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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chicago driver shot and killed a gunman - NOT charged
[DailyMail]
  • Surveillance footage captured a man killing a gunman in a shootout

  • On April 8, Ronald Morales spotted a man pumping gas at a BP station in Illinois

  • The 43-year-old walked over to the vehicle and threatened the driver with a gun

  • The driver stepped out of his car, with his own gun, and they exchanged bullets

  • Morales ran off and later died from his injuries, and the driver sped off

  • Police say the man acted in self defense and will not be charged
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/11/2017 09:50 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm actually surprised by this. Not that he was not charged for defending himself, but that they didn't charge him with having a gun in Chicago.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/11/2017 14:47 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm shocked about that too, Rambler.
Posted by: Barbara || 05/11/2017 15:43 Comments || Top||

#3  ..jury trial. An culturally appropriated system to protect citizens from petty tyrants.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/11/2017 15:54 Comments || Top||


Motorist jailed for mowing down cyclist over mobile phone row
[BBC] A woman who deliberately ploughed into a cyclist after being confronted about using her mobile phone behind the wheel has been jailed for three years.

Justine Henshaw-Bryan chased Damien Doughty through Stoke Newington, north London, sending him flying into a tree. Henshaw-Bryan, who is due to give birth in November, said her then boyfriend told her to follow the cyclist, but the judge rejected her claim.

Mr Doughty, 38, was badly hurt, spending three days in intensive care. Sentencing 25-year-old Henshaw-Bryan at Wood Green Crown Court, Judge Gregory Perrins said her actions could have killed Mr Doughty.

"This was a calculated attempt to run him over and use your car as a weapon," the judge said.

"It would have been obvious that to do so would have carried significant risk of injury."

The court heard how the pair nearly collided on Stoke Newington High Street on 10 February 2016, when Henshaw-Bryan pulled out in front of the cycle courier while using her mobile.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2017 06:32 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unmarried with baby-melon, off to fetch beer and chips for the boyfriend. Her circuits were likely already overloaded. Attempting to conduct corrective counseling with these people is a big mistake. Your comments will not be heeded and may well result in a homicidal response.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2017 6:47 Comments || Top||

#2  The female of the species - especially behind a wheel.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2017 11:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Perhaps she lacks an affinity for skinny little men in spandex.
Posted by: Threremp Shaique9414 || 05/11/2017 11:57 Comments || Top||

#4  The female of the species - especially behind a wheel.

And yet it's males 16-25 years of age who pay the most for driving insurance, because of the significantly higher probability that they will be in an accident, g(r)omgoru. It takes a while to get used to testosterone. ;-)

As for Ms Henshaw-Bryan: after she serves her sentence, take away her right to drive until she is forty, assuming she has a acquired common sense by then.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/11/2017 14:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Don't know nada about any insurance, TW. Just know to be careful around women drivers
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2017 14:41 Comments || Top||

#6  And, of course, to beware damn kids.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2017 14:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Words of wisdom, g(r)omgoru. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/11/2017 16:59 Comments || Top||

#8  And yet it's males 16-25 years of age who pay the most for driving insurance, because of the significantly higher probability that they will be in an accident

Actually, women have more accidents. But they are usually at lower speed than men and cause less damage. Hence lower insurance premiums.

Men drive too fast, and women don't pay enough attention, as in this case.

Some stats
Posted by: phil_b || 05/11/2017 21:21 Comments || Top||


As Mexico combats fears about rising crime, a soldier is caught on tape carrying out an execution
Posted by: Chavith Phaviter7124 || 05/11/2017 02:15 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Search Continues For Suspect In ‘Unprovoked Attack’ On 83-Year-Old Man In The Bronx
[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] The search for a suspect continues in what police called "an unprovoked attack" on an 83-year-old man in the Bronx.

Valentine Hernandez had just crossed Westchester Avenue at Fox Street Monday afternoon when police said he was sucker punched by a much younger and much larger man.

The entire incident was captured on surveillance video.
And what did the video tell those who saw it, other than the size and age of the assailant?
Hernandez fell to the ground and lost consciousness, suffering a laceration to his forehead and fractures to his nose and face.

