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Good grief - what a nasty bitch! Here's a little, but RTWT;
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A woman who gained national notoriety for writing a book about being raped, then abandoning her newborn in a college trash been has been sentenced to prison for being the rapist in the case.
Twyana Davis, 30, claimed in 1995 that she had been raped, appeared on television shows to tell her story.
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But she also was harboring a secret: She wasn't raped. She was the rapist, Franklin County prosecutors said.
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She had confessed to having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old cousin, leading to her unwanted pregnancy.
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In November 1995, Davis left her daughter in a trash bin at Ohio Dominican College, where she was a student. The baby survived. Davis was caught and convicted of child endangering.
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According to her low-life coward, everything my client does is okay, mouthpiece lawyer, the sex with the 12 year old was consensual.
WASHINGTON - Just a little more than a year ago, the small spot on Jupiter was a pale white; now it matches the reddish hue of its bigger sibling, the Great Red Spot, and boasts 400 mph winds, according to new data from the Hubble Space Telescope. It's Bush's fault for not signing Kyoto!
Both spots are actually fierce storms in Jupiter's atmosphere. While the red spot at three times the size of Earth is much more noticeable, strange things are happening to the smaller spot.
Scientists aren't quite sure what's happening to the smaller storm, nicknamed the Little Red Spot or Red Spot Jr. but officially called "Oval BA." It probably gained strength as it shrunk slightly, the same way spinning ice skaters go faster when they move their arms closer, said NASA planetary scientist Amy Simon-Miller. Her findings from the Hubble data were published in the astronomical journal Icarus.
As the storm has grown stronger it's probably picked up red material from lower in the Jupiter atmosphere, most likely some form of sulfur which turns red as part of a chemical reaction, she said.
The color change took astronomers by surprise. And now they figure more surprises are in store as the solar system's largest planet goes into hiding from Earth's prying eyes until January, moving behind the sun. "We found that Jupiter tends to do interesting things behind the sun and we can't see it," Simon-Miller said.
#2
Jupiter is in a preparation phase for another expulsion. The one related to Big Red Spot happened about 3600 years ago. Hopefully, it won't be as dramatic as then.
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Interesting....some of the more astute astronomy buffs on the 'burg might know the details, but hasn't the Great Red Spot grown and shrunk and become paler at certain times since its discovery by Galileo? Any correlation with warm and cool periods here on Terra?
Could this new spot be an indication that warming is occuring throughout the solar system and not just here?
If so, what are the implications for the concept of anthropogenic global warming, taken in aggregate with other data like retreating glaciers on Mars and some of the outer planets' moons?
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From a poster at a Google reference here concerning Jupiter planet-sized expulsions are some rules that might also apply to politics, as well as science:
Written by another easily dismissable source.
Rules for skeptical essays:
Talk down to the audience.
The writer is always right.
It is OK to dismiss any source of information when you are a skeptic, for example, someone who uses historical information uses "myths."
It is OK to use the sources that you have dismissed to prove your side of the case, for example, histories allegedly show something different from the claim that you are working to dismiss.
As a skeptic you never have to withdraw any claim that you make no matter how soundly it has been disproven.
The other side has to withdraw all claims if you find anything that seems to say otherwise, no matter how much of its material is proven beyond doubt.
If the other side calls you names, they are jerks.
If you call the other side names, you are a hero.
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A final item for Bobby's list:
Be sure to call your readers "mouthbreathers", "Neanderthals" or "Philistines" in order to get their attention and remind them of their place in the universal order relative to you.
Did poor Mr. Aristides from the area of London (so beautifully pegged by FOTSGreg last night) miss even a single trick when he popped by yesterday?
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In case anyone is wondering (cares?) 2X4 & Bobby are alluding to Velikovsky's (ludicrous) theory that Venus was expelled by Jupiter in historical times.
You mean by ludicrous that it clashes with your theoretical considerations. Forget myths, how about contemporary eyewitness accounts without a hint of deification or mythification and how about physical and other evidence?
I wonder if you really did read Velikovsky's works or rather some kind of sceptical 2nd hand synopsis.
#4
Still used as maritime patrol aircraft,I believe. Nice long range with the turbo-prop engine. Since they built a bunch, there's probably lots of spare parts to cannibalize.
#5
That is indeed a refueling probe, and IIRC, Mister Bear was still in limited production as late as the 1990s. I had a chance to see one at Barksdale AFB, LA in the early 90s - that monster is one SOLID arplane, and it's crews are as devoted to it as our B-52 crews are to their airplanes.
Mike
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God that must be fun now that we are not pointing guns at each other. BTW the TU-95 Bear is an outstanding Intelligence Platform. It can carry a lot of gear/people, long range, and good loiter time. The long tube out of the nose is a refueling probe. The usuallly work in pairs with one being a tanker version. The tanker will loiter off station (outside U.S. airspace)and refuel the Recon bird as needed.
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Getting serious for a second, if something like the Bear weren't designed for practicality, and were a maintenance hog instead, how would you find out?
