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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Female murder suspect wanted in Chicago found living at NAS Key West
Your unit is now available. Call Base Housing for details.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2016 01:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rutherford-Brown also goes by the name Jackie Brown.

Was she 'Rutherford', 'Brown', or "Rutherford-Brown' at the time of the crime? Was she married prior to the murder, or afterwards? No mention of her husband being arrested as well.

Apparently it pays to do a background check prior to getting hitched.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/18/2016 16:19 Comments || Top||

#2  So much for ID at the gate.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2016 18:10 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Korean War MOH
Posted by: Airandee || 04/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mr. Cafferata's commanding officers later "counted approximately one hundred Chinese dead around the ditch where he had fought that night but had decided not to put the figure into their report because they thought that no one would believe it."
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/18/2016 10:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Mr Cafferata occasionally attended events for Medal of Honor recipients but generally kept quiet about his wartime experiences..

The real heroes usually do
Posted by: Frank G || 04/18/2016 11:24 Comments || Top||

#3  This guys story should be made into a movie. That's an incredible read.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/18/2016 15:31 Comments || Top||

#4  rj, why would Hollywood want to make a movie about an AMERICAN hero?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/18/2016 15:43 Comments || Top||

#5  This guys story should be made into a movie.

I thought it was.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/18/2016 16:17 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Rape and brutal murder of 6-year-old Afghan girl in Iran sparks anger
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A horrific report has emerged from Iran regarding the brutal murder of a 6-year-old Afghan girl who was initially raped by a teenage Iranian.

The brutal murder of the girl, Setayish Quraishi, has sparked anger both in Afghanistan and outside, with the local media reports in Iran saying the perpetrator was a 17-year-old Iranian national.

The reports further added that the incident took place in Khairabad area in Veramin city in the outskirts of Tehran, the scenic provincial capital of Iran.

According to the reports, the girl was initially kidnapped and was raped by the teenager Iranian who then murdered by stabbing her to death.

The girl was also burnt with acid in a bid to hide the brutal rape and murder incident, the reports said, adding that the perpetrator attempted to burn the victim after his friend denied to help him.

He was locked away
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
by police after reports regarding the brutal murder and rape of the girl spread in the society.

According to the semi-official Fars News Agency, a number of high level officials, including the Afghan ambassador to Iran have visited the family of the victim to offer condolences regarding the horrific incident.

The father of the victim has been reported to be a labourer who migrated to Iran nearly 16 years ago. He has demanded the authorities to serve justice and hang the perpetrator for the brutal murder of his daughter.
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hang the son of a bitch? That's ALL? What kind of a father is that?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 04/18/2016 6:46 Comments || Top||

#2  One who knows the more likely result will be the condemnation of his daughter as an adulterer.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/18/2016 7:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah! hang him! Don't they know that you must wait until they are nine before you rape them 'consummate your marriage'?

/SARC
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/18/2016 10:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Are they sure it's not just a cultural difference?
Posted by: gorb || 04/18/2016 12:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Does the father have 4 male witnesses?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/18/2016 14:00 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela: No toilet paper and now lousy phone service
Things in Venezuela keep finding ways to get worse. Because of acute shortages, people can't find basics like toilet paper. Now, it will be harder to make overseas calls or watch pay TV.

The global drop in oil prices has made dollars much more scarce in Venezuela -- which is dependent almost totally on petroleum for hard currency. Local telecoms companies don't have greenbacks to pay international suppliers. President Nicolas Maduro's leftist government controls the currency market, and distributes dollars to private companies as it sees fit.

The government owes local companies around 700 million dollars, which these firms need to honor obligations with foreign providers, according to the Chamber of Telecommunications Services Companies.

As a result, for instance, the Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica will temporarily suspend this week long distance phone service for calls to countries such as the United States, Spain, Mexico, Italia, Brazil, Colombia and Panama. Mobile phone company Digitel, which is privately owned, has halted long distance calling services and international roaming since April 9 because it cannot reach agreement with providers on new payment timetables.

But it is not just telephone service that is affected. State-run television company Cantv, which provides cable service, says it is reviewing contracts with providers of local and international content. That means there is less to watch on TV in Venezuelan living rooms.

The state regulator, the National Telecommunications Commission, admits there is a problem and blames the lack of dollars.

The government says Venezuela's oil revenue went from 37.2 billion dollars in 2014 to 12.6 billion dollars last year. And the country is saddled with commercial debts of 12.5 billion dollars.

Companies are desperate to raise rates. Industry sources say that Telefonica's mobile branch Movistar was given permission in 2014 to raise its rates by 35 percent, while inflation was running at 68 percent; in 2015 it won a 35 percent rise, with inflation at 181 percent. Still, regulators denied local operators permission to rate their rates in February and March.

The operators say they need a rate hike badly because foreign providers' costs are rising in the wake of a 37 percent devaluation of the Bolivar in February and because of rampant inflation.

