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-Lurid Crime Tales-
UN diplomat from South Sudan claims diplomatic immunity and is RELEASED from NYC jail after 'raping woman twice in her apartment after spotting her walking a dog'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Charles Dickens Imene Oliha, is a UN diplomat for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  • The alleged assault is said to have occurred around lunchtime on Sunday

  • A woman was entering her apartment in the same building where Oliha lives

  • He is alleged to have forced his way inside and raped her two times

  • Woman only called police after being urged to do so by a friend

  • Oliha was released by NYPD officers after they were informed of his diplomatic immunity that comes from his role at the United Nations

  • The UN has not commented on the allegations nor has the South Sudanese Embassy
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 08:01 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Unfortunately, as I understand it, that is the law. All that can be done is for the State Department to ask Sudan to declare him to be persona non grata, have him deported.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/23/2022 9:17 Comments || Top||

#2  As I understand it, the US declares him PNG and gives South Sudan 24 hours to remove him. Of course that would require the Puppet Show to actually do something mean to a POC UN diplomat, so I'm not holding my breath.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/23/2022 13:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Should declare the entire UN operation Persona Non Grata and send them back to Geneva.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2022 14:39 Comments || Top||

#4  I'd bet he's PNG'd soon. Possible - not likely - his govt waives his immunity and he's prosecuted.

You learned to eat Roo yet? Had any sticky date pudding ? Hope all is going well.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 08/23/2022 15:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Bet he hears his Aunt is 'sick' and he needs to go home soonest? I have trouble believing Biden's State Department has the gumption to do anything ... unless it is to Israel or one of our allies.
Posted by: magpie || 08/23/2022 15:41 Comments || Top||

#6  ... unless it is to Israel or one of our allies.

We have allies? Remember our 'allies' expected us to commit immolation on their behalf if their way of life was threatened. Don't think they felt the same about us.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2022 16:56 Comments || Top||


Man shot, killed wife while nine children were home, El Cajon Police say
[10News] Guess that culture!
EL CAJON, Calif. (KGTV) — Police have arrested a man who reportedly shot and killed his wife in El Cajon while the couple's nine children were home.

According to the El Cajon Police, Abdulhannan Abdurazaq Al Wari, 45, was arrested for homicide Monday.

Police were called to the home on the 1500 block of Soma Place just after 5:30 a.m. after receiving a call regarding a woman who had been shot.

When they arrived, officers discovered a 37-year-old woman, later determined to be Al Wari’s wife, with a gunshot wound. She was later pronounced dead at the scene.

According to police, the couple’s nine children, who range in age from two to 17 years old, were also inside the home.

"After an extensive investigation, detectives determined the woman was shot by her husband, Al Wari," police said.

The name of the victim isn’t being released at this time. None of the children were harmed during the shooting, police added.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/23/2022 06:53 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  9 children. I struggle to support my wife and only child as a single income family.
Posted by: Lowspark || 08/23/2022 9:43 Comments || Top||

#2  ...you are not pulling all the bennies of the welfare state. You are punished for being a responsible citizen.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2022 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  9 kids in 17 years - doable, but I wonder if there's another wife or two in the mix... I'd check with some of the older "daughters".
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/23/2022 10:08 Comments || Top||

#4  That whole Religion of Peace, Diversity is Our Strength, Immigrants Don't Live On the Dole storyline will ensure this incident gets promptly buried.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/23/2022 13:34 Comments || Top||


Rapper 'Fetty Wap' aka Willie Junior Maxwell II headed to big house
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Rapper Fetty Wap pleaded guilty Monday to a conspiracy drug charge that carries a mandatory five-year prison sentence, admitting that he participated in a massive drug trafficking racket that moved drugs from the West Coast to Long Island.

The plea in Central Islip came before U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Locke, who had revoked his bond and sent him to jail two weeks ago. After the plea, he was returned to jail to await sentencing, though a date was not immediately set.

Locke revoked the rapper’s $500,000 bail, secured by property he owns in Georgia, after prosecutors said that Wap, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, threatened to kill a man during a FaceTime call in 2021, violating the terms of his pretrial release in his drug case.

