Following Entry Posted 5/26/2012 08:41:00 AM

Junk for Dinner


Here's a menu option created in the Far East.

A Japanese artist cooked his own genitals and served them to five paying diners in Tokyo to cover the medical costs, in a bizarre act to raise awareness about sexual minorities.

Mao Sugiyama had his penis and testicles surgically removed in March and kept them frozen for two months before dishing them out -- seasoned and braised -- to customers at an event hall on May 13, according to postings on his Twitter account and local police.

Diners paid 20,000 yen ($250) for the plate with a portion of genitals. Pictures published on a website appeared to show the meal came complete with mushrooms and a parsley garnish.

The painter, who is reportedly 22, said on Twitter the organ had been removed by a physician and certified to be free of infections.

Free of infections, eh? How thoughtful.

As bizarre as this report is, it's a mystery why any rational person would pay to eat some guy's junk.

Tip: slwlion
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       Following Entry Posted 5/25/2012 06:37:00 AM

Oklahoma Woman Accused of Child Neglect

(Bartlesville, Oklahoma) A 44-year-old local woman, Stephanie Notah, has been accused of child neglect after police found her in a car with two toddlers covered in "feces."

Notah faces charges of possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, transporting an open container and child neglect.

According to an affidavit obtained by KTUL.com, when police arrived on the scene they observed Stephanie Notah, 44, yelling at two children inside a vehicle. The affidavit goes onto say when officers made contact with Notah they noticed a "strong odor" coming from the vehicle and noticed the two children, in the backseat, covered with "dried feces" and other "miscellaneous items."

A further investigation of the vehicle by officers revealed an open container, marijuana and several drug paraphernalia items.

Notah was booked into custody at the Washington Jail with bond set at $25,000.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 5/25/2012 04:21:00 AM

Pinched While Drunk with Zebra and Parrot

(Dubuque, Iowa) A 55-year-old man, Jerald Reiter, was arrested outside of a Dubuque bar on Sunday night with a pet zebra and a macaw parrot in the front seat of his truck.

Officers charged Jerald Reiter, 55, with OWI. Police reports say officers stopped him in the parking lot of the Dog House Lounge as he drove away in his truck.

According to police, field sobriety tests showed Reiter had a blood alcohol level of .14. The legal limit in Iowa is .08.[…]

On Sunday night, they say they took the zebra and the macaw to the bar because it often lets people bring their animals inside. Reiter says the owner told him they were serving food that night and he couldn’t bring a zebra inside the bar.[…]

At that time he went outside to put the animals in his truck and several people were in the parking lot taking pictures. He believes one of those people called police.

Reiter was booked and released from the Dubuque County Jail.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/25/2012 04:01:00 AM

Eugene Polley, Father of TV Remote, b.1916-d.2012




(Chicago, Illinois) Eugene Polley, the inventor of the wireless television remote control, died last Sunday in a Chicago hospital. He was 96.

Tip: Charley Nestor
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       Following Entry Posted 5/25/2012 03:15:00 AM

Nebraska Mom Pimps Out Daughters

(Lincoln, Nebraska) True ugliness here.

Nebraska authorities believe a mother accused of pimping out her 14-year-old daughter also charged men to have sex with her 7-year-old daughter.

The Nebraska State Patrol says the 35-year-old mother allowed at least seven men to have sex with her 14-year-old at least 20 times. Investigators say at least three men had sex with the 7-year-old.

Names are withheld to protect the innocent.

Tip: slwlion

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 5/24/2012 05:09:00 PM

Hand Slap for Virginia Teacher in Drugs Case - Updated



Allison & Michael Gaul
(Virginia Beach, Virginia) Earlier today, former teacher at Corporate Landing Middle School, Allison Tuthill Gaul, 37, pleaded guilty to reduced charges and was sentenced by Judge Teresa N. Hammons.

Allison Gaul received a year in jail, with all of the time suspended if she pays court costs, remains on good behavior for two years and completes the Community Corrections Program.

Husband Michael John Gaul has a July 17 court date to face similar charges.

