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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Wounded casino security guard vanishes from Las Vegas — and surfaces on the set of 'Ellen'
[LATimes] The mystery is over: Las Vegas security guard Jesus Campos has been found.

On the set of "Ellen."

On Wednesday, Ellen DeGeneres’ television talk show is expected to broadcast the much-anticipated first interview with the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino security guard, who was the first shooting victim in the Oct. 1 massacre in Las Vegas.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 10/18/2017 10:21 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wanted a softball interview that didn't get to probing?
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/18/2017 10:44 Comments || Top||

#2  DeGeneres tweeted a photo of Campos holding a cane on the set Tuesday

Smart boy - using the Ted Kennedy neckbrace technique!

I wonder how much he's getting paid for the appearance?
Posted by: Raj || 10/18/2017 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Now my gut is saying he wants the story to stay alive while his ghost writer finishes the first draft.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/18/2017 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  U.S. citizen is he? Just asking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/18/2017 12:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Either a complete dumbass, or looking for the protective umbrella of celebrity.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/18/2017 15:35 Comments || Top||


'Car Trunk' Abortionist Caught with Aborted Baby Parts in His Car Pleads ‘No Contest'
[Breitbart] Michigan Abortionist Michael Arthur Roth, who was caught by police with 14 containers of aborted baby remains in his car, has entered a plea of "No Contest" to three felony counts of Larceny in a Building.

The 75-year-old appeared in a Macomb County Circuit Court Monday in the latest episode of a saga dating back to October, 2015, when police discovered stolen drugs, abortion equipment, and aborted baby remains in the trunk of his car.

According to reports at the time, police in West Bloomfield, Michigan, found "14 containers of human tissue, possibly fetuses, medical equipment and large amounts of Fentanyl, a drug used for pain and sedation," leading to the suspicion that Roth had been secretly carrying out illegal home abortions.

The discovery of the cache came about as the result of an automobile accident in which Roth hit a child with special needs, critically injuring him. Police investigators obtained a warrant to search Roth’s impounded car and found the human tissue in containers along with the other contraband during the search.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/18/2017 03:46 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Appears to be a plea bargain. He'll trade vehicles and be back in business in no time.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/18/2017 3:51 Comments || Top||

#2  three felony counts of Larceny in a Building

14 containers ~ 14 murders
Improper disposal of a body(14)
Illegal possession of Class 2 drugs
Some barganing.

More detail
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2017 11:00 Comments || Top||

#3  "I'm battered and spattered. A cynic
Might say I'm a mite unhygienic,
But rights are at issue,
Not leftover tissue...
That junk in my trunk is a clinic!"

Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/18/2017 16:54 Comments || Top||


LA Times: George Soros has pumped $18 billion into Open Society Foundations
[LATimes] George Soros has pumped $18 billion into Open Society Foundations, making it a philanthropic giant.

Billionaire George Soros has pumped nearly $18 billion into the Open Society Foundations the last several years, turning it into one of the world’s largest philanthropic organizations.

The money comes from the personal wealth of the 87-year-old Soros, Laura Silber, a spokeswoman for the foundation, said Tuesday.
How long until the Russian, Chinese or North Korean hackers clean it out?
Posted by: 3dc || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Feeling heat from the Hungarians?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/18/2017 8:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Trying to escape the death tax?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2017 11:06 Comments || Top||


How the drug industry triumphed over the DEA: The documents
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Hottest Movie of the Year (video trailer)
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That oughtta makes their heads explode.
Posted by: gorb || 10/18/2017 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  love this
Posted by: 746 || 10/18/2017 12:42 Comments || Top||


Michigan: Judge reverses decision giving child custody to rapist
A Sanilac County judge has reversed his initial decision to grant a rapist joint custody of the child born from the act.

Sanilac County Probate Judge Gregory S. Ross ruled Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 17, that 27-year-old Christopher Mirasolo should not have any custody or parenting time over the child conceived nine years ago when Mirasolo raped a 12-year-old girl.

