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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man or something arrested in Oregon in death of Mouseketeer plank holder
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) ‐ Authorities in Oregon have arrested a man in the death of an original member of Disney’s "The Mickey Mouse Club."

Daniel James Burda, 36, was taken into custody Friday on suspicion of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, abuse of a corpse, criminal mistreatment and identity theft in the death of Dennis Day, Oregon State Police said.

Burda was being held in Jackson County Jail, where records show he had been booked on June 26 for violating probation on a previous robbery charge.

It was unclear if he has an attorney.

Oregon State Police Captain Timothy R. Fox said Burda did jobs around the house for Day and his husband. Police declined to provide more details about Burda’s connection to Day, though neighbors say Burda had lived with the elderly couple at their home in southern Oregon.

Day, 76, was a founding member of the Mickey Mouse Club for two seasons in the 1950s.

In February, members of Day’s family spoke with "Dateline," a television news show, and said the investigation into Day’s disappearance had been poorly handled.

Day was first reported missing last July 15 by his husband, Ernie Caswell, who has memory loss.

Day’s car was later found at the Oregon coast and a missing person report said Day had uncharacteristically left his dog with a friend on the day he disappeared.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 08:14 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like an awkward gay-hippie-gigolo love triangle murdercide story. And this had absolutely nothing to do with mickey mouse. Although an intelligent parent could glean a life lesson from the data herein. Journalists are amazing.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/09/2019 10:03 Comments || Top||


Hall County, GA. deputy killed in shootout with stolen car suspects
[MAIL] All four suspects wanted in connection with the killing of a Georgia sheriff's deputy have now been captured.

An intense manhunt had been ongoing for much of Monday until mid-afternoon, when the Hall County Sheriff's Office announced all suspects were in custody.

Hall County Sheriff Gerald Couch said one of the four - 19-year-old Hector Garcia Solis - is suspected of firing the shot that killed Deputy Nicolas Dixon late Sunday night in Gainesville.

Hall County Sheriff Gerald Crouch said the 28 year-old Dixon was a married father of two young children and had been with the department for three years.

He was mortally wounded at around 11pm Sunday night when a bullet pierced his body below his tactical vest as he exchanged fire with the suspects on Sunday night.

Patrol deputies spotted the suspects driving a stolen car, believed to have been used in several car break-ins and house burglaries over the weekend, and gave chase.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 01:34 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  AJC - By early Monday afternoon, the remaining suspects — Brayan Omar Cruz, London Clements and Eric Edgardo Velazquez, each 17 years old, each charged with felony murder — were in custody, authorities said.

AJC link to story.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 1:54 Comments || Top||

#2  They sound more mexican that American.

Doing the jobs Americans dont do.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/09/2019 5:55 Comments || Top||

#3  In some third world countries the policia approach traffic violators with guns drawn and pointed at the suspect and cuff them before words are exchanged. The lawless Dims own thïs.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 07/09/2019 8:38 Comments || Top||

#4  shooter got one in the head and chest. hopefully he dies so we don't have too wait 25 years too kill the pos.
Posted by: chris || 07/09/2019 18:16 Comments || Top||


Another sicko busted for licking ice cream, putting it back on the shelf
[NYPOST] A cringeworthy copycat inspired by a viral video showing a teen licking a tub of ice cream before putting it back on the shelf has been arrested for a similar stunt, Louisiana police said.

Lenise Lloyd Martin III, 36, was arrested by Assumption Gay Pareeh sheriff’s deputies on Saturday after being filmed opening a carton of Blue Bell ice cream from a freezer, licking it, poking his finger into the frozen treat and putting it back on a shelf, WAFB reports.

A 13-second clip shows a smiling Martin playfully looking around after taking his first unauthorized taste as a child walks behind him and appears to turn around. Martin then sneaks a second lick after jabbing his finger into the ice cream and looking into the camera before placing it back into a freezer, video shows.

"We discourage anyone from copying this atrocious act," a sheriff’s office front man told the station. "It is illegal. It’s a health risk to others. We will pursue anyone we see do this. You will be charged."

Martin was arrested after deputies found evidence that he posted video of his alleged unsanitary actions at a grocery store in Belle Rose, west of New Orleans, on Facebook, public information officer Lonny Cavalier told CNN.

