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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Former Planned Parenthood official suggests babies born alive after abortions left to die: Video
[Wash Times] Pro-life activists released a new undercover video Wednesday showing a former Planned Parenthood official suggesting babies born alive after abortions are sometimes left to die.
In all of recorded history, I wonder if there is a record of a 911 call from a Planned Parenthood facility.
The video was released less than a day after David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress were charged by California prosecutors with 15 felonies for covertly recording Planned Parenthood executives without their consent.

In the video, former Planned Parenthood Arizona medical director DeShawn Taylor says abortion clinics are supposed to transport babies born alive after abortions to the hospital.

"In Arizona, if the fetus comes out with any signs of life, we’re supposed to transport it. To the hospital," she says. The pro-life activists posing as fetal tissue buyers ask Ms. Taylor if there is "any standard procedure for verifying signs of life."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 12:33 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well what did everyone think happened to them, phone Uber, grab a couple of diapers and walk out ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 12:39 Comments || Top||

#2  How do you have "Parenthood" without children?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/29/2017 14:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Gosnell went on trial for exactly that. Of course the MSM didn't cover it so it may not have happened. He might be in prison for other reasons.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/29/2017 15:43 Comments || Top||

#4  And the people who made the video will probably be arrested and charged with entrapment or something.

There are times I think, "This civilization is doomed -- and maybe that's just as well."
Posted by: charger || 03/29/2017 20:07 Comments || Top||


Bay Area tech exec's Messrs Murugan and Nawaz indicted for H-1B visa fraud
[Mercury News] FREMONT ‐ Two Bay Area tech executives are accused of filing false visa documents through a staffing agency in a scheme to illegally bring a pool of foreign tech workers into the United States.

An indictment from a federal grand jury unsealed on Friday accuses Jayavel Murugan, Dynasoft Synergy’s chief executive officer, and a 40-year-old Santa Clara man, Syed Nawaz, of fraudulently submitting H-1B applications in an effort to illegally obtain visas, according to Brian Stretch, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California.

The men are charged with 26 counts of visa fraud, conspiracy to commit visa fraud, use of false documents, mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to prosecutors. Each charge can carry penalties of between two and 20 years in prison.

Murugan, 46, is co-owner of Dynasoft, an employment firm based in Fremont with an office in India, according to the indictment. Nawaz is believed to have worked for several Bay Area tech companies, including Cisco, Brocade Communications and Equinix.

Prosecutors say the men used fraudulent documents to bring workers into the U.S. and create a pool of H-1B workers to hire out to tech companies. The indictment charges that from 2010 to 2016, Dynasoft petitioned to place workers at Stanford University, Cisco and Brocade, but the employers had no intention of receiving the foreign workers named on the applications.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 07:19 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes. It's the tip of the iceberg.

Melt away!
Posted by: 3dc || 03/29/2017 17:26 Comments || Top||


Berkeley killing renews debate over gender pronouns
[YAHOO] Pablo Gomez Jr. was a University of California, Berkeley, senior majoring in Latino studies and a prominent campus activist when authorities say he stabbed to death a popular elementary-school teacher.
I think that means he's majoring in campus activism...
Soon, the crime that police described as "very brutal and unusual" in a city that reported just two homicides last year was sucked up into the debate over gender identity when it was reported that Gomez preferred to be called "they" rather than "he."
I can understand that, by golly. I get all sorts of worked up when I'm not referred to as "snilt."
Yes, but you are a good citizen. He is an evil murderer who is about to spend the rest of his life -- or a good portion of it -- among the kinds of people who won't give a plugged nickel about his preferences. It's a kindness to help him get used to the feeling.
Even in famously liberal Berkeley, with its long history of protest, the uproar came as a surprise, overwhelming the online news site, www.berkeleyside.com, that first reported on Gomez's preference.
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who *cares* what his frigging pronoun preference is! just take him out back and put a bullet in his brainpan. End of debate.
Yeah.. kind of brutal but I don't hear anything about the teachers preference to be called 'living'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/29/2017 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Leftist professors brain washes young people and with thier ideologies, creating vlmonsters and then are surprised when their young Frankenstein's turn on them also.

