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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Police seize AK47s, drugs and cash after search warrant; 5 arrested
HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) ‐ Five people were arrested after police seized drugs, cash and several firearms from a Myrtle Beach area home.

On Feb. 18, police executed a search warrant in the 4300 block of Appaloosa Drive after an in-depth drug investigation, according to a news release from the Horry County Police Department.

Police say they seized the following firearms:

  • Two Draco AK-47s
  • Three Glock 19’s 9MM
  • Two Glock 43’s 9MM
  • MMP Bodyguard .380 cal.
  • GSG 1911 .22 cal.
  • Springfield 9MM
  • Sig Sauer 9MM

    According to the release, 90 grams of heroin, 344 grams of meth, two pounds of marijuana and $3,564 were also seized.
  • Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2019 07:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  This is likely to drive up 'Bike Week' drug prices.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2019 8:15 Comments || Top||


    Man confessed to giving STDs to 3-year-old relative
    [NYPOST] A Texas man has confessed to raping a 3-year-old female relative, leading her to contract chlamydia and gonorrhea, court documents show.

    Drevon Alexander Perkins, 26, of San Antonio, was locked away
    Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
    Tuesday after the girl’s mother noticed discharge in her diaper and took her to a hospital for observation. A doctor later confirmed she had been infected with two sexually transmitted diseases and a police investigation was launched, according to court records cited by the San Antonio Express-News.

    Perkins later allegedly admitted during a polygraph test to raping the girl while he was high on drugs in January, telling Sherlocks he attacked her at his apartment while her mother was working.

    Perkins had previously been diagnosed with chlamydia and gonorrhea, court records show.

    He remained in jug as of Thursday on $100,000 bond at the Bexar County Jail on a felony charge of super aggravated sexual assault of a child, jail records show. If convicted, Perkins faces a minimum of 25 years in prison, KTRK reports.

    The alleged victim is Perkins’ relative, according to KSAT.
    Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Drevon looks exactly like you might assume he does. Take this POS out and pop him.
    Posted by: Tyranysaurus Clavith3514 || 03/08/2019 5:19 Comments || Top||

    #2  "She wearin's a provocative low-cut diaper and shit. What was I to do?"
    Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2019 6:47 Comments || Top||

    #3  Hopefully he gets more sex than he can cope with in prison.
    Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/08/2019 8:36 Comments || Top||

    #4  Put him in with Bradley.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2019 12:52 Comments || Top||


    Sisters attacked nude woman who’s dating one of their exes: cops
    [NYPOST] Cops are looking for two sisters who allegedly broke into a Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone,
    ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ...
    apartment, where they attacked a naked woman who is now dating one of their ex-boyfriends before pummeling her car with a shovel, authorities said.
    "[BANG!] Take that, car!"
    "My Ford Fusion!"

    The women, identified by Cleveland.com as Amber N. Jennings, 21, and Lyasia P. Jennings, 18, are now being sought by police on charges of aggravated burglary after the Feb. 27 incident at an apartment on West 33rd Street.
    "Calling all cars! Be on the lookout for Amber and Lyasia Jennings! May be armed with a shovel and dangerous!"
    A 20-year-old victim told Sherlocks she believes the sisters attacked her because she’s now dating one of their exes, although a police report does not specify which Jennings had previously dated the man.
    "Lyasia, I can't see you anymore!"
    "I'm gettin' my shovel, Steve!"

    The woman told police the sisters started banging on her apartment door at about 8 p.m., prompting her boyfriend to check out what was going on.
    "Hey! What's goin' on?"
    The man refused to let the Jennings sisters into the residence, but they kicked their way into the apartment, damaging the door frame, according to police reports.
    "Go away! You can't come in! We're busy!"
    The 20-year-old woman ‐ who was naked at the time ‐ charged into a nearby bathroom, where the sisters soon found her and grabbed her.
    "Get out here, y'ugly thing!"
    "Leggo! That's my bosom ye'r grabbin'!"

