[KRQE] An Albuquerque woman was murdered in her driveway in what police think was a random robbery that turned into a shooting.
The shooting happened around 5 a.m. Tuesday morning in the driveway of a northwest Albuquerque home in the Corte de Loma cul-de-sac, located in the Las Lomitas neighborhood near Unser and I-40.
Albuquerque Police haven’t identified the woman who was killed, but police say she was the mother of two New Mexico State Police officers.
In a news conference Tuesday morning, an Albuquerque Police spokesman said investigators believe the woman was shot after an attempted robbery. Neighbors told police they ran outside when they heard the gunshots, and saw two men in a brown Jeep Cherokee fleeing the area.
The Albuquerque Police Department says this is the city’s 71st homicide this year.
[Smoking Gun] NOVEMBER 18--Following his arrest for possession of a hypodermic needle containing methamphetamine, a 380-pound Florida Man was hit with additional felony charges after jail personnel discovered a bag of meth "wedged deep within the belly button cavity of the defendant," according to a court affidavit.
Police responding late Friday to a suspicious person call placed by employees of a McDonald’s in Clearwater arrested Martin Skelly when a search of the 41-year-old St. Petersburg resident turned up the loaded needle.
Following Skelly’s collar for possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia, cops asked him if he was in possession of any other contraband, since he could face additional charges if he brought illegal items into the county jail. Seen above, Skelly denied having "any additional contraband on his person."
However, during intake processing at the jail, Skelly was subjected to a thorough body search that resulted in the discovery of a small plastic bag containing 2.7 grams of meth. A jail deputy reported that the baggie was "wedged deep within the belly button cavity" of the 5’ 8" defendant.
After the meth stash was found around 1:45 AM Saturday, Skelly reportedly told an investigator, "I was just being dumb and not thinking."
The discovery of the hidden meth resulted in two additional felony charges being filed against Skelly--introducing contraband into a correctional facility and narcotics possession. He is locked up in lieu of $9150 bond.
Skelly’s criminal record includes a three-year stretch in state prison for cocaine trafficking and busts for theft, drunk driving, narcotics possession, violating probation, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
[FoxNews] The Melbourne tourist, identified by local media as William K. James, 35, had suffered “grievous injuries” after villagers in the southwest state of Karnataka tied him to a power pole and assaulted him, local police told the Times of India.
James, who had been sightseeing in India since Sept. 17, was traveling alone by bus from the town of Badami to the city of Bagalkot, which is 21 miles north, Jagalasar said.
But just 10 miles from Badami, he got off the bus at the village of Konanakoppa for reasons that are still unknown. Jagalasar said James was drunk when he arrived and was accused of misbehaving with a few women.
“When some men tried to stop him, he reportedly made a bid to attack them,” Jagalasar said. “The men tied him up to an electric post and assaulted him.”
[The Hill] Former first lady Michelle Obama shared a video singing a duet with Ellen DeGeneres to plug her new book, "Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice."
The book is a "guided journal" for readers and will function as a companion piece to her critically-acclaimed 2018 memoir "Becoming." The book will include inspiring questions and quotes that are "designed to help readers reflect on their personal and family history, their goals, challenges, and dreams, what moves them and brings them hope, and what future they imagine for themselves and their community," according to a release from publisher Penguin Random House.
With DeGeneres playing the piano, she and Obama sang a song promoting the new project. Obama provided the "lyrics" in the caption of her post:
[MAIL] The inventor of the Tunnock's teacake has today been knighted by the Queen - and revealed after the ceremony that Her Majesty is a fan of the snack.
Sir Boyd Tunnock, 86, received his knighthood from the Queen at a royal investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London.
The inventor, who runs the family-owned business in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, received his honour today for services to business and charity.
He said the Queen chose the teacake from the Scottish brand over the caramel wafer, which was created by his father.
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Bad Dron, BAD, Bad , Bad , unfortunately true though. At least Epstein didn't get a patent of nobility but it wasn't from his Bro's lack of trying to get one from the Vatican.
Last month, South Africa's government declared that it would increase the production of coal-fired energy.
It was a surprise to many in the climate-change scene. They had expected African countries to cut back on coal, especially after the African Development Bank (ADB) stopped financing coal projects.
Despite this, the African nations are sticking with fossil-fuel projects. But, how does Africa manage to fund them?
