next time i will bring swim wear
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Student abandoned in DEA holding cell for five days | NBC San Diego
Daniel Chong, the UC San Diego student who was left in a Drug Enforcement Agency holding cell for nearly five days, said the time spent in his cell was a life-altering experience.
[…] Chong said he was at a friend’s house in University City celebrating 4/20, a day many marijuana users set aside to smoke, when agents came inside and raided the residence. Chong was then taken to the DEA office in Kearny Mesa.
He said agents questioned him, and then told him he could go home. One agent even offered him a ride, Chong said. No criminal charges were filed against him.
But Chong did not go home that night. Instead, he was placed in a cell for five days without any human contact and was not given food or drink. In his desperation, he said he was forced to drink his own urine.
“I had to do what I had to do to survive….I hallucinated by the third day,” Chong said. “I was completely insane.”
Chong said he lost roughly 15 pounds during the time he was alone. His lawyer confirmed that Chong ingested a powdery substance found inside the cell. Later testing revealed the substance was methamphetamine.
After days of being ignored, Chong said he tried to take his own life by breaking the glass from his spectacles with his teeth and then carving “Sorry mom,” on his wrists. He said nurses also found pieces of glass in his throat, which led him to believe he ingested the pieces purposefully.
Chong said he could hear DEA employees and people in neighboring cells. He screamed to let them know he was there, but no one replied. He kicked the door, but no one came to get him.
By the time DEA officers found Chong in his cell Wednesday morning Chong was completely incoherent, said Iredale.
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Student abandoned in DEA holding cell for five days | NBC San Diego
Daniel Chong, the UC San Diego student who was left in a Drug Enforcement Agency holding cell for nearly five days, said the time spent in his cell was a life-altering experience.
[…] Chong said he was at a friend’s house in University City celebrating 4/20, a day many marijuana users set aside to smoke, when agents came inside and raided the residence. Chong was then taken to the DEA office in Kearny Mesa.
He said agents questioned him, and then told him he could go home. One agent even offered him a ride, Chong said. No criminal charges were filed against him.
But Chong did not go home that night. Instead, he was placed in a cell for five days without any human contact and was not given food or drink. In his desperation, he said he was forced to drink his own urine.
“I had to do what I had to do to survive….I hallucinated by the third day,” Chong said. “I was completely insane.”
Chong said he lost roughly 15 pounds during the time he was alone. His lawyer confirmed that Chong ingested a powdery substance found inside the cell. Later testing revealed the substance was methamphetamine.
After days of being ignored, Chong said he tried to take his own life by breaking the glass from his spectacles with his teeth and then carving “Sorry mom,” on his wrists. He said nurses also found pieces of glass in his throat, which led him to believe he ingested the pieces purposefully.
Chong said he could hear DEA employees and people in neighboring cells. He screamed to let them know he was there, but no one replied. He kicked the door, but no one came to get him.
By the time DEA officers found Chong in his cell Wednesday morning Chong was completely incoherent, said Iredale.
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Hate Crime Investigation of the Day: Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old mother of five who emigrated from Iraq with her husband 17 years ago, was found severely beaten inside her El Cajon, California home next to a note that allegedly read “go back to your own country. You’re a terrorist.”
Alawadi was rushed to the hospital, but passed away after being taken off life support yesterday afternoon.
One of her three daughters, Fatima Al Himidi, told KUSI she found Alawadi unconscious in the dining room. The attacker had apparently broken in through the sliding glass door and assaulted Alawadi repeatedly with a tire iron. Al Himidi said the attacker was gone by the time she came downstairs.
According to Lt. Mark Coit of the El Cajon police, the family had received a note similar to the one left near Alawadi earlier this month, but thought it was a prank, so did not bother reporting it to authorities.
“Given the fact of these notes left, we’re obviously concerned about the possibility of a hate crime,” said the executive director of CAIR’s San Diego branch, Hanif Mohebi. “I don’t think anyone would disagree this is a coldblooded murder.”
