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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Police Find Burgers Sprinkled With Pot
LOS LUNAS, N.M. — Three workers at a Burger King restaurant were arrested after two Isleta tribal police officers discovered that the hamburgers they ordered were sprinkled with marijuana.

The Isleta Police Department officers ate about half of their burgers Sunday before discovering marijuana on the meat. The officers used a field test kit to confirm the substance was pot, then went to a hospital for a medical evaluation.

The three Burger King employees — Justin Armijo, 19; Robert Nuckols, 21; and manager Joseph Ledesma, 33 — were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and aggravated battery on an officer, a felony.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/07/2006 10:54 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And the problem is???
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 11/07/2006 11:11 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought KFC used the special herbs and spices?
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/07/2006 11:12 Comments || Top||

#3  The officers thought something was amiss when they had to swing around and order a dozen burgers to go! Isn't Burger Kings' jingle: "Have it YOUR way"?
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 11/07/2006 11:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Duuuuuude . . . these burgers are, like . . . cosmic!
Posted by: Mike || 11/07/2006 12:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Can you get Doritos instead of fries with your combo?
Posted by: Dar || 11/07/2006 12:39 Comments || Top||

#6  "Do you want to be fried with that?"
Posted by: USN, ret. || 11/07/2006 14:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Donuts missing from evidence room.
Posted by: wxjames || 11/07/2006 15:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Anyone notice the dateline? What else would you expect, except lunacy, from Los Lunas, New Mexico? (The Land of Entrapment)
Posted by: Zenster || 11/07/2006 15:46 Comments || Top||

#9  So much for Jim Anchower's new job...
Posted by: Ernest Brown || 11/07/2006 20:37 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Woman fatally bitten by snake in KY church
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/07/2006 18:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Handling reptiles as part of religious services is illegal in Kentucky.

guess that means Rev Al Sharpton amd Jesse Jackson better avoid KY
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2006 19:11 Comments || Top||

#2  And you thought I was fucked up.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 11/07/2006 21:20 Comments || Top||


Britney Spears Files for Divorce
"I question the timing of this announcement," complained Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean. "This is an obvious ploy by Karl Rove to distract attention from today's election."
Posted by: Mike || 11/07/2006 17:43 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  we need the britney/snake graphic, please
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2006 17:46 Comments || Top||

#2  I'll vote for her if she can stop these damned telephone recordings I've been getting all day.
Posted by: Darrell || 11/07/2006 17:52 Comments || Top||

#3  she's actually lost all that chicken-mac'n and pregnancy pounds....
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2006 18:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Woulda been cheaper to go to Africa and buy one, babe.

/Madonna
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 18:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Never saw that coming...
Posted by: Danking70 || 11/07/2006 18:55 Comments || Top||

#6  It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/07/2006 19:18 Comments || Top||

#7  I'd have preferred the Acme Give-A-Shit Meter.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/07/2006 22:00 Comments || Top||

#8  #5 Never saw that coming...
Posted by Danking70 2006-11-07 18:55

I second that one! I mean this ranks right up there with Hillary Swank's bust up, Jenny McCarthy's marital collapse, and of course, Jessica Simpson's tragic separation and divorce. Who would have thunk it all??? And now this news onto of Sarah Evans case and Nicole Kidman's hubby checking in to rehab for a little ole detox! My my.
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 11/07/2006 23:56 Comments || Top||

#9  And now *add* this news onto *that* of Sarah Evans' case and Nicole Kidman's hubby checking in to rehab for a little ole detox! My my. So shocking!
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 11/07/2006 23:57 Comments || Top||


Gay Sheep Experiment Challenged By Tennis Champ
Ewe just can't make this stuff up . . .
Tennis champion Martina Navratilova said that there is some research going on at Oregon State University and Oregon Health and Science University that is "homophobic and cruel". Researchers there have searched for years for biological differences that might distinguish rams who mount ewes from rams who mount rams.
Have they checked their eyesight?
Researchers say roughly 5 percent to 8 percent of rams are "male-oriented." They avoid the term "gay," saying it is too human-focused.
"Well, for one thing, we've never seen a sheep that particularly enjoyed interior decorating, Broadway musicals, or had a thing for Judy Garland."
Navratilova wrote letters to the presidents of both institutions last week at the urging of PETA. The animal-rights group recently asked about 14,000 people to send e-mails opposing the experiments.
"We think it's a baaaaad idea."

