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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Kops surround Montana family home after reports about firearms
A Montana family gave their neighbors quite a scare while enjoying a favorite TV show Sunday evening.

A 911 call came in at 7:28 p.m. from a Great Falls neighbor who heard “screaming from a house about someone having a gun,” according to Great Falls Police Department notes from the call. A second caller helped the seven responding officers locate the house.

Great Falls Police Department Sgt. Brian McGraw said the officers surrounded the residence, responding to a disturbance possibly involving a gun.

“We had a whole bunch of guys on that one,” he said.

The call notes say the officers heard “loud talking” from inside the home and observed “flashing lights.”

According to the notes, the officers saw two adults and several children, ages unknown, watching “a show about firearms” with two windows close to the TV opened. Everyone appeared to be OK.

McGraw said he later found out the show was the midseason premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead, an hour-long drama chronicling life during the zombie apocalypse.

Based on the outcome, no report is required for the call. The call notes do not include what the family had to say about the police response.
Posted by: badanov || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If I am reading between the lines correctly, this sounds like they got swat-ed by a neighbor.

Posted by: Nguard || 02/18/2016 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe more to this than reported:
watching “a show about firearms” with two windows close to the TV opened

Went to wunderground.com for historical weather info for that date and time of day in Great Falls MT. Outside temps were 45 degrees. The windows may have been opened to harass the neighbors, which apparently succeeded. Hardly seems like opening the windows would have been a necessity.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/18/2016 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  you are most likely correct, Anguper Hupomosing9418. It sounds like a feud between neighbors that escalated to the point of one party calling in the cops on the other party.

I almost feel sorry for the sheriff in that area- he is going to have to deal with that nonsense until one of the parties either dies or leaves.
Posted by: Nguard || 02/18/2016 10:50 Comments || Top||

#4  If I were that sheriff I would make it a point to find nit-picky violations on both persons property each time they wasted my time.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/18/2016 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Who gets the bill?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/18/2016 14:50 Comments || Top||


Panel denies parole to Sirhan, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] Sirhan Sirhan was denied parole Wednesday for fatally shooting Robert F. Kennedy after a confidante of the slain senator who was shot in the head forgave him and repeatedly apologized for not doing more to win his release.

Paul Schrade's voice cracked with emotion during an hour of testimony on his efforts to untangle mysteries about the events of June 5, 1968. The 91-year-old former labor leader said he believed Sirhan shot him but that a second unidentified shooter felled Kennedy.

"I should have been here long ago and that's why I feel guilty for not being here to help you and to help me," Schrade said.

The men faced each other for the first time since Schrade testified at Sirhan's 1969 trial. Schrade apologized for not going to any of Sirhan's 14 previous parole hearings.

As Sirhan left, Schrade shouted, "Sirhan, I'm so sorry this is happening to you. It's my fault."

Sirhan, who had nodded politely when the victim addressed him, tried to shake hands with Schrade but a guard blocked him.

Commissioners concluded after more than three hours of intense testimony at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center that Sirhan did not show adequate remorse or understand the enormity of his crime.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As Sirhan left, Schrade shouted, "Sirhan, I'm so sorry this is happening to you. It's my fault."

No, you symp fool. It was Sirhan's fault
Posted by: Frank G || 02/18/2016 8:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Sirhan, a native of Jerusalem,...

And by 'native of Jerusalem', we mean Palestinian.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/18/2016 9:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Lone wolf?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/18/2016 11:55 Comments || Top||


