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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Mother Beats Up Daughter’s Rival at School, Destroys Girl’s Car with Ax
[Breitbart] A Florida mother faces multiple charges after she went to her daughter’s high school around the end of the school day and beat up the girl who was her daughter’s rival, police say.

Police said Ernstlatta LaFrance, 30, hit the Carol City High School student and knocked her phone out of her hand, the New York Daily News reported.

But the fight did not end there. The victim went to LaFrance’s townhouse to retrieve her phone when LaFrance allegedly broke the girl’s finger and used an ax to destroy her car.

Police said LaFrance’s partner, Erlisa Evans, 28, got involved in the incident when she came outside the home and fired three gunshots into the air, according to an arrest report.

Evans now faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and firing a gun into the air, Fox News reported.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 00:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ax 'em to keep the noise down.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/31/2017 1:37 Comments || Top||

#2  There are so many things wrong with this story that I wouldn't know where to start.

How far down will we define deviancy before society becomes totally mired in this toxic dysfunction?
Posted by: AlanC || 03/31/2017 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Were do you think we're now, AC?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2017 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Not totally mired g(r)om but definitely bogged down some.

There's still enough science morality left that while we're on the slippery road to hell (or Albquerque) we're not there yet.

Do I win a prize for mixing metaphors? How about Martinis?
Posted by: AlanC || 03/31/2017 10:42 Comments || Top||

#5  still enough science morality left

Kept up with Global Warming or Cold Fusion?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/31/2017 11:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Nothing raises a kids stock among their peers than having their parents get involved. /sarc
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/31/2017 13:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Ernstlatta LaFrance and her partner, Erlisa Evans

C'mon now, ya gotta be making this shit up!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/31/2017 15:50 Comments || Top||

#8  "There's a place," sings LaFrance, "where... Good heavens!
Regardez Erlisa's size sevens!"
Sighs Evans, much taken,
"That sheet is sure shakin',"
Admiring Ernstlatta's elevens.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/31/2017 16:26 Comments || Top||

#9  wow. just wow
Posted by: Frank G || 03/31/2017 20:21 Comments || Top||

#10  Ax 'em to keep the noise down.

Martin Luther King was no saint, but I'd wager he'd be *shocked* at how many steps backward his people have taken in the last 4 decades.
Posted by: Crusader || 03/31/2017 22:41 Comments || Top||


GOP adopts Rantburg Border Wall funding solution
[Wash Times] A group of House Republicans on Thursday introduced the first major bill to fund President Trump’s border wall, saying the government could collect billions of dollars by imposing a 2 percent fee on all the money Mexicans and other immigrants send back home.

Estimates vary, but remittances from those in the U.S. to their relatives back home could top $130 billion a year. A 2 percent tax could net more than $2 billion a year, if it applied to all money regardless of who’s sending it.
"This bill is simple ‐ anyone who sends their money to countries that benefit from our porous borders and illegal immigration should be responsible for providing some of the funds needed to complete the wall," Rep. Mike Rogers, Alabama Republican, said in a statement. "This bill keeps money in the American economy, and most importantly, it creates a funding stream to build the wall."

Mr. Rogers and Rep. Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania are leading the effort. Mr. Trump has vowed to make Mexico foot the bill for his border wall, but Mexican authorities have said they won’t play along.

Left without a funding source, the president has said American taxpayers will pick up the tab for now, and he’ll look for ways to soak Mexico in the long run.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why don't we hear Western Union squealing yet?
Think the Mexicans will develop Sharia banking?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/31/2017 7:43 Comments || Top||

#2  How about funding it with a check-off box on income tax return? If it comes with RoE that permit deadly force I'd go for it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/31/2017 10:55 Comments || Top||

#3  The transgressors don't pay income tax, GM.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/31/2017 11:32 Comments || Top||

#4  My brother said not to bother with the wall: messing with their money would be incentive enough. He thought 20% would be appropriate.
Posted by: Ptah || 03/31/2017 11:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Will this bill include H1B visa holders? That'd be cool.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/31/2017 12:23 Comments || Top||

#6  My brother said not to bother with the wall: messing with their money would be incentive enough. He thought 20% would be appropriate.
Posted by Ptah


Yes, at 20% they might just build the wall themselves.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 12:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Sounds like Glenmore is suggesting the sale of hunting licences. While I don't endorse that sort of thing the rumor alone would probably stop a lot of the border incursions.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/31/2017 13:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Not a sale of hunting licenses - just permission for use of official force when called for. The check-off box would be like the one they have for political donations, but dedicated to border enforcement.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/31/2017 16:08 Comments || Top||

#9  The entire illegal immigration inundation actually began when the USBP had use of lethal force ROE significantly changed under Reagan and it turned into no-flag tackle football. From then on, it was a numbers game and quickly all the strategies to overwhelm the BP sectors with diversionary tactics were refined.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/31/2017 17:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Good idea, but not likely to happen.

