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Police are searching for a child molester who preys on boys with learning difficulties by pretending to be a private investigator and then luring them to a secluded area and raping them. The predator has struck twice in San Francisco and once in Pacifica, said Inspector Sidney Laws of the San Francisco Police Department's sexual assault detail. As summer gets under way and more children are roaming The City unsupervised, police are alerting summer vacation program operators and parents to the molester's modus operandi. In January, the man accosted a 12-year-old boy at a bus stop on Van Ness Avenue...

A darker side of pot growing Diesel, oil contamination a slippery, but serious problem By John Driscoll The Times-Standard The cost of a pound of marijuana on the street may not reflect the steep cost to the land where it was grown and to people living nearby. With the ongoing trend of moving big marijuana grows indoors, drug enforcement agents are frequently uncovering serious environmental contamination problems. Mostly, the pollution is from diesel generators used to power energy-hogging sodium lights and ventilation equipment needed to grow high potency marijuana indoors. A below-standard diesel storage tank, and improper disposal of...

America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War. The reaction to 9/11 is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for in his nastiest dreams. As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have made America the envy of the world are being systematically eroded. The combination of compliant US media and vested corporate interests is once more ensuring that a debate that should be ringing out in every...

Just when you thought we were making strides in homeland security comes another frightening reminder of how little seriousness is being placed on monitoring those who enter our borders. Introducing the Howdy Doody ID card -- also known as the Matricula Consular card. The Matricula Consular (MC) card is not new, but it's gaining increased recognition as more and more politicians and citizens recognize how the MC card could be used by illegal aliens and potential terrorists to gain entry into America. The MC card is essentially an identification card which is issued by Mexican consulates to Mexican nationals....

Summary synopsis in English of Japanese language article just breaking on the web now, by Sankei News (out of New York City)....Provided by Freeper AITText summary:"UN SANCTIONS AGAINST US WILL BE A DECLARATION OF WAR"North Korean ambassador to the United Nations Mr. Park, in in effort to put a lid on UN sanctions against his nation for withdrawing from the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA), threatened in a press conference today at the United Nations [Jan 10], that for the United Nations to go ahead with sanctions on North Korea, it would be interpreted as a 'declaration of war.'He...

 

"Adam Sandler invites you to share some holiday cheer in the new, no-holds-barred musical comedy Adam Sandler's 8 Crazy Nights.. MPAA Rating: G-13 for frequent crude and sexual humor, drinking and brief drug references "

I thought I heard somebody say there’s an election next week. Pretty sure I heard that right. Something about mid-term Congressional elections. A bunch of governorships up for grabs. Things like that. Of course, I could be wrong. I saw what looked like a political rally on the tube but the talking heads kept telling me it was a memorial service. There may be political campaign spots on TV. I couldn’t say. Like most adult males, I channel surf during commercials. While in Missouri the other day, I saw a bus with a sign that said: “Chuck Norman likes Jim...

The "mass hallucination" that gripped the world's stock markets during the tech boom is ending, the US investment guru Warren Buffett has told the BBC. He said the markets were now "more realistic" compared with the share bubble of a few years ago, when investors ignored common sense and started "dreaming". Mr Buffett added that the hallucination had led to an erosion of accounting standards, which erupted so damagingly over the past few months. And he said investors should take a long-term view with their money if they wanted to be successful. Track-record Warren Buffett has become one of the...

Commissioner Barbara Carey-Schuler had asked the county attorney to draw up a resolution directing county staff to seek outside oversight of the election. In the end, Carey-Schuler decided Jimmy Carter might cause too much of a ruckus in the Cuban-Amercian community.'I don't want to bring in a group that will create more problems,' she said.Commissioners opted to seek help from another outside monitor, possibly Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.The resolution will be heard Thursday, it is expected to pass.While Comissioner Natacha Seijas said she didn't want Carter, most seemed supportive of an outside monitor.

<p>The European Union is demanding that foriegn companies be allowed to compete with the U.S. Postal Service as part of the World Trade Organization talks that began last year.</p> <p>According to a draft copy of its demands obtained by the Washington Times, Europe also wants access to American markets for municipal water and waste services. It will also call for foriegn companies to be given access to Small Business Administration Loans.</p>

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m `So much damage in just one hour' Two days ago, the charred pile next to the building with wide glass windows was still emitting heat. Given the countless number of empty canned food tins, one might conclude that they were the leftover combat rations the soldiers set on fire earlier that morning, just before they left Ramallah. But some papers that were not totally burned indicated that it was not just garbage that was set on fire. Fragments of...