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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Russian Woman Changes Sex to Escape Debts
[An Nahar] A Russian woman on the run over unpaid debts has changed sex in an apparent attempt to avoid paying them back -- but is still liable for the money, bailiffs said Monday.

"The debtor changed gender to try to escape liabilities," the press service of the bailiff service of the southern Astrakhan region said in a statement.

The 38-year-old woman, named only as Natalya, changed sex to become a man named Andrian after building up debts of around 130,000 rubles ($3,745), a spokeswoman for the bailiffs told Agence La Belle France Presse.

"During our investigation, we found out that the woman doesn't exist anymore, and now a man exists," said Yevgenia Zarynsh.

After changing gender, the man received a new passport with different details which he used as ID to secure new loans, bailiffs said.

But even such a drastic measure would not cancel the debts Andrian acquired as a woman, Zarynsh said.

"He will be liable all the same, despite the gender change. It's futile. He'll still have to pay them back. If a debtor thinks he can escape that way, he's very much mistaken," said the spokeswoman.

As a man Andrian has now built up new debts -- this time unpaid taxes, Zarynsh added. He is still on the run.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some things aren't worth it. This is one of them.
Posted by: gorb || 01/29/2014 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  On the bright side, at least he won't have to work his balls off to get out of debt.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2014 0:22 Comments || Top||

#3  So, in an attempt to screw her creditors she wants all possible bases covered?
Posted by: GORT || 01/29/2014 8:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Besoeker, you have a way of finding silver linings. I saw a picture of a male dog up for adoption. The dog was awaiting neutering. He had a worried look on his face.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/29/2014 11:12 Comments || Top||

#5  How much did the operations cost? I mean if it owed less than $4,000????? How does that even work?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/29/2014 14:39 Comments || Top||



-Short Attention Span Theater-
British woman suffers from fear of newspapers
A British woman said her phobia of newspapers is so powerful she finds it difficult even to look at them.

Diane Freelove, 49, of Rochester, England, said she has suffered from chloephobia, the fear of newspapers, for about 25 years and she can't stand the look, smell or touch of a newspaper, the Mirror reported Tuesday.

"When I visit a shop I walk as far away as I can from the newsstand," Freelove said. "I can't go anywhere near someone who has got one, and if they approach me, I freak out. At one time I could touch a newspaper as long as I knew I could wash my hands thoroughly afterwards. But now I can't even look at them.

"I don't like the feel of them -- if I touch a newspaper it feels like my skin is crawling. And I can't stand the smell, which I think is quite strong and distinctive," she said.

Freelove said the fear probably started in her childhood.

"When I was a child, my mother hit my father over the head with a newspaper. She did it in a playful, friendly way, but it worried me," she said. "I became afraid of newspapers over the past 25 years."
Posted by: Au Auric || 01/29/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The British tabloids do the same thing to me...
Posted by: Incredulous || 01/29/2014 10:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Most of the U.S. MSM has this effect on me too.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/29/2014 11:07 Comments || Top||

#3  She has a fear of newspapers because her mother used one to housebreak her father?

I'd say fear of newspapers was the least of her problems....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/29/2014 12:03 Comments || Top||

#4  She was an only child.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2014 17:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Can't stand the black and white
I gotta go where you aren't
If it's wrong or write
I gotta go where you aren't

I'll squeeze through the tubes and paywalls
Fleeing from you
'Cause if I see you, my skin crawls
I turn red all over, and blue
Posted by: Enver Snusotle5630 || 01/29/2014 20:53 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Climate-Change (Winter) Storm Leon - State-by-State Impacts
The Weather Channel, so there is no political (AGW) commentary. The snow and ice skipped over the Dallas area - this time - and hit Austin. Houston had ice a few days ago.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/29/2014 13:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Climate change." Grrrrrr! %$&@. The climate change advocates would say climate change causes hemorrhoids. The new religion replete with a devil called "climate change" to explain all the evils of the world (and to separate you from your money).
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/29/2014 14:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Government fails. Chick-fil-A delivers.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/29/2014 15:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Much depends on a locality's level of awareness & depth of experience. Naturally warmer areas will fumble during severe winter weather.
I moved to OH from NM in the fall of 1976, and was soon caught up in the worst winter of my lifetime. The winter which followed was even worse. People commuting from one side of Akron to the other got stuck in whiteouts and died when they tried to walk a few blocks for help. Some victims did not even have a jacket on when they left their homes. Experiences like these will change how regions respond to weather predictions. The infamous 1978 "winter hurricane" which paralyzed the midwest, particularly Ohio, was mitigated by experiences gained the winter before, e.g. the mayor of Akron banned non-emergency private traffic altogether. This kept cars from blocking roads when they got stuck or broke down, so that police, fire, paramedics, delivery trucks and public transit continued to operate under the worst tolerable conditions. Essential services in Akron continued to work, so that hospitals were staffed, and electric linesmen were not obstructed by traffic jams. Lack of experience accounts for bad judgment.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/29/2014 16:37 Comments || Top||

#4  We are making little tiny ice peeps from sleet captured on the windshields. Kinda depressing actually.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2014 17:18 Comments || Top||

#5  It was a balmy 42F when I went to work this morning (Seattle area) - didn't even have ice on the windshield. Of course it's cloudy and gloomy here - but that normal for this area.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/29/2014 17:26 Comments || Top||

#6  The underlying premise of GWCC + any so-called "Mini-Ice Age", which I like to call the "Great/Mighty Asia-Pacific Slushy" is that the latter is but an INTERIM BURP in the Sun being expected to heat up in coming years or decades.