Trump probably agreed to not tax remittances in this meeting with Carlos Slim. Shortly after this meeting the Mexican President met up with candidate Trump for a photo op.
Posted by: rammer || 03/31/2017 17:26 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
I-85 Bridge Collapses in Atlanta Freeway Fire During Rush Hour
[NBC] A massive fire caused a bridge to collapse Thursday night on Interstate 85 in Atlanta, one of the busiest stretches of roadway in America, backing up rush hour traffic for several miles and creating what the mayor called a long-term "transportation crisis."

The huge fire was reported at 6:21 p.m. ET underneath the bridge on the northbound side -- near where the interstate merges with another major artery, State Highway 400 -- forcing authorities to close the interstate and turn drivers around during the evening rush.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 00:23 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Posh! Everybody knows fire can't melt steel (or reinforcing in concrete)!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/31/2017 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  The huge fire was reported at 6:21 p.m. ET

Around hobo supper time.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 0:36 Comments || Top||

#3  They probably tried to put the (PVC/Plastics stored under the bridge) fire out with water. Should have used FOAM (link).
Posted by: Elmomotle Smiter of the French2165 || 03/31/2017 1:31 Comments || Top||

#4  It's really difficult to exaggerate how big of a mess this is going to create in Atlanta. About the only thing that could cause as many problems is messing up the Airport.
Posted by: Beau || 03/31/2017 9:47 Comments || Top||

#5  So, Frank G, are you going to Atlanta?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/31/2017 10:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Seems the Congressional caucus of Atlanta needs to visit the White House for some highway funding. That could be interesting.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/31/2017 11:08 Comments || Top||

#7  This gonna suck so bad for so long.

Thankfully I'm Alpharetta to Dunwoody and done
Posted by: Beavis || 03/31/2017 11:28 Comments || Top||

#8  My younger son had gone over the section that collapsed two hours earlier. My wife had a premonition yesterday and prayed for our son and her parents in Atlanta.
Posted by: Ptah || 03/31/2017 11:52 Comments || Top||

#9  My wife had a premonition yesterday and prayed for our son and her parents in Atlanta.
Posted by Ptah


If she has any future premonitions involving a southerly arc down I-85, please post it here or ring me up.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 12:45 Comments || Top||

#10  Here's the stuff that seems to have been set alight. From the AJC.
Posted by: Classical_Liberal || 03/31/2017 14:58 Comments || Top||

#11  That was my big question. What could provide a fuel source that would crack the concrete and melt internal reinforcing (as obviously happened). I mean even Jet fuel can't do that - Or so our expert celebrities say
Posted by: Frank G || 03/31/2017 15:21 Comments || Top||

#12  add to #11, Rosie's "Expert" Credentials™:
While she attended Commack High School, O'Donnell was voted homecoming queen, prom queen, senior class president, and class clown.[3] During high school she began exploring her interest in comedy, beginning with a skit performed in front of the school in which she imitated Gilda Radner's character Roseanne Roseannadanna.[2] After graduating in 1980, O'Donnell briefly attended Dickinson College, later transferring to Boston University before ultimately dropping out of college.[3]
Posted by: Frank G || 03/31/2017 15:24 Comments || Top||

#13  Let's be honest jihadis are crap and could cause a lot more economic damage with a bit of what they lack i.e. thought power.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/31/2017 15:50 Comments || Top||

#14  Spalling of concrete due to fire.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 16:36 Comments || Top||

#15  Heat causes concrete to pop and flake. Take a cutting torch to concrete and you better have safety glasses because the flakes will travel pretty fast and far.

