[DFW.CBSLOCAL] A South Texas man faces an aggravated robbery charge after being accused of ordering several tacos, pulling a sword and refusing to pay. Whatever happened to six guns?
An affidavit says 28-year-old Adam Kramer began sliding the sword out of a sheath and threatened a waitress at a Mexican restaurant in San Antonio. Nobody was hurt in the Dec. 2 incident. "Gimme tacos or I'll chop yer head off!"
Authorities say Kramer walked out of the restaurant -- without the food -- and to his truck while yelling either he got free tacos or somebody would die. Investigators say the waitress locked the door after the San Antonio man drove away.
Law officers arrested Kramer the next day. Bond was set at $50,000. Bexar County jail records did not list Kramer as still in custody Tuesday or provide details on an attorney.
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(putting on best Scottish accent): Watched Highlander this weekend, did ya there laddie?
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From the headline, I was expecting some Sword in the Stone action. And maybe an explanation why a man suddenly King of the Britons wanted tacos instead of something more deluxe... like maybe fajitas.
[SFGATE] A Burien man accused of biting off his father's eyebrow after turning unruly on a drive home from a family wedding has been charged with assault. Now, there's a crime you don't see every day.
King County prosecutors contend Joel Salmeron-Ciprian chomped on his father after the older man pulled over because of his son's behavior. Salmeron-Ciprian, 30, has been charged with second-degree assault.
According to charging papers, Salmeron-Ciprian's father was driving his inebriated son and other relatives home from a wedding at 7:45 p.m. on Dec. 1 when he was forced to stop the car.
King County deputy sheriffs arrived to find Salmeron-Ciprian pinned to the ground by his father, who was bleeding from the face. As it turned out, his right eyebrow was missing.
Salmeron-Ciprian fought with deputies, one of whom shocked him with a stun gun, according to charging papers.
Interviewing witnesses, deputies were told Salmeron-Ciprian was drunk and shouting at his father during the ride home. The older man stopped the car after his son tried to grab him from the rear seat of the truck; a fight ensued after the men exited the truck.
Medics responded to the scene and took the older man to the hospital. Deputies incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Salmeron-Cirprian, who remained irate.
Having threatened to kick the "ass" of one deputy, Salmeron-Ciprian also threatened jail staff, a detective said in charging papers.
"I'm going to eat your face too," he said, according to charging papers.
Salmeron-Ciprian remains tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on $100,000 bail. Prosecutors claim the attack was domestic violence.
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[WASHINGTON.CBSLOCAL] Greenpeace is warning children the world over Santa Claus might not be bringing gifts to them because of global warming.
A "Save the Arctic" video released by the environmental group shows a sullen and dirty Santa -- played by Jim Carter of "Downton Abbey" -- in a dark, concrete room with water dripping from the ceiling.
"Dear children, I regrettably bring bad tidings. For some time now, melting ice here in the North Pole has made our operations and our day-to-day life intolerable and impossible and there may be no alternative but to cancel Christmas," Santa warned in the Greenpeace video.
Santa claims he has written world leaders, including Presidents Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... and Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... , but to no avail.
"Sadly my letters have been met with indifference," Santa says, as lights begin to flicker in the room like a horror movie. "Needless to say these individuals are now at the top of my naughty list."
In the end, Santa urges those watching to sign a petition to "Save Santa's Home."
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I'll believe GP when they issue the sequel wherein Santa, Mrs. Claus and the elves are foreced to eat the reindeer because they are marooned on an ice flow.
And burn the sleigh to stay warm.
