A surprise was in store for a teenaged mugger who tried to steal a carton of cigarettes from a blind man in a German railway station: the victim was the former world champion in blind judo.
Police said Monday the youth, 17, vainly demanded the pack, then punched the ex-champion in the face.
The judoka threw the youth on the ground and pinned him down till police, called by a passer-by, reached Marburg Station.
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Good thing this didn't happen in the UK. That nasty blind judoka would have been thrown in jail for daring to defend himself and hurting that poor teenager.
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Was the mugger's name Mohammed? It would have to be - to be that stupid.
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The only thing missing for this to be a real gem of a story is the blind judoman sticking his thumb up the mugger's butthole, à la Steve Irwin in south Park.
SFW photo at link
ENCINO, Calif. -- A second woman is complaining after an airline took issue with her sexy attire. Setara Qassim said she was flying home to Burbank, Calif., from Las Vegas in June when a Southwest Airlines flight attendant gave her a blanket and told her to cover up.
"The flight attendant came up to me and asked me if I had a sweater, and I said, 'No, because why would I pack a sweater in the heat?'" Qassim said. "So I asked her why, and she said I needed to cover up."
Just last Friday, a woman from San Diego told a similar story to the "Today" show. She said a Southwest Airlines flight attendant had also taken issue with the propriety of her attire. Kyla Ebbert, 23, wore the exact same outfit on "Today" Friday morning. Ebbert said she was allowed to stay on the flight after she agreed to pull up her tank top and pull down her skirt.
NBC News was not able to reach Southwest Airlines in connection with Qassim's claims, but the airline did release a statement last week in response to the incident involving Ebbert.
"Southwest Airlines was responding to a concern about Ms. Ebbert's revealing attire on the flight that day," the statement said. "As a compromise, we asked her to adjust her clothing to be less revealing. She complied and she traveled as scheduled. When a concern is brought to our employees' attention, we address that situation directly with the customer(s) involved in a discreet and professional matter. Fortunately, as an airline that carries approximately 96 million customers a year, those situations are extremely rare."
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Woah!
Now, now, Samantha, lets not make a scene. Perhaps Ms. Qassim would like to sit up in the cockpit with us so she won't distract the passengers?
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"How about you go get me a drink and stop worrying about how I'm dressed? Chop chop!"
The other side of this is:
"How about you dress decently in public so I can take my kids on that plane to see Grandma?"
I've seen young women board with no underwear - upper or lower. At some point freedom of expression needs to compromise with the basic self-control decencies that allow a society to function.
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Most people sit facing forwards and wouldn't be able to view her outfit once she sat down so I'm not sure what the big deal is. Perhaps the flight attendants are getting turned on and not doing their jobs or something.
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Flight attendants in the 60s wore skirts about the same length. I wouldn't be surprised to find out someone or some group is specifically reporting the outfits and trying to enforce their own agenda.
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Not lately LOTP, but now my imagination is all over it! Thanks! Could not resist LOL.
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;-)
Anyway, while it's possible that 'someone with an agenda' is deliberately manufacturing complaints, in this case I do empathize with families bringing kids on vacation / home and having no "turn the channel" remote for some of the ...
slutty ...
dress I've seen when flying in the last two years.
And that's not a word I use often or lightly. But I can't come up with a better one for an 18-20 yr old in a tube top with no bra, barely covering the last 2" of the breasts, plus a knit micro skirt that made it quite clear there wasn't even a thong underneath.
And THEN she put her bags in the upper bin. And looked around to make sure everyone was watching her display ....
Paris Hilton wannabe without the money or plastic surgery.
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Agreed, we have fine establishments for this and Southwest air is not one of them. Bet they let her on at Hooter air. I fly 3 or more times a month and my levels of disgust are constantly being raised. drunks, people who never bathe, or some jerk who thinks his seat is an office.
BTW LOTP I have not hit the tip in a while, can you see the catholic guilt? I will make it all better, thanks for the remind, even though its not what you meant.
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A double rim shot for lotp. Clearly a woman who knows how to make a man feel manly.
