Too stupid to live really should be a valid diagnosis . . . .
A man and a woman thought they were trapped in a Daytona State College closet for two days until police let them out Tuesday – and found out the two could have opened the door themselves.
John Arwood, 31, and Amber Campbell, 25, claimed they were chased into the closet on Sunday, Daytona Beach police said.
After two days in a Marine and Environmental Science Center janitor's closet, where police found human feces and copper scouring pads sometimes used to smoke crack, Arwood called 911 from his cell phone, police said.
Officers tracked his phone's location and let him and Campbell out. It's unclear why Arwood didn't call 911 until Tuesday. I suspect drugs and stupidity were involved.
A police officer, trying to figure out how the two could have gotten locked in, went into the closet and closed the door, police said. The door did not lock.
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[ARABNEWS] Fifty-one years ago, Arthur Lampitt of Granite City, Illinois, smashed his brand new 1963 Thunderbird into a truck.
This week during surgery in suburban St. Louis, a 7-inch turn signal lever from that T-Bird was removed from his left arm in a 45-minute operation. Lampitt, now 75, is recovering at home.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the accident broke Lampitt?s hip, drawing attention away from the arm, which healed. A decade or so ago, his arm set off a courthouse metal detector. An X-ray showed a pencil-sized object, but since it caused no pain or hardship, Lampitt let it be.
He was moving concrete blocks a few weeks ago when the arm began to hurt for the first time, prompting surgery.
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Turn signal lever from a '63 T-bird? That's gotta be worth serious something on eBay. Prolly in great condition, what with being inside the whole time.
I am going to discontinue listing the Dragunovs and copies as a separate category starting next week. I will instead change it to 30-30 Winchester Lever Action.
Also, this week includes quarterly data from September 27th, 2014. If you want to look over past TWIG articles, you can see them here.
A statistical error on my part, that is the way prices are listed, will be changed as well. Under the .308 NATO category I had listed 12 weeks the price had stayed the same, when it in fact changed 11 weeks ago. So, anytime a price remains steady beyond 10 weeks, it will be listed as to the last quarter it was at that price.
** There was a significant drop in the price for AK-47s in California. I suspect it has to do with its firearms rules taking effect this quarter. It has, I think, something to do with something called a "magazine button", and the difficulty of retrofitting AKs for compliance. Anyway, if you can pass a background check, the state of California has some real bargains in that category, it seems.
Obama's Organizing for Action group claims they are winning against 2nd Amendment groups, to which they point to the grossly unconstitutional passage of I594 Universal Background Check plebiscite. Breitbart sez that over all, pro RKBA candidates win in local and state elections.
A lot of antigun pieces have appeared on a number of sympathetic news outlets of late. The checks must have been cut and are clearing as I write this.
The fella who wrote that the 2nd Amendment ought to be repealed is a peace studies teacher, whose work circulates in the left's farm league, such as Alternet and the like. Must be an easy discipline, since there is so little peace, and since they continue to deny they are trying to wage war on gun owners, a real war using hostile and well-armed enemies. A discipline like Easy Bake oven home economics.
A professor identified as Pete Dreier sez that the NRA has blood on its hands for its presumed role in the ambush of NYPD police a few weeks ago. This is an easy attack, totally free from libel concerns, since the writer, thinking he is brilliant, can attack groups. And the premise is that guns, easily available elsewhere, are finding their way into New York. His solution is universal background checks and a national gun registry.
A lot of bloodthirsty folks are on both sides of the issue of further gun control. All it would take now, as I have written in the past, is for one hothead on either side to send the current civil war to the next level.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for rifle ammunition and for pistol ammunition were steady.
Prices for used rifles and prices for used pistols were mixed.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks) (From Q3, 2014: .29 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Top Shot, Reloaded, CMJ-RN, .28 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks) (From Q3, 2014: .24 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: I.Q. Metals, Store brand, FMJ, reloads, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Top Shot Ammunition, Store brand, reloads, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (18 Weeks)(!!))
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q3, 2014: .19 per round, +.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, Steel Cased, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Kinetic Munitions, Black Munitions, reloads, FMJ, .18 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks) (From Q3, 2014: .38 per round, +.03 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Fiocchi, JHP, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250 Rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store Brand, reloads, .36 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks) (From Q3, 2014: .21 per round, +.02 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, steel cased, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Oct 11th, 2014) (From Q3, 2014: .45 per round, -.04 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Silver Bear, steel cased, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Silver Bear, steel cased, .45 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (29 Weeks)(!!!))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (10 weeks (!)) (From Q3, 2014: .21 per round, +.01 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Brown Bear, steel case, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammomen, Remington Thunderbolt, RNL, .08 per round (From Q3, 2014: .07 per round, +.01 Each)
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds: South Georgia Outdoors, CCI Subsonic (?!), .08 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
You see, maaahn, guns are like, candy for evil.
