A 29-year-old Dublin man was killed while apparently playing a game of Russian roulette.
Dublin Police Chief Wayne Cain says officers received a call early Saturday morning about a self-inflicted gunshot wound outside a group of apartments. They found the body of Rodriguez Christian, who lived in one of the apartments.
Cain says only one person was present when they arrived at the scene, and that person didn't offer any information. He says investigators later found witnesses who reported that Christian had been playing Russian roulette when the pistol he was using fired. GAME OVER. YOU FAIL.
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Venice, Louisiana -- On a Sunday of expanding coastal destruction from the Gulf oil disaster and little progress in containing it, frustrations bubbled to the surface from local and state leaders in Venice to federal officials in Houston and Washington, D.C.
Parish leaders and Gov. Bobby Jindal emerged from an afternoon strategy session at a Venice fishing harbor to complain about a lack of urgency from federal agencies and BP to address the oil washing into coastal marshes day after day.
Jindal said he supported a decision by local and Jefferson Parish leaders on Grand Isle on Saturday to commandeer about 30 fishing vessels that BP had commissioned but hadn't deployed to lay down protective boom as the oil came ashore.
The normally dispassionate Jindal even joked that he would go to jail with the mayors of Grand Isle and Jean Lafitte if federal authorities tried to stop them. Ironic when you consider the original Jean Lafitte
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So finally, everyone remembers, just in time, that Louisiana was founded by pirates.
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Govourner Jindal is still waiting on EPA officials to do a study on the effects of building a sand wall to stop the oil. Meanwhile the marshland is being destroyed by the oil.
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DB, the Louisiana attorney general just issued an opinion that, under the Tenth Amendment, we don't gotta wait for the feds. Here. Keep your CSA uniform handy.
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Jean Lafitte became the mayor of Galveston, Texas by promising to pay all of the city's debts. He tethered donkies on the beach, with a long pole attached to a leg. The lamp on the end of the long pole swayed back and forth as the donkey moved. This made the beach appear to be an achorage for ships. Those captains wishing to join the anchored ships ran aground and the pirates looted the grounded ship.
The Jean Lafitte political theory still works, as Obama has promised to pay everyone's bills (except mine and yours) and is looting the treasury anchored in D.C.
The world is becoming so overpopulated that nature will one day wreak its revenge, claims Jeremy Irons, the actor.
Launching himself as a green campaigner, Irons has revealed plans to make a documentary about sustainability and waste disposal, likening himself to Michael Moore, the controversial film maker, although not as silly'. That's a pretty low bar there, Jeremy...
The increasing global population would put an intolerable strain on the world's resources, Irons said, and the gulf between developing countries and westerners living a bountiful pie-in-the-sky' existence must be addressed. One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable,' he said in an interview with The Sunday Times. I think we have to find ways where we're not having to scrap our effluent junk and are a really sustainable planet.'
Natural systems of selfregulation may stop population growth, he said: I suspect there'll be a very big outbreak of something because the world always takes care of itself.' The 61-year-old actor went on to speculate that either disease or war, probably disease', could become nature's way of halving the population. "And that'll be, like, really cool 'cause only people I don't like will be croaking in the streets, an' after they're all gone, there won't be any, like, undesireables in, like, Rawanda or Wal-Mart an' stuff."
The actor, who says he is apolitical although he is a former Labour donor and his wife Sinead Cusack is deeply socialist', has already made a plea for action in a short video for an organisation campaigning to end world hunger....
Irons, who owns seven houses, including a pink castle in Co Cork, Ireland, (thus setting a good example of socialist egalitarianism and resource-saving sustainability)
believes a new economic vision is needed in the wake of the global financial crisis. We are facing an economic revolution,' he said. I don't think things can ever be the same again. The next generation will have to think laterally and find ways to cope with this.'
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Jeremy Irons is an actor. He is very good at pretending to be someone else. Therefore, we should listen to his opinion on things like this because ...?
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Worrying about overpopulation is how liberals can be racists.