I'm going to assume that she's Indian, as otherwise, there'd be riots because she's out of her burka.
And, as far as motivations for the complaints, have you seen flight attendants lately? Can you say jealousy???? And, I agree with lotp's assessment of the "race to the bottom" as far as s!utty clothing goes. Jeebus, some of these girls knowingly dress like this.
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You realize that if a male 20 year old, as opposed to a female 20 year old, were to be flashing his sexual organs to a planeload of strangers he'd probably wind up on some sort of national offender's database.
A CHINESE man due to be deported to face serious criminal charges at home is in a Sydney hospital after swallowing razor blades.
The man, known as Mr Qi, has been held in detention since his visa was revoked in February 2004, when Chinese authorities issued a warrant for his arrest. He had been due to be deported to China today to face charges of kidnap and murder, after the Federal Government was given an undertaking from Beijing that he would not face the death penalty if convicted.
So he decided to off himself?
Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said today that Mr Qi was in Bankstown Hospital in Sydney after attempting self-harm.
Mr Qi had swallowed razor blades last night inside Villawood detention centre, he said. "He would rather die here than go back," Mr Rintoul said. "The deportation's off today but how much longer it's off I don't know. It might stall things for a little while."
Mr Qi had previously been on suicide watch at Villawood, Mr Rintoul said.
In parliament, Human Services Minister Chris Ellison at first declined to answer directly when asked by Australian Democrats senator Andrew Bartlett if Mr Qi had been taken to hospital after attempting self-harm.
But a spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews later confirmed the episode. "(The razor blades) have been successfully removed at the hospital today," she said. "The Australian Government intends to have him removed from Australia as soon as he is assessed as fit to fly."
Refugee advocates are considering taking out an injunction to block Mr Qi from being sent back to China, where they fear he could be executed. Asylum Seeker Resource Centre co-ordinator Pamela Curr said yesterday she was concerned that Mr Qi was being sent home on the basis of dubious documentation. She feared the man named on the unsigned and undated Chinese arrest warrant was not actually Mr Qi, citing insufficient identity checking.
The United Nations has asked the Government to postpone the deportation pending further investigations.
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How did this guy hear about Joe Pyne, the old time Radio Talk Show guy...
"Pyne to offer his opinions on various topics. Listeners would then call in to ask questions, offer their own opinions, or raise new topics. Pyne would often argue with or insult listeners he disagreed with. One of his most famous trademark insults was to "go gargle with razor blades."
Pyne was generally a conservative and supported the Vietnam War and ridiculed hippies (a favorite target) and the women's movement. But Pyne also spoke out against racial discrimination and in favor of labor unions.
Pyne was confrontational with guests on his show and often attempted to throw them off-balance by opening the conversation with an insult. One occasion when this backfired was when he began a dialogue with Frank Zappa by saying, "So I guess your long hair makes you a woman." Zappa responded with "So I guess your wooden leg makes you a table."
(Pyne a Marine Vet from the Korean War)
His show was verbally aggressive and at times even physically violent, with chairs being thrown at him by a guest being interviewed. If the "discussion" got too heated, the guest would often walk off or Pyne would throw the guest off the show. Pyne once described himself as an "overly compensating introvert."
Pyne had a phobia of never shaking anyone's hand. His line was "don't touch me unless you love me". Other famous quotes of Pyne:
He suggested a caller "take your false teeth out, put them in backwards and bite yourself in the neck."
"Look, lady, every time you call this program and open your mouth to speak...nothing but garbage falls out...get OFF THE LINE, YOU CREEP." (This "get off the line, you..." line continues to be used today by hosts such as Bob Grant and Mark Levin.)
I could make a monkey out of you but why should I take the credit?
A detained judge who bore signs of being beaten in custody in southern China was not killed but died of "adult sudden death syndrome", according to an official probe quoted by state media Monday. Authorities conducted an investigation into the death of former judge Li Chaoyang after he was found dead in a cell in early April in the southwestern Guangxi region but found nothing suspicious in his death, Xinhua news agency said.