Guns are like chocolate..and bullets like peanut butter. You know, and when you like put bullets in the clip and uh put the clip in the barrel, and this is a trigger alert duuude. Serious bro. It makes this sugar loaded feeling in the hate viiiibe area of the soul. And the person like thinks they feel good. But its really a diabetic obesity problem; you know? Like, you know, overweight people like peanut butter cups man, but its, like, really a problem. For them. You know.
[AnNahar] King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah ... Fifth out of 37 sons of King Abdulaziz to ascend to the throne. He is, after his half-brothers Bandar and Musa'id, the third eldest of the living sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Abdullah's mother is from the Rashid clan, longtime rivals of the Saud. He has 6 sons and 15 daughters and about $20 billion. His youngest son is just seven years old... , hospitalized earlier this week, is suffering from pneumonia and breathing with the aid of a tube, but is in stable, pH balanced condition, the royal court said on Friday.
The long-ailing king, who is believed to be around 90 years old, was admitted to the King Abdul Aziz Medical City in Riyadh on Wednesday for checks.
Examination "revealed pneumonia, which required the provisional insertion of a tube on Friday evening," a statement said.
"Thanks be to God, that step was crowned with stability and success," the statement added, without saying how long the king would need to remain in hospital.
In recent years, his advanced age and poor health have raised concerns about the future leadership of one of the world's key oil producers.
Abdullah's half-brother Salman, 77, is next in line to the throne. He was named crown prince in June 2012 following the death of Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz.
Salman has been representing the king at most recent public events, including last month's Gulf summit in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , because of the monarch's ailing health.
The Saudi stock market dropped by about five percent at one point following the royal court's announcement that the king had been hospitalized, before clawing back some of its losses to finish Wednesday day 1.8 percent lower.
The market was closed for the weekend on Friday.
The king's latest hospitalization comes as 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... holds a high-profile position in the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, which has seized swathes of neighboring Iraq and Syria.
Saudi warplanes have joined in coalition air strikes against the jihadists in Syria, although the ultra-conservative Moslem kingdom has faced calls to do more to halt the flow of funds and fighters to IS from among its own citizens.
The king's absence from the public gaze for some time last year prompted rumors on social media networks that his health was deteriorating.
He underwent two operations in October 2011 and November 2012 to correct "ligament slackening" in the upper back.
Since the death in 1952 of King Abdul Aziz al-Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia, the throne has systematically passed from one of his sons to another, brothers and half-brothers.
But many of Abdul Aziz's sons are old or have died. Abdullah's former crown princes Sultan and Nayef died in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
In March 2014, King Abdullah named his half-brother Prince Moqren as a second crown prince, in an unprecedented move aimed at smoothing succession hurdles.
Moqren, who was born in 1945, is the youngest of Abdul Aziz's sons.
[ARABNEWS] Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh has warned against celebrating the birthday of the Prophet (peace be upon him), saying that it is a superstitious practice that was illegally added to the religion.
?It is a bida (a sinful religious innovation) that crept into Islam after the first three centuries when the companions and successors of the companions lived.?
Instead, it is obligatory for Muslims to follow the Prophet?s teachings as contained in the Sunnah, the sheikh said in his Friday congregational sermon at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque in Riyadh.
The sheikh said that those who urge others to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet are evil and corrupt. ?The true love of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) is manifested by following in his footsteps and supporting his Sunnah ... that is how the love for the Prophet (pbuh) is expressed.?
He said Almighty Allah has said: ?Say: ?If you do love Allah, follow me: Allah will love you and forgive your sins.?? Muslims have a duty to believe in the Prophet (pbuh) as the servant and messenger of Allah, who was sent as a guide to the entire universe, Al-Asheikh said.
It is the duty of Muslims to love and respect him. They should also defend him against those who misinterpret his teachings, the atheists who deny him, and those who abuse or mock him. These are the duties of Muslims who truly love the Prophet (pbuh), the sheikh said.
He said that Almighty Allah states in the Holy Qur?an: ?Say: If it be that your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your mates, or your kindred; the wealth that you have gained; the commerce in which you fear a decline; or the dwellings in which you delight, are dearer to you than Allah, or His messenger, or the striving in His cause, then wait until Allah brings about His decision, and Allah guides not the rebellious.?
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Sinful to celebrate the peace be upon him Prophet's birthday? How does the sheik feel about the beheading of infidels or the mass murder of others who wear their turban's slightly differently?
