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Ulster are to play host to the Scarlets in their RaboDirect PRO12 semi-final after coming from behind to defeat Cardiff Blues 37-13.
Ulster will play host to the Scarlets in their RaboDirect PRO12 semi-final after coming from behind to defeat Cardiff Blues 37-13 at Ravenhill.
Tries from Ruan Pienaar and Robbie Diack, along with a brace by Andrew Trimble, helped a workmanlike Ulster achieve the home semi-final.
This was a fragmented and disjointed encounter, but it will matter little to the Irish side, who have led the league for the majority of this campaign.
A scrappy and uninspiring win it may have been, but the performance was testament to the tenacity and efficiency of the men in white. Ulster, who led throughout the evening, thoroughly deserved their win, but a resilient and physical Cardiff frustrated them every step of the way.
The game got off to an industrious start, with Ulster driving energetically at the Cardiff defence. Even incoming Lions looked jittery, however, as Tommy Bowe dropped a routine ball early on.
Ulster were caught napping on the four minute mark, when centre Dafydd Hewitt sauntered unopposed through the home defence. Rhys Patchell converted to give the visitors a seven-point lead.
Ulster responded in the correct fashion, and a powerful scrum earned them a deserved penalty on six minutes. Pienaar missed the resulting kick, however.
The South African playmaker made amends two minutes later, seizing upon a calamitous error in the Blues' defence to score under the posts. He subsequently converted his effort to make it 7-7.
Ulster seemed to have regained the momentum after a nervy start, but a succession of handling errors undid their hard work. A sublime kick by Pienaar on thirteen minutes encamped the hosts in the Blues' corner to set up perfect field-position. From the ensuing lineout, Ulster failed to control possession, however.
Cardiff were beginning to accumulate some decent possession, and an Ulster infringement saw Patchell restore the Blues' lead on 20 minutes to make it 7-10.
Pienaar secured parity for the league leaders on 25 minutes, following a high tackle on replacement prop Declan Fitzpatrick.
The impressive Patchell regained his side's lead on 27 minutes with a wonderful drop-goal from a good 30 metres to make it 10-13 in favour of the Welshmen.
Cardiff continued their recovery from a sluggish start, and were assisted by a string of Ulster mistakes. The hosts should have secured a penalty shortly thereafter, when Bowe seemed to be taken out with the line at his mercy. But referee Paterson waved play on.
Ulster made a creditable start to the second period, with Nick Williams and his back row colleagues battering the Cardiff defence. Their improvement earned its reward on 42 minutes, when Trimble barged over for a try in the corner. Piennaar converted to make it 17-13 to the Ulstermen.
Pienaar extended the lead even further a minute later, with a well-taken penalty from just inside his own half. Ulster's talisman extended the advantage on 49 minutes to earn his side a deserved ten-point cushion.
Ulster's intensity had increased markedly from an inconsistent first half effort. Cardiff, despite their best efforts, appeared unable to respond.
Trimble scored again on 52 minutes, after winning a foot race with the Cardiff cover. Pienaar converted to make it 30-13. The introduction of Paddy Jackson for the second half aided the crispness of Ulster's midfield passing.
Ulster were now dominating territory and possession, through the deft kicking of Jackson and Pienaar.
The inevitable raft of substitutions, combined with the dreadful weather, disrupted the fluidity of the game, but if truth were told, Ulster were very much in the ascendancy by the final quarter of the match.
Robbie Diack completed the rout on 77 minutes when he crashed over from close range. Cardiff's defence, meanwhile, was not assisted by the sin binning of Hewitt for a rather cynical intervention.
Despite numerous opportunities, Ulster were unable to increase the winning margin, however.
For Cardiff, the loss punctuates a disappointing season for the club, and the Welsh regions in general. For Ulster, on the other hand, this emphatic win guarantees the home semi-final.
The scorers:
For Ulster:
Tries: Pienaar, Trimble 2, Diack
Con: Pienaar 4
Pen: Pienaar 3
For Cardiff Blues:
Try: Hewitt
Con: Patchell
Pen: Patchell
Drop: Patchell
Ulster: 15 Jared Payne, 14 Andrew Trimble, 13 Darren Cave, 12 Stuart Olding, 11 Tommy Bowe, 10 Ruan Pienaar, 9 Paul Marshall, 8 Nick Williams, 7 Chris Henry, 6 Robbie Diack, 5 Iain Henderson, 4 Johann Muller, 3 John Afoa, 2 Rory Best, 1 Callum Black.
Replacements: 16 Nigel Brady, 17 Tom Court, 18 Declan Fitzpatrick, 19 Dan Tuohy, 20 Sean Doyle, 21 Paddy Jackson, 22 Michael Allen, 23 Peter Nelson.
Cardiff Blues: 15 Dan Fish, 14 Alex Cuthbert, 13 Gavin Evans (c), 12 Dafydd Hewitt, 11 Harry Robinson, 10 Rhys Patchell, 9 Lewis Jones, 8 Michael Paterson, 7 Josh Navidi, 6 Luke Hamilton, 5 Lou Reed, 4 Bradley Davies, 3 Scott Andrews, 2 Kristian Dacey, 1 Taufa'ao Filise.
Replacements: 16 Marc Breeze, 17 Thomas Davies, 18 Campese Ma'afu, 19 Teofilo Paulo, 20 Macauley Cook, 21 Liam Davies, 22 Ceri Sweeney, 23 Tom James.
Referee: Neil Paterson (Scotland)
Assistant referees: Sean Gallagher (Ireland), Nigel Correll (Ireland)
Television match official: Simon McDowell (Ireland)
Citing Commissioner: Peter Ferguson (Ireland)
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Say this much: The picture for gold's price looks brighter than it has in some time.
