changed as UP celebration main by Shivpal, Akhilesh divests uncle of plum profiles – Times of India

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) appeared to plunge into a significant crisis on Tuesday evening as Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav withdrew essential portfolios from his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav, that has few hours earlier changed him as condition party chief.

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Al-Qaida ‘on the run’? Laura Ingraham provides helpful spin for Obama

http://twitter.com/#!/IngrahamAngle/status/364375166635081728

Feckless, without a doubt.

In 2012, President Obama stated “al-Qaida is on the run.” Fast forward to August 2013, when the state dept. responded to an al-Qaida risk with a worldwide-travel-alert-except-for-statedept/”>worldwide travel alert and embassy closures.

But right here’s anything you don’t see everyday. Broadcast number Laura Ingraham says Obama ended up being “right.” Al-Qaida may be operating, not in path he reported over repeatedly. That’s simply the type of pitiful spin Jay Carney consumes, rests and breathes: “Well, the president didn’t specify the path al-Qaida had been running.”

Now about the delusional claim that al-Qaida was “decimated”

Associated:

‘Nailed it!’ Creator Brad Thor explains a little something about shutting embassies to Obama

Allow snark begin! What will terrorists do when they learn embassies are closed on Sunday?

Find out more: http://twitchy.com/2013/08/06/is-al-qaida-on-the-run-laura-ingraham-suggests-possible-spin-for-obama-admin/

Volunteer Firefighter Allegedly Shoots Dogs, Brags About It In Facebook Post

Tim Conatser of Royse City, Texas, has been removed from his position as a volunteer firefighter and could face criminal charges after his post went viral.

A volunteer firefighter sparked an online firestorm after he allegedly posted a picture on Facebook bragging about killing two dogs.

Via crimeblog.dallasnews.com

Tim Conatser of Royse City, Texas, has been removed from his position as a volunteer firefighter and could face criminal charges after his Tuesday post went viral, the Dallas Morning News reported.


His post has since been taken down, but was saved by social media users. In it, he implies that he killed two dogs because they kept wandering off their own property.

The post immediately drew outrage online, with local residents complaining to the Royse City Fire Department because Conatser identified himself as a firefighter on his page.

The department said on its Facebook page that Conatser was actually a volunteer for another local fire department, but has been “terminated.”

Conatser did not live in the home where the dogs were shot, but was acquainted with the inhabitants, Fox 4 reported.


The owners of the dogs, Pulido Rodrigo and Dulce Medrano, said the black lab was named Gordo and the yellow lab was named Spike, according to Fox 4.

They said they did not know what had happened to their dogs until they read about it on social media.

They told the television station they just wanted to know why their dogs were killed and they never got any warning about their pets.

“What can I say, my heart’s broken,” Medrano said. “But…I don’t know why.”

The Union Valley Fire Department told Fox 4 it asked Conatser to resign because it began to receive negative messages and death threats.

“He has no background, no negative background,” fire chief Edward Ragsdale told Fox 4. “He’s from around the community. From what I understand, from what I know, he’s a good person he’s from a good family.”

Texas firefighter kills dogs, posts pictures on Facebook – http://t.co/8ZSHJcitrn http://t.co/sD3ZD84SsT

— greensboro_nc (@#SocialMedia NC)

The Hunt County constable is investigating the incident to see if criminal charges should be filed, the Dallas Morning News reported.


The Texas chapter of the SPCA is also investigating, Fox 4 reported.

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/volunteer-firefighter-allegedly-shoots-dogs-brags-about-it-i

DISLIKE! Compilation of tweets from investors mad at Facebook

http://twitter.com/#!/abdullawissam/status/207535575065047040

Facebook’s stock has been dropping so fast it’s almost hard to keep track of! On Tuesday, shares closed at $28.82 which is a 10% drop from where it started the day and nearly a 25% drop from its public debut.

Needless to say, there are a ton of pissed off investors. Here are just a few of them:

Fuckin facebook down again, this stock is bullshit, was just a big hype job, total bullshit #TK #boom #heated #fuckfb

— Paul Malignaggi #SMK (@PaulMalignaggi) May 29, 2012

damn wall st punked so many people w/ this facebook stock bullshit. stock market is nothing more than betting for ppl who fake intelligence

— Justine (@butterflybesos9) May 29, 2012

Dear Facebook, I've almost reached my patience tolerance w/ your piece of shit iPhone app. Get your shit together. No wonder the stock sucks

— Michael (@TheMcJagger) May 28, 2012

https://twitter.com/pholmes125/status/207515705552285696

Just realized that i lost more than $300 playing with this facebook stock shit. Ill admit, i had no clue what i was doing lol

— Coach Leman Anderson (@CoachLemanA) May 29, 2012

https://twitter.com/BobAgahi/status/207551554818019328

Rule of thumb for Facebook investing: Don't buy the stock if it's price is greater than Zuckerberg's age.

