[CBS] Ten years after a fourth-grade boy was attacked and nearly eaten alive by wild dogs in north St. Louis, city leaders are scrambling to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Ten years isn't scrambling. Ten years isn't even a casual stroll.
Aldermanic President Lewis Reed is sounding the alarm.
Stage direction: alarms sound in the distance offstage.
"Alarm! Alarm!"
"Hark! In the distance! An alarm! It blaats!"
"Cheez, Louie, knock it off, it's been ten years already!"
"I've witnessed packs of dogs, 10 and 15 dogs running together, and I've seen all these dogs I'm talking about they don't have collars, they don't have tags, these are truly wild dogs," he said.
Reed says stray dogs are terrorizing the north side. "It's obscene that parents have to walk their kids to school, in some parts of the city, with a golf club to fend off wild dogs."
They hire sharpshooters to reduce urban deer populations, right?
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I was in St. Louis a few years ago for a convention and my car, parked across the street from the major downtown hotel where the convention was held, was vandalized. Guess what, the St Louis PD would not 'make a housecall' to take a report and suggested I go back to St. Louis the following Monday to make a report. Not enough cops to run a 24/7 operation.
I will never, ever go into that town again as long as I live.
[Emirates 24/7] A 100-year-old runner became the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon when he finished the race in Toronto on Sunday. Alright, already! I'll go to the gym!
Fauja Singh earned a spot in the Guinness World Records for his accomplishment.
It took Singh more than eight hours to cross the finish line - more than six hours after Kenya's Kenneth Mungara won the event for the fourth straight year - and he was the last competitor to complete the course.
But his time wasn't nearly as remarkable as the accomplishment.
Event workers dismantled the barricades along the finish line and took down sponsor banners even as Singh made his way up the final few hundred yards of the race.
Family, friends and supporters greeted Singh when he finished the race.
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[Dawn] Six more people, including two women, died of dengue fever in various hospitals of the Punjab capital on Sunday.
Reports said three patients -- Fatima Bibi, 25, of Tajpura Scheme, Rasheed, 70, (Rehman Scheme Service Road) and Abdul Majeed, 70, (Makhanpura) -- died of dengue fever at Mayo Hospital, Akhtar Bibi, 60, (Mozang) and Muhammad Hanif, 50, at Services and Muhammad Shahzad, 25, (Chuhng) died at social security infirmary.
According to a health department report, during the last 24 hours 371 new patients, including 320 in Lahore alone, were tested positive for the disease. It said four people died of the dengue fever during the last 24 hours, raising official corpse count to 231 including 207 in the Punjab capital alone.
This is why smart governments make sure the drainage system can handle floods. I wonder how ugly the epidemic curve is...
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Ironic. They are wiping out thier heritage for fear of people worshiping at an "idol", but then the developers come in and erect hotels for the pilgrims - so they can visit in luxury, worshipping their wealth.
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Bah. I'll believe they are against their "heritage" when they demolish the Kabaa.
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#11 I suppose you could ask the country you're posting from to do that, if you feel so strongly it's the right thing to do.
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You're known Muslim sympathizer and apologist LOTP. So I don't take you seriously.
The country I am posting from is India, and they may well have to fry them up a mess of Pakis at some point. As for it being the right thing to do...I can't say.
I do think it will be a necessity, they'll leave us no choice. BTW, I'm an American from Fort Worth, I'm just in India for my annual 2 month visit.
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Secret Asian Man from Texas: "fry them up a mess of Pakis" kinda gave it away.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez likely has less than two years to live, his former doctor said, as the ailing nutcase firebrand traveled to Cuba for a checkup following pelvic infection cancer treatment.
Chavez, 57, has been through four rounds of chemotherapy in Cuba since revealing he had a cancerous tumor removed in June. But Venezuela has provided few details about the exact nature of the pelvic infection cancer, aside from that it was in the pelvic area. And not in any way malignant. Keep trying, Oogo. Perhaps one of these times Castro can donate his prostate gland to you if he no longer needs it.
Salvador Navarrete, his former personal surgeon, told Mexican newspaper Milenio Semanal on Sunday that the leader's condition likely was worse than publicly admitted. There was some kind of admission? If you count Hugo's bombast, yes...
