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The model for the original perpetual motion 'dipping bird'.
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SteveS, my thoughts, too.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
08/22/2008 7:49 Comments ||
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Pheew! With all those clothes, it just leaves too much to my imagination.
poor brain.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
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I'll try and pick someone a little more scantily clad for tomorrow.
Posted by: Fred ||
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Bit more Ummm "Assets" too please, she's somewhat flat.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
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Fred, it starting to sound like the boys need a little Betty Page tomorrow. That will cure them for a while.
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08/22/2008 13:45 Comments ||
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Cure, hell, Betty paige will hurt me.
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08/22/2008 15:23 Comments ||
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and make you like it
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There's always Sabrina, a perpetual favorite. Of course, I don't care what people think of her assets (or lack thereof), Fred could post picture after picture of Audrey Hepburn and I would be happy.
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No, this is not a dupe... Well it is, sorta ...
Pirates have seized another vessel, a German cargo ship, off the coast of Somalia in some of the world's most dangerous waters, the International Maritime Bureau said. This brought the number of ship hijackings in the vital sealane linking Asia and Europe to a record four in 48 hours, sparking fears piracy there could worsen.
"There is no deterrent, so obviously for pirates, criminals and warlords, it's an easy way to make money," said Noel Choong, head of the bureau's piracy reporting centre in Kuala Lumpur. "Nobody is going to catch you, no police ... you make so much money," he said. Hey. I think I've found the problem...
"It's unbelievable, more and more of these people go out and hijack ships."
He said only the United Nations could help stop the menace because Somalia has no central government. Piracy is rife off Somalia, which has been mired in anarchy since warlords overthrew a dictator in 1991. Maritime officials say at least 30 ships have been hijacked off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation so far this year.
Most of them brought ransoms of at least $10,000 ($NZ14,005), and in some cases much more. A lot of that money is now in the hands of pirates in the semi-autonomous northern region of Puntland.
Wealthy pirates have attained near-celebrity status in the area, buying expensive homes and cars and taking additional wives following this year's sharp increase in attacks at sea. In the latest case, pirates seized a German cargo ship with nine crew on board late on Thursday, Choong said.
Just hours earlier, Somali pirates hijacked an Iranian bulk carrier and a Japanese-operated tanker. A day before, they seized a palm oil tanker, Bunga Melati Dua, belonging to Malaysian national carrier MISC. The four ships had a total of 96 crew on board.
Last week, Somali pirates hijacked two other ships, a Thai cargo ship, the MV Thor Star, and a Nigerian tug boat, the MT Yenegoa Ocean. Local gunmen are also holding a Japanese-managed bulk carrier, the MV Stella Maris, that was hijacked on July 20.
Choong said multi-national naval coalition forces had sent a warship to track the hijackers. How about ya kill em instead?
Naval forces from the United States, France, Germany, Pakistan, Britain and Canada are operating in the Gulf region.
MISC, the Malaysian shipping firm, said it had made first contact with its ship, which had 39 crew - 29 Malaysians and 10 Filipinos - on board."MISC was informed that there had been a casualty on board involving one of our Filipino crew members during the boarding of the vessel by the hijackers. We are unable to confirm this incident," it said. The company declined to comment.
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Calling Blackwater. Time to pitch the gig to the insurance and maritime companies. If the 'sovereign' governments of the world won't deal with the problem because of self imposed restraints, that opens the door for letters of mark and reprisal from other sources. Just remind the employer that there are severe penalties for early withdraw.
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He said only the United Nations could help stop the menace because Somalia has no central government.
You have to be freeking kidding me - the UN can't even solve the combination to the men's toliet.
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Just flatten the port and all the homes around it..
Make being a pirate something your neighbors hate so much that they will just kill you on sight.
done.