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Virginia Teacher Accused in Drugs Case
[Previous 1/10/12 post]
(Virginia Beach, Virginia) A French language teacher at Corporate Landing Middle School, Allison Tuthill Gaul, and her husband, Michael John Gaul, have been arrested to face drug charges.

Allison Gaul has been charged with sale or distribution of marijuana and conspiracy to sell or distribute marijuana. She has resigned her teaching position.

Michael Gaul faces three felonies, conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, manufacture not for personal use marijuana, and possession of marijuana.

Mr. and Mrs. Gaul were booked into custody. A court appearance is scheduled for February 3.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 5/24/2012 11:17:00 AM

Counterfeit Chinese Parts in U.S. Military Equipment

(Washington D.C.) Complex supply chains are being blamed for the breakdown in quality assurance.

Bogus electronic parts from China have infiltrated critical U.S. defense systems and equipment, including Navy helicopters and a commonly used Air Force cargo aircraft, a new report says.

A Senate Armed Services Committee analysis "exposed a defense supply chain that relies on hundreds of unvetted independent distributors to supply electronic parts for some of our most sensitive systems," according to an executive summary of the report.

Various military aircraft were named in the report, including the Navy SN-60B Seahawk helicopter and the Air Force C-130J cargo airplane. Fake components were also suspected in the the Navy Integrated Submarine Imaging System and the Army Stryker mobile gun.

In my opinion, counterfeit parts from China shouldn't be surprising. Additionally, the problem is more than nettlesome. Consequences could be tragic.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/24/2012 09:31:00 AM

Fire on Nuke Sub USS Miami (SSN 755)




(Kittery, Maine) A fire in the forward spaces of the USS Miami broke out Wednesday evening and wasn't extinguished until early Thursday morning.

Seven people suffered minor injuries, two crew members and five firefighters. The reactor and engineering spaces were isolated from the fire. An investigation has been initiated.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/24/2012 07:43:00 AM

Muslim Cleric Abu Hamza Coming to America




Extremist Muslim preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri reportedly will soon be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled last month that Hamza and four other terrorism suspected can be extradited to the US to face trial. The preacher is wanted over an alleged plan to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon and for helping jihadis in Yemen.

He is likely to be held at the ADX Florence 'super-max' prison in Fremont County, Colorado. The high security prison, dubbed the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies', holds inmates deemed the most dangerous and in need of tightest control.

Hamza, who wears a distinctive metal hook after losing his right hand in an explosion in Afghanistan may lose the prosthesis under a prison regime which prevent prisoners having access to improvised weapons.

What will he do without his hook?

[Add.] Meanwhile, Abu Hamza's pregnant daughter-in-law, Chaymae Smak, 28, has been sentenced to 12 months incarceration for attempting to smuggle a mobile phone SIM card into Belmarsh Prison so Hamza could communicate with his followers.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/24/2012 04:07:00 AM

More fake hate speech

We read:

"Two lesbians who claimed to be victims of a hate crime last year when hateful messages were scrawled on their Colorado home are now being accused of perpetrating a hoax.

Aimee Whitchurch, 37, and Christel Conklin, 29, told authorities last October that vandals had spray-painted "Kill the Gay" on their garage door and left a noose on their doorstep.

The couple, who live in a rented condominium in Parker, Colo., said they believed the alleged incidents were in retaliation for disputes they were having with their Homeowner's Association over their dog.

The FBI reportedly became involved in the investigation. The two women were tested by federal agents to see whether they had spray-paint residue on their palms, Fox affiliate KDVR-reported. They were also asked to take a lie detector test, but declined, according to the station.

Authorities later determined that the women were responsible for the spray-painted words.

Source

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 5/23/2012 02:42:00 PM

Aborted Fetuses Eaten by Dogs



(Maharashtra, India)

Indian abortion Doctors are feeding female foetuses to dogs to cover up rampant infanticide by parents who prefer boys, it has been revealed.

The sickening practice was exposed in the town of Beed, in Maharashtra - the state with the worst child sex ratio in the country.

So-called gender genocide was blamed for last year's appalling census figures, which showed that just 801 girls were being born for every 1,000 boys.

By keeping dogs, doctors can get rid of bodies without having to dispose of them through official channels.

