Should be War on Terror but I think not in the conventional sense - this is yet another case of a nut wanting to created terror for his personal infamy, (I think. Unless his name turns out to be Mohammed.)
Five dead, seven scenes being investigated after Rancho Tehama shooting
Johnston said they do not have an accurate count of all those who have been injured. Johnston added they know that the shooter was engaged by officers shortly after arrival and they believe the shooter was killed by two officers who engaged with him.
A witness named Tiffany, who operates Coffee Addiction Coffee Shop near the school, told KRCR News Channel 7 she heard 90-100 shots fired.
Moved to Lurid Crime Tales at 10:00 p.m. ET because it looks like another nut with a history of violence, not a jihadi. Five dead, including killer Kevin Janson Neal, ten injured after the killer was unable to get into the locked-down school, and went elsewhere to get his shooting on. Some members of Mr. Neal's family are missing, with the hint that Mr. Neal may be responsible.
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Mental illness and terrorism are linked, but not the same. News coverage of incidents is definitely provoking berserk outbursts like this. More to come, for sure.
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Apparently his neighbors report he'd been shooting hundreds of rounds, probably in his neighborhood. He was not, apparently, arrested for the issue. Whether his neighbors didn't report it or the cops didn't follow up...or there wasn't actually a law about discharge of a fire arm within the jurisdiction....
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[AP] WASHINGTON ‐ Attorney General Jeff Sessions is leaving open the possibility that a special counsel could be appointed to look into Clinton Foundation dealings and an Obama-era uranium deal, the Justice Department said Monday in responding to concerns from Republican lawmakers.
In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, which is holding an oversight hearing Tuesday, the Justice Department said Sessions had directed senior federal prosecutors to "evaluate certain issues" raised by Republican lawmakers. President Donald Trump has also repeatedly called for investigations of Democrats.
The prosecutors will report to Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and recommend whether any new investigations should be opened, whether any matters currently under investigation require additional resources and whether it might be necessary to appoint a special counsel to oversee a probe, according to a letter sent to Rep. Robert Goodlatte of Virginia, the Judiciary Committee’s Republican chairman.
The letter from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd did not say what specific steps might be taken by the Justice Department to address the lawmakers’ concerns, or whether any of the matters Republicans have seized on might already be under investigation by federal authorities.
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It is beyond obvious at this point that the Deep State is blackmailing Sessions into inactivity. He should be on top of this stuff, and yet he does little or nothing. We know for a fact that their spying gives them tremendous power to selectively leak about their enemies, and Sessions needs to be replaced with someone that can do the job.
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We know for a fact that their spying gives them tremendous power to selectively leak about their enemies
You must be referring the the 'spying' that POTUS correctly referred to at Trump Towers.
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It is beyond obvious at this point that the Deep State is blackmailing Sessions into inactivity.
It's either that, and / or the DOJ employees are throwing the monkey wrenches in by sitting on their hands and doing nothing. Either way, it would be nice to leave, nuke it from orbit and start over from scratch.
[PJ] Have you ever heard of David Kenneth Smith? Chances are you haven't ‐ he's a rabid anti-Trumper, thus his story didn't fit any convenient narrative. News of his arrest was treated as a local story with no national significance. However, if this freak had been a right-wing activist, he'd have been a front-page story in every paper in the country.
Smith, 39, was arrested in Orange County, Calif., on Nov. 2 following an investigation involving the Joint Terrorism Task Force. He was charged with one felony count of making criminal threats after threatening a university professor through emails and posting threatening YouTube videos ‐ in one he talked about going on a "killing spree."
Police recovered nine loaded firearms registered to Smith after his arrest, according to Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials.
On Nov. 1, Smith allegedly began exchanging emails with an instructor at Soka University in Aliso Viejo about disciplinary actions taken against him for smoking marijuana when he attended the university in 2008.
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Police said the Vegas shooter had lost tremendous amounts of money in the past year, Besoeker. And then there is the question of the anxiety meds -- we know anxiety/depression meds trigger violent ideation in some people.
Beyond that, though, nothing definitve as far as I am aware.
[Daily Caller] Three of the women who have accused Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore of making advances on them when they were teenagers, including both of the women who have accused Moore of sexually abusing them, are reportedly Republicans.
That Moore’s alleged victims are Republicans appears to work against the Moore campaign’s defense that the accusations are made up for political purposes.
