LAHORE: My brother-in-law killed my sister because he did not like her fatness, said Muhammad Shahid, brother of Sobia on Monday.
"How fat was she, Muhammad?"
Sobia was killed on October 30. Yousaf, a resident of inside Bhaati Gate, called the police on October 30 that four armed men had robbed his niece Sobia and her husband Zahid.
"She wuz so fat, she wuz on both sides of the family!"
Zahid told the police the robbers had killed his wife after looting them.
"When she ran away, they had to use all four sides of the milk carton!"
While resisting the robbery bid, he said, the robbers had also shot him (Zahid) in the arm. He told the police that the robbers had looted about 50 tola gold ornaments.
"When she crosses the street, cars look out for her!"
On suspicion the police checked Zahid's telephone record.
"She's got shock absorbers on her toilet seat!"
The police found that Zahid had called his friend Waheed 15 times on October 30.
"The only pictures they have of her are via satellite!"
When the police interrogated Waheed, he told the police that Zahid had killed Sobia with his (Waheed's) cooperation.
"The police showed her a picture of her feet and she couldn't identify them!"
Zahid during interrogation told the police that he had killed Sobia because she was bulky.
"I shot the bitch and Crisco came out!"
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Last night a friend told me this story. Recently, a really fat woman fell down the stairs, and when the body was found days later, her husband and dog were beneath her, also quite dead.
Is this fact or just a hate crime ?
HONOLULU The season's first large shipment of Christmas trees from the mainland came decorated with yellow jackets. Four refrigerated containers from the Pacific Northwest each holding about 300 Christmas trees were found on Saturday to be infested with the predatory wasps and were quarantined, according to Janelle Saneishi, spokeswoman for Hawaii's Department of Agriculture.
About 50 containers were examined during the weekend, and inspectors were going through an additional 50 on Monday, Saneishi said. The inspections are part of a statewide effort to keep invasive plants, insects and animals out of Hawaii's fragile ecosystem, which has more endangered species than anyplace in the USA, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The vast majority of the state's trees are shipped in from the mainland, according to Richard Tajiri, who has been importing trees for 30 years through his company, Christmas Hawaii.
Kim Canamore of Canamore Tree Farm in Oregon City, Ore., said Hawaii agriculture inspectors visited farms such as hers this year to try to cut down on problems.
Bees and wasps, such as the ones discovered frozen among the latest shipment of Christmas trees, are not native to Hawaii, said Andrew Taylor, an associate zoology professor at the University of Hawaii. One species of yellow jacket, Vespula pensylvanica, originally came to Hawaii on a Christmas tree shipment years ago and has become a threat to native plants and birds, Taylor said.
Even though the wasps become frozen in the refrigerated containers, Taylor said, they "reanimate" once they thaw out in Hawaii's warm climate. "Now they're here and they're a very effective predator," Taylor said. "They could affect pollination of our native endangered plants. And the insects they eat are the same ones that our native birds eat."
Efforts to keep the business homegrown have been largely unsuccessful. Aaron O'Brien, who was born on the island of Lanai, has been trying to sell two varieties of trees that can grow in Hawaii's climate for the past three years. He said he has not yet made a profit. O'Brien's Helemano Farms on Oahu grows Leland cypress and Norfolk Island pine trees. "Nobles and Douglas firs, you need a cold-weather freeze to grow those," O'Brien said.
Matson Navigation Co., Hawaii's primary ocean carrier, brings in roughly 150,000 trees each year, company spokesman Jeff Hull said. The bulk of this year's Hawaii's Christmas trees are scheduled to arrive Saturday, Hull said.
In light of recent events on Election Day in which Boy Scouts Troop 45 was asked to remove donation boxes it had placed in Cambridge polling locations to collect essential goods for local troops serving overseas, I think it is only appropriate to clarify a few matters.
First, it is important to note that although over the past five years there has been heated debate about the wars themselves, Cambridge always has and will continue to support the men and women from our city who have bravely put their lives on the line for our country.
On Oct. 22, I sponsored a City Council resolution in support of Troop 45 and its effort to support the Cambridge military deployed overseas. The City Council unanimously approved the resolution and went on record commending the Boy Scouts on organizing the donation drive and urging all citizens to support the effort.
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On Oct. 22, I sponsored a City Council resolution in support of Troop 45 and its effort to support the Cambridge military deployed overseas.
Although the Scouts had informed the Election Commission of their intent and received encouragement from the City Council, the individual polling locations had not been notified in time and therefore had not granted the necessary permissions to Troop 45.
