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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Body of FT journalist presumed killed by crocodile found in Sri Lanka
[THEGUARDIAN] The body of a British journalist believed to have been killed by a crocodile has been found in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan police said the body of 24-year-old Paul McClean, who worked for the Financial Times, had been recovered a day after he was seen being dragged into a lagoon by a crocodile.

James Lamont, the FT’s managing editor, said: "Our thoughts are with his family, friends and loved ones. We are in touch with them, doing all we can to help during this difficult time."

Lamont described McClean as "a talented, energetic and dedicated young journalist" who had "a great career ahead of him at the FT".

Divers found McClean’s body in the mud of a lagoon in the coastal village of Panama, 225 miles (360km) east of the capital, Colombo. "There were six or seven wounds on his right leg," a police official told the Agence La Belle France-Presse news agency. "The body was stuck in mud at about the same place where he was seen last by some others who were with him."
Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Guess he didn't taste like chicken.
Posted by: brujotejano || 09/16/2017 11:24 Comments || Top||

#2  "Presumed killed by crocodile." Not killed by the deficiencies of his snotty education industrial complex credentials or his obvious New Soviet Man stature as a FT "journalist..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2017 13:09 Comments || Top||

#3  All of that fancy foreign education and nobody ever tipped him off to the... 'buddy system.'

Thank you SFC Petus, E-5-2, Fort Lewis, Washington.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/16/2017 13:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Guess nothing likes British food.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2017 15:09 Comments || Top||


Whoopi Goldberg: Are We Sure Antifa Isn’t A False Flag By The Right?
[HOTAIR] Sure they are. Take another pill and a nap, Whoops.
Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Remember when she was a comic and a movie star? Me neither!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/16/2017 2:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Whoopie: “I was a functioning drug addict. I went to work because I knew if I didn’t show up, a lot of people would be out of work and I wouldn’t get a check and I wouldn’t have the lifestyle that I needed to buy all my drugs,” said Goldberg, who was rumored to have been hooked on heroin.

“I winded up sitting on a bed for three or four days scared there was something under the bed. I wet the bed, I pooped the bed, I did all kinds of stuff and my roommate came back and said, ‘What is going on?’ I said, ‘There’s something under the bed…’
Posted by: Frank G || 09/16/2017 9:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Actually, while I DON'T think Antifa is a false flag (by the right or by other people), I think that's one of the things the people on the left SHOULD have been asking themselves a long time ago. Also, that Cui Bono? shit they always manage to ask themselves about everything else.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/16/2017 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Around the time the media started to disown aunty fa I was picking up blips that, yes, they (AF) are violent but because they have to be on account of ze Nazis.

Indications to me suggest not only a branding issue, but someone leaked out that there may be elements who have plans for real mischief. You know, other than shutting down bridges and preventing fire/emt from easily getting from A to B.

World: Star Trek TNG comes up with some really neat stories.

Goldberg to Wheaton: here, hold my Vulcan Ale.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2017 10:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Ahh... Whoopsie.... such an idiot...

Isn't she the one one asked McStain if the Republicans were going to bring back slavery? It was the Republicans who *ENDED* slavery. In fact the Republican party was created to end slavery.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/16/2017 11:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Antifa reminds me of the religious zealots in Game of Thrones. Cersee gave them credibility and aimed them on her enemies and they made her life hell once released.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/16/2017 12:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Unlikely, that would take brains.
Posted by: KBK || 09/16/2017 20:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Yet another example of projection by the Left. But let's say, for the sake of argument, Antifa is a false flag op. That means it is OK to kick their unwashed collective arses most thoroughly, right?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/16/2017 21:35 Comments || Top||


Venezuela's Maduro urges starving populace to eat rabbits
Commie govt hands out rabbits for food.
People like rabbits, keep them as pets.
Rabbits eat grass, lettuce, carrots.
People starve.
Commies still run things.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So are they announcing a five year plan to import the giant DPRK strain?
Posted by: Pliny Glons2836 || 09/16/2017 6:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Desperately seeking the "puppies and fluffy bunnies" pic....
Posted by: Pappy || 09/16/2017 11:38 Comments || Top||

