Man Busted for Retrieving Meth From Casino's Lost-and-Found
SUQUAMISH, Wash. A man has been charged in Kitsap County for possession of a controlled substance after he made the mistake of attempting to retrieve a bag containing methamphetamine from the Suquamish Casino's lost-and-found. The casino's security officer alerted the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office when the bag was found to contain three knives, a bag of white crystals identified as meth, some jewelry, a small digital scale and some blood pressure medication. The 33-year-old Seattle man's identification was also in the bag, which was turned in by a customer.
As a deputy was speaking with the security officer this week, the man came up and told him he was looking for his missing black bag. The man confirmed the bag was his and a deputy placed him under arrest.
The man was also charged with possession of prescription drugs without a prescription and possession of a dangerous weapon. The man's bail was set at $40,000.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As expected, former KGO Radio talk show host Bernie Ward pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of distributing child pornography. Ward did not comment as he left the federal courthouse in San Francisco Thursday afternoon, but he did, though, admit to a judge that he sent a sexually-explicit image of a child over the Internet. After his arrest in December, Ward claimed he was researching a book.
The judge agreed to hold off on accepting Ward's plea until his sentencing in August. That's so Ward can attend his son's high school graduation. He faces a minimum of five-years in federal prison.
The ABC7 I-Team has been following this case and exploring Ward's time as a Catholic priest. It's the same old story -- Catholic priest gets in trouble for complaints of sexual activity with minors. Only this time, it's Bernie Ward. Ward often discussed his time as a Catholic priest during his weeknight KGO Radio show and his Sunday morning program, "God Talk." However, he never told the complete story of what happened when he was Father Bernie.
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GB, Correct me if my memory is at fault, but channel 7 is KGO? They must really be pissed to have run a story like this. Have they and their radio personalities been bashing him on air regularly?
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KGO Radio has obviously been embarrassed by this affair. The same group that owns KGO (liberal) owns KSFO, the Hot Talk conservative voice in this liberal wilderness. They have taken on Bernie's follies with a vengeance. One gets the impression there is a running war between KGO staff and KSFO staff even though their checks are written by the same company and they share offices at either end of the hall.
KGO television has tried to be as professional as a MSM outlet can be in this situation.
Ohio woman sentenced to life for ice pick death of roommate
XENIA, Ohio (AP) An Ohio woman has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole for killing her roommate with an ice pick through the ear.
Sandra Matthews-Johnson in the southwestern Ohio town of Xenia (ZEEN'-yuh) was convicted of killing Ottie Tomlinson last August after an argument.
Prosecutors said the 67-year-old Tomlinson was going to kick out the 54-year-old Matthews-Johnson for being jobless and failing to do housework.
Matthews-Johnson's attorney argued that Tomlinson may have fallen into the ice pick. Words just do not describe...
Authorities in Texas have filed corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a skull from a grave and used it as a bong.
The Harris County District Attorney's Office confirmed on Thursday that misdemeanor abuse of corpse charges have been filed in the case.
One of the men allegedly told police they dug up a grave in an abandoned cemetery in the woods, removed a head from a body and smoked marijuana using the skull as a bong.
Police found the cemetery and a grave that had been disturbed but are still investigating the rest of the story, officials said.
Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor's mansion.
The Rev. Al Sharpton has emerged over the past decade as perhaps the nation's most prominent civil rights leader, a status that was demonstrated again this week when he led protests against police brutality that briefly shut down six of Manhattan's major bridges and tunnels.
But he still carries baggage from his early days as a fire-breathing agitator: Government records obtained by The Associated Press indicate that Sharpton and his business entities owe nearly $1.5 million in overdue taxes and associated penalties.
Now the U.S. attorney is investigating his nonprofit group, a probe that an undeterred Sharpton brushes off as the kind of annoyance that civil rights figures have come to expect from the government.
"Whatever retaliation they do on me, we never stop," he told the AP. "I think that that is why they try to intimidate us."
Over the past year, Sharpton's lawyers and the staff of his nonprofit group, the National Action Network, have been negotiating with the federal government over the size of his debt, which they dispute. The group has also been trying to pay off tens of thousands of dollars it owes for failing to properly maintain workers compensation and unemployment insurance.
Charlie King, the organization's interim executive director, said both Sharpton and the group he leads were unprepared for their rise in stature in recent years and had trouble dealing with big jumps in donations and income.
