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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Officers used excessive force after I punched my lawyer in face, killer claims
[NJ] TRENTON - A man sentenced to 70 years in prison for murder has filed a lawsuit accusing Mercer County sheriff's officers of using excessive force when subduing him after he punched his defense attorney in the face during a court hearing.

Randy Washington, 36, was recently sentenced earlier this month to 70 years in prison for killing Silas Johnson in 2014 under a Route 1 overpass.

In the lawsuit filed three days before he was sentenced, Washington admits to punching his now-former attorney in the face in June, but claims he made no other threatening movements towards her.

"I hit my attorney, but when I hit her, I did not advance toward her, I just waited for the sheriff to come handcuff me," Washington wrote in the suit.

The incident happened just after closing arguments in the trial ended and the jury was dismissed for deliberations.

He claims that the sheriff's officers tackled him onto a table and later slammed him to the ground. One of the officer's knees came down on his wrist, breaking his hand, he alleges in the lawsuit.

Washington claims that once back at the jail, officers refused to send him to the hospital after telling the officers his hand was broken.

On July 6, a week after the incident, an X-ray revealed it was broken. He had a second X-ray on July 25, and had surgery Aug. 7, according to the lawsuit.

Washington claims that he received no medical treatment from the jail between July 6 and July 25, after the break in his hand was originally discovered.

Washington is seeking $1 million in compensation.

In addition to Johnson's killing, Washington is also accused of the July 2014 killing of George Jamison, 43, at a Trenton bus stop.

The Jamison killing, for which Washington has yet to be tried, sparked a four-month crime spree in which Washington committed several armed robberies before he was jugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
for Johnson's killing, Mercer County prosecutors have said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Feral monsters roaming urban jungles need to be culled not made rich.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Ebbaise1246 || 09/30/2017 2:29 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Black, Fat And Muslim: Detroit Model Doesn’t Mind Making People Uncomfortable
[DETROIT.CBSLOCAL] Bite me, Fatty. Being Moslem doesn't make you special. Being black doesn't make you special. Being fat doesn't make you special. Being all three at once makes you a dime a dozen. I'm not uncomfortable. I'm tired of the drammmmmma.
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let me be the first to compliment her on helping to make Detroit what it is today.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/30/2017 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't that the trifecta of Social JustUs? If she is also a clam digger, that would place her in a rarefied SJW butt sniffing circle.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Ebbaise1246 || 09/30/2017 2:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Put a bacon cheeseburger in front of it
Posted by: Frank G || 09/30/2017 9:16 Comments || Top||

#4  The face of Detroit.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/30/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Godzilla? Mohammedan model
Whom Christo himself couldn't swaddle.
Incessant the sermon
That's heard from Mount Vernon
In time with its wobbly waddle.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/30/2017 11:03 Comments || Top||

#6  I see she's out and about without a male relative.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/30/2017 12:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Didn't somebody say something about "...that's no way to go through life...?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/30/2017 14:44 Comments || Top||


Chinese scientists edit human embryo
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of which I Commanded you to never do.
Posted by: newc || 09/30/2017 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  It's coming whether you like it or not. Competitive (and mating) pressures will ensure it.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Ebbaise1246 || 09/30/2017 2:36 Comments || Top||

#3  A single genetic glitch may explain how Zika became so dangerous
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/30/2017 9:28 Comments || Top||

#4  they may just create a land of mutants, hopefully with atrophying grey matter and progressive physical degeneration
Posted by: 746 || 09/30/2017 10:51 Comments || Top||

#5  The Arabs do the same, just not in a lab.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/30/2017 11:13 Comments || Top||

#6  heh.

in the end, it is not funny, but that was
Posted by: newc || 09/30/2017 19:35 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Crowley Provides Update on Relief Effort in Puerto Rico
Hat tip: gCaptain. Includes a graphic by FEMA of the scope of the relief effort.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/30/2017 14:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Protest and pay! NBA sends memo to all 30 teams warning players they MUST stand for national anthem or face discipline - but says they may give a pregame 'message of unity' if they wish
[DailyMail] Thank goodness someone is learning from the NFL experience.
  • The National Basketball Association sent a memo late Friday to all 30 teams

