Bush was right, they do come here for love.
[DallasNews] A Dallas man was arrested last week after police say he parked illegally near Trinity Groves and then introduced the arresting officer to his 15-year-old wife.
Jose Nahun Lopez-Cruz, 24, assured the cop, "It's OK, she is gonna be 16 soon," police records say.
It wasn't OK, and Lopez-Cruz was booked Sunday into the Dallas County jail, charged with sexual assault of a child.
Lopez was charged with the sex crime and drug possession. He's also suspected of being in the country illegally.
He remains in the Dallas County Jail with bail set at $25,500.
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To be fair, he lied about the wife bit. From the article, which needs to be read in its entirety for the enormity of his itter unfittingness to be north of the border to be properly appreciated:
Under further questioning with a translator present, the girl told investigators that she and Lopez-Cruz were dating and had been living together for two months
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to provide perspective, it was only within the past few years that Hawai'i raised the age of consent all the way up to 16... accompanied by much wailing and gnashing of teeth from certain local communities who claimed cultural imperialism was at work.
[AsiaTimes] Loansharks asking for incriminating photos or videos of students and threaten to make them public if money is not repaid.
Loansharks have been arrested in China after asking students to give them naked videos and photos of themselves as collateral on the money they borrowed.
The loansharks then threatened to post the incriminating photos and videos online if the money was not repaid. They targeted cash-strapped college students and charged them exorbitant interest.
The public security bureau in Shenzhen recently busted a syndicate which at its peak had ripped off more than 300 victims across the nation. Most were college students who spent the borrowed money on gambling, electronic gadgets and cosmetics. One woman reportedly ended up owing more than one million yuan (US$147,200).
[ABC7ny] PLAISTOW, New Hampshire -- A man who stripped naked before working out at a New Hampshire gym told police officers that he thought he was in a "Judgement Free Zone," before being arrested.
NECN reports 34-year-old Eric Stagno, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was charged with indecent exposure, lewdness and disorderly conduct on Sunday for taking off his clothes and exercising at a Plaistow Planet Fitness.
Police say he walked back and forth and started doing poses on a yoga mat. He allegedly referenced Planet Fitness' slogan that it is a "Judgement Free Zone."
Stagno is free on bail and is scheduled to be arraigned on Sept. 21 in Plaistow District Court.
Stagno could not be reached for comment, and his attorney could not be immediately identified.
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I was working out at the gym ( no, really!) when a very attractive young woman came in. I asked the trainer which machine I should use to impress her. He said, "Th ATM machine in the lobby".
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Haverhill
A battle-ax yelps from Pentucket,
"This savage's scalp? Yes, I took it."
The Puritan captive
From Haverhill, adaptive
Survivor, sez, "Snowflakes, go suck it!"
Apologies to Indian 'Burgers. Story's holier than an old broken bucket.
[ClearanceJobs.com] Our own 'Anomalous Sources' posted a ClearanceJobs.com piece late yesterday which provides a fairly definitive 'rules of the road' regarding the investigations, suspensions, and revocations of US Government Security Clearances. The article sites Executive Order (EO) 12968 and Executive Order (EO) 10865 as the governing process.
Hat tip to 'Anomalous Sources' for this informative contribution.
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Meanwhile, down in IT, when people quit, fired, or leave, by SOP you immediately suspend their access to the systems, escort them to their desk to collect personal item, then escort to HR for outprocessing, then to the door. Otherwise, you get what you deserve trying to clean the predicable mess afterwards. As the cops says putting the cuffs on you, 'This is for your and my protection'.
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1) You should see some of his draft pictures back in 2000 - 2001; amazed he was drafted at all.
2) The same yahoos that are 'shaming' Tom will be rubbing his balls by October when they go 4-0.
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TW_ will you send an email to my wife stating that?
Dear Mrs. Mercutio,
Your husband is always a perfect gentleman when he visits Rantburg. Were he ever to have acted otherwise, I was long ago given a lovely cluebat (decorated with the most charming periwinkle ribbons to match my highlight colour) with which to drive out those who misbehave. I should be delighted if you would join me for tea one day, and see for yourself.
And she is not afraid to use it when she feels it is necessary. She also has a periwinkle flamethrower, too, which she uses quite expertly. If your husband has never shown up at home black and blue and/or missing his eyebrows, please take that as a good sign.
Back in college, in a game of D&D, one of the players said, "Wait, what's the amulet of immortality doing in a tomb?"
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We just assume immortality means the living body lives on, could be the amulet allows the brain to lives on after death, leaving the corpse dreaming but unable to move forever.
