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Five severed HEADS found in sack outside Mexican primary school in latest sickening threat from drugs cartelsBy Laurie Whitwell Last updated at 12:17 PM on 29th September 2011 Mexican police have found five severed heads stuffed in a sack outside a primary school in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco. The gruesome discovery comes after drugs gangs threatened to attack elementary school teachers if they did not pay half their wages to the drugs cartels. The extortion demands forced around 130 schools in the city to close earlier this month, after administrators and parents decided it was not safe enough...

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Two decapitated bodies and scalped heads were dumped outside a Sam's Club store in Acapulco while three headless corpses were found nearby on the resort city's main tourist strip, authorities in Mexico said Saturday. The bodies discovered outside the Sam's Club were cut into more than 20 pieces, Guerrero state's Public Security Department said in a statement.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) accused House Republicans of “hostage taking” for not passing a “clean” short-term extension to fund the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with no cuts, comparing the situation to “a gun held” by the GOP to the heads of Democrats. “The issue is not essential air service. It’s not even a labor issue. It’s the issue of hostage taking. It’s as if someone puts a gun to your head and says ‘give me your money’ and then you say, ‘why won’t you give them their money?’

Before we get started, here’s a quick and important rundown of the hopelessly biased, corrupt-to-the-core media world in which we presently live… A few dopes, most of them likely Leftist plants and Larouchers, show up at Tea Party rallies with a few dumb signs and it’s a national news story for months. No one from the Tea Party yells the N-word at a Capitol Hill ObamaCare protest and yet there’s a week-long media storm saying someone did — and nary a peep once it’s proved they didn’t. Someone commits a heinous mass murder in Tucson and the entire MSM Complex...

A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding 40 to 60 human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said. "It wasn't labeled or packaged properly," said Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman. "They called the local authorities." The incident happened in Little Rock, Ark., last Wednesday, she said. Little Rock police turned the heads over to the county coroner, who questions where they came from and if they were properly obtained.

LARGO — It's hard to overcome the image of severed dog heads in a restaurant Dumpster. But the owner of a local medical company is trying. Ron Buck, president of MedRx, says one of his workers improperly dumped the heads in a trash bin at Tucson's Southwest Grill after a veterinary training seminar. "I think it's about the dumbest thing I've ever had an employee do," Buck said. Buck says his company, which manufactures veterinary and human hearing health care products, holds a few educational seminars for veterinarians each year and uses dog heads for training purposes.

Note: The following text is a quote: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 18, 2010 Chicago Resident David Coleman Headley Pleads Guilty to Role in India and Denmark Terrorism Conspiracies Admits Conducting Surveillance for Lashkar e Tayyiba in Planning 2008 Mumbai Attacks David Coleman Headley, a U.S. citizen of partial Pakistani descent, pleaded guilty today to a dozen federal terrorism charges, admitting that he participated in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, as well as later planning to attack a Danish newspaper. In pleading guilty to all 12 counts that were brought against him in December and were...

It is the simple exercise of power. Obama's got more of it than the TV networks. And if you have someone in the White House perfectly willing to exercise that power by making implied threats, there isn't much even giant corporations can do to deny Obama what he wants. Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post sniffed out the story regarding the networks cave-in to the White House on the health care press conference:

The Central Intelligence Agency gave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., advanced warning before CIA Chief Leon Panetta sent a memo to employees at the spy agency that countered Pelosi's claim that the agency lied to Congress about waterboarding.

The grisly find appeared to be the latest indication of drug cartels fighting for supremacy in battles that have left thousands dead. Police in the municipality of Ixtlahuacan del Rio were informed of the discovery at 2 a.m., the prosecutor's office said in a written statement. Five human heads were found in ice chests on Tuesday under a ficus tree in the central Mexican state of Jalisco, police said. Each head was found in a separate ice chest beside a road leading to the city of Guadalajara, police said. The tops of the ice chests were inscribed with messages, among...

