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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Noble Savage Activist Made Death Threats To Students & Faculty
[Daily Caller] A 24-year-old racial activist has been charged with creating a false public alarm after reportedly making death threats to black students and faculty at her alma mater Kean University in New Jersey.

Kayla-Simone McKelvey, a self-described race activist, reportedly used a university computer to make death threats to the black students and faculty at Kean University from a fake Twitter account.

Authorities say McKelvey was on campus for a rally against racial intolerance, which she briefly left in order to post the threats online. She then returned to the rally to spread "awareness" of the threats being made against black students.

According to her Linkedin profile, McKelvey was the president of the Pan African Student Union and the 2014 Homecoming Queen during her time as a student at Kean University.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2015 08:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They got to make so much of them up since the real stuff is so so small anymore. If it goes away, they have no power. It's all about power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2015 9:48 Comments || Top||

#2  At this point anyone making death threats gets two slugs in the back of the head. White, black, yellow, purple... I don't fucking care.

Make the consequences serious and public enough and this bullshit will go by the wayside.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/02/2015 11:03 Comments || Top||

#3  I wouldn't support death, but they should serve jail time for intentionally making a death threat and spreading fear. They should probably get the minimum sentence but should not be allowed to skate with time served or other nonsense. Make the trial public so that future fakers get the idea.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/02/2015 11:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Falsely shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater?
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2015 11:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, communicating a death threat is not protected speech. That's assault. Consummation of the threat is battery.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2015 11:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Any bets she gets off (if she ever gets charged) because she is a 'marginalized minority'?

And why isn't this a hate crime?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/02/2015 11:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Because she's a "Disadvantaged' (Colored) Person,
and it doesn't fit the story, so the MSM isn't interested.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 12/02/2015 12:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Different culture, you wouldn't understand. It's a victim thang.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/02/2015 18:00 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Dicaprio Raped By Bear In Fox Movie
[DRUDGEREPORT] Guy goes hunting for bear in Alaska. He's tip-toeing through the woods when he sees the biggest bear he's ever seen in his life. He draws a bead, lets out his breath, squeezes the trigger.

And misses.

Suddenly the bear's standing right in front of him, its claws raised! "You tried to shoot me!" sez the bear.

"Ummm... You're a talking bear?"

"And you're a dead guy... unless you drop trou and let me have my way with your tiny butt!"

The guy's got a choice: Death, or the proverbial fate worse than death. He decides to go with "worse than," and the bear leaves him limping and dripping and sore twenty minutes later.

The guy drags it back to his tent, where he applies soothing balm and liberal quantities of Preparation H. "Rat bastard bear!" he snarls. "No bear does that to me and gets away with it!"

Next morning he's lying in wait when the bear comes down to the water hole. He draws his bead, lets out his breath, squeezes the trigger... And misses.

"Hrarrr!" the bear snarls, brandishing nine inch claws. "You tried to kill me! I'm gonna disembowel youse with a single slash! Unless..."

The guy drops his drawers, turns around, and endures another even more painful, even more humiliating session.

The guy crawls back to his tent, whimpering, and sits in a tub of snow, which sizzles as his butt hits it.

"Dirty rotten sonofabitchin' bear!" he snarls. "I'll kill him! I'll kill him!"

Next morning he's lying in wait, not twenty yards from the water hole. He can't miss! The bear shows up, sniffs the air, and leans over to drink. The guy draws his bead, lets out his breath, squeezes the trigger...

And misses.

It's like a re-run of a nightmare! The bear rears up in front of him! His claws look like they've grown an inch or two overnight! He gives a throaty roar! And he sez: "You ain't here for the huntin', are you, sweetie?"
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fred is definitely recovering, so we have to be grateful.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2015 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Just another Hollywood "blockbuster" that I'll miss.

And this one will most likely be a bust as well.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/02/2015 7:13 Comments || Top||

#3  'Bears' are an often under-represented social/sexual strata of the emergent many layered LGBT consensual beta-male identity. I suppose there are 'she-bears' as well, the concept of which also may require a Drano eyewash/brainwipe.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2015 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  So it went beyond hugs ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2015 8:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Hollywood is really pushing this gay thing aren't they?
Posted by: jvalentour || 12/02/2015 8:43 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2015 9:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Poor Bear! Did it ever recover?

