U.S. federal officials also would not disclose the exact address on Craddock Avenue where the crash occurred.
Depending on the exact point of impact, the drone might have been from a third of a mile to a half-mile inside the United States.
Garcia lives less than a half-mile from the border.”I feel pretty safe, I guess,” Garcia said. “If anybody crosses over, they are just making tracks to get farther north. They don’t stop here.”
Sheriff Pat Burnett is fed up, and he’s not going to do it anymore. He’s not going to put two of his deputies on the road for 12 hours each way from Van Zandt County in East Texas to El Paso — paying hundreds of dollars for overtime, gas, lodging and food — just to find a free bed for a mentally ill inmate.
“We now refuse to do that,” Burnett says. “It’s not only bad for the patient. It’s also bad for the taxpayer.”
Budget shortfalls.
The number of beds at Texas’ state mental hospitals has gradually declined from 2,800 in 1996 to about 2,400 now. As the number of beds shrinks, treatment waiting lists expand. That means treatment delays for both law-abiding Texans and criminal offenders with mental illness.
Without appropriate treatment, mentally ill Texans often land in a costly cycle of hospitalization, homelessness and incarceration.
THE policy that led to the release of most of the nation’s mentally ill patients from the hospital to the community is now widely regarded as a major failure. Sweeping critiques of the policy, notably the recent report of the American Psychiatric Association, have spread the blame everywhere, faulting politicians, civil libertarian lawyers and psychiatrists.
Psychiatrists, lawyers and politicians, YIKES!!!!!
”The bureaucrat-psychiatrists realized that there was political and financial overpromise,” he said.
Dr. Brown, then an executive of the National Institute of Mental Health and now president of Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, stated candidly in an interview: ”Yes, the doctors were overpromising for the politicians. The doctors did not believe that community care would cure schizophrenia, and we did allow ourselves to be somewhat misrepresented.”
”They ended up with everything but the kitchen sink without the issue of long-term funding being settled,” he said. ”That was the overpromising.”
This won’t end well, so what’s the answer? Drugs? More Money?
How can you tell? What’s the giveaway? Is this a TSA trick question? WTF are these kooks thinking?
Women unveiling their eyes in public in Saudi Arabia will be forced to fully cover up their faces if their eyes are found to be seditious, according to the Gulf Kingdom’s most feared Islamic law-enforcement group.
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice was reacting to last week’s fight between one its members and a Saudi husband, who was maddened by the man’s orders to his wife to cover up her face, the Saudi Arabic language daily Alwatan reported on Sunday.
Police are still investigating the incident, in which the husband was stabbed in the back during the fight in the southern province of Hael.
“The Commission members have orders to tell any women in public to cover up her face if they find that her eyes are seditious,” the paper said, quoting Sheikh Mutlaq Al Nabit, a Commission spokesman in Hael.
Women in Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative Muslim nations, must veil their faces in public but some of them uncover their eyes.
Nabit did not explain how the Commission members determine that a woman’s eyes are seditious.
The Border Patrol has confirmed an agent was shot and killed overnight north of Rio Rico.
The Agent has been identified as Brian Terry.
At least four suspects are in custody while one is still on the loose.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the Terry family for their tragic loss,” said CBP Commissioner Alan Bersin. “Our commitment to Agent Terry and his family is that we will do everything possible to bring to justice those responsible for this despicable act.”
The FBI and the Santa Cruz County Sheirff’s office are heading the investigation.
The Mexican government has no control of its 577-mile border with Guatemala, where arms, drugs and immigrant smugglers appear to have free rein, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable disclosed recently by WikiLeaks.
The document says that Mexico does not have enough resources to patrol the border.
“Limited resources also undermine the effort: while there are 30,000 U.S. CBP officers on the 1,926-mile Mexican/U.S. border, only 125 Mexican immigration officials monitor the 577-mile border with Guatemala,” the document states.
“The weakness of the state (Guatemalan government), the pervasive violence, the widespread corruption, and the country’s strategic location for drug trafficking are creating a very dangerous cocktail.”
The state of lawlessness in Guatemala is such that residents rely on the Zetas instead of police to provide security, the released documents say. The Zetas, who formerly worked for the Gulf cartel, are reported to be making inroads in Chihuahua state.
Several U.S. documents leaked to online whistleblower WikiLeaks mention diplomats’ interest in the drug trade and drug corruption in Latin America and the Middle East.
In another recent document, U.S. diplomats voiced concerns that Mexican drug dealers could end up buying certain high-tech weapons that Russia had sold to Venezuela. Such weapons are capable of shooting down U.S. combat helicopters.
The document said U.S. officials feared that members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
A uniformed policeman proceeds to whip her all over her body as she screams in pain. A second officer laughs when he realises he is being filmed, before joining in the punishment, which lasts a minute and a half.
In the subtitles on the clip, a policeman can be heard telling the women that her punishment is 53 lashes, and that she will be jailed for two years if she does not submit to the flogging. Another voice says the woman should comply because “we want to go [home]“.
Things are getting hairy in women’s facial fashion — but it’s all in the name of charity.
That’s because this month has been declared “Decembrow” by the feminist-oriented website Feministing, and women are encouraged to grow out their eyebrows to the point where they connect in the middle.
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“These women in Tajikistan are rocking the unibrow, and we thought Decembrow would be a great way to comment on the beauty norms in different places,” Adelman said.
A federal judge declared the Obama administration’s health care law unconstitutional Monday, siding with Virginia’s attorney general in a dispute that both sides agree will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson is the first federal judge to strike down the law, which has been upheld by two other federal judges in Virginia and Michigan. Several other lawsuits have been dismissed and others are pending, including one filed by 20 other states in Florida.
He must have seen that media fiasco where Bill became POTUS again.