In sub-Saharan Africa, 620 million people‐a third of the population‐have no electricity. The remaining third have intermittent power supply, with constant outages. In such dire circumstances, one would not expect restrictions on fuel sources. Like California?
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how does Africa manage to fund them?
China has already put in about a $100b in Africa. There are other multinational entities too which are invested in the fuel/energy sector. The ADB and their friends can shove their concerns up their thunbergs.
Developing countries will press on, mostly along the same route the first world took to get there. If they are believing 'experts' who believe everything from the moment man discovered fire is a sin now, fuck 'em. Poor and destitute populations cannot and will not switch to batteries or expensive to produce and maintain infrastructure for alt power.
Labor's newest "longest suicide note in history", it sounds like. Manifesto is basically "Make Britain Poor Again"
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A general reminder, because we’ve caught a number of articles recently from various posters making this filing error: stories set in England go under the Britain tab, not Europe. It may help to remember the famous quote, “Fog in the channel, Europe cut off.”
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[France24] International police have broken up a huge drug smuggling operation preventing millions of ecstasy pills flooding into Australia, officials said Friday, as a minister claimed the drugs were timed to target holidaying teens.
The joint Dutch-Australian operation seized $200 million worth of MDMA -- the key ingredient in ecstasy -- in the Netherlands and Belgium and led to charges against 11 people, including one Australian woman, officials said.
"That is one of the most significant operations in the history of the collaboration between all of our agencies," said Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who leads Australia's police and security agencies.
Following a months-long investigation, some 700 kilograms (1,540 pounds) of crystalline MDMA were intercepted in August in the Dutch port of Rotterdam, the Australian Federal Police said.
Dutch police then raided 15 locations in the Netherlands and Belgium on November 5, uncovering two hidden laboratories, additional stashes of MDMA and 50 tonnes of precursor chemicals, police said.
"We believe that this criminal network was involved and able to produce many thousands of kilos of MDMA, equivalent to tens of millions of pills, a large part of which was likely destined for Australia," said Andy Kraag, assistant commissioner of the Dutch National Criminal Investigations Division.
Kraag told a press conference in Brisbane the seized MDMA "could be used for more than 10 million ecstasy pills."
Dutton said the timing of the drug operation indicated the smugglers were hoping to specifically target "schoolies week," when thousands of high school students party along Queensland beaches beginning this weekend.
[Reddit] When The Quartering got punched at that convention, Honeycutt made a post on social media saying that Nazis should be punched, as should Hambly, and as should "bad people" in general.
A few days ago, an ex of Honeycutt's came forward to accuse him of abuse. Some quotes from her blog post:
He thought I liked rough sex and without my consent he would do things like pull my hair or lightly slap my face. At my first Gen Con we were sharing a room, I was being sassy about something and he slapped me so hard his wedding ring cut my cheek. I didn’t know what had happened or why, so I started crying. He hugged me and told me he was sorry and that he didn’t mean to hit me that hard and was only trying to be playful.
After that I told him I didn’t want to have sex for the rest of that trip because I didn’t feel well. He made me feel guilty because it was rare that we were alone together. He touched me while I was asleep that night. I woke up and told him to stop.
We stayed off site in an AirBnB. This is significant because this is the first time that he covered my face with a pillow until I almost passed out after he touched me in my sleep. When confronted he said he didn’t remember but that he was sorry.
After I got out of the shower, without warning, he starting having sex with me. This time was the most painful and I bled after the fact. I thought he just thought it was something I was into.
I am writing this for a few reasons. First and foremost JR is a predator from my own perspective. I know that he has been getting women drunk and trying to sleep with them and I want people to be aware. I personally know of 4 other women who he has hurt through manipulation. He uses his position in the industry as a tool to lure women towards him.
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What I don't understand is what his treatment of women has to do with the stupid game industry. It's another of those 'We won't associate with that kind of man' things.
He uses his position in the industry as a tool to lure women towards him.
Wonder what kind of women these are. The kind that select the long eared dwarf in video games.
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I designed a tabletop game once. WarGame it was called.
