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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Texas Man Allegedly ‘Having Sex With a Fence' Arrested for Exposure
[Breitbart] A police report reveals that Eleodoro Estala, 32, was seen by a neighbor urinating on the grass but when he saw the neighbor taking video of him with her cell phone he took off his clothing and began thrusting himself into the fence that separates their properties, according to CBS 47.
I have been drunk, but never "That fence looks like a 10" drunk.
Hence the term 'jumping the fence.'
Go. To. Your. Room.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 03/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2017 4:34 Comments || Top||

#2  And another delincuente sexual registrado is born.
Posted by: JHH || 03/06/2017 13:35 Comments || Top||

#3  A whole new meaning to the term "woodie" is now born.....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/06/2017 18:36 Comments || Top||

#4  In his case, does the splinters add or takeaway from the pleasure?
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 03/06/2017 21:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Vicente Fox is kinda into this, isn't he?
Posted by: charger || 03/06/2017 22:18 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Barbra Streisand Claims Donald Trump Is Making Her Gain Weight
Seems to be "triggered" into pancakes.

So, who's making her [insert favorite adjective here]?

500 quatloos to best entry!


Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 03/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No, your fat mouth is making you gain weight.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/06/2017 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if my wife will buy that excuse from me?
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/06/2017 1:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought she was moving to Canada or Oz if Trump won. What is she still doing in country?
Posted by: 3dc || 03/06/2017 2:25 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought she was moving to Canada or Oz if Trump won. What is she still doing in country?

She's been told - by people who ought to know, that Trump's presidency is not for long.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/06/2017 2:42 Comments || Top||

#5  At breakfast, alone, she's indignant.
Existence grows empty and stagnant.
Please, Prez, call this fresser
And help her address her
Obsession with Donald Trump regnant.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/06/2017 3:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Please, just KEEP EATING !
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2017 3:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Her body is trying to catch up with her bloated ego
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 03/06/2017 5:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Southpark had this plot many years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZC67Qr-68
Posted by: lord garth || 03/06/2017 6:42 Comments || Top||

#9  "Isn't it rich?
Aren't we a pair?
Me, here, putting on pounds,
You with the hair.
Bring on the pounds"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2017 10:00 Comments || Top||

#10  The good news is that if she's eating she can't sing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/06/2017 11:49 Comments || Top||

#11  wasn't she supposed to leave the country?
Posted by: Jan || 03/06/2017 12:52 Comments || Top||

#12  She eats all those pancakes in loving memory of Rachel Corrie.
Posted by: regular joe || 03/06/2017 13:22 Comments || Top||

#13  Two delightful turns from Zenobia F and Frank G.

A note with regard to "Please, Prez, call this fresser":

In German, the verb essen, to eat only refers to what people do. Fressen, to eat means when animals gobble their food without even the thought of manners. I discovered accidentally that the two terms are not interchangeable, no matter what my various German-English dictionaries say. Trust our Zenobia F to come up with yet another multilingual reference -- and this is just the audience able to appreciate such things properly. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2017 13:49 Comments || Top||

#14  I caught the fressen remark. Zenobia---Well done! No pun intended.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/06/2017 13:57 Comments || Top||

#15  Babs has a 'nose' for bs and it's weighing her down.
Posted by: warthogswife || 03/06/2017 14:38 Comments || Top||

#16  Learned the difference btw fressen & essen at my grandmothers knee 60 years ago.

Children essed and pets fressed.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/06/2017 15:10 Comments || Top||

#17  Ja wohl, Alan. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 03/06/2017 20:11 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Pirates in Nigeria release Russian, Ukrainian sailors
[Ynet] Nigerian pirates have released seven Russian and one Ukrainian sailors after they were captured last month on the fat merchantman the BBC Caribbean, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday, citing a human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
activist in Crimea.

The sailors were released after talks between the owners of the ship and pirates.

Interfax news agency quoted human rights activist Pavel Butsay, in the city of Sevastopol, as saying the sailors were at a Frankfurt airport and planned to return home next week.

Butsay told TASS news agency that a ransom was paid but did not reveal the sum.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Pirates


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Donetsk water plant shuts down after only one day


The Avdievka water plant, repaired only hours before after nearly 10 days of being offline, is once against offline due to artillery shelling, according to Russian language news accounts.

According to several Ukrainian news accounts, shelling from Russian backed rebels damaged power transmission lines to the plant. However, rebel media claim it was shelling by Ukrainian forces which forced the shutdown of the plant.

In the time between repair of the plant and the latest shutdown, the town of Avdievka managed to increase their water reserves which were low after being shut down after several days of shelling. None of the other nearby towns on both sides of the line of contact have released information about the condition of their supplies.