Teen accused of impersonating doctor, stealing from patient
[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] Malachi Love-Robinson had all the trappings of a medical practice — an office, a lab coat and stethoscope.
If I buy a lab coat I can practice medicine, too.
What he didn't have, authorities say, was a medical license — few 18 year olds do. Now the Florida teen is charged with practicing medicine without a license and theft after he allegedly performed an exam on an undercover agent and took almost $3,500 from an 86-year-old woman seeking treatment for stomach pain. He's also accused of stealing three checks from her that he cashed for almost $2,800.
One check should be enough to have him jugged, but it's not anymore.
Love-Robinson was released on $21,000 bail on Wednesday, one day after his arrest.
Why the peanuts bail?
"Those are just allegations," he told The Associated Press in a brief phone interview.
That's kinda step two in any criminal prosecution.
Love-Robinson called a Wednesday night news conference and arrived a half hour late. He would only say that his attorneys are working to resolve the charges and that he hopes the community will pray for him. He declined to answer any questions.
He's praying he's suddenly gonna age ten or fifteen years and grow a degree in medicine.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No word on any investigations regarding Obamacare stealing from patients
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 02/18/2016 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  check his "Lawyers" for actual admission to the Bar
Posted by: Frank G || 02/18/2016 8:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Or Trappist Monk
Posted by: Shipman || 02/18/2016 14:27 Comments || Top||

#4  What surgeon shall root out the nidus
Where festers acute hyphenitis
That leaves the community
Lacking immunity
Crushed under youthful detritus?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/18/2016 18:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Question should be 'Did his patients benefit from his care at least as much as from their other/previous doctors?'
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/18/2016 20:24 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Jihadist run over by ex-girlfriend - Caution, very graphic video
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/18/2016 11:14 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice open field tackle. I hope the Patriots sign the bugger - LB Jerrod Mayo retired this week!
Posted by: Raj || 02/18/2016 12:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Hah! Why was she pissed? Was he sleeping with another prettier ovine lady?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/18/2016 13:19 Comments || Top||

#3  'Animals Gone Wild'
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/18/2016 13:32 Comments || Top||

#4  'Animals Gone Wild'
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/18/2016 13:34 Comments || Top||

#5  'Animals Gone Wild'
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/18/2016 13:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Someone steered him wrong
Posted by: BigEd || 02/18/2016 16:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Looks like Mel Tillis invaded Skidmark's mmmmouse
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 02/18/2016 16:53 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
White students undergo weekly 'deconstructing whiteness' program at Northwestern University
[THECOLLEGEFIX] White college students are undergoing a weekly "deconstructing whiteness" program at Northwestern University.
I never used to be a racist...
The "6-part workshop series for undergraduate students who self-identify as white" launched in January and runs through March, according to the university's website. Students enrolled chose to do so -- it is voluntary.
"You must voluntarily enroll in the reeducation program."
A front man for the prestigious private university located outside reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
declined to give The College Fix details on the program, such as how many students enrolled and how it's been received so far.
I'm sure a wonderful time has been had by all.
"It's part of Northwestern's Social Justice Education effort to create learning opportunities for our students," Bob Rowley, a front man for the campus, told The College Fix in an email, providing a link to the social justice webpage and adding: "Beyond that, we don't have anything more for you on it."
Learning opportunities other than Engish Comp or Calculus or Organic Chemistry, which don't provide nearly enough challenge.
According to a report in the campus newspaper, the workshops focus on "terminology used in conversations of race, the history and meaning of whiteness, white guilt and the difference between intellectualizing and feeling racism."
You know, I'd really like to get some of the Privilege. I think I'll go oppress somebody.
"There's a lot of space on this campus for conversations to happen around issues of privilege and specifically around issues of white privilege," Michele Enos, assistant director of the university's Social Justice Education office, told The Daily Northwestern.
Why does a university need a "social justice" office? I'm definitely missing something here.
A poster advertising the workshop series posed rhetorical questions such as: "What is my role in doing anti-racist work?"
When I was young and undoubtedly stupid I stuck my neck out and a time or two my chin for blacks. That was back in the days when we'd occasionally walk into a place and be told "we don't serve Negroes here." Actually, that wasn't the term we usually heard. I can see now that I wasted my time and energy. I wouldn't want to send my grandkids to a university that discriminated against them because they're white.
or "why do I have to feel guilty about being white?" and "how can I talk about race as a white person?"
By doing exactly as you're told...
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Deconstructing' local law enforcement, electrical services, sanitation and city water will soon follow. What medical services are still available will be provided by the government. It's best that you make preparations to leave at once. Pack lightly and please take enough meds for a minium of 30 days.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/18/2016 2:32 Comments || Top||

#2  And from the Daily Caller, Phase-II:

South African Students Loot University Buildings, Torch Portraits Of White People
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/18/2016 3:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Social justice -ism
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Guelph7496 || 02/18/2016 4:35 Comments || Top||

#4  I want to run a "Deconstructing blackness and why that culture is a path to poverty" course.

