Wow, Is there anything SUV's can't do?
Police say a 23-year-old city woman reported she was carjacked at gunpoint in Camden County, breaking her arm after she was thrown from her vehicle. It was terrifying, I tells ya!
But Sara C. Blasse's story was as fake as it was harrowing, authorities said. Blasse made it up after the SUV crashed while Blasse was performing a sex act on the man who was driving it, police said. And I thought texting was dangerous...
Officers later found the vehicle abandoned in Chesilhurst, smoldering and crashed into a tree, The earth moved. Then hit a tree and caught on fire...
Vineland police initially responded to South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center, where Blasse was being treated for a broken arm -- an injury she said she received during an armed carjacking. During an interview at the hospital, Blasse told investigating officer Jeffrey Travaline she was driving home from a friend's house and got lost in Chesilhurst around 6 a.m. that day. She reported she asked a man for directions, but he pulled out a gun, threw her out of the vehicle and drove away, police said. Ah, she needed directions from her friends house to her own house? Sounds pretty fishy, Muldoon...
Blasse said she broke her arm and hurt her head in the fall, according to police. Ah. Hurt her head did she?
During the interview at the hospital, police received a report that a 2003 Kia Sorento registered to Blasse's father had been involved in a crash and was found abandoned and smoldering in Chesilhurst. The vehicle had been set on fire intentionally, police said. Ummmmmm...hi. Dad? Yeah. This is kinda hard to explain...
Travaline then asked Blasse to come to police headquarters because of inconsistencies in her story. In his report, he noted it was odd that Blasse said she walked aimlessly around after the carjacking, rather than banging on someone's door for help. He also noted it was strange she first called a friend, who lived 30 to 40 minutes away, before notifying police. Heather, you're not gonna believe this...
After further questioning, Blasse admitted she was a passenger in the vehicle at the time of the crash and that no carjacking had occurred, police said. Blasse said she had picked up an unknown man for sex and was performing oral sex when the crash happened, according to police. All right! All right!! I did it!!! And I'm glad I did it, I tells ya!
She refused to identify the driver, police said. Bet he'll be telling this story for the rest of his life. "I'm tellin ya, guys! It really happened!!"
"Yeeeah, sure it did..."
Blasse was processed on a summons for filing false reports and released to the Chesilhurst Police Department for additional charges. Wonder what those would be?
The Vineland police report noted another vehicle was stolen Saturday in the area where Blasse's SUV crashed. The stolen vehicle was later found on fire in Buena Vista. Police said they believe Blasse also might have been involved in that incident. She sounds like a fun date..
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it is recommended that one pull over and stop the vehicle before engaging in sex. Particularly in the case of oral sex. More than one fellow has been "bobbited" that way.
VINELAND, N.J. Authorities say a New Jersey woman lied twice to cover up the theft of a laptop computer, claiming first that she was carjacked and then that her car crashed because she was having sex.
Authorities say 23-year-old Sarah Blasse of Vineland initially told police Saturday that she broke her arm during a carjacking. Police say Blasse later claimed her car crashed into a tree while she was performing a sex act on a man she had picked up.
Camden County prosecutor's spokesman Jason Laughlin says Blasse and her boyfriend actually stole a laptop computer from a car and slipped away from pursuing police in her car, but then crashed and attempted to set the vehicle on fire.
Blasse and 27-year-old Henry Goode Jr. face charges including arson, burglary and hindering apprehension. Authorities say they don't yet have lawyers.
In a not so funny version of the Three Stooges, three would-be thieves were sent running from the scene of their poorly planned heist by a homeowner who was locked and loaded.
The incident happened just after 4 a.m. on July 12, when the three suspects, dressed in unofficial FBI garb, pulled up to a Cooper City home in the 5000 block of SW 104 Avenue. While FBI lettered T-shirts, baseball caps, fake badges and dark fabric masks may have seemed fool-proof, the home owner, Malcolm Jose Pena, 35, was unconvinced.
Surveillance cameras captured the scene as the three bandits pulled up in a silver Mercedes Benz SUV, two men approached the home and one stayed back on lookout. The masked FBI impostors began prying the front door open with a crowbar until Pena interrupted with a bullet from his .40 caliber Smith & Wesson pistol.
After Pena's bullet broke through the front window, the flustered impostors fled to their SUV and high tailed it away from the scene empty-handed.
Their mad dash to flee the scene -- reminiscent of Moe, Larry and Curly -- led the BSO to dub them the "Three Stooges."
