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Woman drops Justin Bieber paternity suit
[Emirates 24/7] A woman who claimed that Justin Bieber was the father of her infant son has dropped a paternity suit against the pop star, amid reports he was preparing to file a counter suit.

Celebrity gossip site TMZ.com reported that plaintiff Mariah Yeater, 20, who last week quietly revoked her suit against the singer, also had been abandoned by her legal team.

Bieber earlier this month said he would take a DNA test to prove that he did not father Yeater's son, and then would countersue once the results come back, according to reports.

Sources said Bieber, 17, and his legal team planned to make an example of Yeater as a deterrent to others who might be tempted to make similar claims in the future.

Yeater, who gave birth to a baby boy in July, had claimed that she and Bieber met backstage at a concert in October last year in Los Angeles, where they had sexual relations that left her pregnant.
Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Somebody told her that, since he was underage, she can get accused of rape?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/18/2011 5:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Apparently she was 19 and he was 17 at the time of the claim. California is cool with that. I think he story fell apart on other issues. I haven't tracked the story beyond the age claim because I thought the same thing initially.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/18/2011 8:19 Comments || Top||

#3  a skank from Lakeside. What a surprise
Posted by: Frank G || 11/18/2011 8:47 Comments || Top||

#4  In the old days in the West [and still today in Muzzie country] bearing false witness usually was penalized with stoning [as with rocks not drugs]. Reduced recidivism.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2011 8:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Guess she was helped to realize the original payoff was enough after all.
Posted by: Sheba Ebbomolet3779 || 11/18/2011 10:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Who is Justin Bieber?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2011 15:49 Comments || Top||

#7  ...also had been abandoned by her legal team.

Oooh...a telltale sign that the USS Big Payday has sailed. And Mariah ain't on it.
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/18/2011 18:04 Comments || Top||

#8  As Ozzy Qsmond said, "What the hell's a Bieber"?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/18/2011 20:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Personally I blame His Royal Darkness OZZIE "WHATS A BIEBER?" OSBOURNE.

[AC/DC, JUDAS PRIEST here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/18/2011 23:40 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Mugabe seeks Chinese protection
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Zim-bob-we President Bob Muggsy Mugabe
Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...
has appealed to China and Russia to protect him from attacks by the United States and Europe.

The veteran ruler, who is barred from travelling to the US and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
because of alleged human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
violations, is on an official visit to China.
Begging for cash is as official as it gets...
On Wednesday, he met acting Chinese President Xi Jinping where he called on Russia and China to provide a buffer against the "Anglo-Saxon alliance's expansionist agenda given what NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
did in Libya and threats posed to Syria and Iran," his front man told state owned Herald newspaper on Thursday.

"Countries like China and Russia must provide both leadership and protection," President Mugabe's front man Mr George Charamba quoted him as telling the Chinese leader.

"Nature has disbursed its resources in its own ways to different countries with some countries richly endowed while some are not.

"Even us who do not have oil feel no less menaced as these rapacious countries are looking for other resources."

Mr Mugabe, in power since Zim-bob-we's independence from Britannia in 1980, said Western countries were after his country's mineral wealth.
Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Homecoming at the old alma mater.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 || 11/18/2011 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Let the Han colonial era begin!
Won't be like European colonial era in Africa, because they don't need local labor. More like European colonial era in Tasmania.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/18/2011 5:15 Comments || Top||

#3  I would suggest the Zims study the history of the settlement of America and pay special attention to the part about the Cherokee.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 11/18/2011 20:10 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi vice committee to force cover women with 'tempting' eyes
Thanx and a tip o' the Rantburg hat to Walid Phares...
[Al Ahram] Soddy Arabia's Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, known as Haia, the kingdom's inquisitors religious police, has decreed a stricter dress code for women in the province of Ha'il.

Motlaq Al-Nabit, spokes thug person for the Haia in Ha'il, said Wednesday that "the Haia men will intervene to force women to cover their eyes, especially tempting ones."
So much for the 'liberalization' of Saoodi life you might have heard about.
The Haia enforces Sharia (Islamic law) in Soddy Arabia and is responsible for supervising public spaces to ensure the separation of sexes, following strict dress codes, and other conduct claimed to be ordered by Islam.

