Monthly Archives: September 2010
Yep, I am back, Colorado was awseome, and I have pictures
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China’s Premier Threatens Japan Over Boat Dispute – NPR
China’s premier has threatened Japan in an escalating row over disputed islands in the East China Sea. This dispute has already caused high-level government contacts to be frozen, and has dragged pop stars and pandas into the wake.
Speaking Tuesday night in New York, Premier Wen Jinbao said, “If Japan acts willfully despite advice to the contrary, China will take further actions and Japan must accept full responsibility for all the severe consequences.”
The bitter diplomatic confrontation started with a maritime collision involving a nondescript blue Chinese fishing boat. In waters near the disputed islands earlier this month, it collided with two Japanese coast guard vessels. The captain remains in Japanese custody.
This small bust-up has spiraled into this high-level standoff, centering on claims to the uninhabited but resource-rich islands. Even their name is a matter of dispute; they’re called Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China.
Twice in the past three weeks, small protests have taken place in front of Japan s embassy in Beijing. It’s significant these demonstrations are being allowed at all in the Chinese capital.
The Chinese protesters sing the national anthem, a reminder that rising nationalism born from China’s century of humiliation underlies their anger.
“I want our government to be stronger,” said a protester who gave his name as A Min.
He was trembling with anger as he spoke. “They shouldn’t let the Japanese bully us on our own soil. The Diaoyu islands have always been ours. Young Chinese people shouldn’t forget the humiliations of history, and shouldn’t allow history to repeat itself.”
Protests were held last weekend on the 79th anniversary of an incident that led to Japan’s brutal occupation of northeast China.
China has suspended ministerial contacts, and China-Japan talks on aviation issues have been called off.
Non-official contacts are also suffering, with China refusing to allow 1,000 Japanese students to visit the Shanghai Expo on a bilateral exchange and calling off a Japanese pop concert in Shanghai.
Beijing also sent a team of investigators to Japan to examine the death of a Chinese panda there.
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It’s a good thing this racist is a big lib or her public career would be finished. Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez appeared on Spanish-Language Univision and told Latino voters, “Those Vietnamese and GOP are trying to take our seat from us.”
Rep. Sanchez is in a hotly contested race for re-election against the very popular, Vietnamese-American Republican, Van Tran. — Video
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Poll Surprise Of The Day: Barney Frank In Trouble? – Hot Air
The Sean Bielat campaign has declared themselves within reach of unseating Barney Frank in Massachusetts’ 4th CD, one of the presumed safest districts for Democrats in the nation.
The poll, conducted for the campaign by OnMessage, shows Frank falling below the 50% mark. Bielat comes within nine points, even though the poll shows that he still badly trails in name recognition.
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Typhoon Kills 54 In China, Dozens Missing – New York Times
Floods and landslides from the strongest storm to hit China this year have killed at least 54 people and left dozens missing since it struck earlier this week, officials said Thursday.
Typhoon Fanapi swamped south China’s Guangdong province after directly hitting the island of Taiwan on Sunday and killing two there. Guangdong’s meteorological center said heavy rains would start to ease Thursday night.
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Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert is slated to testify at a congressional hearing Friday on immigration titled “Protecting America’s Harvest.” One Republican source said Colbert will be testifying “in character,” the Bill O’Reilly-like muse Colbert uses for his show.
A House Judiciary Committee spokeswoman, confirming Colbert would testify, said the hearing was a “serious issue… this is not a TV stunt.”
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Russ Feingold Down Big In Wisconsin Senate Race – Atlantic Wire
A new survey of Wisconsin voters from left-leaning Public Policy Polling has the three-term liberal firebrand trailing Republican challenger Ron Johnson, 52 percent to 41 precent.
This comes on the heels of last week’s Rasmussen poll in which Feingold trailed Johnson by seven points. What’s to blame for Feingold’s surprising swoon, and how would a loss change the composition of the Senate?
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Initial Unemployment Claims Rise To 465K – NewsMeat
The tally of newly laid-off workers requesting unemployment benefits rose last week for the first time in five weeks.
Initial claims for jobless aid rose by 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 465,000. Many economists had expected a flat reading or small drop. The rise suggests that jobs remain scarce and some companies are still cutting workers amid weak economic growth.
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Axelrod Leaving White House; Emmanuel Likely Next – CBS News
President Obama’s inner circle will likely be losing some key players. Bill Plante reports that sources say David Axelrod, the president’s closest advisor, will move to Chicago next spring.
Axelrod is expected to reassume his role as campaign manager in Mr. Obama’s 2012 reelection bid. A potential, if not likely, replacement for Axelrod is current White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Is The Bloom Gone?
He still can’t help but lie and blame Republicans though. Why let a perfectly good strawman go to waste?
Say, Have You Heard About This Douchebag Yet?
His name is David Green, and he’s a self-loathing, Jewish assclown who thinks that Israel is responsible for most of the problems in its tiny little corner of the Middle East, and that the words ‘Nazi Holocaust’ have been hijacked by international Zionist conspirators who’ve brainwashed the world into thinking that Hitler targeted Jews above everyone else during his infamous extermination campaign of the 1930s and ’40s.
Apparently, Green believes that, because Hitler’s minions slaughtered a lot of gentiles back in the day, the Jews were not the primary focus of the Nazi blood purges, even though holding such an opinion is tantamount to believing that Jesus Christ was really a Muslim.
And this from a guy who refers to himself as a “University Academic Professional”, which gives you yet another clue as to why the average college student in the U.S. doesn’t understand the difference between capitalism and socialism, and why the vast majority of them, and the academic professionals who hold sway over their underdeveloped psyches, voted for Barack Obama in 2008, instead of – say – ANYONE ELSE!
But I digress.
