The Independent Jerk

When I'm right, I'm right.

2008-06-24T08:21:00.002-04:00

I while back i posted this.

Today the Lynn item reports this.

At about 6:30 p.m. Friday, police rushed to 118 Cooledge St. on a report of shots fired. The victim told police she was on the sidewalk when Cote fired at her from a moving car allegedly driven by 18-year-old Sigfredo Sanchez, according to prosecutors.

Steven Acevedo, 19, of 109 Franklin Ave., Revere, was also in the vehicle and allegedly was caught by police trying to hide the gun a short time later.
Police recovered a single bullet at the scene, which prosecutors say was shot from a .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol.

Police arrested the three suspects at about 9:45 p.m. Friday after conducting surveillance at a nearby home. The three are well known to police for serious crimes.

Sanchez, of 5 Florence Ave., Revere, was previously charged with vehicular homicide for the July 23, 2007 death of Megan Power, 17, of Somerville. Sanchez was allegedly drunk and driving without a license when his motorcycle wrecked at the corner of Centennial and Franklin avenues around 1:30 a.m.

I think my solution in the original post was fitting.

Oink

2008-04-04T08:32:00.001-04:00

cbs2chicago.com - Cop Who Handcuffed Mother Could Now Be In Trouble

CHICAGO (CBS) ― The part-time officer involved in a controversial arrest in the south suburbs may now be in trouble himself. He put a mother in handcuffs for leaving a sleeping child in the car but, as CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports, there's word that the officer in question should not have been on the street in the first place.

Ellen "Treffly" Coyne was arrested Dec. 8 for leaving 2-year-old Phoebe asleep in her car seat while she and her other daughters went to drop $8 in change into a Salvation Army kettle less than 40 feet away. It was a good deed that ended with Coyne's arrest.

"It was surreal," Coyne said. "I couldn't believe it was happening to me."

The criminal charges were later dropped, but now we're learning that the arresting officer could be in trouble.

Forrest Wondolowski is a Chicago machinist who's been disabled since 2004. But Chicago officials say when he filled out his dual employment form he told them he'd be on desk duty while working as a Crestwood police officer. They wouldn't go on camera Tuesday but spokesperson Eileen Joyce told CBS 2: "We've never had an employee put false information on a dual employment form. We're investigating whether what he wrote on his form was not true."

"He didn't seem disabled to me, so to learn that he was collecting from the City of Chicago for disability, that was surprising," Coyne said.

She calls the turn of events ironic.

Wondolowski and the Crestwood Police Department were not available for comment.

The Mayor of Crestwood says Officer Wondolowski has been a part-time officer in good standing for 10 years.

He says Wondolowski did take time off when he was injured.

City of Chicago officials say Wondolowski can't lift anything above 50 pounds while on the job due to his 2004 shoulder injury.

Earth Liberation Front

2008-04-03T14:06:00.001-04:00

John Vidal on environmental sabotage and 'eco-terrorism' in the US | Environment | The Guardian

When a luxury housing development in Washington was torched, it seemed an open and shut case. The Earth Liberation Front was to blame. But was it? Does it even exist? And why is the Bush government intent on casting 'eco-terrorists' as public enemy number one? John Vidal reports

Interesting

2008-04-01T09:14:00.001-04:00

Female British spy's exploits during World War II are revealed - International Herald Tribune

Female British spy's exploits during World War II are revealed

2008-03-30T20:22:00.001-04:00

Police arrest anti-war protester, 80, at mall -- Crimes, Iraq War, Long Island -- Newsday.com

Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt, which had what they described as "graphic anti-war images." Zirkel, a deacon at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, said his shirt had the death tolls of American military personnel and Iraqis - 4,000 and 1 million - and the words "Dead" and "Enough." The shirt also has three blotches resembling blood splatters.

Terminator

2008-03-26T20:27:00.001-04:00

Military Videos: Videos, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, Marines - Military Times

Neural Robotics Inc. (NRI) demonstrates their latest effort at giving the AA-12 shotgun an aerial view of the enemy.

2008-03-18T17:16:00.001-04:00

Didn't anyone watch Terminator.

2008-03-18T10:06:00.000-04:00

Look at the end of the video. Look who is funding it. Wonderful. So when soldiers stop obeying orders they can send these out.

2008-03-15T23:25:00.001-04:00

UK

2008-03-15T23:04:00.001-04:00

Put young children on DNA list, urge police | Society | The Observer

Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain's most senior police forensics expert.

Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said a debate was needed on how far Britain should go in identifying potential offenders, given that some experts believe it is possible to identify future offending traits in children as young as five.

'If we have a primary means of identifying people before they offend, then in the long-term the benefits of targeting younger people are extremely large,' said Pugh. 'You could argue the younger the better. Criminologists say some people will grow out of crime; others won't. We have to find who are possibly going to be the biggest threat to society.'

Pugh admitted that the deeply controversial suggestion raised issues of parental consent, potential stigmatisation and the role of teachers in identifying future offenders, but said society needed an open, mature discussion on how best to tackle crime before it took place. There are currently 4.5 million genetic samples on the UK database - the largest in Europe - but police believe more are required to reduce crime further. 'The number of unsolved crimes says we are not sampling enough of the right people,' Pugh told The Observer. However, he said the notion of universal sampling - everyone being forced to give their genetic samples to the database - is currently prohibited by cost and logistics.

Civil liberty groups condemned his comments last night by likening them to an excerpt from a 'science fiction novel'. One teaching union warned that it was a step towards a 'police state'.

Pugh's call for the government to consider options such as placing primary school children who have not been arrested on the database is supported by elements of criminological theory. A well-established pattern of offending involves relatively trivial offences escalating to more serious crimes. Senior Scotland Yard criminologists are understood to be confident that techniques are able to identify future offenders.

A recent report from the think-tank Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) called for children to be targeted between the ages of five and 12 with cognitive behavioural therapy, parenting programmes and intensive support. Prevention should start young, it said, because prolific offenders typically began offending between the ages of 10 and 13. Julia Margo, author of the report, entitled 'Make me a Criminal', said: 'You can carry out a risk factor analysis where you look at the characteristics of an individual child aged five to seven and identify risk factors that make it more likely that they would become an offender.' However, she said that placing young children on a database risked stigmatising them by identifying them in a 'negative' way.

Shami Chakrabarti, director of the civil rights group Liberty, denounced any plan to target youngsters. 'Whichever bright spark at Acpo thought this one up should go back to the business of policing or the pastime of science fiction novels,' she said. 'The British public is highly respectful of the police and open even to eccentric debate, but playing politics with our innocent kids is a step too far.'

Chris Davis, of the National Primary Headteachers' Association, said most teachers and parents would find the suggestion an 'anathema' and potentially very dangerous. 'It could be seen as a step towards a police state,' he said. 'It is condemning them at a very young age to something they have not yet done. They may have the potential to do something, but we all have the potential to do things. To label children at that stage and put them on a register is going too far.'

Davis admitted that most teachers could identify children who 'had the potential to have a more challenging adult life', but said it was the job of teachers to support them.

Pugh, though, believes that measures to identify criminals early would save the economy huge sums - violent crime alone costs the UK £13bn a year - and significantly reduce the number of offences committed. However, he said the British public needed to move away from regarding anyone on the DNA database as a criminal and accepted it was an emotional issue.

'Fingerprints, somehow, are far less contentious,' he said. 'We have children giving their fingerprints when they are borrowing books from a library.'

Last week it emerged that the number of 10 to 18-year-olds placed on the DNA database after being arrested will have reached around 1.5 million this time next year. Since 2004 police have had the power to take DNA samples from anyone over the age of 10 who is arrested, regardless of whether they are later charged, convicted, or found to be innocent.

Concern over the issue of civil liberties will be further amplified by news yesterday that commuters using Oyster smart cards could have their movements around cities secretly monitored under new counter-terrorism powers being sought by the security services.

Imagine that

2008-03-10T16:19:00.001-04:00

25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA'

25 years murder-free
in 'Gun Town USA'
Crime rate plummeted after law
required firearms for residents

2008-03-08T19:58:00.001-05:00

2008-03-08T19:57:00.001-05:00

2008-03-08T19:51:00.001-05:00

Solar Company Says Its Tech Can Power 90 Percent of Grid and Cars | Wired Science from Wired.com

Solar Company Says Its Tech Can Power 90 Percent of Grid and Cars

Top 10 Reasons to Overthrow Your Government

2008-03-08T10:45:00.001-05:00

O p e n J e s u s . o r g » Top 10 Reasons to Overthrow Your Government

Top 10 Reasons to Overthrow Your Government

Good Read

2008-03-07T16:37:00.001-05:00

Individualism, the Collectivists' Nemesis

It is individualism that the American Founders elevated into political prominence and it is individualism that most politicians and governments, including America’s, find most annoying because it is the bulwark against arbitrary power.

If, as the Declaration of Independence states, individual human beings have unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, no one may violate these rights. Every adult individual is sovereign, a self-ruler and not subject to the rule of others. (This is why Americans are referred to as citizens, not as subjects, like so many around the globe.)

Karl Marx was among the many political theorists — like Hegel and Comte — who realized that if individualism becomes prominent, their dream of ruling others in the name of whatever “higher goal or power” is over and done with.

So they worked tirelessly to discredit individualism, to establish that no one is sovereign and we all belong to some group — the nation, the tribe, the race, the class, the ethnic group, whatever.

Today some of America’s most powerful mainstream politicians have gone on record denouncing individualism and they are joined by a great many academicians, even some scientists in trying to besmirch the idea. Instead of each person having the free will to guide him or herself in life, each of us is said to be but a cell in the larger organism that is humanity.

