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At least 25 Nusra members dead in mosque blast in Syria's Idlib
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
13-year-old Chimacum student charged with three counts of raping a 7-year-old
[PENINSULADAILYNEWS (Washington state)] A 13-year-old boy has been charged with three counts of first-degree rape after deputies said he attacked a 7-year-old girl on a Chimacum school bus.

The Chimacum Middle School student is scheduled for his first court appearance at 9 a.m. July 15 in juvenile court at the Jefferson County Courthouse, at 1820 Jefferson St., in Port Townsend.

The Peninsula Daily News does not identify juveniles accused of crimes.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any chance the youthful miscreant is part of the current wave of welcomed illegals from the south?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2015 18:13 Comments || Top||


Peshawar police arrests 18-year-old for sexual abuse of 6-year-old girl
[DAWN] Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
police on Saturday announced the arrest of an 18-year-old youth in the picturesque provincial capital's Bahana Mari area over the sexual abuse of a six-year-old girl.

The youth came under suspicion when his neighbours saw him take the girl into his residence on Wednesday, following which they raised a hue and cry and handed the youth over to the police.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  easy Islamic Solution™ to this. She'll have to marry him.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/05/2015 11:31 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Swimming with gators.
[Huffpoo] A man swimming late at night in a Texas bayou died after an alligator attacked him in what was reportedly the state's first fatal gator attack in roughly two centuries.
Here, hold my beer.
Tommie Woodward, 28, jumped into a marina early Friday morning along the bayou in the city of Orange, near the Louisiana border, despite a sign that said "No Swimming Alligator," CNN reported. The marina owner said the warning went up recently after the reptile was spotted lurking in the water. Reports said it measured 10 to 12 feet in length.
People, they taste just like chicken.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/05/2015 03:09 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hold my beer, watch this here, cocodrillo
Me don't care what me hear from Miss Cleo
Cher, you only live once, cocodrillo
Son of a gun, he big one on the rio!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 07/05/2015 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220

And there you have it, ladies and gents!
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2015 18:15 Comments || Top||

#3  LOL took me three takes,
Posted by: Shipman || 07/05/2015 20:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Amos Moses to the tinning device!
Posted by: Shipman || 07/05/2015 20:18 Comments || Top||

#5  FARK! Ringing device!
Posted by: Shipman || 07/05/2015 20:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Set out Out on 'em Amos!
Make it count son!
Posted by: Shipman || 07/05/2015 20:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Yah, it's the other side of the Sabine River, therefore must be a Jackass.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/05/2015 23:13 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Indian girl commits suicide after parents failed to build toilet at home
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A girl did away with himself in India after her parents turned down her request to build a toilet in their house, it has been reported.

The incident took place in Jharkhand's Dumka district with reports suggesting the parents of the 17-year-old girl were looking to save money for her marriage.

Police officials have said the girl was found hanging from the ceiling of her room by family members.

The victim has been identified as Khushboo Kumari who was a first year BA student in AN College and was embarrassed to have to go out to the fields for daily ablutions.

India's congress leader Digvijay Singh called on nation to wake up and build toilets on priority following the incident.

"A girl in Jharkhand did away with himself as her parents refused to build toilet ! India as a Nation must wake up and build toilets on priority," Singh said through an online message posted on his Twitter account.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not veddy veddy first class! /wilbur
Posted by: Shart Grumble8702 || 07/05/2015 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Most likely they decided to keep the money and just hung her...common occurrence in these parts...Lucky she was not set on fire as they do or sold to a cathouse...
Posted by: Boss Snaitle8694 || 07/05/2015 14:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Uh, uh, ALL OF HER FRIENDS OR GIRLFIRENDS' FAMILIES HAVE ONE EXCEPT HERS???

gut nuthin.

At this rate, INDIA should be discovering TUPPERWARE circa 2025-2030???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/05/2015 19:53 Comments || Top||

#4  LOL Joe, cold baby, arctic.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/05/2015 20:22 Comments || Top||

#5  I guess her parents can afford an inside toilet now.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/05/2015 21:24 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Prime Minister demands answers over Pakistan's hockey embarrassment
[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is also patron-in-chief of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), has expressed concern over the embarrassing performance of the national team in World Hockey League and its failure to qualify for 2016 Rio Olympics.
The Rawalpindi Maple Leafs had their worst showing ever.
A day after Pakistan's shock defeat to Ireland, Sharif sought explanation from the PHF and the Ministry of Inter Provincial Coordination about the dismal state of the national sport and how a three-time Olympic gold medalist had plunged so low.