That's the view from the chartists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires' Tomi Kilgore, who see the metal's stronger price lately as a sign that the metal is bottoming out. The metal is still down about 20% on the year, even after Monday's rise, the biggest single-day gain in over a year.
Perhaps lending bulls a hand in the short run: Gold has risen over the August-to-October timespan in 10 of the last 12 years.
Kilgore talks to Mark Newton, chief technical analyst at Greywolf Execution Partners, who says the recent modest gold rally "is the beginning of a [longer-term] bottoming process." One reason (per Kilgore) technicians might think this: "[P]rices have cleared the top of a month-long consolidation range, also about $1,300, which indicates to chart watchers that a short-term bottom has been seen."
Kilgore also finds a gold bear who's not ready to challenge the metal's sudden strength. Adam Grimes, chief investment officer at Waverly Advisors, tells DJ he views the metal as moving in a "longer-term pullback," but today's strength could last a while. "There's nothing to do right here," Grimes tells Kilgore.
Also helping out: The bears sure look spent. That's according to last week's Commodity Futures Trading Commission data, which showed big traders in futures and options "culled their bets on lower gold futures and options prices by 24% in the week through Tuesday."
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A teenager arrested last week with an unloaded assault rifle at a Las Vegas high school is being linked with another local teen who federal authorities say proclaimed himself a militia leader, stockpiled guns and explosives and talked about staging a mass casualty attack.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that investigators believe 18-year-olds Jake Howell and Steven Matthew Fernandes are friends and former students at Northwest Career and Technical Academy.
That's the campus where police say Howell was arrested Dec. 21 with the gun in his vehicle.
Clark County School District police say Howell had ammunition, but made no threats and caused no disturbance before his arrest on possessing a dangerous weapon on school property charges.
Fernandes has been in federal custody since his arrest in September.
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Posted on 08/15/2011 9:14:56 AM PDT by freespirited
If a small group of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have their way at a conference this week, pedophiles themselves could play a role in removing pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Associations bible of mental illnesses the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), set to undergo a significant revision by 2013. Critics warn that their success could lead to the decriminalization of pedophilia.
The August 17 Baltimore conference is sponsored by B4U-ACT, a group of pro-pedophile mental health professionals and sympathetic activists. According to the conference brochure, the event will examine ways in which minor-attracted persons [pedophiles] can be involved in the DSM 5 revision process and how the popular perceptions of pedophiles can be reframed to encourage tolerance.
Researchers from Harvard University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Louisville, and the University of Illinois will be among the panelists at the conference.
B4U-ACT has been active attacking the APAs definition of pedophilia in the run up to the conference, denouncing its description of minor-attracted persons as inaccurate and misleading because the current DSM links pedophilia with criminality.
It is based on data from prison studies, which completely ignore the existence of those who are law-abiding, said Howard Kline, science director of B4U-ACT, in a July 25, 2011 press release. The proposed new diagnostic criteria specify ages and frequencies with no scientific basis whatsoever.
The press release announced a letter the group sent to the APA criticizing its approach, and inviting its leaders to participate in the August 17 conference. The DSM should meet a higher standard than that, Kline continued. We can help them, because we are the people they are writing about.
APA spokeswoman Erin Connors told The Daily Caller in an emailed statement that her organization was not participating in the conference and would not comment on its aims.
Child advocate Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting professor at Liberty Universitys School of Law, said the conference is part of a strategy to condition people into accepting pedophiles.
The first thing they do is to get the public to divest from thinking of what the offender does criminally, to thinking of the offenders emotional state, to think of him as thinking of his emotional state, [and] to empathize and sympathize, Reisman said. You dont change the nation in one fell swoop; you have to change it by conditioing. The aim is to get them [pedophiles] out of prison.
According to Reisman, empirical data show that pedophiles typically molest many children before finally being caught.
The data on paroled pedophiles confirms these predators repeat their crimes against children and are known to have escalated them even to murder, Reisman said.
Several speakers at the August 17 conference, including B4U-ACT director of operations Dr. Richard Kramer and conference keynote speaker Dr. Fred Berlin, of the Johns Hopkins University, have actively opposed sex offender notification laws.
What purpose does calling someone a pervert or predator serve anyway, other than to express contempt and hatred? Kramer wrote in a March 14, 2009 blog entry on the website ReformSexOffenderLaws.org. How is this productive? It certainly doesnt protect children. I would urge all SO [sex offender] activists to listen to their own message: Stop buying into and promoting false stereotypes. Stop demonizing a whole class of people, and start learning the facts.
Berlin has similarly compared societys reaction to pedophilia to that of homosexuality prior to the landmark 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision that decriminalized sodomy.
B4U-ACTs own website puts Berlins views front and center. Just as has been the case historically with homosexuality, he writes, society is currently addressing the matter of pedophilia with a balance that is far more heavily weighted on the side of criminal justice solutions than on the side of mental health solutions.
Berlins opposition to, and even noncompliance with, Marylands sex offender notification law drew scrutiny from former Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran in the early 1990s.
In 1990 The Baltimore Sun reported that Berlin refused to report pedophiles under his care who were actively molesting children.
His empathy was with the pedophile and the pederast, not with the child victim, Reisman told TheDC. He refused to report the criminal to law enforcement because he said they were in treatment.
Taxpayers pay for treatment and they are molesting kids. They go out to Berlin, and he gets paid by us [the taxpayers] for therapy.
Reisman also claims that mental health practitioners like Berlin want to place pedophilia on a par with neuroses or clinical depression, and counsel pedophiles rather than incarcerate them.
The scientific defense of pedophiles follows on the natural outgrowth of [Alfred Kinseys] 1948 book Sexual Behavior of the Human Male where he describes the rapes of infants and children, as would any pedophile, as orgasmic, Reisman said.
