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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Kentucky Trooper Killing: Suspect Dies in Police-Involved Shooting
[ABCNEWS.GO] The suspect in a deadly shooting of a Kentucky State Police trooper died in custody this morning, police said.

The suspect, identified as Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks of Missouri, was caught in a secluded, wooded area around 7 a.m. CT, Kentucky State Trooper Jay Thomas said at a news conference today.

The suspect was armed with a weapon, Thomas said, and he was shot by a trooper when he refused to lower the weapon.

Johnson-Shanks was taken to a hospital where he died this morning, Thomas said.

Ponder first made contact with the suspect at a traffic stop Sunday night, police said, but the suspect fled, leading Ponder on a car chase.

After about 9 miles, the suspect stopped abruptly and Ponder's car hit the back of the suspect's car, police said. The suspect then fired at Ponder's car, hitting the trooper several times.

The suspect fled the scene on foot, police said.

Ponder was taken to Caldwell Medical Center in Princeton, Kentucky, where he died, police said. Ponder was a U.S. Navy veteran, Thomas said.

Other people were in the car at the time of the shooting, Thomas said, adding that it's unclear whether the others were related to the suspect. The other people were detained but it's unclear whether any of them were charged, Thomas said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


#2  he was shot by a trooper when he refused to lower the weapon

I sure hope they have that on camera. Or it will turn into a case of 'cops murder innocent Black Lives Matter activist.'
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/15/2015 11:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, isn't that what usually happens when you kill a cop?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/15/2015 16:55 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Global warming stopped 16 years ago and has not come back
Posted by: anon1 || 09/15/2015 12:08 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, that was three years ago. Shirley, the hockey stick has taken over since then!
Posted by: Bobby || 09/15/2015 13:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Why do you think that NOAA has been modifying their surface temperature data like crazy over the past year to show a big rise and make this the "Hottest Year on Record!"

Gotta keep the scam and the federal funds coming in.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/15/2015 13:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Leftists are too stoned to notice.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/15/2015 14:38 Comments || Top||

#4  "Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, last week dismissed the significance of the plateau, saying that 15 or 16 years is too short a period from which to draw conclusions."

No Phil prefers long stretches where he can pick the beginning and end to assure he gets the results he wants.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/15/2015 14:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Why do you think that NOAA has been modifying their surface temperature data like crazy over the past year to show a big rise and make this the "Hottest Year on Record!"

Darth,
That is why you can't call it temperature data. Once you adjust it, it is no longer data but rather conclusions. Now look at how the data has been adjusted. There is a well know effect called the urban heat sink. Cities are hotter; all that concrete and asphalt absorbs more solar heat than the meadows. So what did the SOB's do? They used the contaminated urban station data to "correct" the pristine non-urban station data. Volia! Instant warming.

Full Definition of DATA
1
: factual information (as measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation
2
: information output by a sensing device or organ that includes both useful and irrelevant or redundant information and must be processed to be meaningful
3
: information in numerical form that can be digitally transmitted or processed
Posted by: Ulaique Noodleman9246 || 09/15/2015 16:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Is that why Satellite data is better (and has shown no warming for 16 years?)
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/15/2015 16:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Is that why Satellite data is better (and has shown no warming for 16 years?)

Yes. Satellite data is data. The SOB's haven't figured out a way to alter the satellite data the way they have the land and sea buoy/ship temerature data. I recommend Dr. Roy Spencer's web site if you are interested in the satellite data.
Posted by: Ulaique Noodleman9246 || 09/15/2015 17:07 Comments || Top||

#8  sorry i know it is an old story, but it is good to keep them in the memory

because it hasnt warmed since then, and the disaster stories about man-made global warming continue unabated

and swamp the google search results. so every time i see a global warming doom headline i try my best to find one of these difficult to find stories that reveal it is a load of crap - so the facts dont get forgotten...
Posted by: anon1 || 09/15/2015 19:08 Comments || Top||

#9  thanks for the link to dr roy spencer. good one
Posted by: anon1 || 09/15/2015 19:14 Comments || Top||


Global warming to pick up in next two years
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Man-made global warming is set to produce exceptionally high average temperatures this year and next, boosted by natural weather phenomena such as El Nino, Britain’s top climate and weather body said in a report on Monday.