  • The league told players to stand for the national anthem 'with no exceptions'

  • Memo suggests teams make an effort in their first home game to address the current political climate by having players and coaches address their fans
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...And I suspect the leagues' legal associates will be reviewing the 'messages of unity' to insure they are sufficiently vague to cover everything from global terrorism to my aunt's gout.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/30/2017 11:59 Comments || Top||

#2  NBA should do the right thing and make a fund to help transition gang members into honest careers or something. Really help the problem at its source. Do that and the 'message of unity' will go down better.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/30/2017 12:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Adam Silver (NBA commissioner) is a bigger squish than Goodell is. This surprises me. He must have seen the projected TV ratings had players gone through with their 'protests'.
Posted by: Raj || 09/30/2017 13:10 Comments || Top||

#4  the NBA is a bunch of gangsta wannabee's anyway, not worth the time to watch. Go Gonzaga!
Posted by: 746 || 09/30/2017 13:39 Comments || Top||


TN Titans’ Delanie Walker Tells Fans to Stay Home
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Apparently Tennessee Titans tight end, Delanie Walker, doesn’t know where his bread is buttered. He straight up told his fans to stay home if they don’t like the players protesting the National Anthem.
Brilliant. Simply brilliant.
Delanie Walker told the Tennessean:

“First off, I’m going to say this: We’re not disrespecting the military, the men and women that serve in the Army. That’s not what it’s all about,” Titans tight end Delanie Walker said. “If you look at most of the guys in here – I’ve been in the USO. I support the troops. This is not about that. It’s about equal rights, and that’s all everyone is trying to show, is that we all care about each other.

“And the fans that don’t want to come to the game? I mean, OK. Bye.
See ya!
I mean, if you feel that’s something, we’re disrespecting you, don’t come to the game.
They won't.
You don’t have to.
They don't have to pay money to watch you, Delanie.
No one’s telling you to come to the game.
...except for some cheap advertising...
It’s your freedom of choice to do that.”
Nobody needs to buy Delanie's cheap-ass bobblehead, or his jersey. There aren't any replica Superbowl rings I can recall...

NFL Favorability Gets Nearly Cut In Half After Anthem Protests
[DAILYCALLER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, bye.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/30/2017 1:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Let's see what's left for the players after expenses for network broadcast, stadium, concessions, merchandise, coaches, trainers, travel, agents, etc. when attendance and TV audience are cut in half. 2018 is going to be much fun.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Ebbaise1246 || 09/30/2017 2:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Why should he understand where his 'magic' check comes from any more than those who contemplate where the funding for their 'magic' EBT cards comes from.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/30/2017 5:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Ex 9er Kaepernick, ex-9er Walker, current 9er Reid - is it something in the water?
Posted by: Large Peacock6383 || 09/30/2017 11:13 Comments || Top||

#5  "We’re not disrespecting the military, the men and women that serve in the Army. That’s not what it’s all about”

What's the message on the Che Guevara t-shirt, then?

Maybe it's $13.3 million for 2 years...
Posted by: Pappy || 09/30/2017 11:18 Comments || Top||

#6  equal rights huh, why dont you re disperse your money to all the "po" folks that you're representing: reparations!!
Posted by: 746 || 09/30/2017 11:52 Comments || Top||

#7  You picked the wrong state to make that stand. Tennessee is in many ways like Texas. And UT football holds far more attention in the state than any NFL Team. I'm sure they'll be only too happy to completely abandon the NFL.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/30/2017 12:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Bear in mind that this is the organization that used to be the Houston Oilers, before Bud Adams was offered a better deal in Tennessee.
I'm gonna giggle about this all day.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/30/2017 13:28 Comments || Top||

#9  But Ed's not bitter, no siree!
Posted by: Raj || 09/30/2017 14:11 Comments || Top||

#10  No Raj, I'm not bitter. I'm tremendously amused. When they announced they were moving, I called and offered to help. My thought was "don't let the screen door hit you on the butt on the way out."
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/30/2017 17:10 Comments || Top||

#11  My thought was "don't let the screen door hit you on the butt on the way out."