#3  It reminds me the story of the the french queen Marie Antoinette who when told that the peaple had no bread said "If they have no bred, why don't they eat cake?"
Posted by: Sneagum Glonter2890 || 09/16/2017 11:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Hasenpfeffer's on the menu
Posted by: Frank G || 09/16/2017 12:01 Comments || Top||

#5  "...gonna killw da wabbit..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2017 14:11 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/16/2017 14:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Bunny Burgers Restaurant chain. A fake chain intended to gross people out.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 09/16/2017 15:46 Comments || Top||

#8  He is a real piece of shit.
Posted by: newc || 09/16/2017 16:24 Comments || Top||

#9  I like rabbit; bet I could eat three in one sitting.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2017 19:43 Comments || Top||

#10  NOT in VZ
Posted by: Frank G || 09/16/2017 20:06 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Pepper spray comes out in St. Louis
[STLTODAY] Former St. Louis police Officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty Friday of murdering a man while on duty.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson's highly anticipated verdict found the white former St. Louis police officer not guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the December 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, a black drug suspect, after a high-speed pursuit and crash.

Activists, with support from some of the city's black clergy, had pledged disruptive protests ahead of Wilson's verdict.

Wilson addressed such statements in his order: "A judge shall not be swayed by partisan interests, public clamor or fear of criticism."

Protesters began gathering immediately. They tried to get on Interstate 64, but were blocked by police. They marched to police headquarters and down Tucker Boulevard.

Police pepper-sprayed a few protesters in the early afternoon as they tried to block police from traveling on Tucker Boulevard between Clark Avenue and Spruce Street. More than 100 police, many with batons and riot shields, were there.

As the protests grew Friday morning, Wells Fargo, Stifel and Nestle Purina PetCare sent their thousands of employees home for the day.
Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The St. Louis black Clergy who encouraged the riots are racial huckster scum, not religious, just like Rev. Al and Jesse
Posted by: Frank G || 09/16/2017 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  They tried to get on Interstate 64, but were blocked by police. They marched to police headquarters and down Tucker Boulevard.

This was a mistake. Let them on to I-64 and keep the 18 wheeler traffic moving transitioning them to roadkill.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/16/2017 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, let them get in front of the MT/ND hay relief efforts. Saved their lives, the police did.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2017 10:41 Comments || Top||

#4  St. Louis just can't wait to be the next Detroit. Would you like to live there now? Me neither (though we did for 16 years. Glad we got out.)
Posted by: Tom || 09/16/2017 15:54 Comments || Top||

#5  I suppose there will be an aid package for domestic respiratory illnesses.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2017 18:06 Comments || Top||

#6  And a $100,000 grant from Dept. of Interior for new street chants.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2017 19:21 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Locust alert for Jalu, Awjila and Jakharra
This is called bad luck. Or possibly Allah just doesn't like them, for some reason.
[Libya Herald] Farmers and residents in Cyrenaica’s Wahat area which comprised the desert oases towns of Jalu, Awjila and Jakharra, have been warned of the arrival of massive swarms of locusts.

The agricultural authorities have expressed concern for the date crop and even the palm trees which they fear could be devastated as a result and have called on locals to try and take action. This usually involves pesticides.

In their search for food, swarms of locusts can travel up to 150 kilometres a day.

Local police in Al-Wahat report that even electricity columns are being covered by locusts.

Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia to cut funds for Donetsk, Lugansk


The Russian 2018 federal budget does not include money for humanitarian aid for the separatist states of Donetsk and Lugansk, according to a Russian language news account.

According to an article that appeared in regnum.ru, during a September 1st meeting with deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak it was announced that the money normally used for aiding the breakaway republic, 165 million rubles (USD $2,864,584.80), will be shifted to Crimea and to Kalinigrad.

An additional 85 million rubles (USD $1,475,695.20) are to be spent on infrastructure projects in Crimea. Other monies are to be spent in Kaliningrad include for a fiber optic data cable and a new ferry line.