The doctor described the prognosis as "not good." He added, "When I say this, I mean that he has no more than two years to live." For those whose definitions of "good" and "not good" may not align perfectly with that of our nutcase firebrand leader.
Navarrete said Chavez likely was suffering from either a tumor in his pelvis or a sarcoma, which would explain the intensive course of treatment. Personally, I'm thinking it started in his brain and metastasized next door to his rectum.
Navarrete was the personal surgeon for Chavez from 2002 until earlier this year, when Chavez changed his medical staff to exclusively Cuban doctors. Paid for by your buddies, the Mad Mullahs?
Before departing for Havana, Chavez told Venezuelan TV that the visit was routine, but he did not disclose any details of his condition. Earlier reports said the visit was for a checkup, to see whether there were any malignant cells in his body, AFP reported. Heh. Good luck finding one that isn't.
Chavez has been in power since 1999 and has maintained that he will recover in time to win re-election in 2012. Enjoy your money while you can. You can't take it with you. And even if you could, it would all burn up anyway.
If you have any doubt that Bank of America is in trouble, this development should settle it. Im late to this important story broken this morning by Bob Ivry of Bloomberg, but both Bill Black (who I interviewed just now) and I see this as a desperate (or at the very best, remarkably inept) move by Bank of Americas management.
The short form via Bloomberg:
Bank of America Corp. (BAC), hit by a credit downgrade last month, has moved derivatives from its Merrill Lynch unit to a subsidiary flush with insured deposits, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation
Bank of Americas holding company the parent of both the retail bank and the Merrill Lynch securities unit held almost $75 trillion of derivatives at the end of June, according to data compiled by the OCC. About $53 trillion, or 71 percent, were within Bank of America NA, according to the data, which represent the notional values of the trades.
That compares with JPMorgans deposit-taking entity, JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, which contained 99 percent of the New York-based firms $79 trillion of notional derivatives, the OCC data show.
Now you would expect this move to be driven by adverse selection, that it, that BofA would move its WORST derivatives, that is, the ones that were riskiest or otherwise had high collateral posting requirements, to the sub. Bill Black confirmed that even though the details were sketchy, this is precisely what took place.
Washington State, not DC, and they used to provide hydro power. I'm sure there is a great reason for this, but I just don't know what it is.
Contractors have started chipping away on the Glines Canyon Dam in Port Angeles, Wash., one of two dams on the Elwha River that are scheduled for removal as part of the largest project of its kind in the U.S. The 210-ft-high Glines Canyon dam and the 108-ft-high Elwha dam are the two highest dams ever removed in the U.S. The project includes the removal of 24 million cubic yards of sediment and debris and will restore 70 sq miles of natural habitat. Work began on the project Sept. 15. Oh, THERE's the benefit - habitat! The folks who used the electricity the dams made can get by without. Everyone knows that...
No amount of modeling by the Bureau of Land Reclamation can predict what hides in the sediment, though the agency has predicted what will likely happen as the sediment flows downriver. If the water is removed too quickly, sediment can clog the channel and cause flooding. If crews let the water down too slowly, there could be insufficient force to carry the sediment downriver. What used to be upstream is going to be downstream.
Cost to remove the dams is estimated at $27 million, but $327 million is allotted to the project total. The sum includes purchase of the two dams and hydroelectric plants from their previous owner, construction of two water treatment plants and other facilities to protect water users, construction of flood protection facilities, a fish hatchery and a greenhouse to propagate native plants for revegetation. Privately funded projects required to accommodate additional water flow in the river are not included in that total. 'Additional water flow' - is that like, flooding? The correct term is 'rapidly enhanced natural wetland'...
The National Park Service started a lengthy planning process for the project in the early 1990s, when a federal court ordered the dam removal, as a result of a lawsuit over the dams' relicensing. The National Park Service keeps no records on the economic effects of its projects, says Lindy Allen, spokesperson at the agency's Denver contracting office, but the ancillary projects necessary for dam removal boosted the local construction economy for several years.
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If they do that then where are we Kaliphornians going to get our power?
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From what I can figure, Glines Canyon Dam is inside Olympic National Park. The original stream supported over 400K salmon in spawning activities, now only 4000. So it is basically a response to a lawsuit. Congress enacted a law for funding the restoration project. So there you go.