Hitler’s “final solution” was concerned exclusively with the eradication of the Jewish people from the face of the Earth, PERIOD! It had nothing whatsoever to do with any other race, religion, sect or nationality, despite the fact that the National Socialists killed hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish civilians, both before and during WWII.
The Holocaust was an atrocity of unparalleled dimensions, which took place in the middle of a century that saw more unspeakable crimes against humanity committed worldwide (primarily by communists) than any other in documented history, and no other group of civilians suffered 1/30th the casualties that the Jews did at the hands of that putrid, Darwinist-inspired conspiracy.
How do I know all this? Well, it ain’t because I’m some pointy-headed “academic professional” who hates himself and his heritage so much that he’d rather reinforce the lies of his mortal enemies than come to terms with his own feelings of inadequacy and cowardice. No, you see, I’m a normal, 40-something, American man of non-Jewish extraction who just happens to have read more books on the subjects of World War II, Nazism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and the history of the 20th century in general than most university professors have, and I’ve actually understood what I’ve read.
But Ed – you may be asking with your head cocked slightly to one side – why are you wasting your time refuting the insane claims of some guy I’ve never even heard of before?
Here’s why:
Posted: September 15th, 2010 – 10:29 PM
Daily Illini – The Independent Student Newspaper of the University of Illinois since 1871
BLOCK-I CHANT PORTRAYS ‘NEITHER PATRIOTISM NOR REMEMBRANCE’
By David Green, University Academic Professional
The vast majority of 9/11 observances in this country cannot be seen as politically neutral events. Implicit in their nature are the notions that lives lost at the World Trade Center are more valuable than lives lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere; that the motives of the 9/11 attackers had nothing to do with genuine grievances in the Islamic world regarding American imperialism; and that the U.S. has been justified in the subsequent killing of hundreds of thousands in so-called retaliation.
The observance at Saturday’s football game was no different. A moment of silence was followed by a military airplane flyover; in between, Block-I students chanted “USA, USA.” This was neither patriotism nor remembrance in any justifiable sense, but politicization, militarism, propaganda and bellicosity. The University is a public institution that encompasses the political views of all, not just the most (falsely) “patriotic.” Athletic planners should cease such exploitation for political purposes. They might at least consider how most Muslim students, American or otherwise, would respond to this nativist display; or better, Muslims and others that live their lives under the threat of our planes, drones and soldiers.
The overwhelmingly white, privileged, Block-I students should be ashamed of their obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk chant, while poverty-drafted members of their cohort fight and die in illegal and immoral wars for the control of oil. University administrators need to eliminate from all events such “patriotic” observances, which in this country cannot be separated from implicit justifications for state-sponsored killing.
So, does that answer your question? I hope so.
Suffice it to say that David Green has no business being a “University Academic Professional”, nor should he ever again be allowed within 1,000 yards of a college campus, a high school campus, a grade school campus, a kindergarten campus, a daycare center, or even a pregnant woman.
Tell me I’m wrong.
By Edward L. Daley (aka DarcPrynce)
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Today, eight city council members were arrested in Bell, California for what Los Angeles County District Attorney labeled “corruption on steroids.” Thus far, every major news outlet that has reported on the story has omitted the fact that all eight individuals arrested are Democrats.
These glaring omissions come only weeks after NewsBusters reported that of the 351 stories on the then-brewing controversy, 350 had omitted party affiliations, and one had mentioned they were Democrats only in apologizing for not doing so sooner.
ABC, CBS, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, USA Today, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and the San Francisco Chronicle all reported on the arrests today without mentioning party affiliations.
One commenter at CNN’s online story got it spot on: “I notice there is no mention of the party affiliation of the accused. I can find no mention of it in any story on the internet. This must mean they were all Democrats.”
Give the man a cigar.
Together, the eight city officials “misappropriated” $5.5 million in municipal funds. Robert Rizzo, the chief culprit, was arrested on 53 counts of various brands of corruption.
Before the scandal came to light, Rizzo had been making roughly $1.5 million per year, even though the per capita income in Bell is roughly half the national average.
Pedro Carillo, Bell’s interim city manager, released a statement on the arrests today:
Given the sheer volume of charges levied against former Bell Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo and former Assistant CAO Angela Spaccia by the district attorney, it is clear that Rizzo and Spaccia were at the root of the cancer that has afflicted the City of Bell. Also, it is a sad day for Bell that four current and two former members of the council also have been arrested. I am prepared to double down our efforts to continue to restore order, establish good government reforms, and to ensure that Bell is providing needed services to its residents.
Despite arrests in one of the most massive cases of municipal corruption in recent memory, no media outlet could bring itself to mention the officials’ party affiliations, a fact that has been widely reported since the scandal entered the national spotlight.
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Dream Act, Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell Stall In Senate – Business Journal
A measure that would allow some children of illegal aliens to earn legal status in the U.S. has stalled in the Senate. The Dream Act was inserted into a defense spending bill by Senator Harry Reid.
But the Dream Act and a repeal of the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy toward homosexuals in the U.S. military stalled because Republicans and a few Democrats opposed one or both of the planks.
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The NAACP-led ‘One Nation Working Together’ rally coming up in Washington, D.C. on October 2nd to counter the Tea Party movement’s success is being sponsored by pro-terrorist and communist groups.
Many of their logos are proudly and prominently displayed on the rally’s promotional website. One sponsor’s leader was fired this summer by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission for his ties to Hamas.
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Obama: “Mexicans” Were Here “Long Before America Was Even An Idea” – Real Clear Politics
“Long before America was even an idea, this land of plenty was home to many peoples. The British and French, the Dutch and Spanish, to Mexicans, to countless Indian tribes. We all shared the same land,” President Obama told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Mexico declared its independence on September 16, 1810. It was recognized in 1821. The U.S. declared its independence in 1776.