Martin later showed detectives a receipt for the ice cream, suggesting that he ultimately paid for his contaminated confection ‐ but Cavalier said the purchase still did not clear him of wrongdoing.

Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We discourage anyone from copying this atrocious act," a sheriff’s office front man told the station. "It is illegal. It’s a health risk to others. We will pursue anyone we see do this. You will be charged."

Not enough - start making serious examples out of these assholes.
Posted by: Raj || 07/09/2019 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Sit him out in front of the store in a lawn chair and make him eat an entire two gallon tub while the media covers it live on teevee.

Make him sit there until he finishes it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 0:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe its already been said; haven't seen it so apologies in advance, but I suspect the real reason the original ice cream kicker, she of minor age status was solely due to some testicular atrophy on the part of law enforcement who didn't want a Ferguson, V 2.0 to erupt.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/09/2019 1:13 Comments || Top||

#4  I'd hate to be acquainted with Lenise Lloyd Martin I and II.

Martin later showed detectives a receipt for the ice cream, suggesting that he ultimately paid for his contaminated confection ‐ but Cavalier said the purchase still did not clear him of wrongdoing.

Ha ha ha ha ha ! Bloody delinquents. HAH HA HAAHAH HA!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/09/2019 2:51 Comments || Top||

#5  "...due to some testicular atrophy on the part of law enforcement who didn't want a Ferguson, V 2.0 to erupt."

Major difference is in this case, there's video to show what the girl did! The cops, or rather the DA in this case dropped the ball.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/09/2019 4:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Make him sit there until he finishes it.

Or if he can finish a half gallon in a minute that would be fine. The resulting ice cream headache would be sufficient for law enforcement purposes.
Posted by: gorb || 07/09/2019 7:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Draft them as taste testers for batches of food in the next Listeria outbreak.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/09/2019 7:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Re #5: I was referring to the DA that, in your words, 'dropped the ball;' I respectfully disagree. He wanted no part of anything that even smelled faintly of racism as pulled a Smollett on this case.

Purely my opinon, your mileage may vary.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/09/2019 14:40 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Trump declares state of emergency for California after major earthquakes
Posted by: Ulort Glorong3216 || 07/09/2019 06:27 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Me to. The darn state still hasn't fallen into the ocean.
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/09/2019 7:02 Comments || Top||

#2  When Texas was experiencing severe drought what did Obama do? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/09/2019 7:41 Comments || Top||

#3  If the Feds declare a 'state of emergency', then they can do all manner of stuffs to mitigate.

Building an impenetrable dome over the Sacramento State Capitol while the governor is in and both legislatures are in session.

Just thinking out loud.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/09/2019 8:41 Comments || Top||

#4  If the Feds declare a 'state of emergency', then they can do all manner of stuffs to mitigate.

Move in the National Guard for ID checks, to prevent looting.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2019 10:53 Comments || Top||


White House is leaking - literally
[EU.USATODAY] "Update: swamp draining in progress," Javers tweeted. "WH leaks appear contained. Press pool dry."

More from the Daily Mail
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I will pray the rains continue in DC for another 39 days.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 07/09/2019 8:42 Comments || Top||


Massive sinkhole eats an entire Dodge minivan
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Going, going, GONE! Moment a massive sinkhole opens up in road and swallows an entire Dodge minivan sending it 20 feet into the ground where it's crushed by dirt and concrete.

  • Officials believe the sinkhole was caused by water wearing away the soil under the road following heavy rain Thursday

  • The sinkhole opened up in a Dale City, Virginia street below a red Dodge Caravan

  • The car was seen hanging onto the street by its bumper, then falling into the hole
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nom nom nom!
Posted by: gorb || 07/09/2019 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Burp!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/09/2019 8:50 Comments || Top||


The scar that can be seen from SPACE: Satellite image reveals the massive crack created by California's magnitude 7.1 quake
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Gagging on the Gulf: ALL of Mississippi's Gulf Coast beaches are closed over spread of toxic algae which causes rashes, diarrhea and vomiting
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
5 Jews left in Cairo with death of matriarch Marcelle Haroun
[IsraelTimes] Marcelle Haroun, mother of the current president of Cairo’s Jewish community, has died at the age of 93.

Her death, announced on Saturday, leaves five Jews known to be living in Cairo, Watani International reports. The five remaining are Haroun’s daughter Magda and four granddaughters. The AFP news service reported in March 2017 that there were also 12 Jews living in the coastal city of Alexandria.

