A man who ordered a prostitute to his hotel room collapsed when his daughter turned up at the door.
Titus Ncube from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, said the shock of seeing his 20-year-old daughter sent him to the ground. The unnamed woman reportedly fled the building.
According to the Zimbabwe News, Ncube ordered the prostitute as he was experiencing marital problems.
"I am sorry for what I did," he said. "I spoke to my wife and my daughter... I apologised for my actions because I just wanted my family back."
Ncube said his daughter was no longer working as a prostitute and was planning to return to school.
"My marital problems are not over, but we have a marriage counsellor who is helping us to get over this most difficult period in our marriage," he added.
On hearing the news, his wife said: "If it were not for my children, I could have divorced him a long time ago."
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G(r)om, I think in today's' world of modern surgery and hormone therapy it's pretty much gotten to the point the kids are going to need a chromosome kit to make a determination.
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The day could have been saved had the daughter been quicker on her feet.
"Oh, dad! Thank heavens I found you! I have been looking all over and someone said you were here! We heard there was an accident and you were hit on the head and you took off running! Are you all right?"
[Emirates 24/7] The premiere of Kim Kardashian's latest reality show "Kourtney & Kim Take New York" might give an insight as to why Kim and Kris divorced 72 days after their much hyped wedding. Yes, we've all be wondering...
Kris Humphries was left furious when he walked in on wife Kim Kardashian, her sister and friends taking part in a yoga session with a naked male yoga instructor on their reality show. Hmmm... Yasss... That would tend to put a strain on a marriage, especially if the woman in the company of the nekkid man was a ditz...
He was shocked to see his wife doing yoga with a naked man in the room. "That's disgusting," he said, beginning to laugh nervously. Perhaps it's old fashioned, but men prefer their wives to avoid the company of nekkid men who aren't them.
Kardashian, 31, and Humphries were seen coming to blows during the season premiere which was aired on US television on November 28. "I... [SLAP!] want... [PUNCH!] a divorce! [THUMP!]"
The two sniped at each other throughout the episode, about everything from a broken toe nail to where to raise their potential family. "How about in somebody else's house?"
"Maybe I'll just raise them with somebody else!"
"Maybe you can just spawn them with somebody else!"
"Maybe I will!"
"Or maybe you can spawn them yourself!"
"You mean...?"
"Yeah. Go have sex with yourself!"
But the biggest fight came when Humphries returned to the couple's hotel suite to find the Kardashians participating in a yoga session with a male teacher wearing only a necklace. "Hmmm... Is that a magic mushroom in your lap or are you surprised to see me?"
Though Kim was fully dressed, her husband was not happy about her being in the company of a naked man. "Brazen hussy!"
"You knew that when you married me, bub!"
"That can be cured!"
The socialite fires back after Humphries gets upset in front of the instructor. Kardashian swung into defensive mode snapping, "You're so immature, I can't take it." I dunno about you, but my mind just boggled.
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"You're such a Bjoran!"
"Thats it, I'm outta here!"
I think Kim needs to get some cats. Maybe about four, that should make her feel better about her future, ease that pretty little head of hers about her jewelry debut at Dollar General.
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It's probably a safe bet that American beach panties and/or imported 100%? cotton Yoga pants were being worn by the women during this manic, yet quite Tantric session; wood it not?
May G+D bless you for gently chiding me back to Christian thinking and for rebuking my deeply twisted, negative attitudes.
Christ Jesus is my only Hope in and for this world.
[ABC News] Ivory Coast's former strongman, who nearly dragged his country into civil war in a bid to retain power, is being extradited to the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... following the issue of a warrant for his arrest, his front man said Tuesday. Maybe the ICC will leave Libya alone now since they have a chew toy for the next decade...
The ex-president has been under house arrest in the tiny village of Korhogo over 300 miles (500 kilometers) north of Abidjan since being ousted by internationally backed forces seven months ago.
In Abidjan, Gbagbo's front man Kone Katinan confirmed that the former ruler had left the remote village in a special flight headed to The Hague. "He's in the plane," Katinan said. The public prosecutor's office in Ivory Coast said Gbagbo changed planes in Bouake, the regional capital, before continuing to the Netherlands.
