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As a resident of metro Atlanta (Marietta is just NE of downtown Atlanta), this pig is literally *lucky* it wasn't just a grease-spot on I-75. At that area, I believe I-75 is somewhere around 14 lanes wide (7 on each side) and traffic is doing one of two things (either doing 85 mph or sitting still in "rush-hour").
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Tasers only deliver 5 second, low amp jolts. Real bullets should have been used to put the creature out of its misery.
Oh, shit...
Hey! Good one, sarge!
CROWN POINT:A load of human feces spilled on to Indiana 55 at Greenwood Avenue in Crown Point about 10:30 a.m. Thursday. The semi-truck driver Matthew Ferrell told Crown Point Police he was hauling treated human feces from the Portage Water Recycling Plant. The spill closed northbound and southbound Indiana 55 at Franciscan Drive and Burrell Drive for clean up. Let's hope so...
Ferrell did not have paperwork for the load and was issued a citation for the unsecured load by the Indiana Department of Transportation. Hey, Butthead. He said, "unsecured load"...
The Crown Point Fire Department, Lake County Hazmat and the Indiana State Police responded to the spill, then cleaned and reopened the roadway. Okay, boys. It's gonna be a long day...
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I'll bet a dollar to a dog turd the guy was hauling it in an open dump truck and had to hammer on the brakes. I've seen it before with beets. The only way they could get me out of the truck before it was hosed off would be to set it on fire.
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Wasn't Crown Point where Hillary slammed her Crown Royal drink at the bar with the locals. Maybe this bitter, gun-totin', God-fearin', rural-livin' driver just found out that Hillary had been in town.
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H/T Goldberg at The Corner. Take about 4 minutes and watch the video
Thanks to Mickey Craig for sending along this fabulous video showing the "greatest play" in Major League Baseball history. In it, Rick Monday is seen rescuing an American flag from a couple of guys who crashed the field with the intention of burning it. He is greeted by wild applause and a spontaneous outburst of "God Bless America."
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Baseball also made plans to honor Monday. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn awarded Monday with an official commendation, and the Cubs held their own "Rick Monday Day" at Wrigley Field. During the ceremony, Monday received the actual flag he had rescued from the protesters, thanks in part to the efforts of Dodgers vice president and general manager Al Campanis, who extracted the flag (legally, I might add) from the LAPD evidence room. Monday still has the flag today, displaying it in the den of his home in Vero Beach, Florida.
I remember this very well. Good background at the link
She has nothing whatsoever to do with the story, but she sure is cute.
The world's oldest living tree on record is a nearly 10,000 year-old spruce that has been discovered in central Sweden, Umeaa University said on Thursday.
"Jå, sure! We båne føund the tree!"
Researchers had discovered a spruce with genetic material dating back 9,550 years in the Fulu mountain in Dalarna, according to Leif Kullmann, a professor of Physical Geography at the university in northwestern Sweden. That would mean it had taken root in roughly the year 7,542 BC. "It was a big surprise because we thought until (now) that this kind of spruce grew much later in those regions," he said.
"Imågine øur surprise!"
Scientists had previously believed the world's oldest trees were 4,000 to 5,000 year-old pine trees found in North America.
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I thought bristlecone pines were around 8-10,000 years old?
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I applaud this trend of appending to articless photographs of appealing young women having nothing to do with the article. It makes the brutality, stupidity, and downright cussedness of most of the world a bit more palatable.
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Now, move in the heavy equipment and log the shit out of that old growth forest. How many rolls of toilet paper would that 10,000 year old piney make?
A Japanese high school pleaded for a regional game to be abandoned after surrendering 66 runs in less than two innings, local media reported on Thursday.
"We quit!"
"Yeah. We're done."
The coach of Kawamoto technical high school threw in the towel to spare his pitcher's arm with his team losing 66-0 with just one batter out in the bottom of the second. The hapless hurler had already sent down over 250 pitches, allowing 26 runs in the first inning and 40 in the second before Kawamoto asked for mercy. "At that pace the pitcher would have thrown around 500 pitches in four innings," Kawamoto's coach was quoted as saying. "There was a danger he could get injured."
Did you give any thought to putting somebody else in to pitch? Like his Mom?
Opponents Shunshukan were officially credited with a 9-0 victory, giving the scoreline a tinge of respectability for the luckless Kawamoto school.
