[Liberty News] After nearly eight years of the East Wing’s politics of mope and complain, it’s refreshing to see a presidential candidate’s spouse who is always smiling.
Candy Carson — wife of GOP 2016 hopeful Dr. Ben Carson, mother of three sons, and grandmother of two — is the anti-Michelle Obama. She’s a quiet but confident ray of sunshine: down-to-earth, devoutly Christian and proudly patriotic. 'Refreshing' indeed. More please, much, much more.
Insh'Allah.......as it is said in the region.
A powerful storm in Mecca knocked down a crane at Saudi Arabia's Grand Mosque Friday, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television network reported‐and the Saudi Civil Defense authority says 62 people are dead.
The Saudi Civil Defense authority confirmed the accident in a Twitter post, saying 62 people died and 30 were wounded, Reuters reported.
Photos on social media showed shocked pilgrims in bloodied robes, and debris from part of a crane that looks like it crashed through a ceiling.
Authorities in Mecca have been preparing for the millions of faithful making the annual Muslim Haj pilgrimage there later this month. Pics at the link. A big crane boom poking through the building.
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The construction giant Saudi Binladin Group is leading the mosque expansion. The Binladin family has been close to Saudi Arabia’s rulers for decades and oversees major building projects around the country.
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M.Murcek, you called it. Bin Laden is the lead contractor for the El Grande Mosk project, and owned the crane.
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You are right - polite company would willingly, sheepishly, and actively avoid noticing that pre-hajj a lightning bolt struck a bin laden crane on 9/11 causing the crane to crash into and crack open the grande mosque, and to add insult the videos taken inside the wreckage have allowed any infidel like myself to see inside the privy of privies.
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I need more popcorn. And not the sissy microwave stuff, popcorn cooked in oil. Topped with real butter and salt. Mixed with bacon flavored pork rinds!
Oh and how many hours til they start blaming the jews for it? Cause you know, the Saudi Royal Family (So hard to type with a straight face) is full of secret jews!
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When Mr. Wife was doing that six month factory start-up in Cairo (around month five they realized they hadn't ordered his raw materials yet; once that was taken care of, things proceeded right smartly apace), his taxi took him every day along the main thoroughfare, the one with the grassy median on which was a series of unmortered cement block huts in which people lived. Periodically on his drives between the Mena House hotel and the factory he would notice people building a new hut. Then one time he realized that the new hut was being built from an old one that had collapsed, killing the inhabitants within.
In the Third World things collapse that could have been prevented with a little care, killing people.
The Muslims say that Allah creates the universe anew each moment, changing it at his whim. So if the crane fell and people were wounded and killed... Insh' allah. It was God's will.
[The Telegraph] Labour's shadow justice secretary unexpectedly beats Tessa Jowell, the former New Labour minister, with almost 60 per cent of the vote.
Sadiq Khan, Labour's shadow justice secretary, has won the party's nomination to run for London Mayor in next year's election. The Tooting MP beat Tessa Jowell, the former Labour minister and race favourite, by winning 59 per cent of the vote in the final round.
His unexpected victory was credited to the same Left-wing surge among London voters that helped Jeremy Corbyn become the favourite to take the party leadership on Saturday.
Mr Kahn won 48,152 votes -- 58.9 per cent of the total - to Ms Jowell's 33,573 after the other candidates had been knocked out of the race. Labour MPs David Lammy, Diane Abbott and Gareth Thomas fell in the early rounds of the contest, which is run under an alternative vote system.
Mr Kahn praised those who had backed him after the result, saying: "You are the lifeblood of our movement and the reason I am so confident we will win next May." He pledged to keep alive his supporters' "ideas and energy" in the campaign ahead and said it was only thanks to the opportunities he had as a child that he could run to become mayor.
"Looking to the future, our burning ambition must be that all Londoners have the same opportunities," he said, adding that winning the nomination was humbling.
The election for the new London Mayor will be held next May, with Boris Johnson stepping down after two terms in the post. Considering what we have in the WH, perhaps little should actually be said.
[RFE/RL] Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov says he had not heard about Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk having fought in Chechnya in the mid-1990s but says Yatsenyuk is a "coward and traitor" who is "incapable of fighting". Kadyrov said that although he has never met Yatsenyuk, he is a "real nerd" and he does not consider him to be a "warrior".
Kadyrov was responding to allegations made by Russian Investigative Committee head Aleksandr Bastrykin that Yatsenyuk had fought in Chechnya with a group of Ukrainians against Russian troops during the first Chechen war and had tortured and executed Russian soldiers. Yatsenyuk’s spokeswoman, Olha Lappo, reacted to the allegation by "encourag[ing] the Russian regime to undergo a psychiatric evaluation".
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Coward, traitor, nerd. Which of these words is not like the others.
Calling someone a coward rates as fighting words.
Calling someone a traitor rates as fighting words.
Calling someone a nerd? I liken that to "and your mother makes bad lunches" or something. Maybe the edginess of the epithet has been lost in translation.
I think this guy might be 'mentally challenged' fer reelz, and is distinguished by the honorific 'Chechen strongman'. His picture says much.
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday directed the prosecution to submit its comments on the bail petition of a man, identified as Abdul Majeed, who is accused of mutilating a woman's body to practise black magic.
A two-member bench of the LHC headed by Justice Abdul Sami adjourned the next hearing of the case until September 17.
A bail petition for Abdul Majeed was filed in the LHC today. Majeed, a resident of Gujrat, is accused of removing the body of a woman, which he had found near the bank of a canal earlier this year, and beheading her so he could perform black magic.
