At least 10 people were killed and 70 others injured on Friday when a Metrolink commuter train slammed into a freight train near a Los Angeles suburb, authorities said.
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The 11 pm news said 25 dead. Ugh.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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The MTA contract driver ran a red light.
It was one day after 9/11.
Did the driver commit murder suicide.
Was this driver muslim?
Or was it pure negligence?
A couple of years ago, they did not have enough trained train crews, so trains sat, and workers were stretched to the max. Some fell asleep at the controls.
I had hoped it was the UP driver who ran past the red signal.
Of course, I could also tell you a story about a new Amtrak engineer, so focused on maintaining speed, that she lost 'situational awareness' and ran past red signals, plowing into another train - but at less than 10 mph - no one killed.
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One of my co-workers was hit by a car making a turn through a red light while texting. Fortunately it was only broken bones. More fortunately a bus driver and 30 passengers saw the whole thing. Astoundingly, the driver of the car pulled over, but finished texting before emerging from her car to see what had happened. This is enough to make me support cell phone bans while driving.
A fly over of Galveston Island during and after Hurricane Ike from a HU-25 Falcon Jet from the Aviation Training Center in Alabama. Scenes include flooded neighborhoods, hotels, highways, an airport and flightline as well as a burning building.
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My brother lives in Spring, near the Woodlands, and is without power, but safe. A friend of mine lives on Galveston Island, and I haven't heard if she evacuated or not. Saw photos in today's newspaper of I-45 where the causeway leads to the Texas City exit. It's usually 15 feet above water. The photo showed water on the sides of the road, and the entire Interstate covered in debris.
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When The Atlantic called Jill Greenberg, a committed Democrat, to shoot a portrait of John McCain for its October cover, she rubbed her hands with glee.
She delivered the image the magazine asked fora shot that makes the Republican presidential nominee look heroic. Greenberg is well known for her highly retouched images of bears and crying babies. But she didnt bother to do much retouching on her McCain images. I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad, she says.
However, that's not the picture Greenberg hoped the Atlantic would use:
After getting that shot, Greenberg asked McCain to please come over here for one more set-up before the 15-minute shoot was over. There, she had a beauty dish with a modeling light set up. Thats what he thought he was being lit by, Greenberg says. But that wasnt firing.
What was firing was a strobe positioned below him, which cast the horror movie shadows across his face and on the wall right behind him. He had no idea he was being lit from below, Greenberg says. And his handlers didnt seem to notice it either. I guess theyre not very sophisticated, she adds.
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SOP; a somewhat running joke for anyone who looks at the pics of conservative pols in msm... it doesn't even have to be sophisticated like that one, usually, just pick a picture when the guy is open-mouthed or looks confused, or tired, or anything that will project a bad image. Really, just pay attention, once you see it, you can't miss that habit. While I don't like much pépé Le Pen, here in france, almost all pics of him used by the msm show him looking from below (same trick as with Mc Cain here, to get that "dictator with the chin up" subliminal image), or with his mouth open, like he's eructing (which is his habit of talking, on the other hand). Just look at how GWB was shot over the years, you can't miss it.
Also in comments: Yes, earlier in the day she had an image up with a monkey urinating and defecating on top of McCain's head. Apparently she had enough sense (or counsel) to pull that one. Sorry I didn't screencap it.
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I saw her list of clients. After this, if any of them who hire her to photograph anything for them, they're certifiable.
Hope she enjoys her moment in the sun. It may well be her last....
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LONDON: Five Sharia courts have been set up in different cities of Britain with powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.
The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence, according to a report. The Islamic courts have been set up in London, Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester with the network's headquarters in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Two more courts are being planned for Glasgow and Edinburgh, the report said.
Rulings issued by the five sharia courts are enforceable with full power of the judicial system through the country courts or high court. Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims. Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddique, whose Muslim Arbitration Tribunal runs the courts, said he had taken advantage of a clause in the Arbitration Act 1996.
Under the act, the sharia courts are classified as arbitration tribunals. The rulings of arbitration tribunals are binding in law, provided that both parties in the dispute agree to give it the power to rule on their case.