The article goes on to state that, thus far, the meeting was held to flesh out proposals; that all of the line items are proposals. Press requests to one of Russian president Vladimir Putin's aides, Dmitry Peskov and another to the finance ministry have so far been left unanswered.

Both Lugansk and Donetsk have been recipients of Russian financial aide in paying for pensions of local residents that Ukraine has refused to pay. How this shifting of money will affect the pensioners is left unstated.

If the proposals come to fruition, it appears to be a clear signal to the West that Russia is ready to abandon its support of the two republics to their fate at the Minsk negotiating table.

A recent proposal from Putin to use UN peacekeeping troops in the region has been met with approval from the civil leadership of Lugansk and Donetsk, an idea soundly rejected by Ukraine. Despite the lack of news and the relative calm in the region, both sides routinely take pot shots at one another daily, and both sides are causing casualties.
Posted by: badanov || 09/16/2017 07:26 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ?
a) short of oil money?
b) now sending black money?
c) Rebels ticked off Poot-Poot somehow?
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/16/2017 12:54 Comments || Top||

#2  it was announced that the money normally used for aiding the breakaway republic, 165 million rubles (USD $2,864,584.80)

So what does that work out to, about 50 cents per head per year? Don't spend it all on vodka.
Posted by: Graising Jusoter2001 || 09/16/2017 13:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Gotta pay for Iran's S400 somehow.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2017 18:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Iran is getting the S-300. Turkey is buying the S-400
Posted by: badanov || 09/16/2017 18:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Uh-huh.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2017 19:49 Comments || Top||


Film Matilda will not be banned
Much of the problem stems from some eroticism on display, and how historical characters such as Czar Nicholas II are portrayed.

Head of the Russian conservative party Rodina's beef with the film appears that it was in part funded by the Russian government.

Rodina party head Alexei Zhuravlev said, "In depriving Russia of a worthy past, they steal from us and our children a worthy future, privatizing it in their "elite" interests."

Hard to argue with his position.

MOSCOW, September 13. /TASS/. Any attempts to exert pressure on cinemas over the screenings of Matilda, a movie describing the love story of last Russian emperor Nicholas II and a ballet dancer, are censorship and lawlessness, Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said on Wednesday.

"Any intentions of 'initiators' on the ground to ban the screenings, any attempts of pressure against private or municipal cinemas are pure lawlessness and censorship, which is directly against the Russian Constitution," Medinsky told TASS.

The Culture Ministry allows the screenings at cinemas in line with legal procedures, Medinsky explained. "The law strictly describes the grounds for any refusal. There are none of them in case with Matilda. We are guided by the law, not private tastes."

"I have personally seen this film. I won’t discuss its content - this is just incorrect until spectators see it. But I confirm: there is nothing offensive in it either for the memory of Nicholas II or for the history of Russia’s monarchy," the minister said. Any discourse about the film until its release is groundless, he stressed.

The minister has called on Russian law enforcement agencies to ensure the rule of law in the situation with Matilda and curb any pressure on the state and cinema business from "activists with their socially dangerous methods of imposing their views."
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The minister has called on Russian law enforcement agencies to ensure the rule of law in the situation with Matilda and curb any pressure on the state and cinema business from "activists with their socially dangerous methods of imposing their views."

Word.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/16/2017 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Rule of law? How quaint!
Posted by: Bobby || 09/16/2017 10:31 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Kim Jong-un vows to complete N Korea nuclear programme
[Al Jazeera] North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
has vowed to complete his nuclear weapons programme in the face of strengthening sanctions after he inspected a powerful new intermediate-range missile that was fired over Japan, according to state news agency KCNA.

The North's state media carried Kim's comments on Saturday, a day after US and South Korean militaries detected the missile launch from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

KCNA said North Korea's goal is reaching an "equilibrium" of military force with the United States and to "make the US rulers dare not talk about military option for the DPRK".
Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies


North Korea missiles 'now capable of hitting Guam'
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Range of latest test 'significant' as it shows Pyongyang's ballistic missiles could reach US Pacific island territory, say experts
U.S. missiles are capable of hitting North Korea.
Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  What did Guam do to Little Kim?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/16/2017 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/16/2017 15:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
DACA Amnesty May Trigger Flood of 4-6M Foreign Nationals democrats, Not 800K
[Breitbart] Should President Trump follow through on a deal where nearly 800,000 illegal aliens are allowed to remain in the United States and eventually obtain U.S. citizenship, research shows it would create a flood of four to six million chain migrants coming to the United States.

