or Why Herman Cain Ought to be Cock-Punched From Coast to Coast With Spiked Brass Knuckles From Now Until the Iowa Caucus.

(In which Jurassicpork taketh a semen-spattered page from the Rude Pundit and regurgitateth with much vile and scatalogical spleenitude.)

Rachel Maddow had it figured out weeks ago when she finally discovered that Herman's Cain's candidacy is really nothing more than performance art.

And just yesterday, Charles Pierce, from his elegantly nasty nest at Esquire (think of James Wolcott on a really cranky day), in his usually eloquent way, not so gently exhorted Cain to take his leave from the race like the buffoonish wedding crasher that he is.

Seriously, now, folks, and this especially goes out to you post-literate dingleberries still stubbornly clinging to the rotting rectum of Ronald Reagan while desperately trying to convince yourselves and your fellow dead-enders that the Great Communicator was reincarnated through a former pizza mogul whose greatest claim to fame was in hurtling his peoples' image back to the days of Mandingo:

It's time to finally own up to this hideously elongated joke known as the Cain Train and admit it has long since passed and that now it's up to those of us in the reality-based community to add the final exclamation point to this seemingly neverending punchline.

This man had made more passes than Tom Brady with no running game. His mind went blank when asked about Libya. His mind went blank again when Chris Wallace asked him about right of return. Both times, Cain had that elephant in the headlights look and yet his supporters still threw millions at his feet.

He's now been accused of actually scoring for 13 years in a row by a woman in Georgia and his Arizona campaign chair Lori "Annie Oakley" Klein didn't make matters better for him with her own defense. And she'd actually done better than Cain's own lawyer who, in his own spirited and speedy defense, didn't exactly deny the allegations.

His campaign spots make less sense than Fellini if he made films on purple microdot. He thinks Pokemon is a poet, got his 9-9-9 tax plan from Sim City and, for all we know, his national security strategy was based on Doom. His defiantly and proudly ignorant thoughts on other countries such as Uz-beki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan make Rick Perry look like a foreign policy wonk.

He contradicted himself on abortion and women's rights faster than Mitt Romney on black beauties and has otherwise shown himself to be so stupendously unqualified for any public office let alone the presidency that millions of liberals are getting the dry heaves at the thought of another George W. Bush.

So here's my idea: We have SEAL Team Six abduct Herman Cain, put him in four point King Kong shackles like some right wing version of the Vitruvian Man, tour him like some village roadshow from coast to coast where anyone with a couple of bucks and a proper sense of outrage at this obscene mockery of the electoral process can then cock-punch Herman Cain from now until the caucuses.

We can sell it on PPV for $49.95 and, combined with the CPR (Cock-Punching Revenue) generate some income for schools, hospitals, unemployment benefits and infrastructure rebuilding, which immediately is a better and more humane plan for addressing these issues than anything Herman Cain and the rest of the GOP has come up with.

Seriously. Let's all punch Herman Cain so hard in his nether regions that his scrotum pops in like an inverted nipple. Because it's a masterfully sinister feat of dexterity when you can make people like Donald Trump and Sarah Palin sound like voices of reason for the Republican Party, as well as taking the heat off the other GOP psychopaths such as Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann.

We are all Herman Cain's wife. No doubt, there are many of us who wonder aloud or to ourselves what is keeping that woman silently and invisibly Velcro'd to her husband's hip considering all the allegations from at least six women. How loathsome do you have to be in your long-standing moral turpitude when a New Hampshire newspaper and several other conservative media outlets pass you by to go for another serial adulterer like Newt Gingrich?

I bet he decided to retire!

Quickly too.

Moonshine still discovered in Mass. water plant

Associated Press

GROTON, Mass. (AP) — A more intoxicating drink than water was apparently being produced at a Massachusetts town's water treatment plant.

A town official in Groton (GRAH'-tuhn) says a water department employee set up a still and was making moonshine on town property.

Town Manager Mark Haddad tells The Sun of Lowell that "distilling apparatus" was discovered earlier this month inside the Baddacook Water Treatment Plant. The employee was placed on paid administrative leave and later decided to retire.

The rest of the story:

An example of the felony-murder rule at work.

Since she was evading the police at the time of the accident she was committing Felony Murder a 1st degree felony when they were killed rather than Intoxication Manslaughter which is a 2nd degree felony.

