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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Alabama -- A Center Point man arrested in a Grayson Valley break-in this month is believed to be responsible for between 40 and 50 burglaries in eastern Jefferson County and Birmingham.

The crime spree, from May through August, was in part documented in a series of text messages between the suspected burglar and his girlfriend, who acted as a lookout, authorities said today.

Jason Glenn Pierce, 35, is charged with burglary. His girlfriend is a cooperating witnesses and has not been charged.

"They used cell phones to communicate by text message," said Jefferson County Chief Deputy Randy Christian. "It appears that she forgot to delete the text messages and has recorded an electronic history of this, and several other burglaries in the Center Point area over the past few months."

Deputies on Aug. 1 were called to a burglary in progress in the 1900 block of Carlisle Drive in the Grayson Valley area. A witness gave a description of a man and a woman and the vehicle they were driving.

Member of the sheriff's Street Crimes Unit found the vehicle and stopped it to talk to the driver. His clothes matched the description of the suspect, and there was a pry bar in the car.

Pierce told deputies he had just dropped off his girlfriend at her nearby home. Deputies picked her up and both were taken back to the scene and identified by the witness, Christian said.

Workers at a nearby recycling center confirmed the couple had been in earlier that day, and gave deputies a list of items they had sold.

The girlfriend, whose name has not been released, is cooperating with deputies, and has pointed out several homes to detectives where she acted as a lookout, Christian said.

"We have no indication she went into any of the homes and her cooperation has been key," he said.

The homes were vacant and copper appeared to be the primary motivation.

Pierce is out of jail on bond, but Christian said the investigation is ongoing and numerous additional charges are expected.

"This suspect and others have been just raping communities on vacant-home copper thefts so hats off to our Street Crimes Unit. The thousands of dollars in damage they have caused compared to the few hundred dollars they sell the copper for is ridiculous," Christian said.

"We will push hard for a judge to order them to pay for the damage through restitution to the victims. If they can't pay for the damage surely that will mean significant jail time. We really appreciate the log kept on the cell phone. That made it pretty easy once we had that. Like a thief keeping a diary."

 

 

 

?24-year-old Candace Kiley and her boyfriend, 30, had arrived at a relative's home in North Branford, Connecticut for a family birthday party. We presume it was a festive time. But the event would soon be marred by Kiley's raving jealousy...

It seems her boyfriend had spilled his drink on the kitchen floor, so he bent down to clean it up. At about the same time, a 12-year-old girl -- who had been invited to the party by Kiley's younger sister -- arrived in the kitchen to retrieve some ice.

The girl was waiting patiently for Kiley's boyfriend to finish cleaning before she grabbed her ice. But that's when Kiley entered the room.

Something about the girl told Kiley that the wee lass was up to no good. And she was eying her boyfriend.

Of course, she was probably doing no such thing. And even if she was, a 12-year-old girl eying a 30-year-old man can only be described as cute. It's commanded in the Bible.

But Kiley, not being the most secure woman, thought it was a <snip>ed outrage! So she grabbed the girl by the hair and slammed her head to the floor. That's when the panicked girl began to also have an asthma attack.

Kiley fled before police could arrive. She was arrested yesterday, charged with assault, disorderly conduct, risk of injury to a minor and breaking the all-time record for jealousy -- previously set in 1437 by a Belgian man who believed a baby from a nearby leper colony was putting the moves on his wife.

