[FoxNews] A Florida sheriff’s office announced two arrests Saturday in a violent armed carjacking caught on surveillance video.
Victor Senatore, 24, and GianPiero Gasparin, 17, have been charged in connection with the carjacking which took place Monday night in Windermere, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said.
The video shows the victim, a man, being pulled out of his vehicle by one carjacker and being punched in the head and ordered to the ground by the other who has a gun.
Sheriff officials said Gasparin was the carjacker with the gun and Senatore was the carjacker who drove off with the car.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Two Temple University students were hospitalized Saturday after falling from a four-story rooftop in North Philadelphia, police said.
Temple University and Philadelphia police departments were called to an off-campus apartment on the 1800 block of North Bouvier Street around 2 a.m. Saturday.
According to police, several Temple students were attending a party and gathered on the rooftop.
Police said two 19-year-old women fell from the roof and onto the sidewalk of a back alley.
One of the students suffered leg and ankle injures and the other is in critical but stable condition with injuries to multiple parts of her body.
"I feel bad for my friend who was there and did see it and had a really rough night trying to deal with that emotionally," said Allison Byrne.
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Gin is just vodka with coriander in it.
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Get the Polish stuff with buffalo grass in it.
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Drink it with a Polish girl...
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M. Murcek gin is a colorless alcoholic beverage made from distilled or redistilled neutral grain spirits flavored with juniper berries and aromatics (such as anise and caraway seeds)
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For b. AOSHQ Food thread today confirms your statement
There are all sorts of theories about why vodka sauce works well, and while the mouth feel of the vodka and the bite of the alcohol are high up on those lists, I am suspicious of them. Alcohol will boil off at a lower temperature than the water in the sauce, so I doubt there is much left at the end of the cook. My guess, backed up by exactly zero laboratory evidence, is that the vodka extracts some flavors from the tomatoes and maybe even the herbs at a greater rate than the water in the sauce, so it turns out to be a more highly extracted and flavorful liquid even when the vodka mostly boils away.
Regardless, it's a great and simple sauce. Give it a shot, since it's pretty easy too.
Gnocchi with Vodka Cream Sauce
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A man believed to be a supporter of President Trump punched a man who was playing a rap song titled ‘F*** Donald Trump’ in a parking lot outside of Dallas on Saturday.
The incident took place outside a Buc-ee’s convenience store in Denton.
In the video, two maskless men, one of whom is seen wearing a Trump shirt, confront a man wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey jersey while holding what appears to be a sign.
What was he playing the music on, that it was heard across the parking lot?
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Shocking? The only thing shocking is the restraint the populace has displayed up to this point. No guarantees moving forward.
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Playing a rap song titled "Fuck Donald Trump" in a Texas convenience store parking lot is fighting words. Soy Boy protester is lucky it was just one punch, and that he's still got his teeth.
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I too am tired of the F*U* , M*F* lyrics being played in public around families, me and my Grand children.
To me it shows a total lack culture, civility, class and general thuggish Low IQ.
If person wants to listen do such vulgar lyrics then so in their house or at a Night Club around similar thinking slime.
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When are people going to learn to take the phone/camera they're being filmed with?
Taking a phone is no doubt felony theft, with real jail time. Deleting the video, though...
What if you just pulverize it?
Theft/Destruction of Private Property. I understand the penalty for either, as far as I know, and of course varies by location, is based on a monetary value.
Some of those phones/PEDs are valued at more than a couple dollars and the case could be made that the contents also have a value which could be translated into a dollar amount.
And to paraphrase the cockroach theory, for every one person you see taking video, there are 2 taking video you don't see.
This is the Fred Phelps technique, right? Set up a provocation, record it, hit the opponent with the law. Done right, the provocateurs have a second station videoing the scene.
An interesting question I would have, is what is the statue of limitations in this age of video?
Not sure how MagDude, or any similar situation, gets out of this, until it is recognized that noise above a certain decibel is actually assault (damaged hearing), or that such a demonstration creates a hazardous environment (not being able to properly navigate safely), or the corruption/abuse of a minor in a public setting (such as NC-17 movie at a movie theater or public rest area vs. a more private adult setting such as a bar or adult concert).
Again, the Fred Phelps Chronicles would suggest that such defenses are not up to challenge.
Their US organizers trying to affect the election
[FoxNews] Hundreds of Honduran migrants bound for the U.S. were bused back to their homeland by Saturday morning after illegally entering Guatemala.
*Snicker* The orders came down from on high to stop shaking up the normies.
The group of mostly young men and some small children were met by a large roadblock of Guatemalan authorities after the country's President Alejandro Giammattei promised Thursday to detain and return anyone who entered illegally.
"We will not allow any foreigner who has used illegal means to enter the country, to think that they have the right to come and infect us [with coronavirus] and put us at serious risk," Giammattei said in a broadcast address to the nation.
None of the 1,000 or so migrants who had been stalled by police and soldiers remained along the stretch of rural highway by 5 a.m. Saturday, The Associated Press reported.
Hours earlier, migrants had boarded buses and army trucks to be taken back to the border, police said.
