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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Cleveland, Ohio: Taco Bell Employees Fatally Shoot Armed Robber
[AP] ‐ Police say three employees of a Cleveland Taco Bell opened fire on two armed robbers, killing one.

Police have said two masked robbers entered the restaurant early Wednesday and ordered three employees to lie on the floor. Police say three other employees pulled out handguns and opened fire, shooting one of the suspects six times. The other suspect ran off.

The Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County Medical Examiner’s Office on Thursday said the man killed was 24-year-old De’Carlo Jackson.

Investigators say Jackson was found with a loaded gun in his hand. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. No one has been arrested. The employees who opened fire are said to be two 19-year-old men and a 23-year-old man.

A Taco Bell spokeswoman told Cleveland.com the company is "shocked" by the shooting and is offering counseling to employees.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 12:20 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  De’Carlo Jackson

Need I click on the link to see the pic?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 12:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Hold off on the Dayan until we get a confirmation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 12:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't you mean "diyun" (discussion/debate)? "Dayan" = debater/lawyer
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 12:37 Comments || Top||

#4  To tell the truth, I'm surprised they weren't summarily fired.
Posted by: gorb || 09/07/2017 13:19 Comments || Top||

#5  "He was turning his life around..."
Posted by: Frank G || 09/07/2017 14:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Stay away from the 'Fresh meat tacos'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 14:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Tastes like chicken?
Posted by: Raj || 09/07/2017 15:54 Comments || Top||

#8  is offering counseling to employees.

I hope that this is a euphemism for range time since they only killed one of the two.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/07/2017 16:39 Comments || Top||

#9  According to Google, you have to be 21 to buy a gun in Ohio. Those two 19 yr olds might be in trouble.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/07/2017 16:45 Comments || Top||

#10  According to Google, you have to be 21 to buy a gun in Ohio. Those two 19 yr olds might be in trouble. Posted by Rambler in Virginia

But they are still alive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 16:50 Comments || Top||

#11  #9 According to Google, you have to be 21 to buy a gun in Ohio. Those two 19 yr olds might be in trouble.
It's better to be tried by twelve than carried by six...
Posted by: magpie || 09/07/2017 16:53 Comments || Top||

#12  Maybe they did not buy them.
Posted by: Airandee || 09/07/2017 18:29 Comments || Top||

#13  According to Google, you have to be 21 to buy a gun in Ohio.


..but you can enlist and within a year have firepower in your hand that dwarfs anything you can buy at the local gun store. N.B. If they're 18, according to Title 10 USC, they're already members of the federal militia.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/07/2017 20:30 Comments || Top||

#14  According to Google, you have to be 21 to buy a gun in Ohio. Those two 19 yr olds might be in trouble.

Not if I am on the jury.
Posted by: Cravilet Poodle5789 || 09/07/2017 20:57 Comments || Top||

#15  Corporate is shocked.

Guess they would rather have found the 6 corpses of their opening shift in the walk-in cooler?
Posted by: abu do you love || 09/07/2017 21:15 Comments || Top||


Wife of Dem Paki IT staffer who fled the country strikes deal to return, face charges
[Wash Examiner] A former House Democrat tech staffer who fled the country to Pakistan while under criminal investigation has struck a deal with federal officials to return to the U.S. and appear at an arraignment, according to court documents.

Hina Alvi is the wife of Imran Awan, and both face charges of conspiracy and bank fraud. Both worked for Democrats for several years, and Awan worked directly for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., when she was chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.

A document filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia indicates that federal prosecutors have struck a deal with Alvi that would allow her to return to the U.S., but would also require her to surrender her passport and afterwards not book any international travel. The deal only surrounds how Alvi will turn herself in, and is structured so that she can avoid being arrested in front of her children when she returns to the U.S., "during the last week of September 2017."

Alvi, and Awan in particular, are the focus of investigations by the FBI and Capitol Police regarding irregularities for purchases of some computers and other equipment which was later discovered to be missing. The pair, and their associates, could have had access to sensitive government information over the years.

In July, the Daily Caller reported that the FBI seized smashed hard drives from Awan's home.

Despite the computer-related interests, Awan and Alvi are facing charges in which federal officials claim that they used false information to obtain home equity lines of credit, and intended to send the money overseas.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 01:14 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She will be necessary in the construction of the 'home equity loan' case. The fact that these people had placement and access to high level, national election data or U.S. Intelligence (USI) communications is conveniently not mentioned.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Not much surprises me, but this did.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/07/2017 2:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Excellent. Let the small fry go to catch the big fish.

