Minuteman member Tyler Froatz, who was arrested for assaulting an ANSWER Coalition organizer on May 1 in DC, has been denied bail. He was also arrested on weapons charges after police searched his apartment and found an arms cache, including unpermitted guns, as well as a loaded M-1 rifle in his car. He had a 12 inch knife on him when arrested.

Police also discovered an explosive resembling a Molotov cocktail. The cocktail was found in a Welch’s grape juice bottle wrapped in a t-shirt and appeared to be a mix of gasoline with a jelly-like substance which if it exploded would stick to a person “like napalm,” [Detective] Freeman explained.

He was arrested in Meridian Hill Park (AKA Malcolm X Park) which is a federal park. This presumably means the charges are federal, which generally are way more serious than state charges. While there might be parts of the country where a loaded M-1 in your car is legal, I’m sure D.C. isn’t one of them.

DownTheToobz says:

Imagine if Tyler Joseph Froatz was named Tayib Jamal Farahani and was of Middle Eastern decent. To say that this would have generated some national interest is a bit of an understatement. This would have been splattered all over CNN for hours. Fox would have had a field day. The wingnut blogs would have been on this like ugly on an ape for weeks.

When a foreigner gets caught plotting to kill Americans, it’s new$. When a white conservative gets busted? Not so much. Welcome to the United States of Bigotry.

Yes, the media is oddly silent when right-wingers get arrested on violent charges, isn’t it?

In other Minuteman news, Jim Gilchrist has been forced out of the Minuteman group he started in California and a Florida founder of a Minuteman group has also been purged. The internal strife appears to center on, big surprise, who controls the money and where did it go.

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Tyson Foods and ConocoPhillips plan to produce biodiesel from animal fat.

This is where recycling really starts to make sense, at the industrial and producer level. They can create new businesses from leftover animal slop that currently is expensive to get rid of and ends up getting burned or (yuck) dumped in a landfill.

The consumer often gets stuck with the recycling job. But that’s not where the answer will be. Rather, it’ll be by smart manufacturing and processing methods like these that create much less to recycle in the first place.

In Europe they already do this with cars. Mercedes and other manufacturers label every part of a car, so when a part comes back, they know exactly what it is and more importantly, how to recycle it.

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The judge threw the book at her. 45 days. No cushy jails, no early release

She violated her probation, drove without a license repeatedly, appeared late for the court appearance, and while she’s a spoiled, noxious child who apparently thought she could ignore the law, I wouldn’t wish 45 days in LA County Jail on anyone. Seriously.

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