This is definately going to make PETA very upset.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/02/2015 10:34 Comments || Top||

#8  The bear is loose.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/02/2015 10:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Since bear is a term for a hairy homosexual man I can only think this is a strange metaphor or something. I think Fred nailed it.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/02/2015 11:13 Comments || Top||

#10 

Was going for something snarky, then remembered:
Language Warning
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/02/2015 12:14 Comments || Top||

#11  #5 Hollywood is really pushing this gay thing

Gay, nude (except chaps), shrieking, "Wheee...
Hey Mom, they keep looking at me!
Oh, please make them stop it!"
"Of course I will, poppet!
They think it's the Land of the Free?"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 12/02/2015 14:54 Comments || Top||

#12  "Dicaprio Raped By Bear In Fox Movie"

"Dicaprio" and "movie" - a guarantee I won't be watching it.

Hope the twits lose a bundle.
Posted by: Barbara || 12/02/2015 16:21 Comments || Top||

#13  Nope, we lose the bundle cause in Hollyweird bookkeeping they get a tax write off. Time to end Hollyweird welfare!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2015 20:28 Comments || Top||

#14  I hope the bear got tested.
Posted by: Varmint Clunk9643 || 12/02/2015 20:48 Comments || Top||


Africa North
French court rules in favor of Libyan side to keep Gaddafi’s luxurious plane
A French court Monday ruled in favor of the Libyan side which claims ownership of late Gaddafi’s luxurious plane also claimed by a Kuwaiti group to which the former Libyan regime owes millions of euros.

The Airbus A340 plane was seized by the Kuwaiti al-Kharafi conglomerate following a ruling of a Cairo court in 2013.
An A340? Daffy didn't dream small, did he...
The Gaddafi regime had signed a contact with the Kuwaiti group in 2006 to build a beach resort on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, which it was to run for 90 years but the Libyan regime suspended the contract unilaterally.

And in 2013, a Cairo court ruled in favor of the Kuwaiti group which was to receive €935 million in compensation for the breach of the contract. The Kuwaiti group then seized the plane which was grounded in southern France for maintenance. The Libyan side’s lawyer, Carole Sportes, expressed satisfaction at the French court ruling that ends the Kuwaiti seizure of the plane.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/02/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  grounded in southern France for maintenance

Seized and to be resold for non-payment?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2015 7:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Chavez's Airbus still grounded for "maintenance" too. Been there a few years.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/02/2015 10:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Both will be gutted in the name of "Repairs", ad kept that way.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 12/02/2015 12:27 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Burkina Faso rebounds from military plot to elect new President
[CNN] After nearly three decades of autocratic rule followed by a civil uprising, Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
has a new leader.

Roch Marc Christian Kabore won more than 53% of votes in Sunday's elections, according to an official tally. The results mean Kabore, a former Prime Minister of the West African nation, will become its next President.

His closest opponent, Zephirin Diabre, conceded defeat after winning less than 30% of votes.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  His closest opponent, Zephirin Diabre, conceded defeat after winning less than 30% of votes.
Not much of a fighter.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2015 6:45 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Argentina's Fernandez Ramps Up Spending Before Power Handover
[BLOOMBERG] Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has ramped up government spending even as she prepares to hand over power in 10 days, helping to widen a budget deficit for 2015 already expected to reach the highest in 33 years.

At the start of the week, the government said it would spend an extra 133 billion pesos this year on salaries and energy subsidies. A day later, and Fernandez's administration ordered the Treasury to make up a shortfall of 98 billion pesos ($10.1 billion) with the state-run pension system following a ruling by the supreme court. The government must also find 27 billion pesos to cover costs at the tax agency.

The extra spending makes it all the more urgent for incoming President Mauricio Macri to tackle the fiscal gap that is forecast to reach 7.2 percent of gross domestic product. Macri now faces the shortest of honeymoons after defeating Fernandez's candidate in a runoff vote last month, having pledged to cut subsidies, remove currency controls and slow inflation.

"Clearly the fiscal scenario for next year is going to be very challenging," said Maximiliano Castillo, director of Buenos Aires-based consultancy ACM. "The roots of rising inflation, currency controls, import and export restrictions come from a completely unsustainable fiscal policy."

To begin closing the fiscal gap, Macri's designated Energy Minister Juan Jose Aranguren said the new government will reduce subsidies on electricity bills in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, where the government spends about $800 million a month footing the bill for clients of electricity suppliers Edenor and Edesur.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kirchner has ramped up government spending even as she prepares to hand over power in 10 days, helping to widen a budget deficit for 2015 already expected to reach the highest in 33 years.

