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Archive for January, 2007
FBI’s Art Crime Team
Jan 31st
Tax Dollars well spent. The FBI maintains a team of special agents and prosecutors that can be dispatched anywhere in the United States or around the world to help in the sleuthing and recovery of stolen masterpieces.
The FBI is already famous for its Ten Most Wanted list. But did you know it also maintains a Ten Most Wanted Art Crimes list? Right now on that list are rare paintings, such as DaVinci’s Madonna of the Yarnwinder and a very rare Stradivarius Violin.
The FBI has assisted with the recovery of Munch’s The Scream and rare artifacts looted from the museums of Baghdad.
The FBI established a rapid deployment Art Crime Team in 2004. The team is composed of twelve Special Agents, each responsible for addressing art and cultural property crime cases in an assigned geographic region. The Art Crime Team is coordinated through the FBI’s Art Theft Program, located at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Art Crime Team agents receive specialized training in art and cultural property investigations and assist in art related investigations worldwide in cooperation with foreign law enforcement officials and FBI Legal Attach offices. The U.S. Department of Justice has assigned three Special Trial Attorneys to the Art Crime Team for prosecutive support.
Since its inception, the Art Crime Team has recovered over 850 items of cultural property with a value exceeding $65 million.
The Art Crime Team has recently reopened a cold case file on the stolen painting by Norman Rockwell of the Russian Schoolroom.
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Loading ...Town Criticized for Protecting Women
Jan 30th
A French Canadian town published what seems to me a pretty decent “common sense” guide to not being misogynistic. But the news about this is reported in a way as to imply that the town that published this list is deeply racist. And somehow- the article painfully avoids mentioning just what kind of foul, evil, despicable people would actually go around treating women this way.
From Reuters here:
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Immigrants to the small Quebec town of Herouxville must not stone women in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules made public by the local council.
The declaration, published on the town’s Web site, has deepened a debate in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province over how tolerant Quebecers should be towards the customs and traditions of immigrants.
“We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated here,” said the declaration, which also says women are allowed to drive, vote, dance, write checks, dress how they want, work and own property.
“Therefore we consider it completely outside these norms to … kill women by stoning them in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumcising them etc.”
Gosh! Who would ever treat a woman so horribly??!!
The article then goes on to say that special exceptions have been made to have male police arrest Hassidic Jewish men because women are forbidden from touching them. Is the article therefore suggesting that throwing acid on women should be allowable too?
Lets see just who would treat their women so horribly- Is it the Jews? The Sikhs? The Hindus? The Amish? The Mormons? The Scientologists? The Buddhists? The Moonies? The Satanists? The Wiccans? Nope. I’m very certain that all of those religions frown upon throwing acid at women. I must be leaving out someone….
Oh yeah! It must be the Religion of Peace!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Six Weird Things About Me
Jan 30th
Bazl from Nosumo.com tagged me, asking that I follow her post about six weird things about her with a post of my own.
THE RULES:
Each player of this game starts with 6 weird things about you. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don t forget to leave a comment that says you are tagged in their comments and tell them to read your blog.
Like Bazl, I really don’t comment on some peoples’ blogs enough to account for six. She did two, so I will do two as well. Maybe Kristen and Poppy.
Okay, my list-
- I collect belches. Since I have had my domain for so long, I have amassed a hefty collection of digitally recorded belches. Gross, yeah. Often very funny. But collecting them makes me weird.
- Wormholes gross me out. No, I’m not talking about Star Trek lore- I mean real trails left behind in rotting wood or ground where worms have blazed a trail. I have no idea why it makes my skin crawl, but it does. When I used to weld for a living, a flaw in the finished product could produce metallic “wormholes” in the surface of the weld, and it always creeped me out.
- I was once the “best man” at a lesbian wedding. It was a beautiful civil ceremony between a co-worker of mine and her partner. I have lost contact with her over the years and often wonder how the “marriage” worked out.
