Damn. Who throws acid in their own face?
The question everyone wants to know is why. In one of the more stunning news conferences Thursday night, Vancouver Washington police announced that a woman who said she was attacked by another woman who threw acid on her face had made the whole story up.
28-year old Bethany Storro admitted she lied when she reported an African American woman poured acid on her face when she pulled up at a local Starbucks August 30th. The story gained national attention and even led to copycat attacks across the country.
Detectives had their doubts from the beginning. Some things just didn't add up. The burn patterns on Storro's face were not consistent with someone splashing acid on her. She was wearing sunglasses at 7 o'clock at night. They were sunglasses she had just purchased 20 minutes before the attack and she admitted later that she never wears sunglasses. And police never could locate any witnesses.
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Cooling was the problem, until we cleaned up the US particulates. Then it was warming, but if you can't prove that, expand the focus while making it vague and vaporous.
The explanation he gave last week was that the impact from greenhouse gas emissions covers a broad "disruption" of climate patterns ranging from precipitation to storms to hot and cold temperatures. Those changes, he said, affect the availability of water, productivity of farms, spread of disease and other factors.
Everything bad, in other words, no matter who thinks it's bad. The antithesis of Obama, who was all good to everyone.
Everything is our fault. Hot. Cold. Rain. Drought. Storms. Sunshine. Change. Statis. All of it. All caused by our living the good life.
They have to get control of your global footprint. From each according to what they determine is our ability, to each - whatever is left over after paying the bureaucrats their 10% COLA every year.
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Always remember that "Man Made Anthropogenic Global Warming Climate Change Disruption" has no negative case.
Neither does religion. There is no case in religion that permits proving that God or gods don't exist. More importantly, it is also forbidden to question what the priests say about God or gods as well, in their holy books, or even whimsically.
This is why Galileo was forced to recant. Not because he questioned the existence of God, but because his observations called into question the infallibility of the priests.
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Simply put, our planet has been warming since the last Ice Age around 12,000 years ago. If this trend continues unabated, the Earth will eventually be hotter than the surface of the Sun. When that happens, we will be like, totally screwed and stuff.
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IIRC, I understood STEPHEN HAWKINGS as claiming or inferring that GLOBAL WARMING WILL SERIOUSLY OR SEVERELY DAMAGE ALL HUMANITY + CIVILZ, IFF NOT PER SE DESTROY IT, WIDIN [roughly]300 YEARS OR SO UNLESS MANKIND CAN BEGIN + MASTER DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION + COLONIZATION WITHIN 100 YEARS, To includ making forced changes as per MMGW = ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING???
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IMO, HAWKINGS, etal > however imperfect, are ilustrative of my Belief that the majority of the GW-Solar Perts are anticipating the Sun to get hotter + release more Heat Radiation-Energy towards Earth, a Belief which is suppor by the News this week of Perts expecting EARTH TO WITNESS ANDOR EXPER SOLAR FLARES 30-50% STRONGER THAN IN [any]PREVIOUS CYCLES???
ARTIC > "ARCTIC CIRCLE" > WE'RE IGNORING AURORAS + QUAKIES, ETC. OCCURRING DOWN SOUTH ALONG THE TROPIC OF CANCER + CAPRICORN [GUAM-WESTPAC], AREN'T WE???
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Sigh! AKWS II (Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System); am I the only one that gets a certain warm tingly feeling just saying Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System?
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Total submarine numbers are expected to increase markedly over the next two decades in Asia-Pacific waters, particularly among smaller powers where small and stealthy submarines are seen as a "force equalizer."
South Korea is buying six more of the medium sized KSS II/Type 214 Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) boats and plans to build a more capable KSS III type. Vietnam has ordered six Project 636 Kilo boats from Russia. Singapore bought two modern Vastergotland class subs retro-fitted with AIP systems from Sweden. Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand are all developing or enhancing submarines.
Australia's 2009 Defense White paper calls for doubling its sub fleet to 12 boats, all equipped with cruise missiles. India is building six Scorpene class subs under French license. The recent Pentagon assessment of China's PLA Navy modernization says it may add up to five Type 095 nuclear attack boats and 15 more of the diesel-electric Yuan class boats in the coming years.
I asked a very smart naval strategist who works for the Navy for his take on what's going on with the big submarine push in the Asia-Pacific. He said that the recent sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan reinforces the fact that the smart play in future naval warfare is to be under the water and shoot a missile, not above the water and take a missile hit.
