[MYFOXDC] The nuns' habits didn't seem to be habitual garb for three young women so Colombian police asked them to step aside when they arrived on the Caribbean island of San Andres on a flight from Bogota. We seen dis movie. It sucked.
Police Capt. Oscar Davila says the three women appeared nervous, and the fabric didn't look right.
The chief of the island's judicial police says more than four pounds of cocaine (two kilos) was strapped to the legs of each woman. Davila says all three broke into tears and launched into tales of financial hardship.
None of the three is a nun, and all were arrested early Saturday and jailed on drug trafficking charges.
San Andres is just off Nicaragua's coast along a longtime smuggling route for cocaine from mainland Colombia.
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watched the interview on CNN; just another guy next door doing what any family loving guy would do. reacted, then after deed was done, reflected on the coulda, woulda, shoulda options.
wonder if the perp's house is going to suffer an electrical malfunction and burn down????
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I'd prefer that investigators have a chance to find all the bodies first. Only one child, a six-year-old, escaped with the three women. Yet apparently there were many pregnancies. We may soon be very glad that Ohio still has the death penalty.
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Death penalty? I personally have no problem with courthouse lawn crucifixions, but if authorities discover Dr. Kermit Gosnell made house calls in Cleveland, the story is dead in the MSM.
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I had a lefty friend visiting when the story broke and pictures of the perps were shown. First thing he said was "typical knuckle dragging rednecks" Then the names were disclosed, Casro so the retort was easy "probably related to your commie hero Castro. Shut his smirking up.
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Of course, if the game is to jump up and shout that a few bad apples spoil the barrel, then it should be game over for immigrants from south of the border, just like one nut with a gun makes everyone with a gun a nut. No? It's different? Really???
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Yes, Besoeker, death penalty. Because it is not clear if the babies died in utero, or after a full-term birth. Infanticide is still illegal. The perp's daughter Emily seems to be serving a 25-year sentence for exactly that.
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No hero. Just a guy doing what he should have. No significant personal risk. Hard to understand why he - and al the neighbors - hadn't noticed anything amiss in 10 years, but at least he finally did, and did something. Apparently he had a record of his own for domestic abuse in the past, but that has no bearing, unless one is trying to claim he is a hero.
The Irish parliament has passed legislation granting a pardon to thousands of soldiers who left the armed forces of the Republic of Ireland to serve with Allied forces during World War Two.
The Irish Republic remained neutral in the conflict between 1939 and 1945.
In order to fight, thousands of soldiers left Ireland and the Irish army to join British forces. The men were found guilty by military tribunals of going absent without leave and branded deserters. After the war they faced discrimination, lost their pensions and were barred from holding jobs paid for by the state.
Last year, the Irish government apologised for the way they were treated.
The legislation to pardon them was passed on Tuesday and will be signed into law by the Irish president within days.
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Alongside many Scots, hundreds of thousands of Irishmen served the Crown in the Boer War and again in the Great War [WWI]. In 1919 came the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil war which resulted in the partitioning of Ireland by the United Kingdom. As you might imagine, the British partitioning did not set well with the nationalists and had not been forgotten at the onset of WWII. The division and ill will lingers on today. Interesting to note that after seven decades the repair came from within the Irish Government itself.
In other news, the British government is reviewing restitution for the Mau Mau resulting from British Colonial military actions during the insurgency in Kenya during the 1950's.
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re: Brist and Kenya... Will these people looking at restitution also to hit up the Mau Mau tribesmen descendants for restitution to be paid to the families of the British colonials who were brutally killed in the Lari massacre and other atrocities committed by theMau Mau?
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Four out of ten British troops who landed at Normandy were Irish. When you consider the disparity in the population size of the two countries, you have to wonder if they weren't just being used as cannon fodder.
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British impressed more than 15,000 U.S. sailors to supplement their fleet during their Napoleonic Wars. Throughout history, the British have been masters of the tactic. The promise of citizenship helps fill the ranks of nations in population decline as well.
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A bit late in the day to be pardoning men who left an impotent 'army' which was set to sit on the sidelines of the most important war in history to go and fight Nazis, methinks.
Whichever way you paint it, Irish neutrality during the second war was as shameful as Sweden and Switzerland's. There are no excuses or justifications.
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British impressed more than 15,000 U.S. sailors to supplement their fleet during their Napoleonic Wars
In all fairness, during those times and taking into context the military and political the Bristish were facing, there was a) a shortage of skilled sailors in both merchant and naval fleets, b) plenty of deserters from the Royal Navy, c) a non-recognition of naturalized US citizenship (which the US, being short of its own sailors, offered as an inducement) and d)widespread use of forged identity papers by sailors.
