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-Obits-
F.B.I. Inspector Erskine dead at 95.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/05/2014 03:53 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A good man. Sadly tone deaf, like myself.
Posted by: Shipman || 05/05/2014 13:52 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Was Dracula Non-Fiction?
Now scientists have found that young blood actually 'recharges' the brain, forms new blood vessels and improves memory and learning.
In parallel research, scintists at Harvard University also discovered that a 'youth protein' which circulates in the blood is responsible for keeping the brain and muscles young and strong. The protein, known as 'GDF11', is present in the bloodstream in large quantities when we are young but peters out as we age.
Researchers are hoping to begin human trials in the next two to three years.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/05/2014 11:52 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Researchers are hoping to begin human trials in the next two to three years

As Insty would say "Faster please".
Posted by: AlanC || 05/05/2014 14:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Some Austro-hungarian chick bathed in blood thinking it would do her good. Bathory I think. She was part of the source Stroker worked from. SHe should have drinken her bathwater I guess.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/05/2014 15:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Probably falls for a reason. I'd guess cancer.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/05/2014 16:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Finally our ruling elite will have a use for flyover country.
Posted by: Lowspark || 05/05/2014 17:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Finally our ruling elite will have a use for flyover country.

Your children belong to the revolutionary vanguard, comrades.

And since the vanguard isn't having its own kids, well...
Posted by: charger || 05/05/2014 20:10 Comments || Top||

#6  "'GDF11'...'GDF11'...Get your Red Hot...'GDF11'"

I can't wait for the TV commercials.

Posted by: Throsh Scourge of the Veal Cutlets8031 || 05/05/2014 20:40 Comments || Top||

#7  reading Justin Cronin's "The Twelve". Second in "The Passage" trilogy. Good stuff and has a tie-in
Posted by: Frank G || 05/05/2014 21:04 Comments || Top||


Youth anxiety on the rise amid changing climate
[THEGLOBEANDMAIL] Perhaps the little wusses could crawl under their desks at school and cover their heads, like we did.
Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Science in the class room has been replaced with leftist junk science.

Abolish the Federal Department of Education. These kids are the future.
Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281 || 05/05/2014 1:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Perhaps the little wusses could crawl under their desks at school and cover their heads, like we did.

Don't be too mean FredMan. These poor kids don't have the imaginary M-1s, M-14s and Mister Tank too blow away their imaginary fears. Not to mention, don't think they screen movies that will chase their fears away, I stopped worrying about Russians by watching the good stuff:

Posted by: Shipman || 05/05/2014 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Good Vid Ship. "Strategic Air Command" right?

Nowdays kids get a steady diet about how evil America and Capitalism is.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/05/2014 11:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Yep CF. Take off from McDill circa 1954. I got a steady diet of this when I was in middle school and an absolute boatload of CD material at the beach during summer. It wasn't all hiding under desks. We were being prepared to not only survive but to win.
Posted by: Shipman || 05/05/2014 13:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah, Climate Change - The land shall burn, the icecaps will melt, the oceans will rise...AHHHHH!

Time to get out your water wings...X, Y and Z generations, you are all Doomed !

(Horse Pucky ... The Climate Idiots)

Posted by: Snong Protector of the Munchkins || 05/05/2014 15:58 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
S. Sudan Army Claims Capture of Rebel Base, Key Oil Town
[An Nahar] South Sudan government forces said Sunday they had overrun the key rebel base of Nasir and the northern oil hub of Bentiu following a major offensive that was launched despite international peace efforts.

Army front man Philip Aguer told Agence La Belle France Presse that the advance had forced rebel leader Riek Machar, who has been fighting President Salva Kiir since mid-December, to flee towards the Æthiopian border.

The attack comes just days after South Sudanese President Salva Kiir agreed during a visit by U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
to hold direct talks with Machar on ending the civil war in the world's youngest nation.

"Our forces captured Nasir this morning. After we launched an assault yesterday with heavy bombardments, the town is ours. The rebels including Riek Machar are fleeing towards the Æthiopian border, we are still advancing," Aguer said.

Nasir, situated close to the border with Æthiopia, has been one of the main bases of Machar and his rebel army.

He said government troops had also moved into the northern oil hub of Bentiu, capital of the oil-rich Unity State and a town that has changed hands several times throughout the conflict.

