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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Police Kill Pedophile In Intense Gun Battle After High Speed Chase (contains thrilling video)
[DailyWire] A man who pleaded guilty to child sex charges was killed during a shootout with Milwaukee police over the weekend at the conclusion of a high speed car chase that was ignited after he allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend just a few days after a judge blocked prosecutors from keeping him behind bars until his sentencing hearing.

The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man that was killed as 47-year-old Ernest Terrell Blakney, who was wanted for charges related to the slaying of his ex-girlfriend, including, first-degree reckless homicide, attempted mutilating a corpse, armed robbery, possession of a firearm by a felon, felony bail jumping, and false imprisonment.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the shootout with law enforcement officers happened at the conclusion of a car chase that started on the south side and ended in the downtown area.

Blakney was charged last year with second-degree sexual assault of a child for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old. He pled guilty to the charge last month and was freed on bail by Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge David Borowski who denied prosecutors motion to keep him in jail.

Videos of the Blakney’s gun fight with law enforcement quickly went viral on social media as numerous police cars followed him in hot pursuit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2022 02:07 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Applause, indeed! Courtesy of numerous Monty Python episodes:
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/05/2022 4:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Good old fashioned police work. How rare and... invigorating. To know there are still people in uniform who'll shoot until bad guy is dead dead dead. Every time I read of an 'arrest' I feel like hitting something.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/05/2022 6:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Too many judges getting away with murder.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 09/05/2022 7:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Too many judges getting away with murder.

Agree. Some judges need to be help accoutable.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/05/2022 7:47 Comments || Top||

#5  ...after he allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend just a few days after a judge blocked prosecutors from keeping him behind bars until his sentencing hearing.

You think the judge maybe violated her civil rights?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/05/2022 9:22 Comments || Top||


13-year-old school topper dies after being administered poison by classmate's resentful mother
[NEWINDIANEXPRESS] KARAIKAL: A 13-year-old boy was murdered by his classmate's mother at Karaikal. The woman spiked a drink and served it to the teenager on Friday since she didn't want the boy to outperform her daughter at school. The boy passed away at the hospital on Saturday night.

The accused has been identified as J Sahayarani Victoria (42). She was booked for murder and arrested.

The boy was studying Class 8 in a private school in Karaikal. He was said to be a topper of his class and good in extracurricular activities. Sahayarani was allegedly resentful towards the boy who was faring better than her daughter who studies in the same class.

The school celebrated its annual day on Friday. The boy was scheduled to perform in the cultural events as part of the celebrations. Sahayarani visited the school in the morning, falsely introduced herself as the boy’s mother to the school watchman, gave him a couple of bottles of soft drinks and asked him to give the bottles to the boy.

The boy consumed one of the bottles and soon fell sick. Once he reached home, he threw up. The worried parents rushed him to Karaikal General Hospital where he succumbed.

Earlier, the teenager told his parents what had happened. The parents accessed the school’s surveillance camera footage and identified the woman as Sahayayarani Victoria. Following this, they lodged a complaint with the police.

Senior Superintendent of Police, Karaikal, R Lokeshwaran told TNIE, "The accused confessed that she bought the laxative pills from a traditional pharmacy, mixed them in the soft drinks and gave them to the boy through the watchman of the school. She wanted to stop the boy from participating in the school's annual day events. We are waiting for the autopsy reports to find out what was exactly added to the drinks she gave the boy."

Following the boy's death, his parents and relatives protested in front of the hospital all night. They alleged that the hospital did not treat him properly. The protests continued on Sunday morning. Karaikal's Deputy Collector M Adharsh met the family and appeased them by assuring necessary investigations into the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Lo! Victorian tale infer-lative!
Featuring a mother, speculative,
armed with spurious laxative;
who went out all a Borgia
on a darn Spelling Bee native!


Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/05/2022 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Bravo, Dron! Not great poetry, but a very nice little doggerel with your own inimitable style. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/05/2022 1:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Yupp. Doggerel is my style! 🙃
And nope. We can safely say I shan't be ever mentioned with Byron, milady.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/05/2022 6:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Something like this?

Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/05/2022 7:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Sounds like a Lifetime Movie plot.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 09/05/2022 9:22 Comments || Top||

#6  ..geez, Moms. That pecking order thing can be deadly.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/05/2022 9:27 Comments || Top||

#7  If my neighborhood "inclusion" trend is any indicator, we'll soon be seeing this locally.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/05/2022 11:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe he had PICTURES!
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/05/2022 13:16 Comments || Top||

#9  Meanwhile, in a less cutthroat corner of the cosmos...

Technicians from CSI: Houma
Detect a familiar aroma.
Connecting the dots:
"Bet it took several shots..."
"But that kid's in a Hadacol coma!"
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Bucket5573 || 09/05/2022 17:54 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
PETA says cow's milk has long been a symbol for White Supremacists (from Oct 2018)
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/05/2022 07:47 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  White Supremacy - their term for Western Civilization. Northern Europeans developed the ability to process dairy long after childhood to extract nutrients to offset the lack a sunlight they lived with in their geographical location.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/05/2022 9:12 Comments || Top||

#2  PETA should seriously stay out of the race war business.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/05/2022 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Ice cream, Mandrake! Children's ice cream!

- Gen. Jack Ripper
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2022 9:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Give me the short list - what isn't a symbol of 'White Supremacy'TM nowadays?
Posted by: Raj || 09/05/2022 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Gonna guess Farti B. and Megan Thee Glue Factory Nag.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2022 10:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Might as well add Hindus to the White Supremacy(tm) list. Those guys are totally into cows.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/05/2022 11:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Who gives a fuck what PETA says?
Posted by: Chris || 09/05/2022 11:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Who gives a fuck what PETA says?

Politicians listen to all kinds of people including PETA. They have influence so, yeah, they deserve all the scorn and derision that can be brought to bear on them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/05/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Politicians deal in fear. They especially pay attention to anything they fear may damage their publicity. But then they go and do stuff that damages their publicity anyway.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2022 12:04 Comments || Top||

#10  Has anyone told the Maasai?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/05/2022 13:50 Comments || Top||

#11  I guess goat milk, horse milk, and water buffalo milk are A OK.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/05/2022 15:23 Comments || Top||

#12  Peta should be stacked like cordwood with the greenies to provide heat and warmth this winter in Europe:p
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/05/2022 18:56 Comments || Top||

#13  What? Sure, PETA, the omnipotent authority on everything animal...



Then, how, if everyone knows, chocolate milk comes from chocolate cows, can you be so "twisted" in your orientations?
Posted by: Chuckles Gluting9655 || 09/05/2022 19:53 Comments || Top||

#14  Ants farm and "milk" aphids -- are they RAYCISS?
Posted by: magpie || 09/05/2022 21:16 Comments || Top||

#15  My hands are to big to milk my cat.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/05/2022 22:09 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Where to Get Away This Fall in the South
[Garden & Gun] Summer may be considered the season of travel, but fall trips mean a slower pace, fewer crowds, and an embrace of crisper days and chillier evenings. Here are seven places throughout the South—mountains to coast—that celebrate the changing season.

The 'High Hampton' in Cashiers is top choice. Visit nearby Highlands, NC as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2022 01:44 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
For somewhat more peaceful decompression vacations

The NOC (Nantahala Outdoor Center) between Andrews and Cherokee, NC. Cabin Rentals & great Food

US-64 Murphy to Highlands NC. to Ashville, NC - lots of great food places, scenic views and lodgings

Sky Valley, Ga - Dillard GA area - views and good meals.

Mountain City area, GA. views and good meals. square dancing & a Flea Market with interesting items.

Raburn Co. Ga - Some locals jokingly hum the tune "Dueling Banjos" the movie Deliverance was shot in the Chattooga River gorge area and saying "Squeal like a pig" is still strongly frown on ☺.

On the other side NC the "Outer Banks" in Off-Season low price rentals overlooking the Ocean and great just caught Seafood.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/05/2022 6:45 Comments || Top||

#2 

BTW: In WNC / N-GA the term "Half Back" refers to
a Northerner that moved to Fla. and then decided to move Half Way Back.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/05/2022 6:53 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ And we were glad to send them to you
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2022 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Palo Duro Canyon
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/05/2022 13:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Palo Duro is nice, but you don't want to be in there when a storm blows thru. Those river crossings come up fast.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/05/2022 16:14 Comments || Top||


All 4,000 beagles have been removed from Virginia research facility
[Washington Examiner] Every one of the 4,000 beagles in a controversial Virginia facility has been removed nearly two months after the mission to rescue the dogs began.