- When it comes to tear-jerker movies, I often roll my eyes, or worse, secretly take delight in the fact that the leading lady keeps botching her attempts to get the man of her dreams. But in the Spider-man movies, when Mary Jane calls Peter Parker “tiger” I get a little misty.
- I think the dirtiest spot on any person’s body is the belly button. Watching anyone dig into their navel and pull out a wad of linty goodness would make me throw up in my mouth.
- I am hopelessly fascinated at watching short-order cooks cooking over a large griddle with that long spatula. They cook everything with butter, are super quick with the orders, and skilled at their jobs. I find myself sometimes a little envious of their ability. Its one skill I secretly want to learn and master. But I would never want to be a short-order cook.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Encrypting and Decrypting Terror
Jan 30th
Terrorist Communications and Propaganda groups have struggled for a while with securing their communications to keep them from the ever-watchful eyes of the NSA and the cyber-warfare soldiers. In the past the terror supporters were reluctant to use many standard encryption software and hardware devices such as PGP, encryption chips or other software for the fear that those companies have given their master decryption keys to the US government. They have been waiting for one of their own Muslim terror-sympathizers to issue secure communications tools.
The Middle East Media Research Center says that GIMF, or the Global Islamic Media Front, who operate many terrorist propaganda websites and forums, issued software on January 1st that was designed to encrypt and mask communications among terrorists and terrorist sympathizers while online. The software was called “Mujahideen Secrets” and according to its advertisements, it is “the first Islamic computer program for secure exchange [of information] on the Internet,” and it provides users with “the five best encryption algorithms, and with symmetrical encryption keys (256 bit), asymmetrical encryption keys (2048 bit) and data compression [tools].”
Another key part of this software tool is that it is designed to be completely portable, such as on a thumb drive, and can operate on any system without administrator priveleges.
But the terrorists screwed up. Wanting to distribute this as fast as possible, some muslim idiot hacker wannabe uploaded the entire program and toolkit to an unprotected online forum where our boys in the DOD and private sector contractors downloaded it. And iDefense, the defense research group of Verisign announced that they cracked it.
From the CounterTerrorismBlog here:
On January 1, 2007, the pro-terrorist group, “Global Islamic Media Front” (GIMF) announced the “imminent release” of what they called “the first Islamic computer program for secure exchange on the Internet.” iDefense/VeriSign has since found a copy of this program, “Mujahedine Secrets,” on a pro-terrorist Arabic language forum and has begun analyzing its capabilities and assessing what its impact will be. Earlier this week we announced this to our client base, which includes numerous key elements of the U.S. government.
The “Mujahedine Secrets” encryption program offers terrorists and their sympathizers several key features, some of which are common features of PGP programs that are currently available elsewhere as well as other features that appear to be new. Technical analysis is ongoing and will be assessed in future iDefense reporting. Most importantly, this program is an executable application that does not need to be installed onto a PC and can be used with a USB drive.
There are many out there that argue that all terror-supporting websites should be DoS’ed off the ‘net. I disagree. It allows us to harvest the websites for open source information and we often get lucky and download key software such as this.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Eagle Causes Alaskan Power Outage
Jan 30th
A lazy bald eagle, which prefers to scavenge in a landfill rather than live off the wild, tried to snatch a deer’s head and take it home. But it weighed too much and the eagle flew it into power lines causing an electical outage.
From the AP here:
JUNEAU, Alaska – About 10,000 Juneau residents briefly lost power after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into transmission lines.
“You have to live in Alaska to have this kind of outage scenario,” said Gayle Wood, an Alaska Electric Light & Power spokeswoman. “This is the story of the overly ambitious eagle who evidently found a deer head in the landfill.”
The bird, weighed down by the deer head, apparently failed to clear the transmission lines, she said. A repair crew found the eagle dead, the deer head nearby.