Miguel Santos is now desperate to speak to his elderly father, who is at death's door in Lincoln Hospital.

"Never seen him that way. He was just there unconscious," he said. "It seems like he’s trying to wake up but he can’t. He can’t open his eyes, can’t open his left eye at all. It’s swollen shut."

Hernandez has lived in the Longwood section of the Bronx for decades and was walking his usual route around the neighborhood.

"If he can, goes to church five, six, seven days a week," Santos said. "He goes every single day and he walks himself. He doesn’t have an aide."

What has both Miguel and Sherlocks confused is the motive behind this brutal attack.

"Everything is still here, even cash was still in his pocket,’ said Santos. "Everything is still here, credit cards."

Police say the attacker didn’t say a word before knocking Hernandez unconscious, leaving him in the street. He then fled eastbound on Fox Street.
Posted by: Fred || 05/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah, the punch game again.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/11/2017 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  The knockout game is back!

And more Vibrant! than ever!
Posted by: charger || 05/11/2017 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  "A man" = black yout
Posted by: Frank G || 05/11/2017 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Need to get /pol/ on this
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/11/2017 11:10 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Oldest World War II veteran, a cigar-chomping Texan, turns 111
[Wash Times] Richard Overton, the world’s oldest World War II veteran, is still going strong after 111 years.

Bastrop County, Texas, welcomed Mr. Overton into the world on May 11, 1906, and he still calls it home. Plans are underway for a block party to celebrate the occasion.

The United States Army Air Forces veteran and member of the all-black 1887th Engineer Aviation Battalion the told a local paper on Wednesday that he’s always open to whiskey for a birthday present.

"I like any kind you’ll bring me," Mr. Overtontold the Austin-American Statesman. The veteran, who served in the Pacific Theater from 1942 to 1945, adds a bit of whiskey to his morning coffee, which he also enjoys with cigars.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  God bless you and thank you for your service.
Posted by: Steven || 05/11/2017 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  12 cigars a day. This doesn't fit the mantra.
Posted by: Dale || 05/11/2017 8:46 Comments || Top||

#3  adds a bit of whiskey to his morning coffee. He may not live to be a 125 if he continues this routine. I'll bet he has outlived all his doctors who recommended that he change his life style. Thanks Mr. Overton for your service--a part of the greatest generation.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/11/2017 9:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Richard Overton

An engineer, over a century, and he has a movable window? ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/11/2017 14:39 Comments || Top||

#5  The veteran, who served in the Pacific Theater from 1942 to 1945, adds a bit of whiskey to his morning coffee, which he also enjoys with cigars.

Muh triggerzzz!!!
Posted by: charger || 05/11/2017 18:51 Comments || Top||


Noble Savages boo Ed Secretary DeVos at Hensley-Clancy Commencement
[Right Scoop] Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was heavily booed while she was delivering a commencement address on Wednesday at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college in Florida.

Students jeered DeVos and turned their backs to her, BuzzFeed reports.

BuzzFeed reporter Molly Hensley-Clancy was present at the Bethune-Cookman commencement exercises, and tweeted updates throughout the event. She first documented the students' loud booing of Omarosa Manigault, the White House Office of Public Liaison's director of communications and a close confidante of President Donald Trump from his time on "The Apprentice."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The perpetually unhappy African American entitlement liberals who claim everyone is racist regardless of society handing them everything they could possibly want on a silver platter is never ending. With jobs, opportunities and bright futures finally becoming reality to graduates are never going to be acknowledged by the University Socialist Indoctrination Camps until funding is cut.
Posted by: Glailet Omeack9056 || 05/11/2017 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Savages, yes. Noble, No. Down right rude. These students should shut up, they might learn something if their mouths are not too busy spouting off platitudes which they were provided by the left.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/11/2017 9:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Axe them why they do things like this?
Posted by: Crusader || 05/11/2017 17:29 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Woman attacked by herd of cows
[EADT.CO.UK] A mother-of-three says she is lucky to be alive after being attacked by a herd of cows when walking her dog in fields near Great Yeldham in Essex.

Carol Green, 52, of Goodchild Way, has warned others to avoid the animals, especially if they are with young calves.

