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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Gangbangers beat Rikers Island correction officer to a pulp
[NYP] Gangbangers brutally beat a correction officer at Rikers Island on Saturday, knocking him out and breaking his neck, according to jail records obtained by The Post.
I hope and pray the poor man makes it. What a miserable way to make a living.
The officer was attacked by five inmates, all members of the Bloods, according to the records.

One of them walked up to the officer and punched him in the face, knocking him unconscious.

The other four piled on, kicking and punching the 39-year-old officer while he was down.

It was one of the worst prison attacks in years, said a jail source.

The officer was taken to a hospital, where his condition was listed as serious. Neither the officer’s name nor the hospital he’s at was disclosed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2018 15:06 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So everyone to the yard. Guilty parties up against the wall while everyone else observes. Skid steer and operator assists burial detail. Chow at 1730 as usual. Problem resolved.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2018 15:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Happy to.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2018 15:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Prayers.
Posted by: newc || 02/11/2018 19:09 Comments || Top||


Fake homeowners association files real liens on Northland neighborhood after fake bills go unpaid
[FOX4KC] For years, people living in a quiet neighborhood in the Northland ignored the invoices that arrived in their mail demanding payment to a homeowners association.

"Just want to let you know it's a scam," Tony Navarro said he was told when he moved to the Summerfield subdivision. "This is not an HOA neighborhood at all. There are no monthly fees."

But then, just before Christmas, a $445 lien was filed against Navarro’s home and more than 30 others.

The reason? For not paying dues to the Summerfield Homeowners Association. An HOA that has no board and provides no services.

If you call the phone number for the company that runs the HOA -- Column's Park LLC: "It's some random guy that answers," neighbor Jesse Kaucher said.

"He told me he had the number for five years," Kaucher said. "He asked me to let the community know it’s not him. That's how you know it's a scam."

That’s why neighbors called FOX4 Problem Solvers. Even though the HOA may be fake, the liens are real. Neighbors have had to hire attorney Ed Ford to get them removed.

The filing of fake liens and other documents has become a big problem in Missouri. The owners of a $4 million mansion in St. Louis had to go to court to prevent a woman they accused of filing a fake quit claim deed from taking possession of their home.

"I was stunned," said Rep. Kirk Mathews, R-Pacific. " I did not know this practice existed."

Mathews has since learned it’s easy to file fake documents because the recorder of deeds in each county doesn’t have the manpower to check out the legitimacy of each claim.

"They are just stamping it, stamping it and it’s filed and done," said Mathews who has sponsored legislation to make filing fake documents a felony. "Hopefully this bill will provide some real teeth for law enforcement to go after the people who are doing this."

Meanwhile back in Kansas City, Problem Solvers wanted to help the Summerfield neighborhood get rid of those liens.

We paid a visit to Karen Sue Lovell, who filed the liens and is listed as manager of the Summerfield HOA in a letter she sent to homeowners.

We tried to talk to Lovell, but she wouldn’t even open the door of her home. Speaking behind a window, she told us she had no comment.

Later Lovell’s attorney wrote to FOX4 that Lovell thought the neighborhood should have an HOA to pay for the upkeep of the lot containing the neighborhood’s drainage basin.

FOX4 Problem Solvers found it surprising that Lovell cared since she lives in Independence -- far from the Summerfield neighborhood.

We also wanted to speak to the other person behind the fake Summerfiled HOA, but he was even harder to reach.

Al Roberts is in federal prison, convicted of $3 million in mortgage fraud. Roberts, a retired Kansas City school teacher, formed Column's Park, the company behind the HOA. Roberts also sent out the initial invoices to homeowners.

Ford, the attorney hired by homeowners, said he spoke with Roberts after that first invoice arrived.

"I very nicely said, 'What the heck are you thinking?' said Ford, who then informed Roberts what he was doing was illegal.

"I thought I had properly educated him but apparently not," Ford said.

A relative of Roberts told FOX4 that Roberts is still running the company from his federal prison cell. That’s something the attorney representing Column's Park denied.

The good news is that with Ford’s help the liens have now been dismissed. However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
neighbors are worried that there’s nothing preventing it from happening again.

Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can this happen in other states?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/11/2018 5:40 Comments || Top||

#2  It's our trust-based legal system. As society breaks down and trust decreases, predators take advantage of trusting systems. They think it's idiotic that we have a trust-based system and that allowing us to keep our money is a crime. They will happily trash the whole thing and turn us into a distrustful, third world shithole.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 02/11/2018 5:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Just not fake HOA. Recall the robo-signing during the mortgage crisis in 09-10? Lots of fake paper but how many went to jail for playing that game? These are just free lancers doing what the suits did. Too big to go to jail though.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/11/2018 8:32 Comments || Top||


Las Vegas shooter's autopsy gives no clues
[ReviewJournal] Autopsy records obtained Friday by the Review-Journal shed no new light on what might have contributed to Stephen Paddock’s motives for committing the Oct. 1 Las Vegas Strip massacre.

The autopsy, which included toxicology tests and a brain examination, found that Paddock had anti-anxiety medication in his system. It also confirmed what authorities had previously said — that Paddock died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head after he opened fire at an outdoor concert from his 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay suite, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more.

Diazepam is a sedative-hypnotic drug in the class of benzodiazepines, which studies have shown can trigger aggressive behavior.
A summary of the toxicologist’s findings can be seen at the link.

Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course this gives us no clues - this is a distraction...I want to see the contents of the history of the websites visited by Paddock and search history on his smartphone's web browser as well as his home/laptop computer...his text messages, app messages and contents of his library at home.

There is a reason that I do not trust the prosecutor on this case...or any other potential ideological crime.
Posted by: Tennessee || 02/11/2018 1:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe LVPD should call Harry Dresden.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2018 4:26 Comments || Top||

#3  When did he die? That should have been mentioned on the autopsy report. Ballistics on the bullet(s) that went through his head?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/11/2018 5:32 Comments || Top||

#4  A Jovan Belcher pace.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/11/2018 11:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Provincial cops ‐ and by extension, their political masters ‐ are being accused of incompetence in recent high-profile crimes.

See Shock and Horror
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2018 12:35 Comments || Top||

#6  I always felt that when the FBI came into this investigation, it took a turn towards the weird. There's far more to this case than is being made public. Too much just doesn't add up.
Posted by: Woodrow Sloluger2092 || 02/11/2018 17:43 Comments || Top||

#7  The body language of that Vegas sheriff always gave me pause. Kinda looked like he'd jump straight into next week if someone walked up and goosed him. Can't figure out his problem.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2018 18:11 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
College Student Fails Assignment Because Professor Thinks Australia Isn't A Country
Naturally, the sociology prof's name is being kept private.

After all, it's not like they were falsely accused of rape or something else that requires no protection of privacy.

Losing your phony baloney job because of dumbasserey? THAT requires total cover from the Cathedral.
Posted by: charger || 02/11/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I swear humans are devolving before my eyes. Or at least college professors.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/11/2018 1:16 Comments || Top||

#2  It starts with college professors, SteveS.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2018 4:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Of what state is Columbus, Ohio, the capital?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/11/2018 5:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Facts are just the way cisnormal keeps the struggling proles down.
Posted by: Roth LaDoad || 02/11/2018 9:01 Comments || Top||

#5  SNHU appears to be an online degree mill, but at least they are smart enough to know this story hurts:
Southern New Hampshire University has fired an online adjunct professor and apologized to an Idaho student after the professor gave the student a failing grade and insisted that Australia is not a country.

Lauren Keane, assistant vice president of communications for the Manchester-based university, acknowledged that a story about what happened to SNHU online student Ashley Arnold of Idaho, reported by BuzzFeed News on Thursday, is true.

Keane said SNHU is not identifying the professor involved, “at the student’s request.” She said the teacher “does not live in New Hampshire and does not work on campus.”
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2018 9:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Southern New Hampshire University used to be New Hampshire College, nestled in a cute little section of northern Manchester (North River Road), near the border with Hooksett. The changeover to 'university' happened about twenty years ago, under conditions I don't know a damn thing about. You may have seen the semi-ubiquitous commercials with that stupid fucking bus cruising around (and other sappy, cheesy adverts), which means Frank G's comment about SNHU now being an online diploma mill are dead-on accurate. Very few colleges advertise like that on the tele.