Following the Obama/Clinton model?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2015 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Gotta be sure and steal every stray dime. Quick, check under the cushions in the Presidential Office!
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/02/2015 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Only find roaches under those cushions.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2015 9:10 Comments || Top||

#4  ...probably in the WH too, but not the kind she'll find. (Well it does explain the alternate reality someone apparently lives in)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2015 9:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Common international political ploy or practice, + she is a Femme/Babe, after all.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/02/2015 22:05 Comments || Top||


U.S. woman leaving Peru after 20-year sentence for aiding rebels
[REUTERS] Lori Berenson, a New Yorker once tossed in the clink
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
in Peru for helping Marxist myrmidons, is returning to the United States with her six-year-old son after finishing a 20-year sentence, her lawyer said Tuesday.

Berenson, 46, was making preparations to leave Peru "in coming hours," said Anibal Apari, her attorney and the father of her son. He declined to be more specific.

Apari and Berenson met in prison in 1997. He was also an inmate at the time.

Berenson was on parole for the past 5 years after spending 15 years in prison.

In 1996, Berenson was found guilty of supporting the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or MRTA, a guerilla group active in the 1980s and 90s. She was never convicted of participating in violent acts.

"She's finished her sentence and is now a free person," said Apari, a former member of MRTA.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  A lesson in NOT speaking your mind without constitutional protection.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2015 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2  TV interviews, book deal, movie deal and finally a New York State senate run; NYU professor if all fail as expected.
Posted by: airandee || 12/02/2015 6:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Another Redford production? Wonder what hollyweird actress is being signed up now?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2015 11:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't we get a say in whether she gets to come back? Unrepentent bitch

Posted by: Frank G || 12/02/2015 11:50 Comments || Top||

#5  The poor dear will find modern American culture a bit of a shock... not to mention that child rearing is a good deal more expensive -- and unaided -- in Manhattan compared to Peru.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2015 11:57 Comments || Top||

#6  the support she provided for the terrorists was logistical and material she was not just a verbal supporter

I think many of the Universities in the US are preparing offers for her to teach 'revolutionary political science' or some such garbage

Posted by: lord garth || 12/02/2015 15:14 Comments || Top||

#7  #2 NYU professor

Home of the Bobcats?

Bandera! She purrs out her story
(A pvssycat now, and so sorry).
The shy Senderista
Sez, "Hasta la vista...
Now, back to Mao-Maoing Old Glory!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 12/02/2015 19:43 Comments || Top||

#8  She supports a Marxist group after the fall of communism. Not the brightest bulb.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/02/2015 23:39 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Ghostly ships filled with bodies arrive on Japan's shores
[CNN] An unsettling mystery has washed up on Japan's shores.

Over the past two months, at least 12 wooden boats have been found in the Sea of Japan on or near the coast, carrying a chilling cargo -- the decaying bodies of 22 people, police and Japan's coasties said.

All the bodies were "partially skeletonized" -- two were found without heads -- and one boat contained six skulls, the coasties said. The first boat was found in October, then a series of boats were found in November.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  These random shootings did not occur outside of the United States. Possibly the result of consensual frolicing by semen fishermen or abandonment by smugglers, or both.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2015 6:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Kim keeps his most socialist nation
Ahead in experimentation!
"Your top secret mission
Is, while you're out fishing,
To test Juche head transplantation."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 12/02/2015 11:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Hopefully Tokyo is having the bodies checked + triple-checked for any Bio-war or ChemWar agents.

Iff these NOKORS were indeed soldiers, its hard to believe they would NOT had undertaken serious planning as per their main andor alternate route(s) of navigation, + foodstuffies, etc.

Iff the cause be PIRATES [Yaaaaar!], its still not good as destroying Local, Regional pirates was one of the reasons Great All-Nippon Unifier #2 Toyotomi Hideyoshi + Boyz invaded Korea back in the day, inviting the wrath of Ming China but also backrupting same - NEW OVERSEAS MISSION FOR THE JSDF???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/02/2015 19:49 Comments || Top||

#4  When I saw the headline, I thought this might have something to do with "Space Battleship Yamato".
Posted by: charger || 12/02/2015 20:10 Comments || Top||


Economy
UnitedHealth CEO regrets entering ObamaCare
The CEO of UnitedHealthCare on Tuesday said he regretted the decision to enter the ObamaCare marketplace last year, which the company says has resulted in millions of dollars in losses.

