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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Illinois sheriffs brace for fallout of ‘America's most dangerous law' after state supreme court ends cash bail

I project fewer arrests and more body recoveries.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2023 07:34 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule


#2  This are the same type of out of hand corrupt conditions in the 1920’s that gave the KKK a foothold in Illinois and Indiana. The most likely outcome, in this case, is Sharia patrols and courts.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2023 12:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Happier than ever that we left Illinois in 2000
Posted by: Tom || 07/20/2023 15:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Hyatt hotel robberie's should be No-arrest sites, right?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2023 19:44 Comments || Top||


Trump Indicted For Murder Of Tupac
[BEE] LAS VEGAS — The infamous unsolved murder of rapper Tupac Shakur on the streets of Las Vegas, once thought to be a hit by the Southside Crips, is now believed to be the work of none other than former President Donald J. Trump, who authorities believe acted alone. Trump has been indicted for the murder.

A charge of murder in the first degree was brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith. "Tupac was murdered on Flamingo Road, less than two miles from where Trump Hotel later opened in 2017," he said. "Coincidence? I think not!"

Authorities now believe Trump fired a Glock .40-caliber pistol from the backseat of a white Cadillac while also somehow driving it. The rapper was struck four times in the chest and rushed to a hospital where he later succumbed to his wounds.

This marks the 3rd time Trump has been indicted in the last few months, clearly marking him as a public menace who should not be on the streets.

"Trump is a monster," Special Counsel Smith said. "I'll feel much safer when he's off the streets. What if he comes after Post Malone, next? Not on my watch!"

At publishing time, Trump's poll numbers had grown another 12% in response to the news.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2023 06:17 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While the BB may be said in jest, many a jest has given people and DA's ideas.

Waiting to see what Jack Smith's rewarded for this, lame for even a kangaroo court process is? Will there be a $$ Million dollar book deal waiting for him in 2024? Of which, a large part of it is donated to the DNC-LSD, for a tax write-off. Or He invests in a Hunter ran company.☺

BTW: According to official reports, the .40 caliber Glock mysteriously later found in L.A. That the LV police were blamed for losing in 2006 during ballistic testing. It now turns out, it was taken by the ATF and destroyed.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/20/2023 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  But I thought Tupac was Harris' favorite living rapper?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2023 9:38 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought spurned Madonna killed her Xlover.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2023 9:39 Comments || Top||

#4  I predict that before things are over Trump will be indicted for the following:
1. Aldean Las Vegas massacrer,
2. Nashville Christmas morning bombing,
3. 911
4. Antifa and BLM rampage across the U.S.
5. Hunter`s laptop material.
6. Others to follow.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/20/2023 11:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Jesus Crucifixion

Judge Crater

The Lindbergh baby
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2023 11:08 Comments || Top||

#6  And of course Jon Benet.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2023 19:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Helen Kimble
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2023 19:39 Comments || Top||

#8  4. Antifa and BLM rampage across the U.S.

To be fair, while not his fault they would not have been encouraged to act up had Mr. Trump lost the election in 2016 as planned.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2023 22:32 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Activist confronts St. Louis school board over poor Black student outcomes: 'Require your criminal conviction'
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2023 07:51 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


#2  See 'The Bell Curve'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2023 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Sort of lets the Teachers Union conveniently off the hook. [Not to mention absent sperm donors]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2023 11:03 Comments || Top||

#4  The solution will have to be radical. Giving the teacher’s union a seat at the table cuts the probability of a workable resolution by half or more.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2023 12:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Want to keep a black man out of prison?? Teach him to read. First we learn to read then we read to learn. The Education Industrial Complex is over - f'ing - whelming full of extreme leftist and they are to blame. The stats in any black part of any city are appalling and have been for decades. Who are voting for Mr. Activist?? You are not a victim - you are a volunteer.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 07/20/2023 21:43 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Well said Billy, but I fear few are listening.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2023 22:03 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
He ain't wrong


Link goes to the web page of the Sub Committe on the weaponization of the federal government

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Posted by: badanov || 07/20/2023 8:51:41 AM || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


Dementia patients who take opioids face 'worrisome' death risk, new study finds
[FOX] Opioid use could put dementia patients at a higher risk of death, particularly in the first two weeks after starting a medication, according to new research revealed on Tuesday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Amsterdam.