Ms Green was walking through farmland close to the village when the ’horrifying’ attack happened.

She said the herd suddenly came at her, knocking her to the floor and headbutting her.

"It was absolutely horrifying," she said. "It was a living nightmare."

"I tried to keep calm and walk a little faster but they had blocked the stile.?"They were just closing in. The large one seemed to be leading the others.

"Then it headbutted me, it had its head like a bull would have it.

"It knocked me off my feet and then started kicking me about with its hooves and its head."

Ms Green, who says she has been suffering nightmares and flashbacks since the attack, managed to escape by climbing over a gate and making her way to a nearby fishing pond.

"There was a chap there who heard the screams but didn’t pay much attention because he thought it was youths messing about.

"He put me in the car and took me home, called the police and rang the paramedics.

"I was then taken by ambulance to Broomfield Hospital. I suffered bad bruising mainly. I had to get the back of my ear glued because there was a nasty cut behind my ear."
Posted by: Fred || 05/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And you thought deer were a problem.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/11/2017 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  A traditional 'squeeze stile' somewhere in the countryside.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2017 0:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Just the cow way of saying MOOOoovve along now....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/11/2017 0:37 Comments || Top||

#4  She would not be alive today if not for bovine intervention.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 05/11/2017 1:21 Comments || Top||

#5  So what was the cows' beef with her?
Posted by: gorb || 05/11/2017 2:14 Comments || Top||

#6  She looked at them moving in with udder disbelief.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/11/2017 7:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Beat me to the udder. Figures.

It's utterly mad to do battle
On foot, in the open, with cattle.
It would've behooved her
To mount up, maneuver,
And flank 'em (or maybe skedaddle).

And what about the dog? Death of journalism... you're soaking in it.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 05/11/2017 9:03 Comments || Top||

#8  I've never herd such a thing.
Posted by: Crusader || 05/11/2017 15:17 Comments || Top||

#9  I thought this would be about a full figured ladies' shoe sale.
Posted by: charger || 05/11/2017 18:49 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
THAAD deployment to turn region into nuclear battlefield: North Korea
[217.218.67.231] North Korea has warned that the deployment of a US-made missile system in South Korea will turn the Korean Peninsula into a nuclear battlefield.

The Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) "is a source of a nuclear disaster being brought to our race at the moment," said a report in North’s state-run Korean Central TV on Wednesday.

The installation of THAAD began last month amid rising tensions over North Korea’s ballistic and nuclear tests. China and Russia have also criticized the deployment of THAAD, saying it would significantly affect the balance of power in the region and would lead to more instability. Washington and Seoul had agreed on the installation in the summer of 2016.

The US missile system is equipped with a powerful detection system known as an X-band radar, which experts say would destabilize regional security and upset the region’s current military balance.

Posted by: Fred || 05/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Thaad doesn't have nuclear warheads. Just your stupid NKor crap has them.
Posted by: 3dc || 05/11/2017 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  All you have to do is end the war. Everything will lock into place and be better then.
Posted by: newc || 05/11/2017 2:36 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Couple killed for ‘honour’
[DAWN] SHANGLA: A couple was killed for honour in Donkacha Chauga area of the district.

DSP Puran circle Zeerab Gul told mediapersons here on Tuesday that the girl (23) and man (27) were allegedly rubbed out by brothers of the girl late on Monday night. He said that the bodies were found in the room of girl at her house.

Mr Gul claimed that the girl’s family members had decided to kill the two after suspicion that they had illicit relations. He said that they were killed with Kalashnikov fire. He said that after the attack brothers of the girl, Ali Rehman and Mohammad Waseem, surrendered to police.

The police started the paperwork but haven't done much else under Section 302 and 311 of the Pakistain Panel Code and have started investigation.

Posted by: Fred || 05/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


CJP takes notice of employer allegedly cutting off domestic help's hand
[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Wednesday took notice of an employer in Punjab's Sheikhupura cutting off her domestic help’s hand.

The chief justice instructed the Inspector General Police of Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

to submit a report on the incident within two days.

