Tempe police Wednesday announced the conclusion of a major heroin operation that broke new ground in the way evidence was seized and revealed startling information about how prescription drug addicts are increasingly turning to heroin.
The end result of the seven-month Operation Dark Carnival, Tempe's third such bust this year, was the arrest of 40 people, including 15 suspected heroin dealers from 10 different trafficking organizations, several of which are directly tied to Mexico.
The operation got the "carnival" name from the tiny balloons that drug dealers are using to stash one-fourth grams of heroin. They hide them in their cheeks. When police came around, suspects routinely swallow them.
Seven months ago, police began obtaining search warrants and started pumping suspected dealers' stomachs or giving them laxatives to obtain the drug evidence. "It was a most unpleasant aspect for most of our drug dealers." ... and for the people who had to root through the end product to extract the evidence...
The investigation got its start from a series of burglaries. Police found that an "overwhelming majority" of the burglary suspects, mostly ages 19 to 25, were committing the crimes to support a heroin habit.
This led to a new investigation in heroin dealing, which is skyrocketing in Arizona and across the country. In Arizona since 2007, heroin seizures have soared by more than 50 percent. Much of the drug flooding Arizona is Mexico's black tar heroin.
This ties in with a new trend of Oxycontin addicts switching to heroin, which is about half the price. While 400 milligrams of Oxycontin, which contains opiates, can cost up to $350 day for an addict, 2 grams of heroin costs about $170, Hale said.
Also, the DEA has put at least two area Oxycontin-dealing Medical Doctors out of business, which resulted in dozens of desperate Oxycontin junkies going cold turkey at once.
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Oxycontin is weird stuff. Especially older people can get bizarre psychological side effects. And addicts are often more aggressive than are heroin junkies. Usually middle or upper class, and otherwise healthy, they are used to getting what they want, and have the money and chutzpah to get it.
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So now we're gonna have to legalize heroin? Hey, I mean, if junkies are having to turn to burglary to support their habits, couldn't we reduce the burglary and other crimes by legalizing heroin? /sarc
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BP: I'm actually more in favor of decriminalizing heroin than I am Oxycodone drugs, because heroin is far more predictable in action. Methamphetamine and speed are right out, because they can and do turn some people dangerously psychotic. Cocaine less so, though it is physically destructive.
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Methamphetamine and speed are right out, because they can and do turn some people dangerously psychotic. Cocaine less so, though it is physically destructive.
Heroin isn't physically destructive? So we should just give it away to our high school and junior high school students, right? Because that's what's gonna happen. How about if we secure the damn border instead?
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Heroin is a treatment drug, not a criminal drug. Methadone just turns heroin junkies into methadone junkies. Oddly enough, if they can get a pure supply, heroin junkies can live for many years with only modest side effects. Typically they are brought down by bad quality drugs, contaminated needles, and poor living conditions, not the heroin.
While closing the border is admirable, it will not even put a dent in the heroin trade. Especially the inexpensive Mexican brown heroin. For some damn reason, rich kids in Odessa fell in love with it as a snorting, not injecting drug, and it was killing high school VIP kids.
And, credit where credit is due, St. Darwin cannot be denied stupid kids. They will come up with some way to off themselves.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] A Kenyan man who tried to sell an albino to witchdoctors has been jailed for 16 years by a Tanzanian court. "Pssst! Hey, buddy! Y'wanna buy an albino?" "Ummmmmmm...why?" "You know. Because."
In proceedings lasting less than an hour, Mwanza Resident Magistrate Angelus Rumisha convicted Nathan Mutei of one count of trafficking in a human being and a second one of abduction with intention to murder.
Mutei, 28, tricked Mr Robinson Mkwama to accompany him to Mwanza, telling him that he was going to get him a job. Sure, I can help you out. They're looking for an albino down at the shop. Our old one just quit.
All the while, he intended to sell him to Tanzanian witchdoctors who were to cut him up and use his body parts for juju.