Among all patients age 65 and older who were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in Denmark and who took an opioid over a 10-year period, a third of them died within 180 days after starting the medication, researchers found, according to a press release from the Alzheimer’s Association.

The death risk was around five times higher than for those who did not take opioids — but it was 11 times higher within the first two weeks.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2023 07:26 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But will they care?
Hey, Pfizer!
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2023 10:02 Comments || Top||

#2  "Did I already take that pill that I can't take another of too soon?"

It's no joke.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2023 10:05 Comments || Top||


#4  ...be concerned if the app is from Canada.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2023 11:04 Comments || Top||

#5  if a third died in 180 days and the rest had elevated death rates then how could they take opioids over a 10 year period
Posted by: lord garth || 07/20/2023 12:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Opioids are palliative care in the places in Europe where they practice euthanasia. The death is usually via dehydration. I would draw a parallel to Logan’s Run, but Logan wasn’t rocking a Canadian cane and titanium knees.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2023 12:20 Comments || Top||

#7  now that I think of it, the death rate after a post 65 Alzheimer's diagnosis is probably about 10 years.
Posted by: lord garth || 07/20/2023 12:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Ten years, lord garth? I’ve read 3-5 years.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2023 22:39 Comments || Top||


'I Compare Your Agency To KGB': Victoria Spartz Mercilessly Confronts FBI's Wray
[FORBES] At Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray about FISA abuses.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2023 02:21 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Totalitarian regimes are easy to identify by people who have previously lived under them. As expected, Wray had no intelligent response.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2023 2:31 Comments || Top||

#2  He had a response that he was wanting to read off a piece of paper but she kept shutting that response down because she knew it was irrelevant to the time line of her question after he uttered the first words from the cheat sheet.
Posted by: Jeremiah Jomosing7109 || 07/20/2023 3:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Also, I worked with a top corporate executive who looked and acted like her. She too was born in the former Soviet Union. She was tough.

I was a consultant to her department through a third party consulting company. My approach was working but the consulting company was thinking about not renewing my contract. She immediately called a huge department meeting and in front of everyone said one thing to the consulting company lead. "If you do not renew his contract I will fire your company on the spot and have all of you escorted out of the building immediately by security."
Posted by: Jeremiah Jomosing7109 || 07/20/2023 3:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, when the FBI was initially formed, there were a collection of constitutional concerns raised, that the FBI would grow in power to be misused in such a political manner.

Remember in the 90's all the major MSM told us
J. Edger Hoover was a Gay, a cross dresser and etc...

Now that being Gay and Trans is cool by their New Perverted Normal. Suddenly the same Major MSM are saying it was all rumor/gossip.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/20/2023 8:15 Comments || Top||

#5  The piñata treatment is fine as long as it results in an impeachment inquiry not some lame censure or contempt.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2023 12:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The quiet new way Biden wants to tax you
[FoxNews] Americans have already been crushed by inflation caused by the Biden administration. But now, they want to add fuel to the fire by giving American taxes to foreign countries, raising costs for Americans, and sticking us with the bill for funding a global socialist agenda.

Over the past two years, President Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have negotiated a global minimum tax through the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). This organization surrenders America’s sovereignty over our tax code and allows foreign countries to take our taxes that were meant for our own essential programs and military.

In short, Biden and Yellen were failures in their tax negotiations. Now Republicans in Congress must clean up their mess.

At a time when the United States is actively vying to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving global economy, allowing American businesses to be subjected to mandatory foreign taxes that would pay for woke, green policies in other countries are irrational and absurd.