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You are correct, AP. I was there in 1990. Beautiful park.
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in other washington-a-stan energy news: the last remaining coal fired electrical generating plant is being shut down. no replacement is in place.
[Blogs.Wall Street Journal] GOP presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul Paul is a libertarian, which is good, and an isolationist, which is bad...
will unveil his economic plan Monday afternoon, calling for a lower corporate tax rate, cutting spending by $1 trillion during his first year in office and eliminating five cabinet-level agencies, including the Education Department, according to excerpts released to Washington Wire. I've been waiting for someone to formally propose that we start dismantling agencies. The west was won, the nation settled, and the civil war fought with seven cabinet agencies: state, treasury, war, the attorney general, the navy, the post office, and (President Zachary Taylor's contribution) interior. Since the Second World War, which you'd think would have required more control than we presently have, what with Nazis and Fascists and that kind of vermin to fight, we come up with an additional nine agencies, which is two more than it took to expand from coast to coast and defeat the Confederacy. Or is it ten? There's a certain amount of mitosis going on with them, so they split without warning. I'm in favor of abolishing anything created since 1945, transferring their functions (if any) to existing departments.
Mr. Paul's "Restore America" plan calls for a drastically reduced federal government to help spur American business -- a familiar theme for the Texas Republican and many of the GOP White House hopefuls. But unlike some of his Republican rivals who have released economic plans, the libertarian congressman mostly avoids the weeds of tax and trade policy, according to excerpts. It's a basic principle of Republicanism that the lower taxes are the more money people have to spend on the things they want, whether necessities or frivolities.
But Mr. Paul does get specific when he calls for a 10% reduction in the federal work force, The federal workforce grew by 11.7 percent between 2009 and 2011. At the same time the civilian workforce shrunk by 6.6 percent, or 7.5 million jobs.
while pledging to limit his presidential salary to $39,336, which his campaign says is "approximately equal to the median personal income of the American worker." The current pay rate for commander in chief is $400,000 a year. The $39,336 doesn't include the allowances and perks of the presidency, I'd say. Since he has no expenses he could bank the whole thing. Michelle doesn't have to go to Tar-zhay unless she feels like having her picture taken looking proletarian.
The Paul plan would also lower the corporate tax rate to 15% from 35%, though it is silent on personal income tax rates, which Mr. Paul would like to abolish. The congressman would end taxes on personal savings and extend "all Bush tax cuts." Herman's 9-9-9 plan sounds simpler, but I'm open to any kind of change in the income tax code. What's nine percent of $450 billion? You'll notice the rake-off to the government wouldn't get us into the trillions even if they took the entirety of 2010 retail sales.
I'd prefer to see the repeal of the 16th amendment. When the founding fathers wrote the constitution they included a ban against any kind of head tax. They would have included a ban on income taxes if they'd ever heard of such a ghastly thing.
He would also allow U.S. firms to repatriate capital without additional taxes. 'Tain't fair to pay twice, is it?
Some politicians have recently proposed such legislation as a way to spur job growth. Its critics argue that a tax holiday for companies with money abroad has not historically led to domestic investment. A more comfy business climate would make it easier for companies to invest in the U.S., and double taxation would ease the climate. Or am I missing something?
But the plan, at its heart, is libertarian. While promising to cut $1 trillion in spending during his first year, Mr. Paul would eliminate the Departments of Education, Since its institution we've seen education get worse, not better.
Commerce, The Commerce Department was created in 1903, well after the nation was settled. It was originally called the Department of Commerce and Labor, but then split so the two agencies could be antagonistic. If Commerce is to be abolished so should Labor. Personally, I think Labor should go and Commerce remain, if only because it had the National Aquarium in its basement for many years. It would make a nice home for the actual beneficial functions of agencies like the EPA or OSHA, while the rest of their bureaucracies could be ditched.
Energy, Established in 1977, a mere eight years after the repeal of the Oil Depletion Allowance (in 1969) led us into becoming an oil importing country and the gas crisis of 1973. Since its establishment it has created no energy that anyone has seen but has pissed lots of money away on solar, wind, and similar dead ends.
