Infamous Oregon ice skater Tonya Harding is back in the news.
Clark County sheriff's deputies responded to two calls early Sunday morning involving Harding.
Police reports describe Harding as "very agitated" and "tweaking out."
Sergeant Tim Bieber told The Oregonian that police received the first call at about 5 a.m.
According to a police report, Harding said four men and a woman tried to break into her car and steal it. In his report, the deputy wrote that Harding's account was "very implausible."
Harding told police she was on "new medication" and was experiencing an adverse reaction.
Later that same morning, police received another call regarding Harding, this time from a friend who told authorities the skater was "seeing animals."
The deputy took Harding back to her trailer and checked her home to "put her at ease."
BILLINGS, Mont. - It turns out there are no such things as unicorns and even if there were, they wouldn't drive trucks. Just because they're magical doesn't mean they have opposable thumbs.
On Tuesday, a Billings prosecutor had told a district judge that Phillip C. Holliday Jr., 42, claimed a unicorn was driving when his truck crashed into a light pole earlier this month.
But on Wednesday, the chief prosecutor said it was all a misunderstanding. Apparently, Holliday told police an unnamed woman was driving when his truck hit the pole not a unicorn. "Mr. Holliday has other serious problems, but this is not one of them," County Attorney Dennis Paxinos said of the unicorn alibi.
The mixup occurred when a deputy prosecutor misunderstood an e-mail from a colleague who used the phrase "unicorn defense," thinking it was an actual statement from Holliday, Paxinos said. "Unicorn defense" is a slang term used by prosecutors when a defendant blames some mythical person for a crime, he said. I love lawyer slang!
"It's kind of a code (between prosecutors) and the code was misinterpreted," Paxinos said. Just a bit.
Paxinos apologized "to the public, the court and to Mr. Holliday" for the confusion and said he has chastised the prosecutors involved.
Holliday has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of criminal endangerment and drunken driving. He is being represented by a public defender. Kristina Copenhaver-Landon, director of the public defender's office in Billings, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
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They don't exist. Tried to negotiate a mega-bucks apperance deal with Noah. Didn't work out. Left standing by the boarding plank looking for tickets.
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Clearly, as part of their court-mandated probation for running over Grandma every Xmas, Santa's reindeer have been allowed to moonlight and drive trucks to earn income.
From the most reliable voice in major media: "Best damn reporting on the planet."
TOOELE, Nev. -- According to former Air Force engineer Scott Rasla, America's latest warplane isn't entirely of this earth.
"I worked for five years on the Nightstar Hypersonic Bomber project," Rasla told Weekly World News, "and I can assure you that our military has copied every detail from extraterrestrials -- right down to the third armrest on the pilot's seat.
"I won't even get into what the bathroom looks like," Rasla said. What kind of creature would need eleven sprognauls?
Air Force spokesman Colonel Douglas Snaud dismissed the design details as the latest in combat ergonomics. "Commanding a high-altitude bombing raid is a stressful job," Col. Snaud said. "We want our pilots to have a selection of comfortable armrests."
But Colonel Snaud's explanation leaves a few Nightstar mysteries untouched. "What about the cattle-shaped gunsight?" Rasla wondered. "Or the antimatter propulsion system?" It's not really antimatter. It's inverse matter. There's a big difference.
"Look," Col. Snaud insisted. "These were created by terrestrial engineers for terrestrial pilots on terrestrial missions. To put it another way, the rumors of this plane's alien origin are powered by the simplest propulsive source of all: a crank. Went the long way around for that one.
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I'm NOT turning that crank, antimatter propulsion or not.
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BTW, this would make great TV. Flintstones in Space.
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Us humans ain't smart enough to invent stuff! If I can't understand how it works then it's gotta be Alien Intelligence. %)
This guy must be on Space Coke.
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I love the Weekly World News at times.
I think a few people misread the last few lines. The rumors are spread by cranks, not the propulsion system.
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Ignoring the 'unique'armrest configuration for a minute, the cockpit windscreen arrangement looks reminiscent of that of the Boeing 377 Airliner (C-97 to military buffs). wonder if Marvin the Martian copied that?
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Gotta love the detail about the cattle-shaped gun sight.
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"Cattle-shaped gunsight"??? You just know other four-legger meat specias are gonna be jealous - D ***ng it, 'em Calfornia contented cows get everything, from TV commercials to Starships!