Concrete will also crack at low temperatures. That is why there are creases in the sidewalk. To try to make sure if concrete is going to crack, it cracks at the crease and not in the panel itself. That is called controlling the random, unpredictable cracking of concrete.

When you add heat to concrete for a period of time, it pops off and fault lines appear everywhere, and then collapses if elevated. Taking the rebar down with it.
Posted by: Ebbuger Hatfield7637 || 03/31/2017 19:22 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Italy set to offer menstrual leave for female workers
What a clever way to ensure that that the only females to be hired will be unadulterated men who nonetheless identify as women.
[Dhaka Tribune] Italia might soon become the first Western country with an official "menstrual leave" policy for working women. The lower house of Italia’s parliament has started discussing a draft law that, if approved, will mandate companies to grant three days of paid leave each month to female employees who experience painful periods.
Next comes PMS leave.
The proposed law was hailed by some local media outlets as a positive step to help working women who suffer from cramps. The Italian edition of women’s magazine Marie Claire described it as "a standard-bearer of progress and social sustainability". But the bill has also its critics, even among the working woman it seeks to protect.

Some fear that the law might backfire, penalising women in a country where they are already struggling to participate in the workforce. If women were granted extra days of paid leave, wrote Lorenza Pleuteri in Donna Moderna, another women’s magazine, "employers could become even more oriented to hire men rather than women".
Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bloody HELL!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/31/2017 9:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, it would justify only paying women 86% (18 vs 21 workdays per month) of what men get for the same job. Of course the more severe sufferers are already not working those 3 days, or shouldn't be - their presence is counterproductive.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/31/2017 11:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Women are Equal except when they have special entitlements.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/31/2017 12:43 Comments || Top||

#4  In Italy now, the padroni
Want women who wear a bologna,
Giumente so phony
They look like stalloni
And never need any tamponi.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/31/2017 14:11 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela: Supreme Court Dissolves Congress
Venezuela slid closer toward dictatorship after the country’s Supreme Court gutted the only opposition-run institution -- the Congress -- seizing its powers and declaring the elected body invalid.

The court’s ruling late on Wednesday night was, in the words of lawmakers, nothing short of a coup. Several opposition leaders called for street demonstrations and other forms of "democratic resistance."

As the once-wealthy oil power descends into a chaos of hunger and crime, however, it remained far from clear whether the increasingly despondent population will view the court’s move as a genuine turning point or just another step in the nation’s bottoming out toward hopelessness.

"This is not only going to cause alarm for concern within the region, but also actions, and at this point, it will be very difficult for countries to remain neutral," said Carlos Romero, a political scientist at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. "The government is provoking; not only has it not made a single gesture toward dialog, it has become completely entrenched."

Opposition deputies said they would appeal to international bodies for help. But that may yield little. Two days before the court’s ruling, the Organization of American States met to urge Venezuela to respect the congress that has now been neutered.

The U.S. State Department condemned the Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday, saying the move "greatly damages Venezuela’s democratic institutions," according to a statement.

Constitutional Crisis

In Wednesday’s ruling, the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Chamber declared the National Assembly was operating "outside the rule of law" after long standing claims that the legislature was in contempt of previous legal statements.

"The Constitutional Chamber shall ensure that the parliamentary powers are exercised directly by this Chamber or by the body it appoints to ensure the rule of law," the decision said.
Posted by: Glineck Glavins5554 || 03/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The next step would be to dissolve the Venezuelan electorate and select / appoint a new & improved version.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/31/2017 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2  it's effectively already a dictatorship with no rule of law.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/31/2017 0:25 Comments || Top||

#3  AH #1 and I know where they can get a whole lot of replacements for that wayward electorate.

We've got 65 million Hillary voters that should be eligible to replace VZ's 35 million people.