It means that the true extent of illegal sex-selection abortion in the town - and elsewhere in India - is being hidden.

This practice is exponentially wrong.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/23/2012 08:56:00 AM

“Antifascist” Fascist Havoc in Suburban Chicago Restaurant

If moonbats didn’t know their agenda is wrong, they wouldn’t follow the Orwellian protocol of calling things by the opposite of what they really are. For example, the refusal to evaluate everyone and everything through the prism of race is called “racism.” Another example is that classical fascist techniques of political terror are referred to as “antifascist” — as we were reminded in suburban Chicago over the weekend.

It was the middle of the lunch rush Saturday, and Mike Winston was working in the kitchen of his Tinley Park restaurant, the Ashford House, when a waitress screamed a fight had broken out in the dining room.

Police call the melee at the restaurant a targeted assault by a mob that Winston said wielded metal batons and hammers. Ten diners were hurt in the attack, and three of those were hospitalized.

Tinley Park police had five suspected assailants in custody, and Winston said 18 young men, all wearing hooded jackets and obscuring their faces with scarves and other coverings, stormed into the restaurant.

Who were these fascistic goons? “Antifascist” moonbats:

A group of ‘anti-facists’ are being credited with Saturday’s mob-style attack inside a Tinley Park restaurant.

An anti-racist website posted a response to the Patch story “Police: Mob Attacked Specific Group of People Inside Tinley Park Restaurant.” The post states that “a group of 30 anti-fascists descended” on the restaurant “where the 5th annual White Nationalist Economic Summit and Illinois White Nationalist Meet-and-Greet” was reportedly taking place.

“These anti-fascists are committed to shutting down and attacking any racist, nationalist or fascist organizers or individuals that they encounter,” the post states.

The “antifascist” brownshirts responsible call themselves Anti-Racist Action. Predictably, they refer to victims of their political terror as “terrorists.”

Do we want to live in a country where you can’t sit down and eat a meal with your family without running the risk of the restaurant being overrun by club-wielding animals? If not, it’s time to roll back the moonbattery.

SOURCE

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 5/23/2012 05:49:00 AM

Child Molestation with Bean

(Shanghai, China) A Chinese kindergarten teacher has been accused of molesting a three-year-old girl with a bean.

Police and local education authorities are probing a private kindergarten where parents of a three-year-old girl accused a young female teacher of molesting their daughter by putting a kidney bean into her vagina.

The parents yesterday protested at the Gelin Shuangyang Kindergarten in Yangpu District, demanding an explanation.

The parents claimed they took the girl for an emergency surgery to remove the fingertip-size bean from her vagina last Tuesday, four days after it was inserted.

"Miss Lin put the bean into my body," the three-year-old girl nicknamed Niu Niu told her parents. Lin, 25, is the girl's teacher.

Police started the investigation last week. The kindergarten told police the surveillance camera tape was "automatically deleted" and the girl is too young to be a witness, said the girl's father, Qin Lin.

Kindergarten officials apologized to the family last week, begging them not to expose the incident to the media by promising to give them a response in time, said Qin.

According to Qin, the little girl told a plainclothes policeman that most of her classmates were out on the playground on May 11 while she was playing with a few children in the classroom. Lin then told the girl that they were going to play a private game and she put the kidney bean into her vagina, Niu Niu told the policeman.

Her face turned pale when talking about Miss Lin, and she screamed, "Bad woman!" and hid herself behind a desk, Qin said.

The teacher denies any wrongdoing and, frankly, I'm skeptical of the little girl's story. I'd more easily believe that the little girl inserted the bean and then lied about it after she got sick.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/22/2012 10:37:00 PM

Marijuana Brownies Sickens High School Students



Justin Mendenhall and Katelynn Jennings
(Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania) Two people have been arrested for allegedly selling marijuana to high school students at Conestoga High School. The marijuana was subsequently used to make brownies which sickened several students.

Justin Mendenhall, 19, and Katelyn Ann Jennings, 20, face charges of possession of drug paraphernalia, possession with intent to deliver, conspiracy and related offenses.

