RICHVILLE, N.Y. -- The Amish are famous for their barn raisings, when an entire community turns out to help a neighbor.
In northern New York, members of an extended Amish family plan to hold a "garage raising" for the couple who returned two kidnapped Amish girls to their home.
Jeffrey and Pamela Stinson tell the Watertown Daily Times (http://bit.ly/1l8vUYL ) that the garage at their home in St. Lawrence County recently burned down while they were on vacation in Maine. The fire was believed to have been started by a stray cat knocking over a battery jumpstart box inside.
Earlier this month, the Stinsons were shocked when two Amish girls knocked on the front door of their home in Richville, about 15 miles from where police say the girls, ages 7 and 12, were abducted while tending to their family's roadside farm stand in Oswegatchie, on the Canadian border.
The Stinsons said the girls were cold, wet and so hungry that they quickly consumed a watermelon Jeffrey had just picked from the family's garden. The girls then asked to be driven to their home. After a brief discussion with his wife on how to proceed, Stinson decided it was best to take them home rather than call police.
"We never gave it any thought about implications or dangers," he said. "We knew they had to get home."
Two days after the girls were abducted on Aug. 13, police arrested a local couple and charged them with kidnapping. Police said Nicole Vaisey, 25, and Stephen Howells Jr., 39, of nearby Hermon, used a dog to lure the girls into the couple's car.
The girls, who authorities say were sexually abused, were released a day after being abducted when Vaisey and Howells were apparently spooked by an intense police investigation and media coverage, authorities said. The Associated Press isn't naming the Amish family members because it generally doesn't identify victims of sexual abuse.
The family plans to build the Stinsons a new garage later this week. The victims, their 11 siblings, parents, grandparents and other relatives are expected to be on hand, Stinson said.
The girls' father told Stinson that he would be offended if he could not help rebuild the garage.
[CNN] Ten-year-old Noah Cordle kicked off his summer vacation by dipping his toes into the Atlantic Ocean, only to make an ancient discovery when a sharp object hit his foot.
"It felt like a crab, so I jumped backward," said Cordle, who was vacationing with his family in Beach Haven.
But it wasn't a crab, or a mussel shell as he deduced it might be next, after seeing its black color.
It was an arrowhead -- one that an area expert says dates back to the Paleoindian period, approximately 8,000 to 11,000 years ago.
"A couple of people told us they didn't think it was real," Noah's mother, Andrea Cordle, said of the find, which she described as being about 2½ inches long and black with a small fleck of orange along a ridge on its side.
Andrea and her husband, Brian Cordle, turned to Greg Lattanzi, the assistant curator at the Bureau of Archaeology and Ethnography at the New Jersey State Museum.
Lattanzi, who said the museum has a collection of more than 20 similar arrowheads -- more technically termed projectile points -- called Noah's find "rare."
He said that most similar arrowheads have been excavated from archaeological sites in the northeastern United States rather than washing ashore.
After examining the arrowhead under a microscope, Lattanzi said it appears to be made of Jasper and Chert stone and was probably attached to a spear and used for hunting.
The Cordles, who live in Lorton, Virginia, say they plan to hold on to their treasure for a while before finding it a permanent home.
"It's really cool, but we're not collectors," Andrea Cordle said. "We're going to donate it."
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The point looks rather Solutrean - a Paleolithic culture from around France. This has some implications as to who the first people in North America were.
CARLSBAD -- The Mojave rattler, one of the most lethal rattlesnakes in the Southwest, has been gradually moving into new territory in Southeastern New Mexico.
The snake is a type of pit viper that has recently migrated from California and Arizona and appears physically similar to the area's native Western diamondback rattlesnake and black-tail rattlesnake. Mistaking the Mojave rattler for the other rattlesnakes could mean the difference between life and death according to some experts. I don't want to get bitten by either one.
Mojave rattlesnakes are smaller than Western diamondbacks, have a distinctively outlined diamond pattern on their back, and display prominent light and dark diagonal stripes on the sides of their head according to the Game and Fish Department.
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This snake's venom has been changing over the last few decades.
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The easiest way to distinguish the three snake species is by looking at their tail headless bodies according to spends some time in the brush and knows snakebite victims swksvolFF.
