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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Sappers blow crapper on Federal property
A bomb that blew apart a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore outdoor restroom could lead to federal charges against the suspect or suspects who planted it, the park's chief ranger said.

A blast occurred early Sunday at the isolated School Lake boat launch off South Bohemian Road and thundered across Cleveland Township. Sleeping Bear Dunes Chief Ranger Phil Akers said the kaboom caused $14,000 of damage to an outhouse that was closed for the season.

"We do not have suspects at this time," he said. "We're treating this as a significant vandalism case."

Leelanau County dispatch received a call at 4:29 a.m. from a resident near the intersection of Maple City Road and West Harbor Highway who reported an kaboom that shook his house. Deputies who could not find any sign of an kaboom later learned it occurred almost 2 miles away.

Sheriff Mike Borkovich said the "blown apart" outhouse was reported by another citizen at 1 p.m. He said sheriff's deputies are assisting park rangers and bomb technicians from the state police and FBI in the investigation.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some folks just shouldn't eat beans.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/24/2013 7:52 Comments || Top||

#2  $14,000 damage to an outhouse? Next time just rent a port-a-potty.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/24/2013 9:11 Comments || Top||

#3  $14,000 damage to an outhouse? Next time just rent a port-a-potty.

It might have been a permanent structure over the pit toilet. Those are the most common and I could see that much cost in damages being done to one of those.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/24/2013 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Like the ice bombs at LAX, ever consider an inside job? Disgruntled park personnel who didn't get a chance to 'push back' on the public like they did in DC. Then again, given the place was blocked off for weeks without anyone opening or closing the doors, had to be some methane build up in a small closed confined area.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/24/2013 9:55 Comments || Top||

#5  He said sheriff's deputies are assisting park rangers and bomb technicians from the state police and FBI in the investigation.

It's a shitty job but someone has to do it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/24/2013 10:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Sounds like a radical offshoot of the TF Foundation.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/24/2013 18:39 Comments || Top||

#7  perhaps a bear decided an alternative place besides the woods?
Posted by: Frank G || 10/24/2013 18:51 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan 'lovers' found beheaded
[Pak Daily Times] A young couple in conservative southern Afghanistan have been found beheaded, apparently killed for having a love affair outside of marriage, officials said on Wednesday.

Police investigating the case said they believed the family of the woman, aged around 20, was responsible for the murders in the southern province of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, a lawless hotbed of the Taliban insurgency.

The elder brother of the male victim, who was in his 20s, told officers the woman had run away with him recently and was living in their family home.

On Monday, 10 men broke into the house near the thriving provincial capital Lashkar Gah and kidnapped the pair, police official Mohammad Ismail Hotak told AFP.

"On Tuesday, local residents reported that there were two bodies in the graveyard. We went there and found them. Both had their heads chopped off," he said.

"From our investigations, we have found that the two had a love affair. We believe the family and relatives of the girl are behind the killing."

The police official said the brother told Sherlocks the dead man had loved the woman and wanted to marry her.

Omar Zwak, the provincial governor's front man, confirmed the incident and said an investigation was under way.
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
DR Congo President Promises National Unity Government
[An Nahar] DR Congo President Joseph Kabila promised Wednesday to build a national unity government, after talks with civil society and opposition members in the troubled African country.

Kabila said his priorities were to re-establish peace and state authority and spur economic development in the war-torn country.

"In line with the transparent policy I have adopted since I came to power, a government of national unity will soon be put in place," he told parliament.

"This government will include members of the ruling majority as well as the opposition and civil society," said Kabila, who was re-elected in a disputed 2011 poll.

Kabila also pledged to allow the remains of former president Joseph Mobutu back into the country from Morocco -- an announcement that won him applause from politicians.

Mobutu, who ruled from 1965 to 1997, was chased from DR Congo by Kabila's own father, Laurent, who was assassinated in 2001.

The move is seen as a highly symbolic gesture to the significant number of Congolese that hold Mobutu in high regard.

Kabila also agreed to introduce quotas for female candidate in elections.
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Yemeni burns daughter to death for contacting fiancé
[Pak Daily Times] A Yemeni father has burned his 15-year-old daughter to death for keeping in touch with her fiancé, police said, sparking further outrage in Yemen, where an eight-year-old girl died from internal bleeding on her wedding night a month ago. Police said a 35-year-old man had been jugged
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
after the teenager's death in a remote village in the central Taiz province.

