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"If [danger shall] ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
- A. Lincoln, Lyceum speech, 1838
[WashingtonExaminer] Police say 63-year-old man stole entire bridge
Someone "craned" for attention in stealing a bridge from a local park.
According to police in Akron, Ohio, that person is 63-year-old David Bramley, arrested Friday on charges of felony theft.
"Detectives discovered that Bramley, who formally worked in the Akron area, paid a local trucking company for a crane service. The crane was later used to place the bridge on and off a vehicle that transported it to the Medina County property," said the Akron Police Department in a press statement.
The bridge in question was 58 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 6 feet high. Local officials reported that the bridge had suddenly disappeared without notice in mid-December and asked for tips or information about the thieves.
Those tips allowed police to identify Bramley as a suspect. Upon investigating his property, police said they found the bridge partially disassembled. Bramley has not commented on whether he committed the crime.
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....Yeeeeeeeeeah, if you have to hire a crane to steal something, you probably haven't thought your fiendish plan all the way through.
Mike
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Pedestrian bridge, usually in 2 spans. The cast-in-place concrete decking will be F'd up from lifting. Not your smartest wanna-be criminal bridge engineer
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Hey pal, wanna by a bridge?
Sure. But how will I get it home?
No problem! I know a guy with a crane.
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#4 Nobody noticed a crane lifting a 58 foot long bridge?
Seriously?
Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-12-22 09:41
...If I have my locations right (full disclosure - it's been 30 years since I spent any real time in Akron) this was near the south side of Downtown, and that's an industrial area with constant construction. It would have certainly been noticed by someone passing by, but it wouldn't have seemed terribly out of the ordinary.
Mike
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[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Leftist activist Nandini Jammi, known for her deplatforming efforts against conservatives, argued that sex offender registries are too harsh for young sex offenders, a newly-unearthed blog post reveals.
In a write-up for the National Crime Prevention Council, where she interned, Nandini complained about the "Eternal Sentence for Juvenile Sex Offenders, "remarking that "Of course, juvenile sex offenders aren’t toddlers, and they generally know what they are doing is wrong. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... a number of things should be considered before we give them a de facto life sentence by listing them on the Internet along with violent mostly peaceful, knowing, and malicious adults."
While one might be inclined to assume that Nandini, like many others, opposes overly pernicious sex offender laws that criminalize consensual sex between two teenagers just one year removed, Nandini goes much further than that.
Citing a rare case involving a fourth grader, Nandini wrote: "Someone like Johnnie, however, (who was referred to by that pseudonym in a New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... article), may be branded for life. He’s a juvenile sex offender, but he did the crime when he was in fourth grade. That’s the question: would you give a now 14-year old the same "life sentence" that you give a grown man? And if the answer is yes, how would you draw the line between being a teen and being a responsible adult? Can we justify treating a juvenile sex offender as a minor and an adult simultaneously? Perhaps judges should be given discretion in each individual case."
Indeed, Nandini is referring to rapists and people who commit sexual assault.
Nandini argues in her blog that it would be better if we could simply prevent sexual assault in the first place instead of criminalizing offenders. What a concept! Were such a thing possible, laws needn’t exist.
[Field & Stream] Headlined by a collection of weapons owned by Napoleon Bonaparte, the Rock Island Auction Company’s December Premier Auction took in a total of $25 million in sales, making it the second-highest grossing gun auction ever. The first-, third-, and fourth-highest also happened to be RIAC events, all taking place since last December, including last May’s Sale of the Century, which cleared $30 million. Safe to say, the company is on roll. In 2021, RIAC realized an astounding $121 million in sales, also a record.
The recent auction opened on December 2nd with a Preview Day, showcasing 2,200 historic, collectible, and fine working guns. The auction itself began on December 3rd and concluded on the 5th, surpassing December 2020’s record haul of $22 million. The top-5 selling lots alone went for more than 5 million. Here they are, including ties.
[MSN] Daily Covid cases in South Africa have fallen for the fourth day in a row as Omicron continues to fade in the variant's epicentre.
Data from the National Institute For Communicable Diseases (NICD) shows 15,424 South Africans tested positive in the last 24 hours, down by a third on the nearly 24,000 cases confirmed last Tuesday.
A fifth fewer people were tested for the first in the last 24 hours compared to the same period last week, but test positivity — the proportion of those tested who are infected — has been trending downwards for eight days.
But hospitalisations and deaths — which lag two to three weeks behind the pattern seen in case numbers due to the delay in an infected person becoming seriously unwell — have risen.
More than 630 people were hospitalised across the country, up only 5 per cent in a week but the highest daily number in the country's fourth wave.
The previous record was last Wednesday when 620 people were hospitalised. Meanwhile 35 deaths were recorded, a 46 per cent uptick on last Tuesday.
