Caleb lived and was shot in our ward this weekend. He was a light in our community that was extinguished too soon. We need to address the root causes of #GunViolence so that we stop losing our people. I ask that people help continue the work he was doing and pray for the family. https://t.co/WFWv9DXY2Z
— Andre Vasquez, Political Account 🌹 (@Andrefor40th) August 3, 2020
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We need to address the root causes of #GunViolence so that we stop losing our people.
I have a feeling that the mouth doesn't know what the hand is doing.
once again easier to pin it on an inanimate object rather than the perpetrator
if there were no guns, they'd be using machetes. if there were no machetes, they'd use clubs. if there were no clubs, they'd use their teeth and fists.
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/\ Ethnic tribal denial. To deny the existence of Twyfelfontein (uncertain spring) UNESCO Namibian cave paintings might be racist. To declare the people of that region have not progressed very far in 40,000 to 60,000 years, also racist.
In some areas, civilization is in a primal, possibly genetic, stand still. A 'new patches to old wine skins' sort of dynamic. Could it be a recipe for failure ?
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They seem to think the cops cause gang violence instead of the keep being there as a result of gang violence. Not a lot of logic going on regarding that entire issue.
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...the logic is to bury anything that may indicate its the community's fault. It's like the old Admiral rule - 1. the Admiral is never wrong, 2. If the Admiral is wrong see point 1.
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Wow, I live in a nice little rural Nevada community with lots and lots of guns in almost every household. That pesky gun violence thingy has not reared its inanimate head here at all. Could the cause be some other set of factors, perhaps cultural and political? The default response will be the usual racism charge, but the truth remains the same.
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^ Prolly because it was an early adopter of Midnight Bassetebaw Leagues?
Nahhhhhhh
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Back in the old racist days when upper and middle class blacks were segregated together with the lower class, did they have this much violence? You know the time before the Great Society and Big Brother destroyed traditional nuclear families with fathers.
The building that caught on fire on Tuesday morning is a hotel with an apartment complex called ‘St. Paul Gateway Site.’ It is still under construction and is located near the Xcel Energy Center arena.
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So, they're moving to the Detroit model of governing.
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If you are trying to get out of that ruined city and have deep sunk costs in a non-revenue producing asset, and know that nobody will give you 30 cents on the dollar...
#1
Jet pack has been around since the 50s? This is bigger version of the same and pants are being wet everywhere...
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M. Murcek, this is an early test object for a returnable second stage for the coming largest rocket ever. It is 9 meters wide. (most rockets max at 3.6m) It's 50 meters high and can carry >> more than 100 ton payload. No rocket has done that. Not even the Saturn V.
This is the first test hop of the stainless steel rocket. This one is missing the payload and leading cone area (hence the box of steel rolls at the top). When development is completed it should be able in passenger mode to carry 100 astronauts.
Not bad for a single stage.
#7
There has been discussion of that burning at NASAspaceflight dot com. No answers from SpaceX. Two major guesses are paint on some engine piping or small leaks in a preburner pipe.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices firmed on Wednesday after data showed a big drop in U.S. crude inventories, although concerns mounting coronavirus infections will lead to reduced fuel demand capped gains.
Brent crude was up 44 cents, or 1%, at $44.87 a barrel by 0810 GMT, while West Texas Intermediate oil rose 43 cents, or 1%, to $42.13 a barrel.
U.S. crude inventories fell 8.6 million barrels in the week to Aug. 1 to 520 million barrels, compared with analysts’ expectations for a 3 million barrel drop, the American Petroleum Institute found. [API/S]
Official figures are due later on Wednesday.
"A bullish sentiment is justified initially today on the U.S. stocks news, but we believe bulls may need to take shelter back at the ranch in coming days, as COVID-19 takes again the centre stage," Rystad Energy’s head of oil markets Bjornar Tonhaugen said.
Coronavirus cases continue to rise. In the United States, deaths are at more than a 1,000 a day, while dozens of states have had to pause or scale back plans to reopen their economies.
"We see gasoline demand coming in close to 7% year-on-year lower through Q3, with gasoil/diesel registering a decline of some 4%, implying a continued slowdown of the recovery, with a global return to 2019 levels this year increasingly in doubt," JBC Energy said.
The consultancy sees jet fuel demand at 50% lower through Q3 compared with last year.
[Jpost] There have been reports of China trying to hack foreign research for arriving at a coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... cure.
During an official visit of Israeli government officials and Israeli media, including The Jerusalem Post, to China in July 2019, the atmosphere was full of celebration because of a skyrocketing partnership.
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Israel are our allies...how can they "balance" our interests with China's, an aggressor nation?
I don't get it. There's a night and day difference between China and us.
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See "Obama Regime" and "Potential Biden Regime" for definition of perpetual ally treatment
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@ #3 - Vitamin D (and with zinc) is about right up there with HCQ in the minds of the Left/MSM/those bought off my the pharmaceutical-industrial complex.
“Once the bullet goes up,
who cares where it comes down?
