Another sensless Florida strip joint ninja paintball shooting...
BOYNTON BEACH Three men dressed in black walked into Platinum Gold strip club on the city's southeast side Sunday night and started shooting exotic dancers with paintball guns, police said. It was Sunday. It was quiet in Boynton Beach. We were working the nightwatch out of the Ninja Paintball Strip Joint Shooting Task Force...
The men, along with an afternoon-shift dancer and another woman who had been arguing with a manager when the shooters showed up, all fled the club at 3675 S. Federal Hwy. before police got there about 11:15 p.m. Damn! They're always one step ahead of us!!
Officers rushed in to discover three dancers, ages 28, 44 and 51, peppered with pink paintballs and covered in circular bruises. City paramedics treated the dancers in the club. C'mon, guys. Help grandma out too.
Oh. Sorry...
Surveying the rest of the club, they noticed several broken, paint splattered mirrors and a bar top stained in a patchwork of flamingo splotches. So what's your take, Muldoon?
I think that stripper likes me.
After investigating, police came to suspect the three men paintballed the dance club on behalf of the afternoon-shift dancer, who became angry after the manager refused to exchange her "funny money" for cash earlier in the day, police said. So who's in town, the North Koreans or the Gaza Chamber of Commerce?
After the attack, both the dancer and the other woman drove from the club in a green mini van, police said. What that has to do with anything, I do not know...
The big news on Saturday was meant to be the inauguration of Norway's futuristic new national opera house, but all eyes were on special guest German Chancellor Angela Merkel's plunging neckline, German tabloid daily Bild reported on Monday.
The paper said 53-year-old Merkel has never been seen in something so revealing, but called her choice "elegant," "feminine," and "stately."
Merkel's black evening gown paired with a deep turquoise bolero shawl and classic pearl necklace was a far cry from the stuffy pink gown she wore to a Bayreuth opera two years ago - which revealed tabloid-friendly sweat stains as she waved to eager photographers.
"What goes for the political Merkel also holds for the fashion-conscious Merkel," wrote German news website Spiegel Online on Sunday. "She doesn't make the same mistake twice."
Merkel, an avid opera fan, joined King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway for the inauguration of the 500 million striking structure on the bank of Oslo's fjord. "I congratulate Norway on its new opera house," Merkel told reporters at the event. "It's a highlight in the history of European architecture."
German government spokesman Thomas Steg said on Monday he had been flooded with questions about the dress and its unprecedented amount of chancellor cleavage. "That this dress caused such a furore, seemed excessive to the chancellor," Steg told reporters at a weekly briefing. "She was not distraught as the reporting was quite kind and she received many compliments, but if the world has nothing more important to do than to talk about or report on evening dresses, what can one do?"
. . . She was never a diplomat and proud not to be one. She had no time for courtly phrases and carefully drafted compromises. She was ready to go toe to toe with any world leader from Gorbachev to Deng Xiaoping. She had the huge advantage of being unembarrassable - a quality not always shared by her Private Secretary.
I recall a meeting with President Mitterand in Paris during which the President took her for a stroll in the Élysée garden.
I sat down in the sun for a blissful moment of peace with my French opposite number, only to be shaken from my reverie by the sight of Mitterand hurrying back, clutching a blood-stained handkerchief to himself. For a moment of panic I thought: She's gone too far this time, she's bitten him!
It turned out to have been an over-enthusiastic puppy which did the damage, but it was a nasty moment. . . .
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IIRC, this article appeared on the Net awhile back, and even started a row over which capital ship would win in a battle - HMS VICTORY versus FSN INTREPIDE', which most gave to VICTORY due to INTREPIDE's massive bulk-weight, slow speed, and slow maneuvering despite overwhelming firepower.
or, Britney Still can't drive.
LOS ANGELES Britney Spears' motoring misfortunes continue. The pop star was involved in a minor traffic accident late Saturday, but no one was injured and no vehicles were damaged, authorities said.