When the Houston Oilers left to become the Tennesee Tuxedos, that was pretty much the collective mood of the city. The only problem then was who to root for. No way were we going for the hated Dallas Cowboys, so we became Saints fans.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/30/2017 18:01 Comments || Top||


‘We stand for the Pledge,’ teacher tells 6-year-old who took a knee in class
[MIAMIHERALD] Eugenia McDowell told ABC News that the teacher sent her a text message on Monday, alerting her of her son’s protest and how she had admonished him. McDowell was not pleased with the response because she felt the admonishment in front of his classmates encroached on her son’s freedom of speech. McDowell passed the text along to ABC News.
Children are in school to learn. Freedom of speech doesn't apply to the little boogers.
The teacher’s message to McDowell read: “I knew where he had seen [kneeling], but I did tell him that in the classroom, we are learning what it means to be a good citizen, we’re learning about respecting the United States of America and our country symbols and showing loyalty and patriotism and that we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.”
A six year old isn't old enough to have an opinion on the subject.
A spokesperson for the Pasco County School District told ABC that the teacher responded to the incident by mouthing, “We stand for the pledge” when she saw the boy kneeling. The district policy requires students to have written exemption from their parents if they don’t plan to take part in the pledge.

Substitute Teacher Kneels In Classroom During Pledge Of Allegiance

[BOSTON.CBSLOCAL] LITTLETON – The principal of a Littleton school said a substitute teacher had good intentions, but should not have taken a knee while her class recited the Pledge of Allegiance on Thursday.

Russell Street School Principal Scott Bazydlo said in a letter to parents that the unidentified substitute teacher took a knee and spoke to students about her political views.

Bazydlo said that Littleton Public Schools respects the rights of individuals to either participate or respectfully abstain from taking part in the Pledge of Allegiance.

But the principal also said it is “imperative” to provide students with all sides of an issue to allow them to “form opinions with guidance from parents.”

“While this topic is timely and does have educational merit, it should be addressed sensitively and age-appropriately by permanent faculty and inclusive of the beliefs of all children and families,” Bazydlo wrote to parents. “While well-intended, this conversation was not part of the classroom teacher’s plans and should not have taken place in the fashion it did.”
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now your civilization is fast prone to fads and phony pranks in the cause of cultural marxism.
Congratulations for throwing everything GOD gave you away for nothing but a bumper sticker.
Posted by: newc || 09/30/2017 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  I repeat, demand proskynesis.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/30/2017 3:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Note that this is another Masshole like that librarian.

Welcome to the hell in which I reside. If only we could trade climates with Texas I'd be there in a minute.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/30/2017 9:17 Comments || Top||

#4  It's amazing that the ability to 'take a knee' at this particular moment is now freedom of speech being infringed to some people. The kid could write a paper on why he agrees with the movement (well maybe not at that age) but the futile symbolic gesture is what counts.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/30/2017 12:20 Comments || Top||

#5  We should bring back flogging. Sure, kneel for the anthem and take your 50 lashes in the public square.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/30/2017 15:16 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi man arrested for threatening to attack and 'burn' women drivers
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] A Saudi man was placed in durance vile
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
for allegedly threatening to attack women drivers, the Interior Ministry said on Friday, following a royal decree that ends a ban on women driving in the kingdom.

Many Saudis welcomed Tuesday's announcement by King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians....
lifting the ban by next year, but some expressed confusion or outrage after the reversal of a policy that has been backed for decades by prominent holy mans.

