[BREITBART] A burrito caused a minor scare at an Oklahoma City police briefing station after a man brought the foil-wrapped object in for analysis.
Oklahoma City Police Capt. Dexter Nelson says a man discovered a Thermos-type container in his lawn Thursday afternoon and brought it to a police briefing station. Nelson says the container was heavy and had tinfoil protruding from the lid, so the man considered it suspicious.
The Oklahoman reports ( http://bit.ly/17yCP4z) that officers told the man to leave the container outside and the police bomb squad X-rayed the item. The analysis determined that it was only a burrito.
Although it was harmless, police aren't laughing at the incident. Nelson says anyone who finds a suspicious object should call authorities _ not bring it to a cop shoppe themselves.
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a minor explosive
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when my son was stationed there, they were told to NOT confront (but report) the smugglers as they were better armed than the Army units (unarmed and no ammo)
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[BREITBART] A Colorado mom woke up recently to find a missed a call from the number 1-666-666-666. To make matters worse, she then received 48 text messages from "Satan."
The woman, Jenn Vest. was really freaked out. In fact, she said, "It really freaked me out because I was half asleep feeding my son and it woke me up. I thought maybe I was dreaming at first, and then I stayed up the rest of the night praying and hoping nothing would happen."
Each text message came from a different number but Satan was ID'd on all of them.
If you call back the Devil, apparently there is a recording saying the number is no longer in service. Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... search results reveal that the phone number has been used to prank more than just the young mother.
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#AB: Peeps I be looking at some serious strange
#Crater: I see it 2, froot Loops?
#Coop: Shit yeah, it's Coca Puffs!
#BostonC: Ummmmm roach shit
#TheDiesel: Ummmmmmm roachs
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We The People Need To Make These Scammers Pay, how about a button that fries their telephone, permanently.
I'm sire ATT has one, but doesn't want US to hear about it, the Police HAVE a button that prevents hanging up making it disconnect, It's nice Trapping the thieves that way.
"Mam, does this sound like the Perp".
"Why YES it DOES".
"Thank you Mam, you've helped bust these scammers".
Changed to BEEEEP, (Dead silence)
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And in honor of that tragic day on November 22, 1963, see the last item (Rantburg gun of the week)
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol ammunition prices were mixed, while rifle ammunition prices were mixed to lower.
Prices for all classes of firearms were mixed.
Pistol Ammo
.45 caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: + .01 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, Wolf Polyformance, .33 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Jack Ross Ammunition, round nose reloaded, .32 per round (Unchanged from last week)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, reloaded, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, reloaded, .25 per round (-.02 Each, -.05 Each over previous four weeks)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each (after -.06 Each over previous four weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munirel, Prvi Partizan Monarch, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Blu Core Shooting Center, P&G, reloaded, .23 per round (-.01 each from last week, -.02 last two weeks)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: -.02 (+.14 each over five of the previous six weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bangit Ammo, Precision One, .44 per round
Cheapest Bulk 250 rounds: LAX Ammo, reloaded, .42 per round (Unchanged)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.02 each (+.03 over previous three weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munirel USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Wolf, steel cased, .31 per round (-.01 each, Over previous three Weeks: +.02 each )
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Goose Island Sales, No Label, steel cased, .60 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Prvi Partizan, .60 per round (Unchanged)
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Unchanged previous eight weeks, but two, +.01 and -.01)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Wolf Polyformance, steel core and case, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: Wideners, Wolf Polyformance, steel case, .23 per round (-.01 each of the last two weeks)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.05 each (Unchanged in previous four of seven Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Smokey Mountains Munitions, CCI, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Ammo Fast, Aguila, .12 per round (Unchanged, two weeks)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $788 Last Week Avg: $843
California: Bushmaster patrolman carbine: $800
Texas: Bushmaster Carbon Fiber: $620
New York: Andersen (Mixed Build): $930
Virgina: Palmetto State Armory: $789
Florida: RedX Arms (Mixed Build): $800
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,300 Last Week Avg: $1,549
California: DPMS: $1,400 (Same Gun)
Texas: Patriot Ordnance Factory $1,300
New York: None available
Virginia: DPMS: $1,000
Florida: DSA: $1,499 (Same Gun)
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A little Birthday Treat Last Month for GolfBravoUSMC
A July 54 Harrington & Richardson. After putting on 6 coats of hand rubbed Tung Oil I took her to the range to break her in. She had never fired a shot down range so I put round 3-14 through her since manufacture.