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We don't have Mojaves but we have Eastern diamond backs and copperheads in East Tennessee. Bites are relatively infrequent but people do get bitten-- mostly by copperheads. Of course, in the snake handling religious services, people get bitten by rattlers fairly frequently.
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RE: snake handling religious services According to Minton these cults don't seem to have much longevity when they enter the range of the Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake for some reason.
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Depending upon the coloring and width of the stripes on the tail and being close enough to know what is about to bite you is like tailgating a POS car ( any K car, vega, pinto, gremlin) and betting the brake lights are functional.
[THEWRAP] An individual with knowledge of the network's plans tell TheWrap a large portion are expected at the two cable channels
Some 550 buyouts are to be offered at Time Warner's Turner network this week, including a large number of those at CNN and HLN, which will lead to layoffs if they are not taken voluntarily, according to an individual with knowledge of the network's plans.
The buyouts will come across the Turner division, with a couple of hundred expected at CNN and HLN, the individual said.
A CNN spokeswoman had no immediate comment.
News of the buyouts comes shortly after Turner Broadcasting System CEO John Martin revealed in an internal memo Tuesday that corporate restructuring was coming in the next two months.
"Division leaders now are reviewing the working groupsâ™ reports on their respective areas of oversight," Martin wrote. "Over the coming weeks, they will work with me to finalize the organizational changes we will implement."
Time Warner-owned Turner is the parent company of HLN.
Martin's note also stated that the company will "start 2015 a more streamlined, nimble and efficient company focused on driving programming, monetization and innovation, in a culture that emphasizes and rewards continuous improvement."
CNN chief Jeff Zucker called in to a Turner news meeting last week to elaborate on Martin's memo. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted a partial transcription on Sunday.
"We now have a sense of what Turner is expecting from CNN," Zucker said on the call. "I am working with the senior management team at CNN to figure out what this means for us. This will result in changes and what we do and what we stop doing."
Zucker told employees that they'd be hearing news from their managers this week or the next. "We are going to do less and have to do it with less," he concluded.
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[Forbes] In an unexpected and interesting move, Burger King is in talks to buy Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain Tim Horton's Inc., a merger that would be structured as a "tax inversion" which would effectively move Burger King's headquarters to Canada (more specifically, my hometown of Oakville, Ontario).
For those who are unfamiliar with Tim Horton's, the brand is tantamount to Canada's version of Dunkin Donuts that could just as easily adopt its own version of the tagline "America Runs on Dunkin" (think "Canada Runs on Tim Horton's").
Tim Horton's is no small coffee-shop chain.
Tim Horton's, Canada's largest coffee-shop chain, has a market capitalization of about $8.4 billion, while Burger King's market capitalization is about $9.6 billion; the proposed merger would form a new entity worth about $18 billion.
The really interesting part to the story however is not the pure fact that an American burger giant is buying up a Canadian national treasure (Wendy's has previously owned Tim Horton's for some time), but rather that Canadian corporate tax rates are favorable relative to American corporate tax rates enough to justify a "tax inversion". A tax inversion occurs when an American company merges with a foreign one and, in the process, reincorporates abroad, effectively entering the foreign countr's tax domicile. An American company that merges with a Canadian target company for share consideration can avoid U.S. residency for tax purposes as long as the shareholders of the Canadian target end up owning at least 20% of the shares of the new parent immediately after the acquisition.
Canada's corporate tax rate in Ontario of 26.5% (the federal rate of 15% plus Ontario's provincial corporate tax rate of 11.5%) is considerably favorable to the American corporate tax rate of 35% thanks in large part to the conservative Canadian government led by Stephen Harper. The Harper government lowered the federal tax rate to 15% in 2012 down originally from 28% since it took office in 2006.
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The corporation exists to serve its shareholders. Period. Two thousands five hundred years since Aesop, the covetous behavior leading to the killing of the golden goose still is not comprehended. (Yeah, we're too hip, modern, urban, and educated to believe the fundamental aspects of basic human behavior)
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Recently, I read that the average income for the middle class in Canada exceeds that of the U.S. Obama's "war on the middle class" should be a pub narrative for the next election--not particularly sexy but it might stick.