#13
One difference from the cold war - looks like more "stylized" paint is allowed on the front of the aircraft. And looking at the bulge under the nose, that's a maritime patrol verison of a Bear, likely surface search radar in there amongst other electronic listenting goodies.
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Engines are turboprops, and they always drew a crowd on the flight deck whenever they buzzed us, but always bewteen them and us was either a Tomcat, Phantom, or occasionally a Corsair II. I suppose that even a Hornet has been pressed into doing that, but I never saw that. The Bear is one impressive airplane.
Bexcause it has propellers it is easy to put it in the same bag than B17s or B29s. But it is a turboprop not a piston-engined plane and it is much faster than a Mustang and at least as fast or even faster than German WWII jets. It is only marginally only fifty miles per hour slower than the B52. It has lower ceiling (12000m against 17000m) and payload is only half but it seems to have the same range (15000 km).
It is very noisy, so much that immersed sunmarines were able to detect it by the noise, or to be uncomfortable for intercepting fighters. Many of its crewmen developped hearing problems.
Anyway the Bear was nothing to sneeze at.
The Soviets tried to make a very long range jet bomber but failed because their jet engines were not fuel-efficient. So they built a turboprop instead.
#2
They are going about this backwards, starting with the result. MIT successes came from industry application of fortuitous discoveries resulting from basic research in some pretty arcane areas. (As no doubt quite a few here know from personal experience, but that's never stopped me from nattering on!) A real pity, this failure, as friendly competition benefits all.
#4
You just dont understand their mindset do you? They (the Euros) are smarter than Americans but just didnt have a centralized place to display that knowledge. I blame the failure on the Bush/Cheney/Rove cabal.
#8
The core issue is that anyone who wants to commercialize anything comes to America to do it. Until they address that problem the rest is just euros down the drain.
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Physicists at CERN, Fermilab, and other laboratories have all contributed to the development of the internet. My husband was a grad student working on a project at Fermi and then a postdoc working on the UA1 experiment at CERN at the time described in the link, so I kept hearing these tidbits at the dinner table (when his boss didn't have him on six experminets at once, in which case he wasn't home for dinner).
PESHAWAR: Police on Wednesday arrested NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah and his brother and handed them over to the criminal investigation department of Peshawar after a local court cancelled their pre-arrest bail applications in the murder case of their cousin. We handed the minister to the criminal investigation department of Peshawar, a Nowshera police official said on condition of anonymity. Sources told Daily Times that the criminal investigation police in Peshawar did not mention the ministers arrest in their daily report and claimed to be ignorant of the court proceedings.
In a court hearing on Wednesday, Ashfaq Taj, additional sessions judge (ASJ) in Nowshera, denied their applications for bail before arrest. Meanwhile, the director of the NWFP Information Department, Mehdi Hussain, rejected reports of Inayatullahs arrest. He is at his house and an application has been filed in the Peshawar High Court for an extension to his bail before arrest, Hussain told Daily Times. Jamaat-e-Islami Information Secretary Iqbal Khan said the minister has filed a bail application in the Peshawar High Court. Jehanzeb Khan, social security officer and the ministers cousin, was killed two months ago after his car came under fire. Khans son was with him at the time and received critical injuries. The son later lodged a first information report (FIR) in which he accused the health minister and his brother of killing his father. Police sources told Daily Times that the accused were not handed over to the police station where the FIR was lodged.
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Sheikh Munir Arab is not like other humans, or at least so he boasts. Sheikh Arab, whose renown has spread across the Arab world, prides himself on his ability to use the Quran to cure ailments that modern medicine is at a loss to treat.
The sheikh, who even launched a website detailing his activities and resume, has a clinic in Saudi Arabia where for 20 years he has been treating the ill and infirm by reading them Quran passages and dispensing holy oil and water which have been sanctified with phrases from the Muslim holy book. Using this method he succeed in removing a stone from the eye of a girl, in front of cameras, and exorcised genies from the bodies of his patients, as he likes to relate.
This time the sheikh glorifies in an unprecedented achievement the removal of meters of black cloth knotted into ropes from the womb of a 14-year-old girl, who he says was possessed by a genie.
In a TV interview for the Lebanese LBC network, which was provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI ), the sheikh explains how a demon can occupy a human body and speak from within it in the voice of a man, a dog, or even a donkey. He displays for the audience exactly what he exorcised from the girl's body as he dumps out a plastic bag full of black cloth ropes. Today her mother called me and said the last rope had come out. I will never forget this case it is a miracle! he said. And what was wrong with the girl? The seasoned healer has no doubts She was possessed by a genie that would sent little notes from within her with messages that she wouldnt marry.
This article starring:
SHEIKH MUNIR ARAB
Learned Elders of Islam
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This time the sheikh glorifies in an unprecedented achievement the removal of meters of black cloth knotted into ropes from the womb of a 14-year-old girl, who he says was possessed by a genie.
Riiiight sheikhy-baby, you call it whatever you like dude, I know what I call it...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
PESHAWAR: Police on Wednesday arrested NWFP Health Minister 