Mutei pleaded guilty to the charges, though he said he did not intend to kill Mr Mkwama, he only wanted money. Somebody else would do the actual bloodletting under the appropriate supernatural conditions...
He was fined Sh4 million (or TSh80 million) or nine years in jail and eight years for the second offence without the option of a fine in a court appearance, between the reading of the charges and the pronouncement of the sentence, from 2.35pm to 3.40 pm.
Tearful and avoiding the cameras, the culprit quietly followed the 20-minute proceedings. He was not represented by a lawyer.
In his ruling, Mr Rumisha told Mutei that he had embarrassed Tanzania and its people, by portraying it as a market for albinos.
He dismissed Mutei's defence that he did not intend to kill Mr Mkwama, noting that the killing of albinos in Tanzania was real and not imaginary. Hmmmmmm. Might be why Tanzania's considered a market for albinos maybe?
Earlier, asked to defend himself, Mutei claimed that he had not been acting out of his own free will and that he had been bewitched by a witchdoctor he met in June when he travelled to Tanzania looking for someone interested in buying albino body parts. Ah, Ye Olde "Bewitched by a Witch Doctor "defense. Ya know how many times a day I hear that one, Nathan?
He asked to be allowed to serve his sentence back home. The magistrate made no ruling about the request.
In mitigation, Mutei said he had a wife and five children who depended on him. The magistrate rule that it was not reason enough not to convict him. He also said that Mutei was desperate for money and that was why he trafficked Mr Mkwama.
Government prosecutor David Kakwaya said Mutei first went to Tanzania in June looking for a customer for albino body parts.
He met a witchdoctor, described in court as a "traditional healer", with whom he struck a deal and exchanged contacts. The witchdoctor later went to the police. The witchdoctor was not named in court, neither did he appear to testify. Wow. An ethical witchdoctor. Ya don't see that much...
Mutei did not return until August 12, when he crossed the border illegally at Isebania, according to the prosecution, with Mr Mkwama in tow.
He called the witchdoctor who alerted police, leading to Mutei's arrest on Sunday, August 15. Mutei had asked for Sh20 million (or TSh400 million) for Mr Mkwama.
On Monday, the Mwanza Regional Police Commander Simon Siro told reporters that the men came Kitale and were friends.
Mutei cheated Mr Mkwama, 20, that he would get him a well-paying job as a bus conductor in Mwanza. "He was looking for customers from the mining sector believing that they have the money," Mr Siro said.
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For best juju results, body parts should be consumed warm, whilst the albino is still alive and yet able to watch. Should the albino expire during the initial procedure....well, very bad juju.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Nearly half the $460 million needed for initial relief in Pakistan's worst ever floods has been secured after days of lobbying donors and warnings that the country faces a spiraling humanitarian catastrophe™, the United Nations said on Wednesday. "Humanitarian catastrophe™" seems to be losing it's allure to donors, sir.
Okay. Make it a "spiraling humanitarian catastrophe™" and see how that goes over.
Very good, sir. More wine?
"There has been an improvement in funding. Donors are realizing the scale of the disaster," U.N. spokesman Maurizio Giuliano told Reuters. "But the challenges are absolutely massive and the floods are not over."
"The size of (the area affected by) this disaster is equivalent to Austria, Switzerland and Belgium combined. That's pretty scary." ...and pretty expensive. God knows how many mobile five star restaurants we'll have to set up to support our staff.
The European Union, meanwhile, announced Wednesday that it would provide an additional 30 million euros ($39 million) in emergency relief assistance to Pakistan, bringing its total aid to 70 million euros.
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Anxiety over the economy is likely to punish President Barack Obama's Democrats at November's midterm elections because of perceptions of big deficits caused by government spending and high unemployment. If these are only "perceptions of big deficits" I'd hate to see the real thing.
Republican Senator Judd Gregg warned of fiscal calamity. "Today's CBO outlook only underscores what we already know -- the current pace of U.S. spending is unaffordable and unsustainable and without a change in direction this country is headed for fiscal calamity," said Gregg, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee.
