[The LID] "The wild-child niece of former Veep Joe Biden stole more than $100,000 in a credit card scam -- and quietly cut a plea deal in Manhattan court that spares her any jail time, The Post has learned.
"Using a borrowed credit card, the blonde Caroline Biden set up an unauthorized customer account at Bigelow Pharmacy on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, and racked up the six-figure bill over the course of a year, according to a criminal complaint that does not name the victim card owner.
"As part of a plea deal before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Kevin McGrath, Biden, 29, pleaded guilty to one charge of grand larceny and another of petit larceny and agreed to make restitution of $110,810.04.
"If she pays everything back and keeps her nose clean, she can return to court and enter a substitute plea to a lower, misdemeanor charge of petit larceny and be sentenced to two years probation."
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#2 I'm still waiting for revelation that she's no more language expert than I am.
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g(r)om,
I'm still waiting on proof myself, but I'm actually inclined to believe it. The old Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB) was remarkably good at finding people with language skills, whether they knew they had them or not. Some of the folks I sent for the DLAB had real problems speaking English, but they blew the doors off the DLAB and went on to the school (used to be in CA, not sure where it's at now.).
Mike
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Your electronically monitored water meter knows when you are home
Unless... you own a cat that likes to flush the toilet for jollies while you are out...
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Dang. I used to have an old daisy wheel printer. It printed letter quality. The fonts were limited by what was on the daisy wheel and it was noisy as all get out. But no microdots. Of course, I still have my old typewriter.
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It upsets me for a totally different reason. Those dot's interfer with transparencies I want to make for both photomasks and on 3D projection light fronts from slides.
Adam West, the ardent actor who managed to keep his tongue in cheek while wearing the iconic cowl of the Caped Crusader on the classic 1960s series Batman, has died. He was 88.
West, who was at the pinnacle of pop culture after Batman debuted in January 1966, only to see his career fall victim to typecasting after the ABC show flamed out, died Friday night in Los Angeles after a short battle with leukemia, a family spokesperson said.
West died peacefully surrounded by his family and is survived by his wife Marcelle, six children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
[FOXNEWS] A Florida sheriff’s office posted a controversial message on social media, urging citizens to arm themselves in self-defense.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey posted the video on Facebook Wednesday, two days after a deadly workplace shooting in nearby Orlando claimed the lives of five people.
"Folks, now more than ever is the time for our citizens to be prepared to serve as the first line of defense, not only for them, but for their families," Sheriff Ivey said.
As images of the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting and Pulse nightclub massacre flashed on-screen, Ivey warned residents that attacks have happened locally as well as abroad.
"What’s next is to fully understand that this is war, and you better be prepared to wage war to protect you, your family, and those around you if attacked," he said.
Ivey stressed that attackers rely on people running, hiding, and waiting for help, rather than fighting back.
"What they don’t count on is being attacked themselves, having to become defensive to save their own lives," Ivey argued.
The sheriff said that calling 911 means officers are on their way, but said, "Until they arrive, it’s up to you and those with you to neutralize or eliminate the threat."
Ivey encouraged people to take self-defense classes, and urged those with concealed weapons permits to carry their guns with them at all times.
"No matter who you are or what your position is on guns, there’s no denying the fact that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun or a knife is an armed and well-prepared citizen or law enforcement officer," Ivey said.
The sheriff’s message received a mixed response. Some residents applauded his stance while others criticized it, calling it "fear-mongering" and encouraging vigilantes.
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TUNIS: Tribal clashes on Saturday in southern Tunisia over a land dispute injured 78 people, including one seriously, a regional governor said.
“The two tribes used hunting rifles, stones and blunt objects, requiring police to intervene and use tear gas to disperse them and end the violence,” Sami El Ghabi told AFP.
He said 78 people were hospitalized in Kebili and another in a serious condition was transferred to a facility in Sfax city.
Regional health chief Hedi Ben Slimane told private radio station Mosaique FM that 10 people had suffered buckshot wounds.
Differences over land between the two tribes, dating back all the way back to independence from France in 1956, degenerated into violence on Thursday, El Ghabi said.
[Jpost] British Prime Minister Theresa May's top two aides quit on Saturday after her Conservative Party failed to win a majority in a national election.
Nick Timothy, May's co-chief of staff, said on the ConservativeHome website that he stepped down on Friday, while the BBC reported that Fiona Hill had also quit.
"The reason for the disappointing result was not the absence of support for Theresa May and the Conservatives but an unexpected surge in support for Labour," Timothy wrote.
"I take responsibility for my part in this election campaign, which was the oversight of our policy program. In particular, I regret the decision not to include in the manifesto a ceiling as well as a floor in our proposal to help meet the increasing cost of social care," he added. Trying to outsocialist Labor is mug game.
[MONEY.CNN] Ascena Retail Group (ASNA) -- which owns the Ann Taylor, Dress Barn, Loft, Lane Bryant, Justice, Maurices and Catherines stores -- plans to shutter between 250 and 650 locations over the next two years.
