The founder of an antiviolence group called No Guns pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal weapons charges.
Hector "Big Weasel" Marroquin is accused of selling an assault rifle, a machine gun, two pistols and two silencers to undercover federal agents last fall. He could face up to 50 years in prison if convicted.
Marroquin, 51, of Downey, is a onetime member of the 18th Street gang who founded No Guns in 1996. No Guns received $1.5 million from the city as a subcontractor on anti-gang efforts, but its contract was canceled last year.
Marroquin is charged with three counts of manufacture, distribution and transport for sale of an unlawful assault weapon, along with one count each of machine gun conversion and possession of a silencer. He remains free on $260,000 bail.
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I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of man I'm preaching to!
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Jim Geraghty, National Review Excerpted from a long article on a Rudy Guliani campaign appearance, just 'cause it's a cute story:
Rudy was introduced by former FBI director Louis Freeh, who shared a story from his younger days, not long before he first worked with Giuliani. Freeh had just been transferred to the New York field office of the FBI, and after a week his boss asked him if he wanted to work undercover. Freeh enthusiastically welcomed the assignment, and asked what he needed to do. His boss told him to sign up at a local gym. That was the hangout of a mob captain who knew he was being watched by authorities, so the only way he would collect his protection money was when he was nude, in the sauna. Freeh's first assignment was to strip down and watch this nude guy all day.
Eventually the gangster asked Freeh what he did, and he answered, "I'm a lawyer." The mobster slapped him on the back and asked if he needed help getting a job with some judge.
When the gangster was finally indicted, Freeh appeared in the courtroom. The mobster's lawyer told Freeh that the gangster's first reaction to the prosecutor was, "Aw, let the lawyer guy from the gym go, he's got nothing to do with this!"
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Cold War!
An unresolved conflict between Sweden and Norway has led to a tense situation on the border between the countries in the northern territories of Lapland. Reindeer herders from Sweden are refusing to move their animals after Norwegian authorities threatened to force the issue with the aid of a helicopter. A Norsky gunship ... Ja, that'll show Sven a thing or two
The Norwegian Reindeer Administration had initially given the Swedish Sami group until June 20th to move its herd, a date which has now been revised. "They have now given us until next week but we have no plans to move. We have hired security guards to ensured that the Norwegian authorities don't take action," Per Anders Nutti, chairman of the Saarivuoma reindeer herders group told The Local. "Halloo, is this Blackwater in the state of North Carolina?"
The group, which has several thousand reindeer in the disputed area, claims that many of its newborn calves risk death by drowning if forced to leave.
Negotiations are currently ongoing to find a solution to a conflict that first emerged after the expiration of a bilateral herding agreement between Sweden and Norway in 2005. Norway subsequently took a unilateral decision to replace the agreement with a new law dictating which summer pastures could be used by the Swedish Sami.
Sweden in turn countered that such a law would be in breach of the so-called Lapp Codex from 1751, a reciprocal agreement covering cross-border rights for Sami groups from different countries.
When the Norwegian law came into force, Sweden's then Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds registered Sweden's dissatisfaction with an official protest to the foreign ministry in Oslo.
"In 2005 the Norwegian Reindeer Administration drove our reindeer away. If they try to do the same this year by bringing in a helicopter then we'll make sure to get our own helicopter and fly up there to stop them. And then it'll be blue and white and red on blue and yellow above the Arctic Circle, you betcha.
"We are not going to endanger anyone's life of course; it will be a peaceful protest but it is a statement we want to make," said Per Anders Nutti. uh huh. Just like Danzig
Last summer too tempers flared as Norwegian authorities tore down fences erected by the Swedish Sami. The Saarivuoma responded by rebuilding the fences and using the enclosures until they had finished marking their calves.
Christian Lindmann, senior advisor for the Norwegian Reindeer Administration, told The Local that the Saarivuoma are demanding access to a larger area than that agreed upon in the previous bilateral convention. "They are breaking Norwegian law. There are negotiations underway to make a new agreement but at the moment they are further west than we find legal," he said.