There have been many who laid out this idea in forceful ways — just read what the French “father of sociology” said about this: “All human rights then are as absurd as they are immoral. This [“to live for others”], the definitive formula of human morality, gives a direct sanction exclusively to our instincts of benevolence, the common source of happiness and duty. [Man must serve] Humanity, whose we are entirely.” Marx put it even more succinctly: “The Human essence is the true collectivity of Man,” and referred to human beings as “specie beings,” meaning they are part of the larger organism or body of humanity. The book, by Lewis Thomas, Lives of a Cell, defended the idea in the mid-20th century!

Most recently the highly honored Canadian philosopher, a recent recipient of the prestigious Templeton Prize, has argued for “a principle of belonging or obligation, that is a principle which states our obligation as men to belong to or sustain society, or society of a certain type, or to obey authority or an authority of a certain type” in contrast to John Locke’s idea, those laid out in the Declaration, that there are unalienable rights every individual possesses simply by virtue of his or her humanity. These rights are definitive claims against anyone who would intrude upon one’s life, who would rob one of one’s liberty and moral autonomy, who would deny one’s freedom to choose and to pursue happiness.

In our current political climate it is the philosophy of entitlement that undermines the Lockean idea, which is the philosophy of the Declaration, by insisting that people have a right to take from others what they need or badly want — be this health care, retirement funds, opportunities for purchasing goods and services at lower cost than what some favorite group wants, land on which to build important shops, etc. And the idea of such entitlements, namely, that they are to be legally mandated, enforced, is backed by the philosophy of communitarianism, one that takes us all to belong to society, belong to a larger and more important entity than ourselves.

Yet, of course, it is always some individuals who make these claims and insist that they be the ones to decide what everyone’s obligation is to others, to the country, the nation, or the racial group. It is these individuals, after all, who try to secure power for themselves with the phony claim that we all belong to society and thus must be made to pay up what they decide with our lives and labors.

This anti-individualism or communitarianism then comes to no more than the special privilege of certain individuals to run the lives of other individuals, to live off the lives of others who may very well have perfectly justified goals of their own that could be supported with their lives if they were left free to decide about such matters.

Whenever you hear or read attacks on individualism, these attacks are nothing more than efforts to wrest power from people so that only a few select individuals can legally enforce their will on the rest of us, the will of those with whom they disagree.

Communitarianism — or collectivism — is false. Individualism is true. And even communitarians know this perfectly well.

2008-03-07T15:39:00.001-05:00

2008-03-07T15:36:00.001-05:00

I thought this was well done...

2008-03-06T12:28:00.001-05:00

Justice Letters » Blog Archive » The Necessity of Guns

Dear Anti-Gun America,

Every day I see an editorial about the dangers of firearms. Every day I hear the media distort the truth in an effort to further their crusade against guns. Every day I read a story detailing the murder of innocent people. You, anti-gun America, twist these tragedies into proof of your cause. You claim that these lives would have been saved, if only we enacted more laws barring the possession of guns. If only we enacted more laws banning the ability of law-abiding citizens to carry guns. If only firearms were illegal, violence would cease to exist.

But, anti-gun America, do the facts really support your cause? Why does the District of Columbia, where virtually all firearms are banned, have some of the highest crime rates in our country? Why are high school and college campuses, where all guns are prohibited, so frequently the scenes of mass murder? Why are firearm related crimes so often committed in “gun free zones?”

Criminals are well aware of the laws, and are obviously not concerned about breaking them. A disturbed man, intent on killing his classmates, is not going to be deterred by a sign in front of his college campus that says “gun free zone.” An armed criminal is not going to be scared of a potential martial arts enthusiast. A determined criminal is not going to have respect for the law, nor does a suicidal criminal have any fear of armed police officers.

Criminals are well aware of the limitations of police. They know they will have free reign of the campus for at least five minutes before police will even get to them. In virtually all cases of mass homicide, the gunman took his own life in the end. Seung-Hui Cho knew it would be minutes before authorities would reach the Virginia Tech campus, and he knew he could kill many in that time. Under state and federal laws, Seung-Hui Cho was prohibited from even owning a weapon. Yet, he was not deterred.

So, anti-gun America, why do you suppose more laws would have stopped him? The only people gun laws affect are those willing to abide by them. Quite obviously, criminals have no respect for the law. The only effect restrictive gun laws have is negative. They either make it difficult or completely impossible for law abiding citizens to obtain a means of defense.

An eighteen year-old girl is unable to defend herself from an assailant intent on rape, because she is not old enough to carry a handgun, and too small to defend herself without one. A single mother of two, living in Illinois, would be helpless to an attack in the supermarket, because of the restrictive laws in her state. In many states, an armed man is not even allowed to shoot an intruder, even to save the lives of his wife and kids.

Why do I own a gun? Why would a poor college student, such as myself, spend his hard earned money on a gun? Why would a man who lives in a nice home, in a nice neighborhood sleep with a loaded gun next to his bed? Because I, like many others, refuse to be a statistic. I refuse to put myself in a situation where I would be helpless. I refuse to allow harm to come to me or my loved ones. I refuse to allow criminals free reign. I own a gun for the same reason I wear my seatbelt, not because I plan on needing it, but because the situation may arise where it will save my life.

Sincerely,

A Law-Abiding Gun Owner

2008-03-05T16:52:00.001-05:00

LITANY AGAINST FEAR

LITANY AGAINST FEAR
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

MKULTRA

2008-03-03T16:04:00.001-05:00

Witness: Wendy's shooter was tall man in business suit

Two killed in shooting at Wendy's near West Palm Beach

MKULTRA

I couldn't have said it better

2008-03-02T19:03:00.001-05:00

Chilling Thoughts Amid Questionable Circumstances

With an unconscious witness/victim/homegrown terrorist the police were able to find evidence in the hotel room that is too convenient to be true. Let’s look at the timeline of the story first, because it makes no sense, but is told in the style of Rumsfeld so that it isn’t immediately apparent it makes no sense.

Authorities say that on Sat Feb 22 a friend or relative of the rooms occupant reported to the hotel that there are pets left in the sick mans room.

So first off we are to believe that pets had been left unattended and unnoticed in the room for 10 whole days! One of the animals, a dog was found barely alive, and had to be euthanized. How many more animals were in the room and what kind were they? How did they survive unheard all that time? A hungry animal would be howling and whining. Surely in a hotel that would have been heard by someone.

Then we are told that on Tues. Feb 26 the hotel’s management notified police they found “weapons” in the room.

Tuesday? If the friend reported the animals Fri the 23rd why is it the “weapons” were not discovered until five days later? A Las Vegas hotel room left untouched over a weekend let alone for 5 whole days? A room whose occupant lay dying in a hospital due to Ricin poison. People in and out of the room to take the dying dog out, to remove the other unknown number of animals and to clean.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but according to Capt. Joseph Lombardo

“Firearms and an anarchist type textbook” were found in the room.

He said at a news conference late Friday Feb 29 that the book was marked where there was information about Ricin. However test results on those items were negative for the substance.

Police also said they “found castor beans possibly used to make the substance (Ricin)”.

An "anarchist type textbook"? What the hell is that? Can someone say “HR1955”?

Read the whole thing. I may be crazy but I sure as hell ain't the only one.

I don't buy any of this.

2008-03-01T10:56:00.001-05:00

Anarchist manual, firearms found in motel room with ricin - CNN.com

Call me paranoid. This was staged to give more credibility to the coming war on "domestic terrorist" and "homegrown terrorism."

I hope I'm wrong. I hope the guy lives to tell the story. I doubt he will though.

Ricin

2008-02-29T22:44:00.001-05:00

Will Ricin be the first false flag operation aimed at "domestic: or "home grown" terrorism? We'll see.

My wicked pissa easy creamy potato soup recipe

2008-02-29T10:10:00.002-05:00

2 medium potatoes washed not peeled diced
2 carrots peeled diced
2 medium onions diced
2 tablespoons healthy oil (olive, canola...)
Seasoning. I use a dash of Cavenders Greek Seasoning.
Can of stock. I use chicken but any kind will work well.

Nothing is exact. You can fuck around with ingredients and amounts and still come out with something really good so don't sweat it. It's only fucking soup.

Heat the oil in a sauce pan over medium heat.
Throw all the vegetables in the pan and stir fry until the onions are transparent and the potatoes are soft. A little brown is fine. Maybe even good. What do I know?
Pour in can of stock and bring to simmer for about 5 minutes.
While its still hot pour it all into a blender. (It may be dangerous to pour hot shit into a blender. I have no idea. Don't fucking blame me if you fuck up your blender or burn yourself. Use your judgment.)
Blast that fucker until it's liquefied and creamy.
Pour it back into the sauce pan with very low heat and season it to taste. It will come back to a simmer very quickly. It doesn't need much seasoning so don't over do it you hard on.
Garnish it with grated cheddar and maybe a few croûtons.
Pour out a glass of something malty. A nice Scotch ale or double bock is nice.
Have some fucking soup.
You'll be surprised how good it is.
I don't know people feel you need to use cream or milk to make creamy soup. You don't. You'll see.

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via FoxyTunes

2008-02-26T23:22:00.001-05:00

SWAT team was training at time of shootings

2008-02-25T10:06:00.001-05:00

I wasn't aware of this. Interesting.

SWAT team was training at time of shootings - Cleveland Metro News – The Latest Breaking News, Photos and Stories from The Plain Dealer

SWAT team was training at time of shootings
Posted by Gabriel Baird October 12, 2007 11:53AM
Categories: Impact, School shooting

Cleveland police's SWAT Team was training patrol officers to respond to school shootings when they got word that a student was on a rampage at SuccessTech High School.
• Review complete Plain Dealer coverage of the shooting.By the time they reached the school, the shooter was already down and patrol officers from the 3rd District already had secured the building. And that is exactly how it is supposed to happen under the department's training, said Lt. Bernard Barabas, the long-time SWAT leader.

The training, Barabas said, is specifically designed for school shootings and even begins with lessons learned from the 1999 Columbine High School shooting.

