Saudi getting stranger: https://youtu.be/yRdHlFv8qPg?si=etmJoAQOiXC3wlVQ
3dc- 06/03/2024 19:57
Whew! I am now caught up on Rudaw articles since the last time I posted any from that site.
trailing wife- 06/02/2024 22:16
About P.49: I generally only use it when the article is longer than 700 words the key searchable terms are in the first three paragraphs.
trailing wife- 06/01/2024 23:31
The dud are gone now.
Fred- 06/01/2024 15:17
It most definitely was, Frank G, if quiet.
Fred, in Hoover there are apparently two articles without headlines. When you have a moment, would you delete them, please? Unfortunately, in Poster I can see the untitled things at the top of the list, but I have no way of finding them I when I open Hoover. Even less important, Hoover’s X-delete was not reconnected — but I can insert articles to Poster and delete them there. As long as I have a workaround, I’m content.
trailing wife- 05/30/2024 15:20
Blessed Memorial Day to all
Frank G- 05/27/2024 19:14
I assume you make the o-club.org URL redirect to http://wheelus.1dogstar.net , when it should redirect to https://wheelus.1dogstar.net
badanov- 05/26/2024 23:34
…and continuing to fix whatever is repeatedly causing the Postgres issue.
trailing wife- 05/22/2024 00:05
Thank you for fixing that, badanov.
You did exactly what I would have done, Frank.
trailing wife- 05/21/2024 23:12
Fred:
Had to restart the servers several times over the last hour. Appears now to be stable.
badanov- 05/21/2024 22:46
Moved a couple late posts to tomorrow
Frank G- 05/21/2024 19:08
Fred:
Web and DB servers restarted.
badanov- 05/21/2024 12:28
Taipei and Shanghai are Sister Cities! It started with sharing Dragon Boat races.
Several of my wife's cousins who are retired Taiwan generals just visited China with no problems at all.
3dc- 05/20/2024 03:22
badanov: your headline here has been superseded by a tweet. Please add it back — with link — above the article proper. Thanks!
trailing wife- 05/20/2024 00:10
Welcome, Frank!
trailing wife- 05/19/2024 23:30
Didn't even know there was a chat component here
Frank G- 05/19/2024 17:26
badanov, the second LB article here is missing its URL.
trailing wife- 05/16/2024 19:58
I figured you were doing something clever that I wasn’t, Fred. Thank you for fixing it for me.
trailing wife- 05/12/2024 22:58
Fixed it. I use he bookmark so I didn't notice the logic error.
Fred- 05/12/2024 21:59
Fred, how are you getting articles into the Hoover queue? I can work on them there, but at the top I see only the Refresh button — no Add button visible. I’ve been working up the body of the articles in Hoover, then copy/pasting them into Rantburg.com’s Post Your Own Article to drop them into Poster.
trailing wife- 05/11/2024 23:41
Very nice
badanov- 05/11/2024 05:04
Wife was chatting in Taipei with some old college classmates.. (wimmin) 2 are planing a train trip, later this year, from Peking to St Petersburg....
3dc- 05/11/2024 04:11
I admire your fortitude and your patience.
Here, let me put on a nice, newly acquired Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 dvd in the dvd player for your relaxation.
badanov- 05/11/2024 03:32
Or three. Mr. Wife is spending the weekend helping his mother settle into her new house near his sister up north in NY State, my mother is having a small relapse after improving shockingly simce we brought her home in February, and my sister, bless her heart in a southren belle manner, chose these last few days to make me angrier than I’ve ever been in my entire life. It’s been two decades since the only other time she pulled something like this, so apparently we’re both coming to terms with it.
Clearly the emergent result of all that is effecting my ability to spell. Enjoy it while it lasts, gentlemen. ;-)
trailing wife- 05/11/2024 02:30
Ther cheers for Panama!
trailing wife- 05/11/2024 02:19
[Breitbart] Convicted child molester and former Team USA Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar arranged for protection in prison by paying gangsters with cash and “sexual favors,” according to an inmate.