Police said a 15-year-old student went to the school nurse after having a reaction to ingesting marijuana. The student said the marijuana was recently purchased from a drug dealer and gave the police the phone number of the dealer, who was Mendenhall, police said.

Mendenhall has sold drugs to students numerous times in the past, police alleged.

Police contacted Mendenhall and set up an undercover buy of drugs. About 8 p.m. Friday, police officers met Mendenhall and Jennings at the Berwyn train station.

Mendenhall and Jennings were each booked and released on $5,000 bond.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/22/2012 04:50:00 PM

Giant Penis Named Gaia Exploded







To some people, it's junk. To others, it's art.

A three and a half tonne model penis work of art was exploded into the air in Bad Blumau, Austria.

The giant penis artwork "Gaia" measuring over 4 metres was designed by Emmerich Weissenberge, but it has now been blown up during a controlled explosion - in the name of art.

The organic remains of the exploded penis will now be buried in the gardens in Bad Blumau.

The sculptor decided on this stunt as he claimed: "I wanted to express the message that you should not destroy art if you do not understand it, there should be an active dialogue about it."

After a dozen readings, I'm still flummoxed by the sculptor's words. Obviously, I just don't understand art.

By the way, Gaia was a poor representation of a penis before it was blown up. I'd suggest it looks like a cookie on top of an anthill.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/22/2012 03:35:00 PM

Dead Florida Voters - Updated

The Florida Secretary of State has found the names of 53,000 dead people populating voter rolls in the state.

How could 53,000 dead voters have sat on the polls for so long? Simple. Because Florida hadn’t been using the best available data revealing which voters have died. Florida is now using the nationwide Social Security Death Index for determining which voters should be purged because they have died.

Here is the bad news. Most states aren’t using the same database that Florida is.

Of course, the dead people have to be assisted when operating voting machines and, thus far, nobody has explained how that occurs.

Tip: slwlion

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[Update] Thanks to commenter J:

With Dems dead people are frequently "drafted to vote", here are just a few of examples:

S.C.- ... Wilson [Attorney General] says the analysis found 953 ballots cast by voters listed as dead. In 71 percent of those cases, ballots were cast between two months and 76 months after the people died. That means they "voted" up to 6 1/3 years after their death.

Texas - dozens ... have apparently cast ballots from beyond the grave, records since 2004 show

Mississippi - an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme... convicted... on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots... also convicted of voting in the names of four dead persons.

As stated, they are just a few examples.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/22/2012 06:45:00 AM

NC Teacher Screams at Student: It’s Criminal to Criticize Obama

We read:

"A YouTube video uploaded on Monday afternoon apparently shows a schoolteacher from the Rowan-Salisbury school district in North Carolina informing a student that failing to be respectful of President Obama is a criminal offense. Breitbart News has uncovered that the student is a high school junior, and that the teacher is apparently one Tanya Dixon-Neely.

The video shows a classroom discussion about the Washington Post hit piece about Mitt Romney bullying a kid some five decades ago. One student says, “Didn’t Obama bully someone though?” The teacher says: “Not to my knowledge.” The student then cites the fact that Obama, in Dreams from My Father, admits to shoving a little girl. “Stop, no, because there is no comparison,” screams the teacher. Romney is “running for president. Obama is the president.”

The student responds that both are “just men.”

The teacher yells -- literally yells -- that Obama is “due the respect that every other president is due … Listen,” she continues, “let me tell you something, you will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom.” She yells over the student repeatedly, and yells at him that it's disrespect for him to even debate about Romney and Obama.

The student says that he can say what he wants.

“Not about him, you won’t,” says the teacher.

The teacher then tells the student – wrongly – that it is a criminal offense to say bad things about a president. “Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush? Do you realize you are not supposed to slander the president?”

The student says that it would violate First Amendment rights to jail someone for such sentiments. “You would have to say some pretty f’d up crap about him to be arrested,” says the student. “They cannot take away your right to have your opinion … They can’t take that away unless you threaten the president.”

Clearly, the student should be teaching the class, and the teacher should be reading the Constitution more often.

Source

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 5/21/2012 11:05:00 PM

Woman Fired for Being Sexy




(New York City) Laura Odes, 29, is suing her former employer and appears to have a solid case.

