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Twins or a San Francisco "couple" unaware of their city's unusual tolerance for exhibitionism?
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Actually a gay married couple from San Diego's Hillcrest (gay) neighborhood. We're sooo proud
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Our family nearly stumble over a hetero couple going at it on a beach in Florida one time--it's not right but it happens. I suppose such things are against the law here; other places have other laws and customs.
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Take them to a fish farm or spread them on a rice paddy. Thailand has a war going on with the Muzzies from Malaysia, and are real hostile about what they consider attacks, on their religion.
This is in addition to Fred's post of 150 ESPN'ers getting the holiday axe, below. I think they're trotting this stuff out in dribs & drabs in an effort to contain the damage / bad P.R.
[AwfulAnnouncing] Big changes are coming to ESPN’s SportsCenter. Executive vice-president (production, executive editor) Norby Williamson took over responsibility for that franchise back in September, and soon afterwards, multiple reports from October and early November indicated ESPN was planning large layoffs that could impact SC, with Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch writing that over 100 staffers would be laid off and "The SportsCenter franchise is expected to be hit hard‐including on-air people." The layoffs that occurred Wednesday affected around 150 staffers, but didn’t hit on-air talent after all.
But it looks like ESPN is still planning to lower its numbers of SportsCenter anchors, and they’re certainly going to be cutting back on the numbers of editions of SportsCenter they air, ending their evening ESPNews editions as of Thursday. Williamson detailed that in a memo posted to the company’s own ESPN Front Row site Wednesday:
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Raj, you forgot to designate what section on Page 3 this was to go to, which is why it ended up at the bottom of the page until I fixed it just now.
[FOXSPORTS] ESPN is eliminating 150 production and technical employees as the sports broadcasting giant continues to shift its focus to a more digital future.
The company says the layoffs, which were announced Wednesday morning in a memo to employees, don’t include on-air talent and will have a minimal impact on the network’s signature SportsCenter news program.
"The majority of the jobs eliminated are in studio production, digital content, and technology and they generally reflect decisions to do less in certain instances and re-direct resources," ESPN president John Skipper wrote in memo.
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"Re-direct resources." Events now covered by ESPN will be done by live streaming from somebodies cell phone. selfie'ss an added bonus.
Recently my son and I went out for his birthday. The sports bar we went had freakin' Curling on the boob tube.
[FoxNews] Cliven Bundy, the 71-year-old rancher who sparked a national debate over states’ rights, refused a federal judge’s offer to be released from jail during his ongoing trial on Wednesday.
Bundy, who engaged in an armed standoff with government agents over a cattle round-up in 2014, turned down the judge’s option of house arrest while others involved in the standoff are still jailed awaiting trial.
A federal grand jury in Nevada indicted Cliven and four others on 16 charges related to the armed standoff near his ranch over unpaid grazing fees last year.
U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro, meantime, said Ammon Bundy and co-defendant Ryan Payne can be freed Thursday to home detention.
The judge also said another Bundy son, Ryan, can now split time between home and a halfway house while serving as his own attorney in the case.
The decision involving the four defendants came amid questions about whether federal prosecutors in Las Vegas have turned over complete evidence records to defense teams.
Bret Whipple, Cliven Bundy's attorney, told Fox News that a motion to dismiss the case entirely on Wednesday morning was denied. The court then unilaterally had a detention hearing regarding custody of the defendants.
It was subsequently granted that Cliven Bundy, Ammon Bundy and Ryan Payne be released from detention for the duration of the trial.
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Bundy would appear to be a believer in the Sovereign Citizens movement. I have read about them having run-ins in Tennessee. Seems like they make a target of themselves and choose some hard battles. Public lands are not really public?
[PRESSTV] A Zim-bob-wean pastor on Wednesday was acquitted of subversion after leading large anti-government protests last year, and he appealed to the country's new leadership to drop other prosecutions of people who demonstrated against former President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... Evan Mawarire, who launched the #ThisFlag protest campaign on social media, was found not guilty by High Court judge Priscilla Chigumba after state prosecutors failed to prove their case.
The ruling came as Zim-bob-weans wait to see whether new President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a former deputy of Mugabe, follows through on pledges of democracy after years of violations of basic freedoms.