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BK is really getting slammed in the press as is Amazon for moving its European HQ to Luxemburg, for tax reasons rather than England, France, Germany. Seems to me if it is legal, the too bad for those that can't handle it.
And along with this, Starbucks recently announced it would pay MORE than it was required to in England. Being a good corporate neighbor and all. So if they are going to do that, they don't need my business for their overpriced coffee.
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Can we as individuals do the same thing? Declare ourselves as corporations? Just a thought.
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...yes, but you have to personally own a few congresscritters to arrange the law to fit your desires. I think most of us have been priced out of that market.
[CSMONITOR] Experts say that the aid, combined with a new rebel offensive in Donetsk, strengthen Putin's bargaining position ahead of tomorrow's possible meeting with Poroshenko.
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KIEV, Ukraine -- A column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles has crossed into southeastern Ukraine, away from where most of the intense fighting has been taking place, a top Ukrainian official said Monday.
Col. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine's National Security Council, told reporters that the column of 10 tanks, two armored vehicles and two trucks crossed the border near Shcherbak and that the nearby city of Novoazovsk was shelled during the night from Russia. He said they were Russian military vehicles bearing the flags of the separatist Donetsk rebels.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday he had no information about the column.
Because it's not considered a "foreign" affair...
Ukrainians say they're Russian, but pro Russian Ukrainian militia say, "It's us!";
The reported incursion and shelling could indicate an attempt to move on Mariupol, a major port on the Azov Sea, an arm of the Black Sea. Mariupol lies on the main road between Russia and Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Russia annexed in March. Capturing Mariupol could be the first step in building a slice of territory that links Russia with Crimea.
Although Mariupol is in Ukraine's separatist Donetsk region, most of the fighting between separatist rebels and Ukrainian troops has been well to the north, including around the city of Donetsk, the rebels' largest stronghold. A full offensive in the south could draw Ukrainian forces away from the fight for Donetsk.
Lysenko said Mariupol has enough defenders "to repel any attack of uninvited guests."
Ukraine and the West say that Russia is supporting and supplying the rebels and that since mid-August, Russia has fired into Ukraine from across the border and from within Ukrainian territory. Moscow denies those allegations.
Fighting continued elsewhere in the east, notably around the town of Olenivka, 15 miles south of Donetsk. Lysenko said Monday about250 separatists had been killed in that fighting, but did not specify in what time period. On Sunday, rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko said two-thirds of Olenivka had been wrested away from Ukrainian control.
Ukrainian forces had made significant inroads against the separatists in recent weeks, but the rebels have vowed to retake lost territory.
Russia announced plans, meanwhile, to send a second aid convoy into rebel-held eastern Ukraine, where months of fighting have left many residential buildings in ruins.
Russia's unilateral dispatch of over 200 trucks into Ukraine on Friday was denounced by the Ukrainian government as an invasion and condemned by the United States, the European Union and NATO. Even though the tractor-trailers returned to Russia without incident on Saturday, the announcement of another convoy was likely to raise new suspicions.
Lavrov said Monday that Russia had notified the Ukrainian government it was preparing to send a second convoy along the same route in the coming days, but Lysenko said he had no information on that plan.
Lavrov also said the food, water and other goods delivered to the hard-hit rebel city of Luhansk was being distributed Monday and that Red Cross workers were at talks on how best to distribute it. There was no immediate confirmation on that from the Red Cross.
In sending in the first convoy, Russia said it had lost patience with what it called Ukraine's stalling tactics. It claimed that soon "there will no longer be anyone left to help" in Luhansk, where weeks of heavy shelling have cut off power, water and phone service and made food scarce.
The Ukrainian government had said the aid convoy was a ploy by Russia to get supplies to the rebels and slow down government military advances.
On Sunday, as Ukraine celebrated the anniversary of its 1991 independence from Moscow, President Peter Poroshenko announced that the government would be increasing its military spending in a bid to defeat the rebels.
In rebel-held Donetsk, captured Ukrainian soldiers were paraded Sunday through the streets, jeered by the crowd and pelted with eggs and tomatoes.
