Yep. He's a muslim. But he seems to be a homegrown one. You know, one of the good ones. One suspect was charged and a second was being sought Sunday in the killing of a police officer who was shot with an assault rifle while investigating a report of bank robbery, police said.
Levon Warner, 38, was charged with murder, robbery, conspiracy and related offenses, Deputy Commissioner William Blackburn said at a news conference Sunday.
I want to say that I do indeed think it's "possible" that this was a legitimate suicide.
That said, there has been a long string of really un-normal suicides over the past 10 or so years that cannot simply be ignored, with a big fat uptick in the post-9/11 universe. This is why so many people are lifting an eyebrow over this one.
Is this the USA or the USSR? What the hell is going on here?
Listen carefully to what Palfrey says in the audio, it seems very clear to me that she was targeted and persecuted outside of the regular channels of law, this includes the use of post-9/11 wire-transfer surveillance as part of her highlighting.
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As a high profile political figure with the esteem of many women, I regret to say that your public support of horseracing and specifically betting on Eight Belles makes you culpable in her destruction. I ask you now to publicly condemn races like the Kentucky Derby. Eight Belles ran for her life and was fiercely whipped as she came down that final stretch when she was no doubt in a great deal of pain. We cannot call ourselves a civilized nation if we allow any living being to endure such abuse. . . .
A race track is not a place for a fun day out, and we are writing to Chelsea on that score. Attending the Derby is as despicable as attending a dogfight. For most not a few of the horses you see will not end up put out to pasture on a beautiful ranch but will be sent overseas to be slaughtered for someone's dinner plate. At some point, all horses stop winning.
PETA takes no position on whether you win or lose the race you are in, but we call on you to publicly reject betting on such hideous spectacles of domination over wonderful animals who deserve more than pain and death for human profit and amusement.
Very truly yours,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
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Eight Belles ran for her life and was fiercely whipped as she came down that final stretch when she was no doubt in a great deal of pain.
How did you know, Ingrid? Did ya watch it?
Did it make you hot...
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About the whips, they are short and do sting but it's not likesomeone being caned. she came down that final stretch when she was no doubt in a great deal of pain. I watched it. there was no evidence from the fil she was in pain. Her eayrs were up and she looked fin. This was an accident that had to do with weak wrists. The wrists broke as she was slowing down, which puts a different stress on the wrists. This is just the ignorant ramblings of some who knows nothing and can prove it.
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Remember the story a while back about the 2 Caliphornai enviro neighbors who went to court over trees and solar power? The judge there said the stately redwoods come down all in the name of solar.
Well, maybe its the altitude or something, but this story has just the opposite ending. The trees stay and the solar panels gotta move.
maybe its that Rocky Mountain High crap.
Marc Dann, whose lecherous chickens have come home to roost, has surely missed the mark as he failed to toe the ethical line by refusing to go quietly into that good night by taking one for the good of the team. Theres now way to put lipstick on this pig he needs to wake up and smell the coffee, to go beyond talking the talk, but to walk the the walk he cant whistle past the graveyard any longer, its time to resign.
Ha. By my likely defective count, thats 8 metaphors, plus an obscure literary reference, wrapped up in two so-called sentences.
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This is only disgusting if (a) you believe the US are monsters abusing these fellows at every chance possible (b) you are unaware that most military stations have some kind of trinkets (c) you don't care and just want to manipulate public opinion. Or all of the above.
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Early practises at the Gitmo detention center were documented in a UK film that recreated conditions, according to 3 UK captives who were caught as they fled with Taliban/al-Qaeda. The cages were used for interrogation prep and did not work at all. Prisoners are kept in tidy barracks, and enjoy greater priviliges than most US cons. Captives were alien combatants captured in a failed state; the Geneva Convention did not apply. In fact, it is legal to execute combatants who operate either out of uniform or in the uniform of the other side. US field troops conducted summary executions of several German bundists who were caught in US uniform, at the Battle of the Bulge. They had a right to take a bullet in the chest. See this film:
www.freedocumentaries.org/theatre.php?id=529&wh=1000x720
Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "5th of May") is primarily a regional and not an obligatory federal holiday in Mexico. The holiday commemorates an initial victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over French forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.
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Most gringos couldn't care less about Mexican history but they're perfectly happy to get drunk on Cinco de Mayo.