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I am convinced fossil fuel combustion releases CO2 into the atmosphere. I am convinced that, ALL ELSE BEING EQUAL, increased CO2 concentration in the atmosphere will increase global temperature. Everything else is still subject to a lot of uncertainty. 1) How big an effect does CO2 concentration have? 2) Is AGW beneficially offsetting global cooling (due to solar variation, orbital variation, pollution, or ???) 3) Is the effect of fossil fuel combustion being offset by reduction in even larger effect of methane release? Or methane effect being amplified by gas leaks during production & distribution? 4) Will oceanic circulation patterns change and with what effect? 5) Will warming harm more than it helps? And most fundamental--- 6) will anything WE do change the amount of fossil fuel burned over the next xx years, ie. will everything we don't burn just get burned by China etc. and more inefficiently too? I could go on, but it should be clear that the settled part of the settled science is vanishingly small. Seems to me like it is intended as a global wealth redistribution mechanism, with crony cash extraction capability more than anything scientific.
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Greenpeace is warning children the world over Santa Claus might not be bringing gifts to them because of global warming.
They are just like the group that brought
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These clueless fools remind me of a quaint Christmas Story told to me by a co-worker. One Christmas Eve night, when the co-worker was a boy, his Dad got tired of the children's excitement about Christmas day. So Dad grabbed his shotgun, went out to the yard, pointed it up at the roof, blasted away, and killed Santa Claus.
[LOSANGELES.CBSLOCAL] The fallout from ongoing financial troubles for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) could end up reaching as far as the North Pole this Christmas. Maybe they should just hire some navigators?
For the first time in more than a century, a number of children's letters addressed to Santa Claus may go unanswered, according to postal volunteers. Surely some Obama donor would be willing to take the contract, for the right price?
KNX 1070′s Margaret Carrero reports Cleo Erguiza with the USPS said they were able to answer more than 450 letters last year, but it's not yet clear whether they can top that number this Christmas.
Patrick Reynolds, founder of Be An Elf, said only one post office in the city of Los Angeles will gather letters to the North Pole from children in desperate family financial conditions at Christmas.
The city's main facility on Central Avenue will take part in the seasonal "Operation Santa" effort, which involves 16 other major U.S. cities, according to Reynolds.
Volunteers can sign up to read and respond to real letters from needy kids by sending a gift through the USPS Operation Santa program. The nonprofit group was founded in 2004 by Reynolds and is supported by a $10,000 grant per month in free advertising from Google.
Post offices in Santa Ana and Santa Clarita will also participate.
Operation Santa was started by the USPS in 1912 and has never missed a year, according to the USPS.
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[CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL] Temperatures dipped below zero overnight, the earliest it has been that cold in Chicago in 18 years. I blame Global Warming®
The last time Chicago had subzero temperatures this early in the season was Dec. 9, 1995. Unfortunately for Chicagoans, it won't be long before the mercury is back below zero.
Though temperatures will get into the low 20s on Tuesday, Chicago could see subzero temperatures again Wednesday night. Before that, Chicago likely will get more snow.
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How'd this little snippet get past the IPCC censors? Does Fred have a man on the inside?
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It was so cold in Chicago the politicians had their hands in their OWN pockets!
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A new look at NASA satellite data revealed that Earth set a new record for coldest temperature recorded. It happened in August 2010 when it hit -135.8 degrees. Then on July 31 of this year, it came close again: -135.3 degrees.
The old record had been -128.6 degrees, which is -89.2 degrees Celsius.
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It was so cold . . .
words froze in the air. If you wanted to hear what someone said, you had to grab a handful of sentences and take them in by the fire!
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Colder than a fart in a dead Eskimo.j
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People, people. Remember that a) records like this are weather, not climate,and b) this sort of thing is predicted by, and part of, climate change.
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London could be gone in 20 minutes, perhaps less.
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The CORRECT phrase is "Colder than a Witches Titty in a Brass Brassier"
(Heard this one from my Father, AND Grandfather)
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Rambler in Virginia:
"this sort of thing is predicted by, and part of, climate change"
Not exactly. While its proponents call it climate change, the only theory they have is one of warming. Rather than come up with a better theory, they have simply called it something else. They have also taken to blaming anything and everything on "climate change." Here's a list, which is pretty damn funny.
What do you call a theory which is proved by every event and disproved by none? You call it a fraud.
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According to Texas Lore, Chili Powder was created when on a very cold night some cowboys built a campfire. When they woke in the morning, the blue norther that blew through during the night had frozen the camp fire.
