Harper-Mercer's father picture provided, but no photo of shooter's mother, for the usual reasons. Shooter labeled conservative nutcase. Obviously it was his 'conservative' nature and mental condition that failed him and led to the tragic incident. As we all know, conservatism and mental illness do go hand-in-hand.
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The Oregon shooter's mother was black so therefore he's whit, unlike Obama whose mother was white and father was black. It's the father that determines the race of the progeny dontchaknow.
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Lots of reports out there adding details: CNN photoshopped the lad's photo to make him look white, his internet presence has been erased to cover up the fact that he was a Black Lives Matter fan, his mother was into guns and open carry, he went to that special school in Los Angeles because he was autistic, he was not shot by police but committed suicide when they arrived.
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So, "CNN shopped this!" Well, maybe.
But what might the circumspect play be?
Adopting, endorsing,
Or carefully sourcing
This orphan albino tar baby?
[Daily Caller] America's top general was just named special adviser to National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver Friday after retiring from his position as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Come Jan. 1, 63-year-old Gen. Martin Dempsey will take over as chairman of the Jr. NBA Leadership Council, a global body recently created for youth interested in the sport, The Associated Press reports. He stepped down from his previous role just last week.
He will also provide leadership advice to Silver and help connect franchises with local communities. Perhaps he's finally found his niche.
[Dhaka Tribune] An original menu from the last first-class lunch served aboard the ill-fated Titanic has sold for $88,000 to a private collector at an online auction.
The luncheon menu had been saved by a first-class passenger, Abraham Lincoln Salomon, one of only a handful of people who climbed aboard a lifeboat called the "Money Boat" or "Millionaires' Boat" when the main ship started sinking into the icy waters of the Atlantic.
The lifeboat gained its moniker because the wealthy passengers it saved purportedly bribed the crew to row away from the disaster rather than rescue more people.
What's for lunch?
Signed on the back in pencil by another first-class passenger, Isaac Gerald Frauenthal, the menu provides a fascinating insight into both the opulence on board the ship and food fashions of the day.
Diners had the option of starting with fillets of brill, a type of fish, or cockie leekie (also known as cock-a-leekie), a Scottish soup of leeks and chicken stock. They could also indulge in options from the buffet, including potted shrimps, soused herrings, brawn -- a type of jellied meat -- and corned ox tongue.
An elaborate platter of eight different types of cheese was served to finish the midday meal.
New York-based autograph dealer, Lion Heart Autographs, offered the menu for sale from an unidentified person who it said was a descendent of one of the survivors of the boat. It is one of only three or four menus from the last first-class lunch still in existence and fetched a healthy premium over its estimated $50,000 - $70,000 price tag.
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Salmon you say? Hummm. Makes you kinda think twice don't it?
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Iced draught Munich lager beer? Sounds about right.
Maybe there was a misunderstanding about the way it was going to be iced?
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"Iced draught Munich lager beer"
Implies (at least to me) the beer had ice in it, EC. Probably why they sank.
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Heard halfway across the Atlantic:
"O Muslims, there's no need to panic!
Don't scurry or holler
Or worry. Inshallah,
No Rantburg can sink the Koranic."
NEW YORK -- Elon Musk has made no secret of his desire to colonize and, perhaps, travel to Mars.
Now, the possible discovery of liquid water on the red planet has re-energized his affection for it and now he's trying to clarify his idea for heating up the planet with nuclear bombs.
Musk's goal isn't to blow up Mars in the hopes of heating it up enough for livability. No, he wants to launch fusion bombs into the sky over Mars' two poles to create tiny pulse suns.
These suns would be similar to our own sun, but would only last for a short while.
Musk outlined his plan on Friday during the SolarCity solar panel launch event in Manhattan when I asked him if he was excited about the discovery of water on Mars. He said, "Yeah, that's good," and then launched into a relatively detailed explanation of his plan.
"What I was talking about," said Musk, "was having a series of very large, by our standards, but very small by calamity standards, essentially having two tiny pulsing suns over the poles. They're really above the planet. Not on the planet."
Those suns will be created by a technology that doesn't yet exist. "Every several seconds," Musk continued "send large fusion bombs over the poles." Those bombs would "blink out, like a small sun" and then you could send up more to keep going with the process, Musk added.
The room, was dead silent as Musk dug into what sounded too many in the room like science fiction. "A lot of people don't appreciate that our sun is a giant fusion explosion."
Why would you want two suns over Mars?
"So if you have two basically tiny suns over the pole that would warm up the planet," explained Musk, "Then you would gasify frozen carbon dioxide, thicken the atmosphere and warm up the water and all of that would have a greenhouse effect. Have a cascading effect to continue warming up the planet."
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You need a thick atmosphere to hold in the heat, and Mars doesn't even come close for that. Thicken it up a bit and try this and it might actually work quite well.