This scandal has legs, and it can take down a lot of people.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 09/07/2017 4:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Better to be a prisoner in USA than a woman in Pakistan?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 5:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Depends.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/07/2017 10:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Incentives as immunity, living expenses TBD, courier for instructions from home to hubby, apply.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 10:51 Comments || Top||

#7  The implication is he deliberately left the DWS laptop and incriminating material where it would be found. And he didn't expect to be arrested leaving the country.

Which makes me think he was instructed to by his paymaster. I don't believe they have examined the laptop yet.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/07/2017 17:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Which makes me think he was instructed to by his paymaster. I don't believe they have examined the laptop yet.

But which 'paymaster'... theirs, ours, or both ?

Sound tradecraft would be using multiple laptops and accounts depending upon whom you are communicating with. I would offer the excellent work of Platte River Networks as an example.

OJ will discover the "real killers" before we see ANY such laptops. Just my hunch.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 17:39 Comments || Top||

#9  I suspect Iran's hand. It may be as simple as DWS is jewish.

If that's the case, I'll note the irony of a Jew trying to protected a Muslim and then getting shafted by said Muslim because she is a Jew.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/07/2017 18:26 Comments || Top||

#10  OJ will discover the "real killers" before we see ANY such laptops. Just my hunch.

Oh he'll find the laptop(s), on the grassy knoll!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/07/2017 20:24 Comments || Top||


Sen. Cory Booker Sits in Front Row for Menendez's Corruption Trial, Greets Him With Hug
[Free Beacon] Sen. Cory Booker showed up for the start of Sen. Robert Menendez's bribery trial on Wednesday to support his fellow New Jersey Democrat.

Booker sat in the front row right behind Menendez, according to the New York Post.

Menendez is charged with 12 corruption-related counts, including six counts of bribery. Federal prosecutors allege that his longtime friend Dr. Salomon Melgen, a wealthy Florida ophthalmologist who was convicted of defrauding Medicare for millions of dollars in a separate case, gave Menendez lavish gifts and large campaign donations while the senator used his office to benefit Melgen.

Related: Right Scoop - MSNBC’s Ari Melber says BRIBERY case against Menendez is OVERWHELMING…

Related: Townhall - RNC Ad Centers On Menendez Trial: ‘Are Democrats Really Going To Let A Convicted Felon Stay In the Senate?’
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 00:50 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Guess what party?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 5:09 Comments || Top||

#2  was T-Bone there as well?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/07/2017 11:21 Comments || Top||

#3  The port security deal is the bigger story. Also related to the deal brokered in Dubai with Clinton's help. The drug cartels shifted to the DR, and control of the scanners allows illicit cargo to continue to US shores. Salacious details distract from the security issues, as their are 8 other foreign ports with control over cargo screening.
Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 || 09/07/2017 11:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Test
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 17:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Commentary from AofS afternoon rant said that MSNBC called Menendez a Republican repeatedly when talking about the corruption trial. Anyone confirm this ?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/07/2017 18:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Sure, Menendez is not a republican!

More here!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/07/2017 20:19 Comments || Top||


Lycian-era mausoleum destroyed in Turkey’s Antalya
[Hurriyet Daily News] A 2,500-year-old mausoleum in the southern province of Antalya has become the victim of vandalism.

Considered one of the symbolic mausoleums of the Lycian era, the mausoleum, located in the Gölova neighborhood, 12 kilometers away from the Elmali district, had classical-age paintings and Byzantine-era decorations. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the inside and outside walls of the structure have been scraped off and painted with colored paints.

"A 2,500 year old mausoleum is the victim of graffiti. It is disappearing in front of us," said Ertugrul Gun, a local, who reacted against the situation.

"We are sad about this vandalism against historical values. We have sent photos to various directorates to clean the structure and protect it. I hope it will be protected before it sees more damage," said Gölova Mayor Ali Kucuk.

"I was very sorry when I saw the structure. It was completely destroyed. We have ordered for the writing to be cleaned using a nutshell. We do not use the sanding method because it may cause scratches," said Antalya Relievos and Monuments Director Cemil Karabayram.

The structure, dating back to the fifth and sixth century B.C., was examined by U.S. Professor Machteld J. Mellink. The structure had previously been damaged by treasure hunters.
Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Denver nurses suspended for opening body bag to admire man’s doinker
[DENVERPOST] Five nurses at Denver Health Medical Center were suspended for three weeks
"He's got an enormous Schwanzstucker!"
Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems rather lenient if a group of male nurses checked out an incapacitated female the police wouldn't be claiming it's an internal matter would they?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/07/2017 3:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe they were admiring a work of art. Or the waste of it all
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 09/07/2017 4:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Girls will be girls.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 5:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Go ahead and touch it, Edith. It won't bite.
Posted by: Woodrow Pelosi5771 || 09/07/2017 5:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, guys, they do compare and share.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/07/2017 7:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Nothing in the Nantucket Island Inquirer obits. Must have been someone else.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 7:37 Comments || Top||