Not to waste anything, the cook thought he could save the fire and he gathered up chunks of it and put it in the chuck wagon. That night he ground up some of it and put it in the stew...
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TW, maybe I should add a new nym where I only post things that are really sarcastic - something like SarcasmIsUs. That would save me typing the /sarcasm tag at the end of my posts - most of which are sarcastic anyway. :)
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[DNAINFO] A Staten Island woman has sued the city claiming police entered her St. George home without a warrant, beat her family and killed her beloved pet parakeet, according to court documents. "Sarge! It's... It's a bird!"
"Shoot, Mahoney! Fergawdsake, shoot!"
Last year, Evelyn Lugo's bird, Tito, was thrown from his cage after it was knocked off a dresser as cops came into her Corson Avenue home, the Daily News first reported. The officers then stepped on the bird intentionally, killing it, court documents say. "My gun! It's jammed!"
[STOMP!]
Officers also beat two of Lugo's sons, her daughter and a family friend, the lawsuit claims.
According to court documents, police entered Lugo's home on Sept. 2, 2012, as her family was celebrating Labor Day.
Police stopped and questioned her son Edwin Avellanet as he was outside throwing out garbage and asked for identification, the lawsuit says. When he refused to show any, officers allegedly grabbed his right arm and Avellanet broke free and ran into the building.
Officers broke windows of the home, and when Lugo opened the front door she was thrown outside by police, court papers say.
When inside, police allegedly struck Avellanet two or three times with a hard object, struck their friend in the face and threw a woman into the dresser with the bird cage on it, court documents say.
Police then allegedly pepper sprayed Lugo's daughter and son, according to the documents.
Lugo's son, daughter and family friend were tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and all three were taken to Staten Island University Hospital in jug.
They were treated for multiple facial lacerations and lacerations to the head. Lugo's daughter was also treated for an asthma attack, the court papers say.
All charges were eventually dropped and sealed by Richmond County Supreme Court, the lawsuit says.
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While I am sorry that Pollie is beak up, the fact that the kid broke and ran from the police gave them credible reason to pursue hotly. (cue Jackie Gleason from the original Smokey and the Bandit movie, with his useless son in law)
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Another reason the NYC Mayor and the Chief are hot on gun grabbing. When the leash breaks, you don't want to be out numbered by people with guns - What do you mean 'we' Ke-mo sah-bee.
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What's not to like in B's picture? A Sailor home on leave, hot babes around him, the faithful dog, a steam engine puffing contentedly, and a taxi that looks like a 38 or 39 Pontiac.
[Egypt Independent] Nestled in the heart of downtown Cairo is the opulent headquarters of Arab International Bank, a secretive bank that has allowed kleptocrats to funnel money out of the country for decades with barely any regulatory oversight.
The bank, established in 1974 by a treaty signed by Egypt, Libya, Qatar, Oman and the UAE, is exempt from many Egyptian laws, customs duties and taxes and is testament to the once powerful nexus between the governments of the region.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the bank's links to Egypt's old guard, as well as the Qadaffy and Assad regime, led the bank to become a centre of controversy following the revolutions of 2011.
Operating free of the regulations governing other Egyptian banks, AIB was initially established to persuade Egyptians to bring their money back to the country after the death of president Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970.
Nasser's socialist policies had panicked depositors who wanted to keep their money safe from nationalisation and seizure. AIB flourished as an offshore bank and played a crucial role in jump-starting the economy during its first decade of business, providing roughly 90 percent of the letters of credit needed by the government.
But over time, the bank's original purpose of providing a safe haven for Egyptians wary of political turbulence faded away and what was left was a nearly unregulated bank. It became a place for powerful people to hide their wealth.
It was to be expected then, that when Egypt's revolution began in 2011, AIB would be a target for protesters eager to purge the country of corrupt elitists.
The bank's directors found themselves the targets of corruption accusations. Once secret accounts, inaccessible by any authority without a final court judgement, suddenly seemed likely to be revealed to the public.
