From FoxNews here:

A Seattle man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup died Tuesday after being hit by a pickup truck on the Oregon Coast.

Police in Lincoln City, Ore., said 42-year-old Richard Swanson was hit at about 10 a.m. while walking south along U.S. Highway 101 near the city limits. He was declared dead at a hospital. The driver has not been charged.

Police said Palmer’s soccer ball was recovered.

Of course everyone is calling this guy an hero for bumming naps on couches and walking to Brazil with a stupid ball. He decided to become a bum who chased his stupid ball into the path of an oncoming truck. Doesn’t sound very heroic to me.

From Reuters here:

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has had a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer and says she hopes her story will inspire other women fighting the life-threatening disease.

The Oscar-winning actress said her doctors had estimated she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.

“Once I knew this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much as I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy,” she said.

Partner and fellow Hollywood star Brad Pitt was by Jolie’s side through three months of treatment that ended late in April, she said. The two became engaged last year.

Brad Pitt is a freakin’ schmuck. He dumped Jennifer Anniston to chase after Angelina’s Tig Ol’ Bitties and stood mutely by while she collected one of each children from the poorest locations on the planet like they were Burger King Smurf glasses. Then the stupid woman went anorexic while she tattooed her body so much she looked like she had been run over by a truck- Then Brad Pitt offers to marry this broken bitch and as soon as she says yes, she lops off her boobies. Maybe the doctor will suggest that Jolie might get brain cancer. Will she cut off her head next? Will the press continue to fawn over her noble bravery?

From the Charleston Gazette here:

22-year-old Dalton Newhouse of Oak Hill, and an accomplice, used a rifle to shoot down a high-tension power transmission line, police said. They planned to strip the line of its copper wiring and sell it.

When Newhouse picked up the wire, it killed him instantly, according to a news release. His accomplice was identified as Charles Raymond Norris, 22, of Oak Hill, who was arrested Wednesday.

Norris was charged with attempting to commit a felony, conspiracy to commit a felony and disruption of a public utility.

He was arraigned in Fayette County Magistrate Court, where he posted his own bail.

Appalachian Power spokesman Phil Moye said about 50 customers were without electricity for three hours. He called copper thefts a “tragedy” and urged would-be thieves to think twice.

Its a real shame if this idiot left family behind but he really got what he deserved. Man, this blog post just reminded me that I need to get batteries for my Blu-Ray remote.

From BH here:

The Boston bombing case has revealed failures on many fronts.

Yesterday, Boston Police Commissioner Davis testified before Congress that cops on the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force had never been told about the FBI’s investigation into Tsarnaev back in 2011, so they had no reason to keep an eye on him.

Worse, they weren’t told until after the deadly shooting in Cambridge, so local cops had no reason to go look for him during those several days after the bombing.

Think about that: A guy is on not-one-but-two terror watch lists, he has traveled to Dagestan — and after three people are killed and hundreds injured, the FBI doesn’t even have him on their radar.

Nobody from Tsarnaev’s mosque notified his department about Tsarnaev after his shouting matches with fellow Muslims. Or after some in the Islamic Society of Boston feared he was becoming extreme in his views. The Muslims of our community should have approached the cops. They didn’t.

And Davis’ solution?

“Government should tighten security around celebratory public events and consider using more undercover officers, special police units and technology, including surveillance cameras,” according to his testimony.

“Images from cameras do not lie. They do not forget,” Davis said. “They can be viewed by a jury as evidence of what occurred.”

Wait — so the FBI and my Muslim neighbors sit on information before and after a terrorist bombing, and you want more spying on?…?me? How does that make sense? I have to stumble from one Back Bay bar to another under government monitoring because the feds didn’t want to tell the cops about a local Muslim guy with connections to Chechen terrorism?

And who cares about the “viewed by a jury” part? That’s for prosecuting crimes after the fact. How about doing something to prevent the next bombing before it happens?

The Boston bombers didn’t almost get away because we had a surveillance failure — we had an intelligence failure. A suspect who should have been front and center was, somewhere along the way, swept under the rug.

“More spying” isn’t the lesson to learn. “Smarter, targeted spying” is.

I think more cameras are indeed good for forensics purposes, but cameras are not a preventative measure. Only by actually following up on intelligence will stop another domestic terror attack. Queasiness and lack of political will to do what is obvious- monitoring radicals in Muslim communities- is the only way we will prevent another Boston bomber. But as long as liberals are running things, we remain in danger.

And libs love to call Fox News “Faux News.” The ones that are faking it is CNN.

That first monkey got a little slow and the bear finally caught up to his lunch. And for the lulz, the other monkey handler made sure to slow-walk his monkey past the carnage, telling him that if he doesn’t pedal fast enough, he’s on the lunch menu tomorrow.

The Chinese have a ghastly record of animal cruelty, not that PETA has the balls to do anything about it.

From the DailyMail here:

A plastic surgery addict injected cooking oil into her face when doctors refused to give her any more silicone.

Former model Hang Mioku has been left permanently disfigured following the DIY beauty treatment.

After injecting an entire bottle of black market silicone into her face, Hang resorted to using cooking oil that left her face severely swollen and scarred.

During the first of 10 operations, surgeons removed 60g of silicone, oil and other foreign substances from her face and 200g from her neck.

However, Hang is still disfigured and she said she wishes she could have her old face back.

Egads this broad is hideous. Looks like she’s been making out with bees and bad shrimp.

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From the DailyMail here:

A 26-year-old mother has been killed after she fell out of a party bus on Saturday evening and was hit by three cars on a highway.

Jamie Frecks had been celebrating a friend’s bachelorette party when she tumbled out of an emergency door into traffic on Interstate 35 in Kansas City. She was with 15 girlfriends on the bus when the door opened around 10pm. The 26-year-old has hit by three vehicles, two of which did not stop.

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Miss Frecks had given birth to her daughter Emma two months previously and had been enjoying her first night out with friends when the tragedy occurred.

She was planning to marry her fiancé next year after becoming engaged on Christmas Day. Miss Frecks also hoped to return to college, with dreams of becoming an art teacher, friends said.

I bet her 15 friends feel really guilty about making her down all those tequila shots now, huh? She was probably trying to do a pole dance while the bus was moving and slipped. And she was going to be an art teacher? Thank goodness she wasn’t going to be a nuclear physicist or a neurosurgeon. I think society will do just fine in her absence.

From the DailyMail here:

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sent a written warning about accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2012, long before pressure-cooker blasts killed three and injured hundreds, according to a senior Saudi government official with direct knowledge of the document.

The Saudi warning, the official told MailOnline, was separate from the multiple red flags raised by Russian intelligence in 2011, and was based on human intelligence developed independently in Yemen.

Citing security concerns, the Saudi government also denied an entry visa to the elder Tsarnaev brother in December 2011, when he hoped to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, the source said. Tsarnaev’s plans to visit Saudi Arabia have not been previously disclosed.

The Saudis’ warning to the U.S. government was also shared with the British government. ‘It was very specific’ and warned that ‘something was going to happen in a major U.S. city,‘ the Saudi official said during an extensive interview.

It is one thing for the government to fail to protect us. It is something completely insidious for the government to not even try. Why are we spending billions of dollars for DHS programs if they won’t even bother to try to do their jobs? Obama refused to protect his State Department ambassador in Benghazi. Now he is refusing to protect Americans in their own cities.