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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Anderson County, SC homeowner splinters bdrm door with shotgun blast
[Breitbart] Chief Deputy Coroner Charlie Boseman says a 17-year-old home invasion suspect did not survive the shotgun blast that greeted him early Thursday morning. The incident on Sugar Hill Street in Anderson County, South Carolina.

According to WYFF, Boseman said the suspect - Demacio Robertson and two other individuals "broke into the home" around 2 am. Once inside, Robertson moved toward the back of the house "and was shot through the bedroom door."

Boseman said that Robertson "stumbled outside and was found in the yard." He was pronounced dead approximately 35 minutes later at a local hospital.

WSPA reports that Robertson "was shot in the stomach with a shotgun." The two other suspects fled upon hearing the blast. One individual has since been "detained" for questioning and the hunt for the other suspect is ongoing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/16/2016 00:49 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm sure he had good reason to be inside some stranger's house at 2am. You know, part of the grand plan to become a Nobel Prize winning scientist or doctor.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/16/2016 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Bet he doesn't have the guts to do that again.

Snark of the day.
Posted by: Flamingo of rhe Swamps 3243 || 09/16/2016 1:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Demacio Robertson need I ask?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/16/2016 2:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Amish, of course.
Posted by: Steven || 09/16/2016 4:04 Comments || Top||

#5  BLM demonstration in 5..4..3
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/16/2016 6:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Hey, Demacio was all about school. How he going to get money for clothes to wear to school? /sarc
Posted by: Black Bart Glutch4583 || 09/16/2016 6:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Another example of firearm violence in the workplace. When will the madness stop! (sarc)
Posted by: Pliny Glons2836 || 09/16/2016 6:22 Comments || Top||

#8  #2 Bet he doesn't have the guts to do that again. Ouch, may be a contender as snark of the day. It is still early.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/16/2016 7:11 Comments || Top||

#9  JQC, I think being sent to his room is more appropriate for Flamingo 8^)

Isn't this Joe Biden's approved defense strategy?
Posted by: AlanC || 09/16/2016 8:03 Comments || Top||

#10  Go to your room, Flamingo.

I'm waiting to see how the Left spins this story.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/16/2016 8:36 Comments || Top||

#11  He was late for midnight basketball, in a hurry, mistakes happen.
Posted by: Grunter || 09/16/2016 9:03 Comments || Top||

#12  His momma, preacher, teacher and bassetbaw coach will all come forward to say that Demacio "was a good boy, with a bright future that has been tragically cut short..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2016 10:42 Comments || Top||


NYPD seeks man who tried to set Muslim woman ablaze
Moved to Non-WoT: Lurid Crime Tales based on Ebbusogum Smith4370's link, which has photographs. It looks like setting women's clothes on fire is the new yoot amusement, replacing their previous game of suddenly pouncing on a passerby and beating him or her to a pulp... or until dead on occasion. I was apparently wrong about mental health issues as such. We now return you to the article.
--trailing wife at 7:30 p.m. ET


...or her sleeve as he walked by, anyway. This sounds like someone with mental health issues.
[IsraelTimes] 5th Avenue attack on hijab-clad Brit caught on video, being investigated as possible hate crime

Police were on the hunt Tuesday for a man who set fire to a veiled British woman’s clothing in Manhattan, as the American Moslem community says it faces growing Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
The attack took place late Saturday in front of a luxury boutique on 5th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

The British woman, age 35, said she was walking when she suddenly felt her shirt sleeve on fire.

Police declined to provide further details on the attack, saying only that they were investigating a potential hate crime. On Monday, the police released images of the incident caught by surveillance cameras and asked the public to help find the suspect.

The New York branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ...
, which is in touch with the victim and is providing legal help, said it could not confirm whether the suspect was motivated by anti-Moslem sentiment, though his victim was wearing a hijab at the time.

"It’s another (piece of) evidence that Moslems are increasingly vulnerable in this hostile political climate," said Zainab Chaudry, a CAIR
...designated a terrorist group by the UAE...
spokeswoman.

"Even in places like New York City, one of the most diverse in the US, we are seeing a spike in anti-Moslem bigotry."

In August, a holy man and his assistant were shot to death on the street near their mosque in the borough of Queens. An investigation into that incident has not yet established that it was Islamophobic.

After that attack, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that additional coppers would be deployed to secure mosques and the Moslem community.

Authorities would not immediately confirm the identity of Saturday’s victim. The New York Post said she was a dentist from Glasgow, Scotland.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That wouldn't happen to be the same town Muslims slaughtered 3,000 people would it?
Posted by: Chinesh Ulomong8816 || 09/16/2016 0:20 Comments || Top||


#3  Could be a case of CAIR creating false incidents to yell "islamophobia." The religion of peace record.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/16/2016 7:28 Comments || Top||

#4  This sounds like someone with mental health issues.

