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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Mother of Convicted Loudoun County School Sex Offender Blames the Victim
[BREITBART] The mother of the skirt-wearing teen who was found guilty of "forcible sodomy" in a girls’ bathroom sexual assault in Loudoun County, Virginia, blamed her son’s victim for the crime. According to the criminal’s mother, he is just "a 15-year-old boy that wanted to have sex in the bathroom," and the victim didn’t do enough to fight back. She said, "You’re 15. You can reasonably defend yourself. You’re not just going to sit there and take it."
Confession: A long, long time ago I was fifteen. I've never worn a skirt. I've never been inside a ladies' room. I've often wanted to have sex; that's a hormone thing with men. I've never had sex in a school bathroom. No one's ever had to fight me off, and in fact there were too many occasions where I was too good at taking hints.
"If I was in a position where I was about to be raped, I would be screaming, kicking, everything," the mother told Daily Mail. "You’re 15. You can reasonably defend yourself. You’re not just going to sit there and take it."

"And so, because there wasn’t a presence of a fight, he felt it was okay to keep going," the mother added, in an apparent defense of her son’s behavior. She also mentioned that the victim didn’t immediately report the assault.

The mother went on to say that her son depicted the rape as an accident, telling her that he didn’t mean to insert his genitalia inside the girl’s anus, and that he was surprised when it caused her pain.
This woman appears to be entirely divorced from reality. No wonder her kid's a sicko.
"He said he was intending for vaginal and it ended up for 10 seconds as anal," the mother said.

Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Father? Sounds like Ma Barker Julia/Linda's substitute wasn't up the job.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2021 6:53 Comments || Top||

#2 
Does she have other kids?
If so someone call Child Protective services now?


Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/03/2021 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  "He said he was intending for vagin@l and it ended up for 10 seconds as an@l," the mother said.

Son needs to take Loudoun H.S. DIstrict's remedial Perv Mechanics course. Next time intend the right one.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/03/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Ummmm, he flipped her over. Tell me again about "sit there and take it"? This mother and her freak "son" need remedial beatings every day
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2021 8:56 Comments || Top||

#5  She is just screwing up every lefty belief. First the transgender kid is a monster, second she's blaming the rape victim. If these wonderful people are people of color they'll get the hat-trick.

Also no word about the second victim after her monster kid was quietly transferred.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/03/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#6  ..last word I heard was the family of the second victim is suing.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||

#7  She is just screwing up every lefty belief.

She and her monster-spawn are the perfect expression of every Woke-Marxist belief. Lie cheat steal gaslight rape peaceful protest & power-grab
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/03/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#8  words fail me.....
Posted by: Bill Sforza2984 || 11/03/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||


Man killed his daughter's boyfriend for selling her into sex trafficking ring, police say
[NBC] A Washington state father killed his daughter's 19-year-old boyfriend for selling her into a sex trafficking ring, police said.
Seems like a rational reaction to me.
The boyfriend's remains were discovered in the trunk of an abandoned car on East Everett Avenue in Spokane last month, police said in a press release Monday. Investigators believe the victim was killed in November 2020.

The girl's father, John Eisenman, 60, was charged with first-degree murder and is being held on a $1 million bond. Attorney information was not listed for him.

Police said Eisenman learned in October 2020 that his juvenile daughter had been sex trafficked in the Seattle area and "obtained information" that her boyfriend was responsible, according to the press release.

Eisenman was able to rescue his daughter and get her back to Spokane that same month, police said.

When the father learned that his daughter's boyfriend was going to be at a location in Airway Heights, Eisenman drove there and waited for the 19-year-old to arrive.