WID MUCHO PERT UNCERTAINTY + DEBATE AS TO WHETHER IT MEANS THE SUN WILL GO INTO SUDDEN-VS-NEAR-VS-LONG-TERM EARLY "RED GIANT" PHASE OR OTHER.

D *** NGED GASSY/FLATULENT/FARTY SPACE ROCKS!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/29/2014 21:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Given the quiet Sun at what should be Solar Max, my money is on another Dalton Minimum - assuming this isn't simply the start of the next Ice Age. Winter is coming.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/29/2014 22:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Watching Fox and Megan Kelley ( is that redundant?) and she was talking about Atlanta being shut down for 2 inches of snow; she could do the same story for Seattle; just change the name in the script.
Down here in Tijuana is has been 65 + all day.....really don't want to go back to the NW gray, but home and duty and all that.....
Posted by: USN, Ret. ontheroad || 01/29/2014 22:47 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Obama's high school pot dealer was beaten to death with a hammer by his gay lover over flatulenc
President Obama’s high school pot dealer who he thanked in his yearbook for the 'good times' was beaten to death by his lover after a series of fights over flatulence and drugs, MailOnline can reveal today.

Raymond Boyer, known as 'Gay Ray' to Obama and his marijuana smoking 'Choom Gang', was bludgeoned to death with a hammer seven years after he sold the future president and his friends drugs.

His lover Andrew Devere, a male prostitute, gave police a laundry list of reasons for the killing, including that Boyer, a surfer and unemployed chef, constantly put him down, made him beg for drugs and had a habit of breaking wind in his face.

Posted by: Beavis || 01/29/2014 12:30 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Devere's new wife Elizabeth told MailOnline doing drugs is fine if you are rich and 'have the tools to deal with it' but not if you are poor with problems."

...now there's a girl I'm sure knows her white count...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 01/29/2014 21:47 Comments || Top||

#2  He who once purveyed choom to the Bammer,
Later on met his doom when a hammer
Cracked his mullet toupee --
'Twas the end of Gay Ray,
And the whoring, the farting, the glamour!
Posted by: Enver Snusotle5630 || 01/29/2014 21:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Wonderful ES! only missing a 'Burma Shave' sign at the end.
Posted by: USN, Ret. ontheroad || 01/29/2014 22:49 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Central African Stabs Russian Diplomat in Sudan
[An Nahar] A Russian diplomat and his wife were stabbed in the Sudanese capital Tuesday by a man anguished by the death of his brother in violence-plagued Central African Republic, police said.

Khartoum police said the diplomat and his wife were maimed with a knife at the embassy gates, adding that their condition was "stable" without giving their names.

Embassy guards and passers-by managed to detain the suspect, who is from the Central African Republic, the statement said.

"Investigation showed that his brother was killed this morning in Bangui," the Central African capital, the police said in a statement.

Russia's charge d'affaires in Khartoum, Yury Vidakas, confirmed the incident. Asked about the condition of the victims, he told Agence La Belle France Presse: "They're OK."

The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
agreed last week to send up to 600 troops to back just over 3,500 African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
and 1,600 French soldiers already battling to end festivities between Moslem and Christian groups in the CAR.

Khartoum police said the suspect attacked the Russians in the mistaken belief that troops from their country had killed his brother.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Revolution in Kiev
Ilya Varlamov at Live Journal has amazing photos of Kiev at the barricades last week. Hat tip VodkaPundit.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/29/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Have they started killing Jews yet?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/29/2014 3:47 Comments || Top||

#2  As that famous American philosopher Wednesday Addams would say:

"Wait."
Posted by: Steve White || 01/29/2014 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3  More from DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND > [ABC.AZ] THREAT OF NUCLEAR CIVIL WAR IN UKRAINE FRIGHTENS IAEA, ALTHOUGH GUARD THREATENS TO SHOOT RADICALS.

"Shoot/Kill first, verify later" Govt. policy going into effect???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/29/2014 21:14 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
The Badass Attitude Of Chinese Tennis Champ Li Na Summed Up In One Picture
...a cultural shift on the part of Chinese leadership? ...or just a fleeting moment of indulgence..?
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 01/29/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'll bet that $132K makes her an official employee. Thanking the MotherLand is no longer optional.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2014 5:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Ooh I can't resist a girl with a cheeky grin.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/29/2014 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Would you be smiling - New Jersey Taxes Could Eat Up All Of Peyton Manning's Super Bowl Earnings.