"Globalists" will tell you this is better for the American economy. They are wrong.

Until last year, the United States was the only country in the world with a global minimum tax. Here at home, U.S. corporations already face a 21% tax rate. Congress has a long history of using the tax code to incentivize certain behavior from businesses and individuals.

Biden top economic adviser pushing for a 'global corporate tax minimum'Video
We cannot give up our right to use the tax code to promote our own interests. If we force businesses to pay taxes to other countries, America’s economy will shrink while other countries’ will grow.

All 25 Republicans of the Ways and Means Committee sponsored the Defending American Jobs and Investment Act. This bill requires the Treasury Department to identify taxes enacted by foreign countries that attack U.S. businesses, like the Undertaxed Profits Rule (UTPR).

The UTPR’s goal is to force countries to enact the OECD plan for global socialism and collect more tax dollars from American businesses. The OECD is actively working against American interests, even while the United States funds 20% of its yearly budget. Republicans in Congress have promised to end all funding for the OECD if it continues along this dangerous path.

Republican Carol Miller represents West Virginia's Third Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2023 08:02 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


House Hearing on How Biden, Mayorkas Have Given Control of Border to Cartels
[Breitbart] The House Committee on Homeland Security will hear testimony on July 19 how President Joe Biden and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have given control of the southern border to cartels.

“For far too long, Secretary Mayorkas has facilitated the business model of criminal cartels by rewarding their illegal activity with his catch-and-release policies,” committee chairman Mark Green (R-TN) wrote in an announcement. “Now, families in every state in America have mourned the tragic loss of loved ones from fentanyl poisoning while Border Patrol agents are stretched far too thin across hundreds of miles of our Southwest border and have faced continued threats and violence at the hands of human smugglers.”

Additionally, ranchers and farmers on the frontlines of this crisis have watched their land turn into stash houses and highways for the cartels. While Secretary Mayorkas, by his own admission, may be unaware of the methods cartels use to spread addiction and destruction across our country, this Committee, and the American people, are not. Homeland Republicans will not stop until we determine the full extent of this administration’s tacit participation in criminal drug cartels and Secretary Mayorkas’ complete dereliction of duty.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2023 00:15 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Right now it looks like Mayorkas is paying Catholic Charities to deliver unaccompanied minors to unvetted recipients. Eventually this will come out, people will recognize it as trafficking, and the UCCB will enter their third round of these issues.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2023 12:12 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Angus - 'Walk The Talk.'
[Apple Podcast]
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2023 06:11 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:



#3  I kind of like Angus' farmer logic and thinking. If anyone is offended, I can stop posting, no problem.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2023 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Not I.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2023 10:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Once I found him somewhere other than the Crapple ecosystem (I just don't go there,) I listened. Good stuff.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2023 11:04 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Handicraft 'Titan': How the thirst for profit and glory leads to death
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Maxim Sokolov

[REGNUM] The death of the giant steamship Titanic, which happened on the night of April 14-15, 1912 in the waters of the North Atlantic from a collision with an iceberg, had a huge impact on culture. Blok wrote in his diary: “The ocean is alive!” , realizing that the power of the ancient element is irresistible, and before it all the pride of modern civilization is insignificant.

And Bunin in 1915 in "The Gentleman from San Francisco" described the ship "Atlantis". As if the Titanic - “It was a huge ship, multi-tiered, multi-pipe, created by the pride of a New Man with an old heart. The blizzard beat into his gear and wide-mouthed pipes, whitened from snow, but he was steadfast, firm, majestic and terrible.

The hitherto unheard-of number of people who drowned in icy water - both bilge emigrants and terrible rich people from first-class cabins - gave rise to mystical moods and thoughts about the end of a beautiful era, which actually came two years later, in August 1914. "Woe to you, Babylon, strong city."

