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A Robber’s Worst Nightmare - Swift Justice By Guess Who????

August 23rd, 2006 at 11:17 by MsUnderestimated

This is a SWEEET story! Don’t you just love it when some two-bit thug gets his just due on the street? I read this story today from another site, but a friend of mine, ViperAsh50, posted it in his newsletter. All I can say is HUUUAH!

From the Desert News in Utah:

Former Marine takes down man after clerk is hit

By Pat Reavy
Deseret Morning News

A man who had just been released from jail was sent right back Monday after police say he picked the wrong store to attempt a robbery.

The 30-year-old man was in line at a 7-Eleven, 2175 E. 9400 South, just before 8 p.m. When he got to the counter he asked the female clerk for a carton of cigarettes, said Sandy Police Sgt. Victor Quezada. But after he received them he walked out without paying, Quezada said.

The clerk told another female clerk who followed him outside the doors and told him to stop.

Instead, the man turned around and punched the clerk in the face, Quezada said.

James Sjostrom was standing in line right behind the man who took the cigarettes and saw the entire thing unfold.

Hero, Marine James Sjostrom

“He just turned and clocked her,” Sjostrom said. “He pounded her face. It was pretty vicious.”

That’s when Sjostrom went after the man who assaulted the store clerk.

As he went outside, Sjostrom said he saw the man standing over the clerk, who was kneeling over on the ground, as if he were going to punch her again. When the man saw Sjostrom coming at him, he took a swing at him, too.

But the attacker quickly found out he was no match for the bulky Sjostrom.

Sjostrom is a former Marine who taught hand-to-hand combat and currently teaches a course on Russian kettlebells, or the martial art of strength training, at the Sports Mall in Murray.

“I grabbed him, threw him on the ground, put his hands behind his back, sat on him and waited for the cops to come,” Sjostrom said.

In just a matter of a few seconds Sjostrom had the man pinned. When the man realized he had no chance, Sjostrom said he became “pretty quiet.”

“Anybody would have done the same thing,” he said. “Another guy in the store said he was in the Army and asked if I needed any help.”

With a grin, Sjostrom replied to the man, “The Marines got here first.”

The would-be thief refused to tell police who he was. They figured it out, however, when they found his release papers from the Salt Lake County Jail still in his pocket. The man had been released from jail on another assault arrest just hours earlier, Quezada said.

Although police don’t normally encourage people to go after bad guys themselves, in this case, “The guy did something that was great,” he said.

The female clerk who was punched suffered a cut above her eyebrow. She was treated at the scene by paramedics and released.

Don’tcha just love a happy ending? Don’t FFFFFF****** with a U.S. MARINE!

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Is the Administration Playing Down the Iran Threat?

August 23rd, 2006 at 10:28 by MsUnderestimated

Breaking from Drudge right now, coming up from New York Times writer Mark Mazetti, for release tomorrow. From the story:

Some in G.O.P. Say Iran Threat Is Played Down

Some senior Bush administration officials and top Republican lawmakers are voicing anger that American spy agencies have not issued more ominous warnings about the threats that they say Iran presents to the United States.

Some policy makers have accused intelligence agencies of playing down Iran’s role in Hezbollah’s recent attacks against Israel and overestimating the time it would take for Iran to build a nuclear weapon.

The complaints, expressed privately in recent weeks, surfaced in a Congressional report about Iran released Wednesday. They echo the tensions that divided the administration and the Central Intelligence Agency during the prelude to the war in Iraq.

The criticisms reflect the views of some officials inside the White House and the Pentagon who advocated going to war with Iraq and now are pressing for confronting Iran directly over its nuclear program and ties to terrorism, say officials with knowledge of the debate.

The dissonance is surfacing just as the intelligence agencies are overhauling their procedures to prevent a repeat of the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate — the faulty assessment that in part set the United States on the path to war with Iraq.

The new report, from the House Intelligence Committee, led by Representative Peter Hoekstra, Republican of Michigan, portrayed Iran as a growing threat and criticized American spy agencies for cautious assessments about Iran’s weapons programs. “Intelligence community managers and analysts must provide their best analytical judgments about Iranian W.M.D. programs and not shy away from provocative conclusions or bury disagreements in consensus assessments,” the report said, using the abbreviation for weapons of mass destruction like nuclear arms.

We’ll just wait and see how all this plays out. It’s too early to tell. Who knows? Click he link here to read the whole story. I reported, so you decide. I personally think we’re letting Iran get away with waaaaay too much! The time for carrots and sticks is done - it’s now time for U.S. firepower, perhaps even bunker-busting nukes. Ahmadinetard is most definitely crazy, but we still need to take him out.

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“The 2,996 Project” - Bloggers, Please Sign Up to Participate On 9/11!

August 23rd, 2006 at 09:55 by MsUnderestimated

Huge h/t to Michelle Malkin for showing me and other bloggers this site. Michelle and Katie Favazza are sending out the clarion call to all bloggers:

Please pledge to blog about a 9/11 victim on 9/11/06 this year. (my words)

This site was the brainchild of D.C. Roe, and titled “The 2,996 Project“. From the site:

The 2,996 Project

The idea is simple, but powerful: have a special tribute for each victim of 9/11, with each tribute being created by a different blogger. We started 2,996 Project to coordinate the creation of the tributes, and that’s what this site is all about. Here you can sign up to make a tribute yourself, on your blog (we’ll randomly assign a victim to you). You can also browse or search through either the victims that have already been assigned, or those that have not — and you can get pointers to more information on all of them.

A message from the guy who started it all…

For each of us something different about 9/11 brought the tragedy into focus. For me it was the sympathy and grief that poured in from overseas.

I remember a story on CNN that showed a Volkswagen Plant in Germany, where each employee brought a candle and placed it in the factory’s entryway. I was staggered at the scenes of foreigners openly weeping. The closing visual of thousands of candles burning on the marble floor left me speechless.

The first tears I shed for 9/11 were as I watched the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace later that evening. That night the Queen had the Royal Guard play the Star Spangled Banner instead of England’s Anthem — a huge crowd of expatriates and British wept outside the gates. That tribute — a national leader, even if for just a moment, diminishing their own national identity as a show of sympathy — was one of the bravest and most touching political acts I have witnessed. And I remember wondering, if the situation were reversed, if we would have the courage to do the same.

Organizing this tribute has brought home to me, again, that these attacks, these pointless deaths, went far beyond merely a national tragedy. I have now personally signed up almost 400 bloggers. And as of this moment those 400 represent ten countries aside from the U.S. I have multiple participants from Germany, Spain, the U.K., Canada and Australia, plus one each from Portugal, Belgium, India and South Africa — and I know for a fact that I’m forgetting some others.

In fact some of the most passionate pleas to join 2,996 have come from overseas — people who weren’t sure if their remembrances of that day would be suitable.

We in the U.S. often have a myopic view of the world and our place in it. But it would do us well to remember that we have family everywhere in the world, even though they may salute a different flag.

D. C. Roe
June 20, 2006

I’m urging all of you bloggers to go here, sign up, and pledge to blog about a 9/11 victim this year on 9/11/06, in remembrance of them who paid the ultimate price.

What a fitting way to spend a part of my day that day - I can’t imagine anything better to be doing. God bless you all, and God bless America.

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