A strict translation of the authority's name from Arabic would be the Committee for the Ordering (not promotion) of Virtue.

Known to be the kingdom's second most powerful political body after the ruling Al-Saud family, the Haia's coppers are feared in Saudi streets.

Due to the nature of their job, Haia men may approach and arrest anyone they deem as breaking their rules, even if they are as ambiguous as inciting "fitna," or temptation.

In 2010, Saudi citizen Atallah Al-Rashidi clashed with a Haia member in Ha'il when the Haia member insisted Al-Rashidi's wife cover her eyes. The scuffle ended with the policeman stabbing Al-Rashidi twice, leading to his hospitalization. The case was taken to court and after five months the Haia member was declared innocent and Atallah sentenced to nine months in jail and 350 lashes for "arrogance".

It is not clear if any standards will be established to separate tempting or provocative eyes from normal ones, nor whether the decree will be implemented on a national level or in Ha'il alone.
Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2011 08:29 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This crap won't be mitigated until the average man decides to start randomly shanking these brown shirts. They are an inherently cowardly lot, so once a few of them have met their maker, the rest tone it down a lot, and a lot of them start looking for a new job.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/18/2011 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Do not know if the picture is photo shopped or not but it is great.
Posted by: kelly || 11/18/2011 12:05 Comments || Top||

#3  I agree - great Pic!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/18/2011 13:24 Comments || Top||

#4  In fact that Pic cries out for a Caption Contest.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/18/2011 13:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Have they not thought that perhaps it might be better for men with self-control problems to wear blinkers, rather than force all women to wear sacks?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/18/2011 13:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Put some outside agitators inside those black bags & then start terminating some of the religious policemen with extreme prejudice. I imagine a pretty good weapons stash could be easily concealed. Who knows what evil lurks within?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/18/2011 15:29 Comments || Top||

#7  BP - kind of like "If thy eyes offend thee... pluck them out!"
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/18/2011 15:37 Comments || Top||

#8  What about lying eyes?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/18/2011 15:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Black fertilizer bag #1 to Black fertilizer bag #2

"Shameless non-Muzzy!"
Posted by: Angoper Smith4384 || 11/18/2011 21:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Really. Red on the cuff and what is that, a watch? Naughty naughty.

(is it me or are they checking out the gal in the dress too?)

Really, the best is that video of the two gals I assume, in the full nosetackle gear, trying to eat pasta and the guy in the background trying not to wet himself.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/18/2011 21:34 Comments || Top||

#11  It's all very sad, actually.
Posted by: Angoper Smith4384 || 11/18/2011 21:49 Comments || Top||

#12  [ORIGINAL INDIANA-JONES-VS-SWORD-WELDING-HAIA here].

No? - well, its gonna be hard for the Muslim Babes to use heavy-duty frying pans iff they can't see.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/18/2011 22:30 Comments || Top||

#13  Joe, that's why We developed IFF in the first place. Geeze!
Posted by: Angoper Smith4384 || 11/18/2011 22:38 Comments || Top||

#14  IFF? Definition, please.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2011 23:26 Comments || Top||

#15  Identify Friend Foe
Posted by: Frank G || 11/18/2011 23:49 Comments || Top||


Economy
California's Economy Struck a Liberal Iceberg Long Before the Recession
Everybody knows that California’s economy has struggled mightily since the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. The state’s current unemployment rate, 12.1 percent, is a full 3 percentage points above the national rate. Liberal pundits and politicians tend to blame this dismal performance entirely on the Great Recession; as Jerry Brown put it while campaigning (successfully) for governor last year, “I’ve seen recessions. They come, they go. California always comes back.”

But a study commissioned by City Journal using the National Establishment Time Series database, which has tracked job creation and migration from 1992 through 2008 (so far) in a way that government statistics can’t, reveals the disturbing truth. California’s economy during the second half of that period—2000 through 2008—was far less vibrant and diverse than it had been during the first. Well before the crisis struck, then, the Golden State was setting itself up for a big fall.