Chief executive David Jaffe made the announcement during a conference call with investors Thursday, and he didn't specify how many store closures will affect each brand. Ascena could not be immediately reached for comment.
Jaffe said 250 locations will definitely close down, and another 400 will close their doors unless the company can negotiate lower rents at those locations.
He said that the move is necessary to help the company traverse the deeply troubled ...meaning it might require more than two 'tuts'. If the other side responds at all it's known as a 'tut for tat' and it's worth 20 diplomatic points.. brick-and-mortar retail market. Jaffe said Ascena is facing a "persistent traffic decline" and expects that to remain a "major headwind" for the company.
Ascena is far from the only company feeling the pressure. Stores that were once staples of American malls are failing rapidly, largely because of increasing competition from digital retailers like Amazon (AMZN, Tech30).
Earlier this week, Hudson's Bay (HBAYF) -- owner of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor -- said it is cutting its workforce by 2,000 jobs.
Macy's (M) said earlier this year that it will close 68 stores and cut 10,000 jobs.
JCPenney (JCP) is shutting down 138 stores by August. Bebe said it planned to shut down all of its stores by the end of May.
GameStop (GME) said in March it will close more than 100 retail locations.
The parent company of Kmart and Sears (SHLD) said in January it will shutter 150 stores.
And without their thriving tenants, malls have been hit hard by the retail woes. A June 2 report from Credit Suisse estimates 20% to 25% of American malls will close within the next five years.
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I see markets, flea markets. I see containers of Buri furniture and nested baskets everywhere. Cinnamon candles and Ol 'Mil.
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Apparently the Fourth Turning applies to retail also.
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I'm not buying shoes online. I have to try them on. I did buy a Coonan and a Super Vel tee shirt online recently...
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Ascena Retail Group (ASNA) -- which owns the Ann Taylor, Dress Barn, Loft, Lane Bryant, Justice, Maurices and Catherines stores -- plans to shutter between 250 and 650 locations over the next two years
Didn't get a hint from the fall of General Motors making basically the same cars under different names? You can only push your product so far, and having redundant management and dealerships/store fronts only compounds the cost of overhead to the entire process. Unlike government, allowing the 'suits' to build little empires eventually starts to hammer the bottom line.
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Shoes are one of the things I buy online. Outside of work, I have been wearing Teva sandals for ever, and you get to choose from the full range online. Whereas retail outlets only have a small selection.
[DAWN] GUJRAT: A woman was killed while her husband was injured in firing by her brothers over the marriage of choice in front of a court in Kharian along GT Road on Friday.
Shaista Noreen, a resident of Asmaila Sharif near Dinga, had contracted marriage with Abdul Malik Gujjar of the same village on her own will in December 2016, offending her family.
Her father, Bashir Gujjar, lodged an abduction case against Abdul Malik on Dec 12, 2016. Shaista and Abdul Malik appeared in the court where they registered a court marriage. The abduction case against Malik was quashed in March 2017.
On Friday, the couple appeared before a Kharian court in another case filed by Shaista’s family. As soon as they left the court compound in their car, Shaista’s brothers Nasir and Asim allegedly intercepted the car and opened firing on the couple, leaving both of them injured. The assailants expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
Shaista succumbed to her injuries after being shifted to the Kharian Civil Hospital; however, Malik’s condition was stated to be out of danger.
Kharian Saddar police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else of honour killing against six people, including two brothers of Shaista, involved in the attack on the report of Abdul Malik.
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Moslem Culture on grand display. Moslem Values to inspire and edify.
Humma humma and all that and a side order of PBUH.
[DAWN] Iqbal Khan, the father of Mashal Khan, has requested the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court (PHC) to transfer Mashal’s murder case from Mardan, citing possible threats from opponents.
In April, a vigilante mob, incited by rumours, had attacked Mashal, accusing him of "publishing blasphemous content online". The mass communication student was first beaten, then shot by the mob. He succumbed to the injuries he received.
Abdul Lateef Afridi, the lawyer for Iqbal Khan, filed the application in PHC Saturday. Iqbal Khan requested the transfer of the case to the Anti-Terrorism Court, Haripur or any other safe place, saying his adversaries might create a law and order situation.
Iqbal had made the same demands in a presser earlier this week, where he also requested the PHC to pay his legal fee and the Supreme Court to provide protection to his daughters, who haven’t been to school since Mashal’s murder.
"Almost 57 accused have been jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and others are hiding. The trial of such a big number of accused with witnesses and supporters of both sides can result in confrontation between the parties and thus a serious law and order situation can be created," his application said, adding that a large number of friends and some religious parties had took to roads demanding the release of the arrested students and others involved.
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[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday issued a charge sheet to Raja Khuram Ali Khan and his spouse, Maheen Zafar, the main accused in the Taiba torture case.
The police had earlier started the paperwork but haven't done much else against former Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife for keeping the minor in illegal confinement, burning her hand, beating her with a ladle, detaining her in a storeroom and threatening her of dire consequences.
In its charge sheet, the IHC details that it will try the accused for having committed six offences.
