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Saturday, November 15, 2008
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Election spurs 'hundreds' of race threats, crimes
Just so you know this is one Southerner who finds this shit replusive!
Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America.
From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack.
Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders.
Read more about this disgusting crap here.
Cross burnings.
Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama."
Black figures hung from nooses.
Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.
Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama."
Black figures hung from nooses.
Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.
Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America.
From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack.
Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders.
Read more about this disgusting crap here.
Police say man sped away after handing over ID
What is scary is that, 'They walk among us.'
Police said it wasn't the most well-thoughtout escape.
They say a man handed over his license and registration at a sobriety checkpoint during the weekend, then peeled out and sped away, almost hitting an officer.
Police said it wasn't the most well-thoughtout escape.
They say a man handed over his license and registration at a sobriety checkpoint during the weekend, then peeled out and sped away, almost hitting an officer.
Police eventually pulled over the 32-year-old man and reported finding marijuana in his vehicle.
He was charged with driving under the influence of drugs, possession of drugs, disobeying a police officer and reckless conduct.
Cops use greasy fingerprints to nab hungry burglar
He is why they title these pieces "Dumb Crook News"!
A prosecutor says greasy fingerprints led police in Virginia to a suspect with sticky fingers. Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Bethany Harrison said Lynchburg police matched prints on an orange juice bottle left at the scene of a breaking and entering to 33-year-old Bernard Wood.
He was sentenced Friday to six years in prison after being found guilty of three counts of burglary and two counts of grand larceny.
Harrison said Wood stole appliances, jewelry and tools from several homes in June and raided his victims' refrigerators.
At one crime scene, police found the juice bottle and remnants of a chicken.
Harrison says police also recovered some of the 78 bags of popcorn also reported stolen when they went to Wood's home to arrest him.
Ya wanna talk luck!
Talk about being lucky - a north Alabama man is alive after being run over by a train on Thursday afternoon.
Huntsville Fire and Rescue officials said a train engineer spotted 61-year-old Arnold Romine lying across railroad ties.
Witnesses said the conductor sounded the horn and tried to stop the train.
Huntsville Fire and Rescue officials said a train engineer spotted 61-year-old Arnold Romine lying across railroad ties.
Witnesses said the conductor sounded the horn and tried to stop the train.
Firefighters said by the time the coal train was stopped, 8 rail cars had passed over Romine's body.
Miraculously, he suffered what appeared to be minor injuries.
He was later treated and released at Huntsville Hospital.
Its unclear why Romine was lying on the tracks.
Larose gets new ZIP code - finally
I find it extremely funny and amazing that Carolina Naturally had readers in Larose, Louisiana (near Thibodaux) before they even had a ZIP code.
And you wonder about the Postal service!
Dateline Thibodaux:
It's no 90210, but residents of a small, rural community in southern Louisiana are just happy to have any five-digit ZIP code.
And you wonder about the Postal service!
Dateline Thibodaux:
It's no 90210, but residents of a small, rural community in southern Louisiana are just happy to have any five-digit ZIP code.
For four decades, folks in Larose have had to go to neighboring towns' post offices to retrieve their mail. Beginning Saturday, the 7,000 or so who live in the town can start using 70373 and should soon receive letters, packages and fliers in their roadside mailboxes for the first time.
"This will make it easier. You don't have to worry about two addresses, it will be a Larose address," said Christine Hohensee, a resident for 43 years. "I like it. It's time. The older people probably aren't going to care for it, but times change."
Residents petitioned for years to bring a rural route to the area, but the switch wasn't made until a recent survey showed widespread support, said Daisy Comeaux, spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service.
Enduring the mystery
N.C. investigators have returned to Carolina Beach to search for the remains of a mother and daughter who disappeared 67 years ago in a case that has long stumped authorities.
The State Bureau of Investigation brought ground-penetrating radar to a home this week to scan a concrete slab for any sign of remains, the Star-News of Wilmington reported.
“Family members of the missing persons came forward with some additional information and asked that the case be reopened,” said SBI spokeswoman Noelle Talley. She said the agency has access to ground-penetrating radar equipment at no cost through the forensic science program at N.C. State University.
Thirty-six-year-old Leila Bryan and her 4-year-old daughter Mary Rachel disappeared May 10, 1941. The case had been initially investigated during that decade but never solved. Carolina Beach Police Chief William Younginer said Bryan's husband, E.C. Bryan, had at one time been a suspect. He said the husband had laid concrete beneath the elevated home and left soon after.
