Detroit -- Police responding to a call made a startling discovery Thursday afternoon: a man walking and talking despite a large hole in his throat and a large cut on his neck
The unidentified 52-year-old victim was unable to provide officers with the circumstances surrounding his attack on the 300 block of Michigan in the city's downtown.
Police, however, are on the lookout for a 25-year-old man armed with a box cutter. ? another incident of 'going Muslim'???
[LOSANGELES.CBSLOCAL] Police are investigating a mysterious death at a market in Santa Ana. If this isn't the first chapter in a science fiction novel it should be. Or the opening sentence in the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest...
A woman was acting violently Wednesday at El Toro Carniceria-Meat Shop at 1340 West 1st Street when a security guard placed her in handcuffs, according to Sherlocks. "What do you make of it, Professor Doddard?"
A witness said she was behaving erratically and began removing her clothes. "I think the fact that she's naked is significant, Jim!"
"She was jumping like crazy. " "Jumping how? Like a frog? Or high jumping?"
"Why, I couldn't say..."
"This is important, Jim!"
And then she made a mess inside the liquor store. "Yes. Yes! Projectile diarrhea! It all fits!"
And that's why the security guard had to do what he had to do, and grab her and handcuff her," Joseph Castellan said. "Let me see those handcuffs!"
"Well, sure, Professor... Hey! They're gone!"
Moments later, she died. "Just like that?"
Detectives have not released the identity of the woman. "And that, Jim, may be just the piece of information we need!"
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Did she get into some "bad" 'shine on her way to the liquor store??
Sierra Leone has ordered the quarantine "with immediate effect" of three districts and 12 tribal chiefdoms -- affecting more than one million people -- in the largest lockdown in west Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak. President Ernest Bai Koroma, in a national televised address late Wednesday, announced that the northern districts of Port Loko and Bombali were to be closed off along with the southern district of Moyamba -- effectively sealing off around 1.2 million people. With the eastern districts of Kenema and Kailahun already under quarantine, more than a third of the population, in five of the nation's 14 districts, now finds itself unable to move freely.
"The isolation of districts and chiefdoms will definitely pose great difficulty but the lives of everyone and the survival of our country takes precedence over these difficulties," Koroma said. "These are trying moments for everyone in the country."
Cuba said it will send nearly 300 more doctors and nurses to west Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic. This will raise to 461 the number of Cuban medical personnel that the country will send to battle the disease. The Cubans will work in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, said Regla Angulo, head of the Cuban medical relief agency.
Dr. Joanne Liu, head of Doctors without Borders (which has far more first-hand knowledge about this epidemic than WHO or CDC), says the reported figures vastly underestimate the number of infections: "we have only 20% visibility of the number of cases."
So, multiply the official numbers by 5.
Also, new data suggests the mortality rate is not 55%, but more like 70%.
Tens of thousands of family members caught crossing the border illegally earlier this year subsequently failed to meet with federal immigration agents as they were told, the Homeland Security Department has acknowledged privately.
An official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that about 70 percent of immigrant families the Obama administration had released into the U.S. didn�'t show up weeks later for follow-up appointments. Got their voters registration card and skedaddled.
The Ay-Pee reported in June that the administration would not say publicly how many Central American immigrant families caught crossing into the U.S. it had released in recent months or how many of those had reported back to the government after 15 days as directed. The Ay-Pee noted that senior U.S. officials directly familiar with the issue, including at the Homeland Security Department and White House, had dodged the answer at least seven times in two weeks. They would say they did not know the figure or didn�'t have it at hand. That the media did not press the issues does not surprise me. That they asked seven times *does* surprise me.
The Homeland Security Department�'s public affairs office during the same period did not answer roughly a dozen requests for the figures.
Immigration advocates have complained that the new detention centers were punishing immigrants who ultimately may win lawful asylum claims to remain in the U.S. In the meeting, they also questioned whether immigration officials had clearly and properly instructed immigrants to meet with federal agents within 15 days. Too many restriction on folks - and their families - who just want to come here for the rest of their lives.
The ICE official said it was necessary to detain families to ensure they didn�'t vanish into the U.S. Well, it a little late for that, isn't it.
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About the murder on Moore, Oklahoma: I know what you know. I can also tell you that people I've talked to don't know what to do. But Rantburg regular Besoeker helpfully suggested more range time, so I s'pect the gun ranges in this state will be full this weekend.
Pennsylvania state police continue to search for a leftist who killed one and wounded another state police officer in Blooming Grove. The man accused of the attack, identified as Eric Matthew Frein has been on the run in Pike and Monroe counties. Amusingly, the press says the man is "a war buff obsessed with Eastern European military conflicts" and has studied Russian language. All that describes yours truly. So far, we do not know the type of rifle used in that attack, assuming it was a rifle or the motive for the attack. But true to form, police have been illegally searching homes without a warrant in the area. Are the police trying to justify that attack?
Housekeeping: A new feature has been added to used firearms. Guns which have been listed for sale before are so noted as "Same Gun", and if they have been at the same price the number of weeks listed is also noted. If a new lower price stands from one week to the next, that is also noted by the number of weeks it has been listed. This is supposed to give the reader an idea of how stable a price may be.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were unchanged while prices for rifle ammunition were mostly lower. Prices for used rifles and for used pistols were mixed.