The ministry said on Twitter that police in the kingdom's Eastern Province had arrested the suspect, who was not identified, and referred him to the public prosecutor.
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  Running our of money for the army of lesser Muslim chauffeurs?
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Ebbaise1246 || 09/30/2017 2:48 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Dissident FARC leader killed in Colombian air force operation
[Iran Press TV] Colombia's armed forces have killed a dissident leader of the former rebel group FARC during a military operation in the country's southeast.

Euclides Mora was second-in-command of a dissident group that rejected the November 2016 peace accord, under which FARC transformed itself into a political party earlier this month.

Mora, 51, who was said to be engaged in drug trafficking, was killed in an air force operation in the jungle. Mora was killed "in a joint operation of the army, air force and police in the Calamar municipality," part of the coca-producing southern region of Guaviare, the army said.

President Juan Manuel Santos said in a message posted on Twitter, "The message is clear: surrender, otherwise jail or the grave awaits."

Mora commanded a group of FARC guerrillas who refused to disarm during the lengthy grinding of the peace processor, and was expelled with other dissident leaders from the rebel group last November.

An army statement said Mora was involved in drug trafficking and extortion in the central region of Meta and in Guaviare and Caqueta in the south, as well as recruitment of fighters.

During the military operation in which he was killed authorities captured another member of the group and confiscated weapons.
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


U.S. cuts embassy staff in Cuba, warns citizens not to visit
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  We are, most assuredly, under new management.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/30/2017 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Not enough. That still leaves the 40% vulnerable hostages and too many Cuban spies running around in the US.

Twenty-one U.S. embassy employees in Cuba have been injured and reported symptoms such as hearing loss, dizziness, headache, fatigue, cognitive issues, and difficulty sleeping, the State Department said.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Ebbaise1246 || 09/30/2017 2:51 Comments || Top||

#3  What are rantburg theories on what these 'sonic attacks' were? Seeing amazingly few theories from MSM
Posted by: Clem Graigum2229 || 09/30/2017 9:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Might want to check the power settings on some of the embassy 'equipment.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/30/2017 9:22 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't understand why reports of these attacks/phenomena contain so little information.

It does look like they're tiptoeing about something.

Detecting strong inaudible sound waves with proper equipment is trivial. A spectral analysis will reveal information about the nature of the phenomenon.
It should also be possible to get a bearing on the source and some estimate of the source's distance.

IOW US authorities should pretty much know exactly what they're dealing with and who's behind it.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 09/30/2017 11:20 Comments || Top||

#6  IOW US authorities should pretty much know exactly what they're dealing with and who's behind it. Posted by Elmerert Hupens

Yes to all of the above. I once watched in near panic as a foreign student officer turned around to ask a question of the tower, with an M72 law armed and ready to fire sitting on his shoulder.

I'll bet that foreign student doesn't talk about that much either.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/30/2017 11:38 Comments || Top||

#7  By the way, did you know that "LRAD was a gamechanger for communications."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/30/2017 11:45 Comments || Top||

#8  HF Directed Area Denial systems?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/30/2017 13:37 Comments || Top||

#9  My son the world traveler visited recently and said it sucked. Took a couple of pics of some empty piazzas and put his camera away, for there was nothing he wanted to remember from that hellhole.
Posted by: Regular joe || 09/30/2017 21:45 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Moscow says ready to cooperate with Pyongyang to resolve missile crisis
[Iran Press TV] Russia says it is ready to work with North Korea to try to find a peaceful resolution to the missile crisis on the Korean Peninsula.

The Russian Foreign Ministry made the announcement in a statement issued on Friday after a meeting between Russian ambassador-at-large Oleg Burmistrov and Choe Son-hui, director-general of the North American department of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the North Korean official also met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov.

