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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Rachel Dolezal: No 'biological proof' I'm my parents' daughter
[POLITICO] Rachel Dolezal, an NAACP activist and the daughter of a white couple who claims to "identify as black," told NBC News Tuesday night that "there's been no biological proof" that her mother and father are actually her parents.
There's no biological proof I'm not the long-lost natural son of J. Paul Getty, either, so I could be sitting in my yacht as I write this with my .5 bro, Junior--except that what kind of a person would cast that kind of aspersion on his/her/its own mother?
Dolezal, who resigned Monday as president of the African-American advocacy group's chapter in Spokane, Washington, after her parents said she'd been misrepresenting her racial heritage, told NBC's Savannah Guthrie, "I haven't had a DNA test. There's been no biological proof that Larry and Ruthanne are my biological parents."
Inappropriately familiar of her to refer to them by their first names if she's unrelated...
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  there's been no biological proof"

Maybe not. But it's easy enough to get. Ever hear of DNA?

It can tell you if your parents are your parents. It can even tell you who your ancestors were. Wouldn't that be fascinating to know that?
Posted by: SteveS || 06/18/2015 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  OTOH see DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND > IFF BRUCE JENNER CAN BE A WOMAN WHILE STILL SPORTING A P *** IS, WHY CAN'T RACHEL DOLEZAL BE AFRICAN AMERICAN?

A true DemoLefty dilemma - EMOTIONS-vs-SCIENCE/RATIONALISM???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/18/2015 1:48 Comments || Top||

#3  "'Curiouser and curiouser!' Cried Alice"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/18/2015 1:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Nobody had a problem when Bill Clinton proclaimed he was the first black president...
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 06/18/2015 4:26 Comments || Top||

#5  I blame the BCP's.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2015 4:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe not. But it's easy enough to get. Ever hear of DNA?

Point of order: DNA is an artificial construct created by The Man in order to deny TRs (transracials) their true nature. In addition, taking a DNA sample is invasive and in keeping with the traditional Dead White Male viewpoint of TRs or People of Color as property.

(sarc/OFF)

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/18/2015 7:50 Comments || Top||

#7  She was just fired from her police coordinator job after a whistleblower'S accusations about her and a college were found to have merrit. She's also claiming to be a founding member of a black band. The members say not. Whotta piece of mental disorder.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/18/2015 7:53 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm sure her parents want to distance themselves from her, too.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/18/2015 8:35 Comments || Top||

#9 
Whallll, we're there!
Posted by: Bobby || 06/18/2015 8:45 Comments || Top||

#10  I believe a chameleon has a different DNA set from humans. Sure there probably some shared strands in the bunch, but different in arrangement and combinations.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/18/2015 9:07 Comments || Top||

#11  "I am my own Uncle Tom"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/18/2015 9:47 Comments || Top||

#12  My only question is for the brave parents. Besides Rachel and her brother [who appears normal].....were there others ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2015 10:05 Comments || Top||

#13  Let's hear it for the normalization of mental illness.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/18/2015 12:44 Comments || Top||

#14  Why does anybody put a mike in front of this worthless POS-ette?
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/18/2015 14:11 Comments || Top||

#15  The brother is child molester, Besoeker.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/18/2015 14:12 Comments || Top||

#16  "Normal" as in today's society. I should have qualified the statement g(r)om.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2015 14:25 Comments || Top||

#17  Wow... one big totally f-ked up family!

Lets celebrate them and turn them into a Reality Show!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/18/2015 14:38 Comments || Top||

#18  If my parents went public and spoiled my grift I'd probably disown them as well. She'll probably see what kind of money she can make out of this before switching to another ethnicity in a quiet media market.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/18/2015 14:44 Comments || Top||

#19  There's always the possibility of a Jenner hook-up, LGBT story, book, movie, Larry King show.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2015 14:46 Comments || Top||

#20  Or this.....
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2015 17:39 Comments || Top||

#21  LOL
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/18/2015 18:55 Comments || Top||

#22  No 'biological proof' I'm my parents' daughter

Wow. Stop talking, girl. I hear you've lost your job. Instead, you could come over to my house and using only your big mouth could dig a hole big enough for me to install a diving pool in a matter of minutes!
Posted by: gorb || 06/18/2015 23:43 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Escaped zoo tiger kills man in Tbilisi, Georgia
[CNN] Police have shot and killed a white tiger that killed a man Wednesday in Tbilisi, Georgia, a Ministry of Internal Affairs representative said, after severe flooding allowed hundreds of wild animals to escape the city zoo.

