As you might guess, it took a few minutes to find a story with a foto.
The photo, race, etc doesn't matter. What matters is that she was dishonest and thought she could scam the charity. There's a few people in every crowd, everywhere who will steal from the church plate.
Personally I think she should be hung by her giblets in a stock on Boston Common for a few days. I'd have a few baskets of rotten fruit handy for passers-by, just in case. Do a few of those and people might re-learn the concept of "shame", something that's been missing in our society these last few decades.
#3
Can't have a brain injury, gotta have a brain first.
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...but I'm sure that she imagined running the marathon, and this was good enough. F(actual)evidence to the contrary has no place in the current sub-cultural meme. My recommendation to the perp: call Holder, etal....
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She's the second one they've bagged. The first one was a wannabe "rapper" trying to scam 2 mil a coupla weeks ago. Naturally, Moms sez he's a "victim"...
Helen Thomas, whose career covering the White House dated back to the Kennedy administration, died on Saturday at the age of 92, the Gridiron Club announced in an email to members on Saturday.
Thomas was the first woman to join the White House Correspondents' Association, and the first woman to serve as its president. She was also the first female member of the Gridiron Club, Washington's historic press group. She served for 57 years at United Press International, first as a correspondent then as a White House bureau chief, before becoming a columnist for Hearst Papers.
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Mama always said if you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all.
I guess "It's nice she's gone, at long last" wouldn't pass Mama's muster.
So I'll shut up.
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My mom said the same to me Barb. That why I mostly sit in silence!
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I think gorb said it best.
If I were to slop the news into one bowl, Helen Thomas died on the anniversary of a white hispanic mossad agent gunning down a theatre of black peoples watching a film about growing tomatoes and cursive is racist.
May those who love her be comforted by their memories, grateful that she did not long live outcast from the news world she had so loved.
I believe she counted herself among those Lebanese of a Christian faith, not a Muslim one, so the number and posdibility of virgins, Virginians, or white raisins is immaterial.
A 23-year-old Indian man allegedly committed suicide on Thursday because a crow sat on his head twice in the same day.
"Nevermore..."
An engineering graduate, VH Anand spent the last seven months as a trainee at Bangalore's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). HAL is one of Asia's largest aerospace companies.
He was found dead at his rented apartment, which he shared with his brother, Hampanna. Local reports say he killed himself by consuming poison. His brother was visiting the siblings' hometown of Gadag, which is 420km north of Bangalore.
Anand's body was discovered by Hampanna, who returned home to check on his younger brother after he failed to respond to phone calls, according to the Bangalore Mirror.
Preliminary investigations reveal Anand was upset on Wednesday, after a crow sat on his head. He spoke to his mother at the time, expressing his fears. His mother's words, it appears, failed to soothe the young man, who also spoke to his sister.
"My brother had called my mother, Parvathi, and told her about the crow. He was very tense when he spoke," Hampanna told Bangalore Mirror.
Family members became alarmed after Anand stopped responding to phone calls and when Hampanna reached Bangalore the next morning, he found his brother "lying on the floor with froth coming out of his mouth".
Anand was immediately taken to a hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.
According to Anand's colleagues, he was visibly disturbed and also told his colleagues about the crow on Wednesday morning. Post-mortem results are still awaited but there seems little evidence to suggest anything other than a suicide.
"I am waiting for the post-mortem report, but even I think he took the extreme step due to the crow incident," the victim's brother confirmed.
Police suggest Anand consumed the poison elsewhere and locked himself into his home. A case of unnatural death has been registered at the Basaveshwaranagar Police Station, while investigations are ongoing.
According to the tenets of the Hindu religion, a crow sitting on one's head is believed to be a bad omen. Banu Prakash Sharma, an astrologer, was quoted by the Bangalore Mirror as saying Hindus believe crows contain the souls of people who have committed suicide.
"After death, such a soul will not have or find any place to settle down, so it enters the eggs of a crow," Sharma said, explaining that it was therefore inauspicious for a crow to enter a house or touch someone.