Rebel media reports say that Ukrainian forces started shelling the plant at around 0830 hours March 5th, forcing workers at the plant to seek shelter. But according to a news account in korrespondent.net, rebel shelling commenced at 1610 on March 5th, and caused damage to the power lines servicing the plant.

According to a news report in lb.ua, Ukrainian forces lost one killed and 12 wounded in ongoing fighting in Donetsk and Lugansk, with Ukrainian forces suffering hits by rebel artillery in most of the same places suffered over the last two days near the Mariupol region, near the Sea of Azov.

According to a news account in censor.net.ua, rebel forces hit Ukrainian positions with mortar and tank gun fire at Avdievka, Butova mine, Peski, Opytnoye, Verkhnetoretskoye, Zaitsevo and Kamenka.

In Lugansk, rebel 152mm artillery struck Ukrainian positions at Kalinovo, Popasnaya, Novozvanovka and Troitskoye.

According to rebel media, a total of 19 residential buildings were damaged in Ukrainian shelling over the previous 24 hours. One news release from the Donetsk ministry of defense said that Ukrainian forces fired on rebel positions on the line of contact in Donetsk more than 2,400 times, which is a nearly 50 percent increase from the previous day. That number includes small arms fire as well as artillery shelling.

Of the total of residential buildings damaged, four were in the Petrovskiy district of western Donetsk city, 11 were in Gorlovka, which is directly north of Donetsk city, three in Yasinovataya and one in Dokuchaevsk.

Among the 13 towns and villages hit by Ukrainian artillery were Staromikailovka, Trudovskoye, Yrlrnovka, in western Donetsk city, Yasinovataya, Spartak, Zaitsevo and Gorlovka.

Four villages near Mariupol were hit by Ukrainian artillery including Dokuchaevsk, Bezimya, Sahanka and Kominternovo.

A separate rebel news release said that two rebel soldiers were killed and one was wounded in the shelling.

According to a separate account which appeared in novorosinform.org quoting militiamen near the Mariupol region, two small Ukrainian Navy boats, said to be moored in Mariupol went to a position about one kilometer offshore of Bezymennoye and started firing heavy machine guns at rebel troops stationed there. Rebel troops returned fire. The gun battle last 30 minutes before the boats returned to base.
Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Malaysia expels ‘rude’ North Korean ambassador over Kim Jong-nam assassination row
[SCMP] North Korea’s ambassador to Malaysia has been ordered to leave the country by a deadline of 6pm Monday in a major break in diplomatic relations over the airport liquidation of the half-brother of Pyongyang’s leader.

Malaysia said it expelled ambassador Kang Chol for refusing to apologise for his strong accusations over Malaysia’s handling of the investigation into the February 13 killing of Kim Jong-nam at Kuala Lumpur’s airport.

North Korea has not acknowledged the dead man’s identity but has repeatedly disparaged the murder investigation, accusing Malaysia of conniving with its enemies.

Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said a notice was sent to the North Korean Embassy about 6pm Saturday, declaring Chol persona non grata. The notice meant that Kang must leave the country within 48 hours.

Arch-rival South Korea has blamed the North for the murder, citing what they say was a standing order from leader Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
to kill his exiled half-brother who may have been seen as a potential rival.

The diplomatic spat erupted last month when Malaysian police rejected North Korean diplomats’ demands to hand over Kim’s body.

Kang then claimed the investigation was politically motivated and said Kuala Lumpur was conspiring with "hostile forces".

Malaysia had summoned Kang for a dressing-down over his accusation, with Prime Minister Najib Razak describing the ambassador’s statement as "totally uncalled for [and] diplomatically rude".
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Surprised he didn't defect. Can't be expecting a warm welcome back home.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/06/2017 14:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually, can expect a very warm welcome back home.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/06/2017 14:44 Comments || Top||

#3  "we're holding a military exercise in your honor. Step right up"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2017 16:11 Comments || Top||


Europe
France's Fillon apologises to supporters, says is innocent
[GEO.TV] Under-pressure French conservative Francois Fillon apologised to his supporters Sunday for the fake jobs scandal that threatens to sink his presidential bid but said he was sure he would be proved innocent.

In a speech closely watched for signs he could abandon his campaign, Fillon told a crowd of tens of thousands near the Eiffel Tower that he had made a "mistake" by employing his wife Penelope as his parliamentary assistant.

Fillon, who is to be charged this month over claims he paid British-born Penelope and their children nearly 900,000 euros ($950,000) of public funds for doing little work, said he was convinced he would eventually be found not guilty.