You had to roll different kinds of dice and spin a dial; which together made numeric codes that allowed you to order types of strikes from a tactical menu. You had to draw the moving pieces in with a pencil and eraser, on a grid on the only sheet - and it had to look good. You could use yellow pens for fire, black for debris or bodies, and red for blood. At the end of every game, the 'battlefield' was a work of art that told a story of tactical follies. It became a cult thing and people used to pin up the war sheets on the school board. They even asked me to draw them custom units and teachers suggested I publish the thing.
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You can laugh all you want, but the computer game industry is bigger than Hollywood. This stuff matters.
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This week in MISS! Magazine, 7 Clues You're Following Your Bliss a Little Too Closely:
1) "he slapped me so hard his wedding ring cut my cheek"
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I'm not laughing. Every year my wife wants to play the new Assassin's Creed game for three hours a day until she liberates a small country and owns all seven pieces of the golden monkey.
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You can laugh all you want, but the computer game industry is bigger than Hollywood. This stuff matters.
Matters, of course. When distillation was invented drunkenness and alcohol related mortality reached picks unseen since then - it's called natural selection.
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Herb, tabletop games are not computer games. Tabletop games are not growing at the rate of computer games, and are nowhere near as large an industry.
The GenCon mentioned in the article got its start as Lake Geneva Convention -- as in Wisconsin -- for players of Dungeons and Dragons. For the last ten or fifteen years, it's been held in Indianapolis.
Honeycutt isn't a Big Name even in tabletop games. BoardGameGeek.com connects him to two games in the top 1000 -- which isn't bad, but one of them was designed as an ensemble, with many authors contributing storylines. The other is a "restoration" of a thirty-year-old game -- new pieces and layouts, but still the game someone else wrote decades ago.
This story is as important as the dating habits of a minor league baseball player, and even less relevant to Rantburg.
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But MEN BAD, which suits Erb's purpose
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...and I worry about being banned from Rantburg.
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Male feminist abusers / manipulators get lots o' nookie. Worked for Warren Beatty. Also that abusive left-wing radio show host in Toronto, Jian Gomeshi (?sp)
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I work in the tabletop game industry, and have done so for years. It's what I do every day when I'm not reading Rantburg! So does my wife, who knows JR Honeycutt and Victoria Mann slightly. I don't know either of them, but I'm pretty sure I did see them drinking at the Big Bar On Two during the Origins Game Fair this year with Matt Fantastic, the guy who assaulted Jeremy Hambly.
I'm not going to comment in too much detail on either the JR Honeycutt/Victoria Mann accusations or the Matt Fantastic/Jeremy Hambly assault. Matt fantastic ended up apologizing formally in print to Jeremy Hambly for calling him a Nazi. Hambly became famous in certain circles for a hot minute for getting assaulted - which was probably what he was after in the first place. Hambly is a troll, and Matt is a New York leftist with very short fuse. So that's the story on that.
Victoria Mann was a somewhat naive and very young woman having an affair with an older man who turned out to be a violent creep behind closed doors. Her motivations seem like fairly normal ones based on her own words: travel, career advancement, and maybe catching a husband and starting a family. This is a pretty old story in any industry, including mine.
Speaking of which: since this is my actual area of expertise, let me clear up some misconceptions expressed in this thread. Tabletop gaming is a thriving seven billion dollar-a-year industry that employs tens of thousands of people in the United States full or part time. It is also a subculture unto itself: an affluent one with real social influence. And yes some gamers are indeed attractive young women. In fact, young women are one of its fastest growing demographics.
Herb was right to put up this article. A lot of the issues society at large is dealing with (and that Rantburgers like to discuss) are being dealt with within that subculture. It's a process. We're better at dealing with certain issues constructively; worse with others. (We are all geeks, after all.) But like any group we have issues, and Victoria Mann has a right to tell her story if that's what she feels she needs to do.
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Secret Master, that's ... Wow ! I actually enjoy the designing of games. In fact I see it as story telling with a non-linear approach. Unfortunately never got the time or companions to enjoy playing anything. But I really respect the love that goes into what you do. It's high art.
Q for you: where do most of the economic returns (profits) in the tabletop gaming industry go-- to the inventors? The companies that license the games? The retailers/distributors?
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I think I read something about this quite a while ago. IIRC, the writer's take was although he was not much of a fan of Honeycutt, he was pushing some leftest ideas into the nominally neutral industry, that years later without anyone else having knowledge of this event Mann started throwing the Believe All Women card about in a bid to increase her profile.