As Ukrainian artillery units continue shelling Donetsk and Lugansk, a separate pro Russian militia force has opened a new attack on the southern coast of Ukraina, according to news reports.
The offensive came about, according to pro Russian Voice of Sevastopol, because militia units found that significant gaps in the southern line held by Ukrainian force existed, owing to the fact that the Ukrainian military had stripped those defenses and threw them into the fight for such locations as Ilovaisk and Krasnii Luch further north, where the Ukrainian command were trying to force a quick decision and start an encirclement of Donetsk, the main prize in the war between Ukraina and the pro Russian militias.
Russian military units had been shelling the coastal town of Novoazovsk since Saturday and have since attempted to probe into the town. The significance of the move cannot be overstated. Novoazovsk is less than 15 kilometers east from the port city of Mariupol, still under Ukrainian control, but, according to militia news sources, poorly defended.
Reports also state that gunfire had been exchanged between militia and Ukrainian forces at the airport near Mariupol, and that militia forces were actively conducting operations near Yelenovka and the settlement Dolya , where militias claim to have destroyed a Ukrainian checkpoint.
Official Ukrainian sources say the Russians are violating the border in the area with armor vehicles. It is claimed that six Russian tanks out of 30 were destroyed by Ukrainian forces. The Ukrainian ATO Press Center said that two tanks were destroyed and an undisclosed number of pro Russian militia were captured. The Press Center also said that the Ukrainian military have deployed a blocking force, presumably along the road between Mariupol and Novoazovsk.
The ATO also said on their Facebook page that a total of 12 BMD infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed by Ukrainian tanks in the initial attack conducted by pro Russian militia Sunday north of Novoazovsk. Eight dismounted paratroopers of that unit were captured. The Ukrainians maintain that the destroyed armored group are Russian regular troops.
A Youtube video posted by the ATO Press Center said the captured paratroopers are from the Russian 98th Guards Airborne Division, 331st Airborne Regiment.
According to another announcement by pro Russian militia in Donetsk, Donetsk military have brigaded their small military units and have coupled them with artillery fire support, yielding a total of three combat brigades. According to information, a separate volunteer regiment consisting of Ukrainian military deserters and Donbass miners also have been formed.
The new conglomeration is likely to very troubling for the Ukrainian military trying to encircle the city of Donetsk with a total of 6,000 troops. The total of the four new formations is 7,000 effective, sufficient to defend the Donetsk region from assault.
In Donetsk, artillery fire continues. Artillery strikes were reported in the Leninski, Kalininsky, at the Kalinin hospital and in the village of Kirovskoye. The Ukrainian ATO Press Center said that it is pro Russian militia which are responsible for the artillery strikes.
At the moment pro Russian militia claim they have a large group of Ukrainian military formations surrounded in areas east of Donetsk, totaling by their count 7,000 effectives. The units in the "cauldron", dubbed "Cauldron 3.0", included 8th Army Corps headquarters troops, 95th Airmobile Brigade, 28th and 30th Mechanized brigades, as well as police battalions "Aydar", "Shahtyorsk" and "Donbass". It is easy to discount such claims when initially made except the pro Russian militias have been claiming the creation of the pocket for several days.
It is said that at least some top police commanders in the region have refused orders from Ukrainian army command.
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Nobody has ever given Ukraine any significant assistance against Russian incursions in the past. Maybe this time will be different. Would be nice if the start line for Russia's next world tour began on the Ukrainian rather than the Polish border. Ultimately, enough Ukrainian blood must be shed to wake the EU from its slumber, which is why Putin hasn't launched a full-scale invasion. The oil ticks of the north need foreign markets for their fuel. The total trade embargo that result from an invasion would interfere with those markets.
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#2 I assume that you are joking. Ukraine (formerly one of the 'Little Russias' under the Czars) has no natural barriers to mark its boundaries. The Russian Steamroller would waltz on in.
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The Russian paratrooper story may be a bit of legerdemain by the Ukrainians. Russian militias are claim they are the ones engaged in combat near Mariupol.
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Ukraine (formerly one of the 'Little Russias' under the Czars) has no natural barriers to mark its boundaries. The Russian Steamroller would waltz on in.
