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Just riding into town from Kansas city Fox, they are revamping the website, so, we cant blog there right now.. wwaaaa... whatever.. always fun to come visit and see how youre doing down here.

It is a balmy -20 F today, with a wind chill that will go straight through your jeans.. but that's not so bad if you have a snuggling buddy.

Anyway, hope you dont mind we will be invading you until your blog gets shut down! LOL

Wow this series has been fantastic. Cuddos to Tony Rizzo, who has the courage to tackle this issue.

Snip from the article:

The violence doesn’t just affect the inner city, he said. People anywhere potentially are at risk, and everyone pays the bill for incarcerating so many convicted criminals.

Imprisoning just one killer from 64130 for 10 years costs taxpayers more than $164,000, according to the Department of Corrections. That’s more than $16 million when multiplied by 100 inmates — and most of them are serving much-longer sentences.

Read the whole story here.

The KC star continues it's series on the most violent zip code in the state. Right here in KC.

Read the story here

I dont know what it must be like to grow up in such a violent, drug ridden area. Glad I grew up in the burbs.

The Kc star is doing a series on the residents, and murders in Zip Code 64130. Although they only make up 6% of the population. They account for 20% of the murders.

No other Zip code in Kansas City, or St Louis or anywhere in the state makes up such a large portion of the violence.

What do the people who live here have to say? What are the hopes for cleaning it up. What went wrong?

I will feature these as they are posted.

For Part 1 click here

 

The mother of the monster that impregnated his daughter 4 X speaks out on what this is doing to her and how she feels about her son and what he has done.

 

You can  see the video here.

THOMPSON — Sheriff's deputies and investigators have broken a heroin distribution ring that dished out narcotics across more than half of Sullivan County.

A total of five men and women were arrested Wednesday night following a three-month investigation, during which undercover police purchased decks of heroin from street dealers. Undersheriff Eric Chaboty said the dealers were selling heroin in towns that stretched from Monticello to Livingston Manor.

The alleged dealers were pushing a variety of heroin that they called "Obama." Chaboty said dealers are known to stamp the glassine wax paper that carries the heroin with brand names — like "Black Death" or "Blue Sunshine" — so that users can identify their preferred brands. This drug ring's stamp happened to carry the new president's surname.

Read the whole story here.

 

Great group of followers you got there Obama...  I guess they really do want you to spoon feed them.

Kansas City police on Saturday released photos of a truck and a woman they think may be connected to the disappearance of a Northland woman around New Year’s Day.

Renee Pernice, the mother of two, has not been seen since at least Jan. 2.

 

The KC star has information this morning on a new lead in the disappearance of Renee Pernice.

 

Here is the whole story

 

So, let' all put out the torches, store the pitchforks and turn off the truck until the police figure out what is going on.

Cleric: OK for 10-year-old girls to marry

Jan. 14, 2009 08:10 AM
Associated Press

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric was quoted Wednesday as saying it is permissible for 10-year-old girls to marry and those who think they're too young are doing the girls an injustice.

The mufti's comments showed the conservative clergy's opposition to a drive by Saudi rights groups, including government ones, to define the age of marriage and put an end to the phenomenon of child marriages.

"It is wrong to say it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger," Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh, the country's grand mufti, was quoted as saying. OAS_AD('ArticleFlex_1')

"A female who is 10 or 12 is marriageable and those who think she's too young are wrong and are being unfair to her," he said during a Monday lecture, according to the pan-Arab Al-Hayat newspaper.

Al Sheikh's comments come at a time when Saudi human rights groups have been pushing the government to put an end to marriages involving the very young and to define a minimum age for marriage. In the past few months, Saudi newspapers have highlighted several cases in which young girls were married off to much older men or very young boys.

Though the mufti's pronouncements are respected and provide guidance, the government is not legally bound by them.

On Sunday, the government-run Human Rights Commission condemned marriages of minor girls, saying such marriages are an "inhumane violation" and rob children of their rights.