And its all fun and games until you are creating your character and you have 16 genders to choose from, Luigi and Wario have a kiss session, or the NPCs in your new VR game treat you poorly because your computer has cookies from bad wrong sites.
Gaming is the future, especially as movies continue to bleach and tank. Why watch the latest Aliens hash where the plot climax is two dudes kissing, when you can be a colonial marine, team up with Hicks, and VR recon the terra forming station - and that's it no stupid subplot about how the planet used to be earth like until global warming and a species mutated into the Aliens.
Don't believe me? I've heard rumors that the gold standard Dungeons and Dragons is already incorporating the 57 genders and sexual preference as attribute modifiers.
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Yeah, well I designed a game over 50 years ago. Six players altogether, somewhat like Calvinball. It was called "Invisible Baseball". My five younger siblings all remember it.
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People making up shit AGAIN about me. I'm not a "men bad" feminist and seriously WTF. I am a staunch anti feminist. Why do you think I posted this article in the first place, genius?
Jesus.
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Have a great weekend, Herb. Thanks for posting. seriously
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^Don't believe me? I've heard rumors that the gold standard Dungeons and Dragons is already incorporating the 57 genders and sexual preference as attribute modifiers.
Only if there is a *LOT* of money in doing it! (Though I suppose you could do a supplemental rules book without a lot of risk. Maybe a short print run of a few thousand and see how it goes?)
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Q for you: where do most of the economic returns (profits) in the tabletop gaming industry go-- to the inventors? The companies that license the games? The retailers/distributors?
Definitively not the retailers and distributors. Being a brick-and-mortar game store retailer is a tricky business. Most of them fail. If you're really, really good at it - have Magic nights twice a week, Pathfinder Society meetups once a week, run minicons, and the whole nine yards - you're still looking at being solidly lower middle class after putting in regular 60 hour weeks.
And tabletop game distributors live off tiny margins of 11 to 14 percent. It *may* be a little higher for Alliance when it comes to selling D&D stuff (they have an exclusive on that), but distro still barely gets by.
Game designers are generally poorly paid, and investors often disappointed by their returns in my experience. No: the real money goes to those publishers who are lucky or smart enough have a string of hit products. If you even have a few small hits, it's like printing money. Also, printers and manufacturers do very well of the tabletop gaming business - especially with Kickstarter funding thousands of projects that wouldn't have gotten made back when I've started. They always get paid whether a game sells or not.
[HollywoodReporter] Clint Eastwood's latest tells the true story of a security guard initially celebrated as a hero for saving lives in the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics, then vilified when the press reported he was a suspect.
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"Most Hollywood films about journalism since All the President’s Men 43 years ago have taken the free press’ side, portraying it as a scruffy if noble institution essential to the well-being of democracy. Eastwood and screenwriter Billy Ray (The Hunger Games, Captain Phillips) here take a rather different view of the Fourth Estate, portraying it as reckless, corrupt and immoral."
Hooray for Hollywood!
Finally, people are realizing that our "press" is not free, that are journalists are partisan hacks who've created a Shitshow.
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How about 'propagandists' as a more appropriate yet still civilized identification. There are others, but we need to keep the Burg 'G' rather than 'X'.
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I remember this. They were completely repulsed by him as a person and it violated their sacred values to see him cast as a hero. So they shit on him and called him the villain, even though there was no evidence. Liars.
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Interesting that the plot line is so similar to the one Clint Eastwood followed for "Sully."
Little People who have power hate Greatness, especially when it appears in an otherwise ordinary man.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Smoking Gun] NOVEMBER 18--Following his arrest for possession of a hypodermic needle containing methamphetamine, a 380-pound Florida Man was hit with additional felony charges after jail personnel discovered a bag of meth "wedged deep within the belly button cavity of the defendant," according to a court affidavit.
[The Hill] Former first lady Michelle Obama shared a video singing a duet with Ellen DeGeneres to plug her new book, "Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice."
[Reddit] When The Quartering got punched at that convention, Honeycutt made a post on social media saying that Nazis should be punched, as should Hambly, and as should "bad people" in general.
Clint Eastwood's latest tells the true story of a security guard initially celebrated as a hero for saving lives in the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics, then vilified when the press reported he was a suspect.
