and climbing into the cockpits to opening the canopies and removing the helmets after the show.
I get chills and misty eyes every time I see them. Truly our best.
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RIP brave pilot. Apparently he went to low, hit a tree, went 300yards then crashed. Went over "5 houses before finally crashing". I'm no aviation expert, but there's supposed to be press conference soon about it. I can't help but wonder if the pilot didn't eject because he was over houses and was trying to save lives at the cost of his own. It wouldn't suprise me if that's the case, our pilots are second to none in both skill and character.
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At Quonset, I watched an F-14 (BIG airplane) and an F-16, about 10 feet between them (F-16 looked like a remora) do a VERY slow fly by at 25 ft or so, rotate to vertical very slowly, and then climb on thrust alone. Earsplitting, and produced ear to ear grins on all. Zenster, at Pope I watched C-130's do acrobatics. Crazy good airplane.
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I think it's the History channel that has a wonderful show (series?) on the Blue Angels, following them for a year... through selection process and including the training up to the first show.
Finally getting to a computer (outside work all day) I went to Neptunuslex
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April 21st, 2007 by lex
Its never good when you get a call on the weekend and the caller ID says Work
There are reports that a Blue Angels precision flight team member has crashed a plane during a show in South Carolina.
Local TV station WSAV reported that at least one plane crashed into a Beaufort, S.C., neighborhood. Several homes were reported to be on fire, according to the station. But there were conflicting reports. A state trooper told CNN that the crash site was not around any houses.There was no confirmed information about the pilots condition, but CNN said a state trooper said, I was told that he was alive.
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I have had the privelge to see and work w/ the Blues several tiems, admitedly in a support role. First time was @ NAS Jax; they needed an engine and sent Fat Albert ( their C-130) in to pick it up. The crew was down to earth, and friendly, not a bit arrogant.
Years later @ NAS Whidbey they wer getting their last practice in and they turned it into a special show for seniors, shut-ints and others. The nursing homes in the areas brought those out that wanted to watch in the late August afternoon, and those of us working nights were on top of the cars, hangars, planes anything for a chance to watch.
From an earlier comment regarding the pilot and nearby houses, I would bet the ranch that he did stay with the jet trying to 'will it to fly' and avoid anything or anyone on the ground. RIP.
A community debate over religious freedom surfaced in Western Pennsylvania last week when Dutch feminist author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who has lived under the threat of death for denouncing her Muslim upbringing, made an appearance at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.
Islamic leaders tried to block the lecture, which was sponsored through an endowment from the Frank J. and Sylvia T. Pasquerilla Lecture Series. They argued that Hirsi Ali's attacks against the Muslim faith in her book, "Infidel," and movie, "Submission," are "poisonous and unjustified" and create dissension in their community.
How interesting: dissent, eh? Wonder who's dissenting? Mayhaps the wimmins in the local Muslim community are getting the message?
Although university officials listened to Islamic leaders' concerns, the lecture planned last year took place Tuesday evening under tight security, with no incidents.
Imam Fouad ElBayly, president of the Johnstown Islamic Center, was among those who objected to Hirsi Ali's appearance. "She has been identified as one who has defamed the faith. If you come into the faith, you must abide by the laws, and when you decide to defame it deliberately, the sentence is death," said ElBayly, who came to the U.S. from Egypt in 1976.
How soon can we deport this mook?
Although ElBayly believes a death sentence is warranted for Hirsi Ali, he stressed that America is not the jurisdiction where such a crime should be punished.
Fouad should go on a list and should be watched very carefully.
Instead, Hirsi Ali should be judged in a Muslim country after being given a trial, he added. "If it is found that a person is mentally unstable, or a child or disabled, there should be no punishment," he said. "It's a very merciful religion if you try to understand it."
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Although ElBayly believes a death sentence is warranted for Hirsi Ali
Enough. Right there are grounds for revocation of immigration or citizenship.
he stressed that America is not the jurisdiction where such a crime should be punished.
But that does not stop him from pronouncing a death sentence, however qualified. Somewhere there is a susceptible jihadi willing to accept ElBayly's word on this and act accordingly. When will our government understand that this forms a substantial basis for Sudden Jihad Syndrome"?
Instead, Hirsi Ali should be judged in a Muslim country after being given a trial, he added.
Suuuuuuure. As if they have any concept of trial by peer or constitutional law. FOAD, ElBayly.
"If it is found that a person is mentally unstable, or a child or disabled, there should be no punishment," he said. "It's a very merciful religion if you try to understand it."
Your "merciful religion" has already killed thousands of Americans. Only when your ummah has killed thousands of jihadist imams like yourself will I begin to believe that it deserves another moment of survival.
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Welcome to Rantburg, Percy Clomonter. Please let us know about your own particular background with respect to Islam. Barring that, I hope that you will feel welcome here.
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As a Christian I am happy to express my opinion that ElBayly should be tried and convicted for incitement to murder. Personally, I believe this conviction should carry a death sentence.
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Excal, was thinking the same thing. At the bare minimum the prick should be deported yesterday!
The great part of the story (on the honest side) is ElBayly's admitting the violent nature of Muhamhead's death cult (piece of pork be upon him). Think about it. A women, black and muslim condemning Islam. Talk about the ultimate insult for Moon People and their telling reaction. Two words, hang him.
After the birth of his second child, UBS media banker Aryeh Bourkoff bought a digital camera and asked his mother to document their family's history for his kids to see as they grow up.
Turns out the resulting video, "The Last Jews of Libya," will be seen by a lot more people than Bourkoff's kids. The film was accepted into this week's TriBeCa Film Festival as a documentary feature, earning Bourkoff's mom, Vivienne Roumani-Denn, a director's credit and the Wall Street banker an executive producer title.
"I just thought it would be something to show at my kids' birthday parties," Bourkoff, 34, said over coffee with The Post. But when Roumani-Denn found a handwritten memoir about her mother's - Bourkoff's grandmother's - experiences living as a Jew in Libya during World War II, she instantly knew she was onto something more. "It was written from a very personal perspective, but it was universal in the way everything she wrote was so intertwined with the war," Roumani-Denn said.
The low-budget, 50-minute film, premiering May 2, uses the Roumani family to tell the story of how war and cultural dislocation forced the entire Libyan Jewish community out of the country.
The emotional tale has already garnered some big fans, including former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. " 'The Last Jews of Libya' is a fantastic documentary that in the end made me realize how lucky I was to be born in America," Eisner said of the film.
Another big fan of the film, Sundance Channel CEO Larry Aidem, was also instrumental in getting the film out of Bourkoff's living room and in front of a larger audience. So impressed was Aidem with the film that he not only bought the domestic television distribution rights to the movie for the Sundance Channel, but he also enlisted Isabella Rossellini, with whom he was already working on a Sundance project, to narrate.
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There were never any Jooooooooooooos in Libya, it's a Hoax financed by the Rothschilds and Rockefeller's. I mean do you see any evidence of Joooooooos in Libya? You know, usery, banks, shoe-stores, paving, drainage, quality vegetables, honest camel brokers, stock-exchanges, violin lessons for the masses, guilt? See? All a myth. I'm put Snopes on this. Montgomery Ward Snopes is fierce against this sort of thing.
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.
WAYNESBURG, Ky. (AP) -- Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder. Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.
A community debate over religious freedom surfaced in Western Pennsylvania last week when Dutch feminist author 
