DETROIT — Detroit police have impounded a party bus they say operated illegally as a strip club for reveling football fans at a popular tailgating spot.

The Detroit News and WDIV-TV report that the "Booty Lounge" bus was parked Monday near Ford Field, where the Lions played the Chicago Bears. Police say it was cited for not having a state safety inspection and because the driver didn't have a commercial license.

The bus was parked earlier Monday outside a bar in the Eastern Market area. Bus operator Joe Parsons agreed to move it at the request of police and said he planned to park out of town. Parsons has said Detroit has no ordinance against "mobile entertainment clubs."

An email seeking comment from a "Booty Lounge" representative was sent Wednesday.
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20111012/WIRE/111019904/1083/ARTICLES?Title=Detroit-police-Mobile-strip-club-Booty-Lounge-impounded

An increasing number of women from the Russian city of Pskov are giving “pregnancy and childbirth” as their reason for travel when applying for Estonian visas following a widely-reported incident where a pregnant woman was forced to seek emergency care in Tartu.

In August, a Pskov mother-to-be was refused help in Russian hospitals after she went into labor prematurely. With the help of friends, she managed travel to Estonia, where she successfully gave birth.

Despite vows by Pskov authorities to look into why the woman was refused care, local women are now “lining up” to apply for Estonian visas, reported the St. Petersburg journal Fontanka.

Carl Eric Laantee Reintamm, Consul at the Estonian Consulate General in Pskov, said that applicants shouldn't be afraid of listing “childbirth” on their visa applications, as other women from the city are granted visas for undergoing fertility treatment and childbirth in Estonia.

The rate of refusal, he said, is extremely low and mainly happens in cases where it is suspected that the applicant is in fact planning to travel to another Schengen country instead of Estonia.
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Department of Justice officials made a surprise appearance at a community forum in Birmingham, Ala. on Thursday evening, encouraging residents to report civil rights violations in the wake of the state's harsh new immigration law.

The law, H.B. 56, requires police and some government officials to demand proof of legal status if they have "reasonable suspicion" a person may be in the country illegally. So far, it has driven many undocumented immigrants and Latino residents out of the state.

Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, and a handful of department staffers and attorneys attended the forum, which was hosted by the local branch of the NAACP and held at Glen Iris Elementary School. Perez and panelists from local immigrant advocacy groups sat at a table at the school, several feet from a banner that said "Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month," and listened as men and women in the room voiced their fears about the law.

Some immigrants said they were unsure how to get to work, because renewing their license plates would now require them to show immigration papers, and any traffic stop could now lead to an officer detecting them as undocumented. Others said they feared sending their children to school, now that public schools might ask their children about their legal status. Some asked whether they should flee the state, leaving their jobs and homes behind.

One man questioned why Alabama legislators would pass such a law, wondering aloud whether it meant Latinos and other immigrants are unwelcome in the state.

"Can anyone tell me the motives behind this law?" he said, according to someone in the room. "We like it here, and we just don't understand why they don't like us."

For the most part, DOJ officials simply listened, taking notes on the concerns raised. They stuck around after the meeting to talk to community members directly, and plan to meet with more on Friday.

The DOJ has made attempts to block the law, which was adopted in the wake of Arizona's controversial immigration law S.B. 1070. But the Alab

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>>	Anonymous 11/10/14(Fri)13:09 No. 272275 >mfw Democrats support illegal immigration >mfw the DOJ supports illegal immigrants >mfw I'm not going to apply for a student visa and jump through the hoops, I'm just fucking coming over the boarder and getting your in-state tutition

>>	Anonymous 11/10/14(Fri)16:03 No. 272276 File 131863341166.jpg - (9.06KB , 150x146 , obama_just_as_planned_by_link_l33t-d3fkfgo.jpg ) >>272275 >mfw you get an education and become a skilled professional and valuable member of society with a steady upper middle class income

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Nigga got told.

At the GOP Bloomberg/Washington Post debate Tuesday night, Ron Paul, the longest-serving advocate of a Fed audit in Congress, asked Herman Cain, a former director of the Kansas City Fed, why he opposed an audit of the central bank, and why he called advocates of such an audit ignorant.

"Mr. Cain, in the past you have been rather critical of any of us who would want to audit the Fed. You have said -- you've used pretty strong terms, that we were ignorant and that we didn't know what we are doing, and therefore, there was no need for an audit anyway, because if you had one, you're not going to find out anything, because everybody knows everything about the Fed," Paul said.

"But now that we have found and we have gotten an audit, we have found out an awful lot on how special businesses get bailed out -- Wall Street, the banks, and special companies, foreign governments. And you said that you advise those of us who were concerned, and you belittled -- you say call up the Federal Reserve and just ask them. ... Do you still stick by this, that that this is frivolous, or do you think it's very important? Sixty-four percent of the American people want a full audit of the Fed on a regular basis."