Lars Anders Baer, chairman of the board of the Swedish Sami Council is hopeful that a new agreement can be signed by the end of the summer. "We have to find a solution. The negotiations are now nearing a conclusion and most of the work is done," he said.
But the Saarivuoma reindeer herders insist that there is no need for a new convention. "A Norwegian high court ruling from 1968 asserted our right to use this land. The Norwegian state has broken its agreement with Sweden and the Swedish government needs to make it clear that this is not acceptable," said Per Anders Nutti.
The Local tried to reach the Swedish foreign ministry and agriculture ministry for a comment.
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The Sami: the Kurds of Scandinavia - straddling multiple countries, belonging to none of them, alien to all of them and historically persecuted from all directions. Someone should enforce a no-fly zone up there.
Police and organizers of Juneteenth events in two cities went out of their way Thursday to insist that attacks against drivers one of which left an Austin, Texas, man dead have nothing to do with the crowds attending the celebrations.
But in both cases, electronic evidence raises questions about how the crimes were being characterized by officials. In Austin, a woman who called 911 on Tuesday night to report the brutal beating of David Rivas Morales, a 40-year-old man attacked by a crowd in a housing complex parking lot, said she struggled to the police dispatcher to understand her location, and described the scene as a gang fight involving people celebrating Juneteenth at a nearby park, according to audio files released Thursday by the city.
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Joke! White visitors to Mexico know better than to go outside during the nationalist "Cinco de Mayo" race festival. Spics also celebrate the "Day of the Race," in the Fall. Similarly, blacks are empowered to break laws on Martin Luther King day. That is one reason why Senator Goldwater was against the holiday.
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"Spic" is an offensive and derogatory term, McZoid. As to your other points, there should never be tolerance for racist assaults on ANY day.
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Wow!!! Double WOW! "Spic" flies past the "Pink" moderator, but "negro" doesn't. I guess we know where Doctor White's bias lies. Don't we?
Waiting for knee-jerk closet liberal reaction in...3, 2, 1.
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As to your other points, there should never be tolerance for racist assaults on ANY day.
Unfortunately though, in case you haven't been paying attention, crimes by ethnic minorities are quite often just not their fault. It's the white mans fault. Tell me how many minorities you've heard about facing trial for hate crimes, compared to whites that is.
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Article: The driver told police he got away in his vehicle before the beating began and didn't know his friend had been hurt, Carter added.
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Grant people a history of grievance and a sense of entitlement and they will use it. The lesson of this is not that Hispanics or African-Americans or whathaveyou are different; it is that they are the same as everybody else. Humans can be clannish, bigoted and violent and will take advantage if given the opportunity.
The answer is to deal brutally with all mobs no matter what "community leaders" or the snakish press will have to say about it after and to teach proper history and a genuine sense of pride. Hundreds of thousands of Union dead - including black Americans under arms - made "Juneteenth" possible. This is something to be proud of and for which to be grateful. It is not a license for riot.
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Come on people, now. Smile on your brother. Everybody get together and love one another right now.
Except for the "sp*cs", right McZoid? I was going to reply to your comment last night but remained confident the moderators would do the right thing. As Excalibur correctly notes:
Grant people a history of grievance and a sense of entitlement and they will use it.
Hundreds of thousands of Union dead - including black Americans under arms - made "Juneteenth" possible. This is something to be proud of and for which to be grateful. It is not a license for riot.
Personally, I detect an overall lack of gratitude that is nothing short of appalling. The snake oil of Multiculturalism is furthering a perilous fragmentation of America's people. Enshrinement of Diversitywhich need not be a bad thingis being used to shoulder aside the far more vital Unity that we must have as a free people to counter the real threat that confronts us.
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I have to agree that I singled out people based on race, and the Moderators did their duty.
McZoid, as much as others here have granted me leniency, I'd also like to say, "no harm no foul". I don't quite feel that way, but I'd rather see this community function as a united body. I will say; Let's judge on the basis of ideology and not race.
