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-Lurid Crime Tales-
South Carolina school shooting: Suspected shooter's father found dead
[AJC] Authorities say they believe the teenage boy who was taken into custody following a shooting at the Townville Elementary School first fatally shot his father.

Capt. Garland Major told a news conference that the shooter used a handgun and that one of the students was shot in the leg and the other in the foot. He said a female teacher was shot in the shoulder during Wednesday's shooting at Townville Elementary.

Two children and an adult were maimed Wednesday afternoon when a gunman shot up the elementary school in South Carolina, according to multiple reports.

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Police fatally shoot black man they say took ‘shooting stance’ in San Diego suburb, sparking protests
[WASHINGTONPOST]
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm prepared to be surprised.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2016 2:53 Comments || Top||

#2  he turned, took a shooting stance with what turned out to be a metal vape pen and suffered the consequences. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. All the Section 8 blacks that live in El Cajon got in the festivities
Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2016 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Put any body in a simulation in which you don't know for sure, someone turns and points something at you that could be a gun. You live or you die by your reaction. A lot of those put in the sim would come up dead. Keep running it a dozen times or so with the same player and see either a game of quick draw or a lot of people who could never be a live cop on the beat.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2016 8:24 Comments || Top||

#4  take a look at the pic from bystander video (EC cops don't have bodycams yet) here on the front page of the local rag
Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2016 8:24 Comments || Top||

#5  also, of course he was turning his life around... another criminal immigrant, naturalized this time
Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2016 8:25 Comments || Top||

#6  This would be suicide-by-cop if not for race of the deader
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/29/2016 9:35 Comments || Top||

#7  This would be suicide-by-cop if not for race of the deader

That's what it looks like to me. But the BLM types don't want to hear it so the media won't tell them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/29/2016 11:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Any excuse to riot and loot is a good one?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2016 11:20 Comments || Top||

#9  ...but don't try that with the Korean grocers.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2016 11:55 Comments || Top||

#10  No big riots because the rent-a-riot mob only goes to swing states and California is pretty blue.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/29/2016 14:52 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Major Train Wreck In Hoboken, NJ
Posted by: Grunter || 09/29/2016 10:11 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Born to run - into wall at train station.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/29/2016 12:58 Comments || Top||

#2  So, no RC breaking or were the track speed sensors offline?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/29/2016 15:55 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
N.Korea Threatens to Continue Nuclear Arms Development
North Korea's foreign minister on Friday threatened that his country "will continue to take measures to strengthen its national nuclear armed forces in both quantity and quality."

In a further gesture of defiance against international sanctions, Ri Yong-ho refused to meet with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Ri said the aim of North Korea's nuclear weapons program was to "defend the dignity and right to existence and safeguard genuine peace vis-a-vis the increased nuclear war threat of the United States."

He accused the UN Security Council of supporting the power politics of the U.S. and other "hostile forces." He denounced the latest UN Security Council Resolution and asked why other nuclear weapons states have never been sanctioned.

Ri added there is no evidence in the UN Charter or international law that stipulates nuclear and ballistic missile tests are a threat or should be outlawed. He called on South Korea and the U.S. to halt joint military exercises on the North's doorstep.

The North Korean foreign minister arrived in New York on Sept. 20 but did not schedule any meetings with other world leaders.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking on the same day, urged North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons and missile development.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/29/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Now, if the clinton foundation were to buy NK...
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/29/2016 16:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Jawn should buy Kim a coke
And keep him company
And then offer him a toke
And pat him on his knee
Jawn could then stroke his chin
And turn on all his charms
At last he could enlighten dear Kim:
You can't hug with nuclear arms.
Posted by: JHH || 09/29/2016 17:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Bravo!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2016 17:58 Comments || Top||


Europe
German police shoot dead knife-wielding Iraqi refugee
[AlAhram] German police rubbed out a knife-wielding Iraqi in a refugee shelter who was attacking a Pak he suspected of having sexually abused his young daughter, police said Wednesday.

The 29-year-old Iraqi died after being hit by several police bullets late Tuesday in the asylum seekers' shelter in the central Berlin district of Moabit.

Police were called to the shelter after the 27-year-old Pak man allegedly sexually abused an eight-year-old girl in a nearby park, BZ daily reported.

When police detained the suspect and led him away in handcuffs, the girl's father lunged at him with a knife, yelling "you won't survive this," according to witnesses.

He was cut down by several police bullets and died hours later in hospital. The alleged sexual attacker remained uninjured. The girl and her mother were undergoing counselling.

Police did not immediately release the personal details of those involved.

An internal police enquiry was launched, a routine step after deadly shots have been fired, while the police union warned against condemning the officers involved.

"The officers had to prevent an act of vigilante justice and a situation that was life-threatening for them," said the union's Berlin chief Bodo Pfalzgraf.

He reiterated a union demand that police be equipped with electric stun guns, saying "police don't want to kill but are forced to if the government doesn't give them other operational means".