"During that encounter Eisenman abducted the victim, tying him up and placing him in the trunk of a vehicle. Eisenman subsequently assaulted the victim by hitting him in the head with a cinder block and then stabbed him repeatedly, causing his death," police said. "After the homicide, Eisenman drove the vehicle to a remote area in North Spokane County and abandoned the car with the body still inside."
Nope. Beating his head in with a rock seems like just the thing.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail adds:
  • Aaron Sorenson's rotting corpse was found in car's trunk in the city last month

  • He allegedly sex trafficked Eisenman's juvenile daughter into Seattle last year

  • Eisenman rescued daughter Oct. 2020 and then went after Sorenson, cops say

  • He stabbed the teen to death, stuffed him car trunk in Nov. 2020, it is alleged

  • Sorenson's body was only discovered last month, leading to Eisenman's arrest
Coulda been worse.
He might have shot him on a movie set.
Just above - Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No way I could vote to convict.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/03/2021 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Aaron looks like a doosh.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656 || 11/03/2021 5:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Coulda been worse.
He might have shot him on a movie set.


Friends,

please allow me to nominate this for Snark o' The Day(TM).

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/03/2021 6:02 Comments || Top||

#4  The Jury should find him "Not Guilty",
and recommend to the Judge,
He be nominated for Washington State's
Father of the Year Award.
Posted by: Andy Cleater7131 || 11/03/2021 6:57 Comments || Top||

#5  When you know the state will no longer give you justice.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2021 6:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Charges against Eisenman soon to be dropped.
Sorenson's death attributed to... 'natural causes.'

Appears natural enough for me.


Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2021 7:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Not guilty
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/03/2021 8:12 Comments || Top||

#8  I would love to be on his jury...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/03/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#9  Candidate for the Gary Plauche Award.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

#10  I could see him being convict of littering.

Posted by: Pearl Squank8365 || 11/03/2021 11:05 Comments || Top||

#11  ...guilty of improper disposal of toxic material.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2021 17:28 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Fatal bullet fired on ‘Rust' set may have been ‘sabotage,' armorer's lawyers say
[TODAY] The attorneys for the armorer in charge of weapons on the set of "Rust" say they are investigating whether someone put a live bullet in a box of dummy rounds with the purpose of "sabotaging the set," resulting in the death of a cinematographer from a prop gun fired by star Alec Baldwin.

Jason Bowles and Robert Gorence, the attorneys for armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 24, spoke exclusively on TODAY Wednesday about how they believed a live round ended up in the gun fired by Baldwin, which has made their client a focus of the investigation into the death of Halyna Hutchins.

Bowles said there was a box of bullets on the set labeled as dummy rounds that Gutierrez-Reed pulled from to load the gun. He believed it was possible a third party may have put a live round in the box.

"I believe that somebody who would do that would want to sabotage the set, want to prove point, want to say that they’re disgruntled, they’re unhappy," Bowles told TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie. "And we know that people had walked off the set the day before."

Asked if he thought a crew member could be a suspect, Bowles said "I think you can’t rule anybody out at this point."

"We know there was a live round in a box of dummy rounds that shouldn’t have been there," Bowles said. "We have people who had left the set, who had walked out because they were disgruntled. We have a time frame between 11 (a.m.) and 1 (p.m.), approximately, that day, in which the firearms at times were unattended, so there was opportunity to tamper with this scene."

Gorence added that the film set's prop ammunition was in a truck "that was completely unattended at all times, giving someone access and opportunity."

NBC News has not verified Bowles' allegation that firearms were left unattended on set during that time period or Gorence's allegation that the ammunition was left unsupervised in a prop truck.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2021 12:21 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:



#3  I've was 'sick' of Alec Balwin long before he starting shooting people on set. His disgusting CYA press statements are exactly what one could expect of him.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2021 12:44 Comments || Top||

#4  What is this? A Columbo episode?
Posted by: Penguin of the Desert || 11/03/2021 13:23 Comments || Top||

#5  You have to aim at the cinematographer to kill her, you know.
Posted by: KBK || 11/03/2021 13:27 Comments || Top||

#6  I think it was Lifetime for Wimmins. It's only been done three hundred times or so.
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2021 13:28 Comments || Top||

#7  you aim and pull and you did it, not the weapon.
Posted by: jim murray || 11/03/2021 13:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Because firearms just auto-load like in Call of Duty.