The punishment range is 5 to 99 years or life rather than 2 to 20 years.

Sobbing, woman pleads guilty to four murders

Woman fleeing cops struck minivan, killing four members of same family.
By Craig Kapitan - Express-News

Pausing to catch her breath between sobs, Valeri Andrews said to a judge four times Tuesday that she was guilty of murder.

The pleas — for which Andrews, 40, will receive four concurrent sentences of up to 55 years each — represented three generations of the Perez family, whose minivan was struck by Andrews' vehicle last year as she fled police.

State District Judge Melisa Skinner is to determine her sentence in January. As part of the plea agreement, Andrews has agreed to a minimum of 40 years in prison for each count. She also agreed that her Chrysler PT Cruiser was a deadly weapon, meaning she will have to serve at least half of the longest sentence before applying for parole.

The rest of the story:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

putz definition

1. n.
   the penis. (Usually objectionable.) :  He held his hands over his putz and ran for the bedroom.
2. n.
   a stupid or obnoxious male; a stupid person. (Usually objectionable.) :  What a stupid putz! 

Takes one to know one.

Aggies' athletics CFO admits to calling A&M Prez 'putz'

By Brent Zwerneman - Express-News


COLLEGE STATION — At 9:03 p.m. on Oct. 1, a person dubbed “UtayAg” on the popular Texas A&M fan website TexAgs opined, “I have to admit that the stupidity on this board always brings me back to the point that I know I'm not the dumbest (expletive) out there.”

His fellow posters beg to differ. Jeff Toole, A&M athletics' chief financial officer and senior associate athletic director, admitted on Tuesday that he has disparaged A&M president R. Bowen Loftin on TexAgs — dubbing
Loftin a “putz” and a “hopelessly underqualified puppet” — under the alias of UtayAg.

“I was posting what I thought was an anonymous opinion,” Toole said Tuesday.

The rest of the story:

She walks away $10,000 richer for it.

So did her attorney.

Controversial marriage annulled

By John MacCormack - Express News

With a judge's signature, the short and conflicted marriage of Jewell Hall, 87, and Marjorie Messer, 58, came to a quick end Tuesday, on the brink of what had promised to be a dramatic annulment trial.

For a payment of $10,000, Messer agreed not to fight the annulment.

She also agreed to drop her claims to Hall's assets and that all the legal documents signed by Hall after the March marriage, including a new will, power of attorney and designation of beneficiary, were null and void.

The rest of the story:

Three American wealth bosses who picked up a $254m (£163m) lottery top prize refuse claims they just collected the cheque for the genuine victor, their client.

Greg Skidmore, Brandon Lacoff and Tim Davidson came onward as the winners at a news conference on Monday.

They said Mr. Davidson purchased the $1 ticket at a petrol station and they had formed a confidence to manage the funds.

But a friend said the genuine winner was a customer who wanted to remain unidentified.

Thomas Gladstone, who is apparently a landholder for the men's company, said he had said Mr. Lacoff on Monday to ask him about the Powerball win.

"He said, 'no, I didn't win the lottery. We're instead of the guy who did,"' Mr. Gladstone told the Associated Press news agency. "He said he stands for the man who's staying unidentified."

Mr. Gladstone said he was told the three asset managers were securing the actual winner by putting his money in a trust.

The real winner was a customer of the guy's firm who does not want advertisement, because people "get stressed and pursued when they success the lottery", Mr. Gladstone added.

The three guys are from Greenwich, Connecticut, one of the most prosperous towns in the US.

They work for Belpointe investment consultants, which has about $82m in assets under management, according to Securities and Exchange Commission papers.

A statement from the three men's Putnam Avenue Family Trust rejected the assertion of a fourth man.

"There has been much rumor and quite a bit of propaganda over the last 24 hours," said the statement.

"To be obvious, there are a total of three trustees and there is no unidentified fourth contributor," it added.

The trust also declared that in the next coming 10 days, $1m would be contributed to causes to help military veterans in the area.

"The three trustees think this the first stop on what we see as a trip of charity in the months and years to come," the statement said.

Chris Sandys, a collection manager at Belpointe, told Reuter news agency that the company was not permitted to remark on a "customer issue".

Lottery authorities said the three men's top prized say had met all "appropriate regulations and truth standards".

They further said that "it is not rare for Powerball winners to be unnamed as persons, trusts, partnerships or other lawful body".

