SYDNEY, Australia - A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director said Friday.
The 30-minute rampage, caught on the zoo's security camera, happened early Wednesday after the boy jumped a security fence at the Alice Springs Reptile Center in central Australia, said zoo director Rex Neindorf.
The child then went on a killing spree, bashing three lizards to death with a rock, including the zoo's beloved, 20-year-old goanna, which he then fed to "Terry," an 11-foot, 440-pound saltwater crocodile, said Neindorf.
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If you look at the date, you'll see this was back in early October.
Hundreds Of Kids Beaten, Whipped, Even Choked By Teachers, Coaches
Treveon Martin, 10, is one of at least 818 Chicago Public School students, since 2003, to allege being battered by a teacher or other staff member.
Hundreds of students have allegedly been beaten by teachers, coaches and staff at Chicago Public Schools. Investigator Dave Savini continues his ongoing investigation involving the illegal use corporal punishment.
Treveon Martin, 10, is afraid of a teacher at his school. "I've seen him hit five of them in the classroom," Martin said.
Martin says he and others have been hit, grabbed and even struck with a belt. "He's threatened almost all the kids in his classroom," Martin said.
He says it happened at Robert Emmet Academy in November but a Chicago Public School investigator didn't talk to him until last week - 70 days after the case was reported, and not until after we started asking questions.
"He holded my arms and he picked my body up, and then he just slammed me on the desk," Martin said.
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What no "why do they hate us" meme from the usual crowd [which is about the same level as adolescents]? /rhetorical question.
BTW is the investigator also ringing up the count on student on teacher battery and student on student battery that goes unreported?
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"He holded my arms and he picked my body up, and then he just slammed me on the desk," Martin said.
Perhaps it was a grammar lesson, though it didn't take.
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Twerps, wimps, crybabies! You should say your prayers every night that you didn't go to school and were taught by Jesuits or Irish Brothers. Whippings, beatings and chocking were too mild for those sadists. How about a knee to the groin or a rabbit punch for not paying attention. Of course, you only did that once and repeat offenders were few and far between.
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Former domain of current Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is it not?
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I have no reservations about corporal punishment - it should be administered immediately where it's needed. However, there's a very large difference between corporal punishment (a swat on the butt, a rap across the knuckles) and child abuse, which some of these cases appear to be. We had several reported cases of molestation in a couple of the schools around here, and it took THREE YEARS to get one teacher fired after his abusive behavior was documented. There are a lot of teachers in our school system I wouldn't want my children even in the same building with. I expect things to get much worse before they get better.
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WOW. I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CONDONED THIS CRAP BEHAVIOR ON THE PART OF SCHOOL TEACHERS.
NO RESPECT FOR ANY POSTER.
HOW DISAPPOINTING.
SICK PEOPLE.
AND ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT BETTER OF YOU.
UNBELIEVABLE.
I think I'll be exiting the burg. Never thought I'd see this kind of sh*t here.
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Agree XL. This was not some nun rapping knuckles with a ruler, this was an out of control adult assaulting a child or children. Sure, probably a smart ass punk who deserves punishment and a father, but nonetheless, a 10 year old kid half the size of the little Hitler who can't control a class room apparently without regular violence.
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XL, my first six words were "Not to defend the teacher, but"
I have seen the problems that have been created for public education by the total impossibility of enforcing any kind of classroom discipline. The kids KNOW they can get away with anything, and many have no discipline anywhere in their lives. The resulting chaos prevents anyone from learning, and in the end dooms all the kids. The teachers are frustrated, and the better ones quit. The teachers in this article are not the problem, but rather, another sypmtom of a far greater societal problem.
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ex-lib and Nemble - Remember, these are allegations of corporal punishment.
Allegations are just that.
"Corporal" runs the gamut from a cuff upside the melon (or less) to an out-and-out beating. I am certain that, if the latter were the case, the parents of the little tykes would be lined up at the local percentage-based attorney looking for $ to salve the wounds to their psyche's.
When I was in Jr-Sr high, we had a number of bozos who did not contribute to a positive learning experience and, from time-to-time, needed a "tune-up" ranging from the application of a "paddle" specifically available for the purpose, to a push upside a locker with the resounding noise of cranium against thin metal providing instruction to those of like mind but inaction. I never saw blood or (physical) bruises, and the a$$holes who deserved it knew better than to run to their parents to complain (whimper).
If the teacher(s)/staff involved are sadistic bastards looking for away-from-home victims, then off with their metaphorical heads.
