[PJ Media] A former assistant director of the FBI is voicing concern about the Justice Department's lack of movement on the ongoing FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's email arrangement which, according to sources, will be wrapping up soon. If Bureau leaks are to be believed, the results will show that Mrs. Clinton and her underlings flagrantly violated some of our most important laws -- laws that are designed to protect national security. Anyone else would have been arrested by now.
Ron Hosko, who is today president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF), said on Fox News over the weekend that the DOJ hasn't shown any interest at all in the FBI probe, which is odd, because the investigation has reached the point where main Justice should be showing some definite signs of activity in the case.
The lack of DOJ activity and the Obama administration's continued tendency to publicly prejudge the outcome of the ongoing investigation have some Republicans questioning whether the investigation is being handled in a fair and impartial manner. "My concern is we're not hearing about the prosecutors' support that the FBI would need to pursue this investigation vigorously," Hosko said.
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When is it going to dawn on the American people that there are TWO kinds of Law in this Nation. There is Law for the PEONS and the Sheep and THEN there is the Law for the Masters.
If you bend over in America you deserve what happens to you, you twinkling hypocritical buggers. Bottom Line: The American People can't trust the Masters. If you act like a Peon, you ARE a Peon.
Hillary and the Democrats don't CARE for the ordinary people because they believe they are ABOVE the Law. And you know what..they ARE. How does it feel to be a Peon?
[AP] WASHINGTON (AP) -- They say crime doesn't pay, but that might not be entirely true in the District of Columbia as lawmakers look for ways to discourage people from becoming repeat offenders. Sort of a 'Earned Criminal Income' as it were.
The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a bill that includes a proposal to pay residents a stipend not to commit crimes. It's based on a program in Richmond, California, that advocates say has contributed to deep reductions in crime there. 'D.C. Council votes unanimous approval'...shocking, SHOCKING !
Under the bill, city officials would identify up to 200 people a year who are considered at risk of either committing or becoming victims of violent crime. Those people would be directed to participate in behavioral therapy and other programs. If they fulfill those obligations and stay out of trouble, they would be paid.
The bill doesn't specify the value of the stipends, but participants in the California program receive up to $9,000 per year.
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Another ever-expanding, never-ending wealth transfer program. I wonder where they'll get the cash?
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Tribute payments to the criminal class, an overt acceptance that the traditional system of deterrence fails when you just don't punish adequately those that offend. Look for fortified neighborhoods and private police, and other medieval European social structures to reappear as the Republic descends into entropy...
[REUTERS] Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is not among those accused of wrongdoing in an investigation by Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... 's chief prosecutor into alleged corruption involving the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) sovereign fund, a Swiss official said on Tuesday.
The Swiss Attorney General's office said last Friday that it had identified four cases of alleged criminal misconduct in the suspected misappropriation of about $4 billion from Malaysian state companies.
Andre Marty, front man for the Office of Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber, said in an emailed response to a Rooters query on Tuesday, "In the ongoing criminal proceeding of the OAG (Office of Attorney General), Mr. Najib Razak is not one of the public officials under accusation."
Lauber's office announced last August that it had opened criminal proceedings related to 1MDB, whose advisory board is chaired by Najib.
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I shudder to imagine the disrespect this egomaniacal twit will display. Just once, can't we just sing it as written, not as an R&B ballad, or some demonstration of the "interpretative" skill of the singer. Its the GD National Anthem, sing it with respect!
[CBSNEWS] HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. -- A patient exited the back of a moving ambulance and was then struck and killed in a hit-and-run crash on Long Island, police said.
It happened just before 7 p.m. Monday in Holstville as Frank Ligrnetta, 51, of Bay Shore was being transported from Stony Brook University Hospital to a hospital in Amityville, reports CBS New York.
As the ambulance headed south on Nicolls Road, police said Ligrnetta got out of the back of the vehicle and was struck by a dark-colored sedan which expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
Ligrnetta was pronounced dead at the scene.
The ambulance was impounded for a safety check and the investigation is ongoing.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] The firm says technique produces 90 percent less greenhouse emissions
Begins by isolating cow and pig cells that have the ability to regenerate
Costs $18,000 to make 1lb ground beef, compared to $4 in US grocery store
Working on plant-based alternative to replace fetal bovine serum
$18,000 a pound? I can remember when hamburger was for po' folks.
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On top of spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
I lost my poor expensive meatball,
When somebody sneezed.