India appears to have learned the lesson: the Indian Navy recently put in an order for midget subs.
I'm sure they aren't worried about American attacks. Could this be a response to China throwing its weight around, as it plans for world domination?
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Cloaked ships lying in wait will always beat surface vessels. It ain't 1941 any more. Times have changed. Good thing China is wasting tremendous amounts of resources on all those aircraft carriers targets for these subs to shoot at.
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If it flies through the air, it can be nailed with an energy weapon. However, it seems to me that escort ships could be equipped with lightweight but strong drag nets with floats to catch torpedoes, even super cavitation ones.
Regular torpedoes would need major modification to get around such defenses, and it would defeat the entire purpose of supercavitating torpedoes.
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ION WORLD NEWS > CHINESE CAPTAIN [fishing trawler] SENT TO PROSECUTORS IN OKINAWA.
and
* SAME > JAPAN'S NEW FM GETS TOUGH WITH CHINA.
All together now, wid feeling, "YUH-OH"!
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA TO BUILD ANOTHER PORT IN SRI LANKA, besides HAMBANANOTA. Chin-renovated or improved COLOMBO PORT may be bigger than MOST INDIAN PORTS COMBINED???
Once completed, the questin then becomes how much Trade, Mil? access or utility to same will INDJUH [India] be allowed to have vee SL's new BFF CHINA, to includ Chin-built GWADAR???.
D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, HER NEW B-F-F'S NAME ISN'T "JILL"!
"Instead of using Detroit engineers or Silicon Valley bitheads, Virginia-based Edison2 relied on retired Formula 1 and Nascar engineers to build its entry for the X-prize. Relying on composite materials and titanium, the team assembled an ultra-lightweight car that provides all the comforts of a standard 4-passenger vehicle, but gets more than 100 mpg. The custom engineering goes all the way down to the car's lug nuts, which weigh less than 11 grams each. Amazingly, they expect a production version of the car should cost less than $20,000."
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Do they have an SUV version?
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ION DAILY TIMES.PK > [UN]GLOBAL WARMING SWELLS GALCIAL LAKES, + are seemingly ready to burst in Nepal.
"GLOF" = Glacial Lake Outburts Flood(s).
* NEWS KERALA > ARCTIC ICE COULD BE GONE BY 2030: US RESEARCHERS.
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Safest car in the world. No chance my family will be in it.
Don't get me wrong, congratulations to the designers. No vehicle is safe when your passenger's leg is the driver's armrest. The stats are fun in the lab. Real world has stuff like speedbumps, potholes, tires on the highway, dogs on the road.
Am I safe to guess that is $20k in cost of materials only?
(Xinhua) -- The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) announced Thursday that four aging Khmer Rouge leaders have been indicted for their crimes committed in late 1970s.
In a press conference, You Bunleng and Marcel Lemonde, co- investigating judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, said they signed the Closing Order for Case File 002, indicting and sending former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary, his wife and ex-minister for social affairs Ieng Thirith, former head of state Khieu Samphan and the group's ideologist Nuon Chea for trial.
They said the four accused were indicted and sent for trial before the ECCC Trial Chamber on charges of crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, genocide of the Cham and the Vietnamese, and offences under the 1956 Cambodian Criminal Code.
The four accused were maintained in custody until their appearance before the Trial Chamber, according to the judges.
Answering reporters' questions, the co-investigating judges expressed their hope that the trial of the four former Khmer Rouge leaders will take place in early next year.
The ECCC, a hybrid court, set up by Cambodia in cooperation with the United Nations to try former Khmer Rouge leaders who are blamed for the deaths of about 1.7 million Cambodians from their rule in 1975 to 1979.
In July this year, the ECCC concluded one of its two cases.
The first case was conducted against Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, chief of security prison, known as S-21. He was sentenced to 35 years in jail.
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This is nothing, more or less, than a refutation of the gun-grabbers arguments that guns cause crime.
These two things may have none, little, some or a lot of a causitive relation. Or this could be a case of correlation with no causation, Kinda like my getting up and the sun rising, BUT, this totally disproves the idea that there is a causitive relation between increasing gun ownership and increasing crime.
No, I'm not so naive to believe that this will slow them down one iota.
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I have never seen a video of a gun walking into a store and robbing it.
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John Lott has settled the science on this one. More guns = less crime. That said, there is almost certainly going to be a bottom to this curve where additional guns produce fewer and fewer benefits.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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