Trump, who adamantly opposed the amnesty for illegal aliens protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, is now defending the recipients of the program, as well as leveraging a deal where the foreign nationals could seek a pathway to citizenship through legal status, as Breitbart News reported.

Today, Trump signaled to his supporters that he opposed any sort of chain migration that would follow a DACA amnesty deal, though the deals the White House and Congress are reviewing would all cause such an immigration crisis:

Related: Washington Times - Hillary Clinton calls for end to Electoral College
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/16/2017 00:53 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It will dilute the genuine voting rights of conservative citizens beyond recovery across a number of states, and you will get California-like voting results in enough places like Arizona and Texas to make the electoral college numbers permanently elect one party. Once that is cemented expect huge tax increases, special exemptions or credits for favored identity groups, gun confiscation and the slide to socialism and beyond. This used to be the stuff of far-right fear-mongering, but it is now poised to be the tipping point for our nation. Fight DACA in every way you can!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/16/2017 13:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump abruptly attacks 'chain migration,' a term that worries immigration advocates

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/16/2017 14:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Protesters fill St. Louis streets, [as] ex-cop acquitted of murdering black man
ST. LOUIS - Hundreds of protesters poured into St. Louis streets on Friday, and some scuffles erupted, after a Missouri judge acquitted a former white police officer who was charged with murder in the 2011 fatal shooting of a black man.

...Former city policeman Jason Stockley, 36, was found not guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, 24, in a verdict rendered by a judge five weeks after the end of a non-jury trial. Stockley said Smith fled in his car when the officer tried to arrest him on drug charges.

Stockley and his partner chased Smith, who was shot five times in his car. The former policeman believed Smith was armed, defense attorneys said. A gun was found in the car, but prosecutors argued Stockley planted the weapon and that gun had only Stockley's DNA on it.

...In his ruling, Judge Timothy Wilson said the state had failed to prove a charge of murder beyond a reasonable doubt, or even a lesser charge such as involuntary manslaughter.

The judge also said he doubted the prosecution's claim the gun was planted, writing: "Finally, the court observes, based on its nearly 30 years on the bench, that an urban heroin dealer not in possession of a firearm would be an anomaly."
Incidentally, would I be correct in assuming that the diseased clients' were mostly African-Americans?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/16/2017 01:48 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the PD blocked em from getting on the highway, frustrating their publicity moment
Posted by: Frank G || 09/16/2017 8:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Not too many Korean grocers in St.Louis?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/16/2017 13:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Idjts.

The judge had no choice in the ruling. The Prosecutors decided to go all in for Murder in the First, but the evidence didn't support the charge.

Prosecutors should have gone for a Manslaughter charge. Judge would have probably gone with it. The "target public," at the time charges were announced, however, would have gone bananas about anything but Murder.

It is distressing to see how may of our fellow citizens have no clue as to how our legal system works.

But, of late, law is in the eye of the beholder.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/16/2017 14:12 Comments || Top||

#4  So why would any person want to move to St. Louis now? Why would any business want to relocate or expand there?

St. Louis used to be a great place. But now, with all this silliness going on...
Posted by: Tom || 09/16/2017 15:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Home of Budweiser.
The Stallions have been neutered.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2017 18:02 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
CM Sindh vows to bring 'influential' killers of 19-year-old woman to justice
[DAWN] Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday visited the Jhangara Bjara town of Jamshoro district to condole the murder of a 19-year-old student and promise he would bring the killers to justice.

The chief minister, along with Inspector General of Police (IGP) A.D. Khawaja and other officials, also offered prayers for the victim, who was killed after she refused a marriage proposal from a local influential.