As if to illustrate the severity of the economic challenge ahead, the CBO forecast was released as new data dealt another blow to the fragile U.S. economy, driving prices on U.S. government debt higher and yields lower.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield fell to a 17-month low of 2.56 percent this week.
Concerns about the massive deficit, and the U.S. triple-A credit rating, are not expected to lift Treasury debt yields from current low levels any time soon.
"We think bond yields are going lower, mostly on revised growth expectations -- all the shops are revising down their forecasts for inflation and growth," said Sergey Bondarchuk, U.S. interest rate strategist with BNP Paribas in New York.
Even after Obamacare, the cost of health care premiums continue to go up not down. Also, the sweeping financial overhaul didn't eliminate “Too Big to Fail”. In fact, as it turns out, the law institutionalizes the concept.
(WhatÂ’s nextÂ…Obama really didnÂ’t have a plan on how to close Gitmo?)
There were 422,061 bankruptcy filings between April and June, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, up 9 percent from 388,148 in the prior three-month period, and up 11 percent from 381,073 a year earlier.
For the year ended June 30, there were 1.57 million bankruptcies, up 20 percent from 1.31 million a year earlier.
Consumer bankruptcies rose 21 percent to 1.51 million, and business bankruptcies rose 9 percent to 59,608.
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Vicious cycle. Mortgages that are 50% or more underwater (value is less than 50% of the outstanding balance) are likely candidates for strategic walkaways. These houses go back on the market expanding supply which in turn drops prices which leads to ... more houses 50% or more underwater. I guess it stops when townhouse sale prices get so low that you can make 10% in rent. That is the point that investors will get back into the market. Thank you community reinvestment act for breaking the economy.~
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It was Basel2 that really caused the glut of credit that made housing unaffordable.
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Jobless rate just out for last month was 500,000. What recovery? Baghdad Bob must be putting out the economic news in BO's regime. They are sorely out of touch with reality or just putting out propaganda which no one believes. By November, I'm thinking donk bloodbath at the polls. They are starting to eat their own now. Nancy Pelosi wants to investigate the people protesting the NYC mosque? What in God's name is wrong with that psychopathic power hungry idiot who is in charge of the House?
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Consumer bankruptcies rose 21 percent to 1.51 million, and business bankruptcies rose 9 percent to 59,608.
Without prompt administration intervention, these figures, while troubling, would have been 5-8 percentage points higher, indicating an estimated 419,000 homes saved or potential bankruptcies prevented.
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In Florida, neighborhoods decline rapidly with the walk-aways. Ergo: there are increased policing needs, but without the ability to pay for more police. Vigilante thinking is rampant in the State.
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A federal appeals court has decided that mud washing off logging roads is pollution and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to write regulations to reduce the amount that reaches salmon streams. And this makes the nation more competitive precisely how?
A flaming liberal progressive socialist conservation group that filed the lawsuit says if the ruling Tuesday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stands, logging roads on federal, state and private lands across the West will eventually have to be upgraded. You realize, of course, that all of the nation that's not built on sand is built on dirt? Who's gonna clean all that up? Would that be a 'green' job ...
The Northwest Environmental Defense Center in Portland sued the Oregon Department of Forestry over sediment washing off two logging roads on the Tillamook State Forest in northwestern Oregon.
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Dust is pollution and must be regulated. Mud is pollution and must be regulated.
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Welcome to the Nudge Society folks. You know how all those stupid and greedy people are stopping us smart and caring people from saving the earth? YeahÂ…wellÂ…we got it covered. In fact you wonÂ’t have to lift a finger. And the beauty part is we donÂ’t need any of that pesky law making and voting stuff. And once we get a court to decide in our favorÂ…well thatÂ’s called precedent. DonÂ’t worry if you donÂ’t know what that means. LetÂ’s just sayÂ…they ainÂ’t slowin our roll. Are ya feelin me home chopper? So go ahead, relaxÂ…kick yer shoes offÂ…set a spell. You wonÂ’t feel a thing.