The department, however, has not addressed Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Stephen Loomis' complaint that the SWAT Team was not called to the scene until nearly an hour after the first 9-1-1 call. Loomis said this decision put officers in danger. He points back to last year when Detective A.J. Schroeder was shot and killed while serving a warrant. Loomis argues that if SWAT officers had been there with their heavy body armor and shields, Schroeder would still be alive.

Barabas said most of those 3rd District officers had already been through the training and used it as they searched for the Success Tech shooter -- a search that ended with them finding the body of 14-year-old Asa Coon, who had committed suicide after shooting two teachers and two students.

Cleveland police, like those from other departments around the country, have changed the way they respond to active shooters since Columbine, said Sgt. Dan Galmarini, a SWAT leader and former police spokesman.

The old training was to form a perimeter before going in. However, law enforcement has concluded that any delay in the response gives mass-murderers time to take more lives. Now, the first officers on the scene are directed to go after the shooter immediately.

The training the SWAT Team is giving the department's officers teaches them how to use safe tactics when engaging such a threat. When the team arrived at SuccessTech Thursday, the shooter was dead, but police were not sure that there was not another shooter inside.

SWAT Team member Jose Delgado was part of the heavily armored crew that went room to room in the school. Well over an hour after the shooter was dead, they were still finding students and teachers hiding in locked rooms.

When they opened one room, the teachers were in front of the door with their bodies between their students and any shooters that may have tried to threaten the kids' lives.

"I told them that they did an excellent job," Delgado said.

Go Ms. Howell!

2008-02-22T13:52:00.001-05:00

LewRockwell.com Blog: Governments Should Show Us the Spending

February 22, 2008
Governments Should Show Us the Spending
Posted by J.H. Huebert at February 22, 2008 06:38 AM

Carla Howell and Michael Cloud -- the two great Massachusetts anti-tax activists -- recently had another great idea: make their state government reveal every last cent it spends, and whom the money goes to, in an easily accessed, easily understood online database. That way citizens can identify waste (and it's all waste) and find new ways for their government to cut spending.

In today's Columbus Dispatch, I recommend the same for Ohio.

You might want to let your state government -- and the people who pay taxes to support it -- know of this idea as well.

2008-02-22T13:45:00.001-05:00

Shlomo Benizri is NUTS.

2008-02-22T11:56:00.001-05:00

AdelaideNow... Earthquakes are caused by gays, says MP

Shlomo Benizri of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party said the only way to prevent the earthquakes was for parliament to stop liberalising laws concerning homosexuals, AP reported.

“Why do earthquakes happen? One of the reasons is the things to which the Knesset (parliament) gives legitimacy, to sodomy,'' Mr Benizri said.

Mr Benizri said earthquake damage could be avoided if the parliament stopped “passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes''.

Two earthquakes originating in Lebanon have shaken Israel in the past week. The first occurred two days after the Israeli attorney-general ruled that same-sex couples could adopt children.

In recent years, Israeli courts have ruled that the government must recognise sex-sex marriages performed abroad and grant gay couples inheritance rights.

If you've got $8299.99 to drop...

2008-02-22T11:43:00.002-05:00

Barrett 82A1 50BMG Semi Auto Rifle

TIMZ

2008-02-22T11:09:00.001-05:00

I like it. It's got message. It's the bullshit gangsta horseshit I can't stand. Oh yeah. He's right.

Finger lickin' wife kickin'!

2008-02-22T10:25:00.003-05:00

More happy stuff here.

A Lynn man was ordered held without bail Thursday during an arraignment for an attack on his wife after she allegedly told him not to have sex with a 15-year-old girl.

I don't know. Telling your spouse not to have sex with a 15 year old seems to be a perfectly reasonable request to me.

Perez’s wife told police Perez tried several times to have sex with her 15-year-old daughter from a previous relationship and when she confronted him about the inappropriate behavior on Sunday, Perez attacked her, DiCorsi said.

What? He just wanted to screw her 15 year old daughter! What's the big deal? Prudes. (Why would you have a guy that wants to screw your daughter around in the first place?)

Perez allegedly pinned his wife against a living room wall, then threw her onto a couch and punched her in the stomach. She is three months pregnant.

Geez is that all? Doesn't seem like a bad guy to me...

As the wife tried to get away, Perez allegedly punched her two more times in the face and three more times in the neck and back, the prosecutor said.
The wife ran into the kitchen where Perez allegedly grabbed her again and pinned her against a door while holding a knife against her. The woman’s 14-year-old son then walked into the room. Perez then cut his own arm and threw the knife at the victim before leaving the home, DiCorsi said.Earlier in the alleged attack, Perez allegedly grabbed his wife’s cell phone and threw it after she said she was calling police. He also allegedly threatened to kill the woman’s family in El Salvador if he got deported to his native country for the attack, police said.

Sounds like a wonderful addition to society. We need more upstanding citizens like him.

Prosecutors say the confrontation began because the wife was concerned that Perez was making sexual advances toward her daughter, which included buying her a cell phone and offering her $100 cash for sex.

100 bucks sounds reasonable, no? No wonder he was mad.

Update. I've stumbled on the surveillance footage.

Lynn sex offender

2008-02-22T09:58:00.002-05:00

The Lynn Item brings us this uplifting story this morning.

A Level 3 sex offender was ordered held without bail Thursday for attempted murder and other charges after he allegedly strangled his ex-girlfriend at her Kingsley Terrace home, causing her to pass out.

Nice Guy.

Melvin Santiago, 34, whose last known address was the homeless shelter at 100 Willow St., Lynn, was arrested Wednesday on warrants charging him with attempted murder, domestic assault and battery, criminal harassment and seven counts of violating a restraining order.

This guy was ALREADY a registered sex offender.

Santiago’s 43-year-old ex-girlfriend, who has taken out multiple restraining orders against him, walked into the Lynn police station on Feb. 12 with black and blue marks all over her face and a domestic violence advocate by her side, police said.

Ah yes. restraining orders. They work well don't they? When will people realize that criminals don't obey laws? A restraining order is about as effective as declaring an imaginary force field around your house.

Police say Santiago allegedly violated the restraining order by showing up two weeks ago at the victim’s house, but the victim allowed him to stay there.

That was dumb.

At some point during the stay, Santiago allegedly became violent and choked the victim causing her to pass out and urinate on herself.
*
The next morning, the victim told Santiago she was going to the store, but that angered him and led him to kneel on top of her, police said. She begged him not to choke her again and he eventually got up, but only after she agreed that he could accompany her to the store, according to police.

GPS

2008-02-21T23:16:00.001-05:00

Man Fired After GPS Showed He Was Not at Work - Switched: Gadgets, Tech, Digital Stuff for the Rest of Us

There's no point in lying anymore. With new technology, someone will always catch you whether it's on camera, through spyware, or GPS. Take the following anecdote as a lesson: It seems John Halpin, a supervising carpenter for the New York City school system, was let go after he was caught skipping out early and falsifying his time sheets.

Turns out the Board of Education was tracking his movements with a GPS receiver built into his employer-provided cell phone. Over five months, administrators noticed multiple discrepancies between where John should have been, and where the GPS data showed he actually was. In response to the data, an administrative judge suggested the 21 year veteran Halpin get the axe.

Halpin tried to fight the termination, saying he was never informed the phone could be used to track his movements, and questioned the accuracy of the data. Unfortunately for Halpin, this did not convince administrative Judge Tynia Richard, who found him guilty of submitting false time records.

Hops

2008-02-21T21:58:00.002-05:00

Omaha.com Business Section

LINCOLN — Troubled times are brewing for beer fans. Prices are going up, and flavors are changing.

Hops, like the Liberty pellet hops shown above, are a minor but necessary ingredient in beer. Hops add aroma, help preserve the drink and add bitterness to offset the flavor of malt.
The price of India Pale Ale, the most popular beer from Thunderhead Brewery in Kearney, Neb., has jumped from $3.50 a pint to $6.

Third Stone Brown, the No. 1 brew of Empyrean Brewing in Lincoln, will increase in price from between $3.50 and $3.80 a pint, depending on the restaurant, to from $4 to $4.50.

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2008-02-21T18:57:00.001-05:00

RIAA Training Video

2008-02-21T17:52:00.001-05:00

Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates, Find Crack-Dealing Terrorist Murderers Too!

Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates, Find Crack-Dealing Terrorist Murderers Too!

Salem rapists

2008-02-21T12:23:00.007-05:00

Post removed by request.

Shitty

2008-02-18T16:16:00.001-05:00

I had to put one of my ferrets down today. Tobie. We adopted him a few years ago. He was always kinda scrawny and crooked. He smelled like cigarettes when we got him. He had a stroke. I'm fucking bummed. He had a crooked toe and liked to steal socks. If you didn't give up your socks he'd bite your feet.

See ya later Tobie aka TobieKenobie aka Tobilou aka crooked Tobie.

I love ya and I'll miss ya buddy.

Bayer is killing people wholesale.

2008-02-16T23:49:00.002-05:00

22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall: doctor | Reuters

22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall: doctor

The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, according to a medical researcher interviewed by CBS Television's 60 Minutes program.

The drug Trasylol was withdrawn in November at the request of the FDA after an observational study linked the medicine to kidney failure requiring dialysis and increased death of those patients.

It had been given to as many as a third of all heart bypass patients in the United States at the height of its use over a period of many years, according to the report.

Check this out too.

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Marijuana

2008-02-16T23:37:00.002-05:00

Doctors group backs marijuana for medical uses | U.S. | Reuters

Doctors group backs marijuana for medical uses

A leading U.S. doctors group has endorsed using marijuana for medical purposes, urging the government to roll back a prohibition on using it to treat patients and supporting studies into its medical applications.

The American College of Physicians, the second-largest doctors group in the United States, issued a policy statement on medical marijuana this week after it was approved by its governing body, the group said on Friday.