The latest accuser, Beverly Young Nelson, says both she and her husband, who is a truck driver, are Republicans and voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
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Moore is a conspiracy theorist and an advocate of far-right politics. He earned significant national attention and controversy over his strongly anti-homosexual, anti-Muslim, and far-right views, his belief that Christianity should order public policy,[8][9] as well as his past ties to neo-Confederates and white nationalist groups. Moore was a leading voice in the birther movement, which promoted the debunked
Which one of these issues (or all) is what his betters don't like. The accuser is said to be a Clinton supporter and worked in her campaign. What is the actual evidence. I know Gloria Allred says things but what is the actual evidence?
[Daily Caller] Years before Fusion GPS became famous for its work on the Trump dossier, the opposition research firm worked for Tom Steyer, the billionaire Democratic donor currently waging a $20 million TV campaign to impeach President Trump.
A Daily Caller investigation reveals that in 2012, Steyer, a hedge fund chieftain and environmental activist, hired Fusion GPS and its founding partner, Glenn Simpson, to conduct an investigation to help pass a ballot initiative aimed at closing a tax loophole for California businesses and funneling money to clean energy projects.
Steyer poured $32 million into "Yes on Prop 39," a committee he formed to support ballot initiative Proposition 39. The successful campaign made Steyer a rising star in the world of Democratic politics. The party’s most generous donor in the 2016 election cycle ‐ giving more than $90 million to various political action committees ‐ Steyer is said to be considering running for political office.
The connection between Fusion GPS to Steyer and his "Yes on Prop 39" campaign has not been previously reported, and there is almost no public information linking them.
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Good - he continues to spend good money after bad. As I've commented previously, this guy has zero political instincts and is reacting purely out of spite. Stay out of his way while he continues to destroy himself and his pot of gold.
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There is a term Dunning–Kruger effect for people with delusions of competence in their field of endeavor. But what is the term for people who think that competence in one area makes them universally competent - all these IT/market speculator billioneres?
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prop 39 basically confiscated some corporate taxes (est. $300-500M) that would have gone to the general fund to use in energy efficiency projects in California school (K-12)
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a Fusion GPS Client My only surprise is that he doesn't own Fusion GPS.
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We're very busy in Washington right now doing the people's business. After the Tax Reform Act is passed, congress and the DOJ will have to have a look at this so-called research firm Fusion GPS. You'll see !
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But what is the term for people who think that competence in one area makes them universally competent
I can't name it, but lots of scientists firmly believe their brilliant insights in their area of expertise necessarily translates to brilliant insights in other fields. The legitimately brilliant Linus Pauling and his mega-doses of vitamin C comes to mind.
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TW, it’s not completely unwarranted, since applying logical and evidence based thinking to a problem often gives a better result than raw emotion. But scientists often get it wrong, even in their own field. For example, Lord Kelvin felt that x-rays would prove to be a fraud and heavier than air flight is impossible.
Hawking has a hopefully terminal case of ultracrepidarianism.
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I look at that word, ultracrepidarianism, and immediately I know why it is not a well known or often used word.
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One question though: Do Steyer's TV commercials air outside of California? Are they nationwide?
I ask because as I listen to the way he speaks, his tone of voice, the totally unfounded accusations he makes and as I watch his facial expressions it seems to me this guy is way in the heck further off his rocker than all of the rest of the loonie, lefty politicians and SJWs. I think if he was wound up any tighter he'd start foaming at the mouth and require a straight jacket.
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An ultracrepidarian pastor
Encroached on the turf of his master:
"The law is an ass!"
Heard His canons, en masse,
As they raced to enforce the cadastre.
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Abu, I saw one of Steyer's spots on the satellite over the weekend.
His main lack of personality issue seems to be that he talks to people like they're his employees. Not terribly persuasive.
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"Listen, you dumb proles. What lies do I have to tell you to get you to fall in line. Don't make me spend more than I have to, dammit."
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[Daily Caller] The FBI signaled this week agents may be investigating whether Planned Parenthood’s dealings in fetal tissue were legal.
Sources told The Hill the FBI has requested documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee obtained from the committee’s investigation into Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue dealings. The investigation came after the Center for Medical Progress published a series of explosive videos in 2015 revealing the abortion giant was harvesting and distributing aborted baby parts for researchers.