The "Trap Queen" rapper was initially arrested last October on charges alleging he participated in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into the New York City area.

He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess controlled substances, the top charge in an indictment against him, though the plea pertained only to cocaine. It carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison while federal sentencing guidelines are likely to recommend about two additional years in prison. The plea spared him from a potential life sentence if he had been convicted on all the charges he face
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2022 06:33 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


Sickening moment thug knocks man, 36, out cold in random one-punch attack from behind in New York City mall... before security wanders past unconscious body and does NOTHING
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Video released by the New York Police Department shows two suspects approaching a man from behind as he was waiting in line at a register

  • One of the men, wearing black basketball shorts, then crouched behind the man and punched him in the side of the face, causing the victim to fall face-down

  • The 36-year-old victim continued to lay motionless at the Kings Plaza Mall in Brooklyn on Saturday, even as a security guard passes by

  • Authorities say the victim did not know his attackers and did not speak to them prior to the altercation on Saturday

  • It comes just one week after Bui Van Phu, 55, was caught on surveillance footage randomly punching Jesus Cortes, 52, in the back of the head
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gotta wear a helmet in New York City.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/23/2022 12:44 Comments || Top||


Number of victims in Monday's shooting in Atlanta rose to two, with a third person wounded
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Shooting occurred in midtown area near Colony Square, police say.

A woman believed to be the suspect was apprehended at Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta International Airport after a search that shut down the city’s midtown area.

No motive had been determined for the shootings as of Monday evening, according to police.

Who is Raissa Kengne?

[Fox3Now] Raissa Kengne identified as a suspect in shooting at Midtown Atlanta near Colony Square resulted in the deaths of two people and the injury of one other person

The suspect in the incident was reportedly apprehended at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, according to the Atlanta Police Department. A passenger who had just arrived at the airport tweeted a photo of a woman who is thought to have been the shooter.

According to the authorities, a shooting that occurred in Midtown Atlanta near Colony Square resulted in the deaths of two persons and injuries to one other. According to the Atlanta Police Department, the subject Raissa Kengne is currently in police custody.

At around 1:45 p.m., officers from the Atlanta Police Department responded to the 1280 W. Peachtree Street location where they found two people who appeared to be suffering from gunshot wounds. According to APD, one of them passed away.

Wesley Freeman, who was 41 years old, and Michael Shinners, who was 60 years old, were recognized as the victims who passed away by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.

While they were conducting their investigation at that location, they received a call to go to 1100 Peachtree Street, where there was another injured victim.

According to the APD, it is unknown what precipitated the shootings. The survivors of the attack are currently being treated in the hospital.

APD stated that they are attempting to ascertain if the suspect targeted the victims or if any of the victims were shot at random.

Raissa Kengne LinkedIn profile:

Raissa Kengne has over ten years of combined experience in Information Technology (IT) auditing, financial analysis, mergers and acquisitions, IT due diligence, restructuring, financing, real estate transactions, estate tax planning for high net worth individuals, private companies and public companies across several industries including energy, banking, food and beverages, healthcare (urgent care clinics), mining, dealerships, beauty salons, and retail. Her IT audit experience includes, but is not limited to, executing pre- and post-implementation audits, third-party access reviews, termination audit, application security audits, disaster recovery readiness assessment, and database upgrade assessment.

Raissa Kengne said I was retaliated against by my former employer BDO USA, LLP BDO USA, LLP because I reported a fraud perpetrated by Wesley Freeman Wesley Freeman, CPA, CISA, CFE, CITP and covered by Scott Meier Scott Meier.

BDO leverage their relationships with Beacon Management Services and the 1280 West Board members in the condominium I live in in order to gain unauthorized access to my home, break into my safe and delete evidence that I had; thereby breaking so many laws that it is hard to believe. BDO and its agent went from committing a white collar crime to a criminal crime. APD has been reluctant in providing me with information related to my case. I will post a series of videos to show the policy’s response to the crimes committed against me.

