#3
Madonna is my 6th cousin (on one family line) and my 8th cousin twice removed (on another family line). Something like this is true for virtually all modern descendants of French Canadians.
#6
But,,but,,,but,,,when 6 or 7 white kids get shot at school in one morning or afternoon "We got to do something about guns!" However, with the weekly head count of inner city kids shooting each other in numbers far greater in strict (as in unconstitutional) gun laws, all you hear is background noise.
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The real takeaway is, if you read between the lines, is that criminals do NOT care about gun laws. If a criminal wants a gun to use to commit a crime, he will get one.
All gun laws do, is make the law abiding helpless and defenseless against the criminals...and the government.
[NYDAILYNEWS] Scientists in Scotland are preparing for a two-week-long DNA sweep of Loch Ness next month to map out all of the living creatures that inhabit it ‐ like, perhaps, the Loch Ness monster.The team in charge of the genetic coding of the U.K.'s largest freshwater ecosystem is skeptical that it will find any evidence of the mythical creature; but isn't completely ruling it out. "Hoot, mon! We need tae take some swabs from auld Nessie!" "I'm going into this thinking it's unlikely there is a monster, but I want to test that hypothesis," lead researcher Neil Gemmell told The Guardian. "What we'll get is a really nice survey of the biodiversity of Loch Ness." "Nae, Jock! You take the Nessie swabs, I'll get the rest!"
And that's the crux of the research trip. More interesting to the scientists than past sightings of Nessi is the knowledge they will gain from the DNA fragments left behind in the feathers, fur and feces of the animals that have moved through the loch. They expect to discover evidence of new species, particularly that of bacteria strains. "Ye hae no idea how to take a swab from yon wee bacterium!"
"While the prospect of looking for evidence of the Loch Ness monster is the hook to this project, there is an extraordinary amount of new knowledge that we will gain from the work about organisms that inhabit Loch Ness," Gemmell said. "O' course aye do! Aye'll use yon eentsy weentsy swab!"
The focus on fact hasn't dampened the excitement of some believers, however. A local expert, Adrian Shine, who's joining the hunt from the Loch Ness Project, said last year that people still hope the "monster" is real because, "people tend to look for something bigger than themselves ‐ something frightening, something mysterious or something hidden." "So ye get to swab yon gigantic sleekit carnivorous beastie!"
The legend of the water creature dates back to a seventh century story about St. Columba who allegedly saved a man from the beast by ordering it to back down. More recently, a 1934 newspaper picture known as "the surgeon's photograph" of a long-necked animal rekindled interest and since then, over 1,000 people have claimed to have spotted it - even though the photo was debunked as a fake in 1994. "Hoot! Here's yer Saint Columba medallion! Get tae work!"
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I know, row about a mile into the Loch and dip a swab in the water and then place the wet little wick in a test tube and then hurry back and have it EXTENSIVELY analyzed SCIENTIFICALLY. Then tell us all what you find....DNA wise, I mean.
OR swab the wet rocks selectively and be sure and do a representative swab on a few algae and fish selectively , carefully now, be thorough.. Have we missed anything?
Maybe drop an anchor into the bottom mud, DNA sample that too. Just to be sure. Loch Ness is a BIG place...and Nessie has to have a Breeding Population to maintain a "monster" for how many hundreds of years , is it? Not just one, mind you. Say a breeding population of say...fifty creatures, at least. Got that?
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Took a bunch of pictures ontop of Urquhart castle (the ruins you occasionally see in Loch Ness pictures). Sunny day, bunch of boats and waterskiiers in the water.
Later the film was developed and we saw the monster. Dark shape sticking up out of the water with a wake, looked like a dinosaur head.
Then we looked through all the photos and found the same shape again, this time you could see the shape was a bit clearer, you could see the water skis, the outstretched arms holding the tow rope were clear and no longer looked like a snout, and the boat was barely in the shot.
Couldn't help wonder how many sightings involved a similar event with the second photo unavailable or destroyed.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Sherita Dixon-Cole, 37, claimed through a high-profile civil rights lawyer that Texas Highway Trooper Daniel Hubbard raped her during a traffic stop Sunday
Her story was picked up by blogger Shaun King, who quoted Hubbard as telling Dixon-Cole: 'why don't you just give me some of that sweet p***y'
Attorney Lee Merritt alleged that the officer groped and vaginally penetrated the woman
Texas Department of Public Safety on Tuesday released two-hour body camera video, which showed no evidence of misconduct on Hubbard's part
Merritt later released a statement apologizing to Hubbard and his family and taking responsibility for amplifying Dixon-Cole's false claims
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[All Africa] Webster Shamu's sacking as Mashonaland West provincial affairs minister suggests President Emmerson Mnangagwa was still too grateful to those who helped him get into power to a point of allowing them to negatively influence some government decisions.
Mnangagwa took the bold decision Monday to fire a sitting minister from his government.
Although no reasons were given, Shamu's name has been linked to alleged rigging in Zanu PF's primaries which saw presidential advisor Mutsvangwa suffer an embarrassing defeat to a party competitor recently.
