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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Feel-good story of the day

PHOENIX - A 17-year-old is recovering from a gunshot wound after reportedly committing two armed robberies.
Dindu Nuffin?
Court records show that a male teen robbed one store and tried to rob another when he was confronted by an armed clerk who shot him in the arm.

Police report that on December 28, the 17-year-old suspect entered a QT store near 35th Avenue and Baseline Road with a handgun and demanded money, along with Swisher Sweet Cigars and a pack of Marlboro Reds. The clerk reported to police that the suspect fired three shots, from what sounded like a pellet gun, into the ceiling as he left. Other witnesses told police that he left the store on a 'cruiser bicycle with white walled tires.'

Police say two days later the suspect struck again, this time at a Chevron store near 51st and Southern avenues. This time he demanded money from the cash registers and when he motioned toward them with the gun a store clerk pulled his gun and fired at the suspect.

The suspect ran and tried to get on his bike but realized, "his arm didn't work." He went to a nearby restaurant to ask for help.

Police contacted him there and the suspect was taken to the hospital for a gunshot wound to his arm. It was there, police say, that he admitted to the robberies. He allegedly told police that he targeted gas stations because "they are supposed to just hand over the money and not try to stop anyone."
Whoops
He's been charged with armed robbery and attempted armed robbery.
If he's old enough to rob a gas station, he's old enough to name in the newspaper...
Posted by: Frank G || 04/09/2017 12:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "they are supposed to just hand over the money and not try to stop anyone."
In general, he's right. The clerk may well lose his job. In many places the clerk might be arrested, but probably not Phoenix.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/09/2017 13:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Shot in the arm?
What happened to targeting the center of mass?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2017 18:31 Comments || Top||


Cartels are growing marijuana illegally in California ‐ and there's a war brewing
[Business Insider] In the gray half-light of dawn, eight figures creep through the dry pine forest near Quincy, California. Seven of them wear camo uniforms bearing the logos of various government agencies: U.S. Forest Service, National Guard, California Fish & Wildlife, Plumas County Sheriff. Most have blackened faces and assault rifles at the ready. An 11-year-old Belgian Malinois named Phebe and her K9 handler lead the way.

Number eight is tall and dressed in black, with a rumpled bush hat and a Springfield Armory 9mm pistol in a hip holster. With a kaffiyeh wrapped under a dark beard, and eyebrows (in his words) "like two caterpillars about to mate," Dr. Mourad Gabriel could pass as a local interpreter on a Special Forces raid if this were Iraq or Afghanistan. Instead, he’s a wildlife biologist accompanying law-enforcement agents on an illegal marijuana farm bust.

The group traverses hillsides, fords streams, tiptoes through thickets of fern and willow, trying not to snap twigs or shake saplings. Radios crackle with whispers. Tiptoeing through rough terrain is slow going: It takes almost four hours to go three miles.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2017 12:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Beards, kaffiyeh's, and Oakley's indicate you really mean business.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2017 12:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Gov't doesn't like competition?
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/09/2017 13:29 Comments || Top||

#3  A war, huh? Then fight it like a war. Clearing these growing sites certainly doesn't sound like a job for civilians. How about sending platoons of Army Rangers to do it? Surround the sites before the growers can escape and then deal with them as the enemy combatants they are.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/09/2017 15:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Its California. If its "war", I can almost guess which side the governing bodies of California will side with.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/09/2017 16:06 Comments || Top||

#5  I can almost guess which side the governing bodies of California will side with

In this case, hopefully the side that puts money in their coffers (i.e. taxes).

Sometimes it's just about the money.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/09/2017 17:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Something tells me Round-up Ready marijuana isn't popular in California. So these operations should be easy enough to eliminate once found.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/09/2017 21:22 Comments || Top||

#7  The Federal government has a couple of bills in the House which provide for taxing marijuana. Essentially, oversight of weed would be transferred out of the DEA to the BATF and handled similar to alcohol.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/09/2017 22:01 Comments || Top||


Axact executive pleads guilty in 'diploma mill' scam
[DAWN] A Pak man associated with Axact in a senior capacity pleaded guilty on Friday in the US to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with an international "diploma mill" scheme, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ).