If, however, they are simply trying to discipline a bunch of 10 y/o snots that have developed their societal mores and language from MTV and video games, it is a horse of a different color and requires our forbearance until the entire story is told.
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CrazyFool: A shank, as I understand it, is a metal cutting (edge) tool made from the shank taken from a shoe. A shiv is a little more eclectic, being made from anything that can be sharpened to a point or edge.
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2007 There have been some great achievements by the Chicago Public Schools this year, but they have been overshadowed by the murders of more than 30 students.
2008 Murders are up 13 percent. During the past school year, 29 Chicago-area youths were killed by gunfire. On one April weekend, 40 people were shot. Over the July Fourth weekend, nine people were gunned down - with three more killed this past weekend.
2009 CHICAGO Five people were shot as spectators left a crowded high school basketball game Friday in what police called a possibly gang-related attack that sent panicked students running into a snowy street on the city's South Side.
AUGUSTA -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Geological Survey and Maine State Climate Office announced today that a minus-50 reading in northwestern Maine held up to scientific scrutiny.
That beats Maine's old record of 48 below zero set in 1925 in Van Buren, and ties the record for coldest temperature recorded in New England. That reading was made in 1933 in Bloomfield, Vt.
The record on New Hampshire's Mount Washington is minus-47.
Maine's minus-50 reading was made on Jan. 16 at a remote site along the Big Black River near the Quebec border as the region was in the grip of a blast of arctic air.
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AUGUSTA -- Just how cold is the record cold in Maine?
NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the U.S. Geological Survey and the Maine State Climate Office will tell us today at a meeting in Augusta.
The question: Does a reading of minus-50 in northwestern Maine, made on Jan. 16 at a site along the Big Black River near the Quebec border, break the all-time record.
We'll have to wait until 11 a.m., to find out what the weather watchers above determined after reviewing the equipment used to make the reading.
The National Weather Service says the current cold record for Maine is 48 below, recorded in Van Buren on Jan. 19, 1925.
I am deeply saddened and disturbed to see insensitive, hate-filled racist neanderthals making light of what is obviously just a temporary reprieve for Maines polar bear population.
This record came about because of good partnership work between NOAA, USGS and the State of Maine. There was no recording station there back in 1925 so it is certainly possible that had there been such a station, the 1925 cold spell would be the record.
The reason for it to have such a strange look is because it was used later by Russian army to test the influence of Russian alternative to napalm inside of the brick houses.
Due to very high temperature of napalm the bricks started melting just like ice melts in the spring forming the icicles, but those icicles are of red brick.
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Why, they're stalagtites. Now can you comprehend how effective it is against someone who's being nasty toward you ? And, it sticks to humans like glue.
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I dunno - IMO something is fishy here as Commies are known for their love of [heavy-duty] military-grade/applics in civie construction. IFF THIS ARTIC IS CORRECT THEN SOME CHIN BUREAU = COMMIE/MAO-CRAT REALLY DROPPED THE BALL ON THIS HOTEL [read, FUTURE GULAG = RE-EDUC CAMP BAIT].
* WORLD MIL FORUM > A NUMBER OF CHIN NETTERS ARE NOT CONVINCED, + THINK THIS COULD BE "CHINA'S 9-11/WTC 1993", a possible precursor to something worse to occur later on???
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As soon as the Chinese figure out that you can take a 16-count box of mortars, stand it on its side, and launch it at the People's Armed Police, then they're in trouble. Their fireworks are EXTREMELY strong and loud, far more than needed to be colorful. This is because the sound is believed to scare away ghosts.
UP to 80 people are still missing in the Victoria fires as the official death toll continues to climb.
The toll climbed to 181 overnight but with dozens still unaccounted for it is expected to top 200. There are reports it could reach as high as 300.
Those missing were "people who the coroner believes are already deceased, but are not yet identified," Victorian Premier John Brumby said.
Marysville is being identified as a potential "Ground Zero", with authorities fearing up to 100 of its population of 519 has died. The force of the fires has been likened to that of 500 atomic bombs.
"We had people banging on the sides of our tanker begging us to go back to houses where they knew there were people trapped, but we couldn't because if we had, we'd all be dead too," a firefighter told The Australian about the moment the firestorm hit.
Some residents are being allowed back to survey the devastation of the fires, but many are still banned from returning. Whole towns are being treated as crime scenes as police hunt arsonists believed responsible for at least some of the destruction.
