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That's one tube of glue this guy never thought he'd see.
A married man who planned to rendezvous with one of his handful of lovers at an eastern Wisconsin motel instead got his p*nis glued to his stomach, according to court documents.
Four women, including his wife, showed up to bind and blindfold the man, plus place the adhesive on his package, all in a bizarre plot to punish him for a lover's quadrangle gone bad, says the Calumet County docs.
Now it's the women who face punishment, perhaps six years in prison, and at least one said Monday the story has gotten twisted and she's embarrassed. The dude got off easier than my great-grandpa - times have changed. He was caught in suspicious circumstances by his neighbor's husband who shot & killed him. And was acquitted.
The president she tried to assassinate has been dead for nearly three years, and her longtime idol and leader, Charles Manson, remains in prison. However, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is about to get her first taste of freedom in more than three decades. After 34 years in prison, Fromme is set to be released on parole on Aug. 16. A member of Charles Manson's infamous "family," Fromme was found guilty in 1975 of trying to assassinate then-President Gerald Ford. Fromme is now 60 years old. And Sharon Tate isn't.
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She said it never occurred to her that she could wind up in prison. Asked whether she had any regrets, Fromme said, "No. No, I don't. I feel it was fate." However, she said she thought that her incarceration was "unnecessary" and that she couldn't see herself repeating her offense.
An inebriated visitor to the Nehru Zoological Park who tried to feed a white tiger grass, ended up at Osmania General Hospital with a severely mauled arm on Wednesday evening.
With the Dutch courage waning, the 'daredevil' zoo visitor, Ramesh (35), was seen writhing in pain at the hospital. The angry tiger had a full go at him, tearing out in the process, a great deal of flesh from his right arm. Doctors treating him, however, declared he was out of danger.
Zoo officials are yet to figure out how an inebriated man could enter the zoo after the visiting hours which end at 5 p.m. After the zoo is closed for public, the animals are sent to the night house and its gates locked thereafter. However, Ramesh managed to jump over the chain-link fence of the white tiger's enclosure around 6 p.m.
Carrying grass, he walked up to the big cat's night house, shoved his hand through the grill bars, perhaps to throw the grass near the tiger. "The animal lunged at him and mauled his arm down to the wrist," zoo Director K. Bhoopal Reddy said.
A terrified Ramesh, identified as a native of Mogalturu village in West Godavari district, cried for help. He tried to pull away, but the tiger wouldn't let him free. Three security personnel had to sweat it out to free him from the tiger's clasp. However, by then, his arm was profusely bleeding.
He had initially told the zoo authorities that he went to the tiger enclosure as he wanted to end his life. Minutes after the police and the media persons arrived, he changed his version maintaining that the 'mishap' occurred when he tried to feed the tiger grass.
"He is out of danger, but has lost a lot of blood. He has been operated upon." Osmania Hospital doctors said.
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Tiger can't change stripes anymore than an idiot can change his IQ.
[Maghrebia] Violent clashes between dozens of Algerian and Chinese workers Monday (August 3rd) in Algiers' Bab Ezzouar quarter left several people injured and five Chinese-owned stores plundered, local and international press reported on Tuesday. The fighting reportedly erupted after an altercation between a Chinese migrant worker and an Algerian trader. In a statement released Tuesday, the Chinese embassy called the incident an "isolated security" matter and voiced confidence in the Algerian police.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Saudi youths have launched a media awareness campaign on the Internet in response to "faulty" media portrayals of their country, in hopes to correcting the image the world has about their society.
The campaign, which so far includes more than 320 supporters, is called "Never compromise your homeland" and is aimed at Western media. It instructs western journalists to be cautious and accurate when presenting information about the kingdom. "This campaign aims at responding to the negative image Western media presents of the Saudi society," Amgad al-Manif, the official spokesman of the campaign told Al Arabiya.
The campaign's main target is to present the true identity of Saudi Arabia, starting with reviewing all media reports and T.V. shows targeting Saudi audiences and combating those that tarnish the image of the kingdom.
"The campaign is not after imposing censorship on journalists. We are not against freedom of expression," Manif explained. "We are against incorrect information, which defeats the purpose of journalism."