The Broward Sheriff's office is trying to identify the three men, who are still at-large.
By definition all Merceded SUV are Daimler- Chrysler -Americana-mobiles. If there is anything wrong with that, its only that they retain their obscene pricing point along with their (slightly) tarnished cache.
While Nanny State jurisdictions like Maryland can't get enough speed cameras in place fast enough, other jurisdictions are having second thoughts about the devices that make a mockery of the presumption of innocence.
Jalopnik reports that Arizona officials, who were among the first to use speed cameras, are now beginning to turn them off for fear of crossing privacy lines and, almost certainly the vastly more important reason, because they just aren't producing as much revenue as expected.
That tells us two things: First, speed cameras are inherently flawed as tools for reducing average speeds because over time drivers become familiar with locations and adjust their pace accordingly. The result is the speed cameras cut speed for a small distance, but then drivers resume their normal pace.
Second, if the cameras aren't producing revenues - because drivers are learning to avoid them - why would the lowered revenue making any difference if the primary purpose of the devices is supposed to be traffic safety? Obviously, officials view speed cameras primarily as revenue generators and all that talk about traffic safety is just so much hypocritical hooey.
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What about the likely increase in rear-end collisions due to people slamming on the brakes when they're in doubt as to whether they'll get through a yellow light?
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OK, on some of the highways, US60 and others. There are cameras at about every other off ramp, every mile. The issue Jan Brewer had was this was viewed as a revenue generating event. She was critical in removal of the cameras. With all that said, we have to remember that Arizona, Phoenix at least, has cross state traffic and snow birds. Before the cameras the traffic cruised through Phoenix at 70 or 80, now it slows to 70. No big deal until you realize the 75 year old snowbirds are on that road. It is flat frightening, I'm talking about old men turning around on the interstate and going against traffic because he missed the off ramp. The cameras may not have generated the revenue but it did slow down traffic, and that was critical.
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What happened to enforcing the law for the purposes of the law?
As an aside, one of our recent highway bids included something called (more or less) a radar drone. I read the spec and it was a transmitter to make radar detectors think they were having their picture taken. Pretty clever, I thought, in an area where drivers regularly drive behind the barrels and thru the work zone, because they're so important. (DC suburbs)
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Vernon Baker, who was the only living black veteran awarded the Medal of Honor for valor in World War II, receiving it 52 years after he wiped out four German machine-gun nests on a hilltop in northern Italy, died Tuesday at his home near St. Maries, Idaho. He was 90.
"I was a soldier and I had a job to do," Mr. Baker said after receiving the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for bravery, from President Bill Clinton in a White House ceremony on Jan. 13, 1997.
In the early 1990s, responding to requests from black veterans and a white former captain who had commanded black troops in combat, the Army asked Shaw University, a historically black college in Raleigh, N.C., to investigate why no blacks had received the Medal of Honor during World War II. The inquiry found no documents proving that blacks had been discriminated against in decisions to award the medal, but concluded that a climate of racism had prevented recognition of heroic deeds.
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In the early 1990s, responding to requests from black veterans and a white former captain who had commanded black troops in combat, the Army asked Shaw University, a historically black college in Raleigh, N.C., to investigate why no blacks had received the Medal of Honor during World War II. The inquiry found no documents proving that blacks had been discriminated against in decisions to award the medal, but concluded that a climate of racism had prevented recognition of heroic deeds.
It seems nobody establishes a link between MOH and the fact that Blacks were banned from combat roles in the Army and USMC. Or that due to segregation the few who were in combat roles were in All-Black units who most of the time were poorly trained and led and thus didn't fare well in combat. There is nothing to build up bravery like seeing enemies falling while feeling your training and leadership will allow you to escape unscathed. There is nothing to destroy bravery like feeling you are no match for the enemy while you see your comrades falling.
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I suspect that it was also a demonstration for various parties about US ships. That was one tough, onery bugger to put down. Seven anti-ship miisles, plus a 500 lb. bomb, plus an unknown number of hits from five inch guns from about 3 countries? A helicopter carrier to boot. I would have liked to have seen what torp would have done though.
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Not mentioned: perhaps the biggest advantage the US carrier fleet had against Japan in WWII was that of damage control. Time and again, the US was able to save ships that otherwise would have been goners.
In some of the footage of the time, you can see through those ships sideways--through large, gaping holes.
And critically, rebuilding a damaged ship is much faster and cheaper than building a new one.
