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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man says he slashed woman because she’s white
[NYPOST] A man who was locked away
You have the right to remain silent...
for randomly slashing a woman’s neck earlier this month in Brooklyn told police he attacked her because she is white, police sources said.

Gregory Alfred, 25, told police he set out to find white people to slice back on Mar. 10 because he blamed them and "the system" for preventing him from freely smoking weed, sources said.

The slasher chose to take out his anger on 53-year-old Janina Popko, and cut her across the neck as she was walking near the corner of Beverly and Rugby roads that morning in Ditmas Park, sources said.

"He’s just a sick person," Popko told The Post on Tuesday. "I’m very lucky to be okay. I am still shaky."

"I never was racial. I grew up in Poland , they never teach us to be racial," she added. "I didn’t grow up with this racial thing."

Alfred discarded a large kitchen knife, black plastic bag and an American flag bandanna after the attack. Cops were able to lift fingerprints from the items, the sources said.

"He had bought paring knives and kitchen knives and said he was going to stab people," NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said at a Tuesday presser at police headquarters.
And no one dropped the dime on him because...
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My favorite part of the Obama era is...ahh, you know the rest.
Posted by: charger || 03/23/2016 1:18 Comments || Top||

#2  preventing him from freely smoking weed

The list of inalienable rights keeps growing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2016 3:41 Comments || Top||

#3  g(r)om, that's closer to an inalienable right than many of the new entitlements.

The problem is if weed was legal and you wound up with a lot of worthless stoners then who would take care of them? If we could just let people suffer the consequences of their actions and not try to impose on them it would be less of a problem; but then..................................
Posted by: AlanC || 03/23/2016 8:25 Comments || Top||

#4  hey i wonder if he's getting extra time for this hate-crime...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/23/2016 9:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Don't be silly, BP. Everybody knows only whites can commit hate crimes.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/23/2016 9:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Rambler channeling for TW. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 03/23/2016 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  You mean actually force people to take responsibility for their own choices and actions AlanC?

Why... thats so RACIST!.

(do I need a SARC flag here? yes I do: /SARC)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/23/2016 11:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Racist CF?

Yeah, that's me. Or so the elite tell me.

Actually I just hate everyone.

[/sarc]
Posted by: AlanC || 03/23/2016 12:34 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford dies from cancer at 46
[FRANCE24] Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died Tuesday after fighting cancer, his family said. He was 46.

Ford rode into office on a backlash against urban elites. He cast an image sharply at odds with Canada's reputation for sedate, unpretentious politics. His tenure as mayor of the country's largest city was marred by revelations about his drinking problems and illegal drug use. He was repeatedly videotaped and photographed while intoxicated in public.

Nevertheless, he was later elected by a landslide to a city council seat, a job he held until his death.
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You go snortin' tootskie that you buy on the street and you really don't know what's been mixed with it. You know, I read some place that they actually use known carcinogens like benzine to reduce the coca paste into cocaine. It's really kinda shocking that a trafficker in narcotics could be so unscrupulous.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/23/2016 12:48 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
SCOTUS Unanimously Backs Second Amendment
[PatriotPost] As Justice Samuel Alito wrote in an opinion accompanying the per curiam decision, 'Electronic stun guns are no more exempt from the Second Amendment's protections, simply because they were unknown to the First Congress, than electronic communications are exempt from the First Amendment, or electronic imaging devices are exempt from the Fourth Amendment.'

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 03/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Electronic stun guns are no more exempt from the Second Amendment's protections, simply because they were unknown to the First Congress, than electronic communications are exempt from the First Amendment, or electronic imaging devices are exempt from the Fourth Amendment.'