There aren't too many competitors to 'real colleges' in Manch Vegas - UNH - Manchester (used to be Merrimack Valley college, probably twenty buildings max), Hesser College (nickname - Hesser High School, a couple of buildings off of Merrimack / Elm St., near Bridge St.) and that's about it. Now you know one reason I got the fuck out of that cesspool of a city, now ravaged so bad by the opioid epidemic / Lawrence MA welfare refugees and assorted white trash some of my high school topped my nickname for the place - 'North Brockton', They're calling it Manch-ghanistan. Isn't that nice?

I dated a woman a long time ago whose parents taught at NHC - the mother was a standard lefty, the father was not. I was having dinner with them (around 1992) one time and the talk turned to politics. I told her I was voting for Pat Buchanan. The mother literally dropped her fork; the father had this huge smile on his face because he knew I liked doing this stuff to her. I'm pretty sure they're both long since retired, so I know the last name on this jagoff isn't Zimmermann.

That's a long-winded way of saying, 'this doesn't surprise me at all.
Posted by: Raj || 02/11/2018 11:47 Comments || Top||

#7  idaho?
Posted by: Daniel || 02/11/2018 15:59 Comments || Top||

#8  The missus and I saw an ad on TV the other day for SNHU and wondered about its credentialing. Well, this partially answers the question. The professors have their shortcomings in general knowledge. Maybe they should be required to spend a little time on R-burg before teaching. Ha, ha.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/11/2018 17:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Professor Thinks

Wow
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2018 17:51 Comments || Top||

#10  #3 Of what state is Columbus, Ohio, the capital?

Please, it's Indigenous People. Ohio now.
Posted by: charger || 02/11/2018 18:55 Comments || Top||

#11  Notjust colleges: Daughter unit was failed in High School because teach didn't think The Vatican was a country.

However, once he was shown evidence, he graciously apologized and gave the appropriate grade.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 02/11/2018 19:10 Comments || Top||

#12  He may have read Australia and thought Austria.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2018 20:57 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Senior religious Saudi figure says women ‘shouldn’t be forced to wear abaya’
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sheikh Abdullah al-Mutlaq, a member of the top Moslem holy manal body in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, said that women should not be obliged to wear abayas as the purpose of the Sharia code is to cover the entire body with any long and loose-fitting garment, whether using a cloak or any form of modest clothing.

This is another indication of the Kingdom’s efforts towards modernization. He continued to say that 90 percent of Moslem women in the Moslem world do not wear an abaya and do not even know it.

"As we see in Mecca and Medina, a large number of decent, religious women do not wear abayas. This in itself is bare witness that women should not be obliged to wear abayas," said Mutlaq during the "Friday Studio" program on Nedaa al-Islam channel.

A member of the holy manal body clarified that wearing an abaya is fulfilling the act of being conservative. An abaya falls under what Allah has referred to as the Jalabib in the Koran and has urged women to wear. If a woman chooses to cover her head, shoulders or otherwise with an abaya, that would be fine.

While not necessarily signaling a change in the law, the statement is the first of its kind from a senior religious figure. It follows the recent pattern of freedoms the Kingdom has been witnessing with the ascent of young Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to power.

Only the government-appointed holy mans associated with the Council of Senior Scholars are allowed to issue fatwas, or Islamic legal opinions. Their interpretations of Islamic law form the basis of Saudi Arabia’s legal system.

Saudi women have started wearing more colorful abayas in recent years, the light blues and pinks in stark contrast with the traditional black. Open abayas over long skirts or jeans are also becoming more common in some parts of the country.

Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  Personally a favor, off to my room.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2018 4:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Meant "I favor".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2018 4:33 Comments || Top||


Hindu stone temple to be built in Abu Dhabi by 2020
I didn’t think I could be this shocked.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] By 2020, UAE’s Abu Dhabi will be hosting the first traditional Hindu stone temple in the Middle East which will be hand carved and crafted by temple artisans in India and assembled in the UAE.

The architecture will be inspired by the Akshardham Temple in New Delhi, reported The National newspaper on Thursday.