"I can confirm that he left Korhogo at 6:31 p.m. GMT. He is passing through Bouake, because the landing strip in Korhogo can only accommodate a small plane."
Gbagbo's Gay Paree-based lawyer Emmanuel Altit said he had filed an appeal to stop the international arrest warrant issued Tuesday through Ivory Coast state prosecutors, but acknowledged that if it's not granted, the ex-president would be transferred overnight.
The development, which comes almost exactly a year to the day after Ivory Coast's disputed presidential election, was applauded by victims of Gbagbo's regime and by rights groups because of the signal it sends against impunity.
Once he arrives in The Hague, Gbagbo will become the first former head of state to be taken into custody by the tribunal since its founding in 2002. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. has been indicted, though he refuses to surrender, while former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor The former President-for-Life of Liberia, of whom the best that could be said was that he wasn't quite as horrible as Prince Johnson, at least not usually. and Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic have been tried there by special ad hoc tribunals, rather than the world court.
The move could further stoke tension in Ivory Coast, however, because it gives the appearance of victor's justice, since grave abuses were also committed by forces loyal to the country's democratically elected leader, Alassane Ouattara ...the current president-for-life of Ivory Coast. He actually beat his predecessor in an election before having to eject him from the presidential palazzo.... , who enlisted the help of a former rebel group in order to force Gbagbo from office.
In the Abidjan neighborhoods that voted in large numbers for Gbagbo, the frustration was palpable. Retired insurance salesman Jack Koutouan, 67, called the move "an abuse of the law."
Leaders of Gbagbo's party, whose members are either under house arrest or else in exile, called the pending extradition an "injustice."
"It's an injustice to judge him alone without judging (Guillaume) Soro," said party front man Augustin Guehoun, naming the country's defense minister who headed the gang that invaded the country in order to install Ouattara.
The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... and Amnesia Amnesty International have documented how the advancing army set fire to villages that voted for Gbagbo, and executed those that could not run away, including the elderly and the disabled, by rolling them inside mattresses and then setting them on fire.
"He is not the only one responsible (for the human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. abuses committed during the post election period)," said 30-year-old Kossonou Agingra. "There were partisans of Alassane (Ouattara) who killed -- and partisans of Gbagbo who killed."
The 66-year-old Gbagbo, a history professor, came to power in a flawed election in 2000. He then failed to hold elections when his first five-year term expired in 2005, and rescheduled the vote a half-dozen times before it finally went ahead in 2010. Among conditions set by the international community, which Gbagbo accepted, were that the results would be certified by the United Nations in order to prevent his regime from rigging the vote.
But as soon as it became clear that Ouattara was leading in the polls, Gbagbo's presidential guard surrounded the election commission, preventing the results from being announced.
The killings began as soon as the United Nations declared Ouattara the winner, and for the next four months morgues overflowed as the military under Gbagbo's control executed opponents, bumped off protesters and shelled neighborhoods.
The turning point came in March when thousands of unarmed women led a demonstration demanding Gbagbo's departure. Tanks opened fire with 50-caliber bullets and the horrific scene that followed was caught on camera phones, and led to condemnation by governments around the world, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Acheson ...
The United Nations helped by French forces began air strikes soon after, clearing the path for Ouattara's soldiers to enter the city, where they seized Gbagbo inside his bunker.
"Today is a big day for the victims of crimes committed during Ivory Coast's horrific postelection violence," said Elise Keppler, senior counsel to Human Rights Watch in an email.
"While the Gbagbo camp fueled the violence through its refusal to relinquish power and its incitement, forces on both sides have been repeatedly implicated in grave crimes," she said. "The many victims of abuse meted out by forces loyal to President Ouattara also deserve to see justice done."
Spokesman for Ouattara's government Kone Bruno said he did not believe the pending indictment could destabilize the nation, which is still plagued by pockets of violence between the two camps. He added that the international court will likely be more impartial than an Ivory Coast court. "If a judgment were made in Ivory Coast, it wouldn't be objective," he said.
