[The Mail] A 32-year-old man who shot a lawn mower filled with explosives in Monroe, Georgia, lost a leg when he was hit by a piece of shrapnel.
David Pressley loaded the lawn mower with several times the recommended amount of Tannerite, an explosive combination of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder used for target practice. The chemical creates a loud noise along with a water vapor cloud to indicate a successful hit.
Pressley's friends filmed him on their cell phones as he shot more than 20 rounds while walking towards his target, 11alive.com reported.
His friends told police they filled the old lawn mower with three pounds of Tannerite 'to blow it up' and filmed their friend on their phones as he stood less than 50 feet away from the target around 3.50pm on Saturday.
Tannerite, which can be purchased at sporting goods stores, creates a water vapor cloud when it is detonated by a bullet. The FBI advisory suggests using one pound of the explosive, while Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman told WSBTV people should use less than a pound while standing at least 300 feet away.
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He's not eligible for a Darwin Award - he's not dead.
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This sad story highlights the importance of the dry run, when experimenting with explosive substances. Still, if he's ever around strangers, he can weave a war story about how an IED took his leg off.
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Scott Adams himself is an asshole and moron of monumental proportions, so if he's giving out awards, he really ought to reserve a shelf in his office... fucking moron has done more than forty others valorizing common con man grifting as a modern-day virtue. He seems to have taken his "Catbert" and "Dogbert" characters as moral exemplars rather than cautionary stories.
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Move copyright back to it's original 14 years with an extension to the individual artist/author of another 14 years, and there wouldn't be that many Hollyweird 'heavyweights'. It's entertainment folks, not food, clothing, shelter, or sanitation.
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Of course, Georgia's very liberal film tax credits (which may be traded!) were the original reason the movie companies were filming there. Let's see if profit or social justice is higher in the movie moguls minds.
1140 Friday: Found a few typos, also that Florida has had a law similar to the Georgia bill one the books for years, so I am unable to comprehend the sudden furor.
A Maltese-based cargo ship was this evening on its way home from Misrata four days after its captain had been seized in a dispute over a consignment of horses.
There have been better opening sentences for a bit of journalism, but not many.
David Bonello, the Maltese master of the Togolese-registered ro-ro vessel
A fascinating term, redolent of the decadent mysteries of the Maghreb...
Med Patron was held in the port after it was reportedly discovered that 19 of the 64 horses he had delivered from his vessel were dead.
The mystery deepens. Did they arrive dead, or were their lively attittudes upon receipt subsequently revealed to be a foul ruse?
It is unclear if he was also detained under any animal cruelty legislation or simply because of the deemed failure to arrive with the contracted 64 live horses.
We join the journalist in his wondering...
The Med Patron docked in Misrata on Tuesday. MaltaToday has reported that because of the disputed delivery, the ship was barricaded into its berth by other vessels until compensation of €100,000 was paid.
Bullies, all of them, jointly and severally picking on that poor little ro-ro, which was just trying its poor best to make a living.
It has not been possible to contact either Misrata Free Zone nor the Patron Group in Malta to confirm what settlement was reached and that Bonello had been released.
KIEV – Yuriy Grabovsky, Ukrainian lawyer, was found a dead body that has been discovered on the grounds of a former farming collective, prosecutor Anatoly Matios said on Friday, saying two men were in custody in connection with the lawyer’s death. It is worth noting that Grabovsky was the lawyer of two Russian servicemen on trial in Ukraine.
The latter was part of the legal team representing the two Russians arrested last May on terrorism charges related to the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. Their case has earned a lot of attention because of Ukraine’s wish to exchange the servicemen for Ukrainians detained in Russia, including pilot Nadezhda Savcheko.
Early this Marchm, Grabovsky went missing until on Thursday evening police launched a search for his body pertinent on information revealed from one of two men detained over his vanishing, Matios said in a briefing. Matios said Grabovsky’s body had been found at 0400 local time (0200 GMT) during a police excavation of land on a former farming collective.
Stating that the lawyer had been robbed and had an explosive device attached to his leg, Matios said, “Provisionally, I can say that … (he) was killed in a violent way and finished off with a firearm.”
Matios however cleared out that he could not provide detail on possible motives but later said that it was in Russia’s interest for the servicemen’s trial to be delayed. Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement that blamed Ukrainian authorities for failing to protect Grabovsky, who they said had become a victim of anti-Russian sentiment in Ukraine because of his role defending the Russian servicemen.
“Despite all warnings, Kiev authorities were still unable or unwilling to guarantee Grabovsky’s safety,” the ministry statement said.