The tiger attack happened at a warehouse in the city center. The animal had been unaccounted for since the weekend floods destroyed the zoo premises.

The man killed, who was 43, worked in a company based in the warehouse, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said. Doctors said he was attacked in the throat and died before reaching the hospital.

Experts are still searching the warehouse, the ministry said, adding that earlier reports that the tiger had injured a second man were unfounded.

The zoo administration said Wednesday that another tiger was still missing. It was unable to confirm if the creature was dead or had escaped alive.
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Warehouse was unoccupied and the guy had been hired to clean it up
Posted by: jefe101 || 06/18/2015 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder how Putin managed to arrange this?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/18/2015 2:45 Comments || Top||

#3  earlier reports that the tiger had injured a second man were unfounded.

Well, no one has checked the tiger's stomach, then, I would not be so sure.
Posted by: Black Bart Munster2819 || 06/18/2015 10:23 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Border Patrol agents, facing scrutiny over shootings, have harsh words for their leaders
[LA Times] Rank-and-file Border Patrol agents are furious that they have lost some of their favorite enforcement tools and say that intense public criticism of border shootings has led to a morale crisis..

"We lack the political will to enforce the law and allow our agency to be effective," said National Border Patrol Council spokesman Shawn Moran in a conference call with reporters Wednesday. The call was coordinated by the union that represents the agents.

Among the most far-reaching and damning accusations from agents working entry points in Arizona, Texas and California was that the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol administration in Washington does not want agents to make drug busts and has taken away their ability to do so.

Shane Gallagher, an agent in the San Diego sector, said roving interdiction patrols -- in which agents would stop suspicious vehicles north of the border -- were extraordinarily successful at nabbing border crossers with drugs. But those patrols would then create uncomfortable questions for the ports through which the vehicles had just passed, he said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2015 12:40 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We lack the political will to enforce the law and allow our agency to be effective..."

As by design
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/18/2015 12:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I'd like to tell these guys to hang in there because we have an election coming up. But I'm not hopeful about the results.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/18/2015 14:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Just build the damned barrier fence. That should slow the flow enough to where patrols can be effective. The fence, like any good military combat engineering item, is not aimed at preventing movement completely, but raising the cost and difficulty to where movement across the zone is minimized. This means casual crossers would be deterred, leaving high value targets as the ones trying to cross. This dries up the flood of illegals that the really bad guys depend on to mask their movements. And these are the ones we need to be targeting anyway, as a matter of security.
Posted by: OldSpook || 06/18/2015 19:03 Comments || Top||

#4  ....but raising the cost and difficulty to where movement across the zone is minimized.

..and like natural terrain, be used to channelize movement into specific routes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/18/2015 19:18 Comments || Top||

#5  The f'n BP should stop harassing Americans 75 miles from the border and accusing them of felonies that aren't in the criminal record. The BP has lost my support. Thugs. No, Mexicans.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 06/18/2015 21:28 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Hyperinflation kills off Zimbabwe dollar
[REUTERS] It's probably something we did.
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Iff you thought post-Versaille/1918 Weimar Germany had it bad ....
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/18/2015 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Had they a Federal Reserve and more capable manipulators, an effective Zimbob dollar, long-term 'life support' scheme could have been developed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2015 4:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, with all those Zim dollars, they won't suffer an immediate shortage of toilet paper.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/18/2015 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4  and each can become a "portrait" of Comrade Bob
Posted by: Frank G || 06/18/2015 10:10 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Shots fired by MP's son
[Bangla Daily Star] Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of Awami League politician Pinu Khan, fired shots in a drunken state on early April 14, leading to the deaths of two innocent persons at New Eskaton in the capital, a witness told a Dhaka court yesterday.

Bakhtiar's friend Kamal Mahmood testified in a

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's Court that he along with Bakhtiar and two other friends were going to Dhanmondi from Moghbazar by a black Prado jeep of Bakhtiar's mother, said court sources.