Or unusual, being Red Cina and all...
"Li Chaoyang's sudden death conforms with adult sudden death syndrome," Shi Saosen, chief investigator in the case, was quoted by Xinhua as saying. No explanation was given for "adult sudden death syndrome," but Chinese authorities are often accused of covering abuse of detainees in custody.
"He kept trying to escape up the stairs, and tripped over that same loose step every time. Why, he musta fallen down a couple dozen flights before he stopped trying!"
A judge in the Pingle county court in Guangxi, Li was detained on March 23 for alleged bribe-taking. He was found unconscious in his cell in the city of Guilin on April 2 and later died in hospital, Xinhua said. Relatives said Li's body was bruised, his face lacerated, and he had a tooth missing. They demanded a probe into his death, Xinhua said. Photos were later posted online purportedly revealing the injuries.
A joint investigation by law enforcement personnel from Guilin city and the Guangxi regional government said the injuries were sustained when Li fell during repeated escape attempts, adding he later refused medical treatment.
Li died of "adult sudden death syndrome that might have been sparked by an unstable state of mind, and abnormal sleeping and eating habits," Xinhua quoted the investigation report as saying.
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ed: BTW, that is an actual still frame from that really bad Chinese exploitation movie. The guy is a corrupt judge, who had been sending people off to be tortured to death.
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They should have put the death down to "heart failure". Of course, since if your heart is beating, you are considered to be alive, then you live until your heart fails. Sometimes, people's hearts fail because of a bullet, or massive head trauma rather than natural causes, but it is still heart failure.
Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- The DPRK women football team tied with the U.S. rival 2-2 in the first game of Group B of the 2007 Women's World Cup held in Chengdu, China on Tuesday. The DPRK team will play its next match with the Nigerian team on September 14. Just this perfunctory text. I was waiting for some good old froth-at-the-mouth vitriol if they lost, or smug gloating if they won. Instead, this tense international event got two bland sentences from KCNA. This reminds me why I hate soccer, and why I especially hate ties in sporting events.
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We almost lost. If not for the heroics of Rochester's own Abby Wambach, returning to the field covered in her own blood to score, we would have lost.
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As I'd said times before + long ago, earthquakes will evolve towards ever-increasing intensity and magnitudes. * Year 2012 > QUAKE "FELT AROUND THE WORLD", BY ANY AND ALL NATIONS, GUMMINTS AND PEOPLES. MAGS 7-8+ today will be considered
"quaint/nothing". INTENSIFYING FLUXES IN GRAVITY-EM FIELDS AMD SOLAR/COSMIC STORMS. Comets = Asteroids in the PLURAL, NOT the Singular, eeeeevents. PLANET X > will begin to show itself as visible from earth starting in 2009, NOT 2003 [See C2CAM.com/Show].
ION, DRUDGE > EARTH MAY SURVIVE SUN'S DEMISE IN 5.0B YEARS. All together now, wid feeling, "BILLION...???". * D *** NGED CARS PLUS COMMERCIALS!
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RENSE/WORLDNEWS > US JUNK SALES TO CHINA INCREASING. All together now, say it like MADONNA = OSAMA's babe WHITNEY HUSTON would > D *** NGED B52 BOMBER PARTS! "What will we do without love ... will we always survive" > SONGS OF WW3/4 - MAD MAX BEYOND THE THUNDERDOME. "A Man can tell a thousand lies, you've kept it hidden well ... who will live to tell the secrets that I have learned ... Until then, it will burn inside of me...This used to be my playground".
"The Truth is never far behind" > like an ArkAngel walking invisibly behind William Dafoe as Jesus Xist in THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST.
When presidential candidate Ron Paul appeared on The O'Reilly Factor Monday, host Bill O'Reilly repeatedly pressed Paul to agree that Iran is a dangerous enemy which will pose an imminent threat if the US leaves Iraq, meanwhile interrupting every one of Paul's attempts to explain his own views on the negative results of US policy in the Middle East.
