[REASON] A Pikesville, Maryland, 13-year-old will be charged with second-degree assault for kissing a 14-year-old girl on a dare. The "assault" happened at Pikesville Middle School on Friday. Police were called to the scene.
According to WBFF:
School officials took a report regarding a 13-year-old boy who kissed a 14-year-old girl during school hours. The unwanted kiss was allegedly the result of a dare made by students.
Police confirm that the boy is now facing a second-degree assault charge as a juvenile. No one was injured during the incident, police say, and disciplinary actions related to suspension or expulsion will be handled by the school system.
No one was injured. Is that really surprising?
It's of course true that every 14-year-old has the right not to be kissed. I'm not saying the boy's transgression should go unpunished. What I'm saying is this: he should not be charged with assault. He's 13. Thirteen-year-olds do stupid stuff. They screw up. And when the consequences of their actions are as minor as this, it's better to reprimand them in a manner that does not involve the criminal justice system.
By all means, give this kid detention. Make him apologize to the girl. Tell his parents to teach him better manners.
But don't charge him with assault. That would be a far greater crime than a stolen kiss.
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Not that long ago, this story could have been the start of a long-term relationship as a humorous tale of how it all got started.
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When my son was in a second grade a girl complained because he kissed her on a cheek*. The principal called the ex, who called me (I was closer) and when I came to pick him up, the principal confronted me in person with a full blown feminazi tirade. When she started to say something about sexual criminals I've heard somebody growl**---give her points for intelligence, she immediately shut up.
Eventually, we moved him to another school.
*We later found out from the girl's mother (who was terribly apologetic) that the girl complained because she watched him kiss another girl (don't know who he takes after---no discretion).
**The last time I've hit a woman was when I fought with a classmate at the age of 10. My father found out and, lets just say "unable to sit for a week" is not just an expression.
A French reporter looking for the source of boats used by refugees to get to Europe from Turkey followed the trail to a shop belonging to the French honorary consul in the port town of Bodrum.
Footage from France 2 showed Francoise Olcay selling the rubber boats and lifejackets from her shop which had a French flag and a 'consular agency of France' sign hanging outside. She has now been suspended.
In the video she admits to taking part in selling the goods, but also implicates local Turkish authorities and says that if she didn't sell them, they would be bought elsewhere.
Bodrum has become a portal to Europe to thousands of refugees. It was along this coastline that three-year-old Aylan Kurdi drowned along with his mother and brother and nine other Syrians when their boat capsized as they headed for Greece.
Feuding and ideological extremism have driven some of the US’s flagship leftwing radio stations to the brink of collapse, according to two veteran broadcasters.
Ian Masters and Sonali Kolhatkar, hosts of the Los Angeles-based KPFK, said its parent network Pacifica Radio, the country’s oldest public radio network, was putting pressure on staff to reduce their hours and pay, leave or work for free, alienating listeners and approaching a point of no return.
“This is the end. They’re running out of road,” Masters told the Guardian. He accused managers and board members of promoting conspiracy theories – including those related to the “truth” about 9/11 and claims about cancer and HIV. “They’ve run this place into the ground.”
Kolhatkar, who hosts a daily show called Uprising, accused KPFK of betraying its progressive heritage and violating a union agreement by replacing paid employees with volunteers. “It’s Walmart-isation. It’s up to listeners to save this network from ruin.” More at the link
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It’s Walmart-isation
That's up there with calling conservatives Nazis. No real context other than a pejorative, as the Nazis were the Leftest National Socialist Workers Party and had nothing to do with conservatism. Likewise, regardless of the hate propaganda of the union lefties as at Pacifica (or work for free), Walmart pays its employees for their work, has provided more work to unskilled workers than all the social handout programs of the left, and has provided access via low price to materials and medicines that otherwise would not be accessible to lower income families. For the Left, all they have to sell is hate.
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These guys were Trotskites back in my Berkeley days in the sixties. The real hippie radio station was KTAO in Los Gatos, sometimes a bunch of guys would come over with a bunch of beer and sit around and sing foc's'le songs and sea shanties. With gusto.
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SteveS, zero, the radio is inside all of us man. It's like listen and the vibes will, like yes. The squareville minions fear the inner radio, worrying they may have a Franki Vali day at the Annual Meeting and like mess up the give outs in front of the CEO d00d. But guess what man, the CEO likely got Lesley Gore running at volume 11 in his hed. So man the answer is 11 give or take.
