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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sheriff says New Orleans airport attacker was armed with explosives, had mental illness issues
[STARTRIBUNE] Authorities say the machete-wielding man who was shot at New Orleans' international airport after trying to attack passengers and security agents was carrying explosives at the time.

Sheriff Newell Normand said suspect Richard White, who was shot three times by a security agent late Friday after approaching a security checkpoint spraying insecticide and brandishing a machete, was also carrying a bag loaded with six Molotov cocktails -- six Mason jars with cloth wicks soaked in gasoline.

There was also a barbeque lighter and a letter opener in the bag, Normand said at a presser at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. Residue from smoke bombs was also found near White's body.

Normand says White is hospitalized with gunshot wounds and is currently sleeping soundly "unconscious."

The sheriff suggested that the suspect has had "mental health" issues. His family has been cooperating with the investigation.

The suspect, 63, is a Jehovah's Witness and has refused "certain types of medical care," Normand said.
Don't touch me man! The bleeding will stop on it's own.
"Fortunately, he didn't seriously injure anybody," Normand said.
ABSee adds, courtesy of Besoeker:
Machete-Wielding Man at New Orleans Airport Tango Uniform

[ABSee] A man who allegedly attacked TSA agents with a machete and a can of wasp spray at the New Orleans international airport before he was shot by a sheriff's lieutenant died today, officials said.

Richard White, 62, had been taken to a hospital where he underwent surgery, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office. He was listed in critical condition and unconscious Saturday, and died later Saturday afternoon, the Sheriff's Office said.
Glenmore submitted an article from the local paper, which adds a few facts about the attack:
Lt. Heather Slyve, a deputy sheriff stationed at the checkpoint, fired three rounds, striking White in the left chest area, the left facial area and the left thigh.

A TSA officer who was fleeing was shot in her upper arm. A traveler sustained a graze wound to his arm.
Witnesses reported 3-4 shots - Lt. Slyve did a pretty good job - 3 in the perp & one in a TSA agent.
Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's reported White died. I'm curious about him being a devout JW. What he did it totally contrary to their teachings. What was the motive?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 03/22/2015 7:10 Comments || Top||

#2  What was the motive?

Since the sheriff suggested he had "mental health issues", I suspect either unmedicated severe paranoid schizophrenia or unmedicated severe bipolar disorder, Brer Rabbit. Or sociopathy, which doesn't have any treatment.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/22/2015 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  I've gone through that checkpoint about 100 times, and the atmosphere is almost always relaxed and casual. To me it's really amazing that Lt Sylve got her act together quickly enough to put three shots on target. It must have been like going from zero to sixty in .2 seconds. But the cops in Jefferson Parish are generally pretty solid.
Posted by: Matt || 03/22/2015 9:35 Comments || Top||

#4  And there's me for a moment thinking "mental illness" was RB replacement code for Muslim.
Posted by: Omoter Gray9391 || 03/22/2015 10:24 Comments || Top||

#5  ...not to be confused with MSM speak for 'we can't tie this to the Tea Party, damn'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/22/2015 11:20 Comments || Top||

#6  And there's me for a moment thinking "mental illness" was RB replacement code for Muslim.

RB replacement code always has a light grey underline if it was generated by Fred's clever translator, or has a strike through if it was done manually, Omoter Gray9391. When we're sure it's a jihadi, we aren't subtle about it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/22/2015 12:06 Comments || Top||

#7  It still irks that the puzzle is not yet complete.
Begging the question.
Posted by: newc || 03/22/2015 13:06 Comments || Top||

#8  All this racism has me reacting in a strange way - when I saw the perp he was not a typical white guy, so I felt relief at that moment (no having to go thru the usual press jumping to conclusion about White Tea Party etc). That is very f'd up what the press has done in conditioning us that way.
Posted by: OldSpook || 03/22/2015 14:18 Comments || Top||

#9  All this racism has me reacting in a strange way - when I saw the perp he was not a typical white guy, so I felt relief at that moment (no having to go thru the usual press jumping to conclusion about White Tea Party etc).

OldSpook repeat after me "Today I'm a Jew."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/22/2015 14:20 Comments || Top||

#10  I dont know TW...everyone that does things like this has 'issues'. I just think there's more to the story. Could be he was ill. Maybe this was suicide by cop?

Lt Slyve did some professional shooting. The NYPD might consider hiring her as a trainer.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 03/22/2015 14:43 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm trying to figure what a Lt. in the Sheriff's Office was doing pulling airport concourse duty.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/22/2015 16:20 Comments || Top||

#12  I dont know TW...everyone that does things like this has 'issues'. I just think there's more to the story. Could be he was ill. Maybe this was suicide by cop?

All possibilites, Brer Rabbit. Let us compose ourselves to patience until the facts are revealed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/22/2015 23:53 Comments || Top||


Palestinian Run Alleged Underground Casino Busted in Texas Near Border
[Breitbart Texas] BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- A raid at an underground casino allegedly operated by two Palestinian men located near the Texas border resulted in the arrest of the two managers as well as the seizure of 18 machines and over two thousand dollars in bulk cash. Breitbart Texas reporter Ildefonso Ortiz was embedded with the law enforcement officials during the raid and captured the photographic information shown below.