Mexico City (dpa) - Mexican police found five human heads Tuesday in portable coolers on a road in Ixtlahuacan del Rio, some 600 kilometres northwest of Mexico City. On the inside of the coolers' lids, two messages had been written in black ink, with threats addressed to someone that was only identified as ``Goyo,'' a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in the state of Jalisco told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. The authorities said the heads of the five men had been severed just hours before they were found. Police were combing the rural area where the heads were found, some...

Police in Royse City hope that a routine early-morning traffic stop Sunday won't become a Halloween tale, even though the tractor-trailer was carrying an estimated 20 human heads.The rig was stopped for speeding at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 30 in Royse City, said Lt. Jim Baker, police spokesman. The community is about 30 miles northeast of Dallas in Rockwall County.The driver was acting suspicious, Baker said, so officers asked permission to search the vehicle, Baker said.But, he said, the driver warned them first."He said, "You're going to see some body parts back there,''' Baker said.That's when they came...

Okay, for a change of pace, I need advice on replacing the heads on my old pickup (70 Ranger swb). Currently it has a 302 engine out of an anemic early 70's van. I rebuilt it several years ago (less than 5000 miles since I rebuilt it) with stock components and a 2 barrel carb but now I want some more hp out of it. I plan on replacing the manifold with an Edelbrock 289 Performer 2121 and a Holley 4 barrel carb with vacuum secondaries and a cam that compliments it. My main goal is for stump pulling, low...

WASHINGTON - President Bush was ready to challenge a widespread perception in Latin America that U.S. neglect has empowered leftist leader Hugo Chavez as he left Thursday on a five-nation tour of the region. Bush argues that strong democratic governments hold the promise of prosperity. He hopes his trip will resonate with the one in four impoverished Latin Americans, who live on less than $2 a day and wonder whether democracy will ever deliver them a better life. "The trip is to remind people that we care," Bush said in an interview Wednesday with CNN En Espanol. "I do worry...

Vienna - Horror-stricken burglars fled in panic from a west Vienna cellar Thursday evening when they opened containers and a number of human heads rolled out, police said on Friday.

LA County Gun Task Force Serving Search Warrants LAPD & LASO Might Be Knocking On Your Door Next! LA County Gun Task Force Serving Search Warrants Officers from the Los Angeles County Gun Task Force in CA have begun serving search warrants on residents in that county who are suspected of holding un-registered "Assault Rifles" including 50 BMG target rifles. If you or any of your friends have not complied with the provisions of AB-50 that require you to register any 50 BMG rifles you own, you may very well expect a knock on your door at any time. This...

Mary Jane Trumps Joe Camel By Mary BeckmanScienceNOW Daily News23 May 2006 It seems logical that inhaling enough smoke will give you lung cancer. But a new study of Los Angeles residents suggests that smoking marijuana--even more than 22,000 joints in a lifetime--doesn't increase cancer risk. The results surprise many researchers, who point out marijuana has other ill health effects. Decades of research have shown that cigarette smoking dramatically increases the risk of certain cancers. But controversy surrounds the risk of smoking weed. A 1999 study of blood donors suggested a link between marijuana and head and neck cancer,...

NAPLES, Italy (NNS) -- As part of a larger U.S. interagency effort towards greater stability in Africa, approximately 1,400 Sailors and Marines aboard USS Emory S. Land (ESL) (AS 39) are deploying to the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) region in late February 2006. Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet, Vice Adm. J. Boomer Stufflebeem says the deployment is part of a comprehensive theater security cooperation strategy benefiting all involved. “U. S. European Command and CNE-C6F (Commander, Naval Forces Europe-Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet) efforts in Africa, and specifically in the Gulf of Guinea, focus on strengthening partnerships and improving overall maritime security. By...