Cain said that, in fact, he didn't oppose an audit, and that when he served on the Fed it was a different institution. "You have misquoted me. I did not call you or any of your people ignorant. I don't know where that came from," he said. "You've gotta be careful of the stuff you get off the Internet."

A careful check of the Internet, however -- guided by the Paul campaign -- turns up audio of Cain saying just what Paul accused him of saying. As recently as 2010, long after the Fed began engaging in the lending Cain says he opposed, Cain belittled those calling for an audit.

"Some people say that we ought

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DENVER — You can have your gun, or you can have your medical marijuana. But the Obama administration now says you can’t have both.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in the crosshairs for a recent memo prohibiting gun merchants from selling firearms to anyone who uses marijuana, including those with state-issued medical-marijuana cards.

An open letter dated Sept. 21 from Arthur Herbert, ATF assistant director for Enforcement Programs and Services, said that, “any person who uses or is addicted to marijuana, regardless of whether his or her State has passed legislation authorizing marijuana use for medicinal purposes, is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance, and is prohibited by Federal law from possessing firearms or ammunition.”

That didn’t sit well with Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock, who fired off a letter this week to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. saying that the policy raises “serious legal issues under the Second Amendment, and the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fifth Amendment.”

The conflict illustrates the contradictory state of affairs between the states and federal government on the subject of medical marijuana. Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have passed medical-marijuana laws, a situation the Justice Department has agreed to tolerate despite continuing to enforce federal laws banning marijuana use.

Where the agency draws the line is often a source of confusion. The Sept. 21 letter was issued in response to gun sellers who asked the agency for guidance because buyers were showing them medical-marijuana cards as identification.

Mr. Bullock blasted the ATF for failing to consult with state officials before issuing the directive, saying a cooperative approach “would be much better than the type of unilateral proclamation represented by the ATF letter.”

Critics contend that the law unfairly discriminates against marijuana users because patients who take other controlled substances, such as OxyContin, have no such restrictions. In his letter, Mr. Bullock pointed out federal law allows those who are prescribed co

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TWELVE workers were killed at a steel plant in eastern China when molten iron spilled from a furnace, the official Xinhua news agency reports.

Workers were trying to shut down the plant in Nanjing when the accident occurred yesterday, Xinhua reported, citing an official at the city's Municipal Safety Bureau who said an investigation had been launched.

The report gave no further details of the accident and calls to the Nanjing authorities went unanswered.

China has a dismal industrial safety record and the latest accident revived memories of a disaster in northeast China in 2007, when 26 tonnes of molten steel engulfed 32 workers gathered in a meeting room as they prepared for their shift. None survived.

China's demand for steel is among the highest in the world, with the country seeking to feed a boom in the construction of housing and infrastructure, such as roads and railways.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/twelve-chinese-workers-killed-by-molten-iron/story-e6frf7jx-1226160669663

A Los Angeles County sheriff's rookie who graduated at the top of his recruit class resigned after only a few weeks on the job, alleging that a supervisor made him beat up a mentally ill jail inmate, according to interviews and law enforcement records.

The deputy, Joshua Sather, said that shortly before the inmate's beating his supervisor said, "We're gonna go in and teach this guy a lesson," according to the records. The attack, Sather said, was then covered up.

Law enforcement records reveal that the incident caused tensions in the Sheriff's Department. Sather's uncle, a veteran sheriff's detective, angrily confronted the supervisor about making his nephew "beat up 'dings,' " slang for the mentally disabled. He then allegedly threatened to "put a bullet" in the supervisor's head.

Sather's case was pieced together by The Times from department sources as well as district attorney's documents in which Sather's uncle revealed his nephew's allegations to investigators.

Sheriff's officials launched an investigation and determined that an uncooperative inmate had been subdued by force, but concluded that no misconduct had occurred. They also asked the district attorney to review the uncle's alleged threat, but prosecutors declined to file charges.

Sather's allegation is among several first-hand accounts of unwarranted deputy violence against inmates in the nation's largest jail system. Last week, two chaplains and a movie producer released sworn statements that they witnessed deputies abusing inmates. But Sather's allegations are unusual because they come from within the department's own ranks, from the point of view of a deputy.

The FBI is now investigating several allegations of deputy abuse and misconduct in the jails.

Sather, a Long Beach native, had followed in his uncle's footsteps, earning a spot in the Sheriff's Academy and becoming his class' sole "Honor Recruit" for his leadership, athleticism and other abilities. As with virtually all rookies, his first assignment was

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The European Space Agency has selected a satellite to fly scorchingly close to the sun and a probe to map the structure of the universe for launch in 2017 and 2019.

In a fight for scarce funding, the selected missions beat out a planet-hunting mission designed to find Earth-sized planets in the deep cosmos. The winning projects picked Oct. 4 by ESA's science program committee are named Solar Orbiter and Euclid.

