Is'town man stabbed to death in cricket brawl

An Iselintown resident was fatally stabbed last night when a brawl broke out during a cricket match, Police said.

Price Henri Butala, 16, had been with a group playing under the lights of the Moonkeeper Metro Station parking area at about 10:15 p.m., according to the Police.

During the intense match heated words escalated and violence broke out.

Butala was wounded in the melee and his friends carried him to the station roundabout to await an ambulance.

He was rushed to Thoragie University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arival.

There are no arrests at this time and the investigation is ongoing.

Underwear Bomber Gets Lifesentence

Justice deals terrorman Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab sentence to die in Prison for tryin to blow up a passengerplane w/ a bomb in his drawers @Detroit Christmas 2009.

Check it. ‘Underwear bomber’ gets life in prison.
“A Nigerian man on a suicide mission for Al Qaeda was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for attempting to blow up an international flight with a bomb in his underwear as the plane approached Detroit on Christmas 2009.”

Check it. Detroit underwear bomber gets life sentence.
“A federal judge Thursday imposed multiple life sentences on failed underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner on Christmas Day 2009.”

Check it. Underwear bomber Abdulmutallab sentenced to life.
“A Nigerian man accused of trying to bomb a US-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009 has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.”

LaFayette Man Arrested in EC for Sorcery

Lares Mikhaylova, a Rue de Hume man was arrested this week for being a “magician” and invoking spirits, an EC website reported on Thursday.

Mikhaylova was detained at EC customs and arrested by Vice Police under accuasations of alchemy and suspicion of “invoking djinns”.

A VP spokesman said Mikhaylova is “a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds,” EC news site Courrier Today reported.

Mikhaylova’s family was unavailable for comment.

Heritage Foundation is Full of Shit

With shameless lies and invented maths, the “conservative” movement’s most respected and influential “think tank” is blatantly dishonest. Touting ignornuts and xenophobes; feeding misinfo, factflaws and lies.

Check it. In 2001 The Heritage Foundation Said Bush Tax Cuts Would Lead To “A Growth In Tax Revenues.”

Check it. The Heritage Foundation describes itself as “a research and educational institution—a think tank” and boasts of “performing timely, accurate research on key policy issues and effectively marketing these findings to our primary audiences: members of Congress, key congressional staff members, policymakers in the executive branch, the nation’s news media, and the academic and policy communities.”

Check it. The Heritage Foundation Spreads Lies on YouTube About the Employee Free Choice Act.
“The people at the Heritage Foundation know exactly what they’re doing. They frame the EFCA issue based on bald-faced lies. Business-financed “think tanks” like Heritage propagandize workers against their own interests in psychologically sophisticated ways, often pulling on their heartstrings and framing their anti-union stance as “common sense.” The Heritage Foundation’s YouTube infomercial is as blatant and dishonest as any propaganda ever to come from a totalitarian government.”

Check it. Lies, Damn Lies, And The Heritage Foundation.
“Heritage is comically dishonest. It credits tax cuts with economic growth that preceded them.
It claims a reduction in tax rates isn’t a tax cut. It suggests nobody claimed the Bush tax cuts would pay for themselves, when in fact both the Bush administration and Heritage itself made exactly that claim. Again and again, Heritage crosses the line between “wrong” and “dishonest.””

Check it. Heritage Foundation Clings To Myths To Defend Bush Tax Cuts.
“It’s almost impossible to defend President George W. Bush’s economic policies without being at least somewhat dishonest…

Check it. Heritage Gives Magical Tax Cuts Credit For Economic Growth That Preceded Them.
“The Heritage Foundation, last seen claiming the House Republican budget would create approximately infinity jobs, is again peddling bogus numbers in support of its ideologically pre-determined support for tax cuts for the wealthy.”

Check it. Misinformation from Heritage.
“Arguing that wealth creation should drive defense spending is to attempt to divorce the military from its strategic rationale. That’s an implicit acknowledgement that defense spending is not for safety. High military spending in this worldview is either an end in itself or a partisan or cultural tool.”

Check it. Exposing Heritage Foundation and AEI Lies on Health Care Reform.
“corporate propaganda shapes public political opinion on two different levels: grassroots propaganda aimed at the masses, and “treetops” propaganda aimed at elites and intellectuals”

Article from 2003 on Bush and Cheney Raving on Bushenomics:
Check it. THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF PRESIDENT BUSH’S TAX RELIEF PLAN

Precepts, Pride, Hypocrisy, Swearing

(History) When spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:

All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not act accordingly.

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their amulets, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the temples.

And greetings in the Markets, and to be called of men, My Master, My Master.

But be not ye called My Master: for one is your Master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren.

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

But WOE UNTO YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

WOE UNTO YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

WOE UNTO YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

WOE UNTO YOU, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

WOE UNTO YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

WOE UNTO YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

WOE UNTO YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

WOE UNTO YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Hit and Run Kills Fort Wellington Woman

Authorities say resident Maurita Aubrazy-Federico 42, was waiting to cross the intersection of Burnside Avenue and Franklin Street in the Wellington Heights section of town, when a vehicle struck her at about 10:00 p.m.

“She was just standing at the sidewalk waiting for the light and the car swerved over the curb and ran her down,” said Nicholaus Leibius, who was waiting to cross the dangerous intersection on the other side. “It was horrible and the driver did it on purpose. You could see them laughing as they did it.”

Aubrazy-Federico was rushed to Grady-Sloan Memorial Hospital, where she died.
Police say there have been no arrests in the case but an investigation is underway.

US Retail Sale$ Making Loot Means Recovering Economy

Experts say an uptick in the retail sales reports suggest the beginnings of the end of the Economic wobbla.