To whom it may concern:

I'd like to know why Patriot Boy (aka Jesus' General) was banned from your website. The General, who is an 11 on a manly scale of absolute gender, has been nothing but a throbbing pillar of support for Pastor Steven Anderson and during the most trying times of both their lives. I'm speaking, of course, of the time the Border police beat the shit out of him when he stood up for his somewhat vague rights and then when he openly wished for the President to die and then when he sent a man named Chris Broughton to an Obama gun rally with an AR 15 (Oh sorry. It wasn't a gun rally. It was a Town Hall on health care reform. My bad).


The point I'm making is that I think you have banned him for the wrong reasons. Just because he oils up like a Spartan of old and wrestles other manly men and his fist occasionally (and purely by accident, of course) winds up in the tight rectum of another hard-bodied, glistening male it does not make him a homosexual.

Therefore. I must issue an ultimatum: Either you reinstate the General immediately or I will be forced to abandon Mr. Anderson's glorified cult, as good as the butter cookies are (the ones made by his wife whose vagina doubles as a clown car). And in that case I will join Michael Parks' somewhat more even-keeled religion as that seen in the Kevin Smith movie, Red State.

I await your reply with baited breath.

JP (aka Jurassicpork)

The 28-year-old model – who has 10-month-old son Flynn with the 'Three Musketeers' star – treated her actor husband to the luxurious underwear for the pair of them to enjoy.

She said: "Well he had to get into character so I bought him these silk boxer shorts and it kind of helped."

Asked by TV talk show host Chelsea Handler what she meant by get into character, she replied: "For, you know, us. I don't want to tell you what he bought me."

During the interview, the Victoria's Secret model also spoke about Flynn, revealing he is already showing an interest in music and dancing.

She said: "He loves hip-hop.

"When I had him in my stomach, I'd play music and sometimes I'd put on hip-hop and dance around. So now, I put hip-hop on and he shakes his head - pretty funny."

She also said the youngster loves being the centre of attention, even when she tries to keep him out of the spotlight.

Miranda explained: "[During an outing], I was pulling the scarf over to cover him from the paparazzi, and he was pulling it down, like, 'Hey guys! Here I am.' "

The catwalk beauty also refused painkilling drugs when she gave birth to Flynn in January and jokingly claimed the experience has given her a much higher pain threshold.

She said: "I was so determined to have a natural childbirth. Now I can much more easily handle a paper cut." 

 

Millions of fans (or those who merely enjoy seeing half-naked models in fancy undies) tuned in to watch the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, but while you were drooling in front of your television sets, we had to wonder if some of those angels were drooling for a cheeseburger.

Seriously.

This isn't exactly new news.

Mopre: Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Surprise 

Back in April, Candice Swanepoel and her thin frame made headlines when we learned that her contract with the lingerie company was in jeopardy due to her dramatic weight loss (which she later commented on).

But watching the show, we can't help but remember the days when models like Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum and Gisele Bündchen took over the catwalk with their curves. Don't get us wrong, they still made us question our meal choices, but they were also voluptuous. And now, it seems like the wings on these newbies are literally going to whisk them away.

 

Further proof that Rick Perry has got to be without equivocation and without a shadow of a doubt the stupidest carbon-based life form in the entire solar system. Because in Rick Perry's Bizarro dimension:

1) The legal voting age is still 21.
2) We live in a part time country.
3) Election Day 2012 is actually six days later than we've been told.
4) With good hair comes no accountability.

If Margaret Thatcher were the P.M. she'd have kicked their collective asses for doing this.

Civilized countries don't do this.  But then whoever said Iran was civilized?

And they may have nuclear weapons soon?  Wonderful.



Iranian protesters storm UK compound in Tehran

By Robin Pomeroy

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian protesters stormed two British Embassy compounds in Tehran Tuesday, smashing windows, hurling petrol bombs and burning the British flag during a rally to protest against sanctions imposed by Britain, live Iranian television showed.

The attacks followed the rapid approval by Iran's Guardian Council of a parliamentary bill compelling the government to expel the British ambassador in retaliation for the sanctions, and warnings from a lawmaker that angry Iranians could storm the British embassy as they did to the U.S. mission in 1979.

Several dozen protesters broke away from a crowd of a few hundred protesters outside the main embassy compound in downtown Tehran, scaled the embassy gates and went inside. Iranian security forces appeared to do little to stop them.