Animal rights activists are outraged and plan to picket the city’s power supplier. But they are going to wait until summer to march to Juneau. Its just too cold right now.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Stupid Religious Bloodletting
Jan 29th
Yay, its Ashura Time!
In celebration of Ashura, Shiite Muslims, who are pissed because Muhammad’s grandkid, Imam Hussein was killed nigh on 1.3 Millenia ago, march down the streets in Karbala, Iraq and shred their skin with whatever blades they can find. Some use chains, others use knives, machetes or swords. Not too sure why Imam Hussein was killed, but I’m sure he had it coming.
Kids like to get involved too.
And Sissy Spacek was once Shia Muslim. Lack of blood forced her to convert to Christianity.
Lesser known of the Muslim holidays is the day following Ashura in which the men congregate to splash Bactine on one another.
More at LGF, S&L and thanks to Six Meat Buffet for the Charlie Brown graphic.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...It’s a Boy!
Jan 29th
We got back from the 20 week radiology appointment this afternoon after an extended ultrasound. The great news is that it’s a boy! According to the ultrasound, the fetus has all of its fingers and toes, and the heart looks normal and strong. Bone size and structure is good and everything looks healthy.
We have already ordered our furniture for the nursery, which is white painted wood crib and changing table with attached hutch. The crib is designed to grow with the child and can convert into a twin bed which should serve his needs into his teens.
This also means that we can now pick out our colors for the nursery. We want to paint a mural along the wall. I wanted pirates, and the Missus wanted faeries, so we decided on Peter Pan which will give us both pirates and Tinkerbell and her friends. We plan on coming up with a view of the ocean and a Pirate ship or three, along with a view of the Lost Boys’ hideout in Neverland.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Movie Review of Pan’s Labyrinth
Jan 29th
To read other reviews, you would think that Pan’s Labyrinth is the best movie since Citizen Kane. It has even received a 96% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was this high rating that made me want to see it on the big screen.
And I am very disappointed in the film. It was not a magical tour through a fantasy world of a girl’s mind, as it is most often described. It is a tour through the cruelty and viscera of a twisted Director’s mind. The part about a fantasy world seemed to have been thrown in to provide a separation in the non-stop violence depicted on screen. It was like watching a Dentist pulling teeth for two hours and occasionally you would say “Oh cute! Look at the faerie!”
The movie is about Ofelia, a ‘tween girl travelling with her very pregnant mother to go to live with her mother’s new husband, the very cruel and sadistic Captain Vidal. Ofelia, a huge fan of faerie tales, explores a nearby labyrinth and meets a giant talking billy goat who convinces her to embark on three quests so she can become the new faerie princess of the underworld. What follows is a lot of violence perpetrated by Captain Vidal, and much like the end of Resevoir Dogs and The Departed, everyone ends up dying. And as Ofelia laid dying, she imagined that she became the faerie princess of the underworld.
As some examples of the brutal violence, the director Guillermo del Toro had the fascist Franco soldiers under command of Captain Vidal shooting all of the wounded insurgents in the head. Two bullets each. There is an explicit torture scene, again courtesy of Captain Vidal, using a hammer to mangle a stuttering spaniard’s hand. Vidal also vividly beat a farmer’s face in with a wine bottle. And even when the evil Captain received his come-uppance in the form having his cheek split mouth to ear with a knife, the audience was treated to a prolonged shot of Vidal trying to sew his own cheek shut again with a fishhook needle.
The fantasy portions of the film were dark and creepy, and really only employed three major scenes. One scene is the labyrinth where Ofelia meets the faun. Another scene Ofelia must crawl through mud to forcefeed a giant bullfrog some pellets to cause it to puke up a key, and the third involves Ofelia and three faeries (two of which get their heads eaten off) who must enter a chamber to get a knife away from a monster.