Spears was driving her 2008 Mercedes on the eastbound Ventura Freeway just east of the 405 freeway about 8:20 p.m. when the mishap occurred, said California Highway Patrol Officer Patrick Kimball. Spears was in stop-and-go traffic when her car struck a 2006 Nissan in front of her that had stopped. The Nissan then pushed forward into another vehicle. No damage was noted to any of the vehicles.
The CHP took a report and no one was cited. An after-hours e-mail sent to Spears' publicist was not returned early Sunday.
In 2006, Spears was photographed driving with her son on her lap. A misdemeanor hit-and-run charge from an August 2007 parking lot crash was dismissed after she paid an undisclosed amount to the car's owner. In October, she pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of driving without a valid driver's license and later obtained a temporary California license.
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If there was no damage, then the term struck is a bit of an exaggeration. Were I Ms. Spears, I'd have called the Highway Patrol, too, to prevent nuisance suits and suchlike afterward. The attention whore here is the journalist.
The West's last remaining feudal system has come to an end after the Privy Council endorsed a vote by locals on the tiny Channel Island of Sark to change the way they are governed.
Sark, which lies about 6 miles east of Guernsey off the coast of Normandy, has broadly held onto its political and judicial systems since Queen Elizabeth I bestowed them upon it nearly 450 years ago. The car-free island has been governed by a mainly unelected parliament called the Chief Pleas, traditionally made up of members of landed families. It meets just a few times a year.
The seigneur, effectively the lord of Sark or head landlord, appoints the judiciary and has until recently been entitled to a cut from any property bought and sold on the island and even to the ancient system of tithe levies. In return, he must maintain an army to keep the island "free of the Queen's enemies."
But locals and modernizers want a fully elected 28-member chamber and the 600 residents opted for the change in a poll at the end of 2006. Every person who has lived on the island for more than a year is now entitled to take part in elections. The first will be in December, with the parliament sitting for the first time the following January.
The changes will also see the introduction of a legal expert who will take part in any complicated or sensitive case.
The island's seneschal, or judge, who also presides over its parliament, Lieutenant Colonel Reg Guille, said the changes to both the judiciary and government would modernize both. But he said island life would go on as normal. "It's a very quiet and peaceful place: we are a self-sufficient, close-knit community and we like to get on with life away from the public eye."
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Ah! To be free and not a serf.That is the dream.
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And I thought this was the companion piece to this from yesterday.
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I wonder if they still had "prima noche"? Under that system, it was believed that God so favored the "lords" of the seigneuries that it was his will that the lord would take a peasant bride to his bed on her wedding night. I wonder who thought that up?
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I wonder if they still had "prima noche"? Under that system, it was believed that God so favored the "lords" of the seigneuries that it was his will that the lord would take a peasant bride to his bed on her wedding night. I wonder who thought that up?
If you refer to what is known in french as le droit de cuissage, then, it's a myth cooked up by lurid period emos in the 19th century to make the old regime look bad.
As far as I know, it has no historical basis, and steems from an historian's spelling error on a registration tax the newly-wed had to pay to the local lord (droit de culage) IIRC (JFM will correct me, he's more History-savvy).
Generally speaking the european Moyen Age ("dark ages") takes a lot of undeserved flak, and from very early, after a very sharp decline following the final collapse of the roman empire, it was actually more advanced than the supposedly more civilized arab or asian civilizations IIUC.
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Generally speaking the european Moyen Age ("dark ages") takes a lot of undeserved flak, and from very early, after a very sharp decline following the final collapse of the roman empire, it was actually more advanced than the supposedly more civilized arab or asian civilizations IIUC.
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Progress--now the Queen's enemies' human rights are protected and the Lord of Sark's army can be maintained by the dole just like the pirates. Equality!
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I heard once that Michael Flynn was on the lecture circuit once with the topic "What we all know about the middle ages that really isn't true." I'd love to see a book on the subject.