Interior Established under President Taylor as a place to stash younger sons of political hacks. The Indians have been groaning under its inept administration since approximately the time of the Blackhawk War. No Department of the Interior was needed to uproot and deport the Cherokees, so why is it required to oppress the remaining Sioux and Apaches?
and Housing and Urban Development. ... created in 1965. There are actually several pieces of the agency that could go into the reconstituted Department of Commerce. The FHA makes home loans with 5 percent down, versus the 20 percent required for conventional loans. As of the time I knew anything about it these were insured, with the premium being covered by an additional fee added into the monthly mortgage payment. The remaining functions of the agency appear to have been designed by people on heavy medication. God forbid they should ever come up with a Department of Suburban Development.
When former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney unveiled his economic plan last month, he said he would submit legislation to reduce nonsecurity, discretionary spending by $20 billion. The 2012 federal budget is $3.7 trillion. A trillion is a thousand billion. Somebody else can build the fraction. My math skills just got daunted at the tiny size of the Romney cut. We could be looking at a nanocut. Or a picocut. I would much prefer to see a healthy slice. The entire federal budget in 1945, the year we beat the Germans and the Japanese, was $118 billion.
Mr. Paul would also push for the repeal of the new health-care law, ... three quarters of a trillion if memory serves...
last year's Wall Street regulations law ... the one picking the winners and losers, the winners being campaign contributors...
and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the 2002 corporate governance law passed in response to a number of corporate scandals, including Enron. ... acknowledged even by its proponents as being a business killer...
Other proposal are more vague, and the campaign has not yet released estimates of economic growth under the plan. What's there is pretty definite, and would be beneficial to the nation...
Mr. Paul, who wrote the book "End the Fed," calls for an audit of the Federal Reserve and "competing currency legislation to strengthen the dollar and stabilize inflation." The excerpts did not provide more details on how such legislation would work. Perhaps the Fed could be dumped, the restored Department of Commerce could establish target prices for key commodities -- gold, silver, copper, that sort of thing. Then any state could issue paper money pegged to the commodities and anyone, to include individuals, could issue currency reflecting those prices. If gold is $2000 an ounce and you have an ounce of gold you could spend it and get $2000 worth of groceries in return. There would of course be severe criminal penalties for counterfeiting and short-weighting.
When it comes to Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs, Mr. Paul wants a system that "honors our promise to our seniors and veterans, while allowing young workers to opt out." Without wanting to sound like Al Gore, Social Security and Medicare, along with any similar entitlement programs the government comes up with, should be off-budget and self-supporting (as in, in a lockbox). People have been paying into the system for years, and the premiums they've been paying should have been earning interest. Instead they've gotten "government bonds" as IOUs and the money's been pissed away on shovel-ready projects run by campaign contributors. I'd call for a congressional investigation but they're not better at picking out their own sins than most people are. In fact they're worse.
He also wants to run Medicaid, the state-federal health care program for the poor, and "other welfare programs" through block grants to states. I can't see any constitutional justification for a Federal hand in Medicaid.
In fact, if I was a candidate (which I am not and never will be) I would call for a constitutional amendment to establish the office of the Tribunes of the People. There would be five tribunes, each serving for five years, with an annual election to fill the seat falling open. They would be elected by popular vote, preferably every January 1st. Once a person had served as a tribune he/she/it would be ineligible to hold any public office again, though they could be paid a nice pension to make up for it. Their function would be to examine every piece of legislation from the standpoint of the constitution, and if it wasn't within the original structure and intent any one of the five could veto it, with no appeal allowed so long as the provision violated or the lack of provision (in other words trampling the 10th Amendment) was cited.
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Problem with Ron Paul, in my book, is that he wants to cut defense even more. And his 'impeachment for Obama' talk after that traitor was dronezapped.
And I don't think he can win. The media already has him palin'ed as a wacko.
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I have a seven year old nephew who like Paul is a Libertarian. Unlike Paul, his ethical, moral and political sense is more mature and grows each day. He has learned to share with his classmates and help people in need.
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About international politics Ron Paul's message is very simple: if you ignore the wolf he will ignore you. I don't think it works and if were an AZmerican I would prefer higher taxes to an iranian nuclear mushromm over my city.
My other problem with him is that I already caught him lying (about the Civil War).
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while pledging to limit his presidential salary to $39,336, which his campaign says is "approximately equal to the median personal income of the American worker." The current pay rate for commander in chief is $400,000 a year.
