[Houston Chronicle] A spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed that the suspect, 37-year-old Gary Nathaniel Moore of Houston, was arrested early Wednesday. Moore appeared in court at 7 a.m., spokeswoman Nicole Strong said, and bond was set at $100,000.
[Dhaka Tribune] The BNP has accused the government of rigging the municipal elections and demanded that voting be re-held in municipalities that had been occupied by the ruling party men.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting secretary general of the party, claimed that municipal elections had turned farcical as per the blueprint of the government.
"We were apprehensive that a farcical election would be held and our premonition just came true," he told news hounds at a presser at BNP Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... 's Gulshan office on Wednesday.
Fakhrul claimed that fair elections were not possible to be held as long as the incumbent government was in office as it would not allow any such election to be held.
"Since morning, there was no spontaneity among voters. Rather, violence and occupation of polling centres turned the polls into a tragedy.
"Till 4pm, we have learned that BNP agents were ejected from 157 polling stations. In many places, voters were also ousted and most of the polling centres were occupied," he alleged.
The BNP leader said: "One thing we have noticed is that the government used all the state organs to manipulate elections."
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The South China Sea Fleet of the PLA Navy has embraced three new vessels. A ceremony marking the beginning of military service of the three vessels, the supply ship Luguhu, the electronic reconnaissance ship Neptune and the pelagic survey vessel Qian Xuesen was held at a naval port in the South China Sea on Saturday.
These three vessels are all independently designed and built by China.
The biggest differences between the Type 904B supply ship Luguhu (Hull No. 962) and its predecessor Type 904A supply ship Fuxianhu are that, instead of the portal frame type platform, which is specific to the comprehensive supply ship, on the supply ship Luguhu, there are two davits mounted on each side in the middle section of the ship and a hangar which enhances the vertical replenishment capacity.
The ship is designed to provide material supply for the troops stationed in the Nansha islands, and undertake such tasks as providing supply for a ship formation and maritime medical aid at a certain degree.
The Type 815G electronic reconnaissance ship Neptune (Hull No. 852) is able to conduct continuous all-weather reconnaissance of various targets within a certain range.
The Qian Xuesen (Hull No. 873) is the third ship of the Type 636A pelagic survey vessel family. It mainly conducts survey of oceans and reefs, marine meteorology observation and layout of hydrometeorological buoys to provide basic data to guarantee navigation safety and carry out marine scientific research.
The sound attenuation is the most remarkable performance of the survey vessel, which is even more excellent than that of the Russian Kilo-class submarines known as the "ocean black hole" in the world. Pics at the link.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Thirty-five asylum-seekers have asked to be relocated from a refugee housing facility in southern Sweden because they believe it's haunted by ghosts, officials said Wednesday.
The asylum-seekers were spooked by flickering lights and noise in the plumbing system at the facility in Grannaforsa, a small village in Smaland province, said Magnus Petersson, a local manager at the Swedish Migration Agency.
Petersson said 35 of the 58 people living in the shelter came to the agency's office in the nearby town of Alvesta on Tuesday, demanding to be relocated. They reluctantly returned to the shelter at the end of the day after being told there were no ghosts - and no alternative housing available - Petersson said.
"I know that in their faith there is a different view on spirituality," he said. "We were responsive to them but somewhere you have to use your common sense and believe in science."
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Might be a worthwhile rumor to spread in the lands those refugees came from. Come to Europe for the bennies, be haunted by the ghosts.
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Check the bolts in the power supply lines disconnect - usually on the side of the building - they are likely loose and behind the companies sealing wire.
Plumbing - likely copper air chambers (actually a vacuum chamber) is filled with water. Solution is to drain the water in the house with supply turned off and then refill. Example chamber:
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As for the flickering lights, might be one of those new-fangled European electric conservation requirements that automatically shuts the power off to devices at varying times. Wait until that hits the states.
(Reminds me of an old Mr. Bean sketch with the electrical supply being coin-operated)
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"The ghosts of Christians past." #6 AH.
"Snark of the Day"
Snark of the YEAR! :-D
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] An Emory University professor has penned an open letter to white Americans asking them to admit to "the racist poison" inside of them that's to blame for a long history of black suffering. How do you say "bite my ass" in Ebonics?
In "Dear White America," published by The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , philosophy professor George Yancy called his letter "a gift" to white people. Silence would be a better gift. Even better would be elementary good manners.
"Bear in mind, though, that some gifts can be heavy to bear. You don't have to accept it; there is no obligation," he wrote. Good. I'll continue to ignore you.
"I give it freely, believing that many of you will throw the gift back in my face, saying that I wrongly accuse you, that I am too sensitive, that I'm a race hustler, and that I blame white people (you) for everything." Pretty much covers it. You know: White people be like dat. Most of the time we don't even think about race and I know that really ties this kinda dipshit's crank in knots. I like to help the process along by ignoring them.
"So, as you read this letter, take a deep breath," he continued. "Make a space for my voice in the deepest part of your psyche. Try to listen, to practice being silent. There are times when you must quiet your own voice to hear from or about those who suffer in ways that you do not." There are times we must quiet our own voices and accept the judgment of our betters. This isn't one of them.
To support his argument that all white people are racist, Mr. Yancy started off by admitting that he is a sexist for perpetuating sexism "every day of my life. " In that case, bite some lady's ass. New York Times continues to print this sort of philosophical jerkoff. I continue to ignore them.
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Psychological projection, also known as blame shifting, is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unpleasant impulses by denying their existence while attributing them to others. For example, a person who is rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude.
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Besoeker, if you people didn't look the other way while they took over: first teacher colleges, and then the universities; the whole world would be a lot better off.
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The 'take over' or origins are much deeper rooted g(r)om. I blame the early architects, Amish intellectuals like Leon Trotsky, Sverdlov, Grigori Zinoviev, Karl Radek, Maxim Litvinov, Lev Kamenev, Moisei Uritsky, and others.
Champions of the proletariat. It's a rather old but highly effective political theme.
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.