No real natural barriers marking Polish boundaries off from the Russian empire either. It comes down to whether Ukrainians are willing to fight for their sovereignty.
In a stunning revelation, the president of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch told Fox News that Justice Department attorneys have intimated that Lois Lerner's "lost" emails likely exist in back-up computers.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the news came during a Friday phone call with Department of Justice attorneys representing the IRS in Judicial Watch's FOIA lawsuit against the IRS.
Fitton said DOJ attorneys told him the federal government backs up all computer records to ensure the continuity of government in event of a catastrophe. They told him that retrieving the emails from Lerner, a former IRS official, would be "too onerous" - a legal burden that can exempt an agency from complying with FOIA requests.
However, an administration official told Fox News Monday night, " There was no new back-up system described last week to Judicial Watch. Government lawyers who spoke to Judicial Watch simply referred to the same email retention policy that Commissioner (John) Koskinen had described in his Congressional testimony."
Earlier, in describing the phone conversation, Fitton told Fox News,"So everything we've been hearing about scratched hard drives about missing emails of Lois Lerner, other IRS officials, other officials in the Obama administration, it's all been a pack of malarkey.
"They could get these records but they don't want to, and they haven't told anyone about it until we were able to get it out of them on Friday."
Lerner was the IRS's exempt organizations director during the period of 2009 to mid-2011 -- when applications for tax-exempt status from Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations were held up for extra scrutiny.
Investigators have been deeply skeptical that Lerner's emails were truly gone. Law requires government emails be backed up. Also, data from crashed hard drives can often be recovered, and all emails have a recipient or a sender.
"Somebody in Lois Lerner's position has an executive assistant who has access to her email just as though she did," said Morgan Wright, a computer forensics expert. "So whatever email comes into Lois Lerner's box goes into her administrator's box as well."
Administration and IRS officials have repeatedly said Lerner's lost emails no longer exist. In congressional testimony on July 20, IRS Commissioner Koskinen said, "The actual hard drive after it was determined that it was dysfunctional... was recycled and destroyed in the normal process."
In previous sworn declarations, attorneys for the IRS have made no mention of back-up computers where Lerner's emails could exist.
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Of course they were backed up. Everyone who uses company email daily knew they were backed up. The whole thing was a time delay and an obvious one at that. Someone should do a decade for that lie.
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John, so they delay convicting them until O is out of office. He can't pardon someone who hasn't been convicted. Usually justice delayed is justice denied, but in this case, delay might work to serve justice.
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Can you do preemtive pardons on an individual, pardoning them for any and all crimes commited before and during the day that you as president signed that individual's pardon?
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he could, but one or two MSM outlets might remark on it...or not
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The IRS filing in federal Judge Emmet Sullivans court reveals shocking new information. The IRS destroyed Lerners Blackberry AFTER it knew her computer had crashed and after a Congressional inquiry was well underway. As an IRS official declared under the penalty of perjury, the destroyed Blackberry would have contained the same emails (both sent and received) as Lois Lerners hard drive.
We all know by now that Lois Lerners hard drive crashed in June 2011 and was destroyed by IRS. The emails of up to twenty other related IRS officials were missing in remarkably similar crashes, leading many to speculate that Lois Lerners Blackberry perhaps held the key. Now, the Observer can confirm that a year after the infamous hard drive crash, the IRS destroyed Ms. Lerners Blackberryand without making any effort to retain the emails from it.
Judge Sullivan has had to pry information from the IRS to learn anything about Ms. Lerners Blackberry. Now, with these latest revelations, Im confident hes not finished.
In two elusive and nebulous sworn declarations, we can glean that Ms. Lerner had two Blackberries. One was issued to her on November 12, 2009. According to a sworn declaration, this is the Blackberry that contained all the emails (both sent and received) that would have been in her Outlook and drafts that never were sent from her Blackberry during the relevant time.
With incredible disregard for the law and the Congressional inquiry, the IRS admits that this Blackberry was removed or wiped clean of any sensitive or proprietary information and removed as scrap for disposal in June 2012. This is a year after her hard drive crash and months after the Congressional inquiry began.