#7  You aren't gone yet, B.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 11:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Hey, check out this stiff!
Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 || 09/07/2017 11:48 Comments || Top||

#9  It's nice to be remembered when you're gone...
Posted by: Slats Glineper1705 || 09/07/2017 13:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Spoke to a man who transports bodies for the state. One woman was left exposed for three days naked. She was every bit of three hundred pounds also. Nasty business but someone has to do it. Three straps and bagged. That body's not going to move on its own. Had a scare one time. Chime tone. What's that?. Phone in patients things was still turned on. Yes, I asked; can a woman have sex with a cadaver?. No. she was trying to get money from estate I guess. Sick puppy.
Posted by: Dale || 09/07/2017 14:37 Comments || Top||

#11  I met a guy who used to fly the, er, "departed" from their Canadian adventure terminus to the U.S.

Said he once, on a night retrieval, had a body bag, owing to decomposition gasses, I guess, sit up.

Yikes!
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/07/2017 16:35 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Ray Lewis: Ravens were ready to sign Colin Kaepernick until 'racist gesture' by girlfriend
[BALTIMORESUN]
Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When I'm looking to hire someone, I basically have two questions:
1) Can they do the job?
2) Are they going to cause more problems than they solve?
Last thing a business needs is employees tarnishing the brand.

Personally, I'd have more sympathy for the footballers if they were actively doing something to solve the problems they are protesting, rather than just playing "Look at me!". Howzabout taking one of those millions and starting a scholarship fund?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/07/2017 2:42 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess, they don't teach the maxim "tolerance is a two way street" in american schools anymore.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 5:16 Comments || Top||

#3  You mean reciprocation build civilization and "tolerance" is a way of destroying it,
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/07/2017 6:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Reciprocity. Reciprocation is how internal combustion engines work.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 7:25 Comments || Top||

#5  http://www.dictionary.com/browse/reciprocation

2.a returning, usually for something given.
3.a mutual giving and receiving.

Reciprocating is an engine movement from the Give and take analogy to "back and forward"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/07/2017 7:30 Comments || Top||

#6  https://scholar.google.co.il/scholar?hl=iw&q=Reciprocity&oq=reciprocity
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 7:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Never dawns in their concussed brains that the average viewer/fan is making far far less in their salary/pay than what they're making doing 'entertainment'. You'll see more black millionaires on Sunday than in any country back in Africa. So, yeah, go flipp'em the finger about oppression, because you're so unique (just don't ask the Pilgrims, the Quakers, the Huguenots, the Scots-Irish et al).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/07/2017 7:50 Comments || Top||

#8  There are a lot of footballers that do a lot for charity...set up scholarships etc.

There are also the spoiled rotten brats that have been fawned over for their entire life.

Guess which ones get the most media time?

What these "folks" need to do is go into the inner city neighborhoods and teach the youth the benefits of "bourgeois values".
Posted by: AlanC || 09/07/2017 8:32 Comments || Top||

#9  What, Twitter and Farcebook ruin careers in an equal opportunity fashion? Who knew?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/07/2017 9:49 Comments || Top||

#10  #1 When I'm looking to hire someone, I basically have two questions:
1) Can they do the job?
2) Are they going to cause more problems than they solve?
Last thing a business needs is employees tarnishing the brand.


I agree SteveS. A third might be, 3. Do they add value to the organization? Decrease costs, increase revenue and profits, increase ticket sales...instead of pissing off the largest number of fans possible.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/07/2017 10:47 Comments || Top||

#11  The girlfried is a Mooselimb. Now there's a religion that doesn't advocate slavery and embraces peace, tolerance and freedom for all.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/07/2017 10:59 Comments || Top||

#12  At least Ray contributed on the field while witnessing murder off.

We've spent too much time on this never-was washout and his career killing girl friend.

There are plenty of players that are great community contributors, and can actually deliver on the field as well.
Posted by: regular joe || 09/07/2017 13:26 Comments || Top||

#13  Ray has had a concussion.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 14:37 Comments || Top||

#14  I like the fake speech attributed to various owners:

Today, regardless of your personal opinions, we recognize the sacrifice and pain that so many have endured as symbolized by our flag and national anthem. When the National Anthem is played in a few minutes you WILL stand and you WILL put your hand over your hearts. You do this because you know that millions will be watching and looking at your example. You gentlemen are world class athletes, but you are also actors. You perform on a stage that is 100 yards long. But most of all I want you to remember, you are the actors, but this is MY stage and you will play the role you are paid to do by me.