Sailors rightfully and honorably separated from the RN or in a protected trade (such as a waterman or ferryman)were given a paper that prohibited the RN from impressing them. Lacking that paper - which, unless the man was an idiot, they guarded with their lives - if a sailor looked like a sailor (as opposed to a landsman) spoke a variation of the King's English, looked Anglo-Saxon enough, or identified by someone as having served aboard a HMS, that was good enough for the RN.
Perfidious Ablion, perhaps. But not taking all that in context is nearly as perfidious.
[An Nahar] Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people in the southern state of North Carolina to Connecticut in the northeast will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more.
It took several brood years before I noticed that Mr. Wife somehow always had a business trip during the worst of the screeching...
Scientists even have a horror-movie name for the infestation: Brood II. But as ominous as that sounds, the insects are harmless. They won't hurt you or other animals. At worst, they might damage a few saplings or young shrubs. Mostly they will blanket certain pockets of the region, though lots of people won't ever see them.
"It's not like these hordes of cicadas suck blood or zombify people," says May Berenbaum, a University of Illinois entomologist.
They're looking for just one thing: sex. And they've been waiting quite a long time.
Since 1996, this group of 1-inch (25-millimeter) bugs, in wingless nymph form, has been a few feet (a meter) underground, sucking on tree roots and biding their time. They will emerge only when the ground temperature reaches precisely 64 degrees (almost 18 Celsius). After a few weeks up in the trees, they will die and their offspring will go underground, not to return until 2030.
"It's just an amazing accomplishment," Berenbaum says. "How can anyone not be impressed?"
And they will make a big racket, too. The noise all the male cicadas make when they sing for sex can drown out your own thoughts, and maybe even rival a rock concert. In 2004, Gene Kritsky, an entomologist at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, measured cicadas at 94 decibels, saying it was so loud "you don't hear planes flying overhead."
Indeed. But when next they hatch in Cincinnati, I've invested in good earplugs.
There are ordinary cicadas that come out every year around the world, but these are different. They're called magicicadas -- as in magic -- and are red-eyed. And these magicicadas are seen only in the eastern half of the United States, nowhere else in the world.
There are 15 U.S. broods that emerge every 13 or 17 years, so that nearly every year, some place is overrun. Last year it was a small area, mostly around the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee. Next year, two places get hit: Iowa into Illinois and Missouri; and Louisiana and Mississippi. And it's possible to live in these locations and actually never see them.
This year's invasion, Brood II, is one of the bigger ones. Several experts say that they really don't have a handle on how many cicadas are lurking underground but that 30 billion seems like a good estimate. At the Smithsonian Institution, researcher Gary Hevel thinks it may be more like 1 trillion.
Even if it's merely 30 billion, if they were lined up head to tail, they would reach the moon and back.
"There will be some places where it's wall-to-wall cicadas," says University of Maryland entomologist Mike Raupp.
And every step and roll of the tires crunches. *shudder*
Strength in numbers is the key to cicada survival: There are so many of them that the birds can't possibly eat them all, and those that are left over are free to multiply, Raupp says.
But why only every 13 or 17 years? Some scientists think they come out in these odd cycles so that predators can't match the timing and be waiting for them in huge numbers. Another theory is that the unusual cycles ensure that different broods don't compete with each other much.
And there's the mystery of just how these bugs know it's been 17 years and time to come out, not 15 or 16 years.
"These guys have evolved several mathematically clever tricks," Raupp says. "These guys are geniuses with little tiny brains."
Oh dear me. How long did he ponder to come up with that bit of cleverness?
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If they had more brains, they would take over the world----every 17 years.
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But why only every 13 or 17 years?
Ummm...a periodic shift in the ether due to the solar cycle maximum?
"It's not like these hordes of cicadas suck blood or zombify people,"
Maybe these will be mutants.
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Aren't cicadas considered a delicacy in France? Seems to me I heard they taste like asparagus. I'll never know, of course. I'll just have the asparagus.
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last time I remember endless reporters carefully frying and then declaring after a tiny taste that they "Taste just like peanuts". Be prepared for the media to repeat these stunts.
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I like the noise, a comforting white noise that covers the screams of the children.
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There are seven year cicadas as well as thirteen and seventeen year broods. For some reason the various species like prime numbers. W've got all of them around here.
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Prime numbers are evolutionarily beneficial to the cicadas, minimizing the different broods interaction with each other, thus avoiding competition for water, ability to communicate, and good locations for their sexy time.
For example the 17 and 13 year broods interact once every 221 years. If they were 16 and 12 year broods, they would interact every 48 years.