The rest of the story:

She had a change of heart after she first decided to steal the money and had taken it with her?

**snort**  Bahahahahahaha  **snort**

Good one.

S.A. parking attendant admits to cash dump

By Craig Kapitan - Express-News

A former parking attendant at a downtown San Antonio garage was ordered Monday to pay back the city more than $2,000 after admitting she took the cash with her on a bathroom break and left it there.

Petra Marie Gutierrez, 30, was also ordered by state District Judge Juanita Vasquez-Gardner to serve two years of deferred adjudication probation for the state jail felony theft charge.

Gutierrez was collecting cash from motorists at the city's Crockett Street garage in June 2007 in advance of a parade to commemorate the Spurs' sweep of the NBA finals. After collecting $2,252, she asked to take a bathroom break and never returned, her supervisors told police.

The rest of the story:

How'd he get away from the officer?

Also he must have watched Wesley Snipes in U.S. Marshals too many times.

You don't get to jump off bridges and come out fine.

Suspect jumps off bridge

Man is in critical condition after leaping to escape police.
By Eva Ruth Moravec - Express-News

A man was hospitalized in critical condition after he jumped off an Interstate 35 bridge over Salado Creek and fell at least 25 feet while fleeing San Antonio police Monday afternoon.

Johnathan Gomez, 20, was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center with a broken back and head injuries, a police spokeswoman said.

An officer had arrested Gomez on a felony warrant for possession of a controlled substance at a gas station around 1 p.m. in the 1700 block of North New Braunfels Avenue and had handcuffed him, but Gomez was able to run and cross the interstate access road, said SAPD Sgt. Jay Vinson.

The rest of the story:

The folks running this scam are pure dirtbags aren't they?

I mean to prey on Grandparents of all things.

But, I guess, they've must have been successful in the past.

Don't fall victim to this.


Scam targets grandparents
By Dalondo MoultrieThe Herald-Zeitung


NEW BRAUNFELS — A retired dentist in New Braunfels received aharrowing call Monday morning from a person pretending to be hisgranddaughter in loads of trouble after a car crash in LasVegas.

The grandfather later learned he was only being targeted by a scam,and his granddaughter was safe at a Texas college, as she shouldhave been. Local police said the scam is not new, and residentsshould take precautions when receiving such calls.

The rest of the story:

I'll be the first to say that all those people who know about circuit boards and microprocessors are pretty darned clever. But don't let them wander too far from their field of expertise or they wind up making statements that make them sound, well...stupid. 


I'm referring to an item that ran in the Bits blog of The New York Times online on Sunday headlined, Flyers Must Turn Off Devices, But its Not Clear Why, in which the author, Nick Bilton, disses the safety hazards associated with the use of personal electronic devices on airplanes and cites as the expert, the association representing wireless device manufacturers. 


What fries me about the hew and cry that accompanies this issue each time it is brought up is that people smart enough to be downright boring at a dinner party explaining digital complexities can lift up their eyes from the screen of their iPad and see something like commercial aviation in such starkly simplistic terms. 


Bilton's story boots up with the argument that people routinely do not turn off their devices on airplanes and no planes have crashed. Therefore, no problem exists. There are two problems with that. The first, is that it is wrong. The history of the study of the effect of EMI on airplanes begins with a spectacular mid-air collision - over New York no less - in 1960. At that time it was thought that radio interference caused the pilots of a United DC-8 to believe their VOR receiver was not working, resulting in the plane being off course and colliding with a TWA Super Constellation. 

Since then there have been other accidents studied by the members of the RTCA committee which has been investigating the potential for gadgets to interfere with airplane systems. When I wrote about this for the Times in January of this year, one of the  members mentioned several accidents (some of them quite well known) in which EMI was considered a likely contributing factor. Electromagnetic interference, unlike bent metal or broken parts, leaves no trace. 


Still, there have been many reports of pilots experiencing problems in the cockpit that did not lead to disaster that were were tracked back to a passenger using an electronic device. You can read more about them here.


But the second and larger problem with the story is that it is another rallying cry for air travelers who don't get that aviation accidents aren't an A-follows-B sort of thing, like plugging a fork into a wall outlet and watching the fireworks begin.  Absent a plane-spiraling-to-earth-event, everyone armed with a Google-equipped iPod (forgive me, Android) now feels that is perfectly appropriate to to make their own decision about whether to heed the flight attendant's plea to kindly power down anything with an ON/OFF switch.  A lack of accidents is not evidence of air safety and its frightening that passengers feel equipped to make safety decisions on their own with this yardstick as measuring device. 


