...the semi-divorced, brilliant retired accountant on anti-anxiety meds who collected a bunch of guns and bump stocks, found a hotel room overlooking a country music festival after checking out several other mass murder opportunities around the country, and shot it up last October for a grand total of 58 dead and over 400 wounded. Oddly enough, his father was an FBI-wanted psychopath...
kept his hotel room clean but made a housekeeper uneasy when she tidied up in the days before the gunman slaughtered 58 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
These are among the details -- some mundane, others chilling -- of Paddock's interactions with hotel staff and casino employees in new documents that police released about the October massacre at an outdoor Las Vegas concert.
About 1,200 pages of witness interviews were made public, including statements from victims after the shooting and others who encountered Paddock before he opened fire from his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
[Mail] He had more than 200 titles to his name after an acting career in Hollywood spanning six decades.
Joseph Campanella, 93, passed away on Wednesday at his home in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of LA on Wednesday, Variety reported.
His most famous roles included long-running stints on crime drama Mannix, primetime soaps The Colbys and Dallas and daytime soap The Bold And The Beautiful.
He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for his role as Harper Deveraux in The Days Of Our lives in 1989.
(Fox News) Ex-son-in-law of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department that forces him to cooperate with other criminal probes, Reuters reported Thursday.
Jeffrey Yohai, a former business partner of Manafort who was married to his daughter until last August, has reportedly entered a guilty plea agreement with the DOJ. The existence of the deal wasn’t revealed until now as it remains under seal, the report said.
Yohai reportedly pleaded guilty to misusing construction loan funds and to a count involving a bank account overdraft. The deal lets the federal government to "ask for help at any time."
The agreement may cause legal problems for Manafort as he’s facing two indictments brought by special counsel Robert Mueller and his probe of alleged Russian government meddling in the 2016 presidential election and the collusion with Trump campaign. More at link Seems like Mueller is acting like a mob godfather than as a special prosecutor. Maybe Mueller should be charged under the RICO act?
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Seems like Mueller is acting like a mob godfather than as a special prosecutor.
[NYPost] Tracy Garcia was standing outside her home last week when what are believed to be her neighbor’s six standard dachshund and terrier mixes and one border collie mix suddenly attacked her — leaving her with injuries so severe, she later died.
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Yeesh. I understand that dachshunds have a nasty bite, and terriers aren't far behind. I would have hoped the border collie would have been smarter than that.
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It always surprises me when people think that there is something 'warm and cuddly' about a species that was bred to go down a burrow and kill the creature in it. Pick another breed if you want a pet.
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Pack of dachshunds can be no joke, like them small dinosaur critters in Jurassic Park 2 which chase down the dude in the river.
Witnessed a group of five catch a rabbit. Took seconds to turn Thumper into breeze. These dogs were A-holes of the first tier, just pissin and shittin all over the owners house and attacking in pack when disciplined.
[PRESSTV] Burundians voted Thursday in a referendum on constitutional reforms that, if passed, will shore up the power of President Pierre Nkurunziza and enable him to rule until 2034.
Police, soldiers and armored vehicles were out in force for the referendum, which comes three years after Nkurunziza sought a controversial third term, triggering a political crisis that has killed 1,200 and forced 400,000 from their homes.
"Long lines have been seen at the opening of polling stations in Bujumbura. Burundian citizens were impatient to go and vote," presidential front man Willy Nyamitwe wrote on Twitter.
An AFP photographer also reported hundreds of people at polling stations in northern Burundi, asked simply to vote "yes" or "no" in the "referendum of May 2018" with no question posed on the ballot.
"I came at dawn because I was impatient to vote 'yes' to consolidate the independence and illusory sovereignty of our country," said a farmer, who gave his name only as Miburo, in the town of Ngozi.
Nkurunziza, dressed in an Adidas tracksuit and orange bush hat with a chin strap, queued from 6:00 am (0400 GMT) to cast his ballot, praising people for turning out "en masse".
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[MAIL] Up to 4 million British people cannot get the work they want because of cheap foreign labour, a report has claimed.
MigrationWatch said businesses were ‘getting away’ with insisting they could not recruit local workers because they had a ‘virtually unlimited’ pool of low-paid EU migrants.
A paper by the think-tank said there were about 1.5 million Britons looking for jobs and another million who worked part-time but struggled to find full-time employment.
But official figures did not take into account those who wanted to increase their hours, for instance boosting their time at work from 16 to 20 hours, or who were looking for a second job to top up their income.
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What is for certain is that (middle class tax) subsidized migrants drive down the wage bills and increase the rents of indigenous citizens.
It's a part of the welfare state for the establishment. Central bank manipulation of lower interest rates and frankly ludicrous official inflation figures is another.
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Re: #1: That's funny, B; CSX is in the midst of shedding jobs, idling engines and rolling stock in an effort to maintain the façade of Precision Scheduled Railroading. Meanwhile the other 6 Class 1's and the Canadian counterparts cannot find enough staff or motive power to keep up w/ demand. Why you would almost think the CSX was being run by Obama.....
