The dumb:
An 18-year-old Massachusetts man faces felony theft charges for allegedly emptying several large cereal boxes at a Costco, filling the boxes with electronic equipment and paying the clerk only for the cereal.
Nashua police arrested Christopher Booze of Dracut on Sunday afternoon after he and a juvenile were detained by store security.
Police said Booze left the store with a digital camera, GPS system and a computer hard drive worth $800 inside the resealed cereal boxes.
And the dumber: The “ever vigilant” Costco cashier who, when scanning the boxes, was oblivious to the weight differential between Fruit Loops and a digital camera or a hard drive!
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It would appear so, although authorities are being coy about the methods used to set the Washington D.C. area fire. The apparent arson attack destroyed a dozen homes and damaged 29 others causing $10 million in damage. One quote should tell investigators all they need to know.
A Sierra Club report had called the development “quintessential sprawl” because it is far from existing infrastructure and “threatens a fragile wetland and important historical sites near the Chesapeake Bay.”
After the fires, the Sierra Club issued a statement saying it “strongly condemns all acts of violence in the name of the environment.”
I don’t mean to imply that the Sierra Club is in any way connected to the fire but there is little doubt the Earth Liberation Front takes its cue from the press releases issued by the Sierra Club. The ELF was also named as the likely suspect in a similar arson fire last May that destroyed two luxury homes in Snohomish, Washington.
But there is more than just an ugly face put on by the ELF’s form of eco-terrorism. Its former leader, Leslie James Pickering, has called himself a “‘patriot’” fighting for the rights and health of Americans,” and the group’s members as freedom fighters, not terrorists, (sounds just like some other “freedom fighters” we all know and hate). And so does this:
“We can lobby and petition and hold signs until the cows come home, and it’s not going to make a difference whatsoever. We need to get out there and fight our wars, the same way they fight their wars,” Pickering said.
Pickering said the legal means of affecting change have been exhausted, so ELF members force change through violent and highly visible attacks. Pickering added that despite the FBI’s efforts to stop the group, the movement continues to grow. The ELF uses a video, available on the Internet, to recruit new members.
Given that current members of ELF also advocate “necessary actions to overthrow an oppressive government,” that, in my view, gives them all the same “rights” as those currently housed at Gitmo Bay. When caught classify them as enemy combatants against the State and ship them off to Gitmo.
UPDATE: Double “L” Michelle has provided a list, via the Center for the Defense Free Enterprise, of ELF’s past record of ecoterrorism.
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Thieving bastards:
GREELEY Grinchly, Colo. - Authorities are looking for a grinch or grinches in Greeley Grinchly. Someone or several people have been stealing, destroying and vandalizing the lights and displays the town set up for the holidays.
Money was raised to put up 70 trees strung with about 38,000 lights in Lincoln Park. The town even gave it a name, Greeley Grinchly Lights the Nights. But vandals stole strings of lights, broke others and stole a large lighted deer, a town official said. The grinches even damaged a train set up in the display. No cost estimate was available for the damage.
The perps obviously should be added to this list for most likely being a member of the al-Grinch Martyrs Brigade.
Not to worry, Santa is pissed and expects skyrocketing coal prices this season!
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The media and its infatuation with Jennifer Lopez’s rather large rump has lost some of its luster of late. At least in the US, but in other parts of the world the adulation continues.
Blame it on J.Lo, said Herrman Solz, the chairman of annual meeting of the German Society of Plastic Surgeons, which took place this week. The Hollywood actress and singer Jennifer Lopez’s well-publicized, biggish backside is causing women to think twice about their own smaller seats.
“Ever since she became famous, many German women want a bigger butt,” he said, but declined to say how many women have chosen the way of surgery to get bigger bottoms so far.
With the German cuisine containing so many non-surgical, ass inflating menu items such as grilled bratwurst, potato pancakes and apfelstrudel the need for “ass enhancement” should be less, not more. To use a little “Euro-logic,” this would be another example of the “evil” American culture invading the “pure and virtuous” European continent.
In related news, from the other side of the globe (or the “other cheek” if you prefer) comes the story of a Japanese man that has taken his admiration for a woman’s backside to criminal levels, “Rapacious pantie collector mounts one snatch too many.”
Cops found an incredible 145 pairs of nicked knickers in the closet of Yasuhiko Azumi, a 35-year-old electronics repairman accused of stealing underwear from 95 different women.