So was the theme of this movie really about the horrors of war and its effect on a child? I really don’t think so. I think this movie was intended to shock and to “steal innocence.” The shock was in the form of the brutality of the violence. Ofelia’s sacrifice at the end was intended to represent a blood sacrifice for the sins of fascism, but even that came off poorly, and seemed more of a waste than a heroic deed. And perverting the childhood image of faeries for those that still treasure the idea of magical faeries is like telling a roomfull of 7-year-olds that there is no Santa. It is a tactless exercise in cruelty.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Reason 309 to Homeschool
Jan 26th
My mother spent many years as a school bus driver for the public schools. I think she was generally well-liked by the students she carried back and forth to school. After all, she always got lots of loot from them at Christmas time.
But she would often tell these stories about misbehaving children and how she would deal with them, and invariably these stories involved some sort of extreme disciplinary measure such as sitting on hands (so the kids would stop touching each other), making students cover their mouths with both hands (so they would stop yelling and talking or name calling), or changing seats, confiscation of items, toys, and food. It was not uncommon for my mom to pull the bus over so she could yell at the kids properly.
When SouthPark came on the air, my brothers and I instantly seized on the character of Ms. Crabtree and compared her to our Mom. Ms. Crabtree is the cranky busdriver who would threaten to shoot the cute bunny if the kids didn’t sit down and behave.
She would be horrified to read this story below. Or maybe deep down, she might wonder what it costs to take out a hit on one of the pesky kids that refuse to listen to the driver’s instructions. She would not condone it. But she would understand why the driver might want to do it.
From the Daily Press here:
NEWPORT NEWS — Newport News police and school officials are investigating allegations that a bus driver this week encouraged one Passage Middle School student to assault another.
The assault occurred just before 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Beechmont neighborhood in Denbigh after the two boys left the bus and were walking home, police said. On Wednesday, a 12-year-old boy involved in the assault was charged with maiming.
The victim, also a 12-year-old boy, was hospitalized with a head injury. His condition had been upgraded from critical to stable as of Wednesday, said Newport News Police spokeswoman Holly Tepper.
“At least one student on the bus said the driver was overheard telling the boy who was charged with a crime that he would pay him to beat up the other boy,” said school district spokeswoman Michelle Morgan.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...County Treasurer Falls for Nigerian Scam
Jan 26th
Tommy Kotona is an idiot. He sunk over 72,000 dollars of his own money into the Nigerian 419 Advance Fee Scam, and then when he needed more money to free up his promised millions, he started draining the county funds.
He shipped over one million bucks to the scammers. The people behind the counter at the bank kept telling Kotona that he was dealing with scam artists, but Kotona wouldn’t listen. He would show them- he would show them ALL! Once he got his millions in secret Nigerian oil money, he would finally be able to flee his podunk county in Northeast Michigan, buy that fancy sports car, and who knows? Maybe he could hook up with Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan. And if he hurried, maybe no one would notice that he took all that money out of the county’s bank account.
From the Reg here:
A public treasurer in the Michigan county of Alcona, population 11,000, stands accused of embezzling tax payers out of more than $1.2m, at least part of which was used to cover costs he incurred falling for a Nigerian banking fraud.
Thomas Katona, the former Treasurer of Alcona County, was charged with nine felonies. According to the Michigan Attorney General’s office, the 56-year-old beancounter, who held his post for 13 years, also plowed $72,000 of his own money into the fraud.
County officials first suspected something was amiss late last year, when bank employees informed them Katona had sent eight payments totaling $186,500 to overseas accounts, six of which were associated with peddlers of the Nigerian scheme. He stepped down in November as authorities commenced an investigation.
They found that bank employees had warned Katona that the investment was a sham, but the treasurer ignored the warnings. An audit eventually showed that more than $1.2m was missing from county coffers. It remains unclear how much of that was paid to the scammers.
Last week a judge set Katona’s bail about $1m.