There was a traffic jam on the road on the eve of Pahela Baishakh. As the vehicle got stuck in a tailback at New Eskaton, Bakhtiar, who was in a drunken stupor, became annoyed. He lowered a window of the vehicle, and shot five times from his firearm, Kamal said in his testimony.

Kamal, also business partner of Bakhtiar, said he didn't hear anyone scream or moan in pain after the shots were fired.

Magistrate Aminul Haque recorded Kamal's statement at his chamber after the witness was taken there by the investigation officer of the case filed in connection with the shooting and the killing of two persons.

Rickshaw-puller Abdul Hakim and auto-rickshaw driver Yakub Ali were critically maimed after shots were fired at random from the jeep around 1:30am on April 14.

Hakim died 16 hours after the shooting, while Yakub died on April 23.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw...
Bakhtiar's brother Ahmed Tanvir Alam appealed to the court for permission to take back their mother's black Prado jeep seized by police.

The court directed the investigation officer to report within five days on whether the vehicle should be handed back to its owner.

The Criminal Investigation Department of Police is carrying out a ballistic test to find out whether the bullets found inside the bodies of the two victims were fired from Bakhtiar's licensed pistol, said police.
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian ambassador: If Sweden joins NATO, there will be 'consequences'
[Business Insider] Russia's ambassador to Sweden has warned the country of the potential military "consequences" associated with joining NATO in an interview with the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, The Local reports.

Russian Ambassador Viktor Tatarintsev told Dagens Nyheter that Russia does not have any military plans against Sweden, in line with Stockholm's alliance neutrality.

But Tatarintsev warned that this could change if Sweden were to join the NATO alliance.
So now 9.6m Swedes are a threat to the bear.
"I don't think it will become relevant in the near future, even though there has been a certain swing in public opinion. But if it happens there will be counter-measures," Tatarintsev said according to a translation from The Local.
I really am tiring of listening to these gangsters threaten and bloviate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2015 15:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't worry, Beoserker, soon the noble Orthodox State will be able to stop the bloviating of all of those homofascist banksters in the EU.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/18/2015 18:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Can I have my fifty rubles, or are you going to hold it against me that I forgot to say EUSSR?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/18/2015 18:59 Comments || Top||

#3  You forgot "tranzi" as well.

No shekels, either.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/18/2015 20:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Prolly safe to say SWEDEN is to Russia, what TAIWAN + SAKHALIN + RYUKYUS [Okinawa] is to China

FYI on China, Retired PLAN Admiral + Noted NDU Professor-Scholar LUO KEQIANG has repor stated that the refusal of the Philippines + Vietnam to give China BASE RIGHTS in their Countries led directly to the latest SCS Crisis ala China's reclamation or improvement of Regionally-disputed islands, + that CHINA'S RECOVERY + CONTROL OF TAIWAN, SAKHALIN, + RYUKYUS IS NOW MORE ESSENTIAL/VITAL THAN EVER FOR CHINA AS PER ITS EXPANSION OF POWER-N-INFLUENCE INTO THE FAR PACIFIC.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/18/2015 22:22 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Caliphornia N. Korea hit by worst drought in 100 years
[ARABNEWS] North Korea says it has been hit by its worst drought in a century, resulting in extensive damage to agriculture.

The official Korean Central News Agency said the drought has caused about 30 percent of its rice paddies to dry up. Rice plants normally need to be partially submerged in water during the early summer.

"Recently in our country, there has been a severe drought with sudden extremely high temperatures and nearly no rain," Ri Yong Nam, a senior N. Korean weather official, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Wednesday. "Now the drought is causing a water shortage and great damage to agriculture, and we foresee this drought will continue for a while." He said temperatures in May were 5-7 degrees Celsius higher than normal.
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In other news, NK has agriculture besides grass & tree bark.
Posted by: Raj || 06/18/2015 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Expect Pudgy to order all citizens to produce 40% more pee for irrigation.....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/18/2015 14:14 Comments || Top||


Europe
Greek FM: Greece will meet obligations on time
[AA.TR] Greek Deputy Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas said Wednesday the government would meet all of its debt obligations on time.

Speaking on private channel Mega TV, Marda said: "We aim to pay our obligations on time based on the data we have," and he added that "until June 30 there are many factors that may affect the liquidity of the economy."