Shah, after talking to the father of the victim, Ghulam Qadir Khaskheli, also ordered Jamshoro SSP Irfan Bahadur to arrest the local station house officer (SHO) for his alleged reluctance to arrest the influential murderers.

He directed IGP Khawaja and SSP Bhahdar to arrest the culprits behind the gruesome murder.

The parents have accused Mohammad Khan Noohani and two of his accomplices for murdering the student after she refused to marry him.

SSP Bahadur confirmed later that SHO Mohammad Ali Khashekhli has been tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
and Maula Bux Noohani was also a prime suspect in the case.

The suspected killers are said to be on the lam in the home constituency of the chief minister.

Shah assured the woman's family that justice would be done and those involved in the murder would be brought to book. He announced that the Sindh government would also extend financial help to the family.

Earlier in the day, a large number of area residents as well as members of civil society had taken to the streets to protest the killing and the alleged reluctance of police to arrest the culprits.
Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Christian man in Lahore sentenced to death over blasphemous WhatsApp text
[DAWN] A Christian man in Lahore has been sentenced to death for blasphemy after he sent a Moslem friend a poem on WhatsApp that insulted Islam, a lawyer said Friday.

The accused was charged in July last year after his friend, Yasir Bashir, complained to police that he received a poem on the messaging app that was derogatory toward the Prophet Mohammed (PTUI!) and other holy figures.

The accused "was handed a death sentence by the court on Thursday on blasphemy charges," defence lawyer Anjum Wakeel told AFP, alleging that his client was been framed by Bashir.

"My client will appeal the sentence in the high court as he has been framed by his friend who was annoyed over his [the accused's] affair with a Moslem girl," Wakeel said.

He said the trial was held inside a prison due to security reasons after local holy mans had threatened the accused and his family.
Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Science & Technology
The 6 Biggest Lies About Eating Meat
h/t Instapundit
...what about all those studies vegans like to quote showing that meat is "bad?" Let's take a closer look.
But Kobe beef is OK, right?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/16/2017 02:14 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My front teeth evolved for ripping and shredding fauna, the back teeth are for grinding flora. Nuff said. Don't argue with nature.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/16/2017 8:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Sure spend a lot of time and effort trying to convince people they are right. Vegan/Veggies, Women can be Middle Line Backers, so forth. Like damn telemarketers and infomercial peddlers.

"Hi! Billy Zane here! And I'm going to show you why the Amazing Kardashians can play infield against the Cleveland Indians!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2017 10:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Guy walks into a bar and the bartender says: "Hey, I bet you're a vegan atheist bicyclist"

Guy: "Wow! How did you know?"

Bartender: "Cuz you tell me every f*cking time you come in"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/16/2017 11:18 Comments || Top||

#4  I remember hari krishna had a presentation on campus showing intestine length between a carnivore and herbivore and showing humans closer to the herbivore length and I was thinking what does that prove when we are omnivores designed to eat whatever.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/16/2017 12:27 Comments || Top||

#5  I read the headline link. Conclusion, we need a "Vegetable cause cancer" article. Seems like according to the article, vegetables is worst than meat when it comes to cancer causing properties.

Little children everywhere will rejoice, "but mom, research has shown vegetables cause cancer, do I still have to eat this?".

Eating fried foods OTOH...
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/16/2017 13:06 Comments || Top||

#6  ...it ain't the meat, it the motion...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2017 14:16 Comments || Top||


Cassini's 'death dive'
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Cassini has finally completed its suicide mission, plunging into Saturn's atmosphere

  • The mission was completed at 07:56 EST (12:54 BST) today, when Cassini was travelling at 70,000mph

  • The radio signal could be seen to flatline, indicating that Cassini had been vapourised in the atmosphere

  • Animation released by Nasa ahead of the event revealed what the journey by Cassini would have looked like

  • Nasa destroyed the robot to avoid crashing into and contaminating nearby moons that may harbor alien life
Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should have parked it in the most stable orbit possible. At least visitors, who knows when, would come upon an artifact from an ancient sentient civilization that past long ago.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/16/2017 8:57 Comments || Top||

#2  •The radio signal could be seen to flatline, indicating that Cassini had been vapourised in the atmosphere

Or it impacted a Saturnian battle cruiser.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/16/2017 15:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Thought orbital bombardment was against the rules?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2017 18:04 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
US judge sides against Trump in fight over 'sanctuary cities'
A federal judge on Friday barred the US Justice Department from denying public-safety grants to so-called sanctuary cities in retaliation for limiting cooperation with the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.

The preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Harry Leinenweber was in response to a legal challenge brought by Chicago, the third-largest city in the United States, but the judge ruled that his order would be applied on a nationwide basis.
I wonder Judge Harry, and a lot of his colleagues, gave thought to the dangers of showing the hoi polloi that the ballots these later cast mean absolutely nothing?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/16/2017 02:06 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  80 yr old hack on Senior status appointed by Reagan. Senile?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/16/2017 8:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Where was this guy when the Feds (under Carter, perhaps?) threatened to withhold highway funds if the States didn't lower the speed limits to 55 mph?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/16/2017 10:23 Comments || Top||

#3  I predict he'll be overturned quickly and encouraged to retire
Posted by: Frank G || 09/16/2017 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Funding paperwork gets lost all the time.
Posted by: Graising Jusoter2001 || 09/16/2017 12:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, I would guess that when Uncle passes out our money it has a bunch of strings attached and if all those conditions are met a "contract" is created. Assuming the DOJ didn't think to include a clause requiring that immigration laws be adhered to, there may be no legal avenue to cut off the current moneys. Nothing preventing a closure of the program and a re-negotiation, however.
/Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, tho I am sometimes an assh*le/
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/16/2017 12:51 Comments || Top||

#6  It's great to be King.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/16/2017 13:27 Comments || Top||


Enrollment drops at schools known for ‘social justice warfare’
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Universities known for being hotbeds of campus protest and liberal activism are struggling with declining enrollments and budget shortfalls, and higher education analysts say that’s no coincidence.

Take Oberlin College. According to a document leaked to The Oberlin Review, the school’s student newspaper, the small liberal arts college famous for social justice hoaxes has had trouble attracting and retaining students, missing this year’s enrollment mark by 80 and racking up a $5 million budget deficit in the process.

William A. Jacobson, a professor at Cornell Law School who runs the Legal Insurrection blog, said the "most obvious culprit" in Oberlin’s dwindling admissions is "relentless social justice warfare."
Posted by: Fred || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...The fact that Oberlin's financial woes had to be leaked in order to see the light of day should tell you something about the way the place works.

The fact that missing just 80 students put them $5M into the hole should tell you something else.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/16/2017 4:42 Comments || Top||

#2  ....as with everything in the Left, math be hard. See - Socialist Economics (eaten a rabbit today?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/16/2017 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  ...I need some unemployment compensation over here..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2017 14:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Converting dorms to homeless shelters.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2017 18:06 Comments || Top||


2 Minnesota moms charged in Michigan genital mutilation case
[Ynet] Two Minnesota mothers have been charged in an investigation of genital mutilation in a Moslem sect, months after bringing their daughters to a bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
-area clinic.

A new indictment was unsealed Thursday in Detroit federal court, raising the number of defendants to eight. The eight include Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, who is accused of performing the procedure.

The News Agency that Dare Not be Named isn't naming the Minnesota moms to protect their daughters' identities. The moms are charged with conspiracy and genital mutilation.

Nagarwala denies any crime and says she performed a religious custom on girls from her Moslem sect, the Dawoodi Bohra. She's been in jail without bail since her arrest in April.
Yes, it is the custom of her people. But in America this custom is s crime.
The indictment says Nagarwala performed genital mutilation on six girls, but prosecutors say the number could be much higher.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Well, we don't do this here, and I'm glad we don't, but can't we deport those two to somewhere that cuts noses off?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/16/2017 12:35 Comments || Top||

#2  General Napier had the right idea:

"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."
Posted by: AlanC || 09/16/2017 14:58 Comments || Top||

#3  2 Minnesota moms charged in genital mutilation case

Somehow I knew their names would not be Inge and Lena.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 09/16/2017 15:29 Comments || Top||