"I want to emphasize, at the time I signed the (initial order) on Sept. 22, 2017, I did not know that the defendant had raped the plaintiff," Ross told the courtroom.

It wasn't until the mother's attorney, Rebecca Kiessling, filed objections citing the rape that Ross found out about it, he said.

The Sanilac County Prosecutor's Office never presented that information to the judge, he said. The office gave him a "routine" joint custody order consented to by both the mother and Mirasolo, he said.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Plausible deniability. S**t must have gotten hot.

County Prosecutor's Office never presented that information to the judge, he said. The office gave him a "routine" joint custody order consented to by both the mother and Mirasolo, he said

They robo signing papers in the Prosecutor's Office?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/18/2017 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Somebody needs to be fired.
Posted by: gorb || 10/18/2017 14:38 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
They Call the Wind M'Ry-ah - It's SNOPES, so it must be true.
[SNOPES] A Congresswoman once called for hurricanes to be given African-American names so that "all racial groups would be represented."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/18/2017 13:29 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yep, Sheila Jackson-Lee, the wonderchild of Houston's near south side. Really shouldn't rag on her, if you drive through her district the ignorance is so thick you can get your car stuck in it.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/18/2017 16:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Let me guess. Hurricane Dingane.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/18/2017 16:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Let's see:
Aniqua
Baniqua
Caniqua
Daniqua
Eniqua
Faniqua
...
Zaniqua

Sounds good to me.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/18/2017 17:19 Comments || Top||


'Hungry Bear' Crisis Grips Far East Russian Region
[An Nahar] Large numbers of hungry, aggressive bears are approaching humans and have killed two people in Russia's far east due to depleting food sources, a forestry worker told AFP Monday.

Forestry authorities on Sakhalin island last week said 83 bears had to be rubbed out because they were hostile, a figure that has nearly tripled from last year.

"This has never happened before," a local forestry worker told AFP, asking not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the press.

"There are not enough fish, berries, nuts," he said, adding that overfishing of local salmon was partly to blame.

"There should not have been any fishing nets installed at all this summer, there is so little fish, but they installed them anyway," he said.

Bears who come out to villages in search of food eat dogs and one recently bit a man's hand.

"At this time of year bears should be balls of fat, but these animals have almost no fat at all," the employee said.

A hunter and a fishermen died from bear attacks in September, regional forest ministry official Sergei Prokopenko told local media.

Animals have also attacked cattle and one family found a bear digging out and eating potatoes on their garden plot in late September, local media said.

The forestry worker said emergency services go to local villages to look for aggressive animals.

He expected the crisis to continue until November, when malnourished bears usually freeze to death while others go into hibernation.

Sakhalin is a large forest-covered island off the east coast of Russia that lies north of Japan between the Okhotsk Sea and the Sea of Japan.

Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was sure that this was going to be something about "climate change".
Posted by: AlanC || 10/18/2017 8:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Bears who come out to villages in search of food eat dogs and one recently bit a man's hand.


Eat my dog I hate you, bite my hand and I will murderize your sorry butt. It's called self preservation.
Posted by: jpal || 10/18/2017 10:11 Comments || Top||

#3  If you are going out on a walk, just make sure you go with someone slower than you.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/18/2017 10:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Or a couple thousand fps faster...
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/18/2017 10:35 Comments || Top||

#5  I was sure that this was going to be something about "climate change".

I was hoping for a Zombie Bear radioactive cause.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2017 11:05 Comments || Top||

#6  I thought it's a comment on Russia's foreign policy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/18/2017 13:18 Comments || Top||


Trump's drug control pick abdicates after opioid scandal
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Evergreen banned criticism of Black Lives Matter through its bias response team
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/18/2017 10:43 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Jaguars apologize to local military for anthem demonstration
[SunHerald] The Jacksonville Jaguars have apologized to local military leaders for demonstrating during the national anthem in London last month.