In the Netherlands, Gbagbo is likely to be better treated than he has been at home. His lawyer Altit said that while under house arrest in Korhogo the elderly Gbagbo was kept incommunicado and prohibited from going outside.
"He didn't have the right to walk even a few steps outside," said Altit. "At the beginning, he didn't have any clothes, and after two or two-and-a-half months lawyers were able to come see him and bring him some things."
A confidential United Nations document leaked to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Tuesday states that Gbagbo's health "seems to be deteriorating." He was having "trouble standing up," as of Nov. 23.
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[Emirates 24/7] Three Saudi men parked their car close to the headquarters of the Gulf Kingdom's feared religious police late night, got out and started having sex with a woman accompanying them just in front of the massive police signboard.
They were filming themselves with the aim publicising the shot to defame the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most influential law enforcement authority in the Muslim nation.
The three were half way through their operation when one of them noticed the security camera next to the signboard in the capital Riyadh. They stopped filming, headed for the camera and smashed it before fleeing the scene.
In the morning, Commission members going to their offices were surprised to notice that the security camera was badly damaged.
But examination later showed the film inside was intact and it contained clear shots of the three men while having sex with the girl.
"Within three hours, two of those men were captured and a search is still under way to find the third man and the girl," Sabq newspaper said.
"Commission members also found a Kalashnikov machine gun with one of the arrested."
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"Operation" > is that what its being called nowadays???
OTOH why not, I've seen young people snort scents + perfumes, etc. up their nose.
[Bangla Daily Star] Two robbers were killed in a mob beating in Kuliarchar upazila of Kishoreganj yesterday when they were fleeing after robbing a house.
One of the dear departed was identified as Badal Miah, 40, of Nolbait village. Identity of the other myrmidon could not be known immediately.
Muyeed Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of Kuliarchar Police Station, said a gang of at least five robbers looted the house of one Hares Miah at North Shalua village around 2:00am.
The gang stabbed Hares' wife Jahanara Akter and his sister-in-law Ferdous Ara when they tried to resist the robbers.
As the criminals were fleeing the village, neighbours of Hares made an announcement from a nearby mosque calling for help.
Later villagers gave chase and caught two robbers near Dumrakanda area.
Villagers gave the robbers a good beating, leaving them dead on the spot.
Police recovered three gold chains and a torchlight from their possession.
Jahanara and Ferdous were admitted to Kuliarchar Upazila Health Complex.
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Passengers who had been warned of lengthy delays at Heathrow due to striking workers today said border controls were 'better than usual'.
As Border Agency bosses were forced to take on regular airport workers to man passport control, delighted passengers said queues had been shorter than normal.
The situation was echoed at Dover too as passengers faced apparently normal travel conditions with ferry services 'running well and to time' this morning.
There are grave fears for the health of an Australian man and father of five in jail for more than two weeks in a Saudi prison under the country's blasphemy laws.
Mansor Almaribe, 45,
Not named Bruce, then...
has not been to obtain legal representation since he was arrested in Medina on November 14 for alleged religious offences. His family in Australia are very worried about his health, as he suffers from diabetes and heart disease.
Almaribe, a Shiite Muslim,
All becomes clear. There's his religious offense -- no more is needed.
went to Saudi Arabia for the Haj when he ran afoul of religious police and was accused of insulting the companions of the prophet Muhammad.
He has only been permitted one brief conversation with his family, borrowing the mobile phone of an Australian diplomat during a two-hour consular visit on November 23.
Almaribe's eldest son, Jamal, said that a witness at the time of the arrest reported a group had been praying and reading when the police accosted them and arrested his father. He said, "I'm so worried about my dad's health, he's in a bad, bad situation."
Jamal said his father fled by boat to Australia from Iraq in 1999.
What, all the way? Or did he perhaps board an airplane in Iran...
He later became an Australian citizen.
Efforts to engage Saudi lawyers have been unsuccessful because the family cannot afford the $5000 fee demanded to begin work on Almaribe's case. Under Saudi law, only Muslims can enter Medina, complicating efforts by Australian officials to reach Almaribe from the embassy in Riyadh.
