[Townhall] It’s been 10 years since the home of retired ATF Agent [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms] Agent Jay Dobyns burned down in the middle of the night. His wife and children were inside. Luckily, they survived.
For months prior to the arson Dobyns, who risked his life to work undercover in the infamous Hells Angels motorcycle gang, reported documented death threats against himself and his family. Here is a portion of the lengthy backstory:
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The doping and subjugation of the tribal masses urban economy is dependent upon illegal drug trafficking. I'd bet Dobyns also supports the construction of the border wall. His enforcement efforts simply went too far.
The iPhone, FB and K-12 indoctrination cannot do it alone. Political compliance requires a multi-system approach. Chemical sedation is a key, long-term element.
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I used to chuckle at some gun shows I went to where the Lyndon Larouche table had a picture of Queen Elizabeth with the caption "World's Biggest Heroin Dealer." Of Course, since 9/11 it's been Dubya...
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[FOX] TAYLORSVILLE, Utah -- Police say a man held another man at gunpoint, bound him to a chair and then told him he could choose between death in the desert or having a nail hammered through his genitals.
According to charging documents filed September 5, the assault occurred on August 30 in Salt Lake County.
Jason Dee Maughn got into a fight that night with a man who was living in the home with him, according to a statement of probable cause. During the argument, Maughn held a shotgun to the other man's head and made him sit in a chair before handcuffing him to the arm rests.
Maughn then told the victim he could, "either be taken to the desert to be killed or Maughn could drive a nail into [victim's] penis," the document states.
The man also told the victim he would shoot him if he tried to fight back.
The victim chose the latter of the two options, and the PC statement indicates Maughn used a rusty hammer to drive a tool resembling an ice pick through the victim's penis and into a board Maughn had placed under the victim.
Maughn then released the man, who sought medical attention the next morning.
Maughn was charged with aggravated kidnapping‐domestic violence, aggravated sexual assault‐domestic violence, mayhem‐domestic violence, and aggravated assault‐domestic violence.
Maughn was arrested Monday and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A biracial student at Goucher College near Baltimore has been charged after confessing to targeting himself and several other black students with racist graffiti, police said.
Baltimore County police said Fynn Arthur, 21, scrawled the phone numbers of three black students, including himself, along with a swastika and a racially motivated threat on a campus bathroom stall last month. Two weeks later, he scrawled the last names of four black students, including himself, along with swastikas and "KKK" in a different bathroom stall, police said.
More than 100 black students protested the alleged racism during a Nov. 16 campus rally demanding social justice workshops and safe spaces for underrepresented students, The Baltimore Sun reported.
Goucher President José Bowen and Bryan Coker, the vice president and dean of students, released a joint statement Friday responding to Mr. Arthur’s arrest, saying he had since been banned from campus and will face a disciplinary hearing.
"Today our community is facing mixed emotions, as we are immensely grateful that the individual responsible for the two recent hate crimes has been identified and removed from our campus, while also being shocked and saddened that these acts were committed by a member of our own College community," they wrote. "Let us be clear ‐ we view these incidents as hate crimes. We are disappointed that the suspect has not yet been charged with a hate crime, and we are encouraging the State’s Attorney Office to do so. These acts of hate have consumed our community, and we feel strongly that the suspect should receive the strongest charges, which reflect the seriousness of these crimes. "
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biracial student
In the Post, too, IIRC. Sudden vogue for reverse one drop?
In the spotlight, a moment of fright...
And a person of color turns white
As rational racists
Retreat to safe spaces:
"We're certain which half
Of Fynn authored this gaffe,
For his left side must surely be right!"
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Whose sorrows were worse than young Arthur's
Not counting his mother's and father's?
Theirs that heard the cur curse
In his murtherous Erse
Of a dearth of Original Werther's.