Jaguars President Mark Lamping sent a letter to the director of military affairs and veterans in Jacksonville saying the team was "remiss in not fully comprehending the effect of the national anthem demonstration on foreign soil has had on the men and women who have or continue to serve our country." The letter was forwarded to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry on Monday and available via his public email.

Most of the Jaguars, including owner Shad Khan, locked arms during the anthem on Sept. 24. About a dozen players took a knee during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Wembley Stadium. Similar demonstrations happened across the NFL as players, coaches and executives responded to President Donald Trump's suggestion that teams should punish players making any sort of statements of protests during the national anthem.

The Jaguars demonstrated in unity as a team and then stood for "God Save The Queen."

"This was an oversight and certainly not intended to send a message that would disparage you, our flag or our nation," Lamping wrote to Bill Spann, director of Jacksonville's military affairs and veterans department.
As a Vet and one that isn't in Jacksonville, I still say fuck you all. You acted like spoiled children and pissed on us, on our country and the freedoms we love. Eat a dick and I hope you all go out of business. You ain't worth the blood that has been spilt for you.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bye, bye tax breaks!
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2017 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I just saw a picture which looks like it was taken this year at Jacksonville's football stadium. I'd say 30,000 people were there, tops.

Plus the owner's a Muslim, recently quoted for criticizing other NFL owners as '85 year old guys who think they're not racist'. Fuck him and I hope his team suffers financially on a large scale.
Posted by: Raj || 10/18/2017 0:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Now Darth is even talking potty mouth like me. And he is exactly correct.

This FAD was started by some non-player that is dumb as a box of hammers.
None of them even really know what they protest, and none of the protest has anything to do with the work they are commissioned to do.

The Team doing this on Foreign Soil does have an effect. Now all those idiots are doing it too - but where it counts is on the battlefield right now.

Enemies feed off of this and embolden those on the line to join a cause.

I AM pissed that this is how this Heritage is being treated and will not stop rapturing the left untill it is your footstool.

I hate them.
Cynical jerks.
Posted by: newc || 10/18/2017 1:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Jacksonville is a military town where this will not be forgotten or forgiven. Their actions in London were the epitome of “ shitting in ones own mess kit”.
Posted by: TzSenator || 10/18/2017 6:31 Comments || Top||


#6  So, the NFL has become the next Studies department. You know those studies departments which were set up by universities to house those students they suckered into indenturing student loans who received just about useless degrees. In this case for the universities' athletic departments.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/18/2017 8:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Ever notice that the starting lineup announce will have which college, but not the degree?

No bio I have ever looked up brags about the degree.

Public universities are taxpayer subsidized. Money is fungible. Imagine if you had someone come up to you right now and make you write a check for all the kit, all the food & water, cost of weight room, transportation, tutor time, legal fees, recruiting cost, bail insurance, health insurance, promotional costs, and tuition of a single student athlete in any sport, especially football. Lot of money for less than 1% of the student population.

Peel that layer back, and we do the same thing with the high school sports magnets.

All of this for some Saturday afternoon to Monday night football.

It is all product forward, and was somewhat understandable as a way for many to even have the opportunity to excel. When the attitude shifted from opportunity to privilege, that so few receive so much of the school's resources and the ones who do not make the show have overall so little education - one I knew couldn't even read a tape measure, and all he knew was football and screwing.

To the point, these pro athletes are catered to their entire life. To me, it looks like a toddler used to getting anything throwing a fit at the candy check out aisle. Especially when I would have to sell my vehicle to pay for the dozen different shoes each athlete needs for workout, practice, and game conditions.

It is all for entertainment. An entertainment which supposes the viewer willingly enters a sort of fantasy zone, whether it is ewoks of meterball. When that veneer peels back and the character is the actor, and the actor is distracting to the story, the story unravels and is no longer entertainment.

So if a bunch of apex debutantes want to squat on a fancy playground, so be it, but I have better things to do than watch untalented bobble heads try to explain The Crying Game when I could be out with the kids playing football. Or better yet, teaching them how to use a tape measurer.

