Is it because they are happy women who never are negative . . .

I am researching the subject and looking at who decides what is criminal or not and who is a criminal.

I may be over reacting . . .

The professor did more to harm our sense of security than the rough tactics of the officers. In order for a police officer to do his job at all he needs to be respected, not because of the kind of person he is but because of the office he represents. This is a universal principle which applies to all positions of authority. This professor probably thought that he deserved more respect than the officer who approached him but he thought wrong. The officer was acting in an official capacity and there was no good reason to believe otherwise. The man should have complied and then asked questions later to enlighten his ignorance. It shows a very arrogant attitude when in a foreign country to demand proof of police authority when a case of mistaken identity is all the more likely. I wonder if he would pull the same stunt in, say, Israel.

Jaywalking don hit by full force of the law

by: Will Pavia

> Five officers pin professor to ground
> It's lucky he was not shot, says wife

A distinguished British historian who tried to cross a road in Atlanta, Georgia, has complained of being wrestled to the ground, pinioned by five police officers and incarcerated.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, 56, visiting Professor of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary, University of London, was attending the conference of the American Historical Association last Thursday when he was caught jaywalking.

“I’m a mass of contusions and grazes,” he said in an interview shown on the website YouTube.

“I come from a country where you can cross the road where you like,” he said. “It hadn’t occurred to me that I wasn’t allowed to cross the road between the two main conference venues.”

He was not the only historian so to offend. A policeman called Kevin Leonpacher led a crackdown on the scholars, cautioning several before confronting the British professor, whose work has been compared to that of the 18th-century greats Gibbon and Montesquieu.

“I didn’t appreciate the gravity of the offence,” he said. “And I didn’t recognise him as a policeman. He was wearing . . . a bomber jacket, like a jerkin.”

The officer asked the professor for identification. The professor asked the officer for identification. Officer Leonpacher then told him that he was under arrest and, according to the professor, subjected him to “terrible, terrible violence”.

He said: “This young man kicked my legs from under me, wrenched me round, pinned me to the ground, wrenched my arms behind my back, handcuffed me.” As he bridled at this treatment, Officer Leonpacher called for help and soon “I had five burly policemen pinioning me to the ground”.

His colleagues were astonished. It was “like he was Osama bin Laden or something”, said Lisa Kazmier, a historian from Philadelphia.

The professor had hoped to spend the afternoon listening to his fellows discoursing on arcane topics. Instead, he was handcuffed to another suspect in a “filthy paddywagon” and fingerprinted in a detention centre, where his peppermints were confiscated. His bail was set at £720 and he remained behind bars for eight hours. When he told a judge his side of the story in court the next morning the case was dropped.

Officer Leonpacher was unrepentant, saying: “He chose to ignore a uniformed officer. At what point can anyone say I overreacted?”

The professor’s wife, Lesley, told The Times yesterday: “I suppose it’s lucky he wasn’t shot.”

The professor said that, as an “ageing member of the bourgeoisie”, he found it all educational — and was now seen by many of his colleagues “as a combination of Rambo, because it took five cops to pin me to the ground, and Perry Mason, because my eloquence before a judge obtained my immediate release”.

Walk, don't walk
> Georgia’s criminal code, Section 40-6-96, states: “Where a sidewalk is provided, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway”

> A police officer was present when the professor, right, attempted to cross the road, so he was charged with being in breach of Section 40-6-90:

> It states: “A pedestrian shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device specifically applicable to him, unless otherwise directed by a police officer”

Why should there be a painless method?

Bruce Shapiro - Sun Dec 31, 1:00 PM ET

The Nation -- In the long, contentious history of capital punishment in America, there has never been a moment like this: Over just a few days in mid-December, judges in California and Maryland and the governor of Florida shut down any pending executions in those states--all because of rapidly growing doubts about the humanity and constitutionality of lethal injection. In less than a week, 1,052 death-row inmates were thrust at least temporarily beyond reach of the needle.

At first glance, the impact of each of these death penalty moratoria might seem limited. In Florida on December 16, Governor Jeb Bush suspended executions and set up a commission to study lethal-injection procedures, after the grotesque death of Angel Nieves three days earlier: The three-drug****ail supposed to sedate Nieves and kill him painlessly and quickly instead left the inmate conscious, grimacing in pain and struggling for breath. It took half an hour and a second round of injections before the spectacle ended.

In California, US District Judge Jeremy Fogel declared that state's execution protocols rife with irregularities. In particular, Fogel raised serious questions about whether "certain inmates have been conscious" when injected with heart-stopping drugs, suffering "unconscionable" pain and anguish.