Liberalism is a b-rated horror movie.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 03/29/2017 2:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Soon he'll be called '453127'
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2017 5:00 Comments || Top||

#4  The coroner correctly refers to a cadaver as "it", just saying...
Posted by: magpie || 03/29/2017 9:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Gomez preferred to be called "they" rather than "he How about f*ck face or a$$hole?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/29/2017 10:01 Comments || Top||

#6  The real crime here is that money collected from California tax payers is used to fund Latino studies programs in state universities.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/29/2017 12:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Genius plan to get some sympathy from dolts for an unsympathetic person who committed a very unsympathetic crime.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/29/2017 12:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Obviously, there is no 'second story' here, meaning - obviously - Pablo was born in this country to US citizens, right? We taxpayers wouldn't be paying for an illegal alien's education, would we?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/29/2017 12:47 Comments || Top||

#9  Once he/she/they gets to the slam it will probably be "bitch"
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 03/29/2017 13:10 Comments || Top||


The Case of the Concrete Buttocks
[WASHINGTONPOST] From a Florida prison in November 2011, Shatarka Nuby penned a letter to the state’s health department about her cosmetically enhanced buttocks.
Dear Sir:
This is to inform you that my butt has been busted...

Her rear end had hardened and turned black, she wrote.
"It's like sittin' on a pair o' concrete blocks!"
Side effects from the years-old injections left the mother of three feeling sick. And she claimed her surgeon — Oneal Ron Morris — was the same faux cosmetic doctor that police had arrested and accused of pumping a near-lethal formula of cement, mineral oil, bathroom caulking and Fix-a-Flat tire sealant into other women’s bodies.
"Matter o' fact, that's what it is: Sittin' on concrete blocks, with a side helping of Fix-a-Flat."
Her patients called her “Duchess.”
"Doctor Duchess! Can you sign for your concrete delivery?"
Officials began investigating and interviewed Nuby.
"Le Gume! My cape!"
But four months later, she was dead. The official cause of death was respiratory failure from “massive systemic silicone migration” from injections to Nuby’s buttocks and hips, according to the medical examiner.
"Sam! Come look at this!"
"Ugh! What is it, Doctor Quincy?"
"Concrete."
"In her lung?"

"And what a shapely lung it is, to be sure."
Morris was charged with manslaughter and practicing medicine without a license in the summer of 2012, and last month pleaded no contest to both, reported the Sun Sentinel.
"She's dead. I ain't got no license. What should I do, Mr. Matlock?"
"Throw yoreself on the mercy of the court, Duchess. Tell the judge yer an orphan!"

On Monday, a judge sentenced Morris to 10 years in prison and five years probation for her crimes.
"Only ten years? That seems pretty light, judge! Her clients are dead or deformed!"
"Well, she's an orphan!"

For years in Florida, Morris’s name — and posterior — have been widely reported and eventually made national headlines when photos of the woman surfaced. She reportedly used the same cut-rate cosmetic methods that sickened or killed others to inject her own hips and buttocks, leaving them abnormally large and misshapen.
"Tell me that ain't yer butt! You got a banjo in yer pocket right?"
Local media labeled Morris’s ongoing saga the “toxic tush” case.
... or the Asphalt Ass...
During sentencing Monday, Morris repeatedly denied allegations that she intentionally hurt anyone and insisted that she had “never ever, nor would dare ever” to inject “any human with any type of unknown substance.”
"No, no! Certainly not! We all know what concrete is!"
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The job of an x-ray technician must be very interesting these days.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 03/29/2017 3:25 Comments || Top||

#2  She died like she lived,
a hardass.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2017 5:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Damn, Skid that's hard.


I've heard of concrete boots but never concrete booty.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/29/2017 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Floating a question - Were existing 'control joints' used ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 8:13 Comments || Top||

#5  The banjo wasn't in her pocket, it was on her knee.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/29/2017 8:39 Comments || Top||

#6  By the sewer she lived
By the sewer she died
They said it was murder
but it was sewer-side

I'm going back to work, now.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/29/2017 13:03 Comments || Top||

#7  My Professional Opinion™: there are admixtures for concrete that extend workability and reduce water. Mineral oil, caulking, and Fix-A-Flat are not them. She should have had her mix design done by a professional engineer and then refrained from injecting it INTO her freaking booty
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2017 19:35 Comments || Top||

#8  It would be a lot safer just to eat the typical American diet and not exercise. You just need a little patience.
Posted by: gorb || 03/29/2017 21:13 Comments || Top||


Puerto Rico man jailed after he BIT the head off of his girlfriend's Chihuahua then punched her in the face
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Luis Arroyo, 40, bit off the head of his girlfriend's Chihuahua, and then punched her in the face.
Oh, but haven't we all occasionally had the urge?
Authorities said Tuesday that a judge also ordered Arroyo to pay a $3,000 fine in the case that included domestic abuse and mistreatment of an animal.