What is this? A Columbo episode?
Columbo was well written, well acted, and nobody died on-set.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/03/2021 13:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Shouldn't an "armorer" be able to tell the difference between a blank and a live round?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/03/2021 14:13 Comments || Top||

#10  What is this? A Columbo episode?

"Just one more question"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2021 14:47 Comments || Top||

#11  A Hallmark Christmas movie?
Posted by: Matt || 11/03/2021 15:07 Comments || Top||

#12  Baldwin pointed the gun at people and pulled the trigger. Gutierrez-Reed was negligent; Baldwin was responsible and deserves to face manslaughter charges.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/03/2021 17:08 Comments || Top||

#13  Everyone on set right of Mao just got accused.

What is the privilege of this armorer that the lawyer's best move is, "counter-revolutionary saboteur."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/03/2021 18:16 Comments || Top||

#14  Use this for any further Hired Legal Eagle Beagle Pronouncements for this 'RUST case

Posted by: Percy Ulalet5883 || 11/03/2021 18:25 Comments || Top||

#15  Actually, I've been wondering about this possibility ever since I read that the original crew walked off the set earlier in the day in a safety dispute.
Posted by: Bill Sforza2984 || 11/03/2021 20:06 Comments || Top||


Facebook's new name 'Meta' appears to resemble the word 'dead' in Hebrew
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lets hope it lives up to it's new moniker, post haste.
Posted by: Blackbeard Gleamble5215 || 11/03/2021 5:32 Comments || Top||


#3  I don't know, what's the Hebrew word for 'crap'.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/03/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#4 

I want to know how much he paid for meta.com
Posted by: KBK || 11/03/2021 13:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Meta PC - that one of those Pelosi investements?

Make Elections Transparent Again.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/03/2021 14:04 Comments || Top||

#6  #3

שְׁטוּיוֹת

Nonsense (crap)

לְחַרְבֵּן

S-hit
Posted by: Snakes Guelph7561 || 11/03/2021 14:11 Comments || Top||


Nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Connecticut struck 'uncharted sea mount' in South China Sea last month injuring 11 of its crew, US Navy investigation finds
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is the PLA now installing underwater 'sub traps'?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/03/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if that story will float?.
Posted by: Dale || 11/03/2021 8:52 Comments || Top||

#3  China's latest submarines are disguised as sea mounts?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ future reefs
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2021 10:37 Comments || Top||

#5  People forget that there's ground under the water.
The pics seem to show that the whole front sonar 'dome' got knocked off. If so, PLAN is gonna have a major scavenger hunt in the area.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/03/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 11/03/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Sure.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/03/2021 13:58 Comments || Top||

#8  'formerly uncharted sea mount'
FIFY
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/03/2021 19:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Sounds fishy to me.
Posted by: AuburnTom || 11/03/2021 20:03 Comments || Top||

#10  'Stuff' happens. The South China Sea is infamous for lousy sonar conditions.
Posted by: magpie || 11/03/2021 21:49 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Japan undersea volcano: Artist tries to swim in floating pumice stone
[BBC] One of MANY seamount volcanoes old Joe won't be able to plug.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Collect it and sell it to orchid growers and others for drainage medium in pots.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2021 10:21 Comments || Top||


#3  Alternate Title for the Article:

Japanese Artist Demonstrates Live, the Gyoza Recipe.

Heat source: Japanese Undersea Volcano
Posted by: Crineck Jeremble9260 || 11/03/2021 22:33 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Royal Marines commandos force US troops into a humiliating surrender just days into mass training exercise in Mojave desert
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 09:29 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Royal Marines, along with allied forces from Canada, the Netherlands and the UAE, destroyed or rendered inoperable nearly every US asset and finished the exercise holding more than 65 per cent of the training area, after beginning with less than 20 per cent.