The commission's statement followed a ruling by a court in Oneiza in central Saudi Arabia last month that dismissed a divorce petition by the mother of an eight-year-old girl whose father married her off to a man in his 50s.

Newspaper reports said the court argued that the mother did not have the right to file such a case on behalf of her daughter and said that the petition should be filed by the girl when she reaches puberty.

Responding to a question about parents who force their underage daughters to marry, the mufti said: "We hear a lot about the marriage of underage girls in the media, and we should know that Islamic law has not brought injustice to women."

The mufti said a good upbringing will make a girl capable of carrying out her duties as a wife and that those who say women should not marry before the age of 25 are following a "bad path."

"Our mothers and before them, our grandmothers, married when they were barely 12," said Al Sheikh, according to Al-Hayat.

There are no statistics to show how many marriages involving children are performed in Saudi Arabia every year. And it's also not clear whether these unions are on the rise or whether people are hearing about them more now because of the prevalence of media outlets and easy access to the Internet.

Activists say the girls are given away in return for hefty dowries or as a result of long-standing custom in which a father promises his infant daughters and sons to cousins out of a belief that marriage will protect them from illicit relationships.

Shanks, now 20, back in court He was convicted as boy in fatal beating

By Marie Rohde of the Journal Sentinel

Posted: Jan. 14, 2009

  Shanks Close

A man Milwaukee's police chief called "the very definition of a menace to society" faces a jury today, seven years after he first gained notoriety as one of the youngest defendants in the fatal mob beating of Charlie Young Jr.

This time, prosecutors say Artieas Shanks, 20, took part in a vicious attack and robbery of a man walking on the city's east side in 2006, shortly after Shanks was released from his juvenile sentence in the Young case.

In his opening statement Tuesday, Shanks' attorney suggested to jurors that the case took on greater importance because officers saw the victim as "one of their own," since he worked as a civilian data analyst for a multi-agency drug enforcement task force.

But jurors in the case didn't hear about Young, or Shanks' escape from electronic monitoring last fall and the armed robbery he's charged with committing a few days after that.

In their opening statements, Assistant District Attorney Warren Zier and defense counsel Peter Goldberg revealed only these facts:

On Dec. 5, 2006, Thomas Lowe, 41, left the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where the drug task force was headquartered, and stopped at Axel's, an east side bar. He had three or four drinks and left the bar about 9:30 p.m.

While navigating an icy sidewalk in the 2700 block of N. Murray Ave., he became aware of a green van pulling up behind him.

Suddenly, a man he later identified as Shanks appeared in front of him and demanded his wallet. Lowe was hit from behind, possibly with a brick, and knocked to the ground before his assailants took his keys, wallet and two cell phones.

A resident saw the commotion and then found Lowe injured on the ground.

Investigators traced two calls made from one of the stolen phones. A woman, a friend of Shanks' sister, said he had called her, but investigators noted that she said the call came about 9 p.m. - before the robbery.

A second call was placed to Shanks' home at 1:33 a.m. the morning after the robbery, and Shanks' mother said it was from her son.

Later, Lowe identified Shanks from a photo array of possible suspects.

Goldberg told the jury he would challenge the fairness of the photo array. He also noted that Lowe had been drinking and was looking at his feet until just before the confrontation with the robber, seconds before being knocked to the ground. He said police did not trace the other calls made from the cell phone.

The trial, being heard before Milwaukee County Circuit Judge M. Joseph Donald, could wrap up today.

It was after Shanks' re-arrest in September - following a robbery and shooting - that Police Chief Edward Flynn made his remarks about Shanks.

He also said Shanks was a poster child for the failures of the justice system, which Flynn said allows some violent offenders to keep re-offending.

Well, they've come a long way baby... not..

TEHRAN, Iran - Two men convicted of adultery were stoned to death in northeastern Iran last month but a third convicted man managed to escape, Iran's judiciary spokesman said Tuesday.

 

They didnt say how the execution was carried out but:

But typically under Islamic rulings, a man is buried up to his waist, while a woman is buried up to her neck. Those carrying out the verdict then throw stones until the person dies. If the person manages to escape from the hole, he or she will remain free under Islamic law.

