Lengthy 'cry me a river' article. Follows is an Excerpt:
[NYT of course] She lost her military security clearance; her promotion from major to lieutenant colonel was revoked when the news broke. The F.B.I. still has her computers -- including her dissertation research -- and she withdrew from her Ph.D. program. She said she was told in more than one job interview that, while she was qualified, hiring her would be a public-relations nightmare.
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Her cheated-on husband and 2 kids get exactly two mentions each
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Monica Lewinsky is still paying for the wrong choice she made at twenty. At least Ms Broadwell has a very good life to look back on while she regrets having ruined it. But if she didn't have her research backed up in a cloud in case her computer crashed, she's a fool.
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...They both had it coming - Petraeus for allowing himself to fall victim to General Officers' Syndrome, and Broadwell for not giving a flying fark about her job, commission, or family. I have no sympathy for either of these idiots.
Mike
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Q: What are three words you never want to hear from an old grilfriend?
[LATIMES] The five men showed up at the Hooters parking lot in Ontario. But they weren’t there to eat chicken wings served by scantily clad waitresses.
Authorities said the men were associates of the Sinaloa narco mob who were there try to sell 53 pounds of methamphetamine wrapped in 42 clear plastic bags.
The men, who were nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Thursday by the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Investigation’s Inland Crackdown Allied Task Force, are accused of trying to sell meth to undercover officers, authorities said.
The five were arrested outside of Hooters on suspicion of transporting methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine for sales and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, KABC-TV reported. They were identified as Benjamin Machado-Morales, Heriberto Coronado-Martin, Eric Villareal-Aguilar, Eduardo Ruano-Alvarez and Hector Marroquin.
They are being held in San Bernardino County’s West Valley Detention Center, officials said.
The drugs had a street value of $2.6 million.
A 2014 report from state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris’ office stated that Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, has emerged as the major gateway for methamphetamine into the rest of the country. It estimated that 70% of the U.S. supply traveled through state border crossings and linked Southern California gangs with Mexican cartels.
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Hooters must have been sponsoring a bike ralley that day.
[REUTERS] Forty-one U.S. Secret Service employees have been disciplined over a media leak of the personal files of a congressman who had criticized the agency's security lapses, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.
Punishments ranged from a letter of reprimand to suspensions without pay for up to 45 days, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said in a statement.
One person found to have disclosed information on Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz to the Washington Post has resigned from the service, Johnson said, noting that privacy laws prevented disclosure of more details.
The latest embarrassment for the Secret Service came as it seeks to recover from a leadership crisis and mend a culture of covering up mistakes that some trace back 12 years to when it was pulled out of the Treasury Department and absorbed into the sprawling new Department of Homeland Security.
More than 40 Secret Service employees accessed the personal information of Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who was leading a probe of the agency, according to a report in September by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General.
Soon after Chaffetz held a hearing on the agency in March, various media reported that he had been rejected for a Secret Service job in 2003.
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Well it is called the 'Secret' service. They were just following the Lois Lerner and IRS model.
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Good. No, excellent. This may be bureaucratic arrogance, but the seedlings of a Praetorian Guard should be stomped, uprooted, scorched, and the ground sowed with salt.
[Huffpoo] New Orleans Pelicans guard Bryce Dejean-Jones died of a gunshot wound on Saturday, and the NBA player's agent said it was because he mistakenly entered into the wrong apartment.
The 23-year-old was shot early Saturday at an apartment in Dallas, police said. The resident told officers he was asleep when an intruder kicked open the front door and entered the home. The trespasser allegedly did not respond to calls from the resident, who then retrieved a handgun. He fired his weapon when the suspect kicked in the bedroom door, according to a police report. The intruder was wounded and left the apartment.
Police found the suspect collapsed in the breezeway after responding around 3:20 a.m. and transported him to a hospital, where he died of his injuries, police said. He was identified as Dejean-Jones.
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Yeah, I always kick in the door of my own residence
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How long before we hear his family talking about what a "good kid" he was and how "deyze been robbed" by the eeeevil gun owner? How long before we hear his coach talking about what a bright future he had and "everybody on the team loved him?" How long before we get the newspaper article about the 10 year old boy who idolized him and had a bassetbaw shirt with his number on it?