I am not saying sports are not important, they are. But guess which I still use - algebra or a football?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/18/2017 12:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Peel that layer back, and we do the same thing with the high school sports magnets.

Ah yes, never mind the grades, those will be taken care of. Good pass receivers and runners are difficult to come by.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/18/2017 13:02 Comments || Top||

#9  The NFL commissioner signaled that the will do nothing to disrespectful players except try and buy them off with SJW programs that have Nothing to do with football.
Then a whole range of surrogates just blathered on about process, rights and understanding.
The protests are about being disrespectful to our fundamental national symbols, and the insults are taken by many in the core demographic of the NFL customer base as a personal insult. There isn't some middle ground or process to this, its visceral and serious. For many of us, the act is a FU with racial undertones of anti-white racism. Tolerance and converrsation are not bringing me back, I won't support people who insulted me.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/18/2017 16:44 Comments || Top||

#10  NFL football is entertainment. Period. Fans watch games on TV or go to the stadium to watch to be entertained. They did not go to be insulted. But that is exactly what the NFL players did to the payers. The players gave the famous large F*** You (hat tip to Michael Moore, heh) to the people paying for their over the top salaries. The NFL needs to be shown when you give the finger to your market.

I would like to see the NFL have their tax breaks taken away, as well as their advertising revenue. They need to be made an example of. Personal responsibility needs to be a hard lesson for these spoiled players and owners.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/18/2017 18:02 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Is Mt. Mantap Suffering from "Tired Mountain Syndrome?"

There have now been three detected and reported earthquake-like events subsequent to the most recent, very large (~6.1 magnitude) underground nuclear test conducted by North Korea on September 3, 2017 at its Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site. Recent media reporting has suggested that, as a result, the site may no longer be suitable for further underground nuclear testing. The three earthquakes were likely induced by the ~250 kiloton nuclear test; however, US nuclear test history at the Nevada Test Site provides evidence that such post-test tremors are not unusual. Furthermore, even in the face of what has been dubbed "Tired Mountain Syndrome,"[1] abandonment of the site for nuclear testing should not be expected. Such historical precedent, combined with the presence of two other, as yet unused tunnel complexes within the test site, leads us to conclude that there is no valid reason to assume that the Punggye-ri test site is unable to contain additional underground nuclear tests.

As a result of these nuclear test-induced earthquakes, new media reporting has appeared with headlines such as "North Korea’s Nuclear Test Site Could Be Unstable" and "Has N. Korea nuked itself out of a nuclear test site?" While these do make for eye-catching headlines, there was little substance in the articles to back them up beyond quoting the speculative fears of "civilian experts." Nonetheless, based on the severity of the initial blast, the post-test tremors, and the extent of observable surface disturbances,[3] we have to assume that there must have been substantial damage to the existing tunnel network under Mt. Mantap. If North Korea were to attempt to continue testing under this mountain (such as, in the area more to the eastern side), then we would expect to see new tunneling in the future near the North Portal, still under Mt. Mantap. A lack of new tunneling in this area would provide evidence that this mountain has been abandoned for future testing. However, complete abandonment of the test site as a whole remains unlikely.

At Punggye-ri, the presence of two other test tunnel complexes, accessible via the South and West Portals, provides sufficient means to continue testing at the site irrespective of test-induced effects to Mt. Mantap.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/18/2017 01:25 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Europe
Senior separatists detained as Madrid piles pressure on Catalonia
[DAWN] A Spanish court has ordered two powerful Catalan separatists to be detained, threatening a further escalation of the political crisis on Tuesday as both sides refuse to budge in their high-stakes standoff over the region's independence bid.

Protests broke out in Catalonia's capital Barcelona on Monday as news spread that Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sanchez were being kept behind bars on sedition charges.

The pair are the leaders of pro-independence citizens' groups Omnium Cultural and the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) respectively, both of which count tens of thousands of members and have emerged as key players in the Catalonia crisis.