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After Helping To Destroy Economy, Obama’s Top Economic Adviser Announces Resignation – First Things
Obama’s top economic adviser, Larry Summers, who believes that higher taxes fuels job growth, will step down in 2011 after helping the democrat party destroy the U.S. economy.
His boss is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression. The Obama-Pelosi economic plan resulted in a 7.5 million jobs deficit. By every objective measure the democrat’s ‘stimulus’ bomb was a disaster.
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Obama’s Aunt Zeituni: ‘The System Took Advantage Of Me’ – WBZ
“If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen.” Those are the words from 58-year-old Zeituni Onyango of Kenya in a recent exclusive interview with WBZ-TV.
Onyango is the aunt of President Barack Obama. She lived in the United States illegally for years, receiving public assistance in Boston. Ms. Onyango had violated the law, and she knew it.
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White House Looks To Push Health Care Gurney In Front Of Voters – Daily Caller
Barack Obama once told Democrat lawmakers they’d be proud to campaign on historic health care legislation. Six months later, the only Democrats running ads about it are the ones who voted “no.”
Now, with crucial midterm elections approaching, the White House is preparing to use the law’s six-month anniversary to reintroduce it to skeptical voters and trumpet new reforms that are taking effect.
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Australian 17-Year-Old Takes Blame For Twitter Chaos – AFP
A 17-year-old Australian boy said he unwittingly caused a massive hacker attack on Twitter which sent users to Japanese porn sites and took out the White House press secretary’s feed.
Pearce Delphin admitted exposing a security flaw which was then pounced upon by hackers, affecting thousands of users and causing havoc on the microblogging site for about five hours on Tuesday.
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Laser Used To Remove Worm From Man’s Eye – Arizona Republic
Doctors rushed a Cedar Rapids man into a treatment room after they found a worm had taken up residence in his eye. John Matthews said he sought medical help after he noticed two spots obscuring his vision in his left eye.
Several specialists tested him and he was sent to the ophthalmology department at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics where doctors found the worm.
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Student Athlete Dies Tangled In Exercise Machine – CW31
Students at Bear River High School were stunned after learning one of their star players died early Monday morning. Justin Butler, 16, was found by his parents in his home Sunday night after somehow becoming entangled in a Bowflex exercise machine.
They called 911 and began performing CPR, and emergency crews rushed him by helicopter to a hospital. Butler died Monday.
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Japanese Doctor: Ringtone Can Increase Breast Size – InventorSpot
A Japanese researcher thinks he’s found a cheap, non-invasive breast augmentation method based on a woman’s natural physiological response to the sound of a crying baby.
Could this be the solution to breast enhancement without surgery? Hideto Tomabechi is no crackpot – he once helped deprogram members of the notorious Aum Shinrikyo cult, implicated in the Tokyo subway nerve gas attacks of 1995.
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Miracle Kitten Survives Wash Cycle – Orange News
A curious kitten had an amazing escape after climbing into a washing machine and going through a full wash cycle. Seven-month-old Siamese Suki was soaked, washed, rinsed and then spun dry after climbing in with a full load of dirty linen.
The first that owner Liz Fear knew of the cleaning catastrophe was when she reached in to pull out the clothing and discovered an unexpected fur ball.
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New Maxine Waters And Barney Frank Scandal Documents – Big Government
Remember at the outset of the financial crisis when the government told us only “healthy banks” were going to receive bailout funds? Well apparently that requirement does not apply to banks with friends in high places.
Judicial Watch received new documents from the U.S. Department of Treasury about the controversial $12 million bailout grant provided to Boston-based OneUnited Bank.
We got the documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit we filed against Treasury. Included are internal Treasury emails describing the substandard condition of OneUnited prior to the taxpayer funded bailout, which allegedly occurred at the behest of Reps. Maxine Waters and Barney Frank.
Here’s what we found out in a nutshell: OneUnited Bank was in deep trouble due to incompetence and mismanagement. Government officials knew all about it. And yet, they bent the rules for Waters and Frank and “invested” taxpayer funds in the floundering enterprise.
Consider this September 15, 2008, email from former Treasury Senior Advisor Michael Scott to Director of the Office of Financial Institutions Mario Ugoletti. It includes a Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) evaluation administered by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) noting serious issues with OneUnited’s lending practices:
2004 CRA Public Evaluation: While the institution received a CRA rating of “Low Satisfactory” on an overall basis, OneUnited Bank’s CRA rating for Massachusetts was “Needs to Improve” for both the Lending Test and the Investment Test. Under the Lending Test, the report stated that “OUB has done a poor job of meeting the credit needs of its [Boston, MA] assessment area. A review of the 2002 and 2003 HMDA data revealed a total of one loan. There were no reported Community Development Loans (CDL) and any innovative or flexible lending programs were apparently ineffective.”
For the Massachusetts Investment Test, the report stated that “the level and complexity of investments within the Boston assessment area is less than satisfactory there were no equity investments or qualified deposits within the assessment area. The low volume of qualified investments within the assessment area is a concern.”
In Florida, the institution received a CRA rating of “Substantial Noncompliance” which also represented the subordinate rating for the Lending Test…
A subsequent 2007 CRA evaluation noted continued problems with OneUnited’s lending program, particularly in Florida.
