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Darrell Manful, a neighbor who knows the homeowner, wondered what the connection between the home invasion from earlier in the week and Friday's shooting might have been.
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On the other hand, disconnecting the brain is quite easy. Just look at PBS.
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What both Gray and the 57 year old mentioned in the PBS article probably have in common is a predisposition to fractures from poor childhood & adult nutrition, and in Gray's case, years of drug abuse. Just a guess, but Gray's spinal fracture probably occurred when he got tangled up in the van, perhaps head down, and his own body weight got leveraged by the van turning a corner, for instance, or by striking one of the flat, right-angle surfaces. This would be especially true if Gray was high at the time and he had the typical inability to tighten or control his muscles. I guess we'll see sooner or later.
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To quote a well known uncharged felon " "What difference does it make at this point?"
Shall we expect logic and reason from the mob? Will they disperse saying "I guess Freddy did it to himself.." Nor, I believe, will it make a difference in the fate of the officers involved. The mob demands a sacrifice. The white officers are toast since they are racist and murderers due to their skin color. The black officers clearly were coerced by the white establishment but will receive sentences also. Even if by some miracle, they are found innocent, it will make no difference in the coming race riots this summer. This is just the latest excuse to burn baby, burn. Maintain situational awareness at all times as the coming months will not be pretty.
I know I sound extremely negative in this diatribe but in my nearly 60 years on this rock, I've never seen a situation more ripe for explosion. I also believe we can drag ourselves out of this mess but not without a great deal of pain and suffering.
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Please correct me iff I'm wrong, but AFAIK there is no evidence to confirm or not iff Freddie Gray ever told the arresting officers that he had certain serious physical or mental disabilities, or that he recently had sensitive back surgery???
During an arrest, the PO's priority is to ensure peaceful-n-safe compliance = control of the situation + arrestee(s), even iff it means forcing the arrestee to feel sharp but non-lethal pain.
As one of the commenters posted, he's lucky he wasn't a cop. Gee Leonard, you simply won't believe what happened to me today at Macey's One shot. Clearly spent time at the range. Most excellent!
#1
A career thief's career came to an end here when he was caught crawling into a window he had just broken. He thought the home owner was not home but alas, the homeowner was snoozing. The home owner had been broken into several other times. He put one round in the perps head and ended this. If you are asking the caliber, As I recall from the story, it was a 40 cal. Glock semi-automatic. BTW, this firearm had been previously been stolen in a break-in. The sheriff recovered the firearm and returned it to the owner.
The moral of this story is to spend some time at the range--it pays off.
LOS ANGELES â Grace Lee Whitney, who played Captain Kirk's assistant on the original "Star Trek" series, has died. She was 85.
Whitney died of natural causes Friday in her home in the Central California town of Coarsegold, about 50 miles north of Fresno, her son Jonathan Dweck said on Sunday.
Whitney played Yeoman Janice Rand in the first eight episodes before being written out of the series. In her 1998 autobiography "The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy," she wrote that her acting career largely came to an end and she became an alcoholic.
Dweck said his mother would have liked to be remembered more as a successful survivor of addiction than for her "Star Trek" fame. She dedicated the last 35 years of her life helping people with addiction problems, some of whom she met at "Star Trek" conventions, he said. "I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful -- collecting these shards of spirituality -- that we may be helping to bring about a healing." — Leonard Nimoy
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She was 36 when she poised for the photo in Golf Bravo's post.
Also, she went from being a Yeoman (I presume that would be an E4) to being a commander and then even made Admiral (O7 at least; of course in Star Trek the Admirals were mostly idiots).
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RIP.
IIRC Grace also had a cameo appearance in the original Star Trek: the Motion Picture from the late 1970's - although it wasn't clear iff she was still playing "Janice Rand", albeit older + promoted, in the scene her character's personage was watching the newly refitted ENTERPRISE leave from spacedock.
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And Boeing was not even invited to join the competition for this contract; the offer was completely unsolicited. Bid drawings, models and proposal all done in a hotel room on Ohio the weekend prior to contract award. Just amazing; and we would have more of the BUFFs flying if not for START and its follow ons....
[AlAhram] An Indian factory is being launched in Egypt to produce drugs to help cure Hepatitis C with the same active pharmaceutical ingredient as the US-approved drug Sovaldi
Efficacy will no doubt be somewhere between zero and 100% of the comparable American product, just as such things are in India. On the other hand, the local product will be ever so much cheaper.
Some 15 million Egyptians suffer from Hepatitis C- 22 percent of the population- Health Minister Adel Adawy said on Sunday.
Adawy's comments came during the opening of an Indian factory that will produce a drug to cure hepatitis C using the same active pharmaceutical ingredient as the US-approved drug Sovaldi.
Sofosbuvir -- commercially named Sovaldi -- was approved in the United States in December 2013 and entered Egypt in October 2014.
Adawy said the factory, which constitutes eight production lines, is set to provide half a million units, state news agency MENA reported.
Last year, Egypt's health ministry brokered a deal with US biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences to import the drug at a cost of $900, down from its cost in the US of $84,000 for a three-month treatment.
Gilead at the time confirmed signing a licensing agreement with seven Indian companies to develop and market the drug, as well as saying that they can set the price for it and receive a complete technology transfer of their manufacturing process.
Egypt has the highest prevalence of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the world according to the World Health Organization. Every year there are 170,000-200,000 new HCV cases in Egypt.