Investigators say they believe this was “an isolated incident,” and a hate crime is just “one of the possibilities” they are exploring.
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Hate Crime Investigation of the Day: Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old mother of five who emigrated from Iraq with her husband 17 years ago, was found severely beaten inside her El Cajon, California home next to a note that allegedly read “go back to your own country. You’re a terrorist.”
Alawadi was rushed to the hospital, but passed away after being taken off life support yesterday afternoon.
One of her three daughters, Fatima Al Himidi, told KUSI she found Alawadi unconscious in the dining room. The attacker had apparently broken in through the sliding glass door and assaulted Alawadi repeatedly with a tire iron. Al Himidi said the attacker was gone by the time she came downstairs.
According to Lt. Mark Coit of the El Cajon police, the family had received a note similar to the one left near Alawadi earlier this month, but thought it was a prank, so did not bother reporting it to authorities.
“Given the fact of these notes left, we’re obviously concerned about the possibility of a hate crime,” said the executive director of CAIR’s San Diego branch, Hanif Mohebi. “I don’t think anyone would disagree this is a coldblooded murder.”
Investigators say they believe this was “an isolated incident,” and a hate crime is just “one of the possibilities” they are exploring.
[utsandiego / cnn.]
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But some people here think, in a way, Ross is part of the problem, that people like him make life easier for the homeless so they’re less inclined to seek help in programs that have lots of rules, like no alcohol. With his own money and donations, Ross has provided portable toilets in neighborhoods where the homeless hang out. He successfully sued the city to get a place where the homeless can store their belongings, so they can go to job interviews or doctor’s appointments without bringing a shopping cart.
Ross says, if he’s an enabler, so be it.
It’s really sad to me that people choose to focus on someone who’s trying to help and criticize him for that. Don’t they realize that this problem is so much bigger than one person?
When people and organizations, most notably churches, have to do the work of the government, we have a problem of policy, priority, funding.
letter from my representative - abortion funding
February 24, 2011
Dear HoaiVi:
Thank you for contacting me with your support for Planned Parenthood funding. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to you on this important matter.
I share your strong belief that health care providers should cover reproductive health. However, I do not believe American tax dollars should be used to pay for abortions. As you know, in the 1973 landmark case of Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court refused to determine when life begins and, therefore, found nothing to indicate or establish the personhood of an unborn child. The outcome of the case deemed abortion permissible until Congress decided otherwise.
Although I appreciate your position on the issue, as a father of three, I firmly believe that life begins at conception and that abortion violates the constitutional right to life guaranteed to every American. Further, I have significant concerns with taxpayer dollars being utilized to provide abortions through facilities when millions of Americans have a conscionable objection to this procedure. It is for this reason I voted in favor of H.R. 1, the Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, which included an amendment that will prevent funding for abortion providers. This legislation passed the House and now must be debated by the Senate.
Although we may disagree on this matter, please be assured that as Congress continues to discuss this matter in FY2012, I will keep your thoughts in mind. Again, thank you for contacting me. Should you have any additional questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Sincerely,
Duncan Hunter
Member of Congress
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Representative Duncan Hunter,
You may have three children, but did you give birth to them? Simply because you are raising children does not give you the right to decide when and how and if a woman should follow through with her pregnancy. You a lucky man from a privileged background. I’m sure your children are well provided for— but not everyone can be born into such fortunate circumstances. If a woman decides that she can not provide for her baby, she needs to have the option of an affordable, safe, and legal abortion. In an ideal state, a child born into poverty could be provided for, but since we do not live in such a state, it is inhumane to birth a human being into almost-assured suffering. The same idea applies to babies who will be born with severe diseases or disabilities that are guaranteed to limit their ability to live and to participate in society. You ask that such suffering be brought forth, but your other legislative decisions do not support programs that would provide care and assistance to their suffering.
There is no question that the Constitution guarantees life to American citizens. For the purpose of the issue at hand, an American citizen is one born on this nation’s soil. Currently, by law, an unborn fetus can not be considered a citizen. The Constitution does not guarantee life to fetuses. Mr. Hunter, you assume that American citizenship is given at conception.
