[MINNESOTA.CBSLOCAL] A Minnesota man is in jail because he logged on to Facebook. Police say 26-year-old Nicholas Wig checked his profile from a home he broke into, and then he didn't log off. It happened June 19 in South St. Paul.
"World's dumbest criminal," the homeowner James Wood said. "I don't know."
Wood had come home to find his house ransacked. His credit cards, cash and watch were all gone. In their place, the thief had left a pair of Nike tennis shoes, jeans and a belt, that were all wet. Wood said it had been raining outside.
"I started to panic," he said. "But then I noticed he had pulled up his Facebook profile."
Wood posted to Facebook using Wig's profile, saying Wig had burglarized his home. He even shared his phone number to see if someone would call with information. Wig texted him later that day.
"I replied you left a few things at my house last night, how can I get them back to you," Wood said.
Wig agreed to meet with Wood later that night. Wood believes Wig was under the impression he would give him back some of his clothes he had left at his home in exchange for a recycled cell phone Wig had stolen.
Wood, at his friend's house, left for home. On his way back to his house he saw and recognized Wig, from his Facebook profile, walking on the street. He immediately called police.
"I've never seen this before," Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said. "It's a pretty unusual case, might even make the late night television shows in terms of not being too bright."
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To be followed by swarms of locusts that blot out the sun, earthquakes, rumors of war, and a false messiah. I believe I read about all of this somewhere.
h/t Gates of Vienna
Britain may have to undertake military operations sooner than people think because of the rapidly changing security situation around the world, the head of the Army said.
Gen Sir Peter Wall said Britain now faced a growing range of threats, from attack by ballistic missiles, to terrorism and cyber warfare. The Chief of the General Staff also repeated warnings that any further defence cuts after the 2015 election would endanger the Army's new slimmed down structure. Jack of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon, thy master, is bought and sold
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The armies of the rest of NATO have shrunk astonishingly fast in the last fifteen years, as quickly as the British armed forces have shrunk, they haven't kept pace with Germany or the others. The days of a massed conscript Bundeswehr are gone. Yes, they're more professional, but they're barely there, now. The new eastern members of NATO have been following the German example for the most part - the Polish Army is now unnervingly small. The Russians have always operated on the maxim "quantity has a quality all its own"...
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How many living in Britain have joined the Jihad All-Stars?
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... on Tuesday urged Kiev to extend the shaky truce with gunnies in eastern Ukraine and launch talks despite them shooting down a helicopter with nine on board.
The Russian strongman said he had asked senators to rescind a resolution allowing him to invade Ukraine in order to encourage a "grinding of the peace processor" but vouched at the same time to always protect the interests of Russians in the neighbouring country.
"We will always protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine," Putin said after meeting Austrian counterpart Heinz Fischer in Vienna and inking a major pipeline deal. "I hope that armed forces will not be necessary for this."
Putin said the request to use the army in Ukraine was originally made due to the "situation in Crimea," the Black Sea peninsula Moscow annexed in March to a global outcry, and that he decided to recall it because he "wants to create conditions for the grinding of the peace processor."
In particular, he called on Kiev to extend the truce and begin negotiations with the east "about the future organization of Ukraine" which would grant more rights to its separatist regions.
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[BBC] North Korea has promised "merciless" retaliation if a forthcoming Hollywood movie about killing Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... is released, say agencies.
The worst thing you can do to a short, pudgy totalitarian dictator with a bad hair cut is to mock him...
A North Korean foreign ministry front man said in state media that the movie's release would be an "act of war".
He did not mention the title, but a Hollywood movie called The Interview with a similar plot is due in October.
Hollywood actors James Franco and Seth Rogen star in the action-comedy film. They play a talkshow host and his producer who are invited to interview Kim Jong-un, and are subsequently recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to assassinate the leader.
The film's teaser trailer, posted on Youtube, shows a lookalike actor playing Kim Jong-un, as well as fight scenes involving what appear to be North Korean tanks and helicopters, and a nuclear missile launch.
The North Korea front man was quoted by the state KCNA news agency as saying: "Making and releasing a movie on a plot to hurt our top-level leadership is the most blatant act of terrorism and war and will absolutely not be tolerated."
He added that the "reckless US provocative insanity" of mobilising a "gangster filmmaker" to challenge the North's leadership was triggering "a gust of hatred and rage" among North Korean people and soldiers.
"If the US administration allows and defends the showing of the film, a merciless counter-measure will be taken," the front man was quoted as saying.
