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[NBC Wash] The chief of D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department is retiring from his position.
A high-level source with knowledge of the situation told News4 Robert Contee III is taking a job with the FBI.
A D.C. local who grew up in the Carver Terrace community of Northeast D.C., Contee became chief in May 2021 after first joining the department in 1989 and rising through the ranks.
Retiring after only two years? That seems a bit quick...
His tenure as chief began amid concerns about staffing and morale, with him serving as interim chief from the beginning of January 2021 -- just before the Jan. 6 insurrection -- until his official confirmation on May 4 of that year.
[NYPOST] The man convicted of running down FDNY EMT Yadira Arroyo with her own ambulance in 2017 was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole for the murder.
Department members are "grateful" that Arroyo’s killer Jose Gonzalez will never be on the street again, Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said in a statement released shortly after the sentencing.
"Yadira Arroyo was an extraordinary EMT who cared for her patients deeply — just as she was doing when she was brutally killed six years ago," Kavanagh said.
"We join her family in our continued mourning of her loss and hope this sentencing can offer a pathway to healing for those who loved her. We will continue to honor her memory of service to our city."
A Bronx jury convicted Gonzalez of first-degree murder in March for killing Arroyo, a beloved 44-year-old mother of five, when he hit her with her own ambulance during a PCP-induced rampage.
Arroyo and her partner, Monique Williams, had been on their way to an emergency call involving a pregnant woman when a passing motorist signaled to them that someone was riding on the ambulance bumper, Williams testified in February.
The pair, who were driving down White Plains Road at about 7 p.m. on March 16, 2017, pulled over to investigate, Williams said. That’s when Gonzalez ran around the rig and hopped behind the wheel.
Arroyo and Williams fought back, trying to pull the allegedly PCP-crazed man out of the driver’s seat.
"I remember her screaming, ’Oh hell, no!’ " Williams said of Arroyo.
But Gonzalez, a career criminal with 31 prior arrests under his belt, kicked the ambulance into gear even as he fought the two medics, Williams said.
Another witness told the court that Gonzalez reversed the ambulance, hit a car, then lurched forward into an intersection. That’s when Arroyo fell beneath the wheels.
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Buzzfeed News closed down too. All that while the lefties are having spontaneous emmissions over Carlson leaving FauxNews. Carlson will be back, in some form, probably bigger than ever. The leftie liars will all be driving Ubers or delivering GrubHub. If even that.
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[Blaze] An Oregon bill called the "Right to Rest Act" would decriminalize camping in public places and give homeless people the ability to treat property — like tents — as private residences even when they're on public sidewalks, KATU-TV reported.
What are the details?
HB3501 asserts that homeless people would be entitled to "a privacy interest and a reasonable expectation of privacy in any property belonging to the person, regardless of whether the property is located in a public space," KATU said, adding that means they can treat public spaces like private residences "without discrimination and time limitations that are based on housing status."
The station added that homeless people also can sue for up to $1,000 if they are "swept, told to relocate, or otherwise 'harassed' as per the bill."
Jimmy Jones — executive director of the Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency — told KATU that "most of the advocate community in the state really want to establish a constitutional right to exist, and I am very sympathetic with that position because I don’t believe that when people lose their housing they lose their legal and constitutional rights."
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I sure didn't vote for this...the joys of mail in elections...gee..since we started that I have not seen a Republican elected to anything higher than dog catcher. Lord Help!! I'm pretty sure He is the only way out of this mess we have managed to make of it!
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Probably would necessitate turning off your sprinklers and ceasing all lawn care activities. You could probably still put your trash out. Just put a sign on the receptacle that says “Buffet.”
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[NYPOST] Maybelline is the latest company facing boycotts over its partnership with transgender ...mutton, dressed up as pork... social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
The backlash has stemmed from a TikTok that Mulvaney, 26, posted showing off the cosmetic line while celebrating her 365th day of publicly identifying as a woman.
"Getting glam for my Day 365 show with @maybelline #maybelline partner," Mulvaney wrote in a video that has amassed nearly 200,000 likes.
The promotional post spurred protests against Maybelline, similar to the wave of boycotts against Anheuser-Busch’s Bud Light for featuring the transgender influencer in an ad on social media. Many have taken to social media to blast Maybelline for partnering with Mulvaney, calling on others to also stop purchasing products from the makeup company.
One TikTok user wrote: "Thank you. I won’t be buying this product."
Over on Twitter, one user wrote: "The latest fools to employ Dylan Mulvaney are make-up company Maybelline. Get woke ...the on-going war against good sense... , go broke."
Another Twitter user added: "Time for #BoycottMaybelline to trend, since Maybelline used Dylan Mulvaney as their sponsor."
