BLUF: [OpsLens] Former federal prosecutor and founder of Judicial Watch, Larry Klayman filed a class-action lawsuit in US District Court (Texas) on behalf of himself, Dallas police Sgt. Demetrick Pennie, "and police officers and other law enforcement persons of all races and ethnicities including but not limited to Jews, Christians and Caucasians," for the purpose of suing "Defendants Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, Al Sharpton, National Action Network, Black Lives Matter, Rashad Turner, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, Johnetta Elzie, Deray McKesson, New Black Panthers Party, Malik Zulu Shabazz, George Soros, Barack Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, and Hillary Clinton (collectively "Defendants" unless individually named) in their individual and official capacities where applicable."
The thrust behind Klayman’s class-action lawsuit petitions the Courts for:
"damages and equitable relief arising out of the threats, severe bodily injury and/or deaths, future deaths, emotional harm, and imminent fears of death and/or serious bodily harm resulting from Defendants’ actions. Defendants have repeatedly incited their supporters and others to engage in threats of and attacks to cause serious bodily injury or death upon police officers and other law enforcement persons of all races and ethnicities including but not limited to Jews, Christians and Caucasians. Thus, Defendants, each and every one of them, jointly and severally, conspiring and/or acting in concert either expressly or otherwise, are inciting and causing serious bodily injury or death to police officers and other law enforcement persons of all races and ethnicities, Jews, and Caucasians."
There is unflappable legitimacy in choking-off the invective, incitement and violence behind anti-police and racial prejudice, including hateful cops. As a construct of our justice system, seeking redress is not necessarily always about recompense. It is also about rooting out thuggery and any domestic terrorists who seek to undermine American government and our democratic way of life.
Such a democracy institutes the courts to place upon justice scales the arguments and debates, in inviolate sanctities, with rulings for all to adhere. The courts are relegated for these circumstances, not the streets of Dallas or any other jurisdiction where a sniper decides to exact his/her own brand of justice.
[Wash Times] HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Penn State’s former president and two other ex-administrators were sentenced Friday to at least two months in jail for failing to report a child sexual abuse allegation against Jerry Sandusky a decade before his arrest engulfed the university in scandal and brought down football coach Joe Paterno.
"They ignored the opportunity to put an end to his crimes when they had a chance to do so," Judge John Boccabella said as he lambasted the three defendants and the Hall of Fame coach over a delay that prosecutors say enabled Sandusky to molest four more boys. "Lambasted" with wet pasta.
Boccabella said he was "appalled that the common sense to make a phone call did not occur," a transgression that "sort of robs my faith of who we are as adults and where we are going."
Former President Graham Spanier, 68, was sentenced to four to 12 months, with the first two in jail and the rest under house arrest. He was convicted of child endangerment.
Former athletic director Tim Curley, 63, received a sentence of seven to 23 months, with three in jail. Former vice president Gary Schultz, 67, was given six to 23 months, with two months behind bars. They pleaded guilty to child endangerment. After five long years a gentle slap on the wrist. Should have been 10 year sentences with stiff monetary fines plus court costs and substantial victim awards.
[Free Beacon] In the spring of 1927, the modern world was born. Or at least the great interconnectivity of modern social life rose up and declared itself in the spring of 1927, with two key events. The first was Charles Lindbergh's winning the race to make a solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic from New York to Paris. The second was Calvin Coolidge’s decision to spend the summer in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
The first hardly needs much explanation, although we tend to forget just how much the young and photogenic Lindbergh seized the world’s imagination. Waiting to cheer him as he landed at Le Bourget airport were 150,000 Parisians. On his return to New York, perhaps 4 million Americans turned out to see him on a day with a ticker-tape parade, speeches in Central Park, and grand banquets. The French bestowed on him the Légion d’honneur, and the Americans gave the young Army Air Service reserve captain both the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Medal of Honor.