Bilton brings his argument on home by quoting an executive of the International Association for Wireless Communications, a trade group representing the device manufacturers, hardly an unbiased source. The executive reassures Times readers that aircraft wiring is shielded. Well, yeah. We know that. He does not suggest the impact of 200-400 plus passengers, each with 2 to 3 devices all powered up and ready to go may be slightly beyond what any airplane designer may have had in mind a decade or more ago when the PED wasn't SOP for everyone over the age of 3. We're not even talking about the thousands of airplanes in service around the world that were designed prior to the 1990s. 


Anyway, I'm not feeling so good about the integrity of all that communications gear or even the robustness of the shielding of airplane wiring, which will always be one or two digital generations behind the device manufacturers. (I say this having spent five years on an F.A.A. committee on aging aircraft wiring. See me later.)

So when I get on an airplane and I am mildly tempted to keep my Kindle on, or squeeze a few more photos on my digital camera, I resist that temptation. To steel my spine I need only remember the what Boeing had to say about the matter. 


"Operators of commercial airplanes have reported numerous cases of portable electronic devices affecting airplane systems during flight. These devices, including laptop and palmtop computers, audio players/recorders, electronic games, cell phones, compact-disc players, electronic toys, and laser pointers, have been suspected of causing such anomalous events as autopilot disconnects, erratic flight deck indications, airplanes turning off course, and uncommanded turns. Boeing has recommended that devices suspected of causing these anomalies be turned off during critical stages of flight."

Digital blogger or Boeing guidance? For me, it's not a tough call.

(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.)

It almost seems like a betrayal that, in a festering cesspool of corruption and stupidity, a man like Barney Frank would lay down his arms and walk off the field of battle. When political correctness was draped over the Beltway during the Reagan era like a wet Christo, Frank either didn't get the memo or balled it up and threw it in the circular file. However abrasive he was toward his detractors, whether it be a student full of himself, right wing pundits or misinformed Tea Bagger constituents, it can't be said that Congressman Frank suffered fools gladly.

Frank, the ranking Democrat and former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, announced yesterday that he would not be seeking reelection. His reason was that his CD had been redrawn. Frank found himself in the ironic and absurd position of fighting a wave of anti-incumbency from new constituents who've never been represented by Frank. What was once arguably the safest seat in Congress, MA-4, is now conceivably vulnerable to a Republican challenger in an ominous environment of gerrymandering that almost always seems to favor Republicans (Frank lost the entire town of New Bedford, losing in the process many reliably Democratic-voting Luso-Americans and the bedrock of his support on the South Shore).

And, most inescapably, he's 71 and understandably wants to put up his feet in his golden years.

So let me add to the growing pile of premature political elegies by saying that the beginning of Frank's farewell is almost like eulogizing intelligence itself. As any real liberal knows, it is the moral and intellectual imperative of every one of us to lampoon and pillory stupidity, ignorance and bigotry whereever we find it. It's a long established if unwritten code on the Beltway and beyond and the 16 termer took full license of that invisible rule and then some.

The Frank anecdotes are as plentiful as those of the late Molly Ivins. After being called "Barney Fag" during a Dick Armey interview, which Armey then tried to worm out of by stating it was a slip of the tongue, Frank replied, "I turned to my own expert, my mother, who reports that in 59 years of marriage, no one ever introduced her as Elsie Fag."

To a Tea Bagger who likened ObamaCare to Nazism in Dartmouth two years ago: "Madam, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table."

To ignoramuses who'd blame Frank for not being able to understand him, he'd once famously said, "I can read it for you. I cannot understand it for you."

No, Frank did not suffer fools gladly any more than did Anthony Weiner or Alan Grayson. Hopefully in '13, former Congressman Grayson will be occupying his old chair with the stubbornness of an Occupy Wall Street protester in Zuccotti Park. Congressman Frank's quick and incisive wit desperately needs to be succeeded.