Quarterly ammunition price comparisons are also indicated, from 2nd Quarter, 2014.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks) (From Q2, 2014: .29 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, .29 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, .28 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks) (From Q2, 2014: .25 per round, +.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: I.Q. Metals, HSM, FMJ, Factory Seconds, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, reloaded, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks) (From Q2, 2014: .20 per round, +.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (2 Box Limit) : O.D. Green Supply, Scorpion, Brass Cased, FMJ, Reloaded, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: High Country Ammunition, Store brand, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks) (From Q2, 2014: .40 per round, +.02 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Goose Island Sales, GECO, FMJ, .38 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000: Rare Ammo, GECO, FMJ, .38 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (7 Weeks) (From Q2, 2014: .22 per round, +.01 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Brown Bear, steel cased, .22 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks) (From Q2, 2014: .41 per round, -.04 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, Brown Bear, steel cased, .45 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Silver Bear, steel cased, .45 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (15 Weeks)(!))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (7 Weeks) (From Q2, 2014: .21 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Smokey Mountain Munitions, Wolf, steel case, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Wolf WPA, steel case, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks) (From Q2, 2014: .10 per round, +.03 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (4 box limit): Ammomen, Remington, Brass, .07 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Target Sports USA, Remington Thunderbolt, .08 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $565 Last Week Avg: $597 (-)
California (224, 220): Bushmaster (Composite Lower) : $550 (Same Gun)(2 Weeks)
Texas (304, 312): Anderson Arms: $575
Pennsylvania (171, 160): DPMS Panther Sportical: $600
Virginia (209, 210): Bushmaster (Carbon Fiber Lower): $500 (!)
Florida (396, 393): Aero Precision AP15: $600
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Off-duty officer and CEO of Vaughn Industries, Mark Vaughan, knew what to do--he shot the jihadist terrorist until he stopped. Now if we can just get people like him to the problem area a little sooner. It was reported that Vaughn had the foresight to put on a protective vest and pick up a .223 rifle. He was also an experienced SWAT member.
Those options Vaughn had are not always available to the ordinary citizen. Best advice is as Boeseker said, stay proficient, be prepared to shoot, shoot if necessary and keep shooting until the threat is neutralized, (and hope you do not have to). Some other good advice: 10 things not to do after a shooting.
Concerns about Ebola and MERS, of course, but not to worry -- there are fifteen isolation rooms at the airport, and doctors standing by. Surely Allah, who allows Sunni and Shia to fight to the death, will protect them all from disaster, during the hajj and after.
[AnNahar] From war-ravaged Iraq and Syria to Ebola-hit Nigeria and dozens of other nations, pilgrims are converging on 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... for the annual hajj, the world's largest Moslem gathering.
From early October, close to two million believers will congregate to follow the 1,400-year-old tradition of Islam's Prophet Mohammed.
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[AnNahar] Russia is ready to resume gas deliveries to Ukraine if Kiev pays its energy giant Gazprom back debts worth $3.1 billion (2.4 billion euros) by late December, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said Friday.
According to the interim agreement, which has to be approved by the governments in Moscow and Kiev, Gazprom is ready to deliver at least five billion cubic meters of gas in the coming months, Oettinger said after he met with both energy ministers in Berlin.
Gazprom will also want advance payments for the new gas at $385 per 1,000 cubic meters -- less than the 485 dollars that Gazprom had earlier demanded but more than the price of around $268 it had charged before the change of government in Ukraine.
"We have developed a workable design for a winter package" of measures, Oettinger told a presser.
Another meeting was planned for late next week in Berlin to endorse the preliminary agreement, the outgoing EU energy commissioner said.
Oettinger had met Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and his Ukrainian counterpart Yuriy Prodan in the German capital to try to find a solution to the gas standoff, which in mid-June saw Russia stop deliveries to Ukraine, a major transit country for gas to Europe.
"We negotiated a plan today for the winter with several points" which should allow Ukraine and all European countries that depend on gas transit through that country not to run out of gas for the next six months, he said.
Oettinger called the agreement an "interim solution to ensure supplies until spring".
Novak told the presser that "we prepared a plan for the winter that can serve as a basis for solving the problems."
Ukraine's Prodan said that "unfortunately we have not been able to arrive at a complete solution."
Under the deal, Kiev would pay Gazprom $2.0 billion in debts by the end of October and another $1.1 billion between early November and late December.
The $3.1 billion are what Ukraine considers its debt to Gazprom. The Russian energy giant has however demanded 5.3 billion.
An arbitration court in Stockholm is due to decide on the case in coming months, and on whether Ukraine will have to pay the difference.
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They've been in the 'banking biz' on the commercial side for quite a few years; it's only now they've rolled it out en masse in a way that doesn't get the big banks riled up.
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Yep, like Uber vs the established taxi business. This is going to be extremely profitable for congresscritters as their price goes up in the fight. 2016 might even be light on our contributions as the big boys will be spending 90%+ of the funding to buy their men/women in the Beltway.