Brace yourselves; the next paragraph is pure comedy gold.

Some animals in the studies are killed so researchers can study their brains. PETA said the test of sheep sexual preference that leaves the animals in a room while a ram chooses which to mount is like rape. PETA also questions Oregon State's statement that the research could help ranchers avoid spending thousands of dollars on rams that won't breed, saying it sounds like a program of sexual eugenics in animals.
"First they came for the gay sheep, and I said nothing, because . . . well, I'm not really into sheep. . . . "
Posted by: Mike || 11/07/2006 14:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ewe...
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/07/2006 15:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Okay, I found my boggle, lol.

Thx, Mike - great in-lines, lol.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 15:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, it *is* about sheep eugenics. Farmers do NOT want homosexual rams, of which there is an unusually high incidence, because they want rams to breed. If they determine a ram is homosexual, they want to cull it, because it is just eating food that could be eaten by productive animals.

BTW, scientists have yet to determine if there is such a thing as a lesbian sheep, in that when a sheep wants to mate, it stands still. So two female sheep would just stand there eyeballing each other.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/07/2006 15:29 Comments || Top||

#4  You'll continue to see the gay community oppose this kind of research. They don't want the phenomenon understand particularly well, as they fear that might lead to a "cure".

Sounds crazy, but it's going on right now in the deaf community.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/07/2006 15:42 Comments || Top||

#5  There already is a cure among humans.

But, of course, you're not supposed to know that.
Posted by: Korora || 11/07/2006 16:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Yeah, but does it work with sheeps? There's at least an anxious and rightly p*ssed-off test ram who would like to know.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/07/2006 16:55 Comments || Top||

#7  My dog mounts any other dog she can. It's a dominance thing (like prison I guess) not a sex thing.

I could be wrong, maybe she's bi and confused on how the whole thing works.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/07/2006 17:29 Comments || Top||

#8  So, um, you've got a Dyke doggy?
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 17:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Did you call her "Butch"?
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/07/2006 17:44 Comments || Top||

#10  Am I the only one here disturbed that sheep are getting raped by other sheep? We need to set up some interspecial courts and juries to prosecute the rapists of the animal kingdom!

And don't get me started on the prosecutions we'll need against those murderous predatorial species, like wolves, bears, hawks, owls, etc.!

Whether it's "baa", "neigh", "squeak", or "arf", "no" means "no"!
Posted by: Dar || 11/07/2006 18:14 Comments || Top||

#11  Lol, Dar!
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 18:15 Comments || Top||

#12  wonder if Martina was ever intrigued by the term "ball girl" in her career
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2006 19:08 Comments || Top||

#13  Lol!
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 19:10 Comments || Top||

#14  OMG, Frank. That may be the funniest thing I've heard, ever! Definitely snark of the day material!
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 21:12 Comments || Top||

#15  I betcha Martina never got hit by any balls in the chin.
Posted by: GORT || 11/07/2006 21:13 Comments || Top||

#16  betcha Martina never got hit by any balls in the chin.

old joke - who was hit by more balls to the chin? Yogi Berra or Liberace?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2006 22:36 Comments || Top||

#17  With modest apologies to Disney!

Yo ho, yo ho a homo's life for me
we pillage, we bugger, we rifle and loot
Buck up me 'earties, yo ho.
we decorate and flame and don't give a hoot
Buck up me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho yo ho, a homo's life for me.
we extort, we pillage, we felch and suck.
Buck up me 'earties yo ho
we maraude and embezzle and even hijack
Buck up me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho a homo's life for me.
we kindle and char and flame and ignite
Buck up me 'earties yo ho.
We burn up the city, we're really afright
Buck up me 'earties, yo ho!
We're rascals, scoundrels, villans and naves
Buck up me 'earties, yo ho.
We're devils and blacksheep and really bad eggs
Buck up me 'earties, yo ho!
Yo ho, yo ho a homo's life for me
We're fisters and poofters and ne'er do well cats
Buck up me 'earties, yo ho
I think we're loved by our dads and dads.
Buck up me 'earties, yo ho!
Yo ho, yo ho a homo's life for me
Posted by: Mick Dundee || 11/07/2006 22:39 Comments || Top||


Pregame Hitler speech stirs fury (in North Carolina)
When Charlotte Catholic's boys' soccer team got to Forestview High School in Gastonia on Saturday night for an N.C. 3A playoff game, the Cougars heard something over the public address system they never would've expected:

A 90-second portion of a speech from Adolf Hitler.