Helicopter rescue crews from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base - barely back home in Tucson after helping victims of Hurricane Katrina - took off for Texas on Friday to brace for Hurricane Rita. About 75 airmen from D-M's 563rd Rescue Group left for Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio, along with three HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopters and two HC-130 Hercules aerial refueling planes. The crews, specially trained to conduct search-and-rescue operations, have spent the last few weeks plucking people off rooftops in New Orleans and other areas stricken by Katrina. Most crew members had just returned to Tucson in...

CHICAGO (AP) - City officials said Thursday that two more department heads were stepping down and five city workers were fired as a corruption scandal continued to rattle City Hall. Transportation Department Commissioner Miguel d'Escoto was asked to resign, while Personnel Department Commissioner Glenn Carr is leaving voluntarily, officials said. D'Escoto, a former chief of staff to Mayor Richard Daley, had trouble last month explaining why hundreds of truckloads of city asphalt were unaccounted for. Two former city workers have been charged in a scheme to steal 380 tons of asphalt and using city-paid hired trucks to deliver it to...

WASHINGTON - Gov. Arnold "The Collectinator" Schwarzenegger is to swoop into Washington on Thursday, with state legislative leaders in tow, for an unprecedented meeting with the California congressional delegation and Bush administration officials in hopes of steering more federal money to the state. Schwarzenegger pledged after his recall election victory to be the "collectinator," a play on his starring role in the "Terminator" movies. So far, there hasn't been a lot to show for it, but that could change dramatically on this trip. State and federal officials are working to put the final details together on a five-year deal that...

BEIJING (AP) - A U.S. congressman traveling North Korea Saturday said he will discuss the communist regime's nuclear program and human rights issues during talks with officials of the secretive communist nation. The trip by Tom Lantos, the ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, comes with a similar visit in the works by Rep. Curt Weldon, a Pennsylvania Republican who announced plans to travel with a bipartisan delegation earlier this week. "I anticipate meeting with North Korean officials, discussing about the nuclear program, hopefully their reintegration into the international community," Lantos said at Beijing's airport while waiting to...

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SACRAMENTO (AP) - In his first official trade mission since taking office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will jet to Japan this week for a five-day trip to promote California business and encourage Japanese tourism in the state. Schwarzenegger, who became wildly popular in Japan during his career as a film star and action hero, will meet with business leaders and with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. He'll be joined on the trip by a 57-member delegation composed of farmers, business executives and others. Japan is California's top foreign investor and second most important trading partner, after Mexico. But analysts aren't convinced that...

BALTIMORE - The only Civil War-era vessel still afloat left its mooring in Baltimore's Inner Harbor on Tuesday and made its first voyage to the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 111 years. The venerable USS Constellation can no longer make the 30-mile trip on her own power, so the sloop of war was moved to the academy by tugboats. The six-day visit is part of a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Constellation, launched in 1854. It's the ship's first time out of the Inner Harbor since 1955, said Christopher Rowsom, executive director of the USS Constellation Museum. "The...

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Hollywood Airheads Have a Gas in Beantown A lot of people have requested a list of which Hollywood airheads are at the Democrat convention this week. Apparently these readers plan to snub the celebs’ movies, TV shows and music. We did a search of the wires and found that the lineup ranges from A-listers such as pop star Bono and pro-murderer activist Susan Sarandon to Z-listers such as William Baldwin and Chevy Chase. The most visible of the bunch is poor Ben Affleck, still limping from a disastrous year that nearly bumped him from Premiere magazine’s...

WAUKESHA, Wis. - President Bush (news - web sites) woke up in downtown Milwaukee Wednesday, but his campaign bus promptly headed for the suburbs and even farther out — Republican territory where aides believe his re-election hopes can flourish this year. Members of the Bush team say the rapidly growing suburbs and far-flung "exurbs" ringing cities such as Milwaukee and Green Bay, with their white, affluent, church-going populations, can counter the heavy Democratic turnout in urban areas and tip the balance in his favor. "If you're somebody who moved into Fond du Lac or West Bend in the last year...