The raid was the result of an investigation by the Cameron County District Attorney's Office which has taken a hard stance against the underground establishments since they act as a magnet for criminal activity, the agency's spokeswoman Melissa Landin said to Breitbart Texas.

Officials arrested Ismail Abu Assad Abdel Aziz, 41, and Fayez Z. Rafidi, 39. The two men were charged with Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity, Gambling Promotion, Displaying a Coin Operated Machine with Tax Due, and Operating without a License or Registration Certificate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "You guys are from the wrong tribe."
Posted by: Pappy || 03/22/2015 13:27 Comments || Top||

#2  the Cameron County District Attorney's Office which has taken a hard stance against the underground establishments mosques since they act as a magnet for criminal activity
Posted by: Frank G || 03/22/2015 15:22 Comments || Top||

#3  It would be interesting to know where these Palestinian ne'er-do-wells came from and how they got to Brownsville, TX and what they do with the money?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/22/2015 19:30 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Texas Senate Considering Bill That Could Financially Kill Public-Sector Unions
[Breitbart Texas] A bill filed by Texas State Senator Joan Huffman (R-Houston) could prove to be the financial death penalty for many public-sector labor unions across the state. The bill, SB 1968, was filed at the very end of the bill filing period for this Legislative Session last Friday, and would end the practice of automatic payroll deductions for labor union dues for the majority of public-sector unions.

SB 1968 amends Chapter 617, Texas Government Code, to add a new Section 617.006, titled "Prohibition on Collection of Labor Organization Dues," as follows:

Except as provided by Sections 141.008 and 155.001, Local Government Code, and Sections 403.0165 and 659.1031, Government Code, the state or a political subdivision of the state may not deduct or withhold, or contract to deduct or withhold, from an employee's salary or wages payment of dues or membership fees to a labor organization or other similar entity, including a trade union, labor union, employees' association, or professional organization.

Among the exceptions included in this bill are labor unions representing those who are "employed by a state agency in a professional law enforcement or firefighting capacity, or an individual employed by a state agency in a capacity that meets the definition of 'emergency medical services personnel' as that term is defined by Section 773.003, Health and Safety Code."

In essence, what SB 1968 would do is prohibit labor union dues from being automatically withheld from the paychecks of government employees, except for police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services personnel. This would apply to state, county, and municipal employees, including employees of community colleges, universities, and school districts.
Governor Abbott is learning from Governor Walker...
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/22/2015 01:16 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now, that's addressing root causes!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/22/2015 5:23 Comments || Top||

#2  It doesn't seem the State should be bag men for the unions. IMO that when public unions infested the government,the people ended up losing. The lefties ended up getting more votes in the "D" column.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/22/2015 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Automatic payroll deductions are nothing more than money laundering of Democrat campaign contributions. AKA kick-backs.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/22/2015 9:09 Comments || Top||

#4  This is going to happen fairly quickly across thte red states, I think, be fought over in the purple states, and utterly ignored in the blue states, were they believe in coercion.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/22/2015 9:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Do the same with State and Federal taxes (so people see with their own eyes the money going out of their pocket) and see what happens.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/22/2015 10:10 Comments || Top||

#6  I'd love to see the Fed INcom Tax done this way. It would open people's eyes to the truth of their "refund"
Posted by: OldSpook || 03/22/2015 13:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Pragmatically, "Right to Work" is now all-but-dead or obsolete - in this Age of US-led Anti-US OWG Globalism + NAU + Marxist-Socialist US-World Govt-Order, any workplace must now be WHOLLY UNIONIZED, OR WHOLLY NOT UNIONIZED.

Again, the "American Dream" of the 20th Century is now the "NORTH AMERICAN DREAM", wid Mexico + Canada + Greenland all having a FORMAL/OFFICIAL SHARE IN MAINSTREAM AMERIKA'S SUCCESS OR PROSPERITY, OR IN THE ALTERN ITS LACK OF SAME.

E.g. TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > GOOGLE EXECUTIVE CALLS FOR INCREASE IN SKILLED [Foreign] WORKER VISAS TO THE US.

* POST-2015 OWG NORTH AMERICAN UNION = ULTIMAT TO BE MULTI-NATIONAL, POST/EXTRA-SOVEREIGN REGIONAL SINGLE GOVT = WHY WASHINGTON'S PUSH FOR SOCIALIST FED-LED INTERVENTION EVERYWHERE, AGZ ANYONE + EVERYONE.