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Does the coach have to commit seppuku now? If ever a high school game warranted it..
WEST SALEM, Ill. (AP) A 5.4 earthquake early Friday rocked people awake as far away as Indiana, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a large Midwest temblor. The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered 6 miles from West Salem, Ill., and 66 miles from Evansville, Ind. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
"It shook our house where it woke me up," said David Behm of Philo, 10 miles south of Champaign. "Windows were rattling, and you could hear it. The house was shaking inches. For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California."
The quake also shook tall buildings in downtown Indianapolis, about 160 miles northeast of the epicenter. Indiana State Police spokesman Sgt. Todd Ringle in Evansville said there were no immediate reports of damage.
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While I didn't feel it, there were people calling in in the northern metro region of ATLANTA (Alpharetta area) this morning about hearing their China cabinets rattle.
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BTW, mehopes this is NOT a sign of the "big one" for the New Madrid fault. I hope that it released enough energy for her to "hit the snooze" for another 100 years or so.
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New Madrid is supposed to have a periodicity of 600 years +/-, so you've got a 400 year statistical cushion.
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Earthquake List for Map Centered at 37°N, 90°W
Update time = Fri Apr 18 15:33:05 UTC 2008
Here are the earthquakes in the Map Centered at 37°N, 90°W area, most recent at the top.
(Some early events may be obscured by later ones.)
Click on the underlined portion of an earthquake record in the list below for more information.
MAG UTC DATE-TIME
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deg LON
deg DEPTH
km LOCATION
MAP 4.5 2008/04/18 15:14:16 38.539 -87.865 10.0 13 km ( 8 mi) E of West Salem, IL
MAP 4.5 2008/04/18 15:14:16 38.539 -87.865 10.0 13 km ( 8 mi) E of West Salem, IL
MAP 2.6 2008/04/18 11:55:57 38.465 -87.854 10.0 9 km ( 6 mi) NW of Mount Carmel, IL
MAP 2.2 2008/04/18 10:46:24 38.440 -87.880 17.8 7 km ( 4 mi) NNE of Bellmont, IL
MAP 2.4 2008/04/18 10:36:33 38.460 -87.860 17.8 9 km ( 6 mi) NNE of Bellmont, IL
MAP 2.5 2008/04/18 10:15:35 38.648 -88.222 10.0 6 km ( 3 mi) S of Noble, IL
MAP 2.5 2008/04/18 10:03:59 38.453 -87.805 10.0 5 km ( 3 mi) NW of Mount Carmel, IL
MAP 5.2 2008/04/18 09:37:00 38.450 -87.890 11.6 7 km ( 5 mi) NNE of Bellmont, IL
MAP 1.4 2008/04/13 12:25:47 36.480 -89.530 8.1 8 km ( 5 mi) ESE of Marston, MO
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I think thee is more at work here than simple plate tectonics:
Wed: Dem. 'debate' in Pa
Thurs: Meteor in Indiana ( god was aiming for Pa but under trhew, i think)
now this: trying to 'cleanse' the area of any remaining Dems.
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LOL, USN. You are "spot on" in your assessment.
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See also TOPIX/DRUDGE > METEORS RUMBLE OVER INDIANA. Meteors being ascribed as Air Guard F16 light flares, albeit many locals are not convinced.
Compare wid REDDIT > POPULAR MECHANICS - FIVE [major Major MAJOR M-A-J-O-R MMMAAAAAJJJJJOO
OOOOOORRRRR ..., D *** YOU] NATURAL DISASTERS HEADED FOR THE USA: + SOLAR QUAKES KEEP THE SUN SHAKING, + LUNAR ATMOSPHERE MAY CONTAIN ELECTROSTATIC DUST. Terra Luna no longer being bombarded by just light meteor shower(s), ala LUNAR DETONATIONS/ "SPARKLERS"???
I am not convinced about the "F16 flares" based on my own personal past and present observations from Guam.
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South Central Wisconsin felt it too. It woke James up this morning (not me). The Southern Illinois/Kentucky branches of the family were a bit shaken up.
When the Milwaukee Brewers' Bill Hall hit a 435 foot blast into the left center field stands at Cincinnati this evening, WTMJ announcer Jim Powell said, "The fans just felt an aftershock."
