A Delta Air Lines flight was rerouted Friday morning after a passenger threatened to blow up the plane, screamed "get behind me Satan" and sprayed passengers with water from a beverage-cart bottle, according to a complaint filed in federal court. Flight attendants and other passengers on Delta Flight 2148 struggled to restrain the "erratic and dangerous" passenger with seat belts and plastic handcuffs
A pack, not a herd. Well done, all!
while pilots rerouted the plane to Albuquerque, New Mexico, FBI Special Agent Benedict R. Bourgeois said.
The plane, which was flying from Los Angeles, California, to Tampa, Florida, landed in Albuquerque at 3:37 a.m. ET, the Transportation Security Administration said. The passenger, Stanley Dwayne Sheffield, was taken into custody shortly afterward. Law enforcement swept the plane and found nothing suspicious, TSA said. The flight landed in Tampa at about 9:20 a.m. ET, more than three hours after its scheduled arrival.
The complaint said Sheffield, 46, was heading back to his first-class seat from the plane's bathroom when he grabbed a 2-liter water bottle from a drink cart, began spraying passengers and shouted "get behind me Satan." The complaint said that after a flight attendant asked him to return to his seat Sheffield threatened: "I am going to bring this plane down. ... You need to land this plane or I'm going to blow it up [and] I will blow up this plane and take you all with me." Passengers "engaged Sheffield in a struggle and restrained him" when he approached the cockpit door, the complaint said.
CNN affiliate KRQE-TV in Albuquerque reported the passenger was a 46-year-old man who allegedly made threats, damaged a bathroom and attempted to enter the flight deck when seven passengers restrained him. The man was treated for minor injuries he sustained during the struggle and later was turned over to the FBI, the report said.
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attendants and other passengers on Delta Flight 2148 struggled to restrain the "erratic and dangerous" passenger with seat belts and plastic handcuffs
Why all the fuss? One ziptie around the neck ought to do the trick.
KURE BEACH, N.C. - A North Carolina town that the mayor called "Mayberry with a beach" has banned swimmers from wearing thongs.
Kure (kyoor-EE) Beach Mayor Dean Lambeth says "we're going to keep this as close to Mayberry with a beach as you can keep it," referring to the idyllic Southern community portrayed on the 1960s TV series "The Andy Griffith Show."
The Star-News of Wilmington reports that the town council voted Thursday to add a ban against the revealing swimwear to its existing ordinance against nudity.
The move came after the police chief received an e-mail earlier in the week asking if the town's existing nude bathing ordinance allowed thongs.
The ordinance bans nudity or "insufficient clothing," and the man wanted to know if thongs were allowed for both men and women. "I thought Barney Fife looked hideous, until I saw Aunt Bea in a thong!"
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The beaches we were testing our scanner on in southern Spain were clothing optional. The pretty and thin women all wore suits. The non-suit wearers... it was sandpaper on eyeballs time..
Average weight of the nudes seemed to be over 200 lbs.
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My wife and I used to vacation in Kure Beach when we lived in Raleigh, NC. Very family friendly, nice beaches, lots of kids on the beach. Glad to see that somebody is sticking up for decency.
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You want to see Aunt Bea and Barney Fife in thongs, gorb?
Ask me again in a week if GB's column hasn't been reinstated. ;-)
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Not much news here. Copies have been available for a long time. This is just the recovery of the originals.
I visited Tombstone with my son last summer. It didn't really jibe with my memory. I recall gunfights hourly on the streets. Now there's just the admission charged reenactment in the Corral. Turns out their biggest month is February when all the snowbirds flock into town. Not many come in the summer and not many kids at all.
Also turns out there was a lot of politics involved. Wyatt & Co were appointed by the Republicans to bring some law and order. The Clantons were a bunch of cattle rustlers who spread the money around so they could operate under Democrat inaction, if not protection. Some things never change.