Germany last year took in one million asylum seekers, around half of them from war-torn Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, housing them in hostels, sports gyms, army barracks and other facilities nationwide.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2016 01:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1 
Posted by: Huperese Platypus6497 || 09/29/2016 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2  ...but, his hands were up.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2016 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Hard to blame him. Think the German political machine will prosecute and imprison him for more than a couple years at best?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2016 8:45 Comments || Top||

#4  MSALM!
Muslim Sexual Abusers Lives Matter!)
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/29/2016 9:20 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd probably try to gut the guy who abused my daughter, too. But I'd be doing it slowly.

Just sayin'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/29/2016 10:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Yeah, sounds like the wrong guy got killed.

Assaulting an 8 year old.

Heckuva job Merkel.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/29/2016 14:38 Comments || Top||

#7  "The officers had to prevent an act of vigilante justice"

Why?
Posted by: Barbara || 09/29/2016 15:22 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Police fail to produce record in girl burning case
[DAWN] ABBOTTABAD: Police failed to produce record in the ’Makool girl burning case’ before an anti-terrorism court here on Wednesday.

Next date for hearing in the case will be fixed by the court order. Police had tossed in the calaboose
Please don't kill me!
14 persons on May 5, 2016 for their alleged involvement in burning of the girl. The arrested persons were sent on judicial remand by the court on June 3, 2016 after remaining in police custody under physical remand for at least two months.

On April 27, 2016, a girl identified as Ambreen was burnt by some unidentified persons in Makool village in Galiyat. The incident was reported by national and international media. Different NGOs, human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
organizations, standing committee of National Assembly, prime minister and chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
had taken notice of the incident.

Police arrested 14 persons and the case was put before an anti-terrorism court after the issue was highlighted by media. Sixteen police officials including DPO Khurram Rasheed were given awards at a special function on May 16 after the arrests were made.

Addressing the function, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar had "owned" the case, saying he would appear before court on each hearing. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
he showed up just once on June 3 with a team of lawyers and members of PTI legal wing. The court took for hearing the case at least six times but no body from provincial government or Asad Qaiser showed up.

Next date for hearing to be fixed by court order
Earlier, the case was investigated by Counter-Terrorism Department but later it was taken over by Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
police. No headway has been made in the case till date. An application has also been submitted in Supreme Court by one of arrested persons against police torture.

Atif Ali Khan Jadoon, the counsel for the arrested persons, alleged that police were using delaying tactics as no medical report of the forensic tests was provided to them.

ATC Judge Masood Ahmed Khan during the previous hearing showed displeasure over the slow progress by police in the case.

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


International-UN-NGOs
OPEC reaches deal to LIMIT oil output
Cue the American frackers!
A cut to 32.5 million barrels would represent a cut of nearly 1 million barrels a day. OPEC production in August was 33.24 million barrels a day, it said in its monthly oil market report.

  • The producing group will agree to concrete levels of production by each country at its next formal meeting in November, the sources said. One source also said that once production targets were reached, OPEC would reach out to non-OPEC producers for cooperation.

  • Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Tuesday Iran, Nigeria and Libya would be allowed to produce "at maximum levels that make sense" as part of any output limits which could be set as early as the next OPEC meeting in November.

  • The Saudi and Iranian economies depend heavily on oil but in a post-sanctions environment, Iran is suffering less pressure from the halving in crude prices since 2014 and its economy could expand by almost 4 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund. The Saudi economy has been suffering from record budget deficits after a record gap of $98 billion last year.
  • Posted by: Steve White || 09/29/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Deal #?
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2016 2:51 Comments || Top||

    #2  "and no cheating!"

    *snicker*
    Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2016 8:47 Comments || Top||


    Syria-Lebanon-Iran
    Ayatollah Khamenei Forbids Ahmadinejad to Run for President
    [Iran Wire] Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has “explicitly forbidden” former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from putting himself forward as a candidate in Iran’s 2017 presidential election. Despite not having any constitutional remit to intervene in elections, Khamenei’s announcement has injected new emotion and drama into Iran’s already divided political arena.

    Although media reports around the globe had speculated about Khamenei’s displeasure over the last 10 days, the supreme leader only publicly announced his objections on Monday, September 26 — though he stopped short of mentioning Ahmadinejad directly. The announcement surprised many in Iran, who assumed the leader would not choose to be so open about his views.

    “It is true that someone – a gentleman – had come to see me,” Khamenei said in his speech. “I said to him that he should not participate in [the election] because of his own interests and in the interests of the country. I did not tell him he should not participate. Rather, I told him I do not think it would be a wise course of action."

    Khamenei went on to say that, bearing in mind the general mood in Iran at the moment, he believed the “gentleman’s participation” in the forthcoming election would polarize the country.