Humane Society of the United States President and CEO Kitty Block announced the success of the operation of removing all the beagles from Envigo RMS LLC’s facility in Cumberland, Virginia, in a news release Friday.

"Our Animal Rescue Team’s work to transfer these beagles is a milestone in a fight we’ve been waging for years. It’s ironic that these dogs were only spared from a lifetime of pain, suffering and isolation in testing labs because this breeding facility was cited for Animal Welfare Act violations. Most of them would have been sold and spent their short lives in laboratories," Block said. "Many people don’t realize that an average of 60,000 dogs just like these are still used in laboratories each year. Even as we celebrate these lucky dogs going to loving homes, we’re focused on creating a future where no dogs will face that kind of fate."

The facility the beagles were held in was accused of mistreating the dogs, and a report from the Department of Agriculture found that there were over 300 puppy deaths at the facility from Jan. 1, 2021, to July 2, 2021.

Hundreds of people have adopted the rescued beagles, with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle being one of the most prominent couples to have adopted one of the 4,000 beagles.

Miguel Abi-hassan, the chief animal rescue, care, and sanctuary officer for the Humane Society of the United States, said the partners working with the Humane Society of the United States have given the beagles a "new lease on life."

Related: ABC8 News - Envigo medical dog breeding facility to close after 8News investigation, federal complaint and PETA probe
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2022 00:48 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More concern for animals than Amigos. Irony, it has arrived.

TIJUANA (Border Report) — Last year became the deadliest for people trying to cross the border into the United States, with 555 perishing along waterways, deserts or while being trafficked in trucks or shipping containers.

“These are deaths registered by the Border Patrol,” said José Luis Pérez Canchola, head of Mexico’s Human Rights Academy.

He added that on a daily basis, there are trailers hauling migrants throughout Mexico like the one in which 53 migrants died after being trapped in San Antonio.

“This is also due to police corruption that allows this type of phenomenon to exist,” said Pérez Canchola. “The biggest risk for migrants is falling in the hands of organized crime that goes well beyond human trafficking that are tied to drug smuggling.”
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2022 1:06 Comments || Top||


#3  Funny how Fauci wasn't mentioned. Or are these not the ones he was torturing to death?
Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342 || 09/05/2022 2:37 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^^ I think Tony Science was having beagles butchered in one of the Maghreb countries.

Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/05/2022 4:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Can there be congressbeagles? I mean why not? What they need is a good transgendered neutered beagle rep.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/05/2022 6:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Can male beagles have puppies? Hey, Tony, whadda ya think?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/05/2022 6:41 Comments || Top||

#7 
Given the various things that could have been tested on these dogs?

Are they family safe, or will some need to be put down due to justified public health reasons?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/05/2022 7:17 Comments || Top||

#8  I would have went insane at the amount of barking at that place. If you have ever had beagles you will know what I mean.
Posted by: Chris || 09/05/2022 11:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Bes -- illegals choose to step into that river. Beagles didn't make that choice.

Plus, a beagle won't drive drunk, steal your SSN, work off the books for less than you can live on, or illegally vote Democrat.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/05/2022 13:58 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ Excellent points Rob.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2022 14:27 Comments || Top||

#11  A kennel master I knew said no dog skat stinks worse than a beagle's.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2022 14:33 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes southern Iran - EMSC
[Jpost]
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/05/2022 05:50 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh, no, they do have the bomb!
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/05/2022 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  It is called "Earth's Ping-Pong" --- See ---

Posted by: Chuckles Gluting9655 || 09/05/2022 21:43 Comments || Top||


Powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake hits China, killing at least seven people
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/05/2022 05:29 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A superspreader event, in a Zero-COVID country.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/05/2022 12:36 Comments || Top||

#2  It is called "Earth's Ping-Pong" --- See ---

Posted by: Chuckles Gluting9655 || 09/05/2022 21:42 Comments || Top||


Authorities in flood-hit Pakistan strategically breaches the country’s largest freshwater lake, a minister says, displacing up to 100,000 people from their homes
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Or the berm burst.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/05/2022 4:39 Comments || Top||

