June 27 (UPI) -- Texas executed Danny Bible on Wednesday despite objections by his lawyers that the death row inmate was too ill for lethal injection.
The 66-year-old had no final words before his execution, though The Houston Chronicle reported he muttered "burning" and "it hurts" before losing consciousness. He died 15 minutes after the injection began. You may feel some mild discomfort. Relief after 15 minutes is common.
Bible was put to death for the 1979 murder of 20-year-old Inez Deaton. Her slaying went unsolved for nearly 20 years, but after police arrested Bible in Florida in 1998, he confessed to raping her and stabbing her 10 times with an ice pick.
[Red State] The father and manager of one of the most successful bands in music history has reportedly died at the age of 89. TMZ reports that (Joe) Jackson died Wednesday morning at around 3:30a.m.
In TEXAS? As Keanu Reeves would say - Whoa!
[The Smoke Room] - Nearly half of the state’s registered voters have an unfavorable opinion of the National Football League, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Black voters had the most positive opinions of the NFL ‐ 49 percent favorable and 24 percent unfavorable. Among Hispanic voters, 29 percent were positive and 39 percent were negative. White voters were the least impressed of all: 20 percent have a favorable impression of the league, while 55 percent have a negative impression.
Do you hear that sound in the distance? That’s Roger Goodell, NFL executives and owners freaking out right now. Only 26 percent of registered Texas voters have a favorable view of the NFL!
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Its the damned protests. But its also the political correctness, the pink cleats for a month, the bowing to LBGTQUVWXYZ grievance mongering, the kissing ass to SJWs, and putting them on the air, especially from ESPN, like Olberman. And its the winy asshole self-entitled millionaire players that talk down to us while refusing to respect the flag. Thats worst of all.
Want to fix it? Stop with the Thursday Night games, they are bad for the game and bad for the players. And also drop those damned pink cleats and crap for breast cancer (Heart Disease kills far more). But mostly, get your announcers, and spokespeople to stop with the SJW politics. No politics. Period. Zip It.
Especially the player: just Shut the F*** Up and play football. Dont like it? Go sell cars.
Grow a pair Goodell. We have good college ball to watch, and we may never come back.
Belgian nude model Marisa Papen recently posed in full frontal nudity on the background of the Western Wall, the most sacred place to Judaism which is visited by hundreds of devout believers every day.
Surely, the sight of some of His finest creation can't be displeasing to the Lord?
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I get more than a little tired of people bitching about other peoples sanctimony when all they really want it to rub other peoples noses in their own licentiousness.
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Try this at Mecca and see what it gets you. How about a little decency and respect for other's belief's; it's not all about you Marisa? How would you feel about Anthony Weiner swinging in the breeze at the Western Wall or sending you a photo of his manhood on his phone? I recall my 7-8 year old nephew being awe-struck on a Norwegian Cruise ship by a couple of 35-40ish-aged French babes who were going about topless on the ship and sans souci. All that said, I've got to admit God did a pretty good job with Marisa.
[DAWN] A bill enacting Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has become law after months of debate, the House of Commons speaker announced on Tuesday, to cheers from eurosceptic lawmakers.
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EU's prescription of physic involved a financial bloodletting from Britain's treasury... The Elites would never feel the anemia, they would take great pains to see to that!
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Not that they are unencumbered by the EU they can negotiate reduced tariffs with P.Trump. Quite a boon to their native manufacturing. Poss also allows for lower cost US energy imports of LPG and oil.
Oh wow! This is apparently the first stage of the Long March 2C launched today from Xichang smashing into a part of Fuquan city, downrange in Guizhou province, China. That's very toxic hypergolic propellant exploding, but at least the area was likely evacuated ahead of launch. pic.twitter.com/4nUCkaSznK
Footage has emerged of the Jun 21 SM-2 SAM misfire aboard the #Germany Navy vessel Sachsen (F219) (minor German language warning!) pic.twitter.com/qXgn8qwHFF
From what I've read elsewhere, the list of 25 from the previous potential SCOTUS nominees is the starting point for this round / may remain the same (save Gorsuch, of course).