Gore has in recent weeks stepped up his criticism of the Senate for its inability to pass a comprehensive energy and climate bill that would put a price on carbon. They have far more important things to deal with, Al. Pressing issues that are important to the very survivial of all mankind. Like surviving the next election cycle, in case you've forgotten.
Fund some more studies to support the undeniability of global warming. What could go wrong?
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So Al's (aka as the Crazed Sex Poodle) snake-oil business in on the wane? Loss of brand value? 15 minutes of fame over? Business too diversified into a string of massage parlors?
And Hunter is happy to oblige them. In October. :-)
So far, Lutz has missed 17 meals, lost 14 pounds, taken an enema to avoid toxic shock, talked to a doctor who recommended a salt-water purge, given up exercise and is so tired he has resorted to napping during the day. And given his "record", he probably lost another 150 pounds because of the enema.
Lutz is an EE who owns Cognisys, a company that sells electronics to psychologists and other professionals to help treat mental illnesses. He also tests each and every piece of equipment before it leaves his company to make sure it is working properly.
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This is in my District Cal 52, it is about 65%+ republican. Unlike the looney toons at the beach we have jobs and property, yeah its hot but we like east San Diego County. These two losers can starve too death for anybody cares it is not even making the local news here. Hunter is going to debate them just out of sympathy.
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The best advice is military advice. Never interfere with your enemy when they are doing something incredibly stupid.
Justice Department officials in Washington have issued a rare threat to sue Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio if he does not cooperate with their investigation of whether he discriminates against Hispanics. The civil rights inquiry is one of two that target the man who calls himself "America's toughest sheriff." A federal grand jury in Phoenix is examining whether Arpaio has used his power to investigate and intimidate political opponents and whether his office misappropriated government money, sources said.
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Glad to see that the DOJ has already taken care of making sure our military personnel are not being disenfranchised and now have time to pursue lesser matters. Oh, wait ...
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DOJ Civil Rights Division has become the "brownshirts" of the day. I have this image of Sheriff Joe arresting the feds and requiring them to wear pink underwear and pay for their stay. Oh well, a guy can fantasize right?
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whether his office misappropriated government money
I would start with Michelle Obama for spending $400,00.00 on a 4 day party in Spain, along with Pelosi for confiscating military aircraft for personal and family use, etc. etc.. Or strip the NAACP for stereotyping Tea Party Activists as racists while letting the Black Panthers off the hook for intimidating white voters.
Also, I recommend commending Sheriff Joe for enforcing the laws on the books instead of going after him for doing so.
In other words Holder you and Obama are the criminals and you will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the official criminal and civil statutes.
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They started the investigation looking for discrimination, having found none they are moving onto other perceived violations of the law. Mark my words they are going to find out that one day Sheriff Joe did not separate his recycle from garbage and attach it to some federal law. But JohnQC has given me something to pray for.
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He's not talking to the FBI because, well, that's the smart thing to do. Martha Stewart ring a bell? Rod Blago? The hundreds of others who have been railroaded with a felony charge of "lying to investigators"?
Just shut up. Talk to your lawyer, let HIM talk to the feds. Key phrase "decline to be interviewed."
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Dear Holder, Take a look at the 5th ammendment, it talks about self incrimination. I know you don't believe in our constitution, or the laws surrounding it, but youy might want to read it, have one of your first year law school interns explain it to you. Once this corrupt administration is out of office you will probably need to understand the protection the 5th ammendment provides.
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Mojo, you forgot the infamous Scooter Libby. He thought he was having fun with the investigators by making up shit that had nothing to do with Valery Plame. Long story short he served time for a joke.
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Unless they have made a major breakthrough in storing hydrogen. This technology isn't going anywhere.