    Amber and Lyasia Jennings then dragged the victim out of the bathroom before assaulting her with a series of punches and kicks, police said.
    "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!"
    The attack was eventually broken up by others inside the apartment
    Were they nekkid, too?
    who forced the sisters outside, where they continued the alleged onslaught by taking a shovel to the woman’s 2013 Ford Fusion, damaging its windshield and passenger-side mirror. Key marks were also found on the driver-side door, according to police reports.
    "Take that, insurance rates!"
    The victim managed to capture some of the incident on her cellphone, showing the sisters damaging her car before fleeing in a silver Jeep. The woman refused to be taken to a hospital for observation, police said.
    "I ain't goin' noplace! We're all nekkid here!"
    Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  "...Forget it, Jake. It's Cleveland."

    Mike
    Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/08/2019 4:27 Comments || Top||

    #2  Florida girl moves north?
    Posted by: AlanC || 03/08/2019 7:43 Comments || Top||

    #3  Ohio? Does that make them Pre-Flordia women? Sort of like pre-boarding?
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/08/2019 13:50 Comments || Top||

    #4  "Lookee at the damage to the car, can ya dig it??"
    Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/08/2019 14:44 Comments || Top||


    Shootout at Mike's Liquor Store in Houston, Robber Suspect Fatally Ventilated
    [KTRK] -- A robbery suspect was killed and a second ran away after a liquor store clerk opened fire in southeast Houston, police say.

    The clerk opened fire during a robbery Wednesday night at Mike's Liquor Store in the 8700 block of MLK Boulevard near Reed.
    Nothing good ever happens on MLK Boulevard.
    Houston police said that at least two armed suspects went into the store, where two employees were working at the time. One of the employees had a concealed handgun license and got into a shootout with the suspects.

    The robbery suspect who was shot managed to escape, but died a short time later just south of the store.

    The suspect's body was found by police, who put two and two together after receiving a call for a robbery at the store.

    The employees were not injured.

    Officers are searching for the second suspect, who is believed to have fled into a nearby neighborhood.
    A lucky ducker with feets that didn't fail him.
    Police are asking people who live in the area to be on the lookout.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  The local liquor store ATM rejected the PIN entry and terminated the transaction.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/08/2019 2:48 Comments || Top||

    #2  The other guy is probably still running.
    Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 03/08/2019 3:29 Comments || Top||

    #3  In days gone by, there was a hooch house near this one where the owner kept a double barrel sawed off shotgun wired under the counter under the register, pointed at the door. Had the triggers wired to an accelerator petal from an old pickup truck. One stomp and it cleared the aisle all the way to the door. It was kind of rough on the doors, but he bought them in quantity.
    He kept a scrapbook...
    Posted by: ed in texas || 03/08/2019 7:24 Comments || Top||


    -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
    Greenpeace Founder: Global Warming Hoax Pushed by Corrupt Scientists ‘Hooked on Government Grants'
    [Breitbart] Greenpeace co-founder and former president of Greenpeace Canada Patrick Moore described the cynical and corrupt machinations fueling the narrative of anthropocentric global warming and "climate change" in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

    Moore explained how fear and guilt are leveraged by proponents of climate change:

    Fear has been used all through history to gain control of people’s minds and wallets and all else, and the climate catastrophe is strictly a fear campaign ‐ well, fear and guilt ‐ you’re afraid you’re killing your children because you’re driving them in your SUV and emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and you feel guilty for doing that. There’s no stronger motivation than those two.

    Scientists are co-opted and corrupted by politicians and bureaucracies invested in advancing the narrative of "climate change" in order to further centralize political power and control, explained Moore.