“Azumi was originally picked up on July 13 for driving without a license. When the police nabbed him, they did a search of his car and found lock-picking gear. They asked him what it was for and he told them that he used it to get inside women’s apartments so he could steal their panties,” a Fukuoka police beat reporter tells Shukan Jitsuwa.
As he would relate to the police later it wasn’t just the panties he was after. His main interest was what the silken ass covers contained.
“I love undies and I love using hidden cameras to take pictures. The women’s knickers I had were my treasure. Every time I tailed a woman, I’d watch her ass really carefully. If it’s an older broad, like in her 30s, her ass definitely gives off clear signs that she’s in heat. A woman’s ass is like her second face. I am constantly aware of women’s asses, like whose is big and whose is small. The main thing to look for is whether the pantyline is showing through clearly. I looked for older women like that. And, when I imagined that their love juices were stuck to those panties…ahhh,”
Quick, someone get this guy a visa to visit Germany!
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Also via Rob and the SF Chronicle:
Bells will be ringing at Mervyn’s department stores this holiday season after all, store officials announced Thursday in a sudden reversal of a ban on Salvation Army collection kettles.
Mervyn’s officials say they did not know how important their stores were to the Salvation Army’s fund-raising effort when they decided last month to bar the charity’s bell ringers from their storefronts.
Some shoppers, apparently, were so offended by the action — Target stores also have barred kettle collections — that they called this week for a boycott of the national-chain stores.
“We didn’t fully realize the implications this would have,” said Greg Terk, spokesman for Mervyn’s at its national headquarters in Hayward.
And Mervyn’s wins a reprieve from Santa’s naughty list, no lump of coal needed here.
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One would think the time of year would lend itself to “cheerful” stories of Christmas. As you can see this is my ninth entry for this category and the first that contains something other than oppression or denial of the meaning of Christmas. This story was worth the wait.
A Bay Harbor Islands resident has asked a federal court to compel the town in northeast Miami-Dade County to include a nativity scene in its holiday decorations.
Sondra Snowdon, who last year went on a three-month fast to protest the lack of a Christian holiday display in her community, claimed in a federal lawsuit that the town violated her civil rights. The suit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Miami, names the town, City Manager Greg Tindle and Mayor Isaac Salver as defendants.
Town Attorney Craig B. Sherman seemed confident the town would prevail.
“All the town’s holiday decorations are in compliance with applicable law,” he said.
The decoration debate started in 2001, when town leaders agreed to put up six Stars of David and a giant menorah next to the toll bridge over the Broad Causeway, after some Jewish residents requested them. Two years later, Snowdon complained that the holiday decorations were one-sided, and she started fasting to persuade town leaders to also put up Christian decorations.
Admittedly, I think this woman is a bit of a nut case. She should have started the legal case in ‘01 vice a hunger strike that accomplishes nothing. But her point is valid, if the city displays one form of religous display they should allow all types. I would also agree with Rob, in his belief that the Bill of Rights fails to address the display of Christmas lghts.
But at least soneone is trying to do something positive as opposed to all the fanatics and moonbats previously chronicled in this category.
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As Kofi Annan races to catch up with a over the head centerfield shot.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Do you think questions of fraud in the U.N.’s Oil for Food program have hurt Kofi Annan, and do you think he should resign, as Senator Coleman has urged?
PRESIDENT BUSH: Yesterday I spoke about the United Nations, I said the United States participates in multi-lateral organizations, and we expect those organizations to be effective. You know, when an organization says there’s going to be serious consequences if something doesn’t happen, it better mean what it says.
And on this issue, it’s very important for the United Nations to understand that there ought to be a full and fair and open accounting of the Oil for Food program. In order for the taxpayers of the United States to feel comfortable about supporting the United Nations, there has to be an open accounting. And I look forward to that process going forward.
Q Should he resign, sir?
PRESIDENT BUSH: I look forward to the full disclosure of the facts, a good, honest appraisal of that which went on. And it’s important for the integrity of the organization to have a full and open disclosure of all that took place with the Oil for Food program.
Kofi leaps… and the ball bounces out of the webbing into the stands. GRAND SLAM.
Scorecard reads - E8.
H/T OTB
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Wonder if they will offer gift certificates? And if they do, and they work, which of Santa’s lists will you be added to?
Column A: naughty? Or column B: nice?