There are still some Zim-bob-weans "in prison for political reasons, in terms of having stood up against the regime" of Mugabe, Mawarire said outside the courthouse in downtown Harare, the capital.
"Many are still appearing in court over the next few weeks and I want to urge this new government and administration to drop those charges and let those people go, because they did not commit any crime at all."
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Political prisoners get released at these times, you know?
[PRESSTV] Sources in Venezuela have indicated that Rafael Ramirez, the country’s representative to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... in New York, has been removed from his job.
Four sources with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday that Ramirez, once known as Venezuela’s oil czar and a former powerful politician, was dismissed by the government of President Nicolas Maduro.
"He was fired last night," said a source who asked to remain anonymous. A Separate source in Venezuela’s office at UN headquarters said Ramirez had yet to be notified of his removal and was normally working at the UN on Wednesday.
Two other sources said Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza travelled to New York this week, with one of them saying Ramirez had tried to fight back his way to office but was simply unable.
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By Chris Covert
Two attacks took place in northern Donetsk and Lugansk, one of them after the Ukrainian takeover of the villages of Gladosovo and Travnevoe on the night of November 21st to 22nd, which was a major gunfight and the largest in recent memory.
Going by rebel accounts in the Russian sponsored Russkaya Vesna and from other Ukrainian news reports, rebel commanders decided to act on information about a new offensive Ukraine had planned. They sent a tactical team deep into Lugansk to intercept a Ukrainian force which was heading to Gladosovo and other gray areas that neither side was occupying at the time.
The encounter was an ambush of a company size element, costing the Ukrainians five dead and more than 10 wounded.
Information carelessly leaked on the Ukrainian ministry of defense website showed that the Ukrainian general staff intended to send a composite rifle company into the area consisting of elements of the Ukrainian 54th Motorized Rifle Brigade, units from the Ukrainian volunteer unit, the 24th "Aydar" Battalion and an artillery unit from the Georgian 128th Separate Mountain Infantry Brigade.
According to a Live Journal post, Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin noted that the 128th Brigade had participated in the battles south of Gorlovka at Yasinovataya in March, 2016. That attack cut off the only hard surface road between Donetsk city and Gorlovka. Gorlovka at the time was suffering daily nocturnal artillery attacks from the Ukrainians.
The second engagement, which Ukrainian national officials claim was an unauthorized military mission, took place in Lugansk, along a contested road commonly known as the Bahkmuta, a colloquial name for highway P66.
Russian writer Anton Orlovsky detailed the fight at Frunze:
The advance party, moving under the cover of night and snowy weather on the night of November 23rd, ran into a minefield that killed three and wounded five others. The Ukrainian site commander called for mortar and heavy machine gun fire to cover their retreat.
The only prisoner, wounded and left behind, was captured by the rebels. Jr. Sergeant Roman Furstev told the rebels that the commander of 3rd Company, Ukrainian 58th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, identified as Senior Lieutenant Danilko had been convinced that the rebel position at Frunze was occupied by only two pickets, and no heavy weapons, and that taking the position would be "easy."
Yuri Biryukov, adviser to Ukrainian president Piotr Poroshenko, was quoted as saying that Sr. Lt. Danilko had read about the prior day's operation north of Gorlovka, and wanted to seize some glory for himself.
The report, which appeared in Russkaya Vesna indicated that the size of the attacking force was seven to 10 effectives. The report also indicated that the brigade's 3rd Company was staffed mainly with former members of the notorious Ukrainian volunteer unit, the "Donbass" Battalion.
Sgt. Furstev told the rebels that he was in change of a detachment of heavy and medium machine guns with orders that once the position was captured, his detachment would cover the Ukrainian further advance into rebel territory with machine gun fire.
According to a story which appeared in the Ukrainian versti-Ukr.com, one of the leaders of the probe died in the minefield. It is unclear in reports if the dead was Sr. Lt. Danilko.
Russian military correspondent for Komsomol Pravda, Aleksandr Kots wrote that rebel commanders consider the new situation similar to Debaltsevo two years ago. Ukrainian artillery had increased the intensity of its fire against rebel positions in Golrovka. Rebel commanders consider the position the Ukrainians had made for themselves similar to Debaltsevo because then, as now, the only solution for the rebels to reduce the amount of artillery fire on their positions was to attack and eliminate the Ukrainian positions.