August 9, 2011 4:00 A.M.   Ten TSA Outrages The Transporation Security Agency has engaged in absurd searches. After 9/11, airport security quite rightly became an issue of paramount concern. Yet since its creation in 2001, the Transport Security Administration has repeatedly walked a fine line between vital vigilance and gratuitous intrusion. Security expert Bruce Schneier famously referred to the current system as bordering on “security theater,” in which the measures taken are more officious than efficient. This tendency toward such blunt theatrics has only been magnified by the “enhanced screening procedures” introduced in November 2010. Ron Paul, ever the champion of the individual, described the new system as “appalling” and “abusive.” There is no doubt that many of those who have fallen afoul of its excesses would agree. 1. Disabled four-year-old Ryan Thomas was on the way to Disney World when he was accosted by TSA agents at Philadelphia Airport and forced to walk through the scanner without his leg-braces. This wasn’t the easiest request to honor, as Ryan’s “ankles [were] malformed and his legs [had] little or no muscle tone.” His mother’s attempts to explain this to the screeners fell on deaf ears. The TSA eventually conceded that Ryan should have been privately checked, but only after the boy’s father got thePhiladelphia Enquirer involved. 2. Elderly business traveler Penny Moroney described her TSA experience at St. Louis as “like being raped.” She had metal artificial knees and was thus eligible for a pat-down, during which the agent “touched her breasts . . . and patted her genitals.” The experience left her “shaking and crying.” Under any other circumstances, said Moroney, “it would be considered criminal sexual assault.” 3. Flying while pregnant can be uncomfortable enough, but for one diabetic traveler who did not want to be named for fear of “retaliation,” her day was about to get much worse. TSA agents at Denver International Airport considered the woman so much of a “risk for explosives” that they confiscated her insulin. When the woman asked for the names of the agents to make a complaint, they “scattered” and “left [her] crying at the TSA checkpoint.” 4. Former Baywatchstar and Playboyplaymate Donna D’Errico felt singled out at LAX when a TSA agent told her that she had been chosen for a security search “because you caught my eye and [the other passengers] didn’t.” The officer — who did not give D’Errico the customary choice between a scan and a pat-down — “was smiling and whispering with two other TSA agents and glaring at me,” she complained. “It is my personal belief that they pulled me aside because they thought I was attractive.” Somewhere, Lord Acton is nodding sagely. 5. TSA officials clearly have a high regard for the planning skills of eight-month-old babies. So much so that they subjected one to a full body pat-down and scan. This so amused pastor Jacob Jester that he took a photograph at Kansas City International Airport and posted it on Twitter. “I think in most cases, babies don’t pose a threat to security,” said Jester. One would think. 6. A 95-year-old wheelchair-bound woman with late-stage cancer was given a full pat-down before boarding a flight from Florida to Michigan. Officers were not satisfied, however, until they had forced her to remove her adult diaper. “We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally, according to proper procedure and did not require this passenger to remove an adult diaper,” concluded the TSA report. That is true, providing, of course, that she didn’t want to get onto the plane.  7. The “pat or scan” choice usually proffered to air travelers was rendered moot for a female Army veteran when the body scanner showed her wearing a sanitary towel, and prompted a “horrible experience.” As a result of the image, she was “subjected to a search so invasive that [she] was left crying and dealing with memories that [she] thought had been dealt with years ago of prior sexual assaults.” 8. Drew Mandy was also on his way to Disney World when agents at Detroit Metro Airport started questioning him about his adult diaper and confiscated the six-inch toy plastic hammer he has carried for comfort for 20 years. Drew was unable to comprehend what was happening, because, though he is 29, he has the mental capacity of a two-year-old. When his father, a doctor, tried to step in and explain that his son was mentally challenged, he was met with an assurance that the staff “knew what [they] were doing.” Sadly, that seems to be true. 9. Susie Castillo’s tearful testimony went viral on YouTube, after the former Miss USA reacted with outrage to a pat-down at Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport. Castillo complained that she was being given an unacceptable choice, between being “molested” and walking through a machine that is “unhealthy and dangerous.” She claimed that the TSA agent “actually felt, touched my vagina.” “It’s not just about my rights,” she said, “it’s about all rights; the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution is being violated.” Amen. 10. Eliana Sutherland was travelling from Orlando International Airport when she was singled out because of her large breasts. “It was pretty obvious,” said Sutherland. “One of the guys that was staring me up and down was the one who pulled me over. Not a comfortable feeling.” — Charlie Cooke is an editorial intern at National Review.

 

Are you folks as sick of reading my articles on this topic as I am of writing them?  Just as Ronald Reagan said to Jimmy Carter during the 1980 debate, I say to the NAACP, "Well, there you go again" -- more distortions, lies, and tired old "we shall overcome" 1950s rhetoric.

Tragically, this once-great organization has been hijacked by far-left, radical, America-hating socialists.  Thus, the NAACP is relentless in its efforts to portray American race relations as having progressed very little since the 1950s -- ignoring obvious evidence to the contrary, like a black first family occupying the White House.