As well as his quite impressive record, one that almost rivals that of Ted Kennedy, on issues ranging from financial reform, gay rights and human rights in general and the economy and how it impacted on the working class people in MA-4, the most valuable lesson that Frank has taught us is that it's OK to call a spade a spade or a moron a moron. It's that kind of Bulworth-class straight-talking that used to be part and parcel to American political discourse until Ronald "Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of a Fellow Republican" Reagan decided it was far better to hide our lights under a bushel if they threatened to torch any dessicated political egos. Barney Frank at low ebb could still make a mockery of John McCain's straight talking.

Frank shattered the longstanding tradition of politicians seriously entertaining college students. Once, on national TV, a right wing Harvard law student dutifully parroted right wing talking points by saying, "You're a public representative, I'm a student..." and Frank immediately shot back, "Which allows you to say stuff you don't back up?"

When Republicans shied away from all but soundstages owned by Rupert Murdoch, Frank was almost a regular fixture in the lion's den of Fox, always girded for battle. To a theatrically "out of control" Bill O'Reilly, an exasperated Frank finally said, "Your stupidity gets in the way of rational discussion."

Nobody was sacred to Frank whether you were a college student at a prestigious Ivy League University or a fellow member of Congress: If you were stupid, ignorant, impertinent or disrespectful, you were fair game. Barney would shoot you, bag you, hollow you out, stuff you and mount you over his mantle before it was shown to all on the 5 o'clock news. And he'd get away with it with comebacks zooming in on the weak point of a fallacious argument, ripostes mercilessly delivered with stunning dispatch and accuracy.

Sadly, Frank will never be emulated as a role model for straight talking that gleefully skewers the willfully ignorant and stupid. Parliamentary protocol, political correctness and an ever-vigilant eye on demographics and a fear on the cellular level of pissing off thin-skinned Republicans means we won't see another Barney Frank again any time soon.

But it ought to be remembered that Frank did it often enough with relative impunity that it should serve as an object lesson to all of us, both private citizens and elected officials alike, of the importance of all of us being Frank.

Late last summer/early fall, I got a great jump start on my annual year-end feature, amassing loads of pictures, links and about two thirds of my dishonorees for 2011. Then I developed a problem with my laptop and had to set it back to factory standards to get C++ and other programs to work again. This, of course, meant that I lost all my files and programs, including the document where I got a running start on Assclowns of the Year #4 that I stupidly didn't bother to save on disk.

So, considering I'm starting relatively late in assembling this feature, we're probably looking at a New Year's Day debut before this comes out although I'd like to give ya'll a Christmas present. You could help me out immensely by making some suggestions as to who you think should be the top 50 assclowns of the year. Try to think outside the box and avoid obvious targets like Bachmann, Bush, Perry, Obama, etc. I can't look for .jpegs or hyperlinkage if I don't know who I'm writing about.

I understand the State's concerns but it seems like its a bit of overreach to me.

Of course I do not know all of the facts in this matter.

Ohio puts 200-pound third-grader in foster care

Associated Press -

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio third-grader who weighs more than 200 pounds has been taken from his family and placed into foster care after county social workers said his mother wasn't doing enough to control his weight.

The Plain Dealer reports (http://bit.ly/t68M7D ) that the Cleveland 8-year-old is considered severely obese and at risk for such diseases as diabetes and hypertension.

The case is the first state officials can recall of a child being put in foster care strictly for a weight-related issue.

The rest of the story:

Philadelphia - The city of brotherly love.

Police: Woman fatally hits boyfriend with car

6ABC.com

GRAYS FERRY - November 27, 2011 (WPVI) -- Police say a man was struck and killed by his girlfriend after a heated argument in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia.

At approximately 1:52 a.m., police received a call concerning the incident at Morris and Ringgold streets.

Upon arrival, officers observed the male victim, identified as 28-year-old Tyrone Taylor, lying against the wall with a woman standing next him.

The rest of the story:

Really?

The Governor's office complained to her high school?

Wow.  He really does suck doesn't he?

Emma Sulivan, high school student, refuses to apologize to Gov. after tweet

By Nina Mandell - NY Daily News

A  high schooler who found herself in hot water after writing a negative tweet about Kansas Governor Sam Brownback told the Associated Press on Sunday that she won't be apologizing.

 

Emma Sullivan, a high school senior, tweeted "Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person" after listening to the Republican governor speak.

She did not actually make any comments to him - but after his office received word of the tweet, they alerted Sullivan's high school. She was quickly summoned to the principal, who told her she must write a letter of apology - which is due on Monday.