"Do you fear Iran intruding on the whole Persian Gulf if the United States -- as you asked for in the debate last week -- left the region?" O'Reilly demanded.
"I fear that they might want to do that, but I think our policy is leading to that," Paul replied. "Our policy is doing everything conceivable to enhance Iran. Just the whole invasion of Iraq has helped Iran."
"That may or may not be true," retorted O'Reilly. "We have to assume that Iran is an aggressive nation, that it wants to injure the United States, and it's going to use surrogates to do it. ... When a country's seeking a nuclear weapon that's a danger to the USA ... and you want to withdraw from the theater, that gives them carte blanche to do what they want, does it not?"
"I think you're concerned about the wrong country right now," Paul responded, citing both the Saudi origins of al Qaeda and Pakistan's possession of nuclear weapons.
"I'm talking about Iran, Congressman," O'Reilly broke in curtly. "I'm not talking about Pakistan. ... You're not directly answering the question, sir."
"No, I do not fear them as you do," responded Paul directly. "This has been the plan by the neoconservatives, to have this major overhaul, this revamping of the whole Middle East -- precisely the reason the al Qaeda is growing. ... Our national security is threatened because of our policy."
"I see the Iranians as acting logically and defensively," Paul went on. "We've been fighting the Iranians since 1953. We overthrew their government. ... We were allies with Saddam Hussein in the 1980's and we encouraged him to invade Iran..."
"We don't need a history lesson," O'Reilly broke in. "I just want to get this on the record. You don't fear Iran, even though it can start a war, which it did last summer with its Hezbollah surrogates, and it's stated that it wants to do damage to Israel ... and is developing a nuclear weapon. You don't fear them? ... It's policy in Iran to wipe out Israel, to attack USA."
"It's our policy of preemptive deliberate invasions of foreign countries and occupying these countries that has jeopardized our safety," Paul said once again. "This blowback principle is what caused 9/11 and we have to come to realize it. If you keep living in this dreamland of saying that they attack us because we're free and prosperous, believe me, we're never going to ..."
"If you think that if we withdraw off the Gulf, if we get our people out of there, there's not going to be any more terrorism, then you're living in a dreamland," O'Reilly broke in again "You didn't even want to go into Afghanistan and punish those people, did you?"
"You're wrong on that. I voted for that. So you be careful on your quotes," said Paul, pointing out that his complaint about Afghanistan is that the US didn't capture bin Laden but got bogged down in nation-building instead.
Rep. Ron Paul has recently taken on a growing role as a spokesman for principled right-wing opposition to the occupation of Iraq and to pro-war conservatives like O'Reilly, and media sources report that CBS's 60 Minutes is planning a segment on the congressman.
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O'Riley needed to let him speak a bit more and stop interupting him. The guy is an idiot and his stupidity was interupted by O'Riley saving him from himself.
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I was gonna listen to him, but the crickets drowned him out...
Let's put aside his denied (by himself) but undeniable (by the facts) anti-Semitism - an anti-Semitism shared by, at minimum, a plurality of hard-core libertarians (Rockwell, Sobran and Raimondo leap to mind).
Ron Paul is an ideologue dedicated to a meme set as unrealistic and utopian as that of the left, albeit in a very different direction. In a world with no external enemies and where every single human was guided by Judeo-Christian values that create strong private social norming, we could get pretty close to his hard core anarcho-capitalistic, down-the-line libertarian utopia.
Unfortunately for his theories, the world is NOT like that, and won't be for millenia, if ever.
Capital-L libertarians are right about a number of things, but they are right in the manner of the drunk at the end of the bar who says one brilliant thing followed by nine stupid, outrageous, hurtful, and dangerous things. Most of the important (read, good for preserving a free, capitalist West) parts of libertarianism have already existed in conservatism for decades.
Guns don't kill people - utopians do.
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Muslim terrorist leaders threatened to forcibly convert Britney Spears and Madonna to Islam and warned if they resist, their heads would be cut off for "spreading Satanic culture," according to a new book released today.