The group cited evidence that marijuana is valuable in treating severe weight loss associated with AIDS, and nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy in cancer patients.

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Have a drink in DC, get shook down by the pigs.

2008-02-16T09:22:00.000-05:00

RTWT

Reason Magazine - Prohibition Returns!

Prohibition Returns!

Teetotaling do-gooders attack your right to drink

The breath test revealed that Bolton's blood alcohol content (BAC) was 0.03 percent, a level a 120-pound woman could expect after drinking one glass of wine. It was well below the 0.08 percent limit that marks a driver as legally intoxicated in D.C. It was not low enough for the arresting officer, however. This middle-aged mother of two, who hadn't drunk to excess, who hadn't run a red light or run a stop, was arrested, handcuffed, and fingerprinted for an innocent mistake. She sat in a jail cell for hours and was finally released at 4:30 a.m. Bolton spent four court appearances and over $2,000 fighting a $400 ticket. She then spent a month fighting to get her license back after refusing to submit to the 12-week alcohol counseling program.

The arresting officer, inaptly named Dennis Fair, insists: "If you get behind the wheel of a car with any measurable amount of alcohol, you will be dealt with in D.C. We have zero tolerance....Anything above 0.01, we can arrest." Fair recognized that nearly everyone in D.C. was unaware of this zero tolerance policy. Still, he told The Washington Post, if "you don't know about it, then you're a victim of your own ignorance."

Fucking pigs sure are forgetful about who they work for.

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From the Ministry of Peace

2008-02-16T09:13:00.000-05:00

London bombs justify 'torture', says Bush | World news | The Guardian

London bombs justify 'torture', says Bush

Translated to Orwellian: The repeated bombings of the Proles justifies the Ministry of Peace's war on the Eurasians and the Ministry of Love's detaining of dissidents.

Sorry I can't translate into Ingsoc.

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The Mother Fuckers who Choose our Leaders.

2008-02-16T08:50:00.001-05:00

wjz.com - Republican Delegate Resigns After Investigation

Republican Delegate Resigns After Investigation

Sick fuck.

Reporting
Kathryn Brown
ANNAPOLIS, Md, (WJZ) ― There's scandal at the statehouse.

A state delegate, known as an advocate for children's rights, is the focus of a child pornography investigation after officers searched his Hagerstown home.

Kathryn Brown reports, Robert McKee is not facing any charges right now, but he has resigned his position as both a state delegate and as executive director of the Big Brothers Big Sisters Club of Washington County.

The fucking predators love to blatantly put themselves as close to our children as possible.

According to his online bio, he is very active in little league, junior basketball and is executive director of the Big Brothers Big Sisters Club of Washington County.

He has an adopted granddaughter through his work in the program.

In a statement, McKee calls the investigation "deeply embarrassing" adding he has entered treatment.

"My primary focus" he said, "is to get well and stay well."

Oh fuck you. Get well and stay well my fucking ass. You get fucking turned on by children! If you are serious about getting fucking well have a Rottweiler chew your fucking balls off and if that doesn't work jump of a fucking bridge. Fuck you.

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Clash in Peru

2008-02-16T08:46:00.001-05:00

Scoop: Encounter Between Oil Prospectors & Isolated Tribe

Encounter Between Oil Prospectors & Isolated Tribe

They should have put the prospectors fucking heads on sticks.

Both the Indians and the oil workers would be at grave risk from such an encounter; the Indians from catching potentially fatal diseases such as influenza, and the workers from the very real danger of retaliation by the Indians, who would see their presence as a threat.

I hate to think what Petroliferas next move will be.

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Let me see your "soul devouring" face.

2008-02-14T09:41:00.002-05:00

You have to love the way Chelsea's eyes light up after having freshly devoured a soul. Delicious.

Ron Paul - Let Me Get This Right

2008-02-12T19:58:00.000-05:00

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Orwellian

2008-02-05T10:07:00.001-05:00

FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping - CNN.com

Who'd have thunk we'd get to see the end of America in our lifetime? And who'd have thunk the source of our destruction would come within? Fabulous! What a show! You realize we aren't going to recover from all of this over night right? We may never be the same again. Better brush up on Orwell because you're going to be living in 1984.

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This is more important than it looks at face value.

2008-02-01T09:47:00.001-05:00

NewsFactor Network | Mock Disaster Drill: Trains, Planes, Bloggers

Imagined villains include hackers, bloggers, even reporters. After mock electronic attacks overwhelmed computers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an unspecified "major news network" airing reports about the attackers refused to reveal its sources to the government. Other simulated reporters were duped into spreading "believable but misleading" information that worsened fallout by confusing the public and financial markets, according to the government's files.

It's only a matter of time before legislation is pushed through allowing jack boot thugs to kick in the doors of dissenting Bloggers.

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Mitt Romney: Ron Paul deserves to be laughed at.

2008-01-31T17:54:00.001-05:00

Mitt Romney: Ron Paul deserves to be laughed at. (Audio) | Ron Paul Republican Grassroots Newsletter

Mitt Romney: Ron Paul deserves to be laughed at. (Audio)

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No Extremists.

2008-01-28T11:53:00.001-05:00

Thank Goodness for a Free Press | AfterDowningStreet.org

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Things I've learned in no particular order.

2008-01-28T09:40:00.001-05:00

Depleted Uranium in not radioactive.
Water boarding is not torture.
Burning aviation fuel melts steel.
Buildings collapse if planes hit buildings near them.
Israel has our best interest at heart.
Thimerosol and Mercury in vaccines is good for you.
The CDC and FDA would never put you at risk.
Radiated food is good for you.
Ingesting fluoride (a poison) is good for you.
Iraqi's want us in their country.
Bush should not be charged with war crimes.
Cheney should not be charged with war crimes.
Ron Paul is a kook.
Ron Paul finished 3rd in Louisiana.
There is no New World Order.
There are no chem trails.
The federal Reserve is good for the economy.
The CIA and Mossad had nothing to do with 9/11 even if they they admit planning the attack on the USS Liberty.
The imaginary attack in the Gulf of Tonkin was a good reason to kill thousands of Americans and Vietnamese.
Killing a baby isn't killing a baby as long as it is still in the womb.
My guns are dangerous to everyone.
The government should control my health care.
I am too stupid to have any firearms.
It's a coincidence that enemies of the administration were mailed high grade laboratory anthrax.
The government had every right to murder women and children at Waco.
Ed Brown deserves worse treatment than a murder, rapist, or child molester.
Randy Weaver's wife deserved to be executed by sniper while holding an her baby.
Unarmed Iranian speed boats are a threat to huge well armed US ships.
They hate us for our freedom.
Other countries love being occupied by the United States.
Electric cars are an impossible dream.
Oil lobbyists have no effect on our government.
Pharmaceutical lobbyists have no effect on our government.
If I don't pay my taxes I deserve a visit from a SWAT team.
Marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol.
Muslims are evil but fundamentalist Christians and Jews are not.
Sometimes plane crashes leave no wreckage even though crashed and burned up space shuttles to.
Jet fuel burns hot enough to evaporate an engine.
It's perfectly normal for a president to draft legislation making him imune from charges of war crimes.
Aspartame is good for you especially if Rummy says so.
You are an irresponsible parent if you child does not get a flu shot.
We are winning the war drugs.
There is nothing peculiar about CIA planes full of cocaine crashing.
The elections are not rigged.
Paying a carbon tax will solve global warming.
The increased warmth of the sun has no effect on global warming and neither do volcanoes.
China's emissions are not contributing to global warming.
LBJ did not order the murder of MLK and the Kennedy's.
Bhutto's murder had nothing to do with American interests.
Acid is more dangerous than crystal meth.
Marijuana is a gateway drug.
The free world loves us.
World bankers to not finance both sides of wars.
World bankers to not benefit from war.
The Military Industrial Complex does not benefit from war.
Big Pharma does not benefit from people being sick.
Prescott Bush was not a Nazi.
There is no NAFTA super highway.
There are no plans for a North American Union.
FEMA are not building prisons.
The surveillance are not for watching us.
Our emails are not being read.
The national ID card is a good idea.
God chose George W. Bush.
Hillary wants change.
Fox isn't biased.
Rupert Murdoch has no agenda.
Iran is a threat to the United States but not Europe.
Three dollars a gallon for heating oil is a bargain.
Three dollars for gas is a bargain.
E coli in our spinach is normal.
The police do not use agents provocateurs to to become aggressive at protests.
Record companies are going broke because of illegal downloading.
Police take your picture at a protest because they like the way you look.
Cops are better than regular people.
The government knows how to raise my kids better than I do.
The internet should be regulated.
It's comforting to know Bush can declare martial law any time he wants.
Democrats do not have the same long term agenda as Republicans.
There is no Bilderberg group.
Blackwater are the good guys.
Iraqi democracy is worth as many American limbs and lives as it takes.
We should put troops in Pakistan.
We are winning in Afghanistan.
It's good that clergy leaders are taught to quell dissidence in a state or martial law.
The government should confiscate my guns when I need them the most.
Soilent Green is NOT people.

I understand all of this now. The sooner we all do the better.

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Coming for MA gunners.

2008-01-28T08:52:00.001-05:00

I can't do a better job than Bruce at ranting about this so read this...

It's FOR THE CHILDREN!

And browse this...

SENATE, No. 1354

I'm so fucking pissed of right now and can't even muster a decent rant.

This will be the beginning of eliminating legal gun owners. How fucking much are we going to take?

9-11 Mossad Agents Admit Mission

2008-01-23T10:09:00.001-05:00

Christopher Bollyn

9-11 Mossad Agents Admit Mission:
“Our Purpose Was To Document The Event”

Harass a manatee get ass raped in prison

2008-01-19T20:25:00.001-05:00

Men Sentenced To Prison Time For Abusing Manatee - Miami News Story - WPLG Miami

There are violent criminals who get less time than this. Our justice system is a joke. This stupid kid is going to get ass raped for being a fucking idiot. This is unacceptable.