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...while also being shocked and saddened that these acts were committed by a member of our own College community,
You can say that with a straight face? You indoctrinate them into hating whitey and Western Civ and you don't take full credit for your work? /rhet question
[FOX5NY] A woman has pleaded guilty to killing her boyfriend by stabbing him, hitting him with a table leg and crushing him under the weight of her roughly 300 pounds.
Windi Thomas, of Erie, faces a sentence of 18 to 36 years after pleading guilty to third-degree murder. She had been scheduled for trial next week, but instead will be sentenced on Dec. 21.
The 44-year-old Thomas admitted killing Keeno Butler last March, partially by lying on top of him. Thomas weighs about 300 pounds, while the 44-year-old Butler weighed about 120 pounds.
Thomas was reportedly drunk and wanted to smoke crack when the pair got into an argument that ended in Butler's death.
Butler, who went by the nickname "Loco", is survived by a daughter, Adele Brown, two grandchildren, his mother and nine siblings including Sandra, according to his obituary.
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(Golf Announcer Voice): "SpaceX has missed the Green and... and... missed the sand trap and... it is in the water hazard. Double Bogie, at least, for this hole!"
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For those of us who don't appreciate the twitter format, what happened? Besides the "we didn't land where we wanted to" bit? Did they run out of hydraulic fluid? (Strange thing to ask, but it actually happened to one of their landing attempts before). Control system failure? If so, gross or subtle?
Wrong coordinate plugged into the landing computer, or did it run out of delta v or fuel to make it back to the landing pad or boat?
[THEBLAST] Miss Universe is breaking new ground at this year’s pageant with the first transgender contestant to ever compete for the crown, and those betting on the competition are declaring her a heavy favorite.
Angela Ponce won her qualifying rounds in Spain and will represent her country at the 2018 Miss Universe pageant in Bangkok, Thailand.
Ponce, who hails from Seville, was the first transgender woman to be crowned Miss Universe Spain and is competing to promote gender diversity and equality.
As the competition nears, online bookies are taking action, and Ponce has grown to become the clear favorite with current odds of +600.
The folks at MyBookie.ag compiled their list of where all the countries currently stand. To put it in perspective, the Miss USA Sarah Rose Summers has odds of +2,000 if she wins the whole competition.
If you’re not interested in betting on the ladies, MyBookie is also taking action on whether or not host Steve Harvey will announce the wrong winner again, and whether a contestant will fall. Bettors are putting big money on Harvey screwing up.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... if you’re looking for the big payday, you may want to put your money on Miss Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean. Urvashee Gooriah currently pays out at +20,0000 if she wins.
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Soon as they find a transgender grrrl for starting pitcher, you'll see baseball has always been America's Pastime. Bonus points if he does the classic baseball pants adjustment.
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...you noticed that? Been an oligarchy for a while. And they're p**sed the largest tribe found someone to represent them. See - end of the Roman Republic.
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Half measures! When Soetoro passes I recommend the Interstate Highway System be closed, prohibition be re-enacted, and electricity be turned off for at least a year.
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Really, I think no junk mail for one day is not a bad thing. But that just means twice as much tomorrow. Shoot...
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And it's substantially less of a hit to American productivity than the unveiling of Bath House Brackets or March Madness itself...
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most of the federal govt closed including not only the USPS but also federal courts, passport office and other activities where the work will have to be made up
estimates of the added cost to the federal govt range from $50M to $500M and the cost to the general economy is probably in that range also
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You can't really morn unless you get the day off to shop.
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Did they shut down when President Reagan died? If that’s the tradition, then no reason to fuss. If that is not the tradition, why start now?
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My dad was really angry when Pres Kennedy had a day of mourning for the funeral. "What am I to do, sit around and mourn?" He was 1st MarDiv, fought at Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, and Okinawa. Different outlook.
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Thank you, Alaska Paul. President George W. Bush proclaimed a national day of mourning for Ronald Reagan’s funeral, also shutting down all non-essential areas of the government. So that is the tradition. link.
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When Soetoro passes I recommend the Interstate Highway System be closed, prohibition be re-enacted, and electricity be turned off for at least a year.