Authorities had planned to register the migrants as they crossed earlier Thursday and offer assistance to those willing to turn back, but the group crossed the border at Corinto without registering, initially pushing past outnumbered Guatemalan police and soldiers who made little attempt to stop them. They later met the roadblock near San Luis Peten.
Within hours of the border crossing, Guatemalan authorities reported the first migrant death. A person tried to climb aboard a moving flatbed trailer but fell under its wheels. Authorities did not immediately provide any additional details. Senorita Rachel Corrie?
Many of the migrants didn't make it far into Guatemala before having to stop. Soon, they strung out in small groups for miles along the highway, as some caught rides and others walked under the hot sun.
In one group were four teenagers, all friends and neighbors from San Pedro Sula, from which hundreds of migrants had set out together. The teens decided to leave after seeing others organize on Facebook.
Who? Who organized it?
The youngest, 15-year-old Josty Morales, told the AP he wanted to live the "American dream" and was looking for a way to support his 6-month-old son at home. "There's no work," he said. "The necessity strangles you."
Don’t make babies you can’t support, idiot. A boxcrate truckload of condoms is cheaper than eighteen years of child support.
On Friday, more than 100 Guatemalan soldiers and police blocked the migrants, who became increasingly frustrated with the lack of food and forward movement after walking from Honduras earlier this week.
Migrants' pleaded with authorities to either let them through or provide them food.
Some of the original 2,000 migrants voluntarily agreed to return to Honduras, Guatemalan immigration authorities said.
Other migrants also split off the main route and headed for Guatemala City either by walking or catching a ride.
While Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested Friday the migrants were walking to the U.S. to affect the American presidential election, Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell said, Mexico is "morally, legally and politically obliged to help them." He said they don't represent a coronavirus risk. Then house them with your family
Last year, President Trump threatened massive tariffs on Mexican imports if authorities didn't slow the flow of migrants to the border. Mexico responded by deploying the National Guard and more immigration agents to intercept large groups of migrants.
The tariff threat still holds, O Assistant Health Secretary.
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Hotair: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador echoed the Guatemalan government’s concerns over the caravan potentially spreading the novel coronavirus, but he also speculated about political motives for the caravan’s formation. He believes that it was formed with the intent to influence the American elections next month. While not saying who he thought such a maneuver might benefit, he said that Mexico is “not naive” and could see the writing on the wall.
That’s not a particularly crazy idea. Having a couple of thousand migrants show up at the border carrying children (either their own or ones they are trafficking) would likely give the American liberal media some great photo opportunities. They would probably have arrived right near the end of the month and the press would obviously take the opportunity to talk about Donald Trump’s “cruel anti-immigrant policies” right before people head to the polls.
The Associated Press interviewed several of the migrants and the stories they tell are very much in line with the point that John was making on Friday. None of the people quoted in the linked article talked about political oppression at home or open warfare. They all said they were looking for work, making them economic migrants. And that’s not a category that typically qualifies for asylum, though most of them no doubt planned to put in a claim once they reached our borders.
While I don’t want to sound too harsh here, we already have more than enough people out of work in the United States thanks to the plague, so we really don’t need the competition for jobs. Also, the President’s “Remain in Mexico” policy is still in effect and being supported by the Mexican government, so most of those people would have been sent back across the border anyway. (Assuming they didn’t find a coyote to smuggle them across.) A few small groups were still on the road heading north as of last night, but nowhere near the thousands that might have been on the way had the President’s new policies not gone into effect. In that regard, we may have just dodged yet another bullet that we didn’t need to deal with along with all of the other garbage going on.
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[The Hill] Another famine coming? China struggles to meet basic food demands.
China, which embarked on the mission of becoming a superpower by showing its economic and military might to the world, now may be brought to its knees over a shortage of food. Reduction in overall domestic food production; a recent deluge in the Yangtze River basin, the rice bowl of China; and a slash in imports, mostly aggravated by deteriorating diplomatic relations, has caused Beijing to hit the panic button.
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently launched the “Clean Plate” campaign to ensure that food supplies do not deplete quickly and bring about a repetition of the 1959 Great Famine, in which millions of people starved to death. And recent skirmishes along the Sino-Indian border, as well as China’s aggression in the South China Sea, may be Xi’s strategy to divert attention from China’s pending food crisis, just as Mao Zedong did in 1962 to mask the failed Great Leap Forward movement.
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There will be famine in multiple places next year. To many crop failures and disasters so there won't be enough food to feed everyone. Food costs will go up due to demand too.
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CPC officials have to clean their plates because ordering waaaaaay too much food and letting it go to waste is a traditional Chinese way of saying "I'm high status and can afford it." Has nothing to do with famine, although many wish it would.
[Washington Examiner] States run by Republican governors on average have economically outperformed states run by Democratic governors in recent months.
The difference in economic growth is likely due to the pathway of the coronavirus pandemic in the first few months and the economic restrictions imposed by Democratic governors.