Police said they could release a photograph an arsonist suspected of setting a blaze in Gippsland. More than 20 people have died in that region.
As shattered residents take stock of what they have lost, some have reported a sickening sight - looters moving through gutted homes looking for items to steal.
The claim came from a man whose brother was killed at his Yarra Junction home. He said thieves had tried to steal the only items spared from destruction. "They're vultures," he said.
Other survivors reported battles with red tape to access desperately needed aid. Gary Hughes, a writer for The Australian, said he had been denied help by Centrelink unless he could produce identification.
"Losing everything means just that - everything," he wrote in an open letter to the Prime Minister.
"There are many like us who didn't have time to calmly pause to collect wallets and purses as we fled our homes with wet towels over our faces to avoid choking to death on toxic smoke and flaming embers."
Kevin Rudd hailed the "army of volunteers working quietly and effectively" to support those left with nothing. He told Parliament yesterday the 4000 firefighters battling the blazes were a "legion of heroes".
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"We had people banging on the sides of our tanker begging us to go back to houses where they knew there were people trapped, but we couldn't because if we had, we'd all be dead too," a firefighter told The Australian about the moment the firestorm hit.
Heartbreaking. From a fellow volunteer smoke eater in the outback of Kansas/Oklahoma my prayers and sympathy.
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In Murrindindi, firemen guided 19 people, including seven toddlers and babies, to a river and hosed them under fire blankets as the desperate parents begged to know: "Are we going to make it out of this?"
Andrew Collard, 30, and Brian Lawry, 46, stormed through the fire in their truck and saved the group of eight families as flames engulfed them at a park.
They herded the families, all campers from Melbourne, into the shallow water, parked their truck to protect them before driving cars into the water and bundling the toddlers and babies inside, covering them in blankets.
Someone buy Brian and Andrew, and the firemen, a couple rounds.
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#5 No. And police are claiming arson played no major role, especially in the worst fires.
Posted by: Grunter 2009-02-11 12:59
The police are looking into several suspicious fires, but the majority were set by lightning after one of the hottest days on record in Victoria. Arson reports are isolated and there has been no confirmation - it could take days or even weeks to determine how each of the fires started. There have also been some isolated reports of looting, but nothing yet confirmed. Mostly we just have to wait and see - and pray.
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Latest word is arson is definitely suspected in the Churchill fire and possibly in the Marysville fire.
So far I have seen no official comment on terrorist activity.
Ted Kindos faces two choices: Continue to be called a bigot or break the law.
Either way, he risks going bankrupt.
Kindos owns Gator Ted's Tap & Grill in Burlington. Four years ago, he asked a marijuana smoker to step away from his front door. The medically licensed toker complained to the Ontario Human Rights Commission of discrimination against a disabled person.
He won.
Kindos was about to pay the fine and post obligatory signs saying, "We accommodate medicinal marijuana smokers," when a different government agency told him he could lose his liquor licence. Serving anybody possessing a controlled substance - prescribed or not - is against the law.
"Heads I win, tails you lose," Kindos said yesterday of the government's position.
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has scheduled 10 days to hear the case in June and July.
"People didn't like the way I smell," the smoker, Steve Gibson, acknowledged of one complaint against him from fellow patrons. "But I don't like a lot of smells either," he said. "I can't bare to stand near some chicks, they've got so much perfume on, let alone some ethnics that I don't like the smell of that much."
Gator Ted's is a roadhouse-style bar cum family restaurant, which when the dispute began offered an indoor smoking section.
Gibson suffered a neck injury in a 1989 workplace accident, collects a disability pension and is one of nearly 3,000 people in Canada medically authorized to use marijuana to control pain. His prescription covers 3.5 grams a day, or seven to eight joints.
When Kindos asked him not to light up inside, Gibson stood smack outside the front door where families pass in and out. Regular smokers stand there, too, he says.
"I don't care if you're eating a banana outside my front door - if you're blocking my entrance I'm asking you to leave," Kindos says.
After spending $40,000 in legal fees fighting the rights complaint - the government covered Gibson's costs - Kindos announced last May he would settle.
But on seeing the offer 10 days later, he changed his mind. He was ordered to pay Gibson $2,000 for pain and suffering, train the bar staff in the human rights code, educate the public about the code, and post signs in the restaurant and on his website saying he accommodates authorized marijuana users.
Discovering he could lose his licence proved the last straw. "A liquor licence holder may not permit a person to have, use, distribute or sell controlled substances in his or her establishment," the act states emphatically, meaning to serve Gibson would be illegal if he is carrying marijuana.