The falling case numbers come despite only 25 per cent of South Africans being double-jabbed and boosters not being dished out in the country.
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the falling case numbers comedespite in part BECAUSEonly 25 per cent of South Africans are double-jabbed and boosters have not been dished out in the country
It's endemic now, you fools.
It's spreading much faster and becoming much less lethal -- like seasonal flu.
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Outside of SAfrica, as of this morning, 14 deaths worldwide from or with Omicron (1 Israel, 12 UK, 1 USA); most from people with multiple serious conditions
per https://nowbreakingnews.in/2021/12/22/omicron-deaths-reported-in-3-countries-so-far-experts-warn-of-more-fatalities/
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Total incoherence now. Boost! Don't boost! Oh SHIT whaddawedonow
At least South Africa still has some intelligent researchers who understand evolutionary biology and its connection to epidemiology:
"It was a short wave ... and the good news is that it was not very severe in terms of hospitalizations and deaths,” Marta Nunes, senior researcher at the Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics department of the University of Witwatersrand, told The Associated Press.
Duh:
It is “not unexpected in epidemiology that a very steep increase, like what we saw in November, is followed by a steep decrease."
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Thought this was over around here until the other day when a silly white affluent old couple come tourist shopping in their silly city golf car and silly blue paper masks and made silly distressed rabbit motions every time someone came within touching distance.
They even backed their golf car up against the curb. Embarrassing.
This is the most aggressive I have seen Putin. It is difficult to see this as anything but another & the loudest declaration of war on Ukraine. The West needs to raise its guard substantially. Putin behaves like a dangerous desperado with whom talks are meaningless. https://t.co/grnkZnKMJz
[Breitbart] Thirty-three members of Congress are listed on the “congressional advisory board” of an organization that is partnered with a Chinese Communist Party-affiliated (CCP) think tank, according to a Washington Examiner report.
The Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI) is a New York-based organization that focuses on international diplomacy and humanitarian work. Its website boasts 33 members of Congress as members of their “congressional advisory board.”
The list includes seven House Republicans and 26 Democrats. The congressional advisory board “informally advises on programming and CAB [Change Advisory Board] members are active in HDI’s domestic and international activities,” according to its website.
Since 2017, HDI has had a partnership with the Taihe Institute, a Beijing-based think tank that employs more than a dozen members of the CCP. HDI worked with Taihe Institute on their first annual Taihe Civilizations Forum held in August 2017. HDI’s CEO was present for all of Taihe Institute’s forums, except the one held in 2021.
At least our moronic elite's ChiCom masters have a sense of humor.
"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all."
Nations should divert money spent on armaments to invest in education, #PopeFrancis says in a yearly peace message, decrying growing military costs at the expense of social services.https://t.co/8okdjkG4Je
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The clocks must be striking thirteen because I actually agree with this Jesuit globalist cult pope. Let's start with our own military, which can't win against goat herders.
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We spend more on education than nearly any other country. Once we were among the top in placements in education scores and have now sunk to the twenties. Even between states, the there is no correlation between expenditures and scores on common tests, so much so the 'education bureaucracy' is dropping the tests in the name of 'equity'.
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You know what? Tax all church properties the same as any other business and watch all the money roll in. You could really invest in education then! Nationalize and unionize the clergy! I am really on a roll now!
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How much gold stuff does the Vatican contain? Sell it and invest in education. The Catholic church is worth between 10 and 15 billion dollars. Sell off un-needed assets and invest it in education. Do the same with all the mega- churches.
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The clocks must be striking thirteen because I actually agree with this Jesuit globalist cult pope. Let's start with our own military, which can't win against goat herders.
Well, we've already traded an Aircraft Carrier for a bag of pronouns, so there's that.
[Defense One] Within weeks, scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that is effective against COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron, as well as from previous SARS-origin viruses that have killed millions of people worldwide.
The achievement is the result of almost two years of work on the virus. The Army lab received its first DNA sequencing of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020. Very early on, Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch decided to focus on making a vaccine that would work against not just the existing strain but all of its potential variants as well.
Walter Reed’s Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine, or SpFN, completed animal trials earlier this year with positive results. Phase 1 of human trials, which tested the vaccine against Omicron and the other variants, wrapped up this month, again with positive results that are undergoing final review, Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, director of Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch, said in an exclusive interview with Defense One.
Unlike existing vaccines, Walter Reed’s SpFN uses a soccer ball-shaped protein with 24 faces for its vaccine, which allows scientists to attach the spikes of multiple coronavirus strains on different faces of the protein.
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I am not robot variant still good. So who gets the patient. So who gets the vaccine among the pharmaceutical companies to sell and make their insane profits.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WashingtonExaminer] Police say 63-year-old man stole entire bridge
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
Had it for decades. Virtually unbreakable and still works fine. I'll pass (for now) on US Army developed medicines however. 