#2  “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.”
Until Spock spoke those words, I never would have guessed he was a Socialist.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/05/2022 8:04 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ The Federation was more than a little (Liberal Fascist) Socialist...
...But on the subject: interesting how 'Poor People' get flooded and the rolling electricity blackouts always seem to miss the Zip Codes of the 'Wealthy Elite'.
Posted by: magpie || 09/05/2022 12:33 Comments || Top||


More than 100 people have been killed and tens of thousands of homes destroyed by flooding caused by torrential rain since Sudan's wet season began in May
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But I thought the monsoons were not going to come anymore due to Global Warming aka Climate Change.

Wha happened?
Posted by: AlanC || 09/05/2022 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like there is plenty of dry ground there to sit on. Staged photo like the CNN reporter in the canoe.
Posted by: Chris || 09/05/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||

#3 

"I'm Anderson Cooper, and I approve of this image"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/05/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Computer programmer and voting rights activist who bought stolen election machine on eBay says authorities haven't even bothered to CONTACT him about the purchase - despite the fact that it may be first looted ballot tabulator in US history
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A leading election integrity expert, Harri Hursti, says that he bought an allegedly stolen Michigan voting machine online in August for $1200

  • The machine was put online for auction by an Ohio Uber driver who bought it from a GoodWill store for $8

  • Despite media coverage and the fact that he's alerted authorities about his purchase, Hursti told DailyMail.com that he is still awaiting further instructions

  • Hursti said that if the machine does prove to be stolen, it would be the first stolen voting machine in US history
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/05/2022 04:52 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


#2  If he hasn't already done so, he might wish to move the tabulator to an undisclosed location. Making sure his affairs are in order might be his next move.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2022 6:34 Comments || Top||

#3 
Looted ballot tabulators!
Election confabulators!
Get 'em while they're new!
They ain't toys to play with,
or guilty GOP vibrators!
They're democracy terminators!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/05/2022 6:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Low usage tabulation device found in a janitor's closet.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/05/2022 9:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Does it still connect to the central database? It might be useful in the next election.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/05/2022 11:54 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
WilliamRuto, who was declared winner of Kenya’s presidential election in August, says he will respect the Supreme Court’s decision confirming or invalidating the results of the vote
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, he knows the justices will find that plaintiffs have no standing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/05/2022 11:56 Comments || Top||


Africa North
A 19-year-old Egyptian girl was shot dead in the Menofia Governorate by a man after she reportedly refused to get engaged to him
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems


Bangladesh
N'ganj court rejects BNP case
[NEWAGEBD] A judicial magistrate court in Narayanganj on Sunday rejected a complaint filed by a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party seeking an investigation against 42 police personnel, including district police superintendent Golam Mostofa Rashel and his deputies, for killing Juba Dal activist Shawon Pradhan in the city on September 1.

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi filed the complaint with the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Imran Molla in the morning. The court rejected the complaint later in the day.

The BNP leader named sub-inspector Mahfuzur Rahman Kanak of the district detective branch as the prime accused, who was reportedly seen using the rifle.

Juba Dal activist Shawon was killed and 200 people were maimed in a clash in Narayanganj as law enforcers tried to prevent BNP leaders and activists from holding a rally marking the party’s 44th founding anniversary on September 1.

The district police front man and additional police superintendent, Amir Khasru, said on September 2 that Shawon’s brother, Monir Hossain, had filed a case accusing 5,000 BNP leaders and activists of his death.

The police also filed a case against 800 BNP leaders and activists over the clash between the BNP and law enforcers in Narayanganj.

Monir, however, alleged that the police duped him to take his signature while handing over the body of his brother and later he came to know it was a case against the BNP.

The district police front man dismissed the allegation and said that his brother filed the case. He claimed that the police only fired 700 shotgun bullets, 14 tear shells and three sound grenades.
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Protest lodged again at mortar shell firing
[NEWAGEBD] Dhaka on Sunday once again summoned the Myanmar ambassador to Bangladesh to protest at the firing of mortar shells into Bangladesh territory for the second time in a week.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned ambassador Aung Kyaw Moe and lodged the protest at the firing of two mortar shells from Myanmar that landed in Naikhyangchari upazila of the bordering hill district of Bandarban on Saturday.