Dear media, note well. If you think the standard side arm of the standing army is not to be owned by eligible members of the militia because such an 'assault' weapon didn't exist in 1792 (see Militia Act thereof) then by extension the only 'Press' protected by the First is that produced literally by a paper press of 1792.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/23/2016 9:38 Comments || Top||

#2  That's right, P2K. If Mohammed didn't know about it then it's unIslamic.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/23/2016 12:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Just how out of touch with reality does one have to be to get stomped by Ginsberg, Sotomayor, Breyer and Kagan -- on the Second Amendment!
Posted by: Iblis || 03/23/2016 19:00 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Artillery, infantry battles continue at Yasinovataya


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Fighting between Ukrainian forces and rebels continued into its third week at Yasinovataya as both sides exchange artillery and small arms fire, according to Russian language news accounts.

Ukrainian ministry of defense officials said on Tuesday that rebel forces violated the ceasefire a total of 27 times, by firing mortars onto Ukrainian positions at Avdievka and firing small arms at Ukrainian troops at Avdievka, Zaitsevo, which is north of Gorlovka and at Marinka, which is west of Donetsk city.

Ukrainian officials characterized the fighting as low intensity, which rebel military officials dispute.

According to an official news release from the Donetsk ministry of defense, Ukrainian troops have been firing 120mm and 82mm mortars onto rebel positions at Yasinovataya. Included in the attack was a ten minute barrage Monday night on the Yasinovataya checkpoint and again Tuesday afternoon.

The rebel reports say that the artillery originates in Avdievka. Small arms including sniper fire is "continuous", as characterized by rebel media.

A partial news account which appeared in tsensor.net.ua said that fighting between Ukrainian forces and rebels over the crossroads was characterized as "serious."

According to another rebel report, shelling at Yasinovataya stopped momentarily when representatives from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Russian Major General Rustam Muradov from the joint control center arrived at the checkpoint.

Yet another rebel official news release said that Ukrainian forces fired on rebel forces at Spartak, the Donetsk airport and in the Petrovskiy district of Donetsk city.

In the south Ukrainian forces shelled rebel forces at Dokuchaevsk, Kominternovo and at Bezymenoye.

Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraine by clicking here.
Posted by: badanov || 03/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I still wonder, why did Putin withdraw forces from Syria?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2016 3:43 Comments || Top||

#2  One source I read said that Russian aircraft were in dire need of maintenance that they could not get in Latakia.

Russians have zero experience in sustained combat operations, so it showed with problems with their aircraft enough they had to withdraw half of them.
Posted by: badanov || 03/23/2016 17:37 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
N.Korea Was Testing New Multiple Rocket Launchers
The projectiles North Korea fired into the East Sea on Monday came from a new 300-mm multiple rocket launcher, the official [North] Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday.

KCNA said it was the "final test launch" of the new weapon ahead of its field deployment. This is a problem for South Korea, which has no effective means of intercepting the weapon. KCNA published a picture of a rocket from the new launcher hitting a target on an islet in the East Sea, saying leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un watched the launch on the spot.
What bigwig was in trouble and was standing on the spot?
Recently a consular official in China?
That's him!
The new launchers have a range of 200 km, which would make them capable of striking the Gyeryongdae military complex in South Chungcheong Province, as well as the Seoul metropolitan area, the Osan air base and the U.S. garrison in Pyeongtaek, the Seosan air base, and the Chungju air base, all from near the demilitarized zone.

Experts believe the launchers are more accurate than ordinary short-range missiles because they have global positioning system of some kind. Some speculate that the North is using a global navigation satellite system and an inertial navigation system.

The 300-mm MRL was unveiled during a military parade last October. A mobile launch vehicle with an improved box-type launch system, it is allegedly capable of reloading quickly. Each is armed with eight rockets.

The South Korean Patriot air defense system will have trouble intercepting them, the military said, calling for an upgrade.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


North Korean consular official in China kills two in car crash
[CHANNELNEWSASIA] A North Korean consular official in China has killed two people in a car crash, China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, reporting the accident shortly after China came out in support of sanctions against its ally over its nuclear programme.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency earlier reported the North Korean official was driving drunk, and the accident took place after he had left an event celebrating North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket on Feb. 7.