    But Khamenei also knows from experience that Ahmadinejad is likely to defy him, ignoring any hints or even a confidential message from the supreme leader. Now Khamenei has made his views clear again. He has forced Ahmadinejad to go home and stay there until he says otherwise. If Ahmadinejad dares to defy him again, it could spell the end of his political life.
    Posted by: Pappy || 09/29/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  "A president of Iran must be 150 cm at least."?
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2016 3:15 Comments || Top||

    #2  ...maybe he should demand a stool for the podium.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2016 11:56 Comments || Top||

    #3  Time for a fatwad.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 09/29/2016 15:58 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Culture Wars
    Today's Idiot?
    h/t Instapundit
    A mother who decided not to have her daughters vaccinated because she believed in anti-vaccine propaganda had a rude awakening when all three of her little girls fell ill with a nasty case of rotavirus, which causes acute stomach distress and is potentially fatal.

    Kristen O'Meara told NBC News: "It was awful, and it didn't have to happen, because I could have had them vaccinated. I felt guilty. I felt really guilty." O'Meara and her husband also also caught the virus and the family was sick for weeks.
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2016 03:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Today's idiot?

    I thought Obola had retired that award several years ago.
    Posted by: AlanC || 09/29/2016 7:48 Comments || Top||

    #2  Well, consider the experience nature's way of vaccinating you. We can do this the easy way or hard way. You choose the latter.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2016 8:28 Comments || Top||

    #3  Remember Niven & Pournelle's "Oath of Fealty"?
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2016 8:45 Comments || Top||

    #4  I too thought Obola retired this award a few years ago along with the Noble Peach Prize and the Most Transparent and Honest Government in History" Award.
    Posted by: JohnQC || 09/29/2016 8:48 Comments || Top||

    #5  Some of those viruses have nasty side effects too.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/29/2016 11:20 Comments || Top||

    #6  There's no cure for stupidity, Kristen. Good luck.
    Posted by: Raj || 09/29/2016 12:13 Comments || Top||

    #7  From the article:

    Her three children — all under the age of 7 — are now fully vaccinated, after an aggressive regimen to bring them up to date on recommended shots.

    And she went on a television news show to tell her story -- a true teachable moment. I'd say she has learnt at least the direct lesson, about vaccinating and, because she talks about the importance of getting both sides of the story, it looks like she is aware of the meta-lesson about confirmation bias as well.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2016 13:55 Comments || Top||

    #8  She's lucky it was "only" rota virus. It could have been something much worse,
    Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/29/2016 14:04 Comments || Top||

    #9  First, she was dumb, probably trying to fit in with her peers. Just a guess. Now, not as dumb. Maybe.
    Now, I refused a medical procedure that all the doctors told me was great and my only hope for a normal life. It seemed pretty iffy to me, and I demurred. Now, it seems like maybe 100% of those that had the surgery died or it was rejected by their bodies after 5-7 years. I figure I was lucky. Dumb luck.
    Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 09/29/2016 15:10 Comments || Top||


    Chelsea Clinton Takes Private Jet to ‘Clean Energy Roundtable'
    Must be some kind of dominant-gene thingy.
    Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/29/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  I'll lend her my bike for the next one.
    Posted by: Raj || 09/29/2016 0:10 Comments || Top||

    #2  It could be a recessive gene inherited from both parents.
    Posted by: phil_b || 09/29/2016 5:15 Comments || Top||

    #3  Clintons don't fly coach or Southwest
    Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2016 7:29 Comments || Top||

    #4  ...or drive like her mother.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2016 8:25 Comments || Top||

    #5  As Instapundit often says, I'll believe that global warming is a crisis when the people who are telling me that it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis.
    Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/29/2016 9:47 Comments || Top||

    #6  Chelsea Hubbell-Clinton, a part of the entitled class.
    Posted by: JohnQC || 09/29/2016 9:52 Comments || Top||

    #7  "Commercial airlines are for taxpayers" -- Princess Chelsea
    Posted by: regular joe || 09/29/2016 10:45 Comments || Top||

    #8  The scariest thing is not that the entitled class behaves that way. The scariest thing is that you tell the story to an average (middle class) left-winger and he or she will ask "and, what's the point of the story?".
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2016 11:07 Comments || Top||

    #9  You will get that Grom; quite often. The blank drugged out stare is what is a bit unnerving.
    Posted by: JohnQC || 09/29/2016 11:14 Comments || Top||

    #10  But the worst damage to the environment was not the private jet, it was all the hot air generated at the roundtable.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/29/2016 11:22 Comments || Top||

    #11  @#9: Like this?:

    Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/29/2016 11:25 Comments || Top||

    #12  I'm going with "Who's on drugs?" for $10,000, Alex...
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/29/2016 12:48 Comments || Top||

    #13  She got her father's looks and her mother's personality -> resting bitch face

    "Sometimes you look into the eye. Black Eye, like a doll's eye. And wonder if there is any life in there?"
    Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/29/2016 13:44 Comments || Top||

    #14  What happened to her pupils?
    Posted by: Skidmark || 09/29/2016 15:59 Comments || Top||

    #15  "We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea." Chelsea Clinton

    These are the people at the energy round table.
    Posted by: Huperese Platypus6497 || 09/29/2016 18:07 Comments || Top||



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