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Police in Nagoya arrested a 57-year-old motorist who tooled along with a motorcycle gang as it obstructed traffic, ignored red lights, and otherwise behaved badly. "I used to be a member of a biker gang a long time ago, and I couldn't help but drive together with them," the man was quoted as saying.
In Kitakyushu, a 34-year-old man was arrested for ramming his car into a bosozoku gang and killing an 18-year-old motorcyclist.
A 52-year-old doctor in Shinjuku who was busted for selling over 300,000 tablets of prescription tranquilizer to a gangster reportedely said "I thought I would be attacked if I refused."
A 43-year-old executive at a cosmetics company was arrested for stalking his ex-girlfriend after he sent emails "threatening to publish humiliating photos of her online."
The National Tax Agency demanded ¥800 million in back taxes and penalties from the Japanese arm of Credit Suisse Securities after discovering that about 100 employees failed to declare some ¥2 billion.
A Japanese executive at Citibank in Tokyo was accused of dodging ¥30 million in income taxes by "pretending to live overseas."
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Fri Mar 12, 2010 at 19:00:00 PST
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The featured song this week, written by Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper, is certainly one of the more versatile selections included in this series to date. When first released in 1966, it rose to #1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.
In April, 1979, a disco version enjoyed success on both sides of the pond, rising to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts (and #6 on the U.K. Singles chart).
This durable song would appear on the charts again in 1984, in an unlikely location, rising to #29 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts.
In addition to the preceding, this high energy number has been covered by an impressive list of accomplished and well-known artists.
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Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 00:36:26 PST
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Flying assassin robot, Marc Thiessen Markos Moulitsas, enters the final stage of development.
I'm not sure if Moulitsas' gambit is tantamount to:
The privileged stupidity of Maureen Dowd:
Maureen Dowd thinks she can walk into Mecca and demand to know what all this gol' darned Islamic fundamentalism is all about.
Or the arrogant de-tumescence of Tom Friedman.
You can read this and other fine recent Daniel Larison for an explanation of just how shameful this sort of post-hoc rationalizing of murder and destruction really is, but what actually strikes me as the most inhuman, the most anti-human idea of all the inhuman ideas lodged in the reptilian, blood-drinking brains of Thomas Friedman and his crocodilian cohort, is the horrific notion that the highest lifetime achievement is voting in an election. Seriously. The pinnacle of the human experience at the ballot box. It is quite seriously insane. It elevates a procedural aspect of one particular form of government to a categorical moral virtue. It proposes that participation in electoral politicking occupies the same plane of significance and value as orgasm or childbirth, as making a home, as cooking a meal for one's family, as meeting a new lover, as seeing a beautiful work of art or hearing an ingenious piece of music, as singing, as dancing, as getting a good night's sleep, as spending a day on the water, as bartering and bargaining at the marketplace, as religious ecstasy, if you're into that sort of thing . . . I mean, there is a whole panoply of centrally human experiences, and while a weak argument can be made that these are more readily available under some forms of governance than others, acts of civic engagement just aren't that fucking important. A life without elections or a life without lovemaking? If you had to choose. And that is what's so goddamned monstrous about Friedman. We destroyed these people's lives, and we propose to buy off their suffering with congressional campaigns? Jesus wept.
I personally think it's somewhere in between.
It bodes not well, fellow detainees.
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Fri Mar 12, 2010 at 15:00:00 PST
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 Every once in a while, I try to share news of interest to the trans community with people from outside our community, in the hopes that people will get a better idea about what goes on in our lives. It's all part of that teaching effort that we have been told we must do before we can ever hope to be accorded equal rights.
What else is new? department:
Item: Transwoman killed in the East Hollywood portion of Los Angeles. This was actually last summer. What is really new is that the office of Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti is offering a $50K reward for information as to the whereabouts of Jose Catalan, who has been labeled a "person of interest" in the case. Catalan may turn out to be a suspect or may be just a witness. But currently he is a missing parolee and is considered to be armed and dangerous.
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Fri Mar 12, 2010 at 13:00:03 PST
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Afternoon Edition is an Open Thread
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 Twin suicide attacks kill 45 in Pakistan's Lahore
by Sajjad Qureshi, AFP
1 hr 15 mins ago
| LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) - Twin suicide attacks seconds apart targeted the Pakistani military Friday, killing up to 45 people in the second attack to hit security forces in the country's cultural capital this week.
The bombers walked up to army vehicles in the crowded R A Bazaar area of Lahore, blowing themselves up as people sat down to eat before the main Muslim weekly prayers were to begin, a senior official said.