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Darth is correct. So is 3dc. An ARCLIGHT strike through one village that harbored pirates would do the trick. Because the "G" and "H" models of the B-52 don't have the iron-bomb capacity of the old "D" models, use four- instead of three-aircraft flights. You might kill a few crewmembers from whatever captured ship is in port, but you'd certainly send a strong message that piracy not only doesn't pay, but that a pirate ship in your port will bring retaliation. From what I've read, most of the pirates are from the Puntland autonomous province of Somalia. Maybe an ARCLIGHT strike down through the center of the capital of Puntland would also be useful. Talk about "shock and awe", how about "shock and fear"? It's long past time we do something like this. The arab world needs to learn to respect the West. Nothing garners respect like an ARCLIGHT strike.
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Meanwhile these LADS, at one time the finest on the coninent, sit with their thumbs up their bums in Simon's Town.
August 11, 2008: On August 8th, a U.S. Navy amphibious ship, the USS Peleliu, while cruising off the north coast of Somalia, got a distress call from a merchant ship ten kilometers away. The merchantman was under attack by pirates in speed boats. The Peleliu promptly dispatched three armed helicopters, which caused the pirates to flee. The merchant ship suffered some damage from bullets, plus an RPG rocket that landed in the superstructure, but did not explode.
This year, Somali pirates have shifted their operations to the far north, on the Gulf of Aden (which separates Somalia from Yemen, in southern Arabia). Over 80 percent of the pirate attacks are now taking place in the Gulf of Aden, where heavy Red Sea traffic provides a larger number of potential victims.
While other pirate plagued nations have navies and coast guards that can battle the piracy problem, Somalia is without any central government, or seagoing military forces. So the international community has been sending more and more warships to patrol the coast.
For the last three years, an international naval patrol, CTF 150 (Combined Task Force 150, operating out of Djibouti) has patrolled the entire 3,000 kilometer long coast. But with only about fifteen ships (from half a dozen nations), the CTF 150 has been able to slow down the pirates, but not stop them. The USS Peleliu is not part of the patrol, but was just passing through the area. Fortunately, the 39,000 ship normally carries about 30 helicopters, six Harrier jets, and a battalion of marines, so it had the means to deal with pirates.
Moreover, unless this coastal patrol force was willing to send troops ashore to kill or arrest the pirates in the land bases, the pirates will keep playing hide-and-seek with the naval patrols, and continue to attack ships and get away with it.
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I guess if it were US flagged ships it might be our problem, but the instinctive reaction to defend Panamanian and Greek shipping just isn't there for some reason.
(SomaliNet) Egyptian security officials said on Tuesday that an Egyptian police shot dead a 27-year-old Sudanese man as he tried to slip over the border into Israel. "You there! [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!] Halt or I'll shoot!"
This brings to 20 the number of African migrants killed at the border so far this year. The killing, took place at night on Monday.
A police patrol saw the Sudanese man and four other migrants attempting to get through barbed wire on the border and ordered them to stop, opening fire when they failed to do so. Police arrested two of the migrants, while the remaining two managed to escape towards Egypt.
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No, no, no. You must shout "halt" three times before you fire. So it is "HaltHaltHal[BANG!]t"
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Rambler, the Air Force taught us to shout "HALT" three times, then fire three times if they didn't stop. The first shot was supposed to kill the individual, the other two were designed to attract the attention of the body-recovery truck. In real life, it's "halt,halt,halt[bang][bang][bang]. They also taught us NOT to miss, because missing got you an a$$-chewing PLUS extra time at the guardpost. It appears that same lesson is being taught to the Iraqis and the Afghanis - most encounters result in bad guys being shot.
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(SomaliNet) Days of clashes in the Birak region of eastern Chad between rebels and forces loyal to President Idriss Deby Itno have claimed a large number of lives. The fighting broke out on Monday in Birak, near the Sudanese border about 180 kilometres north-east of Abeche, a spokesperson for the rebel Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) said.
"The offensive launched by the ethnic-Zaghawa militia (Deby's ethnic group) is part of the president of Chad's huge pre-arranged ethnic-cleansing plan," rebel spokesperson Djede Koultou Gamar said by phone from Libreville. He said that both sides had suffered big losses as the fighting ran on into Tuesday. The clashes and consequently the loss of life could not be independently verified.