The first three rounds were low right. Changed windage and elevation, next two high left and pulled one shot right. Right windage one click and lowered elevation 4 clicks and fired 6 rounds for effect. Should have only dropped two clicks. Got to work on that elevation thingy.
It's been fifty years since I fired a M1 Garand and I don't remember them being this heavy and kicking this hard.
Click on the picture to see my Birthday present arriving and the opening. (8 days late) Who cares, it's easy to make a guy happy.
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Thanks for the remainder on maintenance, I really need to put oil on my M-1's stock. It does kick, but even so, as much as I love my .308 AR, there's just something to the Garand. Even my wife likes it more. Mine's an International Harvester, I doubt it even made it to Korea, but holding it still makes you feel like you have history in your hands.
I think the feeling is like the difference between getting that nifty store bought toy, and the hunk of wood your Dad turned into your new favorite toy.
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Absolutely right about heavy. Makes you respect those who carried it in battle.
Fun gun to shoot. So many better guns today, in particular for carrying up and down canyons chasing after antlered and horned critters. But for going to the range and shooting, what's not to like?
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Nice GB - you've inspired me to take the kids shooting over the holidays. Of all of our weapons, they all like my Springfield M1 the best.
The family that shoots together. . . .well, you know the rest.
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Sen. Evie Redak's gun control supporter threatened to go get a gun and kill you mother....s? There's a statement in contradiction between beliefs and actions. Do you think the guy ought to get some treatment or up his meds?
The M1 Garand is a nice firearm and a nice piece of history. Are they still available through the CMP (Civilian Marksmanship Program)?
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Last I heard this administration is blocking the import of that warehouse of M1s found in Korea. It was enough to make me want to join the CMP. Piece of history, exactly why I am interested.
My M1 Garand is from the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP). It is classified as a HRA Service Grade "Special" and came in a lot from Greece. It seems that the Greeks had a bunch of crated Harrington and Richardson M1s in a warehouse that were only used to scavenge the stocks and hand guards, the rifles were unused.
CMP brought them back, cleaned off the cosmoline, test fired them and added a CMP stock set.
I sent in my order paperwork including copies of Birth Certificate, DD-214, CMP Qualified Gun Club Membership Card and Kalifornia Gun Safety Card on 09/09 and received the weapon on 10/28. My credit card was charged $950 plus shipping around 10/23.
Most people believe that because CMP was a Government program until the 90s and still has some affiliation, Champ's import ban does not affect them. You can see the availability of CMP M1s here.
I just ordered some 30 Cal Carbine Ammo from Cheaper than Dirt. It was about $21 a box of 50 rounds. That's about $15 a box cheaper than anything around here.
[An Nahar] President Michel Djotodia of the strife-torn Central African Republic on Friday announced that he will shortly renew a curfew on the capital Bangui because of a surge of armed crime.
"I am imminently going to issue a decree to restore the curfew from 10:00 pm until 6:00 am," Djotodia said at a meeting of civic leaders in the presidential palace, after a similar measure was lifted last month.
"During this period, patrols will be stepped up" and "any individual" wearing uniform or carrying weapons at night will if necessary be "disarmed by force", he added, blaming "bandidos" for the disturbances.
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[An Nahar] Up to 6,000 children have been enrolled by warring militias in the Central African Republic, a senior U.N. official said Friday, issuing a stark warning about the country's spiraling crisis.
"Roughly today, we're talking about 5,000-6,000 children, so the number has roughly doubled from our previous estimate," made in March, said Souleymane Diabate, UNICEF's country representative in the CAR.
The U.N. children's agency has repeatedly sounded the alarm about the way in which youngsters are being forced into the raft of gangs in the conflict-ravaged country.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Central African president yesterday insisted he was negotiating with Joseph Kony ... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo... after Washington rubbished claims the wanted Ugandan militia boss was personally involved in any talks.
Michel Djotodia is in contact with Kony, one of the world's most elusive war criminals, over the fate of the children and women enslaved by his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), presidency front man Guy-Simplice Kodegue said.