And in Maryland on December 19, the state's highest court shut down executions, finding Maryland's death penalty illegal because it had been established in secret and never subjected to a public hearing.

None of these orders address capital punishment itself. Governor Bush and the judges each focused on what might be described as "technicalities"--the choice of killing drugs, the training and accountability of executioners, the administrative procedures for an inmate's final hours. Bush and the judges each held out the possibility that, in Judge Fogel's words, execution protocols are "broken, but can be fixed."

Yet taken together, these three rulings--and a cascade of lethal-injection challenges in other death penalty states--have a cumulative significance far beyond their seemingly narrow terrain.

For the last decade, the issue that has driven the death penalty debate--galvanizing the attention of courts and press alike--has been innocence: a capital representation system so criminally negligent that 123 wrongfully convicted death-row inmates have been released, and public confidence in death sentences eroded.

Yet innocence cases, in their own way, have evaded a fundamental question: What about the grievously guilty? What about what one pro-death-penalty legal scholar calls "the worst of the worst"? Are executions of the truly guilty consistent with America's evolving constitutional standards, with national ideals and worldwide human rights norms?

As the three orders make clear, the new challenges to lethal injection cut much closer to that question--forcing a confrontation with America's ambivalence about state-sponsored killing.

Behind all three rulings is a growing body of evidence that lethal injection is far from the humane alternative to electrocution or gassing that legislators around the country sought after the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1977. As the shocking death of Nievas illustrated--though it was far from the first case to do so--lethal injection is often anything but neat. In California, for instance, what Judge Fogel described as a "mountain of documents" and expert testimony suggest that in at least six of the state's thirteen executions by lethal injection, inmates may have been conscious when injected with drugs that stopped their breathing and hearts, which the state's own medical expert agreed would bring "unconscionable" pain.

Mark Heath, a medical doctor and anesthesiologist and researcher at Columbia University, reviewed California's execution logs and the medical records of inmates. In October, he told Judge Fogel that he found cases in which sedation appeared to have failed, procedures that fall below even the legal requirements for veterinarians euthanizing animals and an execution system that "creates medically unacceptable risks of inflicting pain and suffering on inmates."

Heath has called the three-drug****ail widely used by states and the federal government a "chemical veil," because it masks inmates' suffering through the paralyzing drug pancuronium bromide, freezing their muscles and facial expression before the final heart-stopping drug courses into their veins.

Along with the chemical veil, it turns out, is a veil of bureaucratic secrecy. In Maryland and California and other states, lawsuits are beginning to reveal a scandalous culture of death-row corruption cloaked by governments' habitual insistence on keeping their execution procedures confidential. Guards with sordid records of sadism make it onto execution teams. In California, one guard was added to the team even after he was caught smuggling drugs into the prison. After reviewing prison records, Judge Fogel found evidence that barbituates stockpiled at San Quentin for executions were in fact diverted and sold by guards, and he urged a criminal investigation.

The picture emerging is of an execution system both cruel and corrupting. But will these scandals threaten the political underpinnings of American capital punishment?

Americans--citizens and courts--have long held contradictory views on the death penalty. The proponents of lethal injection over the years have understood that ambivalence well--better, in some ways, than many death penalty abolitionists. In the early 1970s, a moment when capital punishment was on the ropes, then-California Governor
Ronald Reagan suggested that the public might lose its squeamishness if instead of the brutal electric chair prisoners were put down like horses on his ranch, with a painless shot. Bill Wiseman, then an Oklahoma state legislator, in 1976 crafted the nation's--and the world's--first lethal-injection law after the state medical examiner promised a three-drug****ail would be humane, quick and neat. (Wiseman is now an ordained minister and death penalty opponent.)

Jeb Bush switched Florida to lethal injection after the nauseating 1997 electrocution of Pedro Medina, complete with flames shooting from the dying man's skull and the smell of his burning flesh filling the witness chamber. His swift imposition of a moratorium after the Nieves execution last week suggests that one pro-death penalty governor at least sees real risks in the lethal-injection scandals.

Bush's moratorium and study, in turn, raise another critical issue. Judge Fogel and Gov. Bush both seem to think that the lethal-injection system, in Judge Fogel's words, "can be fixed." But it is worth asking, Why haggle over the method of execution? Why encourage politicians technocrats to invent a better mousetrap?

