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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Anti-Muslim threats, attack hoax created by US professor to keep his job
[RT] An assistant professor at Indiana State University has been tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
for allegedly making false claims of anti-Moslem threats against him and reporting a made-up attack. Azhar Hussain has been charged with obstruction of justice and harassment.

Campus police said students and faculty members, both Moslem and non-Moslem, were sent threatening emails in March.

The emails contained anti-Moslem sentiment and threats against the Moslem community at Indiana State University (ISU), naming Hussain as a target.

Hussain reported an attack on March 24 as he was entering his office, in which he claimed to have been thrown to the floor, the Tribune Star reports. At the time, ISU police said people in the area at the time of the reported attack didn’t see anything suspicious.

"Based upon the investigation, it is our belief that Hussain was trying to gain sympathy by becoming a victim of anti-Moslem threats, which he had created himself," ISU's chief of police Joseph Newport said.

"It is extremely unfortunate that this situation caused undue concern on other members of the ISU community," said Newport.

Hussain’s scheme was uncovered thanks to an investigation by Indiana State Police’s Cybercrime and Investigative Technologies Section and ISU’s IT security engineer. The FBI and Vigo County’s Prosecutor’s Office helped with the probe.

The investigation traced the computer from where the emails were sent, which revealed that Hussain had sent them himself.

Hussain, who remains in jail on a $10,000 bond, is facing a felony charge of obstruction of justice and a misdemeanor charge of harassment. He has been suspended from his position at ISU.

WTWO reports police believe Hussain sent the emails after learning he would not be re-appointed to his position next year.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  article in the Terre Haute local paper is here
Posted by: lord garth || 04/23/2017 7:15 Comments || Top||

#2  What's the score on hoax vs. real anti-muzzie attacks?

'bout 300 to 1 now?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/23/2017 8:52 Comments || Top||

#3  What's the score on hoax vs. real
Actually a very worthwhile question, but one never asked by the media or authorities, who would claim the non-hoax are so common as to not be newsworthy.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/23/2017 9:09 Comments || Top||

#4  His victimhood claim went awry for this guy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2017 9:26 Comments || Top||

#5  If it weren't for fake hate crimes, the "official" victims (blacks, muslims, etc), wouldn't have any hate crimes to report.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/23/2017 15:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Next time, he should wear gloves to cover his fingerprints on the keyboard.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 04/23/2017 18:52 Comments || Top||


2nd doctor, wife arrested in genital mutilation case
The local angle and additional details on this story from yesterday.
[DETROITNEWS] Federal agents placed in durance vile
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
a second doctor and his wife Friday in a widening conspiracy involving female genital mutilation and members of a Moslem sect.

Dr. Fakhruddin Attar is accused of letting Dr. Jumana Nagarwala perform mutilations at his Burhani Medical Clinic on Farmington Road. His wife, office manager Farida Attar, also was arrested and is accused of helping Nagarwala perform the mutilations, according to a 14-page complaint unsealed Friday in federal court.

The arrests are the latest development in the nation’s first female genital mutilation case, which is providing insight into a small, insular Moslem community in Metro bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
and an illegal procedure performed on maidens.

The complaint solves a mystery stemming from the case by pinpointing where Nagarwala allegedly mutilated two 7-year-old girls from Minnesota earlier this year. The complaint also describes a conspiracy involving at least Nagarwala, Attar and his wife -- all three are members of the Dawoodi Bohra religious community based locally out of a Farmington Hills mosque.
Are they providing this service only to young girls of their sect, or to anyone interested?
Attar, 52, and his 50-year-old wife were arraigned in federal court Friday afternoon and ordered jugged
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
until a detention hearing Wednesday. Both were dressed in the distinctive attire of Dawoodi Bohra members -- he wore a white cap with gold trim, while his wife wore a long teal dress and head covering with pink fringe.