Send the leftover 30 million to help out in Africa.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/31/2017 8:23 Comments || Top||

#4  With all the necklace-clutching and hand-wringing by the opposition, Maduro and buddies have nothing to worry about for a while. At least until the populace figures out that Chairman Mao was right when he said, "Power comes from the barrel of a gun!"
Who knew he was a 2nd Amendment supporter?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/31/2017 9:55 Comments || Top||

#5  This just gave the left a bunch of new wet dreams in how to get rid of Trump.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/31/2017 13:11 Comments || Top||

#6  The Solution

After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
-- Bertolt Brecht
Posted by: SteveS || 03/31/2017 13:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Now just WHERE is Chief Justice Roberts? Sounds like something he would get behind.....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/31/2017 17:08 Comments || Top||

#8  When federal judges make decisions that imperil the country, you'd think the citizens might find their own way to remove those judges from the comfort of their chambers.
Posted by: Crusader || 03/31/2017 22:33 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Defense Sec. James Mattis: North Korea ‘Has Got to Be Stopped'
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/31/2017 12:04 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Given how the Chinese are so 'historically' oriented, maybe this could be a new border between Korea and China. No need for THAAD and maybe just a MAG team left in the south. Major problem solved.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/31/2017 12:51 Comments || Top||


Europe
US gives NATO allies 2 months for defense spending plans
h/t Instapundit
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned NATO allies Friday to boost defense spending or come up with plans to reach the alliance's budget guidelines within two months.

Tillerson, in his first talks with NATO counterparts in Brussels, said that Washington is spending a "disproportionate share" on defense compared with its 27 partners, and that he expects action by the time President Donald Trump meets with other alliance leaders on May 25.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2017 15:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Anti-EU activist fails to burn EU flag due to EU rules on flammable materials
[Dhaka Tribune] A balaclava wearing anti-EU activist has been filmed spectacularly failing to set fire to a European flag because of EU regulations on flammable materials.

The man, believed to be a white nationalist affiliated with far-right group the Bolton North West Infidels, is filmed posing in front of the flag before launching into a rant about "forced mass immigration" eroding British identity.

"The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
is corrupt to the core," he says in the clip. "It’s here to take away our nationality, our identity, our free speech and our illusory sovereignty.

"Its forced mass immigration is genocide on the British people. Its main aim is to wipe us and our country out. We want no part of it. Get us out now."

The man then attempts to set the flag alight with a cigarette lighter. But he appears to have forgotten European fire safety regulations and was soon thwarted by the fire-retardant flag as the flames flickered out.

Undeterred, the man tries to light it again ‐ despite it being draped over a wooden fence.

The painstaking efforts continue for two minutes, with the video eventually stopping when a small part of one corner of the flag had burnt off.

The video was initially posted on the Facebook page of the Bolton North West Infidels this week, but was quickly deleted. Its authenticity could not be confirmed.

The discovery of the film follows the move by Britannia on Wednesday, March 29, to formally serve the EU with notice of its intention to withdraw from the union.
Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't live stream your video, frame it properly, keep it from shaking, shut up the onlookers, film the event, edit it for length, and make sure you don't embarrass yourself before you release it. Its really not that difficult.

This should be taught in high schools around the world. Should only take a day.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/31/2017 14:02 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey doubles oil intake from Iran
Turkey increased oil import from Iran more than two times in January 2017, compared to the same month of the previous year, Turkey’s Energy Market Regulatory reported.

According to the report, Iran exported about 834,000 tons (about 199,083 b/d) of crude oil to Turkey in January 2017, while the figure for the same month in 2016 was 406,894 tons. The report also added that Turkey exported 643.193 tons of petroleum products to Iran in January 2017, while the figure for January 2016 was only 34.825 tons.

Iran and P5+1 Group (US, UK, France, Russia, China + Germany) reached a nuclear agreement, which was implemented in January 2016 and removed sanctions (imposed in 2012) on Iran. Before sanctions, Iran exported about 9.287 million tons (188,000 b/d) to Turkey in 2011, about 27 percent more than 2010, but after sanctions, the volume decreased significantly.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: Politix
Questions, answers about the legal immunity process
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/31/2017 17:15 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It may be a legal ploy to avoid the possibility of criminal prosecution in the DOJ.

Q: If Congress chooses to grant immunity, what impact might that have on any criminal investigation?
A: It's not clear, though there are long-established restrictions on the Justice Department's ability to use any statements given to Congress under immunity in any future criminal prosecution. Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said his panel was "deeply mindful of the interests of the Department of Justice in the matter."
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/31/2017 17:21 Comments || Top||


Trump Admin to Host Convicted Palestinian Terrorist Despite Outrage
[Free Beacon] The Trump administration says it will permit a Palestinian official known for endorsing terrorism and murder to enter the United States next week for a series of high-level meetings on the Israel-Palestinian peace process, a move likely to prompt outrage in the pro-Israel community.