What is behind California’s shocking decline—its snuffed-out start-ups, unproductive big cities, poorer jobs, and tinier, weaker, or fleeing companies—during the 2000–2008 period? Steven Malanga’s “Cali to Business: Get Out!” identifies the major villains: suffocating regulations, inflated business taxes and fees, a lawsuit-friendly legal environment, and a political class uninterested in business concerns, if not downright hostile to them. One could add to this list the state’s extraordinarily high cost of living, with housing prices particularly onerous, having skyrocketed in the major metropolitan areas before the downturn—thanks, the research suggests, to overzealous land-use regulation.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/18/2011 08:36 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The unemployment rate is BS pure and simple. When you look at the way that it is calculated, it uses rolling averages, correlation factors and a ouiji board. The true measure is the employment index. The employment index is computed by taking the number of people with a job and dividing it by the total number of able bodied people available for work in a region. The employment index captures all of the people seeking work that have fallen off the unemployment rolls.

In Riverside County, for instance, the official unemployment rate is 13.5%, the employment index is 63.25% That means, to me, that the true unemployment rate in Riverside County is about 36.75%!!! It is worse in the Central Valley where the EPA killed the farming industry to save a non-native fish from "extinction".

Nationally, the true unemployment is at Depression levels.

Why does everyone dance around the fact we are in a full blown depression?

I bet that 10.5 milliseconds after the Republican replacement for Obama is sworn in, the MSM will ask him what he is going to do about the DEPRESSION and the 35% unemployment in this country. Numbers they have squashed for over a year and a half.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 11/18/2011 10:19 Comments || Top||

#2  California leads the western world in a lot of things. Over regulation would simply be par for the course. The surprise is that the economy hasn't collapsed before now.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/18/2011 10:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Why does everyone dance around the fact we are in a full blown depression?

Because the ruling caste who in their self worship believe themselves to be the best and brightest can't face their abject failure. They'd rather drag us all down in denial than face facts and resolutions that would remove them from power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2011 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  "Overzealous land-use regulation"?

Sorry. I don't buy that. They've been building vast housing tracts as fast as they can for decades. The mayors and city council members take money from the developers and they let the developers do whatever. Democrat, Republican. It doesn't matter. They all do it. Look at LA. Go ahead, just look at it. Then look at Riverside/San Bernardino. It's a frickin' mess and that's the reason.

Now, if you wanna talk about airports, waste dumps, industrial parks and power plants that's another matter. Nobody wants them in their back yards. You want an airport in your back yard? How about a power plant? A solid waste landfill? Be my guest. The trouble is they've been building so many houses for so long that you can't find any place that isn't somebody's back yard.

Unemployment? We don't have jobs for all of the people who want to live here. Sorry. That's just tough. People have been flocking to California since 1849. We don't have jobs for them all and we don't have room for them all. The reason the cost of housing is so high is because the demand is so great. Maybe it looks like a big state on the map but a lot of it is undesirable desert or mountains where the terrain is unsuitable for many uses. Those of us who live along the coast don't want to look like Hong Kong or Mexico City. We don't want to look like LA. Do you? You like smog, traffic jams, noise, and unruly crowds wherever you go? Do it in your own state.

I will admit, I am the first to say, that our politicians are mostly crooked morons. Liberal, looney, crooked morons. But overzealous land-use regulation is not their biggest sin. Quite the opposite is true. They have failed to regulate well enough.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/18/2011 13:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Ebbang Uluque6305,

I beg to differ.

I've lived here for almost 35 years and the libs have wrecked this place. They have conservancies that buy up available land to prevent development.
The coastal commission fought home construction in the bay area to a standstill. Land use regulations in Orange county add $100K to the cost of a house in a development.
Some cities have been pro development and lots of housing has been built in the wrong places..Riverside, Temecula, Murrietta, and Ontario instead of LA and Orange county.
Taxes are among the highest in the nation and the schools are awful.
I'd move but I no way to sell my house since I am underwater by about $300K.
There is has been a net loss of almost 900,000 citizens in the $50 to $100K per year income bracket to other states.
We don't have mass transit because the politicians cowtow to the automobile/petroleum lobbies back in the 50's and 60's.
The state has been upside down on the budget to the tune of $20B per year for the last 10 years and balances the books by cutting everything except union salaries and pensions. The fiasco in Bell is the tip of the iceberg. There is a school district in the desert that pays their superintendent almost $875K per year.
And to make it worse, the assembly continues to pass more and more regulations and taxes.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 11/18/2011 14:31 Comments || Top||