“It looks very likely that globally 2014, 2015 and 2016 will all be amongst the very warmest years ever recorded,” Rowan Sutton of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, which contributed to the report, told journalists.
They do keep trying.
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Actually, I just got new woolies and have an affinity for fire places and cool weather.
I may want it to cool down some instead.
Posted by: newc || 09/15/2015 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Alarmist, but IMO nothing really new as I've said before that any so-called "MINI ICE-AGE" is at best an INTERIM OR TEMPORARY COLD PERIOD/HIATUS [ the Great Asia-Pacific "Slushy"] IN THE LARGER PICTURE ON STEADILY INTENSIFYING SOLAR OR SUN-LED HEATING OF THE EARTH THRU 2050 IFF NOT THE ENTIRE 21ST CENTURY.

Again, the greatest single threat from our mighty OWG-NWO Govts-Perts consensus on GWCC + Related is that THERE IS NO CONSENSUS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/15/2015 1:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Expect a vastly increased level of noise from reality based community?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/15/2015 6:04 Comments || Top||

#4  What does the tarot cards say?

I want to see confirmation from an equivalent card based model.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/15/2015 7:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Don't spend any money on Developing any Third world countries, just send it to the UN for more wine and cheese. Why waste good money on developing countries and lets spend it instead on less plastic containers and no more Coal or Atomic Power plants. And get rid of all the cars and put plugs in the cows ass. Make Al Gore rich.

The UN will tell us what to do and we all can be more like Mozambique. Ask Nancy Pelosi and Hussein if you have any questions. Its all about Hope and Change.
Posted by: Tiny Snins1607 || 09/15/2015 8:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Seven years ago the arctic was supposed to be ice free.
Posted by: Threatle Grundy2774 || 09/15/2015 9:20 Comments || Top||

#7  So how is the sun doing this year?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/15/2015 10:45 Comments || Top||

#8  “It looks very likely that globally 2014, 2015 and 2016 will all be amongst the very warmest years ever recorded,”

Except that it isn't...
Posted by: Raj || 09/15/2015 11:10 Comments || Top||

#9  If global warming picks up, does that mean global cooling will slow down?

Posted by: frozen al || 09/15/2015 11:16 Comments || Top||

#10  The sort of prediction one only makes when one is convinced there will be no repercussions for being spectacularly wrong.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/15/2015 12:00 Comments || Top||

#11  According to Joe Bastardi at Weatherbell, El Ninos typically cause a short-lived rise in temps followed by a greater and much longer decrease. Expect a lot of ululating from the usual suspects over the rise followed by much hand-waving and denial.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/15/2015 12:56 Comments || Top||

#12  El Nino is a (maybe the) mechanism by which the Earth's climate sheds accumulated heat.

The bigger the El Nino, the more heat that is lost from the climate system to space.

But this simple fact is clearly much too dangerous for public consumption.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/15/2015 16:45 Comments || Top||

#13  Iblis, as long as it forwards the liberal agenda that is.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/15/2015 16:55 Comments || Top||

#14  Rain is another mechanism that the earth uses to shed surface heat. When water evaporates it grabs latent heat from its surroundings. The water vapor rises and condenses to form clouds and rain which releases that latent heat. But now that heat is above the bulk of the insulating atmosphere where it then radiates out into space.
Posted by: Ulaique Noodleman9246 || 09/15/2015 16:55 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
University of California Seeks to Create 'Right' to Be 'Free From Acts and Expressions of Intolerance'
[MRCTV.ORG] “Intolerance has no place at the University of California. We define intolerance as unwelcome conduct motivated by discrimination against, or hatred toward, other individuals or groups. It may take the form of acts of violence or intimidation, threats, harassment, hate speech, derogatory language reflecting stereotypes or prejudice, or inflammatory or derogatory use of culturally recognized symbols of hate, prejudice, or discrimination.

