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TAMPA — Marine reservist Jasen Bruce was getting clothes out of the trunk of his car Monday evening when a bearded man in a robe approached him.

That man, a Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.

What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground — as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist.
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To a hammer all the world's a nail...
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Thanks to "21 century socialism"....

21st century socialist man, dow dow de dow dow, dwee dwee dwee dwee. Tongue

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Don't mistake european style free-market socialism (one I would like to be applied a little bit more in the US) with "21st century socialism", a populist creation of Hugo Chavez based on Cuba and Venezuela which resembles marxism-leninism and Cuba more than European systems/...
 
And it will be the end of everything in South America... Cry 
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:


This guy deserves to rot in a gulag but that means spending taxpayers money. Best to just get rid of him.
Executing people actually costs more than life imprisonment.
 
How would one legally define beyond beyond reasonable doubt?
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Originally posted by KoS KoS wrote:

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TAMPA — Marine reservist Jasen Bruce was getting clothes out of the trunk of his car Monday evening when a bearded man in a robe approached him.

That man, a Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.

What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground — as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist.


I hate to jump to conclusions, but after reading the article, that ex-Marine is either mentally ill, a moron, or an outright racist who did this because he thought he could get away with it.  I can't help but think people of his ilk are being encouraged to do crap like this.


Edited by Slartibartfast - November 12 2009 at 06:21
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Thanks to "21 century socialism"....

21st century socialist man, dow dow de dow dow, dwee dwee dwee dwee. Tongue

Damn dam. Angry
 
Don't mistake european style free-market socialism (one I would like to be applied a little bit more in the US) with "21st century socialism", a populist creation of Hugo Chavez based on Cuba and Venezuela which resembles marxism-leninism and Cuba more than European systems/...
 
And it will be the end of everything in South America... Cry 
 
We may continue this discussion elsewhere, Teo, but I am (together with more than 70% of the Brazilian population) very satisfied with the soft-leftist government we have here presently: to bring more than 30 million people from below the poverty line is something to think about and I'm not even a supporter of our president's political party. 
 
And since we are talking about news of the day, a short one issued today:
 
BRAZIL: SHOWING THE WORLD HOW TO END HUNGER
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Originally posted by Atkingani Atkingani wrote:

 
And since we are talking about news of the day, a short one issued today:
 
BRAZIL: SHOWING THE WORLD HOW TO END HUNGER

I've heard your big nuts are a great source of selenium...Tongue

Nutritionally, Brazil nuts are a good source of magnesium and thiamine, and are perhaps the richest dietary source of selenium; one ounce can contain as much as 10 times the adult USRDA (U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowances)
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:


This guy deserves to rot in a gulag but that means spending taxpayers money. Best to just get rid of him.
Executing people actually costs more than life imprisonment.


All depends on how you do it.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.
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And nothing of value was lost.
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

And nothing of value was lost.


Bah, he'll be on Fox News in 2 microseconds.
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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

And nothing of value was lost.


Bah, he'll be on Fox News in 2 microseconds.

Maybe they can replace Dobbs with that screaming Kramer guy.  He's always fun to watch for a few seconds. LOL


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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

And nothing of value was lost.


Bah, he'll be on Fox News in 2 microseconds.
And CNN will replace him with an illegal who will yell for half as much!
*rimshot*
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File this under, we just can't win...
http://www.ajc.com/news/kudzu-eating-pest-too-195254.html



Kudzu is this plant that was imported into this country for ornamental purposes and erosion control.  It was brought in in 1876 and has turned into a weed basically, although it is edible.  Now we have a new stink bug immigrant that loves to eat the stuff, good thing, except it also likes legume plants and when disturbed...
Well it's a stink bug "The bug feasts on soybean crops and releases a stinky chemical when threatened... Commonly called the lablab bug or globular stink bug, it's pea-sized and brownish with a wide posterior. The bug waddles when it walks but flies well."  I guess it wouldn't be a problem except it gets into peoples homes...

Now we're going to have to import something that likes to feed on the stink bugs, I guess. LOL

I still have hope for the critters that turn fire ants into zombies.

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OK a simple internet search reveals the likely importer of the lablab bug:
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/magazine/spring01/kudzu.htm



Photo by Herman Lankford

OK on an unrelated note, this is pretty good:



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 President Barack Obama is due in The Peoples Republic of China for a visit it is snowing like Saskatchewan in Port Arthur and Shanghai is raining cats and dogs,where he is supposed to land. Now if he just get these w**kers to turn youtube back on" BRAVO."
 
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

And nothing of value was lost.


Bah, he'll be on Fox News in 2 microseconds.
And CNN will replace him with an illegal who will yell for half as much!
*rimshot*

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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

And nothing of value was lost.


Bah, he'll be on Fox News in 2 microseconds.

Maybe they can replace Dobbs with that screaming Kramer guy.  He's always fun to watch for a few seconds. LOL


CNBC's Cramer or Seinfeld's Kramer?
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Originally posted by crimhead crimhead wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

And nothing of value was lost.


Bah, he'll be on Fox News in 2 microseconds.

Maybe they can replace Dobbs with that screaming Kramer guy.  He's always fun to watch for a few seconds. LOL


CNBC's Cramer or Seinfeld's Kramer?

Now you have me thinking duet. Tongue
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