"We were warming up," said Catholic coach Gary Hoilett, "and all of us stopped and looked up at the booth. We were just real shocked. It was obviously a Hitler speech. The voice was coming across clearly. Everybody knew."

Forestview's players took the field after the speech ended.

But before the game, Hoilett said, some Forestview players were chanting something in German that means "On to victory," according to one of his players who speaks German. Hoilett, who is black, said that during the game some Forestview players directed racial epithets at his two black players.

"It was one of the worst things I've seen," Hoilett said of the speech and the racial epithets.
I believe some severe stomping is in order.
Posted by: mrp || 11/07/2006 11:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Possibly it did not occur to them to record the exchange student, or some local German-speaker, saying the expression.

The principal of the offending school has apologized but I have not seen the text.

I can guess though:

"I deeply regret that my students are so box-o'-rocks stupid that they cannot understand the historical context of A. Hitler's ravings, and so inept that they cannot record their own slogan.
On the other hand, they know about the contributions of African-American womyn during the War of 1812, and they bow their heads in shame on Hiroshima Day, so the education that I and my colleagues have provided is not a complete waste."
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 11/07/2006 14:38 Comments || Top||

#2  They need to watch the South Park where they explain to cartman that it isn't cool to dress up as Hitler on Halloween....
Posted by: Mark E. || 11/07/2006 15:25 Comments || Top||

#3  But before the game, Hoilett said, some Forestview players were chanting something in German that means "On to victory," according to one of his players who speaks German.

I vaguely recall that "sieg" is "victory". Very vaguely.

Doesn't come off well for Forestview High School. If the report is accurate, that school needs an enema.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/07/2006 15:33 Comments || Top||

#4  It is impossible to believe that America's collective memory of WWII is so diminished that no one possibly knew the historical context of what happened. A king-sized can of whupass needs to be opened up on those responsible for this disgrace. The Forestview players who made racist remarks should be ejected from their team for unsportsman like conduct. Buncha filthy assholes.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/07/2006 16:58 Comments || Top||

#5  When you stop teaching history...this is what happens.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/07/2006 17:23 Comments || Top||

#6  It is impossible to believe that America's collective memory of WWII is so diminished that no one possibly knew the historical context of what happened.

Zenster - of course it is. Teaching of American history in my own day (back in the mid-60's/70's) rarely went beyond WW1 and then only briefly touched on such things as WW2, Korea, or Viet Nam - except to say that the US was the bad guy in Viet Nam - and I was in a rural country school where Republicans and conservatives were heavily dominant!

If I couldn't get a decent education regarding WW2, Korea, or Viet Nam (eventually managed to get myself that education by individual study and going to carefully selected colleges and classes), how the hell can one expect a student in high school today to get anything other than dhimmi pc twaddle about America at war?

Posted by: FOTSGreg || 11/07/2006 19:46 Comments || Top||

#7  49Pan - Your school's textbooks came from approved Big Blue Machine vendors and your teachers from their "universities".
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 19:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Arrrggghhh, I meant FOTSGreg - sorry - I'd just read one of 49Pan's posts, lol. And, um, since FoxNews is screwed up on my cable system, I'm having to watch CNN, too. Those are my excuses and I'm sticking with 'em, lol.
Posted by: .com || 11/07/2006 19:51 Comments || Top||

#9  Jeebus, .com. Amazing that you're posting here and not over at koz or somewheres with those circumstances, lol!
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 21:18 Comments || Top||


Britain
Biggest UK cave discovered in Peak District
Titan is estimated to be about 459ft - 140m - from floor to ceiling, as high as the London Eye. Dave Nixon, a local potholer and leading underground explorer, discovered the cave after finding an account by an obscure 18th century academic in a university library.