Now Phil_b, you know it can go somewhere. Up in a giant ball of flame when it explodes. While fuel cells are a neat concept, the built in KABOOM factor makes them kind of pointless.
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That guy's a rookie! Check out what this Israeli pilot did after he lost a wing when his F-15 collided with an A-4. Well, OK, maybe the stunt plane would have fared better if it had an afterburner.
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A Few years ago I first heard of whole aircraft parachutes, I'm inclined to think this was a deliberate wing loss to demonstrate the parachute system.
Notice the parachute had the plane coming down nose first?
That would destroy the engine, odd it didn't come down upright and land on it's wheels as I saw then?
Perhaps the lines were tangled?
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The new explosive, IMX-101 (for Insensitive Munitions Explosive 101) is just as powerful as TNT, but brings a lot less risk to the table.
Researchers at Picatinny Arsenal found that during loading, storage, and transport, the IMX-101 remained far more stable than traditional TNT, which can be highly temperamental.
As many a Paleostinian, Talibunny, and al-Qaeda deader have discovered in various work accidents ...
BAE Systems, maker of the new explosive, designed it to remain chemically stable when subjected to shocks like those created by explosions (with RPGs and IEDs in mind), fire, impact by shrapnel, and gunfire.
IMX-101 costs more than TNT, but the more the military buys the cheaper it gets, and that economies of scale may further accelerate its adoption in other large-caliber munitions.
Having a less volatile explosive means the military can store more of the stuff in one place and transport more of it in any given vehicle than they could previously. That cuts down on supply chain problems and logistical headaches, not to mention the vulnerability of convoys delivering the goods in combat zones.
Does it make a satisfying, earth-shattering kaboom?
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I suspect that it's not the volatility of explosives at the root of most 'work accidents' but failures in their triggering devices. Combine that with natural talent and the earth shattering kabooms of jihadi kitchens will continue.
[Straits Times] A RENOWNED Thai pathologist said on Wednesday she was sure that a Malaysian political aide who plunged to his death from the offices of the anti-corruption watchdog did not commit suicide. Heart failure, Sam! It's heart failure! I dunno, Dr. Quincy, it could have been acute cirrhosis.
Porntip Rojanasunan testified at the inquest into the mysterious death of Teoh Beng Hock just days after a purported 'suicide note' came to light more than a year after his demise. What the hell kind of name is 'Porntip' ...
Mr Teoh's body was found in July 2009 beneath the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) tower, where he had been questioned into the small hours as part of a probe into the opposition-led government of Selangor state. His family have insisted that the 30-year-old, who was due to marry his pregnant fiancee the next day, did not kill himself.
Ms Porntip testified that the absence of fractures to both wrists and one ankle, which would indicate an attempt to break the fall, suggested Mr Teoh may not have been conscious when he plunged from the building.
'I am sure it is not due to suicide, I stand by this opinon. From the pathological findings I believe it is not a suicide.' Mr Teoh's body was exhumed for a fresh examination last Nov after Ms Pornthip said that he was likely the victim of homicide.
In a startling development earlier this month, authorities said that an apparent 'suicide note' was found inside Mr Teoh's bag left at the MACC offices, and dismissed criticism for not revealing its existence until now. The attorney general's office said the police investigating officer who found the note explained he did not at first realise its significance because it was partly written in Chinese characters.
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Heart failure, Sam! It's heart failure!
I dunno, Dr. Quincy, it could have been acute cirrhosis.
I dunno, my best hunch is "sudden stoppage of flying."
A Muslim woman is suing Disneyland, accusing the company's California theme park of discrimination for telling her she could not serve customers if she chose to wear a headscarf. Many of the customers being children, it's likely a significant number of them would be scared, which doesn't fit with the Disney image.
Imane Boudal, 26, asked her employers at Disneyland's Grand Californian Hotel several months ago whether they would permit her to wear a headcovering while working as a hostess, a spokeswoman for a worker's union said. "Hey, y'all mind if I wear a bag over my head while I'm serving french fries?"
