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What strikes me as a bit out of the ordinary in this case is the number of officers who were able to respond, said Rich Vander Mey, assistant Tama County Attorney. I dont know whether the fact that the stolen vehicle contained donuts has anything to do with that.
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Wow. Maybe the Grand Unification Theory needs to be expanded a bit.
Actually, on one o' them World's Wildest Police Videos shows I did see a video of a low-speed chase involving an actual Krispy Kreme truck, complete with boxes of donuts falling out the back. The pursuing officer remained strong, and did not stop to retrieve them. Prolly got a medal for that.
(Xinhuanet) -- Cairo police took three antiquities smugglers into custody and confiscated the four mummies they had stolen Wednesday, a security official said.
Wrapped in layers of linen and decorated with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, the mummies were found in the southern province of Minya, 135 miles south of Cairo, the official said speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
The three smugglers admitted they carried the mummies in a truck to Fayyoum earlier on the day to sell them to other antiquities brokers, the official said.
The mummies were those of a child and three men, but no further details were available of their identities or age, the official said and added that a delegation of archeologists were summoned to check the mummies. Along with the mummies, police also confiscated 10 small statues.
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Was one of the mummies NJ Sen. Frank Lautenberg(D)?
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) A boater who was killed when a ray jumped out of the water in the Florida Keys and hit her face died of skull fractures and brain injuries, not from the animal's poisonous barb, a medical examiner said Friday.
So it clubbed her to death, huh?
Judy Kay Zagorski, 57, a community leader around her hometown of Pigeon, Mich., was in the front of a boat going 25 mph on Thursday when a 75-pound spotted eagle ray leapt from the water and hit her in a freak collision.
Monroe County's medical examiner, Dr. Michael Hunter, determined that the cause of death was "blunt force" head injury and that the collision with the ray killed her off Marathon, about 50 miles northeast of Key West. Hunter's report noted she suffered "multiple skull fractures and direct brain injury resulting in sudden death," said Jorge Pino, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
She was not stung by the ray. The collision knocked Zagorski backward, onto the floor of the boat, Pino said. "The force of that impact was dramatic," he said.
The family requested that no autopsy be performed, Pino said.
PATRIOTIC squaddie Craig Briggs has been barred from joining the police because hes got an ENGLAND tattoo on his arm.
The Iraq veteran, 22, had wanted to be a cop since childhood and was advised to join the Army to get experience first. But when he applied he was told: Unfortunately, some people feel intimidated by the word England.
Last night Craig, who has just completed 4œ years with the 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, said: I am shocked and disgusted.
"I dont understand how it can cause offence. It is our country, after all.
Craig applied to join Greater Manchester Police shortly before returning to civvy street this month. When he admitted he had a tattoo, he was asked to send a photo of the inch-high Gothic letters spelling ENGLAND on the underside of his right forearm.
He was later told he had been rejected by the recruitment department.
It wrote: Home Office policy precludes applications with tattoos on lower arm, hand, face or neck that are prominent, which may cause offence and/or invite provocation from the public or colleagues.
Craig, of Batley, West Yorks, has had the tattoo which starts at his elbow and ends at his wrist since he was 19.
He said he was told in a phone call by the Manchester forces senior recruitment consultant: A family who arent of English origin who see England on your arm could feel you might discriminate against them.
"We live in a diverse society and try to ensure we give everybody equality.
Craig said: Ive been told I could get the tattoo altered so it doesnt spell England any more.
"But Im now looking at other options like the fire service or prison service.
A force spokesman said: We expect officers to look professional.
"This tattoo was clearly visible. As it does not meet our rigorous standards, his application was rejected.
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I've got your "rigorous standards" right here, ya PC twit.
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It's becoming pretty clear that the UK police are a major part of the British dhimmi problem. They've more than once gone way beyond what either common law or legislation requires to accomodate immigrants.
A Chinese bride burned her new husband to death after he got into bed after a drunken argument without washing his feet, state media reported on Wednesday.
"Wang and his wife, Luo, were married on February 2. The couple, however, frequently fought over trivial things while still on their honeymoon," the official Xinhua news agency quoted a local newspaper as saying. The couple, from the central province of Hubei, had another fight on the night of March 4, "and in frustration they together drank a bottle of liquor to ease their anger."
"At about 10pm, Luo watched her husband get into bed without cleaning or washing his feet. In a fit of anger and intoxication, she set fire to the sheet he was sleeping in," the report said. "When he awoke, the two began fighting before a very drunk Wang collapsed. As fire engulfed the bedroom. Luo escaped to the living room, leaving her other half to burn," it added. - Roooooters
That triumphal barnburner of an Easter hymn, Jesus Christ Has Risen Today Hallelujah, this morning will rock the walls of Toronto's West Hill United Church as it will in most Christian churches across the country.
