[Right Scoop] This is really unbelievable. According to the LA Times, the gang member who shot and killed one police officer and injured another this morning in California was release early and let back out on the streets:
Three Whittier Police Department officers were responding to the scene of a traffic collision about 8 a.m. when a 26-year-old, recently paroled man driving a stolen car opened fire with a semiautomatic pistol, said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lt. John Corina.
Detectives said the alleged gunman, who is expected to survive, is also a suspect in homicide that occurred in East Los Angeles. They believe he stole a vehicle Sunday morning after killing a man, then drove into Whittier, where he encountered the police.
The slain officer was identified as Keith Boyer, a 27-year veteran of the department.
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Sounds like more time is needed on the practice range. I recall a Texas law enforcement officer dropping a suspect at a good distance while holding his horse's reins.
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In all the articles I've seen on this story, all don't name the gunman. We know he was recently paroled, a gangbanger, multiple tatoos including facial, but no name?
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Who is involved in paroling someone? Is it a single judge or a board of folks? Whoever it is, are they ever held accountable for really bad decisions?
[CNN] Jim Serowski's employees told him they'd planned to skip work Thursday to participate in "A Day Without Immigrants colonists," the nationwide day of protest.
Serowski, founder of JVS Masonry in Commerce City, Colorado, said his position to them was clear: "If you're going to stand up for what you believe in, you have to be willing to pay the price."
As promised, when Serowski's foreman and some 30 bricklayers failed to show up for work, he fired them all with no regrets, he said.
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he fired them all with no regrets, he said. I've got to agree with him. You have schedules to meet and contracts to fulfill. If you can't count on your workers, you need to find others who will show up. The message is "Protest on your own time."
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Have to...construction, restaurant...no call - no shows are brutal.
I don't care if an employee calls me five minutes before opening, needs the day off to go pelican catching, I'm not standing around wondering when of if employee shows, I can call an audible on the day's plan.
Second, it is a trust issue. Now I don't trust you now..get away from my customers, get away from the cash, get the f off my property, don't come back, and you will have to get out of my sphere of influence. Done.
[MSN] Four people were fatally shot and 25 others were maimed in shootings during an unusually warm winter weekend. How do you say that in Ebonics?
As of Monday, there have been at least 88 homicides and at least 468 shooting victims, according to data compiled by the Tribune. The number of homicides is a slight decrease from the 90 homicides the city had logged this time last year. University of Washington can show you how, for only a relatively little money!
Still, the number of overall shootings continues to increase. Last year around this time, there had been about 437 shooting victims, according to Tribune data.
I am just going to have to find the data for Mogadishu and Baghdad...
Late Sunday, a 69-year-old man was shot in the chin and grazed on his left hand during an attempted robbery in the South reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... neighborhood, police said. The shooting happened about 10 p.m. in an alley in the 2200 block of East 84th Street. His condition was stabilized at South Shore Hospital.
Late Saturday, an off-duty Cook County sheriff's officer was shot in the leg while he was standing in front of a house in the 7300 block of South Aberdeen Street in the Englewood neighborhood, police said. It was unclear if the off-duty officer was the intended target.
Early Saturday, two shootings in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side left two men dead and three others maimed. That included Willie Cook, 23, who had been at an after-hours gathering in the 5000 block of South Ashland Avenue when gunfire erupted, wounding him multiple times in the back.
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Maybe we need to establish orphanages for the kids, possibly staffed by trained ex-gang members as they know what the alternative would be. Set up schools nearby. Teach the basics. Catholic school model works. Religious subjects can be omitted.
Or something.
What is needed is a stable home life for the kids, away from possible gang drug/money influences.
[DAILYCALLER] An "antiracist" poster in a college writing center insists American grammar is "racist" and an "unjust language structure," promising to prioritize rhetoric over "grammatical ’correctness.'" Kids! Kids! The ebonics are back!
The poster, written by the director, staff, and tutors of the University of Washington, Tacoma’s Writing Center, states "racism is the normal condition of things," declaring that it permeates rules, systems, expectations, in courses, school and society.
"Linguistic and writing research has shown clearly for many decades that there is no inherent ’standard’ of English," proclaims the writing center’s statement. "Language is constantly changing. These two facts make it very difficult to justify placing people in hierarchies or restricting opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate in particular versions of English."
In the introduction to its "commitment" section, the Tacoma Writing Center pledges to "listen and look carefully and compassionately for ways we may unintentionally perpetuate racism or social injustice, actively engaging in antiracist practices" before making nine specific promises to students.
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gerunds are racist
so is the indefinite article
so is the making the subject and the verb agree on number
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Just like the villain in 1984. Controlling the language.
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How many students think that proper writing is "texting" instead of spelling, punctuation and grammar?
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I hope some of this cockamamie notions in universities can be cleaned up; otherwise, the universities will continue to spew out little lefties who cannot think for themselves or critically analyze and sort out things in some meaningful constructive way. They will continue to learn politically correct useless crap. Then they will be pissed off because they feel like they got screwed. They will continue to be easily duped and used by the left.
Humans have been racist since the dawn of humanity.
They are right that language is constantly changing, but it changes with everyone using it. If you can't use that language, you can't communicate.
It ain't racism. It is just facts.
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From Harlem, but never in Holland,
A po' boy who never saw Poland
Was saved by his teachers
(inclusiveness preachers),
Who called him a perchild of coland.
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Let's take "science's" total inability to honestly report temperatures on the ground on this planet right here which the "scientists" are actually on and then assume (makes an ass out of you and me) that they are correct about stuff that they are "inferring" from afar. Yeah. Right.
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[GEO.TV] Under a new program at a nursing home in New York City, medical marijuana will be used to help treat residents for various illnesses.
The alternative to prescription drugs will be available at Hebrew Home's dispensary for residents to buy and consume on their own.
Ruth Brunn, 98 has accepted cannabis as a solution to the excruciating pain caused by neuropathy. She has cut down on her prescribed pain medication, morphine because marijuana pills have worked well for her.
"I don’t feel high or stoned," she said while talking to the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... . "All I know is I feel better when I take this."
American senior citizens are increasingly turning to marijuana for relief from pains and aches. Nursing homes and retirement communities have rapidly started embracing the alternative to prescription drugs.
Pro-medical marijuana groups have rationalized the move by saying marijuana is comparatively less addictive than drugs such as morphine. Marijuana for many is proving to be the miracle substance that is the last resort for the chronically ill.
29 of the 50 states in the US allow the medical use of marijuana, which is banned by federal law.
According to some reports, the drug has proved effective for treating people diagnosed with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other types of dementia.
Increasing scientific evidence indicates how marijuana is useful in treating certain medical conditions such as vomiting and nausea from chemotherapy, severe muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis, and neuropathic pain among others.
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[FOXNEWS] Leftists on social media tore into First Lady Melania Trump, mocking her accent and religion and branding her everything from a hostage to a whore ‐ all for the secular offense of reciting "The Lord’s Prayer."
Melania Trump began President Trump’s rally Saturday in Florida by delivering the prayer, which Christians ‐ many of whom recite the prayer in church each week ‐ believe was first said by Jesus Christ. The crowd at Orlando-Melbourne Airport received the prayer enthusiastically.
Left-leaning social media users were a different story, however.
"Melania starts the dictatorship rally with the Lord’s Prayer? NOT EVERY AMERICAN IS CHRISTIAN!!!! Country over party," tweeted @JaimePrimak.
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Now that she's announced herself, please HATE Jaime on Facebook.
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Yeah, the left was complaining about her plagiarizing the bible, her accent, and her red dress. The Trumps just need to keep pushing ahead and ignore these dumb bastards.
Even when they're fighting Sudan they are fighting among themselves. The gods of the copybook headings continue to make their rounds.
[AA.TR] Three years of civil war and a collapsing economy have left no fewer than 100,000 people starving in parts of violence-plagued South Sudan, according to United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... agencies.
A joint statement released Monday by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) and World Food Programme (WFP) said parts of north-central Unity State are currently being affected by famine.
"A formal famine declaration means people have already started dying of hunger," it underlined.
The agencies warned that an additional one million people are on the brink of famine in several parts of the country, where farming has been hampered since a military conflict erupted between President Salva Kiir and his former deputy, Riek Machar, in December 2013.
War broke out just two years after the country gained independence, leaving tens of thousands of people dead and forcing more than 2.4 million others to flee their homes.
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Wonder if the FAO and EU are more worried about GMO food or starvation? Wonder if the Sudanese have the same view?
[Dhaka Tribune] The headmaster and an assistant teacher of Khadorchara High School at Kaliganj upazila in the district were beaten up severely allegedly by the former president of the school managing committee on Monday .
Local sources said, there has been a longstanding conflict between Abdul Latif, the headmaster, and Golzar Hossain Mintu, former president of the committee.
According to the sources, since the tenure of the committee expired of late, a convening committee was formed with the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Shaheen Alam as its head.
The incident left Golzar furious as he could not retain the post. He out of his anger first attacked Latif on Sunday when he was on his way to the school. Luckily, the headmaster managed to escape the attack, the sources further said.
Along with his hired goons, Golzar yet again swooped on the school teacher and his colleague named Indrojit Kumar while on their way to the school, injuring the duo critically.
Makbul Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kaliganj cop shoppe, local people rescued the teachers and whisked off them to hospital.
The UNO said he received the news, adding that proper action would be taken soon against Golzar and his aides. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... police were yet to arrest anybody in this connection till the filing of the report at 9:25pm.
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Constant shelling by Ukrainian artillery shut down a water plant four days ago, and now power to run the back up systems has been damaged as well, according to rebel Russian language sources.
The damage caused by shelling four days ago affected all of Gorlovka city, which is directly adjacent to Donetsk city to the northeast. According to a news release posted by the Donetsk ministry of defense website, new damage to a water pump and transmission lines on both sides of the line of contact had effectively cut off water.
However, a recent report in Ukrainian media claimed that power has been restored and water to the Ukrainian side of the line has resumed. Rebel reports say that Ukrainian artillery fired on repair teams in Yasinovataya on Sunday. Artillery fire was later stopped by Ukrainian and Russian ceasefire observers so repairs could commence.
The intensified shelling which increased in recent weeks has been concentrated in northern Donetsk, Gorlovka and in Yasinovataya, and has been an issue between the two combatants since early last year. Ukrainian artillery, according to rebel news account, have been hitting checkpoints on roads that link Gorlovka and Donetsk.
According to lb.ua, quoting the Ukrainian ministry of defense, rebel 82mm mortars hit targets in Avdievka, Zaistevo and Troiskoye. The report also named a number of locales hit by rebel small arms fire including in Donetsk city and in the south near Mariupol.
Rebels say the Ukrainian artillery has hit targets in Donetsk city, Yasinovataya, Spartak and at the Donetsk airport. Rebels also claim that Ukrainian forces have been moving heavy weapons to the front.
[SCMP] North Korea’s top envoy in Kuala Lumpur has denounced Malaysia’s investigation into the apparent killing of the exiled half brother of North Korea’s ruler, calling it politically motivated and demanding a joint probe into the death.
"The investigation by the Malaysian police is not for the clarification of the cause of the death and search of the suspect, but it is out of the political aim," Ambassador Kang Chol told news hounds on Monday.
Police had "pinned the suspicion on us," he said, calling on Malaysia and the international community to work with North Korea on a joint investigation.
Watch: leaked video appears to show killers attacking Kim Jong-nam
Malaysia also confirmed it had recalled its ambassador to Pyongyang, as a spat over the investigation into the killing of 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... ’s half brother intensified, after Malaysia rejected demands from North Korean diplomats to hand over the body of Kim Jong-nam.
"The Ministry emphasised that as the death occurred on Malaysian soil under mysterious circumstances, it is the responsibility of the Malaysian Government to conduct an investigation to identify the cause of death," a foreign ministry statement said of the meeting with the North Korean ambassador.
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BARCELONA cops shot at and arrested the driver of a truck packed with gas cylinders speeding towards the city centre after a dramatic chase.
The truck, reportedly carrying highly-flammable butane cylinders, is said to have rammed several cars as it sped the wrong way down a main road in the Spanish city. Nobody is believed to have been injured by gunshots but the driver, whose motivations are unknown, has been arrested.
Several local news outlets including Lavanguardia and Elperiodico report that the man arrested is 32-year-old Joakim Robin Berggren, a Swedish citizen. Officials say the arrested man has a history of mental illness, and ruled out that it is a terrorist act.
Any chance someone knows where Joakim prays?
Eyewitnesses told local media outlet Beteve the driver was "laughing like a maniac" during the two-mile chase along the Ronda del Litoral.
Others told La Vanguardia he was a "young boy" with a shaved head and long sideburns and was wearing a military green bomber jacket.
Armed police - said to be carrying machine guns - reportedly shot at the vehicle seven times before it came to a halt, with three officers detaining the driver as he fled the cabin.
Shooting at a speeding vehicle loaded with gas cylinders? Not very smart, but certainly very brave...
Spain's interior minister Juan Ignacio Zoido tweeted earlier: "The driver of the stolen butane truck in Barcelona detained has a psychiatric history. It was not a terrorist act."
Three people - including a policeman who had to jump out of the way of the vehicle - were injured in the chase, which lasted around 10 minutes. The other two were hit by butane cylinders thrown from the back of the truck, reports elperiodico.
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the arrested man has a history of mental illness
He's either Muslim or a Muslim tool.
Or the gas cylinders were about to be used for peaceful Islamic purposes.
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In Sweden or Germany, this sort of rayciss debacle could never have happened, as the polis are trained to be sensitive to immigrant customs. These Spanish coppers bosses will be roundly shamed at the next EU wide copper conference, you can bet.
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[Reuters] French far-right National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting on Tuesday with Lebanon's grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to wear a headscarf for the encounter.
Le Pen, among the frontrunners for the presidency, is using a two-day visit to Lebanon to bolster her foreign policy credentials nine weeks from the April 23 first round, and may be partly targeting potential Franco-Lebanese votes.
Many Lebanese fled to France, Lebanon's former colonial power, during their country's 1975-1990 civil war and became French citizens.
After meeting Christian President Michel Aoun - her first public handshake with a head of state - and Sunni Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri on Monday, she had been scheduled to meet the Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian
He heads the Dar al-Fatwa, the top religious authority for Sunni Muslims in the multireligious country.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] New video shows the moment Falcon 9 rocket landed at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida
The rocket blasted off at 9:38am Sunday and touched down at the space center that day
It returned after making its payload to the astronauts on the International Space Station
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk captioned the video of the return on Instagram: 'Baby came back'
The launch pad, which is being leased by SpaceX for six years, was used to send Neil Armstrong to the moon
SpaceX wanted to send the rocket - packed with supplies for the space station - Saturday but there was a fault
The reusable rocket has only been landed on solid ground by SpaceX three times before
This was the first launch for the company from Florida since September, when another Falcon 9 exploded
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The second stage maneuvers after seco caused UFO sightings all over IRAN! Some of the UFO vids even capture the Dragon separating from the second stage.
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Only the first stage has landed. The payload Dragon is on it's way to ISS.
There is this whole "go slow and carefully approach according to script" dance that is done to be grappled (not docked) with ISS. Docking is too much of a shock for many experiments on the ISS and is only used for manned and Russian craft. H5, Cygnus and Dragon are pulled in by remote arm. EU craft might dock but no more EU craft are planned.
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H5 is the big Japanese space freighter.
Next gen will be a bigger Cygnus, Dragon2 (both cargo and human versions), DreamChaser(cargo version), Boeing Starliner and the H5 and Dragons will continue for awhile.
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Next SpaceX/Musk launch is Echostar 23 which will be expendable (no landing) as the sat is quite large.
After Echostar 23 comes SES-10 which will be riding on the first reused first stage! Hopefully this flight will be mid-March but delivery times and Musk have quite often been wishful thinking.
[Reuters] Malaysian authorities said on Tuesday they had still to establish what was used to kill the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and the body had not been formally identified as no next of kin have come forward.
Kim Jong Nam was killed at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb. 13 with what police believe was a fast-acting poison. Malaysia's deputy prime minister has previously named the victim as Kim Jong Nam, though authorities have been unable to conduct DNA tests.
"The cause of death and identity are still pending," Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, director general of health at Malaysia's health ministry, told reporters.
The health ministry official said no DNA samples had been received from the next of kin. South Korean and U.S. officials have said they believe North Korean agents assassinated Kim Jong Nam, who had been living in the Chinese territory of Macau under Beijing's protection.
Malaysia has urged Kim Jong Nam's next-of-kin to claim the body and help with the inquiry, which has sparked a diplomatic row with North Korea, whose officials want the body handed over directly.
Malaysia recalled its envoy from Pyongyang after North Korea's ambassador in Kuala Lumpur cast doubt on the impartiality of Malaysia's investigation and said the victim was not Kim Jong Nam.
North Korean ambassador Kang Chol said on Monday that his country "cannot trust" Malaysia's handling of the probe into the killing.
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.
[Right Scoop] This is really unbelievable. According to the LA Times, the gang member who shot and killed one police officer and injured another this morning in California was release early and let back out on the streets:
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[DAILYCALLER] An "antiracist" poster in a college writing center insists American grammar is "racist" and an "unjust language structure," promising to prioritize rhetoric over "grammatical ’correctness.'"
[GEO.TV] Under a new program at a nursing home in New York City, medical marijuana will be used to help treat residents for various illnesses.
North Korea
[Reuters] French far-right National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting on Tuesday with Lebanon's grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to wear a headscarf for the encounter.
