Wednesday - May 24, 2006
Stupid Criminal Du Jour
Someone is banging on your front door, screaming and cussing at you. They’re throwing bicycles at your windows. What do you do? You follow the Skipper’s Ten-Step Plan: (1) Calmly go into dad’s bedroom, (2) Locate dad’s pistol, (3) Scrounge for ammo, (4) Load pistol, (5) Wait at front door, (6) Aim pistol at what will be “center of mass”, (7) Fire pistol when intruder smashes door down, (8) Keep firing until all ammo depleted, (9) Calmly stand over perp as he bleeds all over the floor, (10) Call 911 (optional).
Teen Loads Gun, Shoots When Intruder Breaks Down Door
May 23, 2006
HOLLYWOOD, Fla (MIAMI HERALD)—With a man breaking through the front door, a Hollywood 15-year-old loaded his father’s gun, waited for the intruder to come in and shot him, police said.
Keil Jumper, 22, who police said has a long rap sheet, was later found bleeding in an area between two houses. Police said Jumper was seriously injured but his injuries didn’t appear life threatening.
The incident happened about 3:30 a.m. Saturday, when Jumper attempted to break down the front door, then picked up a bicycle to smash the window, police said. The sounds terrified a family of eight to 10 people who were asleep in the home, which is on South 61st Avenue in Hollywood, police said.
Police said the teenager is unlikely to be charged in the case. But they said Jumper, who was shot several times, will be—once he’s discharged from Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood.
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Permalink • Vlad’s Shack
Dirty, rotten Commies are finally returning what they stole after WWII. Although it’s anybody’s guess what they’ve been doing with the castle that belonged to The Original Moonbat. Perhaps they were using it as a blood bank? Regardless, you all better lock up your virgin daughters who sleep in filmy negligees with large open windows in their bedrooms. Especially if your next-door neighbor bears a striking resemblance to Christopher Lee and works for the IRS. Bloodsuckers, I tells ya ...
Romania Gives Dracula’s Castle Back To Owners
May 23, 2006, 5:31 PM EDT
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP)—More than 60 years after it was seized by communists, the Romanian government is to hand back one of the country’s most popular tourist sites, the fabled Dracula Castle, to its former owner, the culture minister said Tuesday.
The castle, worth an estimated $25 million, was owned by the late Queen Marie and bequeathed to her daughter Princess Ileana in 1938. It was confiscated by communists in 1948 and fell into disrepair.
It will be transferred on Friday to Dominic van Hapsburg, a New York architect who inherited the castle from Princess Ileana decades after the communists seized it, minister Adrian Iorgulescu told a news conference.
Van Hapsburg is a descendant of the Hapsburg dynasty which ruled Romania for a period starting in the late 17th century. The hand-over ceremony will take place Friday at noon in the 14th century castle’s museum deep within the fortress in Transylvania, Iorgulescu said.
Restoration work began in the late 1980s and was partially completed in 1993. It is now one of Romania’s top tourist destinations. Under the agreement, the owner will not be allowed to make any changes to the castle for the next three years, Iorgulescu said.
While known and marketed as “Dracula’s Castle,” it never belonged to Prince Vlad the Impaler, who inspired Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula character. But the prince is thought to have visited the medieval fortress. The Gothic fortress, perched on a rock, has appeared in numerous Dracula movies.
At the gates of Bran Castle, peasants sell Dracula sweaters hand-knitted from the thick wool of local sheep, cheesecloth blouses, and Vampire wine. The castle is the most famous of 15 citadels and fortresses in the area, which were built by peasants to keep out marauding armies of Turks and Tartars and cruel local medieval lords.
Another former royal property, the Peles Castle, built in the late 19th century in the mountain town of Sinaia, will be returned to former King Michael. He owned it before it was confiscated by the communist regime in 1948.
Romania passed legislation earlier this year to return property to its former owners and establish a “property fund” to pay damages for assets that cannot be returned. The fund includes stock in state-owned companies that are being privatized.
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Permalink • Cold Hard Cash
Robert Ariail—The South Carolina State
- Voice Of America: “Congressman Jefferson Denies Wrongdoing”
- US NewsWire: “Ethics Group Praises Raid on William Jefferson’s Office”
- Syndey Herald: “Congressman cool over cash in freezer”It takes a particular kind of nerve to be filmed taking $US100,000 in alleged bribe money out of an FBI informant’s car, have the FBI later find the very same money wrapped in foil in your freezer - and then adamantly claim that you have done nothing wrong.
But Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana has that rare trait - to the horror of fellow Democrats hoping to persuade voters that it is the Republicans who are corrupt. “There are two sides to every story,” he said.
Maybe so. But an 83-page FBI affidavit made public over the weekend - after a raid of his congressional office - alleges Mr Jefferson was caught on video taking a certificate for a 30 per cent stake in a Nigerian company in exchange for his political influence, and intervening with the vice-president of Nigeria.
When Mr Jefferson demanded that his stake in the Nigerian company be increased he said he was doing it for his five daughters. The affidavit also says Mr Jefferson received “a leather briefcase containing $US100,000 cash in denominations of $US100 bills” - and that $US90,000 of it wound up in his freezer “inside various frozen food containers”. He referred to the cash as “African art” and laughed with a partner about “all these damn notes we’re writing to each other as if … the FBI is watching”.
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Permalink • Tuesday - May 23, 2006
Through The Looking Glass
“Onward And Upward”
-by- Red Orbit
In Memoriam: Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White, II, Roger B. Chaffee (Died: January 27, 1967, Apollo I); Francis “Dick” Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnik, Ellison S. Onizuka, Ronald E. McNair, Gregory B. Jarvis, S. Christa McAuliffe (Died: January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger); Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, Ilan Ramon (Died: February, 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia).
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Permalink • Amnesia Attacks Britain
Ahhh, it does my heart good to see Amnesia International attacking sombody else besides the US. It’s too bad they decided to attack Britain though. Why do these jerks at AI persist in annoying the good guys while ignoring the real asshats like Cuba, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Indonesia, North Korea, etc.? All they’re accomplishing is making a nuisance out of themselves. Why don’t they go to North Korea and demonstrate outside Kim Jung Il’s residence. I’m sure “Dear Leader” will be glad to hear their complaints. After all, he’s “so ronery” ....
May 23, 2006
(BBC)—The UK has damaged fundamental human rights by trying to undermine the ban on torture and the independence of judges, says Amnesty International. The group’s annual report attacks the government for trying to deport terror suspects to nations which use torture. And it welcomes a Lords ruling that evidence that might have been obtained by torture cannot be used in UK courts.
Amnesty’s Irene Khan said, of using torture to fight terrorism: “You cannot extinguish fire with petrol.” The governments says it does not use evidence it knows or suspects has been obtained through torture overseas. But Amnesty fought a court battle last year over how far the government must go to show improper methods had not been used.
Kate Allen, Amnesty’s UK director, said the world’s leading democracies would surrender the moral high ground if they entertained the use of torture or “outsourced” torture as the Americans were doing. Amnesty director Ms Khan attacked the UK for signing deals with countries such as Jordan, Libya and Lebanon to deport terror suspects without fear they would be tortured or killed.
She asked people to look at the human rights records of such countries and decide “whether these diplomatic assurances are worth the paper they are written on”. Amnesty is pressing the US to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and reveal the details of its secret prison camps elsewhere. It also wants European Union nations to do more to investigate claims that the CIA is flying suspects through their airspace to countries where they could be tortured.
The Amnesty report, which covers 150 countries, attacks the “duplicity and double speak” of the war against terror. The campaign is also proving a distraction from key human rights abuses, it claims. In its verdict on the UK, the report says: “The government continued to erode fundamental human rights, the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, including by persisting with attempts to undermine the ban on torture at home and abroad...”
Ministers have also tried to introduce measures which are odds with human rights law at home and internationally, it says. Counter-terror measures led to serious human rights violations, it argues, and there was widespread concern about the impact of these measures on Muslims and other minority communities. The report also says the UK has broken human rights laws through its role in detaining 10,000 people without charge in Iraq.
UK officials sat with US and Iraqi officials on the boards which review the cases of all those interned by multi-national forces in Iraq. Amnesty says most of the people are detained by US troops but at the end of October the UK was itself holding 33 “security internees” without charge or trial.
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Permalink • Coincidentally
- The Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines is in the news again - bashing President Bush. Just by coincidence, the group has a new album being released this week.
- All of the recent arguments and threats of boycotts over “The DaVinci Code” have reached a peak. Just by coincidence, the movie opened Friday and has already grossed $77 million, making it 13th on the list of all time opening weekend boxoffice, just behind “Passion Of The Christ”.
- The House and Senate are trying to complete an immigration bill this week. Just by coincidence, Mexico’s President Vicente Fox is kicking off a publicity tour of the US, starting in Utah.
- Al Gore is making headlines again promising doom and gloom from global warming. Just by coincidence, Gore has a documentary opening at the Cannes Film Festival about global warming and oddly enough summer (and hurricane season) is only weeks away.
