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From the news...
A Texas man shot in the back 35 years ago has died of complications from the shooting and his death has been ruled a homicide — but prosecutors fear the trail for the suspect has long ago gone cold. So far, police and prosecutors said they have been unable to find out who shot Craig Buford in the back in Denver in 1973. It was a time before records could be filed on computers. The District Attorney's Office office might file charges if evidence and witnesses can be found. "After 35 years has passed, that might be a pretty tall order," Lynn Kimbrough said.
Although hospitalized for several months after the shooting, Buford healed and had few lasting effects. He drove city buses in Denver and Seattle and was a truck driver before retiring.
Buford, 54, was hospitalized recently and had surgery after doctors determined his colon had ruptured; he died Dec. 29. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office ruled Buford's death a homicide, caused by multiple organ failure from complications from his wound.
"He never had any serious health problems, so I was a little surprised to hear all this homicide business after all these years," his wife, Carolyn Buford, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Tuesday editions.
Carolyn Buford, his wife, said her husband told her about the shooting but she didn't know him then. She said he had gone to school to pick up a girlfriend and started gambling with other teens. She said he won some money, and when he refused to give in to the other teens' demands to return it, he was shot. According to a Denver newspaper article, Craig Buford drove himself to the hospital and named a 17-year-old as the shooter.
Craig Buford didn't dwell on the shooting. "He ran into the guy one time, and he said the guy was kind of scared about seeing him," Carolyn Buford said. "He told him, 'Just forget about it. It's over with."'
I know there is no statute of limitations on murder charges but is this really murder? 35 productive years of living seems too long of a time to call it murder. It think the idea of a murder charge is a bad idea.
What if you suffer injuries in a car accident but live 35 productive years and die? Do they go back and charge the drunk driver with vehicular manslaughter?
Do you think this is murder or is it a stretch of the definition of murder? What could possibly be gained in wasting resources on the case now?
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Newsweek ran article titled "It’s Survival of the Weak and Scrawny". The article supposes that hunters taking trophy size game is hurting the species of game they hunt.
Some opponents to trophy hunting claim we are thinning out the best, rather than the worst, like a predator should.
"Researchers see 'evolution in reverse' as hunters kill off prized animals with the biggest antlers and pelts."
"Selective hunting—picking out individuals with the best horns or antlers, or the largest piece of hide—works in reverse: the evolutionary loser is not the small and defenseless, but the biggest and best-equipped to win mates or fend off attackers."
To be clear, trophy hunting means deliberately setting out to take the best specimen one can find. That is all. Trophy hunting should not be confused with wanton waste. Wanton waste is where one kills an animal just for its' antlers, tusks or hide- or even worse, just for bragging rights. Trophy game is eaten. If it's not, it's wanton waste and a damn shame.
For a trophy animal to get so grand as to be a trophy, it has probably been alive long enough to have bred. It's genes have been passed on before it's taken as game. That's the short how and why to trophy game still being taken.
Wildlife management areas, public hunting lands, have all sorts of seasonal, size and number restrictions on game animals. These restrictions are designed to ensure the continuance of an all around good population. We see even more restrictions on fish, if you want to include them as game. After all, they are taken for food and trophy.
Private land, be it a managed ranch or just someone's big spread, be it where the land owner hunts or leases to others to hunt, also put rules upon the number and size of game taken. The very purpose of this is to breed the best. Good management practices are what enables more trophy animals.
Some areas may not have as good a management program as others, but that is not to the issue expressed by Newsweek.
Just because one takes a trophy animal, that doesn't mean they passed on a runt. It may be that the bulk of the population is trophy.
If I stick my hand in a bag of red marbles and blue marbles and pull out a red marble, that doesn't mean there are now more blue marbles than red marbles. There very well could be more red marbles to begin with.
And maybe the hunter who takes a trophy did pass on a runt, so the runt can grow into a trophy. Good management.
As for me, I prefer meat to trophy. Be it mammal or fish, I'm looking for food. The primary requirements are that it's healthy and big enough to be worth taking.
Predators taking the so called weakest is often misunderstood. It doesn't mean the sick, lame and undesirable. It means the one that didn't get away. A non human predator animal does not choose it's prey by picking the nastiest looking thing in the heard. It chooses the one it thinks it's most likely to get.