Where do I get my grant?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/18/2016 6:10 Comments || Top||

#5  You just know they have a "Deconstructing blackness and how the white man keeps us down and we deserve reparations and immunity from criminal prosecution" course out there.

Or is that embedded in the regular 'education'?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/18/2016 8:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Cause Deconstruction works so well in Detroit.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/18/2016 9:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Those the gods deconstruct they first make sit mad courses.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/18/2016 11:35 Comments || Top||

#8  I was angry when I made my remark about wasting my time and energy. What we did back then -- and no, I never joined any protest marches -- was what was right. I still believe that people are born equal and deserve the chance to make something of their lives.

That was like a beautiful woman, whom we, the people rescued. Northwestern and its siblings are like the hideously deformed children she gave birth to.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2016 12:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Just suppose a black person decided to attend the class - not for credit, of course, but to audit the class, to see how white privilege can be dealt with.

Would he/she/they be allowed to sit in the class?
Posted by: Bobby || 02/18/2016 12:54 Comments || Top||

#10  Universities are rapidly placing themselves in the category of "irrelevant" with this drivel.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/18/2016 12:55 Comments || Top||

#11  The mariner: 'Once, off of Haiti,
I saved an insensible lady.
Redeemed from the ocean,
She dreamed up the notion
That I be her Moby, me matey.'
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/18/2016 18:12 Comments || Top||

#12  Ben Franklin (electricity), Alexander Bell (telephone), Henry Ford (automobile), Abraham Lincoln (freed the slaves), I could go on and on and on and on about the real truth.
Posted by: Ho Chi Crinens5363 || 02/18/2016 18:19 Comments || Top||

#13  This is so perverted and silly.
Posted by: newc || 02/18/2016 22:56 Comments || Top||


ABC programming head exits; successor is a network TV first
[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] The head of the ABC Entertainment Group is departing amid low ratings, to be replaced by the first African-American to head a broadcast TV network.

ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee has decided to leave, the network announced Wednesday.

His successor is Channing Dungey, who has been ABC Entertainment Group's executive vice president for drama development, movies and miniseries, overseeing drama pilots and the launches of series.

Dungey shepherded ABC hits including "Scandal," ''How to Get Away with Murder" and "Quantico."

The changeover comes a year after Ben Sherwood became president of the Disney-ABC TV Group and after Lee's nearly six years as programming chief.

"Channing is a gifted leader and a proven magnet for top creative talent, with an impressive record" of helping to create compelling and popular series, Sherwood said in a statement.
"And she's the right color! But, really, we picked her because she's so talented!"
Dungey is both the first black network programming chief and a rare female executive. Change has come faster for women than minorities in the TV executive ranks, with Jennifer Salke serving as NBC's entertainment president and, at Fox Television Group, Dana Walden sharing chair and CEO duties with Gary Newman.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The head of the ABC Entertainment Group is departing amid low ratings, to be replaced by the first African-American to head a broadcast TV network.

Oh, yeah - I'm expecting a rebound in ratings any week now.
Posted by: Raj || 02/18/2016 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Interestingly, I've never seen any of those shows. I watch 'Agents of SHIELD' and my wife watches 'Once Upon A Time'. And we watch them on Hulu, not cable.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 02/18/2016 5:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Any other 'demographic' / 'special group' that this appointment satisfies that is not mentioned?
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 02/18/2016 10:06 Comments || Top||

#4  We may not have seen this exact movie, but we do know the modern Hollywood Magical Negro trope.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/18/2016 10:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Dungey shepherded ABC hits including "Scandal," ''How to Get Away with Murder" and "Quantico."