Majeed was charged under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) by the area police.
The counsel for the defendant had argued that Majeed should be granted bail as the case was not maintainable under terrorism clauses.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: An accountability court disqualified Pakistain Peoples Party's (PPP) Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) Syed Ali Nawaz Shah from Sindh Assembly after convicting him and his two close relatives in a fraud case.
The court convicted Ali Nawaz on Thursday along with his nephew, Syed Imtiaz Ali Shah, and cousin, former MNA Syed Khadim Ali Shah, in a case pertaining to land revenue fraud worth millions of rupees.
The court has imposed a fine of Rs0.56 million on Nawaz Shah, while Khadim Shah and Imtiaz Shah have been asked to pay a fine of Rs0.54 million and Rs0.43 million, respectively.
The veteran politician and PPP politician was disqualified from holding membership of the legislature for ten years and was sentenced to five years in prison.
His cousin Syed Khadim, who also served as the federal population minister in 1988, and nephew Syed Imtiaz Ali Shah, have been sentenced to four and three years in prison, respectively.
The reference filed in 2001 alleged that Ali Nawaz Shah and others sold land to government at inflated prices and later claimed the land as their own.
The trio was accused of forging the land revenue department record for the purpose.
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The pineapple grenade is a classic of modern weaponry. Baseball-size with squarish lumps, the hand-thrown bomb looks a lot like, well, a pineapple.
If you're like me, you probably assumed the square sections were like pre-made fragments that would break apart when the grenade exploded, showering your enemy with lethal -- and neatly uniform -- hunks of metal.
But that's not true, according to weapons expert Kevin Dockery, a former Army marksman, Gulf War veteran and prolific author also runs a firearms show called The Armory that is a fixture at the annual Dragon Con comics convention.
Dockery says the pineapple grenade's inventor, William Mills from the United Kingdom, picked the fruit shape for ease of gripping. "His intention for those serrations was so that it wouldn't slip out your hand in a muddy trench."
The Mills-Bomb No. 5 became Great Britain's standard hand grenade in 1915. The French, Russians and Americans soon made their own versions. The U.S. Mk. II remained in service into the 1970s before today's smooth, baseball-style grenades superseded it.
As it happens, Dockery has a pineapple-grenade fragment in his collection, and it looks a lot like a piece of fruit -- but not a pineapple. Having shattered lengthwise across the square segments, the grenade's killing fragment is like "a sliver out of an apple," Dockery says.
And that's a good thing for the thrower, the author adds. "It makes a heavier projectile." And a heavier projectile travels farther than a lighter one -- meaning the grenade is more dangerous.
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I knew that 18 years ago. I did a 3d computer model of the Army'S then newest prototype. Made of titanium with gobs of 1/8 flat-topped pyramids.
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The more modern Grenade, The ( baseball ) sort you remember from Vietnam...was a much more nasty Grenade. It contains a steel "Slinky" toy inside the casing. You recall the Slinky that you had as a child? Several yards of high tension coiled steel? It could walk down a flight of stairs on its own tipping/flipping momentum? Yeah. One of those.
When the interior explosive inside the grenade detonates that "slinky" becomes 360* of twisting springs and needles moving at faster than the speed of sound . Ever tried to debride a wound with a LOT of needles and twisty micro wire hamburgered all through it ?
The M79 round was a variation of the same theme. I knew a man who could pop one of those in a bucket at a hundred yards ( much farther than you can throw a grenade ). We nicknamed him "Thumper".
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"And a heavier projectile travels farther than a lighter one -- meaning the grenade is more dangerous." Yah, and maybe as dangerous to the sender as the sendee. I, for one, want the mayhem to be constrained to a small volume around the burst point, not to be coming back AT me.
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Just remember why they had you throw it from a pit or protected emplacement. The blast/fragmentation radius as about as far as most trainees could toss it. Being an AI in the pit has got to be right up there as the trainers for Balearic slingers in the really really old days. [Don't PO the first shirt or you get interesting duties for the day]
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Whiskeymike. That is why there are defensive grenade intended for use by people under cover and who are in foxholes whose blast radius can be greater than the distance at which they can be thrown and offensive grenades for people who are not under cover and whose blast radius is lesser than the distance at which they can be thrown to avoid endangering its user.
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Probably the scariest job in basic training for instructors is the grenade range when females go thru. I have heard some stories from friends who were in that position. Most of them could throw like a guy or at least well enough, but there seemed to always be one that does the "sissy" elbow flapping throw despite being instructed multiple days and multiple ways of doing it right. Makes for an interesting day.
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According to a popular legend either British or French exercise grenades were the color of the other country real grenades. (Another versions says in fact it was both countries that used the color for the other's real grenades). Made for many soiled pants the first time both Armies went into joint maneuvers.
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Thank you for the input JFM. We only had three kinds, an M-26, cofram and WP. All assault I would classify them as. That is from memory, which is now somewhat faulty -except for the WP. Oh, and a black one that was basically all TNT (?), for building assaults. Bad to use, no frags just blast.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[RFE/RL] Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov says he had not heard about Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk having fought in Chechnya in the mid-1990s but says Yatsenyuk is a "coward and traitor" who is "incapable of fighting". Kadyrov said that although he has never met Yatsenyuk, he is a "real nerd" and he does not consider him to be a "warrior".
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday directed the prosecution to submit its comments on the bail petition of a man, identified as Abdul Majeed, who is accused of mutilating a woman's body to practise black magic.
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