Kots' report served as a warning about the actions rebels had taken in the past. The villages of Gladosovo and Travnevoe, said rebel military officials, are part of a cauldron similar to the cauldron the rebels reduced in Debaltsevo. Kots also said that the position the Ukrainians placed themselves in was similar to Shirokino, the southern Donetsk village fought over until the village itself became tactically worthless by virtue of its sheer destruction.
The rebels abandoned Shirokino in late 2015.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraine by clicking here.
[Breitbart] The Chinese state outlet, Global Times, which typically takes an aggressive tone in covering the United States, declared on Wednesday that President Donald Trump and the U.S. policy on North Korea had "failed," citing Pyongyang’s latest missile test.
North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced late Tuesday that dictator Kim Jong-un had personally directed the launching of a new model of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), named Hwasong-15, and that he declared the test a success.
China is North Korea’s largest trading partner, ensuring that the Kim regime continues to possess the funds necessary for its illegal weapons development. Beijing claims it has abided by international sanctions and that American aggression against North Korea is to blame for current tensions.
"It’s fair to say that US policy on North Korea has failed, and so has the policy of President Donald Trump," the Times declared on Wednesday. Specifically, the Times complains that Trump "heightened the pressure on North Korea at the wrong time, intensifying the tensions on the peninsula almost to the utmost, leaving little space for diplomatic maneuvering." China does not get that we have a President who views political norms as concepts the underpinnings of which may, upon demand, be required to be defended, not unwaveringly followed. I'm pretty sure the word "why" is Presidentially used a lot in The Oval Office. And if the answer does not make sense, a change is, er, considered.
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Trump is holding the bag left him by decades of America. President s left and right who just kick the can down the road. Seems the road has pretty much ended and the only solution going forward is convincing the Nork military to shoot the little shit or nuclear strike preemptively. We cannot let them have a ballistic capability and the exchanges for cash with Iran must be stopped, thus the new call for a naval blockade.
[DailyMail] - Foreign Minister Taro Kono announced the new ambassadors on Twitter Tuesday
- Japan is hoping that Osaka will be chosen as the host for the 2025 World Expo
- The characters will be used for pamphlets and gifts to promote the city's bid
- Osaka is competing against cities in France, Russia, and Azerbaijan for the expo I only wish Mr. Trump could have been the one to come up with something like this. To observe the reaction had he appointed (with tongue firmly planted in cheek), say, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man as our official "Cultural Ambassador" with The University of Alabama marching band performing the theme from Ghost-busters in the background.
[Ynet] Greek authorities brought terrorism charges Wednesday against nine suspected left-wing holy warriors from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , who were placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! during a series of raids in Athens ahead of a visit by Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... An Athens prosecutor also charged the eight men and one woman with offences including alleged arms and explosives possession, forgery and resisting arrest.
The eight were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of links with the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front,
...a Turkish Marxist-Leninist group...
which is deemed a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Police said a search of their residences uncovered detonators, a handgun and materials easily available on the market that could potentially be used to make explosives.
[DailyMail] The Bosnian-Croat war chief who killed himself with poison during his war crimes trial at The Hague was 'easily' able to smuggle the deadly liquid into the building, a prominent lawyer says.
It's still not clear, however, how Slobodan Praljak, 72, obtained the poison while in custody, as he was serving his 20-year sentence in an undisclosed UN prison cell and was driven each day to the court in a secure van for his appeal hearing.
Praljak yelled, 'I am not a war criminal!' and drank a dark liquid from a small bottle seconds after losing his appeal against a 20-year prison sentence at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Netherlands on Wednesday.
'I just drank poison,' he added. 'I am not a war criminal. I oppose this conviction.' I guess that will show them.
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.
[BBC] Two US citizens are being held in Thailand after they posted an online picture of themselves posing with their buttocks exposed at a temple.
[PRESSTV] Sources in Venezuela have indicated that Rafael Ramirez, the country’s representative to the 
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
[DailyMail] The Bosnian-Croat war chief who killed himself with poison during his war crimes trial at The Hague was 'easily' able to smuggle the deadly liquid into the building, a prominent lawyer says.