A confiscatory kleptocracy that now renders a freeman nothing more than bonded to either the state or plantation as any serf. All your production and labor belongs to us. Be happy with what we let you keep.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/29/2014 8:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Nice stadium you have there. Be a shame if some of the entrance lanes and parking lots were closed due to safety monitoring or repairs.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2014 8:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Tea Party Movement To Celebrate Five Years Of Victories
[Breitbart] Breitbart News has learned that the Tea Party movement will celebrate its five-year anniversary with a blockbuster event on February 27 in Washington, D.C. that will bring together Tea Party conservatives in Congress with local activists and movement leaders from across the nation.

The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM EST on February 27.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2014 11:22 Comments || Top||

#2  “The White House says the president is unaware of the tea parties and will hold his own event today,” ABC’s Dan Harris said on “Good Morning America” on April 15 (2009).

Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/29/2014 13:23 Comments || Top||

#3  The TEA party is the middle class. No the cat is out of the bag. The politicians see the middle class and the golden egg.
Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 || 01/29/2014 22:51 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Ecce homo: Family of blasphemy-accused Briton appeals for help
[DAWN] The family of a mentally ill British man sentenced to death in Pakistain for blasphemy has urged London to intervene to seek his release.

Mohammad Asghar was sentenced by a court in Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, last week for writing letters claiming to be a prophet.

The special court inside Rawalpindi's Adiyala Jail, where Asghar is being held, rejected defence claims that Asghar has mental health problems.

But a statement from the British charity Reprieve, which is helping Asghar's family, said the 69-year-old was detained by authorities in Scotland in 2010 because of mental problems and diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

"We are really upset and concerned that they will never release him and that he will die in jail. He has already attempted suicide unsuccessfully," Asghar's family said in the statement released on Monday.

"We just want him back home where hopefully he can be treated for and recover from his mental illness.

"We urge the British Government to intervene and bring him home to us where he will be safe."

Blasphemy is an extremely sensitive issue in Pakistain, where 97 per cent of the population is Mohammedan and insulting the Holy Prophet (PTUI!) can carry the death penalty.

But the country has had a de facto moratorium on civilian hangings since 2008. Only one person has been executed since then, a soldier convicted by court martial.

Rights groups say the tough blasphemy laws are frequently abused to settle personal scores.

The family says the allegations against Asghar stem from a property dispute with one of his tenants.

Reprieve also complained that Asghar's legal team had been denied access to him since his conviction.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  ...considering the overwhelming response by the 'bunnies to providing Polio vaccine, I doubt that a "He was off his meds." defense will carry the day...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 01/29/2014 12:50 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian Leader Presides Over Mass Wedding
The times, they are a-changing...
[Ynet] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
has presided over a mass wedding of 218 couples in the parking lot of a five-star hotel in the West Bank.

It's the first time he is copying a social outreach tactic perfected by his political rivals from the Islamic bully boy group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, as he courts flagging popular support.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Southeast Asia
Thai government wants controversial election to go ahead
[Egypt Independent] Thailand's government wants controversial elections to go ahead this weekend, a deputy prime minister said Tuesday, despite threats by opposition protesters to disrupt the polls to stop the ruling party returning to power.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra began talks with election officials who want to delay the vote following street violence in which at least 10 people have been killed and hundreds injured in grenade attacks, drive-by shootings and festivities.

In the latest incident, shots were fired Tuesday near the Bangkok army base where Yingluck was holding meetings, as hundreds of protesters massed outside.

Emergency services said two people were maimed although the exact circumstances were not immediately clear.

The Thai capital has been shaken by nearly three months of mass street demonstrations, demanding Yingluck's elected government step down to make way for an unelected "people's council" that would oversee reforms aimed at curbing the dominance of her billionaire family.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2014-01-29
  'Foreign Intelligence' Behind Attacks: Faizi
Tue 2014-01-28
  Tunisia approves new constitution, appoints government
Mon 2014-01-27
  Somali militant commander killed by missile in suspected drone attack
Sun 2014-01-26
  Arc Light Iraqi planes, artillery strike rebel-held Falluja
Sat 2014-01-25
  Drone Strike Kills Three Qaida Suspects in Yemen
Fri 2014-01-24
  Accidental car boom in Peshawar kills six
Thu 2014-01-23
  'Germans among Dead' in Pakistan Air Strikes
Wed 2014-01-22
  Bomb kills at least 22 Shiite pilgrims returning on bus from Iran to Pakistan
Tue 2014-01-21
  Taliban bombing near GHQ kills 13
Mon 2014-01-20
  Explosion kills 20 in Bannu; TTP claims attack
Sun 2014-01-19
  Iranian diplomat shot dead by gunmen in Sana'a
Sat 2014-01-18
  Suicide Bomb Rocks Downtown Kabul
Fri 2014-01-17
  Car Bomb Kills 3, Hurts Dozens in Hermel, 'al-Nusra in Lebanon' Claims Attack
Thu 2014-01-16
  Syria Opposition Says Army Attacked Rebels with Poison Gas
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  Sharia begins in Libya


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