[THEGUARDIAN] Apple has made ad-blocking mainstream, prompting fears in the $31.9bn mobile ad market. But those grappling with the problem say the user must come first I have Ad Block installed. If you don't, you should.
YouTube has now started adding irritating commercials to its offerings.
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Figured out how to disable javascript for selected sites such as Drudge and Breitbart. Before I did that they got so bad I could even read them.
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While Ab-Block is ok I find it is very bloated.
Try uBlock 0.9.3.5 https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock or Bluhell firewall https://www.google.com/search?q=bluhell+firewall&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 instead. Both are equally effective and both don't bog down or slow your computer like ad-block and other bloated firewalls do.
[AA.TR] China's anti-graft watchdog has announced that more than 500 officials from taxation departments have been sanctioned over illegal connections with tax agents this year, local media reported Saturday.
The Shanghai Daily cited the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection as saying on its website that a total of 533 people had been found at fault.
The Commission announced Friday that 58 local taxation departments had either leased offices to tax agents or supplied them free of charge.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... 10 departments conducted "inappropriate financial transactions" with tax firms while 10 other permitted agents to use their canteens.
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Next thing you know, they'll be targeting citizens based on their politics!
[DAWN] Moody's Investors Service has assigned a definitive rating of B3 to Pakistain's global bond offering.
"The outlook is stable" said a Moody statement issued on Friday.
Moody's definitive ratings for these debt obligations confirm the provisional ratings assigned on September 18, 2015.
The Moody statement said that Pakistain's B3 issuer rating reflects moderate economic strength with a supply-constrained economy that has been resistant to structural change, Moody's reported.
Although the scale of the economy is relatively large, globally, Pakistain's per-capita income level is relatively very low. Moody's Global Long-Term Rating Scale
Aaa Obligations rated Aaa are judged to be of the highest quality, subject to the lowest level of credit risk.
Aa Obligations rated Aa are judged to be of high quality and are subject to very low credit risk.
A Obligations rated A are judged to be upper-medium grade and are subject to low credit risk.
Baa Obligations rated Baa are judged to be medium-grade and subject to moderate credit risk and as
such may possess certain speculative characteristics.
Ba Obligations rated Ba are judged to be speculative and are subject to substantial credit risk. B Obligations rated B are considered speculative and are subject to high credit risk. Caa Obligations rated Caa are judged to be speculative of poor standing and are subject to very high
credit risk.
Ca Obligations rated Ca are highly speculative and are likely in, or very near, default, with some
prospect of recovery of principal and interest.
C Obligations rated C are the lowest rated and are typically in default, with little prospect for
recovery of principal or interest.
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Doesn't B sound a bit high?
Perhaps one of the Pak nukes pointed at Moody's?
[DAWN] IT seems that our infatuation with 'saviours' in uniform remains unwavering, even after the uniform has long been set aside. So it is with retired Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... who has been holding forth on several forums and, in the process, burnishing the argument for the military's apparently 'reluctant-but-necessary' foray into politics. Delivering a talk in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... titled 'Pakistain's past, present and future', the former president spoke of how during his own tenure he had refrained from imposing martial law and instead introduced a civilian-run system watched over by the military so that civilians could be prodded to deliver; "there are no angels in Pakistain," he said.
It is regrettable that our military has yet to realise that its hand on the wheel, both overt and otherwise, can only take the ship of state off-course. Each khaki intervention -- invariably on the pretext of 'saving the country' -- has progressively undermined political institutions to a point where civilian misrule has become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the denunciation of the democratic system a national pastime. The unvarnished truth is that democracy has never been allowed to take root in this country; elections have been manipulated and governments destabilised; and many of the so-called political mafias have flourished with the encouragement of the establishment that has used them for its own cynical purposes. There are indeed no 'angels' in this country, as Mr Musharraf pointed out -- but that is not only true of the civilians. At the same time, it must be said that the political class has contributed in full measure to its own degradation by its flagrant disregard for the needs and aspirations of the people. Moreover, the judiciary -- the upholders of the law and Constitution -- has more often than not through Pakistain's history, given legal cover to interruptions in the democratic process instead of strengthening its institutional underpinnings. Lastly, the media -- divided and corporatised -- has also taken the path of least resistance instead of exploring the long-term, corrosive effects of military 'oversight'.
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h/t Gates of Vienna
...Suicide ranks among the top 10 causes of death for white men in America -- specifically, No. 7 -- and guns are the most common device used to achieve that tragic end. For black men, homicide ranks among the 10 leading causes of death, coming in at No. 5. Again guns play an outsized role.
And while white men are about eight times as likely to kill themselves with a gun than be killed by someone using a gun, black men are about six times more likely to be shot and killed by someone other than by themselves.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Pervez 