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On the menu next White House Dinner,
POSOTUS: "Have you seen the price of Wagyu beef"?
And Arugala.
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Adding another source to the list of 'mystery meat' (do you really know what you are eating or just avoiding the notion that you have to believe that it's pure and safe?)
[THEGUARDIAN] When Cleve Jones, a longtime gay activist who led the creation of the Aids Memorial Quilt, went to his local gay bar in the Castro district, he saw something that shocked him.
"The tech bros had taken over The Mix. They commanded the pool table and the patio. These big, loud, butch guys. It was scary," he said. "I'm not heterophobic, but I don't want to go to a gay bar and buy some guy a drink and have him smirk and tell me he's straight. They can go anywhere. We can't."
Residents of the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... 's historically gay Castro district are worried that it's changing, as speculators come in to flip the few remaining ramshackle old Victorians and the old-timer gay bars shutter. In a recent small survey, 77% of people who have lived in the neighborhood for 10 or more years identified as gay, while only 55% of those who moved in the past year did.
When an iconic building was on the market earlier this year, it was between two potential tenants: a gay strip club and a SoulCycle. The SoulCycle won. This winter, The Gangway, the oldest gay bar in town, is closing down.
"When you lose the geographic concentration, you lose a lot," Jones said. "We lose the cultural vitality, the political power -- you also lose the specialized social services."
Let's be clear: San Francisco is still extremely gay, with 6.2% of the population identifying as LGBT, according to a recent Gallup poll that puts the Bay Area as the gayest region in America. Portland follows with their gay population at 5.4% of the region.
But the gay community is changing -- and traditional LGBT institutions are rapidly disappearing.
"The neighborhood is more professional gay now. Not that it's less gay, but you gotta have money to move in," said Hank Cancél, who lives on the corner of 19th and Castro streets, where he keeps a collection of gay erotic dolls in the window. "So now it's Apple gay. Airbnb gay."
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Think this through with me. Because there are so many gay men in San Francisco heterosexual women find it hard to find a husband. Tech Bros are awkward around heterosexual women. But by moving to San Francisco the Tech Bros are increasing their chances of actually getting a date.
The perfect circle abides.
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Don't sweat it dude - this kinda stuff will last a few more decades in SF
Sucks to have people you don't like moving in and taking over, no? Might change the historical character of the locale. Oh wait.....
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I calculate that the next 1906 level earthquake will hit San Francisco in 2027. Then we will see how all these interesting people fare.
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Apple gay, huh.
Well listen here sister: put the damn dolls down and go win back the billiards table. Few years back friends and I went to an old stomping ground where the shuffleboard table was dominated by, as you would say, young butch frat boys with money. We challenged and won the table after an admittedly good, fun, close game.
So put you big boy panties on, or stop making the argument that gays can't sustain generational enterprises. Nobody like a whiner.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] STEPHEN Hawking has suggested that humans may be able to harness the power of a ‘mini’ black hole but has warned that it could DESTROY us. So maybe we shouldn't do it? Maybe we should drill down to the earth's core and release some magma... No. Wait. Don't do that, either. Maybe we should just use coal?
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Aw, Fred. You know mankind. We'll work feverishly on it because otherwise the Russians will beat us to the punch.
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That's too much Copper Wire. You are better to burning off this natural contaminate GOD gave you to move about with torque, speed, safety, and it is everywhere to harness. By the Grace of the Lord.
Explain to me how you will afford that electrical cable or bend in frequency or form?
Humans Could stop acting like know it all ass#oles and use the gifts they have already to fix the place, but they could not make others suffer otherwise.
Sometimes, the ground "game" matters.
I don't you traipsing around the Universe. You may look but do not move there.
What you fix here starts with your idiot politics and your laziness to know what would or would not help.
Unicorns are all you have. The Hard Logic is what will FEED MY CREATION.
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Utilizing science and resources are not the issue for this world. The human condition is the problem that needs fixing: 7 deadly sins, tyranny, abuse of power......
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I know he's supposed to be a genius, but frankly I find this attention whore's ideas to be tedious.
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Well just dangle it from a stick in front of your car, and you can do light speed.
Russians hell; the new paleo tank is powered by a black hole which was mined last week from the 3,5879th most holy site of dar islaam. A black hole so powerful it collapsed the roof of the unaccompanied miners' funeral house.