"Dr. Attar is not aware of any crimes committed at his clinic," defense lawyer Mary Chartier told news hounds outside court. "This is frightening for them and terrifying."
The poor dears. Running headlong into cultural differences that cause one's neighbours to look at one with disgust as the police cart one off to prison can be so upsetting, especially when one has been hiding it from general view for exactly that reason.
She criticized the government for waiting until Friday to arrest the doctor.
"It’s classic gamesmanship by the government, knowing they would spend the weekend in jug," she said. "I’m not surprised the government would pull that stunt."

Gina Balaya, the U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman, said prosecutors were prepared to hold a detention hearing Friday, during which U.S. Magistrate Judge David Grand could have decided whether to release the couple on bond.

"As reflected in open court, it was at the request of the defense that the hearing be set for Wednesday," Balaya told The News.

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


-Land of the Free
US regressing into a developing nation for most people, MIT professor warns
[RT] Growing income inequality is turning the US into a dual economy, with one economy for the rich and another for the poor, according to an MIT professor, who warns that the middle class is vanishing.

In his new book, "The Vanishing Middle Class," Peter Temin, professor emeritus of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, warns that the US is moving backward and becoming more like a developing nation, as the "the vanishing middle class has left behind a dual economy."

"We are still one country, but the stretch of incomes is fraying the unity of the nation," Temin wrote in the introduction of his book, according to a copy obtained by Barnard College.

The economist describes a dual economy, where the gap between the rich and the poor has grown wider.

Temin points to a study from the Pew Research Center, which, he said, "shows that the income share lost by the middle class has gone to people earning more than double the median income."

"In short, the rich got richer. The poor did not disappear, and the middle class shrank sharply," Temin wrote. "We are on our way to become a nation of the rich and the poor with only a few people in the middle."

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Excellent! The left has long wanted to get rid of the middle class. A long awaited victory by them.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 04/23/2017 1:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Simply a natural by-product of tyrannical, third-world leadership. Similar examples are readily found throughout Africa and Latin America. With all due respect to professor Temin, it hardly takes staff tenure at MIT to figure this one out.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 4:31 Comments || Top||

#3  The professor has a point. We have seen and felt the erosion of the middle class for a long time thanks to progressive policies. The middle class was the strength of this country; the people who put Trump in office.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2017 9:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Needs to vastly cut taxes on the middle classes then.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/23/2017 10:50 Comments || Top||

#5  The evident solution to this would be to 'break up' the concentrations of wealth accumulation zones, if you can't raise the wealth index of the lower end. This would require forcible resettlement of persons from high earning areas to areas where they can raise the local average to an equitable median.
The actual cause of this is the legal plundering of assets by the wealthy, but let's don't discuss that.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/23/2017 11:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Do not ever bring up "rent seeking".
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/23/2017 11:09 Comments || Top||

#7  The actual cause of this is the legal plundering of assets by the wealthy, but let's don't discuss that.

Is the banker's bank, the Federal Reserve, going to be examined for its role in the demise of the middle class?

Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2017 11:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Is the banker's bank, the Federal Reserve, going to be examined for its role in the demise of the middle class? Posted by: JohnQC

As evidenced by my paltry savings account interest rate, the banks (at all levels) no longer need the common man.The government borrower has become their favoured customer.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 11:59 Comments || Top||

#9  democrats
Posted by: newc || 04/23/2017 14:35 Comments || Top||

#10  Demons

FIFY
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 04/23/2017 17:27 Comments || Top||

#11  He's not wrong about the problem, but his solution is to raise taxes (of course) and to spend more Federal dollars on education (of course).
Posted by: KBK || 04/23/2017 20:34 Comments || Top||

#12  bush 2 started this one
Posted by: 746 || 04/23/2017 23:21 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Youth sets himself on fire in front of lover in Sobhanbagh
Because a Third World girl is definitely going to want to spend the rest of her life with the burnt hulk he is making himself into.
[Dhaka Tribune] A youth attempted suicide in the Sobhanbagh area of Dhaka on Saturday, by setting himself on fire with kerosene in front of his lover.

The 25-year-old Shumon Kumar Pal, a Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) graduate from Daffodil International University, committed the act in front of the Dhaka Dental College Hostel at Dhanmondi around 6pm. He was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s Burn and Plastic Surgery unit at death's door at 7pm.