For starters, as the Nieves execution and a mountain of medical evidence make clear, lethal injection inflicts genuine suffering on death-row inmates. Confronting lethal injection in the courts also slows the pace of execution and saves lives, buying time for individual appeals and ongoing reconsideration, state by state, of capital punishment's manifold perversions of justice.

Finally, and most important, the Supreme Court's reversals in recent years--its wholesale rejection of executions of juvenile offenders and the retarded--suggest that "evolving standards of decency" are real. Polling data suggest the same thing. To Americans the other methods of state killing employed by a diminishing number of nations--beheading (Saudi Arabia), the shot behind the ear (China), the gallows (Iran)--all seem archaic, visceral, violent. Cool, clinical and peaceful, lethal injection was supposed to overcome public revulsion, but it will not always do so. California may concoct a new drug****ail or protocol that satisfies Judge Fogel; when Jeb Bush leaves office in January his successor will likely lift the moratorium. But even in the lingering, unforgiving shadow of September 11, the country continues its march away from capital punishment.

1) I am a breast cancer survivor. My grandmother had it, and my mother had it. Grandmother lived 31 yrs after it and died from something completely unrelated. So, she survived it.
My mother is still here, thank God. As I am, THANK GOD.

2) I am prior military. I was in the Air Force Reserves for 6 yrs and served my country during Desert Storm in '91. So, I'm a pretty big 'military, TROOPS supporter'.

By MATT DEES - Raleigh News & Observer

DURHAM, N.C. -- A robber was holding a gun to 5-year-old Mary Long's head when a 3-foot-tall Mighty Morphin Power Ranger leapt into the room.

"Get away from my family," 4-year-old Stevie Long shouted, punctuating his screams with swipes of his plastic sword and hearty "yah, yahs."

The robber and his accomplice, who was waiting outside the apartment Friday night, fled with credit cards, jewelry, cash and other items that Stevie's mother, Jennifer Long, dumped from her purse.

"I scared the bad guys away," Stevie said.

Two men had approached Jennifer Long's boyfriend and his son as they stood outside the apartments she helps manage, according to a police report. The strangers asked for pot, and then a cigarette, and as the son went to get one, both men pulled guns, police said.

One stayed with the boyfriend as the other forced the son back into the apartment, police said. Inside were Jennifer Long, a cousin, Stevie, Mary and two other children, police said.

They were forced on the floor. The robber pointed the gun at Mary and a 1-year-old girl named Sierra, said Stevie's uncle, Bernie Evans, 33, who lives above the Longs.

Enter Stevie.

"During the robbery, a ... boy snuck into his bedroom, dressed himself in a Power Ranger costume and armed himself with a plastic sword," police said. "The child then exited his room and approached the armed suspect, in an attempt to protect his family."

Relatives said the robber abandoned plans to take Stevie's mother to an ATM to withdraw cash when he saw Stevie.

"It tripped him out, and that's when they moved on," said Evans, who did not witness the incident. Jennifer Long declined to comment, saying her employers at the apartment complex would not allow it.

Stevie likes to think he cuts an intimidating figure in his red-and-black mask and foam suit that replicates the rippling muscles of the kiddie adventure show heroes. But Evans said the robber was more startled that Stevie was able to retreat to his bedroom and morph.

How can I break it to him without hurting him???

op>>>>> where are you?

I would invent a medical procedure designed for all politicians that they must submit to upon taking office. It would cause their bodies to turn completely blue (like those munchkins from Willie Wonka fame) when they were lying.

A propane tank that has a gauge on it so I know how much damn propane is left in the
tank..........

Why don't they make them??

I would invent a medical procedure designed for all politicians that they must submit to upon taking office. It would cause their bodies to turn completely blue (like those munchkins from Willie Wonka fame) when they were lying.

A device which would destroy an offending stereo from 100 yards away.
When my upstairs neighbor plays his stereo too loud I just point it that direction and BAM, it self- destructs !

something that would stop time.. and wrinkles (oh & grey hair!)..

Soometimes we need sleep. How about a detachable penis?

Liquid intelligence . . . especially when I'm talking to an idiot. If he or she can't keep up, I'd hand a vial over and say, "Here. Drink this."

I would invent a voice activated device that would surf the internet based on what I said, rather than what I typed. Sometimes I hate typing, and just want to look at stuff, like when I shop online. I hate having to type or retype search words, I just want to say, "Look for (fill in the blank)" and then choose what I want out of the selection.