"The problem is that by then it will be too late, the election will have been skewed," 63-year-old Fillon said, as British-born Penelope watched him from the stage.

Some senior politicians in his Republicans party have called for Fillon to be replaced immediately, with polls currently suggesting he would be eliminated in the first round of the election on April 23.

Examine your conscience

Polls show far-right leader Marine Le Pen and 39-year-old centrist Emmanuel Macron would progress to the runoff on May 7.

Former prime minister Alain Juppe, 71, has indicated to AFP through his entourage that he could be ready to replace Fillon as the rightwing candidate.

The Republicans party leadership is to meet on Monday evening.

Addressing his words to them at the rally, he said: "I have examined my conscience, now it is time for you to examine yours."
Update from An Nahar at 3:55 p.m. ET:
"I confirm for a final time that I will not be a candidate to be president of the republic," Juppe said in a downbeat statement that criticized Fillon and said France was "sick" and suffering from a "profound crisis of confidence."
So that's that.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Police arrest 70 suspects during Peshawar raids
[GEO.TV] Police during raids on Sunday placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
70 suspects including one runaway from various areas of the picturesque provincial capital.

Police arrested the suspects from the jurisdiction of Khan Razzaq and Taj Abad cop shoppes.

Police took into custody 32 suspects for failing to fill out the data of tenancy.

During the raid, 37 suspects were also arrested. Two pistols, dozens of cartridges, marijuana, and alcohol were also recovered from the suspects’ possession.

Police have registered cases against the suspects under arrest.

Earlier today, police arrested four suspects during a robbery on Sunday.

According to the police, the suspects, who are all Afghan nationals, are a part of a mobile snatching group. Later, the group smuggled the stolen mobile phones to Afghanistan, said SSP Operations Sajid Khan.

As many as 146 mobile phones were also recovered from the suspect’s possession, added SSP Khan.

Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Science & Technology
Russia's developing 100 megaton dirty Tsunami Creating submarine drone bomb
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More proof of Trump's Russian political dealings - just think what American politics would look like without the coastal cities? Democrat vote would be cut in half. (/s)
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/06/2017 1:34 Comments || Top||

#2  So sad. A great nuclear nation
In impotent fear of crustacean.
"Oh, Ivan," cried Shrimpie,
"You're not a bit wimpy!
Is wonderful thing, compensation."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/06/2017 4:28 Comments || Top||

#3  One up the Potomac and one in the east bay should do it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2017 4:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Will there be an Earth-shattering kaboom?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/06/2017 12:26 Comments || Top||

#5  just think what American politics would look like without the coastal cities? Democrat vote would be cut in half.

I would think that the other half would be converts to Conservatism real fast.
Posted by: gorb || 03/06/2017 13:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Would work real well in the Bosphorus.
Posted by: phil_b || 03/06/2017 15:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Just what we need - a new angle on the next Godzilla movie.
Posted by: Raj || 03/06/2017 15:49 Comments || Top||

#8  An old German barkeep of Chatham
Set sail in an uppity stratum.
Her staff were such dishes
That all the high fishes
Jumped over the bar to get at 'em.

Phantom rhymes... phantom subject... next stop, five blank lines. Or the beach.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/06/2017 16:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Wonderful what one can do with online rhyme generators.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2017 22:13 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2017-03-06
  New wave of US air raids on Qaeda in Yemen
Sun 2017-03-05
  Jordan hangs 15 death row prisoners at dawn in further break from moratorium on executions
Sat 2017-03-04
  Kurdish YPG fighters repel treacherous Turkish attack near Syria’s Afrin
Fri 2017-03-03
  Syrian Army recaptures Palmyra, aided by Russian Air Force: Kremlin
Thu 2017-03-02
  Islamic State supreme leader’s speech admits defeat in Mosul
Wed 2017-03-01
  Two women in nerve agent attack on Kim Jong-nam charged with murder
Tue 2017-02-28
  Islamic State claims attempted bombing in Algeria -AMAQ
Mon 2017-02-27
  Taliban shadow governor among 21 killed in counter-terrorism operations
Sun 2017-02-26
  Hamas Diggers Dead in Gaza Tunnel ‘Work Accident'
Sat 2017-02-25
  Iraq Forces Enter First West Mosul Neighborhood
Fri 2017-02-24
  German police arrest 26-year-old over terror plot
Thu 2017-02-23
  Pakistan Army launches 'Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad' across the country
Wed 2017-02-22
  Suicide bombers attack Pakistani court, killing seven, as wave of violence continues
Tue 2017-02-21
  Libyan PM survives assassination attempt in Tripoli
Mon 2017-02-20
  Iraq Digs Anti-IS Trench around City of Ramadi


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