The documents also include a January 3, 2009, email from Brookly McLaughlin, Treasury’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, to former Assistant Treasury Secretary Neel Kashkari highlighting Barney Frank’s intervention in the OneUnited Bank bailout and calling attention to significant concerns about the OneUnited transaction:
According to the WSJ [Wall Street Journal] Barney Frank told them that he specifically put section 103-6 in the bill in order to help this particular bank. Apparently this bank also had an issue with a Porsche that the regulators had made them get rid of. The story will run later this week and will highlight three banks that they think raise questions and are not “healthy” banks…
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FBI Says It Supplied Fake Bomb In Chicago Plot – Associated Press
A man arrested for allegedly placing a backpack he thought contained a bomb near Chicago’s Wrigley Field got the fake explosive from an FBI undercover agent, authorities say.
Sami Samir Hassoun, 22, a Lebanese citizen living in Chicago for about three years, was charged Monday with one count each of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted use of an explosive device.
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Proof: New Records Show DOJ Lied About New Black Panther Dismissal – Pajamas Media
Judicial Watch made an explosive announcement today about the Obama Justice Department’s stonewalling in the New Black Panther voter intimidation case dismissal.
Forced to bring a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit after DOJ rebuffed its public records request (so much for transparency), Judicial Watch obtained a privilege log from the DOJ last week.
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Reid Calls Gillibrand The “Hottest” Member At Fundraiser – Politico
Senator Harry Reid had an unusual form of praise for New York’s junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, this morning at the fundraiser Mayor Bloomberg hosted for him at his townhouse – referring to her as “the hottest member” as she sat just a few feet away.
The comment prompted Gillibrand to turn red, according to the sources, and created a bit of stir among the small crowd there.
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UK Proposes All Paychecks Go To State First – CNBC
The UK’s tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which it would deduct the appropriate tax and pay employees by bank transfer.
The proposal stresses the need for employers to provide real-time information to the government so that it can monitor all payments and make a better assessment of whether the correct tax is being paid.
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Household Net Worth Fell By $1.5 Trillion From Last Quarter – All247News
Federal Reserve data showed a drop of $1.5 Trillion in the household net worth of American citizens in the second quarter of 2010 compared to the first quarter of this year.
This was attributed to declined value of stocks, mutual bonds, real estate property and the increasing unemployment rate. Total household net worth was recorded at $53.5 trillion.
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Obamas Go To Church… To Hear Muslim Speak – Post & Email
On Sunday, September 19, 2010, the Obama family attended church for only the third time in a year. They went on foot to the St. John’s Episcopal Church situated across the Lafayette Park.
But what is widely not reported is that on that particular Sunday in that particular church, Dr. Ziad Asali, M.D., a Muslim, founder and president of the American Task Force on Palestine, was the guest speaker.
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Plane Makes Emergency Landing On Atlanta Highway – NewsMeat
Authorities say they’re trying to determine what caused the engine problems that prompted a small plane to make an emergency landing on a busy stretch of Interstate 85 northeast of Atlanta.
The plane landed smoothly and without hitting any cars on a southbound stretch of the interstate Monday afternoon a few miles from Peachtree DeKalb Airport. Television shots showed traffic snarled for miles.
The Yardstick And The Tea Parties
Yeah, it’s old and Ace had it first but it’s still serves as a good illustration on what the Tea Party is upset about.
As much as I want to get snarky with this (John McClane called to say, “Welcome to the party, pal!”), I shouldn’t.
First, she’s completely right about the yardstick theory. The first time I read it, Eric Cantor popped into my head holding the yardstick at the 28 inch mark saying, “You need to thank me for this.”
Second, the former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan went googly eyed over Barack Obama in 08. Now, she might be coming around. It’s important to remind her when she’s right about something. Who knows, she might be right more often.
I see two central reasons for the tea party’s rise. The first is the yardstick, and the second is the clock. First, the yardstick. Imagine that over at the 36-inch end you’ve got pure liberal thinking—more and larger government programs, a bigger government that costs more in the many ways that cost can be calculated. Over at the other end you’ve got conservative thinking—a government that is growing smaller and less demanding and is less expensive. You assume that when the two major parties are negotiating bills in Washington, they sort of lay down the yardstick and begin negotiations at the 18-inch line. Each party pulls in the direction it wants, and the dominant party moves the government a few inches in their direction.
But if you look at the past half century or so you have to think: How come even when Republicans are in charge, even when they’re dominant, government has always gotten larger and more expensive? It’s always grown! It’s as if something inexorable in our political reality—with those who think in liberal terms dominating the establishment, the media, the academy—has always tilted the starting point in negotiations away from 18 inches, and always toward liberalism, toward the 36-inch point.
Democrats on the Hill or in the White House try to pull it up to 30, Republicans try to pull it back to 25. A deal is struck at 28. Washington Republicans call it victory: “Hey, it coulda been 29!” But regular conservative-minded or Republican voters see yet another loss. They could live with 18. They’d like eight. Instead it’s 28.
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Tea Parties Gain Ground Abroad – CNS
When Britain’s Conservative Party holds its annual conference next month, some of the policies of the coalition government it leads will come under fire from a nascent British “tea party” movement that is drawing inspiration from its U.S. namesake.
Similar conservative grassroots movements agitating for lower taxes and limited government have emerged in the Netherlands, Italy and Australia, where European conservatives are embracing the slogan “Taxed Enough Already.”
The Freedom Association (TFA), a free-market pressure group, launched Britain’s tea party movement at an event in the southern coastal city of Brighton last February, addressed by Daniel Hannan, an outspoken Conservative lawmaker in the European Parliament and TFA council member.
Since then “tea parties” have been held in other British centers – including the east coast port town of Boston in Lincolnshire, from where Puritans in the 17th century set sail for America and founded Boston, Mass., home of the original tea party protest 140 years later.
“We have seen in America that grassroots campaigns for limited government can make a real difference, and we shouldn’t merely stand by as the government continues to grow, financed by debt, inflation and higher taxes,” Ben Lodge of TFA wrote on Sunday.