"The father committed this heinous crime on the pretext that his daughter had been keeping contacts with her fiancé," the police website said on Tuesday, giving no further details. Some local news websites reported that the father had caught the girl chatting by telephone with her fiancé. Traditional tribal customs in parts of Yemen prohibit contacts between men and women before marriage. Poverty and concern about "family honour" prompts many Yemenis to marry off their daughters young, often below the age of 18, a practice that has been criticised by international rights groups.
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Isn't mooselimb love grand? They kill you if they hate you and they kill you if they love you.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/24/2013 10:04 Comments || Top||

#2  The Religion of Peace of the Grave.
Posted by: Dopey Sinatra || 10/24/2013 15:43 Comments || Top||

#3  John, I think you're making an unwarranted assumption: that Muslim fathers love their daughters.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/24/2013 15:47 Comments || Top||

#4  He killed her for Allen. (Or whatever her boyfriend's name was)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/24/2013 16:40 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia drops piracy charges against Greenpeace activists
[BBC.CO.UK] Russia has dropped piracy charges against 30 Greenpeace activists, replacing them with hooliganism charges, according to officials.

The new charge has a maximum penalty of seven years rather than 15. Greenpeace says it is still "wildly disproportionate".

Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise vessel was seized by Russian forces as activists tried to scale an offshore oil platform.

All 30 people on board were incarcerated
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
.

Two of them are freelance journalists.

So far all bail applications in the case have been refused.
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seven years is enough to break them. And then release them as an example to others that may try these greenpeace tactics.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/24/2013 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Hard labor on an Arctic oil rig would be a nice touch.
Posted by: Grunter || 10/24/2013 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  How about incarcerating them with Chechen prisoners?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/24/2013 8:15 Comments || Top||

#4  replacing them with hooliganism charges,

Soccer fans? Man Utd or Liverpool?
Posted by: Raj || 10/24/2013 9:20 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ what g(r)om said.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/24/2013 10:00 Comments || Top||

#6  P*ssy Riot went to jail for "hooliganism." I rather prefer calling the GP pirates "pirates" because they are pirates. Hooliganism in Russia can be an admirable thing -- and nothing GP does merits admiration.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/24/2013 11:54 Comments || Top||

#7  The new charge has a maximum penalty of seven years rather than 15. Greenpeace says it is still "wildly disproportionate".

Every time Greenpeace opens it's mouth, I'd tack on another five.
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/24/2013 13:30 Comments || Top||

#8  5 years hard labor in Siberia will still be enough to kill them.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/24/2013 14:40 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
No Plan to Scrap U.S. Military's Africa Command
[An Nahar] The Pentagon has no plans to scrap the U.S. military's Africa Command despite growing pressures on the defense budget, the general who leads the headquarters said Wednesday.

As it prepares for another round of automatic budget cuts, the Defense Department is looking at cutting back spending on regional headquarters and senior positions, fueling speculation that Africa Command could be dissolved and its responsibilities taken over by other commands.

But General David Rodriguez, head of Africa Command, said "that is not part of the plan right now."

"We will continue to look at that in the future, but right now the United States believes that the focus of having a headquarters focused on Africa to improve the effectiveness of our military support to the State Department in the region is going to remain separate," he told news hounds in a teleconference.

The four-star general added that "right now there are no plans to consolidate."

Africa Command or Africom, created in 2007, has overseen an expanding role for the American military across the continent, focusing on countering Islamist Death Eaters through training and arming partners in the region.
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ["AW JEEZ, NOT THIS C **** AGAIN" FACE-PALM here].

We're still overdosing on Heineken, aren't we???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/24/2013 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  He who defends everything, defends nothing - Fredrick the Great.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/24/2013 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  "We're still overdosing on Heineken, aren't we???"

Not possible with this yellow dish water
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/24/2013 10:04 Comments || Top||

#4  We're still overdosing on Heineken, aren't we???

Who knows who'll come through the Fulda Gap, Joe.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/24/2013 10:48 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Nadra report unearths massive rigging in PS-114
[Pak Daily Times] A report of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on Wednesday unearthed that elections at the provincial assembly seat (PS-114) in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
were massively rigged.

Nadra submitted a report to election tribunal in Karachi headed by former judge Zafar Ahmed Khan Sherwani, in an election petition filed by Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
leader Abdur Rauf Siddiqui, who moved the election tribunal challenging the election results of winning candidate Irfanullah Khan Marwat.

The PML-N leader, Marwat, had been declared as successful candidate from PS-114 defeating Abdul Rauf Siddiqui. Following Siddiqui's complaint, the election tribunal on Aug 3 directed the Nadra to verify the thumb impressions of voters of certain polling stations in the constituency.

Nadra report said a total of 92,731 counterfoils were sent to it for verification and of them 14,234 ballot papers contained invalid national identity card numbers, which were never issued by Nadra. This bogus voting was observed in two different polling stations of the constituency polling station 64 and 69.