Maybe someone should get Kotona a laptop. Maybe he can email the scammers to see if they will pay his bail? At least no one was murdered over this one.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...I Melt in Your Mouth
Jan 26th
I always wondered how I would look with a hard candy shell. Now thanks to www.becomeanmm.com, I have my answer. I don’t think this one is as cool as the South Park Character generator, but it is still fun. Stop over and “Emmandemm-ize” yourself today!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Islam Means Misogyny: Honor Killing
Jan 25th
Jordan is one of the most progressive Islamic countries in the Middle East. But the ideas of family honor tied to a daughter’s virginity is a tough islamic custom to break. And as more and more Islamic families are confronted with Westernized ideas of fashion and freedom for women, I expect that more of these honor killings may take place.
From the AP here:
AMMAN, Jordan – A Jordanian man fatally shot his 17-year-old daughter whom he suspected of having sex despite a medical exam that proved her chastity, an official said Thursday. The man surrendered to police hours after the killing, saying he had done it for family honor.
Weeks ago, the girl had returned home from a family protection clinic after doctors had vouched for her virginity and the father had signed a pledge not to harm her.
The father shot the girl four times in the head on Tuesday. On Wednesday, an autopsy was performed that again showed “she was still a virgin,” the pathologist said.
The crime is the first “honor killing” this year in Jordan, where many men consider sex out of wedlock to be an almost indelible stain on a family’s reputation. On average, about 20 women in the country are killed by their relatives in such cases each year. Women have been killed for simply dating.
How disgusting is it that women are routinely taken to a “family protection clinic” to verify their virginity? And how equally disgusting is it that in addition to determining the cause of death, the pathologist has to verify the condition of the hymen post mortem? What difference does that make when the woman’s skull has four bullet holes in it? Would the man receive a lighter sentence if the girl had lost her virginity? And when the father executed his daughter, did he make her face Mecca?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Mail Order Corpse Bride
Jan 25th
These Chinese sure have some stupid customs. One is the belief that if a man dies without a wife, a female corpse should be buried with the man in order for the couple to be married in the afterlife. They call these dead women “ghost brides.”
And where does one find a dead woman to bury with an unmarried man? Why, from a Chinese undertaker who specializes in brokering dead Chinese women, of course.
From Reuters here:
Chinese police have arrested three men for killing two young women to sell their corpses as “ghost brides” for dead single men, a Chinese newspaper reported, warning the dark custom might have claimed many other victims.
Yang Donghai, a 35-year-old farmer in western China’s Shaanxi province, confessed to killing a woman bought from a poor family for 12,000 yuan ($1,545) last year.
She thought she was being sold into an arranged marriage, but Yang killed her in a gully and sold her corpse for 16,000 yuan. He and two accomplices then killed a prostitute and sold her for 8,000 yuan before police caught them.
The women were victims of an old belief, still alive in the yellow-earth highlands of western China, that young men who die unmarried should go to their graves accompanied by deceased women who will be their wives in the afterlife. Often these women die natural deaths.
Yang and two helpers sold the bodies to Li Longsheng, an undertaker who police said specialized in buying and selling the dead women for “ghost weddings.”
In China, female fetuses are routinely aborted, and female infants are abandoned at orphanages at a high rate because most families do not want to have to pay the hefty dowry that comes at the time of marriage. If you couple this with the mandatory one child per family law, this creates a large surplus of males in the population. Males which, if they die unmarried, creates a horrifying underground economy in the murder and trafficking of ghost brides. It boggles the mind.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Pot Smokers Must Memorize Koran
Jan 25th
The Saudis have their own war on drugs. Glue sniffers and pot smokers are sentenced to memorizing the Koran, or else they face a year in jail.
From Reuters here:
A Saudi court has ordered a drug user to spend six months memorizing the Koran, but he faces a year in prison if he fails to recite the Muslim holy book by heart, a newspaper said Tuesday.
There are more than 77,000 words in the Koran. It takes on average two years to study.