Maybelline and its parent company, L’Oreal, did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
It remains unclear if the calls to boycott Maybelline will gain as much traction as the one against Bud Light, which has seen sales for the beer plummet, according to the latest data from an industry research firm.
Data from NielsenIQ and Bump Williams Consulting shows that Bud Light sales fell 17% in dollars, while volume dropped a whopping 21% in the week ended April 15.
The Mulvaney campaign has unleashed a torrent of negative publicity for Anheuser-Busch, which announced Friday and over the weekend that the marketing executives responsible for tapping Mulvaney — Alissa Heinerscheid and Daniel Blake — are taking leaves of absence.
Along with Bud Light and Maybelline, Mulvaney has partnership deals with Nike, Amazon Prime, KitchenAid, OkCupid and others.
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Well, kinda like Bud, I don't actually buy their product, so, ...
(I will say, judging by the commercials that Maybo has been running, that they seem to leaning towards the "clown show" demographic.)
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If you read Kurd News and local sources, they repeatedly report about flooding and record rainfalls.
These chickenlittle sky is falling articles about climate change in parts of the world they dont live, are almost exclusively thru the lens of woke twats.
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As far as I can tell, mossomo, Shafaq News is based in Iraq. Mostly I’ve been ignoring weather reports, which seem to universally alternate between drought and flood, with heatwaves, dust storms and the occasional moderate earthquake tucked in here and there. I just thought the movement of the camel herds would be amusing.
Blaming it on global warming is indeed a play to get money from hysterical Westerners. But I recall my father mentioning in passing having to use the currently fashionable key words in research grant proposals to increase the odds of getting the things approved back in the early ‘70s.
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The Atatürk Dam is located on the Euphrates river in Bozova, south-east Turkey. Turkey is diverting more and more water to irrigation projects and downstream areas get ...wait for it... drier. Remember the polluted dry basin formerly known as the Aral Sea?
[NYPOST] A woman in Somalia had to undergo emergency surgery after getting shot accidentally in the clitoris while relaxing at home. Oww. I'm not even female, but just ow.
A report detailing her accidental piercing was published recently in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. "Hey, Stan! You'll never guess what happened down at the surgery!"
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first wayward bullet injury penetrating the vulvar area [the outer part of the female genitals] with a retained bullet in the clitoris," study authors wrote. Well, it's not a very big target on most ladies, is it?
According to the study, the 24-year-old unnamed patient had been relaxing at home, when all of a sudden, a stray bullet came through her ceiling and struck her in the nether regions. The guy upstairs was shooting at the floor? Or was it a stray gunsex ejaculation?
The alarmed woman reported to the Erdogan Hospital in Mogadishu, where a CT scan revealed that the errant lead pellet had lodged itself inside her clitoris. As far as the study authors knew, this was the first case of its kind. She was "alarmed?" That seems such an inadequate description.
"We thought it to be rare and interesting," they wrote of the unfortunate body shot, which thankfully struck her at a low velocity or her health could’ve been in jeopardy. Same category of uniqueness as the guy who showed up with a French 75 up his backside.
Surgeons placed the patient under local anesthesia and removed the projectile from her private parts. Local? Going by the women I've known, you'da hadda put 'em under just to bring a needle close to that thing.
Thankfully, she didn’t suffer any complications following the lead-ectomy, and was discharged the following day in "in good condition." :I'm going home. I gotta have a heart-to-heart with my neighbor!"
"Is that a pickax?"
"Why yes. Why do you ask?"
"No reason. Sorry."
At a follow-up appointment a month later, doctors determined that the woman was still in good health.
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Be interesting to know what tools the guys had to watch their command, including this clown. How are they supposed to know? It's the intel community which gave him a clearance and didn't follow his activities.
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Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2023, according to the "advance" estimate. In the fourth quarter of 2022, real GDP increased 2.6 percent. The increase in the first quarter primarily reflected an increase in consumer spending that was partly offset by a decrease in inventory investment.
-------------- next two quarters look pretty dicey; good chance for negative numbers
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Wondering out loud what the number would be without inflation.
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the 1.1% annualized increase is after adjustment for inflation (using BLS inflation numbers).
it is not population adjusted so if you assume an increase in population of, say 0.6% annualized, the increase is cut in half
or you could adjust it for the number of people in the labor force which is about 1.5% over the past year (ignoring the people in the labor force who have no intention of working) which would make the GDP/labor force number negative
lots of ways to adjust
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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.
[NYPOST] The man convicted of running down FDNY EMT Yadira Arroyo with her own ambulance in 2017 was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole for the murder.
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