Kindos must continue to fight the complaint or lose his business, he says. Legal bills could also bankrupt him, he adds, but a lawyer has agreed to take the next stage without charge.
Health Canada issues guidelines to authorized users. "(He or she) is advised not to consume controlled substances in a public place and not to expose others to any effects related to the inhalation of secondary smoke," a spokesperson said yesterday.
Joyce Savoline, Conservative member of the Ontario legislature for Burlington, introduced a private member's bill last year to have all smokers stand no closer than three metres to a building entrance. "I specifically said `medicinal marijuana users,' because people who have authorization from their doctors think they have a right to smoke it anywhere," Savoline said.
The bill passed unanimously but the government later blocked it, citing lack of scientific data, she said.
An Ontario Human Rights Commission spokesperson said the tribunal must balance the right of medicinal marijuana users to control pain against the right of others not to be affected by second-hand smoke.
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Why not! Get a second hand buzz, get drug tested, get fired because your job requires you not be high, sue everybody, get rich, stayed stoned on someone else's dime for the rest of your life. Life is good!
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I have a family member who is a medical marijuana patient and I have great sympathy for those that medicate to control pain.
However, it does not give you entitlement to be a grade A ass, like this chap was. You go out of the way, medicate and come back. You don't stand in front of the door like an entitled twat and block/impede and force them to walk through your smoke.
End. Of. Fucking. Story.
Steve Gibson needs some mandatory common curtsy and some fucking manners. Otherwise he is gonna need pot for some additional ailments I would give him.
Dehradun The RSS has found something to give the popular colas and cold drinks a run for their money: bovine urine. The Sangh's Cow Protection Department is planning to produce a soft drink with this magic ingredient as base, and believes it will sweep the market.
The head of the Hardwar-based department, Om Prakash, said: "We refer to gau ark (cow urine) as gau jal (cow water) as it has immense potential to cure various diseases. We have developed a soft drink formula with gau jal as the base and it has been sent to a laboratory at Lucknow for testing."
Once the tests show positive results, he added, the department will think about its packaging, preservation and marketing.
While the RSS is at the task alone right now, once the drink is ready to be taken to the market, the Cow Protection Department might seek the help of the Uttarakhand Government in the operations. "It will be a revolution of sorts. The acceptance of cow urine as a potent medicine is increasing day by day and once it comes as a cold drink, its demand will definitely increase," Prakash claimed.
Stating that several colas are harmful to the extent that they can be substituted for pesticides, he asserted that their soft drink with cow urine will not only be natural but cost-effective too. "In addition to this, it will prove and justify the high stature accorded to a cow in Indian culture."
Cow urine, in fact, ranks quite high on the RSS list of priorities. "We discuss its importance at various meetings and public programmes. We have also been circulating pamphlets about its medicinal value," said Om Prakash, who has been actively involved in the task of cow protection and promoting bovine urine for the last four decades.
He names products ranging from toothpaste, shampoo, soap, face powder and shaving lotion to balm, biscuits, incense sticks, phenyl, mosquito coils and distemper which are being made from cow urine and cow dung. He asserts that tiles made up of cow dung have been found to be fire - and water-resistant and can ward off radiation.
It's a floor wax and a dessert topping!
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We DID call it DR PECKER when I was young.
You know when you had to watch your step for the Dinosaur Droppings.
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He names products ranging from toothpaste, shampoo, soap, face powder and shaving lotion to balm, biscuits, incense sticks, phenyl, mosquito coils and distemper which are being made from cow urine and cow dung. He asserts that tiles made up of cow dung have been found to be fire - and water-resistant and can ward off radiation.
DENVER -- For Marie Morrow, the equipment left in the back seat of her car was for an upcoming competition. She said she never expected it would lead to her being suspended from school -- or possibly expelled. She left three drill team "practice" rifles in plain view of passing students last week. Morrow, who says she has a 3.5 grade point average, is a member of the Douglas County Young Marines. She said she spins the practice rifles for the organization's drill team.
The mock rifles are made of wood, with duct tape, to resemble a real rifle.
Amole explained the school district's policy mirrors state and federal laws about weapons in schools, and calls for "mandatory expulsion" when possessing a dangerous weapon in any school building. A student conduct handbook states a dangerous weapon includes "a firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or a firearm facsimile that could reasonably be mistaken for an actual firearm."