#6  "Ironically, it was this attempted turn to port in order to avoid the iceberg that doomed the Titanic."
Posted by: mojo || 11/18/2011 15:32 Comments || Top||

#7  I get depressed when I drive through Temecula because it is so drab and dull. Red tile roof tops and brown stucco as far as you can see and cars, cars, cars. Really? Is that the best they can do? I've been known to badmouth Texas on this blog but I seriously believe I'd rather live in Texas than in Temecula. The pols in Temecula were happy to get all that "growth". But there are no jobs out there. Just houses and cars. They all have to drive to San Diego or Orange County to work. Pure idiocy. A failure to regulate. I remember when there were farms out there. Here's a bit of advice to anybody who is considering moving to California: If you think it's too expensive, don't.

There is has been a net loss of almost 900,000 citizens in the $50 to $100K per year income bracket to other states.

Like I said, it's too crowded here. Have you ever heard of a concept known as "carrying capacity"? Sure, we could carry more. We could end up looking like India. I'd rather not.

We don't have mass transit because the politicians cowtow to the automobile/petroleum lobbies back in the 50's and 60's.

This is a problem all over the country, not just California. Let your congress critter know.

Land use regulations in Orange county add $100K to the cost of a house in a development.

You want water, sewer, electricity, roads, schools, hospitals? Somebody has to pay. I know the schools report bad test scores. But you try teaching a class where half the kids speak no English.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/18/2011 16:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Failure to regulate? I don't get it: is there, or should there be, a law requiring people to live within a certain distance of work and must take public transport when available?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/18/2011 21:48 Comments || Top||


Europe
EU Bureaucrats Decree Water Not A Healthy Way To Treat Dehydration
THE EU was ridiculed last night after it took three years to issue a new rule that water cannot be sold as healthy.

In a scarcely believable ­ruling, a panel of experts threw out a claim that regular water consumption is the best way to rehydrate the body.

The bizarre diktat from Brussels has far-reaching implications for member states, including Britain, as no water sold in the EU can now claim to protect against dehydration.
What's bizarre about a diktat from Brussels? They live for this stuff...
Any producer breaching the order, signed by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, faces being jailed for up to two years. It took the 21 scientists on the panel three years of analysis into the link between water and dehydration to come to their extraordinary conclusion.

Last night the decision of the European Food Safety Authority's panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies was labelled "beyond parody". Ukip's deputy leader Paul Nuttall, who sits on the European Parliament's Public Health Committee, said: "I had to read this four or five times before I believed it.

"It is a perfect example of what the EU does best and makes the bendy banana law look positively sane."

Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: "The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are, highly paid, highly pensioned officials trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true.

The EU has a long history of passing bizarre regulations, the most infamous being 1995 rules setting out dimensions for fruit and vegetables which led to excessively curved bananas and ugly carrots being banned. And last year attempts to regulate the use of root vegetables in Cornish pasties sparked chaos.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/18/2011 08:07 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Eppur si muove"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2011 8:56 Comments || Top||

#2  They said WHAT???

Okay I take back what I said about Hariri and his Migraines.

Does the Rantburg hall of fame have a category for completely stupid things said with a straight face by an EU bureaucrat?
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 11/18/2011 10:21 Comments || Top||

#3  We'd have to build a new wing. Hit the tip jar...
Posted by: Steve White || 11/18/2011 11:05 Comments || Top||

#4  As a registered Pisces, I want to put on record that I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED, I tell you at this world class decision of idiocy.

The first order of business is to establish a blue ribbon commission and investigate the so-called panel of experts. We need background information on every one of the individuals on the panel.