The premier also asked the ministry to firm up recommendations for the uplift of the sport with an aim to regain its past glory.
Of course they lost. I looked at the pictures. How you gonna win if you don't skate?
Pakistan failed to qualify for the Olympics for the first time in their illustrious hockey history after losing to Ireland 1-0 in the 5-8 position classification match of the Hockey World League in Antwerp, Belgium on Friday.
Well, at least they still have most of their teeth.
And the Irish could hoist some pints afterwards, too...
It was another low for Greenshirts who for the first time in the game's history had failed to qualify for the World Cup last year.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  I'm sure the swimmers will reclaim the honor of the land of the pure.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/05/2015 8:13 Comments || Top||


India's push to save its cows starves Bangladesh of beef
[IN.REUTERS] Some 30,000 Indian soldiers guarding the border with Bangladesh have a new mandate under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government this year - stop cattle from crossing illegally into the Moslem-majority neighbour.

Roughly every other night, troops armed with bamboo sticks and ropes wade through jute and paddy fields and swim across ponds to chase ageing bovines, and smugglers, headed for markets in Bangladesh.

The crackdown is one of the clearest signs yet of how Indian policies, increasingly influenced by Hindu nationalist ideology, are having an economic impact on neighbouring countries as well as the sizeable Moslem minority at home.

About 2 million head of cattle are smuggled into Bangladesh annually from India. The $600 million-a-year trade has flourished over the past four decades and is considered legal by Dhaka.

Modi's government, which came to power with the help of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), wants to put an end to it.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh travelled this spring to the frontier with Bangladesh, calling on the Border Security Force (BSF) to halt cattle smuggling completely so that the "people of Bangladesh give up eating beef", media reported at the time.

"Killing or smuggling a cow is equivalent to raping a Hindu girl or destroying a Hindu temple," said Jishnu Basu, an RSS front man in West Bengal, which shares a 2,216 km (1,375 miles) border with Bangladesh.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The $600 million-a-year trade has flourished over the past four decades and is considered legal by Dhaka.

"Yeah, we stole them cows fair and square."

Am I reading this right? The Banglas are mad at the Indians for cracking down on cattle rustling AND are blaming this on Hindoo nationalism. If you are going to act like this, you might as well be East Pakistain.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/05/2015 20:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Ya see, Bessie, THIS IS WHY WE TOLD YOU TO TURN LEFT AT ALBUQURQUE - NOW LOOK WHATS HAPPENED!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/05/2015 23:14 Comments || Top||


US Army bacon found near Stonehenge
[BBC] US Army sun cream and tins of bacon are among the finds on Salisbury Plain revealed by archaeologists, to mark US Independence Day.

Wessex Archaeology, based on the plain, said various US-issued provisions had been found in recent years.

Among the finds were tins of cooking oil, bottles of sauce and "even what appeared to be a block of lard".

A group spokeswoman said: "The state of preservation of the provisions shows how well made they were."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/05/2015 15:32 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Probably had some of those on a REFORGER exercise once upon a time.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/05/2015 14:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "also a 300 yr old can of Spam."
Posted by: Frank G || 07/05/2015 15:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Time travelling Tac Bac?
Posted by: charger || 07/05/2015 15:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Naw,

Reforger was in Germany with direct staging of troops from Fort Hood to prestocked equipment.

This stuff sounds like a buried pile of WWII stuff the quartermasters did not want to inventory and send home after Hitler bit the big one.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 07/05/2015 15:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Bill ya missed the point - they were serving us WW2 vintage stuff back then
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/05/2015 16:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Wot!?! No Twinkies?!?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/05/2015 18:39 Comments || Top||

#7  D *** NG, I KNEW IT!

lol.

Lets see the ancient Brits try something wid these newfangled MRES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/05/2015 19:50 Comments || Top||

#8  It was buried in WW Deuce, but that lard was likely from the Span-Am Festivities.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/05/2015 20:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Spook ole buddy, yes they were.

We had this pool in ranger school going on some of the patrols with the winner being the person with the OLDEST C-Rats for that meal. I personally saw C-Rats that were dated to 1951 or there abouts.

My big point is that Reforger didn't go through England it was strictly a USAREUR/NATO show with the troops coming straight to the FRG.

Any US Army rations found buried near Stonehenge HAD to be from WWDuece.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 07/05/2015 21:50 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Ansar man held for 'killing colleague'
[Dhaka Tribune] Members of Bangladesh Army nabbed
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
absconding Ansar member Rafiqul Islam from Chowdhurypara of Dighinala upazila yesterday for allegedly killing his colleague.

Dighinala cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Shahadat Hossain Titu said an army patrol team from Dighinila zone arrested Rafiqul around 4pm while trying to go to Longdu in Rangamati.

Earlier, a joint team of police and army recovered an abandoned 3 not 3 rifle and 80 bullets from Amirbari in Alinagar around 11:30am.