If only one had the guts to call these prima donna millionaires out on it..
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 09/07/2017 16:29 Comments || Top||

#15  Kap is not the first guy to be pulled in the wrong direction by his male member um, girlfriend
Posted by: Thravitle Thritle1383 || 09/07/2017 19:50 Comments || Top||


People Over 60 More Content In Life Than All Other Adults, Survey Finds
[STUDYFINDS.ORG] Is life in and of itself like a fine wine, that is, does it get better with age? While many of us fear what’s to come in our elder years, a new survey finds that most older adults are actually more content than their younger or middle-aged counterparts.
As someone who's aged, I can agree: Life is like a fine wine. It gets better with age. Then it turns to vinegar. I'm very content with my lost hair, my arthritis, my dentures, and not being allowed around power tools. Really I am. Would I lie to you?
Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'll find out in a couple of years.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 5:17 Comments || Top||

#2  One of the greatest income redistribution programs in history helps makes it so. Soon that will end when the great government ponzi scheme collapses.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/07/2017 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  After this past Sunday I'm not allowed around horses. For a while, anyway.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/07/2017 7:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm not allowed to be with many things ... as soon as I remember, I'll get back to you.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/07/2017 10:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Better power tools
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 11:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Sure, but those same over 60's created the world that is causing younger adults to stress out.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/07/2017 11:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Stress? Deal with it snowflakes!!

67 and proud of it.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/07/2017 17:02 Comments || Top||

#8  It's not so much contentment, it's just that after you reach 60, you realize how much of your life you spent worrying about crap. Give it up.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/07/2017 19:11 Comments || Top||

#9  "Get off my lawn!"
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/07/2017 19:57 Comments || Top||


Severe flu season anticipated for Europe, US
[DW] Public health experts have urged "everyone older than six months" to receive a vaccine. Australia has witnessed a severe flu season and one particularly virulent strain, prompting fears in Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and the US.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on Monday reiterated guidelines that "everyone older than six months" should receive vaccinations after Australia witnessed a severe flu season.

"Complete immunization should occur by the end of October, if possible. There is no evidence that administering the influenza vaccine early in the season increase the risk of infection for children," the AAP said in a statement.

Public health experts have expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
s about the upcoming flu season in Europe and the US after 73 people died in Australia this year from a strain of flu dubbed Influenza A, or H3N2 (H3), which is more resistant to flu vaccinations than most and often affects the elderly.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/07/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Insurance pays. I get two, first before school starts then one from the second batch around Thanksgiving.

No problem with Aut...
What, what?
Yes, OK, another beer.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
NOAA Hurricane Hunters Fly Into Eye of Cat 5 Hurricane Irma
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/07/2017 12:56 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hat tip: gCaptain. NOAA videos of flying to the eye of Hurricane Irma.

All I can say is, " Allison T56-A-14[1] turboprops, don't fail me now!!!"
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/07/2017 13:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Stormchasers:

Delta flight flies where other fear to tread: the 'outer band' of Irma
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 14:14 Comments || Top||

#3  I hope they weren't wearing triggering T-shirts!
Posted by: charger || 09/07/2017 18:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Kermit the frog I like it!
Posted by: 746 || 09/07/2017 20:45 Comments || Top||


US Navy says most 7th Fleet warships lacked proper certification
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Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 09:52 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Admirals need to be round filed if true.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/07/2017 12:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Keelhauling would be more appropriate.
Posted by: gorb || 09/07/2017 13:20 Comments || Top||

#3  But I guarantee those sailors got their sexual harassment training and all the other bullshit HR crap.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/07/2017 13:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Tranny Training instead of Operational Competence.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 09/07/2017 16:32 Comments || Top||

#5  You might have to actually enforce professional standards and everybody knows that is Raaacissst! I wonder how deep the rot actually is?
Posted by: magpie || 09/07/2017 17:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Story is, 7th fleet is so overloaded with forward deployment that they can't keep up with standards. The paperhangers know what they have to pencil whip through so that they can get get a good review and get out of there. But there are still only 24 hours in a day.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/07/2017 19:02 Comments || Top||


Look for Large Auroras
Early this morning (Sept. 6), the sun released two powerful solar flares ‐ the second was the most powerful in more than a decade.