And the details of those accounts would be valuable to corruption Sherlocks. According to a source familiar with the bank, Habib El Adly, Mubarak's infamous minister of interior, tried to move money out of the country through Arab International Bank during the 2011 uprising.
The bank's Tahrir Square office -- one of seven branches -- was ransacked and burned to the ground just five days into the uprising. A few days after Mubarak resigned and handed power to the military, a Moslem Brüderbund lawyer, Mamdouh Ismail, filed a case to freeze activity at AIB until an investigation into its transactions were complete.
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You must admit the "funeral" was like an international circus. He was not faking it, the organizers failed to check his credentials. He was using an advanced form of sign language based upon his adopted language:
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That's ok. When bumble speaks we don't understand a word he is saying either.
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he only needed a couple of signs to cover Champ's speech - Hope, Change, Obstructionist, and maybe redistribution.
Bobby you forgot the most important words in his tribute to Manny: I, Me, Myself.
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Its okay, the Mandelas knew that Obumble wasn't paying attention anyway...
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The sign language interpreter used at Nelson Mandela's football stadium memorial was a fake, it was claimed this morning.
Poetic justice, we don't listen to him anyway, he lies.
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I wonder if this confusion was just 'language difficulties. To wit: American Sign Language (ASL) vs Zulu Sign Language. Or Esperanto Sign Language (assuming there is such a thing).
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That fellow's jacket appears to be rather snug fit. I suspect he's wearing body armor. In one of the shots, he's glancing over at a rather sober looking Pieter Van Angerypist, [name of my own creation] but obviously a security lad. I'd call 'sign man' a bullet stopper with a bad cover story.
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I'd call 'sign man' a bullet stopper with a bad cover story.
Funny you should say that. It was my initial thought before I went with linguistic confusment. Very plausible, especially since he has apparently done this before. He certainly doesn't give off the usual sign language vibe.
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They did not notice the fraud during obama's speech because the sign language finally made an Obama speech appear credible and interesting. Which should of been the tip off!
[Pak Daily Times] Uruguay's Senate is expected to pass a law on Tuesday making the small South American nation the world's first to allow its citizens to grow, buy and smoke marijuana.
The pioneering government-sponsored bill establishes state regulation of the cultivation, distribution and consumption of marijuana and is aimed at wresting the business from criminals. Cannabis consumers would be allowed to buy a maximum of 40 grams (1.4 ounces) each month from state-regulated pharmacies as long as they are over the age of 18 and registered on a government data base that will monitor their monthly purchases.
Uruguayans would also be allowed to grow up to six plants of marijuana in their homes a year, or as much as 480 grams. They could also set up smoking clubs of 15 to 45 members that could grow up to 99 plants per year.
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...and immigration. New flights opening up come fall in the northern hemisphere from Amsterdam to Uruguay with a return in spring. Time to corner the market on Cheetos distribution.
[reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Tribune] Office Depot said Tuesday it has chosen Boca Raton, Fla. for its new headquarters over Naperville.
Good. I get tired of large corporations sponging off the public dole. Go to Florida and enjoy...
Office Depot completed its merger with Naperville-based OfficeMax last month, but the pair hadn't yet announced where the combined company would be based.
The companies asked for tax breaks from both states. Illinois politicians adjourned last week before making a decision.
Last month, the company named Roland Smith, the former head of the U.S. unit of supermarkets operator Delhaize Group, as its new CEO, hoping to tap into his turnaround and integration background.
The company said the evaluation of its headquarters selection was based on operation and employee costs, lease obligations, tax implications and government incentives and ability for expansion. Office Depot said it will offer jobs to Naperville workers at its Boca Raton location, but it didn't say how many.
The former OfficeMax has more than 2,000 corporate employees in Illinois -- 1,600 of which are in Naperville. The rest of the nonretail workforce is spread over three other locations: its Itasca distribution center and customer service centers in Ottawa and Peru.
It said its current Florida headquarters has "ample space to accommodate associates who will relocate from Illinois." The company also didn't provide a timeline for transition.