So if drugs are supposed to “free your mind” I guess it means that the koran shackles it. Actually, I don’t know what type of drug was used, but if it was a serious narcotic, it would be the ol’ “off with his head” routine by the brutal regime.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Chicken Killing Chinese Boy
Jan 24th
For whatever reason, China plus animals equals bizarre animal deaths. This case is no different. A little boy screamed at a bunch of chickens and caused them to kill each other in a chicken stampede. A single Chinese person hadn’t killed this many chickens out of sheer willpower since General Tso.
From Reuters here:
Hundreds of chickens have been found dead in east China — and a court has ruled that the cause of death was the screaming of a four-year-old boy who in turn had been scared by a barking dog, state media reported on Wednesday.
A villager was quoted as saying the little boy bent over the henhouse window, screaming for a long time, after being scared by the dog.
“One neighbor told police that he had heard the boy’s crying that afternoon and another villager confirmed the boy screaming by the henhouse window,” the newspaper said.
A court ruled the boy’s screaming was “the only unexpected abnormal sound” and that 443 chickens trampled each other to death in fear.
Why do I worry that this is all just one more reason for the Chinese to slaughter their dogs?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...ICE Agents Just Want a Big Gulp
Jan 24th
Homeland Security agents for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, just wanted to take a break on the way back to the office for a nice Big Gulp of Diet Coke and a Quarter Pound Big Bite Hot Dog from Oscar Mayer. But no, they couldn’t eat in peace at the 7-11 parking lot in Baltimore without being approached by illegal aliens begging for work. So the ICE Agents put down their dogs and soda and arrested the whole lot of them.
From WashTimes here:
BALTIMORE — Federal agents taking a break from an unrelated assignment yesterday arrested 24 illegal aliens at a Fells Point 7-Eleven after the men attempted to solicit “underground” employment from the agents.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were stopped in the convenience store parking lot when the group of Hispanic men approached the agents’ unmarked vehicles, ICE spokesman Marc Raimondi said.
The agents, members of an ICE fugitive operations team conducting a mission targeting illegal aliens, determined that all 24 men assembled at the store were illegal aliens and brought them to an ICE holding facility in Baltimore, Mr. Raimondi said.
Of those arrested, 10 were Honduran, eight were Mexican, five were Salvadoran and one was Peruvian, ICE officials said.
Six of the men have criminal records in the United States, eight of the men have failed to comply with final removal orders from an immigration judge and one man had been caught at the border on four occasions, ICE officials said.
And this time, STAY OUT!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...PETA People On Trial
Jan 24th
For Animal Cruelty. 31 Felony Counts. But it should have been more. Meet Andy Cook and Adria Hinkle, two dimwitted criminal employees of PETA who went around the Hampton Roads area and parts of North Carolina in a PETA van collecting unwanted animals from shelters and homes under the guise that the animals would be put up for adoption in Norfolk. But instead of putting them up for adoption, these two were killing the animals in the van and then dumping the furry bodies in trash bags all around rural Southern Virginia and in a dumpster at a Piggly-Wiggly in Ahoskie, North Carolina.
When they were busted by Ahoskie police, who had setup a sting to catch whomever it was that kept dumping animal remains for weeks, they found Hinkle and Cook in the van, along with 31 dead animals.
From the NewsObserver here:
Today, two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a radical animal-rights group that opposes meat-eating, are on trial for the strangest of charges: killing animals.
PETA is based in Norfolk, Va., but its work has international scope. The group, which raises more than $25 million a year from 1.6 million supporters, opposes any human use of animals, whether for food, fashion or research. In the more than two decades since its founding, it has become a major threat to medical researchers, meatpackers, fur sellers and others.
Now, two of its employees stand accused of tossing garbage bags full of euthanized cats and dogs into a Dumpster behind a Piggly Wiggly in Hertford County, 130 miles northeast of Raleigh.
Adria J. Hinkle and Andrew B. Cook, both of whom work in PETA’s Norfolk office, are charged with 31 counts each of animal cruelty, a felony that can carry prison time, along with littering and obtaining property by false pretenses.