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He's not wrong - there IS a limit to the human population the world can support, but we don't know what it is. And we'll probably find out what the limit is when war and/or disease stop growth.
The problem is that developed nations already have limited their growth, but others have not, and will squeeze out the self-limiters if the natural limits (or developed nations armaments) don't stop them first.
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Jeremy Irons is an actor. He is very good at pretending to be someone else.
While saying words written by someone else, while doing things as told by someone else, while wearing makeup so as not to look like himself. Did I get it all?
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The problem with population control is that no matter what method used, it invariably involves going out of one's way to target the innocent for slaughter. Who died and made you God, Kodos?
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Conditions on Earth vary and are mostly not under human control, think of epidemics, volcanoes, meteorites & ice ages. So the limit of human population also varies, and is also not under much human control. I wish there was a limit on idiots like Jeremy Irons and Thomas Friedman who want to play God.
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Overpopulated? a damn lie, I can get in my car and drive in any direction and see Open fields, crops growing, ocasional houses and much dense woods.
Overpopulation only occurs when you visit India, or places like that, I have pictires of railway trains absolutely dripping with thousands of people riding on roofs, hanging on the sides, and wherever there is a handhold.
THAT's Overpopulated.
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Our complex natural system probably does have corrective mechanisms to maintain an equilibrium of maximum population.
I don't know what a shitty B-rate movie is going to do to prevent that, but essentially I think he is right about nature attempting to correct.
The third world is the fastest growing population if I'm not mistaken, and they usually don't respond immediately to the wishes of wacky hollywood semi-stars.
Disease, war, sterilization, those are the vectors for limiting population growth. Or perhaps birth control, education, lower child mortality rates to discourage over birthing, if you are an optimist.
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IIRC from my econ class, as a society grows more prosperous, something called the "demographic transition" occurs: first, death rates go down because of improved medical care, then a generation or two or three later, birth rates go down as the culture adapts.
If you think there actually is such a thing as overpopulation--I don't; We are all God's children, and God by definition cannot have too many children--the solution is easy: encourage prosperity.
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Spoken like someone who has never had to live in a human metropolis pile with feces smell in the street and everyones clothes lines tangled together.
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Well Jeremy, you could always help out the population by extracting yourself. Lead by example, you know? Of course there's no gaurantee anyone will follow your lead, but hey, Visionaries aren't always understood.
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Over populated? No. Limited resources? Yes, but is not the problem. Effective distrobution of said resources is - due mainly to current levels of redistribution.
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So, Jeremy...tell me about this "economic revolution" plan of yours.
I take it you and Mrs. Deeply Socialist will be right out there in front, right? Maybe unload the pink castle for starters? Spread the proceeds around amongst the "little people"?
Or does the plan only apply to greedy bastids like...them?
Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of Mark Twain's dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted the last decade of his life to writing is finally going to be published.
The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit bookshops for at least a century.
That milestone has now been reached, and in November the University of California, Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a vault, will release the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography. The eventual trilogy will run to half a million words, and shed new light on the quintessentially American novelist.
November's publication is authorised by his estate, which in the absence of surviving descendants (a daughter, Clara, died in 1962, and a granddaughter Nina committed suicide in 1966) funds museums and libraries that preserve his legacy.
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I gather that the women in his life leaned on him hard to not publish anything naughty or bawdy, even though he wanted to. So these memoirs might have all sorts of juicy, delicious profanity and rudeness in them.
The doctor who first suggested a link between MMR vaccinations and autism is to be struck off the medical register.
The General Medical Council found Dr Andrew Wakefield guilty of serious professional misconduct over the way he carried out his controversial research.
It follows a GMC ruling earlier this year that he had acted unethically.
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next up? Dr. Deirdre Imus and Dr. Jenny McCarthy
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Nah, it will never happen, Frank. They went to that esteemed research institution, the University of Google.
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Of course, this just proves there's a conspiracy.
/sarc
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I'm sorry to say that this guy has been practicing here in Austin for several years. And has been going on and on about ways to treat these autistic kids with diet and what not. I read an article about him while at a kids birthday party, paying small children money for a sample of their blood.
