Got milk?
How about 26 gallons of it? One man did, at least for a little while. And that man was dressed in a cow costume. At least he didn't have a gun.
In the category of You Can't Make This Stuff Up If You Tried, the 18-year-old crawled into a Stafford, Va., Walmart on all fours, reported PotomacLocal.com.
After standing, he loaded about $92 worth of milk into a shopping cart and simply rolled the cart out of the without paying, police have confirmed to NBC Washington. Hey! It's MINE! They took it without my consent! Cows of the World Unite!
He then attempted to give the milk away outside the store, and tried to flee the scene by skipping away, police said. Ole Skippy eh?
Jonathan Payton, 18, of North Stafford, Va., was given a summons and released at the scene. You hve to see the picture.
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[Al Jazeera] Senior members of Tunisia's former ruling party in the past 10 years will be barred from standing in elections on July 24, Beji Caid Esebsi, the country's interim prime minister, has announced.
The time limit was cut from the 23 years that some groups had asked for, following the ouster of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had been president since 1987 until he was toppled by a popular uprising in January.
Ben Ali's Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) party was regarded as a pillar of the increasingly corrupt and repressive regime he led in the north African country, which has been replaced by a transitional government.
"After reflection, the government has adopted a 10-year limit. We decided that 23 years was not logical. There are officials of the RCD who were repressed by the former regime," Caid Esebsi said on Tuesday.
A high commission entrusted with preparing the election of a constituent assembly decided by a majority - after a heated debate - on April 12 that any RCD member from the full 23 years of Ben Ali's rule should be banned from future office.
Caid Esebsi said that to get round this obstacle, Foued Mebazza, the interim president, would draw up a "list by name" of people who directly collaborated with Ben Ali, particularly in his presidential cabinet and among his close advisers.
This list will eventually be published, Caid Esebsi said.
The chairman of the high commission, Yadh Ben Achour, said that only certain former officials in the RCD would be barred from becoming candidates to the constituent assembly.
Ben Achour last week told the French daily Le Monde that the decision "directly targets only members of the executive council, the central committee, the general secretaries of co-ordination committees and the heads of local party cells".
The RCD, which has become the symbol of the former regime, was formerly dismantled by Tunisia's high court in early March, when a judge ruled that it would be disbanded and its funds seized.
An advisory council set up after Ben Ali was tossed had recommended the ban on top RCD members from the election, but it has only now become policy.
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[Al Jazeera] Nigeria's ruling party has lost control of at least two states in governorship elections, according to early results, although it has performed strongly in some parts of the mostly Mohammedan north.
With results in on Wednesday from half of the 24 states in which governorship elections were held, the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) held on to seven but lost two - Ogun in the southwest and Nasarawa in the centre.
But it won Kano, the most populous state in the north, from the opposition and swept all assembly seats in the northern state of Sokoto.
Lagos, the commercial capital, remained the southwestern stronghold of the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as expected while the northern state of Yobe remained in the hands of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).
The state governorship races, which began on Tuesday, are the final stage in elections which have seen some of the worst political violence in years in Nigeria.
Rioting left hundreds dead in the mostly Mohammedan north last week after president Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... , a southern Christian, beat his northern rival, Muhammadu Buhari, in the presidential vote.
The state governors are among the most powerful politicians in Nigeria, wielding influence over national policy and in some cases controlling budgets larger than small African nations, and the ruling party is keen to maintain its strong regional grip.
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Another battle in Africa between the Black Christians and the Arab moslems.Another country where moslems want to have 87% conversion rates. Nigeria is quite important - but like America, I fear it may be lost.
[Bangla Daily Star] Five Islamic scholars yesterday requested the Supreme Court to cancel a High Court verdict that declared fatwa (religious edict) illegal, saying that fatwa cannot be stopped.
Fatwa is part and parcel of Islam, Islamic culture and its principle, the scholars said while placing their opinions before the Appellate Division during the hearing of an appeal that challenged the 2001 HC verdict.
The scholars are Mufti Mizanur Rahman Sayed, Mufti Kefayet Ullah, Mufti Ruhul Amin, Mufti Kafil Uddin Sarkar and Dr Abdullah Maruf.
The director general of Islamic Foundation Bangladesh selected them for giving statements on the status and application of fatwa to the apex court as per its earlier directive.
A six-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque, will continue hearing today.
The scholars yesterday told the court that fatwa is a means of interpreting Islamic principles.
It has been playing a vital role for centuries in answering questions raised by Mohammedan believers, they said, adding that fatwa is related to the existence of Mohammedans.
Only the scholarly persons, who have vast knowledge on Islamic jurisprudence, can be allowed to give fatwa, they said.
If fatwa is banned, the principles of the Holy Koran and Sunnah will be affected, the scholars said.
They, however, said the abuse of fatwa is a different factor, which has to be stopped by the law enforcers, administration and court.
On January 1, 2001, the HC declared illegal all punishments imposed in the name of fatwa after a hearing on a suo moto ruling of the HC. The court issued the ruling following a newspaper report on hilla marriage (marriage with a third person).
Mufti Mohammad Toyeeb and Abul Kalam Azad challenged the verdict at the SC the same year.