All with 'strong' female leads marginalizing male protagonists. Got a take on a 'Buffy' storyline for them.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/18/2016 14:03 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Apple encryption case risks influencing Russia and China, privacy experts say
[Guardian] Analysts and lawmakers warn FBI that ramifications over its demand that Apple unlock San Bernardino killer's iPhone 'could snowball around the world.' Authoritarian governments including Russia and China will demand greater access to mobile data should Apple lose a watershed encryption case brought by the FBI, leading technology analysts, privacy experts and legislators have warned.
Who owns the 'different' iOS with back-door after it's been created? Apple? The FBI? Is the FBI required to erase all their copies after use? How do we verify that?

What if other law enforcement agencies want it? The NSA?

What if Apple starts getting "requests" from law enforcement that aren't backed up with a judicial order?

Mr. Cook is exactly right. We can fight terrorism and crime without compromising our civil liberties. Few of us trust a government that unleashes Lois Lerner and Eric Holder on the population, and then covers up for them.

And as this piece correctly notes, whatever the U.S. government gets, the Russians and Chinese (and Indians, and Japanese, and French, and Germans, and Pakistanis) will get as well. That is what keeps Mr. Cook awake at night.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Authoritarian governments including Russia and China will demand greater access to mobile data should Apple lose a watershed encryption case...

Sounds like complete horseshit to me. Russia and China wouldn't want to crack phones otherwise?
Posted by: Raj || 02/18/2016 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Best explanation of FBI request at this link
Posted by: 3dc || 02/18/2016 1:00 Comments || Top||

#3  The fourth amendment allows the government to compel you to give up something that exists. I am unaware of a precedent where it compels you to create something new.

Make a copy of the sim card. Every 10 password tries, restore, repeat until you guess right.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/18/2016 9:15 Comments || Top||

#4  To be clear, make ASF (figure it out) number of copies and try them in parallel.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/18/2016 9:22 Comments || Top||

#5  ZDnet had this to say:
In short, if Apple enables even a single-use back door, the existence of such a thing will undoubtedly be used against us. Even a special-case one-off crack like the one the FBI has requested certainly will could break lose and compromise security.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/18/2016 9:29 Comments || Top||

#6 
I am unaware of a precedent where it compels you to create something new.

Apparently there is an old law supporting the gov's demand.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/18/2016 9:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Great. So the government can dig out an old law and force you to sleep with Hillary in order to find out more about those emails?
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/18/2016 11:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Apple can always state, "We tried but it is not possible".

Ball in your court. (Ok, ok; I am off to my room.)
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/18/2016 11:56 Comments || Top||

#9  That is a most unpleasant thought, EC.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/18/2016 11:59 Comments || Top||

#10  I'm not sure what an activist leftist Supreme Court would say...
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/18/2016 12:05 Comments || Top||

#11  Interesting the FBI request was about 'THIS DEVICE' and all actions requested would be undertaken on 'THIS DEVICE' in such a manner as to not destroy the content nor violate the controls.

Given a known IOS filesystem architecture and a discoverable public key, I think I would undertake a different tact if I just wanted access to the poop.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/18/2016 14:49 Comments || Top||

#12  #3 SIM card has nothing to do with this - it's a passcode lock - you get 10 tries and if these fail, the phone is disabled, i.e. "wiped"

Me, Id guess his PIN is 0911
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 02/18/2016 23:31 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Feckless liberal farmers feed Central African refugees, hoping to be eaten last.
[New Observer] Two South African white liberals who opened their farm to hundreds of Central African invaders who had fled "xenophobic violence" in that country, have had to flee in fear for their lives after their adopted "refugees" took over their farm and physically drove them off.

According to a report in local media News24, the two leftists, Andrew and Rae Wartnaby, have been threatened with murder by the same people they had set out to help.