CMP alleges Planned Parenthood was illegally profiting from the exchange of limbs and organs, and the House and Senate launched investigations into the non-profit’s practice. Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley referred Planned Parenthood to the FBI at the conclusion of that investigation, saying his committee found evidence indicating the group was profiting.
Democrat party Congressional candidate David Alcon arrested on stalking charges
Democrat David Alcon had been running for the open District 2 congressional seat in New Mexico until two weeks ago when a warrant was issued out of Santa Fe for his arrest. Since then, he’s been hiding from police. They found him in an apartment in Albuquerque on Friday.
Alcon is accused of stalking by a woman who claims he started texting her after seeing him at a Halloween party. She has known Alcorn for a decade and had received texts in the past, but these were getting more aggressive. He texted that he loved her and wanted to have children with her. He also sent her a picture of his genitals. When he texted that he was outside of her home, she called police.
Tom Sizemore caught molesting girl in 2003
Actor Tom Sizemore was told to leave a Utah film set in 2003 after an 11-year-old actress told her mother that he had touched her genitals, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Months later, he returned for reshoots in Malibu after her parents declined to press charges. The incident has never been revealed publicly.
John Travolta fingered for 2000 sexual assault
Hollywood star John Travolta has been named in a criminal complaint by a 21-year-old masseur who accused the actor of sexual battery that reportedly took place in 2000.
According to the bombshell police report, the masseur alleged that Travolta groped his bare buttocks and indecently exposed himself during a deep body massage at the LaQuinta Hotel in Palm Springs, California.
Sulu sez the Rooshuns dunnit Is there nothing the Russians can't do?
George Takei has blamed Russian bots for spreading an actor's claim that he was drugged and sexually assaulted by the Star Trek icon.
Takei, who has denied the sexual assault allegations, tweeted out a chart that reportedly showed Russian bot activity over 48 hours. The Tweet has since been deleted.
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I thought Spacey was a good actor as well but then again I think most actors live in a la la land of delusion and make-believe. Hollywood is Predatory Land where people are bought and sold.
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Remember "Primary colors"? I betcha if you put him on one side of the room and Willy in another, lots of people who came to meet Willy would go to Travolta.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Amazon.com Inc has bought the global television rights to “The Lord of the Rings,” the company said on Monday, in what may be its biggest and most expensive move yet to draw viewers to its streaming and shopping club Prime. This week: Saruman's putting on a new show at the Club, but doesn't want Gimli to be in it.
Amazon said it will produce a multi-season series that explores new storylines preceding author J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first installment in the famed fantasy trilogy. This week: Sauron's been selling whiskey to the Orcs. Aragorn and Jim Hardy have to get the goods on him.
Three movies made of the trilogy in the early 2000s, filmed in New Zealand and based on Tolkien’s novels, garnered nearly $3 billion at the box office and 17 Academy Awards. This week: Gandalf accidentally turns himself into a hat rack.
New Line Cinema, which distributed the film trilogy, the Tolkien Estate and Trust, and publisher HarperCollins will work with Amazon to produce the television series. Amazon did not say how much it was paying for the rights. This week: Rosie thinks she might be pregnant. Sam tells her he's too young to settle down...
The project underscores a shift in Amazon’s video programming. Its studio started in 2010 with a focus on unique shows beloved by critics, such as “Transparent,” about a father coming out as transgender to his family. This week: Pippin's barrel of Old Toby is missing. He suspects Bilbo.
That was a winning formula for attracting Hollywood talent, awards and buzz, though not Prime subscribers around the world.
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This week Aragorn lectures the Hobbits on the evil of pipeweed
Next week Jesse Underhill forms the Shire Association for the Advancement of Orcs Bringing all peoples of Middle Earth under one large Rainbow.
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And isn't so boring. Honestly, I find it hard to watch these days despite owning all the extended editions. By the third one, it got very cliche and the Hobbit ones didn't make that feeling go away. I've only watched it once and feel no desire to rewatch.
And I tried to watch the Shannara series...modern fabrics, accents and actors made of wood just make it....bad.
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The LOTR trilogy was fine. Like Silentbrick, I had trouble watching one of the Hobbit movies, and I think a series will suck eggs worse than Lt. Tom Paris playing 'Captain Proton' on the holodeck of the USS Voyager.
