BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese woman has been charged with accidentally killing her husband with a sword after he refused to make her dinner, the Shanghai Daily said on Tuesday.
Police said Tang Xiaowan, 25, who has been practising swordsmanship since she was young, had often forced her husband of three years at swordpoint to carry out her demands.
On March 3, her husband, Li Weidong, refused to cook dinner because he was late for work.
Police said Tang picked up her sword and put it on Li's chest and promptly slipped, stabbing Li by mistake.
Li died in hospital from loss of blood.
Tang was arrested on Monday and charged with manslaughter.
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Shaolin Matrimony?
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Tonight on Lifetime: "Better Off Dead:The Li Wedong Story"...
But didn't they just re-elect their mayor because he's doing such a fine job?
Louisiana Governor Blanco has decided to send troops to help the police fight a crime breakout in New Orleans. According to press reports, Blanco will send State Police and National Guard. Mayor Ray Nagin told Bayoubuzz that he had a very productive meeting with Governor Blanco earlier today and that the issue came up.
"Ray, I'm going to send troops to occupy your city because you ain't done squat to get things under control."
"Hokay."
Governor Blanco issued the following statement regarding the crime breakout and her assistance to New Orleans. "The senseless slaying of five teenagers this weekend is shocking. Things like this should never happen and I am going to do all I can to stop it.
"Since Ray obviously isn't."
Think she's beginning to realize how much political doo-doo she's in?
"The situation is urgent and we will accelerate our plans to deploy law enforcement to the city tomorrow. Right now we are talking with Chief Riley about his exact needs and we will respond with personnel from the State Police and National Guard. We had begun putting plans in motion to assist the New Orleans police force last week. I will not tolerate criminal behavior. We must protect our citizens. Having more law enforcement patrolling the streets is a direct deterrent to the criminal element. Criminals are not welcome in New Orleans or anywhere else in this state."
"We thought we'd sent them all to Texas, but I guess they came back."
"I spoke with Councilman Oliver Thomas early this morning and I told him that I am in full support of the New Orleans City Police officers and will work to stop this escalating criminal activity. This afternoon I briefed the mayor on our plans to support the city with law enforcement efforts. I have two warnings: First, to parents, keep your brats teenagers off the streets and out of trouble. Second, to judges, I am urging you to keep hardened criminals where they belong-in jail and off the streets. We must protect our citizens. I also urge the mayor to put a juvenile curfew in place."
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"Troops To New Orleans To Fight Crime"
Too bad it's not a coup. I have no doubt that someone like General Honore could run the entire state 100 times more efficiently and fairly. The press conferences would be a major plus.
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So the insurgents strike once again in the city. The local police are unable to cope and National Guard troops, lacking law enforcement and criminal investigation skills, have be sent to reinforce the governments tenuous hold on the place. Meanwhile, other insurgents have displaced from the city to other cities creating significant increase in death and destruction. The local government of the base city appear weak and incompetent. Can we say Quagmire? Will the media use the same terms and standards they have imposed upon their political opponents, on their political allies? Time for pull out? Someone call Rep. Murtha's office. This needs airtime.
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I am a little confused, was this a Nagin campaign promises or is this a new crisis for which he cant deal with? Also is this a unilateral deployment of forces? Did the UN approve? Do the forces have arrest authority or do they just shoot anybody they want (including Nagin). Also can I be first to call the whole N.O. fiasco a QUAGMIRE? Its time to pull all support (military and financial) and let the people of New Orleans stand of fall on their own. BRING THE TROOPS HOME!
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Have those who are rebuilding the NO levees taken into account the levees will be terrorist target #1, even before Manhattan. All for the cost of a few bombs. Flooding NO did more damage than any terrorist attack outside of a large nuke could hope to accomplish.
PS. I heard the crime rate in Houston, the primary New Orleans evacuation city, went up 20% this year.
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Right now we are talking with Chief Riley about his exact needs
NEEDS:
Watches: Cartier, Rolex, TAG Heuer, LeCoultre.
Cars: Cadillac Escalade. Chysler 300, Lexus
Guns: Benelli, Glock, S&W, SIG.
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Katrina Refugees Shoot Up Houston This city of nearly 2 million has experienced a marked uptick in its homicide rate since more than 100,000 of New Orleanss displaced residents flocked into town in late August and early September. While Houstons murder rate is up 23 percent for all of 2005, it spiked 70 percent in November and December compared to last years levels. At least 35 percent of Houstons December increase in homicidesfive of 14 over last years leveldirectly stemmed from the presence of Katrina evacuees.
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Criminals are not welcome in New Orleans or anywhere else in this state.