They are accused of stirring up major protests in the run-up to the banned October 1 independence referendum in the region of 7.5 million people which has its own language and culture.
Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Multan woman handed death sentence for husband's murder
[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court in Multan on Tuesday sentenced a woman to death on two counts while also handing her a life imprisonment sentence after finding her guilty of murdering her husband.

A first information report had been registered against the accused, Yasmeen, at Ludden Vehari Police Station in Multan on June 23.

Judge Malik Khalid Mehmood, in his verdict said that Yasmeen has been found guilty of "the brutal and gruesome murder of her husband," Muhammad Imran Ashraf.

"The convict sprinkled acid on Muhammad Irfan Ashraf, entailing his death," the verdict noted.

Yasmeen was sentenced to death under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 and the Pakistain Penal Code. She has also been made liable to pay a fine of Rs20,000.

Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Mufti Qavi appears before court in Qandeel murder case for the first time
[DAWN] Cleric Mufti Abdul Qavi appeared before a sessions court in Multan for the first time in connection with the Qandeel Baloch murder case on Tuesday.

Mufti Qavi, who is currently on a pre-arrest bail, appeared in the court of District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Ameer Ahmad Khan.

Talking to news hounds while arriving at the court, Mufti Qavi said that he has presented himself in the court as per orders.

"We will accept whatever decision the judiciary announces," he said.

As the hearing started, the holy man's counsel requested the court to adjourn the hearing until tomorrow so that he could prepare his arguments. The judge accepted his request and adjourned the hearing until tomorrow (Wednesday).

The judge also ordered police to produce Qandeel's brother, Waseem, and her cousin, Haq Nawaz, before the court in the next hearing. Waseem and Nawaz were indicted in Qandeel murder case by a court last year, however, they denied killing her.

Police had included Mufti Qavi's name as a suspect in the murder case of the social media celebrity on the request of her father, Muhammad Azeem, the complainant in the case, who in a statement before the police suspected the holy man's possible role in her murder.

Judge Ameer Ahmad Khan last week granted pre-arrest bail to Mufti Qavi shortly after a trial court issued his non-bailable arrest warrants in the Qandeel murder case.

Judicial Magistrate Muhammad Pervaiz Khan had issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of Mufti Qavi when the investigation officer informed the court that he was not cooperating with police in investigation.

The judge expressed had his displeasure over the slow pace of trial by police who claimed that Mufti Qavi’s lack of cooperation was the cause of delay.

Soon after the non-bailable warrants were issued, the counsel for Mufti Qavi had filed a pre-arrest bail application and the judge granted bail against a surety bond of Rs100,000.

Qandeel's murder
Model and actress Qandeel Baloch was found strangled to death in her house in Multan's Karimabad area on July 16, 2016. Her father claimed that she was killed by her younger brother, Waseem, in the name of honour.

Her brother Waseem was placed in durance vile
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
by police in Dera Ghazi Khan later that night and confessed to killing her in the name of 'honour'. Accompanied by police at a presser, Waseem alleged to have drugged and strangled her, saying that she "brought dishonour to the Baloch name" due to her risque videos and statements posted on social media.

"There are other issues as well... Like the maulvi issue," he said, in an apparent reference to a controversy last year about Qandeel's selfies with Mufti Qavi.

Qavi's selfies with Qandeel went viral on social media in 2016, causing a nationwide furore, after which the holy man's membership of the Ruet-e-Hilal committee and the National Ulema Mushaikh Council was suspended.

Posted by: Fred || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Man Spits on Homeless Guy for 'Making His Grandmother a Slave'
h/t Instapundit
A 27-year-old black man found himself arrested recently when he spit on a 52-year-old homeless guy whose only apparent crime was being white. Yes, it sounds like hyperbole, but it's not.

It also doesn't appear to be a hoax, either.

From The Daily Caller:

Maryland police charged a black man with a hate crime after he allegedly spat in the face of a disabled white man and shouted "all white people are evil."

Marquis Evans-Royster, 27, walked up to a 52-year-old homeless disabled white man while on a city bus, WJLA-TV reported Monday. Authorities maintained Evans-Royster told the man he owed him because of slavery.

