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"Problem with it's landing gear"...
Seems like they coulda gone almost anywhere (like maybe home) if they were gonna have a problem landing. Which they didn't...
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The co-chairman of the state's powerful budget-writing committee called on Gov. Scott Walker this week to consider finding ways to raise revenue for the state's transportation budget, which will suffer from a $939 million shortfall in the next biennium, according to the latest estimates.
But Walker on Wednesday stood firm in his long-held opposition to raising taxes or imposing fees to help pay for road projects - putting him at odds with leaders in his own party who have implored the governor to consider finding new revenue. Lots of finger-pointing in the La Crosse Tribune link
"Raising taxes and fees is not the answer," Walker said in a statement. "Under our administration, we will keep it a priority to live within the means of the hardworking people of Wisconsin. That is a commitment I will honor."
Posted by: Bobby ||
07/28/2016 13:41 ||
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Where's the graft in that?
Bids are intentionally constructed to keep jobs small enough to avoid enticing out of state competitors to allow two or three usual local bidders to keep the market to themselves.
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No mention by the LC Tribune (think - NYT without the entertainment section), of course, that Gov. Walker's predecessor (yup, a 'D') raided the state's transportation Road Funds big time for 'other programs' including a $50M Jobs Program that 'successfully' trained a total of 202 people and $14M in down payments on a 'High-Speed Rail' system that was never built (Walker quashed that when first in office).
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
07/28/2016 17:10 Comments ||
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[Mirror] The increasingly authoritarian regime has purged the media, universities, schools, the police, judiciary and military of potential opponents since the failed coup attempt.
The Turkish Government has shut down 130 media outlets in a mass purge of the media following the coup attempt.
President Recep Erdogan has responded to the apparent coup attempt by clamping down on alleged dissidents since the failed bid to oust him from power rocked the country.
The increasingly authoritarian regime has purged the media, universities, schools, the police, judiciary and military of potential opponents.
[DAWN] The mother of Qandeel Baloch, the social media sensation who was murdered in a so-called 'honour' killing, said her son strangled his sister after being taunted by his friends over her behaviour.
The murder of Qandeel, who shot to fame posting risque videos and statements on Facebook, shone a spotlight on such killings and re-ignited calls for legislative action to curb the crime.
Speaking to AFP from her home in the village of Shah Sadar Din, Baloch's mother Anwar Wai wept as she recalled the shocking death at the hands of brother Muhammad Wasim.
"He killed my daughter after being taunted by his friends. They would infuriate him and tell him she is bringing you dishonour," she said, surrounded by her husband as well as an adult son and daughter.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/28/2016 00:00 ||
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So er why not kill your friends instead?
To be muslim is to be a coward. They can only successfully attack women.
[DAWN] GHOTKI: Communal tensions ran high in Sindh's Ghotki district on Wednesday, after a Hindu man was jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for allegedly desecrating the Holy Koran a day earlier.
Two Hindu men were shot having tea at a stall in Ghotki's town of Mirpur Mathelo during an attack by a mob Wednesday. One of the victims, 17-year-old Dewan Sateesh Kumar, departed this vale of tears while his friend Avinash is in a critical condition, police said.
Local leaders of the Hindu community while talking to journalists here demanded protection of their lives and properties in wake of the tensions.
"A local trader Dewan Satesh Kumar has been killed," Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ghotki Masood Ahmed Bangash told Dawn.
He said police with the help of Rangers are trying to diffuse the tense situation, which emerged after villagers in Mehran Samejo near Daharki "caught" a Hindu man desecrating pages of the Koran.
Locals told Dawn that the Hindu suspect, Amar Lal, is a drug addict who had begun living in a mosque after converting to Islam a few month ago, adding that his mental condition is "unstable".
Bilawal condemns unrest in Ghotki
Pakistain People's Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday took notice of unrest in Ghotki district and directed the concerned officials to ensure community's protection in the district.
According to a statement issued by Bilawal House Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's media team, Bhutto-Zardari directed PPP MNA Ramesh Lal to visit the victim's family and offer condolences and solidarity on his behalf.
The PPP chairman asked Sindh government to maintain communal harmony in Ghotki.
"Antisocial elements are fanning hatred and violence," the statement quoted Bhutto-Zardari, adding, "Nobody should be allowed to take the law into his hands."
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[RUDAW.NET] In their latest move to police the country’s morality, Iranian regime paramilitaries detained approximately 150 people for attending a mixed-sex party in the capital Tehran.
"A while ago, we received a tipoff about a mixed-gender party at a garden in the vicinity of Islamshahr, in the west of the Tehran province," Mohsen Khancherli, a police commander, told Iran’s Tasnim news on Monday.