Together, the two companies had sales of $17 billion in the year that ended in September and have about 66,000 employees.
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The companies asked for tax breaks from both states. Illinois politicians adjourned last week before making a decision.
You snooze, you lose. Think of the money saved in snow removal alone.
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could not happen to a better bastion of left wing thuggery....the company could not wait for the liberal fat cats to make up their mind next year
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I hate to see my hometown lose.
A generous raising of property taxes, a modest increase in commuter parking at O'Hare, and an increase in the tolls on I-90 should make up the loss revenue in no time.
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in a related big dollar news, yesterday was the deadline for any state that wanted to give 'stuff' to Boeing in return for moving the 777x production there ( out of Puget Sound), and it sounds like the offers were not a fat as Boeing wanted so they went back to the union to restart contract extension talks ( a lot of airlines are still pissed over the 787 debacle and told BCAC not to phuck it up again) most of the states publicly identified were RTW states.
[Egypt Independent] About 2,000 anti-government protesters huddled by braziers in their main tented camp in snowbound Kiev on Tuesday, in defiance of riot police who herded them away from government buildings overnight.
Dozens of riot police removed barricades leading to the presidency, cabinet offices and parliament. Protesters regrouped at Independence Square in central Kiev, where they have set up a makeshift tent village, complete with a stage where singers and speakers provide 24-hour entertainment.
The president's standard, a blue flag with a gold trident in the centre, flew outside his office, signaling Viktor Yanukovich was at work - possibly the first time since protests erupted on November 21 over his decision to scrap a trade pact with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... in favor of closer ties with Russia.
Demonstrators had feared the arrival of the riot police on Monday heralded a plan to crush the protests, but there was none of the violence seen last week, when dozens of protesters were maimed.
With the crisis weighing on an economy already on the brink of bankruptcy, Yanukovich will hold talks with three former Ukrainian presidents on Tuesday. He was expected to meet EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Ilya Shutov, an ex-miner from the eastern city of Donetsk, said the protesters would stay until Yanukovich left office.
"We were for the EU association agreement because we thought it would force our authorities to be civilized. Their refusal of Europe is a refusal to be civilized," he said.
"Our goal is to get rid of the Soviet-like authorities."
Visiting Moscow, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland made a new appeal for calm in Kiev.
She "expressed US deep concern about the situation in Ukraine, and urged Russia to use its influence to press for peace, human dignity and a political solution," the US embassy in Moscow said in a statement.
"The US supports Ukraine's European choice, a non-violent and just political resolution to the current standoff, and a return to economic health with the support of the International Monetary Fund," it said.
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[Pak Daily Times] Canada signalled intentions to claim the North Pole and surrounding Arctic waters while announcing the filing of a UN application seeking to vastly expand its Atlantic sea boundary.
After a decade of surveying the country's eastern and far north seabeds and gathering supporting evidence, a claim was submitted to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on Friday.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said the filing mainly concerns the outer limits of Canada's continental shelf in the Atlantic Ocean.
But it also includes "preliminary information concerning the outer limits of (Canada's) continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean," he said.
"We have asked our officials and scientists to do additional work and necessary work to ensure that a submission for the full extent of the continental shelf in the Arctic includes Canada's claim to the North Pole," he told a presser.
"Fundamentally, we are drawing the last lines of Canada. We are defending our illusory sovereignty," added Arctic Minister Leona Aglukkaq.
Asserting illusory sovereignty over an expansive Arctic archipelago and surrounding waters has been a key plank of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories in the past three elections since 2006.
But Russia and Denmark are expected to file overlapping claims, which could lead to confrontation between the Arctic neighbours.
Interest in the polar region has flared up as rising temperatures open up shipping routes and make hitherto inaccessible mineral resources easier to exploit.
The North Pole seabed itself is not believed to hold large reserves but has symbolic value for the countries in the region, which also includes Norway and the United States.
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said enlarging Canada's Arctic boundary is important for "Canada's long-term economic prosperity."