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Uh, uh, NOT-TONTO STARRING NOT-JOHNNY-DEPP DID NOT WATCH NOT-THE-LONE-RANGER???
The Bird, the Bird...
gut nuthin.
FYI, all things equal, IMO Depp's "The Lone Ranger" is the better or stronger film than Brad Pitt's "World War Z" starring the UNO Atlantic Fleet - IMO the Critics gave the nod to "Z", not "TLR", because the former promotes the concept of the UNO + "Zombies for OWG Globalism".
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It was six men of Indostan
To birding much inclined,
Who went to ogle at the Crow
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
The First was lit upon apace
And swiftly crowned with poo,
Until his bronzy pate was white
as snow, with greenish dew:
"Great Caesar's ghost, this dirty bird
Is very like a Foo!"
The Second, smitten by the beak,
Cried: "Ouch, that smarts, you fecker!
So very round and smooth and sharp!
I am that crow inspector!
This wonder of a woody bird
Is very like a pecker!"
The Third approached the ebon fowl,
And happening to brush
His hand against its feathery wing,
At once began to gush:
"I see," quoth he, "that Heckle here
Is very like a bush!"
The Fourth reached out his eager hand,
And felt about the tail.
"What most this wondrous beast is like
I'd tell you in detail,
But this margin is too small to contain
All that inscribed in Braille."
The Fifth, who chanced to touch the eye,
Sang out, his voice awarble:
"One hand held high, I testify
(and one hand on my yarble):
By all the Avatars, this crow
Is very like a marble!"
The Sixth was wiser than the rest,
As Hindoo sages go.
Quoth he, "No way I touch that bird!
The suicide becomes a crow
And when you touch it, so do you,
And this has laid you low!
And so these men of Indostan,
With one exception, croaked
At their own hands, as foreigners
Looked on and rhymed and joked,
About how foolish they were to think
A crow should not be poked!
Americans own nearly half of the privately owned firearms on the planet, says the National Journal. They say that like it's a bad thing.
California congressman Henry Waxman has written legislation to ban 80 percent (unfinished) gun receivers. Pretty funny, but not so funny if the left gains both houses in 2014.
At the moment it appears that 80 percent receivers for the popular AR-15 pattern rifles are hard to find, as production has not matched demand. Ares Armor is one supplier, but they are out. H&H Tactical is another, but has only four left in stock. According to the St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner, KT Ordnance has sold more than 10,000 80 percent receivers for AR pattern rifles, AR-10 and AR-15.
And that's just the AR pattern receivers. AKs are another matter altogether.
Is Waxman really going to ban all those rifles?
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On Tuesday (June 4 - ed) U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo) introduced H.R. 2247, the Collectible Firearms Protection Act. The bill reverses a State Department decision to block the importation of historic M1 Garand rifles and M1 carbines from South Korea.
I never thought it would happen this quickly, but one town in my home state is looking to fire the first shot in the war against the drones. Look out Sky-net, here we come!
Actually, it's a little more political than the old "Terminator"-style man vs. machines scenario. The town of Deer Trail, Colo., is looking to begin offering "drone hunting licenses" and actually paying rewards to anyone who presents proof that they were able to bring down an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the United States federal government, according to reporting by Denver TV station KMGH. Better than skeet shooting. Besides, those skeet taste really bad.
Phillip Steel, the man who drafted the ordinance, as well as other supporters, say it will provide a new source of revenue for the town, but Steel concedes that it's not exactly like Deer Trail has a drone problem. In fact, he's never seen one over the town. It's like saying your Chihuahua is a good bear dog because you don't have any bears in your yard.
"This is a very symbolic ordinance," he told KMGH. "Basically, I do not believe in the idea of a surveillance society, and I believe we are heading that way." You ever read "Man and his Symbols" by Carl Gustav Jung?