The remarks come at a time when fears of a failed bailout agreement for the country are mounting. Ahead of a meeting between the Greek delegation and the Eurogroup on Thursday, the Bank of Greece issued a report warning that "the conclusion of a new agreement with our partners is of the utmost importance to fend off the immediate risks to the economy, reduce uncertainty and ensure a sustainable growth outlook for Greece."

The central bank warned of crisis and recession should Greece exit the euro.

"Failure to reach an agreement would, on the contrary, mark the beginning of a painful course that would lead initially to a Greek default and ultimately to the country's exit from the euro area and -- most likely -- from the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
. A manageable debt crisis, as the one that we are currently addressing with the help of our partners, would snowball into an uncontrollable crisis, with great risks for the banking system and financial stability. An exit from the euro would only compound the already adverse environment, as the ensuing acute exchange rate crisis would send inflation soaring."
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ....Hoooooookay - compare this article with the other one that screams about how oppressive it is that Greece is actually expected to repay their loans and how it's a violation of human rights to expect that, and I'm getting the impression that the Greeks have had a come-to-Zeus meeting with the rest of the EU...and that they will cave and make their payments.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/18/2015 7:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Greekshave had a come-to-Zeus
LOL, stealing.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/18/2015 7:58 Comments || Top||

#3  I nominate Mike's comment as snark of the week.
Posted by: ptah || 06/18/2015 8:29 Comments || Top||


Greek central bank issues 'Grexit' warning if aid talks fail
[REUTERS] The Greek central bank warned on Wednesday that the country would be put on a "painful course" towards default and exiting the euro zone if the government and its international creditors failed to reach an agreement on an aid-for-reforms deal.

It also said Greece risked a renewed bout of recession and predicted that the current economic slowdown would accelerate in the second quarter of this year. The Greek economy had started growing again last year after being pounded by years of austerity, but fell back into negative growth in the first quarter of 2015, contracting by 0.2 percent year-on-year.
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Obamacare is working!
h/t Instapundit
The federal government cannot verify nearly $3 billion in subsidies distributed through ObamaCare, putting significant taxpayer funding "at risk," according to a new audit report.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an audit Tuesday finding that the agency did not have an internal system to ensure that subsidies went to the right enrollees, or in the correct amounts.

"[The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] CMS's internal controls did not effectively ensure the accuracy of nearly $2.8 billion in aggregate financial assistance payments made to insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act during the first four months that these payments were made," the OIG said.
I do suspect the "right people" got it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/18/2015 02:21 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  CMS's internal controls did not effectively ensure the accuracy of nearly $2.8 billion in aggregate financial assistance payments

Imagine that, ineffective gov't controls.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2015 4:51 Comments || Top||

#2  I blame Bush but no worries this is the type of problem Hillary can fix she is good with controls, transparency, audits, fiduciary responsibilities...
Posted by: Airandee || 06/18/2015 6:36 Comments || Top||


Nine killed in shooting at historic Charleston church
Nine people were killed when a white gunman entered a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, and opened fire, the city's police chief said on Thursday.
Race war heats up?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/18/2015 01:42 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uh oh
Posted by: Shipman || 06/18/2015 6:15 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: || 06/18/2015 6:58 Comments || Top||

#3  ....I'm ninety miles from there, but please believe me when I tell you that the city - and all of South Carolina - are horror struck this morning. Every single law enforcement officer in the state right now has just one goal - find this monster and bring him in. I have no doubt the FBI is already on the scene, and for once I am glad they are here. Quite frankly, I want this bastard to feel hunted.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/18/2015 7:45 Comments || Top||

#4  State with an African American US Senator, and an Indian-American Female Gov. Not exactly bigot central any more - the racists have already lost the war there.