    Moore noted how "green" companies parasitize taxpayers via favorable regulations and subsidies ostensibly justified by the aforementioned narrative’s claimed threats, all while enjoying propagandistic protection across news media"

    Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2019 00:20 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  "Holmes! How do you do it?"
    Posted by: Raj || 03/08/2019 8:10 Comments || Top||

    #2  Rent-seeking is the main funding source of the establishment and the main way green"tech" functions.
    Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/08/2019 8:37 Comments || Top||

    #3  Noooooo!!! Say it ain't so!!! Oh my poor shocked face!
    Posted by: DarthVader || 03/08/2019 8:51 Comments || Top||


    Britain
    Kayleigh Peach: 'I tattooed my face so I couldn't get a normal job'
    [BBC] Kayleigh Peach was so determined to become a successful tattoo artist that on her first day as an apprentice she got the word "cursed" etched over her eye.

    She thought her tattooed face would put off most employers and leave her no choice but to pursue her ambition.

    Now aged 26, with 60% of her body inked, Kayleigh, who is from Erdington in Birmingham, explains how her risk has so far paid off and how tattooing has changed her life.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2019 07:44 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Can you say "insecurity," kids? I knew ya could...
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/08/2019 8:54 Comments || Top||

    #2  Ah, well done! A moderately attractive woman who in normal times would have been tasked with something complex and difficult such as returning to the house unscathed. But instead has chosen the unique and oh so individual path of converting her body into an historic map of bad life decisions. Well played!
    Posted by: Cesare || 03/08/2019 9:06 Comments || Top||

    #3  She needs a beating. Freak.
    Posted by: Glamp Guelph2481 || 03/08/2019 10:12 Comments || Top||

    #4  Self-mutilation to avoid employment should rseult in permanent loss of any benefits. Starve or join a carnival
    Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2019 11:38 Comments || Top||

    #5  Well, the tats and her sparkling personality may have contributed.
    Seriously, if she didn't have the tats, "someone" would've forced her to be "normal"?
    Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/08/2019 12:08 Comments || Top||

    #6  She’s a beautiful young woman, who apparently can and sometimes does cover up her tattoos with foundation and clothing, and has a side career modelling both with and without tattoos displayed. In her case, it seems to me she has taken an unusual path to being clean, sober, and self-supporting without doing harm to others.

    But very few could go down that path without serious damage, especially in Britain. Many of those who try will mostly ignore the fact that she gave up drinking and partying, replacing it with hard work and helping others.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2019 13:02 Comments || Top||

    #7  Always a glimpse of graciousness.
    Thank you.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2019 15:43 Comments || Top||


    Caribbean-Latin America
    Venezuela plunges into darkness amid widespread outage
    [APNEWS] Much of Venezuela plunged into darkness Thursday evening, creating chaos as people struggled to navigate their way home amid what appeared to be one of the biggest blackouts yet in a country where power failures have become common.

    The power outage began just as commuters were leaving work. Hundreds crammed the streets of Caracas, forced to walk because subway service was stopped. A snarl of cars jammed the streets amid confusion generated by blackened stoplights.

    President Nicolas Maduro
    Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
    blasted the outage as an "electrical war" directed by the United States in a statement on Twitter. His information minister, Jorge Rodriguez, said right-wing bully boyz intent on creating pandemonium by leaving the South American nation without power for several days were behind the blackout, but he offered no proof.

    "A little bit of patience," Rodriguez urged on state television
    ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
    . "If you’re in your home, stay in your home. If you’re in a protected space or at work, it’s better for you to stay there."

    But as night wore on in Caracas, patience was running thin. Residents threw open their windows and banged pots and pans in the darkness. Some shouted out expletives and Maduro’s name in a sign of mounting frustration.

    The outage comes as Venezuela is in the throes of a political struggle between Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido, the head of congress who declared himself the nation’s rightful president in January and is recognized by the United States and about 50 nations.

    Guaido took to Twitter to blast Maduro for the outage.

    "How do you tell a mom who needs to cook, an ill person who depends on a machine, a worker who should be laboring that we are in a powerful country without electricity?" he wrote, using the hashtag #SinLuz, meaning without light. "Venezuela is clear that the light will return with the end of usurpation."

    Venezuela’s electrical system was once the envy of Latin America but it has fallen into a state of disrepair after years of poor maintenance and mismanagement. High-ranking officials have been accused in U.S. court proceedings of looting government money earmarked for the electrical system.

    Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

    #1  Coming to a state near you. See - Green New Deal.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/08/2019 2:45 Comments || Top||


    #3  Richard Hernandez says that Socialism Dies in Darkness

    actually this probably gives Maduro a tactical advantage in arresting people
    Posted by: lord garth || 03/08/2019 11:35 Comments || Top||


    Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
    New Russian bill introduces punishment for insulting state
    MOSCOW (AP) ‐ Russian lawmakers passed legislation Thursday that imposes restrictions on online media and criminalizes anyone who insults the state.

    The bill introduces fines for publishing materials showing disrespect to the state, its symbols and government organs. Repeat offenders could face a 15-day jail sentence.

    The Kremlin-controlled lower house, the State Duma, approved the bill in the final, third reading. It also endorsed a separate bill that will block anyone publishing "fake news" online, that is perceived to threaten public health and security.

    The bills are expected to quickly pass in the upper house before President Vladimir Putin signs them into laws.

    Critics see the legislation as part of Kremlin efforts to stifle criticism and tighten control.

    During Thursday’s debates, Communist lawmaker Alexei Kurinnyi warned that the authorities could use the "fake news" bill to punish critics.

    Valery Gartung of the Just Russia faction also criticized the legislation, saying its vagueness will open the way for selective interpretation.

    The ultranationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky spoke about the need to "fight lies that lead to revolutions and wars," but added that his faction wouldn’t support what he described as insufficiently prepared legislation.

    Related: American Thinker - Six reasons the DNC blacklisting of Fox News for presidential debates is a spectacular mistake
    Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2019 01:30 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


    China-Japan-Koreas
    N. Korea rocket site appears 'operational' again: US experts
    [NEWS.YAHOO] A North Korean long-range rocket launch site appears to have resumed "normal operation status," US experts said Thursday, calling it "an affront" to President Donald Trump
    ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
    's strategy of diplomatic engagement with Pyongyang.
    If it was brought back on line this quickly it wasn't non-operational; it was on standby.
    The specialized website 38 North and the Center for Strategic and International Studies used commercial satellite imagery to track construction at the site -- which they said began before last week's aborted summit in Hanoi between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Pudge Jong-un
    ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
    Images taken on March 6 showed that a rail-mounted structure to transfer rockets to the launching pad appeared to have been completed and "may now be operational."

    Cranes have been removed from the pad while progress also appeared to have been made on rebuilding the support structure for a rocket engine testing stand.

    "Given that construction, plus activity at other areas of the site, Sohae (Satellite Launching Station) appears to have returned to normal operational status," 38 North's report said.

    Kim had agreed to shutter the Sohae site at a summit with the South's President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang as part of confidence-building measures, and satellite pictures in August had suggested workers were already dismantling the engine test stand.

    Pyongyang had used the site in 2012 and 2016 to launch satellites.

    Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

    #1  Time for another "accident" then.
    Posted by: DarthVader || 03/08/2019 10:52 Comments || Top||

    #2  That didn't take very long.
    Posted by: gorb || 03/08/2019 11:20 Comments || Top||


    Down Under
    AU, NZ, CAN stations dump Michael Jackson's music after Neverland documentary
    [SBS] Radio stations in Australia, Canada and New Zealand are refusing to play Michael Jackson's music in the wake of fresh allegations against him of child sex abuse.

    Sydney's Nova Entertainment on Thursday became the latest radio group to announce they are taking the late "King of Pop" off the air in response to public opinion.

    The move comes after the broadcast of a US documentary "Leaving Neverland" that featured two men who claimed Jackson sexually abused them for years.