He is now deceased.
Zoo mourns death of popular Asian elephant Mac
Mac the inquisitive Asian elephant known for being the largest of its kind born in captivity in the United States died at the Houston Zoo this week after suddenly contracting an incurable disease.
The zoo held a memorial service Saturday for the popular 2-year-old elephant Mac, who was remembered in anecdotes tinged both by sadness and laughter.
Behind a fence and to the side, Mac's mother, Shanti, and his aunt, Methai, looked on.
"We all loved Mac and he will live in all our hearts forever," zoo volunteer Toni Noble said, her eyes tearing up.
Mac died Sunday less than 12 hours after first showing symptoms of elephant herpesvirus, which causes blood vessels to weaken.
The young elephant weighed 384 pounds when he was born in October 2006, making him the largest Asian elephant born in captivity at a U.S. zoo, said Deborah Cannon, president and CEO of the Houston Zoo.
Mac learned more than 30 behaviors before he turned 1, something previously unheard of in elephants, Cannon said.
But the beast's energy suddenly vanished Sunday as he became lethargic and lost his appetite, two symptoms of elephant herpesvirus.
Before getting sick, Mac was known for his sense of fun and mischief.
Noble recalled buying Mac an inflatable punching bag.
"He would come back to it, whack it with his trunk and then tear off and go running crazy about the yard," she said.
Death from elephant herpesvirus is usually attributed to heart failure.
It was first identified in 1995 by researchers at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
There is no cure for herpesvirus in animals, and there is not yet a direct test to detect it in a healthy animal.
Over the past 20 years, the Houston zoo has lost six other elephants to the herpesvirus.
Other zoos across the country in recent years have also lost elephants to herpesvirus, prompting some animal rights groups to attribute the disease to captivity.
But Cannon said elephants are at risk of contracting the disease both in captivity and in the wild.
Breeding elephants in captivity, she said, is the only way to ensure the species doesn't become extinct and gives researchers opportunities to study the disease more.
The zoo held a memorial service Saturday for the popular 2-year-old elephant Mac, who was remembered in anecdotes tinged both by sadness and laughter.
Behind a fence and to the side, Mac's mother, Shanti, and his aunt, Methai, looked on.
"We all loved Mac and he will live in all our hearts forever," zoo volunteer Toni Noble said, her eyes tearing up.
Mac died Sunday less than 12 hours after first showing symptoms of elephant herpesvirus, which causes blood vessels to weaken.
The young elephant weighed 384 pounds when he was born in October 2006, making him the largest Asian elephant born in captivity at a U.S. zoo, said Deborah Cannon, president and CEO of the Houston Zoo.
Mac learned more than 30 behaviors before he turned 1, something previously unheard of in elephants, Cannon said.
But the beast's energy suddenly vanished Sunday as he became lethargic and lost his appetite, two symptoms of elephant herpesvirus.
Before getting sick, Mac was known for his sense of fun and mischief.
Noble recalled buying Mac an inflatable punching bag.
"He would come back to it, whack it with his trunk and then tear off and go running crazy about the yard," she said.
Death from elephant herpesvirus is usually attributed to heart failure.
It was first identified in 1995 by researchers at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
There is no cure for herpesvirus in animals, and there is not yet a direct test to detect it in a healthy animal.
Over the past 20 years, the Houston zoo has lost six other elephants to the herpesvirus.
Other zoos across the country in recent years have also lost elephants to herpesvirus, prompting some animal rights groups to attribute the disease to captivity.
But Cannon said elephants are at risk of contracting the disease both in captivity and in the wild.
Breeding elephants in captivity, she said, is the only way to ensure the species doesn't become extinct and gives researchers opportunities to study the disease more.
Times Square is getting its first 'green' billboard
This winter, New Year's Eve revelers will have a close-up view of Times Square's first environmentally friendly billboard powered entirely by wind and sun.
But the billboard might not be quite as dazzling as some of its high-powered neighbors along the Great White Way.
Construction on the 35,000-pound sign advertising Ricoh Americas Corp. is to begin this month across the avenue from the building where the ball drops on New Year's Eve.
Powered by 16 wind turbines and 64 solar panels, the sign is expected to save $12,000 to $15,000 per month in electricity costs.