Now, jurors will decide whether Hinkle and Cook were, as PETA argues, providing humane deaths to animals that would otherwise have been painfully killed in gas chambers — or whether, as several local officials say, they were taking animals on the promise of finding them homes and secretly killing them.
A PETA spokeswoman, Kathy Guillermo, said PETA never wanted to get into the business of euthanizing animals. But she said the group couldn’t ignore the horrible conditions in animal shelters around Norfolk and in northeastern North Carolina. The group now euthanizes thousands of animals a year.
“Euthanasia is a better alternative to sitting in a stinking pound,” Guillermo said.
So PETA would rather have pets slaughtered and dumped on the sides of the road than sit in an SPCA adoption center? The photo below was from the scene of the cleanup.
I wonder why these two losers still have a job at PETA? Obviously because PETA condones such behavior from its employees. No word on whether or not Adria Hinkle put on a little makeup for her court appearance.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...All Hail the Hubbard Christ
Jan 23rd
So it was announced today that Tom Cruise was sent by L. Ron Hubbard to forgive all our sins. We might not believe it now, but we should be assured that a thousand years from now? Yeah, we will all be worshipping the Cruise.
So why does every whacko cult figure have to claim they are Jesus Christ anyways? Well, if they claimed they were Muhammad, they would get their fool head chopped off.
From the Sun Online here:
TOM Cruise is the new Christ of Scientology, according to leaders of the cult-like religion.
And leader David Miscavige believes that in future, Cruise, 44, will be worshipped like Jesus for his work to raise awareness of the religion.
Like Christ, he s been criticised for his views. But future generations will realise he was right.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Child Molester Enrolls Self in 5th Grade
Jan 23rd
I guess it was the best way for him to scope out the fresh talent. Either that or he was trying to maintain his cover story with his two older lovers. You see, Neil Rodreick was passing himself off to his pedophile roommates as a 12 year old boy. And the pedophile roommates knew that a boy had to go to school, right?
Reason 837 to home school.
From CNN here: Video Here.
A charter school alerted authorities to a 29-year-old sex offender who tried to enroll there, pretending he was just 12, in what sheriff’s officials said Friday may have been an attempt to lure children into sexual abuse.
The Yavapai County sheriff’s office also said Neil Havens Rodreick II conned two men he was living with and having sex with into believing he was a young boy.
One of them, 61-year-old Lonnie Stiffler, called himself Rodreick’s grandfather when he tried to enroll him at Mingus Springs Charter School as “Casey Price.”
Stiffler and Robert James Snow, 43, “were very upset when the detectives told them they had been having a sexual relationship with a 29-year-old man and not a pre-teen boy,” Quayle said.
Detectives have evidence that Stiffler and Snow enrolled Rodreick in other Arizona schools, and have notified law enforcement in those jurisdictions, Quayle said.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Coach Caught With Kidz Pr0n Gets 17 Years
Jan 22nd
As a follow up to this story here, Robert Hatcher, assistant coach at Kecoughtan High School in Hampton, VA, was sentenced to 17 years behind bars for distributing kiddie porn. He had tried to use the excuse that he was legally blind so he couldnt really see the photos, which I guess could be called the “Mr. Magoo” defense, but the judge sneered and gaveled him to 17 years in the prison.
From the Daily Press here:
A Kecoughtan High School teacher’s desire to receive treatment for an addiction to child pornography should have come years before the man was arrested last May on federal pornography charges, a U.S. District Court judge said Friday.
But Robert Hatcher never sought help during the 10 years he looked at and traded images all over the world of children, some as young as 4 or 5 years old, engaging in sexual acts with adults, Judge Jerome Friedman said during Hatcher’s sentencing hearing in Norfolk.
A request to reduce Hatcher’s sentence because he is legally blind was denied. Calling what Hatcher did disgusting and degrading to children, Friedman sentenced the former physical education teacher to 17 years in prison.
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