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I never put that together but the name is from Jewish myth and he is crazy over his precious like the worst stereotype. Yet Gollum is the one that destroys the ring and saves Middle Earth.
The Shannara show...I read the books..show was everything kinda ho hum about the books with a Twilight polishing. Felt like I was watching some show on MTV.
Thought the Fellowship trilogy was good, especially trying to live up to the material. Hobbit trilogy was a puppy mill massacre. The only thing they got right was an explanation of dragon sickness, which from a real lecturer of literature explained would have been a well known allegory when Tolkien wrote The Hobbit.
Other than remaking House of Cards, there are some logistical problems here, if you will. That is, characters who transition from The Hobbit to Fellowship, Bilbo and Gandalf and also buddyfkd into this topic, Legolas and Saruman. Who is going to fill those roles? Also, we already know whether good or evil will win, because the conclusion is sitting in boxes next to the TV. All there is to do is have a bunch of brand new characters isolated from any previous brand work other than a name drop here and there doing whatever. If I wanted to watch a bunch of characters I don't care about talk about things which don't matter in a fantasy setting, I can watch ScyFi or ESPN.
I simply do not understand why The Silmarillion isn't tapped, other than drugsn'sex overtaking creativity in non-reality entertainment. Sure, the book is as exciting as watching a box turtle hunt down a beetle, but there are some plot points which are not only open ended but could be expanded into a three or even six part movie series.
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Heard a joke years ago about a Hollywood producer who was driving to work one day and had a brainstorm about a new original idea for a show that had never been done.
He called in and quit over the phone because he was so ashamed.
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Where did the old b/w SC from the 50's go?
Too close to documentary news I guess.
[NYTIMES] Raise a glass to Georgia, which could now be the birthplace of wine.
The country, which straddles the fertile valleys of the south Caucasus Mountains between Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the Middle East, may have been home to the first humans to conquer the common grape, giving rise to chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon and thousands of other reds and whites we enjoy today.
In a study published Monday, researchers found wine residue on pottery shards from two archaeological sites in Georgia dating back to 6,000 B.C. The findings are the earliest evidence so far of wine made from the Eurasian grape, which is used in nearly all wine produced worldwide.
"Talk about aging of wine. Here we have an 8,000-year-old vintage that we’ve identified," said Patrick McGovern, a molecular archaeologist from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and lead author of the study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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[DAWN] Iranian rescue workers dug through rubble in a hunt for survivors on Monday after a major earthquake struck the Iran-Iraq border, killing at least 415 and injuring thousands.
The 7.3-magnitude quake hit a border area 30 kilometres southwest of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan at around 9:20 pm on Sunday. Many people would have been at home when the quake hit Iran's western province of Kermanshah, where authorities said it killed at least 407 people and injured 6,700.
Across the border in Iraq, where the areas are more sparsely populated, the health ministry said eight people had died and several hundred been injured.
Some Iranians spent the night outdoors after fleeing their homes in the mountainous cross-border region, huddling around fires at dawn as the authorities deployed help to affected areas.
A woman and her baby were pulled out alive from the rubble in the Iranian town of Sar-e Pol-e Zaham, the worst hit in the quake, local media reported.
Officials said they were setting up relief camps but that access to the areas was not easy.
Update from The Times of Israel at 10:25 a.m. ET: death toll increased to 530, injured now more than 6,700. Both are subject to change, given that there are always double counts and overcounts in the early days after a disaster, whether natural or man-made. No change in the Iraqi numbers at this point, but the Iraqi side of the border is sparsely populated.
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[DAWN] Hundreds of people marched on Sunday in Hollywood, joining a growing movement against sexual harassment and abuse that emerged after movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and later a string of film personalities faced accusations of misconduct. Hearts and prayers. [urp!]
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I'm having a real hard time coming up with sympathy for the women.
If they were truly young (age<17) okay, but the sleasey nature of Hollywood and the need to f*** your way to the top has been known for nigh on 100 years so they knew what they were getting into for the most part. Then they pull out their sob stories after decades? This doesn't make the guys any less despicable but as g(r)om implied victimhood sells now.
[WFLA] CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) ‐ A Clearwater Beach resident is fighting to keep his emotional support squirrel that lives with him at Island Walk Condominiums.