I will keep you updated on the status of my case because it is relevant to anyone who has spent many years combating fraud in their professional lives.

According to our sources she shot the building Manager and building Engineer. The Manager Is Deceased.
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...experience includes, but is not limited to, executing ...

There you have it.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/23/2022 10:03 Comments || Top||


Chicago on pace for 6 times as many carjackings as eight years ago: report
[FoxNews] Arrests for carjackings in Chicago have slumped to a near record low despite the surge in incidents

Chicago carjackings are on pace to rise again in 2022 after already dramatic increases in 2020 and 2021, trending towards a number that would be six times higher than just eight years ago.

"The data on Chicago carjacking through the years, and especially through the first half of 2022, serves as an unfortunate example of what happens when a city becomes 'open' for crime, with no real deterrence or consequences in most instances," wrote Wirepoints Senior Editor Matt Rosenberg, who analyzed the 2022 data.

Chicago is on pace for 1,960 carjackings in 2022, according to data compiled by Wirepoints, blowing through the 1,848 record set just last year. The number would represent an over sixfold increase from 2014, when the city recorded 303 carjackings.

The dramatic rise in carjackings follows a trend that started in 2020, when the number of incidents crossed over the 1,000 mark for the first time at 1,413, up from the 603 recorded in 2019.

The numbers are in line with an overall rise in crime that has plagued Chicago and other major American cities in the last two years, a problem some experts have pinned on pandemic-related lockdowns and a more passive approach to policing in the wake of social unrest following the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

"Certainly, the protests and riots mid-2020 after the death of George Floyd followed a pattern of spiking violence that we've seen following past viral police incidents, such as the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray. This pattern has been termed the ‘Ferguson Effect’: police pull back while violent crime spikes precipitously," Hannah Meyers, director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute, told Fox News Digital of the crime spike earlier this year.

The Wirepoints analysis pointed to similar problems in Chicago, arguing that a lack of consequences for committing crimes has helped spearhead the increase.

"Chicago’s growing carjacking problem is a microcosm of what’s gone wrong in the city," Rosenberg wrote. "Carjackings are more frequent, they are more weaponized, and there are fewer consequences than at almost any time in recent history."

Making matters worse, the data shows that 76% of carjackings in the city this year have been classified as "aggravated," meaning either a weapon was used during the crime or there was a victim present that was older than 60 or under 16 years old.

The city is also making fewer arrests for carjackings despite the surge, with rates of arrest averaging about 10% between 2010 and 2019 before falling to six percent in 2022, near the record low of five percent set in 2020.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


#2  One of the "you will own nothing and be happy" programs supported by your local, national, and international governments.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2022 7:14 Comments || Top||


Seattle firefighters 'are being assaulted' and demand city take action after reports of at least 40 attacks on first responders putting out fires at city's growing number of homeless encampments
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Firefighters in Seattle have demanded the city take action after they were subjected to more than 40 violent attacks in the past four months -

  • The string of assaults that have been largely carried out by the city's homeless

  • The attacks, which the city’s firefighter’s union says began in May, have seen the protectors repeatedly targeted by the intemperate down-and-outs

  • One such incident, which transpired last month, saw one fire official pelted with a rock while attempting to put out a blaze that originated from an encampment

  • Another altercation, in June, saw firefighters chased by a homeless person with a knife while responding to a medical call at one such site
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wanna get rid of the homeless?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Want to return to civilization?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2022 7:18 Comments || Top||

#3  intemperate down-and-outs

Talk about walking around an issue twice.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/23/2022 12:35 Comments || Top||

#4  intemperate down-and-outs

Is that a euphemism for "drunken bums," "tippling vagrants," and so forth?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/23/2022 12:51 Comments || Top||

#5  intemperate down-and-outs
The British have that knack for dry, dry understatement.
Posted by: magpie || 08/23/2022 21:08 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Virginia Patton Moss, last surviving adult actor in It’s a Wonderful Life, dead at 97
By Bob D'Angelo,

[Fox13Memphis] Virginia Patton Moss, who was the final surviving adult cast member of the Christmas movie classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” died Thursday in Albany, Georgia, according to her obituary. She was 97.

