[The Hill] A woman was arrested this week after she allegedly hit an American Airlines employee at an airport in Arizona after she was barred from boarding for refusing to comply with the airline company’s mask policy, The Arizona Republic reports.
According to the newspaper, the incident took place on Wednesday at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
The woman, 47-year-old Yolanda Yarbrough, had reportedly been bound for Las Vegas after flying into the airport from Los Angeles earlier in the day. During her earlier flight, airline employees had reportedly marked her ticket because she wouldn’t wear a mask. The airline employee obviously has no knowledge of entitlement.
American Airlines policy not only asks passengers to confirm their COVID-19 status before flying but also requires passengers ages 2 and above to wear face coverings when on board. Those who decline to wear a mask, as the policy states, could be "denied boarding and future travel on American."
The company told the Republic that the woman was informed that she would not be able to board the connecting flight to Las Vegas after arriving in Phoenix following the reported policy violation.
A company spokesperson told the newspaper that "the individual became irate and struck an American team member in the terminal."
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YOLO, Yola
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"Yolanda, you look like a girl, bro!"
Said nobody, ever, to Yarborough.
Instead of a curl,
'Twas her mustache she'd curl
As she simpered and lit up a Marlborough.
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I usually come down with a sniffle a day or two after a flight, so I'm tempted to add a mask to flying regardless. Maybe it won't help, maybe it will.
Getting violent over it is... a sign of not being all that intelligent.
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I used to think crying kids on flights were a nuisance. Now it's that person hacking and sneezing and blowing the nose three seats away and who want to borrow your pen to complete the customs form that is annoying.
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You can say it's a one-hour flight. But when you add in the time it takes to drive to the airport, check your luggage, go through TSA, wait for your luggage at your destination's baggage carousel and deal with your destination's ground transportation it might add up to the same amount of time it takes to drive. Then you add the annoyance from your fellow passengers, the cramped seating, the airplane air and it's a wonder anybody flies at all.
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...it's a wonder anybody flies at all
I try not to, unless there's a lot of water between me and where I have to go or there are serious time constraints.
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Despite the TSA pigs, flying is the way to go...and safer statistically. But, yeah, standing in line, going through security, and sitting and waiting for the inevitable flight delay is a pain in the proverbial.
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I remember years ago in a Travis McGee book , before TSA , 4 or 5 terrorists just walked in the front air port entrance, got into the middle of the lobby, and broke out submachine guns. They formed a circle started marching around hosing the crowd. They had a lot of magazines with them.
[Cincinnati.com] Police confirm 17 people were maimed and identified four who were dead after four separate shootings in the city of Cincinnati early Sunday.
The shootings stretched from Over-the-Rhine to Walnut Hills to Avondale to the West End:
Officers said they responded to a shooting in the area of 70 E. McMicken Ave. in Over-the-Rhine and found several people with gunshot wounds, including one dead. Police identified two of the dead as Robert Rogers, 34, and Jaquiez Grant, 30. "We do believe with this singular incident we have 10 individuals (who) were shot and a possible two fatal," Assistant Police Chief Paul Neudigate said.
[WBTV] CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Police say a 2-year-old boy was killed in northeast Charlotte on Saturday after he gained access to his father’s unsecured firearm.
The incident happened in the 5500 block of Reagan Drive at the Economy Inn shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday.
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department says the boy, Amor Cureton, was suffering from an apparent gunshot wound when they arrived. The boy was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
"There’s a 2-year-old little boy who should still be with us...and is not," CMPD Maj. Ryan Butler said. "And if that doesn’t stir you to some level of awareness that there’s far too much violence going on in this city... Then I don’t know if there’s anything I can say or the police department or anybody in the city of Charlotte that can do to shake somebody out of their apathy if they’re not already at a high level of awareness."
Police later said the boy gained access to his father’s handgun, discharged it and fatally injured himself. Antonio Cureton, 24, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a stolen firearm and failure to secure a firearm to protect a minor.
Following in Daddy’s footsteps, poor little tyke.
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It's systemic racism, pure and simple. He was so oppressed he couldn't afford a gun lock or cabinet, only a gun.
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It appears he stole the gun, so he couldn't afford to legally buy one, ...being a felon and all
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Sue the person dad stole the gun from for failing to adequately secure it, and the gun manufacturer for selling a dangerous product. It'll happen, sooner or later.