While Steel seems to be dead serious about taking up arms against his own government, others in the tiny town see his novel move as a tongue-in-cheek way to drum up a little publicity and maybe some tourism and perhaps even a drone-hunting festival of some sort. Sounds reasonable to me. It's not my government, I didn't vote for those bugwits.
That little bump of revenue could be nice, but I have to wonder if it will offset the various federal monies the town could stand to lose if Washington, D.C., gets wind of a place that's put out a bounty on federal property. Drone zapping for sport and proffit.
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I can hear it now, "Here hold my beer".
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While Shipman and Frank go all old skool, the kids are out in the barn fitting their quadcopter for air-to-air combat and writing guidance code for the optical seekers on the Estes rockets.
First, we need it to be understood that the launcher (or if hijacked, the controller) of a drone is responsible for all damages from any mishaps whatever. That probably requires a law.
Second, we need it to be understood that drones have their place: at the borders, around military bases or nuke plants, in hobby plane zones, and so on. Drones are protected there, as well as in the approaches to an airport.
Then you're ready to open season on drones.
I'm trying to imagine the taxidermy.
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Should have just said any drones, only the government has any legit arguement.
You have a good point James. If it is a drone from ELF, I would use my Atari 2600 as the base, some sort of Missile Command theme.
#9
Scratch that - I could see how a pipeline or electrical or railroad service would rather use drones than helicopters.
Thought of that when I remembered that some pipeline companies like to give plenty of advance warning when inspecting by helicopter - they were tired of getting shot at, and I think it wasn't Uncle Joe setting down his beer and making two shotgun blasts into the air.
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I can see a law protecting drones flying over companies' own property, such as railroads, pipelines, etc., and I can see a law protecting drones over - and within x hundred feet/yards/whatever - of military bases, the border, etc.
But if a drone is flying over MY property and that property isn't within the boundaries listed above, it's invasion of MY privacy and MY castle and I should have a perfect right to blast it out of the sky.
In fact, I'd be willing to buy a shotgun just for the occasion.
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And before the banjos start playing and see country folk scrambling from black helicopters, I mean the criminals involved in growing/manufacturing drugs.
[AnNahar] Four people have died and many others have been maimed in pre-election violence in the northern Malian flashpoint town of Kidal, where the main market was set on fire, the government said Friday.
On Thursday night "armed individuals attacked people loyal to Mali in the town of Kidal, killing four, wounding many others and causing damages among the population whose houses and shops were targeted before they were looted and ransacked," a defense ministry statement said. "On Friday the central market was set on fire."
[Ynet] The former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency said he is aware of evidence that Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has spied for the Chinese, the Australian Financial Review newspaper reported on Friday.
Michael Hayden, also the former head of the US National Security Agency (NSA), said in an interview with the paper that Huawei had "shared with the Chinese state intimate and extensive knowledge of the foreign telecommunications systems it is involved with." The newspaper reported Hayden said intelligence agencies have hard evidence of spying activity by the world's No. 2 telecoms equipment maker.
Asylum-seekers arriving by boat will no longer be resettled in Australia but will go to Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced.
Australia has seen a sharp rise in the number of asylum-seekers arriving by boat in recent months. Following the news, rioting reportedly broke out at an asylum centre in Nauru. It was unclear if there was a link. The cause of the disturbance, involving 150 detainees, had not been established, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) added.
Mr Rudd had said the "hard-line decision" was taken to ensure border security. It was also aimed at dissuading people from making the dangerous journey to Australia by boat.
"Our country has had enough of people-smugglers exploiting asylum-seekers and seeing them drown on the high seas," he said.
The deal - called the Regional Settlement Arrangement - was signed by the Australian and PNG leaders on Friday.
Mr Rudd, who ousted Julia Gillard as Labor Party leader amid dismal polling figures last month, made the announcement in Brisbane flanked by PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.
"From now on, any asylum-seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia as a refugee," Mr Rudd said.