The NAACP's modus operandi is simple, a one-trick pony.  Their strategy is to despicably declare every issue and all opposition "racist."

Along with their daily attempts to brand the Tea Party racist, here is the NAACP's latest attempt to use race-baiting to get out the black vote for Obama in 2012.

Rev. William Barber, president of the NAACP's North Carolina conference, said, "We must fight against any attempt to segregate, isolate, and steal the black vote."  This is a perfect example of tired old "we shall overcome" 1950s rhetoric.  Who on earth is stifling the black vote?  If such an initiative were true, wouldn't the Obama-worshiping media be all over the story?  So what the heck is this race-baiting preacher talking about?

Rev. Barber's statement is nothing more than tried and true words guaranteed to evoke a knee-jerk hateful response in brain-dead black racist ideologues.

Rev. Barber is responding to states demanding that voters show proper ID, which -- surprise, surprise -- the NAACP has deemed racist.

Can someone please explain to me how requiring voters to confirm that they are who they say they are, live where they say they live, and are U.S. citizens has a racial component?

I do see a racial component from the NAACP's point of view.  They are, in essence, saying that blacks are too stupid to find their way to the DMV and other places to acquire legal ID.  One could argue that if blacks are that stupid, why on earth should they be allowed to vote?

I'm being sarcastic, but you get my point.  These so-called advocates for blacks and other minorities do a tremendous disservice to the very people they claim to care about.  Imagine the negative impact on your self-esteem when you are constantly told you do not measure up and need standards lowered in order to be successful.  The left sends this message to blacks all the time.  This is called the soft bigotry of low expectations.

I have also noticed how the NAACP and others on the left use the black church and black ministers to sell liberal political candidates and their socialistic agenda to black America.  This is particularly hypocritical and obnoxious, considering the left's disdain for all things Christian and their banning of God from the public square.

Courting the black vote, Hillary Clinton ran to the black church during her presidential campaign.  Hillary transformed herself in an instant into Rev. Soul Sista Clinton.  Evoking her best attempt at a black dialect, she orated, "I don't feel noways tired!"  The all-black congregation erupted with applause.

Imagine what would happen to a white Republican attempting to sound black while addressing a black congregation.  Boys and girls, can you say "politically tarred and feathered"?

"Can you believe that cracker trying to sound black?" -- that would be the outcry of outraged black parishioners.

As a lifelong black PK (preacher's kid), I know from whence I speak when I say ministers are held in the highest regard in the black community.  This is why I find it quite despicable every time the left uses black ministers to "herd" blacks into the direction of their socialistic agenda.  This tactic is an ungodly betrayal.

Rev. Barber, Rev Sharpton, and Rev. Wright, to name only a few, are nothing more than liberal plantation overseers and black civil rights mafia enforcers.  They punish any black who dares to display independent thought, success via conservatism, and love for his country.

Black conservatives such as myself are vilified as traitors to our race and even threatened with bodily harm.  More often than not, driven by our faith, our goal is to liberate follow blacks from self-induced limitations.  We strive to open black America's eyes to the reality that they are extremely blessed to have been born in America, the greatest land of opportunity on the planet for all who choose to go for it!

Meanwhile, the NAACP and certain so-called black men of God are doing severe damage to their flock.  Make no mistake about it: selling racial hatred blended with victim and entitlement mindsets is poison -- an anathema to the human spirit, individual success, and happiness.

Don Corleone in The Godfather cautioned his son Michael to expect an attempt on his life.  The experienced old father added that his son's enemy would use a dear, longtime friend as the betrayer.

This same scenario is happening in the black community.  The left is using the black community's dear, longtime friends to betray them -- the iconic NAACP and the highly esteemed black ministry.  They are infusing black Americans with racial hate via race-profiteering to sell their anti American socialistic agenda.

Despite their rhetoric, much of the modern-day civil rights movement ceased being about black empowerment and freedom many moons ago.  Their once noble movement has become all about power and control, which is extremely unfortunate.

Happy days: Vanna and Doug Stephens with daughter Enna. They said her giggles helped them see life more positively

Surgery: Enna had a tumour behind her eye. Doctors say there is an 80% chance it won't return

Much better: Enna has much to smile about after her delicate brain surgery was a success