- Forecasters are predicting a very busy hurricane season again this year with at least 10 named storms. Just by coincidence, folks in New Orleans are practicing “Operation Bugout” this week and half the city still refuses to move back.
-- Emma Bull
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Permalink • Above The Law
Let me ask right up front one simple question ... Why in hell is anyone surprised that a Louisiana politician was corrupt and taking bribes? Even more importantly, why is anyone surprised that he is a Democrat? I mean ... DUH!?
With that said, I fail to see what Congress’ argument is in this whole thing. Jefferson was caught on tape taking bribes so the FBI took the investigation to his office for more evidence of wrongdoing.
I am aware of the “separation of powers” intent in the Constitution but I think Congress has got an overinflated opinion of itself if the members think they are above the law and can insulate themselves from a criminal investigation with this argument. What say you?
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
An unusual FBI raid of a Democratic congressman’s office over the weekend prompted complaints yesterday from leaders in both parties, who said the tactic was unduly aggressive and may have breached the constitutional separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches of government.
Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-LA) pictured at right, who is at the center of a 14-month investigation for allegedly accepting bribes for promoting business ventures in Africa, also held a news conference in which he denied any wrongdoing and denounced the raid on his office as an “outrageous intrusion.” Jefferson, who has not been charged, vowed to seek reelection in November.
“There are two sides to every story; there are certainly two sides to this story,” he said at a Capitol Hill news conference. “There will be an appropriate time and forum when that can be explained.”
The Saturday raid of Jefferson’s quarters in the Rayburn House Office Building posed a new political dilemma for the leaders of both parties, who felt compelled to protest his treatment while condemning any wrongdoing by the lawmaker. The dilemma was complicated by new details contained in an 83-page affidavit unsealed on Sunday, including allegations that the FBI had videotaped Jefferson taking $100,000 in bribe money and then found $90,000 of that cash stuffed inside his apartment freezer.
Republican leaders, who previously sought to focus attention on the Jefferson case as a counterpoint to their party’s own ethical scandals, said they are disturbed by the raid. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said that he is “very concerned” about the incident and that Senate and House counsels will review it.
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) expressed alarm at the raid. “The actions of the Justice Department in seeking and executing this warrant raise important Constitutional issues that go well beyond the specifics of this case,” he said in a lengthy statement released last night.
“Insofar as I am aware, since the founding of our Republic 219 years ago, the Justice Department has never found it necessary to do what it did Saturday night, crossing this Separation of Powers line, in order to successfully prosecute corruption by Members of Congress,” he said. “Nothing I have learned in the last 48 hours leads me to believe that there was any necessity to change the precedent established over those 219 years.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement that “members of Congress must obey the law and cooperate fully with any criminal investigation” but that “Justice Department investigations must be conducted in accordance with Constitutional protections and historical precedent.”
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Permalink • Google Censorship
Regular readers here may recall my recent encounter with the Google giant and how this blog was delisted for several weeks with no explanation from Google. Well, I’ll probably get blacklisted by Google again for running this post but I just gotta. Liberals in this country talk about censorship and accuse conservatives and the Bush administration of trying to stifle dissent. Hogwash! The real censorship comes from the Left.
Did you know that 98% of Google employees’ political donations go to Democrats? Fact. Did you know that Google wouldn’t run ads for an anti-Clinton book recently? Fact. Did you know that Google censors content for websites in Communist China? Fact. Sooner or later Google will have to pay the price for their censorship and biased behavior. It can’t happen soon enough, in my humble opinion.
So I say to Google, “Delist me again if you wish! I still won’t shut up! Give me liberty or give me death! Don’t tread on me! Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead! Ask not what your blog can do for you, ask what you can do for your blog!”
May 23, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Search engine giant Google has cut off its news relationship with a number of online news publications that include frank discussions of radical Islam – the New Media Journal becoming the latest termination, as its owner just discovered. Frank Salvato, who began the agreement with Google News last September, said he received a reply from the company’s help desk Friday indicating there had been complaints of “hate speech” on his site, as first reported by media watchdog Newsbusters.org.
The e-mail, which cited three articles that dealt with radical Islam and its relationship to terrorism, read:
Hi Frank,
Thanks for writing. We received numerous reports about hate content on your site, and after reviewing these reports, decided to remove your site from Google News. We do not allow articles and sources expressly promoting hate speech viewpoints in Google News (although referencing hate speech for commentary and analysis is acceptable).
