Eight teenagers have been arrested

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Eight teenagers have been arrested after filming the beating of another teen and threatening to post the video on the Internet, sheriff's officials said.

Victoria Lindsay was attacked on March 30 by six teenage girls when she arrived at a friend's home, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.

Two girls confronted Lindsay when she walked in, yelling and threatening her, an arrest report showed. Another girl struck her in the head several times and then slammed her head into the bedroom wall, knocking her unconscious.

When she woke up, she was on the couch in the living room surrounded by the six girls. The teens blocked the door, held Lindsay down and began beating her, the report said. Two teenage boys waited outside the home as lookouts.

Sounds terrible, eh??

Let's make it worse. Here is the motive:

Lindsay's father said the teens' motivation for the attack was to produce a video that would become popular on YouTube, a video-sharing Web site. But the mother of one of the girls said that Lindsay had provoked the other teens by threatening and insulting them on MySpace, a social networking Web site.

Why does "A Generation of Vipers" come to mind? What can be done about such actions?
This demonstrates a complete failure of the schools and society. The onlky recourse is severe and immediate punishment.

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OPEC to US

"Kiss our ass."

Kryuchenkov added on Tuesday: "The group remains resilient to pleas from top consuming nations, with OPEC Secretary General Abdulla al-Badri reiterating the group's view that the market is well supplied, once again blaming the weaker dollar, geopolitical tensions and lower refining capacities for driving prices higher."

Where is our strategic reserve??

Hussein plays at being a patriot

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — Barack Obama wants to make something clear: He loves America.

After a series of incidents that prompted questions about his patriotism, the Democratic presidential candidate is peppering speeches with explicit statements on his love of country

Well yes. Refusing to wear a US flag lapel pin, looking like you don't know how to salute the flag and remaining in a church for 20 years that has a minister who says "God damn America" and claims the US invented the Aids virus to kill blacks does have a way of bringing your patriotism into question.

Oh, did I mention a wife who is finally proud of the country....after hubby looks to have a chance to win the Demo nomination? No?

Maybe that's why an AOL poll showed 56% of the respondents saying they seriously questioned his patriotism. Heck. I wonder what cave the other 44% have been sleeping in.

Of course the amazing thing is that even when he tries he can't get it Wright.

"I love this country not because it's perfect but because we've always been able to move it closer to perfection," he told an audience in North Dakota.

Why couldn't he just say, "This is the greatest country on God's green earth!"

The answer, of course, is that he doesn't believe that. He, and every Lefty I have known, is incapable of that. To get there we must declare open borders and surrender to the UN. That is what he means he speaks of change.


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Iran and nuclear weapons

"TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tuesday.

Iran already has about 3,000 centrifuges operating in Natanz, and the new announcement is seen as a show of defiance of international demands to halt a nuclear program the United States and its allies say is aimed at building nuclear weapons.

"The president announced the start of the phase of installing 6,000 new centrifuges in Natanz," state television reported.

Centrifuges are machines that can enrich uranium to a low level to produce nuclear fuel or a high level for use in a weapon. Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful and solely focused on the production of energy."

Yesterday was spent by Hussein in an attempt to tell us how much of a patriot he is.

While we dither, Iran continues on its march towards nuclear weapons.

If you think we need a nuclear Iran, then vote Democratic.

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Infrared Cameras

Julie Salcido, a supervising agent with the Bureau of Industry and Security, said one of the men purchased the cameras, assuring the seller repeatedly that they were only for domestic use.

"He repeatedly said he wouldn't export," she said.

I have to ask. If they can't be taken out of the country, why in the &%$* can someone just walk up and purchase one, or ten?

Yong Guo Zhi, a Chinese national, and Tah Wei Chao, a naturalized U.S. citizen, were arrested for investigation of trying to take thermal imaging cameras with potential military use to China without the proper export licenses, Weir said.

If you don't have to have a license to purchase, an "export license" is useless. They may have caught these two, but what about the next three hundred or so? Why didn't the buyers just take them down to Long Beach and put them abroad a freighter bound for China?? They probably will next time.

This is akin to searching 70 year old grandmothers and letting 25 year old Muslim males walk through airport security. The results are not security but nonsense to make us feel good.

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I love this movie script

especially the endng.

A Titan is dead.

I first saw "Ben Hur" downtown in Nashville, I think around Christmas of '60 or '61. I can't be sure of the year. I have seen it several times since then. It is an inspiring movie, beautifully filmed with a script to match. It made Heston a star, and he deserved it.

If a man is known by the enemies he has made, then Charlton Heston stands at the top of the mountain looking down on the likes of George Clooney and Michael Moore. Neither are known for doing much beyond complaining when complaining carries no penalties.

Their nasty comments are mindful of a small poodle, barking with no reason beyond the feel good of the bark, and the hopeful approval of other poodles.

Heston told us about the giants of the world while demonstrating for civil rights at a time when such a position carried with it not only threats of lost employment, but physical harm.

One his best comments was: "Political correctness is tyranny with manners."

Like John Wayne before him, he cannot be replaced.

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