Random News Stories

[Telarus]

Mmmm. Very interesting.

[Junkenstein]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/arizona-state-police-officer-was-an-illegal-immigrant

A woman who served as a spokesperson for the Arizona's state police agency resigned this week after reportedly discovering she was living in the U.S. illegally.

Local TV news station KVOA reported on Tuesday that the woman, Carmen Figueroa, who worked as an officer and spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Safety, discovered her immigration status after her brother applied for a visa and underwent an Immigration and Customs Enforcement background check.

Gov. Jan Brewer (R), who oversees the agency, made national headlines in 2010 when she signed a law designed to get local and state police to investigate people who were suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

KVOA said Figueroa may have used "a fake or forged birth certificate." Figueroa had been with Arizona DPS for 13 years.

Spokesman Bart Graves told KVOA Figueroa believed she was a citizen before being told otherwise.

"We believe the affidavit and information she gave us at the time. And, she was under the impression that she herself was an American citizen," Graves said.

[Junkenstein]

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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/365937/you-must-be-sodomized-jonah-goldberg

Now, at first I thought this was a hoax. But it appears it isn't. Apparently a fellow writing into a Jihadi chat show wants to do "martyrdom operations." The sheikh he talked to says they've got a great new technique to blow up infidels. We hide explosives up your butt. There's just one hitch. You've got to be repeatedly sodomized in order to be able to accommodate the explosive. So, the questioner wants to know if it is permissible for him to be regularly rogered, if doing so makes his posterior more amenable to hiding explosives. The fellow on camera, Shiite cleric Abdallah Al-Khilaf, says that even though sodomy is forbidden if it is necessary for jihad, well, then it is required. Because jihad is the highest obligation.

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http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/3496.htm

"My question is whether I am permitted to allow one of the mujahideen access to my anus, if my intentions are honorable, and the purpose is to train for Jihad by widening my anus."

The sheik praised Allah and said: "In principle, sodomy is forbidden. However, Jihad is more important. It is the pinnacle of Islam. If sodomy is the only way to reach this pinnacle of Islam, then there is no harm in it.

"The rule is that necessity makes the forbidden permissible. Something that is required in order to perform a duty becomes a duty in and of itself. No duty takes precedence over Jihad.

"Therefore, you must be sodomized... After you have been sodomized, you must ask Allah for forgiveness.

Yeah.

[Cain]

There is good reason to believe this is disinformation

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/benjamin-doherty/sodomy-jihad-venerable-lgbt-magazine-advocate-spreads-vile-islamophobic-hoax

I had my doubts when the original story about a suicide bomber with a bomb inside him attempted to assassinate the Saudi Interior Minister Naif bin Abd Al-Aziz, so I find this equally dubious.

I strongly suspect the real story is that someone sufficiently connected to get a bomb past the extensive security precautions Saudi princes normally travel with tried to ice Al-Aziz, and the worry is that some fundamentalist somewhere has people inside Saudi security.  Which, given they are recruited for religious fanaticism, is not entirely unlikely.

However, spreading a story that involves sodomy and implicates Shiite Muslims into the bargain...well, that is a propaganda win for the Saudi regime, and its ongoing crusade against Iran.

[P3nT4gR4m]

"My question is whether I am permitted to allow one of the mujahideen access to my anus, if my intentions are honorable, and the purpose is to train for Jihad by widening my anus."

The sheik praised Allah and said: "In principle, sodomy is forbidden. However, Jihad is more important. It is the pinnacle of Islam. If sodomy is the only way to reach this pinnacle of Islam, then there is no harm in it.

"The rule is that necessity makes the forbidden permissible. Something that is required in order to perform a duty becomes a duty in and of itself. No duty takes precedence over Jihad.

"Therefore, you must be sodomized... After you have been sodomized, you must ask Allah for forgiveness.

I will follow ANY religion that prints that in it's holy book. 

[Junkenstein]

However, spreading a story that involves sodomy and implicates Shiite Muslims into the bargain...well, that is a propaganda win for the Saudi regime, and its ongoing crusade against Iran.

Appreciated. I was thinking there was something very odd about this, and that line makes the whole thing make much more sense.

I guess the wider implications of the story serve other agendas (Muslims[in general]=badwronghomos) so there's probably a few wins here for all sorts of unsavoury folk.

[minuspace]

Looks like another fast spin cycle to me, then again, anoptorectome, you know?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/16/21911592-climate-change-experts-fraud-was-crime-of-massive-proportion-say-feds?lite

Scammer of the year.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/16/21911592-climate-change-experts-fraud-was-crime-of-massive-proportion-say-feds?lite

Scammer of the year.

Whoa, what the hell?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/16/21911592-climate-change-experts-fraud-was-crime-of-massive-proportion-say-feds?lite

Scammer of the year.

Whoa, what the hell?

Isn't it awesome?  It's like the MWAD crowd got government funding.   

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/16/21911592-climate-change-experts-fraud-was-crime-of-massive-proportion-say-feds?lite

Scammer of the year.

Whoa, what the hell?

Isn't it awesome?  It's like the MWAD crowd got government funding.   

x2

[Pæs]

Well done, that man.

[Junkenstein]

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/16/21911592-climate-change-experts-fraud-was-crime-of-massive-proportion-say-feds?lite

Scammer of the year.

Whoa, what the hell?

Isn't it awesome?  It's like the MWAD crowd got government funding.   

To explain his long absences, Beale told agency officials -- including McCarthy -- that he was engaged in intelligence work for the CIA, either at agency headquarters or in Pakistan. At one point he claimed to be urgently needed in Pakistan because the Taliban was torturing his CIA replacement, according to Sullivan.

Can't. Stop. Laughing.

"He's never been to Langley (the CIA's Virginia headquarters)," said Sullivan. "The CIA has no record of him ever walking through the door."

Because they'd totally say if he had. So I'll count this bit in his favour.

[Junkenstein]

Ronnie Biggs Dead
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25426914

British criminal Ronnie Biggs, who took part in the 1963 Great Train Robbery, has died aged 84, his spokeswoman has confirmed.

Biggs was part of the gang which escaped with £2.6m from the Glasgow to London mail train on 8 August 1963.

He was given a 30-year sentence but escaped from Wandsworth prison in 1965.

In 2001, he returned to the UK seeking medical help but was sent to prison. He was released on compassionate grounds in 2009 after contracting pneumonia.

Headstone suggestion - "Got away with most of it"

[Cain]

BBC blatantly killed him in order to promote their new two part "The Train Robbers" drama.

Why do you think Brucie has been having so much time off lately?  He's their chief enforcer, and needed time to set up the hit properly.