Manif said organizers of the campaign are planning to launch a website and to start addressing businessmen in order to take part in the initiative.
A portion of the campaign trains Saudi youths in ways to represent their country when going abroad, and also teaches them how to tackle local issues facing their society.
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Reminds me of a Saudi classmate in college who excoriated me for suggesting that his nation had a desert climate. By his account, the Arabian peninsula was lush with grass and trees, without a single grain of sand anywhere to be found! Just for reference, this was more than 10 years before 9/11. Wonder whatever happened to that kid....
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They're very keen on family, Parabellum. Granted, it's not as if there are many other choices for amusement and society, and their idea of family is more than a bit twisted, but at a superficial level it still could be considered a good thing. And they're very religious, if only because its a required subject in school, and because the morality police will beat the men if they're caught not praying at the proper time. Still, piety is good, right?
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tw, their idea of family is more than a bit twisted
With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy:
"You might be a Saudi Arabian if....your family tree don't branch."
[Bangla Daily Star] The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday pressed charges against Opposition Leader and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman and four others of embezzlement of Tk 2.10 crore by forming fraudulent Zia Orphanage Trust.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Police fired teargas and water cannons at some 3,000 youts students who amassed in the Honduran capital on Wednesday to protest against the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya last June. Heavily-protected riot police beat back youts demonstrators who blocked one of the city's main thoroughfares in front of the National Autonomous University, fulfilling a pledge to clampdown on protests that have convulsed the Central American since June 28.
Then, Zelaya was bundled out of the country in a military-backed coup, prompting international outrage and a domestic crisis that shows few signs of abating.
On Wednesday his supporters chanted pro-Zelaya slogans and hurled rocks at banks of riot police, leaving the street strewn with detritus, including the husk of a burnt-out vehicle. Police used water cannon to disperse the youts protesters, who sought refuge on the university campus, where they were pursued and beaten with batons.
The university's rector Julieta Castellanos intervened in an attempt to calm both sides, but she too was beaten to the floor.
Elsewhere in the capital, another crowd gathered in front of the Supreme Court -- which had sanctioned the move against Zelaya -- demanding that coup leaders "get out." At the same time protesters across the country began a march on the capital and San Pedro Sula, the country's economic capital.
As unrest played out, the head of the the Washington-based Organization of America States, Jose Miguel Insulza, said that foreign ministers from the regional block would be dispatched to Honduras "as soon as possible."
Honduras should inform them that they aren't welcome right now, and that Insulza isn't welcome anytime. Tell them that since they booted Honduras out of the OAS, there isn't anything to talk about.
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OCOTAL, Nicaragua Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on Tuesday launched a new international drive to revive his flagging bid to return to power, but Hondurans who had massed here in support began heading home.
In this Nicaraguan town about 10 miles from the Honduran border, where Zelaya had held rallies and launched an abortive attempt to march into Honduras, local authorities told Zelaya supporters to clear out of the municipal gymnasium, where they had been sleeping on the floor and on bleachers.
"Your usefulness to our propaganda is over. Scram!"
It sounds like the local authorities very sensibly decided not to allow them become the Palestinians of the Americas, forever waiting for the conquest that would allow them to return home to triumph and the spoils of war... and in the meantime wreaking gang violence on their hosts out of sheer boredom.
Zelaya and his senior advisors gave no indication whether they would return or when.
When's the next photo-op?
Meanwhile, the lawful de facto government in Tegucigalpa appears ready to tough it out, despite broad international pressure to allow Zelaya to return to the presidency.
``Zelaya is running out of options,'' said Mark Ruhl, a professor at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., an expert on Honduras. ``His chances to return look pretty poor right now.''
Zelaya held talks in Mexico City with President Felipe Calderón and planned to fly to Spain. Calderón expressed his solidarity with Zelaya during talks in Mexico City on Tuesday, and he also condemned the June 28 coup that led to Honduras' de facto government. Endorsements of this sort, however, have yet to move Honduras' de facto president, Roberto Micheletti, and the country's senior military leaders, who say that Zelaya repeatedly violated the constitution by trying to hold an illegal referendum that might have opened the way to his remaining in office.