So how many days does it take mail to move in Cambridge? Fifth class - throw it out in the parking lot and hope someone stumbles upon it? Obviously, they lack modern phone or internet service.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: We've gotta protect our phoney baloney jobs, gentlemen!
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"first city in the state - and to my knowledge the country - that is offering full salary and benefits to city employees who are overseas serving our country."
Easy points; do they even HAVE any deployed city employees?
With the help of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellite data, a research team has estimated that Hurricane Katrina killed or severely damaged 320 million large trees in Gulf Coast forests, which weakened the role the forests play in storing carbon from the atmosphere. The damage has led to these forests releasing large quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. We need a good volcanic eruption or an asteroid to create some cooling to offset this temp rise.
The August 2005 hurricane affected five million acres of forest across Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, with damage ranging from downed trees, snapped trunks and broken limbs to stripped leaves. Sometimes bad things happen to forests, like fires, or volcanic eruptions, or bark beetles.
Young growing forests play a vital role in removing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere by photosynthesis, and are thus important in slowing a warming climate, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center stated. An event that kills a great number of trees can temporarily reduce photosynthesis, the process by which carbon is stored in plants. More importantly, all the dead wood will be consumed by decomposers, resulting in a large carbon dioxide release to the atmosphere as the ecosystem exhales it as forest waste product. The team's findings were published Nov. 15 in the journal Science.
"The loss of so many trees will cause these forests to be a net source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere for years to come," said the study's lead author Jeffrey Chambers, a biologist at Tulane University in New Orleans. "If, as many believe, a warming climate causes a rise in the intensity of extreme events like Hurricane Katrina, we're likely to see an increase in tree mortality, resulting in an elevated release of carbon by impacted forest ecosystems." And an increase in the release of grant funding.
Young forests are valued as carbon sinks, which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in growing vegetation and soils. In the aftermath of a storm as intense as Katrina, vegetation killed by the storm decomposes over time, reversing the carbon storage process, making the forest a carbon source.
"The carbon cycle is intimately linked to just about everything we do, from energy use to food and timber production and consumption," Chambers said. "As more and more carbon is released to the atmosphere by human activities, the climate warms, triggering an intensification of the global water cycle that produces more powerful storms, leading to destruction of more trees, which then act to amplify climate warming."
Chambers and colleagues from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H., studied Landsat 5 satellite data captured before and after Hurricane Katrina to pull together a reliable field sampling of tree deaths across the entire range of forests affected by Katrina. They found that some forests were heavily damaged while others like the cypress-tupelo swamp forests fared remarkably well.
The NASA-built Landsat 5, part of the Landsat series of Earth-observing satellites, takes detailed images of the Earth's surface. Chambers combined results from the Landsat image sampling with data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument on NASA's Terra satellite to estimate the size of the entire forested area affected by Katrina. The instrument can detect minute changes in the color spectrum on the land below, enabling it to measure differences in the percentage of live and dead vegetation. This helps researchers improve their estimates of changes in carbon storage and improves their ability to track the location of carbon sinks and sources.
The field samples and satellite images, along with results from computer models that simulate the kind of vegetation and other traits that make up the forests, were used to measure the total tree loss the hurricane inflicted. The scientists then calculated total carbon losses to be equivalent to 60 percent to 100 percent of the net annual carbon sink in U.S. forest trees.
"It is surprising to learn that one extreme event can release nearly as much carbon to the atmosphere as all U.S. forests can store in an average year," said Diane Wickland, manager of the Terrestrial Ecology Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Satellite data enabled Chambers' research team to pin down the extent of tree damage so that we now know how these kinds of severe storms affect the carbon cycle and our atmosphere. Satellite technology has really proven its worth in helping researchers like Chambers assess important changes in our planet's carbon cycle."
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I call BS!! I've been down to the coast of Mississippi and even as far north as Hattiesburg MULTIPLE times since Katrina, and the destruction was nowhere near that bad. Heck, the entire MS Coast was virtually only live oaks (which survived), and yes, it did down some pines further north, but nowhere near that many. And, actually, most of the coastal pines were damaged more by saltwater intrustion (surge) than the winds from travelling I-10 across there MANY times.
And, as we ALL know, southern Lousiana don't have many trees anyway. More swampland and "scrub-brush" type trees than anything.
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The former prime minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, has died aged 88. The cause of his death is unknown but he had been ill for some time at a residential home in South Africa.
He illegally declared independence from Britain in 1965 and his white minority government led the country for 14 years amid international scorn and sanctions. Following a bitter bush war with black nationalists, his government was overthrown by Robert Mugabe in 1979, leading to the creation of Zimbabwe.