#3
Out come the barricades at parks. I understand if the National Park budget is cut, they'll need to fill in the Grand Canyon...
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Dept of Energy (mission accomplished, we're afloat in domestic oil) and Dept of (Mis)Education can be reduced to building security and maintenance staffs.
#10
That's a rounding error. How about we cut 2% across the board (defense excluded) until the budget is balanced? That ought to be tame enough for even the most milquetoast RINO suck puppets to whimper along with.
People who constantly nag us about resources depletion are going to enhance their consumption footprint 2x.
Hollywood and Silicon Valley deserve each other.
Research always pays out, either by discovering something new or by not discovering something new. And I'd rather lots of individuals funding different approaches because of their different interests than the government funding only those things that the current consensus agrees with.
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Playing Frank Zappa's "The Deathless Horsie" right now...
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I don't think Soros is going to make it in time. I'm not even sure that he is a billionaire any more since he owes Uncle something like $7 billion in back taxes.
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JQC, it isn't even Uncle he owes, it's Mickey McGuire...
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NO! They should not spend their money on things like this. They should not will their fortunes to caharity, like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet did. They should give it to the government, through taxes and death taxes! The government knows the best way to spend our their money.
/sarcasm
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M. Murcek - I'm a FZ fan, but I've never heard of that song - what other gems you have?
[Politico] President Champ must have spent last week wondering if he'd stumbled back into the 1980s as he responded to new Iranian aggressions in the Strait of Hormuz and ordered the Navy's 5th Fleet to escort ships transiting the Persian Gulf. The headlines could have been ripped right out of Ronald Reagan's presidency, when naval engagements with Iran became all-too commonplace.
It's a chapter of history that most U.S. policymakers--and too many military officers--have long forgotten. But the Iranians certainly haven't.
That's because the ones in charge now were very involved then.
Ryan Crocker, one of America's old Middle East hands and whose first posting as a newly minted diplomat was to Khorramshahr during the days of the Shah, once explained, "For Iran, history is not the past, but the present." Just as Vietnam shaped a generation of American military officers, the Tanker War of the 1980s profoundly influenced the thinking of Iran's current military leaders; in fact, today Iran's Revolutionary Guard Navy is headed by a veteran of that war.
See?
The 1980s conflict also has influenced the Iranian military's view of any future war with the United States, and it's spent decades ensuring that it won't repeat the crippling mistakes made fighting a previous U.S. president.
Unfortunately, the Pentagon has begun listening to those lessons only recently.
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1. The Tanker War started between Iran and Iraq in 1984. Iraq was the initiator, attacking Iranian tankers and the Karg Island terminal. It was an extension of the Iran-Iraq War, which began four years earlier. BTW, there is evidence that Syria and Iran were cooperating back then as well.
2. The US didn't get involved with naval support, ostensibly for the Kuwaitis, until 1987. It was G.H.W. Bush in office then, not R. Reagan.
3. The Fifth Fleet wasn't established until 1994. Until then, units were drawn from the 2nd and 3rd Fleets and placed under the command of Commander, Middle Eastern Force.
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Even iff the Bammer did, his Super-PC, so-called "Minimalist" Approach to FP likely will mean that US Regional Allies will bear the bulk of any burden, NOT the US, which in turn again means or infers that IRAN will achieve a large degree of success in its ventures.
Any Bammer of similarly US-led Anti-US Globalist war agz Iran will be minimalist + long ...
[Daily Caller] Two days before the Baltimore police department concluded its investigation into the death of Freddie Gray, Marilyn Mosby, the Maryland state's attorney for the city, gave a fiery speech in which said she planned to "pursue justice by any and all means necessary."
Mosby entered the national spotlight on Friday after she announced charges against six Baltimore cops involved in Gray's April 12 arrest. Many believe that Gray, who died on April 19, was the victim of police brutality or negligence.
"[The criminal justice system] has historically and disproportionately affected so many communities of color, and what we're seeing right now when we turn on the news and we open up the newspaper is that frustration," Mosby told the Multicultural Prayer Movement group during a brief speech Tuesday morning.
The night before saw widespread rioting, looting and arson in Baltimore sparked by outrage over Gray's death.
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The only good thing I can think of is that this brand new lawyer with an attitude probably (unwittingly) helped quell the rioting lefty masses. Other than that, she was probably trying to get street cred at the expense of 6 police officers. It is doubtful the charges will stick.
A 250-strong meetup of GamerGate supporters, which included game developers, journalists and think-tank scholars were evacuated from a bar in Washington D.C on Friday after an anonymous bomb threat was made against the gathering.
This followed an unsuccessful social media campaign spearheaded by anti-GamerGate Salon columnist Arthur Chu to convince the bar’s proprietors to voluntarily eject GamerGate supporters from their establishment.
The event was the largest GamerGate gathering so far, with somewhere between 200 and 300 attendees. It follows a trend toward offline organising by its supporters, who up until recently have tended to congregate on social media and image boards.
"We are gamers, hear us roar!" The Social Justice Warriors are going to be sorry they tried bullying this particular lot of what Sarah Hoyt calls Odds.
#7
When it comes to making and playing games ... heads shouldn't be on blocks.
However, if you're looking at this as a geek-culture analogy for issues that permeate all aspects of our society, then: no ... harmony isn't as important as an open and free society.
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.
