[METRO.CO.UK] A 16-year-old ’killer clown’ was stabbed by a terrified teenager when he jumped out on him last night.
The clown, who was brandishing a hammer, was attempting to scare a group of friends when he appeared in front of them in Berlin.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the prank backfired when a 14-year-old stabbed the character with a knife.
It was only when he pulled the clown’s mask off that he discovered it was an acquaintance.
The 14-year-old then performed first aid until paramedics arrived. He was later picked up by his parents.
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A parrot landed its owner in hot water after accidentally exposing a husband's affair with the housekeeper - in front of his wife.
The pesky bird began repeating the conversations the man was having with his lover, causing suspicion with his wife .
Realising that the parrot was picking up the flirty comments from inside the home, she put two and two together and exposed their love affair.
The couple live in Kuwait, where adultery is illegal, and so the wife marched to police with the parrot as evidence. Hopefully the parrot had the sense to tell the police that if anything happened to him that it was probably the husband.
Luckily for her spouse, they rejected it on the basis that the bird could have overheard the sweet nothings on the TV or radio. I think hubby owes everyone at the police station a lifetime supply of whatever passes for donuts in Kuwait.
The wife said she has suspected for some time that her husband was cheating on her, according to local newspaper Al Shahed Daily.
Adultery in Kuwait can result in a prison sentence or forced hard labour. Unfortunately for hubby, parrots can live quite a while.
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1. A man always wanted a parrot and one day while walking buy a pet shop he sees one for sale... cheap.
So he goes in and buys it. The man takes it home and the parrot starts to cuss really bad. The man calles the pet store back and the shop keeps says "You get what you pay for".
So the man has this parrot sitting there and it is cussing up a storm. The man starts to yell at it and the parrot starts to cuss at the man and tell the man to leave it alone.
Finally the man in frustration gets up, takes the parrot and throws it into the freezer.
After a few minutes the parrot starts to bang on the door and pleads with the mad to let it out.
So the man feels sorry for the bird and takes it out of the freezer.
The parrot flys onto the man's sholder and apologizes up and down and makes the man promise him that he will never put it back into the freezer again. He tells the man he will not cuss anymore and the man is very suprised indeed.
After placing the parrot back in its cage, the parrot looks at the man and says "By the way, I just gotta ask you. What did the chicken do?"
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2. One day a man went to an auction.
While there, he bid on an exotic parrot. He really wanted this bird, so he got caught up in the bidding. He kept on bidding, but kept getting outbid, so he bid higher and higher and higher.
Finally, after he bid way more than he intended, he won the bid - the fine bird was finally his!
As he was paying for the parrot, he said to the Auctioneer, "I sure hope this parrot can talk. I would hate to have paid this much for it, only to find out that he can't talk!"
"Don't worry", said the Auctioneer, "He can talk. Who do you think kept bidding against you?"
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This is one that Bobby Bowden told to great effect on the chicken circuit, it requires perfect timing.
A lady was walking past a pet store when a parrot said, ''Hey, lady! You're really ugly!" The lady was furious and continued on her way.
On the way home, she passed by the pet store again and the parrot once more said "Hey, lady! You're really ugly!" She was incredibly ticked now, so she went into the store and said that she would sue the store and kill the bird. The store manager apologized profusely and promised he would make sure the parrot didn't say it again.
The next day, she deliberately passed by the store to test the parrot. "Hey, lady!" it said.
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My brother used to have a parrot called Horton that was the most amazing mimic. It would copy everything it heard. Even a choral group that practiced in the house.
One day it flew off, he put up fliers around Berkley where he lived.
LOST GREEN PARROT CALLED HORTON
A couple of days later someone called, saying they had found a parrot, which when asked 'What's your name', replied 'Horton'.
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OK, so author of this tripe states that this woman was denied coverage for cancer treatment but her insurance covers assisted suicide. A couple of questions if I may - you know, the kind an actual journalist might ask. Why was the treatment denied? "Chemotherapy " is often a vague discription was it an "experimental " drug. What Insurance company was involved? Did the author even bother to ask for a comment from said company? Does this company actually cover treatment that intentionally results in suicide? Or are these so-called life ending drugs actually just pain medication that might be taken by the fistful with a tall glass of bourbon? What, exactly in the new CA law allows insurance companies to deny coverage they previously approved? And last one. Who buys into these bullshit propaganda stories anyway?
[Dhaka Tribune] One Stop Crisis Centre Coordinator Bilkis Begum yesterday said that doctors from the paediatric and the gynaecology departments of the hospital would visit the girl this morning, reports our DMCH correspondent.
A representative from the Prime Minister’s Office, hospital Director Brig Gen Mizanur Rahman and doctors from neurosurgery, paediatric surgery, paediatric and gynaecology departments visited the girl after she was brought to the hospital early yesterday.