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The closest to a gunfight I saw in Tombstone was a drug transaction in the parking lot. Looked like a shuttle from the border, using RV's. Dangerous business nowadays.
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Oneof the eyewitnesses was Mrs MJ King, a landlady who was on her way to the butcher's when she sensed trouble. "I saw quite a group of men standing on the sidewalk with two horses, near the market," she told the inquest.
"Getchyer horses off'n the sidewalk or there'll be shootin'"
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I read years ago, and again today, Wyatt Earp was a simple thug and Murderer, by the way Wyatt banned all guns in Tombstone, so he knew the Baddies were unarmed when he Murdered them, then used his Power to force the verdict.
Nothing new here, Just a thug with a badge.
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Wyatt Earp ran some saloons and gambling houses in Nome, Alaska, so he cannot be all bad.
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Did well for Dodge City. Whatever we may think he was, he was consistant.
Former UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei is advocating democratic reforms that could allow him to run in the 2011 presidential election and break Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule. But voters may not care enough to risk arrest and beatings.
To tell the truth, I wouldn't risk arrest and beatings for a UN organization man like Dr. ElBaradei, either. He's been gone from Egypt for so long he knows neither the issues nor the players, and his skills are not the ones necessary for running a country -- any country, not just a third world purgatory-hole like Egypt. Dr. ElBaradei is thinking of the presidency as a little, part-time retirement job, the kind where he goes to a couple of meetings several times a week, charms some interesting foreign dignitaries, and then has a wonderful dinner parties. That might do for Togo, but Egypt is a full-time job for a strong man with a nasty streak.
Only disagreement I have in that analysis is how ElBaradei views the job: yes, it's for retirement, but with an emphasis on accumulating a sufficient stash to live an opulent retirement.
China has admitted that it is building a dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River. The river originates in Tibet, but then flows into India where it is called Brahmaputra and is a major water source for millions of people. Moreover, the dam will be built in the area near the border disputed between the two countries.
China outlined the project this month, in a private meeting with Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna. The dam will be built in Zangmu at a height of 3,260 meters, in the Shannan Prefecture in Tibet and nearby four other dams will also be built in the valley between Jiacha and Sangro counties. Official sources said yesterday that the overall capacity of the dams will be "several times" more than the gigantic Three Gorges Dam. Because of its altitude, the area is often subjected to extreme weather conditions and special materials and technologies will be used, developed by the Chinese space agency. For example special cement made at the laboratories of the Xichang satellite launch Centre.
Beijing plans to draw from the Dangmu dam no less than 500 megawatts of electricity to meet the growing demand for Guangdong and Hong Kong and sell it to neighbouring countries like Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh, Laos and Cambodia.
India is however very worried about the plan, fearing a decrease in the flow of the river water in India and the destruction of the Himalayas ecosystem. Above all the agriculture and industry of the north-eastern states of India depend heavily on the Brahmaputra river.
In addition, with this project China will directly control more than 90 thousand square meters of land the sovereignty of which is disputed between India and China, who fought a war that has never formally ended and who still station armed forces in the area. China responds that the dam will allow it to develop clean energy and reduce carbon dioxide emissions resulting from coal fired power plants.
Experts say that, however, Beijing has not responded to Indian concerns over the decline of the Brahmaputra river. Indian sources have observed that even if the dam is located in Chinese territory, however, international law provides that the work should not diminish the course of the river. Similarly, Beijing has never responded to the concerns of Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia over the Chinese dams on the Mekong River in Yunnan.
India appears on the brink of raising its concerns at an international level. The river flows in the world's largest and deepest canyon, Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, both deeper and longer than the US Grand Canyon.
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Now why on earth can't this technology stand on its own two feet?
Because the sun isn't shining brightly enough, gorb. Perhaps if we disposed of our no longer wanted nuclear bombs in the sun, that would fix the problem.
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Now why on earth can't this technology stand on its own two feet?