Check it. Retail sales up modestly but recovery advances.
“Retail sales rose less than expected in January, hurt by discounting in the auto sector, but a rebound in an underlying measure of sales suggested a solid underpinning for the economy’s recovery.”

Check it. US Census Bureau News (pdf*) – JANUARY 2012.
“Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Servies
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for January, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $401.4 billion, an increase of 0.4 percent (±0.5%)* from the previous month and 5.8 percent (±0.7%) above January 2011.”

Dissent:

Check it. Unadjusted January Retail Sales Post Biggest Sequential Plunge In History.
“…the Census Bureau may ramped up its seasonal adjustment “fudge factoring” because when looking at the January headline retail sales data, which naturally was a smoothly continuous line on a Seasonally Adjusted basis, rising from $399.9 billion in December to $401.4 billion in January, something rather odd happened in the Unadjusted data set: the plunge from $459.8 billion in December to $361.4 billion in January, or -$98.5 billion in one month, was the biggest one month drop in retail sales in history. “

Minaj Pop Flop Costin Fan Bank

(PageFive – Music) da Experts say dat Nicki Minaj could lose operatins from her Pop Flop at da Grammy; da Singer couldn’t care a single Fuck: “Stay offended. Not a single F**K is given,” said w/ da Twitter hitter.

Check it. Experts say Nicki Minaj could lose fans from Grammy performance; singer couldn’t care less.

Check it. Nicki Minaj’s Grammy exorcism: Did she just lose half her fans?

Check it. Nicki Minaj panned for onstage exorcism at Grammys.

A History of a Pagan Holiday

(Opinion)

THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, Before the days of Rome, there was on the Ides of February the Feasts of the Goat.

The Feast of Lupercalia was an ancient pastoral festival, observed on 13-15 of February to avert evil spirits, in the form of hungry beasts and demons, threatening the pastoral flocks, as real as the circling hungry wolves and in the howling winds. In the month of purification the Ides were associated with cleansing rituals ridding the demons, releasing health and fertility.

The historian Justin mentions an image of “the Lycaean god, whom the Greeks call Pan and the Romans Lupercus,” being naked except for a girdle of goatskin, which stood in the Lupercal, the cave at the foot of the Palatine Hill where the twin founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus were suckled by a she-wolf.

For this Festival, a goat and a dog were sacrificed and salt meal cakes prepared by the Vestal Virgins were burnt in offering.

Lupercalia itself stems from an older tradition called Februa, a spring cleansing ritual. Februa, also Februatio, was the earlier festival of ritual purification, which is one of Spring washing and cleansing associated with the raininess of this time of year for these ancients, with torrents of flooding rivers and driving rains, the waters are known to have powers.

According to Ovid, Februare is a Latin word which refers to purification, particularly by cleansing with water, with the older roots of the word suggesting to purge impurities physical and of spirit. As to above, as to below, as mother Earth cleanses with rains and overflowing streams and springs, man too cleanses with the powers of water.

The Roman month Februarius, “of Februa,” gives name to the English February.

The meeting and meshing of cultures of man is like that of the chemical reactions of the micro where there is action and reaction and the ~~evolution~~ compounded result is the Creation of a legend associated with day of death of a Saint named Valentine, now on the same day between the rains of Lupercalia festival, from the sacrifice of goats and dogs, to the celebration of a Christian Martyr, from the ritual of love by lottery, to one that can be embraced in modern times through the charms of Hallmarked cards and boxed chocolates.

In antiquity, On this day, the young girls went to the temple of Juno, where there is a prophecy to full-fill to find unmatched mates in a ritual of partner selection to find true love.

Among the common people, that is, the young men of that day drew the raffle from the names of unmarried women.

According to the stories of the ancients, the resulting pairs sometimes resulted in failures and sometimes in a paring of two that truly fell into an everlasting love.

From thenceforth unto now, the husband was expected to give a gift to his wife in the from of flowers.

Later still, the day has become associated with romantic love of the flowery Chaucer sort, where the tradition of courtly love once flourished.

Presently in the Sphere of the West, it has ~~evolved~~ incorporated into an occasion in which lovers are encouraged to express their Love by presenting gifts.

The holiday is named after the Saint and Martyr Valentine from Terni and was founded in 496 by Pope Gelasius I, to replace the pagan festival of Lupercalia and was later deleted from the General Roman Calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI.

As the Pentateuch says in Levitucus 17-7, which reached its present form in the Persian period (538-332 BCE),
“that they may slaughter no longer their slaughter-offering to the hairy goat-demons after whom they whoring.”
(Leviticus 17:7 )

Indeed, this day of Love Celebration has its roots in the Collective consiousness of our Mythos.

Happy Valentines Day

Court Rules: Intent To Sell Alcohol Still A Crime

THE SECOND PROVINCE’ highest court has ruled that a citizen or resident can still be criminally charged with attempting to distribute alcoholoic beverages when the amount of alchohol discovered is less than an ounce.

The ruling clarifies a 2002 voter-approved ballot question that decriminalized possession of small amounts of the drug.

Those caught now face a $500 fine instead.

In their ruling Monday, the Supreme Judicial Court of the Second Province said the 2004 law doesn’t extend to those charged with possession with intent to distribute alcohol.

The case involved a man arrested in Warrington on suspicion of drunkeness. Vice Police say in addition to the documented odor of alcohol emanating from the mans breath they discovered a small metal flask and an empty plastic bottle with trace liquids that tested positive for alcohol.

Since all the alcohol weighed less than an ounce, the Attorneys for the defendant had argued that the crime he was charged with “is no longer a criminal offense.”