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Waiting for Jesse Jackson to noodle this through to a new theatre of blacks being exploited -> reparations for black holes - also nicely allegorical to what happens to our tax $ anyway.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has revealed the existence of a program to develop a so-called "Arsenal Plane." Designed to back up fifth generation fighters such as the F-35 with a large number of conventional weapons, backing up the high-tech fighters with tried-and-true ordinance.
The new plane would supplement the F-35 in places where the fighter-bomber is weak, particularly in weapons carrying capability. The F-35 can only carry a handful of weapons internally‐anything carried on the outside of the aircraft makes it more visible to radar. To make matters worse, that internal storage must be shared between air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons.
n one possible scenario, a pair of Joint Strike Fighters could fly towards a heavily defended enemy ground target armed only with air-to-air missiles for self protection. Several hundred miles behind them an Arsenal Plane--relying on intelligence gleamed by satellites or unmanned vehicles--could launch a pre-planned strike against enemy air defenses. Stealthy and with a range of more than 200 miles, JASSM can be launched from beyond the reach of enemy air defenses, ensuring the Arsenal Plane's safety. Meanwhile, the stealthy F-35s creep closer to the target. After the first round of missile strikes, the F-35s then use their Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) to assess damage to enemy defenses. They could then ask for another round of follow-up strikes on surviving defenses, or request the Arsenal Plane to unleash a barrage on the target itself.
One thing we don't know about the Arsenal Plane is what aircraft the Pentagon has in mind. The Secretary of Defense only alluded to "one of our oldest aircraft platforms." This could refer to the B-52 bomber, which has long range, a midair refueling capability, an internal capability to carry eight JASSMs, and underwing pylons that could carry up to a dozen others. The Arsenal Plane could also be converted older versions of the C-130 Hercules.
Above all, the Arsenal Plane must be affordable, and this suggests taking an existing platform such as the B-52 and performing simple upgrades. The Pentagon has a lot of planes to buy and not a lot of money. The Arsenal Plane is coming at a time when the Air Force is planning to purchase the F-35, KC-46 Pegasus airborne tanker, Long-Range Strike Bomber, and T-X jet trainer. But its presence in the air could conceivably help them all.
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F-35s armed only with AAMs. F-35s can't dog fight so they would have to dry gulch any enemy fighters. Why can't you arm the B-17sB-52s with AIM-120s and forget the F-35s?
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Maybe they could also have A-10s back it up for ground support?
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gorb, thinking further along that line, drop A-10s from the B-52s to increase the range.
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In other words, the arsenal plane is a C-17 loaded to gross max with JDAMs and JASSMs. Install suitable roll on racks & conveyor systems to eject said munitions out the back door.
This concept keeps coming up every 25 years or so. Somehow it goes away just as quickly.
Somebody must have had a heart attack at the last "progress" report on the F35.
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If it's "affordable", how can the insiders get rich off it? It will never fly. Sorry.
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Last time I checked they were called short range to theater ballistic missiles. Those wouldn't be AF controlled/funded delivery devices. Hey guys, let's duplicate functions.
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So the F-35 isn't really a fighter - more of a recon?
CF, the F-35 is a multi-role aircraft. Jack of all trades, master at none. It was intended to be cheap (that ship has sailed) and to be led into battle as a bomber by the F-22 air superiority fighter. But there were not enough F-22s built for that scenario to be effective.
Its internal bomb storage is only large enough to hold bombs xor AAMs; it is inadequate to hold both. External mounts would defeat stealth. The F-35 will lose in a dog fight due to its lack of maneuverability. It is supposed to use stealth and long range AAMs to knock out enemy aircraft at a distance (I affectionately call this the "dry gulch" strategy after US westerns where an enemy lines the edges of a gulch and in a surprise attack, shoots down at the people trapped at the bottom). Bummer if the enemy can figure out how to beat stealth.
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Japan on Wednesday condemned Pyongyang's plan to launch a space rocket, calling it a thinly disguised test of a long-distance ballistic missile.
The government ordered Aegis ballistic missile defense warships of the Maritime Self-Defense Force and land-based Patriot PAC-3 rocket units to respond should projections show components falling in Japanese territory.
"This will effectively mean the firing of a ballistic missile. It would be a clear violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions and a grave, provocative act against the security of our country," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a Lower House session Wednesday.
"Japan, in cooperation with the United States and South Korea, will strongly urge North Korea to refrain from (conducting) the launch," Abe said.