Because the Green/environmental movement is full of technology and economic illiterates. Consequental, almost all green initiatives are just symbolism reinforced by social pressure, household recycling bins are good example.
Governments subsidize these things because they think they are popular, and they are right.
BTW, when I point out that most green initiatives waste resources and are 'unsustainable' I get a lot of irrational hostility.
People want to believe they can 'save the planet' through these silly, pointless and wasteful exercises. Personally I blame 50 years of progressive education.
BANGKOK - ANTI-government 'red shirts' on Friday offered Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva a compromise by easing their demand for an immediate dissolution of Parliament following several grenade explosions on Thursday night.
Their new demand was for the House to be dissolved within 30 days, followed by elections which, by law, would have to be held 60 days later.
They also demanded that an independent commission be set up to look into the violence of April 10 which took at least 25 lives and left hundreds injured, and insisted that armed troops be withdrawn from around their rally sites in Bangkok.
The new conditions came as invited foreign diplomats were given a tour of the red shirts' main rally site at the upscale Ratchaprasong intersection, which has been turned into a sprawling tent city.
Late last night, Mr Abhisit said he was ready to go if he could not solve the ongoing conflict, Xinhua news agency quoted local media reports as saying.
But the reports did not say if his statement meant that he was going to resign or to dissolve Parliament.
It sounded like a great idea: Stanford education professors would create a model school to show how to educate low-income Hispanic and black students.
Or, as it's turned out, how not to.
In March, Stanford New Schools (aka East Palo Alto Academy) a charter high school started in 2001 and elementary grades added in 2006 made California's list of schools in the lowest-achieving five percent in the state.
This month, the Ravenswood school board denied a new five-year charter. The elementary school now with K-4 and eighth grade will close in June. Another year or two wouldn't be enough to improve poor student performance and weak behavior management, Superintendent Maria De La Vega told the board.
The high school will get two years to find a new sponsor: the local high school district has said no,' but there are other options.
How did it happen? Stanford New Schools, run by the university's school of education, seems to stress social and emotional support over academics.
Stanford New Schools hires well-trained teachers who use state-of-the-art progressive teaching methods; Stanford's student teachers provide extra help. With an extra $3,000 per student raised privately, students enjoy small classes, mentoring, counseling and tutoring, technology access, field trips, summer enrichment, health van visits, community college classes on campus, and community service opportunities. The goal is to send graduates to college as critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and global citizens.'
But other schools with demographically identical students are doing much better. The top-scoring school in the district is East Palo Alto Charter School (EPAC), a K-8 run by Aspire Public Schools, Stanford's original partner. An all-minority school, EPAC outperforms the state average.
Rather than send EPAC graduates to Stanford's high school, Aspire started its own high school, Phoenix, which outperforms the state average for all high schools. All students in the first 12th grade class have applied to four-year colleges.
Aspire co-founded East Palo Alto Academy High with Stanford, but bowed out five years ago. There was a culture clash, Aspire's founder, Don Shalvey told the New York Times. Aspire focused primarily and almost exclusively on academics,' while Stanford focused on academics and students' emotional and social lives, he said.
Deborah Stipek, Stanford's dean of education, says the elementary school is too new in its fourth year, but with only two years of scores to be judged. Stanford considers the high school a success. Hilarious, if tragic for the kids. Liberals will never, ever, accept the idea that their ideas stink on ice. Instead it is everybody else's fault. They have been ruining minority students English skills since the 1960s, courtesy of Noam Chomsky; and are now trying to ruin their math skills as well. These people should be as prohibited from venturing on school campuses as are serial sex offenders.
PHOENIX Gov. Jan Brewer ignored criticism from President Barack Obama on Friday and signed into law a bill supporters said would take handcuffs off police in dealing with illegal immigration in Arizona, the nation's busiest gateway for human and drug smuggling from Mexico.
With hundreds of protesters outside the state Capitol shouting that the bill would lead to civil rights abuses, Brewer said critics were "overreacting" and that she wouldn't tolerate racial profiling.
