If successful, it would have been a great loss to the Progressives... /sarc
The poor man went off his meds, and this is the result. Thank goodness he never got past the talking stage.
Yes, and let's take this moment in this new year to remind ourselves of the Rantburg rule: we don't ever advocate harm to an American citizen, particularly harm that would be considered illegal in any way, shape or form. The bartender needs to be handled in accordance with the law and modern psychiatry, and Speaker Boehner needs to be safe from harm and accountable for his political acts.
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Speaker Boehner needs to be safe from harm and accountable for his political acts
No arguments here. The shame is that we seem to need the reminder because the GOP is as badly out of touch with reality as the bartender. Too bad they don't serve alcohol at the Waffle House.
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The occasionally weepy speaker is from my home town (no..I didn't know him Thank God). On the other hand so is George Clooney...maybe the leftness rubbed off.
And I thought CA was loony so we left for Boise. I guess it's true...you can never go home again...right quote..different reason
[CHANNELNEWSASIA] Police in Malaysia placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! 29 people including two auxiliary coppers in a raid on a birthday party which they said had turned into a drug-fuelled orgy. Officers were called to a hotel in the town of Klang near the capital Kuala Lumpur early Sunday (Jan 11) after a complaint about noise in one of the rooms.
Ten women and 19 men were arrested while drugs including heroin, Ecstasy and ketamine were impounded, police said. "We suspect it to be a sex orgy cum birthday party," said North Klang police chief Mohamad Shukor Sulong.
A police officer involved in the investigation told AFP on condition of anonymity that all 29 were ethnic Malays and ranged in age from 20 to 35. "They brought girls, drugs and beer to celebrate the birthday party," the officer said.
Premarital sex and lewd behaviour are deeply frowned upon in Malaysia, which has traditionally practised a relatively moderate brand of Islam yet remains conservative on sexual issues.
Moslems who are merely caught alone in a secluded place with a member of the opposite sex who is not a relation can face up to two years' jail and a fine. Moslems make up more than half Malaysia's nearly 30 million people.
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Malaysian drug laws are severe. Hanging for trafficking ( Anyone possessing more than seven ounces of marijuana or one-half an ounce of heroin will be assumed to be a drug trafficker, and will be tried as such.). Don't know about Ecstasy or ketamine. Don't know how sex orgies are viewed (it is a Muslim nation).
[ARABNEWS] Anita Ekberg, who has died aged 83, is likely to be remembered for a single scene in Romes Trevi Fountain, exhibiting her curvaceous charms to an urbane Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellinis La Dolce Vita.
Although born and brought up in Sweden, Ekberg spent most of her adult life abroad, first in the United States, where she quickly emerged as one of a 1950s generation of pin-ups and starlets, and then in Italia, where she died in a hospital outside the capital on Sunday.
Ekberg had attracted attention while still a teenager, winning a beauty contest to become Miss Sweden in 1950.
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A classy lady indeed, not like these tattooed bum waggers of the current era.
[LATINO.FOXNEWS] A 19-year-old beauty queen and aspiring doctor died in Ecuador due to complications from a botched liposuction surgery a medical procedure that she at first didnt want. She didn't look like she was a plump beauty queen...
Catherine Cando, a part-time glamour model and the winner of the Queen of Durán beauty contest in Ecuador, had initially declined the surgery part of the prize for winning the pageant because she believed she could lose the supposed excess weight through exercise. But the judges insisted she needed the surgery.
"Before having the surgery, she received a lot of calls from the surgeon trying to persuade her to do it, but she kept saying no," her brother Daniel Zavela told local media. "She was thinking about letting someone else have it as a freebie but eventually she agreed to have it just to get him off her back."
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The 'Hot Crazy Matrix' may provide some understanding of how these tragic events take place.
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IIUC, it is ASSUMED that a 19 yr. old BEAUTY queen will need/be improved by liposuction?
WTF is wrong with this world where those two things, beautiful young woman and liposuction, can even be thought of together? This is well and truly F#*%ed up.
Two Albuquerque police officers have been charged with murder in last year's fatal shooting of a homeless man in New Mexico, a death that sparked violent protests in the city and generated a federal investigation into the recent history of alleged excessive abuse by police authorities.
Former Albuquerque police Detective Keith Sandy and current officer Dominique Perez will each face a single count of open murder in the death of 38-year-old James Boyd, Second District Attorney Kari Brandenburg said in Bernalillo County on Monday. The charge of open murder will allow prosecutors to pursue either first-degree or second-degree murder charges.
On March 16, the SWAT team members fatally shot Boyd, who was accused of illegal camping and believed to have struggled with mental illness, during a four-hour standoff in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. A video from one of the officer's helmet showed that he had been attacked with a flash grenade while attempting to comply with orders to come down from a location.