    "In light of what is happening at the moment, SmoothFM is not currently playing any Michael Jackson songs," local media quoted Nova's programme director Paul Jackson as saying.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Credit where credit due. Even Convicts recognize filth and debauchery when they see it.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2019 8:54 Comments || Top||

    #2  I've been noticing more J5 and MJ than usual in local grocery the past couple of weeks. Pretty sure it's not coincidence or CB (I tend to notice this stuff, being endlessly annoyed by loud modern muzak). "Resistance?" Industry close-out sale? Dunno.
    Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/08/2019 14:17 Comments || Top||


    Europe
    Amsterdam Celebrates Woman's Day
    [nltimes] On Friday a flock of giant breasts are floating down Amsterdam's canals for International Women's Day. This action is "to celebrate the fact that boobs are just boobs", organizer 72andSunny Amsterdam said in a press release. "Like the noses on our faces, they're simply part of the body, part of what makes us women."

    72andSunny came up with the idea of giant floating breasts after a survey the agency performed among 160 women showed that the vast majority - 78 percent - of them had felt embarrassed by their boobs at some time in their lives. The creative agency finds it strange that simply having a pair of breasts seems to be disruptive. A team of women from 72andSunny Amsterdam therefore created a "delightful diversity of boobs" to float on the Dutch capital's canals, to ask that women's body parts be kept free from shame and stigma, harassment, censorship and objectification.

    "We think it's pretty strange that as a society we are so stressed out about boobs. Our team's aim is to highlight the scrutiny and unnecessary sexualization that boobs still have to go through", Laura Visco, Deputy Executive Creative Director at 72andSunny Amsterdam, said. "We want to open up the dialogue about everyone having an opinion about this supposedly 'controversial' body part. You still can't post any pictures showing nipples on Facebook or Instagram for example if not showing breastfeeding or, say, mastectomy scars."
    Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2019 14:09 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


    India-Pakistan
    FIA busts illegal kidney transplant network in KP
    [DAWN] The Federal Investigation Agency, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
    ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
    Zone, on Wednesday claimed to have dismantled an illegal kidney transplant network and tossed in the calaboose
    Book 'im, Mahmoud!
    an accused.

    FIA officials said that FIA’s anti-corruption wing, Peshawar zone, busted the inter-provincial network of government hospital officials, senior doctors and illegal donors involved in illegal transplantation of human organs.

    They said that the anti-corruption wing was investigating the matter following a complaint by a retired executive engineer of Mardan, Fazle Qadir, who employed the services of Shoaib Afridi, a dialysis technician at Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, and paid him a hefty amount of Rs3.1 million to arrange for the donor, surgeon and other facilities.

    He said that Shoaib Afridi was arrested by the officials of Federal Investigation Agency, Peshawar.
    Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


    Where did it all go wrong for Multan Sultans?
    [DAWN] Some wise men saw it coming from a mile away.

    That Multan
    Home of the Multan Sultans...
    have crashed out of Pakistain Super League 2019; that they were easily the worst team and that their gaudy roster was not built to shine was there for all who wanted to see.

    With one more outing left, the expansion franchise has managed to win just two of their nine matches ‐ both of those victories coming against defending champions Islamabad United by five and six-wicket margins.

    The question is: where did it all go wrong for a team that boasted the star power of Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Andre Russell, Mohammad Irfan and Junaid Khan? And the answer is: a combo of player acquisition, shockingly sub-par captaincy and bad luck derailed the Multans' sophomore PSL campaign.

    Composition wise, the Sultans were just relying too heavily on foreign stars in the batting department and did not have enough quality locals to complement them.

    Apart from captain Shoaib Malik (44.33) and opener Umar Siddiq (26), no local player had a T20 average of over 25 for Sultans, which is why the team had a hard time in posting decent totals and chasing steep targets.

    Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Yup, too many furriners. That's why the Lakers are so bad.
    Posted by: George Hupinens8556 || 03/08/2019 21:55 Comments || Top||


    Afzal Kohistani murder: Family ends protest following protracted negotiations with police
    [DAWN] The body of Afzal Kohistan
    ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
    i ‐ the man who exposed the Kohistan video scandal ‐ was taken for burial to Kohistan on Thursday, after the conclusion of protracted negotiations between his family and police, who have booked Afzal's nephew for his murder.