"The infrastructure was trying to keep up with that pace, and it was not a perfect fit," he told the AP on Friday. "The National Action Network may not have been perfect, but nothing was going on that was untoward."
He said the organization has new accountants and a new administrative team, and the group recently finally filed long-overdue tax returns.
Sharpton's own debts include $365,558 owed in New York City income tax and $931,397 in unpaid federal income tax, according to a lien filed by the Internal Revenue Service last spring. His for-profit company, Rev. Al Communications, owes the state another $175,962 in delinquent taxes.
As for Sharpton's personal tax debt, King said Sharpton has started paying it off but contends that faulty record-keeping by the National Action Network led the government to overestimate his tax liability.
Tax headaches are nothing new for Sharpton. The 53-year-old minister has been assailed over his career for running up big tax debts and failing to abide by rules governing his charities and election committees. He is perpetually being sued for failing to pay his bills.
In December, Sharpton revealed that as many as 10 of his associates had received grand jury subpoenas. A person familiar with the investigation told the AP that the FBI and IRS are probing whether Sharpton or his organization committed tax crimes or violations related to his 2004 presidential campaign, during which he was forced to return public matching funds for breaking fundraising rules.
If any of this worries Sharpton, you'd never know it. He is pressing ahead with his latest campaign -- an effort to persuade the Justice Department to bring civil rights charges against New York City police detectives who fired 50 shots and killed an unarmed groom as he left his bachelor party.
Over the past few weeks, Sharpton has kept a high profile, promising to lead weekly demonstrations until new charges are brought against police detectives acquitted of manslaughter April 25 in the November 2006 death of Sean Bell.
"He is as focused as ever," said Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, a Queens Democrat who has also rallied for police reforms since the Bell case. "He is probably more effective now than he was in the past, than he has ever been."
Sharpton was arrested and spent a few hours in jail Wednesday for being among the marchers who blocked the Brooklyn Bridge to protest the verdict.
On Thursday, Sharpton said he may soon add another cause -- the case of three shooting suspects who appeared to have been beaten and kicked by police during an arrest in Philadelphia.
Sharpton has been investigated before, and always walked away clean.
In 1990, he was acquitted of tax fraud and charges that he stole from one of his charities. He followed that up with what was essentially another victory in a tax case by pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of failing to file a state return.
In the latest probe, the official overseeing the investigation is U.S. Attorney Benton Campbell -- the same Brooklyn-based prosecutor whom Sharpton is urging to file criminal charges in the Bell shooting. Campbell's office has said it is reviewing the case but declined to comment further.
Sharpton's reputation has undergone a remarkable renaissance since the Tawana Brawley days in 1987, when he was accused of helping create a hoax in which the 15-year-old girl claimed she had been kidnapped and raped by a gang of whites that included a police officer and a prosecutor. A grand jury concluded that Brawley made the story up.
Since the late 1990s, his civil rights group has grown from a small outfit, with a few hundred thousand dollars in annual revenue, to an organization that now routinely takes in $1 million to $2 million per year, thanks partly to corporate support.
Donors have included beer giant Anheuser-Busch, which gave more than $100,000 last year, and Forest City Ratner, a real estate development company that courted black leaders for support of a plan to build an NBA arena in Brooklyn. PepsiCo, for several years, gave Sharpton a compensated position on one of its advisory boards.
The group also enjoys financial support from the state's top politicians.
New York Gov. David Paterson has transferred at least $28,000 from his own re-election committee to the National Action Network since 2001. Rep. Charles Rangel, a top Democrat in Congress, has been another major backer, giving at least $83,000. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has given $10,000.
"Everybody who runs for office in the Democratic Party wants to meet with him," said former Mayor Ed Koch, who once battled Sharpton but now calls him a friend and a "bona fide leader."
Koch said Sharpton's past will always be an issue with some whites, and he disagreed with the decision to engage in civil disobedience over the Bell case. But the former mayor believes the respect Sharpton enjoys among blacks is well earned.
"He is willing to go to jail for them," Koch said. "And he is there when they need him."
Michelle Malkin opines on the website Stuff White People Like, and wonders aloud if theres potential in a website dedicated to Stuff Muslims Dont Like.
To help, heres TNOYFs list of the Top 9 Things That Muslims Dont Like.
9. That recurring nightmare where they are in front of a million screaming jihadists with an American flag and a box of damp matches.
8. When a cranky rotator cuff produces inaccurate, sidearm-hurling at stonings.
7. Matzo and Brisket Day in the jihadist cafeteria.
6. The inexplicable failure of consumer electronics companies to recognize the marketing opportunity for blood-resistant video cameras.
