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-Lurid Crime Tales-
El Chapo had 'Fast & Furious' .50 cal rifle at his hideout
[Nat Review] A .50-caliber rifle found at Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's hideout in Mexico was funneled through the gun-smuggling investigation known as Fast and Furious, sources confirmed Tuesday to Fox News.
Read me that serial number one more time please. Yep, that's it !
A .50-caliber is a massive rifle that can stop a car, or as it was intended, take down a helicopter.

After the raid on Jan. 8 in the city of Los Mochis that killed five of his men and wounded one Mexican marine, officials found a number of weapons inside the house Guzman was staying, including the rifle, officials said. When agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives checked serial numbers of the eight weapons found in his possession, they found one of the two .50-caliber weapons traced back to the ATF program, sources said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/20/2016 10:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Surprised that it was a F&F weapon? No, not at all. Surprised the BATF inventory was made public? Yes, very much surprised.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/20/2016 10:20 Comments || Top||

#2  No surprise. It counts as a success because now they know where the gun came from!
Posted by: gorb || 01/20/2016 11:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Chapos Sinaloa Cartel operations are big in Chicago. As soon as the Chicago regime occupied the oval office they ordered guns to be walked to Chapos cartel. If extradited it will be a looong time before Chapo is allowed on a court room stand this side of the border.
Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 || 01/20/2016 12:40 Comments || Top||


Spotcrime - An interesting quick reference link to crime in your area
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/20/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm concerned about the assaults on Backlick Road.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/20/2016 6:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Skid - as in Fort Belvoir & its various military intelligence agencies?
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/20/2016 12:30 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm concerned about the White House.
Posted by: gorb || 01/20/2016 13:17 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn to align in night sky
Watch out for Hilldabeast trying a human sacrifice.~
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/20/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, I guess that explains the Dow.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 01/20/2016 11:48 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: 3dc || 01/20/2016 15:36 Comments || Top||

#3  To those who are flying over and sneering....

....We can see you, and you are in the way of the view.

Cool night, no wind, if the clouds clear off could be good viewing out here. Sometimes, especially in winter, it is like looking at a cat eye marble.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/20/2016 17:07 Comments || Top||

#4  D *** NG, I KNEW IT - "DUCK DYNASTY IN SPACE"!

Does "MACHETE" + Babes know???

And BTW we're all still doomed.

lol.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/20/2016 20:00 Comments || Top||

#5  ..We can see you, and you are in the way of the view

Edmund 6 reflector
Cave Optical 8 Reflector
Clark 5 inch refractor (yes that Clark)
Meade 6 inch Cassegrain

I live inTLH and am damn near blind, but some people like guns, I like optiks, let me show you my binoculars.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/20/2016 21:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Very nice; good to see urban sky gazers.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/20/2016 22:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Watch out for Hilldabeast trying a human sacrifice.

Watch for Bill to look for the deepest, darkest, hiding place...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/20/2016 23:08 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Six million Afghanis missing from the Education Directorate of Daikundi
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Six million Afghanis have gone missing from the Education Directorate of central Daikundi province.

Clerk of the Education Directorate had reportedly withdrawn six million Afghanis from the bank
Oh. It's stolen currency, not missing students...
a few days before who has been missing since then.

Sayed Mustafa Musawi, Finance Manager at the Education Directorate says that the clerk's cell phone is also not working.

Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion...
Governor of Daikundi province has said that security agencies are looking into the incident.

According to Masuma Muradi, those responsible for the theft would be tossed in the clink
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
sooner and the issue would be resolved.

A similar incident took place in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province about a year ago where salaries of instructors were snatched on way.

Several officials of Nangarhar University were then arrested on suspicion and sent to jail.

Although, security agencies have not yet concluded their investigation into Daikundi's incident but it is possible that other officials of the Education Directorate are also involved into the theft.

Posted by: Fred || 01/20/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Have they looked in Germany?
Posted by: AlanC || 01/20/2016 8:18 Comments || Top||

#2  They are now FEJ instead of FES.
Thus the free lunch money is allah approved.

Maurice! Leave the damn Pompatus alone and bring the Triumph around. What? There are all kind of condensers! A Lucas condenser? Aw shit. Well then, fetch gawds Chrysler, yes the collectible Fury, what do you mean wut? Get gawds Fury, the same one he used to drive Adam and Eve out off the garden. I don't want to see that Pompatus for the rest of the day, leave it in the tub for dawg's sake.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/20/2016 17:14 Comments || Top||

#3  FEJ = Full Time Equivalent Jehadi, same as FES, Full time Equivalent Student for free lunch counting and Titile 1
Posted by: Shipman || 01/20/2016 21:40 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Iconic Marine Sgt. R. Lee Ermey of ‘Gunny Time' Reveals the One Firearm He'd Choose if He Could Have Only One
Bonus:

With the presidential primaries about to kick off, we asked Ermey which candidate might be the best shot. While he wouldn't directly name any figures on the campaign trail, Ermey spoke glowingly of Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump, Jr.