Two officers, one with a dog and another with a rifle, then appear to close in on Boyd while ordering him to get down, later firing six rounds after Boyd appears to pull out two small knives in both hands.
However, the charge was "unjustified," Sam Bregman, lawyer for Sandy, told The Associated Press, adding that his client had done nothing wrong. Of course not. And he'd do it again, too.
"Keith, as a police officer, had not only the right, but the duty to defend a fellow officer from a mentally unstable, violent man wielding two knives," Bregman said. "Keith did nothing wrong. To the contrary, he followed his training and probably saved his fellow officer's life." Bullshit. For some reason they packed up and felt the need to absolutely crush a man with obvious mental illness. Good job, Rambo. Now go change the facts and brag about it to your wife and kids. They approached him way too close with the intent to generate the excuse to kill him with their toys as soon as he moved a muscle. Had they given him a little space and put their weapons down, he would have complied. Time and time again I see this. It's like they never learn by example.
Luis Robles, an attorney for Perez, said, "Sadly, this day has come. Regardless, I am confident that the facts will vindicate Officer Perez's actions in this case."
While the FBI is investigating the Boyd shooting, it remains unclear whether U.S. authorities will file any federal charges against the accused officers, according to the Associated Press. What? Everyone's white? Nothing to see here, folks.
For now, the date for a preliminary hearing for the two has not yet been set, Brandenburg said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the Albuquerque police department is currently facing reforms and is under federal monitoring because it was found that they were using excessive, even deadly, force against civilians.
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"It's like they never learn by example." Hey, it is New Mexico, what else would you expect? When I moved there in 1975, the clerk at the UHaul reception desk in Gallup was obviously illiterate, although he did know how to answer a telephone in fluent English. One of our states has gone missing.
The new interim president and vice president of the Albuquerque Police Officers Association announced Thursday they will immediately change the policy of giving $500 to officers involved in shooting civilians.
Now officers will request a reimbursement that must be approved on a case-by-case basis.
On Thursday morning the APOA board of directors chose Weber to be the union’s interim president and Henderson to be the interim vice president to replace the leaders who resigned earlier in the week.
Weber said the payments were intended to allow officers to take time off and go somewhere to decompress after a traumatic event.
However, critics of Albuquerque Police Department and the number of officer-involved shootings pounced on the payments as bounties for killings.
The other 49 states are missing from this report since local news media neglected to mention any other police departments in the USA with a similar policy/practice. That would have been helpful in placing this issue in context.
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Some small percentage of the mentally ill are truly dangerous to others, as we have seen in a number of mass killings in recent years, and it isn't fair to demand that the police be able to differentiate in a fraught moment. In the old days such people were kept in mental hospitals, where they were known and considerably safer than trying to survive on the streets.
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Now THAT's murder. All of those Ferguson protesters and Mike Brown reporters need to see the difference between the two cases.
Even assuming that Boyd did have a knife what was he going to do with it from 20+ feet away? This was despicable and speaks volumes about the type of training and tactics (military/SWAT) that police are using in very inappropriate circumstances. I hope they lock up these bastards for a very long time.
The guy who threatened to poison Boehner (not Boner) is definitely bug-f&$k nuts if you listen to him. There are such many crazy people running around on the streets since the asylums were opened in the 1970s and on. This particular case will play out and justice might be served if the DOJ doesn't get involved in it. James Boyd appears to be wearing a shoulder holster but I can't really tell from the vid. Boyd also might be considered to look like a Islamic who might have come across the border. There was a 4-hour stand-off and the situation wasn't resolved?
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Boyd and Boehner could switch jobs. Boyd would feel more at home with his new surrounds and nut- case, beltway friends. Boehner could empty ash trays and continue to make lame jokes that only drunks would laugh at.
Check out the terrain, was Boyd going to make a sprint at the cops? Hell he couldn't easily move 3 feet no less 20. Was he an expert knife thrower that could down 3 adults in rapid succession?
They could easily have surrounded him and worked him down to a level clear area and dealt with him with no need for flash bangs, bean bag rounds, bullets or any of their fancy toys.
This strikes me as part and parcel of the militarization on police forces. I wouldn't be surprised if they had an APC that they came in.
Additionally this speaks volumes to the idea that I first saw in Insty about how every law must now be viewed as a capital offense, even illegal camping, cause of the way cops will kill you for it (see also Eric Garner selling loosies).
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Going with non-lethal [bean bag] and angry dog first, as opposed to 5.56 ball, might have saved them a great deal of arse pain. A bit late now however. I doubt they'll ever be given a second chance. If isn't already, this video should be part of the program of instruction (POI) at every police academy in the nation.