The IRS did not even attempt to retrieve that data. It cavalierly recites: There is no record of any attempt by any IRS IT employee to recover data from any Blackberry device assigned to Lois Lerner in response to the Congressional investigations or this investigation, according to Stephen Manning, Deputy Chief Information Officer for Strategy & Modernization.
Lerner was issued another Blackberry for Valentines Day 2012also after she came under fire for her targeting
of conservative groups. The IRS still has that Blackberry. Its now in the possession of the Inspector General of the Treasury, but the new device would not have the data from the prior three years. That was most likely the point of getting the new device.
According to Mr. Manning, however: standard IRS practice and policy in the collection of electronic data does not include collecting data from Blackberry devices because the email of a Blackberry user is collected through the process of collecting the contents of the users Outlook mailbox files. Notably, the affidavit does not explain IRS standard procedure for handling the technology of individuals who are the subject of Congressional oversight hearings or of retrieving data on a Blackberry after its owners computer has crashed. One would think that was a no-brainer.
This most recent revelation of destruction of evidence and refusal to retain data and documents despite a Congressional inquiry is beyond outrageous. It screams of guilt and creates a presumption in the law that the evidence would prove what those who were targeted and harassed claim. Judge Sullivan, like most Americans, wants the missing emails that we all know are there somewhere.
Aside from the fact the IRS was required to keep hard copies, we now know they should exist on Blackberry servers as well as Google and perhaps others. Indeed, the Department of Justice has disclosed that they all should be on a government serveras we suspected.
Judge Sullivan has already appointed federal Magistrate Judge John Facciola to assist the parties in finding the emails on other devices. Between the two of them, they can demand production of the emails from the servers, and there are still more questions to answer.
What are all the servers the emails went through? Blackberry is touted as the most secure, so surely the emails should be found there. All of the data on her current Blackberry should be provided immediately to Judge Sullivan, for whatever insight it might provide. Theres no reason for the IRS to hold out on that. It should be given to Darrell Issa and Congress also. Nothing required in the production of the emails through the Blackberry could possibly hamper the Inspector Generals investigation.
And what about ghost email accounts? The IRS should be able to determine, or Judge Sullivan can, whether any of the officials whose emails are missing used personal accounts or other names for business emails they didnt want going through the federal system even though they were required to do so.
One thing is clear: the IRS has no interest in recovering the emails. It has deliberately destroyed evidence and another direct source of the emails it claims were lost. It has been blatantly negligent if not criminal in faiing to preserve evidence and destroying it instead.
Dont be surprised if Judge Sullivan decides its time to order production of everything on that Blackberry, issue subpoenas to third party servers including Blackberry for the dates covered by the Blackberry the IRS destroyed, unleash Judge Facciola, allow Judicial Watch more discovery, prohibit the IRS from destroying anything else, and start a list of lawyers who would make a good special prosecutor.
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How about contempt, obstruction of justice, and perjury charges? That will help to motivate these people to quit screwing around with the court system. Of course, these people might be willing to fall on their swords to protect the executive branch since they are hard core Kool-Aid drinkers.
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.
The citizens of Oswegatchie have another project that the Amish must finish prior to work on the new garage begins. 
[CNN] Ten-year-old Noah Cordle kicked off his summer vacation by dipping his toes into the Atlantic Ocean, only to make an ancient discovery when a sharp object hit his foot.
[THEWRAP] An individual with knowledge of the network's plans tell TheWrap a large portion are expected at the two cable channels
[Forbes] In an unexpected and interesting move, Burger King is in talks to buy Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain Tim Horton's Inc., a merger that would be structured as a "tax inversion" which would effectively move Burger King's headquarters to Canada (more specifically, my hometown of Oakville, Ontario).
In a stunning revelation, the president of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch told Fox News that Justice Department attorneys have intimated that Lois Lerner's "lost" emails likely exist in back-up computers.
The IRS filing in federal Judge Emmet Sullivans court reveals shocking new information. The IRS destroyed Lerners Blackberry AFTER it knew her computer had crashed and after a Congressional inquiry was well underway. As an IRS official declared under the penalty of perjury, the destroyed Blackberry would have contained the same emails (both sent and received) as Lois Lerners hard drive.