"We realised that under the 'Arbitration Act', we can make rulings which can be enforced by country and high courts. The act allows disputes to be resolved using alternatives like tribunals," Siddique said. "This method is called alternative dispute resolution, which for Muslims is what the sharia courts are," he said.
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Very sad. It was a good run for 400 years. Hard to believe I could have lived through Churchill's funeral to see this. Sad. We should open the immigration gates again.
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There'll have to be a few steps yet before they get to stone anybody. At the moment both parties have to agree to "arbitration," and agreement might not be forthcoming from a stoning candidate.
They need some kind of ruling that being a Muhammadan automatically means agreeing to "arbitration," and then there'll have to be some rule about which Sharia school gets to run them, and then there'll have to be some kind of EU waiver allowing Muhammadan executions.
The first ruling may not take very long. Agreement from the masters in Brussels might take a little longer: the only item of faith left to unite the EU seem to be that capital punishment is almost as bad as the USA.
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A man shot his 17-year-old daughter for honor on the Lower Mall. The police said that Nazia, the daughter of Hanif, a resident of Mohni Road Mohalla Qureshian, fled with her lover, a Christian boy, some one week ago. On Saturday, she returned home and took poisonous pills fearing a strong reaction from her parents. The girl, who fell unconscious under the drugís effect, was shot dead by her farther. The body was removed to morgue for autopsy. The accused father presented himself before the police for arrest saying that he had killed his daughter over her bad character. A case has been registered against the accused father for killing her daughter.
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The only way to stop this crap is to shame those who "honor" kill, and their families. Only the victim is held up as "innocent", and the only "good" member of the family.
The rest of the family, especially the killer, are vilified and exhibited as a "family dishonored by murder", along with the strong suggestion that the dishonor will exist until the *murderer* is dead.
This works in several ways. Firstly, by correctly elevating murder as the worst of offenses, not just criminally, but against "honor".
Second, by elevating the despised victim over her family, ignoring any petty sin she might have done.
And third, creating the idea that murder can only be cleansed as a sin by the death of the murderer, either by sanctioned execution by the government, or implied, by someone killing the murderer.
This is not hypocritical, oddly enough, because murder is only of the innocent, but murdering a murderer is justice. Killing a murderer is killing, not murder. An important point.
And *anyone* can kill a murderer without punishment, just like killing a rat. So from the moment a murderer commits an "honor" killing, he has signed his own death warrant, and anyone can kill him after, for any or no reason, without fear of punishment themselves.
And *this* will definitely put a halt to "honor" murders.
NANKANA SAHIB: A member of the Alami Majlis Tahaffuz-e-Khatm-e-Nabuwat was shot dead at Chak 4 here on Thursday night.
Muhammad Malak, a resident of Chak 6 and a complainant in a blasphemy case, was returning home after offering Taraveeh when some people opened fire on him, killing him on the spot. He was buried at a local graveyard. A large number of people attended his funeral prayer.
A large contingent of police was also present. People passed resolutions in mosques after Friday prayers, condemning the incident and demanding immediate arrest of the killers. The AMTKN city Ameer Mehr Muhammad Aslam Nasir, advocate, condemned the incident and demanded immediate arrest of the accused, including Nadeem, Rana Iftikhar, Rashid, Ishrat Shah and their three accomplices.
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Sounds like filing a complaint of "blasphemy" was not well received, like saying "Yo' Mama!"
I am all in favor of more blasphemy complainants being killed. Send the message that you don't be doing that shiat.
The Senate Committee hearing the gruesome details of the live burial of women in Balochistan was told on Friday that the number of such women could be seven and not five or three as earlier reported.
But the Committee on Human Rights was ignored totally by the PPP government as none of the three important ministers, who are active members of the Senate body, attended the meeting chaired by Senator SM Zafar.
The absence of these three powerful ministers was felt more, not only because of their current ministerial status but in their capacity as its members, by the jam-packed Committee Room which heard shocking disclosure that the total number of the unfortunate women might be seven. Those who did not attend the meeting were Farooq Naik, Latif Khosa and Rehman Malik.
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The Senate Committee hearing the gruesome details of the live burial of women in Balochistan was told on Friday that the number of such women could be seven and not five or three as earlier reported.