Ryan Boylan and Brutis are inseparable.
He rescued her last year after Hurricane Matthew.
"Ever since then I mean, oh my God, I can’t imagine not being around her," said Boylan.
But he could lose her.
Property management discovered Brutis back in April when she was chased up a tree by a dog.
According to a complaint filed by the condo association to Boylan and the condo owner, exotic animals are not allowed. He never told the board about the animal. Bushy-tailed tree rats are exotic? I got a fortune chittering in my back yard!
He was sent a notice last month to give up the squirrel or be evicted.
"I was very sad that he had to basically push every single limitation that he could to try and get me out because of Brutis," said Boylan.
In the complaint, attorneys state Boylan never submitted paperwork that Brutis was an emotional support animal until this past summer.
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In the complaint, attorneys state Boylan never submitted paperwork that Brutis was an emotional support animal until this past summer.
Never submitted paper work? Exotic animal?
He should have submitted the "Endangered species" paperwork.
[BUZZ.BLOG.AJC] Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is quite a doll – literally. She’s thrilled to have inspired a Barbie in her likeness, and especially proud that the doll will be the first Barbie to wear a hijab. “This is a childhood dream come true,” she posted. The doll is part of the “She-ro” line.
“We are so excited to honor Ibtihaj Muhammad with a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll!” Mattel posted. “Ibtihaj continues to inspire women and girls everywhere to break boundaries.”
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She had better look like a paper towel tube with arms if Mattel doesn't want some kind of fatwah issued against them.
Military vehicles have been seen heading towards the Zimbabwean capital Harare after a military chief warned the army could "step in" amid a political row.
On Monday, the head of the armed forces General Constantino Chiwenga demanded an end to a purge in the ruling ZANU-PF party after the sacking of the country's vice president Emmerson Mnangangwa.
General Chiwenga said his forces may intervene if the removal from influential positions of key figures in Zimbabwe's 1970s liberation wars goes on.
Mr Mnangagwa, 75, a veteran of the liberation wars, had been viewed as a probable successor to 93-year-old Robert Mugabe before the president fired him on 6 November.
His sacking appeared to pave the way for Mr Mugabe's 52-year-old wife Grace to succeed him. Well OK then...
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Sixty to seventy thousand years of brutal tribal tyranny interrupted by a microscopic period of western colonialism. Appears they're back on track with their true legacy. Bugger on !
[BARRONS - The following pulled from Yahoo - spit, spit] Standard & Poor's declared Venezuela in "selective default" on Monday, after it failed to make $200 million in payments on its global bonds, becoming the first credit ratings agency to do so.
The agency said it acted after a 30-day grace period had passed on payments on two bonds.
"We have lowered two issue ratings to 'D' (default), and we lowered the long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating to 'SD' (selective default)," the agency said.
S&P's verdict came after the Venezuelan government met with international creditors in Caracas but offered no concrete plan for restructuring its $150 billion debt.
Participants at the meeting told AFP that officials said the government intended to form working groups to evaluate short- and mid-term debt renegotiation proposals, but gave no specifics.
"We would very likely consider any Venezuelan restructuring to be a distressed debt exchange and equivalent to default given the highly constrained external liquidity," S&P said.
"In addition, in our opinion, US sanctions on Venezuela and government members will most likely result in a long and difficult negotiation with bondholders," it said.
Besides the two bond payments it has defaulted on, Venezuela is overdue on four other debt payments but they were still within the 30 day grace period, S&P said.
Ratings on those bonds also will be lowered to "D," of default, if not paid on time, it said.
The unpaid obligations total $420 million, the agency said.
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Oh noes - there go my interest payments, printed on toilet paper!
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Years ago my Insurance Agent was trying to sell me a retirement annuity based on a *drumroll* International Stock Fund. When I saw Venezuela in it ( 15% returns, no less!!!) I quietly told him I wasn't interested...
[Daily Caller] LiAngelo Ball and his two UCLA basketball teammates were freed from Chinese custody early Tuesday after President Donald Trump intervened on their behalf.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill had all boarding a Delta flight home after being detained for over a week. They slipped out of possibly serving up to ten years for allegedly stealing from a Louis Vuitton store in Hangzhou, China.
Trump spoke directly to Chinese President Xi Jinping about the players during his trip to Asia, and now they’re out less than 24 hours later.