According to Koultou, Sudanese rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) were fighting alongside Deby's militiamen. He urged the international community to put an end to what he called the start of a "genocide" campaign against the region's Tama population.
Meanwhile, there were reports on Tuesday that an Austrian military patrol, deployed as part of the European peacekeeping force in Chad, was caught up in a gun battle overnight on Monday, possibly with the Chadian army.
The Austrian government said fighting took place east of Abeche, the main city in eastern Chad, where Austrian soldiers are protecting refugees and thousands of displaced people from the west Darfur region of Sudan. The soldiers came under fire and retaliated during a patrol, the defence ministry said. Before the incident, they came across a group of civilians who said they had been attacked by armed thieves. No one was injured in the fighting, the defence ministry added.
EUFOR's spokesperson, lieutenant colonel Cyril Zimmer, said its soldiers were "clearly identified" when they arrived at the scene. "They retaliated after being fired at while asking for an aerial survey (helicopter). According to those who arrived on the scene, the people who opened fire on them were no longer there," he said.
However, a source close to the Chadian government said EUFOR's troops had fired on soldiers from Chad's army, who were also "chasing after the highwaymen."
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I'd find it kinda tough to fear "President Debby"...
SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: A colonel and three army jawans were killed in a fierce encounter with suspected foreign militants which also left five ultras dead in Machil sector of northern Kashmir on Friday.
"Five militants were killed in a fierce gunbattle in Machil sector of Kupwara district," an army spokesman said here.
He said an officer of the rank of Colonel and two jawans were also killed in the encounter which raged till last reports came in.
Col J J Joseph, commanding officer of the 45 Rastriya Rifles, was killed while leading the operations against a big group of foreign militants in the dense forests of Machil sector in Kupwara district.
Joseph, in spite of the injury, directed his troops, but was later evacuated to Base Hospital in Srinagar where he succumbed to his injuries. Three other troopers were killed in the operation launched following specific inputs about a large group of terrorists hiding in the forest.
Five militants were also killed in the encounter. Joseph is the highest ranking army official to have been killed in counter-insurgency operations in the last one year. Earlier, another colonel from Maratha Light Infantry was killed while leading his men in busting a militant hideout in Baramulla sector in the state.
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"Those blasts are too accurate for sandpeople."
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Rastriya Rifles = a specialized counterinsurgency unit.
Three persons, including a security man, were killed and several others injured in the restive Swat valley on Wednesday. Sources said the militants also set on fire two more girls' schools in the valley.
Gunship helicopters and artillery continued to target suspected positions of Taliban militants on the 22nd day of the operation in Chuprial, Balasur and Barthana areas. The sources said a mortar shell hit a house, killing two children.
The sources said one secuirty official, Munir, was killed in Baghdheri area of Matta in a blast, targeting a bridge. However, Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan claimed that three security personnel were killed in the incident. Meanwhile, the insurgents torched two more girls' high schools in Durushkhela and Bedara villages of Matta.
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In the latest Pakistani stock market analysis, Swat Valley girls' school investors are urged to "sell"...
Around 10 to 15 Taliban were reportedly killed when the Frontier Corps (FC) launched an operation against the warring tribes in the volatile Kurram Agency, sources in the Interior ministry said here on Wednesday.
The operation was launched after the 72-hour deadline given by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik to affect a ceasefire and restore calm to the agency lapsed. A Jirga from Hangu was dispatched to the agency to restore calm there but both sides violated the ceasefire. Consequently, the FC was directed to take action against those violating the law.
Sources said ample time was given to the warring factions to stop the fighting but when all the appeals went unheeded the FC was directed to take action against the troublemakers. In the first clash between the militants and the FC, at least 10 to 15 militants were killed, sources added.
Meanwhile, a press release of the interior ministry said Rehman Malik, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior, is closely monitoring the situation in the Kurram Agency and has reiterated that any violation of the ceasefire would be effectively dealt with.
The FC has been given a go ahead to take action as deemed necessary in case of violation of the ceasefire. On the other hand, a Jirga has sought more time to bring peace to the area. Regarding Bajaur, the ministry said a Frontier Corps post at Matak was assaulted by 300-400 Taliban militants on Tuesday night. The FC troops fought back and repulsed the attack, inflicting heavy casualties on the militants. There was no casualty of FC troops.