For example, a number of the complaints we looked at on your site were found to be hate content:
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/peck/05102006.htm
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/stock/05082006.htm
http://www.newmediajournal.us/guest/imani/04222006.htm
We hope this helps you understand our position.
Regards,
The Google TeamNewsbusters says it has observed a pattern of intolerance toward conservative sites that deal with radical Islam and terrorism. Rusty Shackleford, owner of The Jawa Report, received a similar e-mail message March 29 informing him: “Upon recent review, we’ve found that your site contains hate speech, and we will no longer be including it in Google News.”
Two weeks later, Jim Sesi’s MichNews.com was cut off, with Google providing three examples of “hate speech” by conservative writer J. Grant Swank, Jr. Newsbusters commented: “At first blush, one can easily ignore such business decisions by the most powerful company on the Internet as being routine. However, on closer examination, such behavior could give one relatively small technological corporation (when measured by the size of its workforce) a degree of political might that frankly dwarfs its current financial prowess.”
The media watchdog noted columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin wrote in February 2005 her difficulties in becoming part of Google News. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs had a similar complaint. When Google News launched its beta site in April 2002, it said its mission was to construct an unbiased news engine free of human intervention using new methods of aggregating news from sources worldwide.
According to the April Nielsen/NetRatings report, 49 percent of all searches conducted in the U.S. in March 2006 were carried out on Google. Along with the dropping of conservative news providers, Google has received other complaints of liberal bias.
- “Google Censoring Conservative Ads”
- “Google restricting search results in China”
- “Google blocks ad for anti-Clinton book”Posted by The Skipper
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Permalink • Read All About It
John Trever—The Albuquerque Journal
- Washington Post: “Prosecution of Journalists Is Possible in NSA Leaks”
- NY Times: “Reporter Contempt Case May Soon Be Resolved”
- USA Today: “Pre-9/11 records help flag suspicious calling”Posted by The Skipper
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Permalink • Monday - May 22, 2006
Through The Looking Glass
“Royal Clipper”
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Skipper’s Note: Many years ago, I took a cruise on one of these ships belonging to Windjammer - Barefoot Cruises out of Miami Beach. It beats the snot out of the large luxury cruise liners. We slept on the deck under the stars and helped sail the ship, trimming the sails, etc. We sailed around from island to island and spent the days snorkeling and exploring the inland looking for pirate treasure (just in fun). I had the time of my life and I plan to do it again one day soon. You need to try this at least once in your life if you can afford it. It’s not that expensive and it will be something to remember forever.
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Permalink • Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day
As usual James Taranto at WSJ’s Opinion Journal digs out a real gem in today’s Best Of The Web. I just wish I’d caught this one first. Oh, well. The daily Hypocricy Award™ goes to John Murtha and whoever is on the committee that chose him to receive the John F. Kennedy Profile In Courage Award today.
Murtha to Receive JFK Award for Iraq Stance
(05-22) 03:44 PDT
WASHINGTON, (AP)—The first Vietnam veteran elected to Congress, Rep. John Murtha took pride in politicking quietly, behind the scenes, with Republicans and fellow Democrats alike. Washington has become more deeply partisan since Murtha was swept into office more than 30 years ago, and so has Murtha — in a very public way.
On Monday, Murtha is to be awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in Boston for his bold pronouncement that U.S. troops should be pulled out of Iraq — a statement many say helped change the public debate over the war, because of Murtha’s past as a Democratic hawk and retired Marines Reserves colonel who enjoyed easy access to presidents.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
-- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address - January 20, 1961
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
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Permalink • A Beam In The Eye
Read the following excerpt carefully. It is from an editorial post at the web site of a major mainstream media news source. It is interesting in that the author attacks the internet and bloggers for spreading lies and rumors disguised as truth. What really tickled my funnybone is the source of the quote. Read it and see if you can guess which major news organization would dare to print such accusations.
Even ten years ago, false stories, rumors and speculation disguised as knowledge operated in a world of hushed tones, being passed from individual to individual. If a lie was making its way around the world, it at least wasn’t being heard world-wide. The Internet has changed all that. Today, not only can even the most outrageous stories be instantly available to millions of people, they are susceptible to different interpretations. One man’s suggested dress code can become another’s Nazi-like pogrom.
It’s easy enough to scoff and wave off anything that hits the Internet as unreliable and scurrilous. But to do so ignores the reality of the way information is gathered, presented and absorbed in today’s world. No longer are news consumers waiting for The New York Times to verify the stories they tell around the water cooler. They are increasingly getting their news from the Web, talk radio and blogs. And that information – whether it’s spot-on accurate, partially true or wholly false – is making its way around the world in an instant, before traditional media outlets can get their boots on.