Haroun was married to lawyer and politician Shehata Haroun, known as a Jewish anti-Zionist who was a member of the Communist Party of Egypt, according to the report. Her daughter told Tablet in 2013 that Marcelle was her father’s "comrade."

Egypt was home to some 80,000 Jews when Israel was founded in 1948. Thousands began leaving in the ensuing years, and many more in two waves, in 1956 and 1967. The Harouns remained, considering themselves Egyptian first, according to Watani.

"The Jewish Community in Cairo (JCC) has regretfully lost Marcelle Haroun, one of its pillars who will be sorely missed," read the statement announcing her death.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/09/2019 00:25 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  back in the days of King Fuad I and Farouk I, Jews were in high government positions, especially in the Finance Dept (to reduce corruption)

first pogroms in Egypt were in 1945

that is, before Israel was founded

King Farouk was forced to abdicate in 1952 and by 1954 Nasser was in control.
Posted by: lord garth || 07/09/2019 6:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Following the war in '67 the last of the Jews began to leave Alexandria. Along with them went the Italians, Syrian and Lebanese Christians, Maltese and Greeks. Nasser got his way and the famed polyglot city of Alexandria was "Arabized."
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 || 07/09/2019 9:49 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Congo warlord convicted of crimes against humanity by International Criminal Court in The Hague
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Congo warlord dubbed The Terminator who directed a massacre of men and women found disembowelled or with their heads crushed is convicted of crimes against humanity.
  • Bosco Ntaganda was found gulity of giving 'orders to target and kill' civilians in 2002-2003

  • Other charges include murder, rape, sexual slavery and recruiting child soldiers

  • The conviction is seen as a much-needed win for the court that has drawn fire
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Crimes against humanity.

Phrase makes a certain assumption, possibly having little or nothing to do with criminality.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Related : UN Peacekeepers blind to inhumanity.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/09/2019 2:43 Comments || Top||

#3  I read that at first as "Chicago" and wondered when the ICC was messing about there.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/09/2019 7:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Wouldn't be such a stretch though, Alan. But there is good news for Chicago it seems.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/09/2019 13:16 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, says he is ready to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Stricken Russian Nuke Sub Crew Prevented ‘Planetary Catastrophe’
[MSN] The 14 sailors who died during a fire last week on a nuclear-powered Russian military submarine prevented a "planetary catastrophe," a top naval officer said at their funeral, according to media reports.

Captain Sergei Pavlov, an aide to the commander of Russia’s navy, praised the heroism of the men, who died as they battled to stop the fire from spreading in the submersible.

"With their lives, they saved the lives of their colleagues, saved the vessel and prevented a planetary catastrophe," he said at the funeral Sunday attended by the navy chief according to the Fontanka news service.

Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov said he wasn’t aware of the official’s comments but said there was no indication the incident posed a broader threat. "As for the reactor, there are no problems with that," he said on a conference call.

Russia broke three days of secrecy July 4 and confirmed that the stricken underwater research vessel was nuclear-powered. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
in a meeting shown on state TV that the nuclear reactor on board the vessel had been completely sealed off.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Big whoop - we're all gonna die in 11 years, seven months anyway from 'climate change', according to AOC.
Posted by: Raj || 07/09/2019 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  .....prevented a planetary catastrophe,"

Something akin to the seldom discussed, above ground nuclear testing of the 50's and 60's ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 2:43 Comments || Top||

#3  So Russia admits that the technology used in a deployed weapons system is a potential "planetary catastrophe"!

Doesn't that imply that they are engaging in doomsday tech for normal operation and should be shut down by the rest of the people on this planet?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/09/2019 3:12 Comments || Top||

#4  a non functioning reactor on the bottom of the sea

there are a bunch of these already

most recently a Russian nuke sank in 2003 pretty close to a port

Posted by: lord garth || 07/09/2019 7:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Wouldn't be carrying one of those tsunami inducing torpedoes?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/09/2019 7:50 Comments || Top||

#6  "It was going to be Chernobyl Lite™, no, no, a "planetary catastrophe, I tells you! But we stopped it! So stop keep bringing up that Chernobyl thing, okay???" --Russian spokesrobot (/sarc)
Posted by: magpie || 07/09/2019 14:33 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
U.S. State Department approves possible $2.2 billion arms sale to Taiwan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale to Taiwan of M1A2T Abrams tanks, Stinger missiles and related equipment at an estimated value of $2.2 billion, the Pentagon said on Monday, despite Chinese criticism of the deal.