As a woman, I am further disappointed in your uncompassionate vote. If my life was threatened by a pregnancy, you would deny me an affordable and safe abortion. You value life so much, yet your vote clearly does not value the life of women endangered by pregnancy complications. Who are you to decide that the life of a woman is not as valid or worth of protection as a newly-conceived fetus? By cutting funding from abortion providers, you are disregarding the health of women.
You have intruded on my freedom and designated my body as a vessel for bearing children, without regard for my well-being or my ability to provide for potential children.
I hope you think more deeply about the decision you have made and how it will affect women and our society as a whole.
Sincerely,
Hoaivi Holly Nguyen
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Until you have a uterus, please keep your legislation out of mine.
Found this bit of truth while researching how to fight my parking ticket for not cramping my wheels on a “hill”
“Wheel cramping is required on all grades over 3% (hills) with or without the presence of signs.”
What is a 3% grade hill, you ask?“If you have a hill that drops 200 feet over one mile (5280 feet) the grade would be 200/5280 = 0.0379, or a 3.8% grade.”
That’s almost flat.
P.S. San Diego government, I know you need money, but you could actually solve the fucking issues instead of slapping on more parking tickets as an attempt to make up the budget gap. In the mean time, your citizens will continue to hate you in little ways, and you lose the support you would need to make tough decisions that would solve the fucking issues.
The University House of UCSD lies on some of the most premiere real estate in the UC system. Nestled in the wealthy enclave of La Jolla Farms on the cliffs above Blacks Beach, the university house remains unoccupied and is shrouded with controversy. Originally built in 1949, the mansion became the de facto residence for the chancellor of the university to reside in and host university related functions. Fast forward fifty or so years to 2004, and the house was declared unlivable due to ill maintenance and structural issues. In addition to this, the house is built upon indian burial grounds.There seem to be three main groups who have opinions on what to do with the university house. First, there is the university itself which basically wants to retrofit/rebuild a newer, more modern house (though it currently is progressing very slowly). Secondly, there are the Kumeyaay native americans who want the ground to remain untouched since it is a holy burial ground. Thirdly, rich La Jolla Farms neighbors seem to enjoy having the house unoccupied and not hosting events, so they are fighting for the house to become a historic site, which would prevent it’s demolition and rebuilding. To me, the University seems to have the most substantial claim, as it is a highly expensive property that remains unused.
Chancellor Fox has been living in a downtown La Jolla residence costing $6,900 per month, with an additional $15,000 a year for utilities and expenses related to hosting university functions. In March of 2010, she and her husband purchased a 1.3 million dollar house. She still receives $20,000 from the university as part of her housing stipend. This all sounds very ridiculous to me, and ultimately seems like a huge waste of money. She’s laughing all the way to the bank, probably sipping on Chandon and chowing down on caviar, all at the university’s expense.
Currently, after hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, and years of inactivity, the university has announced that they are restarting the process of rebuilding and retrofitting. They are proceeding with increased involvement from the Kumeyaay tribe, and are attempting to minimize further impact on the burial ground. I personally can’t wait for University House to become functional again, but it will certainly be many more years before this happens.
5pm-9pm, January 9th, 2011
$10 Arts and crafts show,
vegan bake sale, vegan potluck.If you can, bring a piece of art or a craft to donate
that can be sold for $10, bring $10 to buy something,
and bring some food for the potluck (no sweets please,
there will be plenty at the bake sale). All money raised
will be donated to the 100 for Haiti project.At the Che Cafe.
Building 161
On the UCSD campus,
San Diego, CA,
949.973.7325For more info visit http://checafe.ucsd.edu/
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Greg Laswell - Do What I Can
I know you’ve thought about everything
You could have done
I know your home is on fire with the
things that you’ve done wrong
‘cause I live there too
Yeah, I live there too
On the side of Urban Outfitters, no less.