The romance of sleeper train travel in Italy has taken on a distinctly wild west edge as a new breed of Butch Cassidy outlaws target night trains for stick-ups. Devotees of continental couchette culture who expect to be woken up at their destination by a polite porter bearing a cappuccino are increasingly startled to find the porter beaten and bleeding and their luggage missing. ``Italian sneak thieves have always operated on the trains here, but this is a new generation of eastern Europeans who go armed with knives and stab and lock up the guard when challenged,'' said Dario Balotta, transport secretary for the CISL union in Lombardy. Three to four men pose as passengers to board the trains, which are often heading south from Milan, subdue the guard, rob the couchettes and then pull the emergency cord to enable them to jump off and be picked up by accomplices in the countryside.
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Hard men meet effete civilization. This is usually what happens.
Enraged over the killing of 8 year old Chinglenkhomba, a mob demolished the house of the killer, Bungthoi at Khagempalli Panthak today. On the other hand police have recovered the scissor used by the killer as well as the cycle of the victim.
As suspicion grew that Bungthoi could be involved in the killing of the child, a large number of people went to meet his father, Ibochou today. However on reaching the house they found that all the family members had fled earlier. The enraged mob, recalling the notorious past of Bungthoi then started destroying the goods of the house from 9 am today.
Neighbours at the site said that before the house was attacked, they saw three youths going to the house in civvies. Apart from substantially damaging the house, all the household properties of the family were taken to the ground of Irom Pukhri Mapal Social Club and set on fire.
Even as the mob was dismantling the house, the grand father of Bungthoi came out and told the crowd that they can give whatever punishment they want to his grand son, but added that since the house was built by him (grandfather), those involved in the demolition should compensate. Not surprisingly, this only added to the ire of the mob and the grandfather was physically assaulted and his house was also attacked. The situation was brought under control only after the police arrived.
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Does this mean Pharmascists can refuse to sell contraceptives because of their religious beliefs? This opens up a very huge can of worms. We are behing taken over without even noticing it.
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I cannot refuse to serve you because of YOUR religion, but I can refuse to serve you because of MINE. I detect a bit of asymmetry here in that separation of church and state thing.
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"They're already adapting to our society. We need to adapt to them, too."
No, they need to adapt to our society. Our society offers them a chance to generally do what they want to do, as long as it does not infringe on others. It is a one way line to cross. We should in no way compromise that rule.
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Coming from Minneapolis this is not a surprising article. Here is how I would combat this:
take a whole armload of ham or bacon to a register that is manned by a mussie, and at a time when either the store is clogged with shoppers or there is only one cashier. When service is refused, then just walk out, leaving all that stuff on the belt. don't make a fuss, just say that it is not your job to bag your own groceries, and thank them for their service.
regarding DB's comments: the WA state ass'n of pharmacists tried doing just what you state, and the governor cut them off at the knees. I didn't vote for her, but Queen Chris surprises me in a favorable way (here it comes) especially for a Democrat.
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Dsouza was taken aback when the cashier -- who had on the traditional headscarf, or hijab, worn by many Muslim women -- refused to swipe the bacon through the checkout scanner.
"She made me scan the bacon. Then she opened the bag and made me put it in the bag," said Dsouza, 53, of Minneapolis. "It made me wonder why this person took a job as a cashier."
What it makes me wonder is a) why the hell Target doesn't fire her outright, and b) why the hell our society continues to put up with this bullshit.
Oh, I forgot: it's the damned liberals. And their damned multiculturalism. And being non-judgemental. And "inclusive". And "tolerant". And "understanding".
Damned f*cking idiots. Someday our tolerance is going to prove terminal.
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Target just lost one customer. WTF is wrong with people? That Muzzy idiot should have been fired and out the door within hours of that refusal. No, we don't have to adapt to them. They have to adapt to us or go back to the hellhole we were stupid enough to let them come here from.
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It is worth noting that during the Clinton administration, it was official policy at EEOC not to accept any religious discrimination cases other than those involving "proper accommodation in the workplace" ie Muslim power-plays.
I ran across this when a local personnel agency asked one of my students about his religion during an interview. They shut the door in his face when he refused to answer. I called both EEOC and the Texas Human Rights Commission on his behalf. They slammed the door in my face. "We are only accepting cases that deal with accommodation in the workplace," the bureaucrat said. I pointed out that asking religious preference was against the law and the bureaucrat simply responded that they weren't taking those cases, that is, they were refusing to enforce federal law unless it was on behalf of Muslims who already had jobs.