But when no reply was forthcoming, she decided to don the headscarf anyway, timing her decision with the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Leigh Shelton, a spokesman for the UNITE HERE Local 11 union said. "Disney told Boudlal that if she wanted to work as a hostess she had to remove her hijab because it did not comply with the 'Disney Look,'" Shelton said in a statement. The "Disney look" is kinda tailored toward not frightening children, not alienating their parents.
"Disney further advised Boudlal that if she refused to remove her hijab, she could either work a back-of-the-house position where any customers would not see her, or else go home." So they didn't tell her she couldn't wear a bag on her head, only that she couldn't irritate the paying customers.
Boudlal refused the compromise and is now bringing Disney before the US Equal Opportunity Commission, a federal agency that handles claims of workplace discrimination. "Their offer to put me in the back is humiliating," she said in a statement. "They're saying because I'm Arab, because I'm Moroccan, because I'm Muslim, they don't want to see me in the front." She says that like it's a bad thing.
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Moderate muslims believe that Quran statements on female covering is valid only during wartime. Also there is open debate in the 4 schools (madhabs) of muslim jurisprudence (fiqh) on the question of the permissive v imperative aspect of the veiling injunction. Ergo: by indulging a particular group, especially one that restricts liberty, puts the authorities in the position of partisans. I would side with employers on that type of prohibition. Reminder: minorities in the muslim tyrannies receive nothing close to reasonable accomodation.
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how did she get to the point where her hijab becomes an issue? did she wear one in her interview for the job? did she wear this throughout her training sessions? Did she not understand the disney branding which must have been the focus of her training? Why only now, in public view, does this become an issue?
If she got the job without the mosquito net, she has no recourse.
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let her work the Aladdin ride. Otherwise kick her and her CAIR backing out on their hijabbed asses. She's an immigrant from Morocco - perhaps she oughtta return
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plus, if Imane's hijab got caqught in the machinery, she could be a teaching moment on not wearing Islamic women-suppression garments errrrr loose garments near machinery. Win-Win
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Some things right, some things wrong in the posting.
Disney is a private organization and as such has the right to refuse entry to ANYONE.
Grandpa taught me that when people dress like that, it is either Halloween, or someone intends to rob you.
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The way I see it is she was offered alternative jobs out of view and that was not good enough for her. Well you work where your employer tells you, if you don't like it you are let go. She doesn't have a leg to stand on but of course Disney is within the 9th Circuit so who knows, they might force everyone to wear Hajibs to make her happy.
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.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Nearly half the $460 million needed for initial relief in Pakistan's worst ever floods has been secured after days of lobbying donors and warnings that the country faces a spiraling humanitarian catastrophe™, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
Anxiety over the economy is likely to punish President Barack Obama's Democrats at November's midterm elections because of perceptions of big deficits caused by government spending and high unemployment. 
A federal appeals court has decided that mud washing off logging roads is pollution and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to write regulations to reduce the amount that reaches salmon streams.
Gore has in recent weeks stepped up his criticism of the Senate for its inability to pass a comprehensive energy and climate bill that would put a price on carbon.
Justice Department officials in Washington have issued a rare threat to sue Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio if he does not cooperate with their investigation of whether he discriminates against Hispanics. The civil rights inquiry is one of two that target the man who calls himself "America's toughest sheriff." A federal grand jury in Phoenix is examining whether Arpaio has used his power to investigate and intimidate political opponents and whether his office misappropriated government money, sources said.
The new explosive, IMX-101 (for Insensitive Munitions Explosive 101) is just as powerful as TNT, but brings a lot less risk to the table. 
[Straits Times] A RENOWNED Thai pathologist said on Wednesday she was sure that a Malaysian political aide who plunged to his death from the offices of the anti-corruption watchdog did not commit suicide.
A Muslim woman is suing Disneyland, accusing the company's California theme park of discrimination for telling her she could not serve customers if she chose to wear a headscarf. 