The Great Pyramid of Obama is gonna be lit.
Literally and figuratively.
And the deplorables will required to make bricks without straw.
Luckily, we'll have our troo conservative prince-pullz 'n' stuff to get us through those hard times.
[LATimes] The Pentagon will begin sending a backlog of thousands of green-card holders to recruit training, suspending a policy adopted by the Trump administration last year that required more stringent background checks for some immigrants wanting to serve, according to two defense officials and an internal memo.
The policy called for green-card holders to submit to and complete a full background check and respond to any concerns before they could go to boot camp. That was in addition to standard requirements for green-card applicants, such as biometric screening.
The change put thousands of people in limbo as their screening languished and specific jobs within the military promised to them slipped away.
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...Her Majesty isn't leaving Buckingham Palace any way except feet first, and apparently there's considerable speculation that she may be the first sitting monarch to crack 100 (She's 92 now, her mother made it to 101).
If that happens, Charles will - and hear me out - be deserving of some sympathy. At that point he'll be almost 80, and given Prince William's popularity, most people will simply be waiting for him to shuffle off this mortal coil before Wills takes over. He'll be remembered as an asterisk in British history.
Mike
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The Brits are one Labor gummint away from abolishing the monarchy. Like Brexit, they'll draw it out interminably and call it anything but what it is, but the end result is a lot of toffs suddenly at a loose end.
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It may be best if when the Queen gets ill, Charles takes a very extended holiday in a private place for the rest of his life.
Even though his sons have show some spirit in their lives, some of their recent actions are pure Charles and the line of Windsor is in serious trouble.
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not being snarky - legit quesiton... are they not just figure heads now? They dont really have any control or power, so is it just a ceremonial position for tradition?
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Technically Sam, the queen could disband Parliament and remove the Prime Minister. But historically when the monarchy has done that there has been Civil War.
It seems she and the others are happy with just keeping things the way they are where the royals enjoy the life of leisure without all that government and country running bollocks.
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The way things are going Charles will not become king, but rather Head Mullah.
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Bwahahaha....Glad to see your sense of humor has not been degraded by recent earth-shattering events, AP!
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Legally, I believe that the deal is that if the Parliament stops paying the monarch a set income, they resume gathering the income from their Crown Lands, which include a great deal of extremely popular tourist traps throughout the country and places like Bermuda and the Channel Islands. They would become private citizens, but probably also the wealthiest people in the UK, and the British Government would lose all right to use their property for any reason without paying them, like any other property owner.
[DAWN] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... said on Tuesday it is "up to Russia" to save a Cold War nuclear arms reduction treaty that the US has threatened to leave, accusing Moscow of breaching the agreement.
"We call on Russia to return urgently to full and verifiable compliance. It is now up to Russia to preserve the INF treaty," foreign ministers from the 29-member alliance said in a joint statement after talks in Brussels.
Western powers say a Russian missile system developed and fielded over the last five years breaches the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty.
In October, 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... declared the United States would pull out of the treaty and build up America's nuclear stockpile "until people come to their senses."
But on Monday, the US leader said he wants talks with his Chinese and Russian counterparts Xi Jinping and 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... "to head off a major and uncontrollable Arms Race."
Trump's chief diplomat Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was at NATO headquarters for a ministerial meeting on Tuesday and won support for a tough stance from the allies.
"The United States has remained in full compliance with its obligations under the INF Treaty since it entered into force," the ministers said in their joint statement.
"Allies have emphasised that the situation whereby the United States and other parties fully abide by the Treaty and Russia does not, is not sustainable," they warned.
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...Russians, Ukranians, and Palestinians have one thing in common - they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
I have no doubt the Russians are doing this, but in the end - given the mess that's their economy and military procurement system - it's at best a brief and minor advantage. They know that, but they can't stop. And if we've gotten to the point where we're pulling out of the treaty that means we're getting ready to develop/deploy something that will keep them up nights like GLCM and Pershing did. On the other hand, if Vlad and Co. admitted it (or pretended to) and asked for 'talks', the Usual Suspects over here would rise up to defend him and demand President Trump work to defuse things.