[An Nahar] The health of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... , hospitalized in La Belle France last month after suffering a mini-stroke, has "significantly improved," the presidency announced on Tuesday.
Bouteflika's health "has significantly improved" but the 76-year-old president must observe "a normal period of rest prescribed by his doctors," it said in a statement carried by the national APS news agency.
The presidency said the tests carried out at a military hospital in Algiers on April 27 after he suffered a "transient ischemia," had shown that the state of his health "did not raise any concerns."
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[An Nahar] At least a dozen people have been injured in violence between two rival communities in the Algerian oasis town of Ghardaia, a human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activist and national media said on Tuesday.
Algeria's national news agency APS said a dozen people were lightly injured in the festivities, including several coppers.
Kameleddine Fekhar, the representative for the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights in the M'zab region, 600 kilometers (400 miles) south of Algiers, said "dozens" of people from the Mozabite community had been hospitalized.
The festivities pitted young Chaambas of Arab origin against the Berber Mozabite minority who adhere to the Ibadi faith, an offshoot of a dissident Shiite sect.
Violence erupted following a dispute over a Mozabite cemetery that the Chaambas wanted "to appropriate with the help of falsified property records," said Fekhar, himself a Mozabite.
The APS news agency said the festivities broke out when youths from the two communities began throwing petrol bombs at each other and the situation got out of hand.
Riot police deployed around Ghardaia and fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse the youths.
The governor of Ghardaia, Ahmed Adli, has ordered an inquiry into the violence and is "taking appropriate action against the perpetrators," APS said.
In May 2008, two people were killed in three days of festivities between the Chaambas and the Mozabites in the southern town of Berriane.
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And so it continues with the RoP and their tradition of tolerance and peace.
Is there anywhere in the world with a significant Muzzie population that isn't fighting with each other or someone else?
[An Nahar] A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced a Chechen man to 15 years in prison for murdering a former Russian colonel, who notoriously strangled to death a young Chechen woman, a front man said.
According to Sherlocks, Yusup Temerkhanov killed Yuri Budanov to avenge the death of his father who perished during a "counter-terrorist" operation conducted by Russian forces in Chechnya in 2000.
Believed to be driven by hatred for the Russian troops, he picked as his victim the high-profile former colonel Budanov, whose name became a byword for crimes committed by the Russian army against civilians during years of fighting with Chechen separatists.
Budanov had been convicted of the murder by strangling in 2000 in Chechnya of Elza Kungayeva but was regarded as a nationalist hero by bully boys.
He was released from jail in 2009 after serving only part of his 10-year sentence.
Bodanov was murdered by a gunman who pumped multiple bullets into his skull in June 2011 in southwest Moscow as he emerged from an office building.
Temerkhanov was locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! several months after the murder.
Moscow City Court front man Mikhail Artyukh said that after serving his 15-year sentence, Temerkhanov will be on supervised release for another 1.5 years.
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The Air Force stripped an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control -- and, if necessary, launch -- nuclear missiles after a string of unpublicized failings, including a remarkably dim review of their unit's launch skills. The group's deputy commander said it is suffering "rot" within its ranks. Fish rotting progression and all that...
The tip-off to trouble was a March inspection of the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., which earned the equivalent of a "D'' grade when tested on its mastery of Minuteman III missile launch operations. In other areas, the officers tested much better, ...those areas being Diversity®, Community Outreach® and Green programs.
but the group's overall fitness was deemed so tenuous that senior officers at Minot decided, after probing further, that an immediate crackdown was called for. "Please form a line so you can be executed in an orderly manner!"
The Air Force publicly called the inspection a "success." "Everything was fine until the ship went down."
But in April it quietly removed 17 officers at Minot from the highly sensitive duty of standing 24-hour watch over the Air Force's most powerful nuclear missiles, the intercontinental ballistic missiles that can strike targets across the globe. Inside each underground launch control capsule, two officers stand "alert" at all times, ready to launch an ICBM upon presidential order.
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If warranted this is a good thing. My fear is that with the current CinC warrented has a whole new definition and those PC requirements might be the problem......one way or the other.
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This story has been developing for YEARS! I don't think it is political, but much worse - real. Scary. I suspect that since the perceived threat essentially went away after the collapse of the USSR the AF stopped taking this duty seriously, just like the rest of us. BUT YOU CAN"T blow off that duty, it is critical even though it should never have to be exercised. Very disappointing it has come to this, but it has to be fixed.
[Dawn] The Foreign Ministry of Pakistain on Tuesday issued a travel advisory for all citizens travelling to India, DawnNews reported.
A front man for the Foreign Ministry said all Paks travelling to India should be careful as Indian media reports suggested serious threats to their security.