[BEACONJOURNAL] An 8-year-old girl was shot to death late Friday night during a backyard teen birthday party in Akron. Akron police identified the girl Saturday afternoon as Mikayla Pickett.
An Akron Public Schools front man said Mikayla was a student at Portage Path Community Learning Center.
The shooting took place in the 700 block of Roselle Avenue near Manchester Road, where officers responded to reports of gunfire about 11:48 p.m. Friday, police said.
The girl was found with an apparent gunshot wound and was taken to Akron Children’s Hospital, where she later died.
Police said there was a large gathering of teens at the home, and it appears the shots came from outside.
No arrests had been made as of Saturday afternoon. Akron police said detectives are working to identify suspects.
The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office will conduct an autopsy.
Willie Walker, 62, said he was hosting an outdoor birthday party Friday night for his 15-year-old grandson in his backyard when the shooting happened.
Walker, who has lived at the home for 32 years, was inside the house when the gunfire started.
"All hell broke out," he said. "I don’t know what the hell happened."
He said about three or four people showed up at the property and started shooting at family members and friends who were at the party.
Walker said he did not know the girl who died.
Another neighbor who has lived at her house since 1973 said she thought the girl lived a block away.
Walker said coppers found multiple shell casings at the scene.
"I don’t know know how many shells they took," he said. "A lot of them."
The neighbor, who declined to give her name, said a couple of windows were shot out at the home of her son, who lives next door to her.
"I heard I don’t know how many shots," she said. She said when she felt safe enough to look outside, she expected, based on the gunfire, to see a lot of bodies on the ground.
She said there was another shooting in the neighborhood Wednesday or Thursday, when someone fired into another home on the street. She also found two shell casings in her driveway last week.
[NYPOST] Two men were caught on video as they yanked an ATM out of an East Village deli — a crime the bodega industry says is on the rise in the city."We get robbed, we get killed, we are assaulted, but this is a new thing," said Jose Dario Collado, the owner of Yankee Deli & Grocery on Avenue C near East 11th Street that got raided in the early hours Friday.
Reemergence of an old thing, actually, but all the old pathologies are reappearing that result when the police are hobbled.
"Looting is in style and there is nothing we can do about it," he said, saying the pair caught on camera "assaulted" his bodega and "left damages totaling thousands of dollars."
Hire night guards armed with shotguns — that’s the only way to prevent such things when the police stay in their stations.
"Who will pay me? The City? The Mayor? The Small Business Administration?" Collado asked. "I want answers."
Video shows a man in black sweats — his face obscured by his hood — attaching a chain to the ATM as another man, in red pants a dark T-shirt, waits by a white van with its rear doors open. It was not clear how much cash was in it at the time.
The NYPD did not immediately release data on how many such robberies have happened.
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Mobs or jobs? What does Joe say? Hizzoner, da Mayor?
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Where have u gone, Bernhard Goetz... a city turns its lonely eyes to you... woo-woo-woo
[YAHOO] Philadelphia coppers evaded bullets while attempting to reach injured victims when multiple people wielding guns shot up a Saturday night block party that drew up to 300 revelers, authorities said.
Quarantining and hunkering down are definitely over.
At least five people, including three teenagers, were maimed in the shooting that erupted near a playground in the Poplar neighborhood of North Philadelphia around 11:30 p.m., Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a news conference early Sunday morning.
Outlaw said coppers were nearby on patrol and rushed to the chaotic scene when they heard shots and saw what appeared to be gun-muzzle flashes from multiple weapons.
No officers were maimed in the incident, but police officials said officers initially came under fire as they tried to reach those maimed. The first officers to arrive at the scene immediately called for backup, officials said.
The victims ranged in age from 16 to 26, police said. All were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, including three who were taken to a hospital, police said.
Police found numerous gun shell casings littering the scene, officials said.
Outlaw said no arrests were made and asked for the public's help in identifying the shooters.
"There were a lot of people out here," Outlaw said. "We do believe that someone knows who the shooters were and could possibly help us in identifying and figuring out exactly what happened."
The block-party shooting came a week after 25 people were shot last weekend in Philadelphia, including two 11-year-olds at a playground near the Philadelphia Zoo.
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If malls were to instead employ armed gangs brandishing these face mask blasters, the number of people voluntarily wearing masks would undoubtedly dramatically rise.
I know the article is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but this last sentence is part of the disturbing trend calling this all voluntary when in fact people being shamed, assaulted, or threatened with disciplinary action into wearing a mask is anything but voluntary.