The British movement was launched under a Labor government, but since elections in May, it finds itself confronted by a different, and unusual, political reality – a coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats.
On the sidelines of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham early next month TFA, The Taxpayers’ Alliance and other conservative groups will hold a two-day “Freedom Zone” event.
Speakers ranging from Conservative lawmakers in the House of Commons and European Parliament to activists and journalists will examine how the governing coalition is handling issues important to small-c conservatives and libertarians, including taxation, civil liberties, electoral reform and Britain’s relationship with the European Union.
A conference in London this month hosted by The Taxpayers’ Alliance brought together representatives from some leading free market think tanks from both sides of the Atlantic, including some with close links to tea party groups in the U.S., such as Freedom Works and Americans for Prosperity.
TFA director Simon Richards told the Daily Telegraph that the British Tea Party movement was also collaborating with activists in Italy and Australia.
A loose Italian tea party movement was born in May in Prato, near Florence, under the slogan “lower taxes, more freedom.” It is spreading, with tea parties planned in Turin this weekend, and in Sicily and Milan early next month.
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Train Crash Kills 21 In Central India – Yahoo News
A freight train on the wrong track slammed into a stationary passenger locomotive at a railway station amid heavy rain early Monday in central India, killing at least 21 people and injuring 53.
The death toll could rise as the debris of two damaged coaches were being cleared, rail official R.S. Yadav said. The crash happened at the Bhaderwah rail station, 235 miles south of the Indian capital, New Delhi.
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Powell Says Illegal Aliens Do His Home Repairs – Washington Times
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday said illegal aliens do essential work in the United States and that he has firsthand knowledge of that – because they fix his house.
A moderate Republican, Mr. Powell urged his party to support immigration generally because those who come from abroad are, in his words, “what’s keeping this country’s lifeblood moving forward.”
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Obama Drops ‘Creator’ From Declaration Quote – WorldNetDaily
President Barack Hussein Obama removed the reference to the “Creator” from the Declaration of Independence when he quoted a portion at a meeting of the Congressional Hispanic Congress.
Obama said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” — Click HERE to watch the video footage.
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22 FARC Rebels Killed By Colombian Police Near Ecuador Border – Latin American Herald Tribune
At least 22 FARC guerrillas were killed early Sunday in fighting with the National Police near San Miguel, where eight police officers died in a rebel ambush earlier this month, officials said.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, guerrillas were killed in coordinated operation by the National Police with the support of the army and air force, Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera said.
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NASA Discovers Brand New Force Of Nature – 9News
NASA scientists say they may have discovered a new force of nature, after research showed that two of their deep space probes were being inexplicably pulled off course.
Pioneers 10 and 11, which have been in space for over 40 years, are being steadily pulled towards the sun by an unknown power. The scientists said it could not be gravity or solar radiation, as they decreased over distance.
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23 Tajik Soldiers Die In Terror Attack: Ministry – NewsMeat
Tajikistan was on high alert Monday after Islamist terrorists were blamed for the deaths of at least 23 soldiers in the latest in a string of attacks to hit the volatile Central Asian state.
The deadliest attack this year occurred Sunday when insurgents ambushed a military convoy in the mountainous Rasht Valley region some 250 kilometres (150 miles) east of the capital Dushanbe.
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Under A Cloud Of Violence And Fraud, Afghans Vote – CNN
Afghans voted in the fourth post-Taliban-era national election Saturday, though it was not without the violence promised by Islamic terrorists or myriad procedural challenges.
Voters trickled into polls under a dark cloud of Taliban threats to disrupt the parliamentary election and the legacy of fraud that undermined the credibility of the last election, held just over a year ago.
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TriMet Bus Driver Caught Reading Kindle On I-5 – KGW
A TriMet bus driver was caught on video reading a Kindle while driving down I-5 Thursday. The driver, 40-year-old Lahcen Qouchbane, reached into his bag, pulled out the Kindle and set it on the dashboard.
A passenger who witness the event decided to record it with his cell phone. The recording took place on the Line 96 bus traveling from Bridgeport Village to downtown Portland.
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Man Arrested For Beating His Girlfriend With A Cat – Police Link
A 49-year-old Hoboken man was arrested Tuesday after he beat his girlfriend with a cat and punched her in the back and back of her head.
Around noon, Hoboken police were dispatched to the 300 block of Marshall Dr., and a 20-year-old Jersey City woman was crying and told police that her boyfriend punched her a few times and hit her with a “feline cat,” reports said.
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Limbless Man Swims English Channel – Orange News
A Frenchman whose arms and legs had to be amputated has successfully swum the English Channel. Forty-two-year-old Philippe Croizon swam from Folkestone in Kent to Cap Gris Nez in just over 13 hours, reports the BBC.
He had set himself a target of 24 hours and his team believe he has set a record time for a disabled swimmer. “I did it! It’s mad!” Mr Croizon said on arrival.
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Burglar Found Sleeping On The Job – Stuff
Police say a burglar broke into a house in Malaysia to steal watches and jewelry then fell asleep with his loot on the owners’ couch.
The Star and the New Straits Times report when the owners returned to their home in northern Penang state Saturday, they were shocked to find the living room in a mess and a man napping upstairs. The loot was worth some 10,000 ringgit ($3,200).
Gooooooo Gators!
Florida Downs Tennessee – Florida Today
Florida had a pair of huge interceptions and a fake punt to bail out a struggling offense and beat Tennessee for the sixth straight season, 31-17, Saturday before 102,455 at Neyland Stadium.
Florida (3-0) went up 10-3 on a 44-yard field goal by Caleb Sturgis to open the second half — finishing off a 10-play, 53-yard drive. Tennessee (1-2) quickly tied it, however, with a 49-yard pass from Matt Simms to Denarius Moore with 8:59 left in the third quarter.