"You owe me for making my grandmother a slave," Evans-Royster said to the man. According to police, he also turned to other passengers on the bus and yelled, "All white people are evil." He also allegedly told two of the bus’ white passengers they should be dead.

Clearly, the disabled homeless man was oozing his white privilege all over the place.

Frankly, Evans-Royster is not much of a historian. After all, it's highly unlikely he had a grandmother born prior to December 18, 1865, when the 13th Amendment went into effect.

Yet some will swear that Evans-Royster can't be racist, because supposedly racism = prejudice + power. So he lacks the power to be racist.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/18/2017 13:39 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Really? Then I can shoot him for making my great-great grandfather fight to free his ancestor's sorry asses.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/18/2017 13:42 Comments || Top||

#2  The age of the young man says everything. These people are everywhere. Teens to mid thirty's. So dysfunctional. Husband dead due to overdose. Wife lives in motel room with newborn. Drugs of one kind or another. Young woman 21 is happy to see Psychiatrist early because person ahead of her OD'ed. Drug treatment center(they have a new name to be less offensive) overflowing and lined up at the door first thing in the morning. Solution is to build another center. In and out of prison (new name for that also). They go back and forth. You don't break free because you will be looked upon as being better than your brothers. I call this planned parenthood for adults.
Posted by: Dale || 10/18/2017 14:52 Comments || Top||

#3  So...we can spit on those today responsible for all the murder, mayhem, assaults, robberies, rapes et al?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/18/2017 16:42 Comments || Top||

#4  In and out of prison (new name for that also).

Now referred to as "Correctional Facilities." Problem is, damn few are ever "corrected."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/18/2017 16:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Not new, maybe more common.
I got the same story in a classroom in 1982.
“I don’t understand this because of what you did to my people 200 years ago!”
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2017 16:56 Comments || Top||

#6  save some spit for the other black tribes that raided great grand-to-the-nth-daddy's village and the arabs they sold them to. Not any sympathy for the end users in this process, but if you're gonna share your bugs, share them equally.
Posted by: Woozle Speaking for Boskone8904 || 10/18/2017 17:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Mmmmmmmmmm-k. He's 27. Grandmama is probably no older than 80, and, most certainly, was not hanging around in 1865 (or earlier).

Wish I could have been on that bus...

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/18/2017 19:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Black racism is becoming a serious problem, trouble is, people are afraid to call it that and tolerate crap from people who have no right to serve it. All the things they protest, incarceration rates, poor educational skills, high rates of criminal records, unemployment, poverty, illegitimacy at 70% and massive welfare use, all are blamed on white privilege and a corrupt, racist government, yet all can be attributed to the demise of the black family and the entire Great Society welfare scheme develop in the Johnson era. I won't quote what he said, but these are the fruits of it, just as he predicted about the political leanings. Victimhood is the excuse for plain out inferior effort and collective cultural suicide in the black community.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/18/2017 20:22 Comments || Top||


UNH Professor Calls For Gun Ban In The USA
I really despise getting lectured by professors on US laws and policy, especially ones from other countries.
[CampusReform] Following the tragic shooting in Las Vegas, a professor at the University of New Hampshire suggested to her students that the U.S. should ban private ownership of firearms.

Josh Fox, a student in the class, said the professor began by showing a Bloomberg video about Australia's gun-buyback program, then said it would be "great" if the US were to "follow Australia's example."

When he walked into class on the evening of October 11, Josh Fox told Campus Reform that he expected there would be some type of discussion about the shooting in Las Vegas, given that the course is called "Casino Management" and the shooter in Vegas unloaded his weapons from a casino hotel room.