All the debt and the delays in gaining rate hikes also mean the sector cannot make the investments it needs -- an estimated billion dollars a year. So coverage and service quality are suffering.

With prices so low, Venezuelans are tripping over each other to sign up for cell phone and mobile Internet packages. But the industry cannot keep up because of the lack of investment, the chamber of commerce said. So networks will become saturated and service will decline, the chamber said in a recent report.

Venezuela is one of Latin America's biggest consumers of mobile data. The country has 65 percent penetration in cable and satellite TV, and 99 percent cell phone penetration, regulators say.

All this comes on top of the day to day problems Venezuelans face just trying to buy basic necessities like food and medicine. This also stems from the shortage of dollars. The economy contracted 5.7 percent in 2015.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No TP is how you know for sure that your are living in a genuine workers' paradise.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/18/2016 18:04 Comments || Top||

#2  You went full Soviet, Venezuela. Never go full Soviet.
Posted by: charger || 04/18/2016 20:13 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Failed Obama 'Reset' Has Encouraged Russian Aggression
[Daily Signal] People seem a bit surprised--even perplexed--by the breathless news reports and video of Russian warplanes "buzzing" an American warship operating in international waters in the Baltic Sea this week.

The reality is that they shouldn’t be.

That, of course, isn’t to say that we shouldn’t be deeply troubled for the safety of our sailors on the USS Donald Cook at the hands of some "hot dog" Russian pilots involved in reckless and provocative actions that could have had dire and or unintended consequences.

But, that said, there’s a method to Moscow’s madness.

First, there’s the matter of geography. The Baltic Sea has long been a Russian security priority. For instance, the Baltic waters lap up against the Russian coast at the iconic city of St. Petersburg (once Leningrad), where a successful invading force could drive into the heart of Russia, including reaching Moscow.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union controlled the southern Baltic Sea coastline from Russia through the Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia), across Poland and into East Germany. In Moscow’s eyes at that time, the Baltic Sea should be a Soviet "lake."

Today, rather than lined with Soviet Republics and loyal members of the Warsaw Pact, that same coastline is instead populated with NATO states with rough relations with the Russians. That’s not at all comforting to Kremlin & Co.

The only section of the southern Baltic Coast that isn’t part of NATO is Kaliningrad, a Russia-controlled outpost between Poland and Lithuania that Russia sees as not only isolated and vulnerable, but strategic to Russian security.

Indeed, after the less-than-stellar response to the Crimea crisis, there’s been a constant concern among some that Moscow might try to carve out a Russian-controlled access route to Kaliningrad through NATO member Lithuania

Of course, taking on NATO is different than taking on Ukraine.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course, taking on NATO is different than taking on Ukraine

Because it is easier & safer. NATO won't shoot back.

The New West European Caliphate that is going to establish itself in the former territory of France and Germany on the other hand...
Posted by: Nguard || 04/18/2016 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  "We've liberated you from Napoleon & Hitler. We'll liberate you from Caliphate", sorta thing, Nguard?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/18/2016 3:07 Comments || Top||

#3  In political terms - power abhors a vacuum.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/18/2016 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Hemingwey?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/18/2016 8:51 Comments || Top||

#5  "We've liberated you from Napoleon & Hitler. We'll liberate you from Caliphate", sorta thing,
Possibly, in the sense that eastern Europe & East Germany were "liberated" by the Soviet Union.

The European "quadrille of Nations" and the related cycle of empire will now commence.

Ah, well, the unipolar world moment was fun while it lasted.
Posted by: Nguard || 04/18/2016 15:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Even talking about expanding NATO into Ukraine was stupid. Far dumber than the reset, they pushed the Russian Paranoia button over and over.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/18/2016 16:11 Comments || Top||

#7  With hindsight letting the Baltic states join NATO was a mistake that reinforced the Russian view that are being surrounded by hostile states. There should have been a treaty to make them neutral like Finland.
Posted by: phil_b || 04/18/2016 18:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Never-before-seen video prosecutor used to throw out Michelle Fields' case
For your consideration.
Once-secret video footage shows the entire story behind the Donald Trump-Michelle Fields controversy.

A video obtained by BizPac Review reveals how former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields ignored warning by US Secret Service agents to move away from Trump’s "secure area" at a Florida press conference where she was later pulled away by Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

As reported, Secret Service agents can be seen telling Fields she was in a secure area where she was not supposed to be, in the beginning of the video footage.

Agents directed Fields to where the press was allowed to be. Fields is seen in the video going to the media area, but right when the Secret Service agent turned his back, Fields ran back to the secure area she was told not to enter.
Posted by: gorb || 04/18/2016 13:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Typical self entitled progressive bitch.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/18/2016 15:20 Comments || Top||

#2  The whole thing was a set up. Dunno who she's working for but it wasn't Breitbart.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/18/2016 18:15 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
'You're Bald! Your Nose Is Big!' Moment Shocked Kate Heard What Cheerleaders Sang About Wills
This is the Duchess of Cambridge's priceless reaction after being told of the obscenities being chanted at Prince William by female cheerleaders during the royal couple's tour of Bhutan.