[Iran Press TV] What if the sea level rises to 50 or 60 meters from its current level? It sure envelopes most of the major cities, resting at or near the current sea level, where hundreds of millions of people reside. This tragic future may sound pretty far-fetched, but the way we humans are accelerating the global warming, by burning fossil fuels among other things, would melt the world glaciers, which could make this future not too distant in environmental terms.
A recent study conducted by an international team suggests that if humans burn the currently attainable fossil fuel resources of the Earth, it would be enough to thaw out almost all assemblages of ice of Antarctica, leading to a 58-meter (190-foot) rise in sea level.
The findings of the study published in the latest issue of Science Advances journal on Friday say that combustion of the remaining fossil fuels would emit some 10,000 gigatones of carbon into the atmosphere. The resultant global warming, then, makes the Antarctic almost ice-free with an average contribution to sea-level rise exceeding 3 meters per century during the first millennium.
"Our findings show that if we do not want to melt Antarctica, we can't keep taking fossil fuel carbon out of the ground and just dumping it into the atmosphere as CO2 like we've been doing," said Ken Caldeira, a renowned professor of marine biogeochemistry and chemical oceanography and one of the three authors of the study.
"Most previous studies of Antarctic have focused on loss of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Our study demonstrates that burning coal, oil, and gas also risks loss of the much larger East Antarctic Ice Sheet," he added.
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Remember when we were going to run out of oil in the 1980s, then the 2000s, now ??? And why is the international tram not taking into account natural CO2 absorbing mechanisms, like plant growth and ocean absorption? Draw a straight line at a large angle from a point will make any prediction look terrifying without being in the slightest bit realistic.
Even the NPR story that reported this the other day included other scientists pooh-poohing the claim.
[BREITBART] A thin blue line of police supporters stretched for over a mile along a Texas highway on Saturday as over 8,000 Texans took to the streets. The marchers gathered in the #PoliceLivesMatter parade in memory of murdered Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth and in support of all police.
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Had good weather for it. Temps dropped about 15 degrees, clear skies.
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Pick your favorite in each category and then click vote. All entries follow the format, America's Navy: ___________________." This is a joke, right?
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AAArrhh !! Any port in a storm., mateysh
Then we set sail for the Canaries
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We laid around the Bunks
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[AA.TR] A Burundian army front man on Saturday clarified the corpse count from a Friday rocket attack on the country's army chief-of-staff from which the latter escaped unharmed, saying three soldiers, two attackers and a civilian had been killed in the incident.
President Pierre Nkurunziza, meanwhile, has given police seven days to arrest those behind the liquidation bid.
"The head of state gave police seven days to identify the perpetrators, be they inside or outside the country," deputy presidential front man Louis Kamwenubusa said Saturday.
Speaking at a presser held the same day, army front man Gaspard Baratuza said that those behind the liquidation attempt sought "to destroy the cohesion of the national defense forces, [which are] the result of successful integration since 2005".
Burundi's current army was drawn up from former rebel fighters after the 2005 Arusha peace accords ended a years-long civil war that left more than 300,000 people dead.
Army Chief-of-Staff Gen. Prime Niyongabo escaped Friday's attack, which took place at 7 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) as he was on his way to his office, Godefroid Bizimana, deputy director-general of the Burundian police, told Anadolu Agency.
Following the incident, the authorities blocked traffic on the road linking capital Bujumbura to Tanzania via Makamba and Rumonge in the country's south.
Since a controversial presidential poll in July, Burundi has witnessed a spate of violent attacks -- on both government officials and opposition figures -- sparking fears of a wider political conflict.
Only one week after President Nkurunziza won a third term in office, Gen. Adolphe Nshimirimana -- the country's powerful spy chief and a Nkurunziza ally -- was killed in the capital.
And in mid-August, Col. Jean Bikomagu, a former army chief-of-staff, was killed in his home by unidentified attackers.
According to local NGOs, at least 150 people -- mostly opposition politicians but also Nkurunziza supporters -- have been killed amid political turbulence that began in April when Nkurunziza announced plans to run for a third presidential term.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] They're gonna have an independence vote every two years until they get independence. Then they're gonna keep having a vote every two years in case they want to go back.
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They are lucky they lost the last independence vote. Price of oil fell like a rock. Nothing to pay for a socialist utopia. Now they want the same thing with no money. Frog in a box mental.
