FORT WALTON BEACH - A man who pulled out his pants pockets to show a Fort Walton Beach Police officer he wasn't carrying drugs didn't count on a plastic bag of crack falling to the ground. Forgot it was in his pocket, did he? Or did he think the cops were blind?
On July 15 an officer was called to the Rancho Alegre bar on Hollywood Boulevard by employees who had escorted a suspected drug dealer off the premises. The man, Herminio Hurtado-Resendiz, 24, of Destin, told the officer he wasn't dealing in mind-altering substances and voluntarily pulled out his pants pockets. "I'm not selling drugs, officer. See? My pockets are-- ****!"
The police officer spotted a small plastic bag fall out of Resendiz's right-front pocket and land on the ground. The bag was full of a white, powdery substance that field-tested positive for the coca plant's regret-eating-me toxin. "Put the bracelets on 'im."
Resendiz was charged with possession of a controlled substance. His court date is Aug. 21.
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On July 15 an officer was called to the Rancho Alegre bar on Hollywood Boulevard by employees who had escorted a suspected drug dealer off the premises.
Seems more than the cops thought the dude was not there just to pass time.
While 529 hardworking athletes proudly represent the United States in the 2012 Olympics, any medals and money they earn wearing red, white and blue will be taxed by the IRS. According to research done by the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, U.S. Olympic athletes are liable to pay income tax on medals earned and prizes received at the London games.
American medalists face a top income tax rate of 35 percent. Under U.S. tax law, they must add the value of their Olympic medals and prizes to their taxable income. It is therefore easy to calculate the tax bite on Olympic glory.
At todays commodity prices, the value of a gold medal is about $675. A silver medal is worth about $385 while a bronze medal is worth under $5.
There are also prizes that accompany each medal: $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver, and $10,000 for bronze.
So how much will U.S. Olympic medal winners have to pay in taxes to the IRS?
American gold medal winners will pay the IRS up to $8,986. Silver medal winners will pay up to $5,385. Bronze medal winners will pay up to $3,502.
It gets even worse. Not only do our Olympic athletes have to pay taxes on their medals and prizes chances are their competitors on the field will face no such taxation when they get home. Because the U.S. is virtually the only developed nation that taxes worldwide income earned overseas by its taxpayers, our Olympic athletes face a competitive disadvantage that has nothing to do with sports.
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"Income" Taxes ...on an Olympic medal earned by a deserving young athlete who has invested untold years of training and dedication are dispicable, but a one time outlay. Invest the $25,000 "winnings" in the stock market and pay for the rest of your bloody life....and beyond, if you pass your portfolio along.
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Thanks, Obama. For thinking that any American overseas MUST be a tax-dodger. Pay tax to the local government for your local income, and pay again for U.S. taxes. Thanks again, asshole.
Anyone off the street could have done it with "The Champ" as president! I don't know why the states didn't pick the Olympic entrants by lottery, it would be much less discriminatory.
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The UK "Hidden Economy". YOU can report them anonymously!
The 'hidden economy'
Some businesses operate without ever registering with HMRC and so pay no tax. Others register, but only declare and pay tax on some of their income. They're described as being part of the hidden economy. Often, such businesses ask you to pay them in cash. (Very common in the State of Georgia by the way)
If you know someone whose business is not registered for tax you can report it online, or call the Tax Evasion Hotline on 0800 788 887 (open Monday to Friday from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm, closed weekends and bank holidays) and HMRC will do something about it. You don't need to leave your name and address.
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Christian Lopez, the fan who caught and returned Jeter's home run ball at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, could be facing a tax bill for all that he received in return for his good deed, potentially to the tune of about $14,000.
The Yankees gave the 23-year-old Lopez four luxury suite tickets for each of the team's remaining home games, including the postseason, as well as three bats, three balls and two jerseys all signed by Jeter. He also received front-row seats for Sunday's game, which reportedly sell for up to $1,358.90 each.
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Didn't we kick the British out for just this sort of nonsense?
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He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent
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--"The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,"
An RAC MiG-29KUB trainer operated by Russian pilots has landed aboard the INS Vikramaditya, becoming the first fixed-wing aircraft to land on the ship since its refurbishment.
In a call with Flightglobal, the Indian navy confirmed that the landing had taken place, and that the aircraft had taken off again using the ship's 'ski-jump.'
The Vikramaditya is currently undergoing sea trials in the White Sea near the port of Severodvinsk, where it has spent years being converted from the former Soviet-era carrier Admiral Gorshkov.
The Indian navy said flight trials are expected to continue in Russia for several months, with a team of its personnel to be present during the tests. Indian pilots are only likely to land on the ship following its delivery to India, which is scheduled to take place by the end of 2012.
The Indian navy has received all 12 MiG-29K fighters and four KUB-model trainers from a 2004 order, but the sea trials will be carried out using Russian aircraft flown by Russian pilots. New Delhi has another 34 MiG-29K/KUBs on order, says Flightglobal's MiliCAS database.
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attrition rate during carquals estimate anyone? i look for ~25%
The U.S. Air Force has concluded (for the moment) that the cause of the breathing problems F-22 pilots were having were caused by a defective valve on the special vests pilots wear to help them with their breathing in the low pressure of the F-22 cockpit. The vests are not being used until modifications can be made to fix the problem.
