[Straits Times] A NAKED African woman who jumped, shouted deliriously and then fainted at a junction near Taman Cheras on Feb 7, turned out to be a drug mule with 65 capsules of drugs in her stomach. "Johnson! Stop the presses!"
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One of those capsules had burst and the drug had leaked into her system, causing her bizarre behaviour.
However, The infamous However... she was rushed to the hospital in time and doctors managed to save her life, said City police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah on Monday.
The 22-year-old woman was taken to Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre and x-rays revealed the drug capsules in her stomach, he said, adding that 970gm of Syabu drugs were recovered from the capsules.
DCP Zulkifli said the woman had been remanded until Feb 28 and police were on the lookout for the remaining members of the drug syndicate.
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What's the penalty for drug smuggling there? Death? Saving her life may not have accomplished much. Unless she made a deal to inform on her colleagues - which often carries its own death sentence.
Storm [a Queen Anne's County blogger] criticized Waterman's naming the cow after the African-American talk show host who has struggled with her weight. Storm say that's "precisely why an enormouse number of Americans view Republicans as racists." Not at all. It's liberal assumptions and inability to apply anything but their own point of view that makes them view Republicans as racists.
Waterman defends the name. In a response to the Sun she said her children named the family's three cows. Oprah was named for a person they admire. The other two, Ferdinand and Isabella are named after the Spanish monarchs who approved Christopher Columbus's trip to the New World. Sorta takes the wind out of a lot of liberal sales, don't it?
A spokesman for the Maryland GOP says the state has bigger problems than the naming of a cow. Shhh! You'll wake the liberals!
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Children, back in the day you could get a "black cow" at the neighborhood soda shop. A similar concoction made with grape soda and orange sherbet, minus the chocolate syrup, was a Purple Cow".
The recipe:
o 10 ounces root beer
o 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
o 1 tablespoon chocolate syrup
o 1 1/2 ounces whipped cream
o maraschino cherries
Place ice cream and syrup in the most elegant soda fountain glass you have. Pour root beer over, garnish with whipped cream and cherry.
[Straits Times] A 35-YEAR-OLD woman spoke about her heartache when she found out that her husband's 'second wife' was a transvestite.
Known only as Sara, she told Metro Ahad in Kuala Lumpur that her husband had initially told her that he had remarried in Thailand about 18 months ago.
Sara, who has two children after five years of marriage, said she was devastated about her husband's new 'wife' but decided to accept the situation. However, The infamous However... she was stunned when she received a telephone call from a religious officer one day that her husband had been caught for khalwat.
'On the night that I got the call, he was supposed to be at the home of the 'second wife'. So, I thought he was keeping yet another woman,' Sara said. However, The infamous However... the enforcement officers told her that her husband had been jugged with a transvestite.
Sara's husband eventually admitted that he never had a second wife. 'He had merely made up a story about remarrying so that I wouldn't question his whereabouts.
'He even told me that the transvestite had treated him better than I did,' she said.
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Maybe he did get treated better, except he/she/it didn't allow him a close inspection of the goods, very critical to a relationship.
This is way more common than you might imagine. At least in that part of the world. No looky-looky.
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..remarried in Thailand
Must've found something in Thailand that got his attention. Just make sure to get a chromosome check before marriage in Thailand. The Thais are to SRS what the Japanese are to quality auto manufacture.
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'He even told me that the transvestite had treated him better than I did,' she said.
Could have been the victuals or the tely. We men tend to stick together.... non-emotionally, oftentimes call one another SOB's, then laugh, have a few beers and watch football. Better luck in the future Sara.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Police have dismissed claims by a lawyer that he was attacked by a snake and rendered speechless before the snake turned into smoke.
A second police investigation report dismissed the attack claims by a lawyer in the Kitutu Masaba election petition.
The report in our possession on an investigation conducted by Inspector Koech Khendi says none of the witnesses interviewed confirmed seeing the snake as alleged by Mr Alphaxard Osoro Mogikoyo, who is representing area MP Walter Nyambati.
Mr Mogikoyo had claimed that he was preparing for court at 4:20am in his room number 18 in a Kisii hotel when he heard a knock on the main door.
Perhaps his colleague Jackson Omwenga, who was in room 19 in the same hotel, wanted to discuss something with him, he thought.
When he went to open the door, he did not see anybody, but as he was closing it, he felt a strong push from outside. He though whoever was knocking wanted to enter, but he could not see anybody.
But as he was closing it, Mr Mogikoyo said he felt his body being tied and on checking, saw a black snake.
He claims he was shocked upon seeing the snake; and tried to scream but he was rendered voiceless. The snake was coiling upwards around his body.
