Edited for length and flow.A Colorado Springs woman who may have made a hoax phone call that led to a raid on a polygamist compound claims in court documents to have been sexually abused by her father since early childhood. Gee, we knew it couldn't be her fault. More on the alleged abuse at the link.
Rozita Swinton, 33, has a history of allegedly making false reports to police in which she poses as abused or distressed girls. ... Kelly Seaman, a Colorado Springs Police Department 911 supervisor, said Swinton had been linked to more than 10 calls to 911 in recent years, some of them tying up police for hours. Seaman said Swinton would sometimes call crying and claiming to be abducted. She used at least three cellular phones and would often keep police going by giving pieces of information between hang-ups, Seaman said. Send her the bill.
The Obama connection:
Swinton is also a Barack Obama delegate to the Colorado Democratic Convention. John Morris, chairman of the El Paso County Democratic Party, said no one seemed to know who Swinton was, but she would remain a delegate unless she opted to drop out. What I found interesting was that she is a delegate from El Paso county precinct 269, but neither of the two addresses I found for Rozita Swinton, born 1974, are in that precinct.
Dogs should not be allowed to sleep in the same room as their owner in case they pass on diseases, one of the country's top vets has warned.
Acting Chief Veterinary Officer Fred Landeg urged people to be on the alert about pets because they can "transmit illnesses as easily as farm animals".
Among diseases thought to be carried by dogs are common food poisoning bugs such as campylobacter and salmonella as well as exotic diseases.
About 10 per cent of dogs are thought to carry the superbug MRSA...
I'd be one hell of a lot more worried about catching something nasty from a politician than I would from my dogs cat. (My dogs are long dead, but they were both sweeties. The shep in particular was famous for giving kissy-face, and I loved it. Didn't catch anything, either.)
I've let dogs lick my face and sleep on the bed, but I've NEVER sunk so low as to allow a politician to even enter my house, much less my bedroom.
"Dogs also sometimes contain jinns."
Sea, if you keep them on a high shelf where the dog can't reach, the dog can't swallow them. ;-p
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wonder what Mr Landeg thinks about Swine in the household and if his opinions are in any way designed to cater to a certain segment of the population.
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My two bitches can sleep anywhere they want (as long as it's on the floor). That's why I have them. Upstairs, downstairs or outside. As long as they can move anywhere on my property and kill whatever shouldn't be there:)
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For some reason, I'm thinking of that great olde FAR SIDE sketch > Dogs versus the 1000-foot tall US POSTMAN on a City-destroying rampage. D *** NG IT, "THE CITY AUTHORITIES/ARMY ARE HELPLESS - THIS IS OUR TIME"!
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But my dogs are part of my security alarm system. They are more reliable than the electronic system. The other part is my H & K 40 cal. next to my bed. Moreover, petting the dogs lowers my blood pressure. They don't complain about my singing either. What's that about campylobacter doc?
Taco truck owners vowed to ignore a law passed by Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday making it a misdemeanor crime -- punishable by fines and jail -- to stay parked in one place for more than an hour.
"They can try to move us, but we're not going to go," said Aleida De La Cruz, whose taco truck has been a family business for 20 years. "What are they going to do, take us all to jail?"
Supervisors unanimously agreed to pass the law after business owners, particularly in East Los Angeles, complained that taco trucks were keeping brick-and-mortar restaurants from flourishing by drawing away customers... There's already an online petition to 'save the taco trucks'
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Impound their slop wagons and run them thru the crusher. They are a public nuisance if there ever was one. And to think, Gloria Molina was the agitator behind this proposal.
Prince William was under fire again after it emerged that he had landed his £10million RAF helicopter in girlfriend Kate Middleton's back garden during an official military exercise. Well, it does say Royal Air Force on the side, so I guess he just thought it was his.
Miss Middleton and her parents are said to have watched in delight as the second in line to the throne practised a series of take-offs and landings in the paddock of their sprawling detached home in Bucklebury, Berkshire, earlier this month.
Details of the two-hour stunt emerged just days after the prince was heavily criticised for using another Chinook to fly himself and his brother Harry to a stag weekend on the Isle of Wight. Watch gonna do? Tell the Queen?
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No story here: now if'n he CRASHED it whilst flat hatting for his honeyco, that would make the news.
Pilots have all the neat toys and get all the girls, always has been, always will be.
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yeah what are they gonna do too him , demote the secomnd in line too the throne. the queen would prob telll she would buy the thing if they would just shut the fuck up
#5
The whiners are just jealous because they can't do it.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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Read The Right Stuff for some of our pilots' escapades in the 50s ad 60s. There was a "bar" that was the recipient of many low-level fly-bys.
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Gotta admit I might've done the same thing - what man can resist girls = feemes waving and blowing kisses at him, or cooing "OOOH Look - SOLDIERS/RANGERS/AIRBORNE!" etc. Even from those in uniform = in service, espec you kick everybody's ass in bayonet. armed and unarmed combat, TAX, etc, including your own instructors.
#8
You guys got me wondering whatever happened to those Army Soldat babes in Muslim burqua shawls, short shorts, and designer stilettos heels at FREEREPUBLIC awhile back.