At 5:10 a.m. EDT (0910 GMT), an X-class solar flare ‐ the most powerful sun-storm category ‐ blasted from a large sunspot on the sun's surface. That flare was the strongest since 2015, at X2.2, but it was dwarfed just 3 hours later, at 8:02 a.m. EDT (1202 GMT), by an X9.3 flare, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). The last X9 flare occurred in 2006 (coming in at X9.0).
According to SWPC, the flares resulted in radio blackouts: high-frequency radio experienced a "wide area of blackouts, loss of contact for up to an hour over [the] sunlit side of Earth," and low frequency communication, used in navigation, was degraded for an hour.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/07/2017 08:29 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I always do. Small ones are good, too.
Posted by: gorb || 09/07/2017 9:28 Comments || Top||

#2  I think we need to send a man up there to see what's going on. Anyone care to second a nomination of Al Gore?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/07/2017 11:09 Comments || Top||

#3  We have had satellite communications to Alaskan villages interrupted by this activity.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/07/2017 13:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Spelling, Gorb.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 14:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Gee, think hurricanes and solar weather are related (correlation not causality)?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 14:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Second!! JQC

Can we find him some company for the trip?
Posted by: AlanC || 09/07/2017 16:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Agreed. Deacon needs to work on his spelling.
Posted by: gorb || 09/07/2017 18:28 Comments || Top||


Hurricane Irma spawns Home Depot plywood wars
[ABC] NORTH MIAMI, Fla. - A fight broke out Tuesday night at a Home Depot store in North Miami as customers sparred about plywood during Hurricane Irma preparations.

There were long lines and limited materials at the store as South Florida residents scrambled to stock up on hurricane supplies.

Local 10 News was there as tensions boiled over between two customers.

"He just hit me," Joshua Shempko told a Home Depot employee, pointing to another customer near the exit.

Shempko said the man hit him during a dispute about plywood.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 07:29 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Florida preps for mass evacuations, braces for possible gridlock (Opens to Video)
[CNN] (CNN)Florida Gov. Rick Scott says to expect more evacuations across the state ahead of Hurricane Irma, the powerful Category 5 storm plowing through the Caribbean.

"If you're told to evacuate, get out quickly," Scott said Wednesday. "We can expect additional evacuations as this storm continues to come near our state."

Based on Irma's projected path, which includes Florida's heavily populated eastern coast, the enormous storm could create one of the largest mass evacuations in US history, CNN senior meteorologist Dave Hennen said. Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties combined have about 6 million people.
Monroe County, home to the Florida Keys, has already ordered mandatory evacuations. Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale, issued a mandatory evacuation Wednesday for areas east of Federal Highway.

Other eastern Florida population centers could also see similar evacuations soon, depending on the path of the hurricane, which is expected to near Miami on Sunday.
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#2  Richard Branson's Home Obliterated.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 09/07/2017 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Good place to review current conditions and potential Irma storm tracks here.

Lot's of different variables and accurate current info.
'Spaghetti Models' (experimental prediction models) are also available.

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/07/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Two roads out of town. Eastside 95 or Westside 75.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 10:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Locking things down at the nuke plant I work at.

Navy nuke school in Charleston, SC, is shutting down and wants everyone out by Saturday. Will be picking up our son from there, and two of his classmates. Will have to go in on I-95, so things are going to be a bit hairy.
Posted by: ptah || 09/07/2017 12:51 Comments || Top||

#6  SOC and CENTCOM at MacDill AFB are about 27" ASL.
Moving OPS data, et. al. to Bragg, not much better.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 14:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Stay safe, you folks.

Drive carefully. Lots of idjits on the roads I'd presume.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/07/2017 14:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Gasoline shortages is a big problem for people trying to evacuate.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 09/07/2017 16:07 Comments || Top||


Harvard Law Memorial Honors Slaves Owned By School's Founder
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Ummm... Aren't they dead?
The essence of slavery, donchaknow, is they have to keep working even after their bodies crumble to dust.
Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because they're the ones convinced him to found the school?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 5:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Welcome to the real world of 4000 years+ of human slavery. The turn around started in earnest among Protestant British colonies in North America around the early 18 Century, not that you would ever recognize such an event in human history as the Left needs to destroy real history. Where's the guilt grafting in that? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/07/2017 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Slavery enabled societal advances - the labor of slaves freed time and generated resources for a few critical minds to create significant things. In Egypt and Rome in the distant past, and significantly, in the creation of the United States - men like Washington and Jefferson would not have been available to lead the Revolutionary army or write the Declaration of Independence, for instance, and independence was a very close victory. Black Americans should be given credit for, and take pride in, their role in creating this country - even if their role was not voluntary.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/07/2017 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  My impression was that: (1) By the 1800's there were already more than enough slaves (breeding stock excess to plantation workforce, to be brutally clear) in the New World -- mass slavetrading was not cost effective; (2) There was money to be made selling Opium in the Far East (Chinese Products for Opium); and (3) the Old Merchant Families could feel righteous about not doing what they had effectively already stopped doing.
Posted by: magpie || 09/07/2017 21:17 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
South Korea to smash North Korea's underground military base with a 'FRANKENMISSILE' after Trump lifted limit on their warheads
- South Korea seek to develop hybrid missile that can carry two ton warhead

- Aim is to create a weapon that could destroy North Korea's underground base

- Follows decision by US President Donald Trump to lift 500kg limit on warheads


"FRANKENMISSILE"...heh
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/07/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  IMO, Middle Kingdom will be so sorry they caused Nipponese, never mind Sorks, to re-militarize.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 5:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Bigger warhead, hmm, "He would have enormous shwantzstucker!" It goes without saying.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/07/2017 10:30 Comments || Top||

#3  With all this, I'm wondering if there is some internal problem with China. Seem like china want a war to distract their citizens form some other issue/problem.