(ANSA) - Florence, April 17 - A new multi-centre exhibition dedicated to controversial crusading journalist Oriana Fallaci opens in her home town of Florence on Friday. Known for her abrasive interviewing style, chain-smoking Fallaci (1929-2006) was one of the first female war correspondents and shot to fame in the years before her death with scathing attacks on Islam for which she was accused of inciting hatred against Muslims.
At the show's inauguration on Thursday, Tuscan regional president Riccardo Nencini described Fallaci as ''an absolutely atypical and cantankerous but beautiful person''.
On display are many of Fallaci's personal belongings, including coquettish little hats, glasses, typewriters, scraps of paper covered in notes, books published in various languages, paintings of the white roads and hills of Tuscany, and a large number of photographs. ''Oriana was a very shy person, but she loved being photographed,'' said Fallaci's nephew and curator of the show Edoardo Perazzi.
The show is split over two locations in the city, with a section at Palazzo Medici Riccardi tracing Fallaci's Florentine beginnings, her family and personal history, her anti-Fascist youth and her first steps in journalism.
The second section at Palazzo Panciatichi concentrates on Fallaci's later life as a war correspondent and writer, with objects on show including her clunky tape recorder, the audio tape of a hallmark interview with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the camouflaged rucksack she took with her to Vietnam with instructions for the recovery of her body.
Also on show are some of the articles she wrote for Italian daily Corriere della Sera in the last years of her life. ''We wanted to concentrate more on Oriana's love for Florence rather than the polemics of recent years,'' Perazzi said.
Fallaci sparked a storm with two anti-Islam books after the September 11, 2001 attacks on America - The Rage and The Pride (2002) and The Force of Reason (2004), in which she slammed Islam as ''oppressive'' and Arab immigrants in Europe as ''bigoted''. Defying political correctness, she wrote that Europe risked becoming 'Eurabia' and had ''sold itself like a whore to sultans''.
Fallaci first showed her combative spirit in joining the Italian Resistance as a teenager. She was later a war correspondent, covering the Vietnam war, the Indo-Pakistani and Middle East conflicts, and South American uprisings. She was wounded in 1968 at a protest against the Olympic Games in Mexico City.
Working for Italy's leading newspaper Corriere della Sera and the newsweekly L'Europeo, Fallaci won renown with a series of prickly interviews with some of the world's most powerful figures including Kissinger, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, General Giap, Colonel Gheddafi, Indira Ghandi, Deng Xiaoping and Ayatollah Khomeini - defiantly whipping off the headscarf the Iranians forced her to wear.
She harangued Kissinger into calling the Vietnam War ''useless'' - an admission that later prompted him to call the interview ''the single most disastrous conversation I ever had with a member of the press''.
She also worked for leading publications across Europe and the United States including the The Washington Post, the New York Times, Life, the New Republic, Le Nouvelle Observateur and Stern.
Fallaci wrote best-selling works of fiction and semi-fiction including Letter To An Unborn Child (1975), which topped the charts in Italy for years, A Man (1979), the story of the love of her life, tragic Greek leftist Alekos Panagulis, and Inshallah (1990) - her last publication before her anti-Islam tirade 12 years later. Her works sold millions of copies in some 30 countries including China, Japan, Thailand and across the Arab world, but she always felt an outsider in Italian literary circles.
Spurning the Italian intellectual elite, Fallaci lived most of her later years on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She returned to Florence in 2006 a few weeks before her death from cancer aged 77.
Oriana Fallaci - A Florentine by Race runs at Palazzo Medici Riccardi and Palazo Panciatichi in Florence until May 11.
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doc, I was thinkin' along the same train of thought. Maybe, just maybe, we're seeing the *awakening* of Europe. With Germany, France and now Italy electing pro-American leaders, we only need a few more in western Europe to wake up (Britain and Spain). Ms. Bardot deserves some credit for trying to *shock* the French back into reality.
*snicker*
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Charges against the brother of an imprisoned political powerbroker were dropped this week when prosecutors determined there was not enough evidence to link him to negative mayoral campaign fliers. Michael Callaway, a brother of former City Council President Craig Callaway, was arrested with another local man March 14 shortly after fliers defaming mayoral candidate Domenic Cappella were placed on various cars in City Hall's parking lot. But prosecutors threw out breach of peace charges against 52-year-old Michael Callaway at a brief hearing Wednesday at Atlantic City Municipal Court because of "lack of prosecution," according to court records.