But on fourth-and-6, Omarius Hines took the snap on a fake punt and raced straight up the middle 36 yards to the Tennessee 25. It was the first time UF had faked a punt since the Arkansas game in October of 2008.
A 14-yard pass from John Brantley (14 of 23 for 167 yards) to Carl Moore on third-and-8 moved the ball to the 9. On third-and-goal, Brantley hit Frankie Hammond Jr. for the score with 4:31 left in the third quarter.
UF cornerback Jeremy Brown then intercepted Simms’ pass and returned it to the Vols’ 29 with 2:39 left. Hines’ 13-yard reception got it to the 9, which eventually led to a 5-yard score by Mike Gillislee to make it 24-10.
Simms made things interesting with a 35-yard TD throw to Justin Hunter on fourth down to cut the margin to seven points with 11:24 left in the game. The score came after an officials’ review that overturned a fumble near midfield by Jeff Demps (who finished with 26 rushes for 73 yards) to give the Vols the ball.
But the Gators’ offense responded with one of its most impressive drives all season, going 60 yards in nine plays and eating up over five minutes of the remaining time. Deonte Thompson and Moore had clutch receptions of 24 and 12 yards.
Demps picked up 16 yards to the UT 8, gained two more yards on first-and-goal and Trey Burton scored on a 2-yard run from the shot gun to push the lead back out to 31-17 with 6:15 remaining in the contest.
Matt Elam recovered a Tennessee fumble on the Vols’ next drive to sent fans pouring out of the Neyland.
Shocking New Info About Chris Coons
If you need any more of a reason to vote for Christine O’Donnell.
One of these two men was told he is a good “pet”. The other paled around with hookers.
Once Again It’s I-Wish-It-Was-NFL-Sunday-But-It’s-Only-Full-Metal-Jacket-Reach-Around-Saturday Full Metal Jacket Reach Around Saturday
Yankee Phil provides us with video footage of GOP Senate candidate Pat Toomey sharing his Little Red Hen story with an audience of Pennsylvania voters.
Sista Toldjah resists the urge to go medieval on some sorry-assed beeotch who gave pot to her 2-year-old daughter.
Ugly, whiny, short-bus-riding, Maine RINO Olympia Snowe gets exposed for the parasitic organism that she is in our good friend Carol’s Closet.
Uncle Jimbo over at Black Five serves up a little zombie pork for everyone to choke on. Yes folks, John Murtha may be dead, but his legacy lives on.
The fine patriots over at Atlas Shrugs explain in detail why Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison is almost as dangerous to America as Barack Obama is.
The grouchy, old cripple over at Grouchy Old Cripple has posted an adult-oriented blonde joke that’s sure to bring a smile to your face… unless you’re blonde.
Some fake Tea Partiers think that a new pro-incumbency campaign finance bill currently worming its way through Congress is a peachy idea, and the Left Coast Rebel is justifiably disgusted by this state of affairs.
Drew over at Ace Of Spades HQ has dug up some illuminating information concerning spoiled RINO Lisa Murkowski’s newly announced write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Doug Ross discusses an effort by “detestable Stalinist hacks” Henry Waxman and Anthony Weiner to “pick off talk radio’s advertisers, one-by-one.”
A reader of the Four Right Wing Wackos blog submits video footage of somebody blowing up a Quran. Apparently, burning one just wasn’t satisfying enough for them.
The Neo-Neocon asks the magic question “So, what about Christine O’Donnell and masturbation, anyway?” Then she answers it.
American Glob shares a video with us of Joy Behar – the kind, thoughtful and stunningly attractive host of The View – as she debates conservative talk show host Steve Malzberg over who’s really to blame for America’s problems. You’ll love the part where she brings up how Bush stole the 2000 election.
Adrienne over at Adrienne’s Corner is asking that we all take a momnet to pray for some blogger chums of hers who are currently suffering from some terrible diseases. Consider it done, my dear.
And today’s ‘You-Don’t-See-Headlines-Like-That-Every-Day’ award goes to The Other McCain for the following: Democrat Halvorson’s Nazi-Smear Aide Is Lesbian Who Brags About ‘Gigantic Boobs’. Tell me, who could resist reading a story like that?
Yes, the ‘Do It For Bieber’ political campaign continues on its relentless surge toward ultimate victory in the November mid-term elections, and Hack Wilson is right there with an important video presentation to inform and delight you.
An Obama OFA (Organizing For America) staffer is caught on tape holding a poster of Glenn Beck with a Hitler mustache, during some psycho-leftist gathering in Chicago. The fine bloggers at I Own The World have posted the video for your viewing pleasure.
Apparently the Saber Point blog has been designated the ‘Dumbest Website Ever’ by a bunch of atheists at something called The Skeptics’ Dictionary, and Saber Point’s owner Stogie could not be more proud.
Normally I would never consider posting a link to a video of two squirrels fighting, but since the footage has been posted on the otherwise insanely interesting Socialist Squirrel blog, I’ve decided to make an exception just this once.
Say, did you know that Great Britain has its very own Ukulele Orchestra? Neither did I before I happened upon a video of it over at Maggie’s Farm.
*VIDEO* Hot Chick Rides Mechanical Bull In VERY Short Dress
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At The U.N. Obama Promotes Human Wrongs Against Israel Instead Of Human Rights – Fox News
Wednesday in Geneva during the current session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, the Obama administration became a willing participant in the U.N.’s imposition of an apartheid-style ban on representatives of the state of Israel.
Despite the promises made by the administration that by joining the Council the United States would not become part of the problem, U.S. Ambassador to the Council Eileen Donahoe chose to attend and fully participate in a meeting that deliberately excluded anyone representing the Jewish state.