Reisman warns that declassifying pedophilia as a mental illness could result in the repeal of child-protection statutes because the law always follows the input of psychiatry. She points to psychiatrys normalization of sadomasochism, exhibitionism, and homosexuality as precedents.
[I]t has been carried from the university to the law, going back to Kinsey, Reisman said.
And other conference panelists such as Jacob Breslow, a graduate student in gender research at the London School of Economics, plan to discuss how political activists can exploit removing pedophilia from the next edition of the DSM for their own ends.
Allowing for a form of non-diagnosable minor attraction is exciting, as it creates a sexual or political identity by which activists, scholars and clinicians can better understand Minor Attracted Persons, Breslow writes in a summary of his upcoming August 17 presentation.
This understanding may displace the stigma, fear and objection that is naturalized as being attached to Minor Attracted Persons and may alter the terms by which non-normative sexualities are known. Dr. Fred Berlin could not be reached for comment.
They took out homosexuality. "It's just about love."
Obama's "Safe School Czar" Kevin
"use a condom" Jennings
From the Washington Times...
EDITORIAL: At the president's pleasure
'Safe school czar' encouraged child sex with an older man
September 28, 2009
A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an "older man." At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse. That former teacher, Kevin Jennings, is President Obama's "safe school czar". It's getting hard to keep track of all of this president's problematic appointments. Clearly, the process for vetting White House employees has broken down.
In this one case in which Mr. Jennings had a real chance to protect a young boy from a sexual predator, he not only failed to do what the law required but actually encouraged the relationship.
According to Mr. Jennings' own description in a new audiotape discovered by Fox News, the 15-year-old boy met the "older man" in a "bus station bathroom" and was taken to the older man's home that night. When some details about the case became public, Mr. Jennings threatened to sue another teacher who called his failure to report the statutory rape "unethical." Mr. Jennings' defenders asserted that there was no evidence that he was aware the student had sex with the older man.
However, the new audiotape contradicts this claim. In 2000, Mr. Jennings gave a talk to the Iowa chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, an advocacy group that promotes homosexuality in schools. On the tape, Mr. Jennings recollected that he told the student to make sure "to use a condom" when he was with the older man. That he actively encouraged the relationship is reinforced by Mr. Jennings' own description in his 1994 book, "One Teacher in 10." In that account, the teacher boasts how he allayed the student's concerns about the relationship to such a degree that the 15-year-old "left my office with a smile on his face that I would see every time I saw him on the campus for the next two years, until he graduated."
Mr. Jennings' denials about these events reveal a lack of remorse. He has not admitted that he made mistakes in this case, and he now refuses to answer any questions about the scandal. Don't forget, this is a presidential appointee we're talking about. Mr. Obama should make clear what his standards are for public servants serving at the pleasure of the president. Encouraging and covering up man-boy sexual activity are serious offenses. The White House should force Mr. Jennings to come clean.
The DSM is BS; pseudoscience at best, at worst a criminal conspiracy.
Outrage. This cannot stand.
Like completely law abiding illegal aliens?
Something about inmates and asylums comes to mind, but I can't quite remember it...
Pedophilia and homosexuality are, like nymphomania, personality disorders manifesting as sexual compulsions.
Psychiatry has wimped out. They no longer want to define "normal". It means accepting the concept of morality, what is "right" and "wrong".
Pedophilia is just a form of homosexuality, and it wasn't that long ago when the homosexuals were assuring us that the homosexual agenda wouldn't lead us down the road towards normalizing more sexual perversion. Homosexuality is a world of lies.
Perhaps I'm just a silly, old-fashioned and narrow-minded kinda guy who clings to "outdated notions" of what's "normal" and what's right or wrong, but I'll tell you what: if one of these perverts ever touches my kids, I will blow holes in them so large there won't be enough left to bury. Got that, perverts?
I'm wearing my shocked face...
The sexual, social, and criminal dysfunction arising from rampant pedophilia would be a financial bonanza for the APA membership. This is yet another reason why we need to decouple the armed monopoly of state licensing from the medical domain. Allowing morality be the province of medicine instead of churches gave the Cultural Marxists their most powerful weapon with which to destroy the nation; it is the foundation for the destruction of childhood education.
I am too. I cannot even get my head around the concept that people would think that sexual activities with an infant would be acceptable.
They may not say this here, but it is fair. Okay. You think sex with 16 year olds is fine. How about 15? Yes? How about 14? 13? 12? No? Okay, what is the difference between a 13 year old and a 12 year old? I suspect they would not balk at all until at the very minimum the age of six. Just a gut feeling. If you say "Okay, what is the difference between a 7 and 6 year old? Why do you draw the line there?"
This is beyond appalling. It is sick, sick, sick. If we, as a society, cannot deal with people like this in a uniform, united manner, we are lost, completely lost.
I just cannot believe this.
Even mohammed drew the line at 9...
How can you be a law-abiding pedophile?
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Your comments diminish the enormous, sometimes generational, damage heterosexual pedophilia does to our society. Regardless of the orientation, pedophilia is about evil predators.
My undergrad degree was in Psychology/Sociology, and I worked for 5 years at a Psychiatric Hospital. I left the field because of what was happening in it, and that was 15 years ago. There are a lot of people working in that field that are on the wrong side of the lines taped on the floor, if you know what I mean.
It's not illegal to want to bugger children. It's also not illegal to want to rob banks.
'Actor Corey Feldman: Pedophilia #1 Problem for Child Stars, Led to Death of Corey Haim'
Why does this guy look like the type to be cruising highway rest stops and school playgrounds in a Chevy van?
The National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes?
They had better remove the 2nd amendment before they enact this, because as the father of three if the law refuses to protect my children then I by God will, even if it means having to give the wife one last kiss before they take me out in cuffs.
