Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Scorpions drummer jailed in Dubai
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Newspapers in the United
Arab Emirates are reporting that the American drummer for the rock band Scorpions has been sentenced to one month in jail after being convicted of offensive behavior in Dubai.
The government-backed National newspaper reported Tuesday that James Kottak was convicted of insulting Islam, raising his middle finger and being under the influence of alcohol while in transit at Dubai airport.
The Gulf News daily says he was arrested April 3 en route from Russia to Bahrain, where the German band was scheduled to perform at a Formula One race. Kottak was a no-show at the April 5 concert.
The newspapers say Kottak admitted to drinking but denied other charges.
The Scorpions' manager didn't respond to requests for comment. Kottak's local lawyer couldn't immediately be reached.
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The government-backed National newspaper reported Tuesday that James Kottak was convicted of insulting Islam, raising his middle finger and being under the influence of alcohol while in transit at Dubai airport.
The Gulf News daily says he was arrested April 3 en route from Russia to Bahrain, where the German band was scheduled to perform at a Formula One race. Kottak was a no-show at the April 5 concert.
The newspapers say Kottak admitted to drinking but denied other charges.
The Scorpions' manager didn't respond to requests for comment. Kottak's local lawyer couldn't immediately be reached.
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
“USA is an Islamic Country” – Says FBI Award Winner under Investigation by Judicial Watch
Can any of you make sense of this? We can’t, which is why we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuiton March 25, 2014. We’re seeking agency records related to the awarding of the Louis E. Peters Award in 2011 to Mohammed Elibiary, who is alleged to have close ties to radical Islamist organizations, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Our request, which has been ignored for nearly a year by the FBI, is simple:
Any and all records regarding, concerning, or related to the awarding of the Louis E. Peters Memorial Award to Mr. Mohamed Elibiary on September 8, 2011. This request includes, but is not limited to, any and all recommendations and other records of communications regarding, concerning, or related to the award.
Elibiary, who in his role as Homeland Security advisor has regular access to classified information, most recently came under fire in November 2013 for tweeting out the message that America is “an Islamic country with an Islamically compliant constitution.” In its December 2013 “Special Report: U.S. Government Purges of Law Enforcement Training Material Deemed ‘Offensive’ to Muslims” Judicial Watch identified Elibiary as one of nearly a half-dozen “Islamist influence operators” within the Obama administration “seeking to advance an ideological agenda completely at odds with our constitutional system.”
In October 2010, when DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that she had sworn in Elibiary as a member of the agency’s Advisory Council, Judicial Watch reported he was a backer of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian revolutionary whose teachings continue to govern Middle Eastern terrorist organizations.
In December 2004, Elibiary had participated in a Dallas, Texas, tribute to Khomeini called “A Tribute To The Great Islamic Visionary, Ayatollah Khomeini.” In 2012, Judicial Watch reported that Elibiary leaked classified documents to a media outlet that had declined to do a story supposedly exposing DHS’s promotion of “Islamophobia.” Records obtained by Judicial Watch included documents showing that Elibiary was given access to the Texas state terrorism database on October 18, 2011. The investigation of the allegation by the Texas Department of Public Safety found that Elibiary downloaded two documents from the system just days before he allegedly offered to leak documents to Newsweek/The Daily Beast.
In October 2013, the Center for Security Policy, a Washington, DC, think tank, published a revealing 33-page report based on a lengthy, five-part interview with Elibiary. In the interview, Elibiary admitted he was a longtime friend of self-described Islamist Shukri Abu Baker, who was convicted in 2008 of financing the terrorist organization Hamas through his U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity, the Holy Land Foundation. Elibiary disclosed that he donated to the Holy Land Foundation monthly until it was shut down by the U.S. government and he defended Baker, depicting his prosecution as a case of political persecution.
The document includes a number of alarming details of Elibiary’s close relationship with a wide array of U.S. Islamist groups, including the radical Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America, which declares that the only legitimate law according to Islam is Sharia. The group also urges American Muslims to nurture hostility toward U.S. law, according to Arabic documents discovered and translated into English by the Center for Security Policy.
I’m sure none of this information found its way into Elibiary’s acceptance speech when receiving his Louis E. Peters Award, which is presented annually “to that person who best exemplifies the standards set by Peters in providing service to the FBI and the Nation.” In 1977, Peters informed the FBI of a shakedown attempt by mob boss Joe Bonanno. At the time, the California car dealer was recognized by then-FBI Director William Webster as having “set new standards of patriotism.”
We have no doubt why the FBI would be embarrassed about giving an award to someone with Elibiary’s extreme Islamist views. But embarrassment does not excuse the FBI’s cover-up of its relationship with this radical.