Justice Nisar took notice of the incident after media reports claimed that the lady employer allegedly cut the right hand of her 13-year-old domestic help with a fodder machine.

The local police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against four people on Tuesday on the orders of a lower court for allegedly chopping off help's hand.

Jannat Bibi, the boy’s mother, moved the district and sessions judge who directed the police to register a case.

The police registered the case against the employer Shafqat Bibi, her brother Zafar Tarrar and two others and placed in durance vile
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
Zafar.

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
has also sought a report from the Sheikhupura regional police officer about the incident.

He said the culprits involved in torture and amputation of hand of the boy be arrested and should be dealt with according to the law.

Posted by: Fred || 05/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Harvard Univ. to host commencement ceremony honoring black students
(CNN) Michael Huggins' grandfather never learned how to read or write. He was born in Mississippi when Jim Crow laws still legalized racial segregation, but eventually left in the 1950s by riding in the trunk of a car that was leaving the state. Two generations later, his grandson is graduating from Harvard.

"If he hadn't made his decision to leave and find a better life for his family, I wouldn't be here," Huggins said. "Graduating from Harvard, it's spiritual for me. And I know so many people who have stories like that."

Huggins, who will graduate with a master's degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, hopes that such stories will be shared and celebrated at Harvard University's first commencement ceremony specifically honoring black graduates.

The event, to be held two days prior to Harvard's traditional commencement, aims to honor the achievements of black students at Harvard and to share their experiences with the larger community.

More than 300 students and 500 guests have registered to attend the May 23 event. The event will be an optional, additional ceremony.

The ceremony, Huggins said, is not meant to be divisive, but rather an affirmation of identity and community.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2017 05:55 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The goal is not a separate commencement ceremony. The goal is a completely separate institution and government. Embedded tribalism cannot simply be whisked away with the magic broom of multiculturalism.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2017 7:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I've been through all this $hit before, with the separate graduations and proms and what not and I'm sick of it.

If you (anyone) doesn't want to be part of the society than move out. All of those entertainers and athletes can pony up a few mill each and get you started elsewhere.

Back in '67 when I graduated HS was right in the middle of the mess. There was major rioting 10 miles away etc. etc. You were in the right then, you won as you should have, now deal with it.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/11/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  once "separate" they'll fail and then demand even more subsidy from whites and other groups without mass cultural failure.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/11/2017 8:20 Comments || Top||

#4  ....once "separate" they'll fail and then demand even more subsidy from whites and other groups without mass cultural failure.

And when those subsidies are gone, the nationalization of private businesses and natural resources will be forthcoming. Anyone detect a pattern ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2017 8:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Huggins, who will graduate with a master's degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a racialist chip on his unemployable shoulders
Posted by: Frank G || 05/11/2017 8:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Harvard is racist? Who would have known (sark)?
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/11/2017 9:39 Comments || Top||

#7  If you wanted to reverse the effects of the enlightenment, and turn education into a joke - what would you do differently?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2017 11:23 Comments || Top||

#8  as Instapundit says,

they told me that if I voted for Trump racial segregation would be back in the University and they were right
Posted by: lord garth || 05/11/2017 12:35 Comments || Top||

#9  I wonder if African Americans have really thought out the end game of all of this voluntary apartheid. They can't realistically live isolated from whites in the real world can they?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/11/2017 13:03 Comments || Top||

#10  "They can't realistically live isolated from whites in the real world can they?"

RJ - as long as it's enabled by the rest of us ...sure...as long as we pay for it and let it happen.

Case in point - UC Santa Cruz and the recent cave to the black demands. Working out pretty good for them I'd say. How far would non-black conservatives get if they tried the same thing? You know the answer..
Posted by: Warthog || 05/11/2017 14:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Never mind isolated, rjschwarz. What happens when white guilt runs out?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2017 14:38 Comments || Top||

#12  Somebody axe them if this was what MLK dreamed of?
Posted by: Crusader || 05/11/2017 15:14 Comments || Top||

#13  ...separate one for Asians too?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/11/2017 15:55 Comments || Top||

#14  It all started in the U.S. Congress where there is no white caucus, no Asian caucas, no Latino caucus, but there is a black caucus.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 05/11/2017 22:42 Comments || Top||

#15  makes it easier to pool campaign dollars for a criminal defense atty retainer
Posted by: Frank G || 05/11/2017 23:43 Comments || Top||


Government
U.S. Government Posts $182 Billion Surplus in April
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government had a $182 billion budget surplus in April, confounding market expectations for a deficit, according to Treasury Department data released on Wednesday.