And, what a shock! Gloria Allred is her lawyer.

Companion post at A Western Heart.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 5/21/2012 10:30:00 PM

Woman Gets Prison for Sex with Girl, 7 - Updated

(Kissimmee, Florida) Last week, 26-year-old Margaret Ann O'Neill was sentenced to 25 years in prison resulting from her no contest plea to charges of lewd or lascivious molestation of a child under 12.

O'Neill will also be classified as a sexual predator for the rest of her life.

The 26-year-old also must testify against her boyfriend. If she fails to do so, O'Neill's sentence could be overturned and she could face life in prison, Circuit Judge Bob LeBlanc warned on Thursday.

O'Neill admitted to sheriff's investigators that she had sex with the child three times in 2010, a sheriff's report said.

She told detectives her lover, Christopher P. Smith, 32, promised to leave his wife and led O'Neill to believe she could prove her love for him by giving herself to his "sexual appetites."

Smith was arrested Dec. 5, after another woman told authorities Smith had asked her to have sex with the child. Investigators say Smith had videos on his phone of himself and O'Neill having sex with the young girl.

Boyfriend Smith is scheduled for trial in September.

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Florida Woman Accused of Sex with Girl, 7
[Previous 12/27/11 post]
(Kissimmee, Florida) A 26-year-old local woman, Margaret Ann O'Neill, has been arrested for allegedly performing oral sex on a seven-year-old girl to satisfy the sexual desires of her married boyfriend, 32-year-old Christopher Smith.

O'Neill faces charges of sexual battery on a child younger than 12 and criminal conspiracy to commit sexual battery. Smith faces charges of sexual battery on a child younger than 12, lewd or lascivious molestation and conspiracy to commit sexual battery.

O'Neill was arrested Wednesday after police say they found a video of her performing oral sex on a child on Smith's cell phone, the affidavit says.

When O'Neill was questioned, she told police that she performed the acts so that Smith would leave his wife and be with her. O'Neill said that Smith was a "manipulator" and that she was "afraid of what he would do if she did not participate in the sexual activity," according to the affidavit.

Smith's wife also admitted to police that she found a video of him sodomizing a child in February but did not report it because she wanted to protect the family, according to police.

O'Neill and Smith were booked into custody at the Orange County Jail without bond.

Tip: slwlion

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 5/21/2012 09:17:00 PM

Ohio Woman Accused of Raping Boy, 7

(Hamilton County, Ohio) A 20-year-old local woman, Alicia Gaston, has been accused of engaging in sex with her boyfriend's seven-year-old son.

Gaston faces one count of rape.

Cincinnati police say Gaston has confessed to engaging in sexual intercourse with the boy on April 10, 2011.

A state entity charged with protecting children said they never knew of the incident, or why it took so long for the case to be reported.

Gaston was booked into custody with bond set at $75,000.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 5/21/2012 07:24:00 PM

Mexican Robs Banks in U.S.

(Albuquerque, New Mexico) Arguably, here's one result of having a porous U.S.-Mexico border.

This morning, Jaime Jesus Sanchez-Ramos, 22, a Mexican national, was arraigned on a federal indictment charging him with four counts of bank robbery. Sanchez-Ramos entered a not guilty plea to the indictment. Sanchez-Ramos has been in federal custody since his arrest on April 10, 2012 and remains detained pending trial.

The indictment charges Sanchez-Ramos with robbing the following four banks in Santa Fe, New Mexico, earlier this year: (1) the Century Bank located at 1790 Saint Michael’s Drive on January 26, 2012; (2) the New Mexico Bank and Trust located at 1549 Paseo de Peralta on February 15, 2012; (3) the Bank of Albuquerque located at 706 Saint Michael’s Drive on March 16, 2012; and (4) the U.S. Bank located at 3787 Cerrillos Road on April 2, 2012. The maximum penalty for a conviction on each of the four offenses if 20 years of imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.