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Jamaican authorities have ordered the evacuation of all women and children from Kingston's roughest neighborhoods, as police clashed with powerful gangs over the planned extradition of a drug suspect to the United States.
"It is now clear that criminal elements are determined to launch coordinated attacks on the security forces"
With tensions soaring and a state of emergency already in effect, police said "all decent and law-abiding residents of Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town are been asked to leave those respective communities immediately."
Residents were directed to buses which ferried them to a safe location away from the violence. But many telephoned radio stations to say they feared for their lives and could not leave the area.
Police said that gunmen from various communities across this Caribbean country of 2.8 million had joined forces with criminal elements in Tivoli Gardens in a bid to protect reputed area leader, Christopher "Dudus" Coke.
"Images of barricades, other defensive positions and the aforementioned unprovoked attacks together with credible intelligence indicate that scores of criminals from several gangs across the island have joined criminal elements in Tivoli Gardens.
"It is now clear that criminal elements are determined to launch coordinated attacks on the security forces," the release warned.
Earlier police said three police stations were attacked, with one set on fire, and that a police officer and a civilian were wounded by gunfire in street clashes.
The police, backed by the state of the emergency declared by the Jamaican government, made it clear that they would respond in an appropriate manner
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I was in LA during the Bloods vs. Crips violence in the late 80s.
Then the Jamaican gangs moved in and the body and mayhem count went up by a factor of 10 or more. Nasty, violent. The Bloods and Crips, and later the Latin Kings, had a smidgeon of what passed for honor and belonging, however warped. The Jamaican gangs killed (and still do) because they felt like it and could. Nihilistic and value life less than dirt.
If interdiction had worked it would have worked a longtime ago.
Support for repeal of the new national health care plan has jumped to its highest level ever. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 63% of U.S. voters now favor repeal of the plan passed by congressional Democrats and signed into law by President Obama in March.
Prior to today, weekly polling had shown support for repeal ranging from 54% to 58%.
Currently, just 32% oppose repeal. Sounds like a tailor made issue to run an election campaign.
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Sounds about right, namely, anyone who is actually being stuck to pay for this piece of crap. of the remaining 37%, 25% see themselves getting something for free, and 12% are the usual clueless moonbat twits who have never seen the ball since the game started.
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Apparantly BP was a big donor to Obama and the administration skipped over some safety inspection. I suspect a lot of Democrats will be trying to position themselves against Obama come Nov.
Environmentalists are concerned that small reactors would pose the same risk of leaking radioactive materials as their larger counterparts, says Jan Beranek, nuclear energy project leader at Greenpeace International in Amsterdam. "Terrorists could hijack a reactor and directly use it to cause a meltdown or use it to fabricate fissile materials for later use in a weapon," Beranek says.
Deal rejects those concerns, noting that his units are designed to fit in the same canisters used to transport nuclear fuel for bigger plants. The power-producing core ships in multiple sealed chambers, containing any leak, and the entire unit would be installed in an underground vault to protect it from tampering and natural threats, Hyperion says. "You still have to have guards and dogs, but you have to do that with a grocery store in some countries," says Deal. IMO the terrorist threat is way over done. Stealing a couple of hundred pounds of commercial explosives from a minesite or similar would be child's play compared to stealing one of these, and the explosives would be far more dangerous in terrorist hands.
These things are essentially nuclear batteries. You stick it in a vault and leave the connectors exposed. When it's expended you can leave it on site covered with more concrete or you can haul it away.
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These things are essentially nuclear batteries.
Not quite. They are liquid metal reactors. The heat transfer fluid is low melting point metal instead of pressurized water. An example is the liquid metal reactors in the Soviet Alfa subs. It allows for very high temp and compact reactor without the heavy containment dome since there is no need to contain a steam explosion. The liquid metal must still be pumped to the surface where it makes steam (or super heats air) that drives a turbine and generator.
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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 29-year-old Dublin man was killed while apparently playing a game of Russian roulette.