There is even evidence that some predators avoid the worst of the worst. Spending energy to get half a meal when the predator could spend just as much to get a full meal doesn't make sense. Eating a diseased animal could be more detrimental to the predator than not eating at all that day.
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Dawn Johnson, Obama's appointment for Official legal counsel was a story missed among the Blags, Burris, Franken....and Israel. Her appointment indicates Obama's desire for a clean divorce from Bush's ways, and the return to original interpretation of the constitution.
...whenever any government or people act lawlessly, on whatever scale, questions of atonement and remedy and prevention must be confronted. And fundamental to any meaningful answer is transparency about the wrong committed. . . .
We must resist Bush administration efforts to hide evidence of its wrongdoing through demands for retroactive immunity, assertions of state privilege, and implausible claims that openness will empower terrorists. . . .
We must avoid any temptation simply to move on. We must instead be honest with ourselves and the world as we condemn our nation's past transgressions and reject Bush's corruption of our American ideals. Our constitutional democracy cannot survive with a government shrouded in secrecy, nor can our nation's honor be restored without full disclosure. Dawn Johnsen
MUST our country atone for the sins committed....a.k.a., the Bush cabal?
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Can anyone tell me why a program that I know is running doesn't show up in the Windows Task Manager under the processes tab? If I run pslist in a dos window, the program shows up there and I can terminate it using pskill.
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China's Serious Environment Problem
China's economic progress comes at the expense of the environment. The industry economy grows quickly; but pollution becomes more serious. Unfortunately, the great majority of people here are insensitive to the pollution.
China is imitating the West's high pattern of consumerism. Chinese hope per a people owning private car and Motorcycle,living big and big house. Consuming large power source as Western nations do. The Chinese government is making effort to realize this aim.“human congestion, cars screeching and high rise flats going up.this Is political achievement". China is producing large cars and motorcycles, large cement and brick.Exploiting large coal mines and oil field, large ore mines. Building large multi-story buildings and huge highway construction patterns. Enlarging blindly more and more area of cities and towns land. Large areas of land are damaged by the exploitation of natural resources.
Car and motorcycle traffic is increasing greatly. The population in China is multitudinous (1.4-billion) is five times as the population of the US. China is short of cultivated land. In spite of this case, the Chinese government is developing the private car industry greatly. New highway construction will take up large areas of land. Traffic accidents increased greatly. In 2003 200,000 people died in traffic accidents in China.
Building development is in mass confusion. Building technique is primitive and building construction is consuming large amounts of materials. In 2003 China poured 44% of the world's cement. Building a house will consume more amounts of cement brick and decorative colorful brick in China than The Western Nation. But these houses make little use of insulation letting heat flow out in the winter and letting the heat in during the hot summer months. House repairs are more difficult, too. We Chinese are concerned about the beauty of own houses very much, but aren't so concerned about environment surrounding the house. We spend large money on our own houses, but are stingy in the cost of the protecting the environment.
Garbage removal is primitive. Chinese don't know Garbage classification. Waste in plastic bags is visible everywhere. The Chinese people like to use plastic bags and batteries just once and then throw them away. The Chinese government pays great attention to the beauty of cities. They devote large sums of money on the structural image of the city, but pay little attention to garbage classification. Large amounts of garbage is made by large consumption.
Rivers are polluted by chemical fertilizer, pesticide, herbicides, chemical synthetic detergent(washing powders), industrial waste water, human excrement and urine, and garbage. Waste water, excrement and urine flow directly into rivers without any sanitation practices. Most river water in China is unsuitable for drinking. Many Chinese are harmed by drinking water from polluted rivers.
Education in protecting environment is blank. People's understanding and concept of protecting the environment is quite low. China's people are poor, but they are not frugal. Chinese are concerned about their own health but don't care about environmental health. They like to inject and swallow more medicines and eat more wild animals, but they don't realize that the polluted food, water and air is threatening their health greatly.
China is short of cultivated land. The actual situation demands that China doesn't imitate the West's high consumption. China should develop electronic information consumption. Should develop economizing energy industries. If not, the Chinese would ruin their own environment and, further more, affect the global environment.
In short, the Chinese populous simply doesn't realize that pollution is their most dangerous enemy.
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World com
Enron
Freddie/Fannie
Madoff
white water Savings and loan
Martha Stewart
The list goes on and on and you can add to the list.