In order to establish the commission, we need to decide how to select the members of the commission. That is where things get sticky. You see, it is getting harder to find people with common sense to serve on commissions like this.......
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/18/2011 13:20 Comments || Top||

#5  use Di-Hydrogen Monoxide, while it has known risks, it's safer than water
Posted by: Frank G || 11/18/2011 13:56 Comments || Top||

#6  AFAICT, none has published a meta-analysis of several double-blind randomized controlled trials which even attempt to confirm whether the ingestion of water in any form or in any amount is necessary to human life.
Therefore water is an unproven (and probably unnecessary) treatment for anything.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/18/2011 16:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Frank---Be sure to read the MSDS before you use it. It can kill you.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/18/2011 17:33 Comments || Top||

#8  I just want to point out that beer contains electrolytes and water-soluble vitamins, in case any of you guys are dehydrated and don't want to look like a girlie-man by drinking Pedialyte.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/18/2011 17:47 Comments || Top||

#9  I don't want to live on this planet any more. Sarc/off. Yes, we have truly gone through the looking glass as per my comment on Beavis's post on the faster than light particles.
Posted by: Lowspark || 11/18/2011 19:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Steve No way, Jose!. Pedialyte results in such a foul body odder!. I pick door number two for the beer please. I prefer the six pack ripped abs. They may look like one ab but I'll know there in there somewhere.
Posted by: Dale || 11/18/2011 20:51 Comments || Top||

#11  Idiots
Posted by: newc || 11/18/2011 22:26 Comments || Top||

#12  Isn't beer a diuretic? In that case, it most definitely would be contraindicated for dehydration or the prevention thereof.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2011 22:35 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
US police nab 200 New York protesters
[Iran Press TV] Police in the United States have attacked protesters who are marking the second-month anniversary of the 'Occupy' movement, with reports of 200 people tossed in the calaboose.

The morning's demonstrations were part of an Occupy Wall Street "Day of Action" planned for Thursday, which began with a march from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan to the New York Stock Exchange a few blocks away.

The day of action also comes two days after coppers attacked the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park, arresting nearly 500 protesters and dismantling their tents.

Demonstrators also plan to take the protests to the city's subways and major bridges later in the afternoon.

The Occupy movement owes its name to 'Occupy Wall Street' (OWS), which emerged on September 17, when a group of demonstrators gathered in New York's financial district to protest social inequality and top-level corruption in the country.

Despite police hindrance and mass arrests, the Occupy movement has now spread to major US cities.

The movement has also inspired similar pushes across the world, including places such as Australia, Britannia, Germany, Italia, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal.
Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just 200? Just Like the Tea Party: A List of Occupy Mayhem Sorted by Type
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 || 11/18/2011 0:48 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Canadian govt backs repeal of ‘hate speech’ clause
Canada’s federal government has officially backed a private members bill seeking to repeal a controversial ‘hate speech’ provision that has been used to prosecute Christians and other conservatives for years.

In response to a question on Wednesday by Conservative MP Brian Storseth (Westlock-St. Paul, AB), who introduced the bill to repeal section 13 of the Canada Human Rights Act on September 30, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson signaled what is likely the clause’s death knell.

The ruling Conservatives have a sizeable majority in both houses and the bill is also expected to draw some support from the opposition benches.

“Our government believes that section 13 is not an appropriate or effective means for combatting hate propaganda. We believe the Criminal Code is the best vehicle to prosecute these crimes,” he told the House of Commons during Question Period.

“I say to the opposition, get on side with the media,” he continued. “Maclean’s magazine, the National Post and even the Toronto Star say this section should go.”

Critics have long argued that the clause creates the precise equivalent to a ‘thought crime.’ The controversial clause prohibits “any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt” if the person or persons affected are “identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.”

The section has been repeatedly used to target Christians and conservatives, particularly those who hold traditional Christian views on homosexuality.

It has faced a groundswell of opposition in recent years, largely due to the high profile cases brought against conservative publisher Ezra Levant and columnist Mark Steyn, over their criticisms of Islamic extremism.
Posted by: tipper || 11/18/2011 17:40 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good luck -- but I'll believe it when I see it.

Posted by: Pollyandrew || 11/18/2011 20:38 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Dale || 11/18/2011 23:10 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Lawyers, journalists clash at SC
[Dawn] Lawyers and mediapersons entered into a brawl on the premises of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
"Rule of law!"
"People's right to know!"
"A curse on yer mustache!"
"Yer mother wears combat boots!"