    Afzal Kohistani, was rubbed out on Wednesday evening in the densely populated area of Sarban Chowk at around 8:10pm by unidentified button men who managed to flee afterwards.

    According to witnesses, Afzal was shot multiple times and went titzup, while three passersby were also injured.

    Station House Officer Ghafoor, of the Cantt cop shoppe, had yesterday said that Afzal was accompanied by his nephew, Faizur Rehman, who had reportedly also shot back at the button men.

    As investigations into the incident began, Abbottabad
    ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
    police tossed in the slammer
    Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
    the nephew, confiscated his pistol and registered an FIR against him for allegedly murdering Afzal and injuring the passersby.

    The case against Rehman has been registered under Section 302 (punishment of qatl-e-amd) and 307 (cases in which qisas for qatl-e-amd shall not be enforced) of the Pakistain Penal Code. However,
    today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
    no case was registered against the unidentified persons who had reportedly shot Afzal, according to initial reports.

    The development had infuriated Afzal's family member, who objected to the registration of the case against Rehman and staged a protest outside Abbottabad's Cantt cop shoppe.

    They claimed that the accused had accompanied his uncle for his protection as he had been constantly receiving death threats. The two had come to Abbottabad to meet Afzal's lawyer.

    The family demanded Rehman's release, the holding of a judicial inquiry and the provision of protection for the lives of Afzal's heirs: his wife and five children.

    Meanwhile,
    ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon...
    Abbottabad District Police Officer (DPO) Abbas Majeed Marwat said that the bullets casings and blood samples recovered from the scene of the crime have been sent for forensic testing to a laboratory in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
    ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
    . He said that the test results ‐ which can be expected in two days ‐ will be a deciding factor in finding the culprits behind the killing.

    Furthermore, he revealed that Afzal's family has named three persons and police teams have been dispatched to Kohistan to arrest them.

    Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


    Israel-Palestine-Jordan
    Israel, Jordan ink deal to allow more Eilat guest workers
    [IsraelTimes] Israel and Jordan sign an agreement to allow 500 more Jordanians to work each day in the Israeli southern resort city of Eilat.

    "The daily Jordanian hotel workers project combines economic and social cooperation and is one of the fruits of piece that brings benefit to people on both sides of the border," the Foreign Ministry says in a statement.

    Under the new accord, 2,000 Jordanians will be allowed to Israel each day to work in Eilat, which is located across the border from the Red Sea port of Aqaba.

    In November, a Jordanian guest worker in Eilat was locked away
    Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
    on suspicion of assaulting two Israeli colleagues. He was later indicted on terror charges over the attack.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


    Science & Technology
    Second weapons elevator completed on USS Gerald R. Ford
    [UPI] The new elevators are commanded via electromagnetic, linear synchronous motors, which allows for greater capacities and a faster movement of weapons than the Nimitz-class carrier elevators that utilize cables.

    The ship is capable for moving up to 24,000 pounds of ordnance at 150 feet per minute, compared with 10,500 pounds at up to 100 feet-per-minute on a Nimitz-class carrier.
    Posted by: KBK || 03/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  ...And I'm hoping that someday we never hear, "No, we didn't do shock tests on all those fancy electronics. Why do you ask?"

    Mike
    Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/08/2019 4:26 Comments || Top||

    #2  The tech is sound - in theory. In practice the procurement process dictated that it be bought and then made to work rather than the other way around...
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/08/2019 8:58 Comments || Top||

    #3  Whinces and cables and steam are immune to power outages. Since kinetic impacts are disruptive to circuits and wiring, this seems a reason for old school backups?
    Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/08/2019 12:43 Comments || Top||

    #4  On the other hand, heavier ordinance, faster.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2019 12:53 Comments || Top||

    #5  Can't go back to the old system as the there are no more internal steam lines for power distribution. Everything is electrical now. And hopefully, everything is solid state.
    Posted by: The peanut gallery || 03/08/2019 13:16 Comments || Top||

    #6  Uhm, "Solid State" does that mean delicate internal crystalline structure ?
    Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 || 03/08/2019 14:18 Comments || Top||

    #7  It means devices potentially very sensitive to EMP.
    Posted by: KBK || 03/08/2019 14:47 Comments || Top||

    #8  Gerald R. Ford; name has a nice ring for a new artifical fish habitat.
    I see this POS sucking up every dollar it can find as the techhies in the Pentagon work overtime to make this thing work in the real world.

