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Tensions rise after Turkey shoots down Russian jet, says it will take the issue to the UN, NATO
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
17 wounded in black on black shootout
(CNN)A shooting in a New Orleans park left 17 people injured, and police say they know there are "hundreds of witnesses" who have yet to come forward with what they know.

Several hundred people -- estimates range between 300 and 500 -- had gathered at Bunny Friend Playground for an impromptu music video filming late Sunday when two groups began firing on each other, the New Orleans Police Department said in a statement.
Posted by: badanov || 11/24/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Blek on bleak?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/24/2015 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  From the article- sounds like the local gang bangers showed up at a local party and crapped in the punch bowl. As usual.
Posted by: Nguard || 11/24/2015 1:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Despite all those witnesses nobody saw nuttin'.
Most of those witnesses are good people, but they know the gangs are stronger than the cops, and will kill anyone who talks. Quite similar, I believe, to the situation in Syria & Iraq wrt ISIS.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/24/2015 9:28 Comments || Top||

#4  ...who says a death penalty doesn't have a deterrent effect?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2015 9:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Not sure about deterrent effect but I am awful sure it has an anti-reoccurrence effect.
Posted by: JFM || 11/24/2015 10:31 Comments || Top||

#6  The threat of the death penalty against witnesses has a strong deterrent effect against them talking to the police.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/24/2015 10:37 Comments || Top||

#7  High body count for a single day, but at least it wasn't a hate crime. Because that would be hateful.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/24/2015 10:54 Comments || Top||

#8  "Your name?"
"Didna Donuffin"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2015 11:05 Comments || Top||

#9  17 injured, 4-5 severely, but none killed.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/24/2015 11:46 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Blue Origin - Successful launch and landing of booster and capsule
Blue Origin - Successful launch and landing of booster and capsule
Posted by: 3dc || 11/24/2015 15:03 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The new space race is on!
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/24/2015 15:52 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: 3dc || 11/24/2015 16:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Bright spot for the day.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/24/2015 17:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Hey, they didn't build that!
Posted by: Barack Obama || 11/24/2015 18:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Black Oregon college student assaulted by three white classmates
The assault of a black Oregon college student by three white students is being investigated by a police hate crime unit and comes days after Portland police received reports of racist threats on social media, authorities said on Monday.

The 26-year-old black man was assaulted on Friday night by three white men near the campus pool at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, police said.

"The victim told police that the suspect used racial epithets before assaulting him," Portland Police Department spokesman Pete Simpson said in a statement. "The victim fought back and was able to get away and go to his residence on campus."
Place your bets here
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/24/2015 01:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I bet....

hoax
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/24/2015 1:41 Comments || Top||

#2  I have a $3 bill on "fake"! or "it never happened"
Posted by: Nguard || 11/24/2015 1:52 Comments || Top||

#3  C) they were black females who self-identified as white...and male
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2015 7:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Hoax.
Posted by: jvalentour || 11/24/2015 9:23 Comments || Top||

#5  #14 chris pored over JOE fully loaded,
The CAPS and the slugs he decoded:
"I thought I heard singing...
Then clacking, bells ringing..."
And that's when his noggin exploded!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/23/2015 23:09 Comments || Top||

#15 Oops. Scrap the attributive colon

Okay so Ima out ZF him or itn an English Teacher!

Hear them Down on Rantburg Square
Dropping Essie's every where,
I'd rather see my students shooting smack!

You sir!
Did you go to school?
Yup, Gainesville by a mule.

Have you a pet?
A dawg!

No one taught him dawg instead of dog,
Hear a Georgia man Or worse A Dothan man converse,
I'd rather be fishing on the flats!
Rednecks, loading up their arms (points at Deacon)

Next up Mall Fair Laddie, in which A young urban yoot is removed from WalMart and taught to steal from Saks 5th Ave.


Posted by: Shipman || 11/24/2015 10:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Woops
Posted by: Shipman || 11/24/2015 10:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Obvious hoax - someone's telling me white Portland hipster types know how to fight?

Snark of the day.
Posted by: Raj || 11/24/2015 10:31 Comments || Top||

#8  I had a friend in college. He had a lot of black friends. Actual friends they played basketball with, not just cover-story friends.

Anyway some black guys showed up at a party uninvited and jumped the fence and when thrown out came back with reinforcements. My friend said some really racist things during the fight. Seems his mind just went to 'hurt them in every way possible' and that included hurting their feelings.

Next day we ran into some of the black guys from the fight and they were cool with it. Realized they were dicks. They were pissed at one guy who used a taser during the fight but that's a different story.

Ah, the 80s, when not everything turned into lawsuits and jailtime.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/24/2015 11:01 Comments || Top||

#9  "Lewis & Clark College officials are investigating a report that a transgender student was assaulted on campus early Saturday morning."