Israel is the only U.N. state not permitted to be a full member of any of the U.N.’s five regional groups. Throughout the Human Rights Council sessions, these groups hold key planning meetings in which countries negotiate and share important information behind closed doors. Even the Palestinian Authority, though not a state, is permitted into the Asian regional group.
Israelis are allowed into the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) in some parts of the U.N. But WEOG members have chosen to exclude them totally in all of their meetings associated with the Human Rights Council. Rather than refusing to participate until such outrageous discrimination comes to an end, Obama administration representatives walked through the door slammed in the face of Israelis and made themselves comfortable.
While Israelis are left standing in the hall during the Council’s regional group meetings, this week for the first time Libya took its seat as a full-fledged Council member. Other full voting members of the U.N.’s lead human rights body include such model citizens as Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Russia and Kyrgyzstan.
Joining the Human Rights Council was one of President Obama’s first foreign policy decisions. He knew then – what is still true today – that the Council has adopted more resolutions and decisions condemning the state of Israel than all other 191 U.N. members combined. He knew that the permanent formal agenda of the Council includes one item to condemn Israel and one for the rest of the world.
But rather than refusing to lend legitimacy to a body with a deeply entrenched bias, the president chose to join and direct U.S. taxpayer dollars its way, claiming that he would be the Council’s great reformer.
On Monday, writing in The New York Times, Ambassador Donahoe repeated the claim that U.S. engagement filled “a vacuum of leadership” and alleged that “the council is engaged in a serious self-reflection exercise for the purpose of improving its work and functioning with respect to its core mandate of protecting human rights.”
On the very same day as Donahoe’s op-ed appeared, the 57 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) put the president in his place on any notion of reform. The OIC holds the balance of power at the Council, because the Council majority is composed of members from the African and Asian regional groups, and OIC countries form the majority in both the African and Asian groups.
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Congressional Republicans Fight to Save Incandescent Light Bulbs – Daily Caller
Yesterday, Republican Reps. Joe Barton of Texas, Michael Burgess of Texas, and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee introduced the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, otherwise known as the BULB Act.
The BULB Act repeals a section of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 that called for more energy efficient light bulbs. That provision set in motion the phasing out of incandescent light bulbs by 2012.
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Computers Set For Quantum Leap – Financial Times
A new photonic chip that works on light rather than electricity has been built by an international research team, paving the way for the production of ultra-fast quantum computers with capabilities far beyond those of today’s devices.
Future quantum computers will, for example, be able to pull important information out of the biggest databases almost instantaneously.
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Great News: $111 Million In Stimulus Money To L.A. Produces… 54 Jobs – Hot Air
Via Patterico, who’s trumpeting the gruesome per-job breakdown. Actually, to be precise, the money produced 54.46 jobs, so it’s almost half a job better than it sounds.
And in fairness, some of the waste is doubtless due to mismanagement by California’s municipal governments. Who knows? With solid leadership at the local level, this hundred mil could have produced, say, 70-80 jobs.
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Europeans Push Global Tax To Fund Poverty Reduction, Climate Change Causes – CNS
A group of 60 nations will meet next week at the United Nations to push for a tax on foreign currency transactions as a way to generate revenue to meet global poverty-reduction goals, including “climate change” mitigation.
Spearheaded by European Union countries, the so-called “innovative financing” proposal envisages a tax of 0.005 percent.
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27 Killed In Sri Lanka Explosives Depot Blast – ChannelNewsAsia
An accidental blast at an explosives depot in eastern Sri Lanka on Friday killed at least 27 people including two Chinese road builders and devastated a police station, the military said.
Three container loads of munitions being stored at a police station in Karadiyanaru, 235 miles (375 kilometres) by road from Colombo, exploded as officers distributed charges to the Chinese contractors.
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Global warming could be a thing of the past, thanks to the Obama administration. No, it has not managed to stop rising global temperatures – since temperatures aren’t actually rising – but it does think the terminology oversimplifies the imaginary problem.
According to John Holdren, people should use the phrase ‘global climate disruption’ because it makes the situation sound more dangerous.
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Middle School Students Bow To Allah During Mosque Field Trip – First Things
6th graders from Wellesley, MA middle school were taken on a class trip to a “moderate” mosque in May. The boys and girls were separated and the boys then joined Muslim men in a prayer to Allah.
This was a public school field trip to the largest mosque in the Northeast. Teachers did not intervene. Parents were not told. Americans for Peace and Tolerance released a video of the brainwashing exercise.
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Obama Goes On Incredible $192 Million Splurge-Fest – WorldNetDaily
House Republicans are collecting photos from citizens showing how the Obama administration is using nearly $200 million in taxpayer money to plaster every possible highway with signs touting how stimulus cash is “Putting America to Work” with infrastructure projects.
Rep. Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, published a new video today inviting citizen watchdogs to send in photos of the green “Projects Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” popping up around the country.
Entitled “Signs of a Failed Stimulus: Be a Citizen Watchdog,” the video seeks the investigative help of Americans “fed up with both President Obama’s failed ‘stimulus’ programs and the taxpayer-funded propaganda signs used to promote this $862 billion boondoggle which has not fulfilled its job-creation promises.”
In a statement released by his Washington office, Issa put out the challenge: “Seen a sign? Take a picture and send it with the address and location to stimulussigns@mail.house.gov.”
Issa’s office released an interactive map that allows readers to click on geographical locations around the country to view photographs citizens have taken of the nearly ubiquitous green American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) signs the Obama administration has been posting to advertise the “jobs created or saved” the White House likes to tout have resulted from deficit-spending stimulus projects.