Arroyo had pleaded guilty to assaulting his girlfriend, who owned the dog.

The incident occurred in February around 3:30 in the morning on a weekend in the western mountain town of Lares.

The municipality is located about an hour-and-a-half from San Juan.

According to Primera Hora, the two had been living together for about six months, and he had no history of domestic abuse.

Arroyo, who is unemployed, was unable to originally post his bail which was set at $400,000.

He is now being held at Las Cucharas Correctional Complex.



Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Honey, the toilet is plugged up again."
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2017 5:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I have been extremely pissed off before, but never enough to bige the head off a dog
Posted by: chris || 03/29/2017 5:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Ahhhh...Puerto Rico.

If the Donks have their way, there will be an additional star on Old Glory representing them.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/29/2017 9:12 Comments || Top||

#4  There is a PREXIT initiative coming up in June 2017, interesting... The UN wants us to 'Decolonialize', the Democrats want two Senators, and most of the 'Ricans aren't really convinced on why they should care.
Posted by: magpie || 03/29/2017 9:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Being a dog-lover, it is too bad the woman didn't have a Cujo-like dog like a Rottweiler or pit bull. It might have ended far differently and better.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/29/2017 9:58 Comments || Top||

#6  I hate these little dogs too - but, biting off heads? What's wrong with stomping them?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/29/2017 11:01 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Pool Shark
IT’S not every day you see a shark lapping it up in an ocean swimming pool — but that’s exactly what happened on Sydney’s northern beaches on Tuesday. Much to the bemusement of local beachgoers, the dusky whaler was spotted swimming about in the popular Palm Beach pool — with other swimmers — in the morning before being rescued and released into the ocean at about 2.30pm.

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RT: US driver lands monster truck front flip
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Behind the machine shed pinned under their truck, lifeless. I'm waiting for the first Atlanta Action-5 news report from a rural Georgia Sheriff's department. It's only a matter of time.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 11:58 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
And now for something you didn’t know you should have
[HOTAIR] Traditionally, crosswalk lights in most places show a male figure waiting patiently in red for cars to stop, then walking in green when it’s safe. It’s been that way because it’s been that way in societies dominated by you-know-who.But a civic group called the Committee for Melbourne decided to help make its world a little better through images. It has convinced the city to change crosswalk lights to show a female figure walking to erase the possibility of gender bias and attune future generations to picture females crossing the street or doing anything the same as males.
Is she carrying a purse, wearing heels? How can we tell 'tis nae a Scotsman?

Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Crossing lights looking like streetwalkers?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2017 5:05 Comments || Top||

#2  How can we tell 'tis nae a Scotsman

Coffee Spill!! (Damn near out my nose, too!)
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/29/2017 8:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Skidmark, how can we tell the traditional symbol isn't a woman in a pantsuit?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/29/2017 12:38 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought it was Hillary, myself.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/29/2017 13:00 Comments || Top||

#5  oh ferkrysakes - would someone please point out the stick figure penis on the original signals? Who assumed that figure was a CIS gendered male? That's implicit gender bias!!! So easy to play by Frankfurt Rules
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/29/2017 18:17 Comments || Top||


That really IS a high rise: Sci-fi plan to hang a wandering skyscraper from asteroid orbiting Earth is unveiled
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A New York architecture firm has unveiled designs for a skyscraper that is out of this world. Deemed the ‘world’s tallest building ever’, Analemma Tower will be suspended from an orbiting asteroid 31,068 miles (50,000 km) above the Earth– and the only way to leave is by parachute.
"Hi, honey! I'm gonna be in town with the Gleasons at about 5:30."
"Okay. What time should I start dinner? How are you coming home?"
"Oh. I hadn't thought of that..."