Senator Babar Awan and law secretary Masood Chisty were present when the incident took place however they left the spot quietly.
"Perhaps we should depart, Chisty Sahib?"
"Perhaps we should, Awan Sahib."
"And make haste, Chisty Sahib!"
"But quietly, Awan Sahib!"
"Quiet but hasty feet, don't fail us now!"

This was not the first incident when lawyers and journalists engaged in such an activity as a TV channel news hound was beaten up by lawyers in Lahore in November 2009.
"Newshound!"
"Get 'im!"

Sources in the police said two newspaper news hounds were taken to the bar room of the SC by president People`s Lawyers Forum (PLF) Raja Abdul Rehman. As they ordered for tea, a lawyer, Saifullah Khattak, approached the journalists and asked them to leave the room saying entry of mediapersons was not allowed in the hall.
"We don't want your kind here!"
During arguments that ensued,
"I don't gotta if I don't wanna an' you can't make me so there!"
"Oh, yeah?"

the lawyer allegedly abused the journalists.
"Take that! [WHACK!]"
On this, one of the news hounds slapped the lawyer after which other black coats present in the hall manhandled the journalists.
"Hey, Rube!"
Later, the administration of the bar room banned the entry of media into the hall, canteen and another room being used by journalists to take meal.
"We don't want their kind here!"
Sources said Mr Khattak had also misbehaved with PML-N`s Khawaja Asif and another news hound for their presence in the bar room earlier in the morning.
"Don't nobody be messin' wid Khattak Sahib!"
Talking to Dawn, the PLF president said intolerance in society was the main reason behind such incidents.
Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Is Pakistan really a country or just a collection of places no one else wanted?
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 11/18/2011 10:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Bill, as far as I can tell it's mostly a collection of places that also don't want to be there. Balochistan, for instance, believe themselves to have been kidnapped by force from the beginning.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2011 23:10 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
In Gaza, bridges are just above-ground tunnels
Gaza bridge collapse kills 2 workers, 4 injured
A pity. They were literally doing something meant to be constructive rather than destructive.
(Ma'an) -- A teenager and his relative were killed Thursday after a bridge they were building collapsed in central Gazoo.

Four other workers were maimed in the incident, one seriously, medical officials said.

The bridge, near al-Nuseirat refugee camp, was under construction when it caved in, locals told Ma'an.

The accident killed Zayed Subhi Abu Reyala, 31, and Suleiman Muhammad Abu Reyala, 15, front man of Gazoo's medical services Adham Abu Salmiya said.

Workers injured in the incident were taken to Gazoo's Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital after police and ambulances evacuated the maimed, he added. He named those injured as Hassan al-Nahhal, Khaled Abu Hammam, Nabil Abu Reyaleh and Bassam al-Arqan.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A pity. They were literally doing something meant to be constructive rather than destructive.

That would be the first.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/18/2011 5:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Are they certain it was a bridge? After all it "caved in". Sounds more like a cave, er tunnel
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/18/2011 7:18 Comments || Top||

#3  so the Dead Load included two Gazans?

/geeky engineering humor
Posted by: Frank G || 11/18/2011 13:20 Comments || Top||

#4  /me groans like an about-to-collapse bridge
Posted by: SteveS || 11/18/2011 17:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Back to your room, Frank. There is an iphone app for calculating the loads on the bridge. Insh'Allah Development Co. Word on the street is that it is a Mossad plant.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/18/2011 20:45 Comments || Top||

#6  PUBLIC WORKS DEPT. OF THE ISLAMIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF GAZOO ...

versus

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > WNY PALESTINIANS [35% = East Jerusalem] WANT TO BE ISRAELI CITIZENS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/18/2011 21:54 Comments || Top||

#7  They're lucky. It could've collapsed on a tunnel and took them out too.
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/18/2011 22:20 Comments || Top||

#8  heh heh.... I knew it would draw some groans
Posted by: Frank G || 11/18/2011 22:31 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Second experiment confirms faster-than-light particles
A second experiment at the European facility that reported subatomic particles zooming faster than the speed of light — stunning the world of physics — has reached the same result, scientists said late Thursday.