[NYP] A federal judge in Virginia agreed Monday to grant immunity to five potential witnesses in Paul Manafort’s upcoming trial ‐ but, in a blow to special counsel Robert Mueller, said their identities would be made public.
Mueller’s team wanted the identities of their witnesses to remain confidential, saying in a filing last week that they haven’t been criminally charged and not naming them would avoid "undue harassment."
But Judge T.S. Ellis, a Ronald Reagan appointee, said they would be identified.
He also ordered Mueller’s office to provide a list of about 30 witnesses to Manafort’s lawyers.
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Immunized and Anonymous isn't what Justice is - it's a Star Chamber/Kangaroo Court, asshole. Is there any bigger sign this is a political hit job by Mueller?
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Anonymous Witnesses ... "Okhrana witnesses say you are guilty! Then Off to Siberia!"
These are key PLA officers responsible for preparing for use of force against Taiwan (and, by extension, the US). From 2011-2015, MG Yin Hongwen (尹洪文) led Base 311, a political warfare command HQ'd in Fuzhou. He Ping and Yang Hui previously served in senior intel positions. pic.twitter.com/hu7clC7UFx
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Curious that we've seen muslim terror events against the US in many parts of the world but not really any secondary effect attacks on satellite states.
Why has Taiwan(Formosa) not been victimized by Chinese Muslims(Hui or Uyghur) as a statement against the US?
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they can attempt to dilute the advantages that nuclear weapons confer—advantages which would otherwise accrue to a set of states that did not wish them well
[BBC] A day before Pakistan's 11th national election, the country's dream of undiluted democracy appears to be receding - again.
In its 70-year history, Pakistan has alternated between quasi-democracy and pure military rule. In the process it has become embroiled in international conflicts and morphed into a home base for Islamist militancy.
Over the past decade, Pakistanis have witnessed democracy at its most undiluted thus far, but it's now under threat from what some say appears to be a "democratic coup" of sorts.
And just as in the past, the country's powerful military establishment remains the chief suspect behind the fresh round of political manipulation.
In the past, the military used to either stage a direct coup or use special powers to sack an elected government and then manipulate elections to ensure it wasn't re-elected.
In 2008, those special powers were done away with, leading to a first in 2013: an elected government completing its five-year term.
[DAWN] Additional district coordinator for the national programme, Shama Gulani and four other government employees, Khalid Zahoor Baig, Arbab Zadi, Kalsoom and Jamna, were arrested after they were booked on the allegations of marking postal ballot in favour of a Pakistan Peoples Party candidate on Sunday.
The FIR was registered at the Shahdadpur police station on the complaint of the mukhtiarkar concerned.
The Sanghar deputy commissioner had held an inquiry on Tuesday into the allegations made by an independent candidate Hussain Bux Khaskheli, who had claimed that the suspects had marked the postal ballot papers of government employees at Shahdadpur Institute of medical sciences. He submitted certain evidence to substantiate his claim.
Meanwhile, in the wake of the alleged misappropriation and destruction of postal ballot papers in Khipro, the district returning officer concerned on Sunday suspended two court employees.
Ghulam Murtaza Channa, the reader at the court of the additional sessions judge of Khipro, and Muneer Tehlani, a clerk at the same court, were suspended over alleged misappropriation of the postal ballot papers pertaining to NA-216 Sanghar-II.
While an inquiry into the matter was underway, the returning officer concerned has claimed that he had issued 930 ballot papers, and not close to 1,200 as was alleged. He said he possessed complete record of the ballot papers he had issued so far.
Similar complaints were received from the Jam Nawaz Ali area and an inquiry was reported to have been ordered.
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[DAWN] A mob lynched a woman in India after rumours circulated on WhatsApp about child kidnappers, police said on Monday, days after the messaging firm said it was curbing the forwarding of messages.
More than 20 people have been killed in similar incidents in the past two months, leaving both the Indian authorities and Facebook-owned WhatsApp scrambling to find a solution in its biggest market.
Police said nine people have been tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and more are being sought after they found the middle-aged woman's mutilated body near a forest area in the Singrauli district of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday.
The accused men told police they caught hold of the woman late Saturday after finding her moving suspiciously and seeing a flurry of WhatsApp messages about gangs of child kidnappers in the area, local police chief Riyaz Iqbal told AFP.
"We are trying to identify the victim and have circulated her picture to all the cop shoppes," Singrauli police chief Riyaz Iqbal told AFP.
Last Thursday the Indian government threatened WhatsApp with legal action, saying the "medium" for spreading malicious rumours "cannot evade responsibility and accountability".