The orbital path would swing the tower in a figure eight pattern between the northern and southern hemispheres each day, taking residents on a tour through different parts of the world - all in just a 24 hour orbital cycle.
Wow. That'll be nifty. I'm not sure about the idea of commuting by space shuttle. I'm kinda queasy with the idea of parachuting to the office from 31,000 miles, too.
The radical design was created by Clouds Architecture Office, which is also the mastermind behind proposals for a Mars house and a cloud city.
Is there in fact an asteroid in orbit at 50,000 kilometers? Didn't Bruce Willis blow that up or something?
The firm's latest design, Analemma Tower, will 'overturn the established skyscraper typology', as it builds from the sky down, instead of the ground up.
You've got to get "up" before you can build "down." If you go far enough "up" there is no "down." But if there is no "asteroid" then I guess that doesn't matter. If that's a good altitude for things to orbit, why bother with the asteroid? Is that where they're gonna put the septic system?
'Through the course of history humanity has been able to affect the environment on increasing scales,' explained the firm.
Through the course of history we've have pretty good grasp of "up," "down," and "asteroid," too. I'll admit "silly" has often been variations on multiple themes, few of them involving natural laws.
Analemma Tower will be suspended from an orbiting asteroid and hang down to the Earth.
It's gonna be high enough to "orbit" but it'll hang "down." The illustration shows cables, presumably thick ones.
It will travel in a figure eight pattern through the northern and southern hemispheres and pass over major cities such as Panama City, Havana, Atlanta and New York City.
"Lovely view from your balcony, Mrs. Schellhammer!"
"Yes! We call those places 'orbit over country!'"

The proposal calls for Analemma to first be constructed over Dubai, which has proven to be a specialist in tall building construction at one fifth the cost of New York City construction.
They're using Pak labor?
The massive skyscraper will be setup in sections and each with a designated purpose.
Where are they gonna be "setup?" Dubai? How're they gonna get 50,000 km up? By pulley?
Business will be conducted at the lower end of the towers and sleeping quarters will be positioned two-thirds of the way up the building.
Kinda like a train, only dangling.
Residents will also have access to a gardening area, a place for worship and in the bottom level will be sections for dining, shopping and entertainment.
Well, sure. They'll need a dining car. Probably a caboose, too.
The architects plan to take full advantage of the skyscraper's location and will place solar panels at the upper most levels to generate power from the sun.
Dangling from 31,000 miles they'll have lots of it available, as long as the asteroid doesn't get in the way.
And residents will enjoy fresh water from condensation of clouds and rainwater, which will be collected and purified.
How many clouds and how much rainwater are there at 31,000 miles? Isn't the air a little thin at that altitude? Of course, the cables could be really, really long. The pictures show the "skyscraper" top banging into Mount Everest, or maybe Hawaii, with a communications satellite located below the asteroid (probably not to scale). I don't know why they'd bother with solar power when perpetual motion could be had at a fraction of the cost using just about the same engineering principles.
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A variant on the space elevator.
Posted by: phil_b || 03/29/2017 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Firm must be staffed by recent Harvard graduates whose interns are supporters of legalizing mariuana.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 03/29/2017 3:10 Comments || Top||

#3  And all the heat generated by friction with the atmosphere means heating costs in the winter are very low.
Posted by: gorb || 03/29/2017 4:17 Comments || Top||

#4  So their sh__ just drops down on the rest of us when the flush. Isn't that an act of war?
Posted by: 3dc || 03/29/2017 5:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Anal World arrivals not discussed ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 7:35 Comments || Top||

#6  All I'm saying is that Frank Lloyd Wright had problems designing flat roofs that didn't leak.

You take it from there.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/29/2017 8:05 Comments || Top||

#7  And then there's the 'weightlessness' problem for the tenants as it would be tethered to an orbiting asteroid so the velocity factor comes into play.

And, AlanC, FLW had leaking problems with almost ALL of his roofing systems.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/29/2017 8:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Lovely. I wonder just how long this thing would last before some gang of Muzzies hopped up on jihad figures out that if they can hijack a jetliner and crash it into this thing at 40,000 feet, they can send the lower 7 or so miles of it crashing to Earth?

Allahu Akhbar!!!
Posted by: Dave D. || 03/29/2017 10:38 Comments || Top||

#9  31,068 miles (50,000 km) above the Earth– and the only way to leave is by parachute.