Everyone in the University community has the right to study, teach, conduct research, and work free from acts and expressions of intolerance. The University will respond promptly and effectively to reports of intolerant behavior and treat them as opportunities to reinforce the University’s Principles Against Intolerance.”
Still keep trying for that "right not to be offended." Personally, I find the whole thing... offensive.
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fuck you and your nanny tight ass regulations, you idiot fuckwits.

You aren't worth the piss it would take to put you out if you were on fire.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/15/2015 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  recognized symbols of hate, prejudice, or discrimination.

Let me guess: Christian cross, Jewish Magen David, USA flag etc...

p.s. What about uncovered females if one is Muslim?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/15/2015 6:11 Comments || Top||

#3  All state funded universities/colleges should have been limited to A&Ms. Let private institutions pick up the rest. Get the Fed out of student loans. You want college money, get a GI Bill fund.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/15/2015 8:37 Comments || Top||

#4  I LIKE Darth Vader. The beer is on me.
Posted by: Tiny Snins1607 || 09/15/2015 8:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Being intolerant of intolerance is .. intolerant. Ergo, U of Cal. is in violation of their own policy.

The first amendment guarantees freedom of speech, not freedom from hearing things that you do not agree with. What a bunch of ignorant buffoons.
Posted by: Threatle Grundy2774 || 09/15/2015 9:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Except class war marxism and support for affirmative apartheid?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/15/2015 10:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Closet anti-Semitism, too.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/15/2015 12:17 Comments || Top||

#8  The irony here is that UC Berkeley was ground zero for the Free Speech movement back in the 60s.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/15/2015 13:12 Comments || Top||

#9  UofC - Forever at the vanguard of irrelevancy.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/15/2015 13:45 Comments || Top||

#10  Preparing students to be totally unprepared.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/15/2015 14:05 Comments || Top||

#11  This will end well. Unless you are a Vegan caught wearing leather shoe laces.
Posted by: regular joe || 09/15/2015 14:33 Comments || Top||

#12  When the post-apocalypse arrives Vegans will be on the top of the food pyramid.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/15/2015 15:17 Comments || Top||

#13  Fine. If nobody bullies me for my opinions either.
Posted by: gorb || 09/15/2015 18:42 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Turnbull defeats Abbott in Liberal leadership spill to become prime minister
Inside cricket at the article...
Posted by: Steve White || 09/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Comments at Tim Blair's blog are overwhelmingly negative.
Posted by: Raj || 09/15/2015 0:45 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Some Mormons stocking up amid fears that doomsday could come this month
[SLTRIB] Mixing a brew of biblical prophecies, the Hebrew calendar, a volatile economy, world politics, a reported near-death experience and astronomical occurrences, hordes of Utahns have become convinced that calamitous events are imminent -- maybe by month's end -- and are taking every precaution.

They are called "preppers" and are buying up food-storage kits, flashlights, blankets and tents. Some are even bracing to leave their homes -- if need be.

At American Fork's Thrive Life, which sells mostly freeze-dried food, sales have shot up by "500 percent or more in the past couple of months," says customer- service representative Ricardo Aranda. "There is a sense of urgency, like something is up. A lot of people are mentioning things about September, like a financial collapse."
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You folks missed it; doomsday was NOV 4th 2008.
Posted by: airandee || 09/15/2015 11:43 Comments || Top||

#2  If I have to bet, it will be that the sun rises tomorrow....
Posted by: Lumpy Schwarzeneggar4670 || 09/15/2015 11:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Meh.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/15/2015 12:01 Comments || Top||


Government
Operation 'Jade Helm-15' ENDEX
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2015 05:01 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why relax? The concern was that it was a rehearsal "for a government takeover of Texas in advance of declaring martial law." Now that they are trained and ready I would be more concerned, not less.