[AnNahar] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... said Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. 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 Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... had written to Brussels demanding changes to a landmark EU-Ukraine accord, but it ruled out reopening the deal without Kiev's consent.
Putin's letter to European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso reportedly threatened retaliatory measures if the EU and Ukraine do not stick to their agreement with Moscow to delay the implementation of the deal until 2016.
The Ukrainian and European parliaments last week both ratified the association agreement, the rejection of which by then-president Viktor Yanukovych last year triggered the political crisis in the former Soviet state.
European Commission spokeswoman Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen confirmed that Barroso had received a letter from Putin about the deal and said Brussels "will of course decide on the best way to respond."
But she pointed out that the controversial pact was a "bilateral agreement" between Kiev and Brussels.
"If there are any changes they have to be agreed between the EU and Ukraine," Hansen told a press briefing.
"We are not seeking any changes to the agreement, Ukraine is free and sovereign to make choices in its interests."
The Association Accord, which includes a wide-ranging Free Trade Agreement, is at the heart of the bitter stand-off between the EU and Russia over the future of its Soviet-era satellite.
Moscow has repeatedly charged that the tie-up damages its legitimate interests and its economy.
During trilateral talks between the EU, Ukraine and Russia on September 12, the EU announced unexpectedly that it had agreed to delay implementation of parts of the FTA to the end of 2015.
The EU said it was a step to help bolster a ceasefire negotiated by Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on September 5.
The trilateral talks, it insisted, were only about how to implement the accord and not about the content.
Moscow has since tried to widen the talks to include amendments to the Association Accord itself, EU sources said.
Putin's letter "casts a much wider net" than any concerns raised during talks on the September 12 agreement, an EU source said.
The letter talks not only about specific trade issues but also about "systemic problems" with the Association Agreement, the source said.
The clear impression is that Putin is seeking new concessions, the source said, adding: "The EU cannot accept that Russia decide for Ukraine."
The Financial Times reported Friday that Putin had threatened "immediate and appropriate retaliatory measures" if Kiev tried to implement any part of the deal.
Last week, in a letter seen by AFP from Russian Economy Minister Alexey Ulyukaev to EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht, Russia said further talks on the pact should "clearly fix a mandate" for "the proposal for amendments to the Association Agreement".
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters in Germany could be scrapped after a government ethics committee said the they were an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination. Nothin' wrong with your family tree looking like a hat rack, is there?
"Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo," the German Ethics Council said in a statement. "The fundamental right of adult siblings to sexual self-determination is to be weighed more heavily than the abstract idea of protection of the family." What if the "fundamental right of sexual self-determination" includes a fondness for humping corpses? Nobody's "hurt" in process. The humper gets his jollies and the humpee's already beyond all cares and woe. So that should be legal, too. And fish are said not to feel pain like we do, so they should be fair game (so to speak), though I do believe that anyone who has sex with a fish less than 36 inches long is a pervert.
Their intervention follows a notorious case in which a brother and sister living as partners in Saxony had four children together. The couple had been raised separately and only met when the brother, identified only as Patrick S, was an adult, and his sister Susan K was 16. "Say, baby! Ain 't I seen you someplace before?"
Patrick S was sentenced to more than three years in prison for incest and the couple have since failed in their bid to have the guilty verdict overturned by the European Court of Human Rights. I'd think the fundamental question to be asked there would be: Did he know he was diddling Sis? Or was she just an attractive and slightly underage stranger?
The family was forced to live apart after the courts ruled that there was a duty to protect their children from the consequences of their relationship. Protecting helpless little kiddies for violations of social taboos would seem to lie within the province of at least local government.
Two of the couple's children are disabled, and it is believed that incest carries a higher risk of resulting in children with genetic abnormalities. Empirical evidence would seem to back up that belief, wouldn't it?
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Hell, just move to AlabamaWest Virginiafreakin' New Jersey someplace where it's socially acceptable.
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If she ain't good enough fer her own family how could she be good enough for others?
[WAPO] After nearly six years of multibillion-dollar losses, the U.S. Postal Service has developed a new plan to help turn its finances around: Daily grocery deliveries. How can we get a piece of the that EBT card action ?
The Postal Service sent its proposal to the Postal Regulatory Commission on Tuesday, seeking approval from the panel. The agency wants to begin testing on Oct. 24, with the process lasting up to two years, although it could choose to make the program permanent at a sooner date. Can't make money delivering mail, beer and chips possibly. Augmenting junk mail with junk food?
Under the plan, USPS would work with retail partners to deliver "groceries and other prepackaged goods" to homes between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. at locations designated by consumers. Just stack those chops, wine coolers, and meds on the porch, no one will bother them.
Participating grocery stores would have to drop off their orders at post offices between 1:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. Second and third shift postal employees, additional hiring is the key.....free snacks a plus.
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Actually if you delivered Mrs 0bamas choice of veg each day for the shirking classes to cook every day (instead of cash bennies) they might go and get jobs.
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.
Tens of thousands of family members caught crossing the border illegally earlier this year subsequently failed to meet with federal immigration agents as they were told, the Homeland Security Department has acknowledged privately.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. 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 Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