"With the selection of Solar Orbiter and Euclid, the science program has once more shown its relevance to pure science and to the concerns of citizens: Euclid will shed light on the nature of one of the most fundamental forces of the Universe, while Solar Orbiter will help scientists to understand processes, such as coronal mass ejections, that affect Earth's citizens by disrupting, for example, radio communication and power transmission," said Alvaro Gimenez, ESA's director of science and robotic exploration.

Cost and scientific value were the major factors in the decision. Each mission is expected to cost ESA between $670 million and $800 million, not including significant funding from international partners.

The Solar Orbiter probe will pass closer to the sun than any previous mission, approaching 26 million miles from the sun's fiery surface to sample the solar wind shortly after it is ejected. The spacecraft will also include remote sensing imaging instruments to observe the sun's corona and the solar atmosphere.

Scientists hope Solar Orbiter will unravel how the sun influences the solar system by determining the origins and causes of the supersonic solar wind, the sun's magnetic field, and massive eruptions from disturbances on the sun's surface.

It will launch in January 2017 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA's primary contribution to the European-led Solar Orbiter is the launch vehicle and one of the instruments in the probe's scientific suite.

Solar Orbiter would reach its closest point to the sun about three-and-a-half years after liftoff, or some time in 2020 assuming a launch in January 2017.

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Democratic Senator Harry Reid just instituted the "nuclear option" Vice President Biden worried about six years ago. As Vice President, one of Mr. Biden's constitutional duties is to preside over the US Senate as its President. Mr. Biden has not commented on Sen. Reid's action.

http://www.breitbart.tv/biden-in-2005-on-senate-nuclear-option-i-pray-to-god-democrats-do-not-do-this-when-we-have-power/

Disgusting behavior exhibited by the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters are on full display in New York as trash and debris pile-up on public streets. The disgusting conditions coupled with the group's anti-authority attitude resulted in one unidentified protester defecating on an NYPD patrol car.

http://www.breitbart.tv/defecate-wall-street-protesters-trash-gotham-defecate-on-nypd-car/

Virginia's bars and restaurants did not turn into shooting galleries as some had feared during the first year of a new state law that allows patrons with permits to carry concealed guns into alcohol-serving businesses, a Richmond Times-Dispatch analysis found.

The number of major crimes involving firearms at bars and restaurants statewide declined 5.2 percent from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, compared with the fiscal year before the law went into effect, according to crime data compiled by Virginia State Police at the newspaper's request.

And overall, the crimes that occurred during the law's first year were relatively minor, and few of the incidents appeared to involve gun owners with concealed-carry permits, the analysis found.

A total of 145 reported crimes with guns occurred in Virginia bars and restaurants in fiscal 2010-11, or eight fewer than the 153 incidents in fiscal 2009-10. State police track all murders, non-negligent manslaughters, aggravated assaults, forcible sex crimes and robberies in more than two dozen categories, including "bars/nightclubs" and "restaurants."

"The numbers basically just confirm what we've said would happen if the General Assembly changed the law," said Philip Van Cleave, president of the pro-gun Virginia Citizens Defense League, which strongly lobbied for the law's change that made Virginia one of 43 states to allow concealed guns in restaurants that serve alcohol. "It's sort of a big yawn. So from my point of view, none of this is surprising."

"Keep in mind," Van Cleave added, "what the other side was saying — that this was going to be a blood bath, that restaurants will be dangerous and people will stop going. But there was nothing to base the fear-mongering on."

State Sen. A. Donald McEachin, D-Henrico, who was a strong opponent of the law, said it's not clear what conclusions can be drawn from just a year's worth of data.

"Most folks obey the law, and that's a good thing," said McEachin, who remains staunchly opposed. "But I don't think it takes a rocke

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LAS VEGAS — An active-duty Navy SEAL was found guilty Friday in Nevada on 13 federal charges alleging he headed a scheme to sell machine guns, explosives and military hardware from Iraq and Afghanistan in the United States.

Petty Officer Nicholas Bickle stood straight in uniform while the verdict was read in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, then huddled quietly afterward in the courtroom with his parents and sister.

Bickle’s lawyer, James Pokorny, characterized Bickle and his family as “chagrined” at the verdict, which the lawyer acknowledged could lead to a dishonorable discharge from the Navy and the loss of benefits.

Seventy-two weapons were involved in the case, including more than 30 machine guns, said Thomas L. Chittum III, head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives office in Las Vegas. While the firearms were found to be stolen, testimony and evidence didn’t establish how they got into the U.S.

Chittum called the case revolving around allegations of war materiel being marketed in the U.S. by a decorated special forces member “an aberration.”

“It’s unthinkable that someone with his experience would sell guns like this on the streets of the United States,” the ATF agent said.