The “positive outcome of the [second] test makes us more confident in the result,” said Fernando Ferroni, president of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics, in a statement released late Thursday. Ferroni is one of 160 physicists involved in the international collaboration known as OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion Tracking Apparatus) that performed the experiment.

While the second experiment “has made an important test of consistency of its result,” Ferroni added, “a final word can only be said by analogous measurements performed elsewhere in the world.”

That is, more tests are needed, and on other experimental setups. There is still a large crowd of skeptical physicists who suspect that the original measurement done in September was an error.
Posted by: Beavis || 11/18/2011 15:12 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  100 years of physics right out the window. My suspicions are confirmed. When they fired up the LHC it created a worm hole to an alternate universe where socialism is acceptable and logic is counter to good order. Now these goings on in life today make sense.
Posted by: Lowspark || 11/18/2011 19:25 Comments || Top||

#2  More funding, I say!

With Global cooling and Y2K off the table, and global warming failing, we have to have some new hole to pour money into!
Posted by: Bobby || 11/18/2011 19:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Gee, is CERN conducting/choreographing this OPERA?

.01% of Libtards might know it's their aria of expertise...

-and now; to bed.



Posted by: Angoper Smith4384 || 11/18/2011 22:35 Comments || Top||

#4  *groan*. You saved me the trouble of sending you to groom, dear Angoper Smith4384. Sleep well!
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2011 23:15 Comments || Top||


Pentagon successfully tests hypersonic flying bomb
The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world in less than a hour.

Launched by rocket from Hawaii at 1130 GMT, the "Advanced Hypersonic Weapon," or AHW, glided through the upper atmosphere over the Pacific "at hypersonic speed" before hitting its target on the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands, a Pentagon statement said.

Kwajalein is about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) southwest of Hawaii. The Pentagon did not say what top speeds were reached by the vehicle, which unlike a ballistic missile is maneuverable.

Scientists classify hypersonic speeds as those that exceed Mach 5 -- or five times the speed of sound -- 3,728 miles (6,000 kilometers) an hour.

The test aimed to gather data on "aerodynamics, navigation, guidance and control, and thermal protection technologies," said Lieutenant Colonel Melinda Morgan, a Pentagon spokeswoman.

The US Army's AHW project is part of the "Prompt Global Strike" program which seeks to give the US military the means to deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within an hour.

On August 11, the Pentagon test flew another hypersonic glider dubbed HTV-2, which is capable of flying 27,000 kilometers per hour, but it was a failure.

The AHW's range is less than that of the HTV-2, the Congressional Research Service said in a report, without providing specifics.

The Pentagon has invested 239.9 million dollars in the Global Strike program this year, including 69 million for the flying bomb tested Thursday, CRS said.
Posted by: Beavis || 11/18/2011 10:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My back of the envelope calculation says it was traveling at MACH 16+.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 11/18/2011 12:17 Comments || Top||

#2  The HTC-2 it seems. I don't know if that would apply to the AHW.
Posted by: gorb || 11/18/2011 12:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Bet you see a load of old nuclear capable subs being refitted to carry these.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/18/2011 13:16 Comments || Top||

#4  ANy news on payload?
Posted by: Hellfish || 11/18/2011 15:02 Comments || Top||

#5  #3, iff multi or all-Missions capable BattleSpace "Motherships" is the new norm, + "peacekeeping" [brush war, "local war"], then the question becomes what kind of Navy, etal. Armed Services will the post-GWOT, OWG USA have 2050-2100.

YOOHOO, US GOVT-DOD, AFAIK RADICAL ISLAM ISN'T GOING NUCLEAR TO ENGAGE IN ISOLATED OR DISPARATE, MINOR INSURGENCIES = "PEACEKEEPING".
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/18/2011 22:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Excellent: “Daily Show” on class divisions at Occupy Wall Street
Posted by: tipper || 11/18/2011 11:59 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We're the Doodlebops!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/18/2011 12:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Stewart would freak if he knew he made Rantburg.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2011 13:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Four legs good, two legs better...
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/18/2011 17:54 Comments || Top||


Just How Low Will Occupy Go?
They were caught in the middle of madness.