Overall, Democratic-run states, particularly those in the Northeast and Midwest, had larger contractions in gross domestic product than Republican-run states in the Plains and the South, according to the latest state GDP data for the second quarter of 2020, released by the Commerce Department on Friday. Of the 20 states with the smallest decrease in state GDP, 13 were run by Republican governors, while the bottom 25 states with the highest decrease in state GDP were predominantly Democratic-run states.
Furthermore, the average unemployment rate across Republican states was 6.5% in August, compared to an average of 9% in Democrat states, according to an analysis of unemployment data by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
Republican-controlled Utah had the second-lowest unemployment rate in the country in August at 4.1%, and the second-lowest GDP drop, at just over 18% in the second quarter. Nevada, run by Democrats, had the highest unemployment rate, at 13.2%. It was closely followed by Democratic-run Rhode Island, 12.8%, and New York, 12.5%. New York also had a GDP loss of 30%, putting it at 44th in the nation.
"The GDP data confirms that blue states are severely underperforming red states, even if there are some outliers for sure," said Stephen Moore, one of President Trump’s top economic advisers.
"It’s pretty clear blue states with the most severe lockdown had the most damage done to their economies," said Moore, who is also a contributor to the Washington Examiner.
He added that the Democratic strategy for containing the virus and keeping the economy afloat did not appear to be working, based on the latest economic data.
HAVANA — It was a lucky day for the unemployed tourism guide in Havana.
The line to get into the government-run supermarket, which can mean a wait of eight or 10 hours, was short, just two hours long. And better yet, the guide, Rainer Companioni Sánchez, scored toothpaste — a rare find — and splurged $3 on canned meat.
“It’s the first time we have seen toothpaste in a long time,” he said, sharing the victory with his girlfriend. “The meat in that can is very, very expensive, but we each bought one simply because sometimes in an emergency there is no meat anywhere.”
Cuba, a police state with a strong public health care system, was able to quickly control the coronavirus, even as the pandemic threw wealthier nations into crisis. But its economy, already hurting from crippling U.S. sanctions and mismanagement, was particularly vulnerable to the economic devastation that followed.
As nations closed airports and locked down borders to combat the spread of the virus, tourist travel to Cuba plummeted and the island lost an important source of hard currency, plunging it into one of the worst food shortages in nearly 25 years.
What food is available is often found only in government-run stores that are stocked with imports and charge in dollars. The strategy, also used in the 1990s, during the economic depression known as the “special period,” is used by the government to gather hard currency from Cubans who have savings or get money from friends or relatives abroad.
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/\ What food is available is often found only in government-run stores
You mean like Chinese product stuffed, Super Walmart stores ?
US consumers purchase the Chinese made junk. China pockets the money and buys US Government treasury notes (our national debt), along with corn and soy beans. A global money laundering scheme of sorts. Little wonder no one appears to be looking into the Wuhan incident in a serious manner.
No tipping of the apple carts please.
* Failed to mention, all of these transactions are taxed and tariffed at multiple levels.
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Sad thing is this is creating a migration away from the Blu states into the Red, and unfortunately they are bringing the very poison with them that destroyed their old states: progressivism and leftism.
You are welcome, your voting habits and political policies are NOT.
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Liberals still won’t believe red states are in a better financial position than blue ones. Since they won’t be persuaded, we’ll have to wait until reality mugs them.
[YNet] - Police over the weekend cracked down on a number of illegally-run synagogues in the ultra-Orthodox communities of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, leading to several violent clashes.
In Bnei Brak, officers shut down two illegal synagogues on Saturday, operated out of yeshivas while the students are away on holidays. One of the synagogues was run by the fanatical Jerusalemite faction inside the prestigious Ponevezh Yeshiva.
The sect is known for its civil disobedience and frequent clashes with security forces over conscription as well as state and religious affairs.
Officers also raided two mass gathering in the area, celebrating the Sukkot holiday, one organized by a confirmed virus carrier and another, a Tish (a gathering of Hasidim around their Rebbe), organized by the Zotshka group.
A total of 22 illegally operated prayer houses were closed by the police in Bnei Brak, with dozens of fines handed out to local businesses and residents for violating lockdown rules.
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Pretty sure Venice is also substantially more vulnerable to flooding than the Dutch, what with it actively sinking and all. Plus Italian engineering.
[CBSNews] A federal judge's ruling on Thursday stopped next month's expected release of a report from a presidential commission created to study American law enforcement. Judge John Bates
...senior district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia appointed by President George W. Bush, ordered President Trump to reinstate DACA. At age 73, he likely will be replaced by President Trump in his next term...
ruled that the commission, comprised solely of current and former law enforcement officials, lacked the diversity necessary to address issues plaguing policing.
None of the 18 commissioners appointed to "study a broad range of issues regarding law enforcement and the criminal justice system," and then make recommendations to the president through the report, have any background in "criminal defense, civil rights, or community organization," Bates noted in his decision.
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.
[FoxNews] A Florida sheriff’s office announced two arrests Saturday in a violent armed carjacking caught on surveillance video.
[The Hill] Another famine coming? China struggles to meet basic food demands.