Possession is about 99% and climbing, I'd say ...
Micheletti has also rejected a compromise plan offered by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias that would restore Zelaya for the final six months of his term but with limited powers.
It sounds like President Arias concluded his former colleague is not as suited for his previous job as originally appeared. A pity I can't vote for him in the next Costa Rican election.
The Organization of American States' mediation efforts have also proven fruitless. The Micheletti government has blocked Zelaya's efforts to force his way back into Honduras, and Zelaya's calls for a popular insurrection to toss out Micheletti have failed to materialize.
People forget that Micheletti is a member of Zelaya's party, and the two used to be close.
The peepul won't pay in blood for his return? Gosh, perhaps that military ejection is an expression of the popular will as well as the Honduran constitution.
Zelaya had hoped to mobilize enough Hondurans in Ocotal to compel his return. Ocotal offered both geographic and historic reasons for Zelaya to set up camp here. The city had served as a launching pad for Nicaragua's legendary guerrilla fighter Augusto Sandino in the 1920s and his political heirs, the Sandinistas, in the 1970s.
Some 3,000 Hondurans came to Ocotal and another border town, Las Manos, in the days after Zelaya was sent out of Honduras. Many arrived after an arduous trek over a mountain range to evade Honduran border authorities who answer to Micheletti. By Monday night, many of the Hondurans had returned home.
``People have families waiting for them. They need to take care of their children,'' said Orlin Calin Guzman, who arrived two weeks ago from the Honduran town of Choluteca. ``They feel impotent here.''
"You said we'd be important!"
"You misheard. Go home."
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Bammo must be smarting at this defeat. If he can't deliver Honduras to Chavez, maybe Chavez won't be his friend any more.
China executed two business people for defrauding hundreds of investors out of more than $127 million, calling the scam a serious blow to social stability, state media said Thursday.
[Geo News] As many as two people were shot dead and one injured during the protest demonstration against load shedding here on Kohat road late on Wednesday, Geo news reported. Police have arrived on the spot and the efforts to bring situation under control are underway, sources said.
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What is load-shedding?
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load shedding, normally used in industrial, large commercial, and utility operations, is monitoring electric usage continuously (usually by automated instrumentation) and shutting down certain pre-arranged electric loads or devices if a certain upper threshold of electric usage is approached. there are two reasons for doing it, both of them financially motivated.
power companies sometimes set up an industrial customer or a school with an electric billing rate in steps, i.e. if you are pulling less than this amount of electric current during certain times you get billed at one rate for the electricity you use but if you are pulling MORE than this amount of electric current during that time, you get billed at a higher rate, even if you use the same amount of electricity overall. the highest current you draw during the time period in question is your "peak demand". the power company has to have generating capacity built and in place to generate the sum of all of the "peak demands" of its customers during the highest peak demand period. say that period is 10 am to 12 am during weekdays. if the highest peak demand exceeds the capacity of the power company to generate, they either have to build another power station to cover that 2 hour period each day, which is a waste of money, or they have to buy power from some other power company during those 2 hours which is also expensive. so power companies look for ways to cut down on the highest peak demand. they encourage their large customers to cut back on peak demand during those "highest peak demand periods" by charging them more if they exceed a certain peak demand. customers can stay below this set peak demand limit by monitoring their electric demand and cutting off unnecessary electric loads if they get too close to their demand limit. that is one form of load shedding.
the other way is for the power companies to ask their small customers for permission to install a piece of equipment in their home or business and wire one or two appliances to the equipment which will shut down the appliances based on a radio signal from the power company. the appliances are usually electric water heaters. the power company gives a discount to these customers. then, if the power company sees that it's demand is coming close to its generating capacity, it sends out a signal and cuts off all these appliances. that is also called load shedding.
[Straits Times] PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIAN Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday warned critics that they risked facing legal action if they called the country a 'dictatorial regime'.
'Be careful with the language of 'dictatorial regime'. Be careful, (or) one day legal action will be used,' Mr Hun Sen said during a graduation ceremony in the capital Phnom Penh.
The premier's warning appeared to be aimed at those who allege senior Cambodian officials have over the past several months used defamation lawsuits against critics to impede freedom of expression in the country.