Russia denies sending troops to help separatist fighters in east Ukraine and says the two Russians — Alexander Alexandrov and his commander, Captain Yevgeny Yerofeyev — had quit their special forces unit to go there independently.
Earlier this week Matios said the Russian servicemen’s case would continue despite Grabovsky’s absence, but the men would not be physically present during the trial in the interests of security. Grabovsky was one of a team of lawyers representing the defendants.
President Petro Poroshenko showed his cooperation On Tuesday as he said that Ukraine would be willing to hand over the two servicemen provided that Russia returned Ukrainians, including Savchenko, who has been sentenced to 22 years in jail for alleged involvement in the killing of two Russian journalists.
[REUTERS] A Korean-American man detained in North Korea has confessed to stealing military secrets and plotting subversion with South Koreans, the North's official news agency and foreign media reported on Friday.
North Korea, which has been criticized for its human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... record, has in the past used detained Americans to extract high-profile visits from the United States, with which it has no formal diplomatic relations.
Kim Dong Chul, who has previously said he was a naturalized American citizen and was locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in North Korea in October, admitted to committing "unpardonable espionage" under the direction of the U.S. and South Korean governments and deeply apologized for his crimes, the North's KCNA news agency said.
"The extraordinary crime I committed was defaming and insulting the republic's highest dignity and its system and spreading false propaganda aimed at breaking down its solidarity," KCNA quoted Kim as saying.
A source in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang told Rooters that diplomats were notified in the morning of the confession and Kim's comments were similar to the recent confession of another American being held there, Otto Warmbier.
The U.S. State Department said it was aware of the reported incident but could say no more. citing privacy concerns.
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[Wash Times] Obamacare insurance premiums will leap 6 percent a year over the next decade, and companies will drop millions of employees from their health plans as insurers and employers calibrate their offerings for the new marketplace, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday.
The health law will continue to steadily grow in both cost and coverage, working toward President Obama’s goal of expanding those with access to insurance -- but the government will shell out tens of billions of dollars to pay for it, analysts said in their latest evaluation of the federal budget and the Affordable Care Act, which is driving much of the change.
Medicaid, the federal-state health program for the poor, is growing particularly fast, with some 13 million people signed up for the program this year because of Obamacare. That’s up 3 million from 2015, and it will grow to 19 million by 2026, the CBO said.
Some of those millions will be the working poor, who could get coverage through their jobs but choose Medicaid instead. But millions of others will be thrown out of their plans by businesses who decide it’s cheaper to pay the government penalty than to offer coverage to all of their employers.
"Over the next few years, more employers are expected to respond to the availability of coverage through the marketplaces by declining to offer insurance to their employees," the CBO said. "As employers change their insurance offerings, some of their employers are expected to enroll in coverage through the marketplaces."
Between the pull of Medicaid and the push of employers dumping plans, some 9 million fewer people will be getting coverage through their jobs than would have been the case without Obamacare, analysts said.
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But how can Gov't healthcare become universal if these pesky private insurance enterprises continue to flourish? Meanwhile, the Beltway Party sits on it's hands whilst bitching and moaning.
Name translates to "TOW bait"
The new Uran-9 unmanned combat ground vehicle to appear in Russian Army by year-end.
The Uran-9 is designed to provide remote reconnaissance and fire support to combined arms, recon and counter-terror units. It consists of two recon and fire support robots, a tractor for their transportation and a mobile control post.
The armament of the recon and fire support robots includes the 30mm 2A72 automatic cannon, a coaxial 7.62mm machine gun and Ataka ATGMs. The armament mix may vary depending on customer requirements.
The robots are fitted with a laser warning system and target detection, identification and tracking equipment.
The Uran-9 will be particularly useful during local military and counter-terror operations, including those in cities. Its use will significantly reduce personnel casualties.
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.
[The Mail] A 32-year-old man who shot a lawn mower filled with explosives in Monroe, Georgia, lost a leg when he was hit by a piece of shrapnel.
KIEV – Yuriy Grabovsky, Ukrainian lawyer, was found a dead body that has been discovered on the grounds of a former farming collective, prosecutor Anatoly Matios said on Friday, saying two men were in custody in connection with the lawyer’s death. It is worth noting that Grabovsky was the lawyer of two Russian servicemen on trial in Ukraine.
North Korea
[Wash Times] Obamacare insurance premiums will leap 6 percent a year over the next decade, and companies will drop millions of employees from their health plans as insurers and employers calibrate their offerings for the new marketplace, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday.