Doesn't that meet the standard for most anyone committing a crime?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2016 10:55 Comments || Top||

#5  This sounds like someone with mental health issues.

It will be if it turns out to be caused or imagined by Muslim.
Posted by: gorb || 09/16/2016 11:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Good find, Ebbusogum Smith4370. The article is now re-filed based on your information..
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/16/2016 19:39 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Missouri joins states allowing concealed carry without permit
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One could think of Missouri as being more in line with the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/16/2016 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Next step, open carry.
Posted by: Spusing Darling of the Huns5115 || 09/16/2016 16:30 Comments || Top||


Europe
Kosovo prosecutor pledges impartial probe of atrocities
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The new chief prosecutor of an international effort to bring to justice those responsible for atrocities during Kosovo’s battle for independence pledged Thursday to carry out his investigations "without fear or favor."

David Schwendiman, a former US federal prosecutor who has also worked in Bosnia and Afghanistan, told news hounds he is "aware of the political sensitivity of what I am doing," but stressed "I will be guided only by the facts and the law."

Schwendiman was speaking at his first presser since his appointment Sept. 1 as lead prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a separate branch of the Kosovo courts that will have its headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands.

Schwendiman is investigating allegations made in a 2010 Council of Europe report that senior members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), including current Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, ran detention centers where civilian captives including Serbs were killed and their organs sold on the black market during Kosovo’s 1998-99 war for independence from Serbia. Thaci denies the claims.

While the Council of Europe named suspects it alleged were involved in such atrocities, Schwendiman said he would not identify suspects until he was ready to file charges.

"You will know when someone is accused when an indictment or charging document accusing them is made public," he said.

The court’s registrar, Fidelma Donlon, said it aims to begin "judicial activity" in the first half of next year. That will likely involve judges adopting rules to govern how trials will be run.

Key to the new court’s success will be its ability to protect witnesses willing to testify. United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
attempts to prosecute former KLA fighters for crimes including murder and torture were largely unsuccessful because of what judges called widespread intimidation of witnesses.

Donlon said the court would "implement the highest standards of protection" for witnesses and others involved in trials.

"This is something we take very seriously," she said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Going to find the (approx) 97000 missing "Kosovar" bodies?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/16/2016 2:48 Comments || Top||

#2  As I recall, 'impartial probing' WAS one of the atrocities.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2016 11:30 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Mother of three, man killed over 'affair' in Mian Channu
[DAWN] Police say they have incarcerated
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
the father, husband and brother of a woman who was tortured and hanged alongside her alleged boyfriend in a family courtyard in the village of Mian Channu in eastern Punjab.

Local police official Allah Ditta said Khalida Bibi, a married mother-of-three, and her alleged boyfriend, 21-year-old Mohammad Mukhtar, were murdered Thursday in a so-called honour killing in their village.

He said the three arrested relatives confessed to killing Bibi and Mukhtar for having an affair.

Ditta gave no further details.

Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Four killed as trains collide near Multan
[DAWN] At least four people were killed and several others injured as a passenger train collided with a goods train on late Wednesday night at Buch Railway Station near Multan, rescue officials said.

The Awami Express, heading to Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, struck a goods train which was standing on the tracks. Rescue officials said that around 50 injured were shifted to Nishtar Hospital, Multan, while more than 50 were provided first aid on the spot.

Dr. Kaleem, a Rescue Emergency Officer said that the rescue operations had been completed. He added that 40 ambulances, along with 200 rescuers from Lodhran, Muzafar Garh and Multan participated in the operations.

Personnel of the Pakistain Army also participated in the rescue operations.

Saima Khizar, Director Vigilance of Pakistain Railways, Multan Division, said that the affected people were being shifted to Multan through private transport, from where they would be transported to Karachi.

Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
Russian scientists are ‘besieged' by polar bears at a remote Arctic post
h/t Instapundit
A team of Russian weather experts claim that their station on an ice-covered Arctic isle is "besieged" by polar bears, according to a report by Russian news agency TASS.

The five researchers charged with staffing the outpost on Troynoy Island say that there are about 10 adult polar bears as well as cubs circling their base. A female polar bear spends nights perched outside the station's windows, making it dangerous for the scientists to exit. They have reportedly run out of flares and have lost at least one of their two dogs to the arctic beasts.
Relax. The bears are just protesting AGW.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/16/2016 03:26 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A global warming promoter/researcher becomes a meal for a polar bear. That image almost made me spill my coffee this a.m.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/16/2016 7:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Russian scientists John
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/16/2016 7:21 Comments || Top||

#3  In Soviet Russia, the bears hunt YOU.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/16/2016 7:56 Comments || Top||

#4  I was told Polar Bears are almost extinct because of global warming. Meddle ye not in the affairs of Polar Bears as ye be crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/16/2016 8:22 Comments || Top||

#5  I was involved in the transfer of Point Barrow to the locals back in the day.