In a paper written in 1793, James Plumtree described a network of caves which went beyond Leviathan, a well-known cave system near Castleton. Mr Nixon and a group of Peak cavers realised the entrance must have been blocked by a rockfall, and, after removing rocks, they discovered a long system leading the group to Titan.

Cavers spent three years removing another fall of boulders before finally gaining entry to the bottom of the cavern. Mr Nixon said: "It wasn't a matter of stumbling, it was a lot of research and a lot of hard work."

His team has now completed a man-made shaft which allows cavers to abseil into the cave, saving them a challenging five-hour underground journey.

The cave was carved out over millions of years by water eroding limestone and contains a massive waterfall which plunges deep below ground level. Titan is nearly 197ft - 60m - higher than the previous record holder, Gaping Gyhll in the Yorkshire Dales.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/07/2006 07:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
"Pirated" English town in China amuses and riles
China, often regarded as the copycat capital of the world with fake designer bags and even counterfeit cars, has added a new string to its imitation bow -- an English town. An hour's drive from Shanghai's skyscrapers in the suburb of Songjiang lies Thames Town, complete with pub, fish-and-chip shop and even a bronze statue of Winston Churchill.

There is a neo-Gothic church as well as Georgian- and Victorian-style terraced houses that would not look out of place in the poshest parts of London. "I wanted the properties to look exactly the same as those in the United Kingdom," James Ho, the director of privately owned Shanghai Henghe Real Estate Co. Ltd., one of the town's five developers. "I think English properties are very special. When we decide to learn from others, we should not make any improvements or changes. I emphasised this policy to my staff," he told Reuters.

The development, which cost about 5 billion yuan (334 million pounds), is expected to house 10,000 people. Most of the houses have been sold, however, the town is hardly bustling: few residents have moved in and most of the shops are not yet open for business. During a recent visit, the only signs of life were couples in heavy make-up having their wedding snaps taken. "I can't find such unique buildings in Shanghai's city centre," said Emily Ma, before having a wedding picture taken. "I just love Western-style buildings," she gushed.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Most of the houses have been sold, however, the town is hardly bustling: few residents have moved in and most of the shops are not yet open for business.

Not surprising. It will be 2 years before any people live there. The way Chinese build housing - you buy an apartment, then you get four concrete walls with pipes sticking out of them. No toilets, no kitchen counters, no nothing. You then furnish the place over the next 24 months. If you move in too early, you get jackhammers on your ceiling and elevators full of dust and rude country bumpkin construction workers. It's odd because you have these brand-new buildings, and they're completely empty and dark at night.

Not surprised they're doing this, though. There's some part of the Chinese psychology that makes them copy. A while back, I visited "Americaland" in Hanghzhou, a failed theme park that had been turned into a school. Replicas of the White House, Washington Monument, etc. Incredibly tacky. I saw the movie "The World" recently which dealt with a Beijing theme park that replicated scenic spots from around the world.
Posted by: gromky || 11/07/2006 5:21 Comments || Top||

#2  g: The way Chinese build housing - you buy an apartment, then you get four concrete walls with pipes sticking out of them.

Well, it's not an open floor plan - the (brick) walls of the bedroom, living room, etc are all up. But the wiring, flooring, plumbing and painting all have to be done by the new owner. What the new owner has bought includes interior walls and bare cement floors.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 11/07/2006 6:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Article: "Traditionally, Chinese people think China is in the centre of the world. So it makes sense to build foreign-style towns around Shanghai because this will make most Chinese proud," said designer Huang Ziaming from Tian Hua Construction Design.

This is a pretty revealing statement. Anyone who thinks Chinese are humble hasn't listened in on Chinese talking amongst themselves.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 11/07/2006 6:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like Epcot.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/07/2006 8:18 Comments || Top||

#5  My exact thought, too, RC. Except without the high priced food, I'd bet.
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 9:14 Comments || Top||

#6  On the north side of Columbus, Ohio, there's a retail and apartment development that's tricked out to look like a French provincal village circa 1930, complete with a statue of a poilu holding a laurel wreath of victory.
Posted by: Mike || 11/07/2006 9:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Gag me with a spoon.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/07/2006 9:37 Comments || Top||


Europe
Comic strip portrays Sarkozy as a power-crazed Napoleon figure
Nicolas Sarkozy has defended the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed as a "necessary evil". But today, the French Interior Minister's own sense of humour will itself be tested with the publication of a comic strip album lampooning his ferocious ambition to become President.