Observers, however, note that energy firms face harsh conditions in the Arctic, and environmental concerns could delay resource extraction in the pristine waters.
Just gathering supportive evidence for Canada's claim has been a challenge, commented Fisheries Minister Gail Shea.
"The Canadian Hydrographic Service and the Geological Survey of Canada have collected a great deal of data in areas that are ice-covered, difficult to access, and that in some instances had not previously been surveyed," the minister said.
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Joe, that would not be a whale bone, now would it?
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"The Canadian Hydrographic Service and the Geological Survey of Canada have collected a great deal of data in areas that are ice-covered, difficult to access, and that in some instances had not previously been surveyed," the minister said.
Not counting the charts and surveys conducted by American nuke subs for the past couple of decades.
Lib Butthurt: "For years, Norwegian politicians have used the prize to pursue their own ideas and purposes. Last year's prize, which went to the European Union, the 2009 prize for US President Barack Obama, the 2010 prize for Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, the 2011 prize for Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - almost all of the prizes awarded in the last two decades have failed to respect Nobel's will."
[Pak Daily Times] Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Tuesday refused demands by anti-government protesters to resign ahead of upcoming elections, urging them to abandon their "people's revolution".
Bangkok has been shaken by more than a month of mass opposition rallies aimed at ousting Yingluck and ridding the kingdom of the influence of her older brother, deposed former leader Thaksin.
An estimated 7,000 protesters gathered in the city on Tuesday afternoon calling for the elected government to step down, a sharp drop from the roughly 140,000 people who attended on Monday.
The demonstrators are a loosely-allied group united by their animosity towards Thaksin, a billionaire tycoon-turned-politician who was tossed in a military coup seven years ago but is widely thought to control the government from abroad.
Yingluck, who called an early election on Monday in an effort to calm the political turmoil, said her cabinet was legally-bound to act as an interim government until the polls are held.
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[KFOXTV] A Delaware bankruptcy judge has approved court documents outlining a sale process for failed electric-vehicle maker Fisker Automotive The judge on Tuesday granted interim approval of Fisker's description of its bankruptcy plan and the process for creditors to vote on it, although he expressed concerns about the quick pace with which the case was moving.
Attorneys for the committee of unsecured creditors said they agree with the current case schedule.
Anaheim, Calif.-based Fisker, which had planned to build cars in Delaware, filed for bankruptcy protection last month, ending a long downward spiral after receiving a $529 million loan commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Hybrid Technology LLC is seeking to buy Fisker after paying $25 million for DOE's outstanding loan, resulting in a $139 million loss to federal taxpayers.
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Next to fail, Hybrid Technology LLC. watch the news.
It seems that everything Obama touches turns to debt.
I wonder if it's deliberate?
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"I wonder if it's deliberate?"
No you don't, RJ. You don't wonder about it at all.
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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.
[SFGATE] A Burien man accused of biting off his father's eyebrow after turning unruly on a drive home from a family wedding has been charged with assault.
[WASHINGTON.CBSLOCAL] Greenpeace is warning children the world over Santa Claus might not be bringing gifts to them because of global warming.
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL] Temperatures dipped below zero overnight, the earliest it has been that cold in Chicago in 18 years.
[DNAINFO] A Staten Island woman has sued the city claiming police entered her St. George home without a warrant, beat her family and killed her beloved pet parakeet, according to court documents.
[Pak Daily Times] Uruguay's Senate is expected to pass a law on Tuesday making the small South American nation the world's first to allow its citizens to grow, buy and smoke marijuana.
[Pak Daily Times] Canada signalled intentions to claim the North Pole and surrounding Arctic waters while announcing the filing of a UN application seeking to vastly expand its Atlantic sea boundary.
[KFOXTV] A Delaware bankruptcy judge has approved court documents outlining a sale process for failed electric-vehicle maker Fisker Automotive The judge on Tuesday granted interim approval of Fisker's description of its bankruptcy plan and the process for creditors to vote on it, although he expressed concerns about the quick pace with which the case was moving. 