This is unacceptable.
"Your comments diminish the enormous, sometimes generational, damage heterosexual pedophilia does to our society."
Read it however you want. My comment excuses no form of pedophilia. You diminish the very true point that pedophilia is quite often be linked to homosexuality, expressed or repressed. You also ignore the fact that homosexuals have advanced their agenda by diminishing the effect it has on normalizing all sexual perversions. ...I'm not the person you should be lecturing if you are sincere about fighting pedophilia in our culture.
Hey, it's just a "sexual preference," right?
And when they are convicted, shove pedophiles into `general population'. Problem soon eliminated.
"It would be better that a great millstone be hung around their necks, and they be drowned in the depths of the sea."
Remember: Politics-not science-decided that homosexuals are normal
The 1972 Gay Rights Platform
# 7 - Repeal of all laws governing the age of sexual consent.
Maybe I'm just showing my age here, but I can recall a time when anyone even attempting to legitimize pedophilia would have been run out of town on a rail. It's just stunning that anyone would think that this is alright.
It would be better that a great millstone be hung around their necks, and they be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Maybe in these rough economic times I should invest in millstones. It looks like a growth industry.
I say that with a tear in my eye.
If they are molesting children or creating a market for child pornography, they are not law-abiding. The only way a pedophile can be law-abiding is if they do absolutely nothing toward fulfilling those urges. In which case, we might consider that the shame and stigma may be the only thing holding them in check. Let's not do away with it.
Even seeing this, no matter how small the group of proponents, saddens and depresses me in ways I can't even describe.
You are spot on in your assessment.
Why are you people surprised?
the whole concept of pedophilia being deviant and damaging behavior is currently mostly an american idea. Most of the world does not think there is anything wrong with such behavior. Just as most of the world does not believe there is anything wrong with multiple wives, slavery, prostitution, concubines, mistresses, extortion, blood feuds, nepotism, tyranny, dictatorships, fascism, communism, wife beating, rape, torture, etc.
There is a very unique sequence of empires and cultures and events that led up to the american set of values. The sequence went like this:
hebrew bible
greek democracy
greek empire
greek bible
roman republic
roman empire
st peter
latin bible
viking conquest
muslim conquest
spanish inquisition
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't one have to be tried and convicted first in order to be considered a pedophile? If so, then, someone please explain the concept of a law-abiding pedophile!!!
Logical progression.
Once people replaced emotion with reason, nothing is taboo.
It was Gramscied. Subverted into something totally different.
For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members in Kandahar and other southern towns are bacha baz, the term for an older man with a boy lover. Literally it means "boy player." The men like to boast about it. "Having a boy has become a custom for us," Enayatullah, a 42-year-old in Baghlan province, told a Reuters reporter. "Whoever wants to show off should have a boy."http://www.debbieschlussel.com/20825/must-watch-the-bacha-bazi-boys-video-on-afghanistans-dancing-boys-how-muslims-pimp-young-boys-for-gang-rape/
And our hand-picked Prime Minister, Afghanistans Hamid Karzai, actually allows this pimping and human trafficking of poor, young boys to devout Muslims to gang rape them. And thats after they make the boys wear womens clothing and dance for them.
Any country that permits an organization like NAMBLA to exist has a serious problem recognizing the difference between right and wrong .... good and evil. NAMBLA advocates homosexual pedophilia. If there were a NAMBLA office in my neighborhood I think there would be a very good chance that it would be fire bombed.
I'd have told ya that for free thirty years ago.
I know...
Yet another reason to turn Afghanistan into a parking lot.
We need to print the name and address of everyone who is pushing this. They need to fear for their lives.
The truth is victimizers are about 90% male. Females, by a margin of approximately 3-to-1, are the victims. Clearly, homosexuality is overrepresented compared to their percentage of population, but again, the orientation misses the point of recognizing the underlying sickness.
Pedophilia is predatory behavior.
NAMBLA is using the gay agenda political playbook to normalize their behavior. They are trying to draw a moral equivalency between "same sex attraction" and "inter-generational attraction." They use romantic language to disguise the ugly truth. Pedophiles are wolves preying on a flock of sheep. Concentrating on the orientation of the victimizer and the victim, although enlightening and useful, will not lead to recognizing the mental illness driving the behavior.
Yeah. The more I hear about Afghan culture, the more I classify them with Palestinians: bad cultures with no redeeming qualities, not deserving of a penny of American money or a drop of American blood.
Yup, deviants have been defining morality in this country ever since a homosexual pedophile told the nation what constituted "normal" sexual behavior in the 1950s, as funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
We all know the environmentalists are just an arm of Marxism. The psychiatric profession is also an arm of the Left. As the Left gains more control they will lean on psychiatrist to help them enforce their ideology. People whom they can't easily put in prison they will declare mentally ill and hospitalize and drug them. This is common in Communists countries.
Tall tree, short rope....
This is where the culture war turns bloody.
The term 'orientation' is a made up left-wing term they use to try and promote the myth of homosexuality being a natural inborn quality.
Homosexuality is a behavior and a corruption of natural inborn sexuality.
To use the term 'orientation' as defined by the left-wing is to help their agenda.
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Skip to comments.Argument over loud music led to teen's fatal shooting, cops say(Trayvon Martin redux?)
Posted on 11/27/2012 10:23:53 PM PST by Arthurio
A Brevard County man remained in jail late Tuesday, accused of shooting a teenager dead in an argument over loud music.
Michael David Dunn, 45, and his girlfriend were in Jacksonville Friday for Dunn's son's wedding when they stopped at a convenience store, Jacksonville sheriff's Lt. Rob Schoonover said.
Jordan Russell Davis, 17, and several other teenagers were sitting in a sport utility vehicle in the parking lot when Dunn pulled up next to them in a car and asked them to turn down their music, Schoonover said.
