[NBC] Hillary Clinton's longtime aide Huma Abedin will separate from her husband, disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner, following a report in the New York Post suggesting he had fallen back into his sexting habit.
"After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband," Abedin said in a statement. "Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy."
The report in The Post, which included conversations and photos that the paper said Weiner swapped with a 40-something Trump supporter while his wife Abedin was on the campaign trail, was published Sunday. And on Monday morning, Weiner's public Twitter profile was gone.
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Thereby conveniently deflecting attention and questions about her key role in access to Clinton and the pay for play scandal.
Who says Weiner isn't supportive of his wife?? He's even willing to make a bigger fool of himself on her behalf. Or more precisely, because the Clintons are his only way to make a living now, as they've been for a long time.
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The marriage seems to have been a marriage of convenience since his first scandal (possibly from the start for all I know). I think Zebulon and Tenille2425 is right, they kept it together until she needed sympathy and a distraction.
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Its a Clinton model marriage, except here they got caught with a live boy.
I wonder how common the Clinton model is. Two people meet, one in politics and one a machine cog, may not even like each other, maybe one or both are queer as a three legged fish, but ambitious as all get-out and their career depends upon being married and having at least one child - especially the politician.
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It’s easy to make fun of him. He's a putz. I've been happy to mock him. Huma gets no sympathy from me either.
But in all seriousness: Anthony Weiner spent his adult life building a career, a marriage, a child, and a political reputation. He was going to be someone. A senator, a governor, mayor of New York, all of that with the trophy wife and the requisite one child. Power. Money. Fame. The inside track.
Gone, all of it. Just gone. He threw it all away despite the repeated warnings, the repeated chances to change his ways, the repeated remonstrations both public and private from people who cared about him. He is his own worst enemy and has been from the first moment. He couldn't conquer his inner demon, and in the end, his inner demon has conquered him.
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...and maybe a sense of entitlement through connections that he thought allowed him to be above it all. Bill never had the technology to do selfies of himself.
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A Narvik imam and a marabout
Were having to do with two caribou:
"Does Allah permit this?"
"As God is my witness...
But now they're haram for your BBQ."
[MIRROR.CO.UK] A teen has reportedly died after getting a hickey from his girlfriend that caused him to have a stroke .
Julio Macias Gonzalez started having convulsions at the dinner table with his family in Mexico City after spending an evening with his girlfriend.
Paramedics were dispatched to the scene but the 17-year-old could not be saved.
It is thought that the suction of the love bite – also known as a ‘hickey’ – caused a blood clot that traveled to Julio’s brain and caused him to have a stroke.
His 24-year-old girlfriend has now disappeared and the boy’s parents are apparently now blaming her for his death.
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Federal government spending on the issue has gone down 9% in the past decade. As former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood says, "We're like a third-world country when it comes to infrastructure."
CNN aviation and regulation correspondent Rene Marsh investigates the state of the country's bridges, railways, airports and pipelines in a four-part series: America's Crumbling Infrastructure. Check back here from now through Monday.
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What happened to the $700 billion that was supposed to go to "shovel ready" projects? Did the check not clear? How could we spend that much on infrastructure and still be behind?
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Most of the money went to "human infrastructure". ..the bloating of the federal bureaucracy with tens of thousands of liberal arts and wymyn's studies majors. That's why your roads, highways, bridges and electric stink on ice.
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My state's cut went to keep teachers on the payroll and avoid the layoffs and firings that were happening in the taxpayer world. Then again it was a Donk governor. Need to keep the checks rolling in to the party.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] North Korea hit back on Sunday at a UN Security Council statement condemning its latest test-firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, and threatened to take further steps as "a full-fledged military power".
The 15-member council agreed on Friday to "take further significant measures" against North Korea, just days after the SLBM launch.
North Korea is barred under UN resolutions from any use of ballistic missile technology, but has carried out several launches following its fourth nuclear test in January.
A front man for the North’s foreign ministry labelled the UN statement a "product of brigandish acts of the US" and said Washington had ignored a warning about "hurting its dignity."
"Now that the US posed threats to the dignity and the right to existence of the DPRK (North Korea) defying its serious warning, it will continue to take a series of eventful action steps as a full-fledged military power," the front man said.
"The DPRK has substantial means capable of reducing aggression troops in the US mainland and the operation theatre in the Pacific to ashes in a moment," the front man added in a statement carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on Thursday described the latest SLBM test as the "greatest success" and said it put the US mainland and the Pacific within striking range.
The missile was fired from a submarine off the northeastern port of Sinpo on Wednesday. It flew 500 kilometres (around 300 miles) towards Japan, far exceeding the range of the North’s previous sub-launched missiles.
A proven SLBM system would take North Korea’s nuclear strike threat to a new level, allowing deployment far beyond the Korean peninsula and a "second-strike" capability in the event of an attack on its military bases.
Analysts say that while Pyongyang has made faster progress in its SLBM system than originally expected, it is still years away from deployment.