[IsraelTimes] Obama says punitive measures come in response to regime?s ?destructive, repressive? actions; targets gov?t officials
The United States imposed financial sanctions Friday on North Korea and several senior government officials following a cyber attack on Hollywood studio Sony Pictures.
US President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... said he ordered the sanctions because of ?the provocative, destabilizing, and repressive actions and policies of the Government of North Korea, including its destructive, coercive cyber-related actions during November and December 2014.?
The activities ?constitute a continuing threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States,? he added, in a letter to inform congressional leaders of his executive order.
?The order is not targeted at the people of North Korea, but rather is aimed at the Government of North Korea and its activities that threaten the United States and others,? Obama added.
?Today?s actions are driven by our commitment to hold North Korea accountable for its destructive and destabilizing conduct,? declared US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, announcing the sanctions.
The new measures allow the Treasury Department ?to apply sanctions against officials of the Government of North Korea and the Workers? Party of Korea, and persons determined to be owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of? these bodies.
The United States has blamed North Korea for a crippling cyber attack on Sony Pictures that saw the release of a trove of embarrassing emails, scripts and other internal communications, including information about salaries and employee health records.
Pyongyang has repeatedly denied involvement in the hack but has applauded the actions of a shadowy online group which grabbed credit for the cyber attack, the self-styled ?Guardians of Peace.?
Obama has said his government takes the hack ?very seriously? and had warned the United States would ?respond proportionately.?
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Didn't we just cancel sanctions on another provocative, destabilizing, repressive regime because sanctions don't work? (ok, ok, Cuba has not been as provocative since the Russians ran out of money during the Cold War, but still...)
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Obama is trying to look tough but I believe this is 100% steer manure. For one thing, I don't believe there are enough computer literate NORKs to form a credible hacking community therefore, if the SONY hack was a state run operation the Chicoms did on Pudgy's behalf. We know that the biggest sponsor of state run hacking is China so why doesn't Obama slap a few sanctions on them? Yeah, I know. It's the money, stupid, the NORKs don't have any so it's safe to pick on them.
But all that is if you believe the SONY hack was a state run operation. There are those in the computer security business who believe the SONY hack was an inside job done with the aid of a disgruntled ex-employee. The FBI is standing by their accusation of the NORKs but the same folks who think it was an inside job don't think the FBI spent enough time investigating before they jumped to this conclusion. That's easy enough to believe given Champ's proclivity toward politicizing such agencies as the IRS.
It's not that I have any problems with more sanctions on Pudgy and his associates. I just think Obama is a phony.
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[AnNahar] The trial opened at an Ankara court on Friday of 13 former Turkish coppers accused of setting up bugs to eavesdrop on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... while he was prime minister.
The defendants are accused of carrying out and aiding political espionage as well as the violation of the privacy of public officials, the official Anatolia news agency reported.
If found guilty, they could be tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for up 36 years and six months, it added. Erdogan's own lawyers are taking part in the closed court hearing.
The trial is linked to the sensational corruption scandal of December 2013 that rocked the government of Erdogan as well as his inner circle and was partly based on intercepted telephone conversations.
Erdogan denied the claims, saying the graft allegations had been concocted by his arch foe Fethullah Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in the United States, to bring down his government.
According to the indictment, the police are accused of placing bugs in various locations used by Erdogan while he was prime minister in 2011.
The devices are said to have been placed inside electricity plugs.
According to the Hurriyet newspaper, five of the police are still on the run, meaning only eight of the suspects were able to appear in court.
One of the accused is Zeki Bulut, who was Erdogan's former chief bodyguard.
The police appear to have been tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! during the waves of detentions in 2014 of police deemed loyal to Gulen.
The authorities in December also raided a newspaper and television channel with close links to Gulen, provoking a major rift with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... over an erosion of media freedoms.
Leaked tapes emerged in February 2014 where Erdogan allegedly told his son Bilal to dispose of some 30 million euros ($37 million) in cash. Erdogan has dismissed the recordings as a "vile montage".
Since becoming president in August 2014, Erdogan has set out to crush Gulen, whom he accuses of setting up a parallel state through supporters in the police and the judiciary.
The start of the trial comes as a Turkish parliamentary commission is on January 5 set to decide whether four ex-cabinet ministers who resigned in the wake of the corruption scandal should go on trial.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is so worried his cops will turn their backs to his boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio, at another NYPD funeral that he sent out a memo to shame them into good behavior, sources told The Post.