The rest of the story:

Apparently the thoughts are this may have been a drug deal gone bad and a 17 year old has lost his life.

How very sad for him and his family and friends.

Teen fatally shot on city's North Side

By Jessica Kwong - Express-News

A 17-year-old boy was shot to death on the North Side Sunday just before midnight after what police suspect was "a bad drug deal."

A call for a shooting in progress came out around 11:45 p.m. in the 6000 block of Donely Place, said Det. Lowell Hull of the San Antonio Police Department's criminal investigations division.

"We don't know who was selling and who was buying, but it looks like it was a bad drug deal," said Hull, adding that he does not remember a similar situation happening in the neighborhood.

The rest of the story:

Anger widen in Pakistan Sunday over a NATO cross-border air strike that murdered 24 Pakistani soldiers and could weaken the U.S. attempts to end the war in Afghanistan.

Sunday night in Pakistan, in excess of 40 hours after the mishap, many queries remained.

NATO explained the deaths as a "tragic unintentional incident" and said an inquiry was in progress. A Western official and an Afghan security officer who requested anonymity said NATO troops were responding to fire from across the border.

It's possible both clarifications are accurate: that a retaliatory attack by NATO troops took a tragic, wrong turn in cruel terrain where recognizing friend and foe can be tricky.

"All of this is tremendously gloomy and requires to be inspected," said a U.S. official in Washington, who spoke on condition of secrecy. "Our objective today is ... that the inquiry gets increased in a way that is confidence-building on all sides."

Insurgents often assault from Pakistani soil or run after battle across a porous border that NATO-led troops, under their UN mandate, cannot cross.

What is obvious is the mishap could weaken U.S. attempts to make better ties with Pakistan so that the local power helps stabilize Afghanistan before NATO war troops go home by the end of 2014.

The strike was the newest identified annoyance by the United States, which furious Pakistan's powerful military with a one-sided special forces raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May.

Several of gathered outside the American consulate in the city of Karachi to gripe against the NATO attack.

A Reuters reporter at the scene said the annoyed crowd shouted "Down with America." One young man climbed on the wall surrounding the heavily equipped compound and attached a Pakistani flag to snide wire.

"America is striking our borders. The government should instantly split ties with it," said Naseema Baluch, a housewife attending the protest march. "America desires to take up our country but we will not let it do that."

Pakistan buried the troops died in the air strike on Sunday. Television stations showed coffins draped in green and white Pakistani flags in a prayer ceremony at the headquarters of the local command in Peshawar, attended by army chief General Ashfaq Kayani.

Militants attacking NATO forces have long taken benefit of the truth that the coalition's mandate finishes at the border to either assault from within Pakistan or run away to relative secure after an attack.

Three Pakistani security men were murdered last year by NATO gun-ships. NATO said then that its forces had wrongly advice shots from Pakistani forces for an insurgents attack.

In the fresh incident, a Western officer and a senior Afghan security officer said NATO and Afghan forces had come under fire from across the border with Pakistan before NATO aircraft strike a Pakistani army post, killing the soldiers.

"They came under cross-border fire," the Western officer said, without making out the source of the fire.

The Afghan authorities said troops had come under fire from inside Pakistan as they were sliding from helicopters, which had returned fire.

Both authorities asked not to be identified because the attack is so sensitive.

Pakistan has said the air-strike was an unprovoked attack and has said it keeps the right to strike back.

U.S. and NATO authorities are endeavoring to calm strains but the soldiers' deaths are testing a bad marriage of expediency between Washington and Islamabad. Thousands of Pakistanis thought their army is combating a war against insurgents that only serves Western interests.

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar talked with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by telephone early Sunday to express the deep sense of anger felt across Pakistan" and warned that the mishap could weaken attempts to make better relations, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Pakistan closed down NATO supply roads into Afghanistan in revenge for the incident, the lethal of its kind since Islamabad anxiously allied itself with Washington following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Pakistan is the way for about half of NATO supplies shipped overland to its troops in Afghanistan. Land consignments account for about two thirds of the alliance's cargo.

A same mishap on Sept 30, 2010, which dies two Pakistani security men, led to the closure of one of NATO's supply roads through Pakistan for 10 days.

U.S. ties with Pakistan have undergone numerous great holds up beginning with the one sided U.S. special forces raid in May that killed bin Laden in a Pakistani town where he had seemingly been residing for years.