Kamrul, who rushed the burn victim to DMCH, said that Shumon was in a relationship with a female student in his own department and they were having relationship issues.

He added that Shumon had asked the female student to meet him in front of the Sobhanbagh Dental College. At one point when they were speaking, Shumon doused himself with the kerosene and set himself alight.

DMCH police outpost Sub-Inspector Md Bacchu Mia confirmed the matter to the Dhaka Tribune.

Fahmida Akhter, duty doctor at the DMCH burn unit, said that Shumon suffered burns on 35% of his body.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Carrying a torch for her.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2017 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Love is a burning thing.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/23/2017 1:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Made an ash of himself.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/23/2017 7:36 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2017 8:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Did he have an H1-B visa because of his Comp. Sci skills. I worked at a couple of places where an H1-B had to return to India to meet his bride to be.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/23/2017 8:30 Comments || Top||

#6  "Yo, Chaudhry! Break out the marshmallows!"

"Setting yourself ablaze" has got to be pretty close to the top of "ill-considered ideas".
Posted by: PBMcL || 04/23/2017 13:57 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
12 Dead Overnight in Caracas as Venezuela Explodes
[PJ] There is a near civil war in Venezuela as tens of thousands of protesters clashed with police and President Nicolas Maduro's armed paramilitary thugs in the streets of Caracas. Most of the 12 deaths reported overnight were the result of looters being electrocuted after breaking into a bakery.

But four protesters were shot dead in the streets by armed pro-government vigilantes thought to be controlled by Maduro, according to AFP.

"It was like a war," said 33-year-old construction worker Carlos Yanez, a resident of the southwestern district of El Valle.

"The police were firing tear gas, armed civilians were shooting guns at buildings. My family and I threw ourselves to the floor. It was horrible," he told AFP.

Eleven people were killed in the neighborhood, according to officials.

Eight of them were reportedly electrocuted while trying to loot a bakery amid the chaos. The rest were shot.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 05:24 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rachael Maddow told me the riots were because Cirgo gave money to President Trump's inauguration. Goebels would be so proud of her.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/23/2017 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Sam Jackson and the fighting Hollwood brigade will embark shortly to join their fellow social justice warriors.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/23/2017 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  12 deaths reported overnight

Slow Saturday night for Chicago
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2017 15:02 Comments || Top||


Economy
Wall Street gears up for busiest earnings week in years
[Reuters] Forget about French elections or the flagging Trump trade.

Corporate America is set to unleash its biggest profit-reporting fest in at least a decade next week, with more than 190 members of the S&P 500 index .SPX delivering quarterly scorecards, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices data.

The lineup accounts for around 40 percent of the benchmark index's value, or more than $7.7 trillion, and includes big names like Google's parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N).

The onslaught could keep U.S. stock investors' focus largely on earnings next week even as the world's attention is likely to be drawn elsewhere.

"That would be our hope," said Joe Zidle, portfolio strategist at Richard Bernstein Advisors in New York.

"A lot of people looked at this market and said it was the result of the Trump bump or the Hillary relief rally," while earnings have been rebounding, he said. "The faster earnings growth is underappreciated by investors."

Many strategists have attributed the 10 percent rally in the S&P 500 .INX since Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election to optimism Trump would boost the domestic economy through tax cuts and an infrastructure spending binge.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 06:02 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
French election 2017: Marine Le Pen leading the race as polls open
[Telegraph] Polls have opened in the first round of France’s most unpredictable and high-stakes presidential election in decades, with far-Right leader Marine Le Pen and the maverick centrist Emmanuel Macron leading the field.

A Le Pen victory could lead to the collapse of the European Union, experts warn, but after the victory of Donald Trump in the US and the Brexit vote in Britain most agree that there is no safe bet in the French race.