There do they find people like the writer?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/29/2017 10:59 Comments || Top||

#10  J-school.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/29/2017 11:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Very nice then. I'm going to place your proposal over in my 'make a longer breathing oxygen tube by super-gluing two small sections together' department.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/29/2017 11:23 Comments || Top||

#12  There is one orbiting the earth in stable orbit now, but it never gets closer than 9 million miles. So they're gonna need a bigger cable. Link
Posted by: Bobby || 03/29/2017 12:56 Comments || Top||


Tesla 'autopilot' car hits Phoenix police motorcycle
[AZCENTRAL] A Phoenix police cycle of violence was struck by a Tesla Model X reportedly operating on autopilot last week, police said.

The incident happened a few days before an accident involving an automated Uber vehicle in Tempe.

Phoenix police on Monday confirmed that the incident occurred when a Tesla driver and an on-duty officer exited the Black Canyon Freeway onto Utopia Road on the afternoon of March 21.

The officer, who was in front of the Tesla driver, stopped for a stoplight, police said. After also stopping briefly, the Tesla began moving forward, prompting the officer to jump off his cycle of violence and move away. The car struck the fallen motorcycle, but no damage was reported to either vehicle.

The officer later estimated the car was moving at about three miles per hour, police said.

The Tesla driver told police that he had the car in autopilot mode at the time of the incident, but Phoenix police front man Sgt. Alan Pfohl said Sherlocks were unable to corroborate that statement.

Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Artificial Intelligence first attempt to wipe mankind from the earth!
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 03/29/2017 2:23 Comments || Top||

#2  The car as it was towed away was heard to mutter "I'll be back"
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 03/29/2017 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  It was just a minor glitch in the program, you non-believer Luddites.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/29/2017 10:51 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Bad Guys knock over Tripoli bank, 4 Kops die
A policeman was killed and three of his colleagues injured, one of them seriously, during a Tripoli bank robbery early this morning. The police were were gunned down outside the Suq Al-Thalatha branch of the National Commercial Bank in Tripoli’s Fallah district. It is reported that the attackers also kidnapped a bank manager and three of the bank guards.

The National Commercial Bank has not said how much money was stolen in the heist and has not commented on the kidnappings.

The same gang is later believed to have shot up a police vehicle outside the police station on the Airport Road.

The Tripoli Security Directorate has given no indication of the fate of the seized manager and guards but named the murdered policeman as Nasruddin Khalifa. Social media pictures have been posted of him lying in a pool of blood as his colleagues tried in vain to save him.

The identity of the gunmen remains unclear. The Security Directorate put out a statement declaring: “All the security services inside Tripoli will continue to protect citizens and public and private institutions.”
Posted by: badanov || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Brexit
[NEWS.SKY] Theresa May will issue an appeal to the country to "come together" as she formally launches the process for the UK to leave the European Union.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
Nine months after the divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
Brexit referendum last June, the Prime Minister will officially trigger Article 50 in a letter that will be hand delivered in Brussels.

At the same time, in a statement to MPs in the Commons, she will pledge to get the right deal for everyone in the UK, including EU nationals living in this country.

"We are one great union of people and nations with a proud history and a bright future," she will say.

"And, now that the decision has been made to leave the EU, it is time to come together."
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When the Exchequer stops sending millions a day to Brussels, then I'll be convinced she's serious about Brexit.
Posted by: Raj || 03/29/2017 10:00 Comments || Top||

#2  One step at a time.

The breakup letter arrived in Brussels today. It isn't Britain, its EU.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/29/2017 10:03 Comments || Top||

#3  I see what you did there...
Posted by: Raj || 03/29/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||

#4  :)
Posted by: Shipman || 03/29/2017 14:54 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Puddgy threatens war with US after McStain calls him fat
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/29/2017 10:04 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  So, McCain will finally get his war?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/29/2017 11:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, and the other idiots that cannot fathom how empty our suit of defense has been tailored.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2017 11:06 Comments || Top||

#3  MSM loves McCain because he's always willing to run his mouth for them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/29/2017 12:40 Comments || Top||

#4  On the bright side, our children and grandchildren will see a time without McCain. For this I am thankful.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 12:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, we know what buttons to push to get Kimmie's goat.