"Well, I know Donny Trump," Ermey said, adding, "He's on my shooting team ... this guy's a 'dinger.' He can lay on the 600-yard line and never miss the black."

Ermey also speculated the shooting gene could be in the Trump family: "I'm thinking, if Donny Trump shoots that well ... then, dad must be a shooter too."

While not endorsing Trump, Ermey offered one observation about the candidate: "I do know that if Trump gets to be our president, our commander in chief, I know one thing -- our Second Amendment rights are solid as a rock."

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 01/20/2016 11:44 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hard to pick which one, but I think Hillary would be best shot.
Posted by: gorb || 01/20/2016 15:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Hillary always had others taking the shots for her. She's the stereotypical REMF full of ribbons and medals.

I suspect Bernie Sanders would refuse to pick up a toy gun let alone a real one despite carry water for gun manufacturers in his state.

Cruz is from Texas, I expect he knows how to shoot. Jeb has a brother from Texas so I suspect he learned how to shoot at some point as well.

The rest are a mystery.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/20/2016 15:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Disparaging REMF's? How I doth protest, on personal grounds... and for the REMF community at large. :-(
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/20/2016 16:24 Comments || Top||

#4  There's a fair amount of shootery in Florida RJ, politically look up Jeb Bush and the Six Pack of Freedom.

Hopeless I know, but he's a good man.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/20/2016 17:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Had to look up M-thumb here.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/20/2016 18:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Allow me to say that once you've experienced M-1 Thumb, it will NEVER happen again to you. Ever. If you don't think so, you're welcome to stick your thumb into my M-1 and see how it feels.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/20/2016 19:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Yeah, that doesn't look like much fun at all.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/20/2016 19:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Had to look up M-thumb here.

If that gif had any more frames the last couple would have suddenly turned blue. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 01/20/2016 22:10 Comments || Top||

#9  There does seem to be a correlation between one's thumb getting squished by the bolt and the use of foul language.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/20/2016 22:56 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
12 die after consuming toxic liquor in Lahore
[DAWN] LAHORE: Twelve people died in the city on Monday and Tuesday after allegedly having consumed tainted liquor.

Six friends, who were celebrating an occasion, died in Youhanabad and the other six in Liaqatabad. The two areas are notorious for manufacturing and supplying spurious liquor.

The dear departed were identified as Gohar, Nabil, Boota, Samuel Viki, Shera and Qasim Masih in Youhanabad and Akram, Saleem, Shan, Sanni, Asim and Quma from Behar Colony and Gill Chowk of Liaqatabad.

Three died on Monday and the others on Tuesday. Two others were said to be in hospitals in a serious condition.

DIG operations Dr Haider Ashraf told Dawn that according to initial inquiries the victims had consumed Kickapoo Joy Juice from Youhanabad.

But he confirmed only eight deaths -- two in Liaqatabad and six in Youhanabad.

He claimed that Qasim, who had supplied the liquor, was among the dead. His brother Asif ran the same business.
Posted by: Fred || 01/20/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Warplanes: India Loses Faith In Russia
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/20/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, what are they gonna do---buy F35?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/20/2016 4:19 Comments || Top||

#2  They could at least embrace Russian Vodka not so many dead dumb Indians eh?
Posted by: Lampedusa Creretch3679 || 01/20/2016 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Rafael, Eurofighter, Gripen...
Posted by: Lionel Thoth9784 || 01/20/2016 19:22 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Twitter temporarily goes down for users worldwide
[DAWN] Microblogging website Twitter temporarily went down for a few hours on Monday, with both the website and mobile application inaccessible to users.
Of course it did. The internet was closed for cleaning. Everybody knows that.
"Something is technically wrong," an error message read on the Twitter website when users attempted to login to their accounts.

Some Twitter users' feeds were visible despite the service being affected.

It was unclear what the issue is, but the message read: "We're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."

Tweetdeck, Twitter's other official client was also not working, The Independent reported.
Posted by: Fred || 01/20/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm surprised civilization survived.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 01/20/2016 6:00 Comments || Top||

#2  "Deploy the new Sniffer routines!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/20/2016 6:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Muscle atrophy; thumbs soon to recede.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/20/2016 6:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Now I'll never find out what Mr StrangerIDon'tGiveASh*tAbout had for lunch!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/20/2016 8:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Repeating the Facebook experiment looking to see how desperate users become when cut off, perhaps? That's exactly the kind of information investors and advertisers want to know.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/20/2016 10:42 Comments || Top||

#6  The FBI-CIA discovered that a certain Madonna Fan from Guam whom knows secrets about Osama Bin Laden + Others is reading + using Twitter Artics as sources, hence Twitter has to be monitored.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/20/2016 20:20 Comments || Top||

#7  JOE! Whether you are human or advanced Baysean Bot doesn't matter. On this we are one. Guam > Okinawa > Yokohama
Fall back regroup and reforge, commence ass kickery using new info.

Or nuke the starch out of their poorly woven cotton shirts.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/20/2016 21:52 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
GOP Rep Calls For SecNavy To Resign Over Forcibly Desegregating Marine Corps Boot Camp
[Daily Caller] GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter called Tuesday for Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to resign over his attempt to force the Marine Corps to end gender segregation at its boot camp.