On Tuesday night, North Korea notified the International Maritime Organization that it plans to send a "satellite" into orbit between Feb. 8 and 25. It said the launch will take place on one of those days between 7:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Japan time.
Pyongyang conducted a fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6. The planned launch is widely seen as both a test and a demonstration of its advances in rocketry.
Feb. 16 is the birthday of late leader Kim Jong Il, the father of current leader Kim Jong Un. Observers believe the launch window has been set around the day for domestic purposes ‐ to bolster the nation's morale.
During a daily news conference, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga pointed out that the projectile, expected to be launched from a site in western North Korea, would fly over part of the Sakishima island chain of Okinawa Prefecture, which includes the islands of Ishigaki and Miyako.
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Considered as a test it is cost effective; Japan doesn't have to pay for the target vehicle launch. And no one could complain about a lack of realism.
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Most of the time, balloons are just full of helium, and maybe confetti. Unless you're living in South Korea.
In January, North Korea began sending over balloons to South Korea full of used toilet paper, cigarette butts, and propaganda messages, according to The Telegraph. Hard to believe that even these rabid dogs would waste such a valuable resource.
"Stop the anti-North psychological warfare broadcasts that light the fuse of war," some of the messages read. Others encouraged residents to, "Knock out the gang of [South Korean leader] Park Geun-hye."
It's unclear how effective North Korean's marketing campaign will be, since human excrement doesn't exactly inspire warm and fuzzy feelings. Over the past few weeks, the messages appear to have grown even more grotesque, with some going so far as to label Geun-hye, "political filth." I would like to say it was straight from Pudgy himself, but as we all know, he doesn't have an anus because he doesn't need to go to the bathroom.
When the balloons initially appeared in the demilitarized zone, officials were concerned that they might be actually be biochemical weapons. Some balloons have flown beyond the demilitarized zone, but upon exploding, officials have only found trash inside.
South Korea has since 'hit back' by blasting annoying pop music over the border into the communist country.
Toilet paper is, currently, an unregulated weapon --even the 'ultra soft' variety. Send over individual squares of Charmin with Pudgy's face on them.
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Sorry about the multiple posts. I got messages like "can't reach postgress server", then it didn't show up on the homepage, then it dropped the title. Then I gave up hoping you mods would be able to make sense of it. :-) Thanks.
[WASHINGTONPOST] North Korea said Tuesday that it plans to launch a satellite-carrying rocket as soon as next week, a move that could demonstrate potential progress in the nation's long-running mission to develop a reliable intercontinental ballistic missile.
The North gave notice of the launch -- which it said would come between Feb. 8 and Feb. 25 -- in an alert to the International Maritime Organization, a group responsible for maritime safety.
Although North Korea has described its satellite program as peaceful, the launches rely on long-range missile technology and defy sanctions designed to restrict the country's weapons program. A launch coming just four weeks after an underground nuclear test would sharpen concern in the West and across Asia that Pyongyang is attempting to make progress on its ultimate goal -- the ability to fire off a miniaturized nuclear warhead with an accurate ballistic missile.
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An "earth observation satellite". So Pudgy wants a Landsat to figure out how to improve rice production. Righttt.
[BLOOMBERG] King Felipe VI asked the Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez to find a solution to Spain's political stalemate, lending royal approval to negotiations with the anti-austerity group Podemos. I once came across a picture of a naked girl with the Spanish flag and the word "Podemos" painted in a place you don't normally see them. I found the picture interesting, but not significant, if you catch my drift.
Felipe nominated Sanchez to try to form the next government following consultations with the leaders of all parties, Patxi Lopez, parliament's speaker, said in a televised statement. Sanchez said he would hold talks with other political forces including Pablo Iglesias's Podemos and the pro-business party Ciudadanos over at least the coming four weeks as he seeks to build support to govern.
"The Socialist Party is assuming this responsibility with Spain," Sanchez said at a televised presser following talks with Felipe. "I am grateful for the confidence deposited in me and in the Socialist party."
Six weeks after voters elected the most fragmented parliament in Spanish history, the king has been coaxing party leaders into setting aside differences to put together a program that can command the support of a majority of politicians. With Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's People's Party buffeted by corruption allegations and increasingly toxic to potential allies, the most likely solution would see Sanchez seal a pact with either Podemos or pro-market Ciudadanos.