"It was for us a bad decision," UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley said at an investor's meeting in New York, according to Bloomberg Business.
Too bad nobody warned them, huh...
UnitedHealth, the country's largest insurer, announced last month that it would no longer advertise its ObamaCare plans over the next year and may pull out completely in 2016 ‐ a move that sent shockwaves across the healthcare sector.
It was only a shock to those that weren't paying attention
Hemsley's remarks double down on his earlier warning that the ObamaCare exchanges remain weaker than expected after two years and that it will take far longer for insurers to profit from the millions of new enrollees.

The company had already eyed ObamaCare's federal marketplace cautiously since it launched in 2013. UnitedHealth only began selling plans on the exchanges last year. Now, UnitedHealth officials have said that move will result in a half-billion dollars in losses over two years.

Hemsley said it was smart to sit out of the exchanges for the first year, but that the company should have held out another year.
Should have held out forever
"In retrospect, we should have stayed out longer," he said, adding that he believes the marketplace will take more than "a season or two" to develop.
Or forever.
"We did not believe it would form this slowly, be this porous, or become this severe," he said.
Then you weren't paying attention and don't deserve to be the CEO. It is designed to fail and take you and your ilk with it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/02/2015 07:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's OK. The Govt (HHS) has already agreed to make good the losses.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/02/2015 8:03 Comments || Top||

#2  So the Gov't covers the losses and United Health Care becomes a ward of the Federal Gov't. What am I missing? Wasn't that the way it was supposed to work ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2015 8:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Thecompany had already eyed ObamaCare's federal marketplace cautiously since it launched in 2013. UnitedHealth only began selling plans on the exchanges last year.

Shareholder suit would permit discovery to find who put pressure on them to make such a move if they hadn't jumped in at the very beginning.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2015 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  This is a problem for UHC because HHS is welshing on the 3R's which were supposed to protect carriers from losses as the sick and only the sick signed up for "free" healthcare.

HHS paid carriers in full the first couple years, but are now paying 17 cents on the dollar.

Considering UHC is a big player the Corp Welfare game via Medicare and Medicaid this is either a pathetic miscalculation on their part, or simple rice bowl rattling for more govt succor.
Posted by: regular joe || 12/02/2015 12:26 Comments || Top||

#5  "UnitedHealth CEO regrets entering ObamaCare"

We warned you, you greedy idiot.

I'm not even going to bother looking for my pico-violin.
Posted by: Barbara || 12/02/2015 18:39 Comments || Top||

#6  "UnitedHealth CEO regrets entering ObamaCare"

"Shoulda wrapped up, bro." is the thought that comes to mind.
Posted by: charger || 12/02/2015 20:08 Comments || Top||


Puerto Rico's governor tells US Senate the island cannot repay debts
[THEGUARDIAN] As territory grapples with $72bn debt and a payment due Tuesday, Alejandro García Padilla calls island’s emergency financial measures ‘unsustainable’
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Given this demonstration, and the economic straits of Micronesia in general, I wonder why the native Hawaiians want a vote for independence. Are the pricing supports for pineapple set too low?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2015 6:42 Comments || Top||

#2  So...We're gonna keep borrowing and spending but not repay our debt. Have we heard this story before?

And by the way...Which major Brokerage Firm sold off all those bonds? That's going to be the big story!
Posted by: jvalentour || 12/02/2015 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Heck, I'd trade Hawaii to the Chinese for all the debt they're holding. You don't want to be American, so be it. See how the Chinese treat Tibetans.

As for Puerto Rico, it's what happens when you run out of other peoples money (to include indenturing your children and their children by 'bonding') to make political hay today.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2015 9:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Lest we fergit, ITS NOW THE US-VS-CHINA-VS-NUCLEAR-ISLAM IN ASIA-PACIFIC, albeit safe to say or argue that the "US-vs-China" competition, rivalry will likely be the priority.

At least until the Hard Boyz take over Russia, China, + India, etc. + their respective Nuclear Arsenals.

As a reminder ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS = RUSSIA, CHINA. + PAKISTAN IS THE NEW SUPERPOWER AXIS.

What happened to IRAN?

