[Guardian] A Thai company that runs snake shows has paid $3,200 in damages to a Chinese tourist after she was attacked by one of their pythons when she tried to kiss it.
A video clip posted online shows two men during a show calmly holding the python. A long-haired woman wearing a backpack leans over to kiss it.
The python launches at the woman, grabbing onto her nose and holding tight while she tries to pry it away. Members of the crowd scream.
The local Phuket News named the woman as 29-year-old Jin Jing and said she had been taken to Phuket international hospital where she received treatment. Thai media published a photo they said was of the woman with several stitches in her nose.
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Pythons doing what they do. If something looks and smells like food, they react the same way most every time.
Our family used to have a couple in our earlier years. Sometimes they believed that our fingers perhaps were a mouse or some other tasty morsel, with the expected results.
Never was dumb enough to try and kiss one though. They can 'hang on' to anything they catch pretty well.
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Awwww #4, I wanted to say it - guess I'll have to go wid the corollary "DON'T MARRY/DATE THE SNAKES" to be the tourist warning sign.
[USATODAY] Sean Penn stunned Hollywood again, and not for his acting.
Penn, the Oscar-winning movie star, political and humanitarian activist, rebel with many causes, writer and globetrotter, says he took a secret meeting late last year in a Mexican jungle with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the runaway kingpin of the Sinaloa narco mob and two-time escapee from Mexican jails.
Penn says this in an 11,000-word article, headlined "El Chapo Speaks," published in Rolling Stone late Saturday, complete with a picture of Penn and Guzmán (known as Shorty in Spanish) shaking hands, and a video of the paunchy-and-short drug lord answering questions about his sprawling drug business.
Penn says their meeting started with a warm hug. When it ended hours later, Penn had a scoop and the possible script for a different movie: Call it Sean and Shorty.
It's an episode bound to add to the mystique of Sean Penn-the-iconoclast, says PR expert Howard Bragman, founder of 15 Minutes PR. Perhaps by coincidence, the news broke on the eve of the Golden Globes.
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A man of the world. Give him credit for going there and doing that, even if he's still a commie asshole.
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Probably unrelated, but 'Zero Dark Thirty' grossed $90 million at the box office and was nominated for five academy awards.
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...On the other hand, you have got to be wondering if some very, very bad hombres aren't wondering if Mr Penn led the Authorities to their meal ticket.
Popcorn, anyone?
Mike
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No worries, Mike. In spite of all his rhetoric about gun control, Penn is packing.
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Brave, stupid? Gotta go with stupid. Maybe Penn can interview ISIL leadership next.
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If Penn led the federales to El Chapo, he might get a dirt nap from Sinaloa. If he did not and met with EC and the federales did not know about it, he may have issues with the federales, so he better stay from Mexico for a generation or two.
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[Daily Caller] A veterans advocacy group that has sued the State Department over its failure to turn over Hillary Clinton's emails is asking Attorney General Loretta Lynch to take action against the former secretary of state for ordering one of her top advisers to strip classification markers off of a set of talking points and send them through unencrypted channels.
In the letter, Veterans for a Strong America (VSA) executive director Joel Arends points to federal statute 18 USC 793, which he asserts Clinton violated when, in a June 17, 2011 email, she ordered adviser Jake Sullivan to strip a document containing talking points of its "identifying heading and send nonsecure" instead of sending via secure fax. (RELATED: Bombshell Emails Shows Hillary Instructed Adviser To Strip Markings From Sensitive Talking Points)
As Arends notes, 18 USC 793 states that it is a federal crime punishable by fine and up to 10 years in prison to "cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted...to any person not entitled to receive [classified information], or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it."
Gross negligence is also punishable under the statute. A person having knowledge that classified material was illegally removed from its "proper place of custody" and "fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction" has violated that portion of the law.
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Lynch hasn't tipped her hand. I wonder if the judgement of history is weighing on her.
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The judgement of history? I have some doubt Sven. These people hunt in packs, unhindered by the moral law.
"Two things fill the mind with new and increasing admiration and awe. The more often we reflect on them: The Starry heavens above me and the 'moral law' within me.
Immanual Kant
Critique of Practical Reason (1778)
I find no inspiration in the likes of Lynch or in those who have placed her in a position of power and authority. We know why she was placed there. She is a tool of those who would take the law unto themselves, the Clintons, Obama, and the rest. Disgust yes, inspiration no.
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...unless there were foreign sourced classified material. Then the offended country could ask for extradition for prosecution. Presidential pardons are for domestic violations.
[DAWN] An Indian teenager held captive for two weeks by a gang of men said in an interview broadcast Sunday that she was repeatedly raped before being shot twice and dumped in a well on the outskirts of New Delhi.
The victim, reportedly aged 14, was allegedly kidnapped on November 22 while walking to a market in western Delhi, in the latest case of sexual violence in the Indian capital.
Speaking of her ordeal to the NDTV news network, the teenager said she was held in a "dark room" where three attackers took turns to rape her over a two-week period.
"After a fortnight of repeated abuse, one night they said they will let me go. They put me in the car and drove to a store to buy alcohol and then parked the car near a well," the girl said in the interview.
"They told me they will let me go but as I took a few steps back, they fired two shots." The first bullet hit my bone. I didn't feel a thing, my body just went numb. But after the second one I fainted.
She woke shivering and wet inside the well where she said she had been left for dead.
"When I regained consciousness... I could see a bullet in my chest, so I just yanked it out," she said, showing a wound on her chest.
Nearby villagers pulled her out on December 6 after hearing her screams, before she was rushed to hospital.
Several men have been locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! over the attack, according to local media reports.
"I want the rapists to be hanged. No one should go through what I did," she said.
The fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in Delhi in 2012 shone a global spotlight on frightening levels of violence against women.
It also led to major reform of India's rape laws including speeding up of trials and increasing penalties for offenders, but high numbers of assaults persist.
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[Investors.com] Las Vegas - People love to pamper their pets with toys, treats - and, now, tech.
Exhibitors at the annual CES trade show this week showed off a bunch of tech products for Fido and Fluffy, ranging from pet game consoles to video conferencing systems.
Anser Innovation of Burnsville, Minn., showed off PetChatz, a two-way video conferencing system for dogs and cats and their owners. PetChatz is described as a "greet and treat" videophone that allows pet owners to interact with their furry loved ones remotely over the Internet.
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Why is is that weird? You got equinnaphobia or something? Just because an animal doesn't have opposable thumbs is no reason to write off their social networking skills.
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.
[Guardian] A Thai company that runs snake shows has paid $3,200 in damages to a Chinese tourist after she was attacked by one of their pythons when she tried to kiss it.
[Daily Caller] A veterans advocacy group that has sued the State Department over its failure to turn over Hillary Clinton's emails is asking Attorney General Loretta Lynch to take action against the former secretary of state for ordering one of her top advisers to strip classification markers off of a set of talking points and send them through unencrypted channels.