Ricoh, an office equipment and document storage supplier, estimates the sign will also keep 18 tons of carbon out of the environment.
But the billboard might not be quite as dazzling as some of its high-powered neighbors along the Great White Way.
Construction on the 35,000-pound sign advertising Ricoh Americas Corp. is to begin this month across the avenue from the building where the ball drops on New Year's Eve.
Powered by 16 wind turbines and 64 solar panels, the sign is expected to save $12,000 to $15,000 per month in electricity costs.
Ricoh, an office equipment and document storage supplier, estimates the sign will also keep 18 tons of carbon out of the environment.
And I Quote
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me.
He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
~ Rodney Dangerfield.
He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
~ Rodney Dangerfield.
This Just In ...
Nineteenth-seed Norway upset 3rd-seed China in round three of the 38th Chess Olympiad on Saturday.
Earliest Known Shaman Grave Site Found
In what is now Israel that is ...
“An ancient grave unearthed in modern-day Israel containing 50 tortoise shells, a human foot and body parts from numerous animals is likely one of the earliest known shaman burial sites, researchers said on Monday. The 12,000-year-old grave dates back to the Natufian people who were the first society to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher Leore Grosman and colleagues said.
“The interment rituals and the method used to construct and seal the grave suggest this is the burial of an ancient shaman, one of the earliest known from the archaeological record,” they wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Shamans play an important role in many cultures, mediating between the human and spiritual worlds and acting as messengers, healers, magicians to serve the community, the researchers said.
The Israeli team found the bones in a small cave in the lower Galilee region of present-day Israel that was a Natufian burial ground for a least 28 people. At the time of burial, more than 10 large stones were placed directly on the head, pelvis, and arms of the elderly woman whose body was laid on its side. The legs were spread apart and folded inward at the knee. The special treatment of the body and use of stones to keep it in a certain position suggests the woman held a unique position in the community, likely some sort of a shaman, the researchers said.”
From News Daily
Nine more unlawfully jailed
A court in military-ruled Burma has sentenced an additional nine pro-democracy activists to 65-year prison terms, relatives and activists said Saturday.
Their cases are among a string of recent prison sentences given to critics of the ruling junta.
About 70 opposition activists, writers, musicians and Buddhist monks have been sentenced in the last week.
The nine activists of the 88 Generation Students group, named for their part in pro-democracy demonstrations in 1988, were sentenced at a closed trial inside Maupin Prison in the Irrawaddy Delta in southwestern Yangon last Tuesday.
Relatives of the nine only learned of the sentences Saturday when they visited them at Insein Prison, where they were brought from Maupin Prison to later be transferred to other prisons.
Their cases are among a string of recent prison sentences given to critics of the ruling junta.
About 70 opposition activists, writers, musicians and Buddhist monks have been sentenced in the last week.
The nine activists of the 88 Generation Students group, named for their part in pro-democracy demonstrations in 1988, were sentenced at a closed trial inside Maupin Prison in the Irrawaddy Delta in southwestern Yangon last Tuesday.
Relatives of the nine only learned of the sentences Saturday when they visited them at Insein Prison, where they were brought from Maupin Prison to later be transferred to other prisons.
Fire is destroying Los Angeles.
Dateline: Los Angeles.
A wildfire being whipped up by the hot Santa Anna winds -gusting up to 76mph - has destroyed countless homes and forced thousands to flee before the onslaught.
A mobile home park containing 600 spaces has been abandoned to the fire by firefighters because the fire was burning out of control.
Ariel photos show rows upon rows of homes gutted by the fire in one subdivision alone.
The fire began in the northern foothills near the national forest and quickly spread jumping two highways which caused authorities to order mandatory evacuation from the area.
Addendum:
A new fire south of Los Angeles is causing that section of LA to be evacuated as well.
So all those from the north side who fled south are now being sent elsewhere as well as the residents of the southern end of LA.
Fires in Los Angeles county and Orange county mean its Death Valley or the Pacific Ocean next for residents to go to.
A wildfire being whipped up by the hot Santa Anna winds -gusting up to 76mph - has destroyed countless homes and forced thousands to flee before the onslaught.
A mobile home park containing 600 spaces has been abandoned to the fire by firefighters because the fire was burning out of control.
Ariel photos show rows upon rows of homes gutted by the fire in one subdivision alone.