The temple will be located just off the Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway. Some features the holy landmark will encompass are visitors’ prayer halls, exhibitions, learning areas, a sports area for children, thematic gardens, water features and a book shop.

The BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha have been entrusted to design, construct and manage the temple by the rulers of the UAE and the Government of India.

Spacious area
The temple will stand on 55,000 square meters of land. The spacious area was a gift from the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.

On Sunday, the temple’s groundbreaking ceremony will be livestreamed at the Dubai Opera House with the presence of the Indian premier Narendra Modi.

His visit comes in light of the sixth edition of the World Government Summit set to take place in Dubai.

A front man from BAPS said that temple "will facilitate the traditional practice of the Hindu faith and serve the over 3.3 million Indians residing in and the millions of international tourists annually visiting the UAE through interfaith dialogue, pluralism and universal human values. It will also nurture the children of today and future generations towards a brighter future."

Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Did Trump actually read the riot act to at least one Arab/Islamic faction and did this actually elicit a positive response?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 02/11/2018 8:31 Comments || Top||

#2  The temple will stand on 55,000 square meters of land

About two football fields square. How that translates to meterball dunno. Take into account parking, tourists traps, and future minaret placement still a decent size. If it doesn't get Bamiyan'd.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/11/2018 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Only "house of worship" in Islam that doesn't contain an armory?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2018 11:46 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm assuming there will be a lounge for the Stone Temple Pilots.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2018 11:49 Comments || Top||

#5  I was waiting to someone to bring up the Stone Temple Pilots, so I could ask if it was ok to bring up the Primitive Radio Gods.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/11/2018 17:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Will it actually get finished before some Muzzies blow it up?
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 02/11/2018 19:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Just no Hindus allowed to use it.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/11/2018 20:01 Comments || Top||


Family seeks justice for Filipino worker found in freezer in Kuwait
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The family of Joanna Daniela Demafelis, a Filipino worker whose body was found in a freezer in Kuwait, is demanding justice.

"I am appealing for government's help in seeking justice for my daughter's death," the victim's mother Eva Demafelis was quoted as saying by ABS-CBN News.

Demafelis travelled to Kuwait in 2014 to support her family and she last spoke to them between 2016 and 2017.

"Kuwaiti authorities have yet to determine when Demafelis died. Initial investigation found signs that she may have been tortured and strangled," the news site report.

Family members are seeking help from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration.

Demafelis was described by her family as selfless and kind.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  May her family find Justice.
Posted by: Adriane || 02/11/2018 1:43 Comments || Top||

#2  "I am appealing for government's help in seeking justice for my daughter's death"

Kuwaiti justice for a Filipino? Good luck with that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2018 3:04 Comments || Top||

#3  I am certainly sad for the family, but COME ON...it's not a secret on how foreign workers are treated in that area of the world. To go there is just asking for trouble. Or worse.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/11/2018 3:32 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Officials Investigating Possible Cyberattack At Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
Who oh who could it be?
Official organizers for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics are investigating an interference to certain virtual systems in what could have been a cyberattack, Reuters reported Saturday.

Local media in South Korea initially reported that the technical disruptions were caused by some sort of cyberattack, but Olympic Games spokesman Sung Baik-you said there is no such evidence of such activity, at least not yet.

"There were some issues that affected some of our non-critical systems last night for a few hours," said Sung, according to Reuters, before adding that authorities are working to figure out what exactly happened.

"Experts are watching to ensure and maintain any systems at expected service levels. We are currently investigating the cause of the issue. At this time we cannot confirm (a cyberattack)," he said.
"No, no! We just needed to reset the modem!"
People privy to the operations of the official opening ceremony, which was broadcasted Friday night in America, reportedly worried that a failure to launch drones could have been part of the for now-ambiguous system difficulties. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, were a big part of the showmanship of the ceremony, but most of the incredible, illuminative spectacles provided by the drones were only available for television viewers, not the in-stadium attendees like heads of state and athletes (e.g augmented reality).
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2018 13:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Kim Jong Un invites South Korea's Moon to Pyongyang
[DAWN] 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...
invited the South's President Moon Jae-in for a summit in Pyongyang Saturday, Seoul said, even as the US warned against falling for Pyongyang's Olympic charm offensive.