Fox said he was nonetheless taken by surprise when Professor Valentini Kalargyrou showed a video about Australia’s gun laws, declaring after it ended that "maybe we follow Australia's example. That would be great."
You know what else would be great? You going back to your home country.
Kalargyrou, an associate professor from Greece whose specialization is in "human resources and gaming, with a concentration in diversity and disability issues in the workplace," opened the discussion by asking her students to consider what could have prevented the shooting.
Fine - I will continue to not give money to my alma mater, which has been hiring more and more leftists like this in the past decade.
Posted by: Raj || 10/18/2017 01:03 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  USA Calls For UNH Professor Ban - FOAD asshole
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 10/18/2017 7:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Doing a job Americans won't do, to tap a phrase. BTW, London tried doing that over 200 years ago without much success. About 150 years later they were asking for those same Americans to bring their guns with them to extricate them from another fine mess they got themselves into.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/18/2017 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  As if Greece would still exist without German money and American guns.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/18/2017 9:27 Comments || Top||

#4  he needs a new t-shirt

Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/18/2017 12:23 Comments || Top||

#5  An associate professor from Greece proselytizing at UNH. So mediocre it hurts.
Posted by: regular joe || 10/18/2017 13:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Kalargyrou, an associate professor from Greece

Another serf hoping for battlefield knighthood.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/18/2017 13:16 Comments || Top||

#7  BTW - "Live Free or Die" is the official motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/18/2017 13:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Freedom is slavery P2k.

Orwell said so.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/18/2017 16:19 Comments || Top||

#9  NH went blue because of Dartmouth and UNH. Then they went home and voted again.
Posted by: KBK || 10/18/2017 22:05 Comments || Top||


Robert De Niro Series On Amazon Canceled Over Weinstein
[PacificPundit] Robert De Niro, the foul mouthed, old washed up hack of an actor just had his Amazon series cancelled, all because of the sleazy liberal Democrat Harvey Weinstein. I guess not everything Harvey Weinstein has done in his life is bad afterall.

Variety reports that Amazon has elected to pull the plug on their untitled series from Silver Linings Playbook filmmaker David O. Russell that would have Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore in lead roles. The news also comes shortly after Amazon Studios head Roy Price was suspended in the wake of sexual harassment allegations. (Amazon reportedly did not act immediately when the allegations against Price were first brought up.)



A joint statement from representatives of Russell, De Niro and Moore agreed with the decision not to go forward with the series (which THR reports has cost $40 million already) which seems to kill any chances of it existing without Weinstein for another service/network.
Butt-hurt is best kept private, I guess.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hollyweird: a crowd that will never understand you can't pick up a t*rd by the clean end and even if you only get the sewage on your shoes everyone can still smell it...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/18/2017 8:47 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2017 11:17 Comments || Top||

#3  That sound! Not an octopus feeding,
But wannabee actors succeeding
As Hollywood larvae,
Outgrossing poor Harvey
By breeding what Weinstein was needing.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/18/2017 17:22 Comments || Top||


Science
The Sky is Falling!
Sometime within the next few months, the heavens will come crashing down.
What goes up, must come down.
Tiangong 1, which translates to "Heavenly Palace," is China's first space laboratory, launched in September 2011, serving as a prototype for a permanent space station that it aims to eventually build and launch. But six years after it first went into orbit, the 8½-ton laboratory is soon expected to meet a fiery and uncontrolled end, hurtling down to Earth and crashing somewhere ‐ anywhere ‐ on the planet.
Can we get a gambling poll going here?
In September 2016, Chinese officials confirmed that they had lost control of the space lab and that it would crash into Earth sometime in the latter half of 2017. In May, China told the United Nations that the lab would reenter Earth between October and April 2018.
Much of the space lab, which measures 34 feet in length, is expected to burn up during its reentry. But Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist from Harvard University, told the Guardian that pieces weighing up to 220 pounds could make it to the Earth's surface.
Where exactly the craft will fall is anyone's guess. Even slight changes in atmospheric conditions can alter the landing site "from one continent to the next," McDowell told the Guardian.
"You really can’t steer these things," he said.
"They don't have a steering wheel."
"Even a couple of days before it reenters, we probably won’t know better than six or seven hours, plus or minus, when it’s going to come down. Not knowing when it’s going to come down translates as not knowing where it’s going to come down."
Carry a steel umbrella.
Uncontrolled crashes of larger spacecraft, while rare, have happened before. The Soviet Salyut 7 space station crashed to Earth in 1991, while NASA's Skylab space station fell over Western Australia in 1979.
China launched Tiangong 2, its second experimental station, in September 2016. China is aiming to have a permanently manned space station in orbit by 2020.
The 2011 launch of Tiangong 1 was seen by some as a "potent political symbol" that marked an important step forward in China's expanding space program. It was regarded as a geopolitically significant event, part of China's broader space program through which it wants to assert its emergence as a new superpower.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, at least that crap won't be floating around destroying all of our NAV and Weather Satellites.