The 150 irreverent pages of La face Karchee de Sarkozy portray the diminutive 51-year-old politician as constantly stooped like a jockey, eagle-eyed and gritting his teeth as he targets his sole aim: power. The story writer Philippe Cohen said: "What's striking about Sarkozy is that his keenness to attain power seems to be coupled with a kind of nonchalance about holding it.

"The present state of the Interior Ministry is a case in point. The ministry is being run by a senior civil servant while Sarkozy busies himself with the presidential campaign."
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: ryuge || 11/07/2006 01:53 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Quick! Somebody burn down an embassy... not.
Posted by: Howard UK || 11/07/2006 3:40 Comments || Top||

#2  The 150 irreverent pages of La face Karchee de Sarkozy portray the diminutive 51-year-old politician as constantly stooped like a jockey, eagle-eyed and gritting his teeth as he targets his sole aim: power.

They forgot the hook-nose and tentacles. Quick, to the Mullahmobile!
Posted by: Excalibur || 11/07/2006 7:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
A Rove Error
U.S. National Overview
October 2006

National Climatic Data Center
Asheville, North Carolina
Updated 6 November 2006

October

* 52nd coolest October on record (1895-2006).
* All regions near to or below normal temperature (first time since February 2003 with no regions above average temperature).
* Only 2 states above normal temperatures in October: New Hampshire and Texas.

This should have been released last Friday. But having Texas as one of 2 states above average temperature is a nice touch.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/07/2006 16:32 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Nashua candidate says he's a Democrat and communist
Hey! Finally an honest Democrat!
NASHUA, N.H. --A city man on the ballot as a Democratic candidate for state representative is also a member of the Communist Party USA.

Daniel Keating, 22, a U.S. Army veteran who has protested against the Iraq war, is one of three Democrats and two Republicans running for three House seats in District 25. Keating, a tradesman, listed his affiliation in a questionnaire for The Telegraph's online voter guide.

Keating said Monday he joined the Communist Party USA about a year ago because it promotes issues of concern to working people, such as a fair minimum wage.
...and gulags
"I got interested in (the party) when I first joined the military, and coming from a working class background, you want to see more working-class people involved in politics, and that's what I consider it to be, besides all the general left-leaning stances on issues," he said.

Keating, who is not endorsed by the Nashua Democratic Committee, said he hopes voters will pay attention to his position on issues like education funding, the minimum wage and health care, and not be scared by the label "communist". "
Stalin. Mao. Millions exterminated. It's just a word.
"All I want to do is help; it shouldn't be about that. People get so scared over one word," he said.
I'm from the Communist Party. And I'm here to help.
Secretary of State William Gardner said the last time the Communist Party USA was listed on state ballots was in 1980, when the party ticket of Gus Hall and Angela Davis competed against Democrat Jimmy Carter and Republican Ronald Reagan.
So there were three commies running that year?
The party got on the ballot by submitting a petition signed by 3,000 registered voters, but after a newspaper published their names, some denied signing or claimed they had been misled.
Wow. A Communist would lie? Can ya beat that?
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/07/2006 10:04 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since the fall of the Soviet Union, and the cut-off of funding, the CPUSA has regularly said "vote Democrat."
Posted by: Jackal || 11/07/2006 11:34 Comments || Top||


#3  Don't be scared of the word "Slavery" either.

Without economic freedom you are a state slave.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan || 11/07/2006 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Keating said Monday he joined the Communist Party USA about a year ago because it promotes issues of concern to working people, such as a fair minimum wage.

Me thinks the commies have been historically committed to a maximum wage for everyone. And death to ones who complain about their benevolence.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/07/2006 12:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Hey! Don't make fun of the poor man! Stuttering can be a socially and emotionally crippling condition!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/07/2006 12:43 Comments || Top||

#6  What's with this "fair minimum wage" bullshit? Who determines that, obtuse government bureaucrats with little to no workin gknowledge of market forces and such?
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 11/07/2006 23:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
High-tech border security will be tested
A 28-mile stretch of Mexican border near Sasabe will serve as the testing ground for the Department of Homeland Security's latest high-tech border security strategy.

