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| Bullshit | | | 7-Year-Old Dirt Biker Arrested | Posted by phrawgh |  Baltimore's mayor says she plans to look into the arrest of 7-year-old boy.
Police say Gerard Mungo was riding a motorized dirt bike on a city sidewalk.
The boy's mother says he was sitting on the bike with the motor off, when an officer grabbed him by the collar and pulled him off it.
Police eventually confiscated the bike, arrested the boy and took him to the police station.
There, he was handcuffed to a bench and interrogated before being released to his parents.
The incident is generating more criticism of a department already under fire for what critics call unnecessary arrests.
The police commissioner says the city has had problems with dirt bikes, but calls the arrest inconsistent with his view of neighborhood problem solving.
Mayor Sheila Dixon says "as a parent," she's "bothered by it." | |
| Bullshit | | | Foes, soldier's mother counter protesters at funeral | Posted by phrawgh | Can't someone pay these creeps a visit in THIER homes and....
Fringe Kansas church singles out Iraq dead. Six members of a fringe church in Kansas picketed Thursday outside the funeral of a Minnesota soldier who was killed in Iraq, leading to a heated exchange with the grieving mother.
The six men and women, standing outside the Anoka funeral for Cpl. Andrew Kemple, 23, who died Feb. 12 after his vehicle came under fire, are members of a church in Topeka, Kan., that espouses the belief that God is killing American soldiers because they fought for a country that tolerates homosexuality.
They were countered by a group of 20 affiliated with the Patriot Guard Riders, a rapidly growing nationwide movement organized to offset the fringe group's message.
"We're just trying to show honor and respect for families," said John Lutsch, a St. Cloud resident who heads the Minnesota branch of the Patriot Guard. "I was appalled when I read about these protests, that they'd use a solemn occasion like this as a forum for their views."
He was interrupted by Steve Drain, who bellowed that God hates gays and their enablers and "so, therefore, God hates the U.S. military."
According to an account reported by the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune, about a half-hour before the service, Deirdre Ostlund, Kemple's mother, approached the six Kansans and told them in a cold fury: "I'm Andrew's mother and I want you to know you are truly hateful people."
As Ostlund turned away to enter Zion Lutheran Church, Shirley Phelps-Roper taunted her: "Adulterer! You can't admit you sent your own child to hell! If she does not heed this warning, she will look up from hell with him."
Phelps-Roper is the daughter of Fred Phelps, the pastor of the nondenominational Westboro Baptist Church. During the 1990s, church members were known mostly for picketing funerals of AIDS victims.
Minnesota is one of at least 14 states considering laws that would make funeral protests illegal.
The Patriot Guard got its start in Kansas last October when motorcycle-riding veterans became fed up with the Westboro church's picketing and decided to show up and place themselves between the demonstrators and mourners. The organization has grown quickly with chapters in nearly every state and more than 8,700 members, about 100 of them so far in Minnesota, Lutsch said.
Just as the funeral service was starting Thursday, the six Kansans got into their van and drove away as the Patriot Guard mockingly serenaded them, "Hit the road, Jack, and don't you come back no more...."
A few minutes later, Deirdre Ostlund stood before a packed church sanctuary, just to the right of her son's flag-draped coffin.
"Nothing can separate us from the love of God, and Andrew knew that," said Ostlund, of Forest Lake. No matter what he did, God loved him. And now, nothing will ever separate me, or any of us, from Andrew."
Kemple was a 2001 graduate of Cambridge-Isanti High School. Inspired by the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he joined the Army in 2003.
The member of the 101st Airborne Division was the 30th military member from Minnesota to die in Iraq. | |
| Bullshit | | | An apology and check from Ranger Roger Mayo | Posted by phrawgh | The denouement of a shameful episode which began in September 2003 – involving an off duty National Park ranger, a dozen motorcyclists, a garden hose and a cup of coffee – was played out a week ago when $400 in settlement money was donated to the Stinson Beach Fire Department.
The 2003 incident and subsequent events would reverberate through the community, altering dramatically the life of the ranger and the newspaper publisher that pursued his exposé.
In the incident which occurred on Sept. 21, 2003, storied National Park Service ranger Roger Mayo turned a garden hose on a group of motorcyclists northbound on Highway 1 in front of his then Park Service home in the Olema Valley.
As it happened, Light photographer Clint Graves was following the motorcycles when they passed Mayo’s house in the Olema Valley. "As we came past Five Brooks," Graves recalled at the time, "there was a gentleman with a cup of coffee in his hand spraying a hose directly across [Highway 1]. | |
| Bullshit | | | Insurance woes hurting motorcycle sales | Posted by phrawgh | Barbados - The position taken by the majority of insurance companies not to insure motorbikes is causing major concern to local distributors in the sector.
At least two of them argue that because of the decision not to provide coverage or to charge extremely high premiums, motor cycle retailers are experiencing a slow down in the sale of bikes, particularly to first time owners.
Operators say there is a high demand for motorcycles which range in price from 35 hundred dollars for cycles of 110 cc's and 40 thousand dollars for a 12 hundred cc bike.
Defreitas and company, says while they've had some assistance from the Insurance Corporation of Barbados, they're concentrating on the smaller bikes with 110 and 125 cc engines, to ensure sales. | |
| Bullshit | | | Biker meeting held | Posted by phrawgh | There was a lot of contention at the Monday meeting of Myrtle Beach officials over the two biker weeks as the chamber of commerce unveiled a study some refuted.
A biker event survey presented by Wayne Gray, chairman of the board of directors of the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, was presented to a group of area representatives and bike group leaders Monday morning at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center.
The survey was done June 1-15 with members contacted by e-mail or referrals to the chamber's web site. There was a 24 percent response rate.
The overall impression of bike weeks included 63 percent "unfavorable" and
22 percent favorable with a 3:1 ratio, according to the study.
"Of the 63 percent that responded unfavorable, the reasons are unfavorables, not good for most businesses, not consistent with family image, too much noise and traffic, burdens local government," the study showed.
On the impact on business there was a 58 percent response negative, 27 percent positive at 2:1 negative to positive, according to the study. | |
| Bullshit | | | Radio Host Fired After Anti-Islam Remarks | Posted by phrawgh | And now, from the "Every word he said is true" department...
Conservative radio host Michael Graham was fired Monday by a Washington station after he refused to apologize for calling Islam "a terrorist organization."
WMAL-AM had suspended Graham after his July 25 broadcast drew protests from the Council on American-Islam Relations. Graham, who had a daily three-hour talk on WMAL, had said, "We are at war with a terrorist organization named Islam," according to CAIR. | |
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