Nice write up Deacon.
Posted by: newc || 10/18/2017 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Much of the space lab, which measures 34 feet in length, is expected to burn up during its reentry. But Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist from Harvard University, told the Guardian that pieces weighing up to 220 pounds could make it to the Earth's surface.

This is why I've hated the print media since I started reading newspapers. They delight at trying to scare the crap out of its readers.
Posted by: Raj || 10/18/2017 0:53 Comments || Top||

#3  What's that?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2017 11:24 Comments || Top||

#4 

Maybe we can get Hillary to guest star.
Posted by: Warthog || 10/18/2017 15:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Jane Fonda says she's not proud of America on live television, would get down on all fours to protest with NFL ‐ Video
[ConservativeFiringLine] While appearing on BBC’s "Hardtalk" last week, Jane Fonda
Whose father made sure the Harvey Weinsteins of her day were kept at bay.
was asked by Stephen Sackur if she’s proud of America today. Her answer was an emphatic "no," Breitbart reported on Monday.

"Let me ask you a simple question, are you proud of are you proud of America today?" Sackur asked.

"No!" she declared. "But, I’m proud of the resistance. I’m proud of the people who are turning out in unprecedented numbers and continue and continue over and over and over again to protest what Trump is doing. I’m very proud of them, that core."

Breitbart added:

Later in the segment, Fonda offered her thoughts on the NFL protests and was asked if she would participate. She said she would not only participate by getting down on a knee, but she would get down on both knees or on all fours if necessary.

"I would take a knee," she said. "I would take two knees. I’d get on all fours if necessary." She went on to falsely claim that President Trump is "manipulating" it to appear as though the protest has something to do with the military.
Woof!
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She probably has.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2017 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  "I would take a knee," she said. "I would take two knees. I’d get on all fours if necessary."

As long as she does it with four on the floor...
Posted by: Raj || 10/18/2017 0:32 Comments || Top||

#3  I think she’s already did four on the floor with the north vietmwnese so long ago.... now she wants to relive her ‘glory days’
Posted by: Glaviger the Infinitesmal9191 || 10/18/2017 1:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, we have that in common.

I'm not at all 'proud' of her either.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/18/2017 3:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Does that include your walker?
Posted by: Regular joe || 10/18/2017 6:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Wouldn't be the first time this whore has been on all fours for something.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/18/2017 7:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Article 3, Section 3 -

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

nuff said.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/18/2017 8:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Who?
Posted by: Tom || 10/18/2017 11:19 Comments || Top||

#9  When I think of Jane Fonda on all four, it makes me think of those Cambodian cow impregnation videos that someone posted a while ago, with Jane starring in the role of the cow!

(I just grossed myself out!)
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 10/18/2017 12:48 Comments || Top||

#10  The powers that be tolerated her treason and that opened the flood gates to the mess we are in now. As soon as she sat on that anti-aircraft gun she should have been warned it was treason and returning to the USA would mean arrest and almost certain conviction.

Sure Jimmy Carter would have pardoned her along with the Draftees but the statement would have been made.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/18/2017 12:52 Comments || Top||

#11  Fonda says "Get down on all fours?" Finally, what we've all known all along has been confirmed.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/18/2017 23:04 Comments || Top||



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