'This is a constitutional monarchy... Don't curse it as a dictatorial regime - be careful!' Mr Hun Sen said. '(And) when legal action is used, you guys would say freedom of expression is prohibited, but your expression is wrong,' he added.
Mr Hun Sen's remarks came a day after a court found outspoken opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua guilty of defaming him and ordered her to pay more than 4,000 dollars in fines and compensation.
Local human rights group Licadho said the verdict was 'predictably unjust, and shows yet again how the courts are controlled by the government and used as a weapon against its political opponents'.
There have been three defamation or disinformation convictions against Cambodian government critics in just over a month, the United Nations human rights office said Wednesday.
New York-based Human Rights Watch recently alleged Hun Sen's government aimed to silence political opposition and critics with a 'campaign of harassment, threats, and unwarranted legal action.'
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[Straits Times] MALAYSIA'S main Islamic party defended its plan to curb the sale of alcohol in a state capital, saying on Wednesday that minorities, including its Chinese allies, should respect Muslim sensitivities by not interfering.
Stores nationwide are already banned from selling alcohol to Muslims, forbidden to drink by law, but the new plan would ban certain outlets from selling booze to anyone - including ethnic Chinese and Indian Malaysians, who are mostly Christian, Buddhist and Hindu.
The country's biggest opposition group, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, or PAS, wants to ban liquor sales at convenience stores and gasoline stations in ethnic Malay Muslim-majority neighbourhoods of Shah Alam, the capital of central Selangor state.
But PAS is facing resistance to the plan from its partners in the ethnic Chinese-dominated Democratic Action Party. Both are part of a racially diverse three-party alliance that won control of Selangor's legislature last year and rules four of Malaysia's 13 states.
The disagreement, while not causing any extensive rift in the opposition alliance, underscores ideological differences that have strained ties, particularly between conservative Muslims and religious minorities.
Ethnic Chinese and Indians, who make up about one-third of Malaysia's population, have long been suspicious of PAS, partly because the party introduced policies such as banning gambling and nightclubs in a northern state that it has ruled since 1990.
Khalid Samad, the PAS member of Parliament for Shah Alam, said the move to curb alcohol sales was a response to requests by Muslim residents who are uneasy about liquor being sold near mosques, even though Muslims are forbidden by Islamic Shariah laws to buy or consume alcohol.
The plan gained more attention after another PAS state official, Hassan Ali, said Monday that it should also be enforced in other Muslim-majority parts of Selangor. Khalid said party leaders have not discussed whether that would be their formal stance.
Small retail outlets and gasoline stations typically only sell beer with low alcohol content, while other liquor is available at larger stores. Those would not be affected by the Islamic party's plan, which is unlikely to be implemented for at least several more weeks.
However, Shah Alam city officers drew criticism when they recently confiscated 70 beer cans from a convenience store. Ethnic Chinese officials said such seizures should only be conducted if the outlet is caught selling alcohol to Muslims.
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They know their people are backsliders. Too funny.
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 president she tried to assassinate has been dead for nearly three years, and her longtime idol and leader, Charles Manson, remains in prison. However, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is about to get her first taste of freedom in more than three decades. After 34 years in prison, Fromme is set to be released on parole on Aug. 16. A member of Charles Manson's infamous "family," Fromme was found guilty in 1975 of trying to assassinate then-President Gerald Ford. Fromme is now 60 years old.
An inebriated visitor to the Nehru Zoological Park who tried to feed a white tiger grass, ended up at Osmania General Hospital with a severely mauled arm on Wednesday evening.
[Maghrebia] Violent clashes between dozens of Algerian and Chinese workers Monday (August 3rd) in Algiers' Bab Ezzouar quarter left several people injured and five Chinese-owned stores plundered, local and international press reported on Tuesday. The fighting reportedly erupted after an altercation between a Chinese migrant worker and an Algerian trader. In a statement released Tuesday, the Chinese embassy called the incident an "isolated security" matter and voiced confidence in the Algerian police.
OCOTAL, Nicaragua Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on Tuesday launched a new international drive to revive his flagging bid to return to power, but Hondurans who had massed here in support began heading home.