Umair Hamid, 30, admitted to the charges before US District Judge Ronnie Abrams, the US DOJ reported on its website.

"Operating from Pakistain, Umair Hamid helped fraudulently rake in millions of dollars from unwitting American consumers who paid to enroll in, and get degrees from, high schools and colleges that did not exist," Acting US Attorney Joon H. Kim was quoted as saying in the US justice department blurb.

Kim added: "As a result of his fraud, people who thought they were investing in an education received nothing more than worthless diplomas and a harsh lesson in the worldwide reach of deceit."

"Together with our partners at the FBI and the Postal Service, we will continue to work to protect consumers from scams that victimise our citizens," he said.

Hamid, an executive at software firm Axact, was jugged
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
on Dec 19, 2016, according to a statement by former Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara. He was produced in a federal court in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, the following day.
Posted by: Fred || 04/09/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I would be certain that most of the people that signed up knew it was a fraud.
Posted by: BernardZ || 04/09/2017 3:30 Comments || Top||

#2  And this is different than American 'higher learning' awarding useless paper degrees in 'studies' for good attendance and timely paying indenturing student loan money into the institution's coffers? It's all about presentation and 'who you know'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/09/2017 8:04 Comments || Top||


Europe
3.5 tonnes of ETA munitions found after disarmament vow: French PM
The times, they are a-changing. Bereft of a sponsor and [hopefully] realizing greater threats face their society, a native terror group rejoins society.
[AlAhram] Around 3.5 tonnes of arms, explosives and other materiel have been found in eight arms dumps identified by ETA, French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday, following the Basque separatist group's vow to disarm.

"The French government welcomes this operation, carried out calmly and without violence," Cazeneuve said in a statement.

"It's a decisive step towards the end of Basque separatist terrorism."

ETA said in 2011 that it was abandoning its armed struggle for independence in the Basque region straddling the Spanish-French border and announced its "total disarmament" on Saturday.

The group provided La Belle France with a list of locations for its arms caches -- a move welcomed by Gay Paree but deemed insufficient by Spain, which called on ETA to disband completely.

"The dangerous products will be destroyed," Cazeneuve said.

"Arms and equipment will be evaluated by justice authorities who will work, as always, in close collaboration with Spanish justice authorities to verify if the material gathered can help to resolve cases underway."

He added: "Whether the disarmament is, effectively, total will also be established."

The French premier said he hoped ETA's vow to disarm would mark "the end of five decades of violence" and herald "an era of lasting peace which the Basque Country should never have gone without",
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Great White North
Vimy Ridge Centenary
Just a shout-out to our Canadian brethren.
More than 20,000 Canadians have travelled to Europe to mark the centenary of one of the country's defining moments - the Battle of Vimy Ridge during World War One.

About 3,600 Canadians died in the battle in northern France, that began on Easter Sunday, 9 April 1917. It was the first time different Canadian military divisions had fought together under one command.

Prime Minister
deleted out of respect to the dead
paid tribute to those who fought.

"The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a turning point in the First World War and for Canada, when Canadians acted - and fought - as one," he said.

Having laid flowers at the site of the battle earlier on Sunday, Mr deleted attended a commemorative ceremony with French President Francois Hollande, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.

The Queen also sent a message to Canadians in French and English commending their soldiers for the sacrifice they made.
Posted by: Matt || 04/09/2017 12:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The deletions are very much appreciated.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 04/09/2017 16:55 Comments || Top||

#2  LOL
Posted by: Frank G || 04/09/2017 17:49 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Teachers Should Allow Ebonics Because English Grammar Is Too Hard For Minorities To Learn
[Daily Caller] An undergraduate researcher at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison has gained national acclaim for her research showing, she says, that members of minority groups feel oppressed by standard, grammatical English.