— John Walters (@jdubs88) May 29, 2012

I didn't bother to buy $fb stock but co-workers did – and regret it. One hates Facebook now and deleted his account.

— Mark Davidson (@mrtoadsc) May 29, 2012

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/05/29/dislike-compilation-of-tweets-from-investors-mad-at-facebook/

This Ukrainian Woman Might Starve To Death In A Russian Prison

She’s Ukraine’s first female air force pilot and a national hero. But for the last 80 days, she’s been on hunger strike to protest the conditions in the Russian prison where she is being held.

This is Nadia Savchenko. She is what some — particularly those in Ukraine — would call a badass. To Russia, though, she’s an important propaganda asset and a woman they allege is complicit in the murder of journalists.

Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters

Savchenko, 33, was the first woman to train as an air force pilot in Ukraine and so far is the only woman to be trained on the Soviet-made Sukhoi Su-24 as well as the Mil Mi-24 helicopter.

She was also featured in a U.N. Development Programme-sponsored push for equality in Ukraine’s military United Nations Development Programme in Europe and CIS / Via Flickr: undpeuropeandcis

Last year, Savchenko enlisted with the Aidar Battalion, a volunteer force that until recently was outside the Ukrainian military hierarchy and has been accused of abuses. In June, she was captured while fighting pro-Russia rebel forces in eastern Ukraine.

Igor Golovniov / AP

Footage posted on YouTube showed her handcuffed to a pipe and under interrogation — but defiant — in an undisclosed location.

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Russian authorities took her into captivity in July and accused her with being involved in the death of two Russian journalists in Ukraine. Savchenko, they claim, intentionally targeted the journalists with the mortar that killed them.

Maxim Zmeyev / Reuters

Savchenko, who a Russian court has ordered to be held in pre-trial detention until at least May now, was actually elected to the Ukrainian parliament while behind bars.

Savchenko holds a sign inside a defendants’ cage as she attends a hearing in Moscow on Feb. 10, 2015, which reads, “I was born Ukrainian, and I die Ukrainian” Maxim Zmeyev / Reuters

Meanwhile, the details surrounding just how Savchenko got into Russia are still murky.


Moscow claims she was caught trying to sneak across the border as a refugee. Others maintain that she was kidnapped and hauled across the border by rebels after her plane was shot down.

Either way, the U.S. and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have both called for her release, with the latter accepting her as a member and granting her international immunity.

“The United States deplores her continued ill-treatment and is deeply concerned by reports of her deteriorating health,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Wednesday. “By any standard, Russia’s detention and treatment of Ms. Savchenko is unacceptable.”

Ukrainians aren’t buying the story that Savchenko was caught while claiming refugee status either, instead making her a national figure. On Sunday, a crowd rallied in Kiev in support of her release.

Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Images

“She’s our Joan of Arc,” Valeriy Ryabykh, a military expert with the Defense Express magazine, said to the Washington Post last year. Ukrainian president Peter Poroshenko awarded her the title of “Hero of Ukraine” on Monday.

Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters

Savchenko has also been on a hunger strike for the last 80 days. In recent days, she’s begun refusing the glucose injections that have been her only sustenance.

Maxim Zmeyev / Reuters

A member of Russia’s own human rights council on Friday said that she’s begun “to have serious problems” with her internal organs and that she “could die in the next few days.”

Maxim Zmeyev / Reuters

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/hayesbrown/this-ukiranian-woman-might-starve-to-death-in-a-russian-pris

Why was Actor Rob Lowe feeling ‘Loe’ Saturday afternoon?

http://twitter.com/#!/_NickBurch/status/447485262919393280

Saturday, actor Rob Lowe tweeted the following about Saint Louis basketball player Rob Loe, who had just lost an NCAA Tournament game.

https://twitter.com/RobLowe/status/447484979946065920

Going back to Thursday, Lowe had this to say about Loe:

https://twitter.com/RobLowe/status/446827874561949696

Fans of Saint Louis and of Lowe were amused by the witty take.

https://twitter.com/amylutz4/status/447487472650317824

https://twitter.com/BrianLind7/status/447489855615143936

https://twitter.com/dasinger22/status/447492737651048448

https://twitter.com/trevo42/status/447486128342712320

https://twitter.com/JuliaLee34/status/447502009436872704

https://twitter.com/VeganRottweiler/status/447487571413590016

https://twitter.com/MikeDLacy/status/447485557673701376

Some even offered their own play on the names.

https://twitter.com/CidStoll/status/447504599294164992

https://twitter.com/Klousbg01/status/447493541049008129

But at the end of the day…

https://twitter.com/NaismithLives/status/447486011317043200

Editor’s note:  This post has been corrected to reflect the fact that Rob Loe is a basketball player for Saint Louis, not a coach. We apologize for the error.

Related:

Twitchy’s coverage of actor Rob Lowe

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/03/23/that-tweet-was-outstanding-why-actor-rob-lowe-was-feeling-loe-saturday-afternoon/