The budget surplus was $106 billion in April 2016, according to Treasury's monthly budget statement.

The fiscal 2017 year-to-date deficit was $344 billion compared with $353 billion in the same period of fiscal 2016.

When accounting for calendar adjustments, the surplus last month was $145 billion compared with an adjusted surplus of $146 billion the prior year. The adjusted deficit for the fiscal year to date was $373 billion compared with $314 billion the prior fiscal year period.

Receipts last month totaled $456 billion, up 4 percent from April 2016, while outlays stood at $273 billion, a decrease of 18 percent from the same month a year earlier.
Posted by: Snomose Whemp8215 || 05/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now we can raise interest rates and bin ZIRP.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/11/2017 8:33 Comments || Top||

#2  It's one of those stories one wishes wasn't reported. Now the "Deep State" will feel obligated to spend this money before the new fiscal year.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/11/2017 9:38 Comments || Top||

#3  If only it could be kept a secret.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/11/2017 10:26 Comments || Top||

#4  NYT "Budget surplus causes Global Warming"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2017 11:24 Comments || Top||

#5  the April surplus is a result of the April filing deadline

because more people are asking for extensions each year, the anticipated surplus was about $100B but apparently, a lot of people paid estimated taxes with their extension.
Posted by: lord garth || 05/11/2017 17:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Another Hate Crime Hoax - (in Minnesota)
[TheCollegeFix] A note that used the n-word and threatened a black female student at St. Olaf College -- sparking an intense protest that led to classes being shut down for a day as student demonstrators accused the school of institutional racism -- "was not a genuine threat," the school’s president said Wednesday.

President David Anderson said in an email to students that an investigation into the note identified a person of interest "who confessed to writing the note."
also see the demands which included the usual stuff plus a little bit of anti semitism at:

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32489/
Posted by: lord garth || 05/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Perhaps, the most pathetic aspect of this incident is the college President's initial reaction. Even though it was clear at the time his first email didn't mention the whole thing was a hoax. It's almost as if he was content to let the false narrative fester. Doyathink?
Posted by: DepotGuy || 05/11/2017 9:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Just another academic coward, DG.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2017 11:26 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2017-05-11
  Jakarta’s Christian governor jailed for blasphemy
Wed 2017-05-10
  US ignores Turkey’s objection, approves arming Kurdish forces in Syria
Tue 2017-05-09
  Egypt issues life sentence for Muslim Brotherhood chief
Mon 2017-05-08
  Confirmed: Head of ISIS In Afghanistan Killed In Raid By 50 U.S. Special Ops, 40 Afghan Commandos
Sun 2017-05-07
  Ismail Haniyeh elected new head of Hamas
Sat 2017-05-06
  New Jersey Man Charged With Attempting to Support ISIS, Planning NYC Bombing
Fri 2017-05-05
  US drone strike leaves 7 ISIS-K militants dead in East of Afghanistan
Thu 2017-05-04
  Kurd, Turkish army troops fighting near Rojava
Wed 2017-05-03
  Taliban kill 27 ISIS militants in East of Afghanistan
Tue 2017-05-02
  FBI translator married ISIS terrorist she was supposed to investigate: report
Mon 2017-05-01
  Al-Qaeda ready to join forces with Saudi-led groups to fight ‘Houthi Shia’ in Yemen
Sun 2017-04-30
  Jaish Al-Islam executes Al-Qaeda commander as rival jihadists slaughter each other in Damascus
Sat 2017-04-29
  ISIS on its last legs as the Syrian Army imposes full control over gas field in east Homs
Fri 2017-04-28
  Fighting between Kurds and Turkish troops continue in Northern Syria
Thu 2017-04-27
  Damascus airport rocked after 'Israel air strike' on arms depot


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