The idiot at the THRC was even worse. He said since the student was was an agnostic, he was not being discriminated against because of his religion, but because of the employer's, and that was legal. "We only deal with people who have been discriminated against because of their own religion, not the employer's" I pointed out that this was applying a religious test for employment, which is a violation of the law. He obtusely repeated himself.
All of these bastards have been in the pockets of the Muzzies for a long time.
Target, btw, will never see me again.
1) Treat Muslim cashiers and bacon like under-21 cashiers and alcohol -- they have to call over another cashier. Of course, I imagine Muslim cashiers also need someone else to ring up alcohol. This makes the incremental cost for hiring a Muslim twice that of hiring a 19-year-old. Not that retailers are allowed to take that into consideration, of course...
Oh, and that also increases the amount of time it takes a customer to get through a checklane run by a Muslim cashier. That's not gonna make customers real happy.
2) "If you aren't willing to do the job, you shouldn't take it. If you want to keep it, then you need to get over your hang-ups." You knew you were taking a job where you can be expected to handle (wrapped) pork and (bottled) alcohol. If your religion says you can't do that, then don't take the job in the first place.
And then there's a whole host of new questions:
o What about stocking the shelves? What about bagging? Are we going to have to make allowances there, too? How about the deli and the meat department?
o What about dog food and other dog-related supplies? Dogs are haram, too, right?
o With taxi drivers refusing to carry service dogs and unopened alcohol containers, what about bus drivers? Will someone heading home from the grocery store with a six pack and a pork chop in their bags be refused service by a municipal bus with a Muslim driver? What about a service dog on a municipal bus driven by a Muslim?
Forcing these issues is just a way to make us live under sharia. Our reaction should be "hey, I respect your beliefs, but this is what the job requires. If you can't do it, you'll have to find another job."
Oh, and who can forget the idiocy of the hijab-wearing cocktail waitress? Gotta wonder if the place she worked served any pork products along with their drinks...
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"We only deal with people who have been discriminated against because of their own religion, not the employer's" I pointed out that this was applying a religious test for employment, which is a violation of the law. He obtusely repeated himself.
Utter crap. You can't refuse service on the basis of religion -- yours or the potential customer's. You can't refuse to rent to someone on the basis of what your religion tells you about their behavior.
If you COULD refuse service or employment on the basis of YOUR religious beliefs, then how long will it be before some of the white-supremacist groups declare not hiring/serving blacks to be part of their religion?
And how long will that interpretation of the law last after someone refuses to hire someone because their faith says they shouldn't hire gays?
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"Your cashier either rings up my pork products the same way he/she rings up my other purchases, or I sue your company for $100 million for discrimination." A few such suits, and Target either no longer hires muslims, or a lot of people start shopping elsewhere, because Target no longer exists. Remember, it was Target that first refused to allow Salvation Army kettles outside their stores.
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"Two options: ..."
There's a third: armed mobs going 'round in the night, taking matters into their own hands.
That's what it's going to come to eventually if we don't find some damned common sense and put a stop to this escalating "I'm a Muslim, I deserve special treatment" bullshit.
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I am afraid of heights. It is quite pathetic actually. That's why I never took a job as a window washer for highrise buildings. So why again is it OK to take a job at a grocery store when you're 'uncomfortable' with your duties? Instead of demanding that all building be made shorter, I have a job doing something else.
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Don't see any 7-11's or gas stations having problems selling alcohol, hot dogs or other pork products to infidels. Immigration is a privilege and deportation a solution for those who don't wish to be American.
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The whole point here is to force Target to no longer carry pork products. Target cannot fire them for their religion, and it's obvious customers will not put up with this nonsense for long. It's actually a very clever ploy. However the loophole is that Target can reassign them to mopping floors and cleaning toilets and other duties if they have the spine.
There's a third: armed mobs going 'round in the night, taking matters into their own hands.
That's what it's going to come to eventually if we don't find some damned common sense and put a stop to this escalating "I'm a Muslim, I deserve special treatment" bullshit.
Dave D. - I was thinking the same thing yesterday in regards to the immigration thing and a few other things that are going on in our country these days.