I would invent sensors for your car that could tell how close you were to something, and steer for you. It could tell where a turn is on the road, and which angle the the car needs to turn to avoid over or under steering. It would brake automatically, and would avoid rear ending. If the sensors broke, your could turn the program off and steer yourself, but otherwise you could progam coordinates, and hop in and the car would take you where you wanted to go, painlessley. Could you imagine if there were such an invention and there was no more road rage?

. . .Hate it when guys leave the seat up....Aughhhhhh.....

I will not reveal my invention ideas as I do not have a patent and do not want someone else getting rich off me.

2) A pill that not only increases energy and physical strength tenfold but is healthy for you.

3) A ring that I could wear discreetly and enable me to read the female mind.

A hose/shop vac thingy to clean the inside of my house within minutes. Hose it down, good to go.

I would invent a washing machine that is a dryer aswell so you can put the clothes in turn it on and it washes the clothes then dries them without having to switch the load over...if it folded the clothes that would be nice to but a little to much to ask for lol

1. why do people give in so quickly, why do they expect to meet someone so quickly?

2. why do some people respond so nastily when its a sure sign of putting others off contacting them?

3. why do people critisize others in terms of their looks, weight, age etc, when really it shouldnt matter? just move on and look for people you are attracted to.

I dont feel like i love him anymore but am here to make my kids happy

Here's what I think... you're both scum.

Because one should leave legal / criminal activity to the professionals ..

Been hearing about these online police task forces posing as children to nab online predators. I am AAALLLLLLL for it. However, I wonder if someone should consider aproaching the problem from the other direction at the same time. Some government endorsed/controlled agency that goes online posing as predators to find children who are looking to be used. That agency collects thier contact info and forwards it child protection services and/or family as may be appropriate.

i have lived in a few states and minors are NEVER allowed to sell anything to do with alcohol, tobacco, or lottery. if you cant by it yourself, you cant sell it.

whats with guys and anal?

how come so many guy's send one worded emails, like just Hi and stupid stuff like that and do you really expect an answer?

me 2.. is that wrong?.. where`s dr. phil when ya need him?

Yes I think getting a professional to clean it would be alot cheaper then $1400 dollars and my laptop is only 6 months old...

I have a Sony Vaio.

I have met some mature men who are 40+ who don't even own a car.
How Serious Is that???

I mean; how do you manage almost half a lifetime, and you don't have anything to show for it??

. . . Hush now baby, baby don't you cry
Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you
Mama won't let anyone dirty get through
Mama's gonna wait up until you get in
Mama will always find out where you've been
Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean . . .

God your beauty [sic] how did one attract such a loser . . .

i never said it was ok for them to beat the guy i am sayin they must have had good reason i wasnt there to see if they beat him for good reason i am sure they had some reason for it

like i said as far as this guy gettin beat too bad so sad isnt that the old sayin he would have got worse if saddam was still there.

Do guys want nice women or the ones who will jump in the sack with you when you first meet them?

Hot chocolate no treat for stuck factory worker

By Marie Rohde - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Saturday, August 19, 2006

KENOSHA, WIS. — An ordinary night’s work at the chocolate company turned dangerous for Donovan Garcia early Friday when he fell into a vat of the molten goo and was trapped for more than two hours.

“I was pushing the chocolate down into the vat because it was stuck,” said Garcia, 21. “It came loose, and I just slid down the hopper into the chocolate.”

Garcia’s co-workers at the Debelis Corp. first tried to pull Garcia out, but his pants were caught on a roller. That’s when they called 911 and the Kenosha fire and police departments both responded, said Police Sgt. Eric Larsen. Garcia wasn’t extracted until 1:30 a.m., more than two hours after the accident.

The viscous chocolate was warm — about 110 degrees, according to Capt. Greg Sinnen of the Kenosha Fire Department. For comparison purposes: The water in hot tubs usually is kept at 103 or 104 degrees.

Garcia can laugh about it now, but not at the time.

“I thought I was going to die,” Garcia said.

Garcia, who has worked at the company almost two years, said he was almost chest deep in the chocolate, the dark variety.

“It was in my hair, in my ears, my mouth, everywhere,” Garcia said. “I felt like I weighed 900 pounds. I couldn’t move.”

Garcia said his colleagues added cocoa butter to the vat in an attempt to thin the chocolate. Sinnen said firefighters on the ladder company that responded to the accident helped scoop the chocolate out of the vat.

He was taken to the Aurora Medical Center for treatment.

maybe he shouldnt have had that rocket on his shoulder . . .

Does a rose stand out among a garden of weeds?

Reservists: Officers stopped us attending protest against war
By Nir Hasson

Some 160 infantry reserve soldiers are accusing their commanders of preventing them from participating in a demonstration against the war in Lebanon, which they called a "debacle." The soldiers said they had been used as "sitting ducks."