China’s Foreign Ministry said last month when the possible sale was first reported that it was seriously concerned about U.S. arms sales to self-ruled Taiwan, and it urged the United States to halt the sales to avoid harming bilateral ties.

The sale of the weapons requested by Taiwan, including 108 General Dynamics Corp (GD.N) M1A2T Abrams tanks and 250 Stinger missiles, would not alter the basic military balance in the region, the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement.

DSCA notified Congress on Monday of the possible arms sale, which it said could also include mounted machine guns, ammunition, Hercules armored vehicles for recovering inoperative tanks, heavy equipment transporters and related support.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 02:23 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. Give them what they need to make it extremely painful for China to try an invasion.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/09/2019 9:45 Comments || Top||


Hong Kong leader says extradition bill 'dead', but critics not satisfied
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The extradition bill that sparked Hong Kong’s biggest crisis in decades is dead, the territory’s leader said on Tuesday, adding that the government’s work on the legislation had been a "total failure", but critics accused her of playing with words.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 01:57 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Don't worry, it's only resting.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/09/2019 8:47 Comments || Top||


Europe
Turkish president Erdogan's bodyguards clash with Bosnian police
[DW] Bosnian authorities say His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
's security detail has scuffled with border police at Sarajevo's airport. The guards escorting the Ottoman Turkish leader reportedly refused to hand over their guns.
They aren’t rude just here in the States.
"They were aggressive and behaved as if they were in their own country," chief of Bosnian border police Zoran Galic told the Dnevni Avaz news portal. "They did not respect our laws and deserved to be arrested."

Moslem-majority Bosnia was ruled by the Ottoman Empire for five centuries and shares strong ties with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
Shortly after touching down in Sarajevo, Erdogan visited Ottoman Turkish soldiers serving in the EU-led peacekeeping mission there. He is also scheduled to attend an economic summit of southeastern Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an countries where he is expected to hold bilateral meetings with members of the presidency.

He is also due to pay his respects to the 8,000 Bosnian Moslems who were killed in the town of Srebrenica in July 1995 ahead of the massacre's 24th anniversary next week.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/09/2019 02:07 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Evict them immediately from Bosnia.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/09/2019 4:48 Comments || Top||


Selfie craze leads to San Francisco attorney's Pamplona bull goring
PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) ‐ The desire to have a selfie as a souvenir from running with the bulls in Spain turned into a near-death experience an American lawyer says he’ll never forget.

A charging bull ran over and gored San Francisco resident Jaime Alvarez in the neck during the first run of this year’s San Fermin festival in Pamplona, an event immortalized by writer Ernest Hemingway nearly a century ago.

"The joy and the excitement of being in the bullring quickly turned into a scare, into real fear for my life," Alvarez, 46, said Monday at a regional hospital where he was recovering from surgery.

Doctors told Alvarez the bull’s horn went deep into his neck and fractured part of a cheekbone. That it didn’t hit the jugular vein or major arteries was described to the injured patient as "beyond miraculous."

Alvarez, who works as a public defender in Santa Clara County, California, said he realized how severely he’d been hurt during his encounter with the bull Sunday morning when he touched his neck and his hand came away covered with blood.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 02:02 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hopefully he'll be well enough to return next year.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 2:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Doctors told Alvarez the bull’s horn went deep into his neck and fractured part of a cheekbone.

He won't be litigating for some while, and if he does it'll be like Arnold Vosloo in the Mummy.

And gorb wanted tennis balls. ☺

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/09/2019 2:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Depends on the target.
Posted by: gorb || 07/09/2019 7:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Tennis balls don't do much to blunt a pointy object, with a pretty sizable kinetic energy, travelling at 30-mph.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/09/2019 10:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Pessimist.
Posted by: gorb || 07/09/2019 10:42 Comments || Top||


ISPs call Mozilla ‘Internet Villain' for promoting DNS privacy
[NakedSecurity] The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has provocatively shortlisted Mozilla for the sort of award that, on the face of it at least, no tech company should be keen to win ‐ '2019's Internet Villain'.