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A Jirga from Hangu was dispatched to the agency to restore calm there but both sides violated the ceasefire.
PAF fighter aircraft and Army gunship helicopters on Wednesday continued bombing suspected militant hideouts in the Bajaur Agency, killing three more persons and destroying a number of houses. Also, 14 militants were killed when the security forces repulsed a Taliban attack.
There were also reports of the death of senior militant commander-cum-Naib chief Qazi (vice-chief justice) of the Taliban Islamic courts, Mufti Bashir Ahmad. However, comrades of Mufti Bashir, who is a cousin of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) deputy head and Taliban leader in Bajaur Maulana Faqir Mohammad, denied the reports.
Military sources said a gunship helicopter targeted the house of Mani Gul of Samsay village in Khar, the agency headquarters, on suspicion that Mufti Bashir was staying there. "Our reports say Mufti Bashir was present in the house and might have been killed in the attack," said an official of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) on condition that he not be named.
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Thirty-seven more people were killed and several others injured in fresh clashes between the Bangash and the Tori tribesmen in various parts of the troubled Kurram Agency on Wednesday.
Sources said that despite the expiry of the deadline set by political administration for the ceasefire, fierce fighting was continuing between the rival tribesmen. "Thirty-seven people were killed and several others injured in the fresh clashes," the sources said.
The sources also said a major of Pakistan Army and a civilian were injured when a mortar shell hit the headquarters of the Frontier Corps (FC) in Parachinar. Another report pouring in from the restive agency said that the security forces had launched an operation in the area, killing 15 alleged militants. Unconfirmed reports also suggested that about 42 more people were killed and 67 others wounded in Wednesday's clashes.
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Hangu police on Thursday arrested two Afghan Taliban after a clash between the police and Taliban, said police. Hangu District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Idrees said the police arrested two Afghan Taliban, Asmatullah and Zarmat ,after a clash with the Taliban in the Tal area. The police also seized two vehicles, one rocket launcher, three kalashnikovs, and a pistol from the Taliban.
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Unidentified gunmen shot and killed an army official near the Army Officers' Colony in Kohat on Thursday. District Police Officer Abdullah Khan told Dawn News that the gunmen on motorcycles ambushed Maj Muhammad Ayub's private car. He said Ayub, who was in civilian clothes, died instantly. According to the channel, police and security forces had launched a hunt for the killers and detained more than 30 suspects. According to Geo News, District Nazim Gohar Saifullah Khan had imposed Section 144 in the district after the incident.
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Authorities have found "credible information" about Tuesday's suicide blast in DI Khan and the evidence will be shared with the media in the next few days, Adviser to the PM on Interior Rehman Malik said on Thursday. "Some foreign hands might be involved in terror activities in DI Khan, Kurram Agency and Swat," Malik told reporters after the graduation ceremony of women police officers of the first Women Crisis Management Group. He said the government had called a meeting of law-enforcement agencies in Islamabad on August 25 to devise an "effective strategy" against the Talibanisation of Karachi. Malik claimed busting a network of terrorists planning about 50 suicide attacks in the country on the eve of Independence Day.
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The son of leading Iraqi Sunni Arab politician Adnan al-Dulaimi has been charged with attempted murder after he was caught planting a bomb in a house belonging to a Shiite family, police said Thursday. whoops!
Police said that Muthanna Dulaimi was caught red-handed as he tried to set the explosive in a predominantly Sunni Arab district where Shiite families had lived before they were displaced by the sectarian violence of recent years. "urban renewal"
"The defendant was arrested as he was placing a bomb inside the house that belonged to a displaced family in the neighbourhood," security spokesman Qassim Atta told AFP.
Security forces arrested Muthanna after a Baghdad court issued three arrest warrants charging him with multiple killings and forcing people out of their homes, a statement from Baghdad's central security command said. "he's a good boy"
"(The warrants) accused him of murder and displacing people in al-Adel neighbourhood," it said.