What a dumb idea for an exercise.
Posted by: Ulaique Noodleman9246 || 09/15/2015 17:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Chow photo approved by Fort Bliss Public Affairs and Garrison Command.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2015 04:18 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ISIS are deserting in droves. Putin hides under his bed.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/15/2015 6:03 Comments || Top||

#2  I like it. Not Combat Ready, but what the hell?

Makes me have some hope for a more human world. THAT actually is who and what we are fighting FOR> for what we really love and would be willing to die for.

I can remember my own mother hitching a ride on a troop ship six days out when I was four and she was carrying my little brother. The war was almost over and she wasn't waiting for my Dad to come home...she was going to where he was and he had promised to be waiting when that ship came in fluff replacements. And holding her hand seeing the tears running down her face because she couldn't see him in the crowd of soldiers waiting to transit home....even though he was there. And my dad had brought a Lei made out of candy for me and a Lei of Orchids for my Mom. And I had never seen him before, but he was my Dad. And we had a bomb shelter in the back yard and i started first grade in a quonset hut in sight of the runway. And there were acres and acres of graves in the Punchbowl Crater before they were shipped back to the States. Too many dead to ship back all at once my Dad said.
I didn't know anything about God. But I worshipped my Father when I was small. He was a good man. And I remember my little brother nursing when I was "too big" for a high chair and resented a crib bed when we were in the Philippines when Truman ran against Dewey.
And I remember later going to school in Occupied Japan..

All those memories flooding back seeing these women in uniform...being mothers.
Posted by: Tiny Snins1607 || 09/15/2015 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Anyone one who wants breasts exposed in public is a pervert.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 09/15/2015 9:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Michelangelo to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/15/2015 9:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Sadly, I foresee additional F-35 cost overruns.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2015 9:33 Comments || Top||

#6  I guess a letter to Stars and Stripes voicing their support was to blasé.
Posted by: Threatle Grundy2774 || 09/15/2015 9:41 Comments || Top||

#7  I can remember my own mother hitching a ride on a troop ship six days out when I was four and she was carrying my little brother.

This seems inconsistent with my knowledge of the period, though I could be wrong.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/15/2015 11:43 Comments || Top||

#8  To show my solidarity with these brave women, I will go over there to be photographed breast feeding with them, too.
Posted by: gorb || 09/15/2015 12:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Non-deployable.

Who gets to take their place?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/15/2015 14:55 Comments || Top||

#10  Yes, stand at ease Corporal Smith. Let us start at the beginning please. You were absent from duty yesterday afternoon and late for formation this morning because your what hurts....?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2015 15:01 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2015-09-15
  Taliban free 350 inmates and kill police in Afghan jail raid
Mon 2015-09-14
  Police nab 'hitman' involved in killing Nizamuddin Shamzai
Sun 2015-09-13
  Egypt sentenced 12 to death over affiliation with Islamic State
Sat 2015-09-12
  US drone strike kills 15 TTP militants in Afghanistan
Fri 2015-09-11
  Drone Kills Four Qaida Suspects in Yemen
Thu 2015-09-10
  British Air Force carried out 300 air strikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria
Wed 2015-09-09
  Once Again Faryab Villages Collapse To The Taliban
Tue 2015-09-08
  IS takes Syrian state's last oilfield
Mon 2015-09-07
  ISIS governor killed in Tal Afar
Sun 2015-09-06
  Daesh blows up Palmyra towers
Sat 2015-09-05
  United Arab Emirates, Bahrain lose 45 troops on black day for Yemen coalition
Fri 2015-09-04
  Islamic State executes 40 of its militants as internal conflict intensifies
Thu 2015-09-03
  'At least 50 dead' in Shebab attack on AU base: Western sources
Wed 2015-09-02
  Egypt seizes 5 Muslim Brotherhood affiliated publishing houses
Tue 2015-09-01
  150 Insurgents Killed in Nangarhar Military Operation


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