N.B.: A Harpoon has a 487lb warhead. A Shkval torpedo has a 462lb warhead. The SS-N-22 Sunburn (P-270 Moskit) ship to ship missile, which both Iran and China have, has a 705lb warhead.
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I thought about those Sunburn's. If they had shot them, they wouldn't release the damage estimates. My guess is - yes, they shot them, and no - we'll never hear the damage estimates, nor should we or our enemies
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Confuses 2 things. Release of methane from geological structures, and release of methane gas from hydrates.
The potential for large methane release from seabed hydrates is scaremongering by the global warming crowd. It isn't going to happen bar some massive geological event.
A sudden massive release of methane from geological structure is plausible. It may even be enough to significantly raise atmospheric methane levels. It may even be enough to have an effect on the climate since methane levels do seem to have a measureable effect on the global climate (unlike CO2 levels which have no measurable effect).
The event (or events) 251 Million years ago may have been caused by a massive volcanism or an asteroid (or both). Debate on this has been on going for many years.
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MI6 face questions over their security procedures after a computer expert was allowed to smuggle top secret files out of their headquarters which he planned to sell to a foreign power for £2m.
Vice President Biden, CEA Chair Romer Release New Analysis on Job and Economic Impact of the Recovery Act
By USGOV
July 14th, 2010
CEA Quarterly Report Finds Recovery Act Responsible for About 3 Million Jobs, Leverage Programs Spurring 3 to 1 Outside Capital Investment
WASHINGTON, DC Vice President Joe Biden and Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Christina Romer are unveiling today the Council of Economic Advisers latest quarterly report on the economic impact of the Recovery Act. The report finds that the Recovery Act is already responsible for 2.5 to 3.6 million or about 3 million jobs and that for every government dollar invested in Recovery Act programs designed to leverage outside capital, private companies and others are co-investing with nearly three times as much outside investment.
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Romer looks like one of the kids drawn in Family Circus cartoon and has as much credibility. Biden? Puhleeeeez. He need "left" and "right" inked on his hands. Liars and morons
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An anti-Islam lawmaker in the Netherlands is forming an international alliance to spread his message across the West in a bid to ban immigration from Islamic countries, among other goals.
Geert Wilders told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday he will launch the movement late this year, initially in five countries: the U.S., Canada, Britain, France and Germany.
"The message, 'stop Islam, defend freedom,' is a message that's not only important for the Netherlands but for the whole free Western world," Wilders said at the Dutch parliament.
Among the group's aims will be outlawing immigration from Islamic countries to the West and a ban on Islamic Sharia law. Starting as a grass-roots movement, he hopes it eventually will produce its own lawmakers or influence other legislators.
Ayhan Tonca, a prominent spokesman for Dutch Muslims, said he feared Wilders message would fall on fertile ground in much of Europe, where anti-Islam sentiment has been swelling for years.
"So long as things are going badly with the economy, a lot of people always need a scapegoat," Tonca said. "At the moment, that is the Muslims in Western Europe."
Tonca called on "well meaning people in Europe to oppose this."
Known for his bleached-blond mop of hair, Wilders is a shrewd politician who has won awards in the Netherlands for his debating skills and regularly stands up for gay and women's rights.
But he rose to local and then international prominence with his firebrand anti-Islam rhetoric that has led to him being charged under Dutch anti-hate speech laws and banned from visiting Britain until a court there ordered that he be allowed into the country.
He said he hopes to position the alliance between traditional conservative parties and far-right wing groups, saying that in Britain there is "an enormous gap" between the ruling Conservative Party and the far-right British National Party.
"The BNP is a party that, whatever you think of it, it's not my party I think it's a racist party," Wilders said.
Wilders, who calls Islam a "fascist" religion, has seen his support in the Netherlands soar in recent years, even while he has been subjected to round-the-clock protection because of death threats.
His Freedom Party won the biggest gains in a national election last month, coming third with 24 seats in the 150-seat Parliament, up from the nine before the election.
However, mainstream parties will not form a coalition with Wilders, leaving him on the margins of Dutch politics for the next parliamentary term.
Wilders is due to stand trial in October on hate speech charges stemming from his short Internet film "Fitna," which denounced the Quran as a a fascist book that inspires terrorism. The film aroused anti-Dutch protests around the Muslim world, and he was banned for several months from entering Britain.
But he is unrepentant and said he now wants to take his message outside the Netherlands.
"The fight for freedom and (against) Islamization as I see it is a worldwide phenomenon and problem to be solved," he said.