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I think there was a Belgian historian, whose name I forget, who claimed that the real decline during the early Middle Ages was caused by the Muslim conquest of North Africa. This had the effect of ending the free and vigorous trade in the Mediterranean that had characterized the Roman period, and putting a big damper on economic prosperity in southern Europe.
Perhaps as evidence for this, you can still see the effect of Muslim warfare on the Roman heartland of Italy in the fact that the old towns are built on high hills. When you visit these towns, the local history usually explains that the people moved to these fortified positions in response to Muslim raiders from the sea. Although, this is probably not the whole story, since some local accounts also mention raids by the Lombards, who arrived much earlier than the Muslims.
The Lombards, though, eventually adapted to Roman Christianity and culture, and attempted to maintain some aspects of the Roman system, as did the other German tribes such as the Franks north of the Alps. The concept of knighthood and the aristocratic system which characterized feudalism are basically Roman, although the German tribes had similar social hierarchies.
A boy fell into an open manhole while struggling to recover a cricket ball and died on Sunday. The body was recovered within an hour. The victim was identified as Muhammad Irfan Sheikh, son of Saleem Sheikh; resident of Street No 3, House No 4, Shezan Factory, Bund Road. He worked as a bus conductor on route number 7.
On Sunday morning, Irfan left home to play cricket with his friends near Sherankot. During the game, the ball fell into a drain. Irfan and his friend, Sunny, struggled to recover the ball but fell into the drain. Sunny was pulled out by his friends and with the help of passers-by. Irfan, however, drowned and did not surface.
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Urban stickball has much the same risk here in the US.
RAWALPINDI: Airport police Saturday night raided two brothels in Gulzar-e-Quaid and arrested 26 people, including 10 women, police said. The police were tipped off about presence of two secret brothels in the area. Following the tip, City Police Officer (CPO) Saud Aziz directed ASP Ashfaq Anwar to constitute a special team and raid the brothels.
The team conducted the raid and arrested 26 people including 10 women. Cases have been registered against Irfan, Asif, Naveed and others. Women were shifted to women police station. The accused were likely to be produced before a judge on Monday (today).
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Some observers expressed surprise that none of the men arrested were governors of northeastern states.
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Probably gave piano player as their profession.
This just in from our ace reporter, D.J. Wu...
Rival tribes responsible for clashes in the Kurram Agency declared that they would observe a ceasefire by 5pm on Sunday. They only do this once a month, so pay attention...
Elders of the Tori and Mengal tribes made the statement after meeting Kohat Regional Co-ordination Officer Umar Khan Afridi, who met them on the orders of Interior Adviser Rehman Malik. PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had directed Malik to take steps to restore peace. Separately, two more people were killed and 10 injured in the ninth consecutive day of clashes in the agency.
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Five more people have been killed in sectarian clashes in Pakistan's Kurram Agency, bringing the death toll from 4 days of fighting to 17. The armed clashes in and around Parachanar and Sadda towns have been continuing for the last four days, causing 17 people dead and 60 others injured, including tribal elders and youngsters, The Nation reported Sunday Rival tribesmen are targeting each other's positions with modern and sophisticated weapons and army helicopters flew over the restive areas in a bid to force the warring sides to stop fighting. Modern weapons and primitives with turbans is always a bad combination.
The main Parachinar-Peshawar road has been closed due to the sectarian unrest since clashes erupted in November last year. The region has run short of vital supplies and medicines due to the blockade and the situation continues to worsen.
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Five more people have been killed in sectarian clashes in Pakistan's Kurram Agency, bringing the death toll from 4 days of fighting to 17. The armed clashes in and around Parachanar and Sadda towns have been continuing for the last four days, causing 17 people dead and 60 others injured, including tribal elders and youngsters, The Nation reported Sunday Rival tribesmen are targeting each other's positions with modern and sophisticated weapons and army helicopters flew over the restive areas in a bid to force the warring sides to stop fighting. 