In an interview with the New York Post, Grace Pinson, an inmate who did time with Nassar at a federal penitentiary in Florida, says that around June of 2021, he witnessed Nassar entering a prison cell with Mexican gang members. According to Pinson, the cell had its door shut and windows covered, a sign that the inmates were either doing drugs, having sex, or both.
“It was definitely not for drugs,” Pinson asserted.
Pinson described Nassar as a “scared little church mouse” who never left his housing unit except to visit the chapel.
In the chapel, Pinson conversed with Nassar.
“He wished he didn’t need those guys,” Pinson said of his conversation with Nassar. “In some ways, what they expected of him was worse than the idea of being stabbed and killed.”
The protection arrangement definitely malfunctioned in July of 2023 after Nassar was nearly stabbed to death by another inmate for talking about how he enjoyed ogling female tennis players.
Nassar has been transferred from his original federal penitentiary in Florida to a new federal prison in Pennsylvania.
During his multiple decades as Team USA Gymnastics’ doctor, Nassar sexually abused over 250 girls. After a lengthy trial following a bungled FBI investigation, Nassar was sentenced to multiple hundreds of years in prison.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]… and using the cash to buy diamond rings and a Rolls Royce.
The former assistant city attorney of Atlanta, who was also a life advice podcaster, has been jailed for seven years after fraudulently obtaining approximately $15 million in COVID relief loans.
Shelitha Robertson, 62, used the illegally gained funds to splash out on luxuries such as a 10 carat diamond ring, a Rolls Royce and a motorbike.
The former police officer had obtained the money under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a federal stimulus program that was set up during the pandemic.
But only weeks before she was imprisoned, Robertson was still gleefully appearing on her daughter's 'Mommy & Me' podcast in which the pair would give their advice on dealing with the world - including advising listeners on how to earn money though hard work and 'integrity'.
But Robertson didn't follow her own advice and decided to make her money through deception, submitting one false loan application after another to the COVID relief scheme claiming she needed the cash to support four businesses she owned.
What she said in the loan documents was extraordinary, claiming she had a workforce of more than 400, meaning she was entitled to millions of dollars in handouts for each of the companies she claimed to run.
The DOJ also said she transferred funds to a co-conspirator, Chandra Norton, and other family members.
The pair had no such qualms about abusing such a scheme, even submitting false tax documents to back up their inflated income statements within each loan application.
A jury convicted Robertson of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, with the judge sentencing her to seven years and three months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
Robertson will be almost 70 by the time she's released from prison, leaving her influencer daughter Brii, who has over 600,000 Instagram followers, without a podcast partner.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]…children sex-change services and has hosted events on 'bigger d*** energy'
The Mazzoni Center in Philadelphia provides gender reassignment treatment to minors and has sponsored multiple events for transgender youth - and Democrat Senator Bob Casey just secured them a massive allotment of cash.
The senior senator from Pennsylvania secured $400,000 in taxpayer funds for the Mazzoni center in the fiscal year 2024 spending package.
The nonprofit also hosts the annual Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference, which has hosted panels on 'Bigger D*** Energy: Life After Masculinizing,' 'The Ins and Outs of Masturbation Sleeves,' and 'The Adolescent Pathway: Preparing Young People for Gender-Affirming Care.'
'Today, Senator Bob Casey announced with Mazzoni Center leadership a $400K congressional appropriation for building upgrades, including a building generator to protect refrigerated pharmaceuticals and vaccines,' the group posted on social media Thursday.
The center is known to provide puberty blockers and hormone therapy for patients, including kids.
It also provides testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI's), counseling and health education.
In addition to providing treatment at the center, the group also connects patients to surgeons who can perform sex-change procedures. In Pennsylvania, these surgeries on minors are legal.
The annual Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference hosted by the group has sparked controversy in the past and in 2017 canceled an events on de-transitioning.
The 'Alternate ways of working with gender dysphoria' and 'Detransition: A panel discussion' were both canceled because, the group wrote at the time, 'when a topic becomes controversial, such as this one has turned on social media, there is a duty to make sure that the debate does not get out of control at the conference itself.'
'This was detracting from our overall mission of the conference, to provide an accessible and respectful environment that centers the experiences of the transgender and gender non-conforming/non-binary (GNC/NB) community,' the post continued.