Ian Smith's supporters continued to laud him as a political visionary and a man who understood the uncomfortable truths of Africa. To his detractors, however, he was an unrepentant racist.
Mr Mugabe's deputy information minister, Bright Matonga, described Ian Smith as a man who brought untold suffering to millions of Zimbabweans. "We offered him the hand of reconciliation which he never accepted. Good riddance," Mr Matonga was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.
The BBC's James Robbins says that to the end of his days Ian Smith was convinced that Rhodesians, black and white, would have fared better under his leadership than that of Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party. He died believing he had been vindicated by Zimbabwe's current crisis, with its massive inflation and unemployment.
Steeped in the colonial values of his Scottish immigrant father, our correspondent says Mr Smith was a born leader with a distinguished war record as an RAF fighter pilot. He helped to found the right-wing Rhodesian Front, which came to power in 1962, and when the-then prime minister, Winston Field, baulked at the prospect of seizing independence, the party turned to Mr Smith, who gave them what they wanted.
He became prime minister of the then self-governing British colony of Rhodesia in 1964. The following year he made his Unilateral Declaration of Independence and years of civil war ensued.
Ian Smith denied this was caused by the actions of his regime and insisted there was nothing wrong with five million blacks being ruled by 200,000 whites. In the end, Mr Smith maintained, it was not his enemies who beat him, but apartheid South Africa's threat to cut Rhodesia's lifeline.
Margaret Thatcher's UK government brokered a peace deal in the Lancaster House talks in 1979 and a black-majority government took over Zimbabwe. Ian Smith remained a key player in Zimbabwean politics until seats reserved for whites were abolished in 1987. When in retirement he failed to create a united opposition to Robert Mugabe, Mr Smith was finally relegated to the sidelines.
In an apparent backlash to students wearing tight blue jeans, administrators at the College of Sciences of King Abdul Aziz University (KAAU) in Jeddah are ordering their students to come to class wearing thobes, the traditional Saudi dish-dash.
He told us that at the beginning of this week and since then, we are wearing thobes as if we are school students, said Ibrahim Al-Oafi, a freshman at the college, referring to one of his professors. Primary and secondary Saudi students must wear uniforms to attend classes, but this dress code is not required at the university level.
According to Al-Oafi, the professor held a piece of paper in front of his students in class and told them that it was a circulation from Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, governor of Makkah Region, ordering the students to wear thobes.
Students said that the professor is taking a strong-armed approach to the dress code on his class in order to oblige his students to follow them, especially because his class is for freshmen. Any student who attends this professors lectures not wearing a thobe would not be permitted in his classroom.
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Must baseball caps be properly alligned as well? This is getting serious!
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Yyyeah ! I know of a thing about rumoured Prof of Professionals have Sex in bed entirely on subject of Sex Matter all time and show contrived awards before official event takes place and always teach best nekkid , hah ??
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Police Senior Sergeant Creina O'Grady said the man found the bomb with wires protruding attached to his car, which was parked outside the home of a friend in Shawbrook Avenue about 2.45pm.
Suspecting the device was an explosive, the man drove his car to an isolated area, police said. The man then called police, who sealed off the area and evacuated residents before the bomb squad arrived
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is pressing advertisers to withdraw their sponsorship of Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio program because of Savage's alleged "anti-Muslim bigotry."
Savage, on his Web site, is fighting back, urging his listeners to protect freedom of speech: "Email your representative; investigate CAIR for manipulating the U.S. media," his Web site says.
CAIR was particularly disturbed by Savage's "shouted anti-Muslim attacks," which it quoted as follows:
-- I'm not gonna put my wife in a hijab. And I'm not gonna put my daughter in a burqa. And I'm not getting' on my all-fours and braying to Mecca. And you could drop dead if you don't like it. You can shove it up your pipe. I don't wanna hear anymore about Islam. I don't wanna hear one more word about Islam. Take your religion and shove it up your behind. I'm sick of you.
-- What kind of religion is this? What kind of world are you living in when you let them in here with that throwback document in their hand, which is a book of hate. Don't tell me I need reeducation. They need deportation. I don't need reeducation. Deportation, not reeducation. You can take C-A-I-R and throw 'em out of my country. I'd raise the American flag and I'd get out my trumpet if you did it. Without due process. You can take your due process and shove it.
-- What sane nation that worships the U.S. Constitution, which is the greatest document of freedom ever written, would bring in people who worship a book that tells them the exact opposite. Make no mistake about it, the Quran is not a document of freedom. The Quran is a document of slavery and chattel. It teaches you that you are a slave.