#4  A simple solution is to perform male genital mutilation on all the males involved, including the girls fathers and the male doctors performing the mutilation. Do it to them first! (Male genital mutilation means the complete removal of testicles and penis leaving just a small hole to urinate with.) This will help the male hyper-sexuality problem.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/16/2017 18:31 Comments || Top||

#5  'Eye for an eye'?
I don't think so.
Life for an eye is more of a preventative.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/16/2017 20:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Try it and see how long the FMG trend last.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/16/2017 20:37 Comments || Top||


Jewish conservative’s Berkeley talk held under tight police security
[IsraelTimes] Streets closed around campus, dozens protest address by ex-Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro; security costs for event estimated at $600,000.
It's expensive to allow encourage Black Bloc Brownshirts to run amok.
Police in riot gear ringed the campus of the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Berkeley and surrounding streets Thursday, making sure a smattering of protesters were kept away from dozens of people who lined up to hear a conservative speaker at the famously liberal university.

A handful of people chanted "shame, shame, shame" at those headed into the speech by former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro. Others held signs protesting the university’s decision to host him.

Only two arrests were reported before the speech began. People were taken into custody for battery on a police officer and carrying a banned weapon.

Hundreds of others gathered just to watch the scene unfold on the campus that was on virtual lockdown much of the day.

Streets were closed and concrete barriers were erected in what many saw as the latest polarizing event to raise concerns about violence in the city.
And lets not forget all the therapists on offer in the days ahead of the event -- also available to Conservative students, the administration hastened to add -- to help students cope with the trauma of the idea that a Conservative might be allowed to speak aloud in public.
Authorities sealed off Sproul Plaza ‐ the central hub of the campus ‐ and created a perimeter around several buildings, including the site where Shapiro was set to speak to about 1,000 people who received free tickets.

Shapiro, who is Jewish, was invited to speak by campus Republicans, who say the liberal university stifles the voice of conservative speakers.

Spencer Brown, a front man for Young America’s Foundation, the group organizing Shapiro’s lecture series, "Campus Thuggery," said there should be few problems if police backed up their show of force.

Nick Handley, 18, a high school senior from Modesto, about 135 kilometers (85 miles) east of Berkeley, was among those lined up to see Shapiro. He said he tried to get other people to come with him, but they were afraid about potential violence.

"It really is sad," he said, referring to the heavy police presence. "This is taxpayer money. It’s terrible they have to have this because a speaker wants to share his views."

UC Berkeley front man Dan Mogulof estimated security costs could hit $600,000 for the event. He said the school was committed to ensuring the safety of students and people attending the event, and to making it successful.
Berkeley: making the unthinkable thinkable again.
The city and campus have become a flashpoint this year for the country’s political divisions, drawing murderous Moslem groups from the left and right.

"We can’t turn a blind eye to reality and to what we’ve learned from recent events on this campus and in this city and around the country," Mogulof said.

Police and UC Berkeley officials were criticized last February for giving demonstrators wide latitude and standing aside as anarchists hurled Molotov cocktails at officers and caused $100,000 worth of damage during a planned speech by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. The event was canceled.
And that wasn't the only one. Betcha the university and town have spent a cool $1 million cleaning up after the Antifa attacks they encouraged.
A list of banned items Thursday included shields, masks, bandanas, poles and torches, and for the first time in two decades, the city council authorized city officers to use pepper spray to control violence.

Four political demonstrations have turned violent in Berkeley since February, prompting officers to come up with new strategies to control rowdy and sometimes dangerous crowds.
Not standing aside is a new strategy?
Thursday’s event was being seen as a test run for later in the month, when Yiannopoulos plans to return to campus for what he is calling a "Free Speech Week" on campus featuring conservative commentator Ann Coulter and Steve Bannon, ex-chief strategist for President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
who has returned to Breitbart News.

Campus officials say that event is not yet confirmed.

Shapiro's speech:

Posted by: trailing wife || 09/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  The video was fascinating, including a Q&A at the end. Thank you for adding it, badanov.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/16/2017 21:12 Comments || Top||



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