To close with an extremely politically incorrect notion:
(One that I've maintained for many decades)
Niggers come in all colors and some of the worst are white.
I know this because my stepfather is black and my older brother is white and both of them are the worst sort of niggers.
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Juneteenth around here was quiet - no problems whatsoever. There WAS a spat at the St. Patrick's Day parade when a bunch of Code Pink idjits tried to march, "protesting the illegal war in Iraq and Afghanistan". Police said that the St. Patrick's Day parade was an inappropriate venue for such behavior, and asked them to leave. When they refused, a few heads were busted. A 67-year-old woman is suing the city for "abuse". She bruised her hip when she refused to leave and was dragged away kicking and screaming. Too bad, so sad.
During Frontier Days, there were two fights that resulted in bodily injury. Neither involved race, religion, or sexual orientation - just too much beer and too little intelligence.
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Police Say Washington Baby Died After Mom Taped Pacifier in Infant's Mouth
LAKE STEVENS, Wash. A woman was charged with manslaughter in the death of her 4-month-old son after she told authorities she taped a pacifier to his mouth to keep it from falling out.
Bonnie M. Desmond, 19, was charged Tuesday in the death of Noah James Petersen. Bail was set at $500,000. Desmond called 911 Monday and said her baby was unconscious, but paramedics found the boy had been dead for hours, Fire District 8 Deputy Chief David Lingenfelter said. Prosecutors wrote in reports that Desmond later indicated a pacifier had been taped to the child's mouth but she had removed it before calling authorities. Which is a strong indication that she knew exactly how stupid dangerous a thing this was to do.
"The only thing I can think of is I taped the pacifier to keep it from falling out. I didn't know it would hurt him, or I wouldn't have done that," Desmond told police, according to the reports. No other children live in the home, which she shares with her fiance, and the fiance was not under investigation, said police Cmdr. Dan Lorentzen. The autopsy results were not immediately released. If convicted, Desmond faces 6 1/2 to 8 1/2 years in prison, Snohomish County Deputy Prosecutor Mark Roe said. Self-chlorinating gene pools. What'll they think of next?
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She probably taped the pacifier in to shut the baby up. Perhaps so she could get some sleep. Or take off to the bar for a few cold ones without anyone hearing him cry.
Either way, the baby had been dead for hours when she called it in. Asleep? Out of the house? It'll come out in the trial.
Come on, Zenster, admit it: you taped down the button.
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Come on, Zenster, admit it: you taped down the button.
All right, all right. I admit it! The double post was intentional. I wanted all sorts of folks to never again tape pacifiers into their babies' mouths like I had to endure. All my girlfriends have always wondered about my fixation. Now it's a matter of record. Are you happy for once?
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Wow, Zen you turned out pretty well for a kid who was tortured and ignored. However a little therapy would do you good.
Now, what does this ink spot suggest to you ?
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That's a similar problem to what we're dealing with, and stems from a common cause - young women having babies without growing up first, and most often without having a husband around to help out (and keep the sanity level above negative numbers). Eight of my daughter's friends and classmates have had children out of wedlock, most before they turned 18. That's ones we know about - the number may be higher. The statistics for Colorado Springs (pop. 400,000) state that there are 23 PROVEN cases of felony child abuse each year, and 18 of those involve teenage mothers. I hate to think what the statistics are for less-affluent cities.
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BANGLADESH AUSTIN - Police on Wednesday were pleading for witnesses to help them track down members of an angry mob that beat a man to death after the car he was riding in apparently struck and injured a child. Investigators were struggling to piece together what happened Tuesday when David Rivas Morales died defending the driver from members of a crowd leaving a Juneteenth celebration. There could have been anywhere from two to 20 attackers, Austin Police Commander Harold Piatt said.
The car in which Morales, 40, was a passenger had entered an apartment complex's parking lot when it struck a 3- or 4-year-old child, Piatt said. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver got out of the car to check on the child and was confronted by several people, Piatt said. When they attacked the driver, Morales got out of the car to protect the driver and was attacked as well. Police said no guns or knives were used. The driver got away and is cooperating with investigators, who are not releasing his name.