Our governess cat lady decreed the back to school rules called mask wearing voluntary compliance. To not wear a mask requires a doctor's note. That means it is not voluntary.
Its voluntold dressed up in prop glasses and a funny scarf.
*thought the mechanism is clever. I understand there is a bolo gun under consideration by law enforcement as a less-than-lethal option.
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Oh no, not college students, who could have seen this coming... HAHAHAHA!!!! Idiots. Yes, college students are going to party. No, nothing you say is going to make a difference. Is it smart? Is it stupid? Is it willful suicide? Irrelevant. Going to happen. Colleges have parties. Stop getting your panties in a knot. Kids will be fine, or they'll get themselves killed and win a few Darwin Awards. They're adults (or should be).
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Arab health official backs virus czar's criticism of sector Gamzu associate claims infection rates among Israel's Arab sector sharply increased over past 2 weeks following Eid al-Adha, which features mass celebrations, gatherings and parties
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Just Cases?
I mean with testing up did they random sample to actually see if this is an artifact of higher testing or more symptomatic people testing?
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"Hottest official temperature recorded on Earth for 107 years"
So it's been hotter in the past? Thanks goodness for Global Cooling. ;-)
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Long Hot Summer in more ways than one.
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previous record was 134 degrees, also in Death Valley, which was recorded on July 10, 1913
So it was hotter in 1913 and *this* is somehow a record?
The Beeb today said we beat the previous record (not counting the actual record record) which was seven years ago by a half a degree. So yeah, we're doomed.
Don't get me started on "A rare summer thunderstorm..."
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Ohhhh, oooohhh, SteveS, we had one of them last night, in north Texas!
Temperature dropped 30 degrees in an hour, 60 mph winds demolished a four-year old (Rubbermaid) shed, knocked out the power for six hours, and it is 95 degrees right now, down from 105 yesterday. Eat your heart out, California! I had power at 3:30 this morning.
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Reminds me of a Johnny Carson monologue..."how hot was it?"
#2
An iron ore carrier, dropped it's cargo in Taijin, China, and was on it's way back to Brazil for the next load. No reason to go to Mauritius (way off course) except maybe to find a reef to run into. Eight fuel tanks, 7 have been pumped out. The entire spill is from one 1000 gallon fuel oil tank.
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It’s so much better to learn from others’ mistakes rather than from experience.
[Jpost] Egypt has started disposing of abandoned and dangerous materials at ports after the massive explosion in Beirut's port this month, the finance minister said on Sunday.
"What happened in Beirut made us examine our own situation and we actually got rid of large quantities of abandoned and neglected and dangerous materials that were in the ports," Mohammed Mait told parliament."There are materials that have been delivered to multiple ministries including oil and defense and interior, and by next December Egyptian ports will be completely cleaned."
New customs procedures at would also improve controls at ports, Mait said.
A few days after the Beirut explosion, Egypt's civil aviation ministry said it had ordered a review of materials at airports and the transfer of any hazardous goods to safe storage.
The Aug. 4 blast in Beirut, caused by the detonation of more than 2,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at its port, killed more than 170 people and wreaked destruction over swathes of the Lebanese capital.
[IsraelTimes] Move aimed at boosting female employment in conservative kingdom, part of liberalization drive spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince and modernizer of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists...
The last of the descendants of Israelite traders who followed the Queen of Sheba home after her visit with King Solomon.
[Jpost] Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s remaining Jews plan to immigrate to Abu Dhabi following the peace deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, al-Araby al-Jadeed reported over the weekend.
The plan is to transfer 100 Jews to Abu Dhabi, a Yemeni rabbi told the pan-Arab media outlet headquartered in London, although past estimates placed the Jewish population in Yemen at about 50 people.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A 15-year-old boy reportedly raped two minor girls in Charghat upazila of Rajshahi on Saturday.
A case was filed accusing the youth with Charghat cop shoppe at around 1:30am on Sunday, said the cop shoppe’s Officer-in-Charge (OC) Samit Kumar Mandal.
Police are trying to arrest the accused youth, said the official
According to the case statement, both the girls are below five years. They were playing on the premises of one of their neighbours’ house on Saturday noon.
The youth lured the children into his room and raped both of them.