The drama began in July 2015 when the Wartnabys "opened their 20-hectare farm to 143 foreign nationals, including children," who were displaced during "xenophobic attacks" by South African blacks upon other black illegal immigrants from central Africa.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/18/2016 09:16 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Andrew and Rae Wartnaby have a very bright future in American politics, should they decide to hire immigration lawyers and suffer the five to seven year struggle of legal immigration.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/18/2016 9:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Or they could come in thru mexico.
Posted by: Nguard || 02/18/2016 11:03 Comments || Top||

#3  The religions in Central African Republic. Catholic, Moslem, and Nativist. A Nativist killed and ate the leg of a Moslem who killed his brother. The Catholic Female President of the country told the Nativist that what he did wasn't nice, but the guy was not prosecuted. Saw the article in mid-2014
Posted by: BigEd || 02/18/2016 16:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Two South African 60 million German/Swedish/French/British white liberals who opened their farm conutries to hundreds millions of Central African Muslim invaders who had fled "xenophobic violence" in that country their shitholes, have had to flee in fear for their lives after their adopted "refugees" took over their farm cities and physically drove them off.
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 02/18/2016 23:47 Comments || Top||


University of Cape Town chaos caught in pictures
[IOL] Cape Town - Students from the Rhodes Must Fall movement went on the rampage at the University of Cape Town on Tuesday. The students, frustrated with the housing crisis and other challenges, set historic paintings and a plaque from the Smuts Hall residence alight at the foot of Jameson stairs.

The students also raided the dining hall at Fuller residence, and stripped the hall of its decor and paintings.

A Jammie Shuttle was set alight on Lower Campus, another was damaged in a stone-throwing incident and the office of the rector, Dr Max Price, was set alight. Eight students were arrested.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/18/2016 08:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OK, so Cecil was mean and evil and stuff. You're giving back his scholarship money, right?
Posted by: SteveS || 02/18/2016 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  IMA still awaiting condemnation from Rhodes Scholarship winner Bill Clinton.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/18/2016 9:27 Comments || Top||

#3  ..right after the denunciation of that grand Klansman Bird from WV. Purity! Virtue! Send in the Red Guards!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/18/2016 9:48 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela hikes gas prices for first time in nearly 17 years
[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] Venezuela's government is raising gasoline prices sixtyfold -- the first increase of any kind in more than 17 years as the country struggles with an economic collapse. Yet drivers will still be able to fill their tanks for pennies.

President Nicolas Maduro announced Wednesday that he was increasing the price of gas as part of a series of measures designed to help with the falling price of oil, which makes up 95 percent of Venezuela's export earnings.

He raised the price of 95-octane gasoline from .097 bolivars a liter to 6 bolivars per liter, and 91-octane gasoline from 0.07 bolivars to 1 bolivar per liter.

The hike may have symbolic importance, but gas still remains virtually free in Venezuela. Calculated at the widely used black market currency exchange rate, the price per gallon will be a few U.S. cents. In contrast, a beer costs around 300 bolivars while a basket of strawberries costs about 800 bolivars.

Maduro said the increased gasoline revenue will go to finance the government's social programs.

The socialist president had been talking about hiking gas prices for more than a year. It's a touchy issue in Venezuela, where memories are still vivid from 1989 riots in Caracas that erupted after the proposal of a series of austerity measures including a hike in gas prices.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  No food, growing unrest, global drop in gas prices...

I've got it - let's increase the price of gas!
Posted by: Raj || 02/18/2016 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Aren't they afraid of how this will impact inflation?~
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/18/2016 8:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm impressed they still have gas to increase the price of.

Hey, if you're looking for a steel mill, I know some Pakistani dudes who'll sell you one real cheap.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/18/2016 9:39 Comments || Top||

#4  SS, during one their frequent refinery outages the actually imported finished gasoline from The Empire at market price and then gave it away.

A form of Deadweight loss.
Conversely, deadweight loss can also come from consumers buying a product even if it costs more than it benefits them. To describe this, let's use the same nail market, but instead it will be perfectly competitive, with the government giving a 3 cent subsidy to every nail produced. This 3 cent subsidy will push the market price of each nail down to 7 cents. Some consumers then buy nails even though the benefit to them is less than the real cost of 10 cents. This unneeded expense then creates the deadweight loss: resources are not being used efficiently.
Posted by: Shipman || 02/18/2016 14:38 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Wiki
Posted by: Shipman || 02/18/2016 14:39 Comments || Top||


Pope Francis warns that 'God will hold accountable the enslavers of our day'
[LATIMES]
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Like the Leftists, the moslems, the one wor4ld frauds, the democrat party, and self righteous leftist Pontiffs that do not study the Bible.