"The Russian side confirmed its readiness to combine efforts in the interests of finding ways to solve the problems in the region by peaceful, political and diplomatic means," the Kremlin said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Who cares about the missile?
The payload is the problem!
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/30/2017 9:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Tweedledee & Tweedledum will get right on it!
Posted by: PBMcL || 09/30/2017 12:12 Comments || Top||


Nicholas Kristof Repeats North Korean Propaganda on Social Media
[FREEBEACON] New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
columnist Nicholas Kristof on Friday echoed North Korean propaganda that says droves of its citizens are signing up to join the military after President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's speech before the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
General Assembly last week.

Kristof wrote on Instagram that "every kid" at a high school in North Korea "supposedly signed up to join the army after the Trump speech to the U.N," referring to Trump's address on Sept. 19 when he said the U.S. will "totally destroy North Korea" if forced to defend itself or its allies.

"They said they'll keep studying until war breaks out, which some say could happen any time," Kristof continued. "It's all part of a mass ideological mobilization‐yet here the kids are still practicing their singing. At a factory, the manager likewise told me that all 1,500 employees had signed up for the army in Monday, yet they were still at work."
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  It's good to know the NYT hasn't changed a bit in 80 years. How many North Koreans eggs were broken to make Kristoff's omelette?
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Ebbaise1246 || 09/30/2017 2:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Er... Isn't every kid in high school required to do a stint in the military in North Korea? Not to mention the military gets first (or second after Kim and the party) dibs on food?
My guess is that there is some sort of incentive involved. "Extra rations if you join now! Even up to half rations!".
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/30/2017 7:39 Comments || Top||

#3  the Big City folk are really out of touch
Posted by: 746 || 09/30/2017 10:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Arbeit Macht Frei...
Posted by: magpie || 09/30/2017 12:54 Comments || Top||


Europe
Europe wary but muted ahead of Catalonia's independence vote
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/30/2017 07:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Europe is ready to crumble if independence movements start gaining momentum. That could be the best thing that happens for the EU though so I have mixed feelings.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/30/2017 12:22 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey: warrants issued for 117 officers over failed coup
[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's state-run news agency
...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
says authorities have issued detention warrants for 117 military officers‐most of them on active duty‐as part of an ongoing investigation into last year's failed coup attempt blamed on a US-based Moslem holy man.

Anadolu Agency said police had launched operations in 45 provinces to catch 98 active officers and 19 others who were previously purged from the military, over suspicion that they secretly communicated with members of holy man Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
's movement through payphones.

The agency said the suspects were allegedly given instructions during those calls.

Turkey launched a large-scale crackdown against Gulen's movement after the July 2016 coup attempt, dismissing more than 110,000 people from government jobs‐including the military‐and arresting more than 50,000 people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  I thought they're preparing to fight Kurds? (could Erdogan be reincarnation of Stalin?)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/30/2017 3:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Still milking the "coup attempt", eh? This is like watching the Turkish version of that old TV show, To Tell The Truth. Will the real Gulenist please stand up?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/30/2017 18:06 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
NAB files reference over recruitment of hundreds of 'fake' teachers in Balochistan
[DAWN] The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday filed a reference against nine officers of the provincial education department for allegedly recruiting hundreds of "fake" teachers in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Hundreds of fake appointments have been made in Balochistan's education department through illegal means and fake documents, the NAB spokesperson said.

The references were filed at an accountability court in Quetta against after locals filed multiple complaints regarding 'fake' and 'missing teachers'.

The reference was filed against former Balochistan director schools Nizamuddin Mengal, Additional Director of Education Yousaf Kuhda, District Education Officer Muhammad Farooq and Deputy District Education Officer Muhammad Ghufran Ahmed, the NAB official said.

Five officers of the accountant general's office were also among the accused, the spokesperson added.
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


SHC stays proceedings in Jamshoro 'blasphemy' case
[DAWN] A division bench of the Sindh High Court's Hyderabad circuit on Friday stayed the proceedings in a case against four people who were booked on charges of blasphemy in Jamshoro a day earlier.

On Thursday, a first information report (FIR) was registered under Section 295-A of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) against four people after a video clip surfaced showing a woman solemnising the marriage of a man and a woman under what was called "Shariat-e-Latifi".