Eventually, citizens will be forced to take matters into their own hands. It's even Constitutional for the citizenry to do so (though most people nor the media will realize this).
As the government and our elected representatives more and more refuse to follow the dictates of the citizenry, or simply ignore what that citizenry is saying, more and more you will find certain portions of the citizenry willing, able, and apt to react in ways that are not politically correct or aloowable under the law.
However, when a government or our elected representatives refuse to act in the face of what is clearly a criminal offense, a failure to act against a criminal offense, or an ignorance of the fact that a criminal offense is occurring against the nation, the citizenry, or the national security, the citizenry is within its rights under the Constitution to act and, if necessary, replace the elected government and elected represenatives by armed revolution.
I pray it never comes to this and I am absolutely not advocating this, but if our elected representatives and our government fail to act, the citizenry has no choice other than to actively oppose them. It is our Constitutional prerogative.
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Something along the same lines is going on in Australia regard what Muslims consider as appropriate. I did not see it on Rantburg yet,
I could see something like this happening in the U.S. if it catches on. Hat Tip to fark.com yesterday for this.
Muslim leaders have warned that hardline clerics are encouraging their followers to cheat the tax system because they consider paying income tax contrary to Sharia law.
Sydney-based Islamic leader Fadi Rahman says extremist Muslim clerics who were preaching messages against paying income taxes were also staunchly opposed to western ideologies, The Australian reports.
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Muslim leaders have warned that hardline clerics are encouraging their followers to cheat the tax system because they consider paying income tax contrary to Sharia law.
If there is one agency that the Muzzy's DO NOT want to mess with, it is the IRS. I'd love to see them get the IRS on their asses.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The alligator clearly wasn't from around here. Tennessee wildlife officers discovered a 5-foot alligator Sunday in Watts Bar Lake near Spring City, about 60 miles south of Knoxville. The Lizard People are Taking Over!!
"It was on a log sunning itself like a turtle," said Dan Hicks, spokesman for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
Prior to the encounter, Watts Bar's gator population by all accounts was zero. Action by TWRA officer Burton Capps has restored that census. "He was able to get close enough to it and euthanize it," Hicks said. "Gonna make a fine handbag and matching shoes for the Wife."
Alligators are not indigenous to Tennessee, and the state's climate is too cold to support a reproducing population. So when they're sighted, it's almost invariably because humans brought them here. It's Global Warming. It's Bush's fault. All he had to do was take the Magic Pen and sign the Majic Document!
"Somebody probably bought this one as a pet down in Florida and kept it until it got too large and uncontrollable," Hicks said. "That's when they just let it go." "Good-bye Ole' Pal. Mom says I can't keep you any more. Besides, you ate her cat and you won't stop chasing Uncle Ralph. Did keep the burgurglers away though."
Hicks said the Watts Bar alligator will be stuffed by a taxidermist and used as an educational display. "When somebody says alligators aren't found in Tennessee, we can point to it and say, 'This one was,'" Hicks said.
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Buy? You're supposed to BUY gators? Heck, we used to just go down by the bayou and ketch one. Same with loggerhead turtles, moccasins, scorpions, tarantulas, and on a good day, a big-mouth bass. Tennessee chilluns don't have NO fun...
Seriously, one of the things I remember from my childhood was sitting snake/gator watch at the ole swimmin' hole at the creek. You'd usually see one or two of each during a three-hour swim.
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Halliburton must be re-charging the earthquake generator.
A MASSIVE, mysterious whirlpool of cold water has developed off the coast of Sydney, forcing the sea surface to fall almost 1m and ocean currents to change course.
Dubbed a sea "monster" by CSIRO oceanographers, the huge body of water stretches almost 200km across and plunges 1000m towards the ocean floor. Its centre sits just 100km off the coast of Sydney and could stay there for months.
Scientists are baffled by the powerful cold-water eddy, which is invisible to the human eye but can be tracked through satellite images. At its centre the sea level has dropped by 70cm, while the water 400m below the surface is 6C colder than normal at that depth. The East Australian Current has been forced to divert around the eddy, which takes one week to do a full rotation in a clockwise direction. A second eddy of similar proportions is sitting further out from the coast.
The cooler water can bring down the temperature at Sydney's beaches by several degrees. Dr Griffin said it contributed to the surprisingly cool sea temperatures down to a numbing 14C swimmers felt at their favourite spots this summer.