Confusing slavery with economic refugees, corruption of language, and not knowing your Wheelhouse is an absolute embarrassment.

You are awful.
Posted by: newc || 02/18/2016 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Pope Gramsci I - does yoking private sector producers to the apparatus of state count as slavery in your world?

Because it does in the real world.
Posted by: no mo uro || 02/18/2016 5:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Marxism is a modern form of state slavery.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/18/2016 6:07 Comments || Top||

#4  The protocol, even for Murder was this:

You must ask to cross a border first. Then, if you make it to a new village, you must ask the town Elder (Chief) if it is permissible for you to stay there. "Take me to your leader"

That is just Genesis.

If this idiot Pope cannot get the beginning right, the end will be hell In Deed.

So screw this. You know more than him about THE WORD
Posted by: newc || 02/18/2016 6:27 Comments || Top||

#5  In the parable of the Talents, when the guy given one talent failed to do anything with it, Jesus didn't have the master take from the guy who had 10 to give it to the loser. Instead, he took the one away from him and gave it to the one who had 10. (Matthew 25:24-29).

Ever heard the phrase (usually said complainingly) "him who has, gets"? It's biblical, and Jesus supported it (Matthew 25:29).

I believe the fault of concentrating on the one fact that seems to support one's cause, while ignoring the 9 that contradict you, is a congenital syndrome that afflicts Leftists. One would think that, given a mind laced with so many self-inflicted holes, that they would be easy to defeat. I was quite puzzled by their success until Ted Cruz' speech about how tbeir ineptness was aided and abetted by Republican leadership.

Then it all made sense...
Posted by: ptah || 02/18/2016 12:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Check out your Dictatorship of the Proletariat when discussing 'slavery'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/18/2016 20:55 Comments || Top||

#7  What's the antipope's view of Heaven not allowing in unrepentant sinners?

Is God unChristian?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: charger || 02/18/2016 23:59 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China: Missiles have been on South China Sea island for years
[CNN] Chinese sea and air defenses on a disputed South China Sea island have been in place for years, Beijing says, but reports of their existence Wednesday alarmed the country's Asian neighbors.

Taiwan's Defense Ministry said Wednesday it had confirmed that surface-to-air missiles had been deployed on Woody Island, part of the Paracel Islands chain in the hotly disputed sea.

U.S. officials told CNN that commercial satellite imagery showed the deployment of missile batteries.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Milyuhns + Dilyuhns + Tilyuhns of years, ergo are "no big", ergo no reason for the US-Allies to fear let alone for China to remove.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/18/2016 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  ION GUARDIAN.UK > BEIJING MISSLE MOVE IN SOUTH CHINA SEA COULD MAKE US THINK TWICE ABOUT GETTING TOO CLOSE [IIUC @Twitter = ... ... (too close to) Guam? Hawaii? Okinawa?]. THE DEPLOYMENT OF MISSLE LAUNCHERS TO WOODY ISLAND [Paracels = Chinese Xishas] IS A CONSCIOUS EFFORT BY CHINA TO EXTEND ITS STRATEGIC FOOTPRINT AND WILL TEST AMERICA'S [POTUS Obama's?] METTLE.

YUUUP - Beijing/China is UNLIKELY TO BACK DOWN + WILL MATCH US MOVES TIT-FOR-TAT.

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [RFA Radio Free Asia] BEIJING MISSLE MOVE RAISES POLITICAL TEMPERATURES IN SOUTH CHINA SEA [Regional Nations].

* YOHNAP NEWS > CHINESE MEDIAS WARN BEIJING MAY DEPLOY MORE MISSLES [to NE ASIA Region] AGZ US MISSLE SHIELD IN SOUTH KOREA.

VERSUS

* JAPAN TIMES > US UNSURE IFF CHINA SAM [Surface-To-Air Missle(S)] DEPLOYMENT ON ISLAND FOR LONG-TERM, XI NON-MILITARIZATION CLAIM HIT, by Obama Admin Officios.