[Ynet] The United Stated has demanded North Korea ship some nuclear warheads, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and other nuclear material overseas within six months, the Asahi newspaper said on Thursday, citing several sources familiar with North Korean issues.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also appeared to have told 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... , when they met earlier this month, that Washington might remove Pyongyang from a list of state sponsors of terrorism if the North ships out those nuclear items, the Asahi said.
If Pyongyang agrees to complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization at a planned summit with the United States on June 12, Washington is considering giving guarantees for Kim's regime and including that stance in a joint statement by the two leaders, the newspaper report said.
[AlAhram] The Pentagon is not considering cutting back the joint US-South Korean military exercises that have drawn angry condemnation from Pyongyang ahead of a planned US-North Korea summit, an official said Thursday.
"There's been no talk of reducing anything. There's been no talk of changing our scope," Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said.
The exercises "are defensive in nature and the scope hasn't changed ... This is about safeguarding the alliance," she added.
North Korea has canceled talks with Seoul over the "Max Thunder" joint military exercises between the US and the South.
Pyongyang has also threatened to cancel a historic summit between US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and 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... in Singapore next month, following weeks of tentative rapprochement.
The Max Thunder drills started May 11 and involve some 100 aircraft from the US and South Korea, including F-22 stealth fighter jets.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump suggested that China was behind North Korea’s threat to cancel a meeting with Kim Jong-un, in remarks to reporters on Thursday.
"President Xi could be influencing Kim Jong-un," Trump said, pointing out that the North Korean dictator signaled a willingness to work for peace and meet with him before visiting China for the second time.
North Korea reported that the nation’s senior diplomats threatened to cancel scheduled high-level talks with South Korean counterparts as a result of ongoing military exercises with the United States.
Trump repeated that he had not heard specifically from North Korean officials, asserting that he only knew what he had read in the news.
[PRESSTV] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said on Thursday that NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... members that do not contribute fully to the group would be "dealt with," and singled out Germany as a country he said was not doing enough.
At a Cabinet meeting attended by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, Trump listed countries he said had paid the amount "they're supposed to be paying."
"We have some that don't and, well, they'll be dealt with," Trump said.
He added Germany "has not contributed what it should be contributing and it's a very big beneficiary."
"In particular Germany must demonstrate leadership in the alliance by addressing its longstanding shortfall in defense contributions," Trump said.
Despite often disagreeing with Trump in other areas, German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. agrees that Germany should contribute more and wants her country to boost military spending to meet the NATO target of 2 percent. She told senior military officers on Monday more spending is needed in light of changing security requirements in the world.
Stoltenberg praised Trump's work on shoring up NATO, whose continued purpose Trump questioned while campaigning in the 2016 election.
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"In particular Germany must demonstrate leadership in the alliance by addressing its longstanding shortfall in defense contributions," Trump said.
Or what? Strongly worded letter tweet?
You really want to send a signal? Have Congress appropriate the money to repatriate our buried in Normandy, Belgium and Italy and get moving. Nothing says leaving like bringing 'boys home'.
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Pull all of our military out of the EU unless they pay for everything!
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How long has Merkel been Chancellor?
According to Wikipedia, 2017 German defense spending is 1.2% of GDP, even less than in the previous 10 years.
Removing US troops from Germany and 40% tariffs on their exports to the US should work wonders on getting their attention.
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Talk, talk, talk. Europeans are big on talking, not on doing. Merkel will agree to whatever and then not spend the money. Fuck them. Allies share the burden. Germany is not an ally. They are a freeloader.
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[FoxNews] A man shouting about Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... entered the president's south Florida golf resort early Friday, draped an American flag over a lobby counter and exchanged fire with police before being tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! , police said.
One officer received an unspecified injury, officials said.
Police were notified of an "active shooter" in the Trump-owned Trump National Doral Golf Club near Miami about 1:30 a.m., Doral Police Chief Hernan Organvidez told news news hounds. He said officers from Doral and Miami-Dade confronted him immediately and exchanged gunfire with the man who was "neutralized" and taken into custody.
Officials did not immediately say if the man was maimed.
Trump was not at the club at the time.
"You know, these officers did not hesitate one second to engage this individual that was actively shooting in the lobby of the hotel," Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez said. "They risked their lives knowing that that they had to get in there to save lives in that hotel."
Perez said the Secret Service was on the scene, and the FBI was on the way, but that local police were in charge for the time being.
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Searched “Jonathan Oddi, found Heavy’s Five Fast Facts on the gentleman. Italian descent, immigrant from South Africa who got American citizenship last year, fitness instructor, small business owner, sales, and played Santa at the children’s hospital...
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By George, I think the commenters nailed it. The man just couldn't adjust to the driving habits of the US. It is a miracle that Italians don't kill themselves on the road and these days South Africans do, but nobody cares. The US traffic laws broke his spirit.
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.
[NYPost] Tracy Garcia was standing outside her home last week when what are believed to be her neighbor’s six standard dachshund and terrier mixes and one border collie mix suddenly attacked her — leaving her with injuries so severe, she later died.
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...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