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Cheap positive publicity for Xi, with a possible upside attaboy chip for him to use in later negotiations. We get these clowns back. Trump acts like Trump. I have seen articles harrumphing about not leaving Americans detained in foreign hellholes. There is something to that, but if these guys did the crime, they need to be punished, not bailed out and feted.
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I'm going to have to say that Trump is making a big mistake here. I think we should have left them there.
I dunno what color these assholes were, but they were just a bunch of Entitled Western Race Retards who are gonna suffer a lot when they're older as our civilization finally goes bankrupt.
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I think these clowns (three black basketball players at UCLA) should have spent a month there, just as a reminder what a Communist country is like (sans due process).
I think these clowns (three black basketball players at UCLA) should have spent a month there, just as a reminder what a Communist country is like (sans due process).
In a nutshell, they believed all the bullshit ladled out in history class about the main source of evil in this world being because of the Confederacy, the Nazis, and Boss Hawg and the Duke Boys, Bo and Luke. And then proceeded to steal worthless trinkets with a high price tag because of its worthless designer label.
The Party killed more people than Hitler in the process of consolidating their power, in a population of people they didn't traditionally think of as racial inferiors.
In order for me to go to UCLA, I'd need about 60,000 dollars a year.
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President Trump should have let due process take its course, then if he quietly wanted to intervene, then fine. These UCLA b-ball team mates needed to have a come to Xi (sus) moment.
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The all-around propaganda value of this being what it is, who's to say the "victims" weren't in on it too?
I recently read somewhere that there's a buck to be made outside a Paris LV store (Place Vendome?) from cash-clutching Chinese tourists looking to get around a two thingies per customer limit.
[DAWN] A North Korean soldier was shot and injured by his own side on Monday while defecting to South Korea at the border truce village of Panmunjom, the South's military said.
The soldier, thought to be low ranking, was shot in the shoulder and elbow and was picked up bleeding on the South side of a portion of the border known as the Joint Security Area (JSA).
It is rare for the North's troops to defect at the truce village, a major tourist attraction bisected by the borderline and the only part of the frontier where forces from the two sides come face-to-face.
“Our military has taken in a North Korean soldier after he crossed from a North Korea post towards our Freedom House,” Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement, referring to a building on the South side of the village.
A JCS official quoted by Yonhap news agency said the South's soldiers heard a gunshot and then retrieved the unarmed soldier in the mid-afternoon.
He was evacuated to a private hospital by a UN helicopter, the official added, saying thsoldierer had regained consciousness but declining to comment on whether his injuries were life-threatening.
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The rest of his unit is on their way to a re-education camp as we speak.
[DAWN] IN a string of tweets fired off on Sunday morning from Hanoi, Vietnam, 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... responded with sarcastic insults to a recent message from the North Korean government that had referred to him as "old". That's called for in Juche.
"Why would 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... insult me by calling me ’old,’ when I would NEVER call him ’short and fat?’" Trump wrote in his tweet, referring to the leader of North Korea’s ruling dynasty. "Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend ‐ and maybe someday that will happen!" After our own equivalent of a Songun Army First policy.
The message marks an unusually personal escalation of the tensions between the United States and North Korea over Pyongyang’s weapons programme. It is also another sign of the change in rhetoric used to address North Korea since Trump took office: though North Korea has long been known for hurling bellicose insults at world leaders, rarely have those world leaders responded in kind.
Of course, Trump is a not your average world leader. The current president is a pugnacious social media user often willing to respond with his own harsh words when he feels wronged. As a spokeswoman for his wife, Melania Trump, put it earlier this year, when Trump is attacked "he will punch back 10 times harder". "Sea of Fire, baby!"
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Of course, Trump is a not your average world leader. The current president is a pugnacious social media user often willing to respond with his own harsh words when he feels wronged.
[DAWN] A judicial magistrate in Multan on Monday extended the judicial remand of holy man Mufti Abdul Qavi for seven days in connection with the ongoing investigations into Qandeel Baloch murder case.
Qandeel had been murdered last year, allegedly by her brother Mohammad Waseem, who said he killed her in the name of 'honour'.
During Monday's hearing, the public prosecutor pleaded before the court to extend Qavi's remand. The plea was granted and Qavi was sent on remand until November 20.
Earlier, Mufti Qavi was produced before the court amid strict security following the completion of his 12-day remand.
