New Conflict.

  


The warring parties in Yemen have agreed to a 72-hour cease-fire that will take effect shortly.

The war in Yemen began in 2014 when Shiite rebels known as Houthis based in the north seized the capital, Sanaa. In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies launched a campaign of airstrikes against the rebels. The Saudi-led coalition and the United States are backing the internationally recognized government of Yemen's president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.

More than 4,000 civilians have been killed and 3 million of the country's 26 million people have been driven from their homes by the fighting. Hunger has become widespread in the Arab world's poorest country.

Do we have an alternative to Bombing? 

Love Story (1970)

Idiots...

Roseville Police Officers said Jaime Salinis and Elandra Sledge, both 18, dressed as clowns and jumped out of a car to chase two 14-year-old girls. Roseville Police Chief James Berlin called the women "idiots" in a news release.

Salinis and Sledge were arraigned on disorderly conduct charges and ordered held in the Macomb County Jail on $10,000 cash or surety bonds. 

About 9 p.m. Thursday, the two 14-year-olds came to the police department "in hysterics." Officers were able to calm them, and the girls said they were walking in the 18000 block of Minnesota Street when a car stopped and two people dressed as clowns jumped out and started chasing them.

The younger teens fled, thinking they were going to be attacked. [USA TODAY]

Be careful not to do something odd, surprising, and sudden with bad intention. You may be in trouble yourself. Just a thought.

Distorted.

The “Crusaders” knew they wanted to kill and with luck, use the “bloodbath” to ignite a religious war but for months they couldn’t settle on a plan.

The easiest way would be to grab guns, go to the predominantly Somali apartment complex they’d been surveilling and start kicking in doors, court documents said. They would spare no one.

In the end, they decided to set off bombs similar to the one Timothy McVeigh used in 1995 to kill 168 people in Oklahoma City. They planned to strike after the Nov. 8 election, investigators said.

The three men face federal charges of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction to blow up an apartment complex, and a mosque.

It was ultimately undone by an FBI confidential informant and one of the conspirator’s girlfriend, who showed authorities the supply room after he allegedly hit her during a fight.

Earlier this year, investigators were tipped off by the informant, who had attended meetings of a group calling itself the Crusaders.   The Crusaders referred to the Somali as cockroaches.

Nothing like the help of a girl friend. Nothing like it.

Compares...

Sinead O'Connor recorded a song this song.  It made it to #1 on the charts in sixteen countries. Considered one of the best breakup songs.

It is a sad tale of depression that can follow after a tough split from the person you loved.

Every line of the song packs an emotional wallop. From the opening: "It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away …"   It continues with a series of moods, from anguish, regret. through spitting anger, and finally to something close to resignation and acceptance. It is a lifetime's emotion magically condensed into four minutes.When Sinead cried in the video it was a real tear.  

What launched the song was the video. Most of it shows O'Connor's almost shaven head –  her eyes registering every line of the lyric. When she sings "all flowers in the backyard that you planted, mama, all died when you went away"  two tears run down her cheeks. Later it was said that this was because she was reminded of her mother.

Here is the song from the nineties.

Leaks...?

Another woman came forward accusing  Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, adding to a growing list of women.  She said she put her hand out to say hello, he grabbed her and started to kiss her on the lips. She said she pulled away.

Juanita Broaddrick has long accused Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978, and repeated those allegations in a tweet.  Aides to Hillary quickly moved to gather information to undermine her account. Hacked internal campaign emails were released by the group WikiLeaks.

More hacked emails released appear to show more about Hillary Clinton’s private, high-priced Wall Street speeches. That included her argument that Washington lawmakers would pass the Dodd-Frank banking reform law merely for “political reasons.”.... More to come from Wiki....

The Media and the commentators are having a great time and profit with all the stories of the back and forth. But the future of the Country, the people and what to come seems to be undetermined by these two.   Just a thought.

Repeated ?

The Navy, quickly, retaliated for missiles fired at its ships off the coast of Yemen by destroying three radar sites, the retaliation is approved by President Obama. 

The sites, in territory controlled by Shiite rebels known as Houthis on the Yemen's Red Sea coast, appear to have been destroyed.

Yemen's Saba news agency, which is controlled by the Houthis, quoted a military official denying that the rebels targeted a U.S. ship.  Spokesman for the Yemeni army, called the incident an “American farce to find a reason to interfere in Yemen directly after failure of the Saudis," the AP reported.

The U.S. has been providing logistical support and refueling to the Saudi-led coalition against the Houthis.

The launches of missiles at U.S. ships followed the bombing of a funeral hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa apparently by forces from the Saudi-led coalition killed at least 140 people. Sanaa is controlled by the Houthis.

Human Rights Watch, a  U.S.-based organization, said the bombing was an apparent war crime and called on the United States, the United Kingdom and other governments to immediately suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

Do the Houthis speak English?   did they know these ship belongs to USA? Where are the Saudi Ships in the area?     Just a thought.

Against...

USA Today

Truman...

This is in relation to Trump's recorded talk about women few years earlier, which is considered unacceptable. Later it was referred to as Locker Room Talk.

The Dance..

Dan Richman missed the "do not disturb" sign. The 54-year-old hiker interrupted a pair of bears that were trying to mate. 

He was going along a trail when he saw a bear on its hind legs 50 to 100 feet away. It was his first time seeing a bear in person. "I was pretty freaked out," he tells KTLA.

Richman turned around to leave and saw a second bear much closer. His attempt to scare it off by yelling failed, and it attacked when he tried to run by it. Richman played dead, as he was close to.

He ran off, not realizing how injured he was until he reached safety. He had a head injury and multiple cuts to his head, legs, feet, and torso. 

Well then, don't ever surprise whoever it is during their dance, it may have a deadly consequences.  Just a thought.