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"The Justice Department claims requesting additional work-authorization documents from these workers may violate a provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) designed to protect individuals from excessive employer demands based on their nationality."
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So our Justice Department, charged with enforcing the law, is now ordering employers to violate the law.
Perfect!
This country is in dire need of a Cleansing.
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Crony Capitalism 101: selective application of the law to benefit the favored. What would happen if a known Republican supporter was caught in this Kafkaesque situation.
The Palestian Water Authorrity and the Sa’ir Municipality are at odds over the disappearance of large amounts of water from Sa’ir, a town of 25,000 northeast of Hebron, as the region experiences water shortages.
The PWA, which coordinates and regulates the distribution of water in the Palestinian territories, said August 12 it had uncovered an ongoing water-theft operation in the village.
A number of Sa’ir residents have long made illegal openings in the village’s pipes, diverting water without the knowledge of the water authority. However, in this case, the authority accused the Sa’ir Municipality of being behind the theft and, in coordination with the Palestinian Customs Authority, arrested 13 municipal employees, including Mayor Kayed Jaradat.
Delta Airlines recently experienced what it called a power outage in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia, causing all the company’s computers to go offline—all of them. This seemingly minor hiccup managed to singlehandedly ground all Delta planes for six hours, stranding passengers for even longer, as Delta scrambled to reshuffle passengers after the Monday debacle.
Where Delta blamed its catastrophic systems-wide computer failure vaguely on a loss of power, Georgia Power, their power provider, placed the ball squarely in Delta’s court, saying that “other Georgia Power customers were not affected”, and that they had staff on site to assist Delta.
Whether it was a true power outage, or an outage unique to Delta is fairly insignificant. The incident was a single company without power for six measly hours, yet it wreaked much havoc. Which brings to mind (or at least it should) what happens when the lights really go out—everywhere? And just how dependent is the U.S. on single-source power?
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When you hear about the possible insufficiency, unreliability, or lack of resiliency of the U.S. power grid, your mind might naturally move toward the extreme, perhaps National Geographic’s Doomsday Preppers. Talks about what a U.S. power grid failure could really mean are also often likened to survivalist blogs that speak of building faraday cages and hoarding food, or possibly some riveting blockbuster movie about a well-intentioned government-sponsored genetically altered mosquito that leads to some zombie apocalypse.
But in the event of a power grid failure—and we have more than our fair share here in the U.S.—your survivalist savvy may be all for naught.
This horror story doesn’t need zombies or genetically altered mosquitos in order to be scary. Using data from the United States Department of Energy, the International Business Times reported in 2014 that the United States suffers more blackouts than any other developed country in the world.
Unfortunately, not much has been done since then to alleviate the system’s critical vulnerabilities.
In theory, we all understand the wisdom about not putting all our eggs in one basket, as the old-adage goes. Yet the U.S. has done just that with our U.S. power grid. Sadly, this infrastructure is failing, and compared to many other countries, the U.S. is sauntering slowly behind many other more conscientious countries, seemingly unconcerned with its poor showing.
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Okay, if Delta doesn't have backup power for their HQ, I certainly wouldn't trust these clowns with my life on their planes. That sort of failure is beyond stupid. I worked for a credit card processor and not only did our HQ have back up power but back up phone lines through separate carriers so that if one carrier went down, their phones still worked.
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I've pretty much resigned myself to the idea that our government is so sure that everyone will have solar in the next 20 years that it has abdicated responsibility for taking care of the grid so they can steer the money towards servicing entitlements.
"Okay, if Delta doesn't have backup power for their HQ,..."
From what I read (sorry, no link) the problem occurred when Delta transferred power from the primary source (Georgia Power) to Delta's backup generators. The backup generators caught fire and the fire spread to the primary transfer point, thus knocking out both primary and backup.
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Okay, if Delta doesn't have backup power for their HQ, I certainly wouldn't trust these clowns with my life on their planes.
Exactly. No excuses. This was Delta's failure. You have backup generators and from time to time you test those generators. Not only that but you have remote, standby data centers where your database is replicated so when your primary data center goes offline your remote data center automatically goes online. Delta's CIO needs to be sacked and while they're at it the shareholders should demand the ouster of the CEO as well.
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As Frank Borman is alleged to have said "a stain on the carpet implies bad maintenance"
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Trust me. The NIMBY factor has a LOT to do with why we haven't done a lot of major overhead grid upgrades, P2K.
Both Farmers and City folk alike.
Some folks in certain areas of the country understand the problems and actually help facilitate any improvements. They are a rarity, though.
We can upgrade power plants all day long, but when you try to feed the 'new, improved' capacity into an ancient grid and switching system, very bad things happen. Very seldom does a newer power plant run at anywhere near capacity for just that reason.
Now, just try and imagine when we suggest burying the cables into Mother Gaea.
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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.
[MIRROR.CO.UK] A teen has reportedly died after getting a hickey from his girlfriend that caused him to have a stroke .
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