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[The Telegraph] Latest from Germany as officials say they do not know how southern German city can cope with more arrivals, as they consider opening up its Olympic stadium as a shelter.
Germany has become the destination of choice for migrants, particularly Syrians, after Chancellor Angela Merkel relaxed asylum rules for citizens of the war-torn country.
But with 450,000 migrants arriving since the beginning of the year, infrastructure in Germany is being stretched to the limit.
By reinstating controls, Berlin is seeking to buy time to cope with the influx. The decision was made in a telephone conversation between Angela Merkel and her Austrian counterpart Werner Faymann, when the two leaders spoke about a "gradual return" to regular border controls.
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The hypocrisy and moral preening coming from the EU and Germany in particular are truly mind boggling.
Only yesterday they were screaming about Hungary not talking enough jihadis refugees. And there screaming that the Eastern European countries, fresh off their freedom from Soviet Slavery, are not pulling their load.
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...I am starting to suspect that the EU actually has no idea how many 'refugees' are actually trying to get in. And they don't have the stones to try and stop them....
Mike
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Not for nothing, but that very train station in Munich will be handling massive crowds the week after next as Octoberfest kicks off. I believe they push 3 Million folks through Munich over the 2 week run. I can see why the mayor of Munich might need a rapid response to the campground he is hosting over at the train station.
The father of drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi was working with smugglers and driving the flimsy boat that capsized trying to reach Greece, other passengers on board said, in an account that disputes the version he gave last week.
Ahmed Hadi Jawwad and his wife, Iraqis who lost their 11-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son in the crossing, told Reuters that Abdullah Kurdi panicked and accelerated when a wave hit the boat, raising questions about his claim that somebody else was driving the boat.
A third passenger confirmed their version of events, which Rooters could not independently verify.
"The story that (Aylan's father) told is untrue. I don't know what made him lie, maybe fear," Jawwad said in Baghdad at his in-laws' house on Friday. "He was the driver from the very beginning until the boat sank."
He said Kurdi swam to them and begged them to cover up his true role in the incident. His wife confirmed the details.
Jawwad said his point of contact with the smugglers was called Abu Hussein. "Abu Hussein told me that he (Kurdi) was the one who organized this trip," he said.
Rooters tried several times to speak to Kurdi by telephone from the Syrian city of Kobane but was unable to reach him. Abu Hussein also could not be reached.
However, Kurdi told Britain's MailOnline that the accusations were untrue.
"I thought about driving the boat but I didn't do it. That is all lies," he said.
"This is not true. If I was a people smuggler, why would I put my family in the same boat as the other people? I paid the same amount to the people smugglers," he told the newspaper.
In comments to Kurdish news outlet Rudaw this week, Kurdi blamed a Turkish smuggler but did not name him.
Amir Haider, 22, another Iraqi who said he was on the same boat, confirmed Jawwad's account and identified Kurdi as the driver. He told Rooters by telephone from Istanbul that he initially thought Kurdi was Turkish because he was not speaking, but later heard him talking to his wife in Syrian Arabic.
A photo of Aylan Kurdi's body in the surf off a popular Turkish holiday resort prompted sympathy and outrage at the perceived inaction of developed nations in helping thousands of refugees using dangerous sea-routes to reach Europe, many of whom have fled Syria's four-year civil war.
[DAWN] At least 104 people died when a cooking gas cylinder went kaboom! in a packed restaurant in India's central Madhya Pradesh state on Saturday morning, police said, with the blast shattering nearby buildings.
The corpse count rose rapidly from an initial count of 20 after rescuers recovered dozens more bodies from the debris of the destroyed restaurant and neighbouring structures in the town of Petlawad in Jhabua district.
"There are 104 confirmed deaths at the moment. Eighty-two post-mortems have been carried out and 22 are still pending," M. L. Gond, an inspector in charge of Jhabua's police control room, told AFP by phone.
"My information is that 60 people are injured, but the number could be higher," he said.
Arun Kumar Sharma, chief medical officer of Jhabua district, told AFP by phone from the local hospital that about 100 people were maimed in the blast, 20 of them seriously.
The blast occurred at around 8:30 am local time at the restaurant where many office workers and schoolchildren were having breakfast, senior district police official Seema Alava said.