Independent sources contacted in Bentiu confirmed that government soldiers were now inside the town following a morning of fierce fighting with the rebels.

"Government soldiers are now in Bentiu, they appear to be in control," an independent aid worker in the town said.

Bentiu fell into rebel hands last month, and opposition forces were accused by the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
of massacring hundreds of civilians in the town. Both sides in the conflict have been accused of war crimes including mass killings, rape, attacks on hospitals and places of worship and recruiting child soldiers.
Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Mauritania's Radical Opposition to Boycott June Vote
[An Nahar] Mauritania's radical opposition coalition said Sunday it has decided to boycott next month's presidential election, accusing the nation's rulers of blocking dialogue over how the vote will be run.

The announcement by the front man for the National Forum for Democracy and Unity (FNDU) followed a meeting of the coalition on Saturday amid a row over the timing of the June 21 vote and opposition demands for electoral reform.

"All the political parties affiliated to the Forum decided unanimously to boycott this election," said former prime minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf, the FNDU's main negotiator in the dialogue between the opposition and the ruling majority in the northwest African nation.

He said the FNDU's decision was backed by unions and civil society groups which felt they were excluded from the election process "which is neither consensual nor transparent."

In a widely expected announcement last month, Mauritanian leader Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz said he would be running for re-election.
Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
Kerry Urges DR Congo's Kabila to 'Respect Constitution' in 2016 Poll
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
on Sunday urged Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
President Joseph Kabila to respect a constitutional law which forbids him from seeking a new term in 2016 elections.

"I believe that it is clear to him (Kabila) that the United States of America feels very strongly, as do other people, that the constitutional process need to respected," Kerry said on a visit to the country.

He announced that the United States would provide funding of $30 million (almost 22 million euros) "to support transparent and credible elections as well as recovery... programs in eastern Congo".

Kerry is on his first major tour of Africa, which is focusing on some of the continent's most brutal conflicts.

A U.S. official said Saturday that Washington was ready to help fund the demobilization of some 12,000 rebels active in dozens of militias in the DRC's mineral-rich, restive east, a plan that is estimated to cost about $100 million.

The DRC government has gained more control in the conflict-hit eastern areas since a national army offensive, backed by a special U.N. brigade, forced the powerful M23 rebel group to lay down its arms in November.
Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Further validation of Kerry as a convenient distraction. A total waste of both rhetoric, money, and jet fuel.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/05/2014 8:13 Comments || Top||

#2  There's another Prez, with exactly the same problem, now that I think of it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/05/2014 9:08 Comments || Top||


Europe
Pro-Russia activists attack police station in Odessa
[Washington Post] Divisions deepened in Ukraine's third-largest city Sunday as pro-Russian Death Eaters attacked a cop shoppe in Odessa and freed 67 of their allies, while pro-Ukrainian activists gathered with sticks and clubs and vowed to defend the southern city from the kind of takeovers that have occurred in the eastern part of the country.

The spread of the violence to Odessa has raised the stakes dramatically in the Ukraine crisis, bringing the conflict between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian forces to the country's most important port. The failure of the police to prevent the violence has underlined how quickly Ukraine's security forces are losing control of their country.
Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See also RELATED BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Telegraph.UK] UKRAINE CRISIS: MOB FREES [jailed]SEPARATIST "HEROES" AS ANARCHY GRIPS ODESSA.

and

* SAME > PESHKOV: RUSSIA CANNOT PERSUADE SELF-DEFENCE FORCES TO DISARM.

Pro-Russia Militants angrily provoking + resisting Russia's attempts to get them to disarm + negotiate.

versus

* RUSSIA TODAY > NO RUSSIANS [Ukrainians only]AMONG AMONG SLAVYANSK SELF-DEFENCE FORCES - NYT REPORTERS.

* BUSINESS WEEK > UKRAINE VIOLENCE FLARES ACROSS COUNTRY AS KIEV CONTROL SLIPS.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Telegraph.UK] GERMANY CALLS FOR SECOND GENEVA MEETING OM UKRAINE CRISIS.