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[Motherboard] Chinese scientist He Jiankui earned worldwide notoriety last week after claiming to have engineered the first gene-edited babies. Now, He’s whereabouts are unknown according to local media. Preliminary reports indicate the surgery went well and there were no post-operative complications. SUSTC wishes to thank He Jiankui for this selfless act and contribution to the people.
The rumors of He’s disappearance were reported by Chinese tabloids Apple Daily and Hong Kong’s Ming Pao newspaper over the weekend. They claimed He was placed under "house arrest" by his former employer, the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTC) in Shenzhen where the associate professor has been on unpaid leave since February 2018.
But on Monday, a spokesperson for SUSTC denied these claims to the Hong Kong-based newspaper South China Morning Post.
"Right now nobody’s information is accurate, only the official channels are," the spokesperson said. "We cannot answer any questions regarding the matter right now, but if we have any information, we will update it through our official channels."
Chinese authorities haven’t publicly commented on He’s whereabouts.
[DAWN] French President Emmanuel Macron will urge a visiting group of top Silicon Valley venture capitalists this week to invest in the nation’s start-ups while calling on them not to "steal" the best creations, four sources told Rooters.
The discreet event, not mentioned in Macron’s official schedule, comes at a tough time for the French leader after rioters looted and ransacked boutiques and businesses in central Gay Paree, chaotic images beamed around the world.
Executives from some of the biggest names in US tech funding, including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and General Atlantic, are among the 40 expected in Gay Paree on Wednesday and Thursday for a tour of the French startup scene.
The two-day roadshow includes presentations from what sources called tech ’superstars’ already investing in La Belle France as well as visits to hubs such as the Station F tech incubator in eastern Gay Paree.
But instead of simply urging them to invest in La Belle France, Macron, who is scheduled to host the investors at the Elysee palace on Thursday evening, will also tell the US funds to help French businesses to flourish rather than pushing the best French entrepreneurs to move to the United States.
"Today, many French companies raise money in the US, and the usual reflex of US venture capitalists is to tell them: ’come to the United States then’," a source at Macron’s office told Rooters.
"We will tell them: it’s an ecosystem, your best interest is to do like in Britannia and Israel: invest here and don’t move everything (to the US)," the source said.
The event was scheduled before the nationwide protests that turned the French capital into a battle zone and the format of Macron’s appearance has yet to be finalised, sources said.
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Hey Macron, how's that other french start-up, Airbust working out? a380s being parked after 10 years, a350 production snafus, ....
fix your own stuff and leave us alone.
[DAWN] Anti-government protesters gained new allies on Monday as French paramedics and students joined ongoing rallies while the prime minister met with political rivals in a bid to ease the anger following riots that rocked Gay Paree.
Facing the most serious crisis since his election in May 2017, President Emmanuel Macron remained silent but met with coppers to offer them support after "a day of unprecedented violence," the Elysee palace said.
On Saturday, more than 130 people were maimed and 412 locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in the French capital amid one of the worst waves of unrest in the country in recent years. Police responded with tear gas and water cannons, closing down dozens of streets and subway stations to contain the riot.
The "yellow vest" movement led by protesters wearing the distinctively coloured roadside safety vests used by motorists is bringing together people from across the political spectrum complaining about La Belle France’s economic inequalities and waning spending power.
More protests took place on Monday in Gay Paree, as dozens of ambulances blocked a bridge leading to the National Assembly. Lines of riot police stood in the rain to prevent them from getting too close to the building.
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[DAWN] The French government on Tuesday backed down on planned fuel tax hikes in a bid to draw the heat out of fierce protests that have escalated into the deepest crisis of Emmanuel Macron's presidency.