Jordan and Dunn exchanged words, and Dunn pulled a gun and shot eight or nine times, striking Jordan twice, Schoonover said. Jordan was sitting in the back seat. No one else was hurt.
Dunn's attorney Monday said her client acted responsibly and in self-defense. She did not elaborate.
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Very poor gun control.
Dunn's a little high strung.
Thank a lot for muddying the waters jack wagon.
Not everything is a "Trayvon Martin", where the guy is leaped on and is on the ground fighting for his life, and is already bloody and battered as he desperately squeezes off a shot that saves his life.
It isn't fair to Zimmerman and to extreme self-defense cases, to keep using this "Trayvon" thing so casually and as a catch phrase.
Good point.
We don't know what kind of a weapon (if any) Davis pulled on Dunn. Dunn claims self-defense, but the story is silent about what he was defending against Is this silence intended to make the hooded corpse into another supposedly innocent boy victim?
Not guilty.
Yeah, we don't know anything yet.
This wasn't a fact based list, or description, it is just a vague outline of something involving a shooting.
We don't know squat, so it is too early to be drawing up scenarios, taking sides on various scenarios, and drifting into hardened positions as though we have a side to take, we don't, we don't know anything at this point.
But you know how these threads go.
#1 is a biggie.
Loud music at home? I call the cops.
Loud music at a convenience store? WTF?
Notice the pleasant, almost smiling demeanor on the victim as compared to the sullen, frowning face
of the shooter.
Not to mention the victim's first name being used exclusively in the article while only referencing
the shooter by his last name. Pretty easy to see how this story is going to be framed by the MSM....
....regardless of the facts.
Gotta feed the narrative.
Yeah. You can bet the Brown Shirt Media will have this story out front coast to coast. And on the satellites by dawn. Still nothing from them on Christian and his girlfriend for what, five years nw?
There must be more to the story. Looks like he's lawyered up for now. His GF was inside the store, so he couldn't just leave. If he couldn't shut out most of the noise by just keeping his windows rolled up, it must have been really loud.
Dunno the details but yer mobile and it's a big wedding night.
It smells fishy.
True enough.
Gunning someone down at the quick stop and then fleeing the scene and spending the night in a motel, doesn't help one to appear like a man with a clean case of self-defense.
Well, I know how he feels. Many are the times I've wished I owned a bazooka.
Gunning someone down at the quick stop and then fleeing the scene and spending the night in a motel, doesnt help one to appear like a man with a clean case of self-defense
how is that stay and talk defense working out for zimmerman?
Well, that wasn't the smartest post I've seen today.
Remember those massive boomboxes, that guys used to carry around, that was a strange phenomena.
There is either drug abuse or alcohol abuse, by the shooter....in my humble opinion.
On the other hand, all we have here (based on the facts out so far) is that one person fired at another when words were exchanged due to loud music. I'm sorry, but that has nothing to do with The T/Z scenario unless there are new facts that I haven't seen yet. This looks like a prosecutor's wet dream for murder. Disliking loud music, and a war of words, doesn't give someone the right to take a life.
Now, if it was a shootout, or the black kid drew a weapon on the shooter, that's another kettle of fish. But so far all we have is multiple shots from one person to the other vehicle. It's not looking too good for this guy unless evidence comes out showing it was a legitimate shooting.
Bazooka noise is probably way worse than a stupid car stereo. Even a magfull of nines are...
Well, I hope he did this AFTER the wedding.
Sometimes you go to a convenience store and see something you don't like in the parking lot. Could be loud music, could be a couple doing a severe make-out session, could be a bunch of louts drinking beer, etc.
So, buy what you came to buy and get out of there. I don't see an upside to confronting strangers and shooting and killing them over their obnoxious behavior in a parking lot.
I just don't.
Of course it was deafening....enough bass to rattle the store windows. That's their way; it's all about them, you see.
See/hear it all the time.
Recently, my lady friend's boss (they run a security company; he's a former 30-year detective) pulls into a convenience store, hears the same.....but there's a little toddler strapped in that vehicle with the windows rolled up, baby mama inside the store. The kid was literally being tortured.
He called the cops. She was arrested on the spot.
I've been waiting for this to happen. This is not merely loud music, This is WAY beyond that. It's extreme low frequency vibration that carries for blocks. And nobody is doing anything to stop it. Want to see what it looks like? Just google images "Subwoofers in Cars". I knew somebody was gonna get hurt for this - eventually.
A wannabe gangster meets a REAL gangster?
You were waiting for someone to shoot 8 bullets at people who had no guns because their music was too loud?
Anyone who uses self-defense here is trying awfully hard to find it. Not saying it is not possible but nothing in this story points to it.
It's a mug shot. Should the guy be smiling? What a field day they'd have with that.
Doesn't sound like self defense, but we'll have to wait to hear more.
That said, all the lefty sites are making this about "genocide" and "mass shootings of unarmed blacks". I never, ever, ever read anything on those sites about the rampant black on white violence.
"I never, ever, ever read anything on those sites about the rampant black on white violence."
That is why I couldn't care less why this guy shot this kid; let somebody else care. I wouldn't do it or defend it, but I literally couldn't care less. It is like reading about 2 life forms on Jupiter battling it out.
I never could understand why these a-holes think other people want tolisten to their sh*tty music, but they play it at deafening volume. It can actually make your car shake sitting next to it at a light.
They get all upset if you ask them to tone it down, like it is a personal insult.
The best thing is to avoid their neighborhoods, but sometimes you cannot. I have found that Bluegrass music played back at them is a bit like shoving a ice pick in their ears.LMAO
Well, did they turn the music down or not? I can't believe the article doesn't even say.
Hey! You can't blame the man.
