A Vermont man is behind bars after police say he stabbed his son with a corkscrew over a clogged toilet.
Nazeih Hammouri, 53, of Vershire, faces a first-degree assault charge in connection with the Monday morning stabbing.
Vermont State Police said they were called to Hammouri's home on Parker Road just after midnight and their investigation revealed Hammouri had stabbed his 19-year-old son in the stomach after an argument over a clogged toilet. Why didn't you unclog it?
I couldn't find the plunger!
Well, use this instead.
I don't want to use a corkscrew, that's what the plunger is for!
Police said Hammouri was drinking. He is being held on $15,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in Orange County Court Monday afternoon. Don't let him near the gavel!
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Foreigners were about to lose their shirts bankrolling the US housing industry's Ponzi scheme. The Fed bought their shirts at a slight. A foreigner could then go and buy another shirt. Now the Ponzi scheme can keep going a little longer.
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In a nutshell, banks globalized their lending and much/most that cross border lending was in USDs and backed by USD securities (including mortgage backed securities). When the financial crisis hit there was a huge demand for USDs to settle the many USD denominated liabilities, while banks were hoarding USD cash.
Exactly the same thing happened in the USA.
It then goes on to discuss improper pricing and hedging of risk. The cause of the financial crisis in the first place.
'Bailed out' is a misleading term. What the Fed did was provide sufficient liquidity (moreorless cash) for the world's banking system. Which is its function for the US banking system. And if you think that having the USD as the world's reserve currency is a good thing (which I don't) then the Fed must do the same for the world's banking system in order for the system to work.
Have you heard the news? President Obama inherited an economic mess from the Bush administration.
You say that's hardly news? But it's been the message sounded over and over by the White House. Top Obama adviser David Axelrod said on one of the Sunday news shows, "He walked in the door, we had the worst economy since the Great Depression." In San Francisco, Obama talked of being "busy with our mop." White House heavy hitter Rahm Emanuel used the worst-economy-since-the-Depression line on a public TV news show.
You'd think it's October 2008, the final month in the Obama presidential candidacy, rather than October 2009, nine months into the Obama presidency. Yet the Obama White House is in full campaign mode -- maybe because it needs to mask the shortcomings of the Obama presidency.
Take, for example, all the talk of inheriting the worst economy since the 1930s crisis. That came in response to the news that the federal deficit hit $1.4 trillion.
Yet just a few months ago, the Obama camp was singing a little different tune. It was under criticism for the $787 billion stimulus package it bulldozed through Congress on grounds that massive spending was needed to keep the unemployment rate from breaching 8 percent. When joblessness hit 9.5 percent in June, Vice President Joe Biden said, "We misread how bad the economy was."
They inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression, or the economy turned out to be worse than they thought. Which is it? It can't be both -- unless your brain is completely addled by the Obama charisma.
Obama is still popular, but polls show the public losing faith in his policies. Another indicator was a ''Saturday Night Live'' skit lampooning Obama for the major accomplishments of his administration -- "jack and squat." If the honeymoon is ending with the American voter, it isn't for obsequious elements of the mainstream media. CNN prostrated itself by fact-checking the ''SNL'' comedy skit.
But that's harmless compared to the virulent campaign against Obama critics carried out by the denizens of MSNBC. Its Obama acolytes seek to demonize opponents of Obama's policies by focusing on most marginal corners of right-wing politics like, for example, the "birthers" who deny Obama is a natural born citizen. The larger scheme is to imply Obama critics are racists.
That's the backdrop to the story of Rush Limbaugh getting booted from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams. He was smeared on CNN and MSNBC with false accusations of making two racist comments. He is an abrasive critic of Obama, so he must be racist, or so goes the left-wing story line. I wouldn't defend everything Limbaugh has ever said, but lies were used to blacklist him from professional football for his political views.
Recently an MSNBC personality accused the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of lobbying for policies that amount to being "treasonous to this country." Remember how liberals roared in outrage at any hint of their patriotism being questioned for criticizing the Iraq War? Well, it's the left that doesn't shy from attacking the patriotism of those it dislikes. Recall the repulsive Moveon.org "General Betray-us" ad against Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus. Recent opposition to Chicago's Olympic bid was cast as a sign of a lack of patriotism among Obama critics.