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This is Our Chance!

2008-01-19T10:55:00.001-05:00

We're getting a chance to abolish the MA income tax. We're getting a chance to abolish being robbed to pay for stuff like the Big Dig,Duvall's Cadillac and ridiculous police details. Let's take our money back and force politicians to work with the 1995 budget! They've wasted enough of our money! Let's all make sure we vote correctly on this. Don't let Duvall fear monger us into believing the state will fall apart without their enormous budget. It's simply not true. Let's keep our money! Let us join Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming in doing away with this robbery!

A resolution: Abolish the income tax - The Boston Globe

A resolution: Abolish the income tax
Email|Print| Text size – + By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / December 30, 2007

ON ELECTION DAY five years ago, 885,683 Massachusetts citizens voted for a ballot measure to abolish the Massachusetts income tax - a 45 percent level of support that shocked the state's political establishment, which had expected the question to go down to ignominious defeat, not come within a few percentage points of passing. So when Libertarian leader Carla Howell launched a new effort to junk the income tax earlier this year, the powers that be made it clear that this time they would do everything they could to discredit it.
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In August, Howell's Committee for Small Government filed its updated ballot language, and Michael Widmer of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation wasted no time pouring scorn on it. (Its name notwithstanding, the Taxpayers Foundation is a business lobby that often opposes broad-based tax relief.) Howell's proposal is "absolutely unreasonable," Widmer snorted. "Essentially she's trying to repeal the 20th century."

Undeterred, tax-repeal supporters collected 100,000 voter signatures on initiative petitions, well above the number required to move the measure forward. So Governor Deval Patrick is cranking up the rhetoric. He told the Associated Press last week that undoing the income tax is "just a dumb idea" that would utterly devastate Massachusetts.

"Patrick said he has lived in places with no taxes, including the time he spent in Darfur 30 years ago," AP's Steve LeBlanc reported. "He says there were also no bridges, no good roads, and no public safety there. 'Civilization costs something,' he said. 'If we could have something for nothing, which is the fiction that has been sold by the right for some time now, then we wouldn't have a $19 billion upkeep backlog for the roads and bridges.' "

If that is Patrick's best case for preserving inviolate the state income tax, maybe he shouldn't be tossing the word "dumb" around quite so freely.

To begin with, Massachusetts without a personal income tax would not be a "place with no taxes." It would be a place with corporate income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, meals taxes, hotel taxes, excise taxes, workers' compensation taxes, estate taxes, capital gains taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, wine and liquor taxes, motor vehicle taxes, and real estate transfer taxes, not to mention the taxes ("license fees") imposed on a vast array of professions and occupations. The $11 billion collected in personal income taxes accounts for only 40 percent of state revenue. Take that away and the government of Massachusetts still helps itself to more than $16 billion a year. That's not exactly "no taxes."

It's not exactly Darfur, either. What a shameless comparison. Even Patrick cannot possibly believe that the misery and horror of Darfur is caused by insufficient taxation. A ballot initiative to repeal the state income tax is not an invitation to choose between life as we know it today or a life of poverty, lawlessness, and war. To suggest that those are the stakes is both ridiculous and disgraceful.

"Civilization costs something," the governor says, echoing the 1904 dictum of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: "Taxes are the price we pay for civilized society."

Maybe so. But in Massachusetts lately, taxes are also the price we pay for Big Dig corruption, for larcenous public-employee pensions, for state-owned golf courses, and for wretched public schools. Higher taxes are no guarantee of a more civilized society.

As a matter of fact, when Holmes defended taxes as the price tag of civilization, there were no federal and state income taxes. Massachusetts didn't begin taxing incomes until 1916, which means that for most of its history, the Bay State survived - even thrived - without an income tax. As Howell's ballot proposal advances, the fearmongers will shrilly warn that voting yes will plunge us into the Dark Ages. Like all addicts, those hooked on high taxes are terrified by the prospect of giving up their drug. They cannot imagine how much better they will feel when they learn to live without it.

Eliminating the state income tax would reduce government spending by about $11 billion, shrinking the budget to its 1995 level. But that $11 billion would not be lost. It would be back in the private sector - back in the hands of the men and women who earned it, and who are far more likely to spend, invest, or donate it wisely than the bloated state bureaucracy it goes to now.

Nine states - Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming - have no income tax. In 2008, Massachusetts has another chance to make it 10. Last time, the repeal campaign came close. Next year, let's put it over the top.

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Anyone else...

2008-01-17T10:19:00.000-05:00

...think it's weird that The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is suddenly so interested in Morgellons disease. This is a disease that has been more or less pooh poohed since it first started showing up.

Bay Area called hot spot for 'mystery' disease with sci-fi-like symptoms

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Kaiser Permanente Northern California are teaming up to investigate the straight-out-of-science-fiction syndrome whose symptoms include itching, biting and crawling sensations and filaments or fibers reported to emerge from the skin.

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology also will assist with the study.

That is some heavy fucking research power for something that until recently was being dismissed as a mental problem.

You've got..

Kaiser Permanente

In order to contain costs, Kaiser requires agreement by planholders to submit patient malpractice claims to arbitration rather than litigating through the court system. This has triggered some discussion and dissent.[45] Some cases proceed to court and one argument is over whether the requirement to go through dispute resolution is enforceable[citation needed]

Kaiser has settled three cases for alleged patient dumping since 2002. During that same period, the Office of the Inspector General settled 102 cases against US Hospitals which resulted in a monetary payment to the agency.[49][50][51]

On November 16, 2006, Los Angeles city officials filed civil and criminal legal action against Kaiser Permanente for "patient dumping"--the delivery of homeless hospitalized patients to other agencies or organizations in order to avoid expensive medical care[citation needed]as reported by National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

The legal filings are intended to punish hospitals for releasing homeless hospital patients (often via taxis) on the sidewalk near relief shelters instead of accepting responsibility for releasing hospital patients into the care of a relative, or of a recognized agency.

The city's decision to charge Kaiser Permanente reportedly was influenced by security camera footage, allegedly showing a 63-year-old patient, dressed in hospital gown and slippers, wandering toward a mission on Skid Row, as outlined in a 20-page complaint. City officials say that as many as 10 other area hospitals are under investigation for possible future action for this practice.[52]

So pretty much when you are in need of inexpensive treatment you sign a waiver saying the hospital isn't responsible for the outcome and get treated. Just don't be fucking homeless or your ass will be dumped in front of the nearest shelter. Heart warming.

Next we have the CDC!

Bringing such hits as "Fluoride is good for you!" and "Thimerosol is Healthy!" and "The HPV Vaccine Won't Give you Cancer!" It's the government. Nuff said.

Last but not least and certainly the most disturbing we have The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

Again, the government but since when is this the jurisdiction of the Military? Unless of course, this is the control end of experiment. What good is experimenting on Americans if you can't collect the data? Well, it looks like they may be.

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I just felt like this was blog worthy

2008-01-16T21:13:00.001-05:00

She has a speed loader.

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One Reason

2008-01-16T15:22:00.000-05:00

Public 'threatened' by private-firearms ownership
Government argues gun restrictions 'permitted by the 2nd Amendment'

We have many traitors in our midst. History shows there is only one reason for a government to disarm it's law abiding citizens.

Since "unrestricted" private ownership of guns clearly threatens the public safety, the 2nd Amendment can be interpreted to allow a variety of gun restrictions, according to the Bush administration.

Well, of course the Bush administration agrees.

I'm honestly starting to think it will be too late before people start waking up to what is going on.

My friends, we are watching a fascist shift happen right before our eyes. What are we going to do about it?

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Following the Money

2008-01-16T12:36:00.000-05:00

So...

Prison Planet is reporting...

Paypal has frozen the fundraising account of the Granny Warriors, a Ron Paul supporters group who had been pushing for a recount in New Hampshire, causing a 3pm Tuesday deadline to be missed and the application rejected for lack of payment.

The Granny Warriors had raised the necessary $55,600 deposit for the recount but at the last minute before it was transferred to the New Hampshire Secretary of State, Paypal blocked access to the funds.

No explanation has been forthcoming from Paypal as to why the corporation froze the account.

Whenever shit like this happens I can't help but wonder whos's pulling the strings so I like to follow the money.

Paypal is owned by Ebay.

Ebay is a public company whose largest shareholder is Meg Whitman.

Whitman is known as a supporter of former Massachusetts' Republican governor Mitt Romney's presidential campaign[3][4] in 2008 and is now on his "National Finance Team".[5] She is also listed as Finance co-chair of Romney's campaign exploratory committee. [6]

It doesn't take a genius to see something is going on here.

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Big Brother Gates

2008-01-16T09:34:00.001-05:00

Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software - Times Online

Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence. The Times has seen a patent application filed by the company for a computer system that links workers to their computers via wireless sensors that measure their metabolism. The system would allow managers to monitor employees’ performance by measuring their heart rate, body temperature, movement, facial expression and blood pressure. Unions said they fear that employees could be dismissed on the basis of a computer’s assessment of their physiological state

People had better refuse to work under those conditions. Consider this a declaration from Microsoft that they are an enemy of the people. I need to figure out how to install Linux...

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The Oregon SS

2008-01-15T22:08:00.001-05:00

TruthNews.us » Blog Archive » This is What A Police State Looks Like

Cops who put down peaceful protests forcibly are traitors to this country and deserved to be treated as such Period. They should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

This is What A Police State Looks Like

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Budget

2008-01-14T23:20:00.000-05:00

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The Raw Story | US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search

2008-01-14T22:15:00.001-05:00

The Raw Story | US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search

Like they aren't already doing it. I suppose it's nice that want to legalize it though...

