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First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to Fred for choosing Mae West as the "cover girl" for todays "Good Morning" featured artist. I have admired 2 "old time" actresses in my life, virtually since childhood - Mae West & Gene Harlow < What? you say, yes, I was precocious child and adored Mae West for her "Grand Tetons", with dreams of exploring the magnificent mountains as any adventurous teen would, N'est-ce Pas?>
Mae West was an American stage and film actress, playwright, screenwriter, singer, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned over seven decades. She was known for her breezy sexual independence, and her lighthearted bawdy double entendres, often delivered in a husky contralto voice.
Born:
Mary Jane West, August 17, 1893, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died:
November 22, 1980, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation:
Actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter WikipediaIMDb
#5
There's a bay near Marseilles, up in France,
Where the infidel gentlemen prance.
Sure it's not far from Cannes,
O Mohammedan man,
And each rack-shaking biche
Within reach is tres riche!
Tout le monde makes a hajj
To that welcoming plage
Where they dance by the seaside expanse!
[WASHINGTONTIMES] An infamous narco and convicted killer who occupied a spot on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list was arrested by Mexican naval forces on Friday.
Rafael Caro-Quintero, who is considered a founder of the Guadalajara cartel, was captured by Mexican marines after a search dog found him hiding in the brush near the town of San Simon in the country’s northwestern state of Sinaloa, according to multiple reports.
The drug lord was a major player in cocaine, marijuana and heroin trafficking into the U.S. in the 1970s, and is notorious in U.S. law enforcement circles for orchestrating the kidnapping, torture and killing of DEA Special Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in 1985.
Camarena’s death came after a DEA raid destroyed millions of dollars worth of marijuana owned by the Guadalajara cartel in 1984.
Camarena’s murder was a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations, and caused the border between the two nations to be closed for several days. The Louisville Courier-Journal reported that the public pressure inside Mexico became so high that the cartel eventually returned Mr. Caramena’s body to U.S. authorities.
The Indian authorities taking the excuse to deal with not only actual miscreants, but those who show themselves interested in misbehaving before they move to actual violence — the Indian version of Broken Window Theory.
[OneIndia] An NIA court on Saturday sent three of the accused in Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal's murder case to Ajmer jail.
The court had earlier sent three of them--Riaz Akhtari, Ghouse Mohammad and Farhad Mohammad Sheikh--to police custody till July 16. The four others, identified as Mohmamad Mohsin, Wasim Ali, Asif and Mohsin were sent to judicial custody till August 1.
Kanhaiya Lal was killed by cleaver-wielding Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad at his shop on June 28 in the Udaipur's Dhan Mandi cop shoppe area over a controversial post on social media. The accused had posted a grisly video of the crime online.
Two days later, Mohsin and Asif were arrested. They were allegedly involved in the conspiracy of the killing and had conducted a recce of Kanhaiya's shop.
NIA searches multiple locations in Udaipur murder caseNIA searches multiple locations in Udaipur murder case
The NIA later arrested Mohammad Mohsin, Wasim Ali and Farhad Mohammad Sheikh on different dates.
NIA had said it suspects the role of a "terror gang and not a terror outfit". The anti-terror agency, however, made it clear that there is a role of a bigger gang behind the brutal killing and that it was not just an act done by only two persons, who were arrested by state police after the incident.
[IsraelTimes] A senior Iranian naval officer has died as a "martyr" while "performing his mission," according to Iranian media reports.
Admiral Beitaleh Devsalar’s funeral will be held Sunday in front of the Nowshahr Admiralty on the country’s northern coast, the semi-official Fars news agency says.
It is not clear exactly how the officer was killed, but the term "martyr" is usually given to those killed while on important assignments.
The death of the man comes as tensions remain high over Iran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers, and its uranium enrichment program that is now the closest it has ever been to weapons-grade levels.
The latest incident is one of several mysterious deaths of high-level Iranian military figures in recent months. Last month, two members of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s aerospace division died as "deaders" in Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... in separate incidents.
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.
...The nation is noted for 