The researcher is Erika Gallagher, reports The Daily Cardinal, the student newspaper on the taxpayer-funded campus.

Gallagher’s research was chosen to be presented at the Collegiate Conference on Composition and Communication in Portland, Oregon earlier this semester.

The focus of the junior’s research is a theory called "code switching." Basically, adherents of "code switching" say that individuals will seek to alter their speech patterns to fit the group of people with which they are communicating. (RELATED: ’Ma Lips Ah Sealed!’ Hillary Uses Black Accent In Chat With Sharpton)

Members of minority groups feel especially marginalized because of "code switching," Gallagher’s research found.

To avoid any hurt feelings some people may feel by attempting to speak standard, correct English, Gallagher wants to eradicate the stigma associated with Ebonics -- or African‐American Vernacular English, a nonstandard dialect of English spoken by some black people.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2017 04:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am told in our local prison systems corrections officers must learn to communicate or understand Ebonics. Inmates many of whom cannot read or write most likely speak the language of their home world (yea, like a restroom :)). Repeat offenders going back to their world only to return later. Locals fear families will move to this area to be close but I suspect most do not have conventional family units. Prisons are located in rural areas because locals need jobs. Real reason is land development. You wouldn't build a $600,000 dollar home next to prison systems (yes, escapes do occur even Alcatraz had three escapes who lived).
Posted by: Dale || 04/09/2017 6:26 Comments || Top||

#2  To avoid any hurt feelings..

and there we have the canonical excuse of progressives for any failures.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/09/2017 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Take it up with the NEA and the teachers unions.

Amazing isn't it how Vietnamese who spoke no English so quickly assimilated into America after the boat lift resettlement?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/09/2017 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  So the researcher is saying n*ggers are to stupid to speak English.

That is about the most racists argument I have ever heard and belongs back in the 1920s where it should have died with a stake through its heart.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/09/2017 9:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Dims cain't let 'em of DA plantation. Pardon mi spellins.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 04/09/2017 10:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Grammer be Hard.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/09/2017 11:37 Comments || Top||

#7  So the researcher is saying n*ggers are to stupid to speak English

Too stupid to be bilingual, unlike Hispanics -- the other special group.

When presented as two different languages/dialects instead of correct and incorrect -- the proper linguistic approach -- and giving the advantage of being able to move between social groups while fitting in with each, the skill becomes a matter of pride rather than an insult -- a thought that clearly has not occurred to our ignorant, bigotted researcher. I've successfully sold the idea of mastering two different ways of speaking, dressing, and table manners in this way -- and my young friends have successfully applied the skills they acquired, while quietly pitying me for having only one set.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2017 12:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Show a little sympathy, you bastages. I felt totally oppressed having to learn the white man's COBOL.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/09/2017 12:21 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm always amazed when people, in the name of equality, insist that certain races should be held to a lower standard.
Posted by: AuburnTom || 04/09/2017 13:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Teachers should set high standards and not listen to ignorant researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Posted by: Glirt Glick3831 || 04/09/2017 13:40 Comments || Top||

#11  The Bigotyr of low expectations.
Posted by: Newc || 04/09/2017 15:11 Comments || Top||

#12  SteveS do't forget that COBOL is sexist because in COBOL as in life one must keep track of one's periods.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/09/2017 15:14 Comments || Top||