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a hearty congrats to the mexicans for also beating the french....
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something that wetbacks tend to forget...it was the end of the civil war and the us govt threat of force that ultimately decided france's fate in mexico...facing the mexicans was no problem for the french but a battle hardened million man american army (fresh from combat in the civil war)is another story...always love bringing that one up while toasting the day...frickin wetbacks
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Plus the fact that the Union Army commander in Texas was given authority to condemn "worn or unusable weapons" and leave them in UNGUARDED depots. Over 40,000 Enfields and Confederate 1861 muskets were so declared, and the depots just happened to be a VERY convenient short distance from the Rio Grande. The Mexican Army was re-equipped in a very short period, that way.
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FOX NEWS AM > PERT > argued that Mexicans don't celebrate JULY 4 = US Holiday, which is ironic becuz widout JULY 4th [inspiration?] THERE WOULDN'T EVEN BE ANY CINCO DE MAYO???
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FOX > PERT ATTEMPT AT HUMOR - "Whats good for the Taco is good for the Salsa"???
Methinks everyone in the FOX STudio + TV Audience knew the Pert's punchline came across as "S-T-A-A-A-A-A-A-L-L-L-E-... [Stale]/F-A-A-A-I-L [70's humor]".
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is seeking the suspension of Eight Belles' jockey after the filly had to be euthanized following her second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
Gabriel Saez was riding Eight Belles when she broke both front ankles while galloping out a quarter of a mile past the wire. She was euthanized on the track.
PETA faxed a letter Sunday to Kentucky's racing authority claiming the filly was "doubtlessly injured before the finish" and asked that Saez be suspended while Eight Belles' death is investigated.
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PETA is just like a certain "religion" - demanding, lying, insisting their way is the only way and everyone in the world has to bow down and worship the same way they do.
Whiny-assed LOSERS. >:-(
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Pfeh, mojo. Yes, the filly was euthanized (not 'shot') while millions watched. She was beautiful, athletic and talented. She died in pain after nearly winning the Derby. What's so frigging wonderful about that????
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I think most of the people that embrace PETA are jerks. However, having said that, I was saddened that such a fine horse with such a strong spirit had to be put down.
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PETA faxed a letter Sunday to Kentucky's racing authority claiming the filly was "doubtlessly injured before the finish"
Where's their proof of that? She looked fine to me coming across the finish. Awwww, geez, don't tell me PETA would be looking to take advantage of the death of an animal would they?
P.S.: I'd watch Big Brown. He looks like one of those special horses that comes around maybe every twenty years.
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Bah right back atcha, mojo. I know, I know - you're big, you're tough, you spit on horsies.
Decent folk don't particularly seek out pain in animals or root for their death. And there're plenty of online accounts about her euthanasia if you really want to know.
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To be clear: I'm not a cruel person, and suffering does not amuse or titilate me in any way. Once the horse was injured that badly, putting it down, as soon a possible, was the humane course. Certainly.
The more humane course would be not to have made the beat in the first place. Thoroughbreds are thoroughly useless, pampered extravagances to me.
My point originally was rather that I would not pay to see the overbred, spindly creature run, and do not share the horror and grief the trainer, who knew it, undoubtedly feels.
To the owner, the horse was likely an investment,a source of money and ego-strokes.
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to me, my 14-yr-old cat is nearly human (and has better intellect and personality than some humans I know). To the trainer, this was probably nearly like losing a child, I bet, and I sympathize with Robin's smarting. Mojo's points, are well-explained. The horse was bred to a purpose, did it well, and shit happens. I hope it didn't suffer much, but PETA and other parasites are surely wrong - the damage occurred after race end
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Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he's got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it. "I actually fit, because I got in here," said Bramanti of South Chicago Heights.
The 67-year-old Glenwood village administrator doesn't plan on needing it anytime soon, though. He threw a party Saturday for friends and filled his silver coffin designed in Pabst's colors of red, white and blue with ice and his favorite brew.
"Why put such a great novelty piece up on a shelf in storage when you could use it only the way Bill Bramanti would use it?" said Bramanti's daughter, Cathy Bramanti, 42.
Bramanti ordered the casket from Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home in Chicago Heights, and Scott Sign Co. of Chicago Heights designed the beer can.