Wilders declined to name any of the other founders of the organization he is calling the Geert Wilders International Freedom Alliance. He said he would hold speeches in the five countries where the alliance will first launch in coming months to drum up support.
Wilders has been criticized in the Netherlands for running his party as a one-man show that is shrouded in secrecy because he holds all the reins.
Ay-Pee . . .
"We will not be diverted or otherwise distracted by any other message except putting America back to work," Jackson said a day after convention delegates approved the resolution. "We want jobs and justice and peace." Jobs? Isn't that kind of counter to what you've been working for your whole "career" there, Rev?
Sharpton was a little more direct, saying issues surrounding the tea party go beyond claims of racism. He said the civil rights movement sought to pressure the federal government to step in when states were enforcing segregation laws, and the tea party's focus on states' rights puts people at risk. More of the same at link.
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They've got their jobs, which they think is to help other people get jobs and become self-sufficient, but they don't want to work themselves out of their jobs, now do they?
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"We want jobs and justice and peace."
"And some Budweiser distributorships."
"And a pony."
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He said the republicans of the civil rights movement sought to pressure the federal government to step in when democrat controlled states were enforcing segregation laws written by democrats, and the tea party's focus on states' rights puts people at risk.
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When the elder Jackson says "jobs", he means Sopranos-style no-show jobs. He doesn't give a shit about productive working-class jobs; he just wants a dusting of extorted, bullshit parasitical "jobs" he can hand out to his clients like a good patron.
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My question has always been ... "Why hasn't anyone interviewing Sharpton asked him about his race baiting in the Tawana Brawley case?" ...
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I lived in Dutchess County, New York during the Tawana Brawley case. Years later, I happened to see Rev. Al at Reagan Airport. I wanted to "thank" him for setting race relations in Dutchess back about 20 years. Only the fact that he was accompanied by three or four aides/bodyguards/thugs stopped me.
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You should have done it anyway, Rambler. Then they would have beaten you to a bloody pulp, called you a cracker, told you not to vote and left you to die with your legs tied in a knot. If you survived, you could have sued them and had your case thrown out because they were black. Then all the voters would have been infuriated if the MSM even bothered to report it, but would forget next time they went to the polls.
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Kudos to those engineers for solving a hell of a hard problem in one of the harshest environments on the planet, and doing so well ahead of expectations.
As for cleanup, nature will disperse it. No need to do much more except put out more booms that the Obama administration sat on, dredge berms that the Obama administration stopped, and run skimmers that the Obama administration blocked.
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Something is wrong with the video. It has no sound. ;-)
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B.O. should be claiming the credit sometime tomorrow.
He only has so long now to capitalize on the disaster if the theory is that he's stalling only to make it worse so he can turn this incident into more moronic legislation.
I expect the second half of his victory speech to be along the lines of "now we need to install some more ineffective, moronic legislation that is only barely related to the disaster, will solve nothing, except the problem of not enough government workers to go around to create the necessary governmental fiefdoms." Of course, it will be couched in the proper liberal terminology, but that will be the essence of it.
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Because the Iranians are working on fission, not fusion.
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OK, so give the Iranians the money and let them develop it. They have the greatest ... everything in the world; I'm sure they could do it in a couple of years.
For peaceful purposes, of course. The IAEA could supervise it.
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I posted this for the following reasons,
1) The EU fckers made a big hue and stink and insisted it had to be in the EU so the money would go there. The other prime contender was JAPAN but the EU said their great scientists would refuse to go to Japan.
2) The second reason was because the EU fought hard so the money would subsidize their economy. Consider that a big portion of the world was involved but the EU was, in effect, colonizing the world's fusion science for their own gain.... sort of like oil for food?
3) Historically the EU has gutted most major joint efforts before completing them. (Hermes Spaceship and more anybody?) This "NO" was predictable to happen from day 1. At the time I thought we shouldn't be a part of it and should go it alone or with Japan and maybe Russia as I saw this as being a typical EU prestige rip-off from day 1. Of course I am just rube from "Fly-over country" so, IPSO FACTO, I could never have the intelligence to evaluate anything our cultural betters in Europe might be up too. I am so negative a rube... in fact a nobody who should just shut up... (Something I was told on a FT chat area by EU finance fckers)
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Drop the ROW and its bureaucracy and corruption. Devote 2 billion a year to this in this country. That's something like $20/taxpayer. It's 10,000 high tech jobs. Let them continue this plasma physics experiment until they solve it. It's way more useful than making movies about fishies looking for their mommies.
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
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