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[DAWN] Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police on Monday booked a presiding officer over charges of impersonation, forgery and cheating on the orders of a judge of City Courts, said City Zone SSP Dr Samiullah Soomro.
Police have invoked Sections 419, 420, 468, 471 and 34 of the Pakistain Penal Code against DMC West Zone official Waheedullah, who was appointed as the presiding officer of PS-93 and PS-95 in Korangi district.
Sharing details of the case, SSP Soomro said that Waheedullah did not appear for his election training and instead sent someone else in his place.
Another polling officer present there brought the matter to the judge’s notice, upon which the judge called Waheedullah and informed police about the matter.
Subsequently, police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Waheedullah over charges of impersonation, forgery and cheating.
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[DAWN] A retired soldier allegedly shot and killed six people and injured six others ’out of frustration’ before taking his own life in Talagang tehsil of Chakwal district, Dawn reported.
The incident happened in the Darot village of Talagang tehsil on Monday evening when 50-year-old Mohammad Saeed opened indiscriminate fire on people near his house.
District Police Officer Adil Memon told Dawn that Saeed was a retired soldier who had married four times. He had divorced his first three wives and was in the midst of a civil litigation with a former wife who filed a maintenance suit in Attock after getting divorced. Memon said Saeed was depressed because of the ongoing litigation.
"Saeed did not have any animosity with anyone and carried out the shooting out of frustration," the police official said.
According to police and eyewitnesses, Saeed opened indiscriminate fire at people sitting in front of shops and a hotel at a local market near his home. Resultantly, six people went titzup while another six were maimed. Saeed then shot himself.
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Because killing others when your life doesn't play out the way you wanted it to do is such a MATURE ADULT response.
[AlAhram] More than half of Germans think Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... can defend itself without military backing from the United States, a poll showed on Monday,
...quitting NATO makes sense in that scenario. But against whom might they be defending?
less than two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said he could withdraw support. Only 37 percent of respondents said they believed Europe depended on U.S. military help, the Forsa poll showed.
The survey found no significant difference between eastern German regions and western areas, which have stronger historical ties to the United States. In the east, 60 percent thought Europe did not need Washington, and in the west, 55 percent.
Trump gave an ultimatum to European allies on July 12, warning a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... summit the United States could withdraw its support if Europe did not share more of what he called an unfair burden on U.S. taxpayers in funding the alliance.
In a rebuke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. , he also called Germany a "captive" of Moscow because, he said, Berlin supported a Baltic Sea gas pipeline from Russia.
About 84 percent of respondents said Trump's comments about Russia controlling Germany were "completely absurd", according to the poll which surveyed 1,004 Germans.
Even more - 92 percent - said they suspected that Trump's motive for making the comments was primarily to promote the sale of U.S. liquefied gas in Europe and Germany.
Two thirds said they supported the construction of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline because it would help provide Germany with a more reliable supply of natural gas.
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Good news, good news. More support for us to get the hell out of there. Close the bases and bring the troops home. Europeans can well afford to defend themselves.
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I'd say move a good chunk of them to Poland and bring the rest back to be deployed somewhere on the US / Mexican border with shoot to kill orders.
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Even more - 92 percent - said they suspected that Trump's motive for making the comments was primarily to promote the sale of U.S. liquefied gas in Europe and Germany.
We'd rather burn it at home. Better yet, ban the import of German cars and aircraft and they won't need so much Russian gas.
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We should make it clear to the people of Germany that in making this critical choice they understand that the people and nation of the USA will never pick up their pieces when they fuck it up again like they always do.
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Not to Poland, to the southern border. Why are we worried about thousands of miles away, when the first mile of our own territory is breached?
...quitting NATO makes sense in that scenario. But against whom might they be defending?
The Poles? I recall a Polish army reaching Vienna to deal with another Islamic invasion (BTW, seems the Bavarians and Austrians were in that one too dealing with the pillagers, looters and the like).
#11
Lessee... this would be the Bundeswehr? The German national army that had troops drilling with sticks a while back because they didn't have enough rifles? Of course, the sticks WERE painted black... that's gotta count for something.
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Can definitely see Germany and Russia divvying up Europe again and with the same tragic consequences.
German society is no longer in a conquering mindset — look at the current shortage of men and women willing to put on the uniform. Should the current invasion of Germany be successful, that will be a different story, but Russia would not be conniving to divide the continent with a caliphate. Russia would be allying with Poland and America to reconquer it.
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It's a BS question. Defend itself against what exactly?
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If what is not known then there is no reason for them to be in something like NATO because they obvious miss totally Mattis's point of: “be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet"
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See? Exactly. No enemies about. No enemies means you don't need a military. It's win-win for everyone!