Moreover, he added that 600 visitors scheduled to visit the Ajmer shrine would be travelling at a serious risk.
The front man also called upon the Indian government to take appropriate measures for the security of Pak travellers.
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[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... Tuesday sustained serious injuries on his head and back after falling from a lifter during climbing up the stage installed for an election rally in Lahore.
TV footage showed him tumbling down along with three or four personal body guards on a pick up truck. The PTI chief was seen bleeding when he was taken away by his party supporters to the city's Liberty Hospital.
The 60-year-old, who has undertaken a punishing schedule of daily rallies but who is known for his physical fitness, tumbled from a riser along with several of his staff, seemingly after one of them lost their balance.
Witness Raza Zaidi told AFP that Khan was being lifted on a crane with five people but lost his balance and fell when a sixth one tried to climb up. Khan hit the lifter before falling on the ground.
Khan sustained injuries on his head and back, said the hospital sources. They also said that Khan had to have as many as 16 stitches due to the injuries he sustained at back of his head.
The rally was held near Ghalib Market in Lahore's Gulberg neighbourhood.
PTI spokeswoman Shirin Mazari told AFP Khan was injured on his forehead after falling from a height of more than seven feet (over two metres), but was conscious.
Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and his daughter Maryam Nawaz issued sympathetic statements to their competitor in Punjab. They prayed for swift recovery of Khan.
Sharif, in rare goodwill gesture, has asked his party workers to immediately halt the media advertisements against Imran Khan.
Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim, Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain and Allama Tahirul Qadri also showed sympathy towards the PTI chief and prayed for his well being.
Famous singer and PTI leader Abrarul Haq has said the party chief is out of danger and stable now at the hospital. Another party leader Asad Umar, talking to Dawn.com, also confirmed that Khan is now conscious and well.
People at the rally venue, where thousands had gathered, expressed sadness.
"Passion and love for Imran Khan brought all these people here. We are still here, all we can do is pray now," said Sobia Khan, a PTI supporter.
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This is what you get for not just poking your head out thru the sunroof...
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insha'Allan
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Imran may have had one too many drinks before his speech....
[An Nahar] The Dalai Lama on Tuesday called for the teaching of secular values in education, saying that it was critical for the world to respect all religions -- as well as the right not to believe.
Despite devoting his life to the study of Buddhism, Tibet's spiritual leader said he was convinced that all people -- and often even animals -- shared basic moral values regardless of their religion.
"In the West, there is some connotation that secular means a little negative, or disrespect, towards religion," the Dalai Lama told a packed arena at the University of Maryland at College Park in Washington's suburbs.
"But according to the Indian understanding, secular means respect for all religions -- and respect for non-believers," said the Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile in India since 1959.
"That is the only way it can be acceptable to a whole universal level," he said.
The Dalai Lama said he was taking part in a project to craft a curriculum on universal ethics, which could be taught initially at a local level and eventually become part of a United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... initiative.
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Well, there is the fly in the ointment, Dalai. A UN initiative will kill it right there. Respect is earned, not a given.
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[MILITARYTIMES] Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered a close-up and comprehensive inspection of all military offices and workplaces worldwide to root out any "materials that create a degrading or offensive work environment."
The extraordinary searches will be similar to those the Air Force conducted last year and prompted officers to scour troops' desks and cubicles in search of photos, calendars, magazines, screen-savers, computer files and other items that might be considered degrading toward women.
The inspections will now target soldiers, sailors and Marines. They come amid heightened concern about sexual assault in the military and a new Defense Department report that suggests more than 70 troops every day experience some type of sexual assault.
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How about issuing a directive that starting tomorrow all recruiting and retention of straight white males will cease? Solves all those icky issues at one stroke. Hey, with the Congressional removal of the prohibition of woman in combat, think of the massive potential pool of replacements available.
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So, this is what it has come to. Wasting time on political correctness police, instead of using the same budget dollars on training and warfighting (or for taking care of the warfighters - or getting the VA to reduce its backlog...)
This is disgusting they prioritize the morality police against someone being offended, instead of concentrating on what really matters. This is supposed to be the Army, not the Office.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[An Nahar] Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people in the southern state of North Carolina to Connecticut in the northeast will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more.
Bouteflika
The Air Force stripped an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control -- and, if necessary, launch -- nuclear missiles after a string of unpublicized failings, including a remarkably dim review of their unit's launch skills. The group's deputy commander said it is suffering "rot" within its ranks.
Nawaz Sharif
[MILITARYTIMES] Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered a close-up and comprehensive inspection of all military offices and workplaces worldwide to root out any "materials that create a degrading or offensive work environment."