Bilkis said that they had conducted forensic tests of the girl and were assessing the infection level.
Police tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! the main accused, Saiful Islam, from Dinajpur town around 7pm Monday, six days after the girl was recovered. Saiful’s associate Afzal Hossain has remained absconding. "Saif ul-Islam" = "Shield of Islam"
The girl from Jomirhat of Parbatipur in Dinajpur went missing on Tuesday afternoon and was recovered from a nearby field at death's door the next morning.
Father of the survivor filed a GD with the police Tuesday and filed a case against the duo on Thursday.
Police produced Saiful before a district court yesterday with a seven-day remand plea. The court fixed today for hearing.
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[Iran Press TV] An Azerbaijani court has sentenced a youth activist to 10 years in prison as the government has come under fire over its pervasive crackdown on dissent in the Caucasus country.
On Tuesday, a court in the Azeri capital city of Baku found 21-year-old Giyas Ibrahimov guilty of drug trafficking.
Ibrahimov is a member of NIDA Civic Movement, a youth opposition movement that is highly critical of the Azeri government.
Elchin Sadykhov, a lawyer representing Ibrahimov, said rights advocates dismissed the charges brought against his client as politically motivated.
Ibrahimov was detained in May along with fellow activist Bayram Mammadov for painting anti-government graffiti on a monument in Baku to late Azeri president, Heydar Aliyev, the father of current President Ilham Aliyev. The campaigners were later accused of drug possession.
Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... (HRW), however, accused Azeri authorities of using spurious drug charges to pursue long prison sentences against the pair. The rights group also called on the officials to immediately free the activists and investigate the credible allegations that they were ill-treated in police custody.
"Azerbaijan has a sad history of fabricating drug charges against youth activists to intimidate them and deter others from following suit," said Giorgi Gloria, the South Caucasus director at HRW.
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I hadn't really given this much thought, but it makes sense that you don't want the weak link in the system to be refueling a stealth jet with a flying barn.
To refuel the F-22 and F-35 deep in enemy territory, the Air Force is going to need something a little less obvious on a radar screen.
The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command recently announced the "KC-Z" program intended to develop a next-generation tanker aircraft--one that could fly into dangerous airspace to support strike fighters like the F-22 and F-35--by 2035. Lockheed Martin was the first to answer the call for ideas, and that company recently released design information about a hybrid wing-body aircraft with short take-off and landing capabilities, according to Aviation Week.
Although the new tanker wouldn't have a high level of stealth, the low profile of a blended wing-body airframe would naturally produce a smaller radar cross-section than current tankers. (The KC-10 Extender and KC-135 Stratotanker, and even the KC-36 Pegasus that is currently under development, all have large-body designs similar to commercial airliners.) Lockheed is also considering embedding the engines within the airframe to keep the KC-Z as stealthy as possible to avoid radar detection, surface-to-air missiles, and other anti-aircraft weapons.
Lockheed has already begun wind-tunnel testing on a four percent scale model of a new Hybrid Wing Body (HWB) airlifter designed for maximized aerodynamic efficiency. As Lockheed's aerospace engineers conduct flight tests on the 45-pound HWB model, they could use the data not only to develop the HWB but also to jumpstart a tanker program with a similar blended wing-body design.
The new tanker would have a few necessary design changes compared to the airlifter, though. The airlifter is designed with a "T" tail to accommodate airdrops, for example, while the tanker is more likely to have an "H" tail to keep the aircraft's radar profile low while adding stability and enhanced flight control. The external overwing nacelles on the airlifter that support large, fuel-efficient high-bypass engines might be replaced with either two or four embedded engines on the tanker for improved stealth, as Kenneth Martin, Lockheed Martin's principal engineer for advanced mobility, told Aviation Week.
Martin suggested the KC-Z could include both offensive and defensive countermeasures, such as stealth coating or even lasers defenses. He also says that automating the refueling process would reduce the amount of time needed to top off other aircraft, thereby improving survivability, since the act of refueling leaves aircraft vulnerable to detection by radar or even direct attack. Martin said to Aviation Week:
"If we believe Google and others that we'll all be operating self-driving cars, it seems to us the technology is being matured across the entire [science and technology] community to allow significantly more automation. We're committing very hard to perhaps not totally eliminating the boom operator but recreating the operator's job to be a systems monitor; it could even be a copilot who is basically monitoring the process."
The Air Force's official study on the next-generation tanker is expected to begin in the next six months. It is unclear at this point which aerospace companies other than Lockheed will submit design proposals for the KC-Z program, but with the HWB scale model prepped for flight, a tanker model could be entering Lockheed's wind tunnels sooner rather than later.
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Here's a novel thought: During the A-12 Flying Dorito project days, a modular gas tank was conceptualized for slipping into the 'Weapons Bay," so the bird could act as a LDSS (Lawn Dart Support System.) since there would be no more KA-6Ds and the KS-3A was only a one-off.