Oregon Live article

I have spent a lot of time on this campus--just lived around the corner, as it were--and this is a small school. "...three white men near the campus pool..." Nah. If you're attending L & C, you're going to be able to pinpoint these "students" pretty darn quickly.
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Posted by: OregonGuy || 11/24/2015 12:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Fixed the link so it doesn't break the Burg.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2015 13:41 Comments || Top||


Clock Boy threatens school district w lawsuit
You knew this was coming...
The family wants $10 million from the City of Irving and $5 million from Irving ISD for damages it claims Ahmed and the family suffered after the teen was arrested. The family also wants an apology from the two entities.

Mohamed, 14, was arrested by Irving police in September after he brought a homemade digital clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb by Irving MacArthur High School faculty. The subsequent fallout made international headlines.

Mohamed and his immediately family are now overseas in Qatar and enrolling in school after a foundation has offered to pay for his education. The letter demanding money from the city and district says that the family wants "more than anything to come home" to Irving.
and nothing says "I love my city" like threatening to file suit against them
The letter gives both the city and the district 60 days to pay up or else face a lawsuit.
Posted by: lord garth || 11/24/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow, that byes a lot of Kalashnikovs.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/24/2015 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  It was *not* a homemade clock - it was a radio-shack inserted into a briefcase. He did not 'invent' or 'create' anything - except a hoax bomb he 'set off' during english class.

Charge them as terrorist for building a hoax-bomb (which is what it really was).
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/24/2015 1:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Mohamed the clock-faking cuckoo
Now plans for his flock to make beaucoup:
"New project! Enrich us
For being suspicious
Of creepy young Muslims who spook you."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/24/2015 3:25 Comments || Top||

#4  hack his emails, release the dirt....
Posted by: anon1 || 11/24/2015 7:50 Comments || Top||

#5  If I use a fake gun in a robbery, do I get away with not being charge with 'armed robbery'?

In most jurisdictions, there does not have to be an actual application of force in order for a theft to be considered robbery. It is usually sufficient if the victim believed that they would be harmed if they did not cooperate.

Thus, most courts would consider the use of a fake weapon to be armed robbery. However, it is essential that the victim reasonably believes that the weapon was real and not fake. Also, if a toy gun is used to strike a victim during a robbery, then it actually becomes a weapon for legal purposes.
- cite
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2015 9:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Attorney Kelly Hollingsworth lives in the same general community he is suing. Perhaps he needs to understand how his neighbors and community feel about this?

He works at Laney & Bollinger Law Firm
600 Ash St, Plainview Texas (806) 293-2618 or Kelly@LaneyBollinger.com


Just saying. Be polite
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2015 9:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Just saying. Be polite

Polite Matis style?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/24/2015 9:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Hard to sue when you and your family are under 15,000ft of North Atlantic water.

Just sayin'.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/24/2015 11:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Be exquisitely polite, please. Threatening lawyers is unwise, not to mention actionable.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2015 13:48 Comments || Top||

#10  Is there anyone who didn't see the lawsuit coming, and wondered if the entire thing was a lawsuit scam from the start?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/24/2015 14:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Threatening lawyers is unwise, not to mention actionable. Would sending them a printed circuit board with a battery pack attached, that goes "tick-tick-tick", be considered a "threat" to any reasonable person?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/24/2015 16:50 Comments || Top||

#12  Here's an example of just fooling around, a kitchen timer designed to look like a bomb.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/24/2015 17:42 Comments || Top||

#13  You can bet if he as a white, christian, conservative, he would be even now mouldering in some PoundMeInTheAss federal prison.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/24/2015 18:23 Comments || Top||

#14  With any luck hoaxBomb boy will find out that discovery can be a bitch. But unfortunately the school will simply fold like a wet noodle :( .
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/24/2015 18:41 Comments || Top||

#15  "Fuck you. Pay me."

--Henry Hill
Posted by: charger || 11/24/2015 18:58 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2015-11-24
  Tensions rise after Turkey shoots down Russian jet, says it will take the issue to the UN, NATO
Mon 2015-11-23
  Chinese police use a flamethrower on 'Muslim terror suspects'
Sun 2015-11-22
  Abu Sayyaf leader killed in Tawi-Tawi clash
Sat 2015-11-21
  Mali hotel attack: 27 dead with no more hostages
Fri 2015-11-20
  Gunmen take 170 hostages in Radisson Blu hotel in Mali capital
Thu 2015-11-19
  Video - Russia destroyed 500 fuel trucks of Islamic State in Syria
Wed 2015-11-18
  Soddy cops seize 500+ pounds of hashish
Tue 2015-11-17
  Kurds repel attack near Mosul, 60 ISIS Bad Guys die
Mon 2015-11-16
  ISIS executes 73 of its own militants for evacuating headquarters
Sun 2015-11-15
  France hits Raqqa - Water and Power cut off
Sat 2015-11-14
  Hollande declares state of emergency
Fri 2015-11-13
  US ‘99% sure’ it killed Islamic State executioner ‘Jihadi John’
Thu 2015-11-12
  43 Dead, 239 Hurt as 2 IS Suicide Bombers Target Bourj al-Barajneh in Leb
Wed 2015-11-11
  al-Baghdadi arrives in Nineveh amid secrecy
Tue 2015-11-10
  ISIS, Talibunnies do battle in eastern Nangarhar province


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