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...Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Looking forward to the tox screen.
Mike
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In anger? Rather as a matter of cold calculation, you sad inheritor of a once-serious profession.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] MSNBC breaking news host and ex-NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was allowed out on MSNBC’s airwaves early Friday afternoon to discuss President B.O.’s visit to Hiroshima so he could resurrect a taped report that aired in 2005 on the 60th anniversary of the nuclear bomb’s dropping on the Japanese city.
In the course of discussing the event afterward, though, Williams threw some shade in the direction of the U.S. military and then-President Harry Truman by complaining that "we’re the only nation to have used them in anger" against the horrifying Axis Powers member.
Leading up to that, Mitchell pointed out that the current President has shown an interest in nuclear disarmament since he took office but lamented has made little progress since the most recent conference in D.C. "because Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... -- the other great nuclear power and the other curb on proliferation after the Cold War was the Soviet Union wasn’t present, was boycotting because of other tensions, tensions over Ukraine."
NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss compared the President’s Hiroshima speech to that of "John Kennedy at the American University -- so close to where we are now in 1963 and that was given with the same motive which was that was a time when talks about a test-ban treaty had been installed."
Asked by Mitchell to comment on the push by then-Senators Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) and Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) to curb the use of nuclear material, Williams initially praised them, but then took a swipe at the entire reason that Truman had the bombs dropped (which was to end the war):
It is and that is still the threat that people worry about that this material will fall into the wrong hands. If people have found the U.S. to be preachy in the years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki about the use of weapons, it’s because we’re the only nation to have used them in anger. Sometimes, I am amazed that the world has been without these weapons all the years since, but it is a point of, a great pride by the people who have seen to it.
Of course, Williams has a past on this issue (as he does on most things -- including lying) going back to 2005 when, in addition to the taped piece, he pressed Enola Gay pilot Dutch Van Kirk on whether or not he has "remorse for what happened" and how he "deal[s] with" the bomb’s dropping psychologically.
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the only nation to have used them in anger
Certainly they were used in time of war perhaps not in anger but in hope.
The two bombings killed tens of thousands.
The resultant actions saved perhaps millions of lives of the alternative Allied invasion forces.
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War is fought in anger. We did not storm Normandy beach listening to Polka music. We went there to kill, in anger, and to make the cost of war so high on our enemies that they would rather live under our rule that fight us. Its angry business, the angrier we are, the shorter the war will be. This is what's wrong with the way America fights its wars today. Total war ends quickly, just ask Japan. Fight hard, get angry, win, get over it....
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Considering we haven't used them in over 70 years despite some people just begging for it, I'd say that's a better record than most other nations might have.
Remember this man, and his son, for the right reasons.
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As we remember those who served this great nation (and yes we are still great), thank those that continue to serve, let us have a special place in our hearts for those "that gave the last full measure of devotion".
Mr.Stewart is a genuine hero and paid the ultimate price of losing something he considered much more valuable than his own life.
[Al Ahram] At least 59 people were maimed in Guinea when youths frustrated they were being kept out of the opening of a new mosque in the town of Timbo clashed with police, a hospital director and witnesses said on Saturday.
Security officials stopped ordinary people from entering the mosque to allow local dignitaries to pass but youths became angry and threw stones and attempted to rush in, witnesses said. Police responded with teargas and beat back the youths.
"There was a huge clash between the police and the young people and clouds of tear gas. I saw old women pushed over by the surging crowd. It was serious," said Latif Haidera, a witness.
Mamadou Kouyate, the director of the regional hospital at Mamou, said 59 people were treated at his hospital alone following the incident on Friday in Timbo, which is about 260 km (163 miles) northeast of the capital Conakry.
About 85 percent of Guinea's population follows Sunni Islam and Timbo is a centre of Islamic learning and the capital of the Foutah branch of Islam in Guinea.
The town is also a stronghold of the political opposition to President Alpha Conde, though witnesses said the clash was not directly connected to national politics.
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typical Mosque house-warming party
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[Ynet] An Iranian delegation has left Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... without an agreement for its citizens to attend the Muslim haj pilgrimage this year, Saudi media have reported, a second failure by the rival Middle East powers to strike a deal.