The State Department confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon late Thursday that it intends to permit Jibril Rajoub, secretary of the Fatah Central Committee, to participate in meetings with U.S. officials next week, despite his repeated calls for terrorism against Israel and a 15-year stint in Israeli prison for committing terror acts.

Arafat visited Washington. Rajoub will feel right at home within the beltway. Remember, it's just a short visit, not a full, four year congressional term. After eight years of Obama, what harm could there possibly be ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 07:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cheaper than dispatching a 'snatch' team.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/31/2017 9:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Host them in Guantanamo bay. That's US territory still. Hopefully even the dim Palestinian leaders will get the hint.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/31/2017 13:52 Comments || Top||


Irving, Texas Mayor Who Clock Boy Sued to Join Trump Administration
IRVING (CBSDFW.COM) ‐ Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne said Thursday she will soon be working for the Trump Administration.

She made the announcement at a luncheon. She did not say what her position will be.

An official announcement is expected next week when the paperwork is finished.

Van Duyne had said earlier this year she would not seek a third term as mayor.
Beth should be considered a Conservative rising star on the national level due to how she overcame the clock boy Islamic challenge to her political leadership.
Posted by: Angiter Tholusing2783 || 03/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Groan, so many ways to read that headline!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 03/31/2017 14:13 Comments || Top||

#2  #1 Groan, so many ways

Thank you!
Posted by: Buffalo Buffalo || 03/31/2017 14:35 Comments || Top||


Mike Flynn Offers to Testify in Exchange for Immunity
[WSJ] WASHINGTON--Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.

As an adviser to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, and later one of Mr. Trump’s top aides in the White House, Mr. Flynn was privy to some of the most sensitive foreign-policy deliberations of the new administration and was directly involved in discussions about the possible lifting of sanctions on Russia imposed by the Obama administration.

He has made the offer to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees though his lawyer but has so far found no takers, the officials said.

Mr. Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner, declined to comment.

It wasn’t clear if Mr. Flynn had offered to talk about specific aspects of his time working for Mr. Trump, but the fact that he was seeking immunity suggested Mr. Flynn feels he may be in legal jeopardy following his brief stint as the national security adviser, one official said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Immunity from telling the truth or from telling the establishment what they want to hear?
Posted by: Uneresh Fillmore5642 || 03/31/2017 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Worked well enough for Clinton and Obama staffers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/31/2017 7:41 Comments || Top||

#3  No matter what information Flynn intends to provide, any good lawyer would advise a request for immunity. Without it, anything he says can be twisted like pretzel.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  That's essentially what I heard on the radio early this morning B - He seeks immunity from political bushwacking. The attorney said it nicer, of course.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/31/2017 12:53 Comments || Top||


Senators Manchin and Heitkamp announce they will vote to confirm Judge Gorsuch
[Hot Air] Today, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia became the first Democrat to announce he plans to vote to confirm Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Shortly after his announcement, Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota also announced she would vote to confirm Gorsuch. Manchin released a press statement announcing his decision on Twitter:
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As predicted, vulnerable Dems in reddish states will bring the 60 votes needed. Filibuster will survive for the real fight - the next SCT vacancy.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/31/2017 11:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Annnd... The other six dems are who? Plus the one more you might need if Susan Collins goes the other way...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/31/2017 13:38 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Nine-year-old girl allegedly raped
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: A nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped on Wednesday, police said.

The incident took place in I-16 where the girl’s family worked at a brick-kiln, and also resided there.

The girl’s farther approached Noon police and lodged a complaint seeking registration of a case against the unidentified person.

He told the police that he and his family were sleeping in the open area and later went inside their house when it started to rain.

His daughter and her grandmother also went into the room, but after sometime the girl started screaming, the police quoted her father as saying. He and other family members rushed to the room and saw a man running away. They chased the man but he managed to escape. When the girl’s father returned, his wife told him that their daughter had been raped by the man.

According to the police, the girl had been shifted to the hospital for medical examination and legal action would be take on the basis of the report.

Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Her stoning is scheduled next week
Posted by: Frank G || 03/31/2017 0:26 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
SpaceX poised to launch first recycled rocket
[DAWN] SpaceX is poised to launch its first recycled rocket on Thursday, using a booster that sent food and supplies to the astronauts living at the International Space Station in April.