From memories dating to Nixon the POTUS is expected to meet White House's expenses from his salary. Once he has paid them and the income tax he is not making _that_ much money. So this sounds as unadulteratzed demagoguery.
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When it comes to Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs, Mr. Paul wants a system that "honors our promise to our seniors and veterans, while allowing young workers to opt out."
Yep, I know SCOTUS ruled that SS was 'legal' under the commerce clause [sort of like Scott and Plessey], that much abused entry employed to create an overpowering and authoritarian Big Brother, but it should have and still should be authorized by Constitutional Amendment. Won't happen because such a vehicle would also be the means to restrict the program to old age pension, limit eligibility to only those who paid in, and deny Congress the ability to play Hollyweird bookkeeping with the collections.
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I like the concept of cutting 5 cabinet agencies, but the devil is in the details. To start with, federal employees have job security, so if their agency is cut, right now they must be transferred to some job of equal status and seniority. So this has to end first.
That is, the federal government must be able to fire unneeded employees. Hundreds of thousands of them.
Second, there are a ton of federal enabling laws and judicial decisions that have taken power away from the states for these agencies, so there will be a sudden rush of authority and responsibility. That is, right now they are fully funded through deficit spending; after their transfer, they won't be.
Third, there are a lot more agencies than these five that will need to be consolidated, and a hellacious amount of federal power that will have to be stripped from many others.
This is the reason I have advocated a 2nd Court of the United States, because this is far more than five slash-and-burn presidents in a row could accomplish, with a fully supportive congress.
A 2nd Court, mirrored after the US senate, would be totally controlled by state judges responsive to their state legislatures, who would appoint them. They would be, in effect, a permanent federal government pruning mechanism.
An analogy would be a permanent, standing constitutional convention, but without the risks inherent in such a convention, as they could not make law, only thwart new or old laws, regulations, executive orders and judicial precedents.
Importantly, this would re-balance a system that was at risk of imbalance from the start, and thrown very out of balance with the 17th amendment.
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Let's see, the Energy Department was created in 1977? Wasn't that jimmuh carter who did that? 'Nuff said.
And HUD, created in 1965 by good old Lyndon Johnson. A lot of people here at Rantburg claim that jimmuh was the worst president, evar. But I think that's because they don't remember LBJ and his so called Great Society guns and butter policies. I mean, why was he fighting communism in Vietnam when he was basically a communist himself?
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Still...
LBJ treated animals right....
showed scars on his fat belly without being asked...
What more could you ask for in a Prez?
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Yeah, that was after his gall bladder surgery. And there were people who maintained that beagles don't mind being hauled up by their ears. Still, I was glad to see him go back to Texas in 1969.
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What exactly does the Bureau of Indian Affairs do that couldn't be accomplished by other Bureaus?
And the Education Department? Since our educational system seems to constantly be in danger perhaps having Federal oversite has been a negative factor.
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examine every piece of legislation from the standpoint of the constitution, and if it wasn't within the original structure and intent - rescind it. That used to be and IIRC still is one of Congress's many jobs that it refuses to do.
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Paraphrasing Jerry Pournelle on the core of this issue: For everyone entitled to receive government benefits there must be those required to pay, and a tax collector who has the right to collect, by force if necessary. That almost never gets debated in discussions of citizen rights and entitlements.
Has any candidate EVER mentioned this?
[An Nahar] Trying to make amends for massive outages last week, Research In Motion announced a free premium apps giveaway for millions of its customers who may still feel jolted, and a month of technical support for some.
The Canadian company said Monday that the apps, worth more than $100, will be made available over the coming weeks on BlackBerry(at) App World. They include iSpeech Translator and the games "Bejeweled" and "Texas Hold'em Poker 2." The offer runs until the end of the year.
Reseach in Motion Ltd. also will offer its business customers a month of free technical support.
Last week's blackout interrupted email and Internet services for tens of millions of users globally and left company leaders apologizing profusely.
BlackBerry phones are already struggling to keep pace with competitors like Apple Inc.'s iPhone and shares of Research In Motion have already paid a price.
Whether the handouts will sooth customers is not yet known, but it was clear that investors were still not in a forgiving mood Monday.