But at West Hill on the faith's holiest day, it will be done with a huge difference. The words Jesus Christ will be excised from what the congregation sings and replaced with Glorious hope.
Thus, it will be hope that is declared to be resurrected an expression of renewal of optimism and the human spirit but not Jesus, contrary to Christianity's central tenet about the return to life on Easter morning of the crucified divine son of God.
Generally speaking, no divine anybody makes an appearance in West Hill's Sunday service liturgy.
There is no authoritative Big-Godism, as Rev. Gretta Vosper, West Hill's minister for the past 10 years, puts it. No petitionary prayers (Dear God, step into the world and do good things about global warming and the poor).
No miracles-performing magic Jesus given birth by a virgin and coming back to life. No references to salvation, Christianity's teaching of the final victory over death through belief in Jesus's death as an atonement for sin and the omnipotent love of God. For that matter, no omnipotent God, or god.
Ms. Vosper has written a book, published this week With or Without God: Why the Way We Live is More Important than What We Believe in which she argues that the Christian church, in the form in which it exists today, has outlived its viability and either it sheds its no-longer credible myths, doctrines and dogmas, or it's toast.
She is considered one of the bright, if unconventional, minds within the United Church, Canada's largest Protestant Christian denomination. She holds a master of divinity degree from Queen's University and was ordained in 1992. She founded and chairs the Toronto-based Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity...
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The "God is me and I am God crowd." Tiresome self-absorbed assholes...
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Suffice to say, this is no longer a Christian Church. Marx would be proud.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
03/22/2008 11:11 Comments ||
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If the Christian church, as it exists today, is no longer viable, then why are so many Muslims converting that various Muslim bigwigs have been speaking out in alarm?
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"United Church, Canada's largest Protestant Christian denomination."
Umm, one sec. How can they call themselves "Christian" when they deny Christ?
Its not just works, you have to have faith too.
It is in the Book, you know, the Bible, that all of Christianity bases itself. You have to have Faith to begin with for the works to mean anything, if you are to be a Christian.
John 3:16 - Christianity in a nutshell: "God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
These people are demonstrably not Christian anymore. They belong to the "Feelgood" church, worshiping at the altar of Liberalism, and believing in the great fuzzy concept of Hope.
If thats how they want to do things, then that is their choice. But the need to stop mislabeling themselves as "Christian", because doing so is a blatant lie.
A bit of Theology:
Faith - you DO need works for faith to mean anything. But Faith must precede and drive those works, otherwise they are meaningless as a Charistian act.
19 : Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20 : But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
This is where they probably went astray - like most liberals, they picked the part they like, "works" and ignore the antecedents and pre-requisites, most notably faith in the God of Abraham (which is specifically mentioned in James 2)
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United Church definitely IS the largest Protestant Christian denomination - perhaps because it requires the least amount of thought - perhaps not. /snark off
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So if they don't believe in Christ or his resurrection - what the heck are they celebrating on Easter?
I'm guessing maybe the glorious providence that brought forth the Honeybaked Ham?
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So if they don't believe in Christ or his resurrection - what the heck are they celebrating on Easter?
Themselves, and not much else.
I'd put forth that these people, and especially this "reverend" (little "r" intended), do not even believe in God, let alone Christ. They believe they are gods, individually and collectively. As Rex Mundi said above, Marx would be proud.
The good reverend and her flock are not Christian, they are pagan, or neo-pagan possibly, worshiping not God or Christ, but themselves and everything "natural" and thus worship nothing. Unfortunately, they give most pagans I know a bad name. At least pagans have the guts to state up front what they worship.
They're worse than pagans (not that pagans are necessarily bad). They're cultists in the Azathoth vein.
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The fact that you *never hear* what happens to the people who piss off the Church of the Subgenius folks suggests that they're a lot more effective at tying up loose ends than the clam people are.
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Wow, Ice, that's a better summary than I've ever seen for liberalism....if you believe it hard enough (and click your heels 3 times), it's true crowd.
By the way, it's been a while since posting, and I loved my new screen name, but I think I'll stick with the original nym (BA). That's quite some "random generator" Fred's got for naming newbies:
Pheath Protector of the Munchkins4607
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03/22/2008 23:14 Comments ||
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BA - you don't wanna protect the Munchkins?
Shame on you!
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
03/22/2008 23:38 Comments ||
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Kucinich will take that lead, Barb
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Snark o' the day, Frank. Melikes.
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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.
A Chinese bride burned her new husband to death after he got into bed after a drunken argument without washing his feet, state media reported on Wednesday.