Heck SC even has a Special Needs person in office (Senator Lindsey Graham)
Posted by: OldSpook || 06/18/2015 8:57 Comments || Top||

#5  They're calling it a Hate Crimeâ„¢, mostly because the victims were black. Since there wasn't any financial interests, it had to be motivated by something else, and Hate seems to fit. If they were white Christians... who knows what it would be called? Prayers out to the families and community
Posted by: Frank G || 06/18/2015 9:00 Comments || Top||

#6  So, are the Left against the death penalty this morning? (Other than the death of America)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/18/2015 9:04 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 The mayor called it a hate crime because people were killed while they were killed in a house of worship. I saw the announcement and heard his words. There was no mention of religious affiliation or color. He was specific as to why he was calling it a hate crime.
Posted by: jvalentour || 06/18/2015 9:33 Comments || Top||

#8  'Hate crime'....as opposed to love crime. Ok, I get it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2015 10:03 Comments || Top||

#9  Suspect: Dylann Storm Roof

“The following subject is wanted for the shooting that occured in Charleston at the Emanuel AME Church. Subject is Dylann Storm Roof w/m 4/3/1994 5’9″ 120 lbs. The subject should be driving a 2000 Hyundai Elantra GS, SC registration LGF330. The vehicle is dark-colored. Subject should be considered armed and dangerous and caution should be used if seen. “

cray-cray (middle name is a giveaway?) pasty POS pic at link
Posted by: Frank G || 06/18/2015 10:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Another gun-free zone without security. He reloaded several times while the congregation pleaded with him to stop.
Posted by: KBK || 06/18/2015 10:38 Comments || Top||

#11  Captured.
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/18/2015 11:49 Comments || Top||

#12  roof is yet another guy with a long rap sheet who should rightly have been in jail
Posted by: lord garth || 06/18/2015 11:51 Comments || Top||

#13 
Posted by: || 06/18/2015 12:08 Comments || Top||

#14  hat-tip via the comments at Jawa:
Top flag is South Africa 1928-1994
Bottom flag is Rhodesia 1968-1979
.45 was a birthday gift
from TAH, was in the legal process of drug charges during his birthday
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/18/2015 13:26 Comments || Top||

#15  Daddy gave him a (the?) gun recently. This kind of mentality dos not develop instantly or in a vacuum. Daddy should be examined very carefully.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/18/2015 13:33 Comments || Top||

#16  "Race war heats up?"

For sure...this is what you white boys wanted, isn't it?
Posted by: supptheriou4433 || 06/18/2015 14:25 Comments || Top||

#17  Troll alert.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/18/2015 14:27 Comments || Top||

#18  Sorry, JerkFace - you only got one shot. Being Canuckistanian, it should've been 2/3rds. But I'm generous.
Posted by: supptheriou4433 || 06/18/2015 14:28 Comments || Top||

#19  Seen real 'war' have you supptheriou4433? Enjoy it did you? This little hate mongers kills are about equal to a hot week end on the south side of Chicago, Houston, or Atlanta. But you'll not go there will you ?

How about we let Law Enforcement do their investigatory work and get to the bottom of it, shall we ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2015 14:32 Comments || Top||

#20  Daddy gave him a (the?) gun recently. This kind of mentality dos not develop instantly or in a vacuum. Daddy should be examined very carefully.

If Daddy gave his whacko kid a gun then Daddy needs to go to jail.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/18/2015 15:11 Comments || Top||

#21  But hey, supptheriou4433, do you happen to work in a basement in Moscow? I hear Putin pays kids like to troll. C'mon. You can tell us. It actually sounds like kind of a fun job.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/18/2015 15:14 Comments || Top||

#22  Heck SC even has a Special Needs person in office (Senator Lindsey Graham)
Posted by OldSpook


Thanks OS, koffee thru nose again. Embarrassing and entirely inappropriate, even in a private setting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2015 15:18 Comments || Top||

#23  basement in Moscow

In a horrible workplace, a herd
Of hosannists are paid by the word
To tweet Putin's glory
Er, tell the whole story,
And honk for his two-headed bird.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 06/18/2015 15:22 Comments || Top||

#24  This little $hitbag thinks he is going to get a hero's welcome to prison. He is in for a surprise.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 06/18/2015 21:39 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Lawyers beat up youth in Lahore
[NATION.PK] LAHORE: Lawyers severely thrashed a youth when he requested them to let him pass near Election Tribunal office Lahore, say media reports.

According to details, the vehicles and cycle of violences of black-coat fraternity were parked outside the election tribunal and the young man, travelling along with his mother, requested the lawyers to give him a way.

Over this, the lawyers started thrashing the young man. The mother of youth appealed them to calm down but all in vain.