The goal of the launch, scheduled for 2227 GMT from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is to send a communications satellite for Luxembourg-based company SES into a distant orbit.

The weather forecast was 80 per cent favorable for launch, officials said.

Standing upright at the NASA launchpad, the white Falcon 9 rocket contains a tall, columnar portion known as the first stage, or booster, that propelled the unmanned Dragon fat merchantman to space last year, then returned to an upright landing on an ocean platform.

SpaceX, the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,-based company headed by visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk, has for years been honing the technology of powering its boosters back to careful Earth landings on solid ground and in the water.

So far it has successfully landed eight - five on so-called "drone ships" floating in the ocean, and three on land.

The goal, Musk has said, is to make rocket parts just as reusable as cars, planes or bicycles.

Currently, millions of dollars' worth of rocket parts are jettisoned after each launch.

SpaceX officials have said that reusing hardware could slash costs - with each Falcon 9 launch costing over $61 million - by about 30pc.

While generating plenty of buzz, the novel process still raises concerns for both customers and SpaceX.

They include "worries about it failing, insurance implications, retrofitting turnaround, building up a critical mass of reused first stages in the warehouse," said the global investment banking firm Jefferies International in an April report.

Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Worked perfectly.
1st stage landed for a second time.
For the first time experimented with thrusters and steerable parachutes on the farings and the two faring pieces landed in the ocean in good shape excepting the fact that saltwater is not good for them. Soon will land them (ship or land)
Musk then said he's ready to start experimenting with 2nd stage recovery so the whole rocket excepting fuel can be recovered. Want's the ability to refly a F9 after one day.

Explained that FH was taking so long because the central core ended up requiring major structural changes. That's complete now and they are waiting for Pad 40 to be rebuilt for F9 flights before risking 39A with a new rocket.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/31/2017 11:32 Comments || Top||


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California Transgender Inmates May Soon Be Given Bras, Mascara, Lip Gloss
[Free Beacon] Men's prisons in California may soon provide access to bras, mascara, and lip-gloss for inmates who identify as transgender.

Women's prisons would also be equipped with boxers and aftershave, according to rules introduced by the Department of Corrections. The rules stem from a lawsuit brought against the state by a murderer serving a life sentence, who was the first inmate in the state to receive taxpayer-funded sex change surgery.

"Transgender female inmates housed in men's facilities could have feminine undergarments, lip gloss and mascara, for instance, while transgender male inmates in women's prisons could wear aftershave and boxers," according to the Associated Press.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 06:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hot sheet hotel with bars
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/31/2017 11:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Any little thing to squander money...
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/31/2017 12:26 Comments || Top||

#3  "Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."

Major T.J. "King" Kong
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/31/2017 12:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Do they get their own bathrooms, or do they get transferred to the other prison?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/31/2017 13:13 Comments || Top||

#5  As a believer in Federalism, all I can say is: I am glad that I am not a California taxpayer.

With that said, this is none of my business - I could care less what the progressive lunatics do in California.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 03/31/2017 14:29 Comments || Top||


Eat your cake & keep it?
h/t Instapundit
The vice president--and other powerful men--regularly avoid one-on-one meetings with women in the name of protecting their families. In the end, what suffers is women’s progress.
Progress to where?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2017 02:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In the end, what suffers is women’s progress.

No, the sufferers are the muckrakers and scandal sheets. Sunt angustiae my dear g(r)om, sunt angustiae.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 6:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Apparently, some of this has been going on for a long time, but it takes a Pub to make it news.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/31/2017 7:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Senator Kennedy to the courtesy phone.

[remember its OK when they do it]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/31/2017 9:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Come-on Besoeker, we all know that good looking women who know how to flirt - within the bounds of propriety, do considerably better than otherwise.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2017 10:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Forgive the oversimplification. Yes, our TW, Barb. and Ms. Besoeker being the obvious exceptions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 11:06 Comments || Top||

#6  IMO, you're entering a danger zone, Besoeker.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2017 12:02 Comments || Top||

#7  I dunno, being alone with my ex-wife was a danger in its own.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 03/31/2017 14:15 Comments || Top||

#8  My mother used to warn me about one-on-one meetings with women I wasn't already related to.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/31/2017 18:49 Comments || Top||



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