When I hear blaring African fertility rites shaking my car and home I go crazy.
It is illegal.
Thank you.
I think this is not a Zimmerman matter i.e. where the prosecutor went out of her way to charge a crime where there is not one. Incidentally, she would be the prosecutor in this case too as the incident happened in Duval County.
From what has come out so far, it sounds like 2nd degree murder. I hope it does not drag the whole issue of stand your ground down with it because it is not so based on what has come out so far.
While I agree with the notion the Ramar of the Jungle music is aggravating, it is not justification to kill anyone not posing a real threat. The shooting happened in a section of town which is definitely not "the hood".
Perhaps I missed something in the article, but I didn't see where it said the shooter had a concealed carry permit.
Other than the fact that the published photo is one of the victim is wearing a hoodie, how is this Trayvon Martin redux?
Unless there are other pictures of the victim at age 8.
Big difference in fighting for your life at night while getting your head banged against the sidewalk and told you are going to be killed and blowing some fool away for turning up the volume on Snoop Dog.
Looks like Dunn's lawyer is already badmouthing Zimmerman in the media. This Dunn guy is probably going to do 25 to life. Nice wedding day memory for his son.
I wonder if verbal threats constitute a reason for lethal force?
I'm sure the conversation didnt' go like this:
Dunn: Please turn down your stereo.
Russel: No sir!
Cops are the only ones alowed to shoot menacing unarmed people and restrained dogs.
We are only getting the side put out by Jordan's friends. Dunn says he saw a gun in the SUV, and the SUV fled the scene after he shot.
If this is true, Dunn did not have any certainty whether he hit anyone or not. If a gun had been pulled on him, the other people in the SUV had plenty of time to dispose of it before the police searched the car.
Here is a link to a Gannet story where Dunn's girlfreind says that the SUV was gone from the convenience store when she came back outside.
What was left out, was that Dunn claims that he was threatened with a gun, and that the SUV with the people who threatened him fled the scene after he shot. If this is so he could not be certain anyone was even hit, there was no "scene" left for him to show to police, and there was plenty of time and opportunity for Jordan's friends to sanitize the SUV and concoct a story that there never was any threat made against Dunn.
I hope that the police have separated all the people who were in the SUV with Jordan, and got statements under oath from all of them. If a story was concocted in order to cove for criminal actions, you can usually determine it this way. Inconsistancies will creep in. Most groups of people cannot agree to enough details to hold a cover story together.
I wonder how much later they reported the shooting. Did they drive Jordan directly to the hospital? That is what you would ordinarily expect.
The police tend to take the first people reporting as the "victim". Dunn had a lot to consider. There was no body or vehicle to even show that there was a shooting. If he involves the police, he is likely to miss his son's wedding. He does not even know if anyone has been hit.
He should have reported it, to get his side on the record, even if it made him late for the wedding, because criminals often make up stories that put them in the best possible light.
Jordan's friends in the SUV had lots of time to consider their story, and plenty of motive to come up with a good one and to sanitize the scene to their advantage.
They had the whole Trayvon Martin episode to act as an example of what they should concoct.
Well, yeah. It's exactly the same narrative. Forget the pesky details. Mean old white man with scowl shoots doe eyed honor student. Racism!
This incident, however, is not in any way similar to the Trayvon/Zimmerman shooting. The shooter fired 8-9 times into an occupied vehicle, claiming that he did so because he felt threatened. Well, he needs to prove that he had a sufficient reason to feel threatened, because so far it looks like there was an argument (with expletives and threats most probably) and things got out of hand, and his response was to settle a verbal argument with gunfire. All that is coming out so far is his lawyer is claiming it was 'self defense' (and per the several articles I've read saying nothing more, with one saying there were negative comments about the Zimmerman case). Was there a gun in the other car? There could have been an RPG-7 with a miniaturized thermobaric warhead, but without evidence of its presence it was never there.
As it stands, even without the media getting involved, this man shot at a highschool kid because of an argument over loud music. Even without any extraneous 'acceleration' that is quite damming. Throw in the media coming in on the tailends of the Trayvon/Zimmerman case, with the same prosecutor, and this man is finished.
Add to this that he left the scene, which would make sense if he was leaving (as he claims ...or was it some FReeper here) to avoid the chance that the people in the car were 'thugs' and more thugs would be coming. That would have made sense ...had he left to go straight to a police station and report what happened. However, that's not what he did, was it? He leaves and goes to a motel. His number is jotted down by witnesses. Witnesses who saw a shooting where the shooter appears to have fled the scene (and I use 'appears' loosely since it does seem that he actually fled the scene). And he only turns himself up when the story hits the evening news, with a chance that witness descriptions of the shooter/vehicle came up. Also not good.
The only way this guy is avoiding prison time is if CCTV shows the occupants of the other vehicle brandishing a weapon. Somehow I doubt such evidence will come up, and I also doubt it happened that way. This was probably a 'nice person' who was having a bad day and events just pushed him over the edge, and he responded in a manner that I believe he wishes he didn't. Unfortunately in the eyes of the law he killed someone over what appears to be verbal disagreement due to loud music.
Completely dissimilar to the Trayvon/Zimmerman case, and to be honest I would say that prosecutors pray for such cases because they are open and shut for the most part. Unless some CCTV evidence comes out this man will be spending a lot of time warming up to Bubba and Tyrone.
Bottom line: Without evidence to the contrary, what you have here is a person who shot at a car based on a verbal argument. This is different from the Zimmerman case, and different from the other case of the black lady who shot a white man that was attacking her car. In both of those cases a good lawyer can mount an effective defense. In this case? I hope he is a praying man, because only a veritable miracle would have a chance of saving him. This is a prosecutor's dream case.