Amir Hossain, 55, commander of Ansar post (security camp) and a resident of Panchhari upazila in the district, was rubbed out.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Siberian entrepreneurship
h/t Gates of Vienna
A group of Siberian entrepeneurs have started to produce rolls of toilet paper with the text of the European and American sanctions against Russia, decided because of the Ukrainian crisis, as a sign of support of the foreign policy of the Kremlin. The group has already sent the rolls of toilet paper to the embassies of US, Britain and Germany.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/05/2015 03:08 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's a lot easier to print on theirs. Russian toilet paper = American restroom hand drying paper rolls, but not as soft.
Posted by: Whonter Darling of the Bunions4601 || 07/05/2015 11:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Mudak moskal's ass paper like sand paper...might as well use a rasp like the ay-rabz do...
Posted by: Boss Snaitle8694 || 07/05/2015 14:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Its just like MOM = CRABAPPLE COVE!

[ALAN ALDA'S "HAWKEYE PIERCE" + M*A*S*H GANG'S BELOVED T-ROLLS here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/05/2015 20:06 Comments || Top||


Putin reportedly contacts Obama about unity on global concerns
[FOXNEWS] Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
has sent a congratulatory Fourth of July message to President B.O. and expressed confidence that their respective countries can work together on global issues including terror threats, according to news agencies.

"In his message of congratulations, the Russian President noted that, despite the differences between the two countries, Russian-American relations remain the most important factor of international stability and security," the Kremlin said in a statement, according to NBC.

The two countries, world powers and frequent rivals, have been at particular odds since the uprising in Ukraine that resulted in Russia last year annexing the country's eastern Crimea region and continuing to provide military support to government-opposition forces.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Russia outraged by Poland's removal of Soviet war memorial
Russia said on Saturday it was outraged by Poland's destruction of a Soviet war monument, warning Warsaw of the "most negative consequences" after what it said was a flagrant violation of an agreement between the two countries on protecting memorial sites.
Authorities in the western Polish town of Nowa Sol took down the brotherhood-in-arms of Polish and Red Army soldiers memorial at the end of June, reducing it to a pile of rubble.
Poland's foreign ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski told Reuters the move in Nowa Sol did not violate the agreement, which Poland believes only concerns cemeteries. Russia says it concerns all war memorials.

"Issues regarding monuments are within the competencies of relevant local authorities," Wojciechowski said.

A monument in Warsaw's Skaryszewski park commemorating Soviet soldiers who died in 1944 is regularly sprayed over with paint, despite close monitoring from the Warsaw police.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/05/2015 14:40 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...flagrant violation of an agreement between the two countries on protecting memorial sites...

That agreement wouldn't happen to have been made during the Soviet occupation of Poland, would it?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/05/2015 15:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Perhaps they could move the monument rubble to Katyn Forest?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/05/2015 15:37 Comments || Top||

#3  I recommend quietly moving it into storage for upcoming display at the Obama Presidential Library.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/05/2015 16:50 Comments || Top||


Economy
Health Insurance Companies Seek Big Rate Increases for 2016
Health insurance companies around the country are seeking rate increases of 20 percent to 40 percent or more, saying their new customers under the Affordable Care Act turned out to be sicker than expected. Federal officials say they are determined to see that the requests are scaled back.

Oregon not only approved rate increases requested by insurance companies, but also directed those companies who did not request an increase to raise their rates. The reasoning was "to cover insurers' costs and keep well-heeled companies from driving others out of the market-- thus hurting competition and rates in the long run."
Posted by: Pappy || 07/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some say the marketplaces have not attracted enough healthy young people. “As a result, millions of people will face Obamacare sticker shock,” said Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming.

Blaming reluctant youth. Nice touch. Perhaps there might be some method developed for blaming the youth for 'Global Warming' as well. Better they were never born eh ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/05/2015 2:24 Comments || Top||

#2  From the geniuses people who came up with the racket Balloon Mortgages that brought us to the financial abyss of the '08 Melt Down, behold the Balloon Healthcare program, aka Obamacare. File under - Magic Money Tree.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/05/2015 7:43 Comments || Top||

#3  oops, that was suppose to be a strike through not an italics. My bad. The sarc is deep this morning.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/05/2015 7:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Ahhh, the glories of government price fixing, Ain't fascism a wonderful thing?

I particularly like the companies have to raise their prices to help competition. I'm too old to deal with global insanity.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/05/2015 7:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Ponzi schemes always need more and more new blood coming in. Otherwise it needs to take more from the old blood.

Its not as if this wasn't predicted from the start.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/05/2015 10:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Rename obamacare - forced extortion.
Posted by: newc || 07/05/2015 13:10 Comments || Top||

#7  That was the problem with Obamacare in the beginning.