Too much social justice training and not enough warrior training. And to lose that badly shows a severe problem with basic competence from the commanders and officers
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 11/03/2021 10:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Out messing with the boom boom girls...
Posted by: crazyhorse || 11/03/2021 10:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, but do they have a transgender Admiral???
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2021 10:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, but fear our mighty pronouns!
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/03/2021 10:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Would like to know the setup and rules.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/03/2021 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Exercise: Green Dagger

Telling: [29palms.marines.mil] Green Dragon Begins
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 12:24 Comments || Top||

#7  From British press:

British troops infiltrated the enemy’s rear area causing havoc by striking high value targets and command and control nodes, which paralysed any counterattack.
Throughout the exercise, the commando artillery unit destroyed multiple enemy vehicle and artillery positions


Consider your history. British commandos are possibly applying an old lesson learned from the Boers in how to fight a larger opponent.

US Marines need to do a re-evaluation on how they organize and how they fight as units and need to review their officers for basic military competence instead of social justice compliance.

The old adage is that you fight the way you trained. If so, the USMC (and by extension the US Military in general) are in deep shit against anything other than third-world rabbles. The rot starts at the head. Anyone that came to flag rank under Obama is highly suspect in my book. Starting with Gen "white rage" Milley and his ilk, all the way over to Commandant Gen. David H. Berger, and any and all staff associated with them.

The next president (DeSantis I hope) should consider a review and RIF of anyone ranked Colonel and above, and start separating out the chaff from the wheat.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 11/03/2021 12:36 Comments || Top||

#8  #7: The next president (DeSantis I hope) ... or abbott?
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/03/2021 13:24 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Both quite excellent picks. Abbott appears to be slow and very methodical. Pompeo would be another fine candidate. It would be fun to see The Orange Man help run their campaigns for them, set up rally's etc.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||

#10  "Oh you can recon far and wide,
You can talk of pronoun pride,
But you'll never find a plan so brown,
As the one we craft in our clown town,

You can fink your fancy tails,
You can dink them by the wagon,
But the only stunning for the brave and you...
..Comes from the Green Dragon!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/03/2021 13:54 Comments || Top||

#11  I know its an Amateurish question and all, but did leadership try sending pallets of cash to the OPFOR?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/03/2021 15:35 Comments || Top||

#12  Besoeker, I would like to see DeSantis or Pompeo (and ideally with the other as VP) run in 2024. Would actually also like Trump again, but the hatred runs so deep I suspect he would lose again. (Plus, he'd be getting kind of old.)
The biggest question now is who would be on the other side - clearly not Biden or Sanders or Clinton, and Harris looks to be unpopular internally - look further down the bench, there could be somebody important we have not noticed.

Agree! We need a president who can complete two consecutive terms. The clean-up will take at least that long.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2021 16:01 Comments || Top||

#13  British commandos are possibly applying an old lesson learned from the Boers in how to fight a larger opponent.

I was reminded of the many [successful] asymmetric assaults performed by Caesar against the Gauls.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 16:01 Comments || Top||

#14  A long-range commando assault with fighter jet support eventually defeated the American forces,

Wut, didn't have a Wasp-Class ship handy?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/03/2021 16:39 Comments || Top||

#15  Trump as Chief of Staff to go full Mongol on Deep State - revenge is a dish served cold.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2021 17:22 Comments || Top||

#16  The Chinese Military sitting on their container ships off the coast of California had a front row seat for all of the action !