#13  The entire research is pandering for a grant. I have been in South Africa and was shocked to hear 10 year old blacks speak perfect "Kings English". Everyone of them paid attention in school and it really set me back and made me think. When I was in high school most of the blacks would never bring a book or a pen or a pencil. They sat in the back, never turned in homework or took tests. They were given a complimentary D- or a 1.0. In 1963 Johnson signed Kennedy's civil rights bill which gave blacks priority over all other races in college admissions. The professions were flooded with blacks and were allowed to go to medical school under the 1.0 program. All they had to do was attend 80% of the classes to get passed on every year. They did their pre-med with a 1.0 and went to medical school with a 1,0 and white students with an A- to A+ average were unable to attend the schools because the 1.0 blacks had a large number of seats in the classes. They didn't have to take state boards, they were given licenses. It wasn't until about ten years later a white student named Bakke who had been discriminated against finally got to the Supreme Court of the United States who ruled in his favor in that he had been discriminated against (reverse discrimination). Since the blacks had no knowledge to heal, fix teeth, argue law, take care of pets or any other thing based upon the courses they attended most became Dr. Feel Goods and had their licenses pulled with a few years.
Posted by: Ho Chi Ulolutch7127 || 04/09/2017 17:05 Comments || Top||

#14  I feel the same way SteveS. PL/1 forever!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/09/2017 18:30 Comments || Top||

#15  The entire research is pandering for a grant. I have been in South Africa and was shocked to hear 10 year old blacks speak perfect "Kings English".

Yes, in addition to English, many speak their native dialect (Zulu, Zhosa, etc), and Afrikaans. Kaap (Cape) blacks and mixed folks speak a local tribal variant of English and Afrikaans.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2017 19:02 Comments || Top||

#16  COBOL was created by a woman.
Posted by: Herman Clager2485 || 04/09/2017 20:06 Comments || Top||

#17  "members of minority groups feel oppressed by standard, grammatical English"

Wotta crocka bullshit.
Posted by: Barbara || 04/09/2017 20:17 Comments || Top||

#18  COBOL was created by a woman.

That explains the need to watch your periods....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/09/2017 21:09 Comments || Top||

#19 
PL/1 forever!


*shudder*

I'd go back to Perl before I went back to that.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/09/2017 21:24 Comments || Top||

#20  Rob, whatcha talking about? PL/1 can do anything. You need it, it's in there. Probably twice.
Posted by: KBK || 04/09/2017 22:13 Comments || Top||

#21  I was looking for the Rosetta Stone course in Eubonics, but couldn't find it.
Posted by: KBK || 04/09/2017 22:15 Comments || Top||


Government
Exercise Ridge Runner
[WarZone] To the casual observer, the scene might’ve looked like an odd cross between a reenactment of a past war and a demonstration of a future conflict. Elite special operators, some of whom were speaking foreign languages, were roving around the hills of West Virginia on foot, horseback, all-terrain vehicles, and by helicopter, while practicing specialized tactics, some of which are nearly a century old.

But this wasn’t another remake of the movie Red Dawn or a weird time-traveling short story. It was a real life, routine exercise called Ridge Runner 2017 that occurred in February 2017. The particular group of participants ‐ including special operators from the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, all of whom are NATO members ‐ and certain practice sessions suggested the event had a lot to do with Russia’s increasingly revanchist polices in Europe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2017 08:33 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mr. B - was there an older version of this run by SAD? I remember reading about a large scale E n E exercise where runners had to get from NoVa to Florida on there own by social engineering, hitchhiking, or shall we say other unconventional means. Does this ring a bell?? Might have been training for a SMU.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 04/09/2017 10:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, can't recall the names... if there were any. Some of these were culminations of A&S events, NV Test Site, etc. I suspect that is what you may be referring to. No foreigners in any of those as I recall.

Close coordination with Local Law Enforcement (LE) is key. There have been a few, let's just say embarrassing moments over the years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2017 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Jade Helm?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2017 18:34 Comments || Top||


Trump Preparing Order to Expand Offshore Oil Drilling
President Donald Trump is preparing to issue an executive order with the goal of giving oil companies more opportunities to drill offshore, reversing Obama-era policies that restricted the activity.

The offshore drilling directive is set to be issued soon, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told an industry conference in Washington on Thursday, according to three attendees who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a session closed to the press. Zinke did not provide specific details on the executive order during his presentation to the National Ocean Industries Association.