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This is beginning to sound like a movie, i.e. "The Mouse That Roared".
Small country provokes a war with the US, so they can lose quickly, and then demand assistance rebuilding (as in the Marshall Plan). Peter Sellars at his best.
I'm just sayin'...
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[Korea Times] North Korea lashed out at an upcoming Hollywood action comedy about assassinating Kim Jong-un, saying it "shows the desperation of the US government and American society."
"The Interview," directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, is a tale about two CIA agents who travel to North Korea disguised as talk-show hosts to assassinate the leader.
Dave Skylark and Aaron Rapoport play the secret agents, and Korean-American actor Randall Park plays Kim Jong-un. Alas, no Arec Barrwin.
[ZeroHedge] Remember when in January 2014, Q1 GDP was expected to rise 2.6%? Well, here comes the final Q1 GDP revision and it's a doozy: at -2.9%, far below the -1.8% expected and well below the -1.0% second revision, it is an absolute disaster, and is the worst print since Q1 2009.
And while a bad GDP print was largely expected, the driver wasn't: personal consumption expenditures somehow crashed from 3.1% to just 1.0%, far below the 2.4% expected, meaning that all hope of a consumer recovery is dead. Finally, as a reminder, US GDP has never fallen more than 1.5% except during or just before an NBER-defined recession since quarterly GDP records began in 1947. Good luck department of truth propaganda machine, because even assuming 3% growth every other quarter in 2014 means 2014 GDP will be 1.5% at best!
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Bad for dems. Bad for the Beest as well. Costly 'lesson learned' for dem voting citizens, and... others voting for dems. The real challenge lies in their ability to actually absorb the lesson? I fear they will likely not.
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What little "recovery" there has been since 2009 has gone almost entirely to the 0.1%. For the rest of us, stagflation / depression. We will be having our "top men" revising the statistics before the next election to keep incumbents in office.
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3 headlines seen today, on the same page at Bloomberg.com:
-- Sales Pickup Shows Healing U.S. Real Estate Market
-- Housing Market Falters Amid Rising Prices, Lower-Paying Jobs
-- HUD Nominee Faces Senators as Housing Recovery Sputters
The MSM continues to beat the drum that extravagant real estate prices and rents are somehow good for the economy as a whole. Just the opposite is true.
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Are the numbers be manipulated strongly downward NOW so that they can be manipulated steadily upwards leading into the election? That way the Dems could claim they should be re-elected because their policies are working.
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Why, Pappy? If the policy was to have the Prez play more golf and the apparent result was a seemingly improving economy the target demographic would buy it.
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Madrid, June 24 - A Spanish court on Tuesday decided to drop a case against high-ranking Chinese political and military officials on allegations of genocide in Tibet in light of new legislation making it more difficult for prosecutors to investigate crimes committed outside the country's borders. The meaning of "outside the country's borders" beginning to penetrate?
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Was it the 'mind your own business' from the Chinese, or the laughter?
The biggest problem with underemployment for lawyers is, they're capable of finding things to do that you don't want done.
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At least someone is figuring with the depressed economy, there are more things at home that need attention other than grand standing lawyers.
Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, told Republicans Tuesday he could have an announcement within days on whether the House will file a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, challenging the executive actions that have become the keystone of the administration.
The lawsuit could set up a significant test of constitutional checks and balances, with the legislative branch suing the executive branch for ignoring its mandates, and the judiciary branch deciding the outcome.
Boehner told the House Republican Conference during a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning that he has been consulting with legal scholars and plans to unveil his next steps this week or next, according to sources in the room.
Boehners legal theory is based on work by Washington, D.C., attorney David Rivkin of Baker Hostetler LLP and Elizabeth Price Foley, a professor of law at Florida International University College of Law.
Rivkin said in an interview that in addition to proving institutional injury, the House would have to prove that as an institution, it has authorized the lawsuit. A vote by the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group would do so.
The suit would also have to prove that no other private plaintiff has standing to challenge the particular suspension of executive action and that there are no other opportunities for meaningful political remedies by Congress, for instance by repeal of the underlying law.
Professor Foley and I feel that if those four conditions are met, the lawsuit would have an excellent chance to succeed. This is particularly the case because President Obamas numerous suspensions of the law are inflicting damage on the horizontal separations of powers and undermine individual liberty, Rivkin said.
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I sense some frustration and desperation on the part of Boehner. A civil suit would be equivalent to Goldman suing O.J. for his assets. O.J. was running and around and playing golf before he got really stupid in Nevada and thrown in the slammer for conviction in a criminal case. This case is at best meant to harass and annoy and wrest some control away from Harry Reid, Obama, and Holder. No one will serve jail time.