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But I thought this was the kind of thing to prevent, Slippery slope thingies? Soldiers really are not meant to be cops. There are criminals about and it will take time to catch them. Hire more Cops (Hint hint)
WINDHOEK - Namibia will begin a mass vaccination campaign on Wednesday amid a worsening polio outbreak that has killed 12 people and infected at least 84 since May, officials said. Kalumbi Shangula of the Ministry of Health and Social Services said vaccine was already being distributed and was for every person who finds himself or herself within the borders of Namibia, irrespective of his or her nationality, health status, physical and physiological condition.
The 2.5 million doses of polio vaccine were received from UNICEF Copenhagen last week after the southwest African nation reported its first outbreak of the disease in more than a decade.
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Well isn't that special? Only 100 years late in getting it. Fucking Brilliant!
Now what will they say when their penises fall off? who will they blame?
I think I know! Woohoo, Islam! Little Mo saw all, thousands of years into the future! A regular Nostrafuckingdamas, he wuz.
Who care if Islam "gets it"? They've doomed their children, anyway, to lives of shit and desperation. Assholes.
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Hardly any muslims that far south in Namibia and we all know polio vaccines only cause muzzie doinkers to fall off. Namibia already has enough problems with a 20% HIV infection rate.
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MORE than 300 people have been evacuated after explosive material was found in a garden shed in central western New South Wales. Removalists discovered four sticks of gelignite, detonators, fuses and gunpowder in the back shed of an elderly woman's house in Spring Street, Orange about 11.30am (AEST) today. Police said the material was unstable because a gelignite stick had ruptured and was beginning to crystalise.
About 250 students from Orange Primary School opposite the house and residents in 30 neighbouring homes have been evacuated to a nearby park. NSW Fire Brigade Inspector Gordon Boath said occupants of a nearby nursing home had been relocated within the building. The NSW Police bomb disposal squad will shortly arrive at the scene by helicopter from Sydney.
Police said the explosives had been in the shed for several years, but the woman did not know they were there. The previous occupant of the house was believed to have been an explosives specialist, a spokeswoman said.
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Explosives that have leaked and formed crystals are one of the great dangers of old mines. Dumbasses decide to go spelunking and as often as not don't come back out. Methane gas, unexpected verticle shafts, rotten timbers and crumbling rock, along with unexploded explosives, definitely make it an "extreme" sport.
Real experts don't even bother, they just seal the entrance.
In the British Isles, it's usually body parts that are found in an old lady's shed. ;-p
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Host: Last week the Royal Teatime Pavilion saw the debut of a new lace doily by one of the world's leading modern tatters, Granny 'Two sheds' Jackson. Mrs. Jackson.
Jackson: Hello.
Host: May I just sidetrack for one moment. This -- what shall I call it -- nickname of yours...
Jackson: Ah yes.
Host: "Two sheds". How did you come by it?
Jackson: Well, I don't use it myself, but some of my friends call me "Two Sheds".
Host: And do you in fact have two sheds?
Jackson: No, I've only got one. I've had one for some time, but a few years ago I said I was thinking of getting another, and since then some people have called me "Two Sheds".
Host: In spite of the fact that you only have one.
Jackson: Yes.
Host: And are you still intending to purchase this second shed?
Jackson: (impatient) No!
Host: ...To bring you in line with your epithet?
Jackson: No.
Host: I see, I see. Well to return to your lace making.
Jackson: Ah yes.
Host: Did you tat this new doily in the shed?
Jackson: (surprised) No!
Host: Have you tatted any of your recent lace pieces in this shed of yours?
Jackson: No, no, not at all. It's just an ordinary garden shed.
Host: I see, I see. And you're thinking of buying this second shed to tat in!
Jackson: No, no. Look. This shed business -- it doesn't really matter. The sheds aren't important. A few friends call me Two Sheds and that's all there is to it. I wish you'd ask me about the doilies. Everybody talks about the sheds. They've got it out of proportion -- I'm a lace maker. I'm going to get rid of the shed. I'm fed up with it!
Host: Then you'll be Granny 'No Sheds' Jackson, eh?
Jackson: Look, forget about the sheds. They don't matter.
Host: (sternly) Mrs. Jackson, I think, with respect, we ought to return to the subject of your doily.
Jackson: Huh!
Host: I understand that you used to be interested in demolition.
Jackson: What?
Host: I understand that, about thirty years ago, you were interested in high explosive demolition work.
Jackson: Well what's that got to do with my bloody lace?
Other host: (entering) Are you having any trouble with him?
Host: Yes, a little. Good Lord! You're the man who interviewed Sir Edward Ross earlier.
Other host: Exactly. Well we interviewers are more than a match for the likes of you, "Two Sheds".
Host: Yes, make yourself scarce, "Two Sheds". This studio isn't big enough for the three of us! (They throw her out.)