Issa’s charge is not just that the stimulus spending has failed to create jobs, but the additional spending on stimulus roadsigns amounts to nothing more than a “propaganda” effort by the White House to convince Americans the stimulus has been successful, despite evidence to the contrary.
“This project harnesses the American public’s help in getting answers about why the administration has insisted on wasting potentially $192 million taxpayer dollars on pro-stimulus advertising even as the spending splurge has failed to meet the president’s own sales pitch: that the stimulus would keep unemployment below 8 percent and generate more than 4 million private sector jobs by the end of 2010,” Issa’s statement said.
“Today, unemployment stands at 9.6 percent, 14.9 million Americans cannot find work and more than 2.5 million people have lost their jobs since the stimulus became law.”
WND previously reported that a scathing Oversight Republican Staff Report has charged that the White House has “used the machinery of the Obama Campaign to tout the president’s agenda through inappropriate and sometimes unlawful public relations and propaganda initiatives.”
Under President Obama’s watch, some 3 million jobs have been lost, according to the Heritage Foundation. With 3 million jobs lost since Obama became president and the 3.5 million jobs Obama promised would be created if the stimulus plan were passed, Heritage concludes the Obama jobs deficit for 2010 stands at 7.6 million jobs.
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Harry Reid: Chris Coons Is ‘My Pet’ – Hot Air
An auspicious opening to Team O’Donnell’s campaign: Already, Democrats are making unforced errors as dumb as the ones Martha Coakley made in Massachusetts.
Reid said Coons would have won even if Rep. Mike Castle (R) had prevailed over O’Donnell. “I’m going to be very honest with you – Chris Coons, everybody knows him in the Democratic caucus. He’s my pet.” Reid said.
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U.S. Homes Lost To Foreclosure Up 25 Percent On Year – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Lenders took back more homes in August than in any month since the start of the U.S. mortgage crisis. In all, banks repossessed 95,364 properties last month, up 3 percent from July and an increase of 25 percent from August 2009.
August makes the ninth month in a row that the pace of homes lost to foreclosure has increased on an annual basis.
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Christine O’Donnell Raises Almost $1 Million In 24 Hours – Millennial Pundit
Christine O’Donnell started a fund-raising push after winning the GOP nomination on Tuesday. Her goal: $50,000. When I checked Wednesday morning, she already had 210% of that goal.
So, like any smart campaign, O’Donnell and co. raised the ante to $200,000, then $350,000, $500,000, $750,000, and now she’s going for a cool million. As of 11:00 Wednesday night she’d brought in $840,000.
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Retirement Fund Trillions Lure Government Grabbers – American Thinker
Is the government making plans to confiscate your retirement money? The Obama administration is certainly exploring the idea.
This question no longer seems far-fetched when the group-thinkers in Washington unabashedly promote a doctrine of wealth redistribution and central planning. These Keynesian socialists know they will need vast new sources of revenues to fund their relentless spending binges.
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Poll: Rubio Now Leads Crist By 14 Points – Reuters
Republican Marco Rubio has opened a clear lead in a Florida Senate race, becoming the latest Tea Party favorite to benefit from voter anger at leftists, a Reuters/Ipsos poll has found.
Six weeks before November 2 congressional elections, Rubio leads state Governor Charlie Crist by 40 percent to 26 percent among likely voters, the poll found. Democrat Kendrick Meek trails at 21 percent.
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Illegal Alien Child Molester Awarded $4.3 Million In California – Daily Caller
California is so broke it is being compared to Greece. But the Orange County Board of Supervisors gave away 4.3 million dollars to an illegal Mexican alien who is also a child molester. Why did the supervisors do it? Answer: “The lawyer made me do it!”
The first chapter in this distasteful story begins with Fernando Ramirez, a 24-year-old illegal alien, being caught molesting a 6-year-old girl in a park.
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Canada Police Find 7 Tons Of Hashish – The Age
Police in Montreal, Canada have found seven tons of hashish wrapped in laptop-sized bricks in an abandoned container, the CBC news network said late on Wednesday.
“It’s a big one,” a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) spokesman told the network about the drug haul, which one reporter estimated would be enough to intoxicate everybody in Canada.
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Man Tries To Have Sex With Landlord’s Dog, Twice – APP
An Australian man pleaded guilty to charges of attempted bestiality and stealing after trying twice to have sex with his landlord s Great Dane.
Cairns Magistrates Court heard yesterday that Bradley Whitehead was staying with a Endearour Valley couple, who had agreed to help him in exchange for work on their property, when he was caught attempting to mount their dog Missy.
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Alleged Police Impersonator Pulls Over Detective – Breitbart
A Long Island man faces impersonation charges after police said a driver he pulled over for a traffic stop turned out to be a legitimate detective.
Detective William Zambito was driving home from work at about 4:30 a.m. when an unmarked car with flashing lights and sirens stopped him. When Zambito told Victor Alfaro-Marquez he was an off-duty officer, the impersonator fled the scene.
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Drunk Man Crashes Two Cars, Then tries To Tow Them – Yahoo News
A 54-year-old man has been arrested after police say he crashed two cars while intoxicated, then got in his tow truck and tried to move the vehicles.
Tommy Ryser was arrested and booked on three counts of driving under the influence Monday. Ryser crashed his truck into a utility pole Monday night, abandoned it and got in his wife’s Volkswagen but crashed that car into a guardrail.
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Police: Naked Woman Steals Louisiana Cab – Houston Chronicle
Police in Louisiana say a woman stripped in the back seat of a cab, demanded the driver take her to Michigan and when he refused, stole his cab.
Covington Police Capt. Jack West said the driver picked up 29-year-old Jennifer Gille at about 1 a.m. Sunday. West says Gille refused to get out when they reached their destination, stripped and demanded the cabbie take her home.
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