What part of "The lawsuit could set up a significant test of constitutional checks and balances" did you miss? It's more like a constitutional version of laying the groundwork for establishing a RICO claim.
And yes - 'planning' doesn't mean anything. More likely he's running up a flag and seeing if the establishment GOP will salute it.
[VOA News] Malaysia's highest court has upheld a government ban against a Roman Catholic newspaper using the word "Allah" to refer to God. Claims that Islam is just another religion to the contrary, the god worshipped by Allanists is a different deity entirely. You can become a Moslem but you can't become something else, whereas a Presbyterian can become a Methodist without having his head chopped off or having to give birth to her children in a dungeon.
Then there's the contrast between "Allah is the greatest of all deceivers" (Qur'an 3:54), the Jewish God who can be negotiated with and keeps his bargains, and Jesus Christ, the sacrificial lamb of God for the sake of all mankind.
The Federal Court ruled in a four-to-three decision Monday that the church's Malay-language newspaper, The Herald, had no grounds to appeal a lower court decision last year that Allah should be reserved exclusively for Mohammedans, because if other religions use the word, it could be confusing and lead Mohammedans to convert. Apparently the least opportunity will lead to widespread conversion from Islam to most anything else.
At a rate of upwards of 6 million/year to Christianity without any encouragement whatsoever, according to this Al Jazeera interview.
Such conversion is illegal in Malaysia, ...what we call the Roach Motel Principle...
where more than 60 percent of the population of 30 million are Mohammedan - the country's official religion. Just over 9 percent are Christian. ... which leaves 31 percent to wallow in Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Rosicrucianism, Arianism, or the worship of the Cretan Sybelle.
Monday's ruling ends a dispute that has been ongoing since 2007, when Malaysia's Home Ministry threatened to revoke the publishing permit of The Herald for using the Arabic word in its Malay-language edition. Christians will be be required to refer to God as "Elvis" or "The Great Bob."
The editor of the newspaper, Reverend Lawrence Andrew, said he is "disappointed" by the decision, and said the four judges who voted against the appeal "did not touch on fundamental basic rights of minorities." If I understand correctly, among the Hebrews the name of God wasn't to be spoken. Jews still often type it as G-d or G*d. They use circumlocutions such as YHWH (the initials expanded to 'Yahweh' but meaning something else) or 'Adonai' (our Lord) or 'Elohim' (Gods, plural).When Moses asked God what to call Him, He replied 'Ehyeh asher ehyeh' which translates as approximately 'I am what I am' or 'I will be what I will be.' From that we can guess that God's 'name' is whatever he pleases it to be. My guess is that it's not Allan (PTUI).
For centuries the Muslims have told their conquered Peoples of the Book that the God they worship is the same as Allah, removing an objection to conversion. It's telling that now they say otherwise.
Christian groups argue that they have used the word Allah to refer to God in their Bibles and songs for many years - long before authorities began enforcing the ban several years ago.
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which translates as approximately 'I am what I am' or 'I will be what I will be.' From that we can guess that God's 'name' is whatever he pleases it to be I dunno about that Fred, looks like a good case can be made for Popeye.
[Breitbart] HOUSTON, Texas--A tidal wave of immigrants entering the U.S. illegally each day has caused a dire situation which officials have called a "humanitarian crisis." But not everyone agrees with that label. "This is a manufactured crisis, not a humanitarian crisis," Zack Taylor, Chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO), told Breitbart Texas. Any action or inaction by the Congress of the United States, deemed to be counter to the long-term goals and objectives of the Obama regime, is met with a punitive counter-action.
Wait -- there's a national group of former border patrollers? Why do we never hear from them, as we do from various veterans groups?
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Pissing at the rail is strongly discouraged at the Rose & Crown. If you can't make it to the back, please take it outside. We're a pub of some standards.
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.
[MINNESOTA.CBSLOCAL] A Minnesota man is in jail because he logged on to Facebook. Police say 26-year-old Nicholas Wig checked his profile from a home he broke into, and then he didn't log off. It happened June 19 in South St. Paul.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
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[Korea Times] North Korea lashed out at an upcoming Hollywood action comedy about assassinating Kim Jong-un, saying it "shows the desperation of the US government and American society."
[VOA News] Malaysia's highest court has upheld a government ban against a Roman Catholic newspaper using the word "Allah" to refer to God.