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Do they realize how many tons of CO2 this thing is throwing into the atmosphere??? It must be stopped immediately! Save us, O Goreacle!
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Rambler, I think that's actually S02, sulfer dioxide. I don't know what impact S02 has on the climate but I remember when Mt. Pinatubo last erupted in the Philippines we had some glorious sunsets.
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According to Wikipedia (I know, I know), volcanoes eject C02 as well as SO2, and bunch of other stuff. My point was that a natural event like this can do as much damage or more than any puny thing that humans can do.
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DIBS! On selling them Carbon Credits!
Maybe I should send Washington State a bill for a few billion $ for carbon credits for the Mt. St. Helens eruption eh? They're so stupid guilt-ridden they might even pay it....
YANGON - At least 351 people were killed when cyclone Nargis tore through military-run Myanmar this weekend, state media reported on Sunday.
Myanmars state channel MRTV said on their Sunday evening news broadcast that 109 people had been killed in Haing Gyi island, just off the coast of southwestern Ayeyawaddy division where the storm first hit late Friday. One person was killed in Nyaung Done, also in Ayeyawaddy township, the channel reported.
An information ministry official had already reported 222 people died in Ayeyawaddy, while 19 others were killed in the economic hub Yangon.
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The Chinese government announced yesterday that it will no longer accept responsibility for providing full employment, supposedly one of the main advantages of the Socialist system. In a major policy shift, the People's Daily said that the onus for finding jobs for China's millions would in future be shared by several different levels, including the workers. "We give up. Go find your own jobs!"
Individuals will be encouraged to support themselves financially by various legal means, and controls on private businesses will be relaxed even further in an effort to soak up the huge pool of unemployed in China's cities. Ever wonder why Communism started to relax? This is why.
The paper stressed the need to expand the self-employed sector of the economy. This means more street hawkers, piano-tuners, shoe-shine boys, rat-catchers, cobblers and other service trades - virtually all of which were abolished under the Cultural Revolution.
But many young people, brought up under Chairman Mao to condemn small traders as evil speculators or "bourgeois remnants", are not willing to take such jobs. Yes, small traders, the worst enemy of all.
As an added incentive to workers to find work on their own, the new directive suggested that some self-employed people could become eligible to join the Communist Party - the road to real power in China. All workers in China have until now been "assigned" work by the State, with virtually no choice as to what that work may be. There are no unemployment benefits for those not lucky enough to be assigned jobs.
An article in the official party magazine Red Flag in June said that there were 10 million people "waiting to be assigned jobs." An official in Shanghai earlier this year said that she understood the number of unemployed to be over 20 million.
A major policy shift is certainly interesting, but unless my eyes deceive me, the dateline on this article is 1981 - over two decades ago. Are we having a slow news day?
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From the Danwei site:
Graham Earnshaw was the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Beijing from 1980 to 1984, and he's been looking through his clippings, which seem to prove both that China has changed completely and also that China has stayed exactly the same.
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But many young people, brought up under Chairman Mao to condemn small traders as evil speculators or "bourgeois remnants", are not willing to take such jobs.
I call BS. Mao died in 1976, over 30 years ago, so nobody under the age of 30 even remembers him.
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I call BS. Mao died in 1976, over 30 years ago, so nobody under the age of 30 even remembers him.
I guess the people who visit China and take pictures of all the Mao posters in Tiananmien Square are bullshitting me, as are all the Chinese people you run into who are apologists for all the things they think Mao did under the excuse "No Mao, No China."
The alarms went off at 6:20 a.m. and all passengers and employees had to leave the building.
The belt buckle was a very close copy of a hand grenade and, not surprisingly, it set off all alarms in the security control.
A police expert was able to quickly assess that it was just a belt buckle and the first three planes were delayed by about one-and-a-half hours, after which all routes were back on schedule.
The owner realized it was "dumb" to have taken the belt through airport security and continued on his journey without the belt.
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.
One suspect was charged and a second was being sought Sunday in the killing of a police officer who was shot with an assault rifle while investigating a report of bank robbery, police said.
That said, there has been a long string of really un-normal suicides over the past 10 or so years that cannot simply be ignored, with a big fat uptick in the post-9/11 universe. This is why so many people are lifting an eyebrow over this one.
Dear Senator Clinton:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is seeking the suspension of Eight Belles' jockey after the filly had to be euthanized following her second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. 