Nadra report unearthed that the thumb impressions on 63,469 ballots could not be compared or matched through its system as the fingerprints were of very poor quality. It said that a total of 10,007 votes were successfully authenticated as the finger prints affixed on the counterfoils at the time ballot paper issuance correctly matched with finger print data of registered voters.

It also found that there were 378 votes were found not registered in the constituency and the fact was ascertained on the basis of the CNIC numbers mentioned on the used ballot papers. This was observed mainly in three polling stations of constituency.

Besides, the report said there were 792 duplicate votes, which were cast by as many as 1602 voters mainly in two polling stations. This information was extracted from capturing NIC number used on counterfoil as one CNIC (24301-1530723-0) of Bibi Jamila, a resident of Mehmoodabad polled her vote five times.

As many as 581 ballot papers were found without having fingerprints on them. The report said that 3270 votes failed an authentication, because someone else voted against the CNIC number mentioned on the used counterfoils. It said that 44 votes were polled on one CNIC of Muhammad Arif Sattar, resident of Azam Town.

Earlier, Nadra had submitted a report to the election tribunal regarding voter verification for NA-256 in Karachi, which had also revealed massive rigging in the elections.
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Olde Tyme Religion
Vatican suspends 'bishop of bling' Tebartz-van Elst
[BBC.CO.UK] The Vatican has suspended a senior German Church leader dubbed the "bishop of bling" by the media over his alleged lavish spending.

Bishop of Limburg Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst is accused of spending more than 31m euros (£26m; $42m) on renovating his official residence.

The Vatican said it deemed "appropriate... a period of leave from the diocese" for the bishop.

The suspension comes two days after he met the Pope to discuss the matter.
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He will now become Bishop of Antarctica.

Al
Posted by: frozen Al || 10/24/2013 13:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Bishop of Outreach to Muslims™
Posted by: Frank G || 10/24/2013 14:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Bishop of Tehran.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/24/2013 15:13 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Time to end the war against saturated fat?
h/t Instapundit
The British Medical Journal has issued a clarion call to all who want to ward off heart disease: Forget the statins and bring back the bacon (or at least the full-fat yogurt). Saturated fat is not the widow-maker it's been made out to be, writes British cardiologist Aseem Malhotra in a stinging "Observations" column in the BMJ: The more likely culprits are empty carbs and added sugar.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/24/2013 01:25 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The CDC recently retracted their previous studies on the effects of salt. Of course it and the saturated fat news will never get the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine coverage of 'gloom and doom the world is ending' cause its not part of the Inner Party narrative nor useful in spooking the masses into more government control.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/24/2013 10:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Peace dividend = bacon. Works for me!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/24/2013 12:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Mmmmmmmmmm. Bacon.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/24/2013 12:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Political crap, she wasn't given the ten grand for paying the reservists tab, she was givenit with a statement that the shutdown was BAD.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/24/2013 16:36 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran spares life of hanging survivor: reports
[Pak Daily Times] Iran has decided to spare the life of a convicted narco who survived a hanging, media reports on Wednesday quoted Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi as saying.
Maybe I'm just superstitious, but I'd have a strong suspicion Allan doesn't want that sucker dead yet.
The reports follow calls from within Iran and a appeals from international rights groups against the man found alive in a morgue facing execution for a second time.

"The convict who survived (the death penalty) will not be executed again," Pour-Mohammadi said late Tuesday in remarks reported by the official IRNA news agency.

"After putting much effort to prevent the second execution of this convict, we have received a positive response," he said without elaborating.

All judicial affairs and decisions in the Islamic republic rest with the judiciary, which constitutionally operates independently from the government.

The convict, identified only as Alireza M., 37, was pronounced dead earlier this month by the attending doctor after hanging for 12 minutes from a noose suspended from a crane at a jail in northeast Iran.

But the next day, staff at the mortuary in the city of Bojnourd where his shrouded body was taken discovered he was still breathing.

Media later reported that he had fallen into a coma.

Pour-Mohammadi implied that a second execution would be damaging for Iran's image. "If he survives, it is not expedient to hang him again," said the minister.

The incident led to a heated debate between jurists, with some arguing against a repeat hanging and others for.

According to the media, a petition signed by jurists and attorneys was sent to judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, appealing for a stay in the exceptional case.
Posted by: Fred || 10/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  That's why toe court says "Hang by the neck until dead", they want to be sure.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/24/2013 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  For some reason I think of this
Posted by: James || 10/24/2013 10:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Obama Wants Marines to Wear ‘Girly’ Hats
A change to the Marine Corps' uniform hats could leave hard-nosed Leathernecks looking a lot less macho.