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It's Time

2008-01-14T20:44:00.000-05:00

Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, (Libertarians already have what I'm going to talk about.) black, white, or Hispanic, male or female, gay or straight if you are a law abiding (the laws that make sense anyway) citizen of what's left of the United States you may want to start thinking about procuring a firearm or two and learning how to use them. Whether you think your buying it to defend yourself from a potentially tyrannical government or from the crime that will ensue when/if the dollar collapses, it's time. It's time to seek out the true facts about firearms and educate yourself. You owe it two yourself and your family to have something more more powerful than snarky wit and bad breath to defend them with in a time of crisis.

It's time to stop being a fucking pussy and realize that should the shit hit the fan you and only you are going to be responsible for defending yourself. It ain't going to go off in the holster. It ain't going to sneak out of your house when you aren't home and shoot up a nursery school. You aren't going to become a murderous savage shooting up road rage aggressors.

If you are one of the good guys, it's time.

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Holy Crap

2008-01-14T20:01:00.001-05:00

Do U.S. pandemic plans threaten rights, ACLU asks - Yahoo! News

Holy crap. Is this what I think it is? Is this what Bush is going to use to declare martial law. This could be happening sooner than I thought and people will die. Of course I could be wrong, paranoid, crazy or a wonderful combination of three. That would be fucking wonderful.

"Rather than focusing on well-established measures for protecting the lives and health of Americans, policymakers have recently embraced an approach that views public health policy through the prism of national security and law enforcement," the ACLU report reads.

But the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) said the group had misunderstood the government's approach and said current plans already incorporate many of the ACLU's recommendations.

Jesus Christ what the fuck is to misunderstand? It either says what it says or it don't. It either says they'll be forced inoculations, evacuations, and quarantines or it don't!

The ACLU said it was worried that the plan called for military and police involvement in enforcing a quarantine.

Um, yeah. Me too.

The ACLU experts said they were especially disturbed by an October executive order from President George W. Bush that directed HHS to establish a task force to plan for potential catastrophes like a terrorist attack, pandemic influenza or a natural disaster that would ensure full use of Department of Defense resources.

Read that over and over again until it sinks in. Then read it a couple more times. The read this.

The Bush order does not specify what the Department of Defense role would be, but also mentions military medical research facilities that have played a role in health for decades.

Enjoy your experimental vaccine chock full of heavy metals courtesy of the mega pharmaceuticals. Don't worry, they care bout you.

The Bush order does not specify what the Department of Defense role would be, but also mentions military medical research facilities that have played a role in health for decades.

"Pandemic planning today tends to emphasize mandatory vaccination and forced treatment," the ACLU's Tania Simoncelli told a news conference.

If that doesn't scare the fuck out you read it a couple more times. Since when is the government in the business of our maintaining our health?

"It also means that sick people are being treated as criminals and enemies of the state rather than individuals in need of care."

Enjoy your FEMA cell. I ain't going.

The ACLU said plans should focus on how to help people stay home without losing pay, and instead of merely advising citizens to stockpile food, should provide for ways to help them do so.

Well, that would be fucking logical wouldn't it?

"They have mischaracterized our planning efforts. They are confusing a containment attempt as our overall pandemic response once the virus has spread beyond our ability to stop it," Hall said in a telephone interview.

Holy crap. That is classic Orwellian doublespeak. Are you sure you didn't dream our planning efforts comrade Clover? They are telling the ACLU it doesn't say what it says. The more you read about tyrannical governments the more you recognize that crap. And believe me, we've got one.

This could be bad.

Official ACLU release is here.

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Speaking of False Flag...

2008-01-13T20:33:00.000-05:00

Court Overturns Nazi Verdict on Reichstag Arsonist

Germany's federal prosecutor has overturned the guilty verdict passed on Marinus van der Lubbe, the communist activist who claimed to have set fire to the Reichstag in 1933 to protest the Nazis' rising power.

Van der Lubbe, a Dutchman active in Germany's communist underground, was found guilty of treason and arson by the Reichsgericht, Germany's highest court at the time, and sentenced to death in December 1933. A month later, he was guillotined in a Leipzig prison yard, three days before his 25th birthday.

Inside the Reichstag following the fire in 1933Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Hitler used the Reichstag fire to consolidate his power

The burning of the Reichstag became a pivotal event as the power of the Nazis grew, as they used it to incite fear about the threat of communism. Adolf Hitler persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to sign a decree curtailing some civil liberties, paving the way for the suppression of thousands of communists and other groups targeted by the Nazis.

Legal ups and downs

After World War II, Van der Lubbe's brother attempted to have the verdict overturned, and had a short-lived success in 1980, when a West German court complied. Three years later, however, the Federal Court of Justice decided there had been no basis for re-examining the matter, and declared the West German court's decision illegal.

On Thursday though, the Federal Court, acting on a petition from a Berlin lawyer, lifted the death penalty verdict based on a 1998 law that makes it possible to overturn legal injustices perpetrated by the Nazis.

The acquittals of four other men tried alongside Van der Lubbe in 1933 remain in force, the prosecutor said.

How may people will we need to acquit?

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P-O-L, I -C-E S-T-A -T-E!

2008-01-13T20:29:00.001-05:00

(Title sung to Mickey Mouse song in case it's not obvious.)

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Votes Not Counted

2008-01-10T08:18:00.001-05:00

New Hampshire District Admits Ron Paul Votes Not Counted

I've been watching these reports. They pop up on Google news. The they are gone. Not counting votes in Sutton,NH should be big news and grounds for a recount. I know it's not going to make a huge difference for Paul but people should know the true count.

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From One of My Favorite Blogs

2008-01-10T08:12:00.001-05:00

No Looking Backwards

This Just In!!!

And, this time, I mean it.

I just got off the phone with a very reliable source who told me of a Massachusetts resident who drove up to Atkinson, NH (just over the MA/NH state line) yesterday, told a voting official there that he was "thinking of moving to New Hampshire", showed a Massachusetts driver's license, was handed a ballot, and was allowed to cast a vote in the New Hampshire primary.

This individual also stated that there was a significant number of cars at the polling location with Massachusetts license plates.

Begs the obvious question, exactly how many people from Massachusetts (and elsewhere) were given ballots in yesterday's election and allowed to vote?

Stay tuned.

UPDATE: Don't know if this will go anywhere. I was hoping to get an "official" statement from the aforementioned individual, but I just heard from my source that he (understandably) "doesn't want to get involved".

No matter who you support, it's undeniable that something stinks up in new Hampshire and it's more than just Hillary's hotel sheets.

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Nice Driving Asshole

2008-01-09T13:19:00.001-05:00

wbztv.com - Police Cruiser Crash Closes 93 South

Police Cruiser Crash Closes 93 South WOBURN (WBZ) ― The morning commute to Boston was brought to a halt Wednesday morning by a crash involving a Massachusetts State Police cruiser. The crash happened at around 7:50 Wednesday morning on Route 93 South just north of Route 128 in Woburn. The Trooper was apparently driving in the left lane and rear ended a white S.U.V. stopped in traffic. Luckily no one was hurt in the crash. At one point all 4 lanes of 93 South were closed and later the two left lanes of the highway were closed; causing a major traffic back up at the height of the morning rush hour. All lanes are now back open. Traffic was backed up along the other side of the highway as well as curious drivers slowed down to look at the accident scene.

What a fucking asshole. I wonder if he got a ticket.

Adam "Shill" Gadahn

2008-01-07T18:25:00.000-05:00

Al-Qaida's American seeks Bush attacks

"Now we direct an urgent call to our militant brothers in Muslim Palestine and the Arab peninsula ... to be ready to receive the Crusader slayer Bush in his visit to Muslim Palestine and the Arab peninsula in the beginning of January and to receive him not with flowers or clapping but with bombs and booby-trapped vehicles," Gadahn, 29, said in Arabic.

"This just shows once again, al-Qaida offers nothing but violence and death," National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said. "The purpose of President Bush's trip is to meet with mainstream Arab leaders and people to talk about a positive future for the region, based on hope and opportunity."

Such a bad bogeyman!

Earlier this month, FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said the agency would review the latest tape for intelligence value and vowed never to give up the hunt for Gadahn.

Jeez. That sounds familiar.

So, this dude is obviously CIA, right?

Updated: Alex Jones agrees.

More here too.

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What if?

2008-01-07T18:03:00.000-05:00

What if this alleged "harassment" in the Persian Gulf was just the administrations way of testing our bullshit detectors? After all, there was no actual attack perpetrated by either side. No video or surveillance footage released.

What if this was thrown out to get a response from the thinkers, truthers, journalists, and conspiracy theorists?

What if after the alternative media and blog response they realize we ain't buying the same old shit torn from pages of the CIA false flag text book?

What if they now realize that they have to ratchet up to the next level?

What if they realize that nothing short of American civilian casualties is going to rally the American public the way it did on 9/11?

What if they realize that nothing less than dead babies and mommies on CNN and FOX is going to sway people.

It's scary shit and it's something to seriously think about.

What will Bush be willing to allow to sway opinion towards an attack on Iran?

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Worth Reading

2008-01-07T17:27:00.000-05:00

Fox News' Snub of Paul Could Trigger New Hampshire 'Blowback'

Pretty good read over at The Huffington Post

Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire is the title of a 2000 book by Chalmers Johnson. In a chapter called "Stealth Imperialism," Johnson begins by asserting that "present American policy is seeding resentments that are bound to breed attempts at revenge." By now, most Americans have heard this argument many times and in many different forms, and it appears to be sinking in. But apparently nobody had ever had the guts to say anything like that with Giuliani in earshot.

"I don't think I've ever heard that before, and I've heard some pretty absurd explanations for Sept. 11," he fumed at Paul. Maybe he didn't know it at the time, but there were a few little holes in his foot. And six months after stepping on a porcupine, Giuliani netted a whopping 4% in Iowa.