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This is nothing other than a power play, so the court should subvert it by permitting fatwas to be introduced in the manner of a "friend of the court" brief, submitted by the attorney for the religious scholars, but leaving the final decision up the the court.
That nails them in several different directions. First, it takes away any direct powers they have. Second, their brief must be in legalese, not in Koranic doublespeak. Third, it must be presented by an officer of the court, their attorney, not one of them. And fourth, the court is not bound in any way by what they said.
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This is what makes Islam incompatible with democracy. These clerics want the kind of power that, in a democracy, is only granted to elected officials and their appointees. But the clerics don't want to stand for election...they might lose.
How that made it past the AyPee editors is, uh, unexpectedly unexpected.
More people sought unemployment benefits last week, the second rise in three weeks, a sign the job market's recovery is slow and uneven.
Applications for unemployment benefits jumped 25,000 to a seasonally adjusted 429,000 for the week ending April 23, the Labor Department said Thursday. That's the highest total since late Januar
[Iran Press TV] Tens of thousands of protesters in Germany have gathered near twelve of the country's nuclear plants, demanding an end to the use of nuclear power. Germany being as prone to earthquakes and tsunamis as it is I'd certainly expect them to. Plus they've got lotsa other energy sources to replace them with.
On Monday, over 120,000 protesters met at 12 of the country's 17 nuclear plants, calling for German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's government to immediately close all plants, AP reported.
The protesters brought the officials' attention to the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident in Ukraine, which occurred 25 year ago, as well as the Fukushima power plant incident in Japan last March.
According to the protest organizer, Peter Dickel, the German state of Lower Saxony has witnessed some of the country's greatest demonstrations with over 20,000 individuals participating.
Some 17,000 protesters turned out at the Krummel nuclear plant in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, while over 15,000 others congregated near the Grafenrheinfeld plant in Bavaria.
Calls for an end to NATO's presence in Afghanistan were also among the anti-nuclear slogans in the nation-wide demonstrations.
The protests came after Merkel imposed a moratorium on the construction of new nuclear plants last month.
Following the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan, seven of the country's oldest plants have been temporarily shut. The security levels of the remaining 10 plants are currently being monitored.
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I don't see how this effort could succeed in Germany unless:
> BONN is just playing to popular mainstream whims, but in reality expects to restart Germany's Nucplants widin a couple or few years time.
> MORE LIKLEY, BONN HOPES TO SAVE $$$, IMPROVE ECON BY IMPORTING ENERGY + USING BUDGET BUNDESMARKS ELSEWHERE, vee France + espec new BFF, econ-troubled RUSSIA.
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Yes the plant in Japan is unsafe. But that doesn't make ALL nuke plants unsafe. This is like equation all air travel unsafe because of one crash. I would point out that the U.S. Navy has been operating nuclear subs and aircraft carriers for decades without a major incident.
So, shut them down. Right now. There'll be blackouts, of course, because they'll no longer have enough power for the country, and the price of electricity will necessarily skyrocket overnight, but the protesters will get their wish. And isn't that the most important thing?
And no, no /sarc off. There was never any /sarc on.
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Clark Kent then quits The Daily Planet in protest over a failed attempt to organize for collective bargaining rights. He then moves to Key West to be with his life partner, Jimmy Olson, as he battles depression and substance abuse. He occasionaly pens an eco-justice column for the Huffington-Post - now owned by Lois Lane.
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The genius of Superman is that he belongs to everyone, for the dual purposes of peace and protection. Hes above ephemeral geopolitics and nationalist concerns, a universal agent unlike any other found in pop culture.
He's a fool not to realize that he's giving up his generous Social Security entitlement.
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So the character introduced in the midst of the Great Depression that had the creed of "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" is no longer an American? You will notice that they waited until all of the original writers and illustrators had died off to pull this stunt.
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The sales and marketing people probably think they will sell more comics into the "international market" if they strip Superman of his American identity.
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A few problems - 1. You can only renounce at US Embassy/Consulate in a foreign country and 2. Unless you have citizenship in another nation, the US will not normally accept the renunciation. The G won't make you stateless.
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...couldn't come up with that Kansas birth certificate?
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I guess he no longer supports truth or justice, nor the American way. So untruth, injustice and the unAmerican way. The Obama administration will love this guy.
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I suppose those among us who own comic book shops out here in flyover country are pretty much screwed.
The trauma of discovering that Nobama was born in Hawaii after all was just too much for the poor guy.
Al
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...and the bureaucratic nightmare of having to get a passport just to go to Canada or Mexico let alone the rest of the world which goes back to that birth certificate thingy.
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So is it superman or Clark Kent that is renouncing? Because I never really imagined Superman voted or paid taxes and his only property was on the North Pole.
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Superman never impressed me as the brightest bulb on the tree. Six bullets bounce off your chest, then you duck when they throw the gun at you?
What a maroon...
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.
Lagos, the commercial capital, remained the southwestern stronghold of the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as expected while the northern state of Yobe remained in the hands of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).
[Bangla Daily Star] Five Islamic scholars yesterday requested the Supreme Court to cancel a High Court verdict that declared fatwa (religious edict) illegal, saying that fatwa cannot be stopped.