    Meanwhile the rest of the fleet suffers
    Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/08/2019 14:50 Comments || Top||


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    Bradley, errr.."Chelsea" Manning jailed for refusing to testify about WikiLeaks
    Noted Attention Whore attention whores
    [NYPost] Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who was convicted for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, was thrown in jail Friday for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the group.

    Manning was taken into custody on contempt charges following a brief hearing in which she he informed Virginia federal Judge Claude Hilton that she he had no intention of testifying.

    Saying she he objected to the secrecy behind grand jury proceedings, Manning told the judge she he "will accept whatever you bring upon me." She he also said she he told everything she he knows to her his court-martial.

    Hilton said Manning would remain behind bars until she he agrees to testify or the grand jury wraps up the case ‐ which Manning said concerned WikiLeaks' publication of more than 700,000 classified documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that she he gave the group in 2010.

    On Wednesday, Manning asserted her his constitutional right to refuse to answer questions ‐ even after she he was offered immunity.
    Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2019 11:26 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Drama queen gotta drama
    Posted by: DarthVader || 03/08/2019 12:20 Comments || Top||

    #2  Reminds me of OJ, he didn't get jailed for Nicole and Ron's horrific murders but later was jailed 9 years for armed robbery.
    Here's hoping Chelsea gets the same fate.
    Posted by: Jan || 03/08/2019 14:10 Comments || Top||

    #3  Not haunted by yesterdays pic (though I feared I might be) but by logical (?) question: Without getting into topology and stuff, and assuming non-flatness, is there such a thing as opposite-boob sideboob, or would that just be cleavage?
    Posted by: George tse Tung4656 || 03/08/2019 14:24 Comments || Top||

    #4  And... never mind. Tend to forget you can look up stuff like that. Found what's probably a definitive source (Jezebel). Sorry for the clutter.
    Posted by: George tse Tung4656 || 03/08/2019 14:29 Comments || Top||

    #5  Link please, George tse Tung4656, since I would like to know what you were asking about.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2019 18:09 Comments || Top||

    #6  It's BRADLEY Manning.
    Posted by: George Hupinens8556 || 03/08/2019 21:48 Comments || Top||


    Why Birthrates Among Hispanic Americans Have Plummeted
    [NYT] WENDELL, N.C. ‐ Yoselin Wences grew up with a constant refrain from her parents, immigrants from Mexico who became a landscaper and a cook.

    "The mind-set was, ’Don’t be like us,’" she said. "’Don’t get married early. Don’t have children early. Don’t be one of those teen moms. We made these sacrifices so that you can get educated and start a career.’"

    She followed that advice, and now, at 22, Ms. Wences, a junior at North Carolina State University, will soon become the first member of her family to graduate from college. When asked about children, Ms. Wences replied that for her, they were years away.

    "Probably around 34 or 35," she said. "That age range seems ideal to me."

    As fertility rates across the United States continue to decline ‐ 2017 had the country’s lowest rate since the government started keeping records ‐ some of the largest drops have been among Hispanics. The birthrate for Hispanic women fell by 31 percent from 2007 to 2017, a steep decline that demographers say has been driven in part by generational differences between Hispanic immigrants and their American-born daughters and granddaughters.

    It is a story of becoming more like other Americans. Nearly two-thirds of Hispanics in the United States today are born in this country, a fact that is often lost in the noisy political battles over immigration. Young American-born Hispanic women are less likely to be poor and more likely to be educated than their immigrant mothers and grandmothers, according to the Pew Research Center, and many are delaying childbearing to finish school and start careers, just like other American-born women.