Details of the victim avaiable at link...
Moderator note: we don't want comments that attack the race/ethnicity of any of the people. The Burg is too good for that.
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The man who was beaten to death was Hispanic and the perpetrators were Black.
Could race have played a factor in this incident? Probably, but since in mainstream media memes the only people who ever commit bias crimes are white that question will not even be addressed in news reports.
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It wasn't, strictly speaking, racism. The mob was not out looking for a non-black to beat up and kill. But again, it was racist, because once presented with a non-black and an 'excuse', there was no hesitation in murdering him. (While it is possible the same would have happened if blacks had been in the car, it is unlikely.)
Had it been Cinco de Mayo, or Talledega 500 Day, or maybe even Chinese New Year, and a black-driven car hit a non-black kid, there's a good chance the crowd would have retaliated. Put yourself in the situation - you're at a Mardi Gras parade and some angel-dusted idiot comes running down the street knocking over the ladders with your kids in the boxes on top - you are going to want to take him down, and if you've had enough to drink and are 'supported' by your buddies, you just might do it. I might (the cops got him first). It's one place the PC crowd has a point - 'diversity' weakens tribal mob behavior (of course it is just replaced with a new 'tribe' of non-genetic affinity.)
Understand that I am not defending the Juneteenth mobs - just saying that we live in glass houses too, and we really don't want anybody throwing stones. We have REAL enemies out there, let's not get a feud going internally. Address the specific situation, but it is best not to generalize too much.
Watched Rosie this morning. You know, Rosie ODonnell. Shes that homebody who lives with her wife and kids and hangs out with her good-time girlfriends and says whatever she wants.
You thought she was off the air? Nah.
This is not the cutie-patootie closeted Rosie ODonnell Show, from back when she was "The Queen of Nice" and its not, of course, The View, which Ms. ODonnell left in a contract-slamming huff on May 25, following a vicious argument with her round-table foil, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, on air.
Instead its Ms. ODonnells online show, a video blog called, more or less, nothing. . . . The theme music goes something like this:
I'm ranting and raving on a show with no name
It felt good to give my viewers pain
If you're a moonbat, you can't remember your name
For you ain't no one who's a-usin' her brain
(Apologies to America.)
All the videos are pure Rosie, in the sense that with their unforgiving lighting and absent production values Ms. ODonnell, the comic-actress-host, is revealing the last of whatever she was holding back on daytime television. . . . Ms. ODonnells videos feature no commercials, no scripts, no music, no wardrobe, no crew. Most of them are Rosie in front of her computer, staring at you at yours. (Even when others are in the video, Ms. ODonnell unceremoniously crowds them out.) She either needs to dial back her ego or spring for a wide angle lens--maybe both.
There she is, the fork-tongued lady, without bronzer to contour her face or concealer to hide her fatigue, or directors to keep her coloring within the political and professional lines. . . .
Ms. ODonnell seems to be experimenting with an emo style, the morose deadpan known to YouTubers but anathema to TV and stage veterans like herself. . . .
As emo podcasts go, I'm afraid Rosie can't hold a candle to this gal. Click the link and see what a much thinner woman true professional at morose navel-gazing looks like.
And you know she means it when she says of Jimmy Carter: He is to me a Christlike figure in this earth. Somewhere in Queens, a retired nun weeps in bitter disappointment. "I taught her ninth grade Catechism class. Where did I go wrong?"
Thats clearly Rosie.
And when she hiccups and stops thinking about Mr. Carter and says, O.K., thats like the seventh hiccup during a blog, thats her too.
Some videos are simply animated collages, one nominally showing support for the United States military. It features a heavy Impeach Bush for War Crimes element and images from antiwar protests, pictures of unidentified babies and snapshots of Ms. ODonnells family (and one of Ms. ODonnell and Ms. Hasselbeck looking chummy) to the tune of the dirgelike Someone Elses Tomorrow by Patty Griffin. Though the video is called i love r troops, the material seems to have little connection to the title. Or to reality.