Shares of Research in Motion Ltd. slumped more than 6 percent, or $1.54, to $22.43 in afternoon trading. Earlier this year, shares traded above $70 each.
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[An Nahar] Taimur Jumblat, the son of Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... , has been appointed as a "guiding member" of the party, in a step that would allow him to later run for its leadership council and consequently head the party, reported Voice of Leb radio on Monday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed this guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... on Friday Jumblat spoke of a "shock" he will present during the party's general assembly scheduled for the end of the month, reported al-Akhbar newspaper on Saturday.
Sources predicted that he will call on the party leadership to resign in order to allow a new wave of young members to assume administrative positions in the PSP.
He will also call on his followers to launch a "workshop of renewal in the party's general organization and political approach to encourage youth participation," said the sources.
Asked in an interview with al-Manar television on Friday if Taimur would succeed him as the leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, Jumblat responded that he will monitor his political work, adding that his acquiring of prominent responsibilities in the party depends on other factors and not on the MP alone.
The sources denied that Jumblat is seeking to withdraw from political life in Leb.
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Dick "Dick" Durbin, Dick "Dick" Blumenthal, Frank "Dick" Lautenberg, Tom "I flew combat missions in Viet Nam Dick" Harkin. The four horsemen of stupidity
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Three Dicks and a Tom walk into a dugout....(you finish the joke)
h/t Instapundit
Someone leaked a batch of emails that have been exchanged by leaders of the Occupy Wall Street group. Ive only dipped into them briefly, but some are pretty entertaining
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Back in the 1980s, some of the "Historical Afro-centrism" revisionists said that Columbus was at least part African. They were trying to rewrite history so that the greatest historical events were all done by Africans (then stolen by white Europeans).
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Made it across the Atlantic on only three galleons.
I'm calling Righthaven! I posted that stolen line earlier this week and it's mine! Mine I tell ya!!!
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"Greatest historical events were all done by Africans (then stolen by White Europeans)" > "ROOTS" KUNTA KINTE ...
versus
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > MUSLIMS IN THE CARIBBEAN BEFORE COLUMBUS. So-called "White Caribs" seemingly described as engaging in Islamic/
Muslim-style practices + methods.
* SAME > COLUMBUS REPORTED: AFRICANS TRADING WITH AMERICANS, to include North African Muslims = Moors.
Lest we fergit, LEGEND > ANCIENT ATHENIANS ALLEGEDLY FOUGHT WID STRANGE FOREIGN INVADERS WHOM WORE FEATHERS + ANIMAL OUTFITS. FROM ATLANTIS = "ACROSS THE SEA/GREAT OCEAN" JUST PRIOR TO EVENT WHICH DESTROYED THE LOST CONTINENT [+ both opposing Armies]???
These invaders were unbeatable until they came up agz Athens + espec "the Event".
["THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" YUL BRYNNER [Pharoah Ramesses] = "BETTER TO DIE LIKE MEN FIGHTING A GOD THAT TO LIVE IN SHAME"].
* SAME > CONQUEST OF THE AMERICAS AN EXTENSION OF THE RECONQUEST [Spanish "Reconquista" if Iberian Peninsula from the Moors = Islam].
[Tolo News] Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in New York protesting against corporate greed shifted to Times Square on Saturday, the BBC reported.
Police incarcerated about 70 people.
Protests were held worldwide yesterday against austerity measures.
In the Italian capital Rome, a peaceful rally turned into street battles but protests in the Spanish capital Madrid were more orderly.
Demonstrations were also held in Oporto in Portugal, Athens in Greece and in many other US cities.
A small group of activists started the protests in New York on September 17. Since then, numbers have swelled to several thousand people at times.
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There is a good story at Drudge Report. On Female reported her $5,500 dollar Mac was stolen. Yup, she's right there with the rest of us working slobs.
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In other economic news:
The Great State of Warshington this week announced a DIRE shortage of apple pickers. Seems the anti-illegal attitude has caused many to rethink their journey north.
the WA apple ass'n has even ponied a bnus of up to $150/day to pick. maybe some of the Occupiers ought to jump a bus and get a job.....
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.
Six more people, including two women, died of dengue fever in various hospitals of the 
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez likely has less than two years to live, his former doctor said, as the ailing 
Walid 