The invitation, delivered by Kim's visiting sister Kim Yo Jong, said Kim was willing to meet the South's leader "at the earliest date possible", said a front man for the presidential Blue House.

An inter-Korean summit would be the third of its kind, after Kim's father and predecessor Kim Jong Il met the South's Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun in 2000 and 2007 respectively, both of them in Pyongyang.

But it could threaten to sow division between Moon, who has long argued for engagement with the nuclear-armed North to bring it to the negotiating table, and US 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 last year traded personal insults and threats of war with Kim.

Washington insists that Pyongyang ‐ which is under multiple sets of UN Security Council sanctions ‐ must show a willingness to give up its weapons before any negotiations can happen.

Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  If any country can be said to have "battered wife syndrome", it's South Korea.
Posted by: PBMcL || 02/11/2018 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Admiral Akhbar: "It's a trap!"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2018 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Big time. Huge propaganda victory at the least.
Posted by: Raj || 02/11/2018 11:25 Comments || Top||

#4  frank

warning spoiler





sadly Admiral Ackbar died in "The Last Jedi"
Posted by: lord garth || 02/11/2018 20:50 Comments || Top||


First-ever unified Korean team thrashed 8-0 on Olympic debut
[DAWN] That worked well.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  *snicker*
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2018 10:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Ouch. Must have had too much breakfast.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/11/2018 11:15 Comments || Top||

#3  According to CNN, they won nine bajillion to nothing.
Posted by: charger || 02/11/2018 18:20 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The President's Military Parade Might Not Be in DC: Pentagon
[MIL.COM] The big parade to honor the military wanted by President Donald Trump might not come down Pennsylvania Ave. past the White House, the Pentagon said Thursday.

At a Pentagon press briefing, Dana White, the Defense Department's chief spokesperson, said that other options to Washington, D.C., would be under consideration for holding the parade that reportedly was inspired by Trump's admiration for the Bastille Day parade he attended in Paris last July.

"The president will decide," she said, once the Pentagon comes up with a plan. "We don't have a plan yet," she said, but the Army will take the lead in devising one.

"The president is looking for opportunities to honor our service members," White said. "The president is simply looking for options. The bottom line is we want to honor our service members."

At a White House briefing Wednesday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis endorsed the parade but declined to discuss the costs.

"I think we're all aware in this country of the president's affection and respect for the military. We've been putting together some options. We'll send them up to the White House for decision," Mattis said.

No date for the parade has been set, but one option being considered is Nov. 11, which would be Veterans Day and also coincide with commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.

The plan for a parade has drawn criticism from Democrats, and an informal poll conducted by Military Times showed overwhelming opposition to the idea.

As of Thursday afternoon, more than 51,000 readers had responded and 89 percent said "No, It's a waste of money and troops are too busy."

The other 11 percent responded "Yes, it's a great opportunity to show off U.S. military might," Military Times said.

On Wednesday, several Democratic senators sent a letter to Mattis questioning the potential costs of the parade and how it might impact the military in the midst of wars in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan and also facing threats from North Korea.

"At a time of war, with American service members serving in harm's way, such a parade seems to be inappropriate and wasteful," said the letter signed by Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, Gary Peters, D-Michigan, and Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said he supported a parade but cautioned against having a "Soviet-style" display of military might.

"I don't mind having a parade honoring the service and sacrifice of our military members," Graham told CNN. "I'm not looking for a Soviet-style hardware display. That's not who we are, it's kind of cheesy and I think it shows weakness, quite frankly."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2018 12:04 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Beaumont, TX via Portland and San Diego.... could take years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2018 12:17 Comments || Top||

#2  The Miramar Air Show draws the same animosity from lefties and Democrats, BIRM
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2018 12:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Telegraph Av. in Berkeley?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2018 13:58 Comments || Top||

#4  This is going to be awesome.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 02/11/2018 14:05 Comments || Top||

#5  What a waste of time and money.
Posted by: newc || 02/11/2018 14:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Others think it too.
Posted by: newc || 02/11/2018 14:53 Comments || Top||