The uninsured that Obamacare wanted to save, were mostly young healthy citizens who did not perceive a need for insurance.

When you look at the piles of stuff in the mandatory package, contraception, abortion, pediatric, geriatric, ob-gyn(even for males), Obamacare is a tax and a Ponzi scheme all in one.

The healthy who are forced to purchase care pay for the care of the unhealthy.

The unhealthy are the only ones who have an incentive to sign up for Obamacare.

That and the fact the fine print in Obamacare make it a grand payoff to the insurance industry for their support of Obama in two elections. Much as the stimulus was a payoff to the banks and wall street who donated millions to Obama knowing he would make them all rich with the stimulus.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 07/05/2015 16:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Sounds like it is time for 'the states' to step in. Or 'the state'.

FORWARD to the Detroitifcation of America!
Posted by: Airandee || 07/05/2015 18:30 Comments || Top||


Europe
Russia Protests War Memorial Removal In Poland
[RFE] Moscow has warned Warsaw of the "most negative consequences" after a town in western Poland tore down a Soviet war monument.

Authorities in the western Polish town of Nowa Sol took down a monument dedicated to the brotherhood-in-arms of Polish and Red Army soldiers at the end of June, reducing it to a pile of rubble.
I think I can figure out why the townsfolk did that...
Wadim Tyszkiewicz, Nowa Sol's mayor, said in a Facebook posting that "the monument was large, ugly, always dirty with rust leaking out of the abyss of its emptiness, like blood or tears."
Plus it was historically inaccurate...
In a statement on July 4, Russia's Foreign Ministry described the Polish action as an "unfriendly move" and a "direct and flagrant" violation of a 1994 agreement between Poland and the Russian Federation on memorial sites.

A Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman told Reuters that the 1994 agreement only covered cemeteries.

Relations between Warsaw and Moscow are already strained over the conflict in Ukraine.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/05/2015 09:48 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I commented on the dupe post:
Perhaps they could move the monument rubble to Katyn Forest?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/05/2015 16:09 Comments || Top||


Europe won't let Athens go under, says Greek minister
[IN.REUTERS] Greece's finance minister accused creditors of trying to "terrorise" Greeks into accepting austerity, warning Europe stood to lose as much as Athens if the country is forced out of the euro after a referendum on Sunday on bailout terms.

After a week in which Greece defaulted, shuttered its banks and began rationing cash, Greeks vote on Sunday on whether to accept or reject tough conditions sought by international creditors to extend a lending lifeline that has kept the debt-stricken country afloat.

The left-wing government is urging a 'No' vote, saying Greece's European partners are bluffing when they warn that would mean a Greek departure from Europe's single currency, with unforeseeable consequences for Greece, Europe and the global economy.

Opinion polls on Friday gave the 'Yes' camp, which favours accepting the bailout terms, a slender lead but all were within the margin of error and pollsters said the vote was too close to call.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Europe won't let Athens go under, says Greek minister

You hope.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/05/2015 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Europe gave little ole Greece a 260 billion dollar bailout a few years ago and now Greece is in worse shape.

I only feel bad for the non-socialists dragged down with the stupid.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/05/2015 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Socialist can't fathom anything else but what they want to believe. For some reason it always ends up 'unexpected'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/05/2015 7:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Europe gave little ole Greece the banks a 260 billion dollar bailout a few years ago and now Greece is in worse shape.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/05/2015 12:46 Comments || Top||

#5  But you sure make them want to hold your head under water until you shut your self important mouths.

You are Greece. 10 Million people that squandered billions on bullshit. You are not important.

China on the other hand, That is important.

Take some lumps and STFU Greece
Posted by: newc || 07/05/2015 13:02 Comments || Top||

#6  This almost makes me miss our old pal Aris...
Posted by: Raj || 07/05/2015 13:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Looks like the nays have it.

Pollsters wrong, again.
Posted by: Raj || 07/05/2015 14:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Raj, those commenters are hilarious.

"Fuck the bankers"!! "Debts are odious!!" "Grow your own food!!"

Hope they try all those things. I'll chuckle while they starve to death pleading for more handouts.

Is Stupidity one of the four horseman?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/05/2015 16:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Tipping point achieved. Romney's 49 percent 'Greek' crowd.

I suppose it would be too much to ask that government analysts, thinkers, decision makers, 'top men' in Washington might be watching and analyzing outcomes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/05/2015 16:57 Comments || Top||

#10  AK, AK, AK.
What do you say?

3 gets you 13, Aris is home on mother Britain.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/05/2015 20:27 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Ramadan leads to dehydration in Pakistani heat wave
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  it was hot during Ramadan in other countries also

is Pakistan the only place where large numbers of people actually abstained from drinking water?
Posted by: lord garth || 07/05/2015 19:26 Comments || Top||



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