You would think the FBI, of all agencies, would follow the law. But it doesn’t. It is especially egregious that the government agencies that can arrest you for violations of law don’t bother to follow the law themselves.
From Judicial Watch: http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/weekly-update-obama-lying-obamacare-numbers/
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
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Odd Facts...
Men fart an average of 17 times a day, and women fart an average of 9 times a day.
If you fart constantly for 6 years, 9 months and 23 days you would produce enough gas to explode an atomic bomb.
The longest ever penis recorded by scientists is 13.5 inches.
Humans are only second to cats for having the dirtiest mouths.
Beard hair grows at twice its usual rate when you're in a plane.
Around 15 men each year have their penises chopped off by their wives and the highest proportion of men who suffer this are Italians.
You use more calories eating celery than there are in celery itself.
More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
Semen is one of the most fattening substances known to man.
An average of 76 people a year die playing twister, and about 23 of which are through playing the nude version!
Linda McCartney has sold more vegetarian ready made meals than Paul has sold records.
In the course of the 18 year run of Cats on broadway, 3,247 lbs of yak hair was used for wigs.
The shortest war in history was between England and Zanzibar in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
65 people become $millionaires every day.
The average human will eat one pound of insects in their lifetime.
You are more likely to be killed by a rogue champagne cork than a poisonous spider.
By the time a person is 18, they would have spent 12,000 hours in school, but 14,000 hours watching television.
Woman blink nearly twice as much as men.
Humans share one third of their DNA with lettuce!
You could comfortably fit the entire population of the planet into a cube with sides 1km long.
Apporximately 69% of all Internet content consists of pornographic material.
Porn sites generated $970 million in revenue in 1999.
Charlie Chaplin once came third in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like competition.
Every 20 minutes a hapless person treads on a land mine.
The average adult falls asleep seven minutes after turning out the light.
6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
Over one trillion matches were being produced every year at the beginning of the last century.
Elvis Presley had a twin brother.
Zeuxis a Greek painter in the 5th Centrury BC laughed hismself to death while looking at one of his paintings.
A Roman leap year had the same number of days as ordinary years but January 23rd lasted for 48 hours.
After being decapitated a human can still see for 20 seconds! (Not sure how 'they' worked this one out!).
Under EC law it is legal to have sex with inflatable dolls in the street.
Winners at the 2001 Ig-Nobel Prize ceremony for eccentric researchers, inventors and scientists include an American who claims to have invented anti-flatulence underwear, a Lithuanian who set up a theme park dedicated to Stalin, and two Indians who discovered that nose-picking is commonplace.
Right-handed people live on average, 9 years longer than left-handed people.
Human stomachs produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks to stop it digesting itself.
Humans are the only animals to sleep on their backs.
More boys than girls are born during the day, but more girls are born at night.
Julio Iglesias once had five gallons of water flown from Miami to L.A. so he could wash his hair.
Clark Gable was listed on his birth certificate as a girl.
Johnny Vaughan was born at the precise moment that England scored the winning goal in the 1966 World Cup final.
Bernard Manning did his National Service in the Military Police and one of his duties was guarding Albert Speer and Rudolf Hess in Spandau.
Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a srage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.
John Lennon shoplifted in Holland the harmonica he used on Love Me Do.
Mel Gibson broke the school record for the most strappings in a week - 27.
Tom Cruise and Robbie Williams were both voted least Likely To Succeed at school.
Sir Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars in his lifetime.
Michelangelo's cook was illiterate, so he drew her a shopping list, which today is priceless.
The arhcitect who built the Kremlin had his eyes gouged our by Iavn The Terrible so that he would never be able to design another building like it.
Pirates wore earings because they believed it improved their eyesight.
Cher's parents married and divorced each other three times.
Mike Myers (a.k.a. Austin Powers) is descended from William Wordsworth.
If you shouted for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Volleyball is the most popular sport at nudist camps.
Banging your head against a wall uses a 150 calories an hour.
On average, a drop of Heinz tomato ketchup leaves the bottle at a speed of 25 miles per year!
If you mouth the word "colourful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
The fastest sevice in a restaurant in the world is 13 seconds from the order to the food on the table.
Wayne Static (from staticX) uses glue to stick his hair up.
The letter combination 'ough' can be pronounced in nine different ways.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume one tengh of a calorie.
Permanent marker is not actually permanent.
The shortest poem ever goes 'Adam, hae'em'.
To convert milli-inches to micro metres you must times by 25.4
There is an average of 3000 ft. of electrical wiring in every car.
During the battle for Stalingrad, the German army lost more men attacking a single house defended by sergeant Pavlov's platoon than it did occupying Paris three years later. Pavlov survived the war and became a monk.
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roomates at Harvard.