Posted by: Thinenter Flase3987 || 11/03/2021 17:50 Comments || Top||

#17  #8 Abbott? Governor of Texas Abbott, that Abbott? Don’t be stupid. Abbott is weak individual and mostly a weathervane.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656 || 11/03/2021 20:07 Comments || Top||

#18  #14 A long-range commando assault with fighter jet support eventually defeated the American forces,

Did we burn our time outs too early?
Posted by: Slappy || 11/03/2021 21:34 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
A high-rise building under construction collapsed in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Monday, killing at least 10 people
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let me guess, made in China.
Posted by: Dale || 11/03/2021 8:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Pancaked, like a St. Rachel Corrie Memorial
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2021 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  We're seriously rethinking our upcoming holiday visit to Lagos.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2021 9:58 Comments || Top||

#4  more pathos than logos
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/03/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Should have used Legos.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 11/03/2021 11:22 Comments || Top||

#7  In Nigeria, we only employ the best of architects, with experience in the latest building techniques, for high rise buildings.
We insist on seeing the models.
Recently Approved


Posted by: Snakes Guelph7561 || 11/03/2021 14:03 Comments || Top||


Britain
‘Large, Naked Scottish Man' Flashes Biden's Motorcade as it Drives Past His House
[Gateway Pundit] A large, naked Scottish man exposed himself as Joe Biden’s motorcade drove by his house.
"Hoot, mon!"
Biden’s motorcade was en route to the COP26 climate summit from Edinburgh to Glasgow when a naked man stood at his window and took pictures of Biden driving by.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Other than his presence in Scotland, how do they know he is Scottish? Was he wearing a blue ribbon?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/03/2021 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  A freak's a freak for a' that
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/03/2021 0:40 Comments || Top||

#3  The Fat Bastard?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/03/2021 1:08 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Blackbeard Gleamble5215 || 11/03/2021 5:35 Comments || Top||

#5 





exposed himself as Joe Biden’s motorcade drove by his house

naa, that was his safety rope
Posted by: Andy Cleater7131 || 11/03/2021 6:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Another Democrat klan's man?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/03/2021 8:40 Comments || Top||

#7  No Mr President, shake his hand!.
Posted by: Dale || 11/03/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#8  One bare-assed streaker saluting another.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/03/2021 8:55 Comments || Top||

#9  It's Halloween!
He was in his pull-toy costume.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||

#10  Was he wearing a blue ribbon?

If not, he's earned it.

"Number two, pull over, I think he is saying something about taking a crap."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/03/2021 14:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Wasn't me - swear!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/03/2021 14:23 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin calls in the army to help cope with Russia's crippling coronavirus crisis as the Kremlin warns of 'inordinately high harvest of deaths' and tells Covid-hit citizens not to seek cures from 'shamans'
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 09:57 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See, they're just parking their gear in the Ukraine.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 12:36 Comments || Top||

#2  So now they're blaming the shamans?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/03/2021 16:10 Comments || Top||


US officials 'are concerned' by images of Russian military ‘building up on Ukrainian border' - but Kremlin dismisses 'low quality' claim and Kyiv ‘has not seen additional deployment'
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 09:49 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  So, is Vladimir going to go for 'snatch and grab' before mud season sets in? At this point, the EU wouldn't dare embargoing Russian natgas, so what's to lose? Maybe the next evolution is taking the territory one bite at a time.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/03/2021 15:33 Comments || Top||

#2  “It should be noted that the Russian Federation periodically resorted to the practice of transferring and accumulating military units in order to maintain tensions in the region and political pressure on neighboring states,” the ministry said.

This spring, Moscow alarmed Kiev and Western capitals by building up more than 100,000 of troops along the border with Ukraine, though it later ordered them back to base.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 16:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Interesting conundrum. On one hand this might be the perfect time to exploit American weakness, on the other the Brandon administration could use a war as a distraction and are dumb enough to go tow to tow with the bear.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/03/2021 19:17 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Facebook Axes Conroversial Facial-Recognition System That Automatically Tags Users And Will Delete Faceprints Of More Than 1bn Users As It Tries To Clean Up Its Act
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Sperelet Shemp9278 || 11/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But will the FBI and NSA delete them as well?
Too late, peasants. Submit.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/03/2021 1:45 Comments || Top||

#2 

An people still ask me why I don't have Facebook/ social media accounts and don't post a few selfies.