The video showed a man, a Sindhi nationalist and follower of the Sufi saint Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, getting the nikkah of his daughter performed by a woman, declaring that this was being done under ’Shariat-e-Latifi’.

Section 295-A of the PPC deals with "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs", the punishment for which may be a fine or imprisonment for a period of up to 10 years, or both.

Besides the man, his daughter, the woman who performed the nikkah and the groom had been named in the FIR.

As the father of the bride was taken into custody on Thursday, the woman seen solemnising the marriage in the video, represented by Advocate Sajjad Chandio, filed a constitutional petition in the SHC naming the Sindh home secretary, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Bashir Ahmed Janwari, Senior Superintendent of Police Jamshoro Irfan Bahadur and District Inspector General Hyderabad Khadim Rind as respondents.
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Science & Technology
Lockheed Martin hails 'hypersonic revolution' amid claims it has begun secret tests of Mach 6 SR-72 update to Blackbird spy plane
[DailyMail] Lockheed Martin's secretive Skunk Works
Best...division...name...ever...
unit is already testing a radical hypersonic update of the long-retired Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, it has been claimed.

According to Aviation Week, a technology demonstrator, believed to be an unmanned subscale aircraft, was observed flying into the U.S. Air Force's Plant 42 at Palmdale, where Skunk Works is headquartered, in July.

The SR-72 hypersonic plane will be a strike and reconnaissance aircraft that tops Mach 6, and the firm has been working on the project since the early 2000s.

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Although I can't go into specifics, let us just say the Skunk Works team in Palmdale, California, is doubling down on our commitment to speed,' Orlando Carvalho, executive vice president of aeronautics at Lockheed Martin, told the SAE International Aerotech Congress and Exhibition.

'Simply put, I believe the United States is on the verge of a hypersonics revolution.'

Hypersonic technologies, including a combined cycle propulsion system that blends a rocket engine and a supersonic jet engine, are now sufficiently advanced to allow the planned SR-72 project to begin, it is believed.

'We've been saying hypersonics is two years away for the last 20 years, but all I can say is the technology is mature and we, along with Darpa and the services, are working hard to get that capability into the hands of our warfighters as soon as possible,' Rob Weis, Lockheed Martin's executive vice president and general manager for Advanced Development Programs, previously told Aviation Week.

'I can't give you any timelines or any specifics on the capabilities,' he said.
Which means it's already in Project Monitoring and Control Phase?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Best...division...name...ever...

...Coolest corporate name, however, has got to be General Atomics.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/30/2017 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Popski's Private Army, officially No. 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA
Shortly after this No. 1 Demolition Squadron was formed, the smallest independent unit of the British Army at 23 men all-ranks.
Posted by: magpie || 09/30/2017 13:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Early pre-release trial results of the F35 pretty much ruined LM credibility. They are now pushing extreme experimentation and 'secret' tests. They must be going for a bigger piece of that $700B. The bastards.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/30/2017 13:28 Comments || Top||

#4  a href="">A10
Posted by: Dale || 09/30/2017 18:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Israeli F-15 landed with one wing:


Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/30/2017 20:21 Comments || Top||


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Packers quarterback: Protests are about unity in the face of Trump's divisiveness
[TheHill] Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers on Thursday night said NFL protests are about showing unity in the face of divisiveness from President Trump.

At a press conference following his team's victory over the Chicago Bears, Rodgers charged the president with being divisive without mentioning his name.



"It's never been about the national anthem, it's never been about the military," Rodgers said of the protests.

"We're all patriotic in the locker room, we love our troops. This is about something bigger than that: an invitation to show unity in the face of some divisiveness from the top in this country."
Hoping this follows him in his quest for endorsement gigs. One trick pony without the "aw-shucks" likeability of Brett Favre, imo.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/30/2017 12:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As repeated many times before - the problem is not the Kaepernicks of the world kneeling during the National Anthem; the problem is Trump's reaction to it. And I thought Rodgers was smart.
Posted by: Raj || 09/30/2017 13:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Anomalous Sources picture:

Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/30/2017 14:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Anomalous Sources picture:

https://rachelhumphrey.deviantart.com/art/Taking-off-the-Mask-185943554

Direct linking apparently not permitted.

