
The plunge continues.
Just stuff about life, politics, and my disposition in general....

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP) — Carter County authorities say a homeowner fatally shot a hatchet-carrying intruder.
The Johnson City Press quoted Sheriff Chris Mathes, who said the early investigation Friday indicated it was self-defense.
Mathes said his office was called just after midnight Thursday to a home in the Roan Mountain community. He did not immediately identify those involved.
The sheriff said a report from the investigation would be submitted to District Attorney General Tony Clark.




EDMONDS, Wash. – The man accused of raping a woman behind an Edmonds grocery store has been deported at least four times in the past 15 years, reports KIRO Radio.
An officer responding to a woman's cry for help Sunday night found 46-year-old Jose Madrigal on top of the woman and arrested him.
According to court documents, the woman told police that Madrigal had followed her and offered her $35 for sex, but she said no. She said Madrigal then forced her into the bushes on the north side of the store and raped her.
Documents say Madrigal told police "Sometimes we have control in our brains, but we make mistakes."
The 28-year-old Edmonds woman was treated at a hospital.
Snohomish County prosecutors have charged Madrigal in district court with second degree rape. He is also is being held for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

A member of Arizona's top government utilities agency threw down the gauntlet in a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, threatening to cut off the city's power supply as retribution for the city's boycott of Arizona
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"I received your message; please receive mine. As a statewide elected member of the Arizona Corporation Commission overseeing Arizona's electric and water utilities, I too am keenly aware of the 'resources and ties' we share with the city of Los Angeles," Pierce wrote.
"If an economic boycott is truly what you desire, I will be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements so Los Angeles no longer receives any power from Arizona-based generation."

I listened and watched TV today as our global leader, President Barack Hussein Obama said, (and I quote, verbatim)...."Your visit speaks to a truth of our time. In North America and the world, in the 21st century, we are defined not by our borders, but by our bonds."
Then, our global leader stood silently by, on white house grounds, while the Mexican President complained that, "Arizona law is forcing our people to face discrimination."
This is a new low, even for a Saudi King supplicant. I don't like it at all when my president sides with a foreign leader against one of the United States of America -- of which, President Obama, may I remind you, that there are fifty (not fifty-seven; remember? There are 57 Muslim countries in the world, but only 50 states in the USA. It might help you if you repeat that in a mirror a few times.)
Please, Click on this: Link
Hurry up, fellow Americans, put your encyclopedias in your safes before Google scrubs any remaining definition of the United States of America as a sovereign entity off the web. The only proof we'll have of the existence of the late, great USA is the spoken word and banned books.
It is important to note that it was George Bush who signed Agenda 21 not Barack Obama; so this warning is strictly bi-partisan. Furthermore, if you really wanted a "dang fence," Senator McSame, the bill you and your fellow Progressives signed into law authorizing it would have been funded and the fence, built. But no, you guys only voted for it because you had complicit assurance that it would never be funded. Plenty of money to feed kids into the wars.......
Remember, the sixties, when the draft-dodging baby boomers were a problem for the establishment? Well, look again. The tea partiers are the other half of that baby boomer population, the draftees. --Jacqui McDonald