In March, Casey withdrew his request for a $1 million allocation for another Pennsylvania-based LGTB group - the William Way LGBT Community Center - over its controversial ties to kink and BDSM parties.
'Senator Casey has been a leader and ally in the fight to protect LGBTQ rights in the U.S. Senate and will continue to support the LGBTQ community in the Commonwealth,' a spokesperson for the Democrat said at the time following the request withdrawal.
'He believes that consenting adults have the right to do whatever they want in their free time, but these types of appropriations projects warrant the highest level of scrutiny on behalf of taxpayers.'
Senator Casey withdrew his request for federal funding when new information about the third-party use of the facility emerged.'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …from home' to 'disrespect'
The Taliban held a horror mass flogging for 63 people at a sport stadium for offences ranging from 'fleeing from home' to 'disrespect'.
The disturbing punishment event was held on Tuesday in Sar-e-Pul, northern Afghanistan and saw 48 men and 15 women lashed between 15 to 39 times.
In addition to the sickening physical abuse, some victims were locally reported to have also received prison sentences lasting between six months and five years for their crimes.
According to Voice of America, the group was the largest known since 2021 to receive public floggings in a Taliban event.
Local media reported that locals shockingly approved of the lashings, with one resident telling Tolo News: 'Young people will learn a lesson from the crimes they committed, and this will result in a decrease in crime and criminal activities'.
It also added that according to Sar-e-Pul officials, the individuals who received the harsh and brutal punishment were arrested by security forces for committing crimes including 'fleeing from home, armed robbery, adultery, sodomy, and disrespect'.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), which has attempted to maintain relations with the Taliban, condemned the event on Wednesday, along with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR).
'We are deeply disturbed by the widespread, continued use of corporal punishment in Afghanistan,' UN Human Rights spokesperson Jeremy Laurence said in a statement.
The use of a sport stadium to host the chilling event is not an unheard of for the Taliban, after the terrorist organisation convicted a man of murder and allowed the brother of the alleged victim to kill the convicted man before the eyes of a stadium full of spectators in February.
'The man was shot five times with a rifle by the victim's brother, according to an anonymous witness,' Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported at the time.
A month before, nine men were publicly flogged up to 39 times each by the Taliban in front of a packed football stadium.
The draconian punishments were handed out in the Ahmad Shahi Stadium in Kandahar by the Islamist regime.
Hundreds gathered to watch the brutal sentences being administered, with some even climbing up trees for a good view of the proceedings.
The recent flogging comes just three months after the Taliban announced it will soon start stoning women to death in public.
Addressing Western officials in a voice message broadcast on state TV, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the radical group's Supreme Leader, called the Western human rights defenders 'representatives of the devil'.
'You say it's a violation of women's rights when we stone them to death. But we will soon implement the punishment for adultery,' he told the West in his harshest comments since taking over Afghanistan in 2021.
'We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public,' he announced.
'These are all against your democracy but we will continue doing it.
'We both say we defend human rights – we do it as God's representative and you as the devil's,' he added.
The Taliban, despite initial promises of a more moderate rule, began carrying out severe punishments in public shortly after coming to power.
The punishments are similar to those during their previous rule of Afghanistan in the late 1990s.
The Taliban regained power in August 2021, following the collapse of the internationally supported government and the withdrawal of all US and UK-led Western troops after nearly 20 years of involvement in the Afghan war.
[ZERO] Following a historic loss to Marine Le Pen’s right-wing party in European elections on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he is dissolving the French parliament.
Macron said France will hold new elections on June 30 and July 7, a high-stakes maneuver that the WSJ said "stunned" the nation after projections based on early ballot counts came in for Sunday’s elections for the European Parliament. The projections showed National Rally garnering around 31% of the vote, twice the support for Macron’s Renew Party.
[ZERO] Following a historic loss to Marine Le Pen’s right-wing party in European elections on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he is dissolving the French parliament.
Macron said France will hold new elections on June 30 and July 7, a high-stakes maneuver that the WSJ said "stunned" the nation after projections based on early ballot counts came in for Sunday’s elections for the European Parliament. The projections showed National Rally garnering around 31% of the vote, twice the support for Macron’s Renew Party.