#9
Gotta get those flight hours sir! Our maintence guy was a crewman in Marine aviation. Seems a Col. wanted a Grumman canoe and they flew from Quantico to the Grumman plant in Long Island to pick one up. Problem was Grumman only made aircraft at the plant.
Moral: Always call ahead! I'm sure the fine people at Grumman Aviation could have had the Col's canoe if he only called ahead.
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I personally believe that this kind of behavior should be punished by awarding the crown. Forthwith.
MOSCOW A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a U.S. pastor to more than three years in prison for smuggling hunting ammunition into Russia.
Phillip Miles, from South Carolina, has been in custody since his arrest on Feb. 3. He was arrested several days after customs agents at a Moscow airport found a box of 20 rifle shells in his luggage. The court sentenced him to serve three years and two months in prison, with the sentence calculated from his detention date.
Miles has said he brought the .300 caliber cartridges for a friend who had recently bought a Winchester rifle. He said he did not know bringing such ammunition into Russia was illegal.
Now you know.
Judge Olga Drozdova accepted in her 20-minute summation that Miles had brought the ammunition for a friend, "as they are both inveterate hunters."
The cartridges were not initially found as he flew into Moscow. They were detected a day later as airport security put his luggage through an X-ray machine while he was on his way to check in for a flight to Perm, a city in Siberia.
Miles was dressed in a gray jacket and clerical collar for his sentencing. "I'm very disappointed. It's a strange sentence for one box of hunting bullets," he said as court bailiffs led him in handcuffs from the courtroom cage, where defendants in Russian criminal courts are held during trial.
His lawyer said the sentence was surprisingly severe. "I hoped he would only be found guilty of the illegal possession of ammunition," Vladimir Ryakhovsky said.
Not after 9/11. Ask yourself how you'd feel if your client were Chechnyan.
He said the conviction for smuggling was unfounded as his client had acted without any intent to break the law. An appeal will be filed within 10 days, he said.
Miles seemed relaxed throughout the judge's summation. His interpreter struggled to keep up with the judge's delivery and stopped at various points throughout the sentencing. At one point, Miles tapped the interpreter's elbow to remind her to resume.
Miles has admitted bringing in the shells, but said he did not bother to check if Russian laws differed from U.S. laws. But Drozdova said the court could not condone ignorance of Russian customs regulations and noted Miles had visited the country more than 10 times. She also stressed repeatedly that information on baggage limitations was available in the airport in both English and Russian.
Ryakhovsky said, however, that leaflets in the airport contained no specific references to a prohibition on taking cartridges onto flights. "The judge's finding on that front was dishonest," he said.
Miles will remain in a Moscow jail until the appeal.
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...Pastor Miles is from Conway, just a few miles up the road from me. There is absolute mystification as to why the Russians are being so hard on him, and there's some speculation that he may have pis$ed off a mobster somehow.
Mike
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he did not bother to check if Russian laws differed from U.S. laws
That bit seem curious and rather naive. A quick google says you can bring guns and ammo into the US for hunting but I bet the penalty for not declaring (aka smuggling) is severe.
#4
So-o-o-o I'm guessing it wasn't for the ALASKA INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT = First, Second, and Third? NORTH AMERICAN SECESSIONIST CONVENTION, ala PRAVDA???
The Lone Star Times offers its own spin on the "how old is John McCain" question, attempting to turning it into a sequel to the Chuck Norris jokes.
John McCain is older than betraying national security secrets on the front page of the New York Times.
John McCain is older than facial moisturizers for men.
John McCain is older than Gangsta Rap.
My favorite is "John McCain is older than Murtha's earmarks." I could see this taking off.
John McCain is so old that when he was born, Obama's neighbor and donor William Ayers hadn't tried to kill anyone with a bomb yet.
When John McCain was born, Hamas hadn't yet been founded, nor praised Barack Obama.
When John McCain was born, the flag pins that Obama called "a substitute for true patriotism" had forty-eight stars. (Much like the flags at this year's Democratic convention will have, as Michigan and Florida will not be recognized.)
When John McCain was born, it was legal to own a gun in the District of Columbia.
John McCain was born in those long ago days when if you went into church, you could count on the pastor saying "God blessAmerica!"
When John McCain was born, any first ladies visiting Bosnia would have been dodging sniper fire in the "Kingdom of Yugoslavia."
When John McCain was born, Americans in small towns had only been clinging to religion and guns for about a century and a half.
When John McCain was a toddler, the national average tax on a gallon of gasoline was under four cents.
When John McCain was born, no one feared that former president Herbert Hoover would embrace a leader of a terrorist organization. (Interestingly enough, this is partially because in 1936 Hoover was the only living former president.)
I'm sure you can come up with your own.
When John McCain was born, Democrats were in favor of the United States winning its wars.
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When John McCain was born, Democrats were in favor of the United States winning its wars.
Ouch! THAT's gotta smart!
John McCain is older than I am, and I'm only a few years younger'n dirt.
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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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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Dogs should not be allowed to sleep in the same room as their owner in case they pass on diseases, one of the country's top vets has warned.