Qandeel's father Azeem was also present in the court of Judicial Magistrate Pervaiz Khan. The magistrate ordered the police to submit the complete challan ... list of charges ... in the case before the court within four days.
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[DAWN] The export of computer services grew over 30 per cent year-on-year to over $111 million during the first two months of 2017-2018, according to the Pakistain Bureau of Statistics (PBS). "Hello. This is Kevin calling from Canadian Pharmacy. Would you like to renew your Viagra prescription?"
"I don't have one. [click]"
According to data collected by the PBS, as export of services grew by 32.11pc, Pakistain earned $111.38 million against the services worth $84.31m. "Hello. This is Daniel calling from Canadian Pharmacy. Would you like to renew your Cialis prescription?"
"Really? Say something in Canadian!"
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"Hoser!"
Pakistain earned $54.37m by exporting software consultancy services, showing growth of 69.22pc when compared to exports of $32.126m last year. "Hello, this is Robert, calling from Canadian Pharmacy. Would you like to renew your Xanax prescription?"
"No, goddammit!"
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Export of hardware consultancy services grew by 144.41pc to $0.72m as compared to the export of $0.3m of the same services during the last year. "Hello, this is Herbert, calling from Canadian Pharmacy. Would you like to renew your Oxycodone prescription?" [grumble][click]"Zzzzzz!"
The services for maintenance and repairs of computers also earned $0.39m compared to $0.23m last year, showing growth of 68.97m.
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[DAWN] Police authorities on Monday ordered an inquiry to ascertain the role of the police in the killing of a 14-year-old rubbed out during an exchange of fire between police and alleged drug pushers in the Orangi Town area of the city.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Mohammed Younis Chandio said that the police had received a drug-related complaint on the Madadgar 15 helpline against Kashif, alias Dabbu, from the Quaid-e-Awam Colony of Orangi Town.
"As police party took him into custody, certain people of the area put up resistance and tried to get him freed," said the SSP.
Alleged drug pushers located in the area also resorted to gun sex to get the suspect released, at which the police responded. During the exchange of fire, one 14-year old, Rehan, who was standing outside his house in the vicinity, sustained a critical bullet wound on his chest and died. "Mom! The cops are shootin' it out wid the druggies out front!"
"Go have a look and tell me what's happenin', Mahmoud!"
"They're tryin' to arrest Kashif alias Dabbu!"
"What else?"
"[BANG!] Aaaiiieee! I am undone!"
"Ahmed, get out there and lemme know what's goin' on! And, uh... push yer brother's body inside!"
The death of the teenager angered the area's residents, who protested outside the Mominabad Police Station.
The demonstration attracted the attention of higher authorities, who pacified the protesters by suspending Station House Officer (SHO) Mumtaz Marwat and registered a murder case against policeman Majid and a civilian, both of whom were subsequently jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! .
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(CNSNews.com) - The federal government hauled in record total tax revenues in the month of October, taking in a total of $235,341,000,000 during the first month of fiscal 2018, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.
The federal government also brought in record individual income tax revenues for the month of October, taking in $127,832,000,000 in individual income taxes.
Despite its record total tax intake of $235,341,000,000 for the month of October, the federal government still ran a deficit of $63,214,000,000 for the month because it spent $298,555,000,000.
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I ran into DEEP STATE today. So allow me to try to paint the picture...
A friend and I came up with an idea and decided to patent it. I read a 700 page book on how to patent it yourself and so I created the best patent I could possibly come up with from the DIY manual.
But since this was our first patent and since I live in a major city that has a patent office I decided to go there today to get them to make sure at the very least I filled out the right forms.
Entrada. Two security guards with enough weapons on them stop a Putin invasion of the city. And they demanded an ID too, after I passed the metal detector test. They pointed to a glass door where a guy was setting behind a desk and said "He's the patent guy."
I walk in and he says you are in the right place buy I can answer no questions because I am SECURITY. I replied thought these two other guys were security. He said I am patent security. He says I will call a person from upstairs to answer your questions. A lady shows up and I start to go over the forms with her and she immediately says, "I can't answer your questions, I am just the girl upstairs." So I try to simplify and I ask a very simple question about form 1. She says, "Let me go find an answer." 30 minutes later she has fallen in the toilet or something I guess so I found the answer on the internet with my phone and told the guy who is to do nothing but set there and stair at the two security people working only 30 feet away to tell her never mind.