Court records reflect that Sanchez-Ramos was arrested following the April 2, 2012 bank robbery of the U.S. Bank. After that robbery, the Santa Fe Police Department received a report that an employee of a home improvement store had retrieved evidence of the bank robbery, including a large amount of currency still bundled with U.S. Bank wrappers after observing a man put something into a trash can that was in the store’s parking lot. Armed with photographs taken by the store’s surveillance camera and a tip received by the FBI, law enforcement officers were able to identify Sanchez-Ramos as the man who allegedly robbed the U.S. Bank on April 2, 2012.

It appears Mr. Sanchez-Ramos was robbing one bank per month.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/21/2012 03:15:00 AM

Impersonating a Spiritual Leader




It's a trailer for the documentary film Kumaré, scheduled for release next month.

Tip: Don Laird
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       Following Entry Posted 5/20/2012 09:29:00 PM

Scotland: Police Arrest Six for Facebook Hate Speech

We read:

"On Wednesday, The BBC reported that police in Glasgow had arrested and charged six Facebook users for “breach of the peace with religious and racial aggravations.” These charges were based on the fact that the users had, allegedly, created a Facebook page called “Welcome to Israel, only kidding you’re in Giffnock,” upon which several posters mocked and insulted members of the Giffnock Jewish community. According to Jennifer Lipman of The Jewish Chronicle, messages left on the page included statements including “F*** the Jewish Zionist” and “Jewish scum.”

The arrests came after Stewart Maxwell, Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for West Scotland asked the chief of the Strathclyde police to investigate those responsible for creating the page.

Police responded by sending nearly 50 police officers to raid at least seven different locations in the Glasgow area. During the raid, police confiscated what members of the local media described as “a significant quantity” of computer equipment. Police officials said that they hoped their actions demonstrated that Scotland would not tolerate hate crimes.

Source

Speech that would be protected free speech in the USA is a "crime" in Scotland

There is a substantial body of opinion among Jewish writers which says that antisemitic speech should not be suppressed. Suppressing it probably leads to heightened antagoniusm towards Jews and in fact feeds the myth that the Jews control the government.

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 5/20/2012 09:10:00 AM

Colorado Teacher Guilty of Sex with Student - Updated

(Basalt, Colorado) In accordance with a plea agreement, teacher and coach formerly at Basalt High School, Lauren Redfern, pleaded guilty to one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Two counts of Sexual Assault on a Minor by a Person in a Position of Trust were dropped.

The charges comes after she and the 18-year-old student were allegedly caught having sex in her office bathroom at the school in February.

According to the Aspen Time, both Redfern and the victim told authorities they had sex when he was 17, as well.

The Times also reports the victim told authorities he "pursued" Redfern romantically and that the couple called off their relationship until he graduated.

Details on sentencing are unavailable.

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Colorado Teacher Accused of Sex with Student
[Previous 2/16/12 post]
(Glenwood Springs, Colorado) A 25-year-old teacher and coach at Basalt High School, Lauren Redfern, has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.

According to Eagle County Undersheriff Mike McWilliam, Redfern faces a charge of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.

Investigators believe Redfern had repeated sexual contact with a male student attending Basalt High School for “three of four months, since last fall,” McWilliam said.

The student is a senior at the high school. He was 17 years old when the contact started and is now 18, according to McWilliam.

The Sheriff's Office was notified by school officials about the alleged sexual relationship last week. Investigators believe the teacher and student met at his house and at her house, but not at the school.

Redfern has been placed on paid leave from the school.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 5/20/2012 07:43:00 AM

French Couple Avoids Traffic Fines

(Cannes, France) A couple has registered their car in the name of their four-year-old son which allows the couple to avoid, under French law, prosecution for motor vehicle offenses.

Local newspaper Nice Matin reported that a quirk in French law allows a minor to be named as the legal owner of a car.

The law, dating back to 1984, was designed to allow 16 and 17 year old learner drivers to be able to have a car. Instead, the canny couple took advantage of the rules to put their car in the name of their son.

All that's needed to do so is proof of address and an identity card. No driving licence is required.

Since registering the car in his name a total of 70 different driving offences have been notched up. These include speeding, parking violations and failure to notify a change of address.

As the four-year-old is the named person on the 'carte grise', the document which identify the owner of the car, he is also assumed to be the driver.