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Garbage is piling up on streets around the mosque housing the burial site of the Prophet Muhammad. Grocery stores have shut their doors and almost half of Saudi Arabias small construction firms have stopped working on projects.
The mess is because foreign workers on which many businesses rely are fleeing, have gone into hiding or are under arrest amid a crackdown launched Nov. 4 targeting the kingdoms 9 million migrant laborers. Decades of lax immigration enforcement allowed migrants to take low-wage manual, clerical and service jobs that the kingdoms own citizens shunned for better paying, more comfortable work.
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Is it halal to hold up my dishdash
On the hajj if the Kaaba's amidst trash?
My thobe's nice and white,
But my calves might incite
Rum doings, inviting the whiplash
[NEWS.YAHOO] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro exercised new emergency powers for the first time Thursday, signing decrees limiting business profit margins and tightening regulation of imports.
He acted as part of a so-called "economic war" against a crisis for which he blames the opposition "bourgeoisie" and imperialism.
Under new powers granted to Maduro on Tuesday, the two new laws aim to control prices and profits in the business sector and closely monitor imports and exports and hard currency that comes in from oil sales, Venezuela's main source of revenue.
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What's the over-under on times circling the drain before the flush takes full effect?
h/t Gates of Vienna
China just dropped an absolute bombshell, but it was almost entirely ignored by the mainstream media in the United States. The central bank of China has decided that it is "no longer in Chinas favor to accumulate foreign-exchange reserves". During the third quarter of 2013, China's foreign-exchange reserves were valued at approximately $3.66 trillion. And of course the biggest chunk of that was made up of U.S. dollars. For years, China has been accumulating dollars and working hard to keep the value of the dollar up and the value of the yuan down. One of the goals has been to make Chinese products less expensive in the international marketplace. But now China has announced that the time has come for it to stop stockpiling U.S. dollars. And if that does indeed turn out to be the case, than many U.S. analysts are suggesting that China could also soon stop buying any more U.S debt..
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The finally figured out that the paper they're getting from the Americans has inflated itself beyond the cost of production (to include the welfare effect of keeping their masses employed). They're losing value on each unit shipped, but even they figured out they're not making it up in volume.
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China is not the smart economic powerhouse people think that it is. There are lots of shaky business loans out there. A drop in demand for Chinese goods could make things ugly and unstable in China.
The US and China are two partners on a boat with little freeboard, and the wind is picking up.
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I understand they stopped buying US debt a while back.
So some of this is old news.
I have to figure out how to get the lathe stuff worked out before the economy locks up. This news item indicates I may lose the race.
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China has also been buying up gold like crazy. Some suspect the want to create an new reserve currency, not the Yaun, backed by gold. Being Chinese gold it will of course be 1/2 lead alloy, with some asbestos thrown in.
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If they do that, Chinese industry will collapse(already running on a 1% margin) and these "huge" reserves will last them three months...then you'll see the rise of "warlords" with new names...as it happened in the past countless times...And epic massacres, again, like in the past...
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His blind followers thought he did, we all knew better. But like every fraud known to man they all fail in the end, their ego and self absorbed beliefs leave them no choice but to fail...
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The question is, how much lasting damage they do before they fail.
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I'm not sure why everyone gets so excited about people who walk on water. I used to do it all the time growing up. I lived in northern Pennsylvania, and every winter I would walk across the creek behind our house.
Of course I had to be sure that the ice was thick enough, but still I did walk on water.
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The problem is that they already overload the soldier. The adverse casualty requirement has them packed with armor and gear never carried before. They are mules. And someone bright person up on staff has twenty more pounds of crap they want loaded on'em.
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In WWI my Grandfather used Mules to move their artillery. At some point they ran out of supplies so they ate the mules and spiked the guns. Just like bayonets and steel canteen cups, sometimes old school works best.
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.
[BREITBART] A Colorado mom woke up recently to find a missed a call from the number 1-666-666-666. To make matters worse, she then received 48 text messages from "Satan." 
[An Nahar] Up to 6,000 children have been enrolled by warring militias in the Central African Republic, a senior U.N. official said Friday, issuing a stark warning about the country's spiraling crisis.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro exercised new emergency powers for the first time Thursday, signing decrees limiting business profit margins and tightening regulation of imports.