The fact we’re still not sure what exactly to believe about stories like the USA Today database exclusive doesn’t help clear up the picture for news consumers either. In the wake of a series of journalistic scandals – Jason Blair, Memogate, Judy Miller and many others – it’s understandable why, in many quarters, the MSM is seen as no more reliable than many blogs or Web sites. All good reasons to question any story you come across. And all good reasons for news organizations to be more transparent and open with readers—and harder on ourselves—than ever.
7:3. And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye?
7:4. Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye?
7:5. Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
Matthew 7:3-5 (KJV), The Sermon On The Mount
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Permalink • All The News That’s Print To Fit
It’s about time somebody in government stood up to the arrogant, “holier-than-thou” media. I applaud Gonzalez for finally waking up and realizing what a danger some of these “journalists” are to the country. Some of them seem to care less whether they give terrorists all the information they need to hit us again - as long as they can get an interview with Hezbollah’s head toad-frog.
Every one of the ten amendments comprising the Bill Of Rights guarantees us a particular freedom. They each also imply a certain sense of responsibility as well. The Second Amendment gives all citizens the right to own and posses firearms. By the same token, we have a responsibility to learn how to use those firearms safely and legally ... i.e., only in self-defense or for hunting. The First Amendment carries with it its own responsibilities as well. It guarnatees freedom of the press but it also implies a responsibility to not broadcast information that could compromise our security or give aid and comfort to any enemies.
I’m all for freedom of the press and speech but you have to use a little common sense ... something our modern “press” seems to have in short supply. They better wise up now before they screw the pooch for everyone. We need to know what our government is doing to keep an eye on them. We don’t need to know every little thing that is being done to fight terrorism and we sure as hell don’t need to see our strategy plastered all over the front page of the NY Times. Period.
May 21 10:43 AM US/Eastern
WASHINGTON (BREITBART)—Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday he believes journalists can be prosecuted for publishing classified information, citing an obligation to national security.
The nation’s top law enforcer also said the government will not hesitate to track telephone calls made by reporters as part of a criminal leak investigation, but officials would not do so routinely and randomly.
“There are some statutes on the book which, if you read the language carefully, would seem to indicate that that is a possibility,” Gonzales said, referring to prosecutions. “We have an obligation to enforce those laws. We have an obligation to ensure that our national security is protected.”
In recent months, journalists have been called into court to testify as part of investigations into leaks, including the unauthorized disclosure of a CIA operative’s name as well as the National Security Agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program.
Gonzales said he would not comment specifically on whether The New York Times should be prosecuted for disclosing the NSA program last year based on classified information.
He also denied that authorities would randomly check journalists’ records on domestic-to-domestic phone calls in an effort to find journalists’ confidential sources. “We don’t engage in domestic-to-domestic surveillance without a court order,” Gonzales said, under a “probable cause” legal standard.
But he added that the First Amendment right of a free press should not be absolute when it comes to national security. If the government’s probe into the NSA leak turns up criminal activity, prosecutors have an “obligation to enforce the law.”
“It can’t be the case that that right trumps over the right that Americans would like to see, the ability of the federal government to go after criminal activity,” Gonzales told ABC’s “This Week.”
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Permalink • Stupid Criminal Du Jour
Today’s “Stupid Criminal Tricks” is brought to you by the good folks in “Da Bronx”. You know where the Bronx is, dont’cha? It’s where dose overpaid joik Yankees play. It’s also where sixteen-year-old gunsel-wannabe’s get collared (and shot) trying to rob a cop. Dey just never learn.
DOPEY BRONX ‘MUGGER’ MAKES WRONG CHOICE
May 22, 2006
(NEW YORK POST)—A teenage would-be mugger who picked the wrong target - a cop - was charged yesterday with assaulting the police officer after getting shot in the hand in a struggle over the detective’s gun.
Scott Porter, 16, of Washington Avenue in The Bronx, was also charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Police said Porter cracked the off-duty cop over the head with a bottle Saturday night and punched him in the face during a robbery attempt near Third Avenue and East 171st Street in The Bronx.
The cop, who was on his way to visit his mother, pulled out his gun, which went off when the mugger tried to grab it, officials said.
Porter was shot in his left hand. He fled and was treated at Bronx Lebanon Hospital, where doctors called the cops.
The injured cop, a 13-year veteran from the 113th Precinct, received stitches to his head at a nearby hospital and was released.
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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