Unprecedented security measures were in place to keep voters safe as they cast their ballots, with 50,000 police officers and 7,000 soldiers deployed across the country to try to prevent any new radical Islamist attack.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 05:36 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If a terror attack happened today, while voters are going to the polls, think the press would cover it honestly? I don't
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2017 9:19 Comments || Top||

#2  First the UK. Frexit coming? Germany going to follow once Merkel is gone?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2017 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Everyone is on edge today, so things will be reported, and anything real will get international play. From the article, time stamped at 2:28 p.m.:

Shooting in western France ‘not terror related’, as false alerts see several polling stations evacuated
From David Chazan in Paris:

A man was injured by gunfire in Rouen, western France, as million of French voters cast their ballots in the presidential election, three days after the murder of a policeman in Paris.

Local media reported that the man was injured in the legs and rushed to hospital after “at least two shots” were fired in the city centre. The shooter was reported to be on the run.

Initial reports suggested that the incident was not terror-related but arose from a dispute between two people who knew each other.

Earlier security scares led to the evacuation of several polling stations around the country but all turned out to be false alerts.

Voting was briefly suspended at two polling stations in the eastern town of Besançon after a car was driven very slowly towards one of them, and then abandoned with its engine running.

A rifle was found inside, but Le Parisien newspaper reported that it was not terror-related but a “common law case”.

In Saint-Omer, northern France, two polling stations were evacuated and a security cordon was set up after a suspicious car was spotted, the Voix du Nord newspaper reported. Bomb disposal experts checked the car and gave the all-clear.

In Haguenau, eastern France, a cool box was found with electrical wires protruding from it about 60 metres from a polling station. Water was sprayed on it and it was found to be empty.

Army soldiers patrol past posters showing faces of the candidates for the first-round presidential election near a polling station in Paris

In Paris, a polling station in the 20th arrondissement was briefly closed after a car considered suspicious was parked nearby. It was checked and voting resumed after about 20 minutes.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2017 11:10 Comments || Top||


Demonstrators protesting AfD party clash with Cologne police, arrests reported
[RT] Two officers were maimed and a police car set on fire after thousands of leftist demonstrators gathered to protest a congress of Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Cologne
...a lovely city in Germany. They invented perfume there...
. Several arrests have been reported.

Scuffles between protesters and officers began after singing and chanting demonstrators tried to block some 600 AfD delegates from entering the congress venue.

Footage posted by Ruptly showed riot police storming protesters who were holding a banner reading "No Borders," with one man being escorted away by two officers.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Need a crackdown on leftwing terrorism supporters and harassment of democracy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/23/2017 11:09 Comments || Top||

#2  With penalties for poor acronym development.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2017 15:06 Comments || Top||


Serbia warns of new Balkan war if Albania unites with Kosovo
[RT] A senior Serbian government official warned that another war may break out in the Balkans if Albania tries to establish a union with the breakaway region of Kosovo, urging the West to denounce the plan.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said that the mooted unification between Albania and Kosovo "will remain only wishful thinking," and called on the EU to react. "If I said that all Serbs should live in one state, I would be hanged from a flagpole in Brussels," Vucic added.

Earlier this week, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said an interview with Politico he cannot rule out a union between Albania and the breakaway province of Kosovo ‐ formerly part of Yugoslavia ‐ if the country’s EU membership bid is off the agenda.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
The 23-Year-Old Doper Lost His Memory. Then Came the MRI
[NEWSER] ‐ Since 2012, doctors in Massachusetts have observed a most unusual kind of patient just 14 times--or, 14 times that we know about. It all started with Max Meehan, who was taken to the hospital after his behavior freaked out his family: his memory had suddenly vanished. "The kid was amnestic," neurologist Yuval Zabar says of the then-23-year-old, and what Zabar found when he reviewed an MRI scan of Meehan's brain essentially freaked him out: As BuzzFeed puts it, two bright white orbs where there should have been gray, each "perfectly localized" to both hippocampi, which plays a crucial role in the formation of memories. Zabar had never seen it before, but it wasn't a total anomaly: Doctors in the state have now identified 13 more people who experienced the same white orbs and memory issues, and one of their commonalities, with two exceptions, is opioid use.