5. That dark day in history when, due to a bizarre genetic mutation and Allahs sick sense of humor, women suddenly developed the ability to make sound.
4. Nosebleed end-zone seats at the soccer stadium for the weekly execution festival.
3. Landing gear.
2. Discovering that the peculiar odor in the house was an infidel head taken as a souvenir by your son and hidden beneath his not-so-secret stash of Camel Love Quarterly.
1. Spending several hours tracking the enticing sounds of an injured baby goat through a cave only to find it was that ventriloquist prankster, Abdul.
. . . As they approached the coast at 10,000 feet, Cunningham spotted another MiG-17 heading straight for them. He told Driscoll to watch how close they could pass the MiG's nose, so he could not double back as easily to their six oclock. While this tactic worked against A-4s back in training at Miramar, it turned out to be a near-fatal mistake here. ... A-4s didnt have guns in the nose.
The MiG's nose lit up like a Roman candle! Cannon shells shot past their F-4. Duke pulled up vertically to throw off his aim. As he came out of the six-G pull-up, he looked around below for the MiG. MiGs generally avoided climbing contests. They turned horizontally, or just ran away. He looked back over his ejection seat and was shocked. There was the MiG barely 100 yards away! He began to feel numb and his stomach knotted, as both jets roared 8,000 feet straight up.
In an effort to out-climb the MiG, Cunningham went to afterburners, which put him above the enemy aircraft. As he started to pull over the top, the MiG began shooting. This was Cunningham's second near-fatal mistake; he had given his opponent a predictable flight path, and he had taken advantage of it. Duke rolled off to the other side, and the MiG closed in behind.
Not wanting to admit he was getting beaten, he called to Willie, "That S.O.B. is really lucky! All right, well get this guy now!" With the MiG at his four oclock, he nosed down to pick up speed and energy. . . .
Go read the rest of it. One of the greatest duels in the history of military aviation.
For many years, it was believed that the Vietnamese pilot was a top fighter ace named "Colonel Tomb." In truth, there was no Colonel Tomb; much of the "urban legend" of Tomb was based on the real-life career of a couple of other NVAF senior pilots. There's an interesting article here which compiles what little we do know about the mysterious ace who gave Cunningham and Driscoll such a gallant fight in the skies over Hai Dong.
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I've read this story before, but am not a flyer & don't understand the terminology & dynamics of air combat. Would like to read an account with pics & diagrams.
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Anger,
Get 'Top Gun' by George Hall available at Amazon.com - it has a full diagram with very clear explanations of Cunningham and Driscoll's fight. CDR Cunningham was kind enough to autograph my copy as well as make a few annotations.
Mike
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Anguper: History Channel did an episode of Dogfights which had a very good CGI re-creation of this action.
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First daughter's decision to wed privately disappoints a public fascinated by her coming of age, says the WaPo on the FRONT PAGE. But despite the widespread interest -- and despite the blond First Twin's increasingly public profile as a published author and do-gooder -- the White House has repeatedly made clear that this is a private event. No live broadcast of the vows, a la Charles and Diana. No wedding procession through town. No reporters allowed within miles of the Bush ranch. And no promise that we'll ever be told the guest list, the menu, the first-dance song, or whether the bride promised "to obey."
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GOOD!
Good luck, Jena & Henry - you're gonna need it against these nosy thugs.
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All that publicity & hoopla would be a kiss of death to a long, happy relationship, which is, one might guess, what Jena & her fiance really want out of all this. Good for them.
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It not like the Bushes need the company of those who've spent eight years slandering and maligning them. Just another whine from the self important media.
It's a new kind of virus for Sun Microsystems Inc.
At the company's JavaOne conference this week in San Francisco, 70 people came down with what officials believe is norovirus, a type of medical virus easily spread by touching dirty surfaces.
The city's Department of Public Health started receiving reports on Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday, the department warned people who felt they had been infected to stay home. Wow. Whotta concept!
David Perry, spokesman for the Moscone Center, said 67 of people infected were staff working at the weeklong conference and 3 were attendees. He said the facility had been fully cleaned for the first time since Code Pink was there and disinfected by Friday afternoon, when the conference was winding down on schedule.
Norovirus causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea and lasts 24 to 48 hours.
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I can think of dozens of better headlines for this one.
Java makes people sick, for example. Dirty Java conference makes attendees sick. Sun makes attendees sick.