Perhaps the Ascot Corps could designate a few B-2s as Lightning tankers......
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SPOD, bad news my friend. The Air Force just accepted their 100th f-35, the USMC is preparing to deploy to Japan and already aboard An LHA, the new landing control system on the F-35c is so accurate it's scraping holes at the 3rd wire and letting even me and you night qualify. I will grant you a Fokker Dr-1 can out turn it as can an Me-109, which do you want to fly?
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been officially charged with criminal contempt-of-court over claims he ignored a judge's order in a racial profiling case. The move by the federal government comes just two weeks before Arpaio stands before the voters of Maricopa County for re-election to his seventh term.
Breitbart Texas Lana Shadwick reported on October 11, that prosecutors for the Department of Justice were preparing charges for his allegedly violations of a court order on racial profiling. At that time, Judge Susan Bolton asked the prosecutors to write a "show cause order" for her to sign.
Arpaio claimed the charges by the Obama Justice Department are politically motivated in an ad last week, Fox News reported on Tuesday evening. Arpaio's lawyer, Mel McDonald told Fox News he believes "that when the final chapter is written, he (Arpaio) will be vindicated."
Arpaio was sued by the ACLU, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and a law firm that Eric H. Holder, Jr. works for. Holder was a partner at the firm for six years prior to his appointment as U.S. Attorney General, and Holder returned to the firm after he left his post as Attorney General. The law firm has been reported as "a key player in the opposition to Arizona's anti-illegal immigration law."
Arpaio has criticized Holder for among other things, how he handled Operation Fast and Furious, and for not being a supporter of peace officers. Holder was held in contempt of Congress in June 2012 over the ATF's Fast and Furious gun-running scandal. There were 255 House members who voted to hold the sitting Attorney General in contempt, including 17 Democrats. Holder and the DOJ would not comply with an October 2011 subpoena to turn over thousands of documents related to Operation Fast and Furious. Breitbart Texas has reported extensively about Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry who was slain in Arizona while on patrol. Two of the guns involved in the ambush were eventually tied to the Fast and Furious operation. After two officers were shot execution-style in New York, Arpaio criticized New York Mayor Bill De Blasio and Attorney General Eric Holder.
Arpaio has long been a critic and nemesis of President Obama. In June 2014, Breitbart TV reported that Arpaio told NewsMax TV that he believes Obama intentionally caused the current crisis of thousands of unaccompanied minors flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border to force "Congress to do something" or "shove some more executive orders down our throat."
AZCentral previously reported, "Arpaio's charge stems from a December 2011 federal court order that barred his agency from enforcing federal immigration law. It is alleged that his deputies continued to do so, however, for at least 18 months thereafter."
Arpaio had previously acknowledged violating District Judge Murray Snow's previous order on the county enforcing federal immigration law but said he did so unintentionally, Fox News stated. The judge disagreed and said he did so to help his re-election chances.
The charge is a misdemeanor that could land the 84-year-old sheriff in jail for up to six months if he is convicted. The misdemeanor would not stop the seven-term sheriff from continuing to serve as Maricopa County’s sheriff. More regime attacks on Law Enforcement officers who enforce the law.
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This is nothing more than Obama and his elites trying to rid America of patriots. At least the Russian are more subtle about forcing folks out. I voted early, and for Joe.
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In their ongoing effort to accommodate "transgender" military personnel, the Pentagon has announced that transgenders will be excused from the Air Force fitness test if they're in the middle of their "transition."
That' right, airmen (air-women? Air-people? Air-humans?) who are "transitioning" from female to male or vice-versa will be exempt from their physical fitness tests if they're in the middle of their hormone treatment. Officially, the order reads they can skip the test "during their period of transition, prior to a gender marker change in the MilPDS," if they have already failed a test. Warning: You cannot unsee the photo that accompanies the article.
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I suppose transition treatments are expensive hence the demand that vets who fought in Iraq and Ganistan repay their signup bonuses, plus interest in order to pay for a more important effort, the destruction of our military by our Muslim president and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Transgenders Now Excluded From Air Force Physical Fitness Test
Given the thoroughly deranged attitude the USAF has always taken towards the PFT, I almost wonder if this isn't a fiendishly clever plan to get rid of the test entirely.
Mike
/PFT monitor for four years
//Deployments were easier
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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.
[METRO.CO.UK] A 16-year-old ’killer clown’ was stabbed by a terrified teenager when he jumped out on him last night.
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been officially charged with criminal contempt-of-court over claims he ignored a judge's order in a racial profiling case. The move by the federal government comes just two weeks before Arpaio stands before the voters of Maricopa County for re-election to his seventh term. 
In their ongoing effort to accommodate "transgender" military personnel, the Pentagon has announced that transgenders will be excused from the Air Force fitness test if they're in the middle of their "transition."