Moss, a niece of Gen. George Patton, died at The Phoenix at Albany, an assisted living facility, Mathews Funeral Home announced.

Known by her maiden name during her acting career, Moss played Ruth Dakin Bailey, the sister-in-law of George Bailey, portrayed by James Stewart in the holiday film, Variety reported.

Karolyn Grimes, who was a child actor in the Frank Capra classic, posted a tribute to Moss on her personal Facebook page.

“We have another angel! Virginia Patton Moss. She was 97 years old,” Grimes wrote. “She is now with her beloved Cruse. She will be missed!”
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Could it get any wurst? Moment Yankees fan hollows out a HOT DOG to use as a straw - before slurping down a ballpark beer with the strange contraption
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 00:48 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2022 1:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Guy has obviously been on Gab where hollowed out hot- dog-as-FBI-straws memes have been pushing the "FBI is gay" theme.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/23/2022 10:06 Comments || Top||


Congress implies UFOs have non-human origins
[HILL] In Congress, where legislation is drafted, debated and enacted, clear and concise definitions are of paramount importance. As military aircrews increasingly encounter unidentified flying objects (UFOs), lawmakers recently made several striking revisions to the definition of "UFO." Key among them: The explosive implication that some UFOs have non-human origins.

As first reported by researcher Douglas Johnson, a draft bill approved unanimously by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence rebrands UFOs as "unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena." Expanding the definition to include objects in space and under the oceans significantly broadens the scope of a muscular new office tasked by Congress with investigating UFOs.

The revised definition of "UFO" also includes "transmedium" objects which, according to lawmakers, "transition between space and the atmosphere, or between the atmosphere and bodies of water."

In short, members of a key national security-focused committee believe that objects of unknown origin are demonstrating remarkably advanced technology by moving seamlessly between space, air and water. A report accompanying the legislation notes that "transmedium threats to United States national security are expanding exponentially."

It strains credulity to believe that lawmakers would include such extraordinary language in public legislation without compelling evidence. Perhaps members have seen the classified sensor data that prompted former President Trump’s director of national intelligence to state that UFOs exhibit "technologies that we don’t have [and] that we are not capable of defending against" (among several other eyebrow-raising comments).

Most strikingly, Congress’s new definition of "UFO" excludes "man-made" objects.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah.
So does Congress.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  "The opportunities for grifting will be out of this world!"
Posted by: SteveS || 08/23/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  In Congress, where legislation is drafted, debated and enacted, clear and concise definitions are of paramount importance

Stopped reading at this point.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/23/2022 10:01 Comments || Top||

#4  But, but, suppose we finally contact the aliens and it turns out they're transphobic?
Posted by: Matt || 08/23/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||

#5  ...more likely humanphobic.

Wait a minute. We were all told by our government this 'alien' stuff a product of conspiracy nuts.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2022 16:59 Comments || Top||

#6  suppose we finally contact the aliens and it turns out they're transphobic?

Nah, the aliens will be, like, all evolved and stuff. Totally into Karma and all that. Being noble and selfless beings, they will want to know How to Serve Man.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/23/2022 18:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Nasty reference, Steve. Kudos.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/23/2022 19:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Impressive, Steve. We can only hope they turn out to be vegans.
Posted by: Matt || 08/23/2022 19:13 Comments || Top||

#9 

But these things land here all the time in my back yard ---- What else am I to do with them?
Posted by: Shosh Platypus1744 || 08/23/2022 19:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Never understand the whole UFO Craze™. If they have the technology /power supplies to 'get here' they should have the ability to do ...Anything. They. Want. "Surrender or be asteroid bombed into extinction like the dinosaurs!" -- that sort of power ...and why should they be so ♫ Nice ♫ as to not demand something?
Posted by: magpie || 08/23/2022 21:14 Comments || Top||

#11  If they are so powerful, then do humanity a favor and take the DC pols to someplace like Venus.
Posted by: 3dc || 08/23/2022 23:02 Comments || Top||