Amole said an expulsion hearing will be held within 10 days of a student suspension. An expulsion officer will make a recommendation to the superintendent, who will rule on the length of expulsion.
Morrow said she her expulsion hearing is Feb. 20. "I'm just hoping I can go back to school and graduate with my class and take my AP tests and all that," she said.
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I, for one, welcome Zero-Tolerance policies. I can get rid of my thinkin' and common-sense brain parts; I'm with the 67.84% of the electorate seems to agree that "Zero-Tolerance" is the way to go! /sarc off
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She will be harshly punished for her "offence". The only thing that can save her is if gun rights folks in Colorado came to her aid and demonstrated at the school. Wont happen. Sigh.
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So in other words the School board and the expulsion officer are staying that they are so stupid they can't tell the difference between a real rifle and a mock one made of wood and Duct Tape.
Why I see guns held together with Duct Tape all the time on gunbroker.com. Don't you?
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HMMMMMMM, lessirree, "3.5 GPA + "Young Marines" Drill Team + Planning to Graduate" etc . > CLEARLY SHE's A THREAT TO THE NATION = AMERIKA, THE USSA = USRoA!?
D *** NG IT, CLEARLY SHE DESERVES TO GET DEATH ROW IFF SHE PLANS TO ATTEND COLLEGE, OR FIND A GOOD JOB, OR BOTH!
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Well, I don't know how much of this actually relates to her status in the Young Marines. While I am sure it didn't help (crazy people who like the military and all that), we had the same issue at my old high school school once with a white-taped wooden rifle that belonged to a flag girl in the marching band.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals knows how to grab attention. And show off its laundry. The animal rights group, which every year stages a protest at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, had two of its members dress in Ku Klux Klan garb outside Madison Square Garden on Monday.
Their goal, according to a post on the PETA website, was to be pests draw a parallel between the KKK and the American Kennel Club. "Obviously it's an uncomfortable comparison," PETA spokesman Michael McGraw told the Associated Press. It's also a false comparison. The treatment of these dogs is in no way comparable to how the KKK treated Blacks, Jews, Catholics, and anyone else who disagreed with them.
But the AKC is trying to create a "master race" when it comes to pure-bred dogs, he added. "It's a very apt comparison." Horse-hocky. Than Klan wasn't trying to create a MAster Race, just elevate white Protestants to a position of mastery over others. Dog breeders aren't trying to create a Master Race, either.
The group passed out brochures implying the Klan and AKC have the goal of "pure bloodlines" in common.
"I can't speak for everyone, but the vast majority of the people exhibiting and handling and showing at Westminster are more interested in the health of dogs than anything else," Westminster spokesman David Frei told the AP. "We want to produce the next generation of healthy and happy dogs," he said, "not just for the show ring but for the couches at home."
Bystander Fatima Walden told the AP the KKK imagery was inappropriate no matter what the message. "They could have used something else as an example," she said. "You should be considerate to everybody."
Other than a shouting match during the hour-long protest, police said the scene remained calm.
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So the Robert Byrd wing of PeTA decides to hold a fashion show...
Anybody know if the semi-cadever Klaverner got an invite?
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Again, Workman's compensation payments top and Suleiman marries the doctor. Doctor picks up the tab for all deliveries, upbringing, school, etc. Oh, they don't like this solution? Then they both go to the slammer for life! Offspring are put up for adoption.
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These characters are here from Iraq ? The old man was a military translator and they allowed him over here ? The woman is mentally ill. The taxpayers of Kaleephornia are on the hook. But they're busted. So Peloosi will shovel more worthless paper out to Cal. I see the Good Samaritan docs and Kaiser where the kids are stashed has already requested reimbursement from Medi-Cal north of $500,000. Madness, nothing but madness.
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Woozle, I took it that the family are of Arab Christian descent. The grandfather may have immigrated but the mother was probably born in the US.
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8 1 pound preemies and only $550K so far? That's cheeeep. Multiply by 5 or 10 before this is done.
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#3 These characters are here from Iraq ?
Her Palestinian-born husband, the children's grandfather, has said he intends to return to a contractor's job in Iraq as a translator to help pay for their upbringing. Ms Suleman, who worked as a psychiatric assistant until starting her family, is on welfare payments.
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.
AUGUSTA -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Geological Survey and Maine State Climate Office announced today that a minus-50 reading in northwestern Maine held up to scientific scrutiny.
Ted Kindos faces two choices: Continue to be called a bigot or break the law.