Relations between the two countries plummeted after hundreds of Iranians died in a crush during last year's haj and after Riyadh broke diplomatic ties when its Tehran embassy was stormed in January over the Saudi execution of a Shi'ite holy man.
The dispute has provided another arena for discord between the conservative Sunni Muslim monarchy of Saudi Arabia and the revolutionary Shi'ite republic of Iran, which back opposing sides in Syria and other conflicts across the region.
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Get your pop-corn orders in this could get amusing.
[DAWN] An eight-year-old girl was raped before being thrown off the roof of her house in 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... ’s Superhighway Industrial Area Saturday, the girl’s post-mortem report revealed.
Police and hospital sources said the girl’s dead body was first brought to Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) at the Gul Goth area near Superhighway, but due to the unavailability of a female medico-legal officer, was shifted to Civil Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
Additional police surgeon at Civil Hospital, Dr. Qarar Ahmed told Dawn the girl’s autopsy report confirmed she was raped. Dr. Seemin Jamali, head of JPMC’s emergency department, told Dawn the girl sustained injuries on her head, adding that doctors also found "evidence of sexual assault".
Dr. Mubarak Pathan, a medico-legal officer at Civil Hospital, revealed that the victim’s family and police were reluctant to allow doctors to conduct an autopsy.
Station House Officer Site Superhighway Industrial Area, Asmatullah Marwat, had earlier quoted the dear departed’s maternal uncle as saying that the girl died after falling from the roof while playing.
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[HOSTED.AP.ORG] SpaceX pulled off another rocket landing Friday, the third in just under two months.
The first-stage booster of the unmanned Falcon rocket settled vertically onto a barge 400 miles off Florida's east coast, eight minutes after the late afternoon liftoff. Cameras on the barge provided stunning, real-time video.
"Falcon 9 has landed!" said a SpaceX flight commentator.
The touchdown occurred after the rocket launched an Asian communications satellite. Like the last successful landing, this one was especially difficult given the speed and heat of the incoming 15-story booster.
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The Navy’s experimental railgun fires a hardened projectile at staggering velocity—a battlefield meteorite with the power to blow holes in enemy ships and level terrorist camps.
Long piece at WSJ complete with images and video.
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Lotta WTF in the article.
Still hope it scares the poopoo out of potential targets.
VENICE (CBSLA.com) -- Vandals defaced a memorial to Vietnam war veterans in Venice an awful sight on this Memorial Day weekend.
Stewart Oscars welled up as he looked at the vandalized mural located on Pacific Avenue near Sunset Court. It was covered in graffiti from end to end.
"This knocked me out. So sickening. Just sadness...think of all these people. They gone," Oscars said. "I remember the Vietnam war and how friends went to war, and bodies came back. Somehow, it has to be taught that this is not a good idea. This is actually stupid."
The memorial was dedicated to service members who were listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War.
George Francisco is the Vice President of the Venice Chamber of Commerce. He also runs a nonprofit called Veterans Foundation Incorporated.
"Its a desecration. I mean it's very simple. There's no sort of other way around it. It isn't graffiti," Francisco said.
In March, Francisco helped to bring a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to Venice Beach. His father was a combat veteran in that war and also helped organize the effort to put up the mural in the late 1980's.
"I've known the sacrifices these people made in an incredibly unpopular war. So to continue the mistreatment of Vietnam veterans is somewhat shocking, somewhat shocking and quite sad," Francisco added.
People on this street said the memorial was tagged a few days ago. They said the graffiti matches some of the other ones in the neighborhood.
The Los Angeles Police Department said it is not investigating the case.
CBS2/KCAL9's Jeff Nguyen reached out to L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin, whose district includes Venice to see if anything can be done but has not heard back as of Friday night.
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Its California, what do you really expect from California. its that kind of place.
Nancy Pelosi comes from California, right? Go wipe your hands.
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The key to the story is that it is Mexican Gang graffiti, and the dumbshit tagged his gang name. This is about ignorant garbage from another country and culture that has no understanding respect or fear of the culture they take advantage of. What greater proof of the myth of assimilation when the numbers are so large they represent colonization not immigration.
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...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[DAWN] An eight-year-old girl was raped before being thrown off the roof of her house in 