Ya think?

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Bush Bullshit

2008-01-07T17:12:00.001-05:00

Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz: Pentagon | Reuters

What a load of horse shit. Anyone who believes this shit needs to research the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. Do yourselves a favor and learn what a false flag operation looks like. This is textbook false flag. The official report FROM Iran is that they had NO ships in the area. It's probably the Mossad if it happened at all. It's amazing how little regard this administration has for our intelligence. Nothing like using the same page out of the text book over and over again.

"The ships received a radio call that was threatening in nature, to the effect that they were closing on our ships and ... the U.S. ships would explode," Cosgriff told reporters at the Pentagon via videolink from his Bahrain headquarters.

Could that possibly sound anymore hokey? Why didn't they just say they were yelling Allah Akhbar over the radio?

So, the Iranians were in their own part of the world in little itty biitty boats and we were far, far away from our part of the world in big, big boats and THEY are the ones who are dangerous? Give me fucking break.

So, were there surveillance tapes on the ship? Can we see them? Of course not.

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Huck Fuckabee

2008-01-07T10:23:00.001-05:00

The Huckster File – An Open Letter to Those Considering Reverend Mike for President by John Keller

The Huckster File – An Open Letter to Those Considering Reverend Mike for President

Hampshire Liberty Forum 2008

2008-01-06T20:52:00.000-05:00

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The new Gestapo

2008-01-05T10:37:00.000-05:00

These guys look like perfect candidates for the new generation of door kicking gestapo.

Beck

2008-01-04T13:42:00.001-05:00

Dwain should have moved to MA

2008-01-03T09:35:00.001-05:00

WorldNetDaily: Shopper pulls gun, stops robbery cold

WEAPONS OF CHOICE
Shopper pulls gun, stops robbery cold
Held suspect at grocery store until police officers arrived
Posted: January 2, 2008
5:00 p.m. Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com

A grocery store customer in Indianapolis is being credited with halting an armed robbery by pulling his own weapon and pointing it at the assailant until police arrived.

According to a report in the Indianapolis Star, Charlie Merrell, 51, was in a checkout line at a grocery store called Bucks IGA on the city's south side when a "masked man jumped a nearby counter and held a gun on a store employee."

The police report cited by the newspaper said the incident happened at 5:17 in the afternoon Monday as Merrell was doing some year-end shopping.

"While the suspect was demanding cash from the workers," according to the police report, "Merrell pulled his own handgun, pointed it at the robber and ordered him to put down his weapon."

(Story continues below)

The newspaper noted that Officer Jason Bockting, in his documentation of the incident, said when the suspect seemed to hesitate, "Merrell racked the slide on his gun to load a round in the chamber."

At that point, the report said, "the suspect placed his gun and a bag of cash on the counter, dropping some of the money … the suspect removed his mask and lay on the floor."

Merrill, meanwhile, held the suspect at gunpoint until officers arrived and took him away in handcuffs.

Police reported Merrell had a valid permit to carry the handgun, and they recovered an unloaded .380-caliber handgun and $779 cash from the suspect.

Police records show Dwain Smith, 19, was being held in the Marion County Jail on a bond of $30,000 on initial charges of robbery, criminal confinement, pointing a firearm, battery and carrying a handgun without a license.

"Independent" News source has big money flowing into it. Attacks Ron Paul.

2007-12-30T21:46:00.000-05:00

So, the less mainstream new sources are taking a shot at Dr Paul. These allegations have already been proven a fraud days ago.

AlterNet: Blogs: Sara Robinson

White Supremacist Leader Insists Ron Paul Is Racist Posted by Sara Robinson, Orcinus on December 28, 2007 at 6:11 AM. Well, don't say we didn't warn you about Ron Paul's friends. Here's American National Socialist Workers Party leader Bill White, coming out big for Paul on the far-right Vanguard News Network site on December 20:

So, how independent is Alternet? Well they are part of the Independent Media Institute.

Independent Media Institute - SourceWatch

The Independent Media Institute

In addition to AlterNet, IMI has three other programs: AlterNet Syndication, a content service for the independent press; WireTap, an online magazine for socially conscious youth; and the SPIN Project, which trains grassroots and advocacy groups in communication skills.

Don Hazen is executive director of the Independent Media Institute and executive editor of AlterNet.

Funding for AlterNet comes from private foundations, individual donors, and sales of AlterNet stories through the Syndication service. Funding for SPIN comes from private foundations and from fees for service, and WireTap is funded by private foundations.

This is a partial list taken from the IMI website.

2004 Foundation Supporters of IMI include:

* Akonadi Foundation
* Albert A. List Foundation
* Arca Foundation
* Bioneers Foundation
* Ford Foundation
* French American Charitable Trust
* Glaser Progress Foundation
* Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
* Marguerite Casey Foundation
* McKay Foundation
* Nathan Cummings Foundation
* New World Fund
* Open Society Institute
* Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
* Schumann Center for Media and Democracy
* Silicon Valley Community Foundation
* Solidago Foundation
* Surdna Foundation
* The Tides Foundation (various funds)
* Universalist Unitarian Veatch Program at Shelter Rock
* Wallace Global Fund
* Women's Foundation
* Working Assets Grantmaking Fund of the Tides Foundation

:: ALBERT A. LIST FOUNDATION ::

Center for Jewish History
The Center for Jewish History emerged from a vision of a central repository for the historical and cultural legacy of the Jewish people. The Center—the largest repository of such holdings outside of Israel—serves the worldwide academic and general communities. Foundation support went to hire staff for the Outreach Department.
1999 ($100,000)

Congregation Beth Simchat Torah
Congregation Beth Simchat Torah is a synagogue in New York City for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender communities and their friends and family. This synagogue is committed to building a kehillah kedoshah, a sacred community, based on the love of Jewish people, passion for social justice, prayer and study. Funding supported the Cooperberg-Rittmaster internship program.
2000 ($10,000), 1999 ($10,000)

Hadassah, Women’s Zionist Organization of America
Hadassah enhances the quality of American Jewish life through its education and Zionist youth programs. Funding went to support the Leadership Academy and the Training Wheels for Adults Program.
2002 ($14,000), 2001 ($16,000), 1997 ($120,000)

The Shefa Fund
The Shefa Fund encourages American Jews to use their tzedakah (charitable resources) to create a more just society, and, in the process, to transform Jewish life so that it becomes more socially conscious and spiritually invigorating. The Shefa Fund advises on socially responsible grant-making, low-income community investing and funder education. List grants supported a diverse range of creative initiatives in the areas of rabbinical education, youth outreach, inter-marriage, and Internet activities. Funding in this area also supported the Torah of Money Program and the Shefa/Calvert Alliance.
2004 ($55,000) 2003 ($45,000), 2002 ($43,000), 2000 ($50,000), 1999 ($45,000), 1998 ($65,500), 1997 ($63,500)

The Society for the Advancement of Judaism
Balancing respect for tradition and open intellectual inq

Regions | Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation has played a central role in the evolution and development of Israel's civil society sector, now a dominant force in helping the nation confront its many challenges. The foundation has made grants totaling $50 million in Israel since 1948, with a focus on human rights and the search for peace. In addition, we recently announced a $20 million grant to the New Israel Fund to establish a peace and social justice fund that will support organizations in Israel working to strengthen democracy and advance human rights, equality and peace for all Israelis. The five-year grant will shift future grant making from the foundation's New York headquarters to an organization in Jerusalem that plays a vital role in Israel.

About OSI

George Soros is founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations network. He is also the chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC. More

Schumann Center for Media and Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Criticism of the foundation

Discover the Networks (a group leaning to the political right) asserts that the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy is "a major supporter of radical environmentalist organizations".[1]

According to Discover the Networks' website the Center's investment portfolio has earned "immense profits from its investments in gas and oil companies. The Center's investment portfolio contains tens of thousands of shares in such companies as Exxon Mobil, Conoco, British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Petroleum, Ford, Keyspan Energy, Pioneer Natural Resource Company, Noble Affiliates, Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, Columbia Gas Systems, Dow Chemical, Dupont, Shell Oil, Shell Transportation and Trading, and General Motors."[2]

The right-wing Capital Research Center claims that the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy has a "far-left" ideological agenda.[3]

Solidago Foundation

Solidago Foundation, Inc. 25 Main St Ste 439 Northampton, MA 01060 Incorporated in New York Telephone: (413) 587-0174 Fax: (413) 587-0175 email: solidago@igc.org Website: http://www.solidago.org is a registered domain, no active page Type of foundation: Grantmaking public charity, not a private foundation EIN: 13-3867794 Exempt since June 1996 Profile: Anti-capitalist lobbying service provider. Their mission statement reads: THE SOLIDAGO FOUNDATION, INC. AWARDS GRANTS TO THE TIDES FOUNDATION AND TO OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS WHOSE GOALS ARE TO PROMOTE A HEALTHY, SUSTAINABLE, JUST AND DEMOCRATIC WORLD. Helped fund Massachusetts anti-business election law mandating public funding of campaigns, with non-profits considered public, but for-profits not.

Surdna Foundation

Description: An old-line foundation that changed its charitable mission as subsequent generations took control of the money, and now funds radical attack groups.

"It's the police! Police!" his sons yelled.

2007-12-28T22:45:00.001-05:00

Botched Raid Terrorizes Minn. Family

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - With her six kids and husband tucked into bed, Yee Moua was watching TV in her living room just after midnight when she heard voices—faint at first, then louder. Then came the sound of a window shattering.

Moua bolted upstairs, where her husband, Vang Khang, grabbed his shotgun from a closet, knelt and fired a warning shot through his doorway as he heard footsteps coming up the stairs. He let loose with two more blasts. Twenty-two bullets were fired back at him, by the family's count.

Then things suddenly became clear.

"It's the police! Police!" his sons yelled.