Worth watching China to see what's going on.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/07/2017 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  With the recent content from 2-3 carrier groups I'd surprised if it hadn't already been mounted.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 10:58 Comments || Top||

#5  The "Frankenmissile?" Anything to do with Al Franken?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/07/2017 11:01 Comments || Top||

#6  That's probably against the Geneva Conventions.
Posted by: gorb || 09/07/2017 13:22 Comments || Top||


Economy
Amazon plans $5 billion second headquarters in North America
[Reuters] Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Thursday it plans to open another headquarters in North America and spend more than $5 billion for its construction and operation.

The e-commerce company, currently based in Seattle, said it was yet to zero in on a location, but expects to expand the new headquarters to include up to 50,000 high-paying jobs.

Amazon said it was seeking proposals from local and state government leaders for the new headquarters.

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) had reportedly spent about $5 billion on its spaceship-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Amazon said its new headquarters should ideally be located in a metropolitan area with more than one million people and one that can attract and retain technical talent.

The company’s Seattle headquarters is spread across 8.1 million square feet in 33 buildings and employs more than 40,000 people.

Amazon expects the new headquarters to be a "full equal" to its Seattle office, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said in a statement.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 08:04 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Amazon said its new headquarters should ideally be located in a metropolitan area with more than one million people and one that can attract and retain technical talent.


Don't worry, the psychotic bums in San Francisco are transportable, they can be taken anywhere you need the sidewalks shit upon to make the finicky techies seem at home.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/07/2017 8:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't amazon also buying Whole Foods?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/07/2017 8:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Denver is being considered.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/07/2017 9:03 Comments || Top||

#4  They should choose a place more centrally located than Seattle, like Pittsburgh, Memphis, or Charlottesville.
Posted by: rammer || 09/07/2017 11:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Dallas, to serve the southern state.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 14:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Sell-SELL- SELL! Several years ago I read a stock market analyst that opined that "Whenever a large corporation builds a fancy new headquarters to glorify themselves then Upper Management has lost track of their core interest -- making more money. Sell. The. Stock."
Posted by: magpie || 09/07/2017 17:44 Comments || Top||

#7  I think, you miss the point here, magpie. And the point is to include up to 50,000 high-paying jobs. Methinks, Amazon have heard the cries against the Big Three.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 17:48 Comments || Top||

#8  ... but expects to expand the new headquarters to include up to 50,000 high-paying jobs.
One of the Major Logistics hubs for the US Air Force is Tinker Air Force Base, OKC, OK has...more than 26,000 military and civilian employees and is the largest single-site employer in the state of Oklahoma. The installation covers approx. 9 square miles (23 km2) and has 760 buildings with a building floor space of over 15,200,000 square feet (1,410,000 m2).
So, *hmmmm*, that's kinda really impressive -- assuming Amazon doesn't bite off more than it can chew.
Posted by: magpie || 09/07/2017 18:14 Comments || Top||

#9  This is a headquarters, not a distribution center. I'm thinking they're looking for a reliable leftist work force, and a different internet trunk line to cover outages. Different power interconnect.
And move outside of Kimmie's range footprint.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/07/2017 19:08 Comments || Top||

#10  #9 This is a headquarters, not a distribution center. --ed in texas
Why would you need 50,000 people for a Headquarters in the 21st Century?
Posted by: magpie || 09/07/2017 19:58 Comments || Top||

#11  ...why does Kimmy need a bomb?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/07/2017 20:26 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
EU ‘must say clearly’ if it doesn’t want Turkey: President Erdogan
[Hurriyet Daily News] President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
has called on the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
to explicitly say if it does not want Ankara as a full member, describing German politicians’ "anti-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
stances" as an implementation of "Nazism and fascism
...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
"We want EU bodies and European countries to be sincere and real in their policies on Turkey," Erdogan said at a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) meeting on Sept. 6.