Read the whole story here.

I have heard lots of claims over the years, but a new study shows one thing

You can tell by the length of his ring finger!

 

Check it out!

U.S. murders involving young black males soaring By Ed Stoddard Ed Stoddard – Tue Dec 30, 2:45 pm ET

DALLAS (Reuters) – Murders involving young black males -- as victims and killers -- have soared in the past few years, bucking national trends and underscoring the need for more spending on at-risk youth programs, according to a U.S. study released this week.

The study by researchers at Northeastern University in Boston said national statistics showing total homicide rates stabilizing concealed the worsening situation among black U.S. males.

"While overall homicide levels in the United States have fluctuated minimally in recent years, those involving young victims and perpetrators -- particularly young black males -- have surged," the study said.

"From 2002 to 2007, the number of homicides involving black male juveniles as victims rose by 31 percent and as perpetrators by 43 percent," it said.

Northeastern criminal law professor James Alan Fox attributed the trends in part to a steep drop since 2000 in federal funding for local policing and youth violence prevention programs.

"Funding for community policing programs has been cut significantly since 2000. And there had been cuts in delinquency programs," he told Reuters in an interview.

The study said that federal funding for the Community Oriented Police Services program had fallen to around $500 million in 2006 from close to $1 billion in 2002.

BACK TO THE 1990s

"Much of the decline can be traced to the changing priorities following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America. Much of the federal support for law enforcement shifted from hometown security ... to homeland security," the study said.

Complacency also set in because of a sharp decline in crime in the 1990s, it said.

"We need to go back to the strategies that worked in the 1990s," Fox said.

But Barack Obama, who will be sworn in next month as America's first black president, faces many demands at a time of soaring budget deficits and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

"In these difficult economic times, the banking and automobile industries have looked to the federal government for assistance. Where is the voice to appeal on behalf of the needs of at-risk youth?" the study asked. "We need an at-risk youth bailout."

Houston stands out among major cities, the report found. The number of blacks committing murder there between the ages of 14 and 24 more than doubled to 313 from 2000-01 to 2006-07.

Fox said the rise was probably due in part to the influx of refugees into Houston from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.

During the same time period, the number of whites who committed murder in Houston fell 10 percent.

They quit funding these programs, because they are a waste of time. These youths could care less about becoming productive workers.. they feel they are entitled to a free ride.. the world owes them something.. So, when the handouts begin.. think the crime rate will drop.. or will it rise.. hence them wanting more?

And you have to ask yourself.. How many of the victims.. are also the perpetrators?

A mother is away 15-18 mths at a time in the military and her ex is now suing for custody. He is the one that has been caring for the child while she is gone

Read whole story here.

My question to you.. this used to happen to men all the time. Now the women in the military are whining it is happening to them.. what do you think.?

1. Should they be allowed to retain custody despite the fact they are never there?
2. Should the parent that is always there be allowed to take custody in their absence?
3. Should women make up there mind if they want to be Mom's and stay with their kids, or if they want to travel the world and kill people.. then they should let the presiding parent have custody?

I find it hard to believe that a parent that is absent 15-18 mths at a time, is actually parenting their kids.

People always seem so shocked when someone they knew in passing, a guy they worked with or lived next door to, commits some heinous act. That's because people don't pay attention, they don't really scratch the surface. I don't need to know if Pardo was a good or quiet neighbor, the fact that he was an usher every week at his church, or tended his flower bed, or any of the other unassuming tid bits from his day to day life that will continue to trickle out of news sources in the coming days. I won't bother tuning in to people like the Nancy Grace's or Geraldo's in order to "make some sense" of it all. I can tell you everything you need to know to understand all there is about Pardo, and I can do it in one sentence. "He shot an 8 year old child in the face as she opened the door for Santa". That tells you the guy was a monster.

Read his whole take on the situation here

The writers of the Pitch did a great special on Midtown Miscreant and his colorful blogs.. got to say, I have read this guys stuff for awhile and never dreamed he looked like this