Khang, a Hmong immigrant with shaky command of English, set down his gun, raised his hands and was soon on the ground, an officer's boot on his neck.

The gunmen, it turned out, were members of a police SWAT team that had raided the wrong address because of bad information from an informant—a mistake that some critics say happens all too frequently around the country and gets innocent people killed.

"I have six kids, and only one mistake almost took my kids' life," said Moua, 29. "We will never forget this."

No one was hurt in the raid Sunday, conducted by a task force that fights drugs and gangs, though two police officers were hit by the shotgun blasts and narrowly escaped injury because they were wearing bulletproof vests.

Police apologized to the family and placed the seven officers on leave while it investigates what went wrong.

Such mistakes are a fact of police work, some experts said.

"Does going to the wrong address happen from time to time? Yes," said John Gnagey, executive director of the National Tactical Officers Association in Doylestown, Pa. "Do you corroborate as best you can the information the informant gives you? Absolutely. But still from time to time mistakes are made."

One of the biggest botched raids in recent years happened in Atlanta in 2006, when police killed a 92-year-old woman in a hail of nearly 40 bullets after she fired a shot at what she thought were intruders. Police had gone to her house on a drug raid, but no drugs were found.

Prosecutors said that in obtaining a search warrant, Atlanta police falsely told a judge that an informant had confirmed drug dealing there. The scandal led to a shake-up in the department, two officers pleaded guilty to manslaughter and civil rights charges, and the city faces at least two lawsuits.

Reliable figures on the frequency of erroneous raids are hard to come by. Federal agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, said they do not keep track.

A study last year by the libertarian Cato Institute said: "Because of shoddy police work, over-reliance on informants, and other problems, each year hundreds of raids are conducted on the wrong addresses, bringing unnecessary terror and frightening confrontation to people never suspected of a crime."

Gnagey disputed the organization's figures but wouldn't say whether he considered them too high or too low, and he had no estimate of his own.

"Going to the wrong home is an extreme rarity," said Mark Robbins, a law enforcement professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato. "It's just unfortunate that when it does, it often ends up in violent and even tragic incidents."

In the Minneapolis case, the nature of the tip and precisely what police were looking for were not disclosed; the search warrant has been sealed. And it was not clear how far off the mark the informant was in supplying the address.

No charges were brought against Khang, who lives in crime-ridden northeast Minneapolis. Khang used the shotgun for hunting, said his brother, Dao Khang. In Minnesota, no license is required to own a shotgun.

Khang, who speaks some English but used an interpreter during an interview, said he does not remember hearing any calls of "Police!" until his sons shouted. He said he would never knowingly shoot at officers.

"That's why I reacted the way I did, to protect my family and two sons," said Khang, 34, whose children are ages 3 to 15.

Lt. Amelia Huffman, a police spokeswoman, said the information in the search warrant came from a source who had been reliable in the past.

Huffman said officers who routinely work on drug and gang cases are trained to try to corroborate their information. As for why the process didn't work this time, "that's one of the things the internal investigation will go through in exhaustive detail," she said.

The Hmong are hill people from Laos who aided the CIA during the Vietnam War by fighting the Viet Cong. Hmong refugees began arriving in Minnesota in the late 1970s, and there are perhaps 60,000 Hmong in Minnesota today.

The Khang family is living with relatives until the house gets cleaned up. The raid left six windows broken and walls and ceilings pocked with pellet and bullet holes.

"The whole family is badly shaken and still trying to understand what happened," Moua said.

Police abandoned security posts before Bhutto assassination

2007-12-28T16:17:00.001-05:00

The Raw Story | Police abandoned security posts before Bhutto assassination

Police abandoned security posts before Bhutto assassination

Pow

2007-12-28T15:13:00.001-05:00

Antarctic base staff evacuated after Christmas brawl | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

The injured man is an employee of Raytheon Polar Services, one of America's largest defence contractors. A company spokeswoman, Val Carroll, said an investigation into the incident would be held. She said it was company policy not to release names of the two men.

The guy worked for Raytheon. He probably fucking deserved it. What the fuck is Raytheon doing down there anyway?

Of course...

2007-12-28T15:03:00.001-05:00

Transcript of Alleged al-Qaida Intercept

A transcript released by the Pakistani government Friday of a purported conversation between militant leader Baitullah Mehsud, who is referred to as Emir Sahib, and another man identified as a Maulvi Sahib, or Mr. Cleric. The government alleges the intercepted conversation proves al-Qaida was behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto:

In true textbook government sponsored terrorism fashion, the inevitable Al-Quaeda admission of guilt conveniently intercepted.

AHHHH, the truth is coming out already.

2007-12-28T14:57:00.001-05:00

Row breaks out over Benazir Bhutto's death - Telegraph

However, one of Miss Bhutto's aide rejected the government's explanation of her death as a "pack of lies".

Paul: 'We're getting ready to bomb Iran'

2007-12-28T12:27:00.001-05:00

The Raw Story | Paul: 'We're getting ready to bomb Iran'

"It is getting worse over there," he said. "Afghanistan is getting worse. Turkey is bombing Iraq. And Pakistan is blowing up and we're getting ready to bomb Iran. A bunch of those neocons want to bomb Iran."

Ties into my last post.

2007-12-28T11:25:00.001-05:00

Political Radar: Huckabee: U.S. Should Monitor Pakistanis Coming Into Country

ABC News' Kevin Chupka reports: During a press conference Thursday night in West Des Moines, Iowa, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee suggested that after the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the United States should, "have an immediate, very clear monitoring of our border, and particularly to make sure, if there's any unusual activity of Pakistanis coming into the country. We just need to be very very thorough in looking at every aspect of our own security internally."

Here we go.

US attack on Pakistan?

2007-12-28T08:43:00.001-05:00

So...

What if we had a hand in allowing Bhutto to be assassinated? And what if the administration was coming to terms with the fact that the American people will not stand for an attack on Iran. And what if we were to bump off Musharraf.

That would totally destabilize Pakistan.

Pakistan indisputably DOES have nuclear weapons.

Would the administration use Pakistan's state of chaos as an excuse to invade it? We could also argue that it would be an excellent opportunity to hunt for the bogeyman. (Bin Laden.)

Just saying.

2007-12-25T00:56:00.001-05:00

WVC woman chained inside apartment for weeks; boyfriend arrested

2007-12-22T10:17:00.001-05:00

WVC woman chained inside apartment for weeks; boyfriend arrested - ABC4.com

Watch

2007-12-15T18:13:00.001-05:00

Season's Greetings from the Ron Paul Family

2007-12-15T18:06:00.001-05:00

Embedded Video

Blogged with Flock

Bullshit

2007-12-15T18:02:00.001-05:00

The Denver Post - Carbon dioxide levels at 650,000-year high

Bullshit sprinkled with facts. We're all gonna die. Probably not from global warming. How exactly do they know what the fucking carbon dioxide content was 650,000 years ago? Bit of a round fucking number isn't it?

True Words

2007-12-14T17:15:00.001-05:00

The Terror Within

Having no time for our children. Letting the state raise them every day from the age of preschool. Someone else is feeding them their values and beliefs. Someone else is feeding their bodies with who knows what. Someone else is making their rules and deciding their fates. Someone else is explaining what the world is, what life is, who and what they are and worst of all what their value as a human being is. Those others may be nice people but they don't love our children, they're just doing their jobs. There's always the possibility that they aren't nice people. How would we know since we're never there? We find out when it's too late, if ever.

Fucktarded

2007-12-13T14:14:00.001-05:00

wcbstv.com - Conn. Teacher Calls Police Over Impromptu Karaoke

Conn. Teacher Calls Police Over Impromptu Karaoke Teacher Barricades Herself Inside Classroom After Hearing 'Welcome To The Jungle'

What a country of fucking retards we are.

To answer her question.

2007-12-13T12:35:00.001-05:00

The Daily News Online > Oregon > Agents visit St. Helens toy store

""One of the things that our agency's responsible for doing is protecting the integrity of the economy and our nation's financial systems and obviously trademark infringement does have significant economic implications," she said.

Six weeks after her brush with Homeland Security, Cox told The Oregonian she is still bewildered by the experience.

"Aren't there any terrorists out there?" she said.

Just the feds.

Wake up!

2007-12-13T09:36:00.001-05:00

U.S. says homegrown attack poses biggest risk | Reuters

The war on anyone who disagrees with our fraud government is coming.  The feds
are pointing their legislative guns at us. Keep in mind anyone deemed a
terrorist can be stripped of all of their civil rights. Keep in mind anyone can
be deemed a terrorist.(Dissenters included)  Keep in mind Bush can declare
martial law for even the smallest terrorist act imagined or not. Keep in mind if
martial law is declared you will be forcibly disarmed. All the language and
legislation is pointing in a very, very bad direction. There is  a very GOOD
CHANCE  the next attack will be contrived to rob you of your civil rights and
THAT scares me a hell of a lot more than some guy in a cave somewhere. Chertoff
has a "gut feeling." Yeah, me too.

Another Rockeller.

2007-12-13T09:13:00.001-05:00

Jay Rockefeller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"There has been some debate over how 'imminent' a threat Iraq poses. I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11, that question is increasingly outdated. It is in the nature of these weapons, and the way they are targeted against civilian populations, that documented capability and demonstrated intent may be the only warning we get. To insist on further evidence could put some of our fellow Americans at risk. Can we afford to take that chance? We cannot!"

So we went onto Iraq and his family made a SHIT LOAD of money from it. Connect the dots. It's not hard.

* Select Committee on Intelligence — Chairman
* Committee on Veterans' Affairs
* Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
o Subcommittee on Aviation
o Subcommittee on Communications
o Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
o Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marines
* Committee on Finance
o Subcommittee on Health Care
o Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
* Joint Committee on Taxation
* United States Trade Advisor
* Senate Steel Caucus — Co-Chairman

Clearly one of the International bankers inside men.