USA out of NATO. Bring the troops home. Not to Poland, not to the Middle East. Home. Spend the savings on our own people, who badly need it.
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I'm serious. Should we expect a Russian invasion of Poland, with a march to the Rhine? Highly unlikely. Which means that NATO needs to redefine itself. The Russian threat is slow destabilization of Europe, not an open attack. The weapons against this are not the same.
NATO is much more likely to be a fast and mean intervention force to counter threats wherever they may arise. Much more likely North Africa and the Middle East.
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Threats in North Africa and the Middle East? What threats? Those aren't threats. Those are meddling opportunities.
NATO was formed to deal with Russia. Russia isn't a threat any more, get rid of NATO. End of story. Close the bases, bring the troops home, spend the money on ourselves instead. Why should we be paying for the defense of people who refuse to pay for themselves?
Oh, I get it. The Middle East and North Africa are threats to Europe, which need to be paid for by America. Yeah, fuck that noise. Pay for it yourselves, you ungrateful jerks.
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Really. Then why did the US invoke Chapter 5 in 2001? Why are German troops in Afghanistan? Defending Germany?
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If you let enemy #1 into your borders, give them big checks to live on and tolerate it when they rape your people defense; and by the bulk of your energy from enemy #2, it may be a bit too late anyway.
The real question is will we allow German refugees in when the time comes. I'm Kind of thinking if it gets to that, that they had their chance and Darwin selected them out.
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First of all, the German troops in Afghanistan have such restricted ROE as to be useless.
Second, we shouldn't be in Afghanistan at all. Trump tried to pull us out only to be blocked by the military industrial complex, which doesn't want their profitable war to stop.
Third, that's whataboutism that does not address the inexplicable American subsidies for wealthy First World nations.
Pay for your own defense. You can easily afford it.
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#18 I'm serious. Should we expect a Russian invasion of Poland, with a march to the Rhine?
[MedicalNewsToday] Whether or not a divine power truly does exist might be a matter of opinion, but the neurophysiological effects of religious belief are scientific facts that can be accurately measured. Here, we take a look at some of these effects, as shown by the latest research.
Whether you are a staunch atheist, a reserved agnostic, or a devout believer, you are equally likely to find the effects of religion on human brains astonishing.
Religious belief can increase our lifespan and help us better cope with disease.
So what religions did the subjects in their test group subscribe to? Did the results apply to all tested religions the same?
And, research in the field of "neurotheology" ‐ or the neuroscience of theological belief ‐ has made some surprising discoveries that are bound to change how we think about spirituality.
For instance, some scientists suggest that religious experience activates the same brain circuits as sex and drugs.
Other research has suggested that damage to a certain brain region can make you feel as though someone's in the room when nobody's there. Such findings have intriguing implications for how religion affects health, and vice-versa.
Also, do the neurobiological underpinnings of religious experience mean that it could be artificially recreated? If a divine experience proves to be biologically predetermined, does having the right scientific information enable us to create the illusion of a god?
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Whether you are a staunch atheist, a reserved agnostic, or a devout believer, you are equally likely to find the effects of religion on human brains astonishing.
h/t Instapundit
The Environmental Protection Agency under former Administrator Scott Pruitt led the administration’s successful war on regulations, slashing enough to produce $350 million in savings and eliminate 300,000 hours of paperwork.
h/t Gates of Vienna
[Breitbart] A new program from the American Association of University Professors called "One Faculty, One Resistance," seeks to shut down campus free speech legislation that is designed to prevent the censorship of invited speakers on public campuses.
"’Campus free-speech’ bills actually seek to suppress speech by creating a litigious environment and imposing minimum penalties on protesters," the group wrote in a bizarre document about new campus free speech laws.
The group is transparent in their anti-free speech stance. They write that they are concerned about new state laws that punish students who shut down guest speaker events. In some states, students could face expulsion or suspension up to one year for interfering with the free expression of others. If only all these students actually had to study...
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Disagree. Those born in lower classes can be smart, even brilliant. Why waste their intellectual talents because their parents can't afford to send them to college?
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The profs are right, their insane desire to suppress freedom should be punished by the government. I'm sure Russia would happily put them in a Gulag for a small cash payment.
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.
Loansharks asking for incriminating photos or videos of students and threaten to make them public if money is not repaid.
[NYP] A federal judge in Virginia agreed Monday to grant immunity to five potential witnesses in Paul Manafort’s upcoming trial ‐ but, in a blow to special counsel Robert Mueller, said their identities would be made public.
North Korea appears to have begun dismantling part of a key rocket launch site in the country's north-west.
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