Under the agreement, new arrivals will be sent to PNG - which is a signatory to the United Nations Refugees Convention - for assessment and settled there if found to be a refugee. To accommodate the new arrivals, an offshore processing centre in PNG's Manus island will be significantly expanded to hold up to 3,000 people. No cap has been placed on the number of people Australia can send to PNG, Mr Rudd said.
"The new arrangements will allow Australia to help more people who are genuinely in need and help prevent people smugglers from abusing our system."
The rules would apply to all those arriving in Australia by boat from today, Immigration Minister Tony Burke said.
In return, Australia is to channel aid to PNG, including to a major regional hospital and the university sector, The Australian reported. No costs were disclosed in connection with the deal.
Boat arrivals have soared in the past 18 months, with most asylum seekers coming from Iraq, Iran, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. They make their way to Indonesia and from there head to Christmas Island, the closest part of Australian territory to Java. They travel in boats that are often over-crowded and poorly-maintained. Several have sunk in recent months, killing passengers.
Last year, the Australian government reintroduced a controversial policy under which people arriving by boat in Australia are sent to camps in Nauru and Papua New Guinea for processing.
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Great idea, just great!
We should send our repeat Mexican 'asylum-seekers' to PR or Haiti instead of flying them deeper into Mexico.
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I dunno. Good for Australia, but "Send him to...PNG!" just doesn't resonate like "Send him to... Detroit!" Although the idea of {derogatory Australian slur redacted} ending up on a island with wild pigs and headhunters is rather heartwarming.
The White House is considering cancelling a summit between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, a move that would further aggravate the already tense relationship between the two leaders. The White House is dangling that option over the Russians as Moscow considers a temporary asylum petition from Edward Snowden, the American accused of leaking information about classified U.S. intelligence programs. But officials have privately signalled that scrapping the bilateral talks would also be retaliation for other areas of disagreement with Russia, including its continued support for Syrian President Bashar Assad's attacks against civilians.
Regardless of what happens with Snowden, the White House says Obama will still attend an international summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. But officials have gone out of their way in recent days to avoid publicly committing to the meetings in Moscow.
"The president intends to travel to Russia for the G20 Summit," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "And I have no further announcements to make beyond what we've said in the past about the president's travel to Russia in the fall."
By simply considering cancellation of the trip, the Obama administration is indicating its concern the Kremlin will allow Snowden to take refuge in Russia. The White House has called on Russia to return the 30-year-old former government contractor to the U.S. where he is facing espionage charges.
Andrew Kuchins, director of the Russia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the White House's cancellation threat could be effective leverage over Putin, who likely wants to avoid an embarrassment on the world stage.
"When the spotlight of the world is on him and Russia, he doesn't want that spotlight to reveal a lot of negative things which are going to be distractions," Kuchins said.
Cancelling the U.S.-Russia talks would deepen the tensions between the two leaders. And it would likely make it even more difficult for the two countries to find common ground on areas of disagreement that plague the relationship. That's what happens when Putin doesn't leave a $20 on the night stand.
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From the look of Chanp's eyes in yesterday's "we are a racist nation" speech [me, me, me, me], he might be back on weed or some other hallucinogenic drug.
Hizb'allah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard shenanigans have consequences. By itself perhaps not a big deal, but along with EU mutterings of blacklisting Hizb'allah's military wing, such things do add up to somewhat curtailed freedom of movement for bad guys as well as civilians.
[Ynet] Indonesia will stop issuing visas on arrival to Iranians because a growing number of them have been smuggling drugs or are passing through Indonesia before seeking asylum in Australia. Immigration office front man Maryoto Hadi said Friday that many Iranians do not come to Indonesia for tourism and that their activities have overwhelmed the government.
He said Amir Syamsuddin, justice and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... minister, signed a decree on Thursday revoking the visa on arrival option for Iranians that has been in place since 2005. The new restrictions start August 20.
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.
[Ynet] The former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency said he is aware of evidence that Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has spied for the Chinese, the Australian Financial Review newspaper reported on Friday.