In the report, Mr Koech says: "None saw a snake attack to Mr Osoro,"
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[Al Jazeera] A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced an army colonel to 20 years in prison, convicting him of crimes against humanity in the most prominent sexual violence case ever held in the country where thousands are brutally raped each year.
The mobile court held in the lakeside village of Baraka on Monday marks the first time that a commanding officer has been tried for such a crime.
Prosecutors had sought the death penalty for Lieutenant-Colonel Mutuare Daniel Kibibi, 46, who was accused of ordering his troops on New Year's Day to attack the village of Fizi where doctors later treated 62 women for rape.
One woman testified that Kibibi himself raped her for 40 minutes.
As the defendants were being led away in handcuffs, hundreds of people jeered at them, booed and shook their fists. Some shouted, "Kibibi! You thought you could get away with this! Now you are going to jail!" and "You must pay for your crimes!"
Four counts of crimes
Kibibi was convicted of four counts of crimes against humanity but will serve no more than 20 years in prison.
Three of his officers received the same sentences, and five others got lesser sentences. One man was acquitted and another, a minor, will be tried in juvenile court.
Kibibi, who is married with eight children, denies all the charges and says the court testimony by his bodyguards was all part of a plot to denigrate him.
Rape has long been used as a brutal weapon of war in eastern DRC, where soldiers and various militia groups use sexual violence to intimidate, punish and control the population.
At least 8,300 rapes were committed in 2009, and aid workers say the victims have even included a month-old baby boy and elderly women.
Activists said they hoped Kibibi's trial would serve as a warning to others who are brutally attacking civilians.
"Unquestionably, Kibibi and his soldiers are more than a little stunned to find themselves on trial before this groundbreaking domestic mobile court. If word about the court is spread around the country, it could have an enormous impact on deterring future crimes, now that the rule of law is finally being enforced domestically, to at least some extent," Kelly Askin of the Open Society Justice Initiative said.
Laurent Mutata Luaba. the military prosecutor, had demanded death sentences for the five officers accused. He said they "behaved like wild beasts," terrorising and attacking the defenceless civilians they had orders to protect.
Kibibi, he said, must be held responsible for the crimes committed by his troops, under the Statute of Rome that sets the criteria for crimes against humanity.
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He and his men should spend the next 20 years in the stocks in the village square next to a pile of pineapples. And I would hope that they somehow survive every night of their sentence but their last.
That would go a long way towards putting an end to this practice.
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I don't doubt he is guilty but I do doubt he was convicted of rape because he was guilty of rape. I bet he was only prosecuted for rape because he ticked off somebody more important (than either his rape victims or himself.) History there has shown that rape just isn't something they normally bother prosecuting.
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61 confirmed dead now, says NZ Prime Minister. One collapsed buiding alone has 30 people inside.
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The extensive damage to old masonry and brick veneers I expected. I am surprised to see a number of modern, re-enforced concrete buildings and wood frame structures collapse; I guess they were on soft ground and not solid foundations. Given that it is a well-known major earthquake area (and in a semi-socialist country) I am surprised at the apparant lack of earthquake-resistant design in fairly modern structures. (I am of course assuming they did not import cement and cement construction teams from Egypt or the like.)
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Christchurch is built on silty sands and a high water table - see: liquefaction recipe
the pore pressure in the soils builds faster than it can dissipate, and the soil literally becomes liquid
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A lot of factors go into causing damage in an earthquake. Loma Prieta was surprising not only for the damage it caused, but the expected damage it didn't. It will be interesting to see the final analysis. But the damage to modern wood frame buildings suggests there may be a code problem.
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IRRC FOX NEWS this Guam AM > NZ death toll at 65 wid another 100 Persons Missing, presumed by the NZ Govt to most likely be buried under the mass of quake rubble.
On a personal note, IMO GUAM PER SE HAD ALSO EXPERIENCED A "WAVE" OF SEVERAL MAGNITUDE 3-5 QUAKES OF RELATIVELY LONG-DURATION [5-15 SECONDS BTWN TIME BREAKS], BUT WHICH HAS NOT YET BEEN REPORTED IN THE LOCAL MEDIAS NOR BY THE USGS.
I guess iff GovGuam wants answers or information it'll have to ask the RUSSIANS.
The measure also allows county sheriff's deputies or city police officers to 'request an agent or employee of the United States Senator or United States Representative to sign a document acknowledging the release or discharge of the illegal immigrant at the senator's or representative's office.