Since when do we arrest people for nasty campaign flyers?
The fliers, not attributed to any campaign, made various accusations, including claims that Cappella is an FBI informant. "Cappella is on the tape, he is an undercover agent and records ALL conversations ... BEWARE!" one flier read.
The same flier also vaguely accused Cappella of stealing documents for the purposes of blackmail. Cappella, the city's assistant business administrator, said he had also retrieved others that same day that insulted his age and fiery temper.
Michael Callaway did not respond to an interview request, but his brother, Ronald, said plans to sue the city are in motion. "This is a wrongful arrest," said Ronald Callaway, also known as Jihad Q. Abdullah, "and I expect to see a big story in The Press, just like the one you ran when they first arrested him."
A peace jirga in Hangu managed to broker a ceasefire between two warring religious sects after strenuous efforts on Thursday. Sectarian clashes had been going on for the last 12 days in many areas of lower and central Kurram Agency.
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If you've ever wondered what would eventually become of the more than 4,000 old aircraft hulls sitting in the US military's boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, AZ... we now know. They'll start going on the auction block next week, but don't expect to take home anything resembling an aircraft...
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Darn. I saw Davis-Monthan about 15 years ago. Quite impressive, in a sad sort of way - row after row of F-15's and a lot of older birds. Too bad we can't get a few flyable ones.
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too bad they can't donate just the stripped airframe to various museums. even the SR-71s and all its variants are out and about, and the biggest thing wa that the main spar had to be cut to render it useless, seems to me the same could be done to sme of these birds.
Shameless plug: Planes of Fame museum in CHino CA has IMO the best collection of flying aircraft that you can actually to up to and touch ( dare I say fondle??) oil leaks, splatted bugs, chipped paint and all. even smells like an airplane (I..Must...Stop...Now...)
last Northrop flying wing is there, and it still flys.
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I never lost my liking for the looks of the B-58 "Hustler." That plane just flat looked fast as Hell and twice as deadly. It shouted "DO NOT SCREW WITH THE USA" in an end-of-the-world tone without a word being spoken.
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D *** NG IT, I was hoping Guam and its WAR IN THE PACIFIC NHP could find some WW2 and Cold War aircraft to refurbish and exhibit e.g. B29's, B24's, P47's, Hellcats, Corsairs, B47's, Orions, Skywarriors, Skyhawks, etc., espec after Hawaii got the USS MSSOURI. THE PARK SORELY NEEDS DISPLAYS + LIBRARIUM.
-- Police on Thursday identified a man who was found bound with duct tape in Lady Bird Lake in East Austin.
Parkgoers discovered the body of Riad Hamad, 55, Wednesday afternoon just east of the Interstate 35 bridge near Festival Beach. Hamad was a computer teacher at Small Middle School and had been planning a trip to Palestine to teach children there.
Witnesses who found Hamad said the man had duct tape on his face, and his hands were tied. Police have called the death suspicious. Investigators on Thursday said family and other sources have told them that Hamad was suicidal.
Hamad ran the Palestine Children's Welfare Fund (PCWF), a radical Gaza-based "charity" that helped children by teaching them to hate Jews. He sued a number of people and entities like David Horowitz, NGO Monitor and others, lost big and had to pay court costs.
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Police have called the death suspicious. Obvious candidates for the FBI Academy. After Quantico they can star as terrorism investigators in the Sgt Schultz Section of the department. (Hamad) sued a number of people and entities like David Horowitz, NGO Monitor and others, lost big and had to pay court costs. Darn, now they won't be able to squeeze his hide for the money.
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.
A Japanese high school pleaded for a regional game to be abandoned after surrendering 66 runs in less than two innings, local media reported on Thursday.
Charges against the brother of an imprisoned political powerbroker were dropped this week when prosecutors determined there was not enough evidence to link him to negative mayoral campaign fliers. Michael Callaway, a brother of former City Council President Craig Callaway, was arrested with another local man March 14 shortly after fliers defaming mayoral candidate Domenic Cappella were placed on various cars in City Hall's parking lot. But prosecutors threw out breach of peace charges against 52-year-old Michael Callaway at a brief hearing Wednesday at Atlantic City Municipal Court because of "lack of prosecution," according to court records.