A Boeing Co.-led team of private companies chose the Tucson Sector because it's been the nation's busiest for illegal entrant traffic since 1998. We're #1! The western desert corridor, where they'll be implementing the eight-month pilot project, was the busiest in the sector in fiscal year 2006, according to Border Patrol officials. "We chose the most difficult, highest-trafficked piece of Arizona because we wanted to take on the challenges that we would have to take on someday," said Brian Seagrave, vice president for border security at Unisys Corp., a technology services and solutions company that will provide the information systems expertise.

In September, the federal government awarded Boeing Co. a three-year contract with three one-year options to manage SBInet, a component of the agency's Secure Border Initiative, a multi-pronged approach that will include more staffing, technology, interior enforcement and coordination among law enforcement officials. Boeing Co. will earn $67 million to administer the so-called "Project 28" in Arizona, which it will use to evaluate the SBInet and improve it for implementation along 6,000 miles of northern and southern border. The final costs of the project are unknown, but experts have predicted it could cost about $2 billion over six years.

Program managers arrived in Arizona last week to begin planning and are aiming for spring rollout of tower-mounted sensors, cameras, radars and satellite communication that officials believe will allow Border Patrol agents to cover more ground, said Robert Villanueva, Boeing Co. spokesman. "We are going to arm them with data information they never really had before," Villanueva said.

The creation of a "virtual fence" might help Border Patrol agents work more efficiently, but the project faces long odds in overcoming deep-rooted causes of illegal immigration that motivate illegal entrants to keep coming despite the fences, technology and agents, said Lee Morgan. Morgan wrote "The Reaper's Line," about his experiences on the U.S.-Mexican border in a 32-year career with the Border Patrol and Immigration and Naturalization Services. "It's probably a better place to put the money rather than building a steel wall that won't work," he said, but added, "The end result is it will always be defeated by desperate people, whatever you put out there."

U.S. Customs and Border Protection won't disclose the exact 28-mile stretch involved in the pilot program, citing security reasons. But the Boeing Co. team members were planning to meet with Tohono O'odham Reservation officials, which means it probably stretches west of Sasabe onto the reservation. The rugged terrain won't be easy to tame. Except for a few miles of steel railroad-tie vehicle barriers, the border area near Sasabe is wide open rolling hills with desert trees and bushes marked by a wobbly barbed-wire fence at the international line. The area's gulches, canyons and mountains provide optimum cover for smugglers and illegal entrants and make it difficult for Border Patrol agents and cameras to see everyone moving north. Unlike other areas on the border that have stadium lighting, fencing and cameras on 40-foot towers, this area lacks infrastructure and technology. After a brief slowdown of traffic following the National Guard's arrival in June, traffic is picking up again, locals who live in and around Sasabe said this week. The fresh trash and tracks on one migrant trail Monday backed up that assertion. A bright orange nylon bag with "Tortilleria Rosgar" lay on the ground amid heaps of plastic water jugs, tuna cans and discarded clothes in a gulch.

One rancher who lives about three-quarters of a mile from the border west of Sasabe doesn't think technology is the answer. "Is this tower going to march over and arrest a bunch of illegal aliens?" asked Roy Isaman, 56, who owns El Mirador Ranch west of Sasabe. "Are you kidding me? You need boots on the ground, period." Please explain to him the concept of force multipliers. The SPI net can be successful with the additional agents Customs and Border Protection plans to bring aboard, said Seagrave. In May, President Bush requested 6,000 additional agents by 2008. So far, Congress has allocated funding for 1,500. In this first phase in Arizona, project managers will focus on towers, sensors and cameras. Fences and vehicles could be included later in the project's implementation, Villanueva said. Boeing Co. isn't committed to placing only technology along the entire border. "We are going to assess the border foot by foot, mile by mile, to determine the appropriate asset to be deployed," Villanueva said.