The victims were sent to the One Stop Crisis Centre of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) for medical check-up on Sunday morning.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Police have arrested six people over the murder of a readymade garment (RMG) trader in Manikganj in mid-July.
The suspects were identified as Farhad Hossain, Jalal Uddin Sumon, Kazi Akbar Ali, Saharul Islam, Aminul Islam and Monir.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Detective Branch (DB) Gulshan division arrested the suspects between August 6 and Saturday night. They also seized two jackets with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) logos, handcuffs, walkie-talkies, an ambulance, a pistol and bullets.
RMG trader Sultan Hossain lived in a flat at Nakhalpara, Dhaka and his body was found hidden in a bush on July 16. The trader’s brother filed a case with Singair cop shoppe two days later.
Moshiur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DB Gulshan division, said the members of the gang would observe transactions at the banking area in Motijheel and target people who made large withdrawals.
They targeted Sultan in Motijheel on July 14 and followed him with a rented ambulance, as they had information that he had withdrawn a large amount in foreign currency.
The gang kidnapped Sultan from the Pallabi area of Mirpur by posing as members of RAB. They then took him into the ambulance and searched him for the foreign currency but did not find anything.
At one stage, Sultan began shouting for help and the abductors suffocated him inside the ambulance, according to the deputy commissioner.
After conducting a shadow investigation, DB arrested Farhad from Sakhipur, Shariatpur on August 6. Farhad confessed to the murder and detectives raided Dhaka Medical College Hospital and Paltan based on the information he provided, leading to the other arrests.
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New: Belarus MoD announces "planned" military exercises on the border with NATO member Lithuania starting Monday. Lukashenko playing up external threat as peaceful protesters take over capital. https://t.co/BrVB5VoVD5pic.twitter.com/HIXiyzbiPI
*#Belarus state TV presenters are walking off the job, saying they can no longer put a positive spin on the news while people are being beaten for protesting a rigged election. *"I don't want to be silent anymore!"https://t.co/MOM8LNY6g4pic.twitter.com/Hz9XLtZDDm
[NYPOST] Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, speaking at a rally of his supporters in Minsk on Sunday, rejected calls to hold a new presidential election and accused 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... of massing on his country’s western border.
Belarus has been rocked by a week of street protests after protesters accused Lukashenko of rigging a presidential election last Sunday, something he denies.
Lukashenko earlier spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin " ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... who told the Belarusian leader that Moscow stood ready to provide help in accordance with a collective military pact if necessary, the Kremlin said in a statement.
As Lukashenko’s supporters waited for his expected appearance at the Sunday rally, many chanted Lukashenko’s nickname of "Batka," or father, and "Maidan won’t take place," referring to the months of protest in Ukraine in 2013-14 that drove then-President Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country.
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Hahahahahaha
24 hours ago, Progs be like:
New Zealand Government is Best Government
The USPS should be dissolved.
2020 is a riot, y'all.
I have been assured by Top Men that power grabs will not happen during the Wutang Flu event, so there must be good reason to send 5 million to the box.
[Rudaw] Baghdad and Erbil agreed on Saturday to jointly manage border crossings in the Kurdistan Region as part of an agreement securing 320 billion dinars ($268 million) per month from Baghdad to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in order for the KRG to pay its civil servants.
According to a document obtained by Rudaw from a Council of Ministers official on Sunday, both Erbil and Baghdad reached an agreement to resolve a number of outstanding issues between both governments. The document consists of seven points, including the agreement on the border crossings in the Kurdistan Region, as well as outstanding debts owed by the KRG.
Baghdad agreed with Erbil to jointly run border crossings in the KRG by establishing a "team" from both the federal government and KRG. The border crossings will follow federal "guidance and rules", the statement read.
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They also have a no shirt no shoes no service policy. I guess that's a war crime, too. How entitled do you have to be to demand access to somebody else's private property?
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...Also, the Karens could be some people feeling like engaging in some Alinsky-style Street Theater and are dialing the Ridicule up to 11 for effect.
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.
[Cincinnati.com] Police confirm 17 people were 
[WBTV] CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Police say a 2-year-old boy was killed in northeast Charlotte on Saturday after he gained access to his father’s unsecured firearm.
[BEACONJOURNAL] An 8-year-old girl was shot to death late Friday night during a backyard teen birthday party in Akron. Akron police identified the girl Saturday afternoon as Mikayla Pickett.
[YAHOO] Philadelphia 
...Crown Prince and modernizer of 
" ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