"[Regime forces were able] to arrest tens of boys and girls during a joint operation with one of the relevant departments," he added.
Khancherli went on to say that efforts by the morality police in Iran to curb what they claim is immoral behaviour are being stepped up with more public areas and gardens being monitored by these authorities.
"In this garden, which was situated next to an unlicensed studio for recording underground music, nearly 150 boys and girls had gathered in a mixed-gender party under the pretext of a birthday celebration," he explained.
Morality police in Iran strictly police the mandatory wearing of the hijab by Iranian women in public, as well as the regime’s ban on alcohol. Partygoers found in possession of alcohol can be sentenced to lashings or prison sentences.
Monday’s arrests come as the regime appears to be cracking down harder on activities they deem to be harmful to society and un-Islamic.
On Sunday, Iran’s Basij militia, which rigorously enforces the morality laws, held a ceremony where they destroyed some 100,000 satellite dishes which they had confiscated from people. It is illegal to own a satellite dish in Iran, however despite this law most Iranians do.
General Mohammad Reza Naghi justified the wholesale destruction of tens of thousands of dishes on Sunday by claiming that "satellite channels ... deviate the society’s morality and culture."
"What these televisions really achieve is increased divorce, addiction and insecurity in society," he added.
In April, Tehran’s chief of police announced that they were recruiting 7,000 plainclothes police to combat "immorality" in the city.
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[USNI News] The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a Congressional notification obtained by USNI News.
The July 14, 2016 notification, signed by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, indicated he intended to name a planned Military Sealift Command fleet oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206). The ship would be the second of the John Lewis-class oilers being built by General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego, Calif.
The Secretary of the Navy’s office is deferring additional information until the naming announcement, a Navy official told USNI News on Thursday.
Mabus has said the John Lewis-class ‐ named after civil rights activist and congressman Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) -would be named after civil rights leaders.
Other names in the class include former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren whose court ruled to desegregate U.S. schools, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, women's right activist Lucy Stone and abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth.
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I remember a hilarious Clive Cussler parody I read some years ago where some of the action took place aboard the USS Alice B. Toklas...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/28/2016 17:58 Comments ||
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With a little effort, I'm sure some of the strange minds at Rantburg can come up with nickname for the ship based on the fact that the only thing Milk accomplished during his tenure was known as "The pooper-scooper Law"
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...Actually, T-AO-206 will not be a commissioned vessel of the US Navy. She will be a US Naval Ship - there's a difference, though not one most civilians will appreciate. A USNS is a ship owned by the Department of the Navy but run by a mostly civilian crew - I'll feel sorry for the handful of regular Navy or reservists who will be aboard her, but at the end of the day it's an empty gesture.
Mike
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07/28/2016 21:04 Comments ||
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Not the first time Milk was full of seamen.
Snark o' the day.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
07/28/2016 21:19 Comments ||
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A spokeswoman for the multinational firm Mattel, which owns the show's makers Hit Entertainment, said 'It has been brought to our attention that in an episode of Fireman Sam (Series 9, Episode 7), an image of the Quran is briefly depicted.
"The page was intended to show illegible text and we deeply regret this error. We sincerely apologise for any distress or offense it may have caused.
We will no longer be working with the animation studio responsible for this mistake.
In addition, we are taking immediate action to remove this episode from circulation and we are reviewing our content production procedures to ensure this never happens again.
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Fucking Mattel... something something, Jill Barad and due diligence. As a one time employee, I lost big time thanks to that incompetent skank. It's my sincere wish that the entire enterprise burns in hell. ...not that I'm vindictive or anything
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
07/28/2016 1:06 Comments ||
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jill barad got a severance fee of $50M when she left mattel
she had actually been very effective when heading the Barbie (high fashion figure) division but some how was convinced to buy the company that made the Carmen San Diego video games -- that company never made another successful product
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07/28/2016 15:49 Comments ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The co-chairman of the state's powerful budget-writing committee called on Gov. Scott Walker this week to consider finding ways to raise revenue for the state's transportation budget, which will suffer from a $939 million shortfall in the next biennium, according to the latest estimates.
[DAWN] GHOTKI: Communal tensions ran high in Sindh's Ghotki district on Wednesday, after a Hindu man was 
[USNI News] The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a Congressional notification obtained by USNI News.
A spokeswoman for the multinational firm Mattel, which owns the show's makers Hit Entertainment, said 'It has been brought to our attention that in an episode of Fireman Sam (Series 9, Episode 7), an image of the Quran is briefly depicted.