Now think deeper on this.
Facebook has billions of photo's.

Facebook is in it for the $$$$$.

Why would you think they aren't trying (or already have) sold the collection to certain governments, Political/Cause Groups or businesses?

I could also many profitable applications for High End retail sales.
Matching facial ID with Facebook/Social Media interest data.

Also a stores LOSS PREVENTION Dept. would benefit.



Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/03/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#3  They didn't 'axe' it, they sold it off.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 12:04 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sure they "deleted" it all. The drives at the cloud storage units were screaming at archive.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/03/2021 15:39 Comments || Top||

#5  What Skid said. Wonder how many tax dollars the FBI paid?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2021 15:57 Comments || Top||

#6  An people still ask me why I don't have Facebook/ social media accounts

My sister the comp sci professor agrees with you, but my baby brother — also a comp sci professor, but at a different university — posts regularly on his Facebook account.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2021 20:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Facebook? It's like MS Office™ in that sometimes people make you use it
Posted by: magpie || 11/03/2021 21:53 Comments || Top||


Europe
French fishermen sell their trawlers after accepting defeat in fishing row: One admits 'The English won't let go - if we start a war it won't end' as British captain learns if his boat will be released
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 09:52 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Great White North
Canadian Indigenous health expert 'Morning Star Bear' who once appeared in Ted Talk wearing blue cape and clutching feather, is suspended from Indigenous health positions 'because she has no Indigenous heritage'
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If a man can identify as a woman why can't.....

[they're deranged on the Left]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2021 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Ward Churchill and Elizabeth Warren back her
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2021 8:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Joining Ward Churchill and Fauxahontas for the firewater and fake wampum.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/03/2021 8:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Ugh. Me Injun. Gimme wampum!
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2021 13:26 Comments || Top||

#5  How...You Do'in ?
Fire Water

Fake Wampum


Posted by: Snakes Guelph7561 || 11/03/2021 13:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Morning Star Bear. Sounds like a Native's strip club name.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/03/2021 18:24 Comments || Top||

#7  ^^^
Nice suggestion, after all she is "in between" jobs now.

But Morning Star Bear needs to seek the ear of Priest Russ Myer first,

Posted by: Percy Ulalet5883 || 11/03/2021 18:44 Comments || Top||

#8  She looks like an indigenous person to me.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656 || 11/03/2021 20:20 Comments || Top||

#9  She looks like an indigenous person to me

Well, She looks like an indigenous escapee
from a mental asylum
person to me.

Its in the eye of the beholder (and that person's experience) with that type of person.

Read (mentally deranged, sociopathic liberal opportunist)

The world is full of them, in USA they are called Democrats.
Posted by: Crineck Jeremble9260 || 11/03/2021 22:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
People of Virginia, meet your new Lieutenant Governor. Winsome Sears, R, USMC (ret.)
[AceOfSpades]
Posted by: 3dc || 11/03/2021 01:52 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..another view.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2021 7:28 Comments || Top||

#2 
Congratulations to her and VA.

But she will need to put on some extra thick Armor.
She will definitely need it.

Because she has chosen a extremely challenging uphill path.
Given the dump-truck load of pre-written Socialist-Democrat/Media smear & race traitor sound bite crap now headed her way.


WONDERING
How long before BLOM is in front of her house protesting, contradicting the very basis of their being?


Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/03/2021 7:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, yes, and yes again! Thank you God and thank you Virginia. Gotta love a black, female, immigrant, Marine veteran with a Masters who loves her some Clark Brothers.
Posted by: Cesare || 11/03/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Congratulations! I wish her and her boss the best of all futures.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#5  It's white supremacists all the way down, Jake...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/03/2021 9:47 Comments || Top||

#6  White supremacists also elected the first Hispanic to a statewide office, the new Republican AG Jason Miyares.
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 11/03/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#7  But she will need to put on some extra thick Armor.She will definitely need it.