IS IRAN NOW DEEMED BY DARTH VLAD/VLADVEDEV, XI, + WE'RE-SUPPOSED-TO-BE-THE-WORLD'S-FIRST-MUSLIM/ISLAMIC-NUCLEAR-SUPERPOWER-NOT-SHIA-IRAN SUNNNI PAKISTAN TO BE ON THE US-NATO OR US-ALLIES CAMP???

POPCORN FOR XMAS!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/02/2015 20:02 Comments || Top||

#5  W-i-l-l the Bammer + US Congress help PR out of its dilemma ...

* YAHOO NEWS > [Reuters] WATCH FOR US RECESSION, ZERO CHINESE INTEREST RATES NEXT YEAR [2016]. CITI SAYS.

Citi claims there is a 65% probability of US recession in 2016.

* SINA DEFENCE > EXPERTS: BEIJING SHOULD DEMAND HANDOVER OF PUERTO RICO AS CHINA'S SOVEREIGN TERRITORY IFF CHINA WAIVES OR PAYS OFF ISLAND'S DEBT BURDEN.

versus

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINESE BOMBER EXERCISE ADDIRMS AIR-DEFENCE IDENTIFICATION ZONE [East China Sea], PENETRATES INTO SECOND ISLAND CHAIN| IHS JANES 360.

Large PLA/PLAAF Air Fleet, wid main element of 8 H-6K LR ALCM-carrying Strategic Bombers + ELINT, split into two separate groups of 4 H-6K's each - one flew to affirm China's already pre-existing ADIZ in East China Sea as declared in 2013, the second suppos flew 1000-kms into WESTPAC towards GUAM-CNMI + MARIANAS = "SECOND ISLAND CHAIN", IIUC Artic to widin effective ALCM strike or attack range of GUAM.

* RELATED WORLD MILITARY FORUM > JANES SAID PLAAF [Armed] H-6K BOMBERS FLEW INTO "SECOND ISLAND CHAIN" [Guam-CNMI-WestPac], CHINA DEMONSTRATES ITS ABILITY TO STRIKE OR REACH GUAM. CHINA'S CURRENT + NEWEST GENERATION OF LR NUCLEAR SUBMARINES AND BALLISTIC MISSLES THAT CAN DESTROY GUAM.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/02/2015 21:58 Comments || Top||


Europe
Pakistani couple jailed in Germany for 'honour killing'
[DAWN] BERLIN: A German court Tuesday sentenced a Pakistain-born couple to life in jail for the "honour killing" of their 19-year-old daughter, who had had sex before marriage.

The 52-year-old father was found guilty of strangling the teenager to death, and the 41-year-old mother was also jugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
, as an accessory to murder, by the regional court in the western city of Darmstadt.

The Muslim parents had killed their daughter in January because she had been in a pre-marital relationship, the court was told.

The defence had sought a lesser sentence of manslaughter. The couple will be able to apply for parole after 15 years.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why are they even being prosecuted? I mean, honor killings are part of their culture, and all cultures are equal, right?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/02/2015 11:04 Comments || Top||

#2  "Imam, if my girl steals a rubber,
Will Allah allow me to drub her?"
"Mohammedan, mangle
Or stab, shoot, or strangle
The hussy who loves undercover!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 12/02/2015 14:02 Comments || Top||

#3  "We're ending the Era of Hera.
Entartete tarts are in error!
Herr Thousand-Year blundered;
We're near fourteen hundred
Of purebred Mohammedan terror."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 12/02/2015 14:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Did you have an extra pot of coffee this morning, Zenobia F? Inspiration keeps striking! :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2015 17:09 Comments || Top||

#5  extra pot of coffee
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/02/2015 17:13 Comments || Top||

#6  ^lulz
Posted by: Shipman || 12/02/2015 18:02 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Taj Mahal 'not a Hindu temple'
[ARABNEWS] India's government has rejected claims by a group of lawyers that the Taj Mahal monument was a Hindu temple.

While replying to a query about the evidence claiming that the Taj Mahal built in Agra by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan was originally a temple, Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma told the Parliament that the government has not found any evidence in this regard.

Sharma's reply came few days after a lawsuit, claiming the Taj Mahal was originally a Shiva temple, was filed by a group of lawyers from Agra.

They also demanded that its ownership be transferred to Hindus and Muslims be restricted from offering prayers at the location.

The Archaeological Survey of India had earlier dismissed the claims that the 17th century Mughal monument is a Shiva temple.

Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When Adam, a Hindu believer,
Laid eyes on the figure of Eva,
The first masturbator
Invented a Veda --
"You, madam, were sacred to Shiva!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 12/02/2015 3:24 Comments || Top||

#2  As I recall, it was originally a mausoleum for a favored wife. If the moose have their way, multiple factors will lead to it being bulldozed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2015 6:36 Comments || Top||

#3  If they call it a Hindu Temple it will be bombed. If they call it a mosque it will last forever.
Posted by: jvalentour || 12/02/2015 10:13 Comments || Top||

#4  pick three of the lawyers and disappear them forever. The rest won't be such asshats
Posted by: Frank G || 12/02/2015 11:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Something odd in this story. Says it is not a Hindu temple but then says built by Mughal Emporer Shah Jahan. I thought the Mughals were Muslims? It also says Muslims be restricted from offering prayers at the location.

Sounds like they are saying it was determined to not be a Muslim temple.

Anyway, saying it is not a temple won't get the Muslims to spare it if they get the chance.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/02/2015 16:25 Comments || Top||

#6  rjschwarz, the Wikipedia article on the Taj Mahal addresses all those questions. Key to the Hindu temple claim, Wikipedia reports:

In 2000, India's Supreme Court dismissed P. N. Oak's petition[64] to declare that a Hindu king built the Taj Mahal.[61][65] In 2005 a similar petition was dismissed by the Allahabad High Court. This case was brought by Amar Nath Mishra, a social worker and preacher who says that the Taj Mahal was built by the Hindu King Parmar Dev in 1196.[66]

The Moghuls are what the Mongols became after they converted to Islam and began conquering northern India. Muslims are currently allowed to pray at the on-site mosque between twelve and two p.m. on Fridays. If the site was originally a temple to Shiva, that ended when the local maharajah accepted a city palace in exchange for the land almost four centuries ago.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2015 17:43 Comments || Top||

#7  This controversy over the Taj Mahal has been going on forevar! since I was a kid.

Nice to know that in 2015 it still hasn't abated, nor been resolved.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/02/2015 22:07 Comments || Top||

#8  They werent that good of a band either
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 12/02/2015 22:40 Comments || Top||


Customs officials seize 10 eagles
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Customs officials on Monday seized 10 rare species of eagles and handed them over to the wildlife department here.

According to the collector customs Qurban Ali Khan, the eagles were of Afghan origin which had been recovered from a Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
-bound bus during checking near Kohat Tunnel.

He said that none of the passengers claimed ownership of the eagles. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
the bus driver and conductors were under custody for further interrogation.

The eagles, he said were brought from Afghanistan and transported via 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.
to Karachi for onward smuggling to abroad. He said that customs department handed them over to the wildlife department so that to take proper care of the rare birds.

The eagles were handed over at a function in customs department, Peshawar. Additional collector Aftab Haider and other officials were also present on the occasion.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Pending release to suitable facilities after receipt of licensing and maintenance fees.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2015 6:38 Comments || Top||

#2  "Honest! They just flew in like everybody else. Well, not like everybody else, they actually flew. But..."
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/02/2015 8:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Should have used the budgie smugglers.
Posted by: Classer || 12/02/2015 16:31 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
China's Cloning Crusade: Technology for Human Replication '€˜Already There'
[Breitbart] The CEO and lead scientist of the world's largest cloning factory says that they now have technology capable of replicating human beings.

"The technology is already there," said Xu Xiaochun, the 44-year-old Chairman of the Boyalife group, which is building the $31 million cloning factory. "If this is allowed, I don't think there are other companies better than Boyalife that make better technology."

The company intends to begin operations in the first half of 2016 in Tianjin, a city some 100 miles southeast of Beijing.

Though the principal goal of the 150,000-square-foot facility will be cloning cattle, company executives aren't closing the door to other species, including humans.

"Unfortunately, currently, the only way to have a child is to have it be half its mum, half its dad," said Xu.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2015 08:29 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chigro?
Changlo?
Chone?
#Chi.HR?

Chosen?

Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2015 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Saruman? Is that you?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2015 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Came here for DARYL HANNAH + SEAN YOUNG + CHRISTINE SLATER, LEAVING DISAPPOINTED.

ARTIC read - MEN, CONTRARY TO WHAT "FUTURAMA" SAYS YOU CAN MARRY YOUR ROBOTS + NOW SEXY SLINKY MUTANT = ARTIFICIAL HUMAN BABES!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/02/2015 19:53 Comments || Top||



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