Boeing hopes to give 40 percent of subcontracted work to small and minority-owned companies, Villanueva said. Unisys Corp. will parcel out at least 30 percent of its subcontracted work to border-state small businesses, Seagrave said.
And 45% of the work will be done by illegals...

Congress has instructed the General Accountability Office to monitor the implementation of the SPI net based on a history of poor oversight, but it's too early to make any judgments yet, said Randolph C. Hite, director of information technology architecture and systems issues at the General Accountability Office. If the project begins slowing illegal immigration, it could cause unrest among Democrats needing votes U.S. businesses, said John Pike, director of Virginia-based GlobalSecurity.org, a nonpartisan security-information Web site. "The thing needs to work well enough for people to take credit for it and not so well that it impacts the restaurant or the housing industry," he said. "I can guarantee you that if it's working too good, the White House and Congress will hear about it."
Especially if the Democrats seize control of the House, in which case this project goes the way of the SST.

Members of the Boeing Co. assessment team are familiarizing themselves with the border and meeting with people and agencies with whom they'll be working, including officials on the Tohono O'odham Reservation, which covers 75 miles of border, Villanueva said. Despite their skeptics, Boeing Co. team members are confident their work will make a difference. The SBInet will allow Border Patrol agents to monitor more ground and detect, apprehend and classify illegal entrants more efficiently, Seagrave said. "If there is certainty of apprehension that gets communicated, the volume of the illegal entries will drop substantially," Seagrave said.
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Three men cut off brother-in-law's tongue
SHEIKHUPURA: Three brothers cut the tongue of their brother-in-law after abducting him in B Division police precinct on Monday. Farah had married Hanif (resident of Arianwala) about two years ago and returned to her parents’ house (in Mohalla Jalandhrian in Nabipura) after differences developed between the couple. Hanif tried to convince his wife to return to his house, but failed. Farah’s brothers Azam, Adnan and Usman, who were already angry with Hanif, kidnapped him while he was going home and cut out his tongue and escaped. B Division Police is investigating.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Must have been lickin' the wrong thang.
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Review of the American International School in Gaza
In Gaza I continually haunted internet news sites to answer the ever present question, "Is it safe to go outside?". There was an effort by the Board to welcome new foreign staff, to include dinners and a $200 settling in allowance. The problem is, the Board does not control the purse strings. An entity called the Palestine Investment Fund does. Unfortunatly, the present manager of the fund views AISG as a financial burden rather than an investment in Palestine's future. We were paid late on several occasions, but in the end all contractual obligations were met and I managed to save a good portion of my salary.

During the course of the 2005/06 year four foreign teachers were kidnapped (all released unharmed that same evening) and the school was the subject of a militant attack resulting in a gun battle. If you like this kind of excitement you will love Gaza. Politics here make the wild, wild, west seem tame. The foreign staff enjoyed their evacuation to Cairo, but only about half decided to return.

I resided in a three bedroom air-conditioned apartment with big picture window views of the Mediterranean. I had a choice of about 300 satellite channels to watch. This was good because we were restricted to the apartment building the last two and a half months. Trips to a local restaurant were organized once or twice a week with heavy security escort by the Presidential Guard. We traveled to Israel on most week-ends where you can shop, swim, drink, and take in a movie. Be prepared for long waits at the crossing between Israel and Gaza. Other than a couple of good restaurants and magnificent sunsets there is nothing for foreign staff to do for entertainment in Gaza. We used to be able to go to the UN Club, but it was blown up in December. Too bad, as I was becoming quite good at snooker.

Ah, a job for the moonbat whose trust fund just doesn't quite stretch far enough.
Posted by: gromky || 11/07/2006 12:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you like this kind of excitement you will love Gaza.

Sure. Shit blowing up, militant attacks, kidnappings. Where do I sign?
Somebody tell John Fn Kerry that I found out where all the stupid American kids really go. It ain't Iraq...
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/07/2006 13:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Talk about flushing money down the toilet!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 11/07/2006 16:33 Comments || Top||

#3  really go. It ain't Iraq..

LOL Tu! Bullseye!
Posted by: Ptah || 11/07/2006 21:06 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Scientists Resuscitate A 5 Million-Year-Old Retrovirus inside our DNA!
A team of scientists has reconstructed the DNA sequence of a 5-million-year-old retrovirus and shown that it is able to produce infectious particles. The retrovirus--named Phoenix--is the ancestor of a large family of mobile DNA elements, some of which may play a role in cancer.