The concessions, coming after an earlier 500-million-euro ($570 million) relief package for poorer households, mark the first time 40-year-old Macron has given ground in the face of public opposition.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced rollbacks on fuel taxes and electricity price increases in a rare televised address after La Belle France was rocked by intense street festivities and vandalism in Gay Paree over the weekend.
"This anger, you would have to be deaf and blind not to see it, nor hear it," Philippe said after more than a fortnight of demonstrations by so-called "yellow vest" protesters.
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Get that choking feeling around the neck? Or did the generals balk at shooting their own citizens?
[DAWN] Police in northern India have incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! four people for their alleged involvement in an attack on police over rumours of cow slaughter that left two people dead, including a police official.
Senior police officer Pravin Kumar said on Tuesday that a case was filed against 28 people who allegedly set a police outpost on fire and killed a local police inspector. Another man also died in the violence.
The incident took place on Monday in the city of Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh state. The area is 300 kilometers (200 miles) southwest of Lucknow, the state capital.
The chaos began after beef and a few animal bones were found in a field in a village.
Cow slaughter is banned in parts of India, including Uttar Pradesh.
Kumar said police arrested four people and were looking for the main suspect, Yogesh Raj. While it was not clear if any hard-line groups were behind the attack, Raj is alleged to be a member of right-wing Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of Vishwa Hindu Gay Pareehad, a Hindu group that opposes cow slaughter.
On Monday, the villagers blocked a road, demanding the responsible be arrested for slaughtering cows, Kumar said. When police asked them to lift the blockade, they attacked police, he said.
"Soon, the protesters outnumbered police," he said. "They snatched arms, mobiles and cartridges of police. The coppers retreated. Someone from the crowd opened fire that killed the police inspector."
The crowd also torched a police outpost, police jeeps and a few private vehicles during the violence, he said.
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[Telegraph] blood test can detect cancer within just 10 minutes, scientists have found, raising hopes that hard-to-spot diseases could be picked up early when treatment is most effective.
Currently doctors use symptoms and a raft of tests and biopsies to determine if cancer is present which can sometimes take months.
The new method from the University of Queensland looks for differences in the genetic code of cancerous and healthy cells.
The team found that the DNA of cancer cells sticks strongly to nanoparticles of gold giving a quick indication whether disease is present or not to the naked eye.
And because the same changes occur in all cancerous cells, the test should work on all cancer types, the team believes.
Writing in the journal Nature Communications Dr Matt Trau, Professor of Chemistry, said: "Our approach enabled non-invasive cancer detection, i.e a blood test, in 10 min from plasma derived DNA samples with excellent specificity.
"We believe that this simple approach would potentially be a better alternative to the current techniques for cancer detection."
[DAWN] The first manned Soyuz flight since a failed launch in October successfully docked at the International Space Station on Monday, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said.
"The Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft with a crew onboard successfully docked with the Research Module Poisk of the International Space Station," it said on Twitter.The Soyuz rocket carrying Russian, American and Canadian astronauts took off from Kazakhstan and reached orbit, in the first manned mission since a failed launch in October.
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Meanwhile anti-freemarket folk in NASA and the House keep trying to sabotage the debuts of SpaceX and Boeing's commercial manned spacecraft.
Hell the SpaceX offering has been sitting in the warehouse at Pad 39 since August. (NASA's own paperwork not completed by lazy government workers.)
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.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A biracial student at Goucher College near Baltimore has been charged after confessing to targeting himself and several other black students with racist graffiti, police said.
[FOX5NY] A woman has pleaded guilty to killing her boyfriend by stabbing him, hitting him with a table leg and crushing him under the weight of her roughly 300 pounds.
...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...
[Motherboard] Chinese scientist He Jiankui earned worldwide notoriety last week after claiming to have engineered the first gene-edited babies. Now, He’s whereabouts are unknown according to local media.
[DAWN] Anti-government protesters gained new allies on Monday as French paramedics and students joined ongoing rallies while the prime minister met with political rivals in a bid to ease the anger following riots that rocked 