’The Myanmar ambassador was summoned. We have conveyed our concerns to him,’ foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said at his ministry.

He said that the Myanmar envoy had informed them that these were stray incidents as there were festivities inside their country.

’We are informed that they did not have any motive behind those incidents, nor are they making any provocations,’ the foreign minister told news hounds.
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I'm afraid the shells fall where they must."

That's actually what our northern corps commander told the Pakis whining about shelling in what they like to call AJK.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/05/2022 6:00 Comments || Top||

#2  “It’s physics, man. Whatcha gonna do?”
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/05/2022 8:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I didn't know you could do that. Would've been handy in Vietnam.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/05/2022 16:17 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Brings to mind an old admonition:

"If you didn't put it there, don't pick it up."


Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2022 16:35 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Now even "likes" on Twitter are "disappearing"
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/05/2022 06:59 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Sweden announces emergency guarantees for energy companies
[Aljazeera] Sweden has said it would provide several hundred billion dollars in liquidity guarantees to Nordic and Baltic energy companies to avert a financial crisis sparked by Russia’s Gazprom shutting the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline.

Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson warned that Sweden was facing the prospect of a "war winter" because of Europe’s energy crunch, and said the exact details of the guarantees remained to be worked out.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2022 01:38 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "How dare you!"
Posted by: Matt || 09/05/2022 11:35 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Man allegedly died from COVID-19 vaccine, family told 'unknown cause of death'
BLUF:
[Western Standard] The niece said “my uncle passed away from what we believe is the COVID shot.”

'Your uncle was vaccinated and went for his booster shot with your aunt. What happened?'

“That morning, my aunt went first, and they had to lay her down because she almost passed out. An ambulance was called to assess her. While she is lying down, they administer my uncle’s shot. He immediately starts to have breathing problems. The technician tells him to ‘calm down’ and then my uncle passes out,” said the niece.
Well, that worked
“The ambulance shows up, and instead takes my uncle! By now, they are performing CPR on him. He never again regains [consciousness.] He was declared passed away by the hospital doctor in the ER before my aunt and other family members could even get to the hospital.”

'Your uncle went straight from receiving his COVID-19 booster to the hospital ER, where he was declared dead?'

“Yes, it was noted that he was brought in by ambulance directly from having his booster shot! It was noted he had ongoing health issues since his second shot. It was noted in his previous checkups before the COVID vaccine that he was a healthy person and had no ongoing health issues,” said the niece.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/05/2022 04:41 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hypertension meds and the booster.... not a good combination either.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2022 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  It was noted he had ongoing health issues since his second shot. It was noted in his previous checkups before the COVID vaccine that he was a healthy person....

Right, unhealthy since the second shot, so I think (with "informed consent" from his doctor, of course) I'll just go and pile on and get the booster.

Doctors need to go on trial and, at least, lose their licenses. They aren't practicing medicine anyway.

This covid racket (forget about what Smedley said) is the crime of not the century but of world history.

Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/05/2022 6:47 Comments || Top||

#3  The lawyers won't be able to resist the malpractice and product safety bonanza forever.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2022 8:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Leading cause of death in Canada - Unknown.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/05/2022 10:25 Comments || Top||

#5  But they are all over that gun thing.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Melania Bought New Wardrobe After FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago
[Breitbart] Former first lady Melania Trump reportedly bought a new wardrobe after the FBI "contaminated" her clothes when they searched her room as part of last month’s raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Trump would not feel comfortable wearing any of the clothes FBI agents touched, a friend told Radar Online.

"Melania doesn’t like the idea of strangers going rifling through her things. Who knows who touched her underwear during the raid?" Trump’s friend said. "She’s never going to feel comfortable wearing those ever again."

Shortly after the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump confirmed reports that the agents searched through Melania’s bedroom and closets.

"Just learned that agents went through the First Lady’s closets and rummaged through her clothing and personal items. Surprisingly, left area in a relative mess," Trump posted on Truth Social. "Wow!"

Melania Trump’s friend noted that she is a "bigger germaphobe" than the former president, who Politico once described as "the most germ-conscious man to ever lead the free world."