The study, which is the first to generate an infectious retrovirus from a mobile element in the human genome, is considered a breakthrough for the field of retrovirus research. The findings are reported in Genome Research.

"Phoenix became frozen in time after it integrated into the human genome about 5 million years ago," explains Dr. Thierry Heidmann, lead investigator on the project. "In our study, we've recovered this ancestral state and shown that it has the potential for infectivity."
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Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The only difference between us and Bigfoot is he doesn't have the retrovirus that makes the rest of us comparatively hairless.
Posted by: Croling Shineck2383 || 11/07/2006 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I didn't realize Kerry was all covered with fur underneath his suit.
Posted by: Whomoque Gravimp8761 || 11/07/2006 6:24 Comments || Top||

#3  And why do we want to reactivate?

Why do I keep thinking The Stand?
Posted by: anonymous2u || 11/07/2006 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Fresh new start? All hell breaks loose, we all head to CO, kill the walking man and his moonbats, and wala.
Posted by: Evil Elvis || 11/07/2006 13:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Cheapass USA Network made for TV horror movie begins production in five, . . . four, . . . three, . . .
Posted by: Mike || 11/07/2006 14:06 Comments || Top||

#6  I, for one, welcome our new HERVs Overlords!
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/07/2006 14:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Jezuz H...

Uh, guys? Can we NOT play with the dormant retrovirii, please?
Posted by: mojo || 11/07/2006 17:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Anon2U - uh huh...Captain Trips...
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2006 19:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Detroit church to be reborn as a mosque
As a child, Mary Ann Rice considered Our Lady Help of Christians Church a second home. A daughter of Polish immigrants, she attended its elementary school and worshipped there in Masses said in her native tongue. After 83 years, the church will celebrate its final Mass on Sunday and become the first church in the Archdiocese of Detroit sold to a mosque. It will cater to a new crop of immigrants -- from Bangladesh, primarily.

"It's going to hurt," said Rice, 68. "There are a lot of memories there. But you've got to go with the times."

The Islamic Center of North Detroit has a purchase agreement with the Archdiocese of Detroit for Our Lady Help of Christians' five buildings, which tentatively are planned to be used for an Islamic community center, larger worship space and possibly a school. The conversion of the Detroit buildings, on the Hamtramck border, from church to Muslim center underscores how much the community's makeup has changed. Long-entrenched Catholic churches have had to downsize as their congregations moved to the suburbs and other immigrant groups moved in.

The pending sale of the building to a mosque is a first for the Archdiocese of Detroit, though it has already leased one of its properties to Muslims. Officials declined to say where.
More at the link.
Posted by: Ulolush Phetle1960 || 11/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trojan Horses everywhere.
Posted by: closedanger@hotmail.com || 11/07/2006 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  This happens in France too, thanks to dhimmi catholic hierarchy, and there was a proposition to do this on a greater scale. Keep in mind that islma is most certainly the 1st practiced religion in France.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/07/2006 6:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Better to burn it down and salt the earth.
Posted by: Excalibur || 11/07/2006 7:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Trojan Horses everywhere.

Yep. They'll take this country as easily as they took Thailand. And a majority of the sheeple will be astonished, if they manage to tear themselves away from Survivor or American Idol long enough to notice.

Kill your TV!
Posted by: Mick Dundee || 11/07/2006 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Welcome to Hamtramack, America's first Islamic city. A buddy of mine went to Hamtramack (as a Christian) on a mission trip. He came back telling of the calls for prayer from the mosque loudspeakers everywhere there. I knew Detroit metro was muzzie central, but I was astonished that this could be going on in America.

I wonder if the Archdiocese has someone sweep for weapons in their leased church space too? Ya know, it's a "protected house of worship."
Posted by: BA || 11/07/2006 9:22 Comments || Top||

#6  We really should get control of our country back.
First, completely destroy the dhimmocrat party, then issue orders to the repubs on how to proceed.
Posted by: wxjames || 11/07/2006 12:45 Comments || Top||



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