It details that the accused persons wrongfully confined the minor, Tayabba, in their house; that Maheen Zafar caused injuries -- multiple small wounds on cheek, burn wounds on arms, fingers and thighs -- to minor Taiba.
The charge sheet also states that Maheen Zafar "extended threats of dire consequences to minor Taiba to not disclose her maltreatment to anyone".
Another offense was that Maheen Zafar and ADSJ Raja both "willfully assaulted, ill-treated, neglected, harmed and abandoned and injured minor Taiba, who was under their care".
The last offence involves Raja for "causing disappearance of minor Taiba in order to screen his co-accused Maheen Zafar from the legal consequences".
Signed off by Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... , the charge sheet states in clear words that the accused, who have pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charges, will be tried at the IHC.
The accused's counsel had earlier tried to scale the trial down to district court level, a proposition that was swiftly rejected by the IHC.
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[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday sentenced a man to death for sharing blasphemous content about Islam on social media, a government prosecutor said.
ATC Judge Shabir Ahmed announced the sentence for the 30-year-old accused in Bahawalpur, according to Shafiq Qureshi.
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) had tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... the accused, who belongs to the Shia community, last year in Bahawalpur.
The accused, who hails from Okara, had allegedly posted derogatory content about prominent Sunni religious figures and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) and his wives on Facebook.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against him on behalf of the State at CTD Multan cop shoppe under Section 295-C (use of derogatory remarks, etc., in respect of the Holy Prophet) and Sections 9 and 11w of the Anti-Terrorism Act (which deal with whipping up sectarian hatred) .
The sentence is the harshest among cyber-crime related sentences handed down so far in the country. Pakistain has never executed anyone convicted of blasphemy.
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I wonder why more of our members haven't been targeted?
[IsraelTimes] Agreement between Aseman Airlines and US aerospace giant could be scuppered by Trump if he reimposes sanctions on Tehran.
The deal, announced in April, was signed at a ceremony in Tehran and the first 30 planes are due for delivery between 2022 and 2024.
The White House is in the midst of a 90-day review to decide if it will stick by the 2015 deal between Iran and world powers, in which Tehran agreed curb on its nuclear program in exchange for an easing of sanctions.
Washington must renew sanctions waivers every few months to keep the deal alive, and another set of renewals is due in the coming days.
Even if Trump sticks by the nuclear deal, the Boeing sale must be cleared by the US Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC).
He said Aseman would pay five percent of the contract in cash, with the remainder paid through a financing deal organised by Boeing.
Boeing, which is also building 80 planes for national carrier Iran Air, faces heavy criticism from US politicians who say Iranian airlines have been used to ship weapons and troops to Syria and other conflict zones.
The aerospace giant has therefore emphasized the employment potential of the deals, saying in April that the Aseman contract "creates or sustains approximately 18,000 jobs in the United States."
Iran has been desperate to renew its ageing fleet of planes, but was largely blocked from dealing with major aircraft manufacturers until the 2015 nuclear accord.
The US has maintained its own sanctions, which block almost all trade with Iran, but plane manufacturers were given a specific exemption under the nuclear deal.
OFAC approved the sale of the 80 Boeing as well as 100 Airbus planes to Iran Air. The first few Airbus jets have already arrived in Tehran.
Aseman currently has a fleet of 36 planes -- half of them the 105-seat Dutch Fokker 100s.
Its three Boeing 727-200s are almost as old as the Islamic revolution, having made their first flight in 1980.
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I wonder if negotiations included questions like "Can we remove the seats to make space for cargo?"?
h/t Instapundit
[HotAir] In the past three years, male students accused of sexual misconduct have filed hundreds of lawsuits, charging that they were the victims of both false allegations and school procedures that failed to properly vet the claims.
And while there are no exact figures, in dozens of those cases male students also have sued the women who lodged the original allegations. One out-of-state attorney says he has filed more than 15 defamation complaints nationwide on behalf of male students against their accusers. IMO, college "sexual misconduct" is part of feminazi war against males for white collar jobs
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I see a huge opening here. Establish a "non-denominational monastery" and get accredited. Hire the conservative professors that are being driven out of the current higher-ed cartel. Let men who want an education sans the campus clown show apply. Preferably, this can be done in one of those "entire town for sale" locations where off campus amenities can be encouraged by the town fathers...
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[Indiegogo.com] Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager want you to join their team to help make a new film that exposes the hysteria and lunacy taking place at universities, and how our future depends on stopping it.
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.
[MONEY.CNN] Ascena Retail Group (ASNA) -- which owns the Ann Taylor, Dress Barn, Loft, Lane Bryant, Justice, Maurices and Catherines stores -- plans to shutter between 250 and 650 locations over the next two years.
[DAWN] GUJRAT: A woman was killed while her husband was injured in firing by her brothers over the marriage of choice in front of a court in Kharian along GT Road on Friday.
[DAWN] Iqbal Khan, the father of Mashal Khan, has requested the 
[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday sentenced a man to death for sharing blasphemous content about Islam on social media, a government prosecutor said.
[IsraelTimes] Agreement between Aseman Airlines and US aerospace giant could be scuppered by Trump if he reimposes sanctions on Tehran.