In previous comment I hit "submit" instead of "Preview", sorry.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/30/2017 15:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Kneeling only during the National Anthem with fist in the air is...uh...unity. Yeah, that's it!
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 09/30/2017 15:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Pure unmitigated projection caused by a dislike of the results of democracy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/30/2017 16:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Originally, the protests were because America is just so danged awful. Now, after some serious pushback from the fans AND Trump poking their little hive with the twitter stick, it's all about unity. Good luck with that!
Posted by: SteveS || 09/30/2017 16:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Well then use anytime in your fucking life except the 2 minutes the anthem in playing to make a goddamn point, you fucking spoiled shit.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/30/2017 17:17 Comments || Top||

#8  You want to be democrat political tools?
Fine.
I do not pay for that fucktards. Now you are a social welfare and political activist organization.
I do not deduct that either.

So take your billions, hit the street, and fix it yourselves. That is all you have not done while pissing in MY face.

Try me on Stupid Sunday again. The firing will be complete.

This is about football, not you, but FUCK YOU ALL for trying to continue it.
And FUck your tax status and stadium and roman bullshit with marxist flowers.

I offered you an out and you still would not take it so as of Stupid Sunday #2, you are officially fired.

Hand over Your Heart you bitches, or it is over. You love US or Hate US.

There will be no middle road anymore.
Anymore.
I will turn Brother against Brother -because you were ignorant, arrogant, rich stupid assholes.

It is in the Bible.
Posted by: newc || 09/30/2017 20:33 Comments || Top||

#9  By the way, Our prosecution is not even 50% where charged. Measures for Justice
http://ow.ly/qRMM30fy3fj
Posted by: newc || 09/30/2017 21:27 Comments || Top||

#10  Rodgers is light in the cleats -- only a matter of time before he goes Chelsea Manning on us.
Posted by: Regular joe || 09/30/2017 21:38 Comments || Top||

#11  Who does he think voted for Mr. Trump last November?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/30/2017 22:28 Comments || Top||

#12  He looks too much like Pul Ryan to be trusted. The problem is not Trump's response, but the traitorous scumbags who happily provoke it. I don't know about you Raj, but I have seen and carried too many dead marines to takeout so cavalierly.
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 09/30/2017 22:50 Comments || Top||


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US military chief Dunford: China is main threat to security
[Asia Times] China was identified this week as posing the most significant long-term military challenge to the United States by America’s senior-most military leader, as he set out new US military strategies and policies toward China and Asia more generally in a congressional hearing.

Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, also revealed in the hearing, before senate, that he had informed China last summer of US plans to use military force against North Korea.

Dunford was asked to rank various military threats and identified nuclear missile-armed North Korea as presenting an "immediate" threat, with Russia and China posing potential dangers based on their growing nuclear arsenals.

"We don’t actually have the luxury of identifying a single threat today, unfortunately, nor, necessarily, to look at it in a linear fashion," Dunford said.

The four-star Marine Corps general then went on to say that, over the longer term, China represents the most significant danger, overshadowing the nuclear and cyber power of Moscow.

"If I look out to 2025, and I look at the demographics and the economic situation, I think China probably poses the greatest threat to our nation by about 2025, and that’s consistent with much of our analysis," Dunford said.

The comments echoed those of CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who said in July that he believes China is the most significant regional security threat. "I think China has the capacity to present the greatest rivalry to America... over the medium and long term," he said.
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#1  Really? Didn't we transfer all sorts of rocket and satellite technology to them under Clinton?
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The Trumps got invited to the Dr. Seuss museum after Melania's book drama
[Circa] The mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts has invited President Trump and first lady Melania Trump to his city’s museum dedicated to author Dr. Seuss.