Earlier this year the vests came under suspicion because it appeared that they automatically inflated too much during high-g (gravitational force) maneuvers, making it difficult for pilots to breathe. This would be subtle, so that the pilot would not immediately notice a problem with breathing. Anything obvious would have been noticed when the vest was tested. Pilots have complained about a "strange feeling" when breathing with the vest during high-g turns but not in such a way that they connected it with the disorientation. Further examination discovered that the vest was indeed inflating when it should not have been, and causing breathing problems. The air force will make a few other tweaks to the pilot air supply system and quietly hope that the problem is indeed solved.
At first it was thought that pressure vest problems might be linked to recently reported instances of excessive coughing by F-22 pilots. It's being called "Raptor Cough" and is actually a known condition (acceleration atelectasis) for pilots who have just completed a high speed maneuver. But it appeared to be showing up more frequently among F-22 pilots. The F-22 pilots are perplexed and a bit nervous about their expensive and highly capable jets and are reporting things they earlier thought little of. But a close look at vest use revealed that the vests were quietly acting up nearly every time there was a breathing problem. This ended over 16 months of restrictions on F-22 use and increasingly frantic efforts to identify the source of the problem and fix it.
Despite the breathing problems the air force continued to fly its F-22s. The decision to keep flying was made because the air supply problems had not killed anyone yet and they were rare (once every 10,000 sorties). The 14 incidents that did occur were all cases of F-22 pilots apparently experiencing problems. The term "apparently" is appropriate because the pilots did not black out and a thorough check of the air supply system and the aircraft found nothing wrong.
There have been nearly 30 of these "dizziness or disorientation" incidents in the last four years, with only 14 of them serious enough to be called real incidents. Only one F-22 has been lost to an accident so far, and while that did involve an air supply issue, it was caused by pilot error, not equipment failure.
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Great news if this is the root cause!!
an insidious gripe to be sure; you can bet there was more than one face to face confrontaion between the operators and the maintainers as each held that the other was either incompetent or dumber than a box of rocks.
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It is a real threat. A satellite collision (see here) can be catastrophic to other human objects and people in orbit. Finding a way to remove the smallest objects is needed. A small hexnut sized object may be not much on Earth, but in orbit and a vacuum going 119,000 km/h it is lethal.
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Danger is not really growing because we are not sending up stuff very often. Having said that its been bad since the 60s.
What we need is a satelite with an aimable low power laser. Let kids on the net aim the laser at junk in the orbit just below. Even a small bit of heat might change course and send them into the atmosphere a few orbits later.
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Oh the STAR-MANITY - finding out that our future OWG Space Defense's real mission is not to destroy wily incoming Space Rocks, but WASTE MANAGEMENT - REMOVAL, RECOVERY, + RECYCLING???
Tea party darling Ted Cruz convincingly defeated the Republican establishment favorite, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, in Texas' runoff election Tuesday, capturing the GOP nomination to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison as fiercely conservative voters shook one of America's reddest states to its political core.
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The same thing will happen as when that schoolteacher won the Democratic nomination for Senator a number of years ago. The party faithful will abandon their nominee and comiserate with the other party about what a crap candidate they were handed. Donors won't give and activists won't work.
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This is the biggest fear the media left and Democrats have. They had hoped the Tea party was history. They had done their best to smear it. Now they are the ones with the mess in their pants.I believe that many Democrats are lost. The party has left them. I believe many will not vote come November.
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Tea Party certainly isn't history in Texas, but I'm not sure they have the winning margin around the country (not that I'd discourage them).
Dewhurst had better support Cruz in the general, or there's going to be a war on the party 'faithful', and it won't be pretty.
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Victor Morales, that was his name. The only Democrat I ever voted for. He was a non-insider, and he actually won the Democratic nomination for Senator against Phil Gramm. The Democrats collectively said, "Aw, shit" and deserted him in droves. He lost.
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Picking off a couple of Senators each cycle makes the Tea Party one of the predominant forces in American politics. Any other interpretation is just wishful thinking.
As Bob Dylan once said: If you can't be good, be good at it.
I may have made up that last bit
A publishing industry that is notoriously ill-equipped to root out fraud. A magazine whose famed fact-checking department is geared toward print, not the Web. And a lucrative lecture circuit that rewards snappy, semi-scientific pronouncements, smoothly delivered to a corporate audience.
All contributed to the rise of Jonah Lehrer, the 31-year-old author, speaker and staff writer for The New Yorker, who then executed one of the most bewildering recent journalistic frauds, one that on Monday cost him his prestigious post at the magazine and his status as one of the most promising, visible and well-paid writers in the business.
that is kind of funny as Zimmerman was also known to lift lyrics from other musicians and even straight from a novel ("confessions of a yakuza")...I heard he was also accused of plagiarizing paintings or some such.
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.
FORT WALTON BEACH - A man who pulled out his pants pockets to show a Fort Walton Beach Police officer he wasn't carrying drugs didn't count on a plastic bag of 
An RAC MiG-29KUB trainer operated by Russian pilots has landed aboard the INS Vikramaditya, becoming the first fixed-wing aircraft to land on the ship since its refurbishment.
The U.S. Air Force has concluded (for the moment) that the cause of the breathing problems F-22 pilots were having were caused by a defective valve on the special vests pilots wear to help them with their breathing in the low pressure of the F-22 cockpit. The vests are not being used until modifications can be made to fix the problem. 