The threats, recorded on audio, come as Madonna is due to arrive in Israel Wednesday to celebrate the Jewish new year with fellow Kabbalah practitioners. "If I meet these whores I will have the honor I repeat, I will have the honor to be the first one to cut the heads off Madonna and Britney Spears if they will keep spreading their satanic culture against Islam," said Muhammad Abdel-Al, spokesman and senior leader of the Popular Resistance Committees terror organization.
The Committees, largely based in the Gaza Strip, ...
... wotta surprise ...
... has carried out thousands of rocket attacks against Jewish population centers and scores of shootings and bombings. It is suspected of bombing a U.S. convoy in Gaza in 2003 and took credit for a rocket attack yesterday that hit an Israeli military base wounding 69 the largest casualty number of any Palestinian rocket attack.
Abdel-Al and other terror leaders were quoted threatening Madonna and Spears in "Schmoozing with Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans to a Jew!," by author and WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein.
In "Schmoozing," the jihadist leaders were petitioned to describe what life would be like if the terrorists took over the U.S. and imposed Islamic Sharia law. They were asked what they thought of specific American cultural icons and personalities, but many state they never heard of scores of notorious U.S. celebrities they were asked about. According to Klein, many terrorists interviewed were familiar with two U.S. celebrities Madonna and Spears.
"Unfortunately, I heard the names of Madonna and Spears on [Arab] television when parents complain that their children neglect their studies and their values because they are influenced by your cheap American music that you call culture," explained Sheikh Abu Saqer, a founder of the Sword of Islam terror group. The Sword of Islam has taken responsibility in Gaza for bombings of Internet cafes, pool halls and secular music stores, and is suspected of attacking a United Nationsfunded school in Gaza accused of allowing girls and boys to play sports together.
Abu Abdullah, a senior member of Hamas' so-called "military wing" is quoted in "Schmoozing" describing what his group would do with Madonna and Spears if jihad groups took over the U.S.: "At the beginning, we will try to convince Madonna and Britney Spears to follow Allah's way. But I honestly don't think they will follow. If they persist with their whoring music, we will prevent them by force. I don't think that I can be in the same place with these singers. They might be killed if they do not respect our laws."
The Committees' Abdel-Al accused Madonna and Spears of "spreading this culture by the Americans as part of the war against Islam."
"If these two prostitutes [Madonna and Spears] keep doing what they are doing, we of course will punish them. First we will call them to join Islam. But if they keep what they are doing ... we can stone them or even we can kill them if they keep ... tempting men in order to put them far from Islam. ... A prostitute woman must be stoned or must be eighty times hit with a belt." Abdel-El said even before Islam takes over America he would personally kill Madonna and Spears if he ran into them. He boasted he would "be the first one to cut the heads of Madonna and Britney Spears." I have to go to work now, so didn't select a stock photo. The choice are so many: the rabid dog, Paris Hilton getting in the limo...
This article starring:
Muhammad Abdel-Al
Popular Resistance Committees
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Wouldn't make any difference if they were headless - nothing in there to begin with.
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Nah. The boy's heads would explode before they even got close. One glimpse of that Queen of the Trailer Park video from the other night is all it would take...
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Britney, Madonna vs terrorists ... I'm so conflicted..... tell you what, if you'll add Lohan & Hilton, I'll go with the terrorists ... all these skanks ought to be covered up.
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Wasn't one of those Talibunnies a big fan of Brittany? I seem to recall hearing they found some paraphenalia (DVD? VHS? Calendar? something...) in one of their joints in Afghanistan.
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Ala ROBERTS RULES OF ORDER, in case the Islamist Prophets, C2CAM Show, and Global PYWAR-INTEL-MIC etal. didn't tell you, the future OWG Global JOsephine's brother is the Global Napoleon. Her other relation is your Islamist Global Immam-Mahdi. D *** NG IT, DOESN'T ANYONE IN PYWAR-INTEL WATCH CARRIE UNDERWOOD, ETC. - 00,000's OF CAMELS ARE DYING IN ARABIA, PEOPLE, GET A GRIP!
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.
Mugger meets match in blind judo champ