Mozilla's claim to infamy? From ISPA's point of view, it's Firefox's imminent inclusion of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) ‐ a technology many experts endorse as the biggest jump for internet privacy since the expansion of HTTPS itself.

The problem, according to the ISPA press release, is that the arrival of this technology in the Firefox browser used by millions will make it possible to:

Bypass UK filtering obligations and parental controls, undermining internet safety standards in the UK.

The point of DoH (and the related DNS over TLS, or DoT) is to encrypt DNS requests, which makes it impossible, or at least very difficult, for entities such as ISPs or governments to monitor which websites people are visiting. And because the DNS requests are sent inside encrypted HTTPS requests they're also indistinguishable from other web traffic, so they can't be blocked without blocking all web traffic.

To privacy enthusiasts, this is good because neither ISPs nor governments have any business knowing which domains users happen to frequent.

For ISPs, by contrast, DoH hands them several headaches, including how to fulfil their legal obligation in the UK to store a year's worth of each subscriber's internet visits in case the government wants to study them later for evidence of criminal activity.

Years in the making, this is a collision foretold. One side (Mozilla and Cloudflare, the latter providing the DoH resolution that supports the whole endeavor) thinks that internet privacy is an immutable principle that demands a technical solution, the other (governments, police and at least one anti-child abuse campaign group) think that privacy carries risks that must always be qualified through intervention.
Technical details follow at link.
While I can understand them wanting to filer out illegal sites, with the EU it is always always always about control.
They want to know if you are visiting sites that they may not agree with. Can't have that. Might get some Brexit ideas or something.

I fall on the make it difficult for the government to see what I am doing. Not because I am doing illegal stuff, but because it is none of their goddamn business.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  a year's worth of each subscriber's internet visits in case the government wants to study them later for evidence of criminal activity.

What about the criminal activity going on in the streets, you fucking pimps ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/09/2019 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2  because it is none of their goddamn business.


A great summation of my attitude toward the progressive, Democrat, statist mindset.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/09/2019 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  How will they round up people for hate speech now?
Posted by: charger || 07/09/2019 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Now to hope that Mozilla doesn't get bureaucrat'ed by the EU and other statists.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/09/2019 9:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Home Depot shoppers threaten to boycott after learning the co-founder gave millions to help elect Trump
[Market Watch] Helping to make America great again has become this retired Home Depot co-founder’s own DIY project.

Billionaire Bernie Marcus recently made headlines by sharing that he plans to give 80% to 90% of his wealth (estimated at $4.53 billion by Bloomberg, or $5.8 billion by Forbes) to charity when he dies. But the former Home Depot HD, +0.69% chairman also revealed in the same Atlanta Journal-Constitution interview that he will be donating to Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, as well. Indeed, he donated $7 million to help elect Trump in 2016, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Related: Home Depot co-founder will give 90% of his reported $4.5 billion fortune to charity

And now some enraged customers on social media say they are boycotting the home-improvement chain’s stores, which does about $108 billion in annual sales. They claim to be cutting up their Home Depot cards, and say they plan to shop at competitors like Lowe’s LOW, +0.42% and Menards, under the hashtag #BoycottHomeDepot. They have also responded to unrelated posts on Home Depot’s official Twitter TWTR, +0.55% account with comments like "just say no to Home Depot" and "I will rot in the bowels of hell before I give one penny to @HomeDepot again."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 00:32 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And now some enraged customers on social media say they are boycotting the home-improvement chain’s stores...

Yea... well this is just bullshi* !

The Home Depot, Inc. (HD)
NYSE - NYSE Delayed Price. Currency in USD
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At close: July 8 4:00PM EDT


Up .69% on a down day.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  The people that buy shit at Home Depot, Lowes, etc. tend to have jobs - this is a bullshit 'threat'.
Posted by: Raj || 07/09/2019 0:52 Comments || Top||

#3  "I will rot in the bowels of hell before I give one penny to @HomeDepot again."

I feel the same way about the Boston Globe, Apple, and coming very, very close with Microsoft, who I used to be a huge fan of. The recent forced upgrade to Windows 10 sealed it for me.
Posted by: Raj || 07/09/2019 0:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Should each of the individual customers receive the Oberlin treatment ? Anyway, here's the big man with Marvin Ellison, now CEO of Lowe's LOW. So much for shopping elsewhere, idiots.


Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/09/2019 1:12 Comments || Top||

#5  I participated in the Chick-fil-A counter-boycott a few years back. Parking anywhere close to the building was a no-go. Stood in line for nearly 15 minutes to place my order.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 2:15 Comments || Top||

#6  At 8 at night on a Saturday night when your sump pump fails and it's raining like hell remind me about how you will honor your boycott instead of replacing the pump and saving everything in your basement!!!
Posted by: 3dc || 07/09/2019 3:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Same for the tornado taking off your shingles and how you will put your whole house at risk rather than buy some heavy tarps to cover it until you can employ some roofers.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/09/2019 3:07 Comments || Top||

#8  The non-profit Georgia Aquarium, yes the one Bernie Marcus built and visited by thousands of people each month.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 5:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Not one "customer" named in this BS report.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 07/09/2019 6:01 Comments || Top||

#10  Don't think so. We were at the Forest Lake store and bought a new AC system and 18 windows for our cabin yesterday. Our sales gal was pretty excited over the stock rising.

They claim to be cutting up their Home Depot cards

What doesn't get these snowflakes melting?
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/09/2019 6:56 Comments || Top||

#11  Um Woodrow? If you need 18 windows that place doesn't qualify as a cabin unless your real name is Rothschild or Buffet or Salman. Wink, Wink.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/09/2019 7:21 Comments || Top||

#12  Wonder how many of them ever stepped one foot in the door drove by the parking lot? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/09/2019 7:43 Comments || Top||

#13  Heck, Woodrow was just talking about the regular small windows. The 12 big custom jobs had to be special ordered. :)
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/09/2019 7:47 Comments || Top||

#14  Imagine a Venn Diagram of Snowflakes and homeowners. Not much overlap. Now look at a diagram of Home Depot customers and homeowners. Almost identical. Empty threat. A Venn Diagram of Homeowners and Trump voters would also show yuge overlap. Funny how that works.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 07/09/2019 9:28 Comments || Top||

#15  "I will rot in the bowels of hell before I give one penny to @HomeDepot again."

there. fixed.
Posted by: Thraling Glack4003 || 07/09/2019 9:30 Comments || Top||

#16  If that means they will aslo keep their God-forsaken dogs from shopping there also I am all for that. Dogs belong at home and NOT AT THE FUCKING STORES!!!!!!!! (except for legitimate Service animals and not the snowflake protecting 'Emotional support purse pooches, often carried by both flake-genders)
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/09/2019 14:48 Comments || Top||

#17  ...you mean their 'adult' teddy bears and dollies.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/09/2019 19:04 Comments || Top||

#18  Sorry. I bought the family cabin of governor Arne Carlson's secretary's family's. The building is a wall of handmade pine 6 pane windows on Coon Lake. While it's a heart breaking shame to see them, go winters here can get a bit biting.

All sky lighted knotty pine from floor to ceiling. God bless lake cabin life. It rebuilds the spirit like nothing else.
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/09/2019 20:32 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Mayhem at Lahore hospital leaves 2 patients dead, including Sadiqabad big fat guy
[DAWN] A Sadiqabad-based taxi driver, who recently underwent treatment for health complications caused by obesity, passed away on Monday after he was left unattended due to commotion in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital in Lahore.

Noorul Hassan, weighing 330 kg, had made national headlines last month when he was air lifted on a Pakistain Army helicopter to Lahore for treatment on special directives from Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

According to 55-year-old Noor's doctor, Dr Maazul Hassan, a top laparoscopic surgeon in Lahore, a female patient had passed away at the Shalamar Hospital today after which her relatives reached the hospital and expressed concern about her death.

In the chaos that ensued, Noor and a second patient died "due to the unavailability of staff", Dr Maaz said while speaking to DawnNewsTV. He added that the relatives of the female patient had not intended to cause the deaths but the situation worsened due to the violence.

Additional medical superintendents (AMS) Dr Rizwan and Dr Nayar said that relatives of the female patient had broken windows, switched ventilators off and hit doctors. They added that nurses had left the ICU during the commotion.

A spokesperson for the hospital said that they were investigating the incident and needed to look at CCTV footage. The spokesperson said that chaos had broken out in the hospital during which everyone was trying to save themselves.

Dr Maaz said that he was not present in the hospital during the episode but was told that "a lot of damage" had been caused.