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Think thousands of people from all over the world putting their hands on the same keyboard at some kind of demo booth or email station. Then you rub your eyes or pick your nose and suddenly you're sick. But then it could've been from everybody breathing the same recycled air on the airplanes flying into San Francisco. It's an epidemic waiting to happen.
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Goethe wrong a hopelessly romantic book called 'The Sorrows of Young Werther', in which a sensitive young man falls in love with a woman he cannot have, so after lots of suffering, he shoots himself in the head and dies.
But though Goethe wrote it as a parody of other syrupy romance literature of the time, he did it so well, that some 2,000 young dumbasses across Europe decided to shoot themselves.
A now much more obscure case was in the US, when I believe a Hungarian violinist recorded a melancholy tune called "The Suicide Song" in the 1920s, before killing himself. There were several instances of dumbasses who later killed themselves and the record was found on their player, which resulted in calls for the record to be banned.
It seemed to have worked, because it has been pretty much forgotten since. I have only seen references to it, and there is nothing on the Internet about it.
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It gets me how that just a few well trained soldiers could totally turn this situation around.
First put the bag on half a dozen really nasty, murderous, public threat yobs. Then carefully arrange a mass hanging and take a bunch of pictures.
Imagine a tree with six thugs hanging from it, their heads covered with black hoods, and appropriate signs around their necks.
Send copies of the photos with a warning to newspapers in England, the continent and the US. The message is that a vigilante group is now watching gangs, and unless they "leave England forever", there will be more executions.
Then go underground and wait a year. By then, if the hysteria hasn't accomplished anything, do it again.
It has to be a professional job, as Scotland Yard will have incredible pressure applied to it by the government. So most likely, it would have to be done by a very tight group of soldiers, who would leave the country shortly thereafter.
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Anonymoose,
You don't need anything that dramatic. During Katrina, Bush sent some snipers from the 82nd Airborne into the city. They were fired on, they killed 6 shooters. The looting and killing ended the next day.
Al
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The British public does not need a wake up call. The British governing elites do.
Further, it is not a British problem, it is an English problem. The socialist leeches in Scotland keep sending Labourite governments to rule the English while they are protected by their own parliament, the EU and their English subsidy. The whole Mid-Lothian problem.
This is not the first wake-up call the British governing elite have gotten. They're running out of time before the Anglo-Saxons drive out the Danes Asians and their Celtic masters.
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"This is not the first wake-up call the British governing elite have gotten. They're running out of time before the Anglo-Saxons drive out the Danes Asians and their Celtic masters."
With all due regard, NS, it's long past time. You white British are beginning to look a lot like Saniora's government in Beirut. You either need to reel this stuff in VERY soon or reconcile yourselves to the fact that you've been relegated to the status of second-class citizenry in your own country. Judging from your expatriation statistics, it's to be the latter. Have the last guy out turn off the lights.
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But Nimble Spemble is an American living somewhere on the east side of the continent. (And awfully cute, too!)
Demonised in the West as goons guarding the Olympic torch along its chaotic world tour, these pictures at the link show how China's paramilitary police learn their unwavering discipline.
Ummm... What link?
Officers of the People Paramilitary Police preparing for the Olympics are drilled on the parade ground with pins in their collars and crosses on their backs to ensure perfect posture.
But instead of the blue tracksuits members wore while escorting the flame, they are kitted out in full dress uniform during the exercise at their base in Shenyang, Liaoning province.
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Well, it's like this: the Chinese have watched this sort of thing in movies, and attempt to duplicate it. Of course, they do it much better than us, so they can feel superior.
Tin soldiering went out of style almost 100 years ago. How the hell does pins and needles help you become a better soldier? It doesn't, but the Party bosses sure feel better when they see the pictures of their men. They can rest assured that their underlings are doing everything possible for success. And when the shit hits the fan, that's what the underlings need.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Man Busted for Retrieving Meth From Casino's Lost-and-Found
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As expected, former KGO Radio talk show host Bernie Ward pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of distributing child pornography. Ward did not comment as he left the federal courthouse in San Francisco Thursday afternoon, but he did, though, admit to a judge that he sent a sexually-explicit image of a child over the Internet. After his arrest in December, Ward claimed he was researching a book. 
Authorities in Texas have filed corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a skull from a grave and used it as a bong.
Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor's mansion.
Michelle Malkin opines on the website Stuff White People Like, and wonders aloud if theres potential in a website dedicated to Stuff Muslims Dont Like.