Authorities suspect the intensity of the kaboom may have been compounded by detonators and gelatin sticks, an kaboom used in mining, being stored either in the restaurant building or the neighbouring one.
"It looks like someone had stored those explosives, the ones used in mining, in one of the buildings. But only further investigation will reveal the exact details," Alava told AFP from the site.
She added that the blast knocked down a neighbouring building and damaged several others.
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Jerusalem (CNN)--Arab youths clashed with police at the site of the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem early Sunday, according to an Israeli police statement.
Police received intelligence that masked demonstrators were gathering at the mosque. Those inside set up barriers to hinder police from entering then threw rocks and fireworks at them, Israeli police said.
Police quickly removed the barriers and closed up demonstrators inside the mosque.
The clashes occurred ahead of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, which begins Sunday evening and goes through Tuesday evening. Al-Aqsa, one of the holiest sites in Islam, is located at the Temple Mount, which is also the holiest site in Judaism.
[IsraelTimes] Environment Ministry reports dramatic rise in air quality after worst duster in the Jewish state’s history
The Times of Israel is, of course, Israel-centric. The dust storm affected the entire region, and no doubt contributed to a reduction in excitements over the past week.
Lulz! Fake but accurate
Iconic CBS news anchor Dan Rather on Saturday praised the Robert Redford-starring Rathergate movie Truth for its accuracy and performances ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. "accuracy"
"Naturally I was pleased, and pleasantly surprised. This film is very accurate. A film called Truth should be accurate," Rather told the Hollywood Reporter during a pre-screening party. James Vanderbilt's movie centers on Rather's 2006 exit from CBS after a 60 Minutes fake investigation two years earlier into U.S. President George W. Bush's alleged draft-dodging during the Vietnam war.
Rather praised the performances of Redford as the famed CBS newsman and Cate Blanchett as his CBS 60 Minutes email producer Mary Mapes. "The acting is superior. I think it's an emotional film. Of course people will say I found it emotional because it's about me. But I say that as objectively as I can," he said. "because I'm a partisan liar"
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First three words of the title sound pretty good.
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we should have a pool going for the Box Office cumulative before it's headed to streaming:
$10,000?
"Valley of Elah" - level suckitude?
"Rendition"?
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Another attempt at rewriting history.
For the millennial crowd that gets all of their news from each other, movies, and odd ball websites, this may perpetuate the myth that George was AWOL.
Funny, that the truth is out there and Rather was on the wrong side of it...did they ever interview the mysterious person that gave the records to the person who gave them to Mapes.
I don't think I'll watch anymore Redford movies. Nor will I watch Blanchett anymore.
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They left out two words from the title... As in 'Ministry Of Truth'!
[PJ Media] Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has canceled plans to address the California Republican Party convention in Anaheim, Calif., next weekend, the Los Angeles Times is reporting.
Walker had been scheduled to deliver the keynote at the GOP gathering next Saturday but abruptly withdrew, according to the paper. Sadly, a campaign withdrawal announcement may be coming soon.
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Too bad, too. In my humble opinion, presidential candidates should serve as governors first, to show that they have actual experience running a government.
If I could make the rules, candidates would also have to be veterans, but that ship sailed a long time ago.
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[LA Times] As China and Russia boost their military presence in the resource-rich far north, U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to study potential threats in the Arctic for the first time since the Cold War, a sign of the region's growing strategic importance..
Over the last 14 months, most of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies have assigned analysts to work full time on the Arctic. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently convened a "strategy board" to bring the analysts together to share their findings.
In addition to relying on U.S. spy satellites orbiting overhead and Navy sensors deep in the frigid waters, the analysts process raw intelligence from a recently overhauled Canadian listening post near the North Pole and a Norwegian surveillance ship called the Marjata, which is now being upgraded at a U.S. Navy shipyard in southern Virginia.
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.
[REASON] A Pikesville, Maryland, 13-year-old will be charged with second-degree assault for kissing a 14-year-old girl on a dare. The "assault" happened at Pikesville Middle School on Friday. Police were called to the scene.
[Iran Press TV] What if the sea level rises to 50 or 60 meters from its current level? It sure envelopes most of the major cities, resting at or near the current sea level, where hundreds of millions of people reside. This tragic future may sound pretty far-fetched, but the way we humans are accelerating the global warming, by burning fossil fuels among other things, would melt the world glaciers, which could make this future not too distant in environmental terms.
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