Mayor Domenic J. Sarno (D) extended the invite after a school librarian in Cambridge, Massachusetts recently rejected a package of Dr. Seuss books from Melania Trump.

"’One fish ‐ two fish ‐ red fish ‐ blue fish’ ‐ I think her comments stink and are ridiculous towards our beloved Dr. Seuss," he said of librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro in a statement Thursday.

"[Soeiro’s] comments that this is ’racist propaganda and that Dr. Seuss is a bit of a cliché and worn ambassador for children’s literature’ is ’political correctness’ at its worst," Sarno added.

"By the way, kudos to First Lady Melania Trump for her generous offer to donate Dr. Seuss books to that Cambridge school library ‐ they don’t want them ‐ we’ll take them and would be honored to have the First Lady and President Donald J. Trump to visit the Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum too."

Melania Trump’s spokeswoman on Thursday called Soeiro’s reaction to the first lady’s attempted donation "something divisive" and "unfortunate."

Soeiro last Tuesday published an editorial explaining why Cambridgeport Elementary School did not need Melania Trump’s package of 10 Dr. Seuss books.

"My students have access to a school library with over nine thousand volumes and a librarian with a graduate degree in literary science," she wrote.

"You may not be aware of this, but Dr. Seuss is a bit of a cliché, a tired and worn ambassador for children’s literature," Soeiro added.

"Another fact that many people are unware of is that Dr. Seuss’s illustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes."

The White House had previously selected one school in all 50 states to receive Melania Trump’s donation as part of an initiative promoting childhood literacy and education.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The museum can also invite Ms. Soeiro to reprise her role as Racist Cat in the Hat.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Ebbaise1246 || 09/30/2017 3:00 Comments || Top||

#2  The Trumps should send that Cambridge teacher some postcards from the museum. Maximum trolling!
Posted by: Raj || 09/30/2017 14:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Yet another photo of the Darling Ms. Liz. Slightly different get-up from the one that has been floating around, so my guess is that she has established a pattern.:



Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/30/2017 18:29 Comments || Top||

#4  postcards from the museum

Awestruck. Maybe include fond greetings and inspirational messages for the kids, then tweet about it, requiring her to post 'em publicly or explain why she didn't? Win win win.

Yvette bore a baby by Lani,
Ironically naming it "Ronnie."
Thus learning defiance,
Then library science,
She shushed us, shelf-righteous and shcrawny.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/30/2017 23:59 Comments || Top||


Science
A single genetic glitch may explain how Zika became so dangerous
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The use of ovitraps baited with hay infusion as a surveillance tool for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Cambodia. Dengue Bull. 26, 178–184 (2002). ... Oxitec Limited, Oxford, UK. Derric Nimmo,; Andrew R McKemey,; Sarah Scaife, ...

From the 2011 scientific article on GE a. aegipti to combat dengue fever

Posted by: Jefe101 || 09/30/2017 3:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Bring back DDT.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/30/2017 3:37 Comments || Top||

#3  The article states clinical trial sites in Asia and South America to be set up to combat dengue with a 2009 grant of 55 mil. Oxitec receives their 20 mil grant in 2010.
Seems the way to stop dengue and other mosquito born illnesses is attack the mosquito.
What safer way to experiment than with a benign virus from the dengue family called Zika.


Posted by: Jefe101 || 09/30/2017 3:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Wolbachia
Posted by: Jefe101 || 09/30/2017 3:50 Comments || Top||

#5  DDT won't work. They already die off naturally by producing sterile offspring.
There is a direct correlation between non-benign Zika (referred to as the Brazil strain) outbreaks and GE Mosquitos.
The goal is mosquito as vector. Think how incredibly powerful that could be with modern genetics and virology.

Posted by: Jefe101 || 09/30/2017 4:01 Comments || Top||

#6  And now they'll die faster
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/30/2017 4:04 Comments || Top||



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