The coming order is set to push the Interior Department to schedule sales of new offshore oil and natural gas rights in U.S. Atlantic and Arctic waters, amending a five-year Obama administration leasing plan that left out auctions there, according to an industry representative who has discussed it with officials.

The order is also expected to begin the process of revoking former President Barack Obama’s decision to indefinitely withdraw most U.S. Arctic waters and some Atlantic Ocean acreage from future leasing. Environmentalists say it would be unprecedented for any president to rescind such a designation, and the reversal would almost certainly be challenged in court.

Spokesmen for the Interior Department and White House did not respond to emailed requests seeking comment.

Although Trump can set those policy changes in motion with an executive order, the real work falls to bureaucrats in the Interior Department and could span years. Wedging new Arctic and Atlantic lease sales into the government’s five-year plan would require environmental analysis and public comment periods -- perhaps consuming a year for seas north of Alaska and even longer for parcels along the U.S. East Coast.

The Obama administration previously had considered selling leases in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas as well as 104 million acres of the mid- and south-Atlantic before ultimately foregoing those potential auctions. Though time consuming, restoring Arctic and Atlantic lease sales would be relatively straightforward.

But the Trump administration faces a bigger challenge in attempting to undo Obama’s decision to remove roughly 125 million Arctic acres and nearly 4 million acres in the Atlantic Ocean from future oil and gas leasing. Obama formalized those withdrawals by invoking an obscure provision in a 1953 law that does not explicitly give presidents the power to reverse previous designations.

Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, has stressed that the maneuver must be done carefully so it can survive legal challenges.

Environmentalists said that is precisely why the Trump administration would not be successful.

"The administration can stare all day at the statute Obama used to protect large parts of the Arctic and Atlantic, but they won’t find a syllable allowing Trump to revoke those protections. Neither will the courts," said Niel Lawrence, Alaska director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

"It’s hard to imagine riskier, more expensive or time-consuming places to look for oil," Lawrence said by email. "It would be an extraordinary misuse of public dollars and agency resources to try to open them up now."

The U.S. Arctic is estimated to hold 27 billion barrels of oil and 132 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Energy companies have struggled to tap those resources, given high exploration costs and sparse infrastructure to support the activity, but there has been a surge of interest in Beaufort Sea waters hugging Alaska’s coastline, after recent announcements of discoveries by Repsol SA and Caelus Energy Corp. Eni SpA also asked U.S. regulators to consider its plan for oil exploration in previously leased Beaufort Sea tracts.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/09/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This should provide a windfall for the U.S. Treasury.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2017 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Putin ordered Trump to increase US oil production because that will keep down the price of oil because a high oil price is good for the Russian economy because... wait a minute, I lost my train of thought -- let me go watch MSNBC for a while.
Posted by: Matt || 04/09/2017 10:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey, I gave up and offloaded my offshore drilling stock 2 months ago.... How long does this "preparing" take? Lots of those offshore drillers are bankrupt or racing there.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/09/2017 14:46 Comments || Top||

#4  http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/pacific-drilling-three-out-of-seven-drillships-out-of-work/
Posted by: 3dc || 04/09/2017 14:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Any arctic drilling would be largely for export to Japan.
Posted by: Slineth Grereger4724 || 04/09/2017 14:51 Comments || Top||

#6  largely for export to Japan
Have they changed the law? Used to be prohibited, so we brought Alaska oil to CA and then shipped CA oil to Japan.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/09/2017 15:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Alaskan crude was exempted from the US' 1975 crude export ban in 1995.
Posted by: Kojo Whenter7701 || 04/09/2017 16:58 Comments || Top||

#8  It doesn't matter who buys any given barrel of oil -- more oil on the market lowers the price for everybody.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/09/2017 21:52 Comments || Top||



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  Church bombing north of Egypt's capital kills 26
Sat 2017-04-08
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  Al-Qaeda assassinates prominent Free Syrian Army commander in Idlib
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