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A good squirt of pepper spray about 15 minutes into the conversation would have been in order.
4 hours of dogging this guy to the point of psychosis then shooting him is one of the most questionable things I've ever seen.
And whoever yelled "Booyah!!!" when they shot him needs to be banned from law enforcement for the rest of his life.
GAROWE, Somalia -- A court in Puntland capital of Garowe has handed out life sentences to three alleged traitors on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports. The three-Abdiweli Muse Shire, Abdirasaq Ismael Hassan Darwish and Abdisalam Abdulkadir Sheikhdon-allegedly participated in a conference on the formation of federal state in central Somalia.
Puntland’s Deputy Attorney General Mohamed Hared Farah read out the three by name, declaring them ‘traitors’ who are a threat to the existence of the state.
Shortly after the criminal hearings, First degree court of Nugal Chairman Ahmed Salad Mohamed announced that the three alleged traitors were sentenced to life in prison while 11 others who voiced support for the agenda received 10-year jail sentence.
Shire, Darwish and Sheikhdon reportedly travelled to Galgadud region town of Adado in central Somalia, representing north Mudug in a convention.
Ah-ha, so their crime was being on the wrong side...
Puntland protested the inclusion of north Mudug in central state map in July 2013 following a trilateral meeting by Galmudug, Himan and Heeb and the paramilitary group of Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jamea in Mogadishu.
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Oil tumbled 5 percent to near six-year lows before recovering ground on Tuesday, and Brent briefly traded at par to U.S. crude for the first time in three months as some traders moved to take advantage of ample storage space in the United States.
Traders were searching to store the glut of oil, which has knocked down prices 60 percent in the last six months. So far this week, Brent has lost 7 percent and U.S. crude 5 percent.
Brent LCOc1 settled down 84 cents at $46.59 a barrel, after falling to $45.19, its lowest since March 2009.
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To be enjoyed while we can. Folks will have more 'disposable income' and a result, they will travel more by automobile and buy more gas and oil, which produces more revenue from taxes paid per gallon. Profits from domestic oil production stay here in this country, which is a good thing.
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Made my Holiday trek markedly cheaper this year. Thanks to the wildcaters and guys* laboring in the field.
* never seen any of them Social Justice Warrior types in the pics and vids of those Dakota et al drill sites. BTW, Intaprof had this chart this morning.
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OTOH see DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Russia Today] OIL MUST STAY AT US$40.0 TO CURB US SHALE BOOM - GOLDMAN-SACHS.
* Also from SAME > [Russia Today] US MANUFACTURING COMEBACK A "MYTH" - STUDY.
Apparently Mine + Pert fears that the on-going rdux in the price of Oil-per-Barrel may or will NOT result in any new, LT or expanding US prosperity are on the nose???
[DAWN] The Supreme Court ordered the federal government on Tuesday to ensure that the draft of the proposed Hindu Marriage Registration Bill was laid before the cabinet for final approval in two weeks.
The directions were issued when the attention of a three-judge Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk, was drawn to the issue by Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, patron-in-chief of the Pakistain Hindu Council. The court had taken up a case relating to the implementation of a set of guidelines handed down in a June 19 judgment on minority rights.
The issue relating to the absence of a Hindu marriage registration law has been highlighted before the Supreme Court more than once. In 2012, a bench headed by then chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry had taken up a similar issue over a newspaper column that pointed out problems faced by Hindus living in Pakistain in obtaining Computerised National Identity Cards and passports.
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Bring that to Texas - they have their own power grid thats not integrated with the rest of the US. Plus a large energy sector - lots of similarities to the Israeli-Canadian tech situations. Israel and Texas would be a good pairing - desert terrain, limited water, and both need to control their international borders against infiltration.
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The take-home seems to be that battlespace management with rapidly changing, dynamic situations is essentially the same as managing a utility grid. And the same software works for both. Hmmm. I'd have to think about that one...
[CHANNELNEWSASIA] There has been a little noticed but significant surge in Asian-Americans joining the New York City Police Department, as the men and women of this generation answer the call to serve their city.
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I remember from Risk that Asia is a pretty big continent. I don't why lumping Nepalese, Cambodians and Japanese all into an ethnic group makes us feel better.
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SH - I have a client from Nepal. At this point in our professional relationship, I'll feel comfortable asking him on Friday the question of whether his kinfolk like their neighbors in India, China and Bangladesh. I suspect it's like how the Japanese, Chinese and Koreans feel about one another, so I'm guessing the answer will be negative.
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.
Two Albuquerque police officers have been charged with murder in last year's fatal shooting of a homeless man in New Mexico, a death that sparked violent protests in the city and generated a federal investigation into the recent history of alleged excessive abuse by police authorities.