    "Hispanics are in essence catching up to their peers," said Lina Guzman, a demographer at Child Trends, a nonprofit research group.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2019 07:56 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  The first thing people with disposable income stop spending on nowadays is children. That's not a cynical observation. There are too many feral children in the world and people who are smart enough not to add to that are helping humanity.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/08/2019 8:02 Comments || Top||

    #2  In previous poorer cultures, a large brood provided for elderly parent care, even with a high infant/child mortality rate
    Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2019 9:57 Comments || Top||

    #3  Also the tax break for parents has not kept up with the cost of raising a child. If the Gov. had indexed the tax break to the actual inflation rate, one could retire and raise the child. The benevolent government seems to want what children there are in government schools and to make room for the Muslim immigrants. Color me cynical.
    Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 || 03/08/2019 14:14 Comments || Top||

    #4  This is why we have to keep the border open.
    Posted by: San Fran Nan || 03/08/2019 14:14 Comments || Top||

    #5  And when they get educated and start making money and having to pay taxes, they'll vote Republican! We need to keep that border open!
    Posted by: San Fran Nan || 03/08/2019 14:17 Comments || Top||

    #6  Hispanics programing in higher education seems to be working. Currently for myself they have had the strongest family units. Now I am seeing large families among the Muslim and surprisingly people from Nepal. So numbers of the well programed peoples decline and less educated peoples increase except for black peoples as planned parenthood has managed them. Sad state of affairs but life goes on.
    Posted by: Dale || 03/08/2019 15:03 Comments || Top||

    #7  "Employment, economy boomin',
    You gringos empowering women,
    The onslaught of bots...
    Cue new jaguars, new spots...
    And you can't sacrifice a damn human!"
    Posted by: Angans Elmearong7143 || 03/08/2019 15:28 Comments || Top||

    #8  Now they can watch TV at night.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2019 15:42 Comments || Top||


    Substitute Teacher Fired For Allegedly Telling Student To 'Go Back to Mexico' For Not Reciting Pledge of Allegiance
    [Newsweek] A substitute teacher from a middle school in Oregon was fired for allegedly telling a student to "go back to Mexico" for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

    The incident occurred at Swegle Elementary School in Salem, Oregon, on Tuesday KATU reported. Liliana Ruiz told the news station her son, Steven Zendejas, claimed a substitute teacher told him to "go back to Mexico" for not participating in the Pledge of Allegiance.

    "That comment that a substitute made to my son is not appreciated for any of my family members or myself," Ruiz told the news station.

    Ruiz told Yahoo Lifestyle that Steven, who is in the fifth grade, was not trying to express his political views by not reciting the pledge. She says he can sometimes become quiet in class and does not always understand what is right or wrong. The mother told Yahoo Lifestyle her son asked the substitute teacher to use the restroom when he went to the Vice President’s office and reported the incident.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2019 01:07 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Weird that mother and "son" don't have the same last name. I wonder how many other surnames her spawn have.
    Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/08/2019 3:25 Comments || Top||

    #2  5th grade and "does not always understand what is right or wrong". Sounds like a great Mom

    /Sarc
    Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2019 6:36 Comments || Top||

    #3  When I was a sub in middle school a few years ago, the 5th graders were the best behaved in general, the 7th graders the most reasonable (you could reason with them) and the 8th graders the most oblivious and unmanageable as they were done with paying attention by Xmas.
    Posted by: AlanC || 03/08/2019 7:21 Comments || Top||

    #4  “My son has special needs and sometimes he gets very quiet,” Ruiz told the publication.

    Mainstreamed special ed. child that the substitute teacher was not prepared for, who may or may not have had language difficulties as well — much is not made clear by this particular sample of the journalist’s art.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2019 11:13 Comments || Top||

    #5  Yes, but tw, these days that is the journalist's art.
    Posted by: San Fran Nan || 03/08/2019 14:20 Comments || Top||



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