"A hero's funeral is about grieving, not grievance," began the four-paragraph plea, which is being read at precinct roll calls ahead of slain Officer Wenjian Liu's Sunday service.
Bratton won't punish officers who choose to turn their backs to de Blasio -- which was done in droves at the funeral for fallen Officer Rafael Ramos -- but he pleaded with the rank and file to shelve their anger.
"I issue no mandates and I make no threats of discipline,"the memo said. "But I remind you that when you don the uniform of this department, you are bound by the tradition, honor, and decency that go with it."
Thousands of cops outside the Ramos funeral church showed their backs to the massive video screens broadcasting de Blasio's eulogy inside.
Bratton publicly called the back-turn "inappropriate" -- and said he didn't support it.
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But the memo goes much further, blaming the officers involved with taking attention away from the funeral and ruining the NYPD's reputation.
"The country's consciousness of that funeral has focused on an act of disrespect shown by a fraction of those officers,"he said.
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Bratton was appointed by de Blasio, so he has to do his bidding.
It is de Blasio that is polluting this funeral by turning it into a photo op on how much he "supports" the police. De Blasio created this problem (in fact, he built his career on attacking the police), and the police are under no obligation to get him out of it.
If de Blasio wants to gain respect, then show up WITHOUT THE PRESS, and attend as a private mourner.
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"I issue no mandates and I make no threats of discipline," the memo said. "But I remind you that when you don the uniform of this department, you are bound by the tradition, honor, and decency that go with it."
he'd do well to remind his boss of that as well.
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When an issue like this is politicized, the general principle is to not expect a resolution of the issue except for time.
Though it seems to me that not writing tickets and bullsh*t arrests is a step up.
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The grassroots political and fundraising operation that President Obama created to win election and push his agenda will continue past his presidency, a first in American politics.
First goal for an organization, any organization, is to perpetuate itself...
Jim Messina, co-chairman of Organizing for Action, said in an email to supporters that the group will continue to lobby for "change" after the next election, even if Hillary Clinton wins office.
"OFA is not a political campaign," he declared of the nonpartisan group closely aligned with the Democratic Party and that is Obama’s booster operation. The president regularly fundraises for OFA.
"We're a built-to-last movement that's not going anywhere. When the polls close and elections end, we're the ones still here, fighting for the principles we believe in," said Messina, Obama’s campaign manager.
OFA started as Obama for America, his campaign operation. It morphed into Organizing for America during his re-election and is now a stand-alone liberal advocacy group.
"We are -- and will continue to be -- the sum of millions of grassroots voices calling for change," said Messina’s note.
The group has 250 offices around the nation.
No other president has kept a 24/7 lobbying and campaign operation up and running after their election and re-election like Obama. And keeping it operational after he leaves office Jan. 20, 2017, indicates that he may take charge of it.
He has to have something to do other than play golf. With OFA he can give a job to his buddy Al Sharpton...
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Another organization perpetuated by George Soros' money?
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APRIL began with the announcement that the city of Chicago was changing its name to Obamagrad. Soon after, the moderate, gentle president of Iran nominated one Hamid Aboutalebi as the new Iranian ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Aboutalebi’s credentials include membership in the group of student terrorists who took the staff of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran hostage in 1979. The State Department immediately furrowed its collective brow, thought about how badly Obama wanted his nuke deal with Iran, and approved Mr. Aboutalebi’s visa. Mr. Aboutalebi has not yet made public his plans to take hostages at the UN, which really isn’t worth the effort.
[Daily Beast] American spies have detailed dossiers on the North Koreans who the U.S. says were behind the Sony attack. But the still-secret evidence likely won’t convince skeptics.
The FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies for years have been tracking the hackers who they believe to be behind the cyber attack on Sony, according to current and former American officials. And during that long pursuit, U.S. agencies accumulated still-classified information that helps tie the hackers to the recent Sony intrusion.
Building dossiers, writing reports, and intelligence summaries, the usual. Basically waiting for a 9/11 type event, or an attack on the movie industry.
FBI is doubling-down on their Nork claim. Couldn't possibly be a disenchanted former Sony employee, no sir, we got dossiers!
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Someone called from the WH. Have to make the boss's words good after others have put forth an insider scenario. The narrative has been settled even if it means compromising TTP.
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The problem is, with the current Infestant of the oval orifice there is the whole "Falsus in Unum, Falsus in Omni" issue. We cannot believe anything these guys say anymore.
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The classic problem of the person who lies every time. When he states that everything he says is a lie, then he is an oxymoroon, and vanishes up his a$$ in a puff of smoke.
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I hear they might have a big break on the location of the U.S.S. Pueblo any day now as well...
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.
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King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah
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