Hit the link for a screenshot. (Fred, mods, you should snag that pic for future use here at Rantburg.)
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"She either needs to dial back her ego or spring for a wide angle lens..." with an ass so big her shadow weighs 40 pounds, she needs a wide angle lens at all times' preferably with the cap superglued in place.
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Though the video is called i love r troops, the material seems to have little connection to the title.
I wish I could find the link where she says she glues toy soldiers (painted red) to a board. One for each US KIA in Iraq. No word if she does the same for Afghanistan...
HELEN - A camping trip to Low Gap Camp Grounds near Helen turned into a harrowing experience for Chris Everhart and his three sons when they tangled with a 300-pound black bear.
But it proved fatal for the bear.
The bear had taken the Everharts' cooler and was heading back to the woods when 6-year-old Logan hurled a shovel at it. Fearing what might happen next, the Norcross father and ex-Marine grabbed the closest thing he could find - a log. "(I) threw it at it and it happened to hit the bear in the head," Chris Everhart said. "I thought it just knocked it out but it actually ended up killing the bear."
The man was given a ticket for failing to secure his camp site, said Ken Riddleberger, a region supervisor for game management with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Riddleberger said some U.S. Forest Service agents were at the camp issuing a citation in an unrelated case. They got to the scene in a few minutes and verified what happened, he said. Riddleberger said fines are usually set by counties, but Everhart's will be set by the federal government since the incident happened on federal property.
"We've not had an attack in Georgia," he said. "The key thing to learn from this is if there's a bear around, do not have your garbage or food available. If we manage our food, we won't have bears around."
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I was at an office building in State College, PA this week when a 3-400 lb black bear sauntered into the side yard. Gawking employees who apparently went out for autographs scared it away.
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so now we need to add a pile of tie downs to our camping gear list... this is about as stupid as the DNR guy in WA that ticketed the guy that saved a swimmer while crabbing and didn't immedietly record his catch; all the while the dnr clown watched from shore with binoculars. and just 2 weeks ago, Mrs. Ret and I got a warning because we did not occupy a WA state campground spot overnight that we had properly registered. must be something in the water that casues unmitigated stupidity.....(or maybe they are pissed becasue they cannot be real cops and drive their crown vics at high speeds)
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The Florida Wildlife Law and Fine Getters had to kill a 250 lb. black bear 2 weeks ago near the center of Tallahassee, got treed behind a WhataBurger on 319. It was a 3 time looooooser. Destroyed it. :<.
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It's no joke here in the mountains of East Tennesse when going camping around bears. You really do need to secure food and garbage. Bears learn rather quickly that campers can mean food. Securing things limitsthe contact between bears and people and decreases the possibility of death or serious injury to people or bears. Getting a ticket for not securing the campsite is appropriate. Trust me. You don't want a 300 pound bear in your tent at 2:00 AM. I used to teach a backpacking class and one of the things people were told was keep a sharp knife handy when you go to sleep. Use it to cut your way out the back of your tent if a bear is blocking the front. If you attack the bear it's bad news for the people.
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Bears learn rather quickly that campers can mean food.
"They're really tasty, once you get that gore-tex wrapper off!"
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I was in Corpus Christi several years ago, doing some touristy thing, when one of these 'bolts from the blue' struck a fuel barge unloading across the inlet. Clouds were a long way off. Two guys unloading fuel; one died. Started a fire, too.
Now if Halliburton could generate these....
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What makes you think we can't?
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - An Australian production company has apologized to Mexico for a segment of a "Big Brother" reality program that showed people throwing water balloons at the Mexican flag. Wouldn't be so funny if Mexicans could swim the Pacific, now would it?
Mexico's Foreign Relations Department on Wednesday sent protest letters to the program and the Australian government, saying the country's flag had been desecrated on the show that aired June 15. "This terrible desecration has angered 125 million Mexicans, and that is just in Los Angeles."