Later, the police and citizens entered in the matter and resolved it. It may be mentioned here that it was not first incident of its kind, such incidents took place often in Lahore.
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Pak lawyers need a regular beatdown applied to them, apparently
Posted by: Frank G || 06/18/2015 9:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
The US is reportedly changing the face of the $10 bill
I'll bet it won't be Molly Pitcher.
Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew is set to announce on Thursday that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will remove Alexander Hamilton from the ten dollar bill, in favor of a woman.
I wonder if she will be a "10"?
The change could happen as soon as 2020.

The announcement came via Nancy Lindborg, president of the US Institute of Peace, who tweeted out the news.
Owing to the small denomination, I doubt my wife will notice the "improvement." /sarc
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 06/18/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Burr's ghost gets revenge?
Posted by: 3dc || 06/18/2015 1:34 Comments || Top||

#2  I will bet on Harriet Tubman.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 06/18/2015 2:11 Comments || Top||

#3  I heard they'll be putting Jenner on the new 3 dollar bill.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 06/18/2015 4:44 Comments || Top||

#4  I suspect this will mean they are going to wind up like stamps now. It's wrong and I hope people refuse them.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/18/2015 5:09 Comments || Top||

#5  I suspect Eleanor Roosevelt since all they have to do is add a mustache to Hamilton.
Posted by: Airandee || 06/18/2015 6:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Hillary!
Posted by: Frank G || 06/18/2015 7:27 Comments || Top||

#7  will remove Alexander Hamilton from the ten dollar bill, in favor of a woman

Barck Obama?
Posted by: JFM || 06/18/2015 8:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Michelle?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2015 8:58 Comments || Top||

#9  Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Can finally tell us how he felt:
"The only thing I had to fear
Was Eleanor, if she weren't queer."

I'm sorry. That was terrible.
Posted by: Shuting Gurly-Brown7975 || 06/18/2015 9:04 Comments || Top||

#10  Nothing says America more than Marilyn and with a connection to the Kennedy Clan, well, the Dems would likely support the nomination. (Where is GolfBravoUSMC when you need him?)

Posted by: Black Bart Munster2819 || 06/18/2015 10:19 Comments || Top||

#11  Kill the novelty factor, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. Who, as many historians consider, was the first female president. Ratify the record and end this LIV* "oh, we need to have a (pick your EEO flavor of the year) president". *Low Information Voter
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/18/2015 10:27 Comments || Top||

#12  Just like the poor, LIVs will always be with us. They are a subset within the Dem's Venn Diagram election playbook.
Posted by: Black Bart Munster2819 || 06/18/2015 10:32 Comments || Top||

#13  If the Trunks were smart, they'd introduce legislation to the effect of making Edith Wilson the choice today. How can the administration say no when it's a Donk to begin with? How bi-partisan. Think how it would deflate the anti-woman smears and undermine Hillary at the same time.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/18/2015 10:41 Comments || Top||

#14  Let's imagine hoow cool about having _that_ photo of Marylin on the $10 bill!
Posted by: JFM || 06/18/2015 12:12 Comments || Top||

#15  Does that mean it'll be worth only $7.80?
Posted by: JonC || 06/18/2015 12:44 Comments || Top||

#16  "Michelle?"

Then the bill will have to be much bigger to get her all on it.....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/18/2015 14:16 Comments || Top||

#17  BrerRabbit, had me chuckling out loud.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/18/2015 14:45 Comments || Top||

#18  So I guess Obama drives the economy down so far the $10 becomes the new $1?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/18/2015 14:47 Comments || Top||

#19  Does that mean we lose the only black man on US currency? Think about it Hamilton was born out of wed lock in the West Indies. Odds are mom wasn't pure blooded white woman. That would also explain why dad gave him the bum's rush.
Posted by: Chuckles Shatle5927 || 06/18/2015 22:14 Comments || Top||

#20  That, Chuckles, depends on who they will replace him with. I'm betting Elizabeth "she who speaks with forked tongue" Warren - she's a woman and an redskin indian Native American. And she would probably claim a little African American if it would get her something...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/18/2015 22:28 Comments || Top||

#21  Do the three-way PC thing and put Obean on it. He doesn't have any balls.
Posted by: gorb || 06/18/2015 23:46 Comments || Top||



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