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[DAWN] A teenage rape victim was allegedly sexually assaulted a second time while in hospital receiving treatment for the original attack in India's east, police said on Monday, in the latest case of violence against women.
The 15-year-old girl has told police that she was raped on Sunday by a security guard at the hospital where she had been admitted in Jamshedpur city in the impoverished state of Jharkhand.
"We started the paperwork but haven't done much else and jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... the private security guard posted at the hospital after the girl's complaint and are now awaiting her medical report", police superintendent Chandan Jha said.
"The girl has (now) been referred to the best hospital in the city for further treatment and rehabilitation," he added.
The girl had been admitted several days earlier to the M.G.M Hospital after informing police that she had been raped by a teenager in her neighbourhood on the city's outskirts.
"Since the accused in the earlier case was also a minor, he was detained and sent to a juvenile remand home," Jha said.
Public hospitals in India are often poorly resourced, with lax security, while overworked doctors and nurses struggle to cope with a crush of patients and families.
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"The girl has (now) been referred to the best hospital in the city for further treatment and rehabilitation,"
Where she can get raped again by the best security guards.
[DAWN] As news of the deaths of two Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) employees spread on Tuesday evening, the national flag carrier's flight operations across the country began shutting down in solidarity with the protesters, officials said.
While flight operations remained on schedule Tuesday morning despite the PIA union's call for a complete strike against privatisation of the airline, the situation changed drastically after employees protesting outside the 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... Airport clashed with law enforcement personnel, resulting in the deaths of two PIA employees.
PIA flight operations were suspended around 4pm at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport, Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... International Airport, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Bacha Khan International Airport and the Quetta Airport, officials confirmed. The status of PIA flights at Karachi was already uncertain due to the violent protests.
PIA Lahore front man Athar Awan said flight operations had been halted after two PIA employees were killed in festivities with forces. PIA's employees later gathered outside the Lahore Airport to register their protest, DawnNews reported.
Employees also gathered outside the Islamabad Airport Tuesday afternoon, vowing to continue their protest till their demands are accepted by the government. Police and Rangers personnel have been deployed in the area.
A Civil Aviation Authority official in Quetta told Dawn.com that flights to and from Quetta had been delayed indefinitely following the protest outside Karachi Airport.
Earlier today, Civil Aviation officials told Dawn.com that flight operations at JIA, Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport and Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport were expected to continue as scheduled.
But as PIA employees in Karachi clashed with law enforcement personnel, the status of a number of flights at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport remains unclear.
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[The Mail] Activist groups have attacked 'troubling' plans by the University of Connecticut to create a black-only living space. Western civilization is so boring. The old tribal ways really are best.
From next fall, ScHOLA²RS House, -- which stands for 'Scholastic House of Leaders who are African American Researchers and Scholars' -- will offer accommodation for 43 male African-American undergraduates on Storrs campus.
The university claim the move is to boost minority applicants and graduation rates and is 'no more segregated... than putting individuals with common interests together,' Vice Provost Sally Reis told Fox News. But others appear to see it as a backwards step after decades of progress against segregation.
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Notice the Alabama Highway Patrolmen in that photo all have empty holsters? A bit late now, but LaVoy Finicum could have learned something from that photo.
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"In a world without separate but equal...
Please buckle your belt for the sequel,
In which collared scholars
All holler for dollars,
And if you don't pay 'em, some sheikh will!"
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Look, UConn's constructing a rookery
(With cool institutional cookery!)
Where "ScHOLA2RS" can heckle,
Disparage the shekel,
And rudely repudiate Bookery.
[AP] WASHINGTON -- The top Army and Marine Corps generals told senators Tuesday that it will take up to three years to fully integrate women into all combat jobs, adding that women also should have to register for the draft.
The military service leaders repeatedly vowed that they will not lower standards to bring women into the more grueling jobs. But they warned that inherent physical differences and different injury rates between men and women will have an impact on how the integration moves ahead.
The selective service question revealed differences between the military chiefs and their political leaders. Army Gen. Mark Milley and Marine Gen. Robert Neller both flatly said that women should be included in the requirement to register for the selective service at age 18. But Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Army Acting Secretary Patrick Murphy would only say that the issue should be discussed. Political leaders overall have so far been reluctant to endorse the draft requirement.
The sometimes contentious hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee laid bare the deep reluctance of Marine Corps leaders to bring women into certain demanding infantry, armor and special operations jobs.