Quick, get the psyops section going on Operation Lipid.

And we can also harness methane production from Kimmie, using THIS STUDY. Sustainable, ya know.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/29/2017 14:23 Comments || Top||

#6  They should be sending Marie Osmond's Diet Co. ads 24/7 "with bars and shakes free"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2017 19:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Bring it, fatso. While you can still fit down one of those tank tunnels of yours for shelter.
Posted by: gorb || 03/29/2017 21:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Helium filled Far Un ballons floated over NORK should stir things up nicely.
Posted by: Chesney Fleart5469 || 03/29/2017 21:48 Comments || Top||


Europe
Germany Launches Probe into 'Intolerable Spying' by Turkey
[AnNahar] German prosecutors announced an investigation Tuesday into claims that Turkish agents are spying on alleged followers of exiled preacher Fethullah Gulen in Germany.

The probe came as a German state minister accused Turkey of the "unacceptable" espionage against supporters of Gulen, blamed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a failed coup attempt last year.

The claims open a new front in the diplomatic row between NATO allies Germany and Turkey, whose relationship has been strained by a series of disputes centered on human rights issues.

"It is clear that the Turkish secret service MIT is investigating people living in Germany," said Boris Pistorius, interior minister of the northern German state of Lower Saxony, deploring the "intensity and ruthlessness" of Turkey's pursuit of people living abroad.

"It's intolerable and unacceptable," he said at a press conference.

Erdogan's government had asked Berlin to help spy on about 300 alleged Gulen supporters, Pistorius said, adding that the list was handed to Germany's BND spy service, which turned it over to state governments.

But Pistorius's state decided to inform the more than 10 targets in Lower Saxony, including a school and at least two companies, fearing people could suffer "retaliation" if they traveled to Turkey while unaware they were on a watch list.

Turkish authorities were acting with "something close to paranoia," he said, adding that "all Gulen supporters are assumed to be terrorists and enemies of the state even though there is not the tiniest scrap of evidence."

"As of today, we have no evidence whatsoever that Gulen supporters have violated any rules in any way."

According to German media, Turkish officials handed the target list including names, addresses, telephone numbers and photographs to their German counterparts during the Munich Security Conference in February.

Federal prosecutors will now examine how Turkey compiled such detailed information on their targets.

"The success of our investigation will depend largely on the information shared with us by German counter-espionage agencies," spokeswoman Frauke Koehler said about the probe into "persons unknown."

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere meanwhile warned Turkey against spying in Germany, saying "espionage activities on German soil is punishable by law and will not be tolerated by us."

- Fraying ties -
Although Gulen, a 75-year-old cleric living the United States, has denied charges that he was involved in the failed coup last July to overthrow Erdogan, Ankara has cracked down hard on the preacher's followers.

More than 41,000 people in Turkey have been arrested over suspected links to Gulen's movement, and 100,000 fired or suspended from their jobs. Many of them are teachers, police, magistrates and journalists.

In February, German police raided the homes of four Turkish Muslim preachers suspected of spying on alleged Gulen supporters for Erdogan's government.

Erdogan has in turn accused Germany of harboring Kurdish and other "terrorists", claiming that Berlin is refusing to hand over alleged suspects.

Separately, the foreign ministries in Sweden and Denmark have called in Turkey's envoys over claims of Turkish spying on opposition figures living in the Scandinavian countries.

Germany's foreign intelligence chief Bruno Kahl drew Ankara's ire last week when he said he did not believe that Gulen was behind the failed coup.

Turkey had tried to convince Berlin that Gulen, who lives in a secluded compound in Pennsylvania, was behind the coup, "but they have not succeeded," Kahl told Der Spiegel magazine.

Kahl said the putsch was launched by a "part of the military" that expected to be targeted in an ongoing government purge.

Berlin has emerged as a strident critic of Ankara's post-coup crackdown, and is also urging Turkey to release a correspondent for the German daily Die Welt who is jailed on terror charges.

Ankara has been riled by German authorities' refusal to allow some Turkish ministers to campaign in the country's Turkish communities for a "yes" vote ahead of the April 16 referendum on giving Erdogan the powers of an executive presidency.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


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Foggy Bottom blues: 'Deep State' Department suspends press briefings
[RT] The US Department of State is off the air again as it seeks a permanent spokesperson. Gone are the daily press briefings of the Obama era, leaving many reporters at Foggy Bottom frustrated by Rex Tillerson’s corporate management style.