"I apologize on behalf of the producers of `Big Brother' for any offense suffered and assure you this will never happen again," wrote Kris Noble, the managing director of entertainment company Endemol Southern Star, in a letter Thursday to the Mexican Embassy in Australia. This buffoon would be getting an award if it had been a US flag.
"The segment was intended as a lighthearted tribute to Mexico and its vibrant cultural heritage, which we all admire and enjoy," the letter stated. Mexican media observers have no doubt noticed how much mileage Muslims get out of seething and whining.
Mexico's protest letters said that the country's flag "has a long and proud history and it stands as a powerful symbol that identifies and unites Mexican citizens wherever they live. "including Lubbock, Laredo, Perth, and Adelaide. Oh, you didn't know?"
Australia's government regulator of television broadcasters, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, was "considering a response", the agency's media manager, Donald Robertson, said Friday. If anyone has some Oz rhyming slang for local perceptions of Mexico, we probably don't want to hear it.
Mexico's Televisa network repeatedly aired segments of the show, in which participants wearing oversized Mexican sombreros and droopy false mustaches hurled balloons at a Mexican flag. Sombreros and droopy mustaches? They need to update their stereotypes.
In one segment, contestants were asked to name the country from which Mexico won its independence. The contestant who answered the United States was told that was the right answer. Mexico gained independence from Spain. The offhand insertion of outrageous lies about the States is kind of an inside joke for the lefty contingent of the Oz media.
A couple of years ago, outlets all over Australia repeated as gospel an SMH typo reporting that the SETI program's new radio-telescope in California would cost 8 billion dollars. Some cited it as an example of heedless American prodigality and Bush Administration malfeasance. It would have been easy to discover that the actual figure was 8 million and the project was privately financed, but nobody bothered. Another whopper making the rounds down under (possibly in the reverse direction): the average American loo uses an incredible 20 liters per flush. Actually, this is limited by law to 1.6 gallons, about 6 liters. In the same vein, I am thinking about starting a blog just to keep track of this s**t.
Sydney-based Southern Star produces Big Brother under a joint venture with the Netherlands-based entertainment company Endemol NV. Another example of imperialist media.
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Another whopper making the rounds down under (possibly in the reverse direction): the average American loo uses an incredible 20 liters per flush. Actually, this is limited by law to 1.6 gallons, about 6 liters.
That's only if you have a toilet made since the law passed. The older ones are treated like gold, since they actually empty their bowls with a single flush.
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Maker your blog Sperong! Reporter back with em address.
Indonesian experts scrambled Wednesday to deal with a massive water spray gushing from the ground near a "mud volcano" of toxic sludge on Indonesia's Java island. Ahmad Zulkarnain, the spokesman for the government team handling the disaster, said that the five-metre (16-feet) high spray began before dawn on Saturday through the floor of a restaurant in Jatirejo village, near the mudflow area.
"We are going to channel the water to the river to prevent it from flooding the area," he told AFP, adding that workers had failed on Tuesday to "plug" the water.
"We are afraid that if we do not hurry, it may submerge the village, highway and railway," he said.
Zulkarnain said there had been about 60 incidents of water or gas spurting from the ground near the so-called mud volcano, which erupted in May last year, inundating an area of some 600 hectares (1,500 acres).
But this spray has been the biggest so far, he added.
Satria Bijaksana, a scientist from the Bandung Institute of Technology, told AFP that the accumulation of mud in levees and dams -- reaching up to 17 metres high -- had put a lot of pressure on the ground.
"We have a very shallow water aquifer: most probably water comes out from existing wells," he said.
"I don't think that putting a plug into the hole would be of much help."
The original disaster was triggered when an exploratory gas drilling team pierced a layer of strata, releasing the mud which engulfed entire villages and factories before dirt embankments were constructed to contain the toxic sludge.
Attempts by local and international engineers to plug the flow, including by dropping thousands of concrete balls into the yawning crater, have failed.
Spokesman Zulkarnain said his team had faced resistance from residents who refused to cooperate as they are yet to receive compensation from local gas company PT Lapindo Brantas.