Consistent disputes between the Navy and the Marine Corps, according to Hunter, undermine the ability of Mabus to lead, since he appears primarily focused on restructuring the Marine Corps to serve his own objectives, The Washington Examiner reports.

"The only way this relationship can be repaired, I believe, is through the leadership of a new Navy Secretary -- specifically one who does not regularly make a point to undercut the Marine Corps, distract it from its mission and insult its leaders," Hunter said in a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

"I respectfully ask that you provide assurance that recruit training and Officer Candidate School will continue operating as they have, without any such disruption to the reliable and effective organization and methods for developing and training Marines," Hunter added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/20/2016 13:59 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They should be desegregated and all pass the same standard tests they've had to pass for decades or else being a Marine won't mean much anymore.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/20/2016 15:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Personally, what I wanna know is whether the OWG Globalists + aligned will still send women into front-line combat iff their desired Anti-US "Limited Wars" - Conventional thru Limited Nuclear/TacNuke - occurs vee China andor Iran + expansion of the two latter's Spere(s) of Influence agz the US???

DOES CO-SUPERPOWER-VS-CO-SUPERPOWER LIMITED NUKE WARS STILL MEET THE USDOD'S BELIEF OF NO MORE MAJOR WARS TO OCCUR AROUND THE WORLD THRU YEAR 2050 IFF NOT 2100 = END-OF-CENTURY???

LIMITED NUKE WAR = WOMEN IN COMBAT, AS COMPARED OR OPPOSED TO UN PEACEKEEPING OR "POLICE ACTIONS"???

The way things are deteriorating betwwen OWG Co-Superpowers China + Iran versus US Regional Allies, the Globies, etal. may find out the reality sooner than they think.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/20/2016 20:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Bless you, Hunter Duncan.

Me, I live in Vermont so have The Bern, Leahey and Welch, all commies. I hate this.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 01/20/2016 20:48 Comments || Top||

#4  My east San Diego County Congresscritter

I brag - because my Senators suck
Posted by: Frank G || 01/20/2016 21:12 Comments || Top||


The Onion sells out to Univision
[NPR] Univision Communications Inc., the parent company to the nation's leading Spanish-language broadcast channel, has acquired a controlling stake in the satirical news site The Onion, NPR has learned.

The agreement between two seemingly disparate media outfits was described to NPR by a person with direct involvement in the negotiations. A second person who was briefed on the deal by Univision executives also confirmed its broad strokes. The amount of money involved in the deal was not disclosed. NPR has also obtained a memo from the CEO of The Onion announcing the deal to staffers.

This account is in many ways reliant upon the information provided by those two people. NPR sought comment Monday from corporate officials and spokespersons for Univision and The Onion about the deal, as well as from Fusion and ABC about elements of this story involving them. None of those messages by voice mail or email were returned.
Posted by: badanov || 01/20/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So will the Onion switch to Spanish?
Posted by: 3dc || 01/20/2016 6:08 Comments || Top||

#2  They might just become more 'breathless' in their reporting, 3dc.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/20/2016 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Odds that Jorge "El Coyote" Ramos will allow a satirical article on Illegals..... nada.
Posted by: Jomoque Gloluling2438 || 01/20/2016 12:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Cebolla™
Posted by: Frank G || 01/20/2016 12:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Onions been mostly dead for a long time.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/20/2016 13:40 Comments || Top||

#6  I keep waiting for the punch line.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 01/20/2016 14:15 Comments || Top||

#7  ^that, I won't be fooled again.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/20/2016 17:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Ditto SCRAPPLEFACE + TURD NEWS???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/20/2016 20:14 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2016-01-20
  Terror attack at Pak's Bacha Khan University
Tue 2016-01-19
  Morocco arrests Belgian with links to Paris attacks
Mon 2016-01-18
  But wait - ther's more: Kerry Says U.S. to Pay Iran $1.7 Billion in Debt and Interest
Sun 2016-01-17
  Burkina Faso attack: At least 23 dead, scores freed after hotel siege
Sat 2016-01-16
  Senior Qaeda-linked figure captured in Lebanon
Fri 2016-01-15
  U.S. designates ISIS in Afghanistan as foreign terrorist organization
Thu 2016-01-14
  Terror attacks in Jakarta -- 7 die so far
Wed 2016-01-13
  Suicide bomber kills 10 people, mainly Germans, in Istanbul
Tue 2016-01-12
  Bombings at Iraq cafe kill 20: Officers
Mon 2016-01-11
  It begins: Cologne gangs attack foreigners
Sun 2016-01-10
  US drone strikes kills 25 suspected militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan
Sat 2016-01-09
  Philadelphia police officer ambushed 'in the name of Islam'
Fri 2016-01-08
  ISIS Man Executes His Mom
Thu 2016-01-07
  Iran says Saudi-led airstrike hit Iranian Embassy in Yemen, but no damage seen
Wed 2016-01-06
  1 US soldier killed, 2 wounded in Taliban attack in Helmand


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