Tillerson, a former Exxon Mobile chief executive, took only one reporter along on his first trip to Asia earlier this month. During the first six weeks of the Trump administration, the State Department didn’t hold a single on-camera press briefing, only restarting the practice on March 7.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 07:52 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While Mr. Tillerson is draining Deep Swamp, getting rid of the meddling frogs is a good first step.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 03/29/2017 8:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Gone are the daily press briefings of the Obama era. They were good for laughs since they strained credulity. One always came away thinking "Wow that was a wopper, they really expect us to believe that $hit?" Otherwise, they were useless. Mostly, they were used for covering up HRC's and O's criminality.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/29/2017 10:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Harf!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2017 17:51 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Father allegedly chokes teenage daughter to death over 'honour' in Islamabad
[DAWN] A man strangled his 15-year-old daughter to death on Tuesday in a suspected honour killing incident in Islamabad, police officials told DawnNews.

The incident took place within the jurisdiction of Golra cop shoppe.

The accused confessed to killing his daughter over ’honour’, in video footage available with DawnNews. He refrained from sharing details about the incident.

The reported confession was confirmed by Golra police and they stated that the accused surrendered himself after allegedly killing the girl.

The corpse of the girl has been sent for postmortem.

The victim's mother registered a First Information Report (FIR) against her husband in the case and further investigations are underway.
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry, but honor killings are built into the culture in Pakistain. This is not exactly a one-off story. Probably worth publicizing; eventually it might bring about change, say in the next 7 centuries or so although it's iffy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/29/2017 10:29 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Missing man found in the stomach of 20-foot-long snake
No. He wasn't "hiding"
A man who went missing in Indonesia earlier this week was near his own garden ‐ inside the stomach of a 20-foot long snake.

The Straits Times ‐an English-speaking newspaper in Singapore ‐ reports that Akbar Salubiro was last seen on Sunday morning when he went off to harvest palm oil. After he didn't return home that evening, a search party was formed.
and they searched everywhere
On Monday, those searching for Akbar found the giant snake lying dead just feet from Akbar's house.
Pretty extensive search...not
According to the Times, Akbar's boots were clearly visible in the snake's stomach. Villagers used a knife to cut open the snake and remove the corpse.

Village secretary Salubiro Junaidi told Tribun Timur, a local media outlet, that cries for help could be heard from the palm grove at about 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. It's assumed the python choked Akbar to death, and the python then choked while attempting to swallow Akbar. It's common for pythons to choke on large animals they attempt to eat.
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#1 
Posted by: DepotGuy || 03/29/2017 11:06 Comments || Top||

#2  those searching for Akbar found the giant snake lying dead

Prob not Halal.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2017 11:08 Comments || Top||

#3  When hide and go seek goes bad...
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/29/2017 14:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Help! I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor. Oh, gee, he's up to my knee! Oh fiddle, he's up to my middle! Oh heck, he's up to my neck! Oh dread, he's up to my he........
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/29/2017 15:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Father of Maryland rape suspect arrested for being in US illegally
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Funding Being Cut From School For Having "Too Many White Kids"
[ABC] NORTH HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Outrage has grown at Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, as the school faces layoffs and increased class sizes due to a law limiting funds for schools with a higher white student body.

The Los Angeles Unified School District provides more funding for schools where the white population is below 30 percent.

In a letter to parents, the district noted the highly regarded middle school had been above the percentage for the past couple years.

The racial formula was a condition imposed by court decisions dealing with desegregation in the 1970s.

The comments at Weasel Zippers are noteworthy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 06:53 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What is the people in the largely "white" school district collectively say "give us our money since we all 'feel' colored (non-white)"? After all, aren't "feelings" all-important today? Seems like a lawsuit for discrimination waiting to happen in federal court. How much is that going to cost the Board of Education and the city?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/29/2017 10:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, color me incredulous!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/29/2017 10:32 Comments || Top||


Jim Webb declines to be recognized as a distinguished Naval Academy graduate
[WAPO] Former senator Jim Webb declined Tuesday to accept an award as a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, citing pressure from a "small but vociferous group" of female alumni who are angry about past statements he made that women aren’t suited for combat and shouldn’t attend the academy.