Calvin Coolidge may seem a less dramatic and idolized figure, mostly because he was, in fact, a less dramatic and idolized figure. But his extended 1927 stay in the West signaled, as clearly as a transatlantic flight, just how much the world had changed. Presidents had fled the summer heat of Washington before, of course. James Buchanan retreated to Bedford, Pennsylvania, and Benjamin Harrison to Cape May, New Jersey. Woodrow Wilson got all the way to Cornish, New Hampshire. But before the 1920s, these trips had all been in the eastern United States, to ensure that the president could receive regular mail and return quickly if some emergency arose.
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I'd build my presedential retreat on the golf course at Audubon Park, very rustic, Mr. Squirrel is not alert in the area. Big game is only a mile away.
[San Diego Union-Tribune] Under gray, misty skies in the Gaslamp Quarter on Saturday morning, there were joggers, babies in strollers, tourists, homeless people, cops and cows. Lots and lots of cows.
Just after 7:30 a.m., a herd of 200 American Longhorn and Mexican Corriente cattle began making its way down Harbor Drive under the guidance of 48 cowpokes on horseback and a small but fast-moving fleet of herding dogs. The cattle drive, said to be first in 100 years in downtown San Diego, was organized by the San Diego County Fair, which opened its annual run Friday with a "Where the West is Fun" theme.
Thousands of delighted spectators lined the 2½-mile route, which began at Harbor Drive and Pacific Highway. Moving at a rate of 3 to 4 mph, the cattle drive moved southeast past the San Diego Convention Center, then turned north on Fifth Avenue and west on Market Street before returning to its staging ground in Ruocco Park near Seaport Village.
Moments before the drive began, Jim Marshall of San Diego stood near the starting point with his cellphone camera poised for action, just in case an unexpected stampede occurred. No attempt at disrespect regarding recent London events, just a 'mind off of it' for a moment or two effort.
[ABC] The former head of South Africa's main opposition party faced suspension from party activities on Saturday following tweets in which she said colonialism had some positive results.
The uproar over Helen Zille's comments underlined the challenges facing the Democratic Alliance, whose roots lie in white liberal opposition to apartheid decades ago. The party has broadened its appeal and made big gains in local elections last year, but the ruling African National Congress still dismisses it as primarily representative of South Africa's white minority.
Zille, who is white, tweeted in March that the colonial legacy was not only negative, citing "our independent judiciary, transport infrastructure, piped water etc."
Race relations remain a sensitive topic in South Africa, which held its first all-race elections after the end of white minority rule in 1994. Many South Africans criticized Zille, a former journalist and anti-apartheid activist who is now premier of the opposition-controlled Western Cape province.
Her comments damaged the party and undermined reconciliation efforts in South Africa, said Mmusi Maimane, a black who replaced Zille as party leader.
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Other than learning to defecate a reasonable distance from the village, learning to read and write, ending 20 to 30 thousand years of tribal slavery, ritual muti, the drinking of blood, the eating of departed relatives, shaman (witch doctors), human sacrifice.... it would have all come to us in due time. The Colonials were never actually needed.
The real, measurable impacts of Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement are going to be few and far between, but the first one we’ve seen thus far has been a drop in the price of oil.
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I suspect the companies is just trying to find a cheap way to get rid off the excess heat, partly by getting others to fund the cost of installing stuff.
Put a water cooled block on each cpu/gpu and run the heated water to a central tank, which is then pumped into well insulated pipes, which then runs to various locations and either dump into water tanks or is held for "on-demand" use, etc. etc..
Problem, hot water tend to cool off rapidly and will need to be reheated at various points. Lots of money and energy will be spend on running pumps, heaters and the like.
My prediction is that instead of reducing CO2 emissions, this scheme will actually increase CO2 emissions. This whole thing smell like a scam designed to get funds for "R&D" which is 'code' for 'getting it in my pocket'.
The old steam lines in the past are still maintained.
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.
[San Diego Union-Tribune] Under gray, misty skies in the Gaslamp Quarter on Saturday morning, there were joggers, babies in strollers, tourists, homeless people, cops and cows. Lots and lots of cows.