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But as he reflected on his first match as England's permanent Test captain, he could not get away from the fact that his tour de force had come to nought in a nine-wicket defeat.
Cook's endeavours, and those of Matt Prior too in a sixth-wicket stand of 157, could not paper over the cracks created by others' deficiencies or erase the consequence of a 330-run first-innings deficit.
He acknowledged that truth, and spoke candidly about his own mixed feelings, after a match in which the most significant performances were Indian - Cheteshwar Pujara's double-century, a destructive hundred from Virender Sehwag and Pragyan Ojha's nine-wicket haul.
"I'm bitterly disappointed," said Cook, who had arrived with cautious hope on the final day that he and Prior could yet secure a stalemate.
"We had an outside chance this morning.
"Coming to the ground, we knew Matty and I would have to do the bulk of the work.
"But it can get easier and easier later on in the day, as the heat drains the bowlers, and those guys had been out there for a lot of overs.
"It was a very small chance, but it was one we could have taken."
Cook could hardly beat himself up, or Prior, for failing to overturn odds stacked against them.
"It wasn't today that cost us; it was that first innings.
"When you go to bed tonight, and you've scored a big hundred, you do smile and you can be proud.
"But I'd have been even prouder if I'd survived today and dragged a draw out of it.
"To score any hundred for England is very special. To score one in that situation probably made it even more special for me.
"But the result is what really matters ... and we weren't good enough over the five days."
England's biggest problem was a misfiring middle order in both innings.
"We showed a lot of character in that second half of the game," added Cook.
"But when you get bowled out for 190 in that first innings, on a good wicket, is pretty much where we lost that game.
"It was turning, yes. But runs were able to be had out there, as we showed in our second innings."
England's conundrum now is to pinpoint the reason for collective failure, and to find a solution before the second Test of four starts in Mumbai on Friday.
"I think we were ready for it; we were prepared for it; we just didn't deliver out in the middle," said the captain.
"You can look for reasons. Maybe we didn't trust our method as well as we could have done ... I don't know. You can analyse a lot into batting.
"The reason why we struggled in the game is our batting, especially in the first innings, didn't deliver enough runs.
"It proved in the second innings that we can score runs against this attack.
"We're just going to have to do it in both innings to give ourselves a chance of winning the game."
Cook's opposite number Mahendra Singh Dhoni did not appear surprised that England made the hosts work much harder for their wickets second time round.
"The odd ball turned, but there wasn't enough bounce for the edge to carry to the slip fielder," he said.
"It was about keeping one or two deliveries out, and you were set for the game.
"It was the last session on the second day and first session on the third day that really shifted the game in our favour."
Even this morning, when England resumed on 340 for five and just 10 runs in front, Dhoni sensed it might not be a simple task to complete the victory.
Yet in the end, after left-arm spinner Ojha had seen off both Prior and Cook in the first hour, India had to make only 77 to go 1-0 up - and did so in little more than 15 overs.
"What was important was to open up at least one end, so that we could create a false sense of panic," added Dhoni.
"We had to be calculating, and it paid off."
India can therefore aspire to an unassailable lead in Mumbai - whereas England cannot afford to under-perform again.
Cook knows that all too well.
"There are a lot of quality players in that dressing room, with very good records who have scored hundreds against every attack in the world," he said.
"They didn't deliver in this game, and they know that. The middle order didn't score enough runs.
"Everyone's got to have a look at themselves if we want to take something out of this series."
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While many observers point to renewables like solar and wind power as the solution to meet future demand responsibly, the report discusses why nuclear energy is not easily dismissed as part of the equation. Even in the most optimistic scenarios, renewables would satisfy only about one-third of global demand.3 Nuclear power is a viable option because it can provide reliable electricity on a large scale. For example, the power generated by one nuclear plant—2,000 megawatts—is equivalent to the power generated by a thousand wind turbines.
Yet in the aftermath of the Japanese tsunami and the Fukushima accident, debate continues about the role of nuclear power in the US and around the world. Nevertheless, industry experts look toward a nuclear renaissance. They believe that the Fukushima accident, which occurred at a 40-year-old plant, has forced a re-evaluation of safety issues 5and underscores why a newer generation of nuclear power plants that adhere to exacting design and safety standards must be part of the energy solution.
With 27 plants under development, China could very well be the world's proving ground for next-gen nuclear. In the US, two projects, Vogtle in Georgia and V.C. Summer in South Carolina, are in the early phases of construction. The success of these projects—and the future of nuclear—relies upon demonstrating that new and safe reactors can be built on time and on budget. Updated control analytics and asset management tools are believed to be the keys to making this happen.4
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1 International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2010.
2 PwC, Gridlines, "What's next for nuclear power?" 2011.
3 U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Outlook 2010.
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Weekly Pulse: Arrests over the Ryan Plan, and the GOP's Kinder, Gentler Medicaid Cuts
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
This week marks the final edition of the Weekly Pulse. I have been writing the newsletter since 2008 and it has certainly been an exciting time to be covering health care in the United States. Thanks to all the Media Consortium journalists whose work I've featured over the years, and thanks to our loyal readers, tipsters, Tweeters, and Facebook fans.
As the Pulse winds down, we look ahead to some of the most pressing health care issues facing the nation: The Republican war on Medicare and Medicaid and the anti-choice onslaught.
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Eighty-nine disability activists were arrested following their occupation of the Cannon House Office Building rotunda, Alison Kilkenny reports in The Nation:
The disability rights group ADAPT staged the event to protest Representative Paul Ryan's Medicaid cuts, which would force people with disabilities to live in nursing homes rather than in their own houses.
Additionally, the House-passed budget resolution would turn Medicaid into block grants and reduce the program's spending by more than $700 billion over ten years.