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America’s northern neighbor has been in the news of late due to President Bush’s visit to the Capital of Ottawa and the resulting moonbat activity. Canada has also had to admonish disgruntled Kerry supporters, and in essence, told them if they want to immigrate to the Great White North, “Wait in damm line like everyone else!” They also struck a blow to Kerry by shooting down his “cheap drugs from Canada” campaign lie.
More to the point, the general Canadian attitude towards the US is one of Canada being the victim. Canada feels overpowered by American culture thru Hollywood and literature. Its malls are filled with US manufactured products. And worst of all many feel their environment is being destroyed via toxic rain that originates south of the border (thats now been proven to be untrue).
But now Canada has been unmasked as an unfriendly interloper in a foreign land. In the process the capitalistic bastards have threatened the environment, threatened the Indigenous Subanon in Southern Philippines, utilized armed paramilitary guards, and destroyed the tribes sacred place.
Canadian mining company TVI Pacific Inc. (TVI) faces social opposition to its proposed mining activities in the Philippines from a united front of citizens from diverse cultural backgrounds in the town of Siocon, in south-western Mindanao, the Philippines. The Indigenous Subanon, who live in the mountains where TVI wants to locate its mine, have come out against the project. Down-stream communities in the fertile valley below the mine are opposed to the mine as they have already observed negative effects from the mine’s operations on the Siocon and Lituban Rivers that they rely on for irrigation and fish farming. Muslims from Siocon, living on the coast, rely on fishing for their livelihood and they too blame the mine for deteriorating fishing conditions in the river’s estuaries.
Most immediately threatened are the Indigenous Subanon of Canatuan. TVI has started operations this year and has already bulldozed the top of a mountain that is a sacred place for the Subanon. There are numerous villagers living on the slopes of the mountain who will be displaced by the mine if it proceeds.
The Subanon of Canatuan are calling for:
* The Canadian government to stop backing TVI
* Responsible Canadian investors to not invest in this project
* TVI to withdraw its abusive security personnel and leave the area in peace
* An independent fact-finding mission to investigate the abuses and assess the level of local support
* Canadian NGOs and Indigenous organizations to monitor the actions of TVI and oppose the denial and violation of Subanon rights in their ancestral land.
“Toronto Ventures Inc. (TVI) has started its illegal operations, and has desecrated our altar, the tip of Mt. Canatuan, which is our most sacred place. They bulldozed the tip of the mountain, destroyed our most holy place, and in a matter of weeks, our community will be wiped out due to their mad drive for gold.” Timuay José Anoy, Leader, Subanon Tribe Ancestral Domain of Apo Manglang.
They say immitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If Canada believes by immitating the worst traits of American industry and at the same time deride the US they are dreaming, or smoking “Yukon Gold.”
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
Jacksonville authorities asked a Senate committee Wednesday for an additional $1.3 million to help pay for security requirements for February’s Super Bowl.
Duval County Sheriff John Rutherford, whose agency has primary responsibility for the Feb. 6 game’s safety, said the additional money is largely needed because of increased security measures resulting from the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
“You not only have the crowd control aspects, but terrorist protection and prevention,” Rutherford said. “Now our budget has grown to $1.8 million instead of $500,000.”
Rutherford’s request was made to the Senate Committee on Domestic Security by several law enforcement agencies dealing with security plans for Jacksonville’s first Super Bowl game.
“We want them not only to be safe, but to feel safe,” said Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who chairs the committee. “That’s very, very important.”
Among the extra security precautions needed are insuring the safety of 6000 guests that will stay on cruise ships during Super Bowl week. As a result the city plans to scan the ships’ bottoms and hulls in the clear waters off the Bahamas and then sail empty to Jacksonville. Authorities have also said there is a need for the purchase of a $200,000 underwater sonar device to help scan the bottoms of ships in the St. Johns River during the week’s events leading up to the game.
So what is wrong with the city treating a Senate committee like a begger’s banquet? They have had three years since 9/11 and 4 since being awarded the game to not only plan for, but finance the event. This isn’t an event dropped on Jacksonville’s doorstep like an ugly stepchild. Jacksonville, like many others, spend millions to woo the NFL into granting them the “honor” of hosting the game. Well you got it, now pay for it! Don’t come begging for my Federal tax dollars to assist the city’s fathers in turning a tidy profit for themselves.
Sorry that crap don’t fly. Besides there are strong indications the city may be profiteering with exorbitant charges for limousines permits. And that my friends is your answer. Keep charging the limousine liberals, Hollywood elites, and various and sundry [rich] retired NFL stars an extra $250 per limousine to purchase a state of the art sonar device.
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