Kermit the Frog is left handed.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
The Earth is hit by lightning 100 times a second.
Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using only the letters on the top row of the keyboard.
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If you fart constantly for 6 years, 9 months and 23 days you would produce enough gas to explode an atomic bomb.
The longest ever penis recorded by scientists is 13.5 inches.
Humans are only second to cats for having the dirtiest mouths.
Beard hair grows at twice its usual rate when you're in a plane.
Around 15 men each year have their penises chopped off by their wives and the highest proportion of men who suffer this are Italians.
You use more calories eating celery than there are in celery itself.
More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
Semen is one of the most fattening substances known to man.
An average of 76 people a year die playing twister, and about 23 of which are through playing the nude version!
Linda McCartney has sold more vegetarian ready made meals than Paul has sold records.
In the course of the 18 year run of Cats on broadway, 3,247 lbs of yak hair was used for wigs.
The shortest war in history was between England and Zanzibar in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
65 people become $millionaires every day.
The average human will eat one pound of insects in their lifetime.
You are more likely to be killed by a rogue champagne cork than a poisonous spider.
By the time a person is 18, they would have spent 12,000 hours in school, but 14,000 hours watching television.
Woman blink nearly twice as much as men.
Humans share one third of their DNA with lettuce!
You could comfortably fit the entire population of the planet into a cube with sides 1km long.
Apporximately 69% of all Internet content consists of pornographic material.
Porn sites generated $970 million in revenue in 1999.
Charlie Chaplin once came third in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like competition.
Every 20 minutes a hapless person treads on a land mine.
The average adult falls asleep seven minutes after turning out the light.
6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
Over one trillion matches were being produced every year at the beginning of the last century.
Elvis Presley had a twin brother.
Zeuxis a Greek painter in the 5th Centrury BC laughed hismself to death while looking at one of his paintings.
A Roman leap year had the same number of days as ordinary years but January 23rd lasted for 48 hours.
After being decapitated a human can still see for 20 seconds! (Not sure how 'they' worked this one out!).
Under EC law it is legal to have sex with inflatable dolls in the street.
Winners at the 2001 Ig-Nobel Prize ceremony for eccentric researchers, inventors and scientists include an American who claims to have invented anti-flatulence underwear, a Lithuanian who set up a theme park dedicated to Stalin, and two Indians who discovered that nose-picking is commonplace.
Right-handed people live on average, 9 years longer than left-handed people.
Human stomachs produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks to stop it digesting itself.
Humans are the only animals to sleep on their backs.
More boys than girls are born during the day, but more girls are born at night.
Julio Iglesias once had five gallons of water flown from Miami to L.A. so he could wash his hair.
Clark Gable was listed on his birth certificate as a girl.
Johnny Vaughan was born at the precise moment that England scored the winning goal in the 1966 World Cup final.
Bernard Manning did his National Service in the Military Police and one of his duties was guarding Albert Speer and Rudolf Hess in Spandau.
Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a srage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.
John Lennon shoplifted in Holland the harmonica he used on Love Me Do.
Mel Gibson broke the school record for the most strappings in a week - 27.
Tom Cruise and Robbie Williams were both voted least Likely To Succeed at school.
Sir Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars in his lifetime.
Michelangelo's cook was illiterate, so he drew her a shopping list, which today is priceless.
The arhcitect who built the Kremlin had his eyes gouged our by Iavn The Terrible so that he would never be able to design another building like it.
Pirates wore earings because they believed it improved their eyesight.
Cher's parents married and divorced each other three times.
Mike Myers (a.k.a. Austin Powers) is descended from William Wordsworth.
If you shouted for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Volleyball is the most popular sport at nudist camps.
Banging your head against a wall uses a 150 calories an hour.
On average, a drop of Heinz tomato ketchup leaves the bottle at a speed of 25 miles per year!
If you mouth the word "colourful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
The fastest sevice in a restaurant in the world is 13 seconds from the order to the food on the table.
Wayne Static (from staticX) uses glue to stick his hair up.
The letter combination 'ough' can be pronounced in nine different ways.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume one tengh of a calorie.
Permanent marker is not actually permanent.
The shortest poem ever goes 'Adam, hae'em'.
To convert milli-inches to micro metres you must times by 25.4
There is an average of 3000 ft. of electrical wiring in every car.
During the battle for Stalingrad, the German army lost more men attacking a single house defended by sergeant Pavlov's platoon than it did occupying Paris three years later. Pavlov survived the war and became a monk.
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roomates at Harvard.
Kermit the Frog is left handed.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
The Earth is hit by lightning 100 times a second.
Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using only the letters on the top row of the keyboard.
For More Interesting Stories, Amazing or Funny Things CLICK HERE
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