#7  I love the trolling...
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2018 14:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Needs to re-frame it as a Fourth of July parade with military participation, imho.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/11/2018 15:28 Comments || Top||

#9  "The president is looking for opportunities to honor our service members"

Give them training and jobs when they get out.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2018 15:44 Comments || Top||

#10  I went to an air show at Tinker AFB back in the days when the Commemorative Air Force was the Confederate Air Force... Different times, different times.
Posted by: magpie || 02/11/2018 15:51 Comments || Top||

#11  Honestly, when was the last genuine Military Parade, not a parade with military elements, but a genuine all-military parade? I'm pushing a lot of decades and cannot remember the last one? Seems like the 4th of July in DC is EXACTLY when and where it should be!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/11/2018 15:53 Comments || Top||

#12  Of course watching the liberal heads explode is a side benefit!

I think it's a great idea which will both honor the military _and_ show the military is a good light - something which the media very seldom do anymore.

The liberals are afraid that people might watch it and see how dedicated the men and women really are. Might increase recruitment too.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/11/2018 17:37 Comments || Top||

#13  My town still has the old WW-II stuff on the 4th parade. The First Division's museum is nearby and provides the equipment.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/11/2018 20:25 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Kasur encounter: FIA told to stop ex-DPO from flying abroad
[DAWN] Nasir Rizvi, who was the district police officer (DPO) in 2017, has been restrained from traveling abroad for his alleged involvement in the murder of Mudassar in a police encounter.

An official said the process to put his name on the exit control list has been initiated, and the police may also seek details of the encounters carried out during the tenure of Mr Rizvi as the Kasur DPO.

A joint investigation team (JIT) is investigating the death of Mudassar, whose case was highlighted in the media after the arrest of Imran in the Zainab murder case. Mudassar was picked by Kasur police on Feb 24, 2017 in the rape-cum-murder of a minor girl of the locality, and was killed the same day.

The DNA profiling and revelation of Imran, later, showed that the minor girl was raped and killed by him (Imran).

The official said that the JIT had asked the Federal Investigation Agency to take measures at international airports of the country to stop the former Kasur DPO from traveling abroad.

Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Man kills 19-year-old sister after local jury condemns her to death: police
[DAWN] A 19-year-old girl was allegedly bumped off by her brother 'in the name of honour' after a panchayat [local jury comprising influential people] condemned her to death, police said on Saturday.

Sukkur SSP Amjad Sheikh, citing initial reports, told news hounds that a local court in Pano Akil area of Sukkur district had declared the victim a "Kari" and condemned her to death.

Subsequently, the victim's brother shot her dead on February 8, and attempted to portray the murder as a suicide case, he said. The police, however, concluded that she was killed.

Later, the police filed a murder case and nabbed
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
the accused brother, his father and two local landlords who were allegedly a part of the local jury.

All the accused have confessed to their involvement to the crime, he said, adding that another suspected landlord was still on a run.

Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "She wouldn't put out for me - her own brother, but she would for a stranger?!"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2018 5:32 Comments || Top||


Two held over hidden cameras in Faisalabad garments shop
[DAWN] FAISALABAD: Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else and enjugged
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two people on Thursday for installing hidden cameras inside a women’s fitting room at a garments shop.

Noman Zaffar, a law student, had filed a complaint with the People’s Colony police stating that he had visited the shop located on Chen One Road with his sister. She had gone inside the fitting room and found hidden cameras installed there.

When she informed him, Mr Zaffar said, he made a video of the hidden cameras, but the store employees flared up at this and threatened to upload the videos onto social media if he took action against them. He said that two of the employees ‐ Rizwan and Fayyaz ‐ had tried to snatch his mobile phone so that they could delete the video of the hidden cameras he had recorded. He said they told him that the cameras had been installed at the behest of the owner of the outlet. He claimed the employees had also tried to illegally detain him.

The police started the paperwork but haven't done much else under relevant sections of the Pakistain Penal Code against four people, including the owner of the outlet, its manager and the two employees, who were taken into custody. Police did not reveal the names of the outlet’s manager and owner, and stressed that investigation into the matter was underway.

Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Beneath the Burka!" TV special
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2018 15:47 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Global Cyberfraud Gang's 'Co-Founder' Arrested in Thailand
[AnNahar] A Russian man accused of co-running a global cybercrime network shuttered in a US-led crackdown this week has been tossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
in Bangkok and will face extradition, Thai police said Friday.

Sergey Medvedev, 31, is accused of co-founding the "Infraud Organization," an online network that stole and sold credit card and other personal identity data, causing $530 million in losses, according to US authorities.

On Wednesday the US Department of Justice indicted 36 people of racketeering conspiracy and other crimes for their roles in the crime syndicate.

Thirteen defendants hailing from around the globe were arrested in the US and six other countries, including Australia, the UK, La Belle France, Italia, Kosovo and Serbia.

Medvedev was not listed as one of the 36 suspects charged this week but was described in the indictment as co-administrator of the network with its Ukraine founder Svyatoslav Bondarenko, who remains on the lam.

Masked cops armed with automatic weapons swooped on his Bangkok condo on February 2, making the arrest before US justice officials indicted other alleged members of the ring.

"(Medvedev) is now being detained at Bangkok Remand Prison waiting for US authorities to take him for prosecution in the US," said Nuthapon Rattanamongkolsak, a Thai officer from the Crime Suppression Division.

The US Embassy in Bangkok declined to comment.

The Russian national frequently travelled in and out of Thailand over the past six years on tourist visas, the officer said.

"He has no real job here and spent his life as any other tourist," Nuthapon told AFP, adding that he expected authorities to extradite Medvedev within the month.

Infraud was founded in Ukraine in 2010 and touted itself with the slogan "In Fraud We Trust."

It became the "premier destination" on the web for purchasing goods with counterfeit or stolen credit card information, according to US authorities.

The organization, which had 10,901 approved "members" by 2017, also provided an "escrow" service for transactions in crypto-currencies including Bitcoin, the indictment said.

Mevedev is not the first alleged cybercriminal to have used Thailand as a base. Last year Thai police arrested a 26-year-old Canadian who was wanted by the US for running AlphaBay, at the time the world's largest dark web marketplace for drugs and other contraband. The suspect, Alexandre Cazes, died in Thai police custody before he could be extradited. Officers said the computer programmer hanged himself with a towel in his detention cell in Bangkok.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He was arrested while on vacation in Thailand? I wonder if he had a proclivity for under-aged kids in Thailand.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/11/2018 17:11 Comments || Top||

#2  BTW, there are many fraudsters closer at hand.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/11/2018 17:14 Comments || Top||


Are sound bites real? Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio
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Government
'Hire the best and fire the worst': Trump proposes biggest civil service change in 40 years
h/t Instapundit
[USAToday] President Trump will seek to "hire the best and fire the worst" federal government employees under the most ambitious proposal to overhaul the civil service in 40 years, officials said.

The measures will be outlined in the budget plan that Trump will send to Congress Monday, said four Office of Management and Budget officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the budget hasn't been released.

..."While to some people those are code words, they’re very clear to us," said American Federation of Government Employees President J. David Cox, who represents about 700,000 workers for the federal government and District of Columbia. "Basically it wipes out due process rights for employees."

Another pillar of the proposal would reduce automatic pay increases and instead use that money for a performance bonus pool.

Under the current system, federal employees get a review every one to three years. Employees whose performance is "fully successful" ‐ as 99.7% are ‐ get a within-grade "step" increase in addition to annual cost-of-living increases.

Trump's plan would stretch out the amount of time it takes to go from step 1 to step 10 from 18 years to 27 years, saving $10 billion over the next decade, officials said. That money would then go to high-performing employees either as merit raises or one-time bonuses.

Federal employee unions fear the pay-per-performance plan would be used to reward loyalists and discriminate against women and minorities.
Like Lois Lerner, or Beverly L. Hall?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2018 04:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Automatic pay raises & COL increases make no sense for public employees, particularly in an age where this very seldom happens to employees in the private sector. If they don't like the pay as currently offered, they are free to quit & seek employment elsewhere. Public unions should be outlawed.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/11/2018 6:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Automatic pay raises & COL increases

Not to mention 'performance bonuses/awards' which long ago simply became annual cash entitlements.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2018 6:57 Comments || Top||


#4  Can't happen soon enough. BTW, USA Today is an anti-Trump propaganda outlet.
Posted by: A. Flavising9759 || 02/11/2018 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Trump could set an example by getting rid of Javanka and their coterie.
Posted by: charger || 02/11/2018 10:13 Comments || Top||

#6  ..."While to some people those are code words, they’re very clear to us,"

'Hire the best and fire the worst' doesn't sound like a dog whistle to me.