"I've been in the army and reserves for 26 years and what happened this time was not merely a fiasco, it was a complete debacle. We felt like tin soldiers in a game of Olmert and Peretz's assistants and spin masters," said Avi, a soldier in the brigade.

At noon yesterday 160 brigade soldiers signed a request to take part in the demonstration that would call on the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz. However, their release was put off until today, preventing them from reaching the protest.

They wanted to protest not only the army's moves in Lebanon but the decisions of their commanders, whom they accuse of sending them needlessly to their death.

"They sent us into a village they knew 15 Hezbollah fighters were holed up in at mid-day, we were like sitting ducks, it was total insanity. Two of our comrades were killed because of that. We are being used as though we were in the Chinese army, where it doesn't matter how many are killed," he said.

A few dozen demonstrators arrived at Rabin Square yesterday to take part in the protest that had been organized on Internet sites.

They called for Olmert's resignation and blasted halting the war before its goals were achieved.

Ariella Miller, one of the protest's initiators, said she was not acting on behalf of any political body. "We are family people who used the Internet to form a group. When we went to war they promised us to bring back the soldiers and restore Israel's deterrent force."

By SCOTT SHANE
Published: August 18, 2006

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — A C.I.A. contractor accused of severely beating an Afghan prisoner who died the next day was convicted Thursday of felony assault.

The former contractor, David A. Passaro, 40, a onetime Special Forces medic who went to work for the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan in 2003, is the only civilian ever charged as a result of accusations of prisoner abuse there, in Iraq and in the broader campaign against terrorism. He faces a maximum of 11½ years in prison.

The trial, in federal court in Raleigh, N.C., near Mr. Passaro’s hometown, Lillington, included testimony from clandestine C.I.A. officers who wore disguises to protect their identities. It drew close attention from human rights advocates.

Using a flashlight and his fists, witnesses said, Mr. Passaro repeatedly hit Abdul Wali, a 28-year-old farmer suspected of firing rockets at American troops. Mr. Wali was in such pain, they said, that he pleaded to be shot, and he died the day after a second day of abuse by Mr. Passaro.

Mr. Passaro’s lawyers said he had not been trained in interrogation and had been under pressure to stop frequent rocket attacks on a remote base near the Pakistan border. They said Mr. Passaro had tried mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on Mr. Wali after he lost consciousness.

Defense lawyers also tried to mount a “public authority defense,” asserting that in statements and legal opinions, top officials from President Bush on down had implicitly authorized harsh treatment for potential terrorists. But Judge Terrence W. Boyle would not allow the defense to call senior officials, including George J. Tenet, former director of central intelligence, as witnesses.

In a statement sent to C.I.A. employees after the verdict, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the agency’s current director, called Mr. Passaro’s actions “unlawful, reprehensible and neither authorized nor condoned by the agency.”

The acting United States attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, George E. B. Holding, hailed the verdict. “This should be a message to the world that wherever U.S. laws are ruling today, justice will be done,” Mr. Holding said, according to Reuters.

But John Sifton, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, said the facts of the case had merited more serious charges, including torture, manslaughter or murder. “We question whether the Justice Department has a real commitment to prosecuting detainee abuse,” Mr. Sifton said.

Justice Department officials have said one obstacle to more severe charges was the absence of an autopsy, which they said had not been performed on Mr. Wali because his family opposed it.

Mr. Sifton said about 20 abuse cases had been referred to the Justice Department by the Pentagon and the C.I.A., but Mr. Passaro’s is the only one to have been prosecuted. The referrals, some involving deaths in custody, have focused on civilian intelligence officers, civilian contractors like those who worked as interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad and enlisted military personnel already discharged.

By contrast, more than 80 members of the military have been ordered to face court-martial on charges of abusing prisoners, and more than 50 have been convicted, according to Human Rights Watch. At least 40 have been sentenced to jail, though fewer than 10 are serving more than a year, Mr. Sifton said.

my question is, how long should friends with benifits keep goin b4 u change the subject to bf n gf??

I don't think it's anything I would approach him with right away.

And I'll add that an internet search is probably a good check to do. But you might want to think twice about telling your new beau or belle, that you googled them and found a bunch of other information about them on the internet. I was a little freaked out when a woman was able to tell me my address and phone number, before I gave it to her. I've solved that by moving around alot and not having an address or a phone number.... ha ha seriously I just don't give out my whole name until I've know someone for a bit.