That’s not my department,” says Wehner ibn Braun.
[IsraelTimes] After East Jerusalem parents say they don’t know what’s hurting son, Hadassah doctors stunned to find he’d been shot; neurosurgeon, paged on way to Shabbat dinner, pulls bullet out.
A nine-year-old boy from East Jerusalem is recovering after doctors at Hadassah Medical Center removed a bullet that hit him in the head, passed through his brain, ground to a halt upon reaching the inside of his skull and then migrated back into his brain.
The parents, residents the Paleostinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amud, brought in their conscious but sleepy son, who only had a tiny wound on his head and a bit of blood on his hair. Doctors were staggered when the bullet showed up in a scan.
Neurosurgeon Guy Elor told The Times of Israel he was "amazed" that even though the bullet went through "very important brain structures," the boy was chatting and recovering, and was expected to have minimal brain damage or none at all.
Police have opened an investigation and are probing, among other lines of inquiry, the possibility that the bullet came from celebratory gunfire for the Moslem Eid el-Adha festival that was observed this weekend, Israel Police front man Micky Rosenfeld told The Times of Israel.
The incident comes two months after a four-year-old girl from Issawiya, which is close to Ras al-Amud, was killed by an apparently stray bullet fired by an unknown shooter.
The boy, an Arab citizen of Israel, was taken to Hadassah University Hospital in the Ein Kerem neighborhood on Friday night by his parents, who gave a vague report. He is currently in recovery. "We wuz cleaning... uh...our cutlery...and a bullet went off. I thought the paring knife wuz unloaded"
"It was pretty strange," Elor said. "Nobody at the hospital had a clue that he had been shot by a gun. It was a nine-year-old who was a bit sleepy. The mother reported that he was playing with his friends and something happened, maybe something fell on him. The story really wasn’t clear, but there was no suggestion that he was shot. He had just a tiny wound on the top of his head."
When the boy was sent for a CT scan, staff saw a bullet lodged in his head. Elor, the on-call neurosurgeon, was on his way home to eat Shabbat dinner with his family. Hospital residents phoned him, and told him to pull over to the side of the road and look at imaging. "The scan showed that the bullet went into the head from the right side, went through the brain, and was stopped by the back side of the skull," Elor said.
He drove straight back to the hospital, and two hours after the boy’s arrival, surgery was underway.
He decided to operate immediately, and was confident that he would find the bullet outside the brain, near the skull.
"After stabilizing the boy, we took him to the operating room and tried to locate the bullet where we saw it on the CT," he said. "To our surprise it wasn’t there. We had to use some high-tech tools while the patient’s head was open to see where the bullet had disappeared to, and we found it had migrated back to the left side of the brain."
He removed it successfully, and said that careful work by the anesthesiologist prevented the brain from swelling. Elor said the child was "very lucky," commenting: "Had the bullet gone in at another angle it would have caused much more damage to the brain and left significant neurological damage."
He added: "Today [Sunday] the patient is in an extremely good condition — awake and communicating with us. We’re surprised and happy. His brain seems to be recovering remarkably."
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Where I grew up, getting invited to a Polish wedding was supposed to be a very big deal. Lots of fun. Now I find those dumb Polacks never even thought of shooting kids at the reception.
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I thought the paring knife wuz unloaded"
We’re gong to let you go on vacation more often, Frank G, if that’s the kind of thing your relaxed brain comes up with.
h/t Instapundit
[UPI] - Efforts to save the giant panda from extinction have come at the expense of other large mammals, a new study released Monday by the science journal Nature Ecology and Evolution said.
The study, led by Sheng Li, of Peking University, and William McShea, of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, suggests that leopards, snow leopards, wolves and Asian wild dogs have disappeared in areas protected for the giant panda. "They were dericious!"
...Researchers found with the dwindling numbers of leopards and wolves, deer and livestock have mostly roamed free without a threat from natural predators, causing damage to natural habitats for surrounding wildlife, including the pandas.
[OilPrice] One of the world’s largest oil producers and exporters, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has just launched the first nuclear power plant in the Arab world. Touted as a major milestone for the UAE and its energy diversification, the project raises questions about the economic viability of an expensive nuclear power plant in one of the best spots for solar energy in the world.
More importantly, the project also raises questions about the geopolitical implications of a nuclear facility in the restive Middle East region, where tensions increased after the assasination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani earlier this year. When haven't the ME tensions "raised"? If there's no external reason, these tribal assholes will create an internal one
Iran could trigger a nuclear arms race, experts say.
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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
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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.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices firmed on Wednesday after data showed a big drop in U.S. crude inventories, although concerns mounting coronavirus infections will lead to reduced fuel demand capped gains.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[OilPrice] One of the world’s largest oil producers and exporters, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has just launched the first nuclear power plant in the Arab world. Touted as a major milestone for the UAE and its energy diversification, the project raises questions about the economic viability of an expensive nuclear power plant in one of the best spots for solar energy in the world. 