[Zero Hedge] - In the aftermath of Justice Anthony Kennedy's bombshell announcement that he is retiring from the Supreme Court, attention turns who will replace him. And while Trump has yet to unveil his list of 25 potential replacements, here is the list of the most likely nominees according to online betting marketplace PredictIt, which has the 53-year-old Brett Kavanaugh as a leading frontrunner.
Brett Michael Kavanaugh (born February 12, 1965) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was Staff Secretary in the Executive Office of the President of the United States under President George W. Bush.
Kavanaugh himself was nominated to the D.C. Appeals Court by Bush in 2003. His confirmation hearings were contentious and stalled for three years over charges of partisanship. Kavanaugh was ultimately confirmed in May 2006 after a series of negotiations between Democratic and Republican Senators.
A former Kennedy law clerk with close ties to the retiring justice. Kavanaugh is a longtime Washington insider, having served as a law clerk to Kennedy and then as a key member of independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s team that produced the report that served as the basis for President Bill Clinton’s impeachment. In October, Kavanaugh dissented when his court ruled that an undocumented teen in federal custody should be able to obtain an abortion immediately.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An Afghan refugee has died of stab wounds he sustained during an attack in the Lower Dir in tribal areas of Pakistan, it has been reported.
Identified as Abdul Karim, the Afghan refugee reportedly sustained injuries during an attack on the president of a local market.
At least seven people including the Afghan man were wounded in the attack in Munda Bazaar with the assailants using daggers and sticks to attack the president of the market, Aminullah.
The eyewitnesses in the area have told Dawn News that the Afghan national succumbed to injuries in hospital.
The Munda police registered a case and started further investigations with the reports indicating that the assailants managed to flee the area after the attack.
It was stated that motive behind the attack was that a son of the traders’ body president had quarreled with a man from Kulala Bajaur the other day, according to the paper.
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[DAWN] An antiterrorism court on Tuesday accepted a police report recommending release of three detained suspects in a case pertaining to murder of a Chinese national.
The administrative judge of antiterrorism courts had sent the matter to ATC-IX with the direction to dispose of the same after the police investigating officer submit an ’A’ class report in the case.
After examining the record and hearing arguments from the IO and others, the ATC-IX judge approved the police report and ordered release of Saqib Ahmed, Rehan Hashim and Mohammad Aamir Khan forthwith if their custody was not required in any other case.
The police booked them for allegedly killing 48-year-old Chen Zhu, managing director of a shipping firm, in February near Zamzama Park in Defence Housing Authority.
Earlier, on June 13, the investigating officer submitted an investigation report to the administrative judge, stating that they had yet to find any evidence against the three suspects nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! over the murder of the foreign national and recommended their release.
The police report said that a joint investigation team (JIT) had grilled the suspects, but it could not find any incriminating evidence against them.
Initially, the police said that Saqib was a son of one of the partners of the same firm, while Hashim was an employee of the company. They had allegedly hired an assassin to eliminate the MD.
In the investigation report submitted to the administrative judge, investigating officer Syed Mohammad Sarfaraz of the Counter-Terrorism Department recommended that the three detained suspects be released under Section 497(II) of the Criminal Procedure Code since no solid evidence had so far been found against them during the course of investigation.
According to the report, the closed-circuit television camera footage of the incident was sent to 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.... Forensic Science Agency in Lahore for analysis, but assailants could not be identified due to poor quality of the footage.
It further said that since the dear departed had fired and demoted many bigwigs of the company, the Pak directors of the firm were unhappy with him.
The investigation report further said that mobile phones of Saqib and Hashim were also sent to the technical branch for analysis and two SMS regarding the murder of Chen Zhu were found in the mobile of Saqib, adding that during questioning both suspects had admitted that they had asked their employee Amir to keep an eye on the victim and monitor his activities.
Since there was a strong possibility of direct or indirect involvement of the suspects in the case, the report said that the home department had constituted a JIT to interrogate the suspects. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the JIT had declared Saqib and Hashim "grey" and Amir "white", it added.
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the JIT had declared Saqib and Hashim "grey" and Amir "white", it added.
He is grey, he stands between the darkness and the light.