Webb (D-Va.) was expected to receive a Distinguished Graduate Award along with four other alumni Friday in a ceremony in Annapolis, Md. The recognition is the most prestigious awarded by the Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation, and it goes to living alumni whose character, service and stature "draw wholesome comparison to the qualities that the U.S. Naval Academy strives for in keeping with its ideals of duty, honor, loyalty and integrity," according to criteria published by the association.

But critics said the selection of Webb -- a highly decorated Marine veteran, 1968 academy graduate and recent presidential candidate -- was unacceptable because of his history of disrespecting women. They pointed primarily to an article published in Washingtonian magazine in 1979 in which he criticized women attending the academy and said that a dormitory there was a "horny woman’s dream." The article, headlined "Women Can’t Fight," was written by Webb after he left the military and while he was a popular academy professor.

Webb released a statement through the alumni association Monday night that said he was sorry for any trouble he caused. But on Tuesday evening he changed course, saying on his website that he expected more protests and does not want to be a distraction at the awards ceremony. He was nominated by classmates who graduated with him in 1968, he said.

"From conversations with the Alumni Association, including information passed down from top Navy leadership in the Pentagon, it is clear that those protesting my receipt of this award now threaten to disrupt the ceremonies surrounding its issuance," Webb said. "I am being told that my presence at the ceremony would likely mar the otherwise celebratory nature of that special day, and as a consequence I find it necessary to decline to accept the award."

So distinguished Naval Academy graduates will now be selected by a "small but vociferous group of female alumni."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Service Academies are going to hell:

http://www.csindy.com/TheWire/archives/2017/03/20/new-female-afa-commandant-moving-here-soon-with-her-wife
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 03/29/2017 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  A marine intimidated by Femin-Nazi's? A perfect RINO candidate for Congress.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 03/29/2017 2:33 Comments || Top||

#3  They had to stab the ideological steak through the last remaining Democrat from the Democrat party before he infected anyone with blue dog disease.

Now that I have PERMANENTLY Patented the "Democrat Party" TM as the party of slavery, destruction, lawlessness, confederation, anarchist, piece of fucking shit ideological communist scum of the entire earth, and classified as a disease, I may now handle you.

Some of you fascistic idiots went to church. Decided to copy the bible because Saul Alinskey did not work for you so now you must interrupt our TRUE SERVICE.,

Fuck you all and your golden calf federal communist useless piece of shit government. And most of all fuck the entire democrat party forever. Amein.

MY Kingdom is at risk.
Posted by: newc || 03/29/2017 5:46 Comments || Top||

#4  If the left keeps treating Webb like a republican maybe he will finally become one. It sounds like he might have a few things in common with Trump.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/29/2017 6:30 Comments || Top||

#5  @#3: Tell us what you really think....! ;)
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/29/2017 9:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Petulant whinging grandchild of the Tailhook Scandal? I remember catching the Congressional floor speeches on C-SPAN where any Naval officer remotely associated to the event was blackballed for promotion by the Democrat apparatchiks.
Posted by: magpie || 03/29/2017 9:39 Comments || Top||

#7  There is a lot of the usual tripe wrong with this story--mostly, the cave-in to PC promulgated by some leftist-created tribe, group, "victim", or special group in today's society. Mostly, the people who fuel these group's angsts are not altruistic but just consolidating their base and vote-hustling.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/29/2017 10:18 Comments || Top||

#8  2020: The Year of the Labz
Posted by: Shipman || 03/29/2017 14:58 Comments || Top||

#9  Fields of Fire was a good book on the Vietnam war.
Posted by: bman || 03/29/2017 15:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Our future military "leadership", ladies and gents.

They need to find out who these "critics" are and make sure they never rise through the ranks.

And deal ruthlessly with the perfumed princes that created this muck in the first pacae.

We can't afford these shitheels anymore.
Posted by: charger || 03/29/2017 20:03 Comments || Top||

#11  What do you want me to tell you after all of these years of abuse by these people who hate people?

I AM a broken record and nothing has changed through all of History. The same people every time.
Posted by: newc || 03/29/2017 22:21 Comments || Top||



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