A total of €23,000 ($29,000) in fines have been built up over four years.

Heh.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/20/2012 06:23:00 AM

Ya gotta laugh

Below is a recent bit of Warmist "research" from Australia. I guess that they hope nobody notices the figures behind their conclusions. I have always been one of those pesky people who look at the actual results in a scientific paper rather than the conclusions authors draw from their results -- and that habit is richly rewarded here.

What they actually found is quite hilarious. They found that the current temperature in the Australian region is essentially identical with the temperature in the 13th century!

To be precise, it was just nine hundredths of one degree warmer in the 20th century than it was in the 13th century. A better disproof of 20th century warming would be hard to imagine. The big surprise is that they didn't deep-six their study instead of publishing it

Journal of Climate 2012

Evidence of unusual late 20th century warming from an Australasian temperature reconstruction spanning the last millennium

Joëlle Gergis et al.

Abstract

This study presents the first multi-proxy warm season (September-February) temperature reconstruction for the combined land and oceanic region of Australasia (0°S-50°S, 110°E-180°E). We perform a 3000-member ensemble Principal Component Reconstruction (PCR) using 27 temperature proxies from the region. The proxy network explained 69% of the inter-annual variance in the HadCRUT3v SONDJF spatial mean temperature over the 1921-1990 calibration period. Applying eight stringent reconstruction ‘reliability’ metrics identified post A.D. 1430 as the highest quality section of the reconstruction, but also revealed a skilful reconstruction is possible over the full A.D. 1000-2001 period.

The average reconstructed temperature anomaly in Australasia during A.D. 1238-1267, the warmest 30-year pre-instrumental period, is 0.09°C (±0.19°C) below 1961-1990 levels. Following peak pre-industrial warmth, a cooling trend culminates in a temperature anomaly of 0.44°C (±0.18°C) below 1961-1990 levels between A.D. 1830-1859. A preliminary assessment of the roles of solar, volcanic, and anthropogenic forcings and natural ocean-atmosphere variability is performed using CSIRO Mk3L model simulations and independent palaeoclimate records. Solar and volcanic forcing does not have a marked influence on reconstructed Australasian temperature variations, which appear to be masked by internal variability.

In 94.5% of the 3000-member reconstruction ensemble, there are no other warm periods in the past 1,000 years that match or exceed post-1950 warming observed in Australasia. The unusual 20th century warming cannot be explained by natural variability alone, suggesting a strong influence of anthropogenic forcing in the Australasian region

SOURCE

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 5/20/2012 06:21:00 AM

Baltimore County Delegate Acknowledges Epidemic of Black Mob Violence

Sooner or later even the authorities will have to acknowledge the epidemic of black on white mob violence that has made it unsafe to venture out of doors from one end of the country to the other. In Baltimore, it’s already beginning:

A Baltimore County delegate said Wednesday that the governor should send in the Maryland State Police to control “roving mobs of black youths” at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, prompting a colleague to label the message “race-baiting.”

Del. Patrick L. McDonough, a Republican whose district includes part of Harford County, distributed a news release with the headline: “Black Youth Mobs Terrorize Baltimore on Holidays.” In it, McDonough said he had sent a letter to Gov. Martin O’Malley urging him to use the state police to help prevent attacks and to declare the Inner Harbor area a “no-travel zone” until safety can be guaranteed.

Unsurprisingly, many of McDonough’s colleagues were aggressively “offended.” Nothing could be more predictable than that he will be denounced as a racist for pointing out that the house is on fire. However,

McDonough refused to back down, saying he had heard from police that the crowds involved in several recent incidents were all black. Failing to mention the race of the participants, he said, would be “political correctness on steroids.”

McDonough said his statement was prompted by several recent problems, including a St. Patrick’s Day disturbance and a recent incident in which he and his wife witnessed a fight involving about 100 youths at Pratt and Calvert streets.

The St. Patrick’s Day incident involved a tourist being beaten, robbed, and stripped in front of a courthouse by one of the black mobs that roam cities looking for lone whites to assault. Refusing to address them while not only justifying but inciting their behavior with liberal propaganda will only cause the mobs to grow larger and more vicious.

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Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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