There may no longer be any "middle ground" as per Individual or Personal "Right to Work", as the latter concept will be hard-pressed just to stay relevant in coming years or decades.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/22/2015 22:34 Comments || Top||

#8  SNAFU = FUBAR = iff our mighty Anti-Unitarian Unitarian Fed establishment is going to be inviting Milyuhns-n-Dilyuhns of Foreign Workers into the US to do the jobs that Amerikans won't do, HOW MANY MILYUHNS-N-DILYUHNS OF AMERIKAN WORKERS WILL US NAU SIBLINGS MEXICO + CANADA + GREENLAND, ETC, INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL FED UNIONS INVITE TO COME TO THEIR NATIONS + REGIONS IN FAIR-N-BALANCED MUTUAL RECIPROCITY???

YOU KNOW - WE TAKE CARE OF THEM ERGO/HENCE THEY TAKE CARE OF US???

Obama + US, World Globalists have yet to answer the above just as they haven't answered how much is Amerika supposed to unilaterally give up, andor how far is Amerika supposed to unilaterally self-retreat across the World so that its OWG Globalist Co-Superpower Siblings can rise to P-A-R-T-Y widout the US being existentially threatened.

ITS A SIMPLE QUESTION(S) BUT A BIGGIE.

HAVE I SAID "BIGGIE"???

But I digress ...
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/22/2015 22:45 Comments || Top||

#9  Liberals will use it as a rallying cry to get unions to work with them to vote more liberals into place.
Posted by: gorb || 03/22/2015 23:08 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey's nationalist opposition leader accuses ruling AKP of treason
[Hurriyet Daily News] The leader of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has accused the government of treason as he was re-elected to the party's top post.

"The ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) has openly betrayed the Turkish history, Turkish nation and the state of the Republic of Turkey," Devlet Bahceli told during the MHP's 11th Congress in Ankara on March 21.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Masked men attack Mumbai church
[Al Ahram] A church in Mumbai was attacked by masked men Saturday, local media reported, the latest in a series of attacks on churches in Hindu-majority India.

Closed-circuit camera footage captured three masked men hurling stones at a church early Saturday in the state capital of Mumbai, prompting city police to file an initial case against the "unknown people".

"The miscreants had thrown stones at the church entrance from the roadside and later fled from there. A case has been registered... for further investigation," senior Mumbai police official SB Suryavanshi told The Times of India.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


KP chief minister violates prevention of smoking law
[DAWN] A pro-consumer body has drawn the attention of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Chief Minister Pervez Khattak towards a TV footage in which he was shown smoking at public place in violation of Prevention of Smoking and Protection of Non-Smoking Law 2002.

The footage showed the KP chief minister not only smoking at public place but in the presence of his party chairman Imran Khan
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 03/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
At link photos of mock-up for Iran's manned space capsule
Posted by: 3dc || 03/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Room for a monkey?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/22/2015 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  شهدا
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/22/2015 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  The model was recently tested in Michigan by the Michiana Rocketry club.


Posted by: Whush Ominemp3753 || 03/22/2015 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Room for a monkey?

I'm sure Dinnerjacket is probably employed elsewhere now. Good suggestion if he's getting bored tho.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/22/2015 10:15 Comments || Top||

#5  @#2: True but, unfortunately, only in the singular form.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 03/22/2015 14:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Not if they send more than one up, HG.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/22/2015 15:56 Comments || Top||

#7  True Mullah R. Had not considered the Soviet model.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 03/22/2015 17:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Stolen or "reverse-engineered" Pakistan-based rocket design???

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PAKISTAN'S SHAHEEN-III CAN HIT DEEP WIDIN DELHI AND ISRAEL, + all of the ME + part of Turkey + part of Russia + part of China.

And also all of Pak rival Pakistan-is-supposed-to-the-World's-First-Nuclear-Superpower-NOT-You SHIA IRAN.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/22/2015 22:19 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2015-03-22
  US evacuates troops from south Yemen base
Sat 2015-03-21
  Westgate mastermind confirmed dead in Somalia airstrike
Fri 2015-03-20
  46 killed, 100 injured in suicide attacks on 2 Yemen mosques
Thu 2015-03-19
  117 BIFF millitants, six soldiers killed so far
Wed 2015-03-18
  19 Killed in Attack at Tunisia Museum; 2 Gunmen Dead After Firefight
Tue 2015-03-17
  Baghdad seeks airstrikes to rid Tikrit of IS; Saddam tomb leveled
Mon 2015-03-16
  Iraqi forces poised for final Tikrit assault
Sun 2015-03-15
  Suicide bombers kill 14 people outside Pakistani churches
Sat 2015-03-14
  Iraqi offensive on Tikrit appears to stall
Fri 2015-03-13
  Clashes between Assad and Nusra forces kill 50
Thu 2015-03-12
  Iraqi army targets ISIS in Tikrit, regains major areas
Wed 2015-03-11
  Chad and Niger launch offensive against Boko Haram
Tue 2015-03-10
  Retreating ISIS blows up bridge in south Kirkuk
Mon 2015-03-09
  Yemen defense minister flees Sanaa to join president in Aden
Sun 2015-03-08
  Boko Haram leader pledges allegiance to IS
Sat 2015-03-07
  Advancing Iraq troops enter al-Dour


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