"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," Brewer said after signing the law. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation."
Earlier Friday, Obama called the Arizona bill "misguided" and instructed the Justice Department to examine it to see if it's legal. He also said the federal government must enact immigration reform at the national level or leave the door open to "irresponsibility by others." Like...you?
"That includes, for example, the recent efforts in Arizona, which threaten to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and their communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe," Obama said. Yeah, well that's if they "don't act stupidly". Then I sic Holder on them...
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Good one Jan. Obama would not send troops because of McCain payback. Time to take care of our own.
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ION RED STATE > ANSWERS NEEDED BEFORE ANOTHER STAR IS ADDED TO THE [Amer[ FLAG. Upcoming vote on HR2499 = provisions for PUERTO RICO VOTE ON SELF-DETERMINATION.
ARTIC > Wid a popul of 4.0Milyuhn, as a US State Puerto Rico stands to get 2 US Senators + aprroxi 6-7 US House Representatives, which in tunr infers that other US States must lose House seats due to its curr 435-maximum legal member-seat limit.
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A reminder of Mexico's Constitution, Article 33 -
Chapter III
Foreigners
Article 33. Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in Article 30. They are entitled to the guarantees granted by Chapter I, Title I, of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.
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Well hell then, time to marshal the trains, or Buses? Dump them sorry suckers on the border and tell 'em never to come back. And if they try, kill 'em, because we damn sure can't afford to jail 'em. Best to just knock 'em off and be done with the problem. Or, hummmm... maybe we could knock off the folks that employ 'em.... a bullet behind the ear (RB solution #1). Or perhaps we could build thousands and thousands of 1 Mex SpaceShips and send them to Mars where they could work for minimum-wage and steal good jobs from the natives.
Or not. Q-ships, 3-cell ArcLights and DNA transmorgification are also possibilities.
Nope. Just pointing out that they demand more of others than they extend to others themselves. One set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee. I'd call it hypocrisy but there is no hypocrisy in the pursuit of power. Power is self rationalizing.
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Meanwhile, the Mexican elite is well past the advanced planning stages of exporting an entire fucking civil war into our territory.
That was their real plan all along; avoid reform and power sharing with the population, exploit the idiots in the Beltway and in American business, dump the low end of economic and social [indios y meztisos] ladder on the US, and export any potential revolution. What they didn't factor in was the incredible effect that the drug business would have in magnifying their historic political corruption and introduce a new party into the internal 'power' game.
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Here's a little perspective you won't be getting from the MSM:
http://evanstonconservative.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-research-on-illegal-criminal-aliens.html
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Ah shit, its an olde arguement - stuff words in someone's mouth and argue for lawlessness, not for real solutions. Simple fucking fact is step 1 get control of the border, step 2 through goose or off or wtf ever you want to call it can not happen. Want amnysty or fast track citizen then control then control the border. Want to bust the tresspassers then control the border. Either way, or something in between, US Policy would be set from a position of strength and not hope or rhetoric.
And of course, if it is civil war or worse a trans-national coalition of business allied paramilitary gangs on the offensive then yeah. Secure the fucking border because that shit is called war. People are already dead no matter how ponderous the media acts. "Mexico dangerous? Why, I didn't know that.."
Furthermore, the stadium has always been open, just got to go to the ticket booth, stand in line, go through the turnstyle, and behave accordingly just like every other person has done.
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 Delta Air Lines flight was rerouted Friday morning after a passenger threatened to blow up the plane, screamed "get behind me Satan" and sprayed passengers with water from a beverage-cart bottle, according to a complaint filed in federal court. Flight attendants and other passengers on Delta Flight 2148 struggled to restrain the "erratic and dangerous" passenger with seat belts and plastic handcuffs 
Former UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei is advocating democratic reforms that could allow him to run in the 2011 presidential election and break Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule. But voters may not care enough to risk arrest and beatings. 