According to the New York Post, President Obama's plan to create a "unisex" look for the Corps has officials on the verge of swapping out the Marines' iconic caps with a new hat that some have derided as so "girly" that they would make the French blush.

"We don't even have enough funding to buy bullets, and the DoD is pushing to spend $8 million on covers that look like women's hats!" one senior Marine source fumed to The Post. "The Marines deserve better. It makes them look ridiculous."
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/24/2013 11:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We're looking for a few good...PC squishes"

They won't need weapons anymore, either, as enemies will die laughing...
Posted by: PBMcL || 10/24/2013 11:54 Comments || Top||

#2  They look like the French used to wear. Now they will really look like the doorman/umbrella holder/waiter his wife wants them to be.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/24/2013 11:57 Comments || Top||

#3  At least they are not pink...yet.
Posted by: Thrans Splat1574 || 10/24/2013 12:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Merciful heavens. The kepi's totally John Wayne compared to this thing. With full respect to Marines present, this looks like something the staff might wear in the toy section of a Japanese department store. Why not skip a generation or two, and some material, and go straight to a fez with a bit of brim. Combo of tilt, tassel, and brim point should cover all nudge nudge wink wink possibilities.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/24/2013 13:35 Comments || Top||

#5  looks like the hat The Salvation Army wears
Posted by: Beavis || 10/24/2013 14:21 Comments || Top||

#6  He really hates US military, doesn't he?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/24/2013 14:23 Comments || Top||

#7  The Pat hat (from Sat night Live).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/24/2013 14:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Metrosexual Marines?

Oh lord, I bet the Commandant of the Corps will start allowing Marines to go outdoors "uncovered" as an alternative to these effeminate disasters.

This is almost as bad as the sailor uniforms from Carter's administration.

Well, what do you expect from an administration that wants soldiers to buy their own health insurance and chaplains to perform same sex marriages?
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 10/24/2013 14:30 Comments || Top||

#9  It is all about control.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/24/2013 14:37 Comments || Top||

#10  Can skirts be far behind?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/24/2013 15:10 Comments || Top||

#11  Looks a lot the hat Sousa wore.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 10/24/2013 15:24 Comments || Top||

#12  Can skirts be far behind

They will be called Kilts -CrazyFool- Kilts.
Posted by: Angans Crusose9396 || 10/24/2013 15:32 Comments || Top||

#13  The poor dears look like effin' meter maids.

POTUS is an international embarrassment.
Posted by: Dopey Sinatra || 10/24/2013 16:03 Comments || Top||

#14  A family member is talking about opting out after a long career in the marines. They are dealing with more problems than the goofy hat as I understand it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/24/2013 16:08 Comments || Top||

#15 
Some more uniform inspiration for the zero.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/24/2013 17:07 Comments || Top||

#16  Actually the cover is a something of a throwback, they got rid of it the first time back before WWI.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/24/2013 18:41 Comments || Top||

#17  I see Charles DeGaule is back in the news selling the Casablanca style lids to Obummer. (Designed by Reggie Love.)
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 10/24/2013 18:47 Comments || Top||

#18  Marines make President Stompyfoot feel less of a man... So he intends to take them down a peg. Out of spite.
Posted by: eLarson || 10/24/2013 20:32 Comments || Top||

#19  Color me skeptical about this report. I find it extremely unlikely that the POTUS would have the time or inclination to develop an interest in modifying the headgear of military folks.

Next - real soldiers don't really much give a sh%t about garrison headgear. You fight in helmets. Any modification to dress hat dimensions is trivial compared to grown men waring "berets". I've lived through the teeth-gnashing over maroon berets for airborne, then black berets for Rangers, then black berets for everybody (with Rangers switching to tan berets). Any hat with a brim scores higher macho points than a beret.

So - this is stupid argument to pursue. Obama is a walking disaster - but not because he is preocccupied with dressing up his soldier dolls.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 10/24/2013 21:31 Comments || Top||


NY Liberals & Natural gas
h/t Instapundit
You can’t extract shale gas in New York state, but that doesn’t mean you can’t burn the cheap stuff. New York City is building a pipeline to bring in cheap natural gas from Pennsylvania. The pipeline will carry enough gas to heat 2 million homes, and you can bet plenty of NYC residents are looking forward to burning gas at historically low prices.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/24/2013 01:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..nice to make the urbanists even more dependent upon the outside world, so when they declare open war against it, they'll learned how the world really works beyond their command directed artificial bubble.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/24/2013 10:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Dream on! The State and city will tax the gas back to record high prices. By the time NYC is done taxing it, they will have to subsidize it.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/24/2013 12:02 Comments || Top||



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