"Basically it wipes out due process rights for employees."

'Do you know what a salary hit I'm gonna take?'
Posted by: Raj || 02/11/2018 11:21 Comments || Top||

#7  There are only so many "best", and everyone wants them (except the police, right Paps). Suggest instead that they focus on proper incentives (performance, not longevity), weeding out the non-performers and canning the unions.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/11/2018 11:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Huh, right-to-work laws.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2018 11:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Government union prez Cox says: "Basically it wipes out due process for employees."

When have employees in private industry had due process? They can be layed-off or fired with or or without cause. It should be the same in government. Unions and Civil Service have become tools of the Deep State (Mostly Dems) to obtain a stranglehold on government.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/11/2018 14:05 Comments || Top||

#10  When have employees in private industry had due process?

Union members operate under different protections, JohnQC, and federal employees have been unionized for quite some time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2018 15:52 Comments || Top||

#11  Unions have no place in the federal government.
Let them eat cake.
Posted by: jvalentour || 02/11/2018 16:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
African-American Olympian boycotts opening ceremonies because he wasn't chosen to carry flag

Lurid coin toss update.
[Wash Times] The honor of which American athlete would carry the American flag for Team USA at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics came down to a coin flip today in Pyeongchang. And the athlete on the losing end of that flip is not pleased.

Speed skater Shani Davis decided to not participate in today’s ceremonies after he lost the flip to luger Erin Hamlin.

Davis took to Twitter and evoked African American history month in his commentary on the events.
I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event. @TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022. #BlackHistoryMonth2018#PyeongChang2018pic.twitter.com/dsmTtNkhJs

‐ Shani Davis (@ShaniDavis) February 8, 2018

Hamlin, a woman, is white. According to AFP, US Olympic committee defends their method in selecting the flag-bearer:

Well in Davis' defense, there was that issue with the coin.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2018 02:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Petulant, entitlement rant illustrates Ms. Hamlin was indeed the right choice.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2018 3:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Shani Davis can get back on a plane for all I care. I predict a speed-skating flop from this whiner.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/11/2018 3:29 Comments || Top||

#3  "I'm a role model for African-American kids".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2018 4:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Put him on a plane...now.
Posted by: Betty Hatfield5124 || 02/11/2018 6:20 Comments || Top||

#5  This guy knew there was a coin toss to win just like Hillary knew there was an Electoral College. Both Liberal cry babies.
Posted by: Flilet Omeremble3846 || 02/11/2018 7:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Whaaaa... shut the fuck up and go home. Stupid liberal.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/11/2018 9:42 Comments || Top||

#7  And...we should be feeling what exactly?
Posted by: Cesare || 02/11/2018 11:20 Comments || Top||

#8  That coin was racist!!!
Posted by: gorb || 02/11/2018 11:58 Comments || Top||

#9  Did the American speed skater refuse to participate in the opening ceremony because of the coin toss or because everyone thought Shani was a girl's name?
Posted by: SteveS || 02/11/2018 12:07 Comments || Top||

#10  I pity da foo
Posted by: newc || 02/11/2018 13:00 Comments || Top||

#11  It's too bad, really. Speed skating is about the only Olympic skating event I consider to be a true sport: you win or lose based solely on speed. Other skating events like figure skating, ice dancing, etc. are based on subjective "style" points.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/11/2018 13:35 Comments || Top||

#12  It is my understanding that he agreed to the coin toss and began bitching after he lost.

Bye-bye Wheaties endorsement. And others.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/11/2018 15:26 Comments || Top||

#13  That coin was racist!!!

Wasn't it proven (at least in some circles...) not so long ago that gravity is racist?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/11/2018 17:33 Comments || Top||



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