This year, firework enthusiasts can get their hands on some of the world's most notorious terrorists at some of the firework stands. Stars and Stripes at the corner of 23rd Street and 33rd Avenue carries the new "Exploding Terrorist Heads." These cone-shaped devices have cartoon images of Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat on them - all with a fuse located atop each fountain head. "We don't show them or promote them," said Tammi Gotschall, who was in charge of sales Tuesday afternoon. "People will see them."

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Clark heads poll of Democrat hopefuls By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 22 September 2003 Wesley Clark, the retired general turned political candidate, has bounced right to the top of the latest poll of Democratic presidential hopefuls. A poll published in today's issue of Newsweek magazine gave General Clark 14 per cent, with Howard Dean, hitherto the front-runner, and Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut each on 12 per cent and Senator John Kerry on 10 per cent. The hope of Democratic Party leaders is that General Clark's unimpeachable knowledge of military affairs will give him the authority to undermine the...

A slithery serpent has made history by becoming the first snake to be born with two heads. The baby boa constrictor has a second head which can open its mouth and flick out its forked tongue. But the head cannot eat, drink or breathe. At three months old the snake, named Indy, is already one metre long and could grow to four times that length. She was born at the Robert Shapiro rescue centre in New York and has already attracted offers from collectors in Asia. But Mr Shapiro says he will wait until the mythical-like snake is older and...

Neighbors of Alameda County site complain of garbage, no tax benefit By Matt Carter, STAFF WRITER To engineers and accountants, eastern Alameda County looked like a pretty good place to build a natural gas-fired power plant. The area is sparsely inhabited, and there's ready access to water, natural gas lines and the state's electrical grid. That helps explain why Calpine Corp. and Florida-based FPL Energy filed separate applications two years ago with the California Energy Commission to build 1,100 megawatt generating plants between Livermore and Tracy. One megawatt is enough generating capacity to supply 750 to 1,000 homes. If built,...

Heads roll in school de-Ba'athification (Filed: 28/05/2003) Education is going back to basics after years of Saddam's propaganda, reports Kate Connolly The abrupt dismissal of her headmistress two weeks ago still causes 13-year old Duha Hassan to weep. The much-loved 42-year-old - like the majority of Iraq's head teachers - was a high-ranking member of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party, so after his fall, the local caretaker council stripped her of her post. Looted: Mohammed Jassim inspects the wrecked laboratory at the El Ma'kal school "We appreciated her very much, and she was a good teacher," said Duha. "Her departure has...

Infantry heads north for the last act in fall of Saddam By Raymond Whitaker 09 April 2003 Anglo-American forces will not be able to declare victory over Saddam Hussein until they capture his home city. Tikrit, 100 miles north of Baghdad, may be where his regime makes its last stand. After a delay of several weeks and a detour of several thousand miles, the US 4th Infantry Division has begun to move across Iraq towards Tikrit, which stands on low bluffs overlooking the Tigris river. The capture of the city is likely to be the final act in President Saddam's...

Whoever said that the university stands as a pillar of civilization has obviously never been to Arizona State. Arizona's public universities, now infamous for their broad progressive curricula composed of subjects to the likes of queer pulp fiction, postmodern pornography and special workshops on "sex workers," have always been a string of lone islands surrounded by a reality that remains alien to the hermitic Marxists lying within their academic workings. There is indeed a dark underside lurking beneath the trite silliness of academic department heads – who for the most part missed out on the latest social and political developments...

Turks expressed outrage today that an Australian veteran of World War I had kept the mummified head of one of his Turkish foes as a souvenir. Australian police handed over the head to a Turkish veterans group earlier this week after it was found by the grandson of an Australian who fought on Turkey's Gallipoli Peninsula during World War I."We want our martyr back," the Turkish daily Aksam said today."Crazy Anzac," said a headline in the daily Turkiye.It's not clear where the head will be kept, but Turks called for it to be brought home."This is very brutal behaviour. The...