"Most people don’t know that Melania is a bigger germaphobe than her husband. She hates people touching her and certainly doesn’t want to put on lingerie that FBI agents have had their hands all over," the friend added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2022 00:38 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Russian Colonel Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia might drink to Melania's wardrobe decision.

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2022 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't blame her one bit, if the FBI sniffed through my underwear and possible blew their nose in them, I wouldn't want to wear them ever again either!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/05/2022 1:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Call me crazy, but I think it's high time Donald bought her a washing machine.
Posted by: Whump Spealing3435 || 09/05/2022 1:51 Comments || Top||

#4  I'd fumigate the house after this vermin called the FBI infested the house, even temporarily...and not to mention the possible mole.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/05/2022 4:31 Comments || Top||

#5  if the FBI sniffed through my underwear and possible blew their nose in them

Unlikely noses.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/05/2022 5:48 Comments || Top||

#6 
I think a $$$ _ILLION $$$ lawsuit is in order, and I would like to be on the jury for it.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/05/2022 6:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Eewww. But prob true.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 09/05/2022 6:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Maxxing out another credit card. I'm sure her husband can afford it.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/05/2022 7:46 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm thinking some designers might kill to have her wear their outfits.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/05/2022 7:58 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ judging from her coverage from 2017-20, no.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/05/2022 9:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Many designers snubbed her after her husband was elected, but then she is very selective whose clothes she wears.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/05/2022 9:28 Comments || Top||

#12  I seriously doubt she has any trouble buying anything she wants to wear.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2022 9:52 Comments || Top||

#13  or having it made
Posted by: Chris || 09/05/2022 11:40 Comments || Top||

#14  So... did Biden's policies create this economic activity, or Trump's?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/05/2022 13:52 Comments || Top||

#15  Melania Trump’s friend noted that she is a "bigger germaphobe" than the former president, who Politico once described as "the most germ-conscious man to ever lead the free world."

There a lot of germs in DC. Wasn't it the DC office of the EffBeeEye who directed the Mar-a-Lago raid and ransacking?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/05/2022 14:04 Comments || Top||

#16  Microbugs? Passive recording devices?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/05/2022 19:24 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Kurdish lawmakers file a motion to ban Pro-LGBTQ propaganda
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Shouldn't Kurds focus on getting through the decade?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/05/2022 6:21 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Amazon temporarily shuts down solar rooftops at all US facilities due to fires
[FoxBusiness] A string of recent fires at Amazon fulfillment centers and other facilities forced the e-commerce giant to temporarily shut down rooftop solar panels that were blamed for the costly blazes.
"They're Chinese crap. We bought em on Amaz....err...the internet"
"Out of an abundance of caution, following a small number of isolated incidents with onsite solar systems owned and operated by third parties, Amazon proactively powered off our onsite solar installations in North America, and took immediate steps to re-inspect each installation by a leading solar technical expert firm," an Amazon spokesperson told Fox Business on Sunday.

According to internal documents obtained by CNBC, which originally reported the news, Amazon experienced "critical fire or arc flash events" at six sites in North America with solar installations, representing about 12.7% of all applicable facilities.

"The rate of dangerous incidents is unacceptable, and above industry averages," an Amazon employee wrote in an internal report, according to CNBC.
Unless something has changed from things I’ve heard from people who worked at/considered working at Amazon warehouses, safety is not yet a concern for Amazon’s management. They’re still in start-up mode after all these years.
One such fire broke out at an Amazon warehouse in Perryville, Maryland, in June 2021 and caused $500,000 worth of damages. An investigation by the Office of the State Fire Marshall determined that the cause was "accidental" and involved "an unspecified event involving the solar panel system."

Amazon touted itself as the "world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy" in last year's sustainability report that laid out its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

The company had installed solar systems at 176 facilities worldwide as of April.

"We procure new renewable energy through contracts for utility-scale wind and solar, on-site rooftop solar installations, and green tariffs with local utilities that deliver new, renewable energy to the grids where we operate," the company wrote in the 2021 sustainability report.

Amazon said that its solar installations will come back online after inspections are completed.

"Amazon also built a team of dedicated solar experts overseeing the construction, operations, and maintenance of our systems in-house to ensure the safety of our systems," the spokesperson said Sunday.

Amazon's operations are already powered by 85% renewable energy and the company has set a goal of 100% by 2025.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:



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