"Take this decision as soon as possible. If you cannot tolerate the current shape of Turkey’s relationship with the EU, then declare [an end to it] and do it bravely. That will help everyone see your real face," he added, recalling German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom...
’s statement that Berlin will ask other EU leaders to either suspend or end Ottoman Turkish accession process in October.
Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  What part of "NO!" don't you understand, O Sublime Porte?
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Ebbaviger6663 || 09/07/2017 1:43 Comments || Top||

#2  The middle part?
Posted by: gorb || 09/07/2017 1:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry, Erdy. They're just not that into you.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/07/2017 2:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Recep, even EUros have some limits.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 5:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Why should they speak straight with you any more than they speak straight with the American?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/07/2017 7:52 Comments || Top||

#6  The Germans were perfectly flirty
As Erdogan purred, "Yer so purdy!"
With straw in her tresses,
Europa confesses:
"So dirty... and hung like a birdy."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/07/2017 11:14 Comments || Top||

#7  How do you do it? :-)
Posted by: gorb || 09/07/2017 13:21 Comments || Top||

#8  ZF, have you ever paid for all the keyboards/monitors you've destroyed?......not to mention the wasted Scotch?

8^)
Posted by: AlanC || 09/07/2017 16:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
CNN throws in the towel on fake Russian news
[American Thinker] CNN has dismantled its vaunted Trump-colluded-with-the-Russians investigative unit in a wretched concession to reality. The only thing the unit found was an empty well for stories, surrounded by a crust of fake news. The whole caper damaged the network's credibility, and the public just wasn't buying it anymore. So the whole unit had to go.

What a shabby end to what the network had put so much stock in in the heady days of trying to oust President Trump just as he had taken office.

The New York Times attributes the unit's sorry end to confusion in the fact-checking process ‐ which is baloney for anyone who has ever worked in a newsroom ‐ claiming that on one bad story, a lawyer's concerns were ignored. That's not the way it works in most newsrooms ‐ normally, the lawyer has the loudest voice about what goes to press, given the potential for lawsuits, much to the resentment of the reporters. Well, the CNN editors ignored it and paid for it with their jobs when it came back to bite them.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 01:28 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Something else coming right up?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 5:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't worry. They'll have another unit pumping out fake news soon.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/07/2017 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Fake weather.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 14:28 Comments || Top||

#4  They ware waiting for the opportunity. So far the Hurricanes have shown Trump in a positive light (compared to his predecessors) but something will come along and they'll all pile on.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/07/2017 16:38 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India's top court tells government to stop cow vigilantes
[DAWN] India's top court proposed measures on Wednesday to stop what it called "growing violence by vigilantes" who claim to be protecting cows, revered as holy by Hindus.

India is reeling from a spate of horrific lynchings by Hindu murderous Moslems mostly targeting the country's Moslem minority, who have historically eaten beef.

Critics say that murderous Moslems emboldened by the current Hindu nationalist government's tough stance on cow slaughter are using beef as a pretext to target the community.

The Supreme Court was responding to a private petition from Tushar Gandhi, the great grandson of India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi.
Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  H1b Technology Partner.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 14:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, thank goodness! I thought they meant vigilante cows...

Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/07/2017 19:21 Comments || Top||


Raped woman had to ‘bribe’ police for filing case
[DAWN] RAHIM YAR KHAN: A married woman who was allegedly raped and blackmailed because of a video clip of the rape made by her tormentors, had to bribe lower police staff to get a case registered against the suspects after a senior officer declined to help her in getting justice.

Narrating her ordeal at the local press club where she had come with her husband on Tuesday, ’N’, a resident of Mauza Bhuta Kot of Sheikh Wahan area, said she worked as a match-maker and was lured to Rahim Yar Khan by a relative on the pretext of visiting a family in Multan for the purpose in May this year.

Instead of taking her to Multan, she said the prime suspect ’H’ and his friend ’J’ took her to a house here in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, that was owned by one of their acquaintances.She said at the house, both ’H’ and ’J’ raped her in the presence of their friend and the suspects made a video clip of the crime.

The suspects threatened her that they would post the clip on social media if she informed anybody about the rape, she said. She said later the suspects started blackmailing her and threatened her they would sell the video clip if she did not pay them money.

She claimed that she had been giving the suspects money on different occasions by selling her cattle and even jewellery and so far they had extracted around Rs300,000 from her. Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's gun out of his hand......
she said the suspects sold the video clip to many persons against Rs1,000 each despite taking money from her.

Being unable to arrange more money, she said she approached the Saddar deputy superintendent of police (DSP) with a complaint but he did not listen to her.

Later, she lodged an FIR (No 250/17) on Aug 31, 2017, against the suspects under Section 376 of the Pakistain Penal Code after paying Rs15,000 bribe to a sub-inspector Ehsan and the moharrar of Saddar cop shoppe.

After that the police incarcerated
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
’H’ while ’J’ and the house owner got interim bails. She said now the suspects were forcing her for a "reconciliation" and threatening her with dire consequences if she pursued the case.

She said she did not get a case registered under cyber crime law because she was illiterate and did not know about it.