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Remind me never to shop at OfficeMax. And, as for Citrix, it has never been anything but a Microsoft enabling piece of crap.
eLarson, you have it wrong. Michael Savage has provided me with countless hours of sanity while I confronted the insanity of Interstate 5 on my way home from work. He is better than Rush Limbaugh. He is far superior to any of the other radio shows that are on during the afternoon commute in San Diego. Yeah, he gets a little excited at times and I wouldn't be surprised if his microphone receives a bit of spray. But then he calms down and relates amusing stories about his favorite restaurants in San Francisco or about his little toy poodle Teddy. Mark Levin? Never heard of him. But Savage is great.
Rants like the ones quoted in this article are typical. He also rants about red diaper doper babies and illegal immigration. In fact, his motto is "Borders, Language and Culture". I think I can safely say that he and most of us who post at Rantburg are pretty much on the same wavelength.
Don't know what a red diaper doper baby is? Tune in.
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I agree w/what Savage said in this article. Normally I don't care for him though - too shrill. Same w/Levin whose often rude to his own callers. I prefer Andrew Wilkow & Bill Bennet's shows on the sirius patriot channel. Neil Boortz is good to when I used to be able to get his show. They put the points accross succintly w/out the spittle.
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Savage (and Levin) are the only ones really getting down to the heart of the issues that I have heard, though I do not have access to similar talk show hosts here in Anchorage. Savage has continuously defended the Marines accused of murder (the so-called Haditha incident) (Murthagate, heh) since the beginning with publicity and a lot of his own money going to the accused's legal defense.
He can get on spittle step, and can be rude to callers, but much of the time he is spot on. One must tolerate the chaff to get the kernel, I guess. I wish that he would throttle back on the shock stuff, and I believe that he could have a much wider audience.
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Been listening to Savage since '93. Anyone with a Phd from Berkely, and who is conservative and broadcasts from SFO, is a winner. Mark "F. Lee" Levin is funny and anti-liberal. Good combination, since libs have no sense of humor.
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I'd been listenting to Savage long enough to remember when he was a weekend fill-in at KGO. He was almost alone in being right on Kosovo and Bosnia. But his schtick has gone overboard. While he may do a good job of preaching to the choir, I don't think he's converting many leaners.
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That's KOGO, NS, but I agree Savage is off his meds lately. 2 cents follows:
Boortz is an Atlanta based kick-butt Libertarian without the Ron Paul national defense myopia. Fun listen at boortz.com, Levin is currently mostly selling books about his dead dog Sprite on the marklevinshow.com. but should be back to 'normal' after the last book signing Dec 1st. (I gave up on Hannity due to scripted trite and repeat comments), but lauraingraham.com is continually fresh as an conservative talk show.
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No, PT, it's KGO in San Francisco, not KOGO in San Diego, unless he was there before he did weekend sub duty for Barbara Simpson. This was before KGO turned to the dark side and spun its rightists off with KSFO. When he was to the right of Rush and the left of God.
Savage would have not nearly so much to rant about if he lived in San Diego.
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Touche'and a demarche for me! I listend to KSFO and Barbara Simpson, the Babe in the Bunker, when I lived in Freemont for 6 months in '95, and now that you mention it, KGO was that big loser station I wouldn't listen to on a bet.
At least KOGO has Roger Hedgecock... :)
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PT: You're spot on in your assessment. Living in "da ATL", I've been listening to Boortz for years. Then, about 2 years ago, I was WAY late coming home from work (Hannity is on WSB AM 750 from 4-7 pm), and caught Savage (he's on WSB from 7-10).
It was then that I thought that Savage is like Boortz (insensitive) on speed, but add in a little bit of local flavor (San Fran) and nuttery going on there (that doesn't happen as "openly" in Atlanta).
I caught Savage about 4 months ago right after this flared up. CAIR had even gotten the local City Council members to threaten Savage (some sort of Berkley-ville "hate speech" proposal) and had threatened him physically. So much so, that one night he actually broadcast from his home (he was scared that the jihadis were gonna pull a Theo van Gogh on him, right in San Fran). That was probably played up a bit, but you could tell, even for him, it had rattled him some. We need to take this seriously.
I do find, though, that my blood pressure spikes HUGE when I'm listening to him (unlike any other talk show host), mostly because he's out there SCREAMIN' what we're all thinkin' (with some eccentric flair added in).
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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.
In an apparent backlash to students wearing tight blue jeans, administrators at the College of Sciences of King Abdul Aziz University (KAAU) in Jeddah are ordering their students to come to class wearing thobes, the traditional Saudi dish-dash. 
