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As a matter of fact ... http://www.cbs8.com/story/23053156/amber-alert-for-missing-children-linked-to-deadly-house-fire

"Tuesday afternoon, CHP officers received information that an automatic license reader along the northbound 57 in Santa Ana, a toll road, has spotted DiMaggio's license plate.

That hopeful lead ultimately turned out to to be false, according to the sheriff's department."

They actually do a chemical castration in some cases. Pretty interesting stuff, actually. I think CA was the first to do so.

http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=12443091

That is true, ask the fuckin' Chinks. Those littledick elven motherfuckers are inbreeding because they're dumping all of their baby girls in dumpsters and forced to marry thier cousins.

Actually, all autistics should be rounded up and executed. this woman had the right idea. Having autistic offspring will trigger a mother's proper instinct to kill unviable offspring. And rightly so, for the disabled are a burden upon society.

-- Ethanol-fueled

http://www.cbs8.com/global/story.asp?s=10610217

FTFA: "Test data will be used by United States Strategic Command planners and Department of Energy laboratories."

Translation: we were testing our ability to protect ourselves from a N. Korean missile launch. Gee Obongo, I thought the Missile Defense Shield was an overpriced toy, and unnecessary in a world where all megalomaniacal dictators can be appeased with a Kumbayah letter-writing campaign or YouTube video from you. After all, you DID deride it as unproven technology during the presidential campaign, and then proceeded to axe $1.2bn from the program's budget once you took office. Why the sudden change of heart? Let me guess: you had to take of the rose-colored glasses once you were the one behind the desk receiving daily threat briefings and making decisions about the safety of a quarter of a billion citizens. I'll bet the disconnect between reality and your world view was so great that you laid awake in bed sweating for nights on end, thinking, "Oh shit, how can I pull this off without looking like Bush, and without having the next 9-11 happen on my watch, or without laying the groundwork for a massive successful terrorist attack like Clinton did?"

This technology of machine reading license plates is already being used in California: http://cbs8.com/features/crimefighters/story.php?id=109994

The http://cbs8.com/ website is an excellent example of what a proper news site should look like during an emergency.

Yeah, excellent, thanks for the heads-up. And I agree with you completely about the U-T site. Not only is the information not up to date, it took me four tries before I could get connected.

Interesting deal with KPBS, too. I was frustrated by not having it available until my wife discovered it on 94.9 accidentally.

The http://cbs8.com/ website is an excellent example of what a proper news site should look like during an emergency. It is the commercial site for a local San Diego news affiliate, yet it has been redone as a list of facts and links with a minimum of images, flash, and absolutely NO ads. The Union Tribune's signonsandiego is a steamy pile of 5h1t compared to this.

Another great example of responsible reporting is being demonstrated by the commercial rock radio station 94.9. The local public radio station KPBS had their transmitter damaged during the fire so 94.9 is airing the public radio broadcasts on their frequency! This is shocking considering that this is a corporate radio station.