The measure covers individuals who are 'not a citizen or national of the United States' and who is 'unlawfully present in the United States.' I can just imagine who would end up getting the majority of these folks dumped on them. Responsibility for each crime by a released illegal would fall back on whoever signed their release.
Considering the circumstances, it seems like a good way to do it to me, except I would also throw in those who cannot prove their citizen status.
UK budget airline easyJet apologized Tuesday to Jewish customers after the only food choices served on a flight from Israel were ham melts and bacon baguettes.
Passengers who follow the faith's ban on eating pork were forced to go hungry for the four-and-a-half hour journey from Tel Aviv to London.
The airline introduced the route in November, proudly promising that in-flight menus would feature kosher food that met Jewish dietary laws.
So Victor Kaufman, 25, was stunned when cabin crew announced the meal choices on his flight last weekend.
"It was a little insensitive. I think they need a lesson or two on cultural awareness if they expand their routes into the Middle East. It is not just Jewish passengers who do not eat pork but Muslim ones, too. I couldn't eat anything," the trainee accountant said.
An easyJet spokeswoman said company policy bans even taking pork products aboard planes on the route.
She added, "It appears that a mistake was made on this flight and that incorrect food canisters were loaded. We would like to apologize to the passengers." i bet there will not be any rioting, deaths or embassies bombed because of this....
BAMAKO A stampede in a Mali stadium at the end of a sermon by a renowned imam killed at least 36 people on Monday night, an official at the interior and civil protection ministry told AFP.
The stampede occurred as the crowd swarmed to get close to imam Osman Madani Haidara as he delivered blessings on a Muslim holiday in the packed 25,000-seat Modibo Keita stadium in the capital Bamako.
The majority of the victims were women who waited in the front of the crowd hoping to be touched by the religious leader and receive healing and protection, a source said. Another 70 people were injured. Civil protection services quickly arrived on the scene and were backed up by emergency services from Keita, 15 kilometres from the capital. The wounded were mostly taken to the Bamako's main hospital.
A foundation set up to celebrate Navy aviations 100th birthday has disavowed an official history on its website, after former combat pilots complained of inaccuracies and political correctness.
As the first celebration commenced last month at a naval air base in California, a number of enraged former pilots began bombarding the 100th Anniversary of Naval Aviation Foundation with complaints. The Navy views the commemoration with high regard, with celebrations planned at Navy and Marine Corps air stations from California to Florida.
The foundations official history slide show featured four firsts for women, such as the first female operations officer in 1992. It also accentuated humanitarian missions. But it devoted only two slides to World War II and barely mentioned Vietnam, during which the Navy orchestrated a decade of multiple aircraft carrier operations.
There is history and then there is revisionist history written to support a political agenda, said Roy Stafford, a former Marine attack aircraft pilot. This timeline offered up the first female naval aviator and first female navy astronaut and first black Blue Angel pilot as major milestones and high-water marks for naval aviation to the exclusion of the real history makers. That just didnt sit well with my simple Marine Corps mind.
Mr. Stafford is among a group of retirees who wrote e-mails of protest that ended up in the foundations lap.
The true facts are that womens contribution to naval aviation has been minimal to nonexistent for 80 of the first 100 years, said Mr. Stafford. The simple truth is they were not there, not World War I, not World War II, not Korea nor Vietnam. Men who pushed the limits of mankind to levels never before reached, to relegate them to footnote status while elevating the social agenda is a disservice to all who went before them.
The retired aviators irate criticisms directed at the 100th anniversary foundation were tinged with surprise, since it is run by men like themselves.
One of them, retired Marine Maj. Gen. Bob Butcher, said that after reading the e-mailed complaints, he agreed with them and the timeline was taken off the website.
Gen. Butcher, who is the 100th foundations co-chairman, said the contested history was written by public affairs specialists.
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really not surprising, given that the Navy is still apologizing for Tailhook, the dead female pilots that couldn't handle a Tomcat at sea and rather than be up front and be all you can be, they insist on quotamongering. just priming the pumps for when the full effect of DADT repeal hits the fan. fully expect to see straight and gay bething on ships soon.
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.
Storm [a Queen Anne's County blogger] criticized Waterman's naming the cow after the African-American talk show host who has struggled with her weight. Storm say that's "precisely why an enormouse number of Americans view Republicans as racists."
The measure also allows county sheriff's deputies or city police officers to 'request an agent or employee of the United States Senator or United States Representative to sign a document acknowledging the release or discharge of the illegal immigrant at the senator's or representative's office.
BAMAKO A stampede in a Mali stadium at the end of a sermon by a renowned imam killed at least 36 people on Monday night, an official at the interior and civil protection ministry told AFP.