The district police public relations officer denied all the allegations levelled by ’N’ against police officials, saying the police would act according to the law in the light of the medical report of ’N’ that was still awaited.
Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  H1b Technology Staff Provider (to DNC).
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/07/2017 14:34 Comments || Top||


SC reprimands NAB's performance in Balochistan, calls it a 'facilitator of corruption'
[DAWN] Referring to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as a "controller of corruption", the Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed its dissatisfaction with the institution's performance in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
.

A three-member bench of the apex court was hearing a petition seeking bail of former Balochistan food minister Asfandyar Kakar who was tossed in the slammer
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
by NAB earlier this year on charges of embezzlement.

"Important cases in Balochistan have seen long delays," Justice Dost Mohammad, who was presiding over the apex bench, said during the hearing.

Justice Faiz Essa remarked that Director General (DG) NAB Balochistan, Irfan Naeem Mangi ─ who was a member of the Joint Investigation Team that investigated allegations of money laundering against the Sharif family ─ should be made a co-accused in the case against Kakar due to the poor performance of the NAB.

The judge added that NAB authorities were misusing the law and matters could only be improved by opening cases against them.

Justice Mohammad, however, said that due to Mangi's involvement in the Panamagate JIT, he could not be included in the case against the former provincial minister.

"Those caught red-handed in Balochistan are released by NAB. The bureau has made a joke of all corruption cases," Justice Essa remarked, adding that the trials due to be completed within 30 days do not get wrapped up even in 30 months.

"To this day, NAB has not completed any trial within 30 days," the justice said. "Rs701 million have been stolen, but NAB is sleeping."

"Those who draw a salary from the taxpayer's money are abusing the law," Justice Essa said.

Posted by: Fred || 09/07/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Government
POTUS sides with Democrats to raise debt ceiling
[NY Post] WASHINGTON ‐ President Trump has sided with a Democratic proposal to tie Hurricane Harvey funding with a three-month increase to the debt limit and funding the government through Dec. 15.

Trump announced the deal with "Nancy" and Chuck" after huddling with the top Democratic leaders ‐House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer ‐ and top GOP leadership at the White House.

"We essentially came to a deal, and I think the deal will be very good," Trump said aboard Air Force One Wednesday. "We had a very, very cordial and professional meeting."

The Democrats touted getting the deal they essentially wanted that avoids a government shutdown Oct. 1 over the president’s border wall demands.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  After Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and Louisiana and now the most powerful in history headed to Florida and who knows what other states, you gotta compromise until you can get spending under control again. The Dems wanted 18 months, they got 3 and just enough increase to keep things going til then.

Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 09/07/2017 5:46 Comments || Top||

#2  The man looked and saw and said I could be President in a year. The man looked and saw and said in a year and a half, I will have to work with these people.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/07/2017 7:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I see this as a serious kick in the shorts to the (R) folks in Congress.

If you're not going to do anything, we'll work with the competition to get something done. Kind of like if you aren't going to finish my roof that you started, I'll get another company that will, plus give them credit for the whole job.

If or when your attitude changes, we'll reconsider.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/07/2017 8:26 Comments || Top||

#4  If the Repubs pass DACA and not repeal Obamacare, they had better beware of pissed off voters -- like ME!I am proud Trump went around Ryan and McConnell -- they have NOT delivered what they promised.
Posted by: Juting Clolugum7534 || 09/07/2017 8:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Divide and rule?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/07/2017 8:58 Comments || Top||

#6  He knows he has to bypass the Republican leadership if he wants anything done in Congress.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/07/2017 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  There is an article that claims Trump has reduced the debt by 100 billion during his first 6 months. Debt. I think debt reduction is in his wheelhouse after this spate of hurricanes. As Hupeting Sforza8196 said.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/07/2017 11:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Trump has revealed the GOPe for what they are, and they'll never forgive him.
Posted by: regular joe || 09/07/2017 13:31 Comments || Top||

#9  You stab me in back and I will leave you high and dry, MoFo.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/07/2017 13:45 Comments || Top||

#10  I wonder if the debt ceiling has ever, even just once, resulted in fiscal restraint? If not, then Trump is right to avoid the annual histrionics of increasing it.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/07/2017 13:47 Comments || Top||

#11  bypass the Republican leadership

What is this "Republican leadership" of which you speak?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/07/2017 14:04 Comments || Top||

#12  Yeah, it's next to impossible to tell from the results but it seems Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan think of themselves as leaders.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/07/2017 15:26 Comments || Top||

#13  I think of McConnell and Ryan as Worm Tongue and Gollum.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/07/2017 17:07 Comments || Top||

#14  Ditto Alan.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/07/2017 17:08 Comments || Top||

#15  What is this "Republican leadership" of which you speak?

Simple mis-spelling of 'Republican leadershit'. Just a typo...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/07/2017 17:23 Comments || Top||



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