#12  They are Faithful, still. as they said they would be.
Posted by: newc || 08/23/2022 23:05 Comments || Top||

#13  After all the sitcoms, news, and other crap we have been broadcasting over the past 50 years - any aliens probably have us quarantined with a high level, fully armed, waring beacon. "Do not approach within 5 light years!"
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/23/2022 23:23 Comments || Top||


YouTube divers did in 35 minutes what cops couldn't do in two weeks in Kiely Rodni search
[NYPOST] The deep-diving YouTubers who claim to have found missing California teen Kiely Rodni said Monday it took them just 35 minutes — even though authorities had spent nearly 20,000 man-hours failing to find her.

Adventures With Purpose started searching Prosser Creek Reservoir early Sunday — and almost immediately found what they believe is the 16-year-old’s 2013 Honda CRV with a body inside, they said Monday.

“We began our search for Kiely … at 10:40am,” lead investigator Doug Bishop, 38, said in an update Monday.

By 11:15 a.m., one of the volunteers, Nick Rinn, “detected an object underwater using cutting-edge sonar technology,” Bishop said.

They knew it was a car in “roughly 14 feet of water and only 55 feet offshore,” with divers soon confirming “it was indeed Kylie’s vehicle,” Bishop said.
Even if it had been someone else, they found someone not found by the usual methods.
“We immediately notified family [and] law enforcement, and [Rodni’s] dad and grandpa were on scene within minutes,” he said.

The group had announced the find on Sunday, stating firmly that “WE JUST FOUND KIELY RODNI.”

However, local authorities have yet to confirm that the remains are those of the teen who went missing after a nearby graduation party on Aug. 6. An update in the case is scheduled for later Monday.
And the couple who went missing the same day were also found dead, but at least those who love them know what happened to them. Here’s hoping for a better outcome net time.
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...IIRC, even as they were pulling the vehicle out, the police were still insisting that they were investigating a kidnapping.

Now, I'm not going to second guess a cop in the performance of their duties - but I gotta say here that it looks like they decided way too early that she'd been kidnapped, and once they did that they appear to have locked out any other possibility. All the more disturbing because the police knew she'd been drinking and drinking hard, so much so that some of her friends suggested they give her a ride home - but she evaded them and took off.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 08/23/2022 9:34 Comments || Top||

#2  "Experts" proving their worth once again. While the "amateurs" (experts sneer) get results.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/23/2022 10:03 Comments || Top||

#3  The Cops were too busy looking for people "over watering" their lawns.
Posted by: magpie || 08/23/2022 21:16 Comments || Top||


8 vehicles at Monterey Car Week that could sell for over $10 million
Shiny things
[FoxNews] Historic cars will be at the high-end auctions in California.

Related: 1932 Duesenberg reassembled after six decades named Best in Show at Pebble Beach Concours
The Bugatti W16 Mistral is a $5 million supercar that's sold out
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
A New Rare Viral Disease Called "Tomato Flu" is Affecting Children in India ‐ Symptoms Comparable to Covid-19 and Blisters Resembles with Monkeypox Virus
[Gateway] In India, a large number of children have been diagnosed with a newly discovered infectious disease, and even professionals are uncertain as to where the outbreak may have originated.

According to a report published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine Journal, "tomato flu" was first discovered on May 6 in India and has since infected more children ages 1 to 9.

"Just as we are dealing with the probable emergence of fourth wave of COVID-19, a new virus known as tomato flu, or tomato fever, has emerged in India in the state of Kerala in children younger than 5 years," the Lancet Journal wrote on its website.

Tomato flu was first discovered on May 6, 2022, in the Kollam district of Kerala, and as of July 26, 2022, more than 82 cases in children younger than 5 years old have been reported by local government hospitals.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2022 05:23 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  professionals are uncertain as to where the outbreak may have originated.