China's Foreign Ministry did not mention those details in a statement to Rooters but said the official's vehicle hit a taxi in the city of Dandong, near the North Korean border, early on Feb. 10, killing the driver and a passenger.

The North Korean official had paid compensation to the families of the victims, the ministry added, in a rare revelation of wrongdoing by an official of an allied power.
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Odd, considering China says that they have no sway over the Norks.
Posted by: gorb || 03/23/2016 3:56 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Trudeau Stimulus Plan Puts Canada C$120 Billion Into the Red
[BLOOMBERG] Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will run deficits totaling almost C$120 billion ($91.7 billion) over six years, offering some stimulus to Canada’s struggling economy while trying to exercise restraint.
Next election he'll be touted as just the man to rescue the Great White North's tanking economy.
Trudeau’s government will add C$11 billion in annual spending for the fiscal year that begins April 1, which will result in a projected deficit of C$29.4 billion for the coming year. The federal budget offers no projected return to balance over five years.

That cumulative deficit, which far exceeds what Trudeau promised in last year’s election campaign, stems from the worsening outlook his Liberals inherited even as they rejected calls for major new stimulus. It also marks a shift for Canada, which was home to an anti-deficit orthodoxy for three decades.

"Our plan is reasonable and affordable," Finance Minister Bill Morneau said in his budget speech Tuesday, which focused heavily on new spending measures. "Today, we are seizing the opportunity to invest in people and the economy, and to prepare Canada for a brighter future."

Trudeau had faced calls from some economists for even more new spending in order to take advantage of interest rates that are near historic lows as monetary policy loses its bite. While the measures detailed Tuesday are forecast to give gross domestic product a 0.5 percent bump in 2016, the Liberals steered clear of loftier deficits.

Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Our plan is reasonable and affordable,"

Affordable. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Posted by: james || 03/23/2016 11:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Ah, Canada's Chelsea.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/23/2016 15:10 Comments || Top||

#3  We're fargin' doomed.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 03/23/2016 17:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Worked real well for the US. Got to read the not so fine print.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/23/2016 17:56 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
'My target is 100 children', says father of 35
[DAWN] QUETTA: Jan Muhammad, 43, is now father to 35 children after the recent births of two more children. Jan Muhammad has three wives who have given him 21 daughters and 14 sons.

"My target is 100 children," he tells Dawn.com.

The family of 39 lives in a mud-brick house located in a poor neighbourhood of Quetta.

By profession, Jan Muhammad is a doctor and trader. "Thank God, I am able to manage the growing expenditures of my family," he said. "I spend about Rs100,000 a month on family expenditures," he said.

Two of his wives gave birth to two daughters last week. The middle-class family celebrated the arrival of the newborns.

"We, the girls have outnumbered the boys," Shagufta Nasreen, the elder daughter of Jan Muhammad tells Dawn.com, smiling.

She said the population of women in Pakistain was already very high and her family was contributing to the increase in the number of girls.

The ages of children range from one-week-old to almost 16-years-old.

Jan Muhammad's family lives happily despite its increasing size. He challenges the established perception that "less family members lead to a happy life".

"My aim is to educate my kids as well," he said.

Audiences were first introduced to Jan Muhammad's family on DawnNews.

A video of his family was watched by over 3.3 million people on Facebook, who shared it over 175,000 times and commented on it 4,000 times.
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any one remember the comment Grocho Marx made to the women with 12 kids on his quiz show the one time.
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 03/23/2016 6:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Re: #1, Yep.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/23/2016 8:19 Comments || Top||

#3  And then there is Genghis. It's great being the Khan.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/23/2016 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Marx Cigar Joke #47 Variant B?
Posted by: Shipman || 03/23/2016 16:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Sadly, there's a good chance many of his 100 children will end up being our targets.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/23/2016 20:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
UND prof. vows to call cops on ROTC drills
Prof. Heidi Czerwiec insists that she will call the police on ROTC students carrying guns around campus on their way to training exercises.