My point, what exactly is the function of the SEC? Seems this branch of oversight is without eyes or on the take? Will we learn during the Madoff case that the sec was actually involved allowing this ponzi scheme to exist and covering it up? How can so much in such a short time frmae be so messed up at such a huge dollar amount without the sec knowing something?
I say either people go to jail or we abolish the SEC and save a few bucks?
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Today Israel committed mass murder again and you have the same old people defending Israel's evil.
Lawmage:
Lets see...The Palestinians shoot rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel with the intent of killing any Jew who happens to be there when they land. Israel shoots back at those launching the rockets and mortars and CassielA tells us they are committing mass murder and deception is in their DNA...is there anyone here who still takes CassilA seriously or as anything other than an antisemite?
First of all every thinking and aware person who is fair minded asks themselves why are the Palestinians firing rockets into Israel,answer Lawmage the Palestinians land was taken from based upon some mythical diabolical lie.
It is true that the Palestinians shoot rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel with the intent of killing any Jew who happens to be there when they land.This is wrong in my view because all human life is scared but I think the Palestinians fire the rockets into Israel in the hope that the world will one day do the right thing and sort out this terrible problem in the holy land.
I could have said a lot worse than deception is in Jews DNA,I probably should not have said that but I like millions of people all over the world are angry and frustrated at Israel being able to get away with mass murder,murdering the Palestinians in the full knowledge that the west will do nothing more than pay lip service.
Lawmage:
is there anyone here who still takes CassilA is there anyone here who still takes CassilA seriously or as anything other than an antisemite or as anything other than an antisemite
People take me as seriously as they take you Lawmage.what people like me find interesting is how people like you can support a people that are supposedly gods chosen people and you say you don't believe in god.Lawmage you don't have to answer that because we know your type wants to bring in the new world order at the behest of your mates in Israel the masters of the universe.
Lawmage can I give you some advice calling people like me an antisemite is foolish and is really funny,you might as well call me a child molester,because that would be funny to and untrue.The real antisemites are the Jews that have been praying on the Jewish race giving bad and wrong leadership manipulating the Jewish race into doing the wrong things like murdering Jesus.
Lawmage unlike you I do believe in god and as I have told you before you cannot believe in god and hate Jews but what some people know is that some Jews have used the lords name in vain to do all manner of evil like persecuting and denying gods prophets,these Jews have been promised a very painful punishment
Revelation, chapter 3
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
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This isn't really about either the play or the movie--although they enter into it. But I've seen neither.
I met a former gym mom at a store the other day. Once she recognized me, she was eager to tell me about our daughters' former gymnastics coach--a man. It seems, she said, that a 'very young girl,' and her family, accused the coach of 'improper touching' of their daughter. Another set of parents said the same thing about the coach and their daughter.
Now, a "very young" girl to be coached by an accredited USGA coach is at least 5-6 yrs old and is usually coached by an accredited sub-coach. If the child shows talent, he/she is advenced to the head coach for training into a team.
But here's where doubt comes in.
Gym mom's are worse than soccer mom's. Gym mom's not only take their kids to practice, they also take their kids to the doctor for growth plate ankle fractures and spinal stress fractures. Mainly, they're back-biting and highly competitive. They'll do whatever they can to advance their child--which is, I'm sure, normal for parents who see possible future national recognition and/or full college scholarships for their kids.
What happens to the coach? First of all, he knows he can't fight it. All a child has to do is accuse. The coach's life is ruined. In this case, the coach lost his accredidation and his gym. He is barred from ever working with young children again.
I told Ellie about it, since she'd trained with the coach for about 6 yrs. without a problem. He spotted her, corrected her form, touched her body, and yelled a lot, but she never had any 'problem' with him.
Parents are very sensitive to pedophilia--as they should be. They believe their children first--as they should.
But how many coaches', teachers', priests' lives have been ruined because a child says, "He touched me, Mom?"
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Australia has a plan to save the children by implementing an ISP level filtering system that blocks child pornography, X-rated and violent material. The effort, which is being lead by Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy, has caused a great deal of controversy as they're now discussing using the system to filter peer to peer and bitTorrent networks as well.