The MSNBC blast against the chamber appears to dovetail with what the Politico newspaper reports is a White House and Democratic effort "to marginalize" the business organization. That echoes the administration assault on the Fox News Channel: It says Fox isn't a news organization.
The White House trying to dictate who's a news organization. Democrats out to gut a business group. Obama media allies damning Americans as racist, unpatriotic and treasonous. Is this the America Obama promised when he campaigned to end the cynical and divisive politics of the past?
Republicans neednt trouble themselves to nominate a presidential candidate in 2012. No matter what, Pres. Barack Obama will be running against George W. Bush.
Bush will be Obamas eternal foil. At this rate, when Obama writes his post-presidential memoir, it will be titled: An Audacious Presidency, or How I Saved America from That Bastard Bush. His presidential library will have a special fright-house wing devoted to Bushs misrule. He will mutter in his senescence about 43, like the Ancient Mariner about his albatross.... Rich, buddy, please, don't give him any ideas.
...When Obama first burst on the scene, he seemed to respect the other side. That refreshing Obama is long gone. Now, he impugns his immediate predecessor with classless regularity, and attributes the worst of motives pure partisanship and unrestrained greed to those who oppose him. Their assigned role is to get the hell out of his way.
The acid test of the White House inevitably exposes a presidents character flaws: Nixons corrosive paranoia, Clintons self-destructive indiscipline, Bushs stubborn defensiveness. Obama in the crucible is exhibiting an oddly self-pitying arrogance. Its unbecoming in anyone, let alone the most powerful man on the planet.
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Pretty soon he will be jousting with windmills. Remember you read it first here.
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The link goes to an article bashing LIttle Green Footballs. A topic that was discussed a few days ago.
Personally I think the anti-LGF folks should just go silent on the whole thing. DeLink and ignore rather than obsess over the changes. Maybe each anti-LGF blog could come up with there own special post about why they turned on LGF and someone could create a blog specifically for that purpose. Then the anti-LFG blogs could link to that blog whenever the need arose rather than retread the same old tired ground.
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I'm of two minds (Ed -- only two? I'm having an integrating day).
I do think Charles has fallen off his bike a couple times and hit his head. If his major point these days is that some of the wingnuts on the right are just as insane as some of the moonbats on the left, I'm with him. He's correct to note that some of the hard-right wingnuts (e.g., R.S. McCain) are NOT the kind of people the Pubs want around them come election time.
But it seems that he's ignoring the moonbats and going after the wingnuts in a way that is simply vituperative. He's not going to convert minds the way he's going about it. It's almost as if he's becoming, in his own little world, as authoritarian as those he stands against. And he's ignoring some big, big things that Obama is trying to pull behind the curtain.
Charles was originally an anti-idiotarian. He's in danger of losing that. Shame.
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My 2c worth is that CJ's PC morality (the liberal left coast variant) ran into the complexities and difficult issues that plague most of the world.
He is going through the usual cognitive dissonance when PC morality meets the real world.
Which BTW explains his Sarah Palin obsession. Liberals really hate downhome non-intellectuals showing they better understand how the real world works than they do. And god forbid without all that liberal angst as well.
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someone did a cartoon called (i think) Dan Rather's Revenge. It showed Charles Johnson tied to a chair and Dan Rather posting to his page. LOL. It sounds about right to me. Maybe a DNA test would be in order.
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Before I quite reading LGF, I wondered at his excessive energy directed at creationism, creationists, people who might be associated with creationists, and people who used code words for creationism.
It's one thing to be politically concerned. It's one thing to be focused irrationally on one thing, if that's your job. Say, for instance, he was president of the Anti-Creationist Information Center (if there is such a thing), you could expect it.
But creationism isn't a problem (saying so makes me an enemy of LGF and all right-thinking people).
What's the big deal?
Helmet's too tight, is my guess.
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To be honest LGF has comment threads were way to long. I never got the point of the pictures he posted or the threads just hanging there with no other point to their existence.
Personally i don't like to see cross-blog wars. Just ignore and move on.
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I stopped reading LGF, and Brothers Judd, when both began deleting civil comments that opposed their pet views. I caught Orrin modifying comments to "dumb down" the commenter.
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CJ is has ego control problems. His principal target is the right wing activists who are putting their neck on the line against the left-wing Feds. He deserves wallpaper status. Not that I support every move by the activists.
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.
Rich Lowry, National Review