In Meehan's case, he shot up heroin and collapsed before waking to a seeming inability to form new memories, leaving him in a state that forced him to drop out of college and made it difficult to hold a job. Memory improvements came slowly over two years. "The only thing that seems to parallel" the condition--which has been named CHIAS, for complete hippocampal ischemic amnestic syndrome--"is fentanyl use," says another Massachusetts neurologist. Among the many varied theories: that there was a toxin in the drugs ingested, or that persistent fentanyl use results in severe respiratory issues that may deprive those parts of the brain of oxygen. For now, state public health officials are pushing the mystery forward by branding CHIAS a "reportable disease," meaning the state will have to be alerted to any new cases. Read the full piece.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 15:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ....or that persistent fentanyl use results in severe respiratory issues

Quite obviously not severe enough to result in final problem resolution. Hopefully he can remember where he put his stash and renew the effort.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 15:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "forced him to drop out of college and made it difficult to hold a job"
Sounds like my oldest son before Army Airborne got a hold of him. He's much better now. Does international finance for Conoco Phillips.
(I'm glad I'm not kidding...)
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/23/2017 18:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Hippocampus, eh?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/23/2017 21:36 Comments || Top||

#4  @#3: Yeah - it's over there. Next to Monkey Island.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/23/2017 22:53 Comments || Top||

#5  "A veggie?" asked Gennie Pilarski,
Declining to finish her parsley.
"Societal varnish!
It's only a garnish."
They rooted her brain somewhat harshly.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 04/23/2017 23:56 Comments || Top||


'Lost city' discovery: Kansas site sheds new light on Native American history
[FOX] Archaeologists have found incredible evidence of a huge Wichita Indian town in Kansas that was once home to 20,000 people.

Donald Blakeslee, a professor of archaeology at Wichita State University, told Fox News that experts harnessed 400-year-old Spanish documents and modern technology to locate the long-lost town of Etzanoa near Arkansas City, Kansas.

"A single community of 20,000 people was not something that any of us expected," he said over the phone. "It’s a completely different view of everything."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 08:06 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Missing is that it was a local kid who was out exploring and found a metal ball about 1/2" diameter - could not trust the local news, they said cannonball. Could be arquebus, could be grapeshot. Anyways, kid knew it was out of the ordinary and went towards people who might know such things. Nice of the professor and the news system to take credit for finding it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/23/2017 14:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Solid ball? Or corroded hollow ball? The de Soto entrada carried lots of ornamental bells for trade.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/23/2017 14:25 Comments || Top||


China’s cargo spacecraft docks with orbital laboratory for 1st time
[RT] China’s Tianzhou-1 space freighter has successfully docked with the Tiangong-2, the country’s orbital lab. The automatic procedure was the first in the nation’s fast-paced space exploration program.

The Tianzhou-1, China’s first robotic cargo spacecraft, was launched on Thursday evening from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China’s Hainan Province, Xinhua news agency reported.

The docking procedure was completed at 12:23pm on Saturday (04:23 GMT), the report cited the Beijing Aerospace Control Center as saying.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the report cited the Beijing Aerospace Control Center as saying

Prob need some independent verification
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2017 15:04 Comments || Top||

#2  There was some argument about who ordered the General Tso's chicken, and whether the egg roll were included in the meal, but other that that, it was smoothly done.
They did, however, promise a 'massive display of force if they were made to use their anti-Domino's missile.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/23/2017 18:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
What part of "if you let them take Milo down you're next" did the right fail to get?
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly was recently fired from Fox News after mounting accusations of sexual harassment and backlash from network sponsors. This follows the resignation of former CEO of Fox News Roger Ailes in July 2016 after allegations from Gretchen Carlson, Andrea Tantros, and Megyn Kelly of sexual harassment. Tantros also filed suit against Bill O’Reilly and politician Scott Brown.