The Minister claims he is following complaints closely, even going so far as to set up a temporary blog, but following and addressing such complaints are two different things. Both the Australian government and the media have been pretty quiet about the great internet filter and many Aussie's don't even know the program exists. People who are aware of it rightfully believe it will go down as one of the most ill conceived plans ever introduced by the government. The Australian Communications and Media Authority ran several trials and found that the filters were inaccurate and caused speed problems, among other things. Further, in an open letter to the Minister, SAGE-AU(System Administrators Guild of Australia) states that the internet filters will block at least 1 out of every 12 legitimate websites and that it will decrease the internet speeds up to nearly 90%. You can read more on why internet filtering is a horrible idea here: http://tinyurl.com/6vnaqw
The technology used to filter bitTorrent networks is obviously not proven. Blizzard uses torrents to distribute their World of Warcraft patches, so it will be interesting to see if the company slaps Australia with a lawsuit for messing with their revenue stream.
It's obvious that the Australian government is rather indifferent to the concept of freedom of speech and it's sad and disturbing to see a supposedly "free" and democratic nation go to such lengths to control the content on the internet. Hopefully it will turn out to be an epic fail and other nations don't start following their example.
http://libertus.net/censor/ispfiltering-au-govplan.html
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I'm having a problem with windows mail. A few days ago it deleted all the sent mail I had saved and now deletes them automatically the second I log off. It has now also begun to delete my received messages if I so much as move to a different folder.
How do I access the windows mail settings so I can change the above?
Thanks.
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Luke 2:11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
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17 of December my 16-years-old daughter disappered. Pray for her, please.
She always came home in time. She passed her exam, met her boy-friend and went to tube (undergroung) to come home. Nobody has seen her till then.
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On 12-19-08, three Russian naval ships docked in Havana, Cuba. Cuban President Raul Castro met on Monday with Russian Vice Admiral Vladimir Koraliov. The destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and two support vessels are part of a larger Latin American tour which has made stops in Venezuela and Nicaragua. This is the first time the Russian navy have sailed through the Panama Canal since WWII.
Despite Venezuela and Nicaragua being less than allies of the US right now and US Cuban relations not being the best either, US officials say they do not view Russia's maneuvers as a military threat. It may well be a bit of posturing though. the US is conducting various actions in parts of Europe and the Black Sea that Russia's considers it's turf. So, OK, Russia cruises the Gulf of Mexico.
Russian and Cuban officials say the meeting are "in an environment of friendship ... that characterizes relations between the people, governments and armed forces" [of Cuba and Russia]. I can see that as well. Russia and Cuba have been allies with quite a history between them.
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Ok, this story is two years old and wasn't picked up by the national media, but the family just filed suit against the police department and I think it deserves to be reviewed.
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2008/12/galveston_false_arrest.php
It was a little before 8 at night when the breaker went out at Emily Milburn's home in Galveston. She was busy preparing her children for school the next day, so she asked her 12-year-old daughter, Dymond, to pop outside and turn the switch back on.
As Dymond headed toward the breaker, a blue van drove up and three men jumped out rushing toward her. One of them grabbed her saying, "You're a prostitute. You're coming with me."
Dymond grabbed onto a tree and started screaming, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy." One of the men covered her mouth. Two of the men beat her about the face and throat.
As it turned out, the three men were plain-clothed Galveston police officers who had been called to the area regarding three white prostitutes soliciting a white man and a black drug dealer.
The police in question were told to look for three white prostitutes in an area several blocks away. Her father came out and apparently attacked the men who were attacking his daughter (who is black) that was clinging to a tree. This poor girl, an honor student, was hospitalized. Three weeks later she was arrested at her school for assault on a police officer.
While I find it absolutely incredible that the District Attorneys office decided to file charges against this girl and her father, I find the comments from the officers' lawyer even more stunning.
He states:
"It’s unfortunate that sometimes police officers have to use force against people who are using force against them. And the evidence will show that both these folks violated the law and forcefully resisted arrest,"
I understand the guy's a lawyer and is there to defend those officers, but who really buys that nonsense? These officers wrongfully attacked a 12 year old child in her own front yard and instead of letting the issue go with an apology, they decided to make an ass out of the city and still press charges against her and her father.
I have a rather low opinion of law enforcement and prosecutors in this country. I think they're forever over-stepping their bounds and are rarely held accountable for their actions.
I suppose such is life in the police state we live in. And it truly is a police state. Both those officers and the father are extremely lucky the father wasn't armed, because if I looked out my window and saw three men trying to abduct my 12 year old daughter, I most certainly would have barged out there with guns ablaze.
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