Fears abound that Mutsvangwa and vice president Constantino Chiwenga wield too much negative influence on Mnangagwa.
"I don't think it's about negative things," said political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya while speaking to NewZim-bob-we.com.
"It's more like Mnangagwa owes Chiwenga a lot, so he is bound to bend. Everything else is political gamesmanship, because ED is closer to people than the soldiers.
"He can always argue about the 'Voice of God'. Shamu is a political baby pamper, a disposable one."'
But Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu denied the President was being remote controlled, saying the latter's light approach to governance issues was being misconstrued.
"The president can choose to appoint or disappoint," Mpofu said, before going overboard in Mnangagwa praise.
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[DAWN] A mother was convicted in a British court on Tuesday of deceiving her teenage daughter into travelling to Pakistain to enter into a forced marriage, in the first successful prosecution of its kind.
The woman ‐ who cannot be named without uncovering the identity of her daughter ‐ was found guilty following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court where a jury heard how the girl had sobbed as she was wedded to a male relative 16 years her senior, the same man who had sex with her and left her pregnant on an earlier trip.
The then 13-year-old had to undergo an abortion on returning from Pakistain to Britannia, but concerns over the girl’s welfare were allayed by her mother who said the pregnancy was a result of "two teenagers who had sneakily had sex", prosecutors said.
Jurors heard how as the girl approached her 18th birthday she was tricked by her mother into returning to Pakistain on what she was told would be a family holiday.
The couple were then married in September 2016 despite objections from the girl, before she was returned to Britannia with the assistance of the Home Office and her mother was tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in January 2017.
The mother was convicted on a charge of deceiving the victim into travelling abroad to enter into a false marriage, the first conviction of its kind, as well as for the forced marriage itself and for perjury, after she lied about the incident in the High Court ‐ where she was summoned when concerns were raised by authorities.
As the verdicts were read the defendant appeared shocked and was remanded in jug for sentencing on Wednesday, as her daughter watched from the public gallery.
Judge Patrick Thomas QC told the jury the adjournment was appropriate as the case was "entirely novel", with no other relevant case law to rely upon.
"Forcing someone into marriage against their wishes is a criminal offence, and a breach of their human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... ," said Elaine Radway of the Crown Prosecution Service.
"It is thanks to the brave testimony of the victim that this serious offending was uncovered and that there was sufficient evidence to secure the conviction today." The new offence of forced marriage came into effect in June 2014, but prosecutions have been rare.
However the Forced Marriage Unit ‐ a joint Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Home Office team ‐ provided support to about 1,200 potential cases in 2017, a government front man said, making Britannia a "world leader" in tackling the problem.
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All we are saying...is give massive air strikes a chance.
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it's almost TW-esque.
You are too kind, PBMcL. It never would have occurred to me to mention that ours is so very much bigger, which is why I’ll never be president of the United States. I am very glad indeed that he is the one with the phone, the pen, and the Armed Forces of the United States of America.
North Korea will reconsider the planned summit with the United States if Washington sticks to "unlawful and outrageous acts," its vice foreign minister said Thursday.
In a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency, Choe Son-hui, a North Korean vice foreign minister, said that whether the June 12 summit between its leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump will happen as scheduled entirely rests on the decision and behavior of the U.S.
"Whether the U.S. will meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown is entirely dependent upon the decision and behavior of the United States," Choe said.
"In case the U.S. offends against our goodwill and clings to unlawful and outrageous acts, I will put forward a suggestion to our supreme leadership for reconsidering the DPRK-U.S. summit," she added.
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Choe singled out U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, lambasting him for mentioning a Libya-style approach and military option against the North in a recent media interview.
"U.S. Vice-President Pence has made unbridled and impudent remarks that North Korea might end like Libya, military option for North Korea never came off the table, the U.S. needs complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization, and so on," she said. "As a person involved in the U.S. affairs, I cannot suppress my surprise at such ignorant and stupid remarks gushing out from the mouth of the U.S. vice-president."
It would be interesting to see the result of a NORK missile test right about now.
[DAWN] KARACHI: An antiterrorism court has asked the provincial home department to inform it as to when will the military authorities shift the custody of Uzair Jan Baloch, the chief of the defunct Peoples Aman Committee (PAC), back to prison.
Nearly 62 criminal cases are pending trial against Uzair and others before different antiterrorism courts in the judicial complex.
The ATC-VI judge, who is conducting trial of a case pertaining to kidnapping and murder of a policeman against Uzair and others, sent a letter to the registrar of the provincial home department.
The letter stated that the custody of Uzair was shifted from the Central Prison 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... to the Army’s Crops-V in Karachi on April 11, 2017 in the presence of the Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate-XI (South) for investigation in an explosives and arms case.
"Due to non-presence of accused Uzair Jan Baloch during the trial before this court, due to said reasons, the case pertaining to year 2012 could not be proceeded," stated the letter, a copy of which is available with Dawn.