Jackson: Here, what are you doing? Stop it! [Crash.]
Other host: Get your own Arts programme, you haridan!
Host: Granny "Two Sheds" Jackson... Never mind, Timmy.
Other host: Oh Mike, you're such a comfort.
Slovakia's leftist Smer party promised a radical break with economic reforms yesterday after winning an election that showed voters' fatigue with the tough changes made during eight years of centre-right rule. Smer, led by populist Robert Fico, faces a struggle to form a coalition government after failing to win a majority in Saturday's parliamentary election, the first since the former communist nation joined the European Union and Nato in 2004.
Official results showed Smer won 29.1 per cent of votes and reformist Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda's party secured 18.4 per cent. Weeks of coalition talks are now likely and Dzurinda could stay in power if Fico fails to find any partners. The talks are likely to decide the fate of reforms which won plaudits abroad and transformed the landlocked nation of 5.4 million people into one of Europe's fastest growing economies, but left unemployment high and proved painful for many.
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Smer = direction, but I suspect they mean directive. I guess that 29.1 per cent of Slovaks want to go back to the safe cozy time-tried arrangement when they would be pretending that they are working and the governmenmt would be pretending paying them for it.
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And yet another former Communist population misses the point and throws away the party and system which has proven itself far more successful economically. Sigh. Sad, isn't it, that they can't seem to grasp what is within their grasp due to their short dalliance with Capitalism?
Stupid is as stupid does, so sayeth Madame Gump. Sink, back into the fevered swamps, and bother us no more. Another way of saying "Eat shit and die dickheads". You deserve no more than the standard fool's eulogy.
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The poor Slovakis. Tricked by power hungry nationalist politicians into demanding separation from the Czechs, they were shocked when Vaclav Havel agreed rather than buying them off. Only the Czech half of the country is where all the industry is; Slovakia has family farms and scenery. Freed from the burden of supporting the country cousins, the Czech economy linked itself to Germany as the low-cost supplier of many things, while Slovakia languished and seethed. At one point they even asked to rejoin, but the Czechs saw no benefit and refused. If only the Quebec nationalists would learn the lesson taught so well by Slovakia...
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TW, actually, it would be nice if they don't learn the lesson and separate. Since Cree and other tribes have a claim on about 85% of Quebec territory and already expressed the desire to secede in the case of Quebec independence, the loss of territory to anglophone Canada--if they stick together--would be thus minimal. Everyone would be better of, except Quebec, but they'll get what they wanted as a consolation prix.
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I'm sorry, twobyfour, in my pursuit of brevity (endlessly pursued, very rarely caught, I fear!), I was unclear. The point you make is exactly the one I meant to: by separating they lost considerably more than the ego boost they gained. Thank you for taking care of that for me. :-)
One of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines spewed a massive column of ash about two kilometres into the sky yesterday, sending residents of surrounding areas fleeing for cover, radio reports said. It was the latest in a series of ash explosions that have raised fears that 1,565-metre high Mount Bulusan, on the southern tip of Luzon island, might be ready to erupt. Radio reports from the scene said a loud explosion had been heard from the crater and that the falling ash had turned vegetation, houses and even cattle around the volcano, white. However there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. About 40 families living on the slopes of Bulusan will begin evacuation to safer areas this week, local government officials said yesterday.
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I guess TruthOut will try to pin this on Rove too.
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We pointed out that we do not do tomahawk chops, we do not have white guys painted up like Indians, and our fans do not do Indian chants.
Heh, speaking of self-righteousness.
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.
MORE than 300 people have been evacuated after explosive material was found in a garden shed in central western New South Wales. Removalists discovered four sticks of gelignite, detonators, fuses and gunpowder in the back shed of an elderly woman's house in Spring Street, Orange about 11.30am (AEST) today. Police said the material was unstable because a gelignite stick had ruptured and was beginning to crystalise.
Slovakia's leftist Smer party promised a radical break with economic reforms yesterday after winning an election that showed voters' fatigue with the tough changes made during eight years of centre-right rule. Smer, led by populist Robert Fico, faces a struggle to form a coalition government after failing to win a majority in Saturday's parliamentary election, the first since the former communist nation joined the European Union and Nato in 2004. 
One of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines spewed a massive column of ash about two kilometres into the sky yesterday, sending residents of surrounding areas fleeing for cover, radio reports said. It was the latest in a series of ash explosions that have raised fears that 1,565-metre high Mount Bulusan, on the southern tip of Luzon island, might be ready to erupt. Radio reports from the scene said a loud explosion had been heard from the crater and that the falling ash had turned vegetation, houses and even cattle around the volcano, white. However there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. About 40 families living on the slopes of Bulusan will begin evacuation to safer areas this week, local government officials said yesterday.