The latest conservative commentator to be accused of sexual misconduct is host Sean Hannity who was accused on the Pat Cambell Show by lawyer, political commentator, and frequent Fox News guest Debbie Schlussel. Debbie claimed on the show that Sean Hannity asked Schlussel to come back to his hotel twice after a book-signing event. Does this constitute sexual misconduct?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/23/2017 03:14 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Schlussel is a nutcase
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2017 8:30 Comments || Top||

#2  A message composed by a friend of mine to his sons:
" Dear Sons, You have studied and worked hard for what you have accomplished. You are true professionals and I pray it will remain so. But you are going to be living in dangerous times and I am not talking about terrorism. The workplace poses the most danger to you and I must, I feel, advise you to be careful in your daily encounters with people, especially women. First, never be alone with a women in the work place. Always try to work around other people so they could be witnesses if you need them. Second, always be respectful to everyone, even if they don't deserve it. Use your acting and survival skills to get you through the day. Third, never trust anyone in the work place. They are co-workings, not organ donors. Trust begets betrayal and one who smiles and dips her head today, will hire a lawyer tomorrow and sue you. Protect and guard your reputation at all cost. Fourth, if off-color jokes are being exchanged in the work place, LEAVE THE ROOM. Even passive participation will be viewed by some scorned soul as active participation. Never add to a joke which contains political, sexual or religious content. Learn to just walk away. Fifth, keep your own counsel. Never, never, never express your opinion which is outside the scope of your employment or duties. It the work place and not a playground. Manage your thoughts and actions carefully and never emote until you get home. Sixth, even if your employer has a party, don't let your guard down. There are those who will seek out relaxed inhibitions and prey upon them and then use your responses and behavior against you in court. Seventh, NEVER touch a woman while at work, other than shaking her hand. Any sign of affection--no matter how slight--may be interpreted as an unwanted overture and one that creates a "hostile working" environment for her. It's a short distance from the work place to the courthouse. Eighth, be polite and civil, but NEVER inviting. Never go to lunch alone with a female co-worker. Others might read something into it that isn't there, or she might do the same. Protect yourself from unwarranted and unfounded interpretations of your behavior. Ninth, keep a daily, contemporaneous journal of all contacts you have with co-workers. It will be admissible evidence in court if, God forbid, you need it. And tenth, I am sorry I have to tell you this,but it's the times we live in or you will live in. Some people will use anything to get ahead and are more than willing to use your back as a stepping stone. You must protect yourself everyday. I wish I could leave you more, but as an attorney, I can only give you sound advice so you will never find yourself in a courtroom or before the Human Resources manager defending actions you are innocent of. I love you and will not be around to witness all your professional accomplishments. But if there's a legacy I can leave you, it is this. Be careful. Those who smile at you are displaying the same teeth they will bite you with. Love, Dad."
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/23/2017 9:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Eleventh, get out of the work place and retire as soon as possible.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/23/2017 10:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Twelfth: Consider the monastic life
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/23/2017 10:40 Comments || Top||

#5  That used to be the advice fathers gave to daughters. Generally speaking, it is wise for both -- every workplace has users and abusers, and some of the worst masquerade as friends.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2017 11:20 Comments || Top||

#6  UK: Oxford U's latest guidance:
Students who avoid making eye contact with their peers could be guilty of racism, according to Oxford University’s latest guidance.

The university’s Equality and Diversity Unit has advised students that “not speaking directly to people” could be deemed a “racial microaggression” which can lead to “mental ill-health”.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/23/2017 11:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Tragedy it is, we must oftentimes have to become old, to become wise.

"But let your communication be, Yea or Nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 11:53 Comments || Top||

#8  "Whatever you said or didn't say, will be held against you."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/23/2017 12:03 Comments || Top||


Woman absolutely loses it when flight is delayed, watch how cops appear scared to ‘handle' her
A big-mouthed woman erupted in a major rant on a flight about to depart San Antonio, Texas, and she seemed to know what she was doing.

After the recent United Airlines debacle where a doctor was forcibly removed from a plane that caused a media firestorm, police seemed afraid to remove the beligerant woman when they arrived. And she took full advantage, even referencing the doctor and said she wouldn’t be as nice as he was.