Moreover, fourteen years before the disaster, in 1898, the American writer Robertson’s novel “Futility” was published, which described the death of the Titan ship, and the details of this death were as if written off from the history of the Titanic. Robertson was declared an evil prophet.

It is not surprising that when the Titanic excursion bathyscaphe, crushed by a four-kilometer water column, died at the crash site of the Titanic, gloomy allusions directly suggested itself. Moreover, here there was a clear violation (as in 1912) of the commandment "Do not remember the dashing while he sleeps quietly." Since the titans are archaic deities who personified the elements and natural disasters. "Ordered - receive."

Not saved, as, indeed, in 1912, the richness of the tourists. Diving to the remains of the Titanic cost 250 thousand dollars from the bow. The amount, it would seem, is sufficient to take all measures to guarantee security. But the ocean, as it turned out, doesn't care. Yes, even a million from the nose.

"Titanic" was constructively at the level of the best achievements of contemporary shipbuilding. During the construction of the ship there was no hack work. The passengers were ruined by the ugly evacuation and the lack of lifeboats. As well as navigational errors. If the Titanic had kept a straight course, then, having pressed its nose against an iceberg, it would still have a chance to maintain buoyancy. But the ship dodged - and ripped open the entire side, but the partitions did not save.

There was also a pursuit of fame (and profit, of course), at this time of the year navigation in these latitudes is not safe due to drifting ice. But the path is shorter. And the Titanic expected to win the Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic as the fastest liner. They turned a blind eye to the risks.

Contributed to the disaster and the radio operator of the Titanic. He was so engrossed in receiving and sending private radio messages that when the disturbing "we are surrounded by ice" came from a nearby ship, the Marconi from the Titanic replied: "Shut up, I'm working with Cape Cod."

As for the bathyscaphe "Titan", then, of course, the most gross violations of safety regulations took place there - "diving to a depth of 4 kilometers, where the pressure is 350 atmospheres - what nonsense."

But there was one more thing. The Titan itself - unlike the Titanic - was made, as they say, from shit and sticks. The shrubbery is unnatural. Or, as the great experimental physicist Ernest Rutherford put it more elegantly, “to carry out an experiment, you need a test tube, a voltmeter, an elastic band, a couple of wood chips, and a little of your own saliva.” Romance of scientific pioneering.

However, Jobs’ and Wozniak's Apples, according to legend, were going on their knees in the garage. Why not assemble a bathyscaphe in this way?

True, neither Jobs' computer nor Rutherford's experimental equipment were high-risk products. The maximum that threatened here was a short circuit.

Here, rather, one can compare "Titan" with "Extraordinary Journeys" by Jules Verne, which were made on extraordinary products. Take, for example, the bilogy “From the Earth to the Moon”, where two Yankees and a merry Frenchman in a projectile-carriage go into space and, having flown, return safely. The same unusual products were used to conquer the air element, the underwater kingdom, etc.

This also includes "Aelita" by A. N. Tolstoy , where the engineer Los in 1923 manufactures a ship for a flight to Mars in his Petrograd apartment, and the Red Army soldier Gusev, literally recruited by ad, turns out to be a companion on the journey.

Of course, one can say that Jules Verne, A. N. Tolstoy, etc. all this is a dream, a fantasy, albeit with pseudo-scientific and even pseudo-technological details. It is not recommended for anyone to use these dreams as a direct instruction for action. And the launch of engineer Elk’s product is predictive, and you shouldn’t even think about a safe return.

But in the enlightened XXI century. the idea of ​​creating cunning constructions from shit and sticks, surpassing even those created by the far-sighted imagination of Jules Verne, is back in vogue. And not in the form of dreams, fantasies, but in the form of experimental products.

Three centuries later, the image of the (fantastic) Kryakutny, who conquered the elements during the reign of Anna Ioannovna, is again in demand. With the only difference that in the XVIII century. Kryakutny was a clerk, and in the 21st century he was an oligarch and a billionaire.
Posted by: badanov || 07/20/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:



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