Lahore, a city of eight million near Pakistan's border with India, has been increasingly subject to Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked attacks in a nationwide bombing campaign that has killed more than 3,000 people in three years. |
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Fri Mar 12, 2010 at 06:02:15 PST
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Clarence Thomas may not have spoken in oral arguments at the Supreme Court in more than four years, but this morning Linda Greenhouse writes in the New York Times about Thomas's consistent, twice repeated argument that the Eighth Amendment does not proscribe "harsh treatment", including beatings of prisoners. You read that correctly. Prison beatings, according to Justice Thomas, aren't forbidden by the Eighth Amendment. And presumably, neither are stress positions, sleep deprivation and other forms of torture. And as if that position were not repulsive enough, Thomas apparently wants it to be adopted by the new majority of the Supreme Court.
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Fri Mar 12, 2010 at 10:02:50 PST
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Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 20:30:12 PST
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Having been to Iraq during two wars, the Gulf War in 1991 and the Iraq Invasion in 2006, there are differences I found between the two wars, and my experiences, that I have wanted people to read.
So, here it is...
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Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 13:38:08 PST
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Crossposted at Daily Kos
Brought to you by PeanutButterPAC
I wonder if Fox News will pick up this diary?
While I am very interested in the question of "Who paid Bart Stupak's rent? " I would also like to know who was paying the rent of his roommates. Some of those roommates were . . .
Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC)
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Rep Zach Wamp (R-TN)
Rep Mike Doyle (D-PA)
Who wants to bet Fox asks Doyle about this but not DeMint, who is the front man for their Tea Party astroturfed Corporatist movement.
But that is not the BIG QUESTION I want to ask Stupak and his Christian Mafia cult members. No, my question to them is . . .
"Should we kill our gays now, or wait until later?"
More below the fold . . .
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Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 19:01:37 PST
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How bizarre. About 8 in 10 Americans want to clamp down on Wall Street's fraudulent behavior?
Someone needs to help me understand what in blazes is going on here. 82% is a scary big super-mega-majority. Where does a really big percentage, like 80% plus, come from? Did someone pull it out of a hat? Did someone conjure it from a lamp? A crystal ball? Ouija boards? Playing cards? Who in the heck is reading the coffee grounds around here? Where on gawd's green earth does a number like that come from?
I am appealing to you, the inside dopesters having a strong strain of frustrated idealism and just the right touch of hard-boiled cynicism, to lend me a hypothesis, a conspiracy theory, if you will, of who "we," the 80% are, and who "they," the other 20% might be. Please try to cast your theory in a form that makes it virtually impossible to disprove.
This could have implications for democracy, and who rules America.
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Fri Mar 12, 2010 at 03:00:00 PST
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Muse in the Morning |
Wings 9 |
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Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 18:15:59 PST
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Wed Mar 10, 2010 at 19:42:07 PST
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From Daily Kos, courtesy of Kossack AnotherMassachussetsLiberal HOLY CRAP! Ministry of Truth's diary made Fox News and TRMS!
Yell Louder just got NATIONAL COVERAGE!
WIN!
I would like to raise a toast to the Docudharma. Let's hope for MORE and BETTER stuff like this in the future!
Cheers
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Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 17:00:00 PST
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I don't have the wherewithal to report the crucial information I think all American citizens should know.
So I have to limit myself.
I think about the endless politics of the health care so-called "debate." What American citizens are being asked to settle for by both our representatives, the Democratic Party, and all the party activists thereof.
Compared to the uphill battle to pass the Dream Act, wow, we're being offered pure HCR paradise.
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Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 11:22:05 PST
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Wings 1 |
Every once in a while I get into a rhythm wherein my graphics all stem from the same emotional and artistic source. I make one graphic and keep on modifying it until the emotional impulse seems to have run its course.
This was apparently one of those "once in a whiles", but instead of ending up with the usual 2 to 4 pieces, I ended up with at least 10 (ten as of the beginning of this piece, though more may be created and added by the time I hit the end.
The original piece had the feel of a wing, which of course lead insistently into the theme of flying.
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Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 13:01:45 PST
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Now with 41 Top Stories.
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 Violence flares at Greek anti-austerity protest
by John Hadoulis, AFP
15 mins ago
| ATHENS (AFP) - Greek police clashed with hooded youths on Thursday as thousands demonstrated against austerity measures aiming to end a crippling debt crisis and the country was gripped by a new general strike.
Violence broke out around a union demonstration in the capital with riot police firing tear gas at hooded youths who hurled firebombs and vandalised stores near parliament and other areas of the city centre.
Police said they had detained 16 people, of whom nine were later arrested, and that 13 officers were hurt after being hit by objects thrown by protesters. |
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