Muthanna is the second son of Dulaimi to be arrested by Iraqi forces and his detention has already heightened tensions between Sunni leaders and Baghdad's Shiite-led administration.
"We strongly denounce this heinous act. We are shocked by this barbaric action that was carried out by executive bodies against national figures," said a statement from the National Concord Front, the main Sunni party. "We demand that Dulaimi's son be released immediately," it said.
Dulaimi's other son, Makki, was arrested in November last year after troops found a car full of explosives near Dulaimi's house in the Adel neighbourhood of west Baghdad. Apple, tree, distribution? Close
Dulaimi himself was put under house arrest at the time but later released. He told AFP on Wednesday that he was being targeted by the authorities. "It is an attempt to target me as I am always demanding the release of prisoners and talking against sectarianism," Dulaimi insisted. "I wuz framed!"
"Muthanna is not related to any political party. He is just a trader of automobile spare parts." and unexploded ordinance, which he was securing in the neighbor's house, that's the ticket!
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Here's Muthanna's Daddy Adnan al-Dulaimi
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I suspect his son's hat/head is a bit more.... pointy.
A bomb hidden in a car exploded at the scene of an earlier bombing, killing a reporter and a rescue worker responding to the first attack and wounded 30 other people in a southern Thai town bordering Malaysia, police said Friday. The blast took place in Sungai Kolok about 20 minutes after police, reporters and onlookers were lured to the scene Thursday night by an earlier, smaller bomb on a motorcycle that exploded without hurting anyone, said police Maj. Gen. Saritchai Anekwieng.
Thai TV Channel 9 said one of its reporters was seriously injured in the blast and that the slain reporter worked for the country's biggest newspaper, Thai Rath. Also among the wounded, who included civilians, was the town's police chief, police said. Chakrit Chalardwanakit, a rescue worker from a local charity, died of his wounds Friday, Saritchai said.
The bomb on the motorcycle, which was parked across from a restaurant, exploded at about 9:30 p.m. (1430 GMT), and the car bomb about 20 minutes later. The powerful bomb damaged buildings and vehicles within a 50-meter (50-yard) radius of the blast, police said.
The Philippines announced on Thursday it had cancelled a peace deal with the country's biggest Muslim rebel group after fighting broke out this week, but a guerrilla leader rejected its calls for re-negotiation.
The announcement by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's government that it was giving up on the agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) forged only last month looks certain to prolong a decades-long conflict in the south. "The cancellation of the memorandum of agreement is a painful step in our collective effort to come to an agreement with the MILF," Lorelei Fajardo, a spokeswoman for Arroyo, said in a statement to reporters.
"She (Arroyo) will seek a new agreement within the boundaries of law set within the constitution. Furthermore, the president will not allow adventurism by MILF forces to pressure government to sign any agreement even if it is for peace." The peace deal, which envisaged the enlargement of a Muslim autonomous area in the Mindanao region, has been halted by the Supreme Court pending hearing an appeal by Christian groups that it was unconstitutional.
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The Philippines were at war with Mary-Louise Parker?
Oh... different MILF
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GUAM K57 Radio > seems the Philippines Govt is demanding the formal surrender and handover of two top Muslim Rebel/Separatist Commanders before it will consider renewing any negotiations wid same.
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.
(SomaliNet) Egyptian security officials said on Tuesday that an Egyptian police shot dead a 27-year-old Sudanese man as he tried to slip over the border into Israel. 
Authorities have found "credible information" about Tuesday's suicide blast in DI Khan and the evidence will be shared with the media in the next few days, Adviser to the PM on Interior Rehman Malik said on Thursday. "Some foreign hands might be involved in terror activities in DI Khan, Kurram Agency and Swat," Malik told reporters after the graduation ceremony of women police officers of the first Women Crisis Management Group. He said the government had called a meeting of law-enforcement agencies in Islamabad on August 25 to devise an "effective strategy" against the Talibanisation of Karachi. Malik claimed busting a network of terrorists planning about 50 suicide attacks in the country on the eve of Independence Day.