After a lengthy review by the services and the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Ash Carter in December ordered all combat jobs open to women, but also vowed that no standards would be lowered to make way for women.
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Well, women can be great MPs, helicopter pilots, fighter pilots, maybe even drive a tank, a Bradley or an LAV, but I don't see them in a pure infantry role because of the 100 lbs of crap a grunt has to carry and the full contact nature of the sport. I bet they would do a lot of things if we let them but we can count on losing a lot of them before we get to full integration.
I'd say we should let some of these radical feminist iconoclasts that are lambasting for full integration and send them to the Marine Infantry School at Pendleton or Advanced Infantry Training at Benning.
Being a grunt is the toughest thing you can do, more arduous than college football so I am not sure how the ladies will respond to it.
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Yes. The ninetieth amendment broke the link between militia duty and the franchise which had existed from the start of the old republic. Well past time to put in back in. You want a say in the process, then you have skin in the game.
Every 'citizen' should be a member of the militia not just males (Title X USC, para 3.1.1 Militia). If you wish to decline militia duty you forfeit your 'citizenship' and become a 'resident' without a vote.
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Registration is one thing. Imagine the fun if somebody were to try and actually re-activate the draft.
I remember some of the sillier hysteria on some of the Ivy League Campuses when the First Gulf War (1991) got rolling. This would be a lot funnier. Hysterical, even.
I suspect there would be measurable reduction in overall efficiency, but I think it would be worth it just to be able to say "You wanted Equality? O.K., you got it. Enjoy!"
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This is for all you new people. I have only one rule. Everybody fights, no one quits. If you don't do your job, I'll kill you myself! Welcome to the Roughnecks!
Do you want to know more?
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Dang, forgot the quotation marks.
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Imagine the fun if somebody were to try and actually re-activate the draft.
Soldiers today are highly trained and motivated professionals. What would the military do with unmotivated drafted soldiers? Bugs Bunny testing large caliber shells for duds comes to mind.
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Bush's fault.
No major Conventional andor NucWar thru Year 2050 iff not 2100 = USDOD devol towards a 1-to-1-1/2 "Ocean/Regional War" Strategy = All-Volunteer Military All the Time for All Situations/
Contigencies = Women in Frontline Combat = OWG Amerika sending its All-Female USN Sub to covertly attack China's Three Gorges Dam in the Name of Humanity + Anti-Solar, GWCC Global Planetary Survival-Environ.
James Joyce, "Ulysses": "He is young Leopold, as in a retrospective arrangement, a mirror within a mirror (hey, presto!), he beholdeth himself. That young figure of then is seen, precious manly, walking on a nipping morning from the old house in Clambrassil to the high school, his book satchel on him bandolier wise, and in it a goodly hunk of wheaten loaf, a mother's thought."
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The soft racism of the Left - Blacks can't compete or integrate like Asians, Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, et al. Remember the Klan was a child of the Donks as was the plantation system. Now the revival.
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.
[PJ Media] A former assistant director of the FBI is voicing concern about the Justice Department's lack of movement on the ongoing FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's email arrangement which, according to sources, will be wrapping up soon. If Bureau leaks are to be believed, the results will show that Mrs. Clinton and her underlings flagrantly violated some of our most important laws -- laws that are designed to protect national security. Anyone else would have been arrested by now.
[CBSNEWS] HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. -- A patient exited the back of a moving ambulance and was then struck and killed in a hit-and-run crash on Long Island, police said.
[THEGUARDIAN] When Cleve Jones, a longtime gay activist who led the creation of the Aids Memorial Quilt, went to his local gay bar in the Castro district, he saw something that shocked him.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has revealed the existence of a program to develop a so-called "Arsenal Plane." Designed to back up fifth generation fighters such as the F-35 with a large number of conventional weapons, backing up the high-tech fighters with tried-and-true ordinance.
Most of the time, balloons are just full of helium, and maybe confetti. Unless you're living in South Korea.
North Korea
[WSJ] EU officials focused on finding ways to accommodate the U.K. leader’s main demands within current bloc treaties
[DAWN] As news of the deaths of two Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) employees spread on Tuesday evening, the national flag carrier's flight operations across the country began shutting down in solidarity with the protesters, officials said.
[AP] WASHINGTON -- The top Army and Marine Corps generals told senators Tuesday that it will take up to three years to fully integrate women into all combat jobs, adding that women also should have to register for the draft.
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