The fire began in the northern foothills near the national forest and quickly spread jumping two highways which caused authorities to order mandatory evacuation from the area.
Addendum:
A new fire south of Los Angeles is causing that section of LA to be evacuated as well.
So all those from the north side who fled south are now being sent elsewhere as well as the residents of the southern end of LA.
Fires in Los Angeles county and Orange county mean its Death Valley or the Pacific Ocean next for residents to go to.
Two dead and one missing in NC storm
A cluster of strong thunderstorms swept across central North Carolina early today and spawned tornadoes, killing two people.
A child was also missing.A woman was found dead in her wrecked home and her son was missing in the community of Kenly, which is about 35 miles southeast of Raleigh, said state police spokeswoman Patty McQuillan.
The boy's father was taken to a hospital with injuries.
In neighboring Johnston County, authorities said a child also was killed.
Officials said the severe storm affected a half dozen counties, knocking down tress and power lines.
A number of homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed.
Kenly residents picked through the rubble of a one-story brick home that was devastated. Family and friends piled up mattresses, took pictures of the damage and filled garbage bags with trash.
Family portraits had been tossed into the woods some 200 yards from the home.
The skeleton of a camper the family had just bought rested nearby, amid other remnants thrown from the home.
One half of Mark Stephenson's home was flattened, while a tree had fallen through other half, on top of his 19-year-old daughter's bedroom.
She was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
"It's hard to believe, it's hard to take in," Stephenson said.
"We've got our lives and our health, so we're good to go."
His 14-year-old son, Hunter, pointed over to what used to be his bedroom - now just a pile of bricks and beams.
Hunter's bedroom was being remodeled and he had been sleeping in the living room.
"I'm lucky," he said. "It's crazy, if I would have been in there, I would have been dead."
Three homes away, Stacey Franks, 31, checked on her 78-year-old father.
Two large trees had missed falling on his mobile home by a few feet.
His tractor-trailer had been flipped on its side.
"He's nerves are really damaged. He's just upset," Franks said of her father.
"I just can't believe this has happened."
A Red Cross Shelter was opened at a church in Kenly.
National Weather Service officials were sending crews out to survey the damage.
The weakened storm system moved northeast to the Virginia coast.
Authorities warned there was potential for another round of nasty weather along the Carolinas coast Saturday afternoon as a cold front crept across the region.
They never learn
From the "They never learn" Department:
The repugicans are still trying to steal the election in Minnesota and get this ... they are trying to do it by claiming the election was stolen from them!
Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog has been, and still is, the biggest advocate of election integrity in the Blogosphere.
The latest news he brings us about election shenanigans is the fact that there are no facts in the Minnesota repugican's contention that 32 absentee ballots were "riding around" in a car after the Franken - Coleman election:
The repugicans are still trying to steal the election in Minnesota and get this ... they are trying to do it by claiming the election was stolen from them!
Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog has been, and still is, the biggest advocate of election integrity in the Blogosphere.
The latest news he brings us about election shenanigans is the fact that there are no facts in the Minnesota repugican's contention that 32 absentee ballots were "riding around" in a car after the Franken - Coleman election:
For those following the nonsense being put forward by the gop conspiracy theorists (such as Sean Hannity, Norm Coleman, redstate blog, powerline blog, and all their fact-free friends), David Brauer at Minnpost.com does a terrific job of debunking the whole "32 ballots driven around in an election director's car for days" nonsense.
They weren't driven around in her car, they weren't all votes for Franken, they weren't "lost" for days, and the claim, which is being used by the national repugicans at their conspiracy theory "minnesota recount" site to prop up their unsubstantiated claims of a "stolen election," turns out (surprise surprise) to be entirely false...
Specifically, as to the claims that 32 ballots were driven around for days in the car of Minneapolis elections director Cindy Reichert:
- The ballots were never in her car.
- The ballots were never in anyone's car for several days.
- The ballots were never lost or forgotten, and spent election night until counting day in secure city facilities.
See David Brauer's piece for the complete real details on the story, about which Sean Hannity spent a full two segments misreporting and misrepresenting on FauxNews last night.
Life is full of moments of epiphany.
Life is full of moments of epiphany.
The latest for this ol'war horse was a few days ago when he came to the realization that more people are more violently opposed to fur than they are to leather ... because it is easier and safer to harass wealthy elderly women that it is to harass motorcycle gangs.
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