Germany = Japan + Philippines = is the best it can do at the moment due to not having any NucWeapons of its own, otherwise Germany would've militarily intervened in the Ukraine agz Russia by now. MERKEL + GERMANY MUST KEEP THEIR FINGERS CROSSED + RELY ON THE US + NATO-EU = INFAMOUS OBAMA'S "RED LINE" PLEDGES???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/05/2014 3:20 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
1st Openly Gay Episcopal Bishop To Divorce Husband
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] The first openly gay Episcopal bishop, who became a symbol for gay rights far beyond the church while deeply dividing the world's Anglicans, plans to divorce his husband.
"Mawwiage is what bwings us togethew today. Mawwiage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam within a dweam. And wove, twue wove, wiww fowwow you fowevah and evah... So tweasuwe youw wove..."
Bishop Gene Robinson announced the end of his marriage to Mark Andrew in an email sent to the Diocese of New Hampshire, where he served for nine years before retiring in 2012.

Robinson would not disclose details about the end of their 25-year relationship but wrote Sunday in The Daily Beast he owed a debt to Andrew "for standing by me through the challenges of the last decade."

"It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples," Robinson wrote. "All of us sincerely intend, when we take our wedding vows, to live up to the ideal of 'til death do us part. But not all of us are able to see this through until death indeed parts us."
Posted by: Fred || 05/05/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  An alienation of affection suit has been filled against a certain oak.
Posted by: Shipman || 05/05/2014 9:57 Comments || Top||

#2  If he was Catholic they wouldn't need a divorce - an annulment would be a slam-dunk.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/05/2014 11:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Welcome to Marriage 360 Gene!
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 05/05/2014 12:59 Comments || Top||

#4  I think Mark had "Satan" tattooed on his private member, and Gene was tired of getting buggered by Satan.
Posted by: Throsh Scourge of the Veal Cutlets8031 || 05/05/2014 20:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Meanwhile, the other one has to divorce his wife. How do they determine which is which? Who does the dishes, or is there a more technical definition?
Posted by: KBK || 05/05/2014 20:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh well. Joinery-themed limerick eaten multiple times by filter. Serves me right -- I have been posting a lot of crap lately.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 05/05/2014 22:50 Comments || Top||


Government
USN creates online code-breaking game in attempt to recruit future cryptologists.
The US Navy has created an online code-breaking game in an attempt to recruit the next generation of cryptologists. The role-playing game is called Project Architeuthis and will be released on Facebook over the coming days.

The game follows the storyline of a US naval cryptologist sneaking aboard an enemy submarine in order to rescue the chief architect of the US weapons programme. Players will decode complex clues sent by the digital cryptologist to discover the location of the submarine and rescue the high profile prisoner.

This is the second time the US Navy has turned to Facebook to try and find recruits through puzzle solving.Previously they posted an alphabet-based game but this was solved within minutes. They are hoping that Project Architeuthis will be harder to complete.

The game has been based on the work Cicada 3301, an anonymous group that has released highly complex problem-solving puzzles onto the Internet, which some have speculated are recruiting tools for groups such as the CIA and MI6.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/05/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Last Starfighter - the excalibur test
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/05/2014 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Disney is in on it to, "Gravity Falls"is NOT just a
Show.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/05/2014 12:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Atlanta
Posted by: Shipman || 05/05/2014 14:07 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2014-05-05
  Rebel infighting in eastern Syria kills 62
Sun 2014-05-04
  Borno: 29 Killed In Another Boko Haram Attacks
Sat 2014-05-03
  India: 23 killed in sectarian attacks
Fri 2014-05-02
  24 Syrians Register to Run in Presidential Vote as Regime Raid on Aleppo Kills 33
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  ISIL executes 7 in Syria including 2 crucifictions
Wed 2014-04-30
  Militants raid Libya assembly to stop vote on PM
Tue 2014-04-29
  Iraq Attacks Kill 57, Including 30 Talabani Supporters, as Security Forces Vote
Mon 2014-04-28
  Egypt sentences 11 Mursi supporters to up to 88 years
Sun 2014-04-27
  One Dead, 13 Hurt in Vienna Building Explosion
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  Syria militants suffers heavy losses across Aleppo
Fri 2014-04-25
  Yemen Qaida Gunmen Seize Hospitals to Treat Wounded
Thu 2014-04-24
  Three Americans gunned down in Kabul hospital attack
Wed 2014-04-23
  Saudi Arabia Sentences 8 To Death For 2003 Riyadh Attack
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  33 killed, dozens injured in terrorist attacks across Iraq
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  30 'Qaida' Suspects Killed in Yemen Drone Strike


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