[DAWN] Indian police urged people on Wednesday not to believe false rumours spread on WhatsApp after a woman was killed and a dozen hurt in the latest mob attacks to leave authorities looking powerless.
In the worst of the five assaults in the western state of Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... on Tuesday, a destitute woman, Shantadevi Nath, and three others were attacked by around 100 people in the main city Ahmedabad.
"Half a dozen people surrounded the women as they were about to board an auto-rickshaw and started questioning them. Soon the crowd swelled and pulled Shantadevi and her companions out of the rickshaw and started thrashing them," police official JA Rathwa told AFP.
"People in the crowd rained punches and kicked the four women. Some even hit them with sticks and pulled them by their hair." The women were finally rescued by local traffic coppers and taken to hospital but Nath, 45, was declared dead on arrival.
The same viral message which sparked that incident, alleging that 300 people had descended on Gujarat looking to abduct and sell children, appears to have triggered four other mob attacks there the same day.
Six people were maimed in two separate incidents in Rajkot, 225 kilometres (140 miles) from Ahmedabad, including a family of five visiting to discuss a relative's marriage prospects.
In two assaults in Surat, 275 kilometres from Ahmedabad, five women were attacked by local villagers while a 45-year-old woman was assaulted after locals suspected she had kidnapped her toddler.
"It was a mostly male crowd which took away her daughter as they suspected her to be a kidnapper," a police officer told journalists.
"Both of them were brought to the cop shoppe where it became clear that she was indeed the child's mother," the officer added.
Plodding response Twenty-two people are believed to have perished in the past year, media reports say, because of the same or similar WhatsApp rumours in at least five Indian states.
"Guys please be on high alert," reads one such message quoted by media.
"Three kids were kidnapped from my friend's area this morning. There were 10 guys giving biscuits... Parents pls be on high alert."
Another video ‐ actually a Pak road safety video ‐ which did the rounds is of a child apparently being snatched by two men on a cycle of violence.
The victims are usually outsiders. People have also been beaten to death on suspicion of stealing cattle.
Often videos of the attacks go viral on social media and are shown, albeit in pixellated form, on India's many rolling TV channels ‐ including, in one case, victims covered in blood and pleading for their lives.
The Gujarat incidents prompted police to issue a blurb, urging people not to "get carried away by fake social media messages".
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In the wake of Northrop-Orbital merger, Aerojet’s solid rocket engine business teetering on the brink.
There are now technically two companies that still manufacture large solid rockets for military ICBMs — Aerojet Rocketdyne and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, which absorbed Orbital ATK in a deal that closed June 6. The industry is poised to become a monopoly, however, as Aerojet’s large solid rocket motor business is on not-so-solid ground.
While both companies have healthy production lines for solid rockets for tactical missiles, unless Aerojet gets new orders, Northrop could end up as the Pentagon’s sole supplier of large solid rocket motors — generally defined as those greater than 1 meter in diameter.
The Pentagon flagged this issue as a concern in its 2017 Annual Industrial Capabilities report to Congress. “In the very near future all the large SRMs for strategic missiles and space launch will be produced by Orbital ATK,” the report said. Among those large motors are the space shuttle-derived solid rocket boosters that will now be built under Northrop for NASA’s Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket.
Aerojet has maintained a line producing strap-on boosters for United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 space launch vehicles and small development contracts from the Air Force Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBDS) program that is now in a competitive source selection between Northrop Grumman and Boeing.
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Look at the co-report on the James Webb Space Telescope today. Same prime contractor. "NASA doubles down again on a losing game!"Absolute failure to deliver!
Will they have the same delivery/price problem with ICBM's?
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the space shuttle-derived solid rocket boosters
When we fueled these only American Pacific and Kerr-McGee were 'capable' of producing the oxidizer. AP made the AP[sic] loads. So, a two source monopoly with a single manufacturer.
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Fox watching the hen house. This guy was an HRC ("I'm with her") campaign chairman. He went by the screen name ‘Yngperv22’. The indictment described a very sick individual.
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.
[Red State] The father and manager of one of the most successful bands in music history has reportedly died at the age of 89. TMZ reports that (Joe) Jackson died Wednesday morning at around 3:30a.m.