The case hinged on an investigation last year by undercover ATF agents who enlisted a man who later pleaded guilty to conspiring in the scheme for the purchase of high-powered and hard-to-trace machine guns.

Authorities seized handguns and a component for an AK-47 in raids in November at Bickle’s apartment in San Diego, and a storage unit he leased in nearby El Cajon. Raids also were conducted in Las Vegas and at the Durango, Colo., where agents were surprised to find five pounds of military C-4 explosive at the home of a close Bickle friend, Richard Paul.

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WASHINGTON -- In an aggressive bit of pushback to an oversight process that's tripped up his tenure, Attorney General Eric Holder lashed out at lawmakers on Friday in a letter to leadership on the House Oversight Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Addressing investigations into the Department of Justice's Fast and Furious program –- which allowed illegal guns to be sent into Mexico to track where they ended up -– Holder both defended the role he and his colleagues played in overseeing the program and criticized Republican lawmakers for using hyperbole. In particular, he admonished Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) for insinuating that the Obama administration was somehow an accessory to murder for allowing the gunrunning program to occur.

I have not spoken at length on this subject out of deference to the review being conducted, at my request, by our Department’s Inspector General. However, in the past few days, the public discourse concerning these issues has become so base and so harmful to interests that I hope we all share that I must now address these issues notwithstanding the Inspector General’s ongoing review.
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I simply cannot sit idly by as a Majority Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform suggests, as happened this week, that law enforcement and government employees who devote their lives to protecting our citizens be considered “accessories to murder." Such irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric must be repudiated in the strongest possible terms. Those who serve in the ranks of law enforcement are our Nation’s heroes and deserve our Nation’s thanks, not the disrespect that is being heaped on them by those who seek political advantage. I trust you feel similarly and I call on you to denounce these statements.

Holder's letter was rare for its aggressive tone. The Attorney General's office has, to this point, attempted to beat back allegations of wrongdoing in the Fast and Furious program by dismissing them outright. Most recently, that's involved pointing out that a similar program, Operation Wide Receiver, was conducted during the Bush years and sparked no outcry fro

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Like most genres of popular literature, science fiction has been slow to present lesbians in a positive light. During the late 19th century and early 20th century, lesbians were entirely unrepresented in science fiction, with homosexuality an act only depraved men engaged in.

Which makes Gregory Casparian's The Anglo-American Alliance. A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future (1906), the first lesbian science fiction novel, all the more notable.

Casparian (1855-1947) was a Turkish Armenian who emigrated to the United States in 1877 after making himself unwelcome in Turkey as an officer in the Armenian army. He settled in New York and became an artist, painter, and photoengraver for an engineering firm. Little else can be found about him, but he must have been an interesting and thoughtful man, for The Anglo-American Alliance, his only book, is remarkably progressive sexually.

The Anglo-American Alliance, set in the future of 1960, has two plots. The first is a detailed history of a 20th century in which the United States and the United Kingdom are the major powers on Earth, colonialism is still in force (Great Britain having colonized central Africa in the 1920s), and technology has advanced in a limited fashion: prenatal sex determination and suspended animation are now possible, a germicide for laziness has been developed, benefitting "the negroes of the Southern States" [sic], and an enormous telescope has discovered "vegetation and moving objects" on Mars and Venus. A Persian astronomer, Abou Shimshek, has found an "ice lens" which allowed him to discover a new planet on which live a race of telepathic, furred, electric-wheel-riding aliens.

The second is the romance between Aurora Cunningham, the daughter of Great Britain's Secretary of Foreign Affairs," and Margaret MacDonald, the daughter of an American senator. Aurora is beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed, gentle, and has a speech impediment: "a typical English maiden." Margaret is Aurora's "very antithesis. She was somewhat taller, with sparkling black eyes and raven hair, of imposing dignity and carriage, but withal the equal of Aur

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A 14-year-old boy is being held in a harsh prison cell on the holiday island of Bali for drug possession - one of the youngest foreigners to be arrested in Indonesia.

The young Australian faces up to 12 years in jail after being arrested for allegedly being in possession of 6.9 grams of marijuana.

The teenager, who was on holiday with his parents and friends, was said last night to be crying in his cell at Denpasar's police headquarters.

Sydney's Daily Telegraph said it had been told by a source on the island that the boy bought the marijuana because he felt sorry for a man who gave him a hard luck story.

The source said the boy was on his way to get a massage near the famous Kuta Beach holiday strip when he was approached by a dealer who asked him to buy the drug because he needed the money to buy food.

The boy, who comes from the city of Newcastle, 100 miles north of Sydney, is believed to have paid the equivalent of £15 for the marijuana.

He went on his way to have the massage and he was arrested shortly afterwards.

It is not known whether the dealer had 'shopped' the teenager to the police as part of a sting.

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