Point Barrow had a special siren for Polar Bear warnings. The instructions were to close the blinds, shut the windows, turn off the lights and move to the interior corridors and DO NOT MAKE A SOUND.

Seems a full grown Polar Bear snatched a weatherman at Barrow by coming right through the wall of the building he was in.

A human is not at the top of the food chain in those regions. The Polar Bear is the Great White Shark of the Artic...and probably more dangerous.

A Coast Guardsman at Barrow told me they were out on patrol about 100 miles off shore and came across a Polar Bear swimming along...hunting seals. Seems Polar Bears are bouyant and can swim for hundreds of miles without difficulty.

So much for a fragile endangered species, a Polar Bear is not a kangaroo rat or a moth.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/16/2016 10:58 Comments || Top||

#6  So the scientists can spend more time on science and less on the treadmill.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2016 11:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Getting rid of polar bears is easy if you know this old Eskimo trick. First you cut a hole in the ice and place peas around the edge. When a polar bear comes up to take a pea, you kick him in the ice hole.
Posted by: gorb || 09/16/2016 12:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Go to your room, gorb.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/16/2016 20:58 Comments || Top||

#9  Sorry. I couldn't help myself.
Posted by: gorb || 09/16/2016 23:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
#BlackLivesMatter Leader Robbed – Demands More Police Protection
[LI] I certainly don't want anyone robbed at gunpoint.

Not even to a local leader of the Black Lives Matters movement despite the Black Lives Matter movement having taken on an anti-police call to action.

There is great irony, however, when such a leader then also calls for more police protection, as happened recently in Houston with Jerry Ford, Jr.:
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You baked this cake, now eat it.
Posted by: Chinesh Ulomong8816 || 09/16/2016 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  I certainly don't want anyone robbed at gunpoint.

No, but this *is* funny. Pity they don't teach irony in school any more.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/16/2016 0:42 Comments || Top||

#3  YJCMTSU
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/16/2016 5:32 Comments || Top||

#4  I can't decide whether the word "irony" or "schadenfreude" applies here. Jerry Ford, Jr., go to your "safe space."
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/16/2016 7:06 Comments || Top||

#5  From a criminal point of view, it would be logical to think that Ford would have little police support, thus being a perfect victim.
Posted by: jvalentour || 09/16/2016 9:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Call for police won't help other than to create more confrontation between them and the 'thug' culture, for which you already sided with. Long past the time for you to look into the mirror and understand you tolerated the environment that created the behavior that has now confronted you.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/16/2016 9:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Not to profile, but Ford looks more like a pampered, brainwashed candy a$$ed college student, faux SJW than a thug.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/16/2016 10:32 Comments || Top||

#8  I wonder if the guy who robbed him's life mattered.
Posted by: gorb || 09/16/2016 11:15 Comments || Top||

#9  Skidmark submitted a WND article with more information about the gentleman's recent activities. link

Guys, please check the entire site before submitting your articles to make sure they aren't duplicates -- people categorize things differently. In this case, Lurid Crime Tales and Culture Wars were both reasonable choices, but Besoeker's article was part of the original set at midnight, so I've brought Skidmark's here.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/16/2016 11:46 Comments || Top||

#10  Comment on the link from
Skidmark:

The only thing that could be even more ironic is if these 'brothers from another mother' have the same father. ;^)
Posted by: AlanC || 09/16/2016 13:19 Comments || Top||

#11  HAHAHAHA!!!

No.

And fuck you.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/16/2016 22:12 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2016-09-16
  Pakistani Taliban Target Shia Mosque On Eid Day
Thu 2016-09-15
  Russia kills 250 ISIS terrorists near Palmyra
Wed 2016-09-14
  Three French Women Charged over Terror Plots
Tue 2016-09-13
  Mosque attended by Orlando gunman Omar Mateen destroyed in suspected arson attack
Mon 2016-09-12
  Syria Cease-Fire Is Violated After Less Than an Hour
Sun 2016-09-11
  Hillary faints just before 9/11 ceremony, taken away
Sat 2016-09-10
  Car packed with gas cylinders parked in front of Marseilles synagogue
Fri 2016-09-09
  Norks conduct 5th nuclear test
Thu 2016-09-08
  ISIS abandons al-Bab
Wed 2016-09-07
  Saudi Arabia’s top cleric says Iran’s leaders ‘not Muslims’
Tue 2016-09-06
  Drone strike kills 'seven al-Qaeda suspects' in Yemen
Mon 2016-09-05
  Paktika Villages Collapse To The Taliban
Sun 2016-09-04
  Turkey Launches New Attack Against ISIS, Kurds In Syria
Sat 2016-09-03
  North Syria cleared of ISIS, Kurdish militia
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  Thailand announces peace talks with southern Muslim rebels


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