"From Raymond Davis and his gun slinging in the streets of Lahore to the Osama bin Laden incident, and immediately to the firing on Pakistani soldiers on the unstable Pakistan-Afghan border, things hardly look like able to get any worse," said the Daily Times.

Islamabad depends on billions in U.S. aid and Washington thinks Pakistan can help it bring about peace in Afghanistan.

But it is continuously fighting Anti-American emotions over everything from U.S. drone aircraft strikes to Washington's calls for economic restructurings.

"We should finish our association with America. It's good to have hostility with America than friendship. It's nobody's friend," said laborer Sameer Baluch.

In Karachi, numerous truck drivers who should have been carrying supplies to Afghanistan were inoperative.

Taj Malli valiant the risk of Taliban assaults to deliver supplies to Afghanistan so that he can support his children. But he feels it is time to end the road permanently in protest.

"Pakistan is so significant against money. The government must suspend all supplies to NATO so that they understand the value of Pakistan," he said.

 

In case you forgot the multimillion dollar wedding that led to a 72-day marriage, we get reminded of it right up front on “Kourtney and Kim Take New York” by a montage of clips of talking heads. 

We’re plunged right into the world of the Kardashian Clan.

Flash back to eight weeks earlier in Los Angeles. Kim calls him “husband!” Her new (temporary, 

as it turns out) husband Kris Humphries replies “wifey!” It’s right after their honeymoon in Italy, and they’re about to move to NY for fashion week.

Wow, he is about a foot and a half taller than her. He picks her up then falls on the bed with her.

Kourtney booked a two-story suite at the Gansevoort hotel, so they can live with Kim and Kris. She and Scott have different rooms. And Scott is jealous of the baby, hoping being in NY will give them a chance at a fresh start.

Kourtney’s holistic lifestyle irritates everyone. Scott doesn’t like kale chips, and neither does baby Mason, who makes a face after tasting one. Kim resists an enema treatment at the ayurvedic spa, and back at the hotel when Kourtney leaks on the bed everyone’s grossed out. Kourtney thinks naked yoga will ease the tension; that’s the final straw which prompts Kris to tell his wife she has to move out. But in the end it’s Kris who moves, to do basketball training in Minnesota.

Kim realizes that marriage means living with someone. She hates that Kris is messy, that he doesn’t like red carpet events. Kris gets a lot of dumb frat guy edits. She yells at him when he messes up her pedicure. He tells the camera she’s a classic overreactor. He’s a newly-married guy, living with his wife, his wife’s trouble-making sister, a baby, and the wife’s boyfriend. He’s kind of a jerk but he’s got some cause. The baby wakes him up in the morning, which interferes with his work out. That sounds dumb but hey, he’s a professional athlete. Kim apparently sleeps in full makeup. Ew, she licks his face.

You definitely get the feeling neither one of them really thought this through. She wants a celebrity lifestyle, he just happens to be a celebrity because he’s an athlete.

The men bond over the women not being ready on time for the Welcome to New York party. Somehow this leads to Kris shaving Scott’s armpits. Kourtney watches and mocks them–and who can blame her?

Kourtney tells Kris that Scott is moving out. When Kris tries to suggest that some of this might be Kourtney’s control issues, she still tries to paint herself as a victim. Scott goes to confide in his pal Jonathan.

The sisters bond. And Kourtney says Kris tells her he said he’s purposely a slob to annoy her. Kourtney doesn’t want to be the only sister without a man, I think.

Kim thinks she should be supportive when Kris says he needs to go. But the handwriting is on the wall here, and in the previews for next week, when Kim cries tears of self-pity about what she wanted from life.

Go on Governor.

Make his day; rescind the reprieve.

Death Row inmate Gary Haugen now criticizes Governor for giving him a reprieve

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A condemned inmate who was scheduled to be executed next month is now slamming Gov. John Kitzhaber for giving him a reprieve, saying the governor didn't have the guts to carry out the execution.

Two-time murderer Gary Haugen had voluntarily given up his legal challenges, saying he wants to be executed in protest of a criminal justice system he views as broken. But Kitzhaber on Tuesday said he won't allow anyone to be executed while he is in office, calling Oregon's death penalty scheme "compromised and inequitable."

But in a telephone interview with the Statesman Journal on Friday, Haugen mocked Kitzhaber.

"I feel he's a paper cowboy," he said. "He couldn't pull the trigger."