* GUARDIAN.UK > SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE: US MILITARY WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE IN REGION.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/18/2016 1:21 Comments || Top||

#3  OOOPS, forgot SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST > CHINA MAY SEND ANTI-SHIP MISSLES [ASBMS] TO SOUTH CHINA SEA IFF TENSIONS FLARE WID US: ANALYSTS. "AIR DEFENCE" IS MAIN PRIORITY FOR CHINESE FORCES IN THE REGION, OBSERVER SAYS.

DF-21? DF-26 "Guam/Carrier-Killer"???

China may also step up or increase other Military ACtivities as pertinent.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/18/2016 1:56 Comments || Top||

#4  "Oceana is at war with East Asia. Oceana has always been at war with East Asia"
Posted by: Nguard || 02/18/2016 15:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Hell, the "island" hasn't really been there for years.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/18/2016 21:27 Comments || Top||


Europe
Bulgarian PM to Meet Afrikaner Farmers
h/t Gates of Vienna
The Prime Minister of Bulgaria will meet a delegation from one of South Africa's largest commercial farming unions in June this year with the aim of exploring opportunities for Afrikaner farmers in that country.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/18/2016 07:40 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Ben Carson Called Muslim Americans "Schizophrenic" for Loving Islam and American Values
One of their five impossible things to believe before breakfast, I suppose.
Misconceptions and blatant ignorance about Muslim Americans abound, and Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson doubled down on his own rhetoric Tuesday. He went so far as to call Muslim Americans "schizophrenic."

Breitbart News Daily host Stephen Bannon asked Carson on Tuesday if American Muslims' religious values were at odds with their nation's political values, Politico reported.

"Only if they're schizophrenic," Carson said. "I don't see how they can do it otherwise, because you have two different philosophies," he added, later referring to Islam as a religion Muslim Americans "bought into" and arguing that the Prophet Muhammad was "in no way comparable to Jesus Christ."

"As a Muslim it is offensive to be accused of schizophrenia," Saba Ahmed, president and founder of the Republican Muslim Coalition told ThinkProgress of Carson's remarks. "There are tens of thousands of Muslims in this country who love American values and their religion at the same time. I am one of them."

The damage of generally using a term for a medical illness, like "schizophrenia," in a derogatory way is well documented. As Arun Chopra, a British consultant psychiatrist and researcher, told the BBC in 2011, using medical terms this way is "tremendously damaging" and "part of the process of creating a stigma around mental illness. You would never hear it used in relation to a physical condition. You wouldn't hear someone being described as a bit diabetic."

It's not the first time Carson has made an ignorant comment about Muslim Americans. In October, he stated his opposition to the possibility of a Muslim American presidential candidate due to their "different loyalties," according to MSNBC -- a comment that built on his assertion a month prior that Islam is inconsistent with the Constitution, as the Guardian reported in September.

His stance is unfortunately not an anomaly in the United States at large. In 2015, a number of mosques were attacked in the United States and Islamophobic attitudes were evident on college campuses, city streets and beyond. A 2015 YouGov poll found that this stance is one held by the majority of Americans: 55% of those surveyed had a somewhat or very "unfavorable" opinion of Islam.

As a potential leader of the United States, Carson would seemingly do well to pledge his support for all Americans rather than bolster factually unfounded attitudes toward an already marginalized group.
Posted by: gorb || 02/18/2016 17:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
'Use of tobacco not permitted in Islam'
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The use of tobacco is not allowed in Islam and the federal government is taking steps to control its use, including legislation and will be making efforts to control the increase in tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship.

This was said by Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Mohammad Yousuf at a workshop arranged by The Network for Consumer Protection on Tuesday. He said people should stop smoking and that the media should play an active role in making that happen.

Executive Coordinator of The Network, Nadeem Iqbal, said since the devolution of powers to the provinces, a controversy had risen about whether health was in the jurisdiction of the provinces or of the federal government.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Mass rioting in 10...9...8...7...
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/18/2016 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Let the executions begin.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/18/2016 0:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Big deal. Our U.S. Progressive Religion decided long ago that tobacco was not permitted.