"You're bald! You're a baldy! Your nose is really big! We hope your private parts are as big," chanted the cheerleaders as the heir to the British throne took part in an archery competition.
Who do these people think they are? Republican presidential candidates or something?!
The cheerleaders had not just singled out the Prince though - rude songs are part of the archery tradition in the mountain kingdom. It is commonplace for the women to chant nasty things to try and put off archers from opposing teams. The chants were barely needed though, as William failed to hit the target.

Archery is the national sport in Bhutan.

The Duchess also tried the archery but was as successful as her husband. They also took part in a traditional dart-like game called Khuru, where the arrow is made of tree branches and bird feathers.

The royal couple are on a seven-day tour of India and Bhutan and arrived in the mountain kingdom on Thursday.
Posted by: gorb || 04/18/2016 13:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Government
Beyond Obamacare: Colorado Considers Single-Payer Model
[Daily Signal] As Republican policymakers nationwide continue debating ways to replace Obamacare with patient-centered solutions, a Colorado group has landed a plan implementing a single-payer model of health care on November’s ballot. Coloradans are already bracing for its impact.

In the general election, Colorado residents will not only head to the polls to cast their votes for president, but they’ll also weigh in on a controversial ballot measure: Amendment 69, which would create a government-run health care plan in the Centennial State.

The plan, formally known as ColoradoCare, is the first in the country that would replace Obamacare, action made possible by Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act, which allows states to receive a waiver from the health care law if their own plan provides residents with "access to high quality, affordable health insurance while retaining the basic protections of" the health care law.

In Obamacare’s place: universal health care.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Forty years ago when I lived in Denver, a popular bumper sticker at the time read, "DON'T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO!"

Clearly, the message wasn't heeded.
Posted by: Dave D. || 04/18/2016 7:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Colo not the first State on this.

VT implemented such a plan in 2011 and abandoned it by the end of 2014 because it would have required a massive tax increase.
Posted by: lord garth || 04/18/2016 7:48 Comments || Top||

#3  "DON'T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO!"

Well, when the state Trunk leadership tells its (now former) registered voters to 'FO', it only accelerates the transition.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/18/2016 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  It sounds good, until they realize the tax hike that goes along with it.

Plus, if you love the DMV or the VA, then government run healthcare is for you!
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/18/2016 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  CO's health insurance COOP failed just before fall enrollment opened last year, so the state has a proud history of healthcare failure. The smart thing would be to tax the weed dispensaries only -- because it's the one business that can't leave the state.
Posted by: regular joe || 04/18/2016 11:25 Comments || Top||

#6  doubling down on a broken straight
Posted by: Angoling Prince of the Sith1435 || 04/18/2016 14:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Voters to FO? No, get your shit together and get to the caucuses like I did, ya mindless Trumpkin. Doing it every year, helped pass rules in the off years, etc. Why the changes to caucuses came in: to prevent the Denver Country Club elites from parachuting in their anointed one and backing him with immense amounts of money. Caucuses require you to get local and meet the people and work the precincts. They also allow grass root candidates access to the ballot and a chance at winning. Primaries are a bueaty contest and depend on low information voters being bought by TV ads. Caucuses are the most grass roots representative democracy way of working things. You argue, you discuss, then you select someone from your neighborhood to represent you at the county meetings. County meeting do the same thing for State convention and Congressional Districts. Candidates are nominated there by the delegates we personally chose to represent us. None of this "superdelegate" crap the Dems have. Reps elected by the grass roots. Rules nominated and voted on by the grass roots and our representatives.

Now do you understand?

Posted by: Harry Ulumble6172 || 04/18/2016 15:25 Comments || Top||

#8  That's how you got a bartender for Governor, Harry?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2016 17:45 Comments || Top||

#9  Primaries are a bueaty contest and depend on low information voters being bought by TV ads.

And as if you haven't been paying any attention for the past 16 years, that's how the general elections have gone. Those are the people you want to engage if you want to win in November. Your party activists and insiders don't carry enough votes then no matter how grass roots and 'democratic' you think it is.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/18/2016 18:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Lickenpooper was a barkeep? Did we just find Hillary!'s VP pick?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/18/2016 18:47 Comments || Top||

#11  From what I've read it looks like the Trump campaign didn't bother getting people on the ground in Colorado in time, being more interested in sweeping New York.

As for the primaries being a beauty contest, I always vote for the person I think will be the best for the country of those who survived to get to Ohio. Inevitably, my first choice has already fallen by the wayside, and generally my next several choices, too. In other words, for me it's an ugly contest.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/18/2016 19:48 Comments || Top||



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