She's a Marine...
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Marine, huh? Waiting for the first "protesters" who didn't get that datum in their marching orders to try and gang up on her in the ladies' john.
(asuming it isn't already being used by:
"a 15-year-old boy that wanted to have sex in the bathroom,")
Posted by: Bill Sforza2984 || 11/03/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||

#9  I like the cut of her gib
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/03/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||

#10  From her website: About Winsome Sears. An impressive lady. The Marines chose well.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2021 12:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Winsome wins some. Winsom!
Posted by: KBK || 11/03/2021 13:29 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The Navy Isn't Prepared To Face The Growing Diesel Submarine Threat
[The Drive] Before I fully understood the implications of AIP, I believed there was nothing new to fear in the old. I was wrong. In fact, if you take into account propulsion, tactics, and implementation by adversary navies, there really isn’t anything old about the new. Once again, we have placed ourselves in a disadvantaged position. ASW created the dragon that is AIP— but there is no reason ASW can’t develop the means to slay it.
Long article, the best stuff starts about 2/3 of the way through.
Posted by: KBK || 11/03/2021 13:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Diesel subs in shallow water have always been a huge danger. The Soviets kept them in shallow waters near their harbors and the Chinese keep them in the shallow waters between them and Taiwan.

All the turbulence in shallow waters make them hard to hear and if they are stationary or running slow, those batteries make zero noise and can stay down for a very long time. MAD detection (magnetic anomaly detector) is about the only way to find them in that state and that requires planes to fly in hostile skies.

Flying drones or swimming drones might work equipped with MAD, but no R&D has been put to that as far as I know.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/03/2021 15:22 Comments || Top||


#3  I suspect active sonar could help a lot. All a UUV drone would need would be a really loud pinger and enough AI (which wouldn't need to be much) to avoid broadcasting at the location of its launch vehicle. It wouldn't need any processing, the launch vehicle could do that.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/03/2021 16:13 Comments || Top||

#4  So where did our sub just run into an uncharted seamount? Could it have been one of these?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2021 16:20 Comments || Top||

#5  ...Xi did you lose another submarine?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2021 17:23 Comments || Top||


Interesting Twitter thread
on how cell phone metadata can be used to identify and track people who don"t want to be identified and tracked.

Serious must read
Posted by: newc || 11/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Back in the 90's before they admitted it Federal and Local LEO's could track within 1/4 mile between towers

Before I retired in 09-2001.
We could track Cells within a city block. <100 feet if using Free WiFi hotspots.

Now.
Given all the background running GPS/Location running app's now on Smart Photo include Photo Date/Time/Location fingerprinting. Even if you turned off location services, your backup to whatever cell provider or Google knows where you are.

Then there is IMEI tracking and locator sites.

Yes your Cell Provider knows your IMEI code and some will provide it for a pocketed private fee or warrant.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/03/2021 8:43 Comments || Top||

#2  The major carriers work hand in glove with the FBI and LEOs, sharing tracking information on their subscribers every day. The biggest carriers respond to over 100,000 such requests each year.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/03/2021 8:52 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Hence the gummit's reluctance go to after carriers and social media giants. There are obviously other reasons as well, but we're well versed on following the money.

Some 'assumptions' are entirely valid. You MUST therefore ASSUME that once you hit the 'push to talk' or 'send key' your privacy has been terminated.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2021 9:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Show of hands: How many think that Alphabet [People] and Meta [aka Dead Hebrew Lass] do not work closely with Da Ferret and the FBI to track "insurrectionists"? Searches, site visits, posts, likes, photos, gmail message scrapes?

OK, Beavis, Brandon, but anyone else? Bueller?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/03/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||

#5  So, can I call them to help me find my lost phone?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#6 
Let me ask this question in a round-about way.