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HS - the truth is that we should deport the illegal aliens, eliminate the positions for the people you encountered, and each of these people should be doing jobs that the illegal aliens do, at a vastly lower income than what their government sinecure pays.
But the Democrats have created literally millions of easy, well-paid, anxiety-free and metric-free "jobs" like theirs in order to bribe them into being loyal Democrat voters. The recent election in Virginia is the result of people like the ones you encountered in the patent office voting in an absolute panic to keep their magic paychecks. If the continuation of their magic paychecks harms you or the nation, oh well.
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Proving once again that you don't have to be particularly gifted to recognize totalitarianism, but it helps in the telling.
After 8 long years of the Soetoro regime, I'm shocked and amazed the US Patent Office and the formal documentation of American exceptionalism still exists!
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#3 no mo uro--The recent election in Virginia is the result of people like the ones you encountered in the patent office voting in an absolute panic to keep their magic paychecks.
Ya mean elections are still rigged and sold and bought?
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The JFK building in downtown Boston (Federal building) is a 'gun-free zone'. Security actually confiscated a small baseball bat I had in my briefcase when I went to the IRS office there a few years ago.
I felt like saying - 'Yes, I'm going to beat the refund out of the IRS agent!'
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Gorb - nah - they were serious as hell. Like that's going to intimidate me.
Although I admit - I do pick fights with the IRS agents about half the time, just because I like antagonizing them and /or it's pushback whenever they start getting officious or just acting like jerks. They love pushing people around but I'll be damned if they pull that shit on a CPA.
I was walking in a few late tax returns and the mini baseball bat was a little gift from the same guy. I didn't even give it a second thought until these guys told me 'We cant' allow weapons into this building'. Really - that's a weapon?
If you are reliably leftist like a fair number of these recipients are, that's how you bag these awards, given out by fellow leftists.
GQ magazine certainly isn’t shying away from attention with the cover for its 2017 Men of the Year issue. Colin Kaepernick will be the face on the cover of the publication’s December issue, a provocative choice that is sure to generate a sizable amount of controversy.
Those who prefer a cover without Kaepernick can potentially choose the other covers produced for GQ’s Men (and Women) of the Year issue, which include Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant, late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert and Gal Gadot, now known throughout the world as Wonder Woman. Which cover subscribers might receive in the mail is a toss-up, of course. As I noted in the comments, 'Enjoy this award, Colin - it's not like you're getting Super Bowl MVP anytime soon!'
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[PJ] Have you ever heard of David Kenneth Smith? Chances are you haven't ‐ he's a rabid anti-Trumper, thus his story didn't fit any convenient narrative. News of his arrest was treated as a local story with no national significance. However, if this freak had been a right-wing activist, he'd have been a front-page story in every paper in the country.
[Daily Caller] The FBI signaled this week agents may be investigating whether Planned Parenthood’s dealings in fetal tissue were legal.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Amazon.com Inc has bought the global television rights to “The Lord of the Rings,” the company said on Monday, in what may be its biggest and most expensive move yet to draw viewers to its streaming and shopping club Prime.
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[DAWN] Iranian rescue workers dug through rubble in a hunt for survivors on Monday after a major earthquake struck the Iran-Iraq border, killing at least 415 and injuring thousands.
[BUZZ.BLOG.AJC] Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is quite a doll – literally. She’s thrilled to have inspired a Barbie in her likeness, and especially proud that the doll will be the first Barbie to wear a hijab. “This is a childhood dream come true,” she posted. The doll is part of the “She-ro” line.
[Daily Caller] LiAngelo Ball and his two UCLA basketball teammates were freed from Chinese custody early Tuesday after President Donald Trump intervened on their behalf.
[DAWN] A North Korean soldier was shot and injured by his own side on Monday while defecting to South Korea at the border truce village of Panmunjom, the South's military said.
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[DAWN] A judicial magistrate in Multan on Monday extended the judicial remand of 
[DAWN] The export of computer services grew over 30 per cent year-on-year to over $111 million during the first two months of 2017-2018, according to the Pakistain Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
[DAWN] Police authorities on Monday ordered an inquiry to ascertain the role of the police in the killing of a 14-year-old 