But fish and other marine life felt the changes most, he said. Some would be attracted to the cooler water and others would shy away. Unlike the stupid marine life that lives around re-gassification plants and nuclear power plant cooling outlets.
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My reading of var Aussie meda reports > the locals have known of this phenomenon for decades or generations.Here on Guam Tornadoes, Waterspouts, and even occasional Snow Flurries/Balls occur, and have been occurring since the first HISTORY OF GUAM textbook came out in the late 1950's.
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Global Warming? Ha, I wish. Cthulhu has woken up! He's taking a drink before coming to the surface.
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If the water is dropping into a hole in Australia, somewhere else on the planet, there is one freaking large geyser of water. Anything on Google Maps yet??.
Ondiep, a working class neighbourhood in the Dutch town of Utrecht, is in turmoil. After the death last Sunday of Rinie Mulder, a 54-year old indigenous Dutchman who was shot by a police officer, non-immigrant citizens went on a rampage, burning cars, looting shops and arsoning a community centre in inverted Paris style riots. According to our sources the police officer who killed Mulder is a woman of Moroccan origin. Rest at link.
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Natives of many other places are far more revolting than Dutchmen.
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Not good. The Dutch are slow to anger, but when they get a head of steam up, for example when they fought the Vikings, they gave as good as they got. After one pitched battle, a large river was clogged with Viking dead.
They also interbred with the Vikings more than somewhat.
Greece's armed forces on Tuesday announced tougher requirements for the soft Greek feta cheese fed to recruits amid reports of quality-skimping by feta producers. The defence and agriculture ministries decided to boost checks on the soft white cheese that is a staple of Greek diet and promote fresh milk instead of the long-life variety, the semi-state Athens News Agency (ANA) said on Tuesday. "We will not allow companies that violate the law on cheese and dairy products to participate in (armed forces) supply tenders," the ministries said.
The measure aims to support Greek farmers, ANA said. Greek media recently reported complaints by dairy producers that competitors adulterate the sheep-and-goat's milk feta with powdered or imported cow's milk to cut cost, without informing consumers.
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"We will not allow companies that violate the law on cheese and dairy products to participate in (armed forces) supply tendersde-feta us," the ministries said.
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New York -- The New York City Council today is expected to vote today on a bill that would ban metal bats from high school baseball games. The measure was unanimously approved by a committee Monday. In addition to bad writing by the reporter (maybe he had an extra Today in his word box and need to use them all by the weekend), this is a bad use of taxpayer-paid time.
Supporters of the bill say aluminum bats are a safety hazard because the ball ricochets off the bat quicker than off a wooden bat. But others say there's no evidence to prove metal bats are more dangerous than wooden ones. Maybe we could get them to ban Moonbats.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has also expressed skepticism, saying a ban may not solve the problem. He has not said whether he'll veto the bill.
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I'd ban them because they make that stupid 'tink' sound, but that's just me. If safety is the concern, why not simply move the fielders off the playing field when anyone is at bat?
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.
The romance of sleeper train travel in Italy has taken on a distinctly wild west edge as a new breed of Butch Cassidy outlaws target night trains for stick-ups. Devotees of continental couchette culture who expect to be woken up at their destination by a polite porter bearing a cappuccino are increasingly startled to find the porter beaten and bleeding and their luggage missing. ``Italian sneak thieves have always operated on the trains here, but this is a new generation of eastern Europeans who go armed with knives and stab and lock up the guard when challenged,'' said Dario Balotta, transport secretary for the CISL union in Lombardy. Three to four men pose as passengers to board the trains, which are often heading south from Milan, subdue the guard, rob the couchettes and then pull the emergency cord to enable them to jump off and be picked up by accomplices in the countryside.
Enraged over the killing of 8 year old Chinglenkhomba, a mob demolished the house of the killer, Bungthoi at Khagempalli Panthak today. On the other hand police have recovered the scissor used by the killer as well as the cycle of the victim.
Greece's armed forces on Tuesday announced tougher requirements for the soft Greek feta cheese fed to recruits amid reports of quality-skimping by feta producers. The defence and agriculture ministries decided to boost checks on the soft white cheese that is a staple of Greek diet and promote fresh milk instead of the long-life variety, the semi-state Athens News Agency (ANA) said on Tuesday. "We will not allow companies that violate the law on cheese and dairy products to participate in (armed forces) supply tenders," the ministries said. 