If a Company sales data on request.
What is to keep ANYONE, Governments included (w/o a Warrant) from purchasing that data?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/03/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||

#7  one tweet banned for life its a gift from God Almighty!
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 11/03/2021 11:28 Comments || Top||

#8  You can purchase just about any info you want on the dark net.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/03/2021 11:31 Comments || Top||


#10  So, can I call them to help me find my lost phone?

In Australia, they'll even send 4 troopers to help you find it. Without even asking.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/03/2021 14:01 Comments || Top||

#11  PinePhone might help.
Posted by: KBK || 11/03/2021 14:47 Comments || Top||

#12  What is to keep ANYONE, Governments included (w/o a Warrant) from purchasing that data?
Government thrift? Ha, ha, who am I kidding?
Nothing prevents it, so it is undoubtedly happening.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2021 14:52 Comments || Top||

#13  "In Soviet Australia, phone calls you."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/03/2021 15:41 Comments || Top||

#14  NN21, the FBI has already been busted for using a 'subcontractor' to do that.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/03/2021 15:42 Comments || Top||

#15  'Busted' but with no penalty, right?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2021 15:55 Comments || Top||


Hyten blasts ‘unbelievably’ slow DoD bureaucracy as China advances space weapons
[SpaceNews] Just weeks before retiring from military service, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Hyten warned that bureaucratic inertia and fear of failing are thwarting innovation in the U.S. Department of Defense while China continues to roll out new military and space technologies.

“Although we’re making marginal progress, the DoD is still unbelievably bureaucratic and slow,” Hyten said Oct. 28 at a Defense Writers Group event.

If he had to offer any advice to his successor it would be to “reinsert speed into the process,” Hyten said.

A former commander of the Air Force Space Command and of U.S. Strategic Command, Hyten has been a long-time critic of the plodding ways of the Pentagon, particularly in the development of next-generation weapon systems.

DoD takes decades to develop and field new systems, he said. “The answer to every question on how long it’s going to take to get a follow on capability is 10 years or 15 years,” he said. A case in point is a new intercontinental ballistic missile that DoD is developing to replace the Cold War-era Minuteman 3.

That program, called the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent, started around 2015. “If everything goes right, it will reach initial operational capability in 2030 and full operational capability in 2035,” Hyten said.

Hyten said he could not discuss specifics of China’s recently reported test of a hypersonic guide vehicle that orbited the Earth and reentered the atmosphere.

“All the facts I know about the test are classified,” he said. “A test did occur, it is very concerning.” Hyten also declined to comment on whether the Chinese tested a new capability the United States didn’t know about.

Without explaining what exactly was concerning about the test, Hyten called it another sign that China is executing its game plan to become a global superpower.

“What you need to be worried about is that in the last five years, or maybe longer, the United States has done nine hypersonic missile tests, and in the same time the Chinese have done hundreds,” said Hyten. “Single digits vs hundreds is not a good place.”

DoD is developing hypersonic missiles, he said, but is not moving as fast as China due to a risk-averse culture that fears negative media coverage and scrutiny.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  due to a risk-averse culture

Well, the one and only place the Bolsheviks know where to cuts expenses is DoD. Try not to give them excuses seems a bit prudent. Particularly when you have Boomers out there to make it an overall no win situation.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2021 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  China DOES NOT have to worry about Australia in the Least

Why - Because of This 2011-2021 - China Owns Australia


From farms and coal mines to airports and water supplies: How China is gobbling up millions of acres of land, vital infrastructure and companies - as part of its 'disturbing' plan to exert greater influence and control over Australia
Last week 'disturbing' reports said that China tried to plant a spy in Parliament
Experts warn that China 'will not stop' meddling in Australian domestic politics
Over past decade, China has poured billions into Australia to extend influence
It owns an airport in Western Australia and nine million hectares of farm land
China also owns Port of Darwin and several Australian coalmines and windfarms

Now do you understand How OZ went Commie under COVID ?
Posted by: Percy Ulalet5883 || 11/03/2021 19:11 Comments || Top||



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