Czerwiec says that "[i]t's...highly inappropriate to conduct unnecessary military maneuvers in the middle of the quad," and especially irresponsible so with the possibility of school shootings and tensions on campus.

The school says it will send campus-wide notifications before each ROTC exercise, and will personally notify Czerwiec, as well.
Why, so that she can call the police?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 03/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So she is mad about them carrying guns on campus... so calls people that have guns to come onto campus.

Can I just lob her into the sun, please?
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/23/2016 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Darth, I like your thinking.
Posted by: Steven || 03/23/2016 1:48 Comments || Top||

#3  That should be interesting.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2016 3:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Let me guess. Proffessor of Women's Studies. Or Comparative Cultures. Or Non-Usefull Adcedemic Meaningless Self Awareness. But not a STEM field
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 03/23/2016 6:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Let's see...ND is in the vicinity of certain Native American tribes of history.

How about we try some hands on history and stake her nude to an ant-hill and cover her with honey?

I'm sure some of the more knowledgeable 'burgers could come up with some other ideas.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/23/2016 8:31 Comments || Top||

#6  We could just give her to ISIS, then she'll be living in the Tyranny she desires.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/23/2016 8:53 Comments || Top||

#7  She's an associate professor of English, according to her signature in her letter to the editor. Color me not surprised...
Posted by: Steve White || 03/23/2016 9:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Interestingly enough, I cannot find any information about this SJW Snowflake at the UND Faculty Finder Directory.

Maybe they give web presence along with parking which an Associate Professor doesn't threshold?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/23/2016 9:41 Comments || Top||

#9  I can understand her concern. After all, most school shootings on college campuses, especially UND, are carried out by ROTC members in uniform, and in formation.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/23/2016 10:00 Comments || Top||

#10  Likely these are only drill rifles, meaning not capable of live fire.
Posted by: Harry Threasing1230 || 03/23/2016 12:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Shh! Don't tell her!
Posted by: gorb || 03/23/2016 12:50 Comments || Top||

#12  We could just give her to ISIS, then she'll be living in the Tyranny she desires.

Did you see the latest Pat Condell rant?
I swear, if he played baseball I'd have him batting 4th.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/23/2016 12:54 Comments || Top||

#13  She's an associate professor of English

Associate professors should be seen but not heard.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2016 13:41 Comments || Top||

#14  Associate professors should be seen but not heard

And just like that, we're back to gazongas.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/23/2016 13:50 Comments || Top||

#15  Not really SteveS -- a snaggletooth moonbat with a schnoz that puts fresh air at a premium even in the wide open spaces of North Dakota.
Posted by: regular joe || 03/23/2016 15:09 Comments || Top||

#16  Should look at her pics, SteveS---the question of gazongas does not arise.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2016 15:11 Comments || Top||

#17  Check this out . . .
Posted by: gorb || 03/23/2016 15:42 Comments || Top||

#18  BTW, what is at that link offends me. If anyone else is offended, we can go to the safe space in the officer's club, call the police, and have a good cry.
Posted by: gorb || 03/23/2016 15:43 Comments || Top||

#19  From one of the comments at the link gorb provided:

I hope the University keeps a supply of Depends on hand for the professor.

better make that large capacity!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/23/2016 17:12 Comments || Top||

#20  something about so ugly she makes a freight train take a dirt road......
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/23/2016 18:12 Comments || Top||

#21  If she does this, the police should arrest her for filing a false report and inciting panic. Every time she does it.

Or put her in for observation on a psychiatric hold, as she clearly has some mental problems.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/23/2016 19:45 Comments || Top||

#22  Self-portrait (too small for a sonnet):
A lawn. There's a gator upon it.
His grin is unnerving,
His claw undeserving.
A bunny unbuttons my bonnet.

Happy Easter spring fertility thingy!
Posted by: Prof. Heidi Czerwiec || 03/23/2016 21:31 Comments || Top||



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