Continued uncertainty is paramount. Default to 'Wet markets' as necessary, or until the origins are no longer of interest to the media.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2022 5:33 Comments || Top||

#2  always trust the professionals even when they are un certain. (Unless named Fauci)
Posted by: AlanC || 08/23/2022 7:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Tomatoes can get Monkeypox?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 7:48 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Viruses are known to jump from species to species.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/23/2022 9:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Both affect fruits?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/23/2022 11:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Both affect fruits?

Winner!
Posted by: SteveS || 08/23/2022 12:58 Comments || Top||


Cop cars are swept away in Dallas after torrential downpours and 14 million people across the southern Plains are under flood watch with up to 8 inches more due to dump down today
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Heavy rain caused flash floods in parts of the Southwest over the weekend, with more rain forecast Monday

  • Dramatic Footage posted overnight showed firefighters in Dallas using ropes to rescue people from their cars
    It’s my understanding that Dallas lacks adequate storm sewers for their regular heavy rains, resulting in regular heavy flooding. Which may be why they build without basements
  • Outside one of the city's Downtown police departments, cop cars were photographed floating in deep water

  • Speaking on a video call on Saturday, Governor Abbott called on people to be aware of the dangerous weather conditions and to listen to warnings from local officials
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Had a nice drizzle all day today.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Had 6.3” here. Seems to have mostly soaked in - my ephemeral watercourses are not full and my creek was still in the culvert as of noon, though the heavier rain to the west may raise it in a day or so. Everything is already getting green again.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/23/2022 1:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Did someone say drought?

Use the "migrants' to soak it up and then send them all to Europe.
Posted by: || 08/23/2022 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  No basements due to shallow rock and shallow structure foundations. Most houses in Texas are slab on grade.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/23/2022 9:55 Comments || Top||

#5  No basements because the soil will shrink and swell by 25%.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/23/2022 10:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Not only all of the above effects but, having this foretold on the 1950's classic Sci-Fi movie The Monolith Monsters (1957)...Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community. Well of course, it is the reason "The Swamp" wants to reintroduce Desertification all across the Southwest and Western part of the USA - Their "Green Agenda" Depopulation - and support for "Reconquista" --- Hey, and people are just worried because it is raining... just posting another point of view .... creepy though --- Those clouds.
Posted by: Chaviling Wittlesbach6431 || 08/23/2022 11:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Love the way you think.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 11:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Outside one of the city's Downtown police departments, cop cars were photographed floating in deep water

Did Blamtifa show up with their garbage dumpster schooner? Perhaps Commodore Spicoli at the helm?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/23/2022 11:43 Comments || Top||

#9  There are "Do not drive into flooded area" signs all over Texas.

Are the cops not familiar with that directive?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/23/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#10  Daily Mail being Daily Mail.

From what I'm seeing, looks like people getting boned outside the 'normal' flood patterns.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/23/2022 12:26 Comments || Top||

#11  Creek is now up 3-4’ and out of its channel. Flow is slow, presumably a log jam or such not far downstream, figuring another 2-3’ of rise across the flood plain. (House is another 30’ up…)
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/23/2022 14:20 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Three Arkansas cops brutally beat suspect after his arrest for threatening a gas station worker and striking an officer - and then realize they are being filmed: All three are suspended by state
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Three Arkansas cops were suspended after video of them emerged brutally beating an arrest suspect at a gas station

  • Crawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante said Sunday evening that two of his deputies will be suspended - while an officer in Mulberry was also put on leave

  • 'I hold all my employees accountable for their actions and will take appropriate measures in this matter,' Damante said following the incident

  • The suspect was identified as South Carolina resident Randall Worcester, 27

  • He faces charges of terroristic threatening, resisting arrest and other assault charges, police said, after he allegedly threatened a worker at the store
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Argentine vice president Kirchner to be sentenced to 12 years in prison
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner could face a 12-year prison sentence, TN reports.
Ol' Spackleface
The prosecutor Diego Lucian, who is conducting a criminal case in which Kirchner is accused of involvement in corruption, filed a corresponding petition with the court.

We are talking about fraud during public works in the Argentine province of Santa Cruz in 2007-2015, when the current vice president headed the state. The investigation believes that this activity was carried out in favor of the entrepreneur Lazaro Baes.