Lapindo, a company linked to Indonesia's welfare minister Aburizal Bakrie, has been blamed for the disaster and been ordered to pay millions of dollars for the cost of containing the mud and to the victims.
The Jakarta Post reported Wednesday that enterprising villagers were starting to charge people to look at the spray.
The report cited Anwar Nasution, chairman of the Supreme Audit Agency, as saying that the mudflow had so far cost Indonesia 3.7 billion dollars, but Lapindo had only paid 4.9 trillion rupiah (562 million dollars) as of January.
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Attempts by local and international engineers to plug the flow, including by dropping thousands of concrete balls into the yawning crater, have failed
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The Jakarta Post reported Wednesday that enterprising villagers were starting to charge people to look at the spray.
With typical Islamic uninventiveness these Indonesian gits just can't come up with some way to really capitalize on this. Just think of the potential.
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New Mexico State football coach Hal Mumme announced a settlement Thursday in a lawsuit brought by four former football players who claimed they were discriminated against because they are Muslims. The case was scheduled to go to trial Monday. Both sides said they were pleased the settlement was reached before then.
"Our motivation was to put this issue behind us and to avoid a contentious, prolonged legal battle that would have done little but continue a distraction to the program," athletics director McKinley Boston said. Plaintiffs attorney Joleen Youngers said she was eager to present her clients' case to a jury but "we would have been foolish to turn our backs on a reasonable resolution outside the courtroom."
Former players Mu'Ammar Ali, Jacob Wallace and brothers Anthony and Vincent Thompson had alleged they were subject to a hostile environment because of their religion. Their lawsuit claimed religious discrimination and violations of the athletes' right to freely exercise their religion. It contended the former Kentucky coach instituted a "religious brotherhood" within the team, singled out Muslim athletes and had players recite the Lord's Prayer after each practice and before each game.
Wallace, reached by phone Thursday, said the past year has been stressful. "It seemed like it would never end, that this thing would continually go on and on," he said from San Francisco. "I'm glad with the decision that was made."
Wallace declined to discuss the discrimination claims, saying he believes they now are irrelevant. "At this point, I would like to move on with my future, and hopefully this is something I can put behind me," he said.
The university didn't admit any wrongdoing in the case. Boston said the settlement reflects that New Mexico State denied any discrimination occurred. "In our view, we did nothing wrong," he said. University president Michael Martin added: "While this puts the issue to rest, we also maintain the solid integrity and reputation of our university."
But Youngers said her clients still believe in their claims. "They would have not brought this lawsuit if they did not believe they had been discriminated against," she said. "They haven't changed their view of what occurred, but they have agreed to resolve the dispute through settlement rather than trial."
The lawsuit was filed in August by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Ali and the brothers. Wallace joined the case in January. The lawsuit also named university vice president and provost William Flores and the school's board of regents.
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He never should have recruited Muslims.If they adopted it after arrival, I think he should have found some other excuse to drop them off the roster. They are trouble wherever they show up and no monies for scholarships should be wasted on Muslims.
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Plaintiffs attorney Joleen Youngers said she was eager to present her clients' case to a jury but "we would have been foolish to turn our backs on a reasonable resolution outside the courtroom."
I'll translate: Phhhew...that was close. But I got mine...
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
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Rudy was introduced by former FBI director Louis Freeh, who shared a story from his younger days, not long before he first worked with Giuliani. Freeh had just been transferred to the New York field office of the FBI, and after a week his boss asked him if he wanted to work undercover. Freeh enthusiastically welcomed the assignment, and asked what he needed to do. His boss told him to sign up at a local gym. That was the hangout of a mob captain who knew he was being watched by authorities, so the only way he would collect his protection money was when he was nude, in the sauna. Freeh's first assignment was to strip down and watch this nude guy all day.
HELEN - A camping trip to Low Gap Camp Grounds near Helen turned into a harrowing experience for Chris Everhart and his three sons when they tangled with a 300-pound black bear.
MEXICO CITY (AP) - An Australian production company has apologized to Mexico for a segment of a "Big Brother" reality program that showed people throwing water balloons at the Mexican flag. 