Video of the ranting passenger was posted to YouTube on Wednesday shows her swearing at crew members, taunting other passengers, and walking up and down the aisles yelling. It is not certain who the woman is, but the video is going viral and for good reason -- it’s wild.

After a few minutes, a couple of San Antonio police officers enter the plane but both approach the situation very gingerly appearing not willing to be caught in the same situation as police in Chicago where they forcibly removed Dr. David Dao seriously injuring him in the process.

"So I guess y’all not going nowhere, still. I was just bulls***ing about them... I was going to be nice," she said before leaping to her feet to walk the aisles and harass crew members. It isn’t known what set the woman off.

The officers repeatedly plead with the woman to no avail. The incident has an unexpected ending, but I’m sure the police were relieved.

As the video rolls, the woman yells out, "They’re trying to say I’m disturbing her, that I’m disturbing the people on the plane, b**** that’s crazy."

The woman continues acknowledging that she is the one keeping the plane on the ground because of her wild, unruly behavior.

"’You might want to get your mother***ing pilot and all your f***ing crew ready because ain’t nobody going nowhere," she says.

And when police arrive, she warns, "Trying to get me off this mother***er and it’s going to go down."

The woman then begins referencing what happened to Dr. Dao, She warned that she woudln’t be as docile as Dao was.

"That dude, that’s a doctor, I ain’t no doctor, I’m gonna beat you’re a**," she screeches.

Next she tries to blame her own behavior on Donald Trump saying, "This is Trump’s fault. Blame it on Trump."

Police try to explain to the woman that she is "causing a disturbance" and an officer tells the woman that he wants her off the plane.

"Listen, causing a disturbance, the captain wants you... the captain said he doesn’t want you on his plane and you need to get off," the officer is heard calmly saying on the video.

The video cuts off as the woman begins to gather up her belongings to leave the plane.

It is thought that the plane is a Delta flight due to the types of magazines seen in the seat pockets in the video but further details are still unknown.
."History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

- Karl Marx
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So the cops are unable to differentiate between a passenger who is sitting there quietly trying to mind his own business and a crazy lady who is being abusive to the crew and other passengers?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/23/2017 15:19 Comments || Top||

#2  The cops knew exactly what was taking place. They have their wives and children to think about. Not much market for terminated police officers facing an avalanche of civil law suites. I can't blame the police. They have been made powerless by liberal judges and courts
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2017 15:24 Comments || Top||

#3  I can explain the difference.
Not Chicago.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/23/2017 18:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Tranquilizer darts and a gunny sack.
Posted by: KBK || 04/23/2017 20:38 Comments || Top||


Government
Rare parchment copy of Declaration of Independence found by Harvard researchers
An extremely rare copy
How rare? This rare.
of the Declaration of Independence has been found in an obscure records office in southern England.

The National Archives in Washington has the only other parchment document like it, say Harvard researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen.

They uncovered the copy at the West Sussex Records Office, in Chichester, England.

The Sussex archive listed the document as "manuscript copy, on parchment, of the Declaration in Congress of the thirteen United States of America," in its online catalog.

"I’d found vague descriptions of other copies of the Declaration that turned out to be 19th-century reproductions of the signed parchment in the National Archives, so that was what I was expecting," Sneff told the Harvard Gazette. "What struck me as significant was that it said manuscript on parchment."

Sneff was sent a disc with photos of the document.

"When I looked at it closely, I started to see details, like names that weren’t in the right order -- John Hancock isn’t listed first, there’s a mark at the top that looks like an erasure, the text has very little punctuation in it -- and it’s in a handwriting I hadn’t seen before," she said. "As those details started adding up, I brought it to Danielle’s attention and we realized this was different from any other copy we had seen."

The researchers said the signers on the Sussex version are not broken down by state, something that distinguishes it from the copy in the National Archives.

The two dated the document to the 1780s and that it originally belonged to a Duke of Richmond known as the "Radical Duke" for his support of Americans during the Revolutionary War.

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I got one in the mail and one from a Great Aunt when I was little for a school project! real parchment also!
Posted by: Crinegum Ulaigum2776 || 04/23/2017 8:08 Comments || Top||



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