As REGNUM reported earlier, in early May, the Federal Court of Argentina removed a number of charges from Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in a case of corruption in the course of road construction. In addition, charges were dropped against the former Argentine Minister of Federal Planning, Julio de Vido , and about a hundred entrepreneurs.
Posted by: badanov || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
America and South Korea flex their military muscles with tanks, warships and aircraft as they hold their biggest combined military training for years in huge show of power after North Korea ramped up weapons testing
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Nations will hold exercises from today until September 1 in major war games

  • The exercises will involve aircraft, warships, tanks and thousands of troops

  • Joint war games are known as 'Ulchi Freedom Shield' which take place annually

  • But intensity of exercises has ramped up this year following Covid-19 pandemic

  • Comes amid period of increased frequency in missile testing from North Korea
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Wargaming a North Korean attack
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2022 10:10 Comments || Top||

#2  You think Pudgy has gotten any hint of what cross the border would be like from Putie's experience? If he's expecting a half a million Chinese volunteers to back him up, then he and sis are unlikely to be running the place immediately afterward.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2022 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Downtown Seoul is well within artillery and rocket range of the DMZ. Even if the NKOR attack fizzles out the initial barrage is projected to be devastating.
Posted by: magpie || 08/23/2022 13:16 Comments || Top||

#4  /\...Of course I wonder if the NKOR troops will stop in the first convenience stores and supermarkets to gorge on plentiful South Korean junk food causing any advance to come to a screeching halt.
Posted by: magpie || 08/23/2022 15:01 Comments || Top||

#5  ...by the late 80s, it was one big megalopolis from half way to the border to Seoul. Probably much more dense today. They be stopped just looting food and stuff within an hour.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2022 17:03 Comments || Top||


China sends four military aircraft towards Taiwan airspace hours after Indiana's governor met nation's president in another show of defiance against the CCP
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The four aircraft crossed the median line, an unofficial barrier in the Taiwan strait

  • Eric Holcomb, the Republican governor of Indiana, landed in Taiwan on Sunday

  • He then met with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday in Taipei

  • Holcomb emphasized the economic nature of his visit, mentioning that the state is among the top in the U.S. for direct foreign investment

  • US-China tensions have risen since Beijing staged huge military drills in retaliation for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan earlier this month
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Pence would not have dared the trip as governor. The thought of doing so would find him hiding under his bed.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/23/2022 6:14 Comments || Top||

#2  So we know the protocol is that a governor is only to get a 4 aircraft salute.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2022 7:19 Comments || Top||


Europe
The euro has plunged to a 20-year low of USD 0.9951
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's a race to the bottom!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2022 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Bring back the Deutsche Mark!
Posted by: Raj || 08/23/2022 8:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Time to vacation in Europe.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/23/2022 12:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Down significantly against the ruble too
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 || 08/23/2022 12:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Raise the value -- make the euros out of recycled Green promises!
Posted by: magpie || 08/23/2022 13:18 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
CDC Admits It Gave False Information About COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance
[ET] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has admitted it gave false information about COVID-19 vaccine surveillance, including inaccurately saying it had conducted a certain type of analysis more than a year before it actually did.

The false information was conveyed in responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for the results of surveillance, and after the CDC claimed that COVID-19 vaccines were being monitored "by the most intense safety monitoring efforts in U.S. history."

"CDC has revisited several FOIA requests and as a result of its review CDC is issuing corrections," a CDC spokeswoman told The Epoch Times in an email.

No CDC employees intentionally provided false information, and none of the false responses were given to avoid FOIA reporting requirements, the spokeswoman said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2022 12:28 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Will there be any consequences at all for this?

Didn't think so.
Posted by: Tom || 08/23/2022 13:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Hang 'em all.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/23/2022 16:21 Comments || Top||

#3 
People rights were violated, some were left mentally impaired, some were physically harmed and some even died based on their lies.

Who will be held responsible?

Btw: A new word floating around the blogs, that needs to be added to our lexicon.
VAXccident
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/23/2022 18:10 Comments || Top||



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