"It is further directed that confirmation is required regarding the production of custody of accused Uzair Jan Baloch for hearing on each date before this court or may inform any time limit to this court regarding shifting the custody of the said accused from 5 Crops Karachi to Central Prison Karachi to avoid any further impediment," it added. The registrar was directed to submit a reply to the letter by the next date of hearing.
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[DAWN] A 22-year-old woman and her infant son died after falling from the eighth floor of a building in Delhi Colony area of 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... on Wednesday, hospital officials said. The dear departed were allegedly pushed from the balcony by the woman's mother-in-law, police said.
Frere cop shoppe SHO Rana Abdul Latif told Dawn that three-month-old Abdul Hadi went titzup while his mother, Ramsha, 22, succumbed to her wounds during treatment at Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre.
"It appears to be a double murder case of the mother and her infant son," said Karachi South-SSP Sarfraz Nawaz Sheikh.
The senior officer said Ramsha and Rizwan Ahmed had married a year-and-half ago against the will of Ahmed’s parents, therefore she was not accepted by his family.
Initially, the couple moved to Dubai, but some six months back they had returned to Karachi and started living with Ahmed’s parents at the family’s apartment in Delhi Colony, where the incident happened.
Also read: When in-laws become outlaws
When Ramsha and her infant son fell from the eighth floor of the building some women gathered around them. There, the maimed woman told them that she was thrown from the balcony of the flat by her mother-in-law, police said.
Initially, SSP Sheikh said that police would lodge FIR into the double murder case "after getting a proper statement of the woman’s parents and witnesses."
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... later in the day, Frere police registered the murder case on the complaint of the dear departed woman’s father, Mohammed Khalid, and tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! the woman’s mother-in-law Nasrin Bibi and her brother-in-law Iqram over charges of involvement in the double murder, SHO Latif told Dawn.
The deadly incident, which was first portrayed as a case of suicide by the woman's in-laws, triggered fear in the densely-populated neighbourhood.
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[Twitchy] The money shot:
"A club will be fined by the League if its personnel are on the field and do not stand and show respect for the flag and the Anthem." The NFLPA shotgun to the foot response:
"The NFL chose to not consult the union in the development of this new "policy." NFL players have shown their patriotism through their social activism, their community service, in support of our military and lawe nforcement and yes, through their protests to raise awareness about the issues they care about.
The vote by NFL club CEOs today contradicts the statements made to our player leadership by Commissioner Roger Goodell and the Chairman of the NFL's Management Council John Mara about the principles, values and patriotism of our League.
Our union will review the new "policy" and challenge any aspect of it that is inconsistent with the collective bargaining agreement." This is gonna' be fun!
#1
Too little too late. Cut 'em loose. I'm done with the National Felon League.
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Your problem is not Trump, he's just a symptom of a deep and underlying pathology in America - one that values identity as an American, something that is an anathema to the crowd you keep in your lofty retreats, but one which provides the secure environment through their sacrifice of mind and body that you and yours exploit in your station.
#3
It took them two years to come up with this? I could have told them that after the first 'protest'. To wit - you want to do something other than play the game when you're on the field? Fine - do it on your own time, not ours.
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According to this ESPN article, the owners are giving the players an out by letting the stay in the locker room while the anthem is playing. So the owners didn't do enough and they didn't do it soon enough. I don't know how they recover from this.
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I actually love the proviso that protesting players stay in the locker room rather than doing the team glory run onto the field.
If you protest and there's no one there to see it, who do you hurt but yourself?
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Just those on the field, mind you. Those who wish to protest get another five minutes to work off the hangover, and then they can do the anal-fist charge onto the field afterwards.
Nope, found my freedom, not going back to the crazy ex.
Nothing to do with Trump, tipping point for me was/is the Jovan Belcher. Is, because they dug him up after a couple years and did a brain exam and found that some dude who had been drink'n and coke'n hard for 10-15 years, and especially hard the night of the murder-suicide, may have some brain injury from football which made him susceptible to NRA brainwashing.
Anyone else snicker at the Community Service bit?
I think this all but confirms that the upper management of the NFL are drunken clams, and if I had any business exposure to pro football I would start limiting that exposure last year at the latest, but now for sure.
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I believe microcuncisions are real and they will doom the NFL as parents prevent kids from playing and eventually that works its way up the system until there aren't enough players to have a quality league.
NFL knows this and want to maximize cash before things start to get worse.
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Two years too late. The NFL has already committed slow-motion ritual seppuku. This is just the corpse twitching. Good luck getting your fans back, your ratings back up, or ever again fooling the taxpayers into buying you fancy new stadiums.
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Jason Whitlock's idea; If the player disrespects the flag they still get paid but they won't play.
The players should pay the fine, and should all stand in respect for our flag, none of this hiding in the locker room crap.
Having the team pay the fine will only have them pass the cost onto us fans in ticket prices.
Wonder how many will be counting the players on the field, it still all sucks
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[DAWN] A 22-year-old woman and her infant son died after falling from the eighth floor of a building in Delhi Colony area of 
