-- "'Waste that shit,' Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., declared to the Washington Free Beacon. 'You're never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran's nuclear facilities.'" --
"The MV Ever Given was successfully re-floated at 04:30 lt 29/03/2021. She is being secured at the moment."
"More information about next steps will follow once they are known."
BEIRUT (AP) — The investigation is focusing on how 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical used in fertilizers, came to be stored at the facility for six years, and why nothing was done about it.FROM THE COMMENTS:
The explosion at the port killed at least 135 people and wounded about 5,000.
“Just run a bead along here??”
“Yup, it’s all good”
RELATED: Smell that "professional" journalism
**********"Well, guys... we didn't bring all these Hellfires all the way to the Middle East just to hump 'em all the way home."
Yeah... we're pulling out all our troops...nudge, nudge, wink, wink...Trump said al-Baghdadi was “whimpering and crying and screaming all the way” and commended the U.S. forces that successfully carried out the operation.*********
“He died like a dog, he died like a coward.”
"This term 'lone wolf' is a cop-out...the idea that they somehow have to have a membership card in Islamic State or in al Qaeda for it to be official, fully-credentialed terror, like getting a hairdresser's license in New York State, is completely preposterous."
"Last year, 486 school buses’ worth of people did."**********
The White House finally confirmed the long-rumored death of Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza Saturday – but provided only sparse details.**********
The al Qaeda heir apparent “was killed in a United States counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region.”.
Iran backed Houthi militia have launched "a large-scale operation involving 10 drones that targeted the two largest oil refineries in Saudi Arabia."
"She reportedly needs full reconstruction of her ankles, knees and face, and likely won’t walk for another three years after the fall."**********
"A drunk writer fell to his death during a roof party at his Upper East Side apartment Thursday night, according to police."And then there's this.
"Not only do I believe they that have a right to chose, I believe they shouldn’t have to consult anybody, except for a physician about how to exercise that right.”
“And ladies,” Chappelle added, “to be fair to us, I also believe that if you decide to have the baby a man shouldn’t have to pay. That’s fair."
"If you can kill this motherfucker, I can at least abandon him. My money. My choice."
Last year a private developer introduced "Snapcrap," which allows residents to upload a photo of an offending specimen directly to the SF311 website.You know they just wanna blame Trump, but, for the record, the last Republican mayor in San Francisco was in 1964.
This alerts the city’s new five-person “poop patrol,” which will follow up, presumably, with a smile.
Residents in both areas have spoken to the Toronto Sun of ongoing litter and garbage problems and about finding dirty needles in their local parks.
"I don't know how I did it. I used both hands to pull underneath the bear to get to that knife, and I grabbed the knife out and opened it and put it in my hand and stabbed the bear in his neck. It let go of me immediately."
"It was bleeding quite badly," he added. "I wasn't really sure if it was dying faster than I was."
“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right!”
— Science fiction author Larry Niven, as quoted by Arthur C. Clarke.
"We didn't even say, 'The strategy should be randomized,'" said Sandholm. "The algorithm automatically figured out that it should be randomized, and in what way, and with what probabilities in what situations."
"Following the Toronto Raptors game on Saturday May 25th, 2019 at approximately 11:20 pm, several men jumped on the top of a Toronto Police Car with an officer in the car in the Yonge Street and Dundas Street area. The officer attempted to arrest one of the suspects when the crowd encroached on him and one of the suspects threatened to kill the officer."When the cops have to "laager up" at one of the busiest intersections in the city... you're in serious trouble.
Yoel Martinez-Hernandez, 19, was the first arrest to be made in the case.**********
"A fatal stabbing occurred as a group of friends took over a Hamilton street to celebrate the Raptors win in Game 1 of the NBA Finals."**********
Hamilton police have arrested Dylon Moniz Duarte for the murder of Tyquan Brown in the city’s fifth homicide of the year.
"One man is in custody after five shots were fired at another man in the area of Roncesvalles Avenue and Queen Street West on May 30, 2019. Alec Subero, 19, from Toronto, is facing seven charges that include attempted murder and failing to comply with recognizance."Get out while you can.
An Uber driver, Abdihared Bishar Mussa, a 23-year-old Somalian refugee on his second day on the job admitted his careless driving killed passenger Nicholas Cameron after the driver stopped on the Gardiner to pick up his cell phone, which fell on the floor.It gets better... by which I mean worse...
Mussa was barely moving when his Sonata was rear-ended by a BMW travelling at 107 km/h without braking.
Mussa’s lawyer David Parry wants the minimum fine, $400, imposed and asked that his client should resume driving once he completes driving training.
"After the couple climbed into the back seat of his 2012 Hyundai, Mussa inadvertently headed eastbound on the Gardiner Expressway — in the opposite direction of the airport."Note that Mussa pleaded guilty to a "reduced" charge.
The New York Times reports that legal documents, which the BBC has not seen, show Asia Argento paid an underage former co-star $380,000 after the 17 year old alleged she had sexually assaulted him in a California hotel room in 2013.**********
A lawyer for Ms Argento declined to comment on the allegations.
Asia Argento denies sexual assault, says payoff was Anthony Bourdain’s idea.**********
The allegation against Argento is "definitely a challenge for the [#MeToo] movement, and we'll see whether it rises to the occasion," said Judith Taylor, a sociology and gender studies professor at the University of Toronto.Meanwhile, in other "rainbows of sexuality" news...
See, this is the new sexual spectrum. Or as we people with sense prefer call it – 50 Shades Of Gay.
It's funny... because it's so true...
"Former Virginia governor and Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe is pretty sure people are going to die if Judge Kavanaugh, a Catholic charities volunteer, parish lector, and girls' basketball coach, gets on the court."Read it all.
Const. Zafar Kazmi asked Saini [in Hindi] if he was aware he’d entered a construction zone and traffic had stopped. “No, no,” he replied. “There was no signs at all.”Or... to be a bit more precise... none that unilingual septuagenarian big-rig driver Mohinder Singh Saini could actually read.
"... slammed his tractor trailer full-speed into dozens of vehicles that had stopped for lane closures in a heavily-marked construction zone, between Brock St. and Salem Rd."PS, Mo... you snatch up four innocent lives, I'm not sure "totally oblivious" is your best defence strategy.
A bomb threat forced the cancellation of the opening night of the Stratford Festival on Monday evening and prompted an evacuation of as many as 2,000 people from the Festival Theatre.Well, alright... lets go out for a little dinn... sweet baby jebus...
Organizers of the festival said ticket buyers will be reimbursed and that performances will proceed Tuesday — with added security.
A gunman has killed two police officers and a passer-by before being shot dead in the centre of the Belgian city of Liege, in what a public prosecutor classed "as a terrorist incident".**********
A Belgian lawmaker said the man had been on an anti-terrorist police watchlist after being radicalised in jail, apparently as a convert to Islam — raising questions about why he seems to have been freed unsupervised and expected to return.
Confirming the attacker was on the police watchlist, lawmaker George Dallemagne, who sits on several Belgian parliamentary security committees, tweeted: "The supervision of radicalised prisoners remains tragically flawed."
The police officers have been identified as Soraya Belkacemi, 44, and Lucile Garcia, 54. The passenger in the car was named as Cyril Vangriecken, 22, who was preparing to become a primary school teacher.The capricious and unknowable Will of Allah.
"A senior trainer explained that the goal is to end the threat quickly, 'preferably not fatally'...”Hmmm... from later in the article...
"A (presumably less senior) trainer told Skies that 'they shoot to stop the threat … they shoot to kill.'”Methinks these Sky Marshals, er... I mean Sky Therapists... need to get on the same page.