Some grade school students were forced to walk a gauntlet of screaming "Occupy Wall Street" protesters just to get to school on Thursday.
So this is "Peaceful"?
It was a wild day in lower Manhattan for most everyone involved, including elementary school children who had to brave the mayhem just to get to class on the other side of Wall Street.

In the middle of thousands of protestors yelling and chanting -- some kicking and screaming -- CBS 2's Emily Smith found little school kids trying to get to class. Nervous parents led them through the barriers on Wall Street. The NYPD helped funnel the children, anything to ease their fears while some protestors chanted "follow those kids!"

"These guys are terrorists, yelling at little kids," one father said.
Not exactly terrorists, but acting like childre throwing a tantrum. They can't have everything just given to them. Despicable.
These children will grow up to trust the police and distrust protesters -- future conservatives in the making. Well done, OWS-ers!
"For them it's horrible. They're afraid of all the crowds. We're not even able to get through. They're just, he's ... very afraid now," a mother added.

One protester followed a father and his little daughter all the way down the block. As the school day ended just after 3 p.m. children trickled out of Leman Manhattan Prep on Broad Street. Smith heard a 4-year-old boy telling his mom he was scared. He told Smith it looked like a parade.
That's no longer a protester, it's called harrasment. Should be prosecuted.
"There was a parade. It was scary -- crowded with school," the boy said.

"After a while it got so bad some parents couldn't get their children through and they had to go late," said Gary Goldenstein of Tribeca.
And Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Far Left Democrats approve.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remember: Obama, Pelosi, The Democrats and the Unions *OWN* these people.

Lock, Stock, and Barrel.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/18/2011 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  I think that maybe the parents should exercise their 2nd amendment rights and begin Open Carry on the school escorts. or maybe even some super soakers now that it is getting a bit nippy out....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/18/2011 0:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Lord of the Flies.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/18/2011 5:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes.
Posted by: no mo uro || 11/18/2011 5:43 Comments || Top||

#5  As long as funding is provided in this country and outside. Same thing with King. Anyone who wishes this country harm will send in the money. With so many out of work and the numbers look to increase this will not go away. Here till elections. This is the only way the media, Democrats and Unions can hope to win for themselves. The difference today is we have so many in power who think like occupy.
Posted by: Dale || 11/18/2011 7:28 Comments || Top||

#6  The last gasp of liberalism and Socialism. Everyone sees what they are really about. The question is can we survive the death throes.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/18/2011 8:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Donks, home of the new Klan/Red Guard. Night riders out to terrorize. "These guys are terrorists, yelling at little kids," one father said. Yes we can - OWS/OB.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2011 8:49 Comments || Top||

#8  I keep wondering if OWS "civil unrest" will be used as an excuse to cancel the 2012 elections. Paranoia or not?
Posted by: Percy Grundy9710 || 11/18/2011 9:19 Comments || Top||

#9  This is the perfect time for a whiff of grapeshot.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/18/2011 10:14 Comments || Top||

#10  Runaway Occu-Mom Locked Up During OWS Temper Tantrum

Posted by: Beavis || 11/18/2011 10:40 Comments || Top||

#11  re #8 ...an excuse to cancel the 2012 elections.

There is no provision anywhere in the Constitution for canceling elections. Since military officers take an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, Obama would be risking inward-pointing tanks surrounding the White House. I really doubt he would ever attempt it.

Far more likely is simply stealing the election through blatant fraud, which the MFM will happily ignore.
Posted by: PBMcL || 11/18/2011 10:44 Comments || Top||

#12  They do have a chain of command, if you will, yell leaders, cheer leaders, & action leaders.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/18/2011 10:50 Comments || Top||

#13  Lord of the Flies

One wag termed it "Lord of the Fleas".
Posted by: Pappy || 11/18/2011 14:04 Comments || Top||

#14  "Just How Low Will Occupy Go?"

Don't even bother to ask that question.

The Dems clowns backing them have a fleet of backhoes on retainer. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 11/18/2011 16:23 Comments || Top||



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