Tobacco is a dirty weed.
I like it.
It satisfies no normal need.
I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean,
It's the worst dang stuff I've ever seen.
I like it.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/18/2016 7:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Tobacco is not permitted but child buggery is?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/18/2016 12:56 Comments || Top||

#5  in several moslem countries there is a decree along this line (Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia)
Posted by: lord garth || 02/18/2016 19:17 Comments || Top||


19 sent to jail in six-year-old girl's rape, murder case in Karachi
[DAWN] KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Tuesday sent 19 suspects to prison in a case pertaining to the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl.

The victim had gone missing on Jan 25 from a wedding hall in Orangi Town and her body was found in an underground water tank in the hall on Jan 31. She along with her parents and a younger sister had gone to attend the marriage of her neighbours.

The police recently enjugged
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
some employees of the wedding hall and after the end of their physical remand, the investigation officer produced them in court again.

A judicial magistrate (west) sent them to prison on judicial remand and directed the IO to complete the investigation and submit a report.

The police said that an initial medical report confirmed that the victim was subjected to a sexual assault and died due to cardio-respiratory failure.

However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
the report of a chemical examiner was still awaited while the DNA samples of the suspects had also been sent for analysis, they added.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


'Pakistan, a nuclear power that can't operate a small steel mill?'
[DAWN]
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Once the producer of almost half the country's steel needs, state-owned Pakistan Steel Mills' (PSM) cavernous factory buildings on the outskirts of the metropolis stand eerily still.

There's your problem, right there. Probably costs less to get it from China in any event.
Posted by: Raj || 02/18/2016 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  OWG Co-Superpower IRAN = OWG Co-Superpower Wannabe + Iran Best-Frenemy-Forevar! PAKISTAN = PAKISTAN-NEEDS-EVERYTHING-FROM-ANYONE = PAKISTAN STILL HAS A CHANCE TO PAR OR USURP IRAN???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/18/2016 1:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Coverage suitable for missile assembly.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/18/2016 14:53 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Jesus does not want you to be hit men, pope tells Mexican youth
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saying Jesus would never ask them to be “hit men”, Pope Francis begged young people in Mexico’s gang-infested heartland on Tuesday to shun the lure of easy money and big cars offered by drug traffickers.

Gang wars over the methamphetamine trade have torn the western state of Michoacan apart. Widespread kidnapping and extortion by gangs have sparked an uprising by vigilante groups.

“It is a lie to believe that the only way to live, or to be young, is to entrust oneself to drug dealers or others who do nothing but sow destruction and death,” he told young people at a stadium rally in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan.

“Jesus would never ask us to be hit men,” the pope said. “He would never send us out to death.”
Mom wouldn't want them to, either. So why do they do it?
The money's good and the wimmin love them...
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  D *** NG, I KNEW IT!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/18/2016 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  When Pope Gramsci I sends the message that covetousness is a virtue, not a vice - which he frequently does - he also sends the message that anything done in the name of envy is OK.

That's why they want to be hit men, father. If you spent more time trying to save the souls of your flock and less trying to be a leftist SJW, maybe these boys would understand that the impulse to make lots of money to be "equal" by any means necessary is wrong in the first place.
Posted by: no mo uro || 02/18/2016 5:46 Comments || Top||

#3  While that is true, in the realm of what Yeshua would do, chasing your ass with a whip is very much in the realm of possibility.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/18/2016 10:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Probably about as useful as Clinton's "midnight basketball" as a crime prevention tool.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/18/2016 12:53 Comments || Top||

#5  At least he got one thing right.
Posted by: newc || 02/18/2016 17:30 Comments || Top||

#6  In denial about the fact protestant and jewish societies are generally more civil and better run than catholic ones.
Posted by: phil_b || 02/18/2016 18:53 Comments || Top||

#7  There are a lot of 'Jesus' in Mexico. I suspect some would indeed want you to be a hit man.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/18/2016 20:54 Comments || Top||



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