Local police have not always answered telephone calls and efforts to fax his medical records to authorities have not yet been unsuccessful. An embassy official is expected to seek to deliver the records to the police by hand today and visit Almaribe.
Australian officials have been told an investigation into his case might not be finished until December 21.
[Dawn] A computer programming language cannot be protected by copyright, the adviser to the EU's top court said on Tuesday in an opinion that could affect the competitive IT industry.
Advocate general Yves Bot argued that programming languages -- different digital vocabularies such as HTML and Java used to make a computer perform certain tasks -- should be compared to the language used by a novelist.
The functionalities of a computer programme should also not be eligible for copyright, Bot said, adding that they are the equivalent of ideas and that protecting them would "amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas." The advocate general's opinions are not binding but the Luxembourg-based European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Court of Justice follows his advice in 80 percent of cases.
The opinion arises from a case pitting North Carolina-based SAS Institute, which provides business analytics software and services, against British software firm World Programming Ltd.
SAS launched a complaint in Britannia against WPL after the US company created a product that can execute programmes written in SAS language.
The High Court of Justice in Britannia asked the EU judges to issue a preliminary ruling to clarify the scope of EU legal protection for computer programmes.
"The functionalities of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright," Bot said.
Bot said however that copyright can cover "the means for achieving the concrete expression" of the functionalities.
"The way in which formulae and algorithms are arranged -- like the style in which the computer program is written -- will be likely to reflect the author's own intellectual creation and therefore be eligible for protection," he said.
But the holder of a programme license can reproduce or translate a source code without the author's authorisation, under certain conditions, so as to ensure different elements of a programme work together, Bot said.
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To paraphrase Lasarus Long, public servants are objective---they hate all creative people equally.
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'programming languages...should be compared to the language used by a novelist...The functionalities of a computer programme should also not be eligible for copyright, Bot said, adding that they are the equivalent of ideas and that protecting them would "amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas."'
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How do you copyright sequences which is what in the end all the layers of code lead to - (ex:00100101110001111000111000100111001110001010111000001)?
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Can't copyright the language ... but you can still protect the compilers, interpreters, and run-time environments, which is where the magic happens anyway.
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Advocate general Yves Bot argued that programming languages -- different digital vocabularies such as HTML and Java used to make a computer perform certain tasks -- should be compared to the language used by a novelist.
Apparently this moron has no idea what is involved with programming a compiler to turn statements in this "novelist" language into machine readable code.
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So is the meta-language these programming languages often get translated to copywritable? I'm thinking about .NET, java, p-code, etc...
Those aren't written by a 'novelist'...
How about machine instructions? Can Intel copyright 'mov ds,bs'.
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Actually, TW, you can't patent an idea - - only an invention or other embodiment of an idea. By a twist of fate I was speaking with 4 people at the US Patent Office about this earlier today!
A gay softball organization has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to three players who were disqualified from its 2008 Gay Softball World Series in the Seattle area because of their perceived heterosexuality.
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Great. Disqualified, not that they couldn't play softball, but because they wouldn't play ball.
I trust they won a discrimination suit?
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"Suspicions began when two of the players refused to throw like girls. Later, a third player was discovered in possession of a Victoria's Secret catalogue. After it was thrown out, he was caught digging through the trash to retrieve it."
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"Joe knew he was starting to look out of place when he didn't giggle at the pitcher/catcher discussion or who was in the hole during batting, but knew the gig was up when it was time to have a cold one and he was the only one who brought beer."
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 premiere of Kim Kardashian's latest reality show "Kourtney & Kim Take New York" might give an insight as to why Kim and Kris divorced 72 days after their much hyped wedding.
International Criminal Court
Charles Taylor
Three Saudi men parked their car close to the headquarters of the Gulf Kingdom's feared religious police late night, got out and started having sex with a woman accompanying them just in front of the massive police signboard.
There are grave fears for the health of an Australian man and father of five in jail for more than two weeks in a Saudi prison under the country's blasphemy laws.
A computer programming language cannot be protected by copyright, the adviser to the EU's top court said on Tuesday in an opinion that could affect the competitive IT industry.