Suzy Khimm of Mother Jones reports that the Republicans in Congress are putting forward some "kinder, gentler" proposed Medicaid cuts in the hopes that these less extreme proposals will have a better chance of passing that the more extreme cuts Ryan has been touting.
Kinder and gentler by Republican standards is still pretty radical. Republicans in both houses of Congress introduced bills that would make it easier for states to kick people off of Medicaid or erect new barriers to entry. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) claims that "only" 300,000 patients would be kicked off Medicaid rolls under his proposal, many fewer than those would be under the Ryan plan. Gingrey, however, admitted that he didn't have an independent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score to back up his claim.
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Sadie Doyle of In These Times takes a closer look at proposed legislation in Ohio that bans abortion as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detectable:
Ohio's "Heartbeat Bill" is part of a barrage of anti-choice legislation designed to circumvent the fact that abortion is legal by making it nearly impossible to obtain one. But, whereas other bills focus on cutting funding or creating obstacles to abortion, H.B. 125 takes a relatively new tactic: It aims to ban abortions outright if the fetus has a detectable heartbeat—which happens at around six weeks, before many women even realize they're pregnant.
This bill is one of hundreds of pieces of anti-choice legislation percolating at the state level. Many of these bills seem deliberately engineered to provoke a challenge to Roe v. Wade. Anti-choicers seem eager to get their challenge to the Supreme Court as soon as possible, before Obama can appoint any more justices.
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What I love the most about Hong Kong is their transportation. It's easy to go from one place to another, be it through their MTR system, the traditional TRAM, bus or the Star Ferry. All you need is one access card to pay for the fare. This access card is called the Octopus Card. It's like your stored value card used in the MRT in the Philippines.
Since we stayed in Hong Kong for 6 days & 5 nights, we bought an octopus card for easy transport. Being a DIY Traveler, the Octopus Card has become our friend during our stay there. An Octopus Card costs HK$ 150 (Php 827). This card has a credit worth HK$100 (Php 551.00) while the HK$ 50 served as a refundable deposit. When you leave Hong Kong, you can return the card and you get your HK$50. But if you don't like commuting from one transportation to another, then try the hassle-free tours to Hong Kong.
The next important thing is to get a map. As soon as you arrive at the airport, get maps. These maps would really help you do your trip at your own pace and time. I would share our itinerary in a different post.
Types of Transportation in Hong Kong:
- Tram– The tram is one of the icons of Hong Kong. You shouldn't miss riding this. Getting around via the tram would only cost you HK$2.00 (Php 11.00). But you should also be careful when you alight, you might get yourself into an accident since there are at least three railways. We almost got ourselves into an accident when we were there.
- Star Ferry– The Star Ferry is one way of enjoying a scenic ride from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island. You should do this when the sun is about to set or at night time. Fare is HK$2.20 (Php 12.00). On our way back to Kowloon, I saw this junket cruising.
- Bus– There are numerous buses around Hong Kong. But you should be aware of the codes corresponding with the routes of the buses. The maps or other tourist brochures would guide you.
- TAXI– You can always hail a cab if you want but flag down rate is HK$18.00 (Php 99.25) and sometimes the driver asks for an additional HK$15.00 (Php 82.70). Yes, they're similar to drivers in the Philippines.
- MTR– Commuting around Hong Kong via the MTR is very convenient. They have 7 lines. The MTR from Kowloon Station also connects you to the airport via the airport express. So when you're on a rush to chase your flight, this is your best option. You should expect a large number of commuters during rush hours. When taking their elevators, hold tight because the elevators are fast too. If you have a smartphone, you can download their apps to plan your trip
FARES and DESTINATIONS (based on what we spent in Dec 2010):
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- Jordan (Kowloon Island) to Central Station- HK$ 7.90 (Php 43.55)
- Going to Ngong Ping Village- Central to Tung Chung (Ngong Ping Village/ Lantau Island) – HK$ 13.8 (Php 76.00)
- Going to Disneyland- Central (HK Island) to Sunny Bay Station (gateway to HK Disneyland)- HK$ 16.6 (Php 91.53)
- Going to the Airport- Airport Express -HK$ 70.00 (Php 385.97)
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- Going to Ocean Park- From Admiralty Station (MTR), you can take the bus 629 going to Ocean Park. Fare is HK$ 10.00 (Php 55.13)
via the TAXI
- Salisbury to Kowloon ( Tung Chung Line for Airport Express) – HK$ 24.00 + HK$15.00 (additional)= HK$ 39 (Php 215.00)
via the Star Ferry
- Going to Victoria Peak – Take the Star Ferry at the Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon. Then alight at Pier 7 in Hong Kong Island. Fare is HK$ 2.20 (Php 12.00) From Central, take bus no. 15 C (It's a maroon open-top bus) just a few meters away from the pier. Fare is HK$4.20. This bus will bring you to the Peak Tram Station, your gateway to the Victoria Peak.
via the Peak Tram
- This tram gives you a 45 degree-angle ride when going to the Victoria Peak. Return ticket (roundtrip) costs HK$40.00 (Php 220.55). The Peak is where the Madam Tussauds Wax Museum is.
How I wish the Philippines is well connected too. But with 7,107 islands, how can transport system be connected? hehe. Nonetheless, in the Philippines, commuting is more fun–that is through island hopping.


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Heres my question. The owner chooses what the spirit can look like so how did Angel know what Aries looked like when whats her name had her.....
And what if Scorpio actually looked a lot different.....
That doesn't really matter IMHO. If Aries appeared as a breakdancing duck, she would have the same effect on Loki. The only thing different is that us the readers would be confused as hell.
Maybe they only change when the summoner has a strong desire for a certain type or maybe that just Virgo since she's a maid and is suppose to change to fit her masters look.
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The fourth principle is discussed. The family shares the Unity cup and the candles are extinguished.
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