He explained that while the chaos was taking place, Noor was feeling unwell and was left unattended for nearly an hour.

"When they (hospital staff) noted this, they attempted to resuscitate him but were unable to successfully to do so," Dr Maaz said.

"You can't directly blame anyone but staff should have been present," he said.

A spokesperson for the Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

Healthcare Commission confirmed the deaths while announcing that a three-member committee had been formed that had started investigations.

Dr Maaz said that just yesterday, Noor's family had shared the positive progress his health had made. He said that the patient had been kept on elective ventilation after he experienced breathing problems so that he could be discharged after six or seven days.

He said that Noor's death had occurred at 8:15am.

Noor's son said that doctors were not responsible for his father's death. He said that Noor was to be removed from the ventilator today. His wife added that doctors had said that her husband had suffered a heart attack.

Noor ‐ a resident of Mohallah Islampura in Sadiqabad ‐ had appealed to Gen Bajwa on social media to take notice of his predicament and assist him in seeking treatment.

Sadiqabad Assistant Commissioner Kashif Dogar had told Dawn that Noor could not travel in an ambulance by road due to his weight and that he was a poor taxi driver who resided in a small house.

During the process of shifting him, Rescue 1122 personnel had broken the main door and wall of Hassan's house to bring him out. Dogar said the rescue team had shifted Hassan onto a mini truck and transported him to a football ground in Sadiqabad where a helipad was fashioned for the air ambulance's landing.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  he was air lifted on a Pakistain Army helicopter to Lahore for treatment on special directives from Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

Broke down walls, used football grounds, sent in helicopters, and attended to by 'top experts'. Then dies due to attention denied because of a brawl. Overweight (well fed), taxi driver. Whoa ! This guy was like a microcosm of Pakistan itself.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/09/2019 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2  I dunno Dron, at 335 KG I'd put that more in the macrocosm range.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/09/2019 7:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Florida school principal removed for stating he couldn’t say Holocaust happened
[IsraelTimes] A high school in Boca Raton, Florida, removed a principal who told a parent that he needed to remain neutral on whether or not the Holocaust occurred.

The Palm Beach County School District said in a statement Monday that it was aware of remarks made by William Latson in 2018 and had instructed him to expand Holocaust curriculum at Spanish River Community High School and spend time at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

"Despite these efforts, his leadership has become a major distraction for the school community. It is, therefore, in the best interest of students and the larger school community to reassign Mr. Latson to a District position," the school district said in a statement on Monday.

In an email exchange a year ago, in response to a parent who asked how the Holocaust is being taught at the public school, Latson responded that "I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in the position to do so as a school district employee."

Latson’s comments drew wide media coverage after The Palm Beach Post reported on them on Friday.

The school, which has about 2,500 students, is said to have one of the largest Jewish student populations in the county, according to the report.

Latson, who had his job since 2011, apologized in a statement to the Post, saying his email "did not accurately reflect my professional and personal commitment to educating all students about the atrocities of the Holocaust."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/09/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  good
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/09/2019 1:09 Comments || Top||

#2  His referral letter from the board should read, "We can't really say that he ever worked here - it's a matter of opinion..."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/09/2019 2:25 Comments || Top||

#3  This is just SJWness that you approve of.

I actually think William Latson's attitude is the correct one as not deciding the authoritativeness of events and leaving it up to pupils to learn how to decide.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/09/2019 6:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Up to a point BP. Historical facts need to be place in context and students taught what factors to consider in analysis.

For the Holocaust a few of the liberation movies aught to suffice with appropriate captioning, no?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/09/2019 7:26 Comments || Top||

#5  to reassign Mr. Latson to a District position

aka kicked upstairs (higher pay, less responsibility, won't sue)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/09/2019 7:45 Comments || Top||

#6  to reassign Mr. Latson to a District position
aka kicked upstairs (higher pay, less responsibility, won't sue)


A number of fellas made sergeant major in this manner.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/09/2019 8:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Alan C is spot on. I recently watched "D-Day to Berlin", a documentary from personal home movies made by George Stevens as his Army photographic unit followed the troops across Europe. He used his personal camera and color 16 mm Kodachrome, so you see it as it really was. They were present at the